Thursday, June 23, 2011

Face the facts – Syria is an apartheid state / Arab-Islamic Apartheid systems


Face the facts – Syria is an apartheid state



The west is conniving in Bashar Assad’s brutal suppression of opposition



Nick Cohen The Observer, Sunday 19 June 2011



The UN will never tell you this, but Syria is an apartheid-style state. Members of Assad’s Alawite sect make up only 14% of the population, but they control government, much of business and all the forces of coercion. Even the underworld is segregated on confessional lines. The shabbiha crime gangs that run the prostitution and smuggling rackets, and whose members the Assads are letting loose on the civilian population, are Alawite mafias.



I hope that liberals of my generation who beat their chests as they protested against racial apartheid in southern Africa will soon feel as outraged by religious apartheid in the Middle East. The Syrian opposition has as much right to our support as the African National Congress did because it has not targeted Alawites because of their religion. Indeed, it places its hopes on the Alawite-led army mutinying.



http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/19/syria-bashar-assad-opposition-suppression





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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Recent on Iran / Syria / Hezbollah Crimes against Humanity

This Syrian tinderbox could set fire to the region‎
The Guardian - Jun 7, 2011
Assad's regime threatens dire consequences for the bloodshed in Jisr al-Shughour. ... security men – Syria's equivalent of Iran's notorious basij militia. ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/07/syria-jisr-al-shughour-assad-regime


Syria remains dangerous regime
Posted on Friday, 06.10.11
BY FRIDA GHITIS
The Syrian people have good reason to feel let down by those around the world who claim to believe passionately in human rights and democracy. The international community has shown misguided restraint in condemning Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s slaughter of his own people. In trying to prove he should be allowed to stay in power, Assad has shown exactly the opposite.
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This is not just about Assad. Syrian demonstrators have been chanting “No to Assad,” but also “No to Iran, No to Hezbollah!” The protests threaten the Iran-Syria-Hezbollah-Hamas bloc. There is much at stake here not just for the regime in Damascus but for the entire region. Syria and Iran have kept Hamas and Hezbollah stockpiled with weapons. Without Damascus, the structure would wobble; perhaps fall.


The lesson from the border protests is that Assad leads an exceedingly dangerous regime. If his brutality against the Syrian people was not enough, his willingness to trigger another regional war — with the support of his allies in Tehran, Beirut and Gaza — should convince the international community to impose stern sanctions, and work for his removal.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/09/2260477/syria-remains-dangerous-regime.html



The West's helplessness in Syria‎
The Week Magazine - Daniel Larison


The world's response to the bloodshed in Syria, or rather, ... will be empowered, and a reliable ally of Iran and patron of Hezbollah will be overthrown.
http://theweek.com/article/index/216200/the-wests-helplessness-in-syria


Syria Update: “The regime is prepared to massacre everyone ...Jun 12, 2011 ... Syria Update: “The regime is prepared to massacre everyone” ... reports are emerging that Iranians and Hezbollah members are assisting them. ...
http://www.judithlevy.com/?p=519


Syria: Where Massacre Is a Family Tradition
[June 13, 2011]
The mask of the Assad regime finally falls, and the world is forced to confront its illusions about Iran's ally and Hezbollah's patron.
By FOUAD AJAMI
Pity the Syrians as they face the Assad regime's tanks and artillery and snipers. Unlike in Libya, there is no Arab or international "mandate" to protect them. Grant Syria's rulers their due: Their country rides with the Iranian theocracy and provides it access to the Mediterranean. It is a patron of Hamas and Hezbollah. And still they managed to sell the outside world on the legend of their moderation.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304259304576375943962621206.html?mod=googlenews_ws


A new Hama on the Turkish border Asia Times Online
By Victor Kotsev
June 15, 2011
TEL AVIV - In 1982, on orders by current Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's father, Hafez, the Syrian army destroyed much of the city of Hama and killed somewhere between 10,000 and 40,000 people. The memory of that Muslim Brotherhood uprising and the government massacre is so strong in Syria that arguably it was a crucial factor in rekindling the current unrest after some 70 demonstrators were killed in Hama 10 days ago.


Now, the town of Jisr al-Shoughour seems set on becoming the new Hama - "a" new Hama, if we believe much of what is being written and said about the situation in Syria, with other cities to follow. It does not mean that the comparison is realistic - all other discrepancies aside, the town with its approximately 50,000 inhabitants is no comparison to Hama, the fourth-largest city in Syria - but then again, leading Western ethicists of the past few decades have taught us not to compare numbers of victims.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MF15Ak03.html


Sky News: Clinton accuses Iran of backing Syria
Updated: 03:32, Wednesday June 15, 2011
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday accused Iran of backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's 'vicious assaults' on pro-democracy protesters after crushing its own 2009 uprising.
'Iran is supporting the Assad regime's vicious assaults on peaceful protesters and military actions against its own cities,' Clinton said, comparing its response to Iran's crackdown on pro-reform demonstrations.
'Two years ago this week, Iranian citizens went to the polls in the hopes of expressing their democratic rights,' she said.
'When the people reached for their aspirations, the government responded with brutal repression. Two years later, that repression continues.'
Syria's uprising was triggered in mid-March by the arrest and torture of 15 children and adolescents accused of spraying anti-regime graffiti in the southern town of Daraa, which then became the epicentre of the revolt.
The UN children's agency UNICEF has since said that at least 30 children have been shot dead in the revolt against the Assad family's 40-year rule...
http://www.skynews.com.au/topstories/article.aspx?id=625543&vId=



Clinton: Iran Helps Syrian Brutality; Tehran Warns US
[Published: 06/14/11]
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday accused Iran of physically aiding Syrian forces using brutal violence to put down the country's protest movement. Hours earlier, Iran warned the United States, “Americans are not allowed to launch a military intervention in any country of the region, including Syria.”
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/144930



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Friday, April 01, 2011

Kurds (also) oppressed by racist Arab apartheid in Syria

Kurds under racist apartheid Syrian Arab Republic



..Like Gaddafi today, seven years ago Assad deployed his air force against the Kurds.


Scores were killed and thousands were arrested. Many of those arrested were tortured by Assad’s forces.


The discrimination that Kurds have faced under Assad and his father is appalling. Since the 1970s, more than 300,000 Kurds have been stripped of their Syrian citizenship. They have been forcibly ejected from their homes and villages in the north and resettled in squalid refugee camps in the south. The expressed purpose of these racist policies has been to prevent territorial contiguity between Syrian, Iraqi and Turkish Kurds and to “Arabize” Syrian Kurdistan where most of Syria’s oil deposits are located.


The Kurds make up around 10 percent of Syria’s population. They oppose not only the Baathist regime, but also the Muslim Brotherhood. Represented in exile by the Kurdistan National Assembly of Syria, since 2004 they have sought the overthrow of the Assad regime and its replacement by democratic, decentralized federal government. Decentralizing authority, they believe, is the best way to check tyranny of both the Baathist and the Muslim Brotherhood variety. The Kurdish demand for a federal government has been endorsed by the Sunni-led exile Syrian Reform Party.


This week the KNA released a statement to the world community. Speaking for Syria’s Kurds and for their Arab, Druse, Alevi and Christian allies in Syria, it asked for the “US, France, UK and international organizations to seek [a] UN resolution condemning [the] Syrian regime for using violence against [the Syrian] people.”


The KNA’s statement requested that the US and its allies “ask for UN-sponsored committees to investigate the recent violence in Syria, including the violence used against the Kurds in 2004.”


http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=214197



What is Mr Blair’s Mission? KurdishMedia.com – By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli 01/11/2001 00:00:00 … It seems that Mr Blair has not even known or even discreetly mentioned to his hosts that Syria is occupying a part of Kurdistan in which one million Kurds are living who are subject to the most appalling racist apartheid policies of oppression and assimilation. 150,000 of them are even deprived of having passports, being considered as ‘foreigners’ with no right, legally, to enter into employment or marriage. Syria does not allow the Kurds or to call their children Kurdish names.


Syria does not allow the Kurds to use their language for education and promote their art and culture, or to have their own legal political organisations. That is despite the fact that the Kurds are Muslims! But being Muslim for Arab racist regimes that use Islam as an Arabising racist ideology, is equivalent to being an Arab – full stop.


http://www.kurdmedia.com/article.aspx?id=8259



What happens when your oppressors are next-door neighbors … 14 Jun 2006… I raise my palm for Turkey, Syria, Iran and even Iraq…. and that Apartheid didn’t just melt away on its own, …


http://www.kurdmedia.com/article.aspx?id=12624


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Saturday, November 22, 2008

U.S. convicts (Syrian Arab) “Prince of Marbella” of arms deal

U.S. convicts (Syrian Arab) “Prince of Marbella” of arms deal

reuters Nov 20, 2008

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. federal jury convicted a Syrian arms dealer and a co-defendant on Thursday of conspiring to sell $1 million in weapons…Monzer al-Kassar, 62, a longtime resident of Spain known as the “Prince of Marbella” for his lifestyle in the glitzy seaside town… Kassar has been selling weapons since the 1970s to the Palestinian Liberation Front and clients in Nicaragua, Bosnia, Croatia, Iran, Iraq and Somalia.

In 1995, Kassar was tried and acquitted of supplying arms that were used in the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship of the coast of Egypt. That resulted in the death of a wheelchair-bound Jewish-American, Leon Klinghoffer.

Klinghoffer’s two daughters, who sat through Kassar’s trial in New York, told reporters they felt vindicated by the verdict.

“Even though this case was not about the Achille Lauro, I wanted everyone there to know that my father was in the courtroom,” Lisa Klinghoffer said.

(Additional reporting by Grant McCool; Editing by Daniel Trotta and Anthony Boadle)

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE4AJ79J20081120



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Monday, October 27, 2008

Monstrous Syria

Syria, Iran harboring terrorists - Jul. 21, 2003 http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/07/21/bush.terror


A NATION AT WAR: INTELLIGENCE REPORTS; Syria Harbors Iraqis and Grants Transit to Hezbollah, U.S. Asserts... a major terrorist threat to American and Israeli interests around the world. ... [Published: April 15, 2003]
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02EEDD113BF936A25757C0A9659C8B63

Syria: A 101 Course in Mideast Dictatorships - SPIEGEL ONLINE ...When his powerful father died in 2000, Bashar al-Assad promised the end of political repression in Syria. But ... [2005]http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,343242,00.html


Cleric's Slaying a Rallying Cry for Kurds in Syria - Los Angeles Times The death of the mild-mannered sheik robbed Syria’s Kurds of a ... He called for rights; he spoke out against the imprisonment and torture of Kurds. ...
http://articles.latimes.com/2005/aug/14/world/fg-kurds14


The ascent of radical Islam is, perhaps, the natural culmination of a century's worth of failed political systems in Muslim countries that were driven by morally bankrupt ideologies, led by cruel dictators, or both.In the 1930s, German-style fascism appealed to Arabs in Palestine and Egypt. Soviet-style communism had sympathetic governments in Afghanistan, Algeria and Yemen. Baathism took hold in Syria and Iraq. The secular Egyptian dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser promised a new pan-Arabism that would do away with colonial borders that divided the "the Arab nation." Then there is the more pragmatic authoritarianism that survives in Muammar el-Qaddafi's Libya or in the petrol-monarchies in the Gulf.Radical Islam may be as totalitarian and as morally bankrupt as any of these past or mostly defunct "isms," but its current appeal isn't hard to figure out. Unlike fascism or communism, radical Islam is locally grown, and not plagued by charges of foreign contamination. Indeed, Islamists claim to wage jihad against the modernism and globlization of the outside, mostly Westernized world. Such a message resonates in stagnant, impoverished Muslim countries....
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/12/why_radical_islam_and_why_now.html


Nuclear Weapons Programs - Syria It appears that the Syrian nuclear program came as a surprise to both the ... The United States was concerned about Syria's nuclear R&D [research and ...
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/syria/nuke.htm


'USAF struck Syrian nuclear site' Middle East Jerusalem Post Nov 2, 2007 ... By JPOST.COM STAFF ... The September 6 raid over Syria was carried out by the US Air Force, ...
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1192380718519


Report: IDF raid seized nuclear material before Syria air strike http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/906334.html


BBC NEWS Americas Bush expands sanctions on Syria Feb 14, 2008 ... Syria continues to undermine Lebanon's sovereignty and democracy... and sponsor and harbour terrorists... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7244088.stm


Source: Intel shows N. Korea-Syria nuclear link - CNN.com US intelligence officials will tell members of Congress on Thursday that North Korea was helping Syria build a nuclear facility http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/23/syria.nuclear/index.html


Reports: CIA to brief Congress on nuke ties between Syria, North ...Apr 23, 2008 ... [they] also will say that though U.S. officials have had concerns for years about ties between North Korea and Syria...
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/04/reports-cia-to.html

U.S. offers evidence of North Korea-Syria nuclear plant - Los ...US intelligence officials showed satellite images, classified photos and other evidence ...
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/apr/25/world/fg-ussyria25


Syria planned to supply Iran with nuclear fuel, Israel says ...Jun 25, 2008 ... Strategic expert says idea was to share plutonium from site bombed by Israel last September.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/25/syria.iran


Barbara Walters: Syrian Dictator 'Charming,' 'Intelligent ...Jul 7, 2008 http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/justin-mccarthy/2008/07/07/barbara-walters-syrian-dicator-charming-intelligent


As the president of Kurdistan National Assembly of Syria, an umbrella organization of Syrian Kurds, I admire your efforts on behalf of human rights globally. I must however express my concerns with your views on having dialogues with Syria's dictator Bashar Assad.
Dear Senator, the Middle East Conflict extends beyond the Arab-Israeli conflict. I would like to bring to your attention the Plight of Kurds in Syria. Senator, we seek your support in resolving the Kurdish question in Syria peacefully and through dialogue. You should know however that President Assad or Assad Regime has consistently and gravely violated the human and the national rights of the Kurdish people of Syria for the last five decades.
The Assad regimes of Hafez and Bashar deliberately Arabized the Kurdish region of Syria as a national policy. The result of Arabization rendered 300,000 Kurds "stateless foreigners" (ajanibin Arabic) and subject to oppression...
http://www.kurdishaspect.com/doc042508SA.html


September 28, 2008 No. 466 Mass Killings and Human Rights Violations in Syria... policy of oppression, physical aggression, and killing. ...
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA46608


Officials try to deport man with link to Syrian terror groupNational Post, Canada - Sep 30, 2008... officials are trying to deport a London, Ont., adult education teacher because he was once a member of a Syrian political party involved in terrorism. ...
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=851308


Mass Killings and Human Rights Violations in Syria: Report By O ...Sep 29, 2008 ... Syrian human rights activist George Salim recounts the torture he endured ... Kurds in Syria often speak Kurdish in public, unless all those ...
http://ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2008/9/syriakurdistan151.htm


OPEC Regimes: The "Change They Need" in US Foreign PolicyHuman Events, DC - [Oct 26, 2008]In the ranking of Human Rights abuses around the world, Angola’s MPLA-controlled government ranks only 157 ahead of Syria, Venezuela, Iran, Libya and Cuba...
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29192


Lebanese prime minister alerts US to Syrian terror plot as pretext ...DEBKA file, Israel - Oct 6, 2008The prime minister said the tip-off he received uncovered a Syrian conspiracy to stage a major terrorist operation or assassinate a Lebanese figure...
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5633


Syria Created It's Own Terror Problem CBS News [0ct 17, 2008]http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/17/opinion/main4528930.shtml

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Thursday, June 12, 2008

IRAQ & US ACCUSE SYRIA'S IRAN'S LEBANESE BASED ISLAMIC HEZBOLLAH TERRORISTS OF CRIMES IN IRAQ

IRAQ & US ACCUSE SYRIA'S IRAN'S LEBANESE BASED ISLAMIC HEZBOLLAH TERRORISTS OF CRIMES IN IRAQ


[Iraq] Talabani charges [Iran's Islamic Lebanese based terrorists] Hezbollah interference

Published: May 30, 2008 at 8:23

BAGHDAD, May 30 (UPI) -- Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, in a Baghdad interview Friday, accused the leader of the Lebanon-based Hezbollah of meddling in Iraq's affairs.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/05/30/Talabani_charges_Hezbollah_interference/UPI-44791212150201/

Commentary: Iraq ripe for Iranian [militant Shia Muslim] domination
March 4, 2008
Richard Beeston, Foreign Editor of The Times
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was right to look smug at the end of his two-day state visit to Iraq. Not only did he become the first Iranian president to visit Baghdad, but he also took a big step towards achieving the victory that had eluded Ayatollah Khomeini, the father of the Iranian revolution.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article3478353.ece?Submitted=true

The Jawa Report: Smackdown Hezbollah In Iraq Apr 9, 2008 ... What are the special groups that Iran is using to fight a proxy war with the US in Iraq? Well, Hezbollah in Iraq is one! ...

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/192192.php


Report: Hezbollah’s No. 2 Arrested in Iraq - Investigative Round-UpReport: Hezbollah’s No. 2 Arrested in Iraq ... The number two man in the militant Shiite Lebanese group Hezbollah was recently arrested in Iraq, ...

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/06/05/roundup/entry4156311.shtml


Iraq: "Hezbollah's declarations and Iraq's national security" By Phares on Arabic Radio May 31, 2008, 17:40

http://www.walidphares.com/artman/publish/article_1726.shtml


A REGION INFLAMED: THE HAND OF TEHRAN; Hezbollah, in Iraq ...Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shiite group, has established a significant presence in Iraq, but is not taking part in attacks on American forces inside the ...

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEFDE113BF937A15752C1A9659C8B63


YouTube - Lebanese hezbollah killing US soldiers in Iraq ...4 min 43 sec

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlO-cUGGQPo


Hezbollah Declares War On America: Front Is In Iraq - Sean Hannity ...Al-Seyassah (Kuwait): Hezbollah decides to open front against Washington in Iraq – NATO sources in Brussels said yesterday that Lebanon's Hezbollah has ...

http://forums.hannity.com/showthread.php?t=690111

Hezbollah Trains Iraqis in Iran, Officials Say - New York Times May 5, 2008 ... An American official said the account of Hezbollah’s role was provided by four Shiite militia members who were captured in Iraq late last ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/world/middleeast/05iran.html

BBC NEWS Middle East US links Iran to attack in Iraq Jul 2, 2007 ... The information came from a top Hezbollah fighter recently captured in southern Iraq, an army spokesman said. ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6260690.stm

YouTube - Michael Ware on Hezbollah in Iraq A top Hezbollah leader has been captured in Iraq, offering more proof of Iran's proxy war with the United States. July 2, 2007.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aLJM7j3tW_U&feature=related

ABC News: U.S.: Hezbollah Iran's Proxy in Iraq Jul 2, 2007 ... A senior Lebanese Hezbollah operative, Ali Mussa Dakdouk, was captured March 20 in southern Iraq, Bergner said. Dakdouk served for 24 years ...
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=3336816

Officials: Hezbollah agent played deaf before confessing - CNN.comBAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A top special operations officer with Lebanon's Hezbollah militia pretended to be deaf and mute when he was captured in Iraq earlier ...
http://us.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/07/02/iraq.hezbollah/index.html

Hezbollah Said to Help Shiite Army in Iraq - New York TimesIran has facilitated the link between Hezbollah and the Shiite militias in Iraq, the official said. Syrian officials have also cooperated, though there is ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/28/world/middleeast/28military.html

"I think sending Hezbollah to Iraq is about Iran's desire for us to take them seriously, ...
http://www.free-lebanon.com/LFPNews/2003/November/attacks/attacks.html

FDD: Iran, Hezbollah, and Iraq (BM)Mar 6, 2006 ... This Washington Times editorial sums up Iran's insidious influence in Iraq -- including how Iranian funding for Hezbollah's al-Manar ...
http://fdd.typepad.com/fdd/2006/03/iran_hezbollah_.html

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Thursday, February 14, 2008

Iran’s Arch-Terror Master Killed in Syria

Iran’s Arch-Terror Master Killed in Syria NewsMax.com

http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/Iran_terrorist_Mugniyeh/2008/02/13/72415.html

Hezbollah to hold mass funeral for slain commander http://www.iht.com/articles/reuters/2008/02/13/africa/OUKWD-UK-LEBANON-HEZBOLLAH.php

Slain Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh had long history of attacks - International Herald Tribune http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/13/africa/ME-GEN-Lebanon-Mughniyeh-Profile.php

Hezbollah: Top US Target Killed Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/13/AR2008021300494.html?hpid=topnews

Terror suspect's mysterious death mirrored life
Newsday -
BY MOHAMAD BAZZI. February 14, 2008 Imad Mughniyeh lived much of his life in the shadows, changing his appearance through plastic surgery and traveling on forged passports.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/ny-womili145575974feb14,0,6227164.story

The hit / Not merely revenge http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/954049.html

Bomb kills top Hezbollah commanderSwissinfo -Moughniyah is thought to have been commander of Islamic Jihad, a shadowy pro-Iranian group which emerged in Lebanon in the early 1980s...

A LIST OF ATTACKS

Moughniyah was implicated in the 1983 bombings of the U.S. embassy and U.S. Marine and French peacekeeping barracks in Beirut, which killed over 350 people, as well as the kidnapping of Westerners in Lebanon in the 1980s.
Israel accuses Moughniyah of planning the 1994 bombing of a Jewish centre in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people and of involvement in a 1992 bombing of the Israeli embassy in the Argentine capital that killed 28.
The United States indicted him for his role in planning and participating in the June 14, 1985, hijacking of a U.S. TWA airliner and the killing of an American passenger.
"The world is a better place without this man in it. He was a cold-blooded killer, a mass-murderer and a terrorist responsible for countless innocent lives lost," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.
"One way or another he was brought to justice," he said.
Iran blamed Israel for his assassination. Syria described it as a "terrorist attack".
Several Palestinian and Lebanese allies of Hezbollah called on the group to avenge Moughniyah's death. Hezbollah has only said its conflict with Israel was "a very long one".
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the group that has a strong political and military force in Lebanon, will address the crowd at the funeral via a video link.
On Wednesday, Moughniyah's coffin, draped in a Hezbollah flag and flanked by four men in military uniform, was laid in a hall where his family and the group's leaders received condolences.
Moughniyah is thought to have been commander of Islamic Jihad, a shadowy pro-Iranian group which emerged in Lebanon in the early 1980s and was believed to be linked to Hezbollah.
Islamic Jihad kidnapped several Western hostages, including Americans, in Beirut in the mid 1980s. The group killed some of its captives and exchanged others for U.S. weapons to Iran in what was later known as the Iran-Contra scandal. Among those killed was the CIA's station chief.
Moughniyah's brother was killed in a car bomb in Beirut in 1994. Reports at the time suggested Imad had been the target. Moughniyah had spent much of the 1990s in Iran.http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/international/Bomb_kills_top_Hezbollah_commander.html?siteSect=143&sid=8737038&cKey=1202934488000&ty=ti

Death of a terrorist
... guidance to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives inside Gaza and the West Bank." Mugniyeh operated against the US and Israel from Lebanon, ...
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1202742151496&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Mastermind's death a 'major, major blow' to Hezbollah National Post, Canada A short, chubby Islamic revolutionary, Mugniyeh began his career guarding Yasser Arafat during the Lebanon civil war and then went to work for the Iranians, ...
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=306565

Hezbollah Militant Accused of Plotting Attacks Killed NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18956279

The murderous world of Imad Mugniyeh
The death of Hezbollah's miitary commander (2nd from left) brings to a close his long campaign of violence against the West, from Lebanon (US Embassy, Marine barracks) to Argentina (Israelie mbassy, AMIA center). ...
http://digg.com/world_news/The_murderous_world_of_Imad_Mugniyeh

Good Riddance: Imad Mugniyeh - by Max Boot
Great news from Syria. Imad Mughniyeh, one of the world’s worst terrorists, has been killed by a car bomb in Damascus. He is all but forgotten now, but Mughniyeh, a leader of Hezbollah, was the original Osama bin Laden—a terrorist ...
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/boot/2459

KILLER MUGNIYEH DEAD! Booya! http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/02/killer-mugniyeh.html


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Monday, December 17, 2007

The Islamic Arab 'PALESTINIAN' & SYRIAN occupation's bloody hands in targeting Arab Christians in Lebanon

The Islamic Arab 'PALESTINIAN' & SYRIAN occupation's bloody hands in targeting Arab Christians in Lebanon

Lebanon probes al Qaeda link - CNN.com Hajj led a military campaign that crushed an al Qaeda-inspired militant group ... Islam in Nahr el-Bared, a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon. ...
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Counterterrorism Blog: Lebanon's officers under "axis" Terror attack?
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/12/lebanons_officers_under_axis_t.php

Lebanon questions 4 over deadly blast... Hajj led a three-month military campaign that crushed an al-Qaida-inspired militant group known as Fatah Islam in Nahr el-Bared, a Palestinian refugee camp ...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22252963



Bush warns against Syrian interference in Lebanon
International Herald Tribune, France - Dec 13, 2007
Perhaps it was al Qaeda-type militants striking in payback for Hajj's role in the army's summer onslaught on fighters based in the Palestinian refugee camp ...
http://www.iht.com/articles/reuters/2007/12/13/africa/OUKWD-UK-LEBANON.php



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Thursday, December 13, 2007

Arab racism must go! There will be no peace (in the ME) before Arabs view Jews as human beings

Arab racism must go! There will be no peace (in the ME) before Arabs view Jews as human beings

Arab racism must go


There will be no peace around here before Arabs view Jews as human beings


Jackie Levy Published: 12.03.07,
Despite all the ceremonial declarations uttered in Annapolis, my attention was drawn to a small story about the organizers tasked with planning the seating arrangements. As those were peace talks, and as all of us want peace, the organizers were warned about the need to ensure that no Syrian or Saudi official unintentionally encounters some Zionist pest.

This was indeed a large venue, but still, people (just like monkeys) sometimes have to go to the bathroom or wash their hands. In short, they may have to pass through a narrow corridor where, you never know, you may encounter one of those – well, here the speaker is supposed to venomously utter the word: “Zionist.”
Syria’s motives for attending the conference were quite clear. They came to score points and extricate themselves, as much as is possible, out of the axis of evil. In short, they came because of Syrian issues – all the rest didn’t quite interest them, and it was not easy for them as it is. But to bump into an Israeli?! A Jew! Face to face, with no Condoleezza or a sea of officials around. Just you and I. Now that’s way too much, being forced to exchange glances or even mumble something. This is where we draw the line.
After all, Arabs are honorable people, and the Israelis, on top of all the other trouble, have this bad habit of using such incidents in order to suddenly show friendliness, utter some kind of silly joke, and then tell everyone about it. Years after Annapolis, some Israeli minister or advisor could write in his memoirs how he made a quick comment to the Syrian official about the crappy American coffee, and yes, he thinks he saw a hint of a smile on the Syrian’s face – for a moment there, the Israeli will say, we were able to overcome the raging conflict and just be two men, Khaled and I, yearning for some good coffee.

The end of the story is that it was not easy at all to arrange the chairs. Sophisticated algorithms were utilized and multifaceted maneuvers previously only known in Astronomy were used, so that under no circumstances would an Arab and a Jew come in contact or some share kind of proximity that could hurt the feelings of the nation.

Our enemies are racist
Simply put, our enemies, among other things, are quite racist. As opposed to some stigmas, it turns out that arrogance is not an Israeli monopoly. It’s amazing how the Arab world managed to convince the West that the racist hatred is merely legitimate religious sensitivity that must be taken into consideration.
We should also take a moment to consider the fact that for us these things always sound like a silly joke. We treat it the same way we ridicule the Arab refusal to compete against Israeli athletes. None of us, with the exception of the margins of the far Right, have a problem meeting an Arab, shaking his hand, or showing sympathy for him.
The thing is, on their side it’s an absolutely serious matter. It’s hard to believe that anyone in the Arab media was joking about the seating arrangements.

For years we’ve been reprimanding ourselves over our attitude to Arabs and our racist jokes. Yet while we were busy reprimanding, we almost failed to notice that something changed around here. When was the last time you heard a derogatory term like “towel head” being used seriously, without any sarcasm? When was the last time an Israeli film featured an Arab character that was less than divine?
Meanwhile, the exact opposite is happening on the other side. And no, we’re not talking about a minor issue. Even if all the roadblocks will be removed, there will be no peace around here as long as Muslim Arabs don’t view Jews as human beings.


http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3478505,00.html

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Sunday, October 28, 2007

Syria's oppression of the Kurds

Syria's oppression of the Kurds


The Kurds nominate Syria for regime change.
The most successful Communist leader in the Arab world, Khaled Baqdash, was a Syrian Kurd. As many reporters have been noting in the last few days, ...
http://www.slate.com/id/2097493/



Mourners of Stampede Victims Riot in Syria - U.S. ...Mourners of Stampede Victims Riot in Syria, Hundreds at a funeral for people ... One of the teams involved, Al-Jihad, is a predominantly Syrian Kurdish ...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,114130,00.html



Kurdish Unrest Spreads in Syria; Up to 15 Dead, Scores Wounded ...Kurdish Unrest Spreads in Syria; Up to 15 Dead, Scores Wounded ... The first few victims died there, some shot and some trampled in the melee, Kurdish ...

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9904E2D81E3EF937A25750C0A9629C8B63&n=Top/News/World/Countries%20and%20Territories/Iraq


Kurdish poet finds Syria more ...Although Kurds in Syria speak Kurdish freely, the language is not taught in ... 'The truth is that there is no oppression of Kurdish culture...
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20070702-0352-syria-kurd-poet.html



The Unknown Oppression of the Kurds, as leverage in its relations
http://web.mit.edu/thistle/www/v12/2/kurds.html



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Friday, October 26, 2007

Monitoring Syria's Nukes?

Monitoring Syria's Nukes?

Defense Tech: CIA: "GROWING CONCERN" ABOUT SYRIA NUKESCIA: "GROWING CONCERN" ABOUT SYRIA NUKES. "In a marked shift from previous assessments, the CIA said in a report released today that it is monitoring Syria...
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/000668.html

U.N. probes possible Syrian nuke site - Mideast/N. Africa - MSNBC.comUN experts have received satellite imagery of the site struck last month by Israeli warplanes and are analyzing it for signs...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12784361

FOXNews.com - U.N. Experts Analyze Satellite Pictures of Reported ...Syrian Official Says Israeli Airstrike Hit Nuke Facility · U.N. Nuclear Agency Seeks Details on Syria. The investigation by the IAEA is crucial...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,303537,00.html

The Corner on National Review OnlineMore Syrian Nukes? [Stanley Kurtz]. According to Olivier Guitta over at the Counterterrorism blog, there may be at least two other Syrian sites...
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Y2VhZWYzNjc0MWQ2MDFmMTRjODNlMzI5NDJlOGNlYjg=


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Israel should have [a long time ago] press the UN for:
1) Condemming Arab Muslim 'Palestinian' parents, teachers, leaders, Mullahs, for using Arab kids as human shields and as human bombs, clarifying the real culprits in Arabs' deaths.
2) Violations by ILLEGAL PA Arabs "settlers" on Israel's "agreed" borders by the UN.
3) "Palestinian" Violation of virtually ALL agreemants pacts with Israel (Oslo, Camp David, etc.).
4) The PA official media & education = hate (crimes) campaign on "the joos", (not just on Israel...).
5) Exposing the constant intimdation on nations by the GOLIATH ARAB MUSLIM (oil) block, to tarnish innocent Israel in the UN.

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TO THE ARAB MUSLIM ANTI-ISRAEL PROPAGANDIST:

1) Are you denying that the Arab racist attacks on Jews in Israel/"palestine" has started since 1838 (Safed) [so were the attacks in 1883, 1920, 1921, 1929 - Hebron, etc.]?

2) Had Israel be a (mostly) Arab-Muslim State, would the intolerant Arab-Muslim Goliath world not accept them?

3) Why is there a complete silence on the historical fact of Arab immigration late 1800s early 1900s into Israel/"palestine"?

4) What anti-Israel bigotry is stronger, the "Arab racism"; factor? or the 'Islamic-Jihad' factor?

5) 'Moral equivalence' Do you have Arab activists on behalf of Israeli victims, just like you have Jewish, Israeli, Zionists activists for the (so called) 'Palestinian cause' (whatever that is...)?

6) If humane Israel would really go after "unarmed poor palestinians" as the 'Pallwood' propagandists tell us, How many Arabs would have survived Israel's might?

7) Who's more at fault, the Arab Muslim "Palestinians" parents pushing for Shahid-isim, or the indoctrinating Mullahs, Imams in the holy Mosques for using "Palestinian" kids and women as human bombs and as human shields (so they can blame the Zionists when Arab kids die)?

8) What would have happened if Arab Muslim "Palestinians" would have invested as much energy in rebuilding their lives as they do in destroying both nations' lives in fascistic Jihad, total hatred and campaign for GENOCIDE [to "drink the blood of the Jews" or to "push them all to the sea", or to "wipe them off of map"]?

9) Why does "bad" IDF Israeli army announce an area residents' civilians to evacuate before an operation against terrorists?

10) Why did Humane Israel's IDF invented specially low range missiles designed to hit ONLY the [terror] target and minimize collateral damage?

11) When was the last time the "Palestinian" well oil-ed propaganda machine has retracted [or even apologized] for it's usual PALLYWOOD fake images industry?

12) What's the difference between a Christian in Indonesia, Buddhist in Thailand, Christian in Nigeria, in Philippines, Australians in Bali (2002), non Muslims in London (0707/2005), in Madrid (bombing), "not the-right-kind-of-Muslims" in Shiite-Sunni hateful massacres in Iraq, oppression & massacres in the "Islamic Republic of Iran", and Israeli victims of the same "evil ideology"?

13) What's a harder oppression, your "average" Arab Muslim regime's on it's own people, Hamas-tan Islamic Apartheid [which most "Palestinians" supported!] on non Muslims, or the pro-Jihad parents' on their kids?

14) What would have happened if at least ONE Arab Muslim nation [regular or oil-ed one] would really care about the Arab [brothers, that since the 1960's started to call themselves as] "Palestinians" and let them get off the terror slum into normality and even prosperity?

15) What part of 'BLIND FASCISM' do Arab-Muslims deny, the usual obsessed anti Israel demonization [no matter what Israel does] or the reluctance to see Israel's super kind gestures for those that are trying to kill them [releases from prison, giving away own land vital to it's security, humanitarian aid, etc.] not as goodness but as "weakness"?

16) Why is it that when Islamists terrorists [Hamas or Hezbullah, Islamic Jihad, etc.] succeed in making sure Arab kids die [with their known tactics of cowardly firing among or behind children, etc.] the Arabs, Muslims rejoice and the Israelis, Jews are saddened ?

16) How can land be an issue [or the blatant lies the Arab lobby's financed: Jimmy Carter has said, though he admitted that Israel is a great equal democracy for all, Arabs and Jews alike!'] if "moderate" Palestinian official government still has venomous hatred and pro 'death cult' in it's regular curriculum and on it's official TV, or that such "moderate" Arab media outlets [like Al Jazeera] still glorify mass murder as "martyrdom"?

17) Who's more powerful, the Arab Muslim Goliath Oil mafia "lobby" on the world or a Chinese, Italian, Israeli, Irish, pharmaceutical, cigarettes lobbyists in Washington?

18) Had the International Arab Muslim lobby of nations in the UN [or the EU] not threatened other nations to bash Israel 24/7 [motivated by intolerance only!], What would be then the outcome?

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Let's make it clear, even if there will be a "Palestine" state, it will never change the factual history, that a group of foreign Arab immigrants came into the (historic) land of the Jews (and started to call themselves as "Palestinians" in the 1960's) and hijacked the world comunity via terrorism and Arab oil power to give them yet a second 'Palestine' state (after Jordan).

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