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May 7 2013

Iran ready to ‘train’ Syrian army – commander


Iran ready to ‘train’ Syrian army – commander

Syrian soldiers celebrate in the al-Midan area in Damascus (AFP Photo)

Syrian soldiers celebrate in the al-Midan area in Damascus (AFP Photo)

Iran has denounced a reported Israeli attack on Syria and offered to assist ‘train’ the Syrian army if Damascus asks for help, commander of country’s ground forces stated. Iran has been urging for neighboring nations to stand against the assault.

“As a Muslim nation, we back Syria, and if there is need for training we will provide them with the training, but won’t have any active involvement in the operations,” IRNA news agency quoted the commander of the Islamic republic’s army ground forces, General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan as saying.

“The Syrian army has accumulated experience during years of conflict [with Israel], is able to defend itself and doesn’t need foreign assistance,” he added.

Israel reportedly carried out its second airstrike in three days on Syria early on Sunday, a Western intelligence source confirmed to Reuters, targeting Iranian-supplied missiles to Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah. The attack hit the Jamraya military research center, Syria’s state TV reported; while a senior Israeli official told AFP that the Israeli airstrike was carried out near Damascus Airport.

Iran has spoken out against the alleged airstrike, arguing that it was meant to create instability and insecurity in the region and urging the countries in the region to remain united against Israel, the Fars news agency quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast as saying.

Events in Syria show the intent to weaken the existing government and give more room to the terrorists, RT Arabic quoted the opening statement of the Iranian parliament’s session. According to the statement, the reasons behind the Israeli attack are the success of Syrian national army is battling against the armed groups.

Iran also urged other countries in the region to stand united against Israel’s’ actions and demand a stop to unwarranted attacks, RT Arabic reports.

So far Israel has remained silent on the issue. Earlier Israel stated that they would not tolerate Hezbollah being supplied with arms, as Tel Aviv considers Lebanon’s Hezbollah a terror organization.

source: rt.com

 

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May 4 2013

Zionists and Gulf Monarchs Ponder Pushing Al Qaeda to Take on Hezbollah


Zionists and Gulf Monarchs Ponder

Pushing Al Qaeda to Take on Hezbollah

by FRANKLIN LAMB

Beirut

“This is one damn fine idea, what took us so long to see a simple solution that was right in front of our eyes for Christ’s sake”, Senator John McCain of “Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran” and “no-fly zones for Syria” notoriety, reportedly demanded to know from Dennis Ross during a recent Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) brain storming session in Washington DC.

Ross, a founder of WINEP with Israeli government start up cash (presumably reimbursed unknowingly, one way or another by American taxpayers) and currently WINEPs “Counselor”, as in “consigliere” reportedly responded to the idea of facilitating Al Qeada to wage jihad against Hezbollah with the comment: “Shiites aren’t the only ones seeking death to demonstrate their ‘resistance’ to whatever. Plenty of other Muslims also want to die as we saw last week in Boston. Let ‘em all go at it and Israel can sweep out their s— when it’s over.”

One Congressional staffer attending the WINEP event emailed to Beirut: “Dennis spoke in jest—well I assumed he did- but who knows anymore? Things are getting ever crazier inside some of these pro-Israel ‘think tanks’ around here.”

Featured on the front page of its 25/4/13 edition, the Zionist compliant New York Times writes that the Assad regime is apparently recovering but, “it must be understood that for all of the justified worries about the (al Qaeda affiliated) rebels “Assad remains an ally of Iran and Hezbollah.”

The Times adopts the views of Islamophobe, Daniel Pipes, who recommends that the US try to keep the two sides in Syria fighting as long as possible until they destroy each other. Pipes, now serving as an advisor to John McClain, wrote in the Washington Times of 11/4/13 “ Evil forces pose less danger to us when they make war on each other. This keeps them focused locally, and it prevents either one from emerging victorious and thereby posing a greater danger. Western powers should guide enemies to a stalemate by helping whichever side is losing, so as to prolong their debilitating conflict.”

Both Jeffrey Feltman, U.N. Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs and Susan Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the U.N, have at a minimum impliedly joined in the intriguing idea of sic’ing Jabhat al Nusra on the Party of God. This scheme, if launched, would be Feltman’s 14th attempt to topple Hezbollah and defeat the Lebanese National Resistance to the occupation of Palestine since he first arrived in Beirut from Tel Aviv in 2005 to become US Ambassador to Lebanon. This observer, among others in this region sense that given the aura still enveloping the American Embassy here, that Jeffrey never really left his Lebanese ambassadorial post and continues to occupy this position from his new UN office.

This week Feltman warned that the spillover of Syria’s war continues to be felt in Lebanon as Susan Rice, echoed him and condemned Hezbollah for “undermining the country’s “dissociation policy.” The latter being a bit obscure in meaning but connoting something like sitting around doing nothing while this country is being shelled by jihadists from among the 23 countries currently fighting in Syria. Feltman informed the media on 22/4/13 that “The Secretary-General is concerned by reports that Lebanese are fighting in Syria both on the side of the regime and on the side of the opposition, hopes that the new government will find ways to promote better compliance by all sides in Lebanon with the “disassociation policy.”

Given current divisions in Lebanon that will not happen anymore than Lebanon’s June 9th Parliamentary elections will be held on time.

For her part, Susan lectured the UN Security Council that “Hezbollah actively enables Assad to wage war on the Syrian people by providing money, weapons, and expertise to the regime in close coordination with Iran.” This position was expressed also through a statement by US. State Department spokesman, Patrick Ventrell, who said that Washington “has always been clear concerning Hezbollah’s shameful role and the support it is providing for the Syrian regime and the violence it is inducing in Syria.” Ventrell added: “We were clear from the start concerning the destructive role played by Iran as well as the Iranian role.”

Several Israeli agents in Congress are today promoting a Jabhat el Nusra-Hezbollah war even as the Obama administration terror-lists the jihadist group. Meanwhile, Senator Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.), McCain’s neocon Islamaphobe acolyte, goes a bit further and explains to Fox News, once Assad falls and Hezbollah is out of the picture “We can deal with these (jihadist) fellas.”

Recent history in Libya instructs otherwise. As Turkish commentator Cihan Celik recently noted: “A divorce with al-Nusra will not be easy in Syria.”

The past two years in Libya, that shadow of a country, reveals countless examples, three witnessed firsthand by this observer, during the long hot summer of 2011. What we saw was Gulf sponsors and funders offering young men, often unemployed, $ 100 per month, free cigarettes, and a Kalashnikov to do jihad. Plenty down and out lads still accept these offers in Libya, as they do in Syria. One reason why the militias proliferated so quickly in Libya and never melted away was the phenomenon of a wannabe jihadists deciding to be a leader and recruiting perhaps a brother or two, maybe a few cousins or tribe members, and presto, they have created a militia with power they never dreamed of. Their new life can offer many perceived benefits from running roughshod over the civilian populations and setting up myriad mini but potent criminal enterprises specializing in kidnappings, robberies, drugs, trafficking in women, and assassinations for cash. How many of these young men have turned in their weapons in Libya and returned to their former lives? Or will do so when instructed by the likes of McCain or Graham?

On 24/4/13 Jabhat Al-Nusra Front intensified its threats to officials here including the Lebanese president by releasing a challenge from its media office: “…we inform you – and you may think of that as a warning or an ultimatum – that you must take immediate measures to restrain Hezbollah, otherwise, the fire will reach Beirut. If you do not abide by this within 24 hours, we will consider that you are taking part in the massacres committed by the Hezbollah members and we will unfortunately have to burn everything in Beirut.” In addition they are calling for Jihad and the establishment of the “Resistance Factions for Jihad against the Regime in Syria” and also in Saida and Tripoli, Lebanon.

Israeli officials appear to be in agreement with the Ross/Pipes proposal to arrange for Al Qeada to launch a war against Hezbollah. The Director for External Affairs at “The Mosche Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, repeatedly claimed that the Shia are the real threat to Israel, not the Sunni and with the least threat coming from the Gulf monarchs. He offered the view recently that “Israel is now a partner of the Sunni Arab states.” Indeed, Israel hopes that Hezbollah will forget Israel when tasked with trying repel Al Nusra and other al Qaeda affiliate attacks.

According to various Israel officials who have issued statements on the subject, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan and several other members of the Arab League constitute an “alliance of anxiety for Israel” because they claim that “Sunni Arabs are not as competent as the Shia and Iran and as a result they express doubts that Israel can rely on the Sunni states in the same way that the Sunni states can reply on Israel.”

In a documentary about the Iraq war, an American soldier explains: “Actually, we don’t really have much of a problem with the Sunnis. It’s the Shias who we are afraid of. The problem has something to do with their leader who was killed centuries ago and these fellas are willing to lay their life down for the guy. Anyhow, that is that they told us in Special Ops class.”

Al Nusra fighters currently occupying parts the south west areas of Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in south Damascus, recently expressed eagerness to fight Hezbollah which they claim would give them credibility with Sunni Muslims and, oddly, in this observers view, “ credibility with western countries”, who supposedly are al Qaeda’s sworn enemies. It’s sometimes hard to know who precisely is whose enemy these days in Syria as the rebels continue using areas east and southwest of Damascus as rear bases and as gateways into the capital.

Despite boasts to the contrary from Jihadist types in Syria and Lebanon, it is not clear to this observer if Jihadist and al Qaeda-affiliated groups living among Hezbollah communities in Lebanon like Fatah al Islam, Jund al Sham or Osbat al Ansar which have been here for years would actually join the Zionist promoted anti-Hezbollah jihad.

But it is evident that some Lebanese Islamists and jihadists directly connected to al Qaeda do have the ability to target Hezbollah. Elements from each of these groups are startling to associate and identify with al Nusra inspired partly by the latter’s successful military operations of Jabhat al Nusra in Syria. Again, we saw the same thing in Libya. Enthusiastic, ambitious young men who want to improve their lot in life try to go with a winner. According to sources in the Ain al Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp, jihadist leaders such as Haytham and Mohammed al Saadi, Tawfic Taha, Oussama al Shehabi and Majed al Majed are recruiting followers and fighters in Lebanon and offer a ticket out the the squalid army surrounded, Syrian refugee inflated camp.

Homs-based media activist Mohammad Radwan Raad claims that “the embattled residents of the rebel-controlled Homs province town of Al-Qusayr welcome Saida, Lebanon based Sunni Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir’s call for Jihad in Syria.” Claims Raad, “Al-Qusayr residents welcome Assir’s call and hope the Lebanese people help kick out Hezbollah members in the area…We need anyone who can get rid of them.” This week Assir urged his followers to join Syrian rebels fighting troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah. Al-Qusayr has been under rebel control for more than a year and on the scene reports indicate that it is about to be returned to central government control.

In response, two Salafist Sunni Lebanese sheikhs urged their followers to go to Syria to fight a jihad (religious war) in defense of Qusayr’s Sunni residents. “There is a religious duty on every Muslim who is able to do so… to enter into Syria in order to defend its people, its mosques and religious shrines, especially in Qusayr and Homs,” Sheikh Ahmed al-Assir told his followers. For now, experts say, such calls on the part of Lebanon’s Salafists are largely bluster because the movement is far from able to wield either the arsenal or the fighting forces of Hezbollah.

Local analysts like Qassem Kassir argue that Jabhat al Nusra and friends are not organized enough to fight against Hezbollah in a conventional war, but they could cause great damage by organizing bomb attacks against the Party of God’s bases and militants. The latter would be enough initially for Ross and WINEP and their Zionist handlers. Creating chaos in Lebanon being one of their goals but more importantly weakening the National Lebanese Resistance led by Hezbollah and also challenging Syria and Iran.

In a recent speech, Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah offered his party’s view about a promoted Sunni-Shia clash with Al-Nusra, AlQaida and all the groups which flocked to Syria, saying that what was wanted of them by those who sent them was to kill and get killed in Syria, in a massacre which will only serve the enemies of the Arabs and Muslims.

The coming months will reveal to us if the several pro-Zionist Arab regimes and Islamophobes including those at WINEP and other Israel first “think-tanks” are delusional in believing a “simple solution” in John McCain’s words, to those resisting the Zionist occupation of Palestine would be to assist Jabhat el Nusra type jihadists to make war against Hezbollah. And whether they could defeat Hezbollah or even whether Jabhat al Nusra and friends are capable of igniting yet another catastrophe in this region.

Franklin Lamb is doing research in Lebanon and Syria and can be reached c/o fplamb@gmail.com

source: Counterpunch

 

Apr 20 2013

4000 mercenaries eliminated in the last three weeks. The plotters the CIA, NATO and Al Qaeda-called “opposition” defeated desperately seeking a political negotiation ….


4000 mercenaries eliminated in the last three weeks. The plotters the CIA, NATO and Al Qaeda-called “opposition” defeated desperately seeking a political negotiation ….

 

Heavy casualties among the terrorists in different parts of the country to break into their hiding places and centers of concentration

The armed forces continued their operations against the terrorist group elements in different parts of the country.

Deleted terrorists in Damascus Countryside

Units liquidated terrorist armed forces and wounded others, and destroy your criminals in various parts of Adra and around Damascus Countryside.

According to a military source our brave soldiers stormed centers for terrorists in Wadi Arrune, western Qara, Wadi Al Mal and Tal Mluhi in Annabek, leaving many dead and wounded terrorists.

The source added that another unit in Homs Army clashed with an armed terrorist group that attempted to infiltrate from Lebanese territory through Tal Kalakh with the aim of committing terrorist and criminal acts against innocent civilians.

Similarly, Army units pursued remnants of terrorist groups in the town of Ibel in the field of Homs.

Terrorists eliminated the Director of Planning in the Ministry of Social Affairs in Damascus

As part of this crimes against nationally qualified personnel, terrorists killed yesterday the Director of Planning in the Ministry of Social Affairs and Relief Committee member, Ali Balan, in the Eastern Mezze in Damascus Villas.

According to a source in the Ministry, terrorists opened fire on Ali Balan while in a restaurant in the area, causing his martyrdom.

Army Front eliminate terrorists in Damascus Al Nusra Field

Detachments of the armed forces eliminated a large number of terrorists in Yobar, Zakie, Annabek, A Guta East, during a series of operations in hiding and assembly centers where vehicles were also destroyed and a base for launching mortars, and of large quantities of arms and ammunition.

Detachments of the armed forces eliminated a large number of terrorists in Yobar, Zakie, Annabek, A Guta East, during a series of operations in hiding and assembly centers where vehicles were also destroyed and a base for launching mortars, and of large quantities of arms and ammunition.

According to an official source a terrorist group led by Abu Naim called, was settled east of Yobar, while also destroyed a hideout of terrorists with large quantities of arms and ammunition in Wadi Ein Tarma.

The source added that Misraba mortar cannon was destroyed and 13 terrorists were killed by Army units also unleashed an operation in Al Etaibe, which settled a number of terrorists.

To all this, and in the town of Al hmera in Annabek, Squares Syrian Arab Army destroyed a convoy of terrorist groups and eliminated various components thereof. therefore in Hosh Al Khayat in Adra, a number of terrorists, including a sniper, were eliminated by the Syrian Army soldiers also raided hideouts of Al Nusra Front in Zakie, causing the downfall of all who were within those killed and wounded themself.

Source: sana.sy/ara/

Apr 18 2013

BBC “Reveals” After the Facts how British Special Forces Supervised and Spearheaded Libya Rebels to Victory


BBC “Reveals” After the Facts how British Special Forces Supervised and Spearheaded Libya Rebels to Victory

By Global Research

BBC "Reveals" After the Facts how British Special Forces Supervised and Spearheaded Libya Rebels to Victory

In a failed attempt to appear unbiased  and objective, the BBC now “reveals”, almost a year after the information was relayed by several alternative media, that British Special Forces played a key role in steering and supervising Libya’s “freedom fighters” to victory.  Known and documented many of these so-called rebels were mercenaries under contract to NATO.

British efforts to help topple Colonel Gaddafi were not limited to air strikes. On the ground – and on the quiet – special forces soldiers were blending in with rebel fighters: 

This is the previously untold BBC account of the crucial role part played by British and Allied Special Forces in leading the insurrection largely integrated by Al Qaeda’s affiliated operatives:  

In the end, though, British special forces were deployed on the ground in order to help the UK’s allies – the Libyan revolutionaries often called the National Transitional Council or NTC. Those with knowledge of the programme insist “they did a tremendous job” and contributed to the final collapse of the Gaddafi regime. Multiple radios indicate sophisticated coordination of forces The UK’s policy for intervention evolved in a series of fits and starts, being changed at key points by events on the ground. The arguments about how far the UK should go were thrashed out in a series of meetings of the National Security Council at Downing Street. Under the chairmanship of Prime Minister David Cameron, its key members were Chief of the Defence Staff General Sir David Richards Defence Secretary Liam Fox Foreign Secretary William Hague Mr Cameron’s chief of staff, Ed Llewellyn, was a key voice in urging action following start of the Libyan revolution last February, say Whitehall insiders

The existence of E Squadron is well-known within the special forces community but has not hitherto been discussed publicly. It was formed five years ago to work closely with the intelligence service MI6, and is mainly involved in missions where maximum discretion is required, say Whitehall insiders.

… Last March’s debacle, in which six members of the squadron were caught in Libya, was highly embarrassing. The reason for their presence, escorting two people from MI6, gives a clue to the facilitating role they often play in foreign intelligence operations in risky places.

According to special forces people, E Squadron is a composite organisation formed from selected SAS, SBS and Special Reconnaissance Regiment operators. It is not technically part of the SAS or SBS, but at the disposal of the Director of Special Forces and MI6.

The squadron often operates in plain clothes and with the full range of national support, such as false identities, at its disposal.

… The first significant involvement of British forces inside Libya was a rescue mission mounted just a couple of weeks after the rising against Gaddafi broke out. On 3 March, Royal Air Force C130 aircraft were sent to a desert airstrip at Zilla in the south of the country to rescue expatriate oil workers. Many had been threatened by gunmen and bandits.

…. Accompanying the flights were about two dozen men from C Squadron of the Special Boat Service (SBS), who helped secure the landing zone. It was a short-term and discreet intervention that saved the workers from risk of abduction or murder, and caused little debate in Whitehall.

Events, though, were moving chaotically and violently onwards, with the Libyan armed forces breaking up and Benghazi emerging as the centre of opposition. The government sought to open contacts with the National Transitional Council both overtly and covertly.

It was the undercover aspect of this relationship that almost brought Britain’s wider attempt to help the revolution to grief. The Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6, sought to step up communications with some of its contacts in the opposition. It was decided to send a pair of the service’s people to a town not far from Benghazi to meet one of these Libyans.

… In planning this operation, SIS chose to use a highly sensitive arm of the special forces, E Squadron, in order to look after its people. Six members of E Squadron, which is recruited from all three Tier 1 units (SAS, SBS and Special Reconnaissance Regiment) duly boarded the Chinook to “mind” the intelligence people.

They were equipped with a variety of weapons and secure communications gear. In keeping with E Squadron’s sensitive role, they were in plain clothes or black jumpsuits (accounts vary), and carried a variety of passports.

The Libyan revolution, like many others, was accompanied by a good deal of paranoia about foreign mercenaries and spies, and the British party could not have appeared more suspicious. They were detained and taken to Benghazi, the men on the ground having decided that to open fire would destroy the very bridge-building mission they were engaged in.

When, on 19 March, Colonel Gaddafi’s tanks were bombed as they entered Benghazi, the conflict entered a dramatically different phase. High-profile military action was underway  and the leaders of the UK, US, and France were increasingly committed to the overthrow of the Libyan leader.

Yet key figures in the Downing Street discussions were convinced that air strikes alone would not achieve the result they wanted. At sessions of the National Security Council, Gen Richards and Mr Fox made the case for planning to provide training and equipment for the revolutionary forces of the NTC.

At a meeting near the end of March, we have been told, authorisation was given to take certain steps to develop the NTC’s embryonic ground forces. This involved the immediate dispatch of a small advisory team, and the longer-term development of a “train and equip” project. Ministers were advised, say those familiar with the discussion, that this second part of the plan would take at least three months to implement.

The first and most basic task of the advisory team was to get the various bands of Libyan fighters roaring around in armed pickup trucks under some sort of central coordination. As reporters had discovered, most of these men had little idea of what they were doing, and soon panicked if they thought Col Gaddafi’s forces were attacking or outflanking them.

There were a number of legal issues preventing them giving more help. Some Whitehall lawyers argued that any type of presence on the ground was problematic. Legal doubts were raised about arming the NTC or targeting Col Gaddafi.

Once the air operation was put on a proper Nato footing, these issues became even more vexed, insiders say, with the alliance saying it would not accept men on the ground “directing air strikes” in a way that some newspapers, even in late spring, were speculating was already happening.

The British government’s desire to achieve the overthrow of Gaddafi while accommodating the legal sensitivities registered by various Whitehall departments led to some frustration among those who were meant to make the policy work.

Miusrata rebels used sophisticated range-finders to adjust artillery fire and co-ordinate Nato air strikes “It just seemed to me an unnecessarily muddled way of going about a business that we all knew the underlying aims of,” said one. “It was almost as if we have lost the ability to define a clear objective and go for it.”

However, the accidental bombing of NTC columns by Nato aircraft in early April provided those who wanted more direct assistance with a powerful argument. British and French officers on the ground were permitted to coordinate more closely with the NTC for the purposes of “deconfliction” or preventing such accidental clashes from happening again.

Under the deconfliction rubric, British advisers made their way to places like Misurata, then under siege, where the RAF was focusing its air strikes. The stage was set then for months of bombing which, as it progressed, both exhausted the stocks of precision weapons available to some Nato allies and the patience of many politicians for what was going on. Insiders say that, discreetly, they were soon doing more than deconfliction, actually coordinating certain Nato air attacks.

Taking as his cue the March approval in principle for a training programme,Gen Richards had started a series of low profile visits to Doha, the capital of Qatar.

This Gulf emirate had taken a leading role in backing the NTC, and its defence chief was by June brokering an agreement with the UK and France to provide material back-up as well as training for the NTC.

France was to prove more forward-leaning than the UK in this, and by August was providing weapons to NTC units in the Nefusa mountains of western Libya. The UK, meanwhile, had agreed to focus its efforts in the east of the country. It was as part of this new effort that British special forces returned to Libya.

Although plenty of people in Whitehall still remembered the March debacle, it was agreed to allow a limited number of British advisers to take a direct part in training and mentoring NTC units in Libya. Sources say the number of men sent from D Squadron of 22 SAS Regiment was capped at 24. They were performing their mission by late August.

While France and Qatar were ready to provide weapons directly, the UK was not. However, this made little practical difference since the SAS was operating closely with Qatar special forces who had reportedly delivered items such as Milan anti-tank missiles.

Anti-tank missile in Sirte, of the type believed to have been supplied by Qataris There were some suggestions from Whitehall that the training itself should be conducted outside Libya in order to remain within the narrow interpretation of the UN resolution, but the SAS was apparently soon present at a base in southern Libya.

… During the months that this project had taken to come to fruition, the slow grinding down of Gaddafi’s forces by air attack had continued. Soon after the foreign trainers arrived, NTC units swept into Tripoli.

…. The SAS had meanwhile strayed beyond its training facility, with single men or pairs accompanying the NTC commanders that they had been training back to their units. They dressed as Libyans and blended in with the units they mentored, says someone familiar with the operation.

There had been concerns that they would be spotted by the press, but this did not happen. “We have become a lot better at blending in,” says someone familiar with the D Squadron operation. “Our people were able to stay close to the NTC commanders without being compromised.”

Instead, as the revolutionaries fought their way into Gaddafi’s home town of Sirte, they were assisted by a handful of British and other special forces. Members of the Jordanian and United Arab Emirates armies had fallen in behind the Qataris too.

When, on 20 October, Gaddafi was finally captured and then killed by NTC men, it followed Nato air strikes on a convoy of vehicles carrying leading members of the former regime as they tried to escape from Sirte early in the morning. Had British soldiers on the ground had a hand in this? Nobody will say yet.

In keeping with its long-standing policies on special forces and MI6 operations, Whitehall has refrained from public statements about the nature of assistance on the ground. The Ministry of Defence reiterated that policy when asked to comment on this story.

Speaking at a public event late last year, though, Gen Richards commented that the NTC forces “were the land element, an ‘army’ was still vital”. He also noted that “integrating the Qataris, Emiratis and Jordanians into the operation was key”. He did not, however, allude to the presence of more than 20 British operators on the ground.

British sources agree Qatar played a leading role – and accept it put more soldiers in than the UK – but question whether the number was this large. Around the more secret parts of Whitehall, the suggestion is that the number committed on the ground by all nations probably did not exceed a couple of hundred.

As for Britain’s decision finally to deploy an SAS squadron, “they made a fantastic difference“, argues one insider.

It is part of the essence of troops of this kind that they often operate in secrecy, providing their political masters with policy options that they might not wish to own up to publicly.

But given that the UK’s earlier relationship with Col Gaddafi and his intelligence services caused great embarrassment, it could be that attention will one day focus more closely on British assistance to the NTC, particularly if the Libyan revolution comes unstuck.” BBC“ UK’s secret mission to beat Gaddafi”: (emphasis added)

What is disturbing in this January 2012 scoop BBC is that the facts were known to the Western media in March 2011 and were deliberately withheld until the war was over. Global Research reported on the presence of U.K. Special Forces as far back as early March 2011:

US and allied special forces are on the ground in Eastern Libya, providing covert support to the rebels [...] This was recognized when British SAS Special Forces commandos were arrested in the Benghazi region. They were acting as military advisers to opposition forces. (Michel Chossudovsky, Insurrection and Military Intervention: The US-NATO Attempted Coup d’Etat in Libya?, Global Research, March 7, 2011.)

As for the MI6 and the British Special Forces, agents were captured early in March by the rebels who had mistaken them for enemy spies. British intelligence was allegedly on the ground to establish connections with the rebellion, which the were apparently not aware of. (Julie Lévesque,Libya: Media Propaganda and “Humanitarian Imperialism”, Global Research, April 10, 2011.)

It has been reported that dozens of British agents and commandos from MI6, the Special Air Services (SAS) unit, and the Special Boat Services (SBS) units were also operating inside Libya.(Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, NATO’s Secret Ground War in Libya, May 16, 2011.)

The Western mainstream media’s modus operandi is to create the impression of fair and unbiased reporting when it comes to war coverage: but this reporting is “after the facts” once countless innocent civilians have been killed under NATO’s “humanitarian mandate”. 

Only once the targeted leader has been killed or ousted, do we see reports documenting the covert role played by the Western military alliance. The mainstream media only reports long after the facts, once the Westerns puppet governments are installed.

Before Qaddafi’s assassination, you could not read BBC reports acknowledging a “British campaign to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi’s regime”. It was called a “humanitarian intervention”.

Now it’s Syria’s turn to be the victim of a similar “regime change” supported by an intense media propaganda campaign.

Julie Lévesque and Michel Chossudovsky contributed to this report.

 

 

Apr 15 2013

UN report reveals Libya as hub for arms deliveries to insurgents in Syria and Mali, fails to identify state sponsors of terrorism and elicits systemic flaws of UN System


UN report reveals Libya as hub for arms deliveries to insurgents in Syria and Mali, fails to identify state sponsors of terrorism and elicits systemic flaws of UN System

by: Christof Lehmann (nsnbc),-

A report, issued by the United Nations Security Council´s group of experts who monitor an arms embargo imposed on Libya in 2011 stresses, that arms shipments which have been organized from various locations in Libya, including Misurata and Benghazi  were transferred to Syria via Turkey and northern Lebanon. The report also confirms that Libya has developed into a hub for illegal arms deliveries to insurgents in Mali and beyond. The report is stopping short of identifying those state actors, who overtly and covertly finance and arm insurgents, including internationally outlawed terrorist organizations, and state actors use of these organizations as mercenaries in unconventional warfare. The report fails to call for an investigation into the arms trade and state sponsored terrorism and reveals deep systemic problems with the UN System as a whole.

The arms shipments, so the report, contain substantial amounts of light and medium caliber weapons, artillery, as well as large quantities of shoulder fired surface to air missiles. Libya, so the report, has become a key source of weapons in the region. The report also stated, that the significant size of some of the shipments and the logistics involved suggest, that representatives of Libyan local authorities might at least have been aware of these shipments, if they were not directly involved.

According to the report, the spreading of weapons from Libya is happening at an alarming rate and fueling the war in Syria, Mali and other countries, thus enhancing the arsenals of extremists and criminal gangs throughout the region. “Illicit flows from Libya are fueling the existing conflicts in Africa and the Levant and enhancing the arsenals of a large number of non-state groups, including terrorist groups”, the report stated.

The report however, stopped short at identifying state actors who are involved in the proliferation of the weapons through Libya as well as beyond. Likewise, the report stopped short of placing responsibility for severe violations of international law by state actors or of calls for investigations into, and the prosecution of the crimes committed by state actors who sponsor terrorism and the illegal trafficking of weapons and funds to terrorist organizations.

Overt and Covert State Sponsoring of Terrorism. 

Foreign fighters in Iraq - by nationality

US Administration Aware of Cooperation with Al Qaeda in Libya. Already at the onset of the “Arab Spring” in Libya in 2011, it transpired that the US Administration was aware of, that the USA would be supporting and cooperating with al-Qaeda. Statements by the former Libyan head of state, the late Muammar Gadhafi, that the“protesters” , which the US and several NATO and GCC member states were supporting were “Al-Qaeda”, The statement by Muammar Gadhafi, which was widely published in a BBC interview, were brushed off as rhetoric and propaganda by the Libyan “regime“.

An anti-terrorism study conducted by the Combating Terrorism Center at the US Military Academy at West Point from 2007,  ”Al – Qai´da´s Foreign Fighters in Iraq” however, showed that Libya has not only been the largest per capita contributor of Al-Qaeda fighters in Iraq. The report also documented that the overwhelming majority of the Libyan fighters came from the cities Derna and  Benghazi where the armed insurgency in Libya began in 2011. (1

Libyan fighters per hometown

If the US Administration was not aware of the fact that the armed Libyan uprising was predominantly being organized via the predominantly Derna and Benghazi based Libyan Al-Qaeda franchise, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) before, experts overwhelmingly agree, that the US Administration latest must have become aware of the fact, when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton dispatched a CIA team to investigate who the “Rebels” and the Transitional National Council were.

By failing to identify the state sponsors of the terrorist organizations and the flow of arms, the UN report is also omitting, that the commander of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Groups, Belhadj, according to the former Spanish Prime Minister Aznar, was the main responsible person behind the 2004 Madrid train bombings which killed 191 people and caused the Spanish Parliament to vote for a prolongation of Spanish troops deployment to Afghanistan. After the ousting of the Libyan government in 2011, the Libyan Al-Qaeda leader became the military governor of the Libyan capital  Tripoli, and his organization was partially transformed into the “Tripoli Military Council”. The LIFG / Tripoli Military Council has since been playing a central role in two failed major military campaigns in Syria, with the participation of at least 20,000 fighters under the command of Belhadj.

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While it was already unofficially known in 2011, that the USA, NATO, Saudi-Arabia, Qatar and Turkey were covertly financing, arming and training the “Free Syrian Army” as well as foreign terrorist groups in their fight to subvert Syria, the state sponsorship of terrorism has since developed into overt, confirmed and systematic violations of international law, that is, an overt, illegal and undeclared war by means of mercenaries and terrorist organizations.

While the report warns of the proliferation of weapons, it fails for example to recognize the statement by US Secretary of State John Kerry, from February 2013, which was an open admission of the fact that the USA has chosen to ignore international law, and to overtly finance, arm, and otherwise support known terrorist organizations. After a meeting of the Friends of Syria group in Rome, the US Secretary of State declared, that the USA would increase its aid to both the political and the armed Syrian “opposition” with USD 6 million. (2

Libya only part of an illegal state-sponsor-network with multiple hubs. While the report of the UN Security Council´s expert team correctly identifies that Libya is a hub for the illegal trafficking of arms, it fails to identify Libya as being merely one such hub in a well-organized arms trafficking network of an alliance of state parties, which is centered around the USA and other major NATO member states, as well as the same constellation of Gulf Arab nations who took part in the subversion of Libya.

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In September 2012, the Syrian Arab News Agency SANA published an article, based on an investigation of the British journalist Sheera Frenkel, who had discovered the, at that time, largest known shipment of weapons from Libya to Turkey.

According to Frenkel, a member of the Free Syrian Army stated, that the shipment contained over 400 ton of weapons from Libya, including SAM-7 surface to air missiles and rocket propelled grenades. According to the the British journalist, the Libyan ship, the Intisaar (victory), was berthed at the Turkish port of Iskenderun and its captain had been given papers by the port authority and Omar Mouaseeb. Omar Mouaseeb is a Libyan from Benghazi and the head of an organization called the Libyan Council for Relief and Support, which is delivering supplies to armed groups in Syria. (3

Even though names of organizations and persons like the Libyan Council for Relief and Support and Omar Mouaseeb are publicly known, the report did not deliver detailed information about them or about other known organizations background and ties to governments. Neither did the report recommend a thorough investigation to which governments precisely, were responsible for liaison and cooperation with an organization that delivered SAM-7 surface to air missiles to known terrorist organizations. Each of the SAM-7 surface to air missiles can be used for bringing down a civilian airliner. The international threat to air safety, in the light of state parties involvement in the proliferation of these weapons was not addressed in the report.

Not long after the statement of US Secretary of State John Kerry, a report which had been produced by plane spotters, detailed that the delivery of weapons to Syria also had been organized by air lift operations. While Libya is not part of this specific report, it involves the same state sponsors of arms to terrorist organization in Syria, who also have been involved in delivering weapons to Libyan terrorist organizations, and who are still using Libya as a hub for weapons deliveries to Mali and beyond. (4

Without Libya as a base of operations, it would most likely have been impossible for France, that is, NATO, to organize the arming and the procurement of Al-Qaeda troops in northern Mali, which have been used for manufacturing the crisis which created the pretext for a French / NATO intervention and a re-occupation of the country.

Ivo Daalder

The failure of the UNSC expert team to address the international dimensions of the 2011 arms embargo on Libya in the lights of the current situation, and the implicit omission of the fact that the proliferation of weapons through Libya is part of a problem that has its root in a network of states who are systematically sponsoring terrorism, and finally the fact, that NATO itself has proclaimed that it would be using terrorist organizations in future“interventions”, elicits, that the Security Council and the UN System is undergoing a deep systemic crisis.

An objective reassessment of the 2011 arms embargo on Libya for the UN Security Council, would at the very least have contained a reference to NATO´s description of Libya as “teachable moment and model for future interventions”, as it expressed by the U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO, Ivo H. Daalder, and the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, and Commander of the U.S. European Command, James G. Stavridis.  The statement was initially published in an article in “Foreign Affairs”. It has since been repeated at NATO´s 25th Summit in Chicago in 2012, when NATO adopted “Libya Style Interventions” as part of NATO´s modern military doctrine. (5 There would have been sufficient available evidence for the UNSC experts to document, that NATO member states and allied nations systematically and consequently emulate the Libyan model in unconventional warfare in Syria, Mali, the Central African Republic, and that the trend is likely to continue unless will be appropriately addressed at the United Nations.

Evidence for the direct distribution of weapons from Libya and other countries of origin, by NATO military personnel. One of the most serious omissions of the UN Security Council´s experts report pertaining the 2011 arms embargo on Libya is the omission of the fact, that there are countless reports which document the direct involvement of NATO military personnel, in the distribution of weapons to members of known, internationally outlawed terrorist organizations.

In September 2012 the Workers´Party – Turkey, filed a lawsuit against the Turkish government of Prime Minister R. Tayyip Erdogan. In statements to the press and an article on the party´s website, the Deputy President of the Workers´Party – Turkey, Bayram Yurtçiçek stated that the “Apaydın Camp” in Hatay is a camp, established to conduct and administrate terrorist and destructive activities against Syria.

He went on to note that this fact, published in Turkish and foreign media, has been proven via several interviews. Yurtçiçek said that the commanders of the terrorist group which organizes the terror activities in Syria and calls itself the ‘Free Syrian Army’ acknowledged that they are based in the ‘Apaydın Camp’ and that they are attacking Syria from this camp. Yurtçiçek filed a complaint about this camp -established illegally according to the national legislation- and about those who were responsible of the establishing of the camp. (6 The camp is on the territory of a NATO country.

In August 2012 the Iranian FARS news agency reported about the arrest of a Turkish General in the Syrian city of Aleppo. (7 In June 2012 a senior member of the British Ministry of Defense publicly stated, that both Turkish, British and other nations special forces were operating in Syria, providing non-lethal military aid.(8

On 20 August 2012 a journalist from the Lebanese TV Channel al-Jadeed witnessed and documented Turkish military officers distributing weapons to terrorist organizations in Syria. The Turkish NATO officers were on Syrian territory while distributing the weapons. (9 - 9a

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During the spring of 2012 Turkish Intelligence opened a recruitment and intelligence office in Amman, Jordan. Subsequently more than 20,000 Libyan mercenaries under the command of Abdelhakim Belhadj were deployed to the region around the Jordanian town of al-Mafraq. The mercenaries took part in the two failed campaigns to conquer the Syrian city of Aleppo in June and July 2012. Shortly before the deployment of the Libyan mercenaries, under the command of a known Al-Qaeda terrorist, the USA had re-deployed US troops from Iraq to Jordanian air bases as well as to Al-Mafraq.

The UN Security Council´s experts who wrote the report pertaining the arms embargo on Libya could have found countless other examples for the fact that Libya is one hub in a network of hubs, maintained by NATO and GCC member states, and not to forget, with the participation of Israel. Israeli weapons were among other delivered to Syria via the leader of the Lebanese Druze community Walid Jumblatt. Another admission of direct Israeli control over parts of the arms deliveries is the fact that Israel is involved in making decisions about which arms can be delivered to the insurgents, and which weapons it would consider a threat to its own security.

Deep Systemic Crisis of the UN Security Council and UN System as a whole is not surprising and warrants urgent and comprehensive reform. The failure of the report to, at the very least, refer to the proliferation of weapons via Libya to terrorist organizations as one part of a larger problem, and the failure to recommend a thorough investigation of this wider context, is representative for the deep systemic crisis of the UN Security Council and the UN System as a whole.

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One obvious example for “what” is wrong with the UN Security Council is the fact, that one of its permanent members, the USA, is publishing a training circular for special forces and “foreign students”, in which it step by step details how to subvert a stable country to bring about regime change. In the introduction of the training circular, the TC 18-01, which was published in 2010, one can read, that the USA, for the foreseeable future, will predominantly be involved in unconventional warfare. (10 This overt admission of the fact, that the USA has made the subversion of sovereign nations a predominant part of its military strategy is, as long as it remains unaddressed and unchallenged by the United Nations, direct evidence for the fact that the UN fails to protect the sovereignty of its member states. It is also direct evidence for the fact that superpowers can overtly admit to the most serious crimes as “strategy” while there is no mechanism to oppose the despotic arrogance.

Another demonstration for the deep systemic crisis of the United Nations Security Council and the UN System as a whole is the US veto against a Russian sponsored resolution to condemn terrorism in all of its form, regardless of when and where it is committed or by whom it is carried out.

The resolution was drafted and sponsored by Russia, after the detonation of a car bomb in the Syrian capital, not far from the headquarter of the Arab Socialist Baath Party of Syria and the Embassy of the Russian Federation killed scores of unarmed civilians. The US against the condemnation of the attack and terrorism in all of its forms, prompted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to voice the Russian governments frustration over the fact, that the UNSC standards, according to which all nations, without exclusion, would condemn terrorism, regardless of the perpetrator, place or motives, was no longer upheld.

Lavrov stated, “Russia sees in the American position the use of double standards and a dangerous approach in terms of the Americans moving away from the main principle of condemning terrorism in all its forms”.(11

The report of the expert team of the UN Security Council, as an assessment of the 2011 arms embargo on Libya, is at its best one more example for double standards and a dangerous removal from the principle to condemn terrorism in all of its forms. Terrorism has become the official military doctrine of a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. Unless this situation will be successfully challenged, adjusted and adjudicated, it is most likely that the UN will be disintegrating within a decade.

Notes:

1) Al – Qai´da´s Foreign Fighters in Iraq, A first look at the Sinjar records. Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. Published online by Tarpley.Net at http://tarpley.net/docs/CTCForeignFighter.19.Dec07.pdf

2) Kerry after Friends of Syria Meeting clarifies, US determined to initiate World War III in Syria, Christof Lehmann, 2013, published on nsnbc international at: http://nsnbc.me/2013/03/01/kerry-after-friends-of-syria-meeting-clarifies-us-determined-to-initiate-world-war-iii-in-syria/

3) Largest Shipload of Libyan Weapons Heading to Armed Groups in Syria. SANA, September 2012, published online at nsnbc international at:  http://nsnbc.me/2012/09/15/largest-shipload-of-libyan-weapons-heading-to-armed-groups-in-syria/

4) CONFIRMED: US Shipping Weapons to Syria – Al Nusra’s “Mystery” Sponsors Revealed, Tony Cartalucci, 2013, LandDestroyer, published online at nsnbc international at: http://nsnbc.me/2013/03/27/confirmed-us-shipping-weapons-to-syria-al-nusras-mystery-sponsors-revealed/

5) NATO`s 25th Summit in Chicago in Preparation of Global Full Spectrum Dominance, Christof Lehmann, 2012, published online at nsnbc international at: http://nsnbc.me/2012/05/20/natos-25th-summit-in-chicago-in-preparation-of-global-full-spectrum-dominance-interventionism-possible-preparations-for-a-regional-war-directed-against-russia-and-china-and-developments-in-global/

6) WORKERS’ PARTY (TURKEY) FILED A CRIMINAL COMPLAINT ABOUT THE TERROR CAMPS IN HATAY! Workers´Party Turkey, 2012, published on nsnbc international, online at: http://nsnbc.me/2012/09/14/workers-party-turkey-filed-a-criminal-complaint-about-the-terror-camps-in-hatay/

7) Turkish General Arrested in Aleppo, Syria; Turkey Denies, Iran Calls for Consequences. Christof Lehmann, 2012, published on nsnbc international, online at: http://nsnbc.me/2012/08/06/turkish-general-arrested-in-aleppo-syria-turkey-denies-iran-calls-for-consequences/

8) NATO Special Forces in Syria now Official. Christof Lehmann, 2012, nsnbc international, published online at: http://nsnbc.me/2012/06/04/nato-special-forces-in-syria-now-official/

9) Al-Jadeed TV video published on Youtube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kjQJeWkZ_3Q#!

9 a) Turkey´s Decision to allow Cross-Border Military Operations violates Constitution, International Law, and endangers National Integrity. Christof Lehmann, 2012, nsnbc international, published online at: http://nsnbc.me/2012/10/07/turkey%C2%B4s-decision-to-allow-cross-border-military-operations-violates-constitution-international-law-and-endangers-national-integrity/

10) Special Forces Unconventional Warfare, TC 18-01. US Army, 2010, published on nsnbc international at: http://nsnbc.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/special-forces-uw-tc-18-01.pdf

11) Permafrost; Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov Blasts USA and Allies for Arming Syria´s Opposition. Christof Lehmann, 2013, nsnbc international, published online at: http://nsnbc.me/2013/03/14/permafrost-russian-foreign-minister-lavrov-blasts-usa-and-allies-for-arming-syrian-opposition/

 

Apr 6 2013

French writer describes the ruler of Qatar


French writer describes the ruler of Qatar

French writer describing the ruler of Qatar, as the devil and the largest mole of the Mossad and the CIA and a traitor to the Arabs nations and peace.

 

 

 

 

source: zangetna.com

 

Mar 30 2013

The Arab League’s Historic Mistake


The Arab League‘s Historic Mistake

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So, the Arab League openly takes a page out of NATO’s book and proposes to break international law by taking sides in an internal conflict in a sovereign state, Syria. The Arab League leaders probably do not notice it in their haste to lick the boots of the western masters who have always kicked their people, but we do.

The Arab League is supposed to protect the interests of the Arab people, and how telling that it has turned against Syria, one of its founding member states in 1945. Starting out as an organization which desired to “draw closer the relations between member States and co-ordinate collaboration between them, to safeguard their independence and sovereignty, and to consider in a general way the affairs and interests of the Arab countries” the Arab League today is NATO’s Gulf Cooperation Council.

Therefore it comes as no surprise whatsoever that in its 24th Summit, in Doha, Qatar, the hotbed of cooperation with the USA and its NATO poodle states, the Arab League agreed that its members have the right to furnish all means, including military means, to the Syrian armed groups, according to their individual will. This includes the terrorist organizations carrying out armed insurrection against the legitimate government forces of a sovereign state. Illegal? Totally.

But then again, where was Qatar and its Arab league friends when the USA and its NATO poodles were slaughtering Libyan children, strafing the Gaddafi grandchildren because they were considered as legitimate war targets? Where was the Arab League when the west, its bed pals  was strafing the Libyan electricity and water supply to “break the backs” of the population, to leave mothers without milk for their babies?

Where was the Arab League when NATO was destroying Iraqi infrastructures with military hardware? Where was the Arab League when the USA was torturing illegally held citizens in concentration camps in Iraq and elsewhere, torturing them, murdering them, setting dogs on them, forcing Muslims to eat pork, sodomizing them, urinating in their food and getting American females to humiliate Muslim males?

Perhaps the leaders of the Arab League would like to undergo the same treatment? Or perhaps some of the leaders of the Arab league would like their travel details plastered across the internet, together with what they get up to when they are in places such as Casablanca?

Maybe then they will understand, when their people rise up against them, the flames fanned and fuelled by their western masters who ride them like donkeys, that they should have stood together and should have upheld international law, instead of allowing themselves to do the work of the USA and its poodle states like cowards.

But then again, they could always act like Bahrain and carry out the most horrendous acts of human rights abuses against protesters while their western masters stand back and turn the other cheek. After all, the Arab League is what, if not a tool to implement the policies of the historic enemies of the Arab people?

Al-Qathafi was right. But then again he was the only Man among them, he and Al-Assad.

Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey

Pravda.Ru

 

Mar 30 2013

Insecurity and political perversion in Libya destroyed by NATO


Insecurity and political perversion in Libya destroyed by NATO

Libya: the fragile security and perversion of politics

The Libyan was great ampersand, dignity and sovereignty. On March 19 , 2013 mercenaries and traitors celebrated the destruction of Libya by the barbarians of NATO and the U.S..

Eighteen months after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan militia violence continues to plague and the economy is in a moribund state. The development prospects of the country are being hampered by the fragmented nature of its government, which has no constitutional legitimacy.

Libyan Revolution officially ended on October 23, 2011, three days after the assassination of former dictator in his hometown of Sirte. The country, it seems, had a bright future: it has large oil reserves in Africa, $ 170 billion in foreign assets, and only six million citizens. The State, therefore, has the financial capacity to build houses, hospitals, schools, roads and power plants, and to create jobs to help demobilize militias.

Handicapped by their own divisions, however, the new government of Libya, which was sworn in October 2012, has yet to advance the construction of a modern state bodies. A decision by Congress in February General’s Office to hold direct elections to choose a committee to draft the constitution of Libya will be delayed a year timetable for the transition to democracy.

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Outbreaks of violence continue in much of the country. Perpetuated largely by the government’s failure to convince the militants for the state to impose a monopoly on police and military functions.

In western Libya, some of the battles of the eight-month rebellion continue: former rebel and pro-Gaddafi militias are engaged in sporadic fighting near the city of Zawiya refinery, 50 km west of Tripoli, and about Zuwara on the Tunisian border. Tension is high around the former pro-Gadhafi stronghold of Bani Walid after pro-government forces defeated local militias for control in November.

Meanwhile, gasoline smuggling gangs in Tunisia clash frequently. Major cities in southern Sabha and Kufra remain tense after battles between Arab and Tuareg tribes, partly motivated by rivalry for smuggling weapons and drugs out of the country, and people move in the opposite direction. In Tripoli, west of the city is plagued by thefts of vehicles, especially for vehicles owned by the small foreign business community. British, Dutch and American cars embassies have been kidnapped in recent months.

In eastern Libya, Jihadism is an additional source of instability. Five months after Islamist militants stormed the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, killing the ambassador Christopher Stevens, and three other U.S. justice officials say no one has been charged with the crime. According to city officials, who had 18 staff positions in the Gaddafi government, including the police chief, were killed in 2012.

Many militias

Libya is a home to over 500 different militias, with 230 enrolled in the third largest city, Misurata, alone. Most operate as quasi-police units without a political agenda, but the fragmentation of security means no police means criminals.

Victory in the rebellion of 2011, of the provincial forces in Benghazi, Misurata and Zintan more loyal to Gaddafi in Tripoli raised expectations among regional politicians and militias allied attributed more power to them. This led to tensions with central government lacks the constitutional framework to guide its administrative process.

The two most powerful militias, based in Misurata and Zintan, respectively, are under the control of the city authorities, and resistant to government control. They form the core of the “Shield of Libya, an alliance of former rebel militias organized in three divisions that share a nominally pro-government position.

The government security forces are disparate. There are some police units in Tripoli and Benghazi, and a small national army, which is composed of Gaddafi-era officials and distrust of many rebels. A much larger Gendarmerie, the Special Committee on Security, which add up to 80,000, was disbanded after allegations of irregularities and kidnappings by some units. Most of the strength of the SSC is extracted from the militias who have aligned with the SSC as formed units, taking wages, but remained largely autonomous.

With only a small army of its own, the government is obliged to negotiate with Shield forces to intervene in local conflicts. Often, this has been a success, with ‘peacekeepers deployed in Bani Walid Shield, Kufra, Sirte and Sabha. Zintan militia units have also strengthened the government’s security forces guarding the oil and gas southwest on the border with Algeria. However, Shield units being a law unto themselves Misurata Shield led forces captured in Bani Walid November 2012 with support from the government, but with an operation and a schedule dictated by the units and not by the national chief of the State Mayor, Yousef Mangoush.

Obstacles to development

After taking power in a 1969 coup, Gaddafi had imposed an eccentric structure in pre-revolution Libyan economy. His children were endowed with their own business empires, including monopolies in the mobile phone industry and cement production. Its operations were unencumbered by legal or regulatory barriers. Some businessmen, who have links with Gaddafi tribal or family, enjoyed a privileged status in the accrual of benefits and allowed to hold shares in banks control Libyans. Government regulators and courts, both civil and criminal, were subject to political direction from the top. Gaddafi security organization, the Legion Thoria, used his privileged position as guardian of the state to enrich themselves through business and extortion. All this has left Libya without the administrative, regulatory or legal requirements to keep a modern state.

An IMF report published in April 2012 highlighted the need for private sector jobs as high priority, arguing that with high unemployment and more than half of the Libyans under 30 years, oil revenues alone could not sustain the country. He called for 100,000 private sector jobs will be created annually. (****Sorry guys once the IMF comes in it will never get out all you poor Libyan devils that you believe that with your oil everything will be paid off and you will be ok! Ha ha think again! IMF is collecting it under your nose and you my dear brother and sister will starve to death! there will be no oil for you, no money, no free education, no free health, no free nothing….. so you will start saying oh where is Qaddafi we want Qaddafi back we do not like this regime but it is too late my friends….) But if the government is going to make this happen, you must first build structures in a bureaucracy whose officials are not familiar with the trappings of a modern state.

In Tripoli stock exchange, which has a market capitalization of only $ 3 billion compared with $ 56bn of Egypt, only 13 companies are registered. All but one are state banks and insurance companies. Officials complain that there can not attract investment because no regulator. Furthermore, a decree issued in 2012, which limits foreign control of companies registered in Libya, 49% has deterred many foreign investors.

The lack of infrastructure is another hindrance to development. Raed Mohamed, president of the largest company in Libya, Al-Naseem dairy Misurata, said his factory functions only because it has its own power supply, water treatment plants and wastewater, instead of having to rely on municipal facilities.

Libyan security and exacerbate economic problems among themselves, driving the youth militia checkpoints have few job prospects. Meanwhile, violence and gangsterism deter militia Business: Zone Misurata Society, which operates the largest free zone in the country, wants to encourage European companies to ship goods to sub-Saharan Africa through its hub, but admits that security in the long desert roads south across the Sahara must be ensured.

 

Dogs traitors serving NATO and U.S.

Fragmented government

Libya’s government is as divided as the country seeks to govern. Ali Zeidan Prime Minister and President of the Congress of the Nation, Mohammed Magarief, de-facto head of state of Libya, are considered by foreign diplomats as very competent, but politically weak. Both are former leaders of Libyan exiles, and his own party, the National Front, has only three of the 200 seats in Congress, which depends on unstable coalitions.

The largest party, the National Alliance Forces (NFA), is the distrust of many Libyans by the preponderance of Gaddafi era figures in their ranks, as party leader and former Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril rebel. He deserted his post as key economic adviser of Gaddafi as the rebellion of 2011 gained momentum.

The NFA opposes the Muslim Brotherhood, the ruling Justice and Construction, which ranked second in July 2012 elections – his opponents accuse him of being too close to Qatar, which denies any link. The fear of interference by foreign powers is a constant in the minds of Libya, a reminder of his long and bitter experience under Ottoman, Italian, German and British rulers in the past.

An added complication for coalition-building efforts was the success of the July elections, which saw high turnout and little violence. Foreign observers praised the process, which the United Nations had helped organize for their transparency. The parliament is structured to give 80 seats to party list candidates, and 120 constituencies for elections independent – therefore, resulted in a set that is both highly fragmented and very representative.

“We have three main groups here,” said Mohammed Sammu independent congressman, elected by former pro-rebel suburb east of Tripoli, Suq al-Juma. ”The NFA, the Brotherhood and independent. The problem is that the composition of these groups change [s] all the time.”

Stalling political transition

The political transition process was drawn in August 2011 by the former rebel government, the National Transitional Council: elections expected in June 2012, leading to the election of a parliament and cabinet, separately, the appointment and the supervision of a committee of 60 people to draft a constitution for approval in a referendum to be held in late 2012. Approval would open the way for new elections in the spring of 2013 to any institution established by the Constitution.

Instead, Parliament was involved in the constitutional debate, its members aware of the almost daily protests outside the chamber by a wide range of Libyans frustrated by the slow pace of reform.Congress reached an impasse on the question of how the 60-strong committee should be structured: some legislators favored the election of constitutional experts, while others argued that members should be equally divided along provincial lines. Unable to resolve the deadlock, Congress voted in early February by the committee of 60 people to be elected directly, giving a three-member committee with the task of resolving the regional conflict Congress itself could not solve effectively and stagnant transition to democracy, at least one year.

Once chosen, the commission will have to solve a second argument among Islamists, who want the constitution indebted to Islamic law, and the Liberals, who are pushing for enshrining individual rights and equality of women, particularly .

 No date for the election of the committee is established. But the lack of public confidence in Congress revealed on February 3, when 16 civil war invalids occupied the house of Congress, complaining that their pensions had not been paid. Congress decided that it had no obligation to use the police to evict them, and chose instead to move to a nearby hotel for their sessions.

Optimists point between the diplomatic community to unprecedented street celebrations held to mark the second anniversary of the rebellion as evidence of the high degree of consensus among Libyans reform agenda can be agreed.  Many foreign companies withdrew from staff, and militias, willingly, had set up checkpoints in major cities, fearing violence from former supporters of Gaddafi, but celebrations passed without incident.

Optimists, Libyans and foreigners, also insist the time is on the side of Libya. Oil production has been restored to near the pre-war level of 1.6 million barrels per day, enough to fund the generous subsidy system and a bloated public sector that ensures a basic standard of living for all Libyans. There are no reliable opinion polls results are available, but anecdotal evidence suggests that the Libyans, while frustrated with the slow pace of change and suspicious of government, we remain committed to the ideals of representative government and personal freedoms. Contradictory attitudes of the Libyan population, both in support of democracy in theory and criticism of their performance in practice, complicate the task of making long-term predictions for the successful transition of Libya.

Mar 28 2013

Syria – The REAL Story — MUST SEE — CIA & MOSSAD Death Squads Exposed


Syria – The REAL Story — MUST SEE — CIA & MOSSAD Death Squads Exposed

Uploaded on Jan 1, 2012

Webster Tarpley – Author, Historian, Journalist

On Guns and Butter | KPFA 94.1 FM Berkeley
http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/76242

On Syrian Addounia TV -
http://tarpley.net/media-interviews/?…

Pro-government rally -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is_DYX…

Thierry Meyssan – Author, Journalist

RT interview -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfbzDZ…

Eric margolis – Author, Journalist

Antiwar.com Radio With Scott Horton -
http://antiwar.com/radio/2011/12/13/e…

Nazir Nayouf – Syrian Journalist

US Troops Deploying on Jordan-Syria Border – The Corbett Report
http://www.corbettreport.com/breaking…

PROOF of Aljazeera’s lies -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GwRqy…

 

 

source: besner

 

 

 

Mar 28 2013

The Emir of Qatar is the destructor of Libya and Syria – video


The Emir of Qatar is the destructor of Libya and Syria – video

The Emir of Qatar uses his money, its Al Jazeera TV, his preacher Qaradawi to kill the Arab world.

He began by Tunisia for use this as a rear baseline and a land delivery of arms to Libya. He placed the government of the Muslim Brotherhood.
He murdered the guide Maoummer Gaddafi and destroyed his country and take its oil. A personal vengeance because the guide Gaddafi insulted him once during an assembly of the Arab League.
He removed the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and he placed the Muslim Brotherhood. if Hosni Mubarak is still in power, he will not let the Arab League to tackle Syria.
The Boss maintaining of the Arab League is the Emir of Qatar.
He removed the President of Yemen to place  his pal.
2 years, he attacks Syria by supplying mercenaries and weapons. He uses Turkey and Jordan to destroy their neighbour.

 

source: www.algeria-isp.com