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Saturday, June 21, 2014

 Green light given to “suicide-bombing fest” in Lebanon أمر عمليات: إشغال لبنان وحزب الله بـ«كرنفال انتحاري»

Lebanese security forces inspect the site of a suicide attack which targeted an army checkpoint on June 20, 2014, on the main highway from Beirut to Damascus in the Dahr al-Baidar area. (Photo: AFP-Joseph Eid)
Published Saturday, June 21, 2014
For 20 years, Hezbollah has been obliged to pay the price twice. The first being the price required to achieve its successes, and the second being the price that its enemies and opponents want to force it to pay for having achieved these successes.
After what happened in Syria over the past four months, many governments, intelligence services, and terrorist cells alike realized that the confrontation with Hezbollah is difficult and complex.
Hezbollah succeeded in not only discovering and tracking down a large number of terrorists involved in attacks against its base, and in Lebanon and Syria, but the party also showed unprecedented perseverance in hunting down those terrorists wherever they may be, in Lebanon or Syria, in the areas under its influence and those of its allies, and beyond. This was no laughing matter for Hezbollah, though its intelligence abilities may only be verified by way of the results they have achieved.
Practically speaking, Hezbollah was able to destroy the main logistical bases of the suicide bombers in Syria and along the border with Lebanon. Hezbollah dealt direct and fatal blows to the majority of individuals involved in terror attacks, both in the planning and execution thereof. In collaboration with security services in Lebanon, Syria, and elsewhere, Hezbollah was able to dismantle many cells that could have done a lot more damage.
True, the terrorists have been greatly weakened as a result. But Hezbollah, neither on the battlefield nor in its strongholds, has taken any practical action to suggest it is reassured by the results. Hezbollah judged that it has weakened the “lunatics” to a large extent, but the party knows their true makeup well, and it has information indicating these groups remain active and are attempting to regroup, and to gather enough support to resume their terrorist activities.



It is not logical to say that there is a full complementarity between al-Qaeda offshoots and the governments of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey. But there is a great deal of overlap, centering on the fact that these countries, in addition to the Western powers and Israel, believe that only al-Qaeda and its offshoots can stand their ground in the battlefield, especially following the series of unprecedented scandals surrounding all other armed gangs that have been described as “moderate.” In other words, the bid to weaken the Iran-Iraq-Syria-Hezbollah axis is now obligated to go through al-Qaeda and its offshoots.
Everyone is acting on the basis that the terrorism that swept through Iraq recently, which has wrested entire areas out of the control of the Iraqi state, can restore equilibrium following the series of defeats in Syria and then Lebanon.
While the state of euphoria that has possessed the governments involved in supporting this brand of terrorism remains confined to the political gains they seek in Iraq and Syria, the euphoria that emerged among the supporters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has far exceeded these governments’ calculations. Indeed, the novel situation has prompted a considerable number of terrorist groups to restart their engines, either to emulate or complement ISIS’ feats, or appear as though they have the ability to match ISIS – something that is mostly visible among the groups affiliated to al-Nusra Front and the Abdullah Azzam Brigades.
These groups are interlinked, and have a central “prime mover” in our region. Meanwhile, there have been major political developments following the recent election in Syria, which granted President Bashar al-Assad a large popular base; the parliamentary election in Iraq, which reinforced Nouri al-Maliki’s position in power, and the failure of the bid to extend Michel Suleiman’s term in Lebanon. All this was expected to lead to a readjustment in the strategy of the rival camp.
It is in this context that the recent events in Iraq played out, and also the attempts to heat things up in the Syrian front to achieve a major coup in Aleppo or the south. Similarly, a decision was made to re-ignite the Lebanese arena, to put pressure on Hezbollah toward making political concessions – as related to the presidency and the government – in exchange for security, and push its back to the wall to prevent it from playing any role in Iraq similar to the role is has been playing in Syria.



It is in this climate that all alarm bells went off at once in the corridors of the security services in Lebanon. First, the Intelligence Directorate of the Lebanese army received cryptic tips from the United States about groups having arrived in Lebanon to carry out attacks against healthcare facilities. It was the view of some analysts that this meant attacks on hospitals in Beirut’s southern suburbs where wounded Hezbollah fighters are being treated.
Then there were tips from European capitals, relayed to the Information Branch of the Internal Security Forces, about the arrival of cells comprising Saudi nationals into Lebanon to carry out attacks on Shias in particular. There was also information about a sudden surge in the activity of groups affiliated to the armed Syrian opposition in the Bekaa Valley, including in the town of Arsal, where al-Nusra Front has reportedly regrouped despite the security measures taken by the Lebanese government.
All these warnings indicate that a green light has been given to reignite the Lebanese arena. The goal: to undo the achievements of the Resistance in Syria though a “suicide-bombing fest” in Beirut and its suburbs, as one well-placed source puts it.
It will take time to fully understand what happened on Friday. There is no evidence that attacks were about to be carried out in Beirut nor is there overwhelming evidence that Abbas Ibrahim was the target of the suicide attack in Dahr al-Baidar, and the same goes for the rumors about a Mossad document and a journalist from a Lebanese origin who warned about Ibrahim’s assassination. Similar theories have been circulating on social media, and it seems that some have a very vivid imagination regarding events that never materialized.
But what is certain is that there are some parties trying to push Lebanon toward a return to the tension that prevailed before the battles in Qalamoun were settled. There are worrying signs from the northern regions, where those who were hurt by the government’s security plan might be seeking to bring back chaos. There is also an attempt to blackmail Hezbollah and its allies on many political and security-related issues, and all that this camp can do in the meantime is be more patient.
Ibrahim al-Amin is the editor-in-chief of Al-Akhbar.

أمر عمليات: إشغال لبنان وحزب الله بـ«كرنفال انتحاري» 

منذ زمن بعيد، يعود إلى نحو عشرين سنة، وحزب الله مضطر إلى أن يدفع الثمن مرتين. الأول هو الثمن الذي يدفعه لتحقيق هذا الإنجاز، والثاني هو الثمن الذي يريد أعداؤه وخصومه أن يجبروه على دفعه لأنه حقّق هذا الإنجاز.

بعد الذي حصل في سوريا خلال الأشهر الأربعة الماضية، أيقنت حكومات ودول وأجهزة وخلايا إرهابية أن المواجهة مع حزب الله صعبة ومعقدة. لقد نجح الحزب، ليس فقط في كشف وتعقب قسم كبير جداً من المتورطين في الأعمال الإرهابية ضد جمهوره وضد لبنان وسوريا، بل هو أظهر مثابرة غير مسبوقة في مطاردة هؤلاء اينما توجهوا، في لبنان أو سوريا، في مناطق نفوذه أو مناطق نفوذ وسيطرة حلفائه أو خارجها أيضاً. حزب الله في هذه الحالة لا يمزح، وقدراته على الصعيد الأمني غير قابلة للتدقيق إلا من حيث النتائج التي تحققها.
عملياً، نجح الحزب في تدمير القواعد اللوجستية الرئيسية لمجموعات الانتحاريين في سوريا وعلى الحدود مع لبنان. ووجه ضربات مباشرة وقاتلة إلى غالبية الأفراد المتورطين في هذه الأعمال تخطيطاً ومشاركة وتنفيذاً. وهو نجح بالتعاون مع أجهزة الأمن في لبنان وسوريا وآخرين، في تفكيك خلايا كبيرة كان يمكنها القيام بالكثير.

صحيح أن نتائج ما حصل أضعفت إلى حد كبير قوة الإرهابيين. لكن حزب الله لم يعمد، لا في الميدان ولا في المناطق التي له فيها نفوذ كبير، إلى أي إجراء عملي من شأنه القول إنه اطمأن إلى النتائج. الحزب قدّر أنه حقق ضربات تضعف المجانين إلى حد كبير. لكن الحزب يعرف تركيبة هؤلاء، ولديه من المعطيات ما يكفي للإشارة إلى استمرار النشاط العملاني من جانب مجموعات تسعى إلى إعادة تنظيم نفسها، والحصول على الدعم الكافي لاستئناف نشاطها الإرهابي.

ليس منطقياً القول بأن هناك تكاملاً بين التنظيمات المتفرعة عن القاعدة وبين حكومات قطر والسعودية وتركيا. لكن هناك قدر كبير من التقاطعات، وأساسه أن هذه الدول، كما الغرب وإسرائيل، لا يجدون في الميدان سوى مقاتلي القاعدة وفروعها للصمود على الأرض، وخصوصاً بعد الفضائح غير المسبوقة لكل العصابات المسلحة الأخرى، ولا سيما التي وُصفت بالقوى العسكرية المعتدلة. وصار العبور لتوجيه ضربات إلى محور إيران - العراق - سوريا - حزب الله، يمرّ إلزاميا بتنظيم «القاعدة» وحلفائه وإخوته المتقاتلين معه.

تصرف الجميع على أساس أن الإرهاب المسلح الذي ينتشر في العراق بقوة أخيراً، والذي نجح في السيطرة على مناطق 
باتت خارج سيطرة الدولة العراقية، هو الإرهاب الذي يفترض به تحقيق توازن بعد مسلسل الخسائر القائمة في سوريا ثم في لبنان. وحالة النشوة التي أصابت الحكومات المتورطة في هذا الإرهاب، مقتصرة على مكاسب سياسية ينشدونها في العراق وسوريا. لكن حالة النشوة التي ظهرت عند أنصار «داعش» تجاوزت المقدر من قبل هؤلاء، وهي حالة دفعت عدداً غير قليل من المجموعات إلى تفعيل محركاتها، إما لمحاكاة إنجازات «داعش» والتناغم معها، وإما للظهور بمظهر القادر على القيام بما تقوم به «داعش»، وهي حالة موجودة بقوة عند مجموعات على صلة بجبهة النصرة وكتائب عبد الله عزام.






ولأن السلسلة متصلة بعضها ببعض، وهناك مشغل مركزي لها موجود في منطقتنا، ولأن الغايات السياسية بعد الانتخابات الأخيرة في سوريا التي منحت الرئيس بشار الأسد حاضنة شعبية كبيرة، ثم الانتخابات البرلمانية العراقية التي ثبتت نوري المالكي في رأس السلطة، وفشل التمديد لميشال سليمان في لبنان، كل ذلك كان متوقعاً له أن يدخل تعديلاً على آليات العمل في الجبهة المقابلة. وفي هذا السياق جاءت أحداث العراق، وكذلك محاولات تفعيل الجبهة السورية لتحقيق تقدم كبير في حلب أو الجنوب. وبالطبع، جاء قرار إعادة إشعال الساحة اللبنانية، بما يفرض معادلات ضاغطة على حزب الله، لإلزامه بتنازلات سياسية رئاسياً وحكومياً مقابل الأمن، ودفعه إلى الحائط بغية منعه من القيام بدور في العراق على شاكلة الدور الذي يلعبه في سوريا.
وسط هذه المناخات، قرعت كل أجراس الإنذار دفعة واحدة في غرف الأمن في لبنان. تلقت مديرية المخابرات في الجيش اللبناني معلومات مصدرها الولايات المتحدة الأميركية، تتحدث بغموض عن وصول مجموعات إلى لبنان للقيام بعمليات ضد مراكز صحية. ثم خرج من يحلل بأن القصد هو ضرب مستشفيات في الضاحية الجنوبية حيث يُعالَج جرحى حزب الله. وترافقت مع معلومات مصدرها عواصم أوروبية وصلت إلى فرع المعلومات في قوى الأمن الداخلي، تتحدث عن انتقال خلايا يحمل عناصرها الجنسية السعودية إلى لبنان للقيام بأعمال إرهابية تستهدف الشيعة خصوصاً. ثم ترافقت مع معلومات أخرى، عن نشاط أمني لافت لمجموعات على صلة بالمعارضة السورية المسلحة في البقاعين الأوسط والغربي. ثم تقارير عن واقع جديد في بلدة عرسال البقاعية أتاح إعادة عناصر جبهة النصرة تنظيم أمورهم وصفوفهم في ضوء الإجراءات الأمنية التي اتخذتها الحكومة اللبنانية.
كل هذه التحذيرات، دلت على أمر واحد: لقد صدر أمر العمليات لإعادة إشغال الساحة اللبنانية. وإن ما يفترض محور المقاومة أنه حققه من نجاحات في سوريا، سيُبدَّد من خلال «كرنفال انتحاري» تضج به بيروت وضواحيها، على حد تعبير مصدر معني بهذه الملفات.
ما حصل أمس، يحتاج إلى بعض الوقت قبل تبيان كامل ملامحه. ليس هناك دلائل أمنية حسية على أعمال كانت على وشك التنفيذ في بيروت، ولا أدلة تقطع بأن عباس إبراهيم كان هدف انتحاريّ ضهر البيدر، ولم يُعثر على أصل لحكاية وثيقة الموساد والصحفية من أصل لبناني. وثمة الكثير من الروايات التي نسجت وفق «سيناريو رواد الفايسبوك». وثمة خيال مخيف عند البعض من الذين تصوروا أحداثاً لم يسبق لها أن حصلت.
لكن الأكيد أن هناك من يدفع لبنان باتجاه استئناف مرحلة التوتر التي سبقت حسم معارك مدن القلمون وبلداته. وثمة إشارات مقلقة من مناطق شمالية، حيث يعمل «متضررون من الخطة الأمنية» على إعادة الفوضى.
كذلك هناك محاولة لفرض بازار سياسي ـــ أمني على حزب الله وفريق حلفائه. وليس بيد أصحاب الحق سوى المزيد من الصبر.

River to Sea Uprooted Palestinian   
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Friday, June 20, 2014

Is Another ‘Muslim World’ Possible?

Please see these articles and interviews that explore the complexities of the situation in Iraq:

IRAQ: DEFEAT THE DEATH SQUAD, BUT ANTI-IMPERIALIST SUNNI-SHIA UNITY IS A MUST

Another Better Muslim World is PossibleBy Sukant Chandan
Isis are a death squad infiltrated and covertly germinated by western covert forces, and Isis’ actions directly serve western strategic interests which are basically to violently divide communities and countries. Isis has been pushed from Syria due to the Syrian govt led Resistance there. Hence Isis have done this big push in Iraq, which will in turn help (through looting, new weapons captured) their dirty work in Syria. IN THIS DYNAMIC I am in support of all forces in Iraq to defeat them. At the same time, we have a total sectarian mess in Iraq which is QUALITATIVELY different to Syria:
In Syria there is a socialist and independent country to defend, which pre 2011 with all its problems is an inspiring model that motivates our masses there to defend it. In Iraq, we dont have that. We have a tragically traumatised country for at least 25 years if not longer.
Unlike Iraq, in Syria we have an anti-imperialist Resistance which is, despite all the lies and nonsense out of the western mainstream and their non-white hangers on, we have a cross sectional unity in struggle against the nato/GCC death squads, we have a Syrian Arab Army of majority Sunnis, and we have lots of Shia, Sunni, Christian, Socialist, Armenian, Kurdish and many other formations UNITED in life or death struggle against a common enemy. We have nothing of the sort in Iraq.
Unlike the contending forces in the Syrian war, in Iraq we have contending forces (aside from Isis for a second) the former Iraqi Baathist forces, and then Tehran-aligned forces. BOTH these forces built/have built functional models of society for their peoples, BOTH are anti-imperialist and fought the usa and uk occupation of Iraq, BOTH were/are under direct attack from imperialism. However, the historical Iraqi-Baath and Islamic Republic of Iran schism is still playing itself out and its results are that sectarian division and violence which ONLY benefits the west and its Guif allies are winning.
THIS is the strategic and concrete basis for unity in Iraq. We do NOT have that with the forces of the death squads (loosely called ‘AlQaeda’), nor the Muslim Brotherhood wo have generally always been and remain hugging nato directly or indirectly with great intimacy as a means by which they seek power for themselves. Hence there is NO concrete basis between anti-imperialist forces and forces which have shown nothing but collaboration for generations with the common enemy (the west and the zionist state).
We can see amongst anti-imperialists that they are split on the question of Iraq now. Many anti-imperialists respect one of the sections of the Resistance against the occupation in Iraq which is led by the Iraqi Baath in the form of the JRTN (read more about them here:http://tinyurl.com/mxa8jz5 ).
However, despite their heroism against the occupation, as long as they term Iran as the ‘Safavid Persian empire’, there will be no progress out of the empire-interested schism on that front. Also, we have Iraqi PM Maliki, who is close to Iran AND also the Syrian government and Lebanese Hizbullah. However, similarly to JRTN etc, there will be no real move forward out of this awful mess until Iran allows or/and facilitates a historical and strategic rapprochement between the Baathist and Shia or pro-Iranian forces in Iraq. Is there any chance for such? Actually, many of the Iraqi Baathists are in support f the Syrian government against the nato covert operation there, and this is very much an opening that can be worked on, but all parties must develop mutual confidence building measures rather than the zero sum total games they are playing out currently.
The sieges of Fallujah by the yankee occupation was a chance for this Sunni-Shia unity to take place. It did not. The siege of Najaf by the yankee forces could have seen such a unity develop. It did not. Going further back, after Iraq was laid to a terrible siege of war by imperialism post 1990 there could have been a thaw in Iran-Iraq relations that could have trumped the sectarian-promoting agenda of the ‘west’. That thaw never took place, although there WAS a thaw between the Syrian Baath and Iraqi Baath governments in the lead up to 2003. Interestingly, in the split of the Iraqi Baath after the demise of Saddam Hussein, one faction was said to be very close to the Syrian government intelligence services. Unlike the death squads of nato and the pro-nato Muslim Brotherhood, these forces in Iraq have a basis for unity, for the sake of God they were all shooting in all the same direction against the occupation forces for many years, and have good experience in socialist, anti-imperialist and anti-zionist state building!
Here we can see one of these Baathist armed leaders saying that they are stronger than Isis and consider them “barbarians” (http://preview.tinyurl.com/mtdmple ). OK, so perhaps these people should consider opening up a strategic unity program with Iran and some of the Shia forces in Iraq to defeat the death squads, protect ALL Iraqis from them and imperialism and also defend the Syrian government? Might be far fetched, but this to my mind is the only realistic course of action before we fall of the massive cliff edge falling into the yankee canyon to our collective deaths which is at the same time is giving oxygen to the empire.
It’s a small consolation that I am not the only one who is asking for this. Many anti-imperialists across the world who have supported the Iranian, Syrian, Libyan, Iraqi and ALL of our peoples in the region struggle against imperialism and zionism and who are not bias and partial to any section of our people are also in agreement that this must be the only course that we can pursue to thwart the enemy’s plan. In this regard, I am in total agreement with the wise strategic analysis and suggestions of sister Amal Saad Ghorayeb, who calls for a new pro-Resistance contract:
“… Just as Maliki squandered away Sunni tribal [Sahwa] support with his sectarian discourse and negligence, he has succeeded in alienating Sunni officers in the US-funded and trained army, and antagonized mainstream Sunnis with his oppressive rule and aggrandizement of power.
“At the end of the day, we in the Resistance Axis are strategically aligned with a regime born of the very same invasion and occupation we are attempting to thwart in Syria. While we can rationalize this alliance on strategic and pragmatic grounds, we need to call for its drastic reform, beginning with a new social contract between Sunnis and Shia, as Nasrallah proposed in the midst of the US invasion of Iraq. In the absence of such a contract, any military offensive risks degenerating into a full-scale civil war which will drag our region even further into the sectarian morass so desired by the US-Israel-Arab Gulf.” (source: http://tinyurl.com/ouhht3q )
Yes, I positively see the priority of defeating Isis forces which only exist to soften up our lands for the benefit of nato, and hence the primary contradiction to focus on and make our political position clear is in relation to the Syrian arena. However, there are intense and violent contradictions at play here engineered by the west and internalised to some extent in Iraq. Is another better ‘Muslim world’ possible than the mess we have? Of course it is. But that requires us to step back, not to step back from militant anti-imperialism, but to really work out if we are interested more in the common liberation of ALL our peoples in the region, or are we going to remain loyal to one section at the expense of another all of which will only benefit our common enemy.

THE ‘WEST’ IS STILL ON A WAR PATH ON IRAN

Superficially on the surface it looks as if the yanks and brits are working together with the Iranian government in light of recent events in Iraq, however, what may seem to be the case is not. The ‘west’ is still on a path of war against Iran (as they are against the entire Global South), and it is only because of the following that they are extending their devilish hands to the Iranians:
1, The west’s plan for Syria in using their proxy death squads is failing,
2, Iranians are still pursuing their right to peaceful nuclear use, which will smash the zionist monopolisation of nukes in the region, which means an end to a major zionist-gulf domination of the region for the west
On the issue of Iraq, the Iranians know very well that the Isis death squads in Iraq are western death squads by proxy through the Gulf.
Not all the Sunni people of Anbar etc in Iraq are with the death squads, they are many who are with the Baath (JTRN), but they too are violently hostile to Iran. While ideally it would be great if the Iraqi Baath and the Iranians would find common ground (they BOTH support the Syrian Baath-led Resistance to the western proxy death squads), right now on in the foreseeable future, this is not likely. I have laid out my analysis and basis for viable concrete strategic unity in my article written yesterday; “Is Another ‘Muslim world’ Possible?“.
The western position on Iraq and in relation to Iran stays constant in their war on terror strategies, its a mafia style protection racket which puts us into violence and then they come and demand protection money while threatening and directing more violence our way.
The western media is playing up the current brit/yank-Iranian talks as some kind of strategic unity. Its not. But presenting it as such is doing a service to the death squads who are making out that the ‘Safavid Persians are in bed with the west’. What nonsense. However, for us to minimise the sectarian fall out from Iraq (I made clear some of the massive differences between Iraq and Syria, whereby Syria is much less of a sectarian conflict than is Iraq), Iran needs to develop strategic unity with non pro-Iranian / ‘Sunni’ forces in Iraq. Without such a development, Iraq’s people will not be able to hold together as Iraqi PM Maliki’s govt is contributing to sectarianism by massacring and torturing hundreds of protesters this year. Maliki is no Assad, let alone Gadafi or Nasrallah.
I know none of my pro-Iranian or pro-Iraqi Baath friends are gonna be wholly happy with this analysis, but while I am loyal to IR Iran, Syria, Hizbullah; Iraq is way too much of a hyper bloody freak product of internalised imperialist wars and direct imperialist wars to be given much respect. Maybe I am wrong, and I remain open minded.
Back to the western strategy in Iraq right now. Make no mistake, the west will be seeking to draw the Iranians into a quagmire in Iraq while military intel gathering on the Iranians, and will be seeking to facilitate Isis capacity to fight on in Syria. At the same time, Iran will be using the situation in relation to the west to be pushing its positions.
God bless Iraq. Our peoples who have suffered too long. May God bring you unity and more unity.
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Thursday, June 19, 2014

THE IRAQI MESS IS OBAMAS WATERLOO; IRANS YARMOUK

Syrian Perspective humbly points out that we were the first to reveal the role of ‘Izzaat Ibraaheem Al-Doori in the unfolding disaster in Iraq.  We have been following Al-Doori for years after he escaped the kangaroo courts set up for him by the American High Commissioner, L. Paul Bremer, arguably one of the world’s most accomplished imbeciles, and went into hiding north of his home town of Mosul where he bobbed up and down along the fault lines between Arabs, Kurds and Turks.  He eventually wound up in Turkey where he was adopted by a team of American and British spooks who were introduced to him by Erdoghan’s goons in the MIT.  Since that time, they have been grooming him for the role he is playing now.
CAUTION:  DO NOT BELIEVE ISIS IS WHAT IT APPEARS TO BE.  IT IS NOT A SALAFIST ORGANIZATION.  SALAFIST ORGANIZATIONS DO NOT – I REPEAT, DO NOT – TAKE ON FORMER BA’ATHISTS LIKE AL-DOORI AS LEADERS.
Some of you may have heard a recent declaration emanating from Mosul that ISIS now has a unified command with Al-Doori at the helm.  This is true.  Al-Doori was a former military man in Iraq who rose to prominence under Saddam and became the only man capable of spitting in the fearsome leaders face without so much as a raised eyebrow.  However, Al-Doori has no substantial military experience as a field commander and can be expected to flop fairly soon.  He is furthermore riddled with poor health, suffering from a spectrum of respiratory and nephrogenous conditions which will take his life soon.
That a Nakhshabandi/Ba’athist (read: Sufist) like Al-Doori could ally with Abu Bakr Al-Baghdaadi is proof positive that the whole ISIS movement is an American proxy fattened up with Saudi lucre and tarted up with Jihadist terrorist platitudes.  The pretense by Obama that he is willing to send in air power to Iraq to help Al-Maliki is a mere Trojan Horse or Jaleela’s Dowry, a method to dislodge Prime Minister Al-Maliki after it became clear the disgraced American president couldn’t oust our Dr. Bashar Al-Assad.  The Zionist plan, concocted and promoted by the Neo-Con traitors, is that the Fatimid Crescent is more like a necklace with beads than a true crescent.  If you can’t rid yourself of the Syrian bead, go after the Iraqi one.  That this is a Zionist plan is evident from the fact that only they would proffer such a sociopathic vision that would entail the extermination of the indigenous Christians of Iraq and Syria.
The Neo-Con traitors’ scheme is like this:  In order to smother Hizbollah, you must bisect its lifeline to Iran.  That means destroy Syria or Iraq.  They targeted Syria first since it seemed to be the weakest of the 2 links.  But, Syria was not the weakest given the immense support it received from both the Russian Federation and Iran.  This left Iraq as a target in order to push back Iranian regional machinations and isolate Hizbollah.  If Iraq could be put back into the hands of the Saddamists, like Al-Doori, Iraq would once again become a buffer against Iran and a black hole for Hizbollah.  I want to mention here, also, that Saudi Arabia’s recent admonition that foreign forces should stay out of the Iraqi conflict is only meant to deflect accusations of its own incontrovertible involvement in financing this ISIS monster in both Syria and Iraq.
Three realities have now emerged from all this for the Zionist leeches:  1.  The Bush campaign against Saddam was a disaster of historic proportions which must be corrected;  2.  Hizbollah is one of the most menacing forces that the Zionist Settler State must face in any future conflict; 3. The same disastrous plan used against Syria could still work in Iraq with proper planning.
Note General Qaassem ‘Ata’s statements to the press yesterday in Baghdad. He warned citizens and the public at large to beware of the “biased” reporting in those media sources who have started to spew out lies and propaganda.  It is the same situation as that in Syria with the one proviso that the Iraqis are fully aware of the media campaign in Syria and are prepared to counteract it.

General Qaassem ‘Ataa, the Iraqi Army spokesman, youngish-looking to be sure, warned citizens about Al-‘Arabiyya, Al-Jazeera and the rest of the well-known lie-machines used earlier against Syria.

And even more interesting, note how ISIS and its Iraqi Ba’ath allies are making sophisticated use of the Internet in order to manipulate popular opinion.  The way these savages are using the Internet points clearly to tutelage from the U.S. and its British allies in Turkey and elsewhere.  HINT:  Watch carefully how the BBC covers the events in Iraq and you will know who is behind this entire mess.
With ISIS claiming to be in control of Iraq’s northern Arab provinces contiguous to Turkey’s borders, they have secured areas containing major oil facilities and military bases.  Yesterday, they falsely claimed to have overrun the oil refinery at Bayji, Iraq’s largest.  With such a project in the making, the U.S. will probably continue its logistical support for ISIS until Al-Maliki does what President Assad was supposed to do: RESIGN.  But now, the ball is in Teheran’s hands.  Will they stand with Al-Maliki the way they stood with Assad?  And (and this is a BIG AND) will Moscow intervene here also.
Iran has a deep historic relationship to Mesopotamia/Iraq.  The examples of interaction between the 2 peoples are legion.  We hardly need to go back to Artaxerxes or the Barmecides to explain any of this.  But, today, in theocratic Iran, the holy places of Najaf and Karbalaa` will dominate geo-political thinking.  Iran will go to war to protect the Shi’i shrines and this means hundreds of thousands of Basij warriors ready to cross the Iraqi border in order to eradicate the American-supported grubs who claim to operate under the banner of this Saudi-funded gang of cannibals.  That ISIS has already made clear its intention to kill the “apostates” and destroy their shrines has galvanized Iraqi volunteers protecting the Sayyida Zaynab and Sukayna shrines in Damascus and has impelled them to leave in order to continue the fight in Iraq.
We are warning American politicians not to allow American foreign policy to be directed by the Neo-Con Zionist traitors in Washington D.C.  Their movement must be stanched and their ranks subject to trials for high treason. 
Russia is watching these events very carefully.  Iraq is a gold mine for Russian weapons manufacturers and Moscow will not be lame in its approach.  However, Mr. Putin has much on his plate today.  The creation of the Ukrainian crisis by NATO, but mostly by Obama, might be a gambit designed to distract the Russians while the U.S. tries to resurrect a Zionist-inspired, but failed, plan to dislodge leaders of legitimate governments in order to supplant them with corrupt, Zionist-friendly sycophants whose lives will be as lengthy as those of mayflies.
Already, the western media is starting up on Mr. Al-Maliki, accusing him of sectarianism and brutality in conducting the affairs of his country.  Do not be surprised if you hear about atrocities committed by “pro-Maliki loyalists”.  Already, the stories are being disseminated about Sunni prisoners in Mosul being executed by Shi’i guards as ISIS attempted to liberate them.  The sickening stories, trumped up lies and propaganda, can be expected to nauseate even more readers than anything that occurred in Syria.  They are not giving up.  The Zionists are not going away.  Unless the American, French, English and Australian peoples rise up and take back their foreign policy, this parasitic, vampiric relationship will continue to their detriment.
Mr. Al-Maliki must do what Dr. Assad did in Syria.  He must gird his loins and prepare for a long bout with the American Obama Chimera.  And this is not one from the imagination.  The Zionist establishment is obsessed with Iran and will drag America down into the noisome abyss of Hell in order to prolong the existence of their counterfeit Ghetto State.  Mr. Al-Maliki must extend his hand, as he is doing today, to all Sunnis in order to join forces to block this assault on Iraq’s Arabic Muslim/Christian and Semitic-language culture by European and Khazar Jewish settlers who have brought nothing but plague and misery to our beloved Near East.  He must also continue his alliance with Dr. Assad and use the experience of the Syrian Army in battling Obama’s and Zionism’s hordes of barbarians.
More than anything else, Prime Minister Al-Maliki must have what Dr. George Habash used to call “the clear vision”.  الرؤيا الواضحة He must not allow the plethora of concocted folderol and disinformation to blind him to pure objectivity in assessing the world around him.  This is what kept Dr. Assad sane – his scientific training.  Or as G.W.F. Hegel would suggest in the exposition of his Die Verkehrte Welt (The Inverted World), that Mr. Al-Maliki place himself in the position of his enemies and see the stage from their vantage point, thus, exposing their plans as though they were created in his own mind.  ZAF

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Sheikh Qassem: U.S-Israeli-Takfiri Project Will Be Defeated


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Lebanon: Deputy Secretary General of Hezbollah Sheikh Naim Qassem Deputy Secretary General of Hezbollah Sheikh Naim Qassem said on Thursday that the US, Israeli and Takfiri projects are the same one, although they are represented sometimes in the Occupied Palestine, in Syria, in Iraq, in terrorist attacks inside Lebanon and in multiple places in the Muslim world.

In a speech during a ceremony held by Imam Mahdi Scout Association in Beirut, Sheikh Qassem said the Takfiri project has its different forms and tools which aim at eliminating the dignity and pride of our nation.
His eminence said that this project will undoubtedly fall, as it fell in Lebanon when the Resistance confronted the Israeli project and defeated it in 2000 and 2006.

Sheikh Qassem indicated that the Takfiri project tools have also fallen before the steadfastness of the Palestinian people in Gaza and before the steadfastness of Syria.

The Deputy Secretary General of Hezbollah stressed that this project will certainly fall in its extensions in Iraq, underlying the need for appropriate action to deal with it.

"Everyone should know that the resistance will not rest and will remain present in the field, and will be always ready to face challenges," his eminence said.

Source: Al-Manar Website
19-06-2014 - 17:38 Last updated 19-06-2014 - 17:38

خدعة ذكية لحزب الله في القلمون توقع مسلحي النصرة تحت رحمته!

بدأ الجيش السوري مدعوماً بحزب الله عملية واسعة في جرود وسفوح السلسلة الشرقية لجبال لبنان من منطقة سرغايا وصولاً إلى جرود الطفيل إمتدداً نحو الشمال إلى جرود عرسال تهدف لانهاء الوجود التكفيري المسلح.

الجيش والحزب باشرا هذه العملية بعد تقاطع معلومات ميدانية – إستخباراتية عمّا يُخطط ويُحضر في هذه المنطقة من قبل المجاميع المُسلحة التي باتت تتخذها ركيزة أساسية لوجودها بعد سقوط كامل المناطق الحدودية مع لبنان، وبعد ان تحولت هذه المنطقة للخزّان الاساسي للمسلحين الذين فروا وتجمعوا حتى وصل عددهم إلى ما يقارب الـ 5000 مقاتل ينتمون بمعظمهم إلى جماعات تكفيرية تدور في فلك القاعدة.

المعلومات المتقاطعة هذه أكدت بما لا لبس فيه تحضير هؤلاء لانفُسهِم عسكرياً، مزوّدين ببنك اهداف وخُطط تهدف لاستهداف الجيش السوري وشنّ هجمات عليه في القلمون، لكن أخطر ما فيها هو محاولة تثبيت هؤلاء لوجودهم في السلسلة الشرقية والانطلاق منها لاستهداف معاقل المقاومة داخل الاراضي اللبنانية، خصوصاً في البقاع الشرقي بعد إعتبارها قاعدة هجوم بدلية لهم، لذلك وجب إنهاء وجودهم هنا.

تكشف مصادر “الحدث نيوز” ان الجيش السوري وحزب الله إتبعا اسلوباً تكتيكياً لجذب المسلحين نحو ميدان المعركة التي يريدها الحزب بهدوء، وإخراجهم من أوكارهم ومن الثغور، وكشفهم أمام النيران وأمام إستهدافات الوحدات المقاتلة المتمركزة في مواقع نوعية برياً، والطائرات التي تحلق في السماء لرصد اي حركة جواً، وهذه ما حصل فعلاً حيث نجح الحزب برمي مصيدة وقع فيها المسلحين دون ان يُدركوا ذلك.

المصيدة هذه كانت عبارة عن تعويم معلومات عن نية المقاومة والجيش السوري البدء في معركة شاملة وكبيرة في منطقة الحدود اللبنانية السورية وُضع لها سقفاً زمنياً يصل ليومين للشروع بها، توازياً مع ذلك، نشط سلاح المدفعية في الجيش كما سلاح الطائرات بتنفيذ عملية تمهيد ناري وقصف مُحدد، حتى أدرك المسلحون بعد وقت قصير حقيقة ما يصبوا إليه الحزب والجيش، فإختار الكثير من هؤلاء الخروج من الثغور والمخابيء والتلال والمناطق والاحتشاد والانطلاق نحو معركة ظنوّا انها عكسية نحو مناطق داخل القلمون في هجوم إستباقي.

تشير معلومات “الحدث نيوز” إلى انّ فرق رصد وإستطلاع حزب الله التي تراقب المعابر الحدودية كما الجرود المتاخمة للحدود اللبنانية رصدت هذه التحركات، ومررت الاحداثيات للجهات المعنية التي تركت المسلحين يتجمعون في نقاط مُحدّدة. تشير المعلومات انّ جرود “الطفيل” كانت إحدى نقاط التجمع الاساسية، وعبرها إنطلق الهجوم إلى داخل مناطق القلمون الذي تمّ تحت أعين الحزب الذي “يكمُش” جميع نواح المنطقة. وكعمل إستباقي، حضّر الحزب والجيش كمائن ومجموعات إنقضاض، كما فعّل سلاح الطيران الذي بدأ العمل فور وصول هؤلاء المسلحين إلى النقاط، فيما تكفلت المجموعات الاخرى بتنفيذ الكمائن والتصدي للمسلحين والبحث عن الرؤوس والعقول المدبرة والقيادات فيهم بهدف إعتقالهم لمعرفة خططهم المستقبلية، وهكذا كان حيث نجح حزب الله بنقل المسلحين إلى ملعبه والتصرف معهم.

مصدر يكشف للـ “الحدث نيوز” ان الهجوم الذي حصل على مزارع “رنكوس” كانت قيادة المقاومة والجيش السوري الميدانية في القلمون على علم به (إنطلاقاً مما ذكر انافاً) وهم تركوا المسلحين يتقدمون للايقاع بهم وتصفيتهم جماعياً وإعتقال العقول، وإن ما روج عن عمليات سيطرة او هجوم مباغت، هي معلومات صحافية لا قيمة لها ولا تمت للواقع بشيء، فالحزب والجيش السوري اللذان يتابعان كل شاردة وواردة من جهة المعابر والحدود، لن يفوتهم هكذا إختراق بهكذا احجام مجاميع مسلحة أبداً.

تفيد معلومات موقعنا ايضاً، انّ جزءاً من المسلحين الذين خرجوا للمشاركة في هذا الهجوم وتجمعوا في نقاط ولم ينطلقوا فيه، عادوا للتمترس في مناطق جرود “الطفيل” التي حصل منها التجمع والانطلاق نحو “مزارع رنكوس”، فيما قسم آخر إختار العبور نحو “جرود عرسال” حيث تبعته إستهدافات الجيش السوري التي لا توال تنشط لغاية اللحظة.

بات المسلحون تحت مرمى نيران حزب الله والجيش السوري بعد ان باتوا خارج الحصون…
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Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Foiled terrorist attack on hospitals in Dahiyeh

Members of the Internal Security Forces stop a car passing through Beirut's southern suburbs. (Photo: Marwan Tahtah)
Published Wednesday, June 18, 2014
The Resistance and the security forces on Monday foiled a terrorist attack targeting hospitals in Dahiyeh, Beirut's southern suburbs. The operation prevented the aftershocks of the Iraqi crisis from reaching Lebanon. However, the threat does not stop at the expected tragic effects of such an act, but involved the political masterminding that took such a decision.
The strict security measures imposed by the army, security forces and Hezbollah on Dahiyeh two nights ago [Monday] are still evident, especially around the area's hospitals. Putting aside the media and internet frenzy concerning the events in the past three days, the hospitals of Dahiyeh seem to have been under serious threat, putting official security forces and Hezbollah in a state of maximum alert.



Last March, security measures at the checkpoints around Dahiyeh started to relax. This came after the fall of Yabrud – the last urban stronghold of the armed Syrian opposition – in al-Qalamoun on the Lebanese-Syrian borders, at the hands of the Syrian army and Hezbollah.
The liberation of Qalamoun went hand in hand with the strict monitoring of the illegal crossings between Syria and Lebanon's eastern regions. The logistical and human resources of the terrorist structure, responsible for the recent bombings in Dahiyeh, were uncovered for the most part. The residents of the area believed the threat of terrorism was starting to decrease following the developments on the ground in Syria.
However, observers of the remnants of groups linked to ISIS, al-Nusra Front, and Abdullah Azzam Brigades in Lebanon were keeping busy. According to a security source who spoke to Al-Akhbar, "the turnaround in the battle in Syria and the setback to the project of an Islamic state [stretching] from Qalamoun, to the outskirts of Hermel, to Tripoli, put the sleeper cells on hold in fear of being discovered, awaiting a regional opportunity to be reactivated."
Regarding the incidents of Monday night, "a terrorist operation was being prepared in the past few days," according to the security sources. "It aimed to create a big shock in Lebanon, by simultaneously bombing three hospitals" in Dahiyeh. Although the sources are reluctant to reveal the nature of the attacks and how they were uncovered, other concerned sources maintained "they were backed by Abdullah Azzam Brigades."
Lebanese security sources, on the other hand, indicated that "intersecting information between Lebanese army intelligence and Hezbollah led to uncover the plot against al-Rasoul al-Azam Hospital very early."
"The Information Branch [of the Internal Security Forces] identified a silver colored BMW X5 and two motorcycles scouting the region around al-Rasoul al-Azam Hospital," other security sources explained. "Surveillance cameras showed an unusual movement of vehicles and four people were arrested." By Tuesday evening, it was rumored that seven people had been detained, including Lebanese, Palestinians and Syrians.



"The thwarted terrorist operation [is linked] with the coup being led by Turkey, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia in Iraq," contended sources close to Hezbollah. "The operation was expected to cause a security shock inside Lebanon, as an extension of the Iraqi situation, and lead to more sectarian and confessional tensions, especially among Resistance supporters."
On another note, the sources pointed to the rumors linking the situation in Dahiyeh with Burj al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp, claiming its residents are responsible for the security breakdown.
Sources close to both Hezbollah and Palestinian sides responsible for the security of the camps said that "foreign intelligence elements recently drew up a plan to trigger the situation in the Palestinian camps, after failing to cause sectarian tensions in the Lebanese regions."
"This will not be the last terrorist operation. The states supporting those terrorists are still insisting on the same methods. But the eyes of the Resistance will always be open," the sources said.
This article is an edited translation from the Arabic Edition.
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