NATO/Israeli WWIII against Iran blipping on the radar again

[TonyGosling]

And the Iranian authorities are almost certainly correct.
Just imagine if an Iranian funded group had killed and wounded this many people in a Canterbury Cathedral bomb

The Iranian government is stepping up accusations against "outside" forces in Thursday's twin-suicide bombings in the southeastern part of the country which killed at least 27 people and wounded about 270 others. Several officials are accusing the U.S. and Israel of masterminding the bloody explosions at a Shi'ite mosque.
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/Ir ... 60169.html

[TonyGosling]

ISRAEL TO USE IRANIAN AND PAKISTANI DUPES IN DIRTY NUKE PLOY
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor

This week, the last piece fell into place. The National Research Council, part of the National Academy of Science, heavy on politics and light on science, announced that America was no longer able to track nukes threatening our shores. Their report titled Nuclear Forensics: A Capability at Risk, released last week, outlines the details of a secret study requested by the Departments of Homeland Security, Defense and Energy, specifically the National Nuclear Security Administration. The gist of the story is easy, if a nuke goes off in America, dirty nuke in Times Square, one in a container at a port, anywhere, America won’t be able to tell who made it. Not a word of the report is true. It is wild speculation and disinformation written in broad language with no hard science, written for a reason.
A powerful group within the United States, one with influence over the press and the ability to derail an investigation as was done with 9/11, has been “tasked” with laying the groundwork for a terrorist attack on America, one using nuclear material. This report, unneeded, and highly inaccurate was printed in the New York Times to provide “cover.” It isn’t just this report, the pieces are falling together around the world. The Wiki-Leaks story, pre staging Pakistan’s ISI as a terrorist organization, a story built out of almost no information but fleshed out with massive speculation by “operatives” in the press is part of the process.
The Defense Authorization Act of 2006 allows, “in case of a terrorist attack” for the president to declare martial law, disband congress and rule by executive decree. With the suspension of habeas corpus by the Military Commissions act, also in 2006, America as we know it officially comes to an end the second a weapon of mass destruction in used. Only then will America learn who has been pulling the strings all along, who is scripting Wolf Blitzer and Glen Beck.
British Prime Minister David Cameron’s attacks on Pakistan, made from New Delhi last week, seen by most as a serious political blunder, are part of the narrative. We will get to more background on a younger David Cameron later.
Another piece of the puzzle involved a federal task force, Defense, Energy, FBI, descending on a warehouse in Greenfield, Indiana under the guise of a “records search.” This “Waco style” assault on a facility storing furniture for college dorm rooms was much more than it seemed. No case, criminal or civil, provided any underlying reason for the search..........

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/08/02 ... ing-torah/

[Thermate911]

Just a recap by Israelis:-

Double Vendetta — The Insanity of the Iran Confrontation

http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2 ... ouble.html

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhp3kJv1 ... r_embedded[/youtube]

The response of the Shah on torture is a classic redirection exercise by a psychopath.

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http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/201 ... with-iran/

President Basescu: Romania will stand by Israel in the event of a conflict with Iran


1) President Basescu: Romania will stand by Israel in the event of a conflict with Iran (12 August 2010)

2) Israeli Air Force trains in Hungary, Romania, Greece, Italy and Germany for future wars (6 August 2010)

3) Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Vilna’i: We fly in Romania so we can act deep inside neighboring Arab states (30 July 2010)

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http://www.agerpres.ro/english/index.ph ... ed-be.html


excerpt from: Basescu: Romania to be a loyal partner of NATO and of Israel, if need be

AGERPRES, 12 August 2010

Romania will be a loyal partner of NATO and of Israel ‘if need be’, President Traian Basescu said after meeting visiting Israel’s President Shimon Peres, as a remark in answer to a question put by a reporter on whether Romania will make Israel available its bases and air space in the event of a conflict with Iran.

‘I do not think we should speak of a conflict at this moment. We hope the sanctions imposed by the U.N. Security Council will produce the correct solution in Tehran, that should not be one of digging graves for the American troops, but of opening transparent talks and Romania, if need be, will be a loyal partner of the NATO Alliance, of which it is part and a loyal partner of Israel’, Basescu stressed.

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related links:


http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?ID=183096


Vilna’i: IAF’s Romania training is vital

by David Horovitz and Yaakov Katz, Jerusalem Post, 30 July 2010

The Israel Air Force training exercises in Romania, in which a Yasour helicopter crashed on Monday with the loss of six Israeli airmen and one Romanian military officer, were primarily aimed at improving the IAF’s capacity to maneuver in the kind of terrain characteristic of neighboring states, Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilna’i indicated on Thursday.

“We fly in Romania because we train in conditions so that we can act in all places, including those that are not immediately adjacent to us, including [deep] inside neighboring Arab states,” Vilna’i said in an interview with The Jerusalem Post.

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http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=13 ... =351020202


excerpts from: Israel getting ready for ‘future wars’

Press TV, 6 August 2010

A recent Israeli military helicopter crash in Romania reveals that Tel Aviv has operated other air exercises in European countries to prepare for “future wars.” [...]

Hungary, Romania, Greece, Italy and Germany are among the locations where the Israeli Air Force has held military drills so far.

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from the archives:


Israel holds a joint military exercise in Greece to rehearse an attack on Iran

Dandelion Salad, 27 May 2010

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/201 ... k-on-iran/



U.S. and NATO accelerate military build-up in Black Sea region

by Rick Rozoff, Dandelion Salad, 20 May 2010

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/201 ... ck-rozoff/

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[Disco_Destroyer]

Israeli Invasion Of Iran - CNBC

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qenXXYzpxcU[/youtube]

[Thermate911]

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish ... 6246.shtml

Israelis conducting covert maritime operations in Persian Gulf
By Wayne Madsen

Aug 20, 2010, 00:16

Chinese and Japanese intelligence agencies, which closely monitor events in the Persian Gulf due to the dependence of both countries on oil from the region, report that Israeli Navy commandos have recently been active in creating maritime incidents in the Gulf that could be blamed on Iran.

The five incidents that have Israel under the scrutiny of the intelligence services of China and Japan, the world’s second and third largest economic powers, respectively, are the “robbery” attacks on four merchant ships off Basra, Iraq on August 8 and the July 28 explosion on the Japanese supertanker MV M. Star in the strategic Strait of Hormuz.

Last month, the Israeli Navy deployed older U-209 and newer U-212 Dolphin-class diesel submarines, obtained from Germany, to the Persian Gulf. The submarines are known to have on board a number of Shayetet 13 naval commando squadrons trained to carry out sabotage against sea and shore targets. ... ... ...

[Disco_Destroyer]

Why do I find myself distrusting Wayne Madsen?

[Thermate911]

Why do I find myself distrusting Wayne Madsen?

Because he's ex-NSA, perhaps?

I doubt you'd believe everything on ziopedia, anyway ;-)

Revolutionary background implies a man who at least started out with eyes wide open but because he did something effective about it he became subject to the "we will lead every revolution against us" schtick. I think inadvertently, and his bias does not appear to be compromised... yet District of Corruption is no place for saints and the last time he stepped outside the Beltway was nearly his last, as I understand it...

Sorting Mueller's real bio would confirm whether Madsen is a Thule or not, IMO.

[Disco_Destroyer]

More Israeli incursions into Lebanon, by air and ground in recent days.

[Disco_Destroyer]

Also Iran has built a pea-shooter as deterrent according to Yahoo
Unmanned Bomber with a speed of 550 and a range of 600 miles.
Washington needs to fear this one

[cem]

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http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/201 ... our-hours/

US to Lebanon: Israel can completely destroy Lebanese Army within four hours



1) US to Lebanon: Israel can completely destroy Lebanese Army within four hours (27 August 2010)

2) Lebanon’s president: The Lebanese army is called upon to stand in the face of the lurking Israeli enemy (1 August 2010)

from the archives:

3) Israeli Deputy Prime Minister: Israel’s improved technological capabilities can be used for a war on Gaza, for a war on Lebanon, for a war on Syria, and also for war on Iran (10 May 2010)

4) Israeli minister: Another war with Lebanon is inevitable (23 January 2010)

5) Israeli general: The next war with Hizbullah will end in four or five days, with a decisive victory for Israel (11 December 2008)


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http://www.almanar.com.lb/NewsSite/News ... anguage=en


excerpt from: US Advisor Says Israel Can Destroy Lebanon Army within 4 Hours: Al-Liwa’a

Al-Manar TV, 27 August 2010

A senior advisor to US special envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell has threatened Lebanese army commander, Jean Qahwaji that should his army initiate additional fire exchanges with Israel, the Israeli occupation army would annihilate his military within four hours, Lebanese newspaper al-Liwa’a reported Friday.

According to the report, Frederick Hof spoke to Qahwaji on August 9, following the deadly border skirmish between Israel and Lebanon and informed him of the Israeli army contingency plan.

The report further quotes Mitchell’s aide as telling the Lebanese commander that Israel had decided to carry out a plan “which would completely destroy the Lebanese army’s bases, centers and offices within four hours.”

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http://www.presidency.gov.lb/english/Ph ... wsRef=6174


excerpts from: Address of H.E.General Michel Sleiman President of the Republic of Lebanon at the Sixty-Fifth Graduation Ceremony of Officers

Presidency of the Republic of Lebanon website, 1 August 2010

" [The Lebanese army is] called upon to stand in the face of the lurking Israeli enemy and bury the strife that the latter plans for as an alternative to waging a revenge war and in an attempt to topple our democratic experience which contradicts the philosophy of the usurper enemy. […]

[We] strived to ward off external aggression, namely through our commitment to United Nations Security Council resolution 1701, to seek to compel Israel to fully implement all its provisions, […]

The Lebanese Army and the Internal Security Forces have succeeded to dismantle dozens of Israeli spying networks aiming at destabilizing the country. […]

In addition to that, we have brought the Lebanese case of confronting Israeli aggressions and threats before international forums and the United Nations Security Council in particular at which we won a non-permanent seat, while retaining our right to liberate or retrieve all our occupied territories through all legitimate and available means. […]

[ I ] call upon all citizens, no matter their confession, denomination, or beliefs, to listen to no other but the voice of wisdom and reason and not to be dragged by any form of provocation or violence, and thus the Israeli enemy would not be given the chance to rejoice at our internal front weakening or at any of our division or disparity.”

[ President of Lebanon Michel Sleiman, speech at the Sixty-Fifth Graduation Ceremony of Officers, 1 August 2010 ]


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from the archives:


http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340 ... 86,00.html


excerpts from: Ya’alon: Israel capable of attacking Iran

Ynetnews. 10 May 2010

“There is no doubt that the [improved] technological capabilities […] can be used for a war on terror in Gaza, for a war in the face of rockets from Lebanon, for war on the conventional Syrian army, and also for war on a peripheral state like Iran.”

[Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon, speech to the “Air Power and the Challenges of Israel” conference, Herzliya, Israel, 10 May 2010]


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http://wwwtmp-origin.jpost.com/servlet/ ... 2FShowFull


excerpts from: Minister Yossi Peled: Military conflict with Lebanon is inevitable

Jerusalem Post, 23 January 2010

“A military conflict with Lebanon is inevitable. [...] Without a doubt we are heading for another round (of fighting) in the North. No one knows when, but it’s clear that it will happen.”

[Israeli Minister Yossi Peled, Beersheba, 23 January 2010]


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excerpts from: Preparing for a possible confrontation with Hizbullah

by Yaakov Katz, Jerusalem Post, 11 December 2008

To prepare for another possible war with Hizbullah, the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] has also drawn up operational plans that it believes will succeed in ending the battle – with a clear and decisive victory – in four or five days, not like last time [i.e. Israel's war on Lebanon in July 2006].

"No village will be immune [...]" [said a senior Israeli general].

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related links:


Beirut wants Iran to equip Lebanon Army

Press TV, 24 August 2010

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/139949.html



Sayyed Nasrallah – Hariri assassination evidence expose – Full press conference

The Vineyard of the Saker, 12 August 2010

http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2010/ ... ation.html


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[TonyGosling]

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? ... &aid=20584

extract from
Towards a World War III Scenario? The Role of Israel in Triggering an Attack on Iran

Electromagnetic Weapons

Electromagnetic weapons could be used to destabilize Iran's communications systems, disable electric power generation, undermine and destabilize command and control, government infrastructure, transportation, energy, etc. Within the same family of weapons, environmental modifications techniques (ENMOD) (weather warfare) developed under the HAARP programme could also be applied. (See Michel Chossudovsky, "Owning the Weather" for Military Use, Global Research, September 27, 2004). These weapons systems are fully operational. In this context, te US Air Force document AF 2025 explicitly acknowledgedthe military applications of weather modification technologies:

"Weather modification will become a part of domestic and international security and could be done unilaterally... It could have offensive and defensive applications and even be used for deterrence purposes. The ability to generate precipitation, fog, and storms on earth or to modify space weather, improve communications through ionospheric modification (the use of ionospheric mirrors), and the production of artificial weather all are a part of an integrated set of technologies which can provide substantial increase in US, or degraded capability in an adversary, to achieve global awareness, reach, and power." (Air Force 2025 Final Report, See also US Air Force: Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025, AF2025 v3c15-1 | Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning... | (Ch 1) at www.fas.org).

Electromagnetic radiation enabling "remote health impairment" might also be envisaged in the war theater. (See Mojmir Babacek, Electromagnetic and Informational Weapons:, Global Research, August 6, 2004). In turn, new uses of biological weapons by the US military might also be envisaged as suggested by the PNAC: "[A]dvanced forms of biological warfare that can “target” specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool." (PNAC, op cit., p. 60).

Iran's Military Capabilities: Medium and Long Range Missiles

Iran has advanced military capabilities, including medium and long range missiles capable of reaching targets in Israel and the Gulf States. Hence the emphasis by the US-NATO Israel alliance on the use of nuclear weapons, which are slated to be used either pr-emptively or in response to an Iranian retaliatory missile attack.

In November 2006, Iran tests of surface missiles 2 were marked by precise planning in a carefully staged operation. According to a senior American missile expert (quoted by Debka), "the Iranians demonstrated up-to-date missile-launching technology which the West had not known them to possess." (See Michel Chossudovsky, Iran's "Power of Deterrence" Global Research, November 5, 2006) Israel acknowledged that "the Shehab-3, whose 2,000-km range brings Israel, the Middle East and Europe within reach" (Debka, November 5, 2006)

According to Uzi Rubin, former head of Israel's anti-ballistic missile program, "the intensity of the military exercise was unprecedented... It was meant to make an impression -- and it made an impression." (www.cnsnews.com 3 November 2006)

The 2006 exercises, while creating a political stir in the US and Israel, did not in any way modify US-NATO-Israeli resolve to wage on Iran.

Tehran has confirmed in several statements that it will respond if it is attacked. Israel would be the immediate object of Iranian missile attacks as confirmed by the Iranian government. The issue of Israel's air defense system is therefore crucial. US and allied military facilities in the Gulf states, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Iraq could also be targeted by Iran.

[Disco_Destroyer]

Here comes the next bout of War Propaganda:

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-488559

Ukrainian arms dealers smuggled 18 nuclear-capable cruise missiles to Iran and China in 1999-2001, Ukraine's prosecutor-general has said.

US destroys missile with airborne laser for first time

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZPKJ9TEzDA[/youtube]

[TonyGosling]

Estimates of the Israeli Nuclear Arsenal + Israeli Weapons of Mass Destruction: a Threat to Peace
Posted on May 4, 2008 by Antievil
One list of current reasons for an Israeli nuclear capability is:

To deter a large conventional attack,
To deter all levels of unconventional (chemical, biological, nuclear) attacks,
To preempt enemy nuclear attacks,
To support conventional preemption against enemy nuclear assets,
To support conventional preemption against enemy non-nuclear (conventional, chemical, biological) assets,
For nuclear warfighting,
The “Samson Option” (last resort destruction).111

The most alarming of these is the nuclear warfighting. The Israelis have developed, by several accounts, low yield neutron bombs able to destroy troops with minimal damage to property.112 In 1990, during the Second Gulf War, an Israeli reserve major general recommended to America that it “use non-contaminating tactical nuclear weapons” against Iraq.113 Some have speculated that the Israelis will update their nuclear arsenal to “micronukes” and “tinynukes” which would be very useful to attack point targets and other tactical or barrier (mining) uses.114 These would be very useful for hardened deeply buried command and control facilities and for airfield destruction without exposing Israeli pilots to combat.115 Authors have made the point that Israeli professional military schools do not teach nuclear tactics and would not use them in the close quarters of Israel. Many Israeli officers have attended American military schools where they learned tactical use in crowded Europe.116


http://antiisgood.wordpress.com/2008/05 ... -to-peace/

[TonyGosling]

Far-right MK: Assassinating Ahmadinejad today is like assassinating Hitler in 1939
Aryeh Eldad of National Union says Israel should seize the opportunity to kill Ahmadinejad while he is visiting Lebanon.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-d ... 9-1.318881
Far-right MK Aryeh Eldad called Wednesday for the assassination of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and to use his current visit to Lebanon as the opportunity to do so.

[Whitehall_Bin_Men]

The following message by Fidel against Nuclear War was recorded on October 15. Below is the text of this brief and forceful message as well the video recording. This important message is based on Fidel Castro's analysis and understanding of the dangers of military escalation including the threats (confirmed by statements of President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton) to use tactical nuclear weapons on a pre-emptive basis against Iran.
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21541
The use of nuclear weapons in a new war would mean the end of humanity. This was candidly foreseen by scientist Albert Einstein who was able to measure their destructive capability to generate millions of degrees of heat, which would vaporize everything within a wide radius of action. This brilliant researcher had promoted the development of this weapon so that it would not become available to the genocidal Nazi regime.
Each and every government in the world has the obligation to respect the right to life of each and every nation and of the totality of all the peoples on the planet.
Today there is an imminent risk of war with the use of that kind of weapon and I don’t harbour the least doubt that an attack by the United States and Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran would inevitably evolve towards a global nuclear conflict.
The World’s peoples have an obligation to demand of their political leaders their Right to Live. When the life of humankind, of your people and your most beloved human beings run such a risk, nobody can afford to be indifferent; not one minute can be lost in demanding respect for that right; tomorrow will be too late.
Albert Einstein himself stated unmistakably: “I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones”. We fully comprehend what he wanted to convey, and he was absolutely right, yet in the wake of a global nuclear war, there wouldn’t be anybody around to make use of those sticks and stones.
There would be “collateral damage”, as the American political and military leaders always affirm, to justify the deaths of innocent people.
In a nuclear war the “collateral damage” would be the life of all humanity.
Let us have the courage to proclaim that all nuclear or conventional weapons, everything that is used to make war, must disappear!
Fidel Castro Ruz
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j0VJYo9Ldk[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j0VJYo9Ldk

[TonyGosling]

Iran has never launched a war in modern times but since 1900 has been invaded by Britain, the Soviet Union, Russia, and Iraq. It is surrounded by nuclear powers such as Israel, Pakistan, India, and Russia. The former three have yet to sign the treaty.

Double standards: The United States and its allies should look at their own nuclear policy before criticizing Iran
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? ... &aid=21038

Israel, an “undeclared nuclear state,” has obtained an estimate of 200 nuclear devices and has the Middle East’s largest and most advanced chemical and biological warfare facilities. Its refusal to sign the 189-nation NNPT enables it to easily threaten its neighbours. El-Baradei stated at a press conference in October 2009 that, “Israel is the number one threat to the Middle East given the nuclear arms it possesses.” Israel has refused to allow inspections into its nuclear program for 30 years, while Iran is complying with its obligations and allowing inspectors into its nuclear sites.

Iran has never launched a war in modern times but since 1900 has been invaded by Britain, the Soviet Union, Russia, and Iraq. It is surrounded by nuclear powers such as Israel, Pakistan, India, and Russia. The former three have yet to sign the treaty.

The signatories of the treaty are required to gradually eliminate all of their nuclear weapons and yet 40 years later none of the original signers (U.S., Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and China) have complied. Instead, all of them have steadily enhanced their nuclear arms.

The U.S. has invaded other countries, most recently Afghanistan and Iraq, and is the only nation to ever use a nuclear weapon against another nation. The U.S. is also notorious for organizing coups against democratically elected governments, overthrowing regimes, and waging illegal wars. The U.S. has no right to bully Iran when the U.S. itself is a major violator of the NNPT and of international law. Therefore, it is a double standard for the United States and its allies to curtail Iran developing peaceful nuclear technology.

[Disco_Destroyer]

I am of the opinion they have lost their op to hit Iran but I suppose we shall see

[TonyGosling]

WashPost: War with Iran would rescue economy
Daniel Tercer - November 1, 2010

Washington Post political correspondent David Broder has kind words for President Barack Obama in in his opinion column Sunday, arguing that it isn’t the president’s fault the economy is stuck in reverse.

But the four-decade-plus veteran of Washington politics offers a startling solution to the president’s political and economic woes: March off to war with Iran.

http://www.infowars.com/washpost-war-wi ... e-economy/

[cem]

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http://911blogger.com/news/2011-02-04/w ... propaganda


Wikileaks and Daily Telegraph escalate their war propaganda

[propaganda alert]

5 February 2011

compiled by Cem Ertür





WikiLeaks cables: MI6 warns of new suicide bomb wave

MI6 has warned that Britain faces a “unique” threat from a generation of home-grown terrorists who are not on the intelligence services’ “radar”, secret documents have disclosed.

Daily Telegraph, 4 February 2011





WikiLeaks: British Muslims sending problem children 'al-Qaeda' schools

British Muslims are sending their “problem children” to Islamic schools in Kashmir on the India-Pakistan border where they are at risk of being recruited by al-Qaeda, officials have warned.

Daily Telegraph, 4 February 2011





WikiLeaks: UN aid cash went to Islamist insurgents

The United Nations was paying one of the world’s most notorious terrorist groups after getting “too close” to it, secret documents disclose.

Daily Telegraph, 4 February 2011





WikiLeaks cables: US launched anti-extremist campaign to reverse UK radicalisation

The United States launched a secret campaign to reverse the radicalisation of young Islamists in Britain, amid American fears that this country had the most hard-line Muslim communities in Europe.

Daily Telegraph, 4 February 2011





WikiLeaks cables: The British counter-terror programme that 'fails to stop extremists'

The British programme to counter Islamic extremism has been widely criticised over its failure to stop home-grown terrorists.

Daily Telegraph, 3 February 2011





WikiLeaks cables: British Muslims travelling to Somalia for 'jihadi tourism'

British Muslims are travelling to Somalia for “jihadi tourism” to train for terrorist attacks in Britain, the secret documents reveal.

Daily Telegraph, 3 February 2011





WikiLeaks cables: MI6 warns of new suicide bomb wave

MI6 has warned that Britain faces a “unique” threat from a generation of home-grown terrorists who are not on the intelligence services’ “radar”, secret documents have disclosed.

Daily Telegraph, 3 February 2011





WikiLeaks cables: FBI investigation into suspected 911 gang to be reviewed

WikiLeaks cables: Counter-terrorism division of the FBI has asked its staff to look again at the evidence.

Daily Telegraph, 3 February 2011





WikiLeaks: Treasury 'slow to act in blocking terrorist finance'

America accused the Treasury of blocking attempts to close down "terrorist financiers" operating in Britain and being more concerned with protecting the interests of the City, leaked documents show.

Daily Telegraph, 3 February 2011





WikiLeaks: Chinese weapons fall into hands of insurgents

Chinese-made weapons have fallen into the hands of insurgents fighting Coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan because of China’s failure to enforce export controls on arms to Iran, the leaked cables show.

Daily Telegraph, 3 February 2011





WikiLeaks: Vanished FBI officer Robert Levinson 'held by Iranian Revolutionary Guards'

A former FBI officer who disappeared in mysterious circumstances in Iran four years ago has been held by the country’s Revolutionary Guard, the cables suggest.

Daily Telegraph, 3 February 2011





WikiLeaks: Sale of uranium mine blocked over Iran fears

The US intervened in the £371 million sale of a Canadian-owned mine in Africa because of fears that uranium ore would be sold to Iran, the leaked cables show.

Daily Telegraph, 3 February 2011





WikiLeaks: tension in the Middle East and Asia has direct potential to lead to nuclear war'

Tension in the Middle East and Asia has given rise to an escalating atomic arms and missiles race which has “the direct potential to lead to nuclear war,” leaked diplomatic documents disclose.

Daily Telegraph, 2 February 2011





WikiLeaks: Did al-Qaeda plot a fifth attack on 9/11?

A group of Qataris suspected of conducting surveillance on the targets of 9/11, and providing "support" to the plotters of the atrocities, were due to fly to Washington on the eve of the attacks, the Daily Telegraph can reveal.

Daily Telegraph, 2 February 2011





WikiLeaks: what the cables said about the 9/11 Qatari gang

WikiLeaks cables reveal that the FBI has launched a manhunt for a Qatari gang suspected to be part of the 9/11 attacks.

Daily Telegraph, 2 February 2011





WikiLeaks: al-Qaeda is 'planning a dirty bomb'

Al-Qaeda is actively tring to secure nuclear material and recruiting rogue scientists to build a radioactive "dirty" bomb, according to leaked diplomatic documents.

Daily Telegraph, 2 February 2011





WikiLeaks: terrorists plan to use 'teddy bear bombs' to blow up planes

Terrorists are planning to use children’s toys such as teddy bears to get bombs onto planes, according to leaked diplomatic dispatches.

Daily Telegraph, 2 February 2011





WikiLeaks: Gordon Brown ordered Pakistani president to kill Osama bin Laden

The FBI has launched a manhunt for a previously unknown team of men suspected to be part of the 9/11 attacks, the Daily Telegraph can disclose.

Daily Telegraph, 2 February 2011





WikiLeaks: FBI hunts the 9/11 gang that got away

The FBI has launched a manhunt for a previously unknown team of men suspected to be part of the 9/11 attacks, the Daily Telegraph can disclose.

Daily Telegraph, 1 February 2011





WikiLeaks: 9/11 Commission report hinted at network of US 'accomplices'

The official 9/11 Commission report into the attacks made no mention of another team of potential hijackers - but did hint at a “support network of accomplices” who had eluded investigators.

Daily Telegraph, 1 February 2011





WikiLeaks: 9/11 gang with pilot uniforms fled to London

Even before three men of Middle Eastern appearance had told cleaners to stay out of their room, staff at a Los Angeles airport hotel had become increasingly suspicious of what they were up to.

Daily Telegraph, 1 February 2011


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[acrobat74]

Wikileaks was a good move by the elitist scum.

First they sought to establish its credibility with reasonably awake people.
Then they were free to control the message.

Inevitably though, as the 'revelations' keep coming and their nature is scrutinized by astute observers, the scam will become obvious.

Anyone thinking that the establishment will be systematically challenged on the pages of the Guardian or the New York Times is seriously naive.

(To the black-and-white thinkers: please do not confuse the above statement with something like 'anything that appears on the New York Times is propaganda').

I understand the willingness of people to believe in goodness and to want to belong, but we should be more sceptical about these things.

By their fruit you will recognize them.


And just to tease the black-and-white thinkers a bit more, here's another article in the Guardian that even mentions 'Anglo-Iranian Oil's own internal intelligence unit in the period before the coup against Mossadeq 60 years ago':

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/fe ... gon-papers

The release by WikiLeaks of a quarter of a million mid-level US state department cables – anything between 20m and 50m documents a year have a much higher security classification – has received a mixed reception from historians.

The most excitable response was to compare it with the mountains of papers the Allies scooped up in Germany in 1945, or with what the West German authorities encountered in the defunct ministries of the GDR in 1989-90.

This is nonsense.

In both cases, the victorious powers had immediate access to documents, including the most secret, from the highest levels of the old regimes, save for what they had burned (or shredded) in the months or weeks before their downfall.
In both cases, scholars are still going through this material – and in the case of the former GDR will be doing so for many decades to come.

What the WikiLeaks cables undoubtedly provide is much candid local colour, which historians usually have to wait some time to savour, whether about Colonel Gaddafi's Ukrainian nurse or President/Prime Minister Putin's macho posturings, although none of this is earth-shattering.

Is anyone unduly surprised that Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai is corrupt or pardons drug dealers? Or that "China is not in Africa for altruistic reasons"? Or that by summer 2008 Gordon Brown was "finished" and Cameron "inexperienced"?

Wow!

Actually, historians could get most of this information by talking to any knowledgeable academic, businessman or journalist; the state department cables simply top and tail it with bureaucratic formulae.

In the case of Nigeria, the communications of the spies that Shell has infiltrated into "every ministry" would be far more revelatory than the musings of US diplomats about them, though historians still do not have access to the (BP) files of Anglo-Iranian Oil's own internal intelligence unit in the period before the coup against Mossadeq 60 years ago.

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Controversial anti-Iran ads

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3rd of Jan *Edit oops 2010

Iran responds to a Sunday Times report of a possible Israeli

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAF_Kw-74pI&NR=1[/youtube]

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So was this latest surge of lies cooked up at the World Economic Forum?
If not... where?

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http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/201 ... -the-park/

President Sleiman: Israel knows well that attacking Lebanon is no longer a walk in the park



compiled by Cem Ertür

18 February 2011



1) Lebanese President Sleiman: Israel knows well that attacking Lebanon is no longer a walk in the park (17 February 2011)

2) Hezbollah leader Nasrallah: Resistance Might Occupy Galilee in Future War (16 February 2011)

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http://www.presstv.ir/detail/165738.html


excerpt from: Next war on Lebanon ‘no walk in park’

Press TV, 17 February 2011

Lebanese President Michel Sleiman says another Israeli-imposed war on his country would not be “a walk in the park” as the army and Hezbollah resistance movement are fully prepared.

“Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak knows full well that entering Lebanon is no longer a walk in the park,” AFP quoted Sleiman as saying in a statement released on Thursday.

“[Barak's] threat to send his forces into Lebanon again shows premeditated intentions of aggression. The Lebanese people, army and resistance are ready to respond to any such aggression,” the Lebanese president added.

On Tuesday, Barak said Israeli armed forces may cross into the southern Lebanese territory again and engage in a military confrontation with Hezbollah resistance fighters.

The Israeli defense minister claimed that Israel inflicted heavy loss on Hezbollah during the 33-day war on Lebanon that killed about 1,200 Lebanese — most of them civilians.


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http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adeta ... id=14&s1=1


excerpt from: Sayyed Nasrallah: Resistance Might Occupy Galilee in Future War

H. Assi, Al-Manar, 16 February 2011

[Hezbollah Secretary General] Sayyed Nasrallah noted to the statements made recently by the Israeli former chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazy concerning his “achievements” in the army and his pledge that the “failure” in Lebanon and Gaza war would not repeat themselves.

“At least, he’s admitting there were failures. But now, there’s a discussion whether Hezbollah could occupy the Galilee region. Twenty years ago, Israelis were convinced that Hezbollah could not occupy any site in the north of the occupied territories.”

“The major achievement of the Resistance is that it complicated the possibility of Israel occupying Lebanon. Even more, today, Israel is concerned that Hezbollah might occupy Galilee.”

His eminence pointed to the latest threat made by Barak one day earlier, during his first military tour with new Israeli Chief of Staff Benny Gantz along the northern border, where he claimed that the Israeli occupation forces may be called into Lebanon in the future. “Hezbollah remembers the heavy beating they suffered from us in 2006, but it is not forever, and you may be called to enter Lebanon again,” Barak told the soldiers.

“I tell Barak, Ashkenazi and Gantz that the Resistance might have to occupy Galilee. I tell the resistance fighters to be prepared for the day when war is imposed on Lebanon. Then, the Resistance leadership might ask you to lead the Resistance to occupy the Galilee.”


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from the archives:


US to Lebanon: Israel can completely destroy Lebanese Army within four hours

Dandelion Salad, 27 August 2010

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/201 ... our-hours/



Israel: Our technological capabilities can be used for a war on Gaza, for a war on Lebanon, for a war on Syria, and also for war on Iran

Dandelion Salad, 11 May 2010

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/201 ... se-rumors/


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Once the lid is off, War is open ended and volatile, no one can predict an outcome, even with smart bombs

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REAL REASON WHY USA & ISRAEL WILL ATTACK IRAN

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEpp9E6aJGw[/youtube]

http://www.thedossier.ukonline.co.uk/video_iraqwar.htm


http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/05/12 ... nal-weeks/

Russia: Iran's First Nuke Plant to Be Fully Operational Within Weeks
Published May 12, 2011
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Oct. 26, 2010: The reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant is seen, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran.
Russia's deputy foreign minister said Thursday that Iran's nuclear power plant will be fully operational within weeks, Reuters reports.
Sergei Ryabkov said the Russian-built Bushehr power plant -- Iran's first nuclear power plant -- will be up and running soon.
"The final launch of Bushehr is a matter of the coming weeks," Ryabkov told Reuters.
This comes as Iran received a new shipment of nuclear fuel from Russia for the plant, the official IRNA news agency reported Wednesday, a key step following the plant's recent startup.
The Bushehr plant in southern Iran has been on the fringes of the controversy surrounding Iran's nuclear program. The United States and its allies suspected a connection between the plant and what the West believes are Iranian attempts to develop a nuclear weapon -- a charge denied by Tehran.

Hamid Khadem Qaemi, spokesman for Iran's nuclear agency, said Russia delivered a total of 33 tons by plane over the last week for Bushehr. The amount is meant for the plant's second year of operation, IRNA quoted Qaemi as saying.
Bushehr's startup was repeatedly postponed and recently, foreign intelligence reports said the plant's control systems were penetrated by Stuxnet, a malicious computer software.
Iran maintained that Stuxnet was only found on several laptops belonging to plant employees and didn't affect the facility. Tehran later blamed the U.S. and Israel of being behind Stuxnet, saying the worm was part of a covert plan by Iran's enemies to sabotage its nuclear program.
The Bushehr project dates back to 1974, when Iran's U.S.-backed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi contracted with the German company Siemens to build the reactor. The company withdrew from the project after the 1979 Islamic Revolution toppled the shah and brought hard-line clerics to power.
In 1992, Iran signed a $1 billion deal with Russia to complete the project and work began in 1995.
Under the contract, Bushehr was originally scheduled to come on stream in July 1999 but this was repeatedly delayed by construction and supply glitches.
Iran last year said that the much-delayed operation of the plant was to begin last December. Russia had already delivered 90 tons in eight shipments in 2007 and 2008, sufficient for a one-year consumption in Bushehr's 1,000 megawatt light-water reactor.
But in February, Russia ordered that fuel be removed because of concerns that metal particles might be contaminating fuel assemblies; reloading began in April.
The delays at Bushehr have hurt relations with Moscow and prompted Iranian officials to describe Russia as an "unreliable partner." Iran's state media have often said politics, not technical issues, are the reason behind them.
On Tuesday, Atomstroyexport, the Russian state company that built Bushehr, said the first reactor at the plant had gone into operation after a self-sustained fission reaction began Sunday.
Unrelated to Bushehr, Tehran has been slapped with four rounds on U.N. sanctions over its refusal to halt uranium enrichment and world powers are now trying to nudge Iran toward a compromise over the issue.
Low-enriched uranium can be used to fuel a reactor to generate electricity, which Iran says is the intention of its growing uranium enrichment program. But if uranium is further enriched to around 90 percent purity, it can be used to develop a nuclear warhead.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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WikiLeaks - US Attack On Iran?

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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/iranian ... -to-court/

IRANIAN PARLIAMENT TURNS ON AHMADINEJAD — VOTES TO SEND HIM TO COURT
Posted on June 1, 2011 at 8:33am by Jonathon M. Seidl Print »Email »

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran‘s parliament voted on Wednesday in favor of taking Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to court over what lawmakers say is a violation of the country’s constitution stemming from the president’s move last month to declare himself caretaker oil minister.

The vote in the conservative-dominated assembly is its latest action against Ahmadinejad since the president in April publicly challenged Iran’s highest authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

That challenge was triggered by Ahmadinejad’s attempt to sack the powerful intelligence minister, Heidar Moslehi, a move Khamenei blocked. Although Ahmadinejad publicly backed down in the confrontation with Khamenei weeks later, it emboldened his hard-line rivals in parliament.

And last month, Ahmadinejad incurred the wrath of the Guardian Council — Iran’s constitutional watchdog body — when he sacked Oil Minister Masoud Mirkazemi under a Cabinet reshuffle plan and declared himself caretaker oil minister.

The confrontations appear to be part of a power struggle ahead of parliamentary elections next year and the vote for Ahmadinejad’s successor in mid-2013.

It‘s unclear whether Wednesday’s vote in the 290-member parliament will actually be followed by charges or a a lawsuit against Ahmadinejad, but it clearly pits the majority of the lawmakers against the president.

The legislators voted 165-1 to refer Ahmadinejad to the country’s judiciary after a parliament committee report concluded his action in taking over the oil ministry was an “obvious violation of the constitution.” Remaining lawmakers were either absent or abstained from the vote.

Lawmakers were upset after Ahmadinejad last month restructured the Cabinet by combining eight ministries into four without seeking the lawmakers’ approval. The president has the power to dismiss ministers and put caretakers in place for up to three months without parliament’s approval.


But when Ahmadinejad declared himself caretaker oil minister, the lawmakers said it was an illegal move, some even alleging the president sought personal control of Iran’s most moneymaking body. Iran also holds the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries’ rotating presidency this year.

“This illegal and hasty action will damage the Islamic Republic of Iran’s interests on the global level,” the parliament committee report said. “As (caretaker) oil minister, Ahmadinejad has issued and will continue to issue orders that are obviously illegal interference.”

In another sign of the lawmakers’ confrontation with the president, about 50 legislators have signed a petition to summon Ahmadinejad to appear in parliament to answer questions. At least a fourth of the lawmakers have to sign before a president can be questioned. If successful, it would be the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that a president is forced to answer questions before the Iranian assembly.

Those behind the petition want Ahmadinejad to respond to a long list of accusations, including refusing to carry out laws passed by parliament, withdrawing money from state funds without authorization and his alleged lack of transparency on budget spending.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/science/31nuke.html

Inspectors Pierce Iran’s Cloak of Nuclear Secrecy

Vahid Salemi/Associated Press
ON PARADE President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, second from left, reviewed a Shahab-3 missile, which can carry a nuclear warhead, near Tehran in 2005.
By WILLIAM J. BROAD
Published: May 30, 2011

The International Atomic Energy Agency last week presented a report to its board that laid out new information on what it calls “possible military dimensions” of Iran’s nuclear program, clarifying the central issue in the long clash between Tehran and the West over nuclear technology.
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The nine-page report raised questions about whether Iran has sought to investigate seven different kinds of technology ranging from atomic triggers and detonators to uranium fuel. Together, the technologies could make a type of atom bomb known as an implosion device, which is what senior staff members of the I.A.E.A. have warned that Iran is able to build.

Weapons based on implosion are considered advanced models compared with the bomb that the United States dropped on Hiroshima. In these devices, the detonation of a sphere of conventional explosives creates a blast wave that compresses a central ball of bomb fuel into a supercritical mass, starting the chain reaction that ends in a nuclear explosion.

Implosion designs, compact and efficient by nature, are considered necessary for making nuclear warheads small and powerful enough to fit atop a missile.

Iran has dismissed charges that it is pursuing such technologies as lies based on fabricated documents or real ones taken out of context. It insists that its atomic program is meant exclusively for such peaceful objectives as producing medical isotopes and electric power. The result has been a tense standoff.

Last week’s report said the director general of the I.A.E.A., Yukiya Amano, recently wrote to Iranian officials to reiterate the agency’s concerns about the arms evidence and request “prompt access” to a wide range of Iranian facilities and individuals.

The report said Mr. Amano “urges Iran to respond positively” in order to establish “the exclusively peaceful nature” of its program.

Official doubts about Tehran’s ambitions emerged publicly in 2002 and have resulted in four rounds of United Nations sanctions. To date, the penalties have failed to stop Iran from enriching uranium, which can fuel both reactors and atom bombs.

In 2009, senior staff members of the I.A.E.A. concluded in a confidential analysis that “Iran has sufficient information to be able to design and produce a workable implosion nuclear device” based on highly enriched uranium.

The new report includes some of the technical evidence behind that charge. It describes the sources of the information as “many member states” as well as its own efforts. Nuclear experts assume that much intelligence comes from Israel, the United States and Western Europe, though the I.A.E.A. in total has 151 member states.

The report cites concerns about undisclosed nuclear activities “past or current,” implying that the agency believes the Iranian arms program may still be moving ahead despite reports of its onetime suspension.

The seven categories of technology all bear on what can be interpreted as warhead design: how to turn uranium into bomb fuel, make conventional explosives that can trigger a nuclear blast, generate neutrons to spur a chain reaction and design nose cones for missiles.

Two diplomats familiar with the evidence, both of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity under the usual protocol, emphasized that no single one of the technologies stood out as indicating bomb work. Some, they conceded, have peaceful uses.

But the totality of the evidence, they said, suggested that Iran has worked hard on multiple fronts to advance the design of nuclear arms.

“It’s the whole variety of information,” one of the diplomats said. “You have to look at the whole thing.”

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'Iran never gives in to pressure'

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Uploaded by RussiaToday on Jul 31, 2011
Iran's resistance to Western influence is the only reason NATO has not encircled Russia completely, thus enabling the US to defeat its only military rival, consolidating its dominance in the world, says Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi.
RT: The West is suspicious of Iran's nuclear program, while you insist that you have peaceful intentions. What is Iran going to do to convince the West that your nuclear program is intended to serve peaceful purposes?
Ali Akbar Salehi: The only international body that has the authority to evaluate our activities is the IAEA, and no state is allowed to accuse Iran regarding its nuclear program outside IAEA boundaries, or to initiate any international action against Iran. This is why we pay no attention to the West's claims regarding our nuclear research. Iran is a member of the IAEA and a party to the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iran is going to respect that treaty, since nuclear non-proliferation is in our interests as well. I confirm that Iran has made its intentions quite clear with regard to its nuclear program, proving that it is peaceful. This is further reaffirmed by the fact that the IAEA did not state in any of its reports that there is any military activity going on in Iran's nuclear sector.
As for our intentions, how can the United States accuse us of pursuing non-peaceful purposes while America itself was the first nation ever to use nuclear weapons, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in Japan? This is why we have no faith in America's intentions, as history shows it cannot be trusted.
During our war with Iraq, Saddam's regime used chemical weapons against Iran, but we did not respond in kind, since Iran's policy is based on Sharia Law, which forbids us from producing, storing or using nuclear weapons. It lays the foundation for our constitution, our policies and our views.
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