Iraq police and officials lost in “emo” explanation

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Sappho

No need to add new things about the killings of Iraqi teenagers with “emo” hair cuts (and today on the BBC). A story widely cov­ered by the main­stream media and even explained in details by Scott Long, for­mer Human Rights Watch mem­ber (here, here and here), but there are two things ignored by the media:

1– The exis­tence of “Com­mu­nity Police”:

A polic­ing body inside the Min­istry of the Inte­rior, which we never heard about before and despite the “pol­ished” expla­na­tion on the Iraqi Inte­rior Min­istry web­site, I think this some­thing sim­i­lar to the Saudi Mutaween (reli­gious police) with more “civ­i­lized name”.

2– Lost in the “emos” expla­na­tion:

Police and offi­cials scram­ble to explain the “emo”. Head of the secu­rity com­mit­tee in Kadhmiya dis­trict said:

The “emos” are devil wor­shipers, homo­sex­u­als and vam­pires drink blood of each oth­ers. The head of the so-called “Com­mu­nity Police” denied the pre­vi­ous accu­sa­tions, but inter­est­ingly he said:

We will obtain the required per­mis­sions to follow-up this case, the police and the Min­istry of Edu­ca­tion are coop­er­at­ing to allow the police to enter the schools to “con­tain” the “emos” (or is “con­tain” a polite word for arrest these teenagers?).

Worst, this con­fu­sion is not only in Iraq, Arab news­pa­per came with strange head­lines. UAE news­pa­per Al-Bayan: Dracula’s Descen­dants in Bagh­dad. Egypt­ian Al-Wafad: Sur­prise: The Con­fir­ma­tion of the exis­tence of vam­pires in Iraq.

Sadly, not a sin­gle polit­i­cal party (reli­gious or sec­u­lar) defend these teenagers or even asked to inves­ti­gate their death for the fear of los­ing their pop­u­lar sup­port or what’s left of it.

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Hysteria and confusion, Al-Qaeda & the West forces on Syria

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Sappho

As Channel4 and this Russ­ian ME expert sug­gested that for the first since 9/11 Al-Qaeda and the West join an alliance against Syria (inter­est­ing video), but first let’s check few “hys­ter­i­cal” reac­tions and “con­fused” deci­sions (need Syria’s per­mis­sion) made by AL and the West.

In less than 24 hours after Iraqi Deputy Inte­rior Min­is­ter Adnan al-Assadi has announced that num­ber of Iraqi Jihadists” had gone to Syria to take part in the protest move­men, which is con­firmed by the US and from the horse’s mouth, Iraqi Inte­rior Min­istry denied its pre­vi­ous report of the smug­gle of “jihadists” and weapons from Iraq to Syria.

As I reported before, Russia’s goal is to reach a cease-fire between the two fight­ing par­ties and today Russ­ian FM made his point very clear.

Inter­est­ing is what news­pa­per Assafir revealed about the last Arab Min­is­ters meet­ing on Syria:

Qatari For­eign Min­is­ter Sheikh Hamad Al Thani, dur­ing the Arab Min­is­te­r­ial Meet­ing sug­gested to include a para­graph says that “the Arab Min­is­te­r­ial Coun­cil decided to rec­og­nize the Syria National Coun­cil as a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Syr­ian peo­ple” to be announced for­mally at the Friends of Syria meet­ing in Tunisia. Iraqi For­eign Min­is­ter Hosh­yar Zebari said that “the sub­ject of recog­ni­tion of the Syr­ian National Coun­cil is pre­ma­ture, and did not agree upon. We agreed at the pre­vi­ous meet­ing (on Syria) to dis­cuss the issue in Tunisia”. The Tunisian Min­is­ter of For­eign Affairs Rafiq Abdul Salam is sur­prised that the recog­ni­tion is limit the SNC, point­ing out that the spec­trum of the Syr­ian oppo­si­tion is very wide, and we can not ignore the oth­ers. Qatari for­eign min­is­ter answered that 70 to 80 per­cent (of the oppo­si­tion) is rep­re­sented by the SNC.

We can’t end this post with­out few funny con­fu­sions, the so-called com­ing “friends of Syria” meet­ing in Tunisia is already rejected by few Tunisian polit­i­cal par­ties and one of Syria’s friends (UK) refused to give one of the old­est oppo­si­tion (NCC insider oppo­si­tion) mem­bers Michel Kilo a Visa (his arti­cle on Assafir):

Why Britain denied me a visa, after it asked to accept to visit Britain ?. I think only God and some other oppo­si­tion mem­bers (SNC) know.

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Saudi Arabia’s embarrassment on Syria

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Sappho

Inter­est­ing, Saudi Ara­bia denied the reports that it sub­mit­ted a U.N. draft res­o­lu­tion on Syria two days after the Saudi media pub­lished (Eng­lish) the Draft res­o­lu­tion say­ing that KSA dis­trib­uted the Draft res­o­lu­tion on the U.N. members.

Is the denial related to the recent devel­op­ment in Syria where Al-Qaeda joined the fight? The Rus­sia rejec­tion of the new Draft Res­o­lu­tion which is sim­i­lar to the pre­vi­ous res­o­lu­tion vetoed by Rus­sia and China? or the few arti­cles in the Saudi version:

allow the free of peace­ful demonstrations

That can back­fire on Saudi Arabia.

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Remember the fake “dying babies” story in Iraq? Now they are in Syria

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Sappho

Read this Wik­ileaks cable from US Embassy in Dam­as­cus back in 2006 and com­pare it with the recent events in Syria:

Pos­si­ble action:

PLAY ON SUNNI FEARS OF IRANIAN INFLUENCE: There are fears
in Syria that the Ira­ni­ans are active in both Shia
pros­e­ly­tiz­ing and con­ver­sion of, mostly poor, Sun­nis. Though
often exag­ger­ated, such fears reflect an ele­ment of the Sunni
com­mu­nity in Syria that is increas­ingly upset by and focused
on the spread of Iran­ian influ­ence in their coun­try through
activ­i­ties rang­ing from mosque con­struc­tion to business.

Fake “cork-made” coffins that fly in the air, three Libyans killed in Homs — Syria as reported and named by the Libyan Islamists web­sites, Qatari and British spe­cial troops are already in Syria, and Amer­i­cans who want their share from the pie.

A Syr­ian Gen­eral who speaks (in Ara­bic) to the Israeli TV asks for Israel sup­port to remove Assad, repeats the Wik­ilinks cable advice:

Shi­ite vic­tory on the Sun­nis in Syria, will be a crit­i­cal fac­tor in the suc­cess of the plan (the Iran­ian supreme leader Ali Khamenei to the elim­i­na­tion of the State of Israel.

And for sure, the good 21-year-old “dying babies” trick (already denied by the Syr­ian Min­istry of health) that is used in Iraq before, always works.

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Russia’s Syria plan: War escalation and UN cease-fire

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Sappho

Arabs for­get that a new world order is emerg­ing led by the new pow­ers (China and Rus­sia) who will decide the new rules of the game, which left West­ern coun­tries in “hys­te­ria”, and the US is first world power who under­stood the message.

Chief spy Frad­kov (Anti-Israel Russian-Jew) will accom­pany the Russ­ian FM Lavarov in his visit to Syria tomor­row, which sug­gest that there is a broader secu­rity issue Rus­sia wants to dis­cus with the Syr­ian authorities.

With Moscow revealed that the Secu­rity Coun­cil draft res­o­lu­tion included an Arti­cle autho­rised mil­i­tary inter­ven­tion in Syria. Pravda pro­vided us with an excel­lent expla­na­tion on the recent tri­an­gle rela­tion among the US, Saudi Ara­bia and Israel, but Alakhbar goes fur­ther to explain why West­ern coun­tries push on mil­i­tary inter­ven­tion in Syria:

Rus­sia and China know the West­ern — Arab plan for the mil­i­tary inter­ven­tion in Syria as part of the defense for Gulf Arab states that face the dan­ger of war along their bor­ders in case decided to go to war with Iran. Syria is their pri­or­i­ties, proac­tive stage to reduce losses and ensure vic­tory in the face of any future regional map redraw on new foun­da­tions which will exclude Moscow, Bei­jing and Tehran.

Lavarov plan is to dis­cus with the Syr­ian author­i­ties the pos­si­bil­ity to achieve a mil­i­tary vic­tory within the com­ing days and later Rus­sia will ask the UNSC for an emer­gency (its right as a per­ma­nent mem­ber), to declare an imme­di­ate cease­fire. If the oppo­si­tion (the so-called Free Syr­ian Army) refuses then the Syr­ian author­i­ties have the right to pro­ceed with its mil­i­tary oper­a­tions. This is why we see that the Syr­ian army esca­lated its oper­a­tions after the Veto (Aljazeera: Mil­i­tary esca­la­tion in many areas in Syria). Accord­ing to Assafir:

Russ­ian mil­i­tary experts started to train the Syr­ian mil­i­tary to restore con­trol on areas that already under the oppo­si­tion con­trol, also to pre­vent a staged mil­i­tary coup sup­ported by the West.

West­ern media hav­ing a real dif­fi­cult time to explain that world pow­ers such as US, UK and France are echos from the past.

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Western crocodile tears in the UN and the Muslim Bros. who want to boycott China

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Sappho

Thanks to Anony­mous who revealed that the US court was just a the­ater set to free the US sol­dier who killed 24 Iraqis in Haditha.

Yet those West­ern coun­tries (espe­cially the ‘dis­gusted’ US) who started to shade croc­o­dile tears in the UN yes­ter­day because Bricks coun­tries blocked the res­o­lu­tion on Syria.

There is a funny side in the story, head of Jor­dan­ian Mus­lim Bros. call on Mus­lim and Arab nations to boy­cott the Russ­ian and Chi­nese prod­ucts. I hope some­one will tell him that his clothes, and his head cover ‘Yash­magh’ includ­ing his under­wear are “made in China”.

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Jordan’s King should step down

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Sappho

For sure this is not in the West­ern media. Jordan’s king Abdul­lah was the first Arab leader who call say Syrian’s Pres­i­dent Assad should step down, but now the table is turned. Video clips show Jor­dan­ian demon­stra­tions call to oust the king of Jor­dan chanting:

The peo­ple want the fall of the Sys­tem and the king

It is time for Assad to tell king Abdul­lah to leave

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Kidnapped Iranians in exchange for the 49 arrested Turkish intel officers in Syria

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Sappho

News reports cir­cu­lated by Aljazzera said that the Free Syr­ian Army kid­napped Ira­ni­ans in Syria (Iran and Syria say that the kid­napped are engi­neers). Later the so called “Free Syr­ian Army” denied the report

See­ing that the Russ­ian jour­nal­ist who went miss­ing in Syria turned up in Turkey.

News reported on Turk­ish news­pa­per Aydin­likgazete from few days revealed that the Syr­ian mil­i­tary arrested 49 Turk­ish intel­li­gence offi­cers (State intel. not a mil­i­tary intel.) in Syria.

The sug­gested sce­nario is the following:

The Iran­ian engi­neers are kid­napped in Syria, trans­ferred to turkey to be used as a bar­gain with Iran in exchange for the Turk­ish Intel. Offi­cers in Syria.

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Saudi Arabia bargains with Russia over Syria

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Sappho

For how long Rus­sia can resist the Al offers?

Observers expect that Rus­sia will not resist the offers to change its on Syr­ian file in the Secu­rity Coun­cil .. Espe­cially after the long waited Saudi Ara­bia to join the anti-Assad camp for the fear of Iran’s dan­ger .. The bar­gain is likely that Saudi Ara­bia will allow Russ­ian to invest in the Saudi oil regions and a large sum of money as com­pen­sa­tion for Russia’s losses in Libya and Syria after the removal of Assad regime.

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Al-Iraqiya ends parliament boycott, a new split?

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Sappho

With “Iraqiya List” deci­sion to back to the par­lia­ment and still boy­cotting the Govt, it seems that Ayad Allawi’s Coali­tion decided to go to the par­lia­men­tary opposition.

This deci­sion will be announced within the com­ing days, but the List will pay a heavy price which will lead to a split among its blocs since the Par­lia­ment speaker Osama Al-Nujaifi (one of the impor­tant Al-Iraqiya lead­ers) accord­ing to his posi­tion which rep­re­sents can not allows him to side in the opposition’s trench.

The final cal­cu­la­tion reveals the following:

The head of the list, Iyad Allawi, the Deputy Prime Min­is­ter Saleh al-Mutlaq, and Finance Min­is­ter Rafie al-Issawi, Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Min­is­ter Muham­mad Taw­fiq Allawi, will join the oppo­si­tion side (the last two should leave their posi­tions as min­is­ters). Oth­ers such as Nujaifi and Kar­buli (head of Al-Hal Bloc) will stay in Govt.

Two opin­ions on Al-Iraqiya move:

First, This move will increase the polit­i­cal polar­iza­tion of sec­tar­ian tension.

Sec­ond, This move may open a way for a cross-sectarian alliance with the cre­ation of par­lia­mentery body that will mon­i­tor the per­for­mance of the government.

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