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US BOMBING OF SYRIA: Iran the Bully Or the Scapegoat? ROGUE BIDEN MILITARY

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While reports have surfaced of John Kerry’s meetings with Iran officials, and Biden wanting diplomatic relations to be restructured, the US attack on Syria comes with some very questionable facts:

  1. Despite Trump’s withdrawal of troops in Iraq, NATO forces state that they will increase their presence from 500 personnel to 4000.
  2. A dozen rockets hit coalition forces outside of Kurdish controlled Erbil International Airport.   A contractor was killed and nine others were wounded (although the original report claimed 5 and no names have been released). It is speculated the contractor killed was from South Africa.
  3. The US defense company, Sallyport, has its headquarters within the airbase providing services to Iraq’s f-16 program.
  4. Four rockets struck an airbase outside of Balad, north of Baghdad.
  5. The attack in Iraq occurred on February 20th by a Shia militant group called, Saraya Awliya al-Dam.   In response, US military forces conducted airstrikes against infrastructure utilized by Iranian-backed militant groups in eastern Syria.
  • The strikes destroyed multiple facilities located at a border control point used by a number of Iranian-backed militant groups, including Kait’ib Hezbollah (KH) and Kait’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada (KSS).
  • Seventeen people were killed, according to the Soros organization, Human Rights Watch. The attack was not approved by Congress – instead it was initiated via another Biden EO.   Congress has stated that Biden’s EO authorizing the strikes was “unconstitutional’.
  • And despite the newly appointed Secretary of Defense, Austin’s comments, the Iraqi Ministry denies that they exchanged intelligence before the US bombings in Syria.    General Austin’s resume , despite his rank, is relatively absent of typical military commands.
  1. Kait’ib Hezbollah has claimed the attacks violate International Law and the sovereignty of Iraq.
  2. Regional experts claim Saraya Awliya al-Dam was NOT working with Hezbollah or any other pro-Iranian militia. And there is no evidence that they did other than a statement from US officials.
  3. Syria claims the US attacks came as Syria and Iraqi militia groups were engaged in anti-Isis operations.

NATO has released no statement regarding the attacks other than the reaffirmation of an increased presence in Iraq for the 4,000 troops and the assertion that NATO will do nothing without the approval of the Iraqi government.

AND AS USUAL – SOMETHING SEEMS AMISS:

On February 17th, Iranian President Rouhanni announced that Iran was ready to hold talks with the UN chief claiming they had no intention of stopping their collaborative work with the IAEA and inspections.

The contractor hired to maintain security for the Iraqi F-16’s is Sallyport.   KS International, LLC states that Sallyport operates as a subsidiary under their umbrella.   And Michael Baker International LLC, located in Lakewood, Colorado, claims KS International, Kaseman, Michael Baker Corporation and Sallyport are subsidiaries under their umbrella.   KS Website no longer exists, and Sallypoint never had a website.

Their LinkedIn profile claims their clients include: DoD, Department of State, USAID, UN, World Bank and ‘others’.   KS International LinkedIn of ‘people’ indicates special ops mercenaries.

Michael Baker International LLC claims ‘more than’ $1.3 billion in annual revenue.

In 2017 Sallyport came under scrutiny when internal investigators and staff revealed that while in Iraq securing the F-16’s, the company was a) involved in human trafficking for prostitution, b)   smuggling high volumes of alcohol onto base with planes weighted so heavily one seesawed on the tarmac when landing   c) security officials ‘allowed’ militia to steal generators on a flatbed truck, d) theft of an armoured SUV and a 60’ crane, and e)   maintaining two separate set of books.    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sallyport-global-contractor-alcohol-theft-sex-trafficking=iraq=balad=ap/

The investigators and whistleblowers were immediately fired.

The investigations were all shutdown and Sallyport apparently continued its lucrative contract with the DoD. 

So why would the DoD hire an unknown dirty contractor with no website or apparent history to ‘guard’ a couple F-16’s owned by Iraq that cost $30 million new  and pay them $1.4 billion over the course of six years in an open contract knowing they are selling off US military equipment to local militias for profit?     Call me crazy but that seems a bit odd.

What is the DoD really paying them to do?   Because from what I know hiring mercenaries is a common DoD tactic – albeit payment is typically made in cash, and the contract is not written in ink.

Who really bombed the facility, because blaming some obscure newly formed tiny militia that has no ties to Iran but somehow acquired a whole bunch of rockets, seems a bit contrived.

And who really ordered the strike, because we all know Biden’s brain cells are shy of an amoeba?   And General Lloyd Austin is not exactly the stellar military figure his rewritten bio relays.

Was the strike to cover up Sallyport’s irregularities?   And then some yahoo decided it was a good excuse to revamp and instigate a new – old war in the Middle East?   Because none of what we are being told seems to even remotely relay the truth much less skirt it.   Bumbled and inept, the corruption is obvious.

The ONLY support that substantiates the claim that Saraya Awliya al-Dam claimed responsibility for the rocket attacks – comes from US ‘officials’ unnamed. The story regarding the attack would seem to be a circular fed initially to AP and then picked up verbatim by other MSM outlets which sounds like it was written by the Pentagon.

It seems a bit odd that right as Iran is working in collaboration with the UN and IAEA, they would authorize an unknown militia group to attack Iraqi Kurds and a US facility charged with protecting Iraqi F-16s.   And given Sallyport has no viable website confirming the attack on them is not available.

In December, 2020 this report was released:

“Iraq’s F-16 fleet is no longer flying missions as part of the international coalition against the so-called Islamic State (IS) group, according to two Iraqi officials and two coalition spokespersons — a consequence of the mismanagement and alleged corruption that continues to plague the program.

Iraq Oil Report previously reported that severe problems at Balad Airbase had crippled the F-16 fleet. By quietly dropping the Iraqi F-16s from its air tasking order, the U.S.-led Global Coalition to Defeat Daesh has effectively codified its assessment that the multi-billion-dollar program is no longer fit for combat.”

Did the US destroy an already defunct and worthless airbase after spending $1.5 billion for security alone?   Did the US create a false Iran bully to justify the destruction of an airbase?   Was that airbase again mired in trafficking, prostitution and glaring sale of military property for profit? Did the preponderance of irregularities need to be quashed?

Illusions are the forte of our CIA, our FBI, our military, in conjunction with bought and paid for media to support that fakery.

What do you think?

Project Veritas and Eric Prince: A Blackwater Connection of Legal Risk Management

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Founded in 1997 by former Navy Seal, Eric Prince, Blackwater was an asset of the CIA performing services the CIA could no longer legally execute.   While Blackwater got all the attention, it was by no means alone in the “risk management” world of espionage and security.   Utilizing contract assassins was and still is big business.  Since Blackwater was sold, it has grown exponentially.

The largest risk management company in the world is the British multinational, G4S employing over 620,000 and raking in revenue of nearly $8 billion annually.   In fact, Blackwater, now called Academi, ranks 30th in the world. They do what government and military personnel cannot do, and they take the heat when something goes wrong.  But should they?

Sometimes the money is cash or gold under the table, other times it’s on the books, it depends on the operation and the need to remain seemingly clean.

Defion Internacional, based out of Peru and ranked 21st, makes no bones about what they do – Guns for Hire!  

Most of these firms utilize former special ops who are paid well to put their life on the line.   There is no pension. Everyone works as a contractor.   They get to work in all the elite places around the world; Niger, Baghdad, Kosovo, Kuwait, Bolivia, Columbia, etc…   What they are given is all the latest technology and equipment that our military is lacking.   But their biggest asset that lures the CIA as their most formidable employer is they are not bound by the same rules as our government and thus fly under the radar often.

Like many dictators across the globe, ‘they were our friend before the CIA decided they were now our enemy’, seemed to be the case with Blackwater.   In 2007 while hired by the CIA to protect a US Embassy convoy in Baghdad, the Blackwater contractors became spooked that they were being ambushed and opened fire killing 14 civilians while being pelted by Iraqi forces and Iraqi police.

According to the Blackwater guards, “a Kia sedan with a woman and her grown son in it was approaching the square from a distance, driving slowly on the wrong side of the road, and that the driver ignored a police officer’s whistle to clear a path for the convoy. According to this account, the security team fired warning shots and then lethal fire at the Kia. They then set off stun grenades to clear the scene. Iraqi police and Army soldiers, mistaking the stun grenades for fragmentation grenades, opened fire at the Blackwater men, to which they responded.”

At the time the US was at war with Iraq.   It was a very unpopular war that was instigated with bad intel and Bush was eager to deflect his shame. The total civilian death total was estimated to be between 270,000 and 600,000.  Bush desperately needed a scapegoat and he needed to assuage the Iraqi government by offering up sacrificed men – Blackwater Guards.

December 2008, the US government charged 4 Blackwater guards with manslaughter.   In 2009 all charges were dismissed. In 2011 all charges were reinstated. Eric Prince believes that the FBI investigated with the intent on blaming Blackwater despite tremendous evidence to the contrary.   During that time frame, Mueller was Director of the FBI.

Blackwater was sued and paid fines to the US government.   And in 2010 Blackwater was sold to a group of private investors.   Of the four guards convicted, one was given life imprisonment.   No other contractors or military officials were charged during the war. The CIA was not remanded for it’s mercenary hires.   And a mass of new companies sprung up to claim the rewards of what would continue to be called ‘risk management’ – guns for hire.

Fast Forward;   According to media reports, Eric Prince trained employees how to properly conduct investigative techniques and to integrate into liberal companies for the purpose of extracting truth on behalf of Project Veritas.

Dastardly?   No.  Illegal? No.

Industrial espionage? No!

Industrial espionage would include the theft of trade secrets for commercial sale, bribery, or blackmail.   By contrast, Competitive Intelligence involves gathering of information for analysis and marketing.   For example, it is relatively common for political campaigns to be infiltrated by persons from the opposing party.   Protests have often been infiltrated by contractually hired and trained riot instigators whose masters advertise on Craigslist.  It is a fine line that is pervasive throughout the world!

So why would the media target Eric Prince and Project Veritas?  

Because they are conservatives who have helped uncover ugly truths.

One such video that Project Veritas obtained was within the headquarters of the American Teachers Federation filming two union leaders making statements implicating them in corruption.   ATF is suing Project Veritas claiming:   unlawfully recorded private conversations, trespass, and fraudulent and unauthorized surveillance. One of the video’s reveals the rape of a 15 year old girl and the coverup by the Union and the School.

But New Jersey surveillance laws where the investigation was filmed don’t cover private conversations – in fact camera’s are everywhere throughout the state including in stores, retailers, merchants, street corners, businesses,  etc… Recorded conversations are not illegal if one party to the conversation is aware of the recording – as per Federal Law.   And Trespass is only available if signs prohibiting trespass are posted on commercial establishments and the party was uninvited.

The Michigan complaint against Veritas is also without legal merit.   Surveillance in public work spaces is ‘specifically’ allowed and employees are simply told to be discreet or be fired. It is only in a private setting such as a restroom where the surveillance could compromise nudity that it is illegal.

Eric Prince training Veritas employees how to investigate is hardly illegal – no matter who he uses to assist in the training. Using former spies, M16, CIA, etc… is simply utilizing good expertise!  Private detectives are virtually the same, and are subject to the same laws.   Training a person in combat techniques is not illegal.   Training a person in self-defense is not illegal.   Training a person how to conduct a properly executed investigation is ‘good business practice’.

Aligning them with President Trump is the demonizing factor because in the Protocols of Liberalism – anyone remotely associated with supporting our president is worthy of jail, gulags or death.

PROTESTS and RIOTS Organized by NED and Soros Open Society as Prelude to Marxist Revolution!

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Where Are The Protests/Riots?

Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Hong Kong, France, Spain, Portugal, Indonesia, Egypt and Georgia.

While the MSM would have us believe there is absolutely no interconnection among these ‘random’ protests that initiate from some obscure rationale, the truth is they are wholly organized under one banner.

Various NGO’s integrate inside universities across the globe, conduct youth movement workshops, and train radicalism.   They promote a Socialist doctrine under the tenets of Marxism claiming that capitalism has destroyed economic equality and a ‘collective’ unity embracing communist ideals is the answer.

Once a protest has been established, they infiltrate the peaceful conduct and create chaos. In many countries the police are called to stand down. Human rights organizations condemn the use of any means to deter the violence because they are – students.

And as such, entire economies are crumpling as some governments are forced to initiate a coup against themselves in order to save their country from complete collapse. The Chilean President sacked his entire cabinet and rewrote the Constitution in order to restrain the violence.   Despite these actions, the revolutionaries continue their vent of destruction.

The bankers behind these riots?

Open Democracy, which is funded through Soros Open Society, Ford Foundation and the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and the National Endowment for Democracy.   Within these roots are a host of smaller NGO’s and media outlets; Green Bright, Project Syndicate, Al Jazeera, People and Planet, New Statesman and others.

Their slogan?   Economic Redistribution through Revolution. Their ideology? Socialist reform through Marxism.

The International Committee for the Fourth International, a world socialist organization, is advocating for their members to read and embrace Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution as a model for today. The enlightenment?   “Toward Workers Power and World Socialist Revolution”.

In Iraq, the protests began in October over low wages and unemployment and were led predominantly by young males. Since then, the protests have turned to riots, 320 people dead, over 15,000 wounded, and no end in sight as the rioters now demand a complete overthrow of the government – as in a coup. Initiated by the Sadrist Movement which is headed by Muqtada al-Sadr, the protestors have shut down roads, blocked 50% of the shipping operations, blocked oil fields, destroyed businesses, set fires, advocated looting – and the result? Over $6 billion in costs and rising. The President has agreed to fire the PM, hold new elections, and overhaul the system, in order to meet the demands of the protesters – yet they are not stopping.

Iran’s protests are largely by young males. So far 100 banks, numerous gas stations and 57 shops have been set on fire.   The driving reason? A hefty increase in gas prices. Only 17.8% of the people in Iran even own a car, rarely would that include young males, and the price of gas in Iran is the second lowest in the world next to Sudan. The price increase is a progressive one based on the amount of gas purchased per month and would put Iran’s cost on par with Iraq at its most expensive.

In Chile, student rebellions have cost businesses to lose $1.5 billion and destroyed public transportation at a cost of $400 million. The protests were initiated after the government proposed a fare hike of $.04 which represented a 3.3% increase. The protests were initially instigated by high school students who were exempt from paying the train fares.   So the hike actually had zero impact on them.

Today schools are shuttered, thousands have lost their livelihood, their homes, the wage, and buildings are defaced and torched.   Redistribution of wealth is now the primary objective and the President has fired his entire cabinet and a new Constitution has been written.   But the protests and the destruction continues unabated. In Santiago, rioters burned a church, hauled out artifacts and destroyed them in the streets.   But they are ‘students’ so the global call is to ‘stand down’.

And the UN condemns any attempt to quell the violence.

In Chile, The Social Unity Movement has been instrumental in organizing protests as well as various labor organizations. One such organization is Unitary Central of Workers, headed by Bárbara Figueroa, the daughter of union leaders and Communist militants, who has been in the forefront of organizing the riots.

Camila Vallejo and Karol Cariola, also members of the Communist Party, have been likened to Ocasio Cortez as they rise up against the government and right-leaning President Pinera.

The media is attempting to rewrite the truth claiming Chile has been run under a Dictatorship and the good-students are simply turning the country away from oppression toward democracy. In fact, the good-students are organizing a communist ideology within Marxism.

Hong Kong, Lebanon, etc…, the goal is the same, the means are the same, and the organizations behind these chaotic coups – are the same.

According to the Soros organization, Moveon.org, massive rallies are planned across the US the evening before the House floor votes to pass articles of impeachment against Donald Trump. Of course, that means – it is already decided that such a vote will occur.

Denver, Fort Collins, Houston, LA, Tucson, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Miami, there are literally hundreds of locations (267 to be exact) that have already been established with hosts, affiliates, and specific locations. Signup sheets, mobilization, and tactics are in place.

Mercenary Armies in Middle East

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IRAQ; a Middle Eastern country whose oil riches are estimated to potentially be the largest in the world and which are predominantly leased to Canada, the US, UK, France, Australia, Russia and a spattering of EU countries. Nine of the world’s most powerful mercenary armies are tasked with Iraqi oil property protection; G4S, Unity Resources Group, Erinys, Asia Security Group, DynCorp, Triple Canopy, Aegis Defense Services, Defion International and Academi.

Most of these mercenaries receive funding from the US State Department.

Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the toppling of Saddam Hussein, and the administration of the Coalition Provisional Authority under Paul Bremer, the US government, and by defacto, the CIA, has controlled every aspect of Iraq, including it’s oil.

Under Bremer, the B’aath Party under which Hussein ruled was eliminated, culled… its members fled persecution or were faced with assassination.   Both Sunni and Shia militia groups formed to fight the US rule of Iraq. One such group was led by Abu Musad al-Zarqawi, who later became one of Osama Bin Laden’s masterminds.

Bremer, in coalition with the CIA and an Iranian military officer, Soleimani, turned power over to Shia, Nouri al-Maliki in 2006 as Prime Minister.   Soliemani was later sanctioned by the US government for supporting the Syrian government and Assad who also worked alongside the US prior to the invasion of Iraq and suddenly now became a targeted – bad guy…

Al-Maliki fell out of favor with the US and in 2014, Fuad Masum, a Communist politician who later joined the Kurdistan Democratic Party, was secretly made President by Ban-Ki-Moon of the UN and Kurdish MP’s.   He ousted Maliki and appointed Haider al-Abadi as the new Prime Minister.

Abadi’s education and early work life was conducted in the UK, where he worked in the ‘transportation industry’. Under his rule, the once majority Shia party was quelled as he introduced more Sunni’s into the government per the US and EU advisory. But Abadi became critical of Obama and shifted alliance from the US to Russia and Iran.

This shift put a strain on US control of the oil reserves in Iraq and calls for mercenaries to destabilize Iraq’s government were ramped up. These mercenaries operate via multi-million and billion dollar contracts and became the de facto armies representing various nations across the globe including the US, Australia, Europe and Canada. The oil companies, Shell, Mobil, BP, Total, Chevron, Hess, Dragon, as well as a number from China, Turkey and Indonesia, were in competition with Rosneft and Gazprom from Russia.

Wagner Mercenaries provide the Russian government with their unchartered, unregulated army, and are most likely in Iraq as well protecting Russia’s oil interests.

Meanwhile, the acknowledged militaries are at the mercy of commands and commanders that are at the mercy of the unregulated…operating in missions that are convoluted, corrupted, and – staged.

The footprint in the Middle East, the assassination of Saddam and the subsequent rise of ISIS wreaked havoc on a plan that backfired 15 years ago with the initial invasion of Iraq. Attempting to ‘cleanup’ the mess, Syria and Yemen became the next targets as US and European interests in the Middle East erupted into chaos.

Blackmailed into the ethnic cleansing of Shiites, and anyone not Sunni, the block of power brokers including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, have invoked an all out war in the Middle East with the US and EU acting as proxy. The blackmail? To continue to allow the US control of Iraq. In return we give them Syria and Yemen. Iran is up for grabs… And Turkey?

Turkey became fearful when Assad, the US and Russia began backing the Kurds. Should the Kurds gain a foothold in Syria, Erdogan fears the Turkish Kurds, which represent roughly 20% of the population, would be emboldened and demand civil rights. Turkey is thus indirectly supporting – ISIL.

The war is far from over with continued propaganda statements of chemical attacks and bombings on civilians.   For now, some are proposing a ‘protectorate’ of forces, policed by troops from ‘many nations’ in which separate states will be imposed within Iraq and Syria housing Sunni’s, Shites, and Kurds.  

Not unlike dividing Palestine and Israel, I imagine the people of Syria and Iraq will not be too thrilled.

Palestinians Shunned – a reason?

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Why are Palestinians shunned?  It is not just Israel, it is everywhere in the Middle East, their brothers and sisters.  Palestinians were originally defined as people that lived along the coastline of the Mediterranean on the land that is now Israel.  They were Arab, Jewish and Christian.  Most of the Christians fled to South America.  As the Jewish people were pushed from their lands in Iraq, Syria, Iran, Lebanon, etc… they fled to ‘Israel’.  Albeit the population grew because they had nowhere else to go.  But the Palestinians have nowhere else to go now either.  No one wants them.  They are refugees everywhere.

So, why does the media concentrate only on Palestinians within Israel? There are approximately 1.3 million Palestinians in Israel, 3.3 million in Jordan, 500,000 in Chile, 430,000 in Syria, 400,000 in Lebanon, 330,000 in Saudi Arabia, 225,000 in North and South America, 44,000 in Egypt, 40,000 in Kuwait, 310,000 in ‘other Arab states, and 308,000 in ‘other countries’.

Exactly how do they fair when in their Arab brother countries?

In Jordan and Syria, most Palestinian refugees have been integrated into society; however, in Jordan, only Palestinian refugees displaced by the 1948 War have Jordanian citizenship and enjoy largely favorable treatment on par with Jordanian nationals. Refugees from the Gaza Strip who did not hold Jordanian passports at the time of their flight in 1967 have been denied citizenship and are mostly confined to the “Jerash” camp. In Syria, Palestinian refugees have not been granted citizenship but have been accorded equal treatment with Syrian nationals in almost all respects. Palestinian refugees in Lebanon have fared considerably worse; sectarian tensions and the activities of the PLO have prevented their integration into Lebanese society. The majority of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon live in UNRWA refugee camps or other unofficial camps and shelters, often in conditions of abject poverty. They face restrictions on their right to work, access to education and healthcare, and ownership of property. Only those displaced in 1948 have residency rights in Lebanon whereas all other Palestinian refugees are deemed illegal immigrants.

Outside of the Operation Areas, Palestinian refugees face even more of a precarious existence.

In Egypt, Palestinian refugees are treated as foreigners and face significant restrictions on their ability to access education, government services, and employment. Renewal of residency permits is difficult and there are reports of frequent detention of Palestinian refugees by the authorities in Egypt. Iraq, once a refuge for Palestinian refugees, has now become a country of persecution; many Palestinians were targeted in, and fled from, Iraq following the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime.

In the Gulf States, particularly Kuwait, Palestinians are treated as foreign migrant workers with no permanent residency rights.

Approximately 59% of the population reside in refugee camps:

In Gaza there are approximately 1.2 million ‘registered’ refugees.

West Bank – 740,000

Syria – 500,000

Lebanon – 450,000

Jordan – 2 million

The discrepancy in populations verses registered refugees is huge. But foreign aid is based on refugee count, not population. Which opens another topic – how much money is funnelled to the Palestinians annually? By whom? And where is it spent? Have they built schools and hospitals and industry? Have they built roads and water systems and farmed crops? Do they make clothes and build homes and temples?  Or are they a welfare state wherein they do – nothing?

We constantly talk of their ‘plight’, their losses, their poverty, their poor conditions, but what has changed since they became refugees?  Those that lived in Palestine lost their homes in 1948, they were evicted by the UK.  Nearly 60 years of ‘aid’ has absolutely nothing to show for it.  Once again, welfare produces nothing.  It doesn’t ‘lift’ people out of poverty, instead it creates even greater poverty.   There is one notable exception to Palestinian refugees.  Those that fled to Chile worked the fields, made goods, sold products – and prospered.   It was hard, damn hard, but they had no choice and so they lifted themselves up.  These Palestinians were all Christian. They took no handouts, no UNRWA funding, no governmental aid. They didn’t live in refugee camps, they are well educated and have risen above their plight.

In 1950 when aid began pouring in to the Middle East, it supported about 750,000 ‘refugees’. Today the number is 5 million and growing without restriction. All children, grandchildren down the line of eternity – are grandfathered in. It is a shambles. The one example of UNRWA schools and medical facilities for the Palestinians is in a town outside of Damascus. But we obliterated Damascus, it lies in rubble. So much for that. Syrian refugees from Palestine became refugees once again after the country was bombed and Al Nusra and ISIS took over. Most fled to Jordan where they idle in camps in dire need of attention.

No one in the camps work. They are not required to and have little to no supportive education to enable them to work. It is the supreme example of pouring money down the drain of entitlement without creating a self sufficiency of production. Sixty years worth of nothing.

But why do the Arabs hate them so much? One theory is that the Palestinians have a knack for ingratiating themselves in their host country. Perhaps out of boredom, perhaps out of a need to feel a cause, or a purpose, whatever it is, Palestinians typically find themselves on the losing side of a civil uprising whether in Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait or wherever.

Lesson: no one likes an ingratiating bully…

Sister Diana Momeka – Christian Persecution

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Iraqi Christians, Egyptian Christians, Syrian Christians – what do they have in common?

In a sense they were all protected by their countries dictators, Saddam Hussein, Mubarek and Assad. They were protected not necessarily because they were Christian, but because it was the law of the land to quell all violence and ethnic cleansing which has occurred since those dictators rule was felled. Hussein and Mubarek gave protection in return for support, but Assad was actually closer to a benefactor of the Christians. In fact, according to Andrew Tabler of The Washington Institute, Syrian Christians were some of the most devout supporters of Assad as they provided a bridge to international relationships. It may even have been this ‘bridge’ that gave Assad the support of Putin, an Orthodox Christian.

With the fall of each of these dictators, the Christian population immediately became target for cleansing by the newly placed de-facto governments as well as by ISIS and Al Qaeda. Their populations in all three countries have been sliced in half or more since the ousting of the quasi sympatheric dictatorships. While these dictators perpetrated heinous acts of human rights violations, what was then and what is now is even more fascist.

Taking out the dictators and sending these countries into an internal civil spiral without authoritarian rule, was akin to laying open the gate for the Trojan Horse to enter. Only inside this Trojan Horse were the greater evil, the blackest hearts to raze the land and it’s people without hesitation. It is parallel to the conquering during the time of Muhammed only larger, more grave, more filled with hatred. It is the paradigm of rule. While under Saddam’s rule it is estimated that upward of 100,000 to 180,000 civilians were executed. After Hussein was toppled the timeline is fettered with death; suicide bombs, guerrilla war, Shi’a leader killed, suicide bomber at Red cross and Police Headquarters during Ramadan, US helicopter downed, Italian troops killed, Irbil suicide bombs, police station attacked, massacre on Shi’a Holy Day, US contractors killed, Shi’a uprisings, US bombs Falluja Mosque, Basra attacks, prisoner abuse charges, beheadings, scores killed in Bacuba bombing, Iraqi army recruits killed, attack on US base in Mosul, on and on and on.

By July 2006, four years after ousting Saddam, over 110,000-180,000 ‘civilians’ had been killed in Iraq, according to the official count by the Iraqi Ministry of Health. Many claim this figure is low, but at what point is the number not relative? What is the allowed collateral in a war invoked by one nation to ‘free’ another.

Sister Diana Momeka was slated to testify before Congress along with a delegation from Iraq on the systemic persecution of Iraqi Christians. Despite her original invitation, her passage was revoked when the State Department, John Kerry, decided that she posed a flight risk. In other words, given that she was considered a ‘displaced citizen’ as a result of the infighting in Iraq, she was a threat on American soil.

In 2009, Sister Momeka was living in the US and recounted bombings of churches in Iraq. Seven churches were bombed during 2004 and 2005 while filled with Christian worshipers. Rapes, executions, beheadings, became a way of life after 2003. She said that the people initially looked forward to freedom, but had no idea what that would look like until it was upon them. She lost four cousins and a brother, killed not just by the Islamists but by US soldiers as well.

According to Sister Momeka, 2 million Iraqi’s were displaced inside Iraq without jobs or food after Saddam’s ousting, 5 million fled Iraq and there are now over 1 million widows as a result of fighting. Prior to the war, she said that Muslims and Christians lived side by side without distrust, without persecution, without judgement.

As of 2000, the religious demographics of Iraq was about 63% Shi’a, 32% Sunni and 3% Christian. Today the Christian population represents .8%.

Of course the question begs, why would the US State Department be afraid of the testimony of this nun? What could she possibly say that might be cause for embarrassment, or worse truth?

Given the mainstream media has squelched the story, it also opens the discussion as to what information with regard to Iraq is muffled and altered to fit a preconceived vision?

These countries have been taken over by Al Nusra, Al Qaeda and ISIS. These countries have been targeted by the US. These countries are seeing an unprecedented cleansing of Christians. Why is that not important enough to address?

Stats: between 322 and 800 Christians are murdered each month for being Christian – 214 Christian properties destroyed – 722 Christians are targeted by violence.  These numbers are guesstimates, the Vatican and others put these numbers significantly higher.

Weapons – Here, There and Everywhere

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The US keeps giving away weapons to just about anyone asking. Unfortunately, it appears we frequently give them to countries that we think are or might be an ally, only to find that we go to war with that country at some future date – against our own weapons.

The latest is of course, Iraq.

In 1982 the US armed Saddam Hussein in Iraq’s fight against Iran. Iraq instigated the war with Iran. It is estimated that anywhere from ½ million to one million people died in that war. Another ½ million became permanent invalids. Over $228 billion was spent and the end result was over $400 billion in damage. The war included indiscriminate missile attacks on cities and civilians. It included the extensive use of chemical weapons. The major sources of the chemicals were DOW Chemical, and the US Department of Commerce. The US, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait aided Saddam Hussein.

The end of this war led to the Gulf War. Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion of Kuwait this time. The same country that had been an ally against Iran. Of course, this time the US was on the side of Kuwait – fighting against weapons provided to Saddam by the US in the 1980’s. The precipitating factor – oil. Saddam thought that Kuwait and the Saudis were siphoning his oil and therefore wanted to cancel out a $30 billion debt. Saudi Arabia ‘asked’ the US for military intervention. This time, weapons were given to Kuwait. Chemical weapons used by Iraq against Iran are now being used against US military.

Upwards of 30% of the weapons provided to Iraq could not be accounted for. It is presumed they found their way to various terrorist factions, including ISIS.

The Afghanistan war found our US military facing off against weapons provided to them during the 1980’s when we allied with them against the Soviets.

IN 2008, the US supplied weapons to Uganda and Burundi, half of which ended up in the hands of Al-Shabaab. Al-Shabaab is a jihadist terrorist group that has pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda.

In 2012, weapons sent to Qatar and the UAE ended up in the hands of Islamic militants in Libya.

Weapons sent to Syria in support of the rebels fighting against Asad ended up in the hands of ISIS, including weapons parachuted into the country meant for the Kurds.

And now Iraq’s Prime Minister is seeking a ‘sustainable flow of weapons’ from the US with payment ‘deferred’ given the oil price crisis has damaged their economy.

It would seem that we do not learn from our past mistakes, instead we insist that this time … ‘they promised’. In fact we supply quite a hefty load of weapons to Middle East countries including:

UAE $3.7billion

Turkey $2.3billion

Afghanistan $1.06billion

Egypt $976million

Iraq $916million

Saudi Arabia $1billion

Oman $130million

Kuwait $107million

And the list goes on ad nauseam.

When these weapons turn up in the hands of El Nusra, Al Shabaad, Al Qaeda, ISIS, and even Boko Haram, suddenly everyone is mute. US weapons in the hands of Al-Qaeda in Yemen brings shrugs and California valley girl, ”whatever’s’. The oops factor.

Who has nuclear weapons? Russia, China, UK, US, France, Pakistan, India, and Israel are known to possess nuclear weapons. It is a possibility that North Korea, and Iran have a bomb. Countries that have nuclear weapon fuel Kazakhstan, Germany, The Netherlands, Canada, Belgium, Belarus, Japan, Italy, Poland and South Africa.

Saudi Arabia has signed a pact with Pakistan that it will fund their nuclear development and in return Pakistan will provide the Saudis with nuclear warheads. Other Middle East countries pursuing nuclear power include; Turkey, UAE, Jordan, Egypt, Kuwait, Algeria, and Morocco.

Are we concerned?