Unfortunately, Egyptians are not able to cancel secret US-Muslim Brotherhood deal

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Sappho

Egypt’s polit­i­cal vio­lence: What is going on under the surface?

It was no coin­ci­dence that the US, the Egypt­ian Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and the Mil­i­tary Junta sup­port the same goal in Egypt.

After years of fruit­less nego­ti­a­tions between the US and Mus­lim Broth­er­hood. This is a report from Lebanese news­pa­per Al-Diyar Novem­ber 06, 2011:

Secret meet­ings took place between US and the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood since 4 years ago until recently to reach an agree­ment that MB to take over the rule in Arab coun­tries with a con­di­tion that MB should fight Al-Qaeda themselves.

The plan is devel­oped dur­ing a meet­ing in Frank­furt between offi­cials from the CIA and the lead­ers of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood in the pres­ence of Direc­tor of the CIA, Gen. David Petraeus.

The “Arab Spring” forced the US to reach an agree­ment with the MB and to adjust its pol­icy to accept the rise of the Islamists accord­ing a roadmap:

- There is no prac­ti­cal alter­na­tive to the Egypt­ian Mus­lim Broth­er­hood. There­fore, the US should adopt a new strat­egy on the basis of con­sid­er­a­tions that the Move­ment is the most pow­er­ful polit­i­cal player in Egypt and the rest of the Mid­dle East.

- The US had been allied with Wash­ing­ton dur­ing the Cold War against the Com­mu­nist Soviet Union.

- Ensure the sur­vival of regimes allied with the U.S., espe­cially monar­chies in Saudi Ara­bia, the Gulf States, Jor­dan and Morocco.

- The sec­tar­ian ide­ol­ogy of the MB is closer and related to the Salafi Move­ment, there­fore, it is inher­ently hos­tile to the other Mus­lim reli­gious move­ments, such as the Shi­ite and Ismaili move­ment and the Alaw­ite, and thus it can be employed to tar­get Hezbollah.

- The com­mon theme between the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and Wash­ing­ton is to iso­late Iran and sup­port the mil­i­tant Salafi move­ments within some areas in Iran, espe­cially in Baluchis­tan and Khuzes­tan, and others.

Egypt­ian mil­i­tary junta will try to change the rules of the game as that leads to the exis­tence of two cen­ters of power, a leg­isla­tive and exec­u­tive author­i­ties. After the elec­tion, the MB will hold the leg­isla­tive power through its “Free­dom and jus­tice” Party, while the pres­i­den­tial power will be exclu­sively in the hands of the junta and its leader, Field Mar­shal Tantawi.

The bal­ance of power in the post-parliamentary gen­eral elec­tions will pro­vide a joint deal between the Broth­er­hood and the Egypt­ian mil­i­tary junta. Build­ing on this, Egypt will become the Cen­tre of the U.S. con­trol on the Islami­sa­tion of North Africa and the Islamic Mid­dle East.

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Who is shooting the Egyptian demonstrators?

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Sappho

I don’t know the agenda but I know that for­eign­ers are involved in the shootings.

Video footage from the Egypt­ian TV shows three for­eign­ers throw­ing Molo­tov cocktails.

Eye­wit­nesses con­firmed to Islam Times reporter that U.S. secu­rity men (said to be Black­wa­ter) opened fire from the Amer­i­can uni­ver­sity in Cairo on the pro­tes­tors and the Egypt­ian police at the same time.

The eye­wit­nesses said that the num­ber of the shoot­ers are thirty and they are hid­ing inside the U.S. embassy in Cairo.

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Iran’s “silent” preparation for a war in Syria — “Iraq is the buffer state”

Posted on November 20, 2011 by Sappho

Mil­i­tary

We already reported that Iran threat­ened Turkey to enter a war along­side Syria, and yes­ter­day Iraq did its tiny bit by issu­ing a ban in Turk­ish air­planes from land­ing on its territory.

In an oper­a­tion called “Destroy­ing the Illu­sion”, Syr­ian army estab­lished a 20 km mil­i­tary zone, deployed thou­sands of tanks, artillery and mis­siles along the bor­ders with Turkey and Jor­dan. That is few hours after the arrival of an Iran­ian mil­i­tary advis­ers del­e­ga­tion in an offi­cial visit to Syria. Notice that the above link says that there is no need to deploy the Syr­ian army near the Iraq-Syria bor­der because there is no pres­ence of gun­men in the area.

Few days ago, Iran­ian Pres­i­dent Mah­moud Ahmadine­jad in a meet­ing with the Iraqi Army Chief of Staff Gen. Babakir Zebari, stressed that the Iraqi and Iran­ian peo­ple have long enjoyed close ties in the face of what he called “the forces of arro­gance”. This announce­ment from Ahmadine­jad came days after Iran urged Iraq to mil­i­tary coop­er­a­tion “against the com­mon ene­mies in the region and beyond”.

Since then, there are many reports of the esca­lat­ing arms smug­gling from Iran to Shi­ite mili­tias in Iraq.

Iraqi mil­i­tary sources revealed that the Iran­ian Chief of Staff for­mally expressed Iran’s readi­ness to man­age the Iraqi mil­i­tary bases that are aban­doned by the US troops after the withdrawal.

The sources indi­cated that Iran had asked the Iraqi gov­ern­ment to con­trol all air bases as quickly as pos­si­ble because Iran is con­cerned that some air bases with large run­ways can be used by the for­eign warplanes.

polit­i­cally and logistically

Bagh­dad is not only offi­cially opposes the inter­na­tion­al­i­sa­tion of the Syr­ian cri­sis and the impos­ing an eco­nomic sanc­tion on Dam­as­cus, the Iraqi gov­ern­ment even promised Syria and Iran to pre­vent the flow of weapons from Iraq to Syria and to pre­vent Syr­ian refugees from cross­ing the Iraq-Syria bor­der. Maliki’s posi­tion irri­tated the US say­ing [link above]:

The Iraqi gov­ern­ment came under pres­sure from a regional state to sup­port Assad regime at the time the whole world is bet­ting on the demo­c­ra­tic change in Iraq.

UAE news­pa­per reported that Iran offered a coop­er­a­tion with the Sunni tribes in Anbar Province to pro­vide a safe pas­sage to sup­port Assad regime in Syria in exchange for Tehran sup­ports the Sun­nis demands from the Iraqi Government.

Iraqi gov­ern­ment received “orders” from Iran to open its media offices in the Syr­ian cap­i­tal Dam­as­cus, the media offices will be sup­ported finan­cially by Iran.

Reli­gious

There is no men­tion of Syria in Ammar Al-Hakim [leader of the Supreme Islamic Coun­cil, who is known with his con­nec­tions with Iran] in speech last Fri­day [that is the day after the Arab Leagues deci­sion to an ulti­ma­tum to Syria], but inter­est­ingly he asked to “reform” the AL in way that suits the cur­rent changes in Arab countries.

Muqatda Al-Sadr offi­cially is still in Iran-Qom but he released a “bizarre” posi­tion; He is sym­pa­thetic with the Syr­ian demon­stra­tors but let Assad’s regime stays.

Yet, pre­pared for the worst and in case of a regional war, all what Iran needs are few Supreme Cler­ics to declare Jihad [and not rely­ing on Sis­tani only]. This is reported a week ago by all Iraqi media:

10 Supreme-clerics Aya­tol­lahs arrived from Qom-Iran to set­tle per­ma­nently in Najaf-Iraq, among them Iraq’s Maliki “Dawa Party” new Supreme ref­er­ence Al-Shahrudi [after the death of the for­mer Dawa Party’s ref­er­ence Moham­mad Hus­sein Fad­lal­lah].

Why this is impor­tant? The name Aya­tol­lah Al-Shahrudi is asso­ci­ated with Mili­tias and guer­rilla war­fare. this is a tiny biography:

Asso­ci­ated with the reli­gious leader insti­tu­tion in Iran and has been appointed head of the judi­ciary in Iran for eight years and a mem­ber of the Guardian Coun­cil of Iran, as well as a mem­ber of the Expe­di­ency Dis­cern­ment Coun­cil in Iran.

He is the first leader of the Supreme Coun­cil of the Islamic Rev­o­lu­tion in Iraq, and the archi­tect of the rela­tion between the Supreme Coun­cil and the Iran­ian author­i­ties from the 80’s until the fall of the Iraqi regime.

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Iraq’s Federalism, upside down, north and west

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Sappho

Upside down

In 2005, nearly 12 mil­lion Iraqis res­i­dents of the south­ern provinces and north­ern Iraq demon­strated to say “Yes” to Iraq’s per­ma­nent con­sti­tu­tion. The con­sti­tu­tion is boy­cotted by the Sunni major­ity west­ern provinces who opposed this referendum.

Time is changed and the equa­tion is turned upside down, after more than six years the oppo­nents of the con­sti­tu­tion are using the “gov­ern­ment con­sti­tu­tion trick” [sta­tis­ti­cally 20%] to form of fed­eral regions in their provinces.

In response to Par­lia­ment speaker Osama Al-Nujaifi call for the cre­ation of Sunni region, Maliki toured some of the cen­tral and south­ern provinces, and met with Tribal lead­ers giv­ing speeches attack­ing his adver­saries, led by Nujaifi.

Nujaifi responded with hold­ing another con­fer­ence of all provin­cial coun­cils in the parliament’s hall in the Green Zone attended by rep­re­sen­ta­tives of five provinces and half board Bagh­dad [Sun­nis only], with ten provinces boy­cotted the meet­ing because of the pres­sure from the Shi­ite “National Alliance”.

North

Exactly a year ago, we reported that the Iraqi par­lia­ment speaker Osama Nujaifi is Turkey’s man in Iraq. We said at that time:

Imposed on the Kurds, and will rep­re­sents Turkey’s inter­ests in Iraq

Play­ing both cards Kurds and Arabs in Mosul, Mid­dleEast Online wrote the fol­low­ing last week:

Ankara pre­pared its plan very early, when it inter­vened as a strong player engi­neer­ing the so-called “Erbil Agree­ment”, in the for­ma­tion of the cur­rent Iraqi gov­ern­ment led by Maliki,” and then it was agreed that Osama Nujaifi to head of the Iraqi par­lia­ment because Al-Nujaifi fam­ily his­tor­i­cally and cul­tur­ally is close to Turkey, and Tariq Al-Hashimi remains the Vice Pres­i­dent Tal­a­bani, because Hashimi, because of his con­nec­tion with the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood. In this Turkey enforced itself as a main player for future agenda in Iraq.

West

Rush­ing to stop Turkey incur­sion in Iraq, and to restore Britain’s momen­tum in Iraq after the with­drawal of the US. David Cameron started to lis­ten to the for­mer British Prime Min­is­ter John Major (1990–1997) in his advise about the future British policy:

Instead of “march­ing in lock-step” with Amer­ica, Britain should be will­ing to adopt for­eign poli­cies at odds with the Amer­i­can approach, espe­cially in the Mid­dle East.

Britain called the Jor­dan­ian King Abdul­lah II to con­sult him about the oppor­tu­nity to form an alliance or admin­is­tra­tive, eco­nomic and logis­ti­cal fed­er­al­ism with West­ern Iraqi provinces (Anbar). King Abdul­lah II of Jor­dan saw this project as an oppor­tu­nity to set­tle the Pales­tini­ans in West­ern Iraqi provinces.

Maliki in his meet­ing with tribal rep­re­sen­ta­tives from Salah Al-Din Provinces gave few hints on Jordan-Britain involvement:

To divide Iraq is not new project, a scheme sim­i­lar to the “Bal­four Dec­la­ra­tion”. The ene­mies are ben­e­fit­ing from the dif­fer­ence and sec­tar­ian strife in Iraq …. There are many coun­tries in the region for an urgent need to divide Iraq, first, to set­tle the Pales­tin­ian right of return by mak­ing Iraq an alter­na­tive home for them.

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“Feltman’s Militia” aka “Free Syrian Army”

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Sappho

Turk­ish Sabah news­pa­per con­firmed what I reported earlier.

The video above is broad­cast recently on BBC4 shows the so-called “Free Syr­ian Army”. The clip reveals two real­i­ties, 1) The gun­men are based in north Lebanon, an area thrives with Sunni Salafi and Wahabi extrem­ists. 2) The report edi­tor noticed that 15,000 gun­men is an exag­ger­a­tion [notice the Amer­i­can M-16 rifles, the Syr­ian reg­u­lar army never owed or used US arms]

Call­ing the gun­men “Feltman’s Mili­tia”, Damas­Post reveals the real story behind the for­ma­tion of these militias:

Feb­ru­ary 20, 2011 US Assis­tant Sec­re­tary of State Jef­frey Felt­man to Beirut and accom­pa­nied by an offi­cial in the Mossad oper­ates from Roma­nia and named Amit Azogi a for­mer gen­eral in the Israeli Army and an arms dealer, a Jor­dan­ian Intel­li­gence offi­cer Ali Gerbag and some Lebanese 14 March Move­ment. The sur­prise was the pres­ence of the Pres­i­dent of the Islamic Lib­er­a­tion Party in Turkey, Yil­maz Chelk. The goal of the meet­ing is to form Armed mili­tia groups .. That will fight against the Syr­ian regime.

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Why Syria decided not to attend the AL meetings in Morocco?

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Sappho

What changed that made Syria decide not to attend the Arab League meet­ing in Morocco hours before its start? Even the Arab meet­ing in Morocco meet­ing started to take a “softer” tone against Syria [accord­ing to the lat­est news, Arabs are try­ing to impose sanc­tion against Syria which they know it will never work].

Since the start of events in Syria, some expected that the West­ern pow­ers (NATO) to launch a war on Syria under the guise of “pro­tect­ing of civil­ians” as it hap­pened in Libya, even the Syr­ian oppo­si­tion “the National Coun­cil” started to cir­cu­late this idea with­out any results or pos­i­tive reac­tions from West­ern pow­ers, and the NATO will never go this far even in the future.

Pres­i­dent Assad has many regional cards (Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey, Pales­tine, Jor­dan) that he never used ’till now. He still has allies who can sup­port him and they will not aban­don him at any moment. Here is Damas-Post quotes a retired Turk­ish army gen­eral who reveals a secret:

Iran threat­ened to enter the war against Turkey and the U.S. pres­ence in the Arab Gulf-States if Turkey moves its force against Syria. Iran’s deci­sion to retal­i­ate for any Turk­ish inter­ven­tion in Syria declare war on the Repub­lic of Turkey is not a maneu­ver, but is the deci­sion taken by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who recently sent one of the clos­est aides to Syria as an ambassador.

Despite the con­fi­dence, capa­bil­i­ties and pres­sure from the West­ern pow­ers, the Turk­ish Army gen­er­als will not inter­fere in Syria because they don’t want to enter in a war with a coun­try the size of Iran because any involve­ment in the war with Iran will not achieve any ben­e­fits for the Turk­ish people .

Impor­tant also, the Syria army still intact, the offi­cers are well aware that their fate in the event of the fall of the sys­tem will be the same fate as Iraqi army offi­cers after the fall of Sad­dam Hus­sein, who were dis­missed from their jobs and tried on charges of belong­ing to “the Iraqi Baath Party”.

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US pressure on Iraq to sanction Syria

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Sappho

Pres­sure from the US on Syria’s neigh­bor­ing coun­tries, send­ing US Trea­sury Assis­tant Sec­re­tary to Jor­dan and Lebanon.

No need to report the posi­tions of the Iraqi polit­i­cal blocs and coali­tions which are already known but as part of the pres­sure is the sched­uled visit of the US Vice Pres­i­dent Joseph Biden’s to Iraq aimed at incit­ing the Iraqi gov­ern­ment to change their posi­tions from Syria, and the can­cel­la­tion of Syria’s con­tracts in Akashat oil fields and phos­phate mines.

Accord­ing Iraqi news­pa­per Al-Mada:

Bagh­dad is wait­ing for a meet­ings behind the scenes [with US Vice Pres­i­dent Joseph Biden] to pres­sure the Iraqi gov­ern­ment to take the neg­a­tive atti­tudes from the Assad regime in Syria, and to can­cel of some the con­tracts, includ­ing Akashat contract.

The source told the news­pa­per that the Iraqi nego­ti­at­ing team will use all of its cards in order not to fol­low the US demands.

What the US and West­ern coun­tries can’t under­stand is that geo­graph­i­cally, any Arab neigh­bor­ing coun­try wants to impose sanc­tion against Syria is actu­ally pun­ishes itself and hurt­ing its own economy.

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A buffer zone to bomb Syria

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Sappho

As I expected, Saudi news­pa­per “Okaz” reported that Arab for­eign min­is­ters Rabat – Morocco meet­ing will dis­cus with Turk­ish For­eign Min­is­ter cre­ation of a buffer zone imposed by Turkey to pro­tect the civil­ians in Syria.

The sur­prise news is that there is a dis­pute on among the Arabs and Turkey to deter­mine the size of the area, as Turkey wants the area to be the nar­row­est, while some West­ern coun­tries want to be an area of ​​50 km so that can use this area to bomb sites in the far south of Syria in the case of the use of mil­i­tary force against the regime.

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Censored oil news from Libya

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Sappho

A media black out on cer­tain news con­cerns Libya, every news item reported today on Libya is about the Oil prod­uct. Head­line such as “Libyan oil pro­duc­tion gain­ing momen­tum” or this one “Libyan oil out­put rises to 600,000 bpd”.

What is not report about the Oil prod­uct is what For­mer Libyan Prime Min­is­ter Mah­moud Jib­ril said yesterday:

About %60 of oil reserves in Libya is depleted, we should cre­ate other income sources. Friends of Libya did not sub­mit any­thing to us from their own safes, and that what released from the Libyan frozen money is $19 bil­lion, but what was avail­able to us is less than that figure.

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Arab League fraud decision backs Turkey’s intervention in Syria

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Sappho

In one of the biggest frauds in the Arab polit­i­cal his­tory [after Iraq and Libya] the Arab League decided to sus­pend Syria.

Arab League Char­ter — Arti­cle 18 — XVIII -

The Coun­cil of the League may con­sider any State that is not ful­fill­ing the oblig­a­tions result­ing from this Pact as excluded from the League, by a deci­sion taken by a unan­i­mous vote of all the States except the State referred to.

Iron­i­cally, at the same time yes­ter­day the Arab League decided to boy­cott Syria under the pre­text of “pro­tect­ing Syr­i­ans”, the same League rejected a peti­tion let­ter from the Bahrani oppo­si­tion ask­ing to send a fact-finding mis­sion to Bahrain.

The Arab league did its bit from the plan (with more pres­sure from Qatar) and Turkey started the next phase as a pre mil­i­tary inter­ven­tion autho­rized by the Arabs.

Sources told the Lebanese news­pa­per Al-Markazia:

Turkey’s role expected to be at the fore­front in coor­di­na­tion with some of the West­ern allies and Saudi Ara­bia if the Arab ini­tia­tive fails. That will pro­vide an inter­na­tional cover for Turkey’s direct inter­ven­tion in the Syr­ian ter­ri­tory, on the basis of the agree­ment between the late Syr­ian Pres­i­dent Hafez al-Assad and Turk­ish author­i­ties which allows the Turk­ish army to enter five km inside the Syr­ian territories.

After Syria sur­prise approval of the “the Arab ini­tia­tive” which con­fused the Anti-Assad West­ern pow­ers and the GCC coun­tries [see the French FM Alain Juppe quick to react to the Arab ini­tia­tive “was born dead”], the deci­sion is made to take the “Libyan option”.

It was pos­si­ble to say that the mood is head­ing to inter­na­tion­alise the Syr­ian issue with­out the need to go to the “Secu­rity Coun­cil” due to the oppo­si­tion posi­tion of Rus­sia and China.

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