Leave with heads low, military medals in the flea markets, the US celebrates its defeat in Iraq

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Sappho

(Thanks to Car­los Latuff for this excel­lent car­toon)

 

For the first time in recorded his­tory, a State cel­e­brates its war defeat. Its mil­i­tary ranks and medals ended up in Iraq’s flea mar­kets.

Since 2003 and until the announce­ment of the US defeat the total num­ber of US sol­diers served in Iraq are about 2 mil­lion, 1 mil­lion con­trac­tors of secu­rity com­pa­nies, and tens of thou­sands of US intel­li­gence. In addi­tion to hun­dreds of thou­sands of sol­diers from coun­tries that stood beside the evil forces of the US, the list includes Britain, Hol­land, Aus­tralia, Spain, Japan, Poland, Den­mark and many other coun­tries, all of which par­tic­i­pated in the killing, the arrest and insult­ing the Iraqis.

To con­trol Iraq, About 1.5 Mil­lion piece of advanced, sophis­ti­cated arms, some of these pieces even used as an exper­i­ment such as the Microwave. Air cover that includes “B-52″ bombers, F-16, Black Hawk and Chi­nook heli­copters, with full con­trol on the Iraqi air­space using elec­tronic sur­veil­lance, and unmanned drones.

Start­ing their resis­tance from the first day of the occu­pa­tion with the famous “Bring it on” mes­sage, the Iraqi resis­tance faced these advance war-machine armed with their faith in their cause and sim­ple, prim­i­tive mor­tars and rock­ets devel­oped mostly in the later stages of the invasion.

Adapted itself to Iraq’s geog­ra­phy which lacks moun­tains and high­lands, at the begin­ning there was the impro­vised explo­sive devices. As sim­ple as its gets, and con­nect­ing two cables to the charger and wait for the U.S. mil­i­tary patrol to con­nect the wires, Iraqi resis­tance ambushed the occu­py­ing forces in all the 32 roads that con­nect the Amer­i­can mil­i­tary bases in Iraq.

Among the 100,000 Iraqi resis­tance video doc­u­mented attacks on the US forces, some of the Iraqi resis­tance mem­bers become more than a leg­end and “Juba — Bagh­dad sniper” is one of those. Iraqi resis­tance: THIS IS YOUR DAY.

A mil­i­tary and eco­nomic defeat, this is a day, all the Amer­i­cans the mil­i­tary and civil­ians will remem­ber as long as they could.

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US forces, leaving Iraq .. but not going far, they are heading to Syria

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Sappho

Accord­ing to Al-Hayat, there still four U.S. mil­i­tary bases in Iraq and three of them in the South, Both Maliki and Obama are using this cir­cus for their elec­tion and pro­pa­ganda interests.

The U.S. Embassy announced — coin­cid­ing with Maliki walk­ing up stairs to his plane head­ing to the U.S. — the num­ber of U.S. Embassy employ­ees is 15000 employ­ees, but a U.S. army gen­eral, said that the num­ber is 16000.

Apart for the above fig­ures, there are hints made today by the Iraqi Par­lia­ment Speaker Al-Nujaifi that Iraq will gives the remain­ing U.S. troops a “par­tial immu­nity”.

One thing Obama said it right: “The United States will be close”, actu­ally very close because some U.S. mil­i­tary unites are head­ing to North Jor­dan or South Syria if you like which explain the “Free Syr­ian Army” sud­den oper­a­tions near the Jordan-Syria border.

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US: Inciting sectarian strife, Mus­lim Broth­er­hood: To hell with Syria

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Sappho

In an inter­view with the Syr­ian Mus­lim Broth­er­hood [sup­ported by the GCC, US, France and Turkey] offi­cial spokesman Zuhair Salem, he said the following:

To hell with the Syr­ian iden­tity! We do not rec­og­nize Syria. Who cre­ated Syria? Is not the Sykes — Picot treaty .. Syria is a tem­po­rary state .. Our aim is to build an Islamic State.

Hours after inter­view with WSJ a sec­tar­ian clashes between Sun­nis and Shi­ites in Homs resulted the death of at least 60 peo­ple from both sides, but very few peo­ple noticed ‘s sec­tar­ian remarks :

Alaw­ites should be equal before the law, to have jobs in the econ­omy, and have the chance to be employed in var­i­ous sec­tors beyond in the secu­rity or army appa­ra­tus.

Few hours later, the US assis­tant sec­re­tary of state Jef­frey Felt­man in a clear attempt to incite sec­tar­ian ten­sion in Syria said the following:

Iran is actively engaged in try­ing to help Assad put down peace­ful protests inside Syria. I can­not imag­ine that this is good for the long-term Iranian-Syrian rela­tion­ship, and that is just fine with us.

Another sec­tar­ian remark from Felt­man in his visit to Lebanon [prob­a­bly to check his mili­tia]:

Wash­ing­ton has been in touch with Syr­ian Chris­tians not to stand on the side of the attacker.

By the way, Felt­man in his meet­ing with the Lebanese PM Najib Mikati declined to answer a ques­tion about the CIA activ­i­ties in Lebanon, say­ing:

I rather not talk about reports linked to the U.S. Intel­li­gence and I have noth­ing to say about this issue.

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Another Qatari bribery attempt

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Sappho

After we revealed that the mighty, wisely rich, tal­ented and (beau­ti­ful) Gulf-State of Qatar attempt to bribe Rus­sia, and Rus­sia answered back low­ers its diplo­matic ties with Qatar. A new Qatari bribery scan­dal revealed by Jor­dan­ian news­pa­per Akbar-baladna:

On the side­line of the Islamic Con­fer­ence in Saudi Ara­bia last week, a Min­is­ter of For­eign Affairs of the small Gulf-State had met secretly with his Syr­ian coun­ter­part Walid Muallem, and offered him a per­ma­nent res­i­dence in a palace com­plex in the cap­i­tal of his coun­try and a bank account of $ 100 mil­lion Dol­lar, in exchange for Muallem’s defec­tion from the Syr­ian lead­er­ship, and requests polit­i­cal asylum.

The Syr­ian For­eign Min­is­ter Muallem told his coun­ter­part that he is the only Syr­ian offi­cial who is not a mem­ber in the Syr­ian Ba’ath Party which makes free to choose his posi­tion which based on nation­al­ism no more. Muallem advised his coun­ter­part that the Gulf-State may need these mil­lions later in it’s war against Syria.

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US still putting pressure on Iraq to sanction Syria

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Sappho

For many Iraqi politi­cians and coali­tion lead­ers, prob­a­bly this is the last time they will see, meet and talk to the US Vice Pres­i­dent Joseph Biden, who came with his 9 points demands, and each one is more dan­ger­ous than the other. One essen­tial point is Iraq’s rela­tion with Syria:

Maliki strongly refused [Biden’s point regard­ing Syria] to change his posi­tion, stress­ing that it is not because he likes Syria or Assad, but because his “love for Iraq”.

Hav­ing voted twice against Arab League’s sanc­tion against Syria and news leaked that Iraqi fight­ers enter­ing Syria, some to fight along­side the Syr­ian regime, and another to sup­port the “Jihadists” against the regime.

Since Iraq is still under the UN’s Arti­cle VII and the US help to can­cel this arti­cle is needed but depends on if Maliki’s gov­ern­ment wants to respond to the US demands, this issue will cause a con­flict between the Amer­i­can admin­is­tra­tion and the Iraqi gov­ern­ment as it is sup­posed to change Iraq’s posi­tion as quickly as pos­si­ble, And this is exactly what hap­pened when Maliki offered to medi­ate between the Syr­ian oppo­si­tion and the Al-Assad regime.

The U.S. admin­is­tra­tion believes that Iraq’s sup­port to the Syr­ian regime clearly demon­strates the pres­ence of exter­nal pres­sure on the Iraqi gov­ern­ment refer­ring to Iran, cit­ing that Iraq declared its sup­port to the protests move­ments in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, while tak­ing a neg­a­tive atti­tude from the demon­stra­tion in Syria.

Syria-Iraq geopo­lit­i­cal over­lap can out­weigh the Syr­ian rela­tion with other coun­tries such as Turkey, Jor­dan and even Lebanon, espe­cially with the tim­ing of the U.S. with­drawal from Iraq.

Also there are sev­eral fac­tors regard­ing the soci­o­log­i­cal nature of the bor­der areas between the two coun­tries where there are joint fam­i­lies, tribal and ide­o­log­i­cal rela­tions which pro­vide a suit­able envi­ron­ment to merge as one entity, espe­cially, the west­ern region of Iraq and Mosul demand more auton­omy from the cen­tral gov­ern­ment. On the other hand, Iraq is a nec­es­sary geo­graphic “bridge” between Syria and Iran.

This would lead to the dis­in­te­gra­tion of Iraq and Syria together, and later will effects Lebanon. This is the least sce­nario but it will wide­spread fur­ther than these three countries.

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How Saudi Arabia and Qatar won the election in Egypt!

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Sappho

Islamic par­ties won the major­ity seats in the first round of Egypt elec­tions, facts are the following:

- Free­dom and Jus­tice party (Mus­lim Broth­er­hood), won 40%, and the Al-Nour Party (Salafis) won 20%, Al-Wasat Party (Islamic Move­ment) about 6%.

- The defeat of the tra­di­tional polit­i­cal par­ties: Accord­ing to Al-Wafd Party came in the fifth place, other polit­i­cal par­ties and forces ranged from 2% to 1%, and some to 0%.

We note that it has become cer­tain that all results of the sec­ond and third rounds will be in favor of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood, the Salafists and the Islamic Move­ment, because the first phase, which was held in major urban cen­ters: the cap­i­tal Cairo and Alexan­dria, Egypt’s sec­ond largest city. The sec­ond and third rounds will cover the rural areas, which are the strong­holds of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and the Salafi Move­ment and other Egypt­ian jihadist movements.

Qatar and Saudi Ara­bia active role over the past months. Riyadh and Doha, offered logis­tic and finan­cial sup­port for the Free­dom and Jus­tice Party (Broth­er­hood), Al-Nour Party (Salafi) and poor densely pop­u­lated Cairo neighborhoods.

Analy­sis

Egypt­ian busi­ness­man Naguib Sawiris revealed that Qatar has sent 100 mil­lion dol­lars of the Mus­lim Brotherhood.

Saudi Ara­bia denied this reported, but there are many rumors that the Saudi Gulf-State sup­ported the Egypt­ian Salafis with 4 Bil­lion dol­lar. But in inter­view in news­pa­per Al-Akhbar, a Salafi leader admit­ted that the sup­port did not directly came from the Saudi gov­ern­ment but though Salafi and Wahabi organ­i­sa­tions and asso­ci­a­tions active in the Gulf-States.

Saudi Salafi cleric Adnan Alkhtiry in his recent visit to Egypt and in Fri­day cer­e­mony in a Salafi mosque said the following:

It is impos­si­ble to estab­lish an Islamic state in Egypt or in any other [Islamic, Arab] coun­try as long as “there are the peo­ple danc­ing, singing and deal with the banks … This is a great oppor­tu­nity for the peo­ple of Egypt to estab­lish an Islamic state, do not emerge from the elec­tion empty-handed and leave it to those who don’t live the reli­gious life.

Egypt­ian Sufi leader Ala Abuaez­zaam con­demned the rais­ing of Saudi Ara­bia flags by the Salafis in Tahrir Square and called it: ter­ri­fy­ing and betrayal.

Hours before kick­start of the elec­tion is Egypt, Egypt­ian Supreme cleric res­i­dent in Qatar and the God­fa­ther of the Inter­na­tional Mus­lim Broth­er­hood tweeted the following:

Yes, it is in the inter­est of our coun­try the arrival of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and the Islamic Move­ment to gov­ern! This is their place, and this is their role and duty.

The future

Expected that the con­fronta­tions among the youth of the rev­o­lu­tion in Tahrir Square pro­test­ers, the sup­port­ers of the junta and sup­port­ers of Salafi/Muslim Broth­er­hood to worsen. It is most likely that the hid­den hands will try to esca­late the con­fronta­tions, giv­ing jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for a pos­si­ble mil­i­tary coup, which will enter Egypt in a new July Revolution.

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Tiny Gulf-State Qatar challenges (bribes) Russia over Syria

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Sappho

The Russ­ian Min­istry of For­eign Affairs issued a state­ment revealed that the Russ­ian Ambas­sador in Qatar had an “acci­dent” at the air­port in Doha and called to pun­ish those who are involved in this act. The state­ment did not clar­ify the nature of this “inci­dent” specifically!

Russ­ian RT reported that the Russ­ian ambas­sador and other Russ­ian embassy offi­cials were beaten the cus­toms offi­cers and police. An anony­mous Russ­ian diplo­mat related this inci­dent to Russia’s posi­tion from the Syria’s cri­sis, saying:

It is clear that this is an insult because of the posi­tion from Syria.

Lebanese news­pa­per Al-Nahar revealed the back­ground of the prob­lem saying:

Rus­sia rejected mul­ti­mil­lion dol­lar bribe offered by wealthy and rich Arab coun­tries offered to change it posi­tion from Syria and co-opt to the anti-Damascus axis. Moscow reac­tion to the bribe is show­ing more sup­port to the Syr­ian regime.

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Western Countries aim is to spur sectarianism and drive Syria toward civil war

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Sappho

Because the Syr­ian reg­u­lar Army is still active and intact, we notice that the West­ern media and its stooge Arab Gulf-States con­cen­trate on the ter­ror­ists organ­i­sa­tion of so-called “Free Syr­ian Army”. Here is the BBC, Aljazeera with a video clip shows as much Kalash­nikov as pos­si­ble [after we revealed the US M-16 rifles] and the BBC again.

More evi­dence shows that the sec­tar­ian ter­ror­ists called them­selves “Free Syr­ian Army”, not only hired guns and men [that 600 fight­ers from Al-Qaeda air­lifted by the NATO from Libya to Turkey and Lebanon] from the NATO-Rebels in Libya. An oper­a­tion kick started by the Zion­ist BHL, who ended his arti­cle in with a semi dec­la­ra­tion of war on Pres­i­dent Al-Assad.

Now cor­rect me if I am wrong: Wasn’t one of Gaddafi’s crimes [accord­ing to the West] is his sup­port to the “ter­ror” group IRA?

West­ern coun­tries are pro­vid­ing the so-called “Free Syr­ian Army” with advanced arms, night vision binoc­u­lars accord­ing to the Lebanese Al-Safir and satel­lite intel­li­gence accord­ing to Le Figaro.

In real­ity, the West is sup­port­ing sec­tar­i­an­ism because this is the only way to destroy the fab­ric of the Syr­ian soci­ety. This is the com­man­der of the “Free Syr­ian Army” Colonel Riad Al-Assaad telling Al-Arabiya TV:

We will bomb the [Shi­ite] Alaw­ites neighborhoods.

Syr­ian Nun Agnis told the Con­fer­ence of East­ern Catholic Patri­archs that recently held in Lebanon the fol­low­ing:

We are nuns and we know the Chris­t­ian sit­u­a­tion around us, about 164 deaths of Chris­tians in Homs alone in the past three months … Groups of armed men leav­ing muti­lated bod­ies behind them every­where .. The Syr­ian peo­ple are hostages by unknown ter­ror­ists gun­men using very sophis­ti­cated weapons.

Bel­gian TV RTBF visit Syria and came back with this report:

Chris­tians are very con­cerned about the pos­si­ble fall of the regime, who has always pro­tected reli­gious minori­ties … The armed strug­gle with­out any doubt sup­ported by for­eign coun­tries, and Syria is on the brink of a civil war.

Syr­ian oppo­si­tions claim yes­ter­day that the Syr­ian Army killed a 9 years old Chris­t­ian child “Sari Ibrahim” in Homs, the video clip of his mourn­ing par­ent tells a dif­fer­ent story:

The ter­ror­ists are respon­si­ble for my son’s martyrdom…they tar­geted him while he was in front of a gro­cery store… Had the army been there, the ter­ror­ists would not have killed him .. Al-Jazeera, Al-Arabiya chan­nels and those “dogs” [oppo­si­tion] of the Istan­bul Coun­cil respon­si­ble for the crime.

Mark George a French jour­nal­ist and a blog­ger from the French Media Libre just recently came back from Syria reported the following:

West­ern coun­tries pro­pa­ganda reminds me with the media cov­er­age in the Gulf-War, only the news of the Syr­ian oppo­si­tions are reported. All images and videos of the Syr­ian demon­stra­tions for the sup­port of Pres­i­dent Assad are cen­sored by the French main­stream media.

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Iraq — Sadr’s “Mahdi Army” in Syria?

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Sappho

 

Video clip shows the announce­ment of the for­ma­tion of the “Free Anbar Brigade to sup­port the Syr­ian Peo­ple” in Iraq in its two oper­a­tions tar­get­ing buses trans­port Sadr’s “Mahdi Army” to Syria [as the Brigade claims] escorted by the Iraqi reg­u­lar Army.

Ear­lier this week Anbar’s Gov­er­nor Qasim Al-Fahdawi said that he has evi­dence of armed mem­bers of the Mahdi Army are trans­ported to Syria to help the Assad regime against the rebels.

Syr­ian oppo­si­tions claim that 100 buses car­ry­ing at least 4,500 armed Sadr’s mili­tias crossed the bor­der the Syr­ian bor­der, headed towards the Deir Al-Zour city.

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Syria: The war plan and the psychological warfare

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Sappho

There is a rea­son behind Syria’s silence and not respond­ing to the Arab ini­tia­tive, not respond­ing to Turkey and US threats.

US nuclear aircraft-carrier deployed to the Syr­ian shores, Turkey and Arabs threaten with impos­ing sanc­tions, US issued a warn­ing to its cit­i­zens from trav­el­ing to Syria and no-fly-zone France with it’s safe zones. All are tests bal­loons and Syria knows it.

A Kuwaiti news­pa­per even pub­lished the mil­i­tary inter­ven­tion plan:

Arab air forces will bomb the tar­gets, per­haps with the par­tic­i­pa­tion of Turkey and U.S. sup­port, the goal is to par­layse Assad’s mil­i­tary forces in less than 24 hours. As for when? The newspaper’s source answered: When the AL gives the Green Light under the char­ter of “pro­tect­ing the Civilians”.

The bomb cam­paign will be pre­ceded by impos­ing a no-fly-zone on parts of Syria which will pro­hibit the move­ment of the Syr­ian mil­i­tary vehi­cles. This ban will crip­ple their abil­ity to bomb cities as pun­ish­ment for peace­ful protests.

The sce­nario of a Turk­ish inva­sion is unlikely because this will lead to a long-term con­fronta­tion with the Syr­ian army, but Turkey showed its will­ing­ness to pro­vide logis­tic sup­port such as allow­ing the use of airports.

And the bomb­ing targets:

- pres­i­den­tial palace (People’s Palace)
– The 3 head­quar­ters of the intel­li­gence ser­vices.
– Mil­i­tary com­mu­ni­ca­tions
– Ammu­ni­tion mag­a­zines.
– Mis­sile launch­ers, land-air and land-land.
– Radar sys­tems
– Head­quar­ters of the fourth bat­tal­ion.
– Houses of senior offi­cials and officers.

But accord­ing to Lebanese Al-Nahar, this is an unlikely sce­nario and for­eign inter­ven­tion in Syria is out of the ques­tion, not even by turkey.

Added that the Syr­ian Pres­i­dent Bashar al-Assad knows the dimen­sions of the sit­u­a­tion very well, the inter­na­tional and eco­nomic sit­u­a­tion is not ready to start a new war in any part of the world, and this is the case when it comes to a state still effec­tive, such as Syria.. Even the Arab coun­tries are also in trou­ble because the Arab ini­tia­tive is not the solu­tion, and the same sit­u­a­tion applies to Turkey, who can not risk con­fronta­tions on its borders.

Soft­en­ing its lan­guage, Turkey started to play down its for­mer threats of mil­i­tary inter­ven­tion, after Syria played one of its effec­tive cards against Turkey allo­cat­ing a PKK camp near the Turk­ish bor­der, has at least 150 Kur­dish sep­a­ratists insurgents.

The US failed to pres­sure Syria’s neigh­bor­ing coun­tries (Lebanon, Iraq and Jor­dan) to par­tic­i­pate in the eco­nomic sanc­tions. Jor­dan Prime Min­is­ter offi­cially apol­o­gized from the US del­e­ga­tion say­ing that his coun­try would not be bound in any sanc­tions against Syria, because it could hurt and affect Jordan’s trade and econ­omy. Say­ing:

If you use Arti­cle 7 from the UN char­ter to impose sanc­tion on Syria, then we will use arti­cle 50 which excludes neigh­bor­ing countries.

Many of the elec­tion can­di­dates includ­ing Obama, promised their sup­port­ers to with­draw the forces from Iraq and Afghanistan to get a major­ity. Start­ing a new war would be a “quag­mire” and a polit­i­cal suicide.

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