ISIS Islamists release corporate-style annual report

Warlords from extremist group ISIS have released a “Terror ­Incorporated” annual report, which details the horrifying extent of their reign over huge swathes of the Middle East.

The chilling document, called al-Naba, or “the news”, reads like a company report for investors, but instead of sales figures and projections, it boasts of bloody murder and terrorism.

It shows how in just two years al-Qaeda offshoot ISIS – Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – has captured large parts of Iraq and Syria and “taxed” local communities millions of pounds to fund its murderous trade.

The report emerged as the militants celebrated another victory when they smashed into Iraq’s largest oil refinery at Baiji, north of Baghdad. It could make the terror network more millions.

A senior security source said last night: “This group is growing by the day and the document is truly astonishing in that it shows a level of organisation previously unseen.

“This is the most ruthless, mobile, powerful and well-funded terrorist organisation the world has ever seen.

“The implications of this group holding ground and earning so much money is terrifying.

“Even the intelligence community is wondering what will emerge from Isis – they keep surprising the world with their achievements and thus far have not received any major blows.

“Forget al-Qaeda. Isis is now the biggest and fastest-growing terror network and leaves bin Laden’s ­organisation in its wake.”

Last month we exposed how ISIS had been selling stolen oil to Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime in Syria.

via ISIS Islamists release corporate-style annual report into their reign of terror in Middle East – Mirror Online.

Why Muslims are still mad at America

English: Osama bin Laden Compound

On the ten-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, many Americans are wondering whether the risk of a terrorist attack against America has been reduced. The picture is mixed. With the death of Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda is weaker. With revolutions in several Arab countries, frustrations with unpopular autocratic governments — a recruiting theme for terrorist groups – have been mitigated. But one important contributing factor has not improved – widespread anger at America in the Muslim world. While views have improved in Indonesia, throughout the Middle East and South Asia, hostility toward the United States persists unabated.

This does not mean that most Muslims support terrorist attacks on America. On the contrary, overwhelming majorities reject terrorism, including the 9/11 attacks, as morally wrong. Al Qaeda is quite unpopular.

However, anger at America does contribute to an environment in which it is easier for anti-American terrorist groups to recruit jihadists, to generate funding and to generally operate with little government interference – witness how bin Laden operated in Pakistan and the widespread anger there when the Pakistani military failed to prevent the United States from taking him out.

Trying to understand Muslims’ feelings toward America has been the focus of a five-year study I recently completed that included conducting focus groups and surveys throughout the Muslim world. I sat for many hours trying to understand as Muslims explained to me why they are so mad at America.

Muslims have much they do not like about how America treats them. But there is one thing that is the most fundamental: their perception that America seeks to undermine Islam – a perception held by overwhelming majorities.

The fact that many Americans blithely brush off this accusation without really understanding it is one reason this anger persists. To understand it one must go deeper into the Muslim worldview.

via Why Muslims are still mad at America – World Public Opinion.

The United States is a Leading Terrorist State

English: Former President of Iraq, Saddam Huss...

…the U.S. has supported oppressive, authoritarian, harsh regimes, and blocked democratic initiatives. For example, the one I mentioned in Algeria. Or in Turkey. Or throughout the Arabian Peninsula. Many of the harsh, brutal, oppressive regimes are backed by the U.S. That was true of Saddam Hussein, right through the period of his worst atrocities, including the gassing of the Kurds. U.S. and British support for the monster continued. He was treated as a friend and ally, and people there know it. When bin Laden makes that charge, as he did again in an interview rebroadcast by the BBC, people know what he is talking about.

via The United States is a Leading Terrorist State: An Interview with Noam Chomsky by David Barsamian :: Monthly Review.

Terrorism in Syria

English: Barack Obama delivers a speech at the...

Barack Obama, America’s Conjurer-in-Chief, is trying to entertain the world with a new smoke-and-mirrors trick, with the announcement that his government is recognizing the Syrian National Coalition as “the sole representative of the Syrian people”.

The chemical weapons trick seems to have fizzled like a damp squib. So, now it’s time for another illusion – the “worthy Syrian opposition”.

This motley crew of treasonous exiles – who mysteriously somehow have bags of money to trot all over the globe from Doha to Cairo, Tokyo to Marrakech – are all of sudden anointed by the American President as the next government of Syria.

Anyone who has read the Doha Protocol that the SNC willingly signed up to while seduced in a luxury hotel last month by their Qatari sponsors should be under no misapprehension. This group of self-serving opportunists has been cobbled together with the sole purpose of selling Syria’s sovereignty to the highest, or even lowest, bidder. The people of Syria have been spared no treachery low enough in the imperialists’ manifesto of regime change, including surrender of wealth, natural resources and all of Syria’s independent foreign policy principles.

Under the regime of the SNC, if it ever gets into power, Syria will become a shell of a once-proud nation, in hock to Western and Persian Gulf investors and schemers, betraying its people and its regional neighbours.

via Western Smoke-and-Mirrors Terrorism | Dissident Voice.

Treat Palestinians as Israelis

David Ben-Gurion (First Prime Minister of Isra...

“But the stranger that lives with you [the Israelis] shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God” (The TorahLeviticus 19:34).

Even if the Israelis regard the Palestinians as strangers, their holy writings the Torah commands them to treat them as themselves and to love them as equals. So where does Israel get the idea that they may treat the Palestinians so badly?

The same Torah that Netanyahu quotes as giving to David and his descendants the land of Israel, is the Torah that requires Israel to treat foreigners as equals.

There is nothing more to this issue – it is a simple as that. Accepting the Palestinians as equals in Israel is as real as the land being given to David’s descendants.

Israelis can possess and live in the land, but they are not the only ones permitted to be there. The LORD commands the Israelis to treat the Palestinians as equals in Israel.

This must therefore now be carried out forthwith. No more delays, no more wars, missiles, attacks, camps, Israeli only areas/roads, etc. The Palestinians must be free to move and live throughout Israel and be given full Israeli citizenship.

This is the only solution to the present problems in Israel. The Palestinians are not going away. They cannot be kept in hovels like rats forever. Free them to be equal Israelis and thus strengthen the Kingdom of Israel with God‘s blessings.

God wants Jews and Palestinians to live together as equals, loving each other and caring for each other and the new generation of citizens (the children) who will inhabit the land hereafter.

Humility and respect in talks with Iran

Greater Middle East

Israel is too cowardly to fight a battle with Iran – it wants USA to do it, and the lackey fools will do it – to show who’s boss.

The USA is too proud and arrogant for required humility and mutual respect in negotiations/talks with Iran, for example. It’s TIME they changed their tune!

Isn’t there someone with the correct disposition who can broker some decent arrangements in the Middle East?

Muslim Victims of 9/11 Attack

I am a Muslim not a Commodity

Indeed, among the many victims of 9/11 were several dozen innocent Muslims, ranging in age from their late 60s to a couple’s unborn child. Six of these victims were Muslim women, including one who was 7 months pregnant. Many were stockbrokers or restaurant workers, earning a living to care for their families. There were converts and immigrants, hailing from over a dozen different countries and the U.S. There were heroes: a NYPD cadet and a Marriott hotel worker, who sacrificed their lives attempting to rescue others. The Muslim victims were parents to over 30 children, who were left orphaned without one or both of their parents.

http://islam.about.com/od/terrorism/a/Muslim-Victims-Of-9-11-Attack.htm

Would Osama bin Laden kill his own people?

USA fights Israel’s wars

Barack Obama

 

“Their campaign faltering, GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney and running mate Paul Ryan are stepping up attacks on President Barack Obama’s foreign policy record, amid continued turmoil in the Muslim world and differences with Israel over the proper response to Iran’s nuclear program.”

 

from http://lukebrinker.wordpress.com/2012/09/25/mitt-romney-the-middle-east-and-the-illusion-of-american-omnipotence/

 

Israel likes to get America to fight its wars. What kind of ruthless cowards are the Israeli’s?

 

How Many Jews Died at 911?

World Trade Center

By
Robert E. Reis

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/31/national/portraits/31PORT.html?ex=1220587200&en=7be19a8449177745&ei=5070

“Through today’s issue, The Times has published more than 1,800 sketches. The official count of those dead and missing in the trade center attacks stands at 2,937. Reporters have contacted, or tried to contact, relatives or friends of nearly every victim the paper was able to locate. Some have declined to give interviews; others said they were not ready to talk. (As more names become known and more families agree to interviews, the editors intend to publish additional profile pages from time to time.)”

The New York Times did not continue to add additional profiles to this series.

The New York Times series is searchable.

In order to determine how many Jewish victims appeared on the list of 1,800, I used the following search terms: Jew, Jewish, Temple, Synagogue, Israel and Mitzvah.

I then examined the resulting list of names and removed individuals who had been identified as Jewish in error.

I then search the list for the following terms: Catholic, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu and Muslim.

250 named victims resulted from using my search terms, i.e. 250 victims out of 1800 can be identified by religious affiliation.

18% of the named victims were Jewish.

82% of the named victims were not Jewish.

If we multiply 1800 by .18, we find that 324 of the listed in the New York Times were probably Jewish.

This partially confirms the information provided by the United States Department of State.

“A total of 2,071 occupants of the World Trade Center died on September 11, among the 2,749 victims of the WTC attacks. According to an article in the October 11, 2001, Wall Street Journal, roughly 1,700 people had listed the religion of a person missing in the WTC attacks; approximately 10% were Jewish. A later article, in the September 5, 2002, Jewish Week, states, “based on the list of names, biographical information compiled by The New York Times, and information from records at the Medical Examiner’s Office, there were at least 400 victims either confirmed or strongly believed to be Jewish.” This would be approximately 15% of the total victims of the WTC attacks. A partial list of 390 Cantor Fitzgerald employees who died (out of 658 in the company) lists 49 Jewish memorial services, which is between 12% and 13%.”

http://usinfo.state.gov/media/Archive/2005/Jan/14-260933.html

My research indicates that it is unlikely that American Jews in general were warned beforehand.

9/11 Conspiracies

Conspiracy Theory Overlap Diagram

9/11 conspiracy theories are conspiracy theories that disagree with the widely accepted account that the September 11 attacks were perpetrated solely by al-Qaeda,[1] without any detailed advanced knowledge on the part of any government agency.[2] Proponents of these conspiracy theories claim there are inconsistencies in the official conclusions, or evidence which was overlooked.[3] In a 2008 global poll of 16,063 people in 17 countries, majorities in only nine countries believe al Qaeda was behind the attacks. 46% of those surveyed believed al-Qaeda was responsible for the attacks, 15% believed the U.S. government was responsible, 7% believed Israel was and another 7% believed some other perpetrator, other than al Qaeda, was responsible. The poll found that respondents in the Middle East were especially likely to name a perpetrator other than al-Qaeda.[4]

The most prominent conspiracy theory is that the collapse of the Twin Towers and 7 World Trade Center were the result of a controlled demolition rather than structural failure due to fire.[5][6] Another prominent belief is that the Pentagon was hit by a missile launched by elements from inside the U.S. government[7][8] or that a commercial airliner was allowed to do so via an effective standdown of the American military.[9][10] Possible motives claimed by conspiracy theorists for such actions include justifying the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq as well as geostrategic interests in the Mideast, such as pipeline plans launched in the early 1990s by Unocal and other oil companies.[11] Other conspiracy theories revolve around authorities having advance knowledge of the attacks and deliberately ignoring or helping to assist the attackers.[3][12][13]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and media outlets such as Popular Mechanics have investigated and rejected the claims made by 9/11 conspiracy theories.[14][15] The civil engineering community accepts that the impacts of jet aircraft at high speeds in combination with subsequent fires, not controlled demolition, led to the collapse of the Twin Towers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_conspiracy_theories