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Rocket

Syrians show video evidence of Western weapons supplied to terrorists in return for oil


Sputnik
Tue, 10 Oct 2017 16:49 UTC
israeli munitions
© Youtube / syrian ministry of defense
On Monday, the Ministry released footage of the arms confiscated from different terrorist organizations, including Daesh (ISIS) and rebranded al-Nusra Front, along with the report, where it said that most of the weapons had been manufactured in the US or by its allies, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA).

The manual says that the arms were obtained by terrorists via various channels and via companies in Eastern Europe with ties to the US and NATO intelligence agencies. They had entered Syria via Turkey or Saudi Arabia, where, in turn, they arrived "via European ports of the American Ramstein Air Base in Germany."

It also says that Daesh and al-Nusra Front terrorists were supplied with "rockets, rifles, machine guns, anti-air weapons, and even tanks in exchange for oil that the terrorists stole from wells in Syria and Iraq."


Comment: Azerbaijan is a major hub for the weapons trafficking to terrorists:

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Iran's reaction if US designates Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist group UPDATES


RT
Mon, 09 Oct 2017 07:56 UTC
Revolutionary guard
© ReutersIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Iran has vowed a "firm and crushing" reaction should Washington decide to include the elite wing of its army, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), on its list of terrorist organizations, according to the country's foreign ministry. The comments came from Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi on Monday as cited by Tasnim news agency.

"We are hopeful that the United States does not make this strategic mistake," Qasemi stated during a news conference. "If they do, Iran's reaction would be firm, decisive and crushing," he said, adding that the US would have to accept the consequences. Earlier it was reported that Washington is preparing tougher sanctions on Tehran, including the possible designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group.

US President Donald Trump has taken a tough stance on the Islamic Republic, criticizing it for supporting terrorism and vowing to "put an end to Iran's continued aggression and nuclear ambitions."

On Sunday, IRGC chief Mohammad Ali Jafari warned that if the reports are confirmed, the military wing will treat US troops, especially in the Middle East, as they would Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists.

"If the news is correct about the stupidity of the American government in considering the Revolutionary Guards a terrorist group, then the Revolutionary Guards will consider the American Army to be like Islamic State all around the world, particularly in the Middle East," Jafari stated.

Comment: Is Trump leaping from the boiling pot into the fire? Absurdity to insanity...and puppet master Israel loves it.

Update (October 10): Tehran has once again warned Washington against designating the elite wing of the Iranian Army, the Revolutionary Guards, as a terrorist group, saying that "all options are on the table," according to a top aide to Iran's supreme leader
"Whatever they do we will take reciprocal measures. All options are on the table," Ali Akbar Velayati, senior adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday, Reuters reports citing Isna news agency.

Iran's statements mirror those of the US, with President Donald Trump having recently accused the Islamic Republic of supporting terrorism.

"The Iranian regime supports terrorism and exports violence, bloodshed and chaos across the Middle East. That is why we must put an end to Iran's continued aggression and nuclear ambitions,"Trump told senior US military officials on October 5.

On Monday, the head of Iran's nuclear agency, Ali Akbar Salehi, said that the scrapping of the deal would influence more "the entire international community than the national interests of Iran," AP reports.


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Star of David

Why does Israel support a Kurdish state? It's the world's largest importer of Kurdistan oil stolen from Iraq

Jacob Atkins
I24 News
Mon, 09 Oct 2017 15:52 UTC
Kurdish oil Israel
© Hadi Mizban/Associated Press/ FileIn this May 31, 2009 file photo, an employee works at the Tawke oil fields in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq.
Just under half of the crude extracted from Kurdish oil fields so far in 2017 has made its way to Israel

Israel has been the top buyer of crude oil from the Kurdish region of northern Iraq this year, according to shipping data and interviews with industry analysts, in a murky trade that underpins the Jewish state's unique position as a supporter of the Kurdish Regional Government's (KRG) hotly contested independence referendum last month.

Just under half of the crude extracted from KRG oil fields so far in 2017 has made its way to Israel, according to Clipperdata, a US-based company that tracks global oil shipments, dwarfing the amount exported to Italy, the next biggest buyer of Kurdish crude.

While the buyers in Israel are private firms, the purchases help bankroll the autonomous region and provide a practical plank to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's statement before the independence vote that Israel "supports the legitimate means of the Kurdish people to obtain their own state."

Comment: Israel, being the psychopathic equal opportunity market capitalist that it is, will buy oil from anyone:

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Attention

Pepe Escobar: The House of Saud bows to the new sheriff in town - Putin

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
Mon, 09 Oct 2017 11:26 UTC
Putin and Salman
© Sputnik via ReutersRussian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Arabia's King Salman attend a welcoming ceremony ahead of their talks in the Kremlin in Moscow on October 5, 2017.
What a difference a year - an eternity in geopolitics - makes. No one could see this coming; the ideological matrix of all strands of Salafi-jihadi terror - which Russia fights no holds barred, from ISIS/Daesh to the Caucasus Emirate - beating a path to the Kremlin and about to embrace Russia as a strategic ally.

The House of Saud was horrified by Russia's successful campaign to prevent regime change in Syria. Moscow was solidifying its alliance with Tehran. Hawks in the Obama administration were imposing on Saudi Arabia a strategy of keeping oil prices down to hurt the Russian economy.

Now, losing all its battles from Syria to Yemen, losing regional influence to both Iran and Turkey, indebted, vulnerable and paranoid, the House of Saud has also to confront the ghost of a possible coup in Riyadh against Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, a.k.a. MBS, as Asia Times reported. Under so much pressure, who're you gonna call?

The ultimate ghostbuster; Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Essentially, the House of Saud is obsessed by three main vectors; low oil prices; Iran and Shi'ism; and what to make of US foreign policy under Trump. Let's take them one by one.
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Sherlock

Another Russiagate fail: WSJ vindicates Trump Jr., Russian lawyer after release of new emails

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:50 UTC
Donald Trump Jr. and Natalia Veselnitskaya
Donald Trump Jr. and Natalia Veselnitskaya
Another Trump-Russia collusion narrative has bitten the dust.

In a stunning revelation that goes a long way toward alleviating the cloud of suspicion that has hovered over Donald Trump Jr. since details about a meeting organized by Trump Jr. involving Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort along with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and her entourage were first publicized in July, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that newly disclosed emails between Veselnitskaya and Azerbaijani-Russian billionaire Aras Agalarov largely support Veselnitskaya's account that the meeting focused on her yearslong lobbying effort to kill the Magnitsky Act.

The emails, which were provided to WSJ by Scott Balber, a lawyer for Agalarov, cover a period of time leading up to the June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower. They begin in October 2015, when Veselnitskaya first shared information about her anti-Magnitsky efforts with Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika.
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Vader

Hypocritical NATO 'concerned' by Russia's military build-up close to "our borders"

Eric Zuesse
Sott.net
Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:27 UTC
nato expansion
Map of NATO's expansion
The Secretary-General of NATO said this on October 9th, speaking in NATO member Romania, right across the Black Sea from Russia's region of Crimea (which had always been part of Russia except for the brief period 1954-2014, when the Soviet dictator arbitrarily transferred Crimea to Ukraine in 1954 - i.e., the Soviet dictator had made Crimea 'Ukrainian', and only in 2014 was a plebiscite actually held there in order to determine what the people there wanted, and more than 90% chose to be restored to the Russian Government). He said, on October 9th, that NATO is "concerned by Russia's military buildup close to our borders", but NATO actually had expanded up to Russia's borders; in no way had Russia expanded up to NATO's borders. NATO's leader was importantly misrepresenting history, there.

In fact, Romania, itself, used to be a member of the former Soviet Union's Warsaw Pact military alliance of nations, which had been set up by the Soviet Union in response to America's having established in 1949 its NATO military alliance with Western European nations. After the Cold War ended, on Russia's side, in 1991, and has been secretly continued by the U.S. Government and its allies right up to the present time, Romania became a member of the NATO anti-Russian alliance in 2004, under George W. Bush's Administration. But Bush's father, President George Herbert Walker Bush, had, as the U.S. President, established, in 1990, the foundation for what NATO now is doing in Romania, against Russia - even though Russia had, in fact, ended the Cold War on its side, in 1991.
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Laptop

South Korean lawmaker reports hackers stole military documents, including assassination plan, one year ago - N. Korea denies they did it


BBC
Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:38 UTC
Kim Jong-un
© AP/Korean News Service
Hackers from North Korea are reported to have stolen a large cache of military documents from South Korea, including a plan to assassinate North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un.

Rhee Cheol-hee, a South Korean lawmaker, said the information was from his country's defence ministry.

The compromised documents include wartime contingency plans drawn up by the US and South Korea.

They also include reports to the allies' senior commanders.

The South Korean defence ministry has so far refused to comment about the allegation.

Plans for the South's special forces were reportedly accessed, along with information on significant power plants and military facilities in the South.


Comment: From RT: "Operational Plan 5015 is the latest Seoul-Washington protocol for war with Pyongyang, and contains plans to "decapitate" the North Korean leadership. Operational Plan 3100 details how to respond to North Korean provocations, Yonhap reports."


Comment: North Korea's state-run news agency has news of its own, claiming that "heinous terrorists" from the U.S. tried to assassinate Kim Jong-un earlier this year using a chemical or biological poison:
The news agency, which is seen as the propaganda wing of the country's ruling Workers' Party, said: "In May this year, a group of heinous terrorists who infiltrated our country on the orders of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the US and the South Korean puppet Intelligence Service with the purpose of carrying out state-sponsored terrorism against our supreme headquarters using biological and chemical substance were caught and exposed.

"This palpably shows the true nature of the US as the main culprit behind terrorism."

KCNA also claimed the US "changes its colours" like a "chameleon" in order to justify overthrowing governments in other countries.

It accused Washington of using the war against terrorism to justify its interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.
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The North Korean government claimed in May that it had foiled a US and South Korean plot to kill its Supreme Leader. A man named only as "Kim" was paid to carry out an attack with biological substances, the country's Ministry of State Security claimed. The CIA refused to comment on the reports.

North Korea has a history of making contentious statements that cannot be verified. It has previously claimed the US and South Korea have hatched a plot, named "Plan Jupiter", to kill Kim Jong-un.


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Does Saudi King's visit to Russia mean 'US Dictate Over'?


Sputnik
Sun, 08 Oct 2017 11:44 UTC
Putin, Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
© Sputnik/ Aleksey Nikolskyi
Russian Senator Alexey Pushkov argued on Sunday that the visit of Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud indicated the end of US dominance in international relations.

"Riyadh will cooperate with Moscow despite the hardline US approach to Russia. There is an important sign: The United States is still influential, but its dictate is over," Pushkov said on Twitter.
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Black Cat

US-backed Kurdish SDF continue to steal Syrian land, ethnic cleansing of non-Kurds

Sarah Abed
The Rabbit Hole
Sun, 08 Oct 2017 15:06 UTC
SDF Flag Kurds Syria
© Hawar NewsAugust 8, 2017 - Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces raise their flag in the center of the town of Manbij after driving Islamic State militants out of the area, in Aleppo province, Syria. Syrian Kurdish officials and an activist group say U.S.-backed fighters have seized a key Islamic State stronghold in northern Syria after two months of heavy fighting and freed hundreds of civilians the extremists had used as human shields.
The West claims that the Kurds are one of the most moral and dignified forces in the Middle East fighting against Daesh. But if their focus is on defeating Daesh, as they claim, why are they committing genocide against Syrians in the process? Taking this into consideration, it is hard to justify the West's persistent claim that armed Kurdish terrorist groups are trying to help Syria. The reality on the ground contradicts these empty compliments, which the West uses to save face while supporting these terrorist organizations. This false narrative was in fact used to arm the Kurds in Syria in order to create instability and division.

For separatist Kurds to claim an area that they have lived in or have liberated as being rightfully theirs defies international law and logic.

The U.S. has armed the Kurds and supported their efforts since helping them establish the Syrian Democratic Forces on Oct. 10, 2015. The U.S. needed to fund a group within Syria that was fighting against Daesh, but that was not as extremist as the Free Syrian Army, which was outed as being affiliated with al-Qaeda.

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Cell Phone

Imran Awan wiped his phone hours before his arrest - lawyer lies, says it was a 'brand new phone'

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 09 Oct 2017 14:55 UTC
Awan
© True Pundit
Conjuring up images of Hillary and her team bashing Blackberry phones with hammers, Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Mirando revealed in a court hearing Friday that embattled Congressional IT staffer Imran Awan apparently wiped his cell phone clean just hours before being arrested by the FBI at Dulles airport while attempting to flee to Pakistan. As Forbes points out this morning, this new information came out in a hearing in which Awan's attorney argued that his curfew should be lifted and his ankle bracelet removed.
Imran Awan, the IT professional Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) kept on her congressional payroll long after it became known he was under investigation by the Capitol Police, wiped his phone hours before he was arrested last July.

But we are just starting to learn about this case. This is new revelation that Awan wiped his phone just before he attempted to fly away to Pakistan came out last Friday when Awan appeared in court.

Awan's attorney, Chris Gowen, argued that Awan should have his curfew lifted and that the tracking device on his ankle should be removed.

This prompted Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Mirando to say that when Imran was arrested at Dulles International Airport a cellphone found on him "had been wiped clean just a few hours before."
Awan's attorney, and long-time Clinton employee (see: Arrested DNC Staffer Awan Retains Long-Time Clinton Associate For Legal Help), Chris Gowen tried to argue that Awan's phone was blank because he had just purchased it while seemingly hoping that the FBI had simply overlooked the ".obliterate file" that was created when the phone was intentionally wiped clean.

Comment: See also: Phil Giraldi: Where are all those congressional emails, Imran Awan?

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