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Egyptian media op-ed: US invented ISIS and carried out 9/11 to justify 'war on terror'

Katie Forster
The Independent, UK
Fri, 16 Sep 2016 14:17 UTC
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Isis could have been invented by the US to "justify the devastation, partitioning and occupation" of the Middle East, writes Noha Al-Sharnoubi

A columnist for a state-run newspaper in Egypt has suggested the US invented Isis and set up the 9/11 attacks to justify its military interventions in the Middle East.

"Is it possible to believe the official version, from the US government, of the events of 11 September 2001?" wrote journalist Noha Al-Sharnoubi in Al-Ahram, a major national Egyptian newspaper owned by the government.

Ms Al-Sharnoubi said the World Trade Centre and Pentagon attacks could have been premeditated to "justify the war on terror" in her column, published on 23 August.

Comment: In her effort to sully the valid questions asked in Al-Ahram, this article's author lost sight of the fact that the official narrative in Egypt, to date, on 9-11, the GWOT and ISIS is the same as the Western one. So she would have apparently had no concern with Egyptian reporting standards if one of that country's publications had not dared to publish valid questions about 9/11.

Incidentally, if you click on the headline and go to the source article at The Independent, you'll see that they conducted a poll of their readers...

independent 911 poll
According to the above poll, even a majority of British Independent readers (58%) know that 9-11 was an inside job.

Why is it that Western journalists are (generally) the last to hear the news? What practical use have they in society if their role is to retard rather than inform people?

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TNT traces found in EgyptAir MS804 debris, possible inside job


RT
Sat, 17 Sep 2016 08:37 UTC
EgyptAir
© Egy.Army.Spox / Facebook
French investigators reportedly found traces of TNT in debris from the EgyptAir Airbus A320 that crashed over the Mediterranean in May. Though the origin of the traces is unclear, it adds to speculation that the crash was an inside job.

Investigators from France's Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie (IRCGN) discovered traces of the explosive last week when visiting Cairo, Le Figaro reported on Friday.

Egyptian authorities reportedly did not allow French investigators to examine the debris more thoroughly, and the origin of the TNT traces still remains unclear, a source close to the investigation told the newspaper.

To confirm the finding, the Egyptians want to draft a joint report with the French, but France's investigators are unwilling to do so unless adequate access to the debris is granted, Le Figaro's report said.

Comment: See also: Possible fire on board EgyptAir MS804 flight before crash - black box data

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US-backed terrorists and 'moderates' breached Syria ceasefire 199 times in just 6 days

R. Raslan & Hazem Sabbagh
SANA
Sat, 17 Sep 2016 13:47 UTC
kerry state dept
"Trust me, I'm American."
The Russian Defense Ministry affirmed on Saturday that armed groups breached the truce regime in Syria a total of 199 times since it came into force on September 12th.

First Deputy Chief of the Russian General Staff's Main Operational Department, Lt. Gen. Viktor Poznikhir said that the armed groups continued to breach the truce regime, noting that 55 breaches have been observed during the past 24 hours, with 27 breaches in Aleppo, 6 in Lattakia, 11 in Damascus, 7 in Hama, 2 in Homs, 1 in Daraa, and 1 in Quneitra, raising the total number to 199 breaches.

He noted that these breaches claimed the lives of 12 people including two children and injured more than 40 others, in addition to claiming the life of a female volunteer from the Syrian Arab Red Crescent in Khan Arnaba in Quneitra, adding that the breaches and shootings committed by the armed groups prevent the delivery of humanitarian aid to Aleppo.

Comment: And this was before yesterday's most flagrant ceasefire violation of all: the Pentagon's act of war against the Syrian Army in its battle against ISIS in eastern Syria.

Russia-brokered ceasefire shattered as US airstrikes against Syrian Army in Deir ez-Zor leaves 80 soldiers dead, over 100 injured (UPDATES)

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U.S. bombed Syrian Army after Russia tried to publish ceasefire agreement

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Sun, 18 Sep 2016 11:58 UTC
US empire American imperialism
© The Hawaii Independent
U.S. air strikes on Syrian army positions at Deir Ezzor looks like the U.S. is warning Russia, as the Lavrov - Kerry agreement unravels.

News of the US air strikes on the Syrian military positions near the besieged eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor comes as Russian criticism of the US failure to abide by the terms of last Sunday's Lavrov - Kerry agreement is intensifying.

The first point to make about this attack is that though the US immediately backed off after receiving a Russian warning, the US claim that the attack was a mistake stretches credulity to breaking point.

The US says the situation in Syria is complicated, which is true, and says that this is the reason for the attack, which it insists was a mistake. The key point however is that though the situation may be complicated in other parts of Syria, it is not complicated in Deir Ezzor at all.

Comment: Further reading: Russia-brokered ceasefire shattered as US airstrikes against Syrian Army in Deir ez-Zor leaves 80 soldiers dead, over 100 injured (UPDATES)

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Knesset MP says no secret army cooperates with Al-Nusra Front, IDF chief denies


RT
Sun, 18 Sep 2016 12:46 UTC
IDF soldiers
© Baz Ratner / Reuters
The IDF has no links to Al-Nusra Front and other terrorist groups in Syria, the Israeli army chief said, responding to accusations by a Knesset member. The military does, however, have contact with Syrian "militias" to ensure calm on the border, he added.

Speculations about the Israeli military covertly supporting, or at least benefiting from, various Islamist factions, such as Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), Al-Nusra Front and the like, have long circulated in Israel and beyond.

But those speculations remained largely unfounded until last week, when Akram Hasson, a Druze member of Knesset, openly accused the military of aiding the Islamists.

"It is no secret that the IDF is cooperating with [Al-Nusra Front]. In the past they have told us that the Nusra Front coordinates with the IDF. We don't know? What, were we born yesterday?" Hasson said in an interview to Israeli Channel 2, according to the Jerusalem Post.

Comment: More evidence of IDF cooperation with terrorists: Wounded al-Nusra terrorists taken to Israeli hospitals following clashes and Israeli air strikes

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Possible link between Saudi royal and jihad recruitment found in Gitmo transcript


RT
Sun, 18 Sep 2016 12:31 UTC
Guantanamo Bay prison
© Joshua Nistas / Reuters
A Guantanamo Bay prisoner said he heard a phone conversation between a religious figure who talked about his qualifications for jihad, and a person the figure addressed as "your highness," who the prisoner believes to be a Saudi royal.

Ghassan Abdullah al Sharbi, a 41-year-old Saudi national, is among the remaining 61 terrorist suspects being held at the US detention facility in Cuba. In June, he reported the alleged conversation with a Saudi royal family member to the Periodic Review Board, which assesses whether Guantanamo prisoners can be released. On Thursday, the Pentagon published a redacted transcript of his words.

The conversation Sharbi described happened in early 2001, shortly after he returned to Saudi Arabia from the US, where he had taken some flight school courses in Phoenix with two men who would become hijackers in the 9/11 attacks, AP reported. The religious figure was urging him to go to America again and take part in a plot against the US.
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Bad Guys

US lifts sanctions against Myanmar as it loses influence in Southeast Asia


Sputnik
Sun, 18 Sep 2016 12:25 UTC
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The United States will lift trade sanctions against Myanmar, said President Barack Obama after a meeting with the country's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who called on the US leader to drop the trade restrictions. Radio Sputnik discussed the issue with Dr. Munir Majid, an expert in the Asia-Pacific region.

"The context against which all of this is happening is clearly a contest for power and influence in the Asia-Pacific between China and the US, in which Southeast Asia is the main theater of competition and perhaps the South China Sea is the main area of contest," Majid told Sputnik.

He further said that, "Efforts that are being made by the US or China, if seen against that background, can be understood more clearly."

However, in his opinion, with the way things are going, it seems clear that the "US is losing in that contest and China is winning."

Comment: Further reading:

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Former US diplomat: US-backed 'moderates' just as violent & depraved as ISIS


Sputnik
Sun, 18 Sep 2016 11:58 UTC
moderate rebels
© AFP"We're here to bring you freedom and democracy."
Rebels from the US-backed Free Syrian Army appear to have kicked a group of US special operations forces out of a Syrian border town, calling the fleeing Americans "infidels" and "crusaders." This incident, experts say, shows that groups Washington persists on calling "moderate" are in fact "mercenaries" and "fanatics."

"The subgroup that did this supposedly is Ahrar al-Sham, which is a really nasty piece of work. It is as Wahhabist, as radical, as violent as [al-Nusra Front] or [Daesh]," former US diplomat Jim Jatras told RT.

Interestingly, Washington blocked Moscow's initiative to add Ahrar al-Sham, who often conducts joint operations with al-Nusra Front, to the UN Security Council's terrorist list, claiming that they are in fact moderate rebels and should be treated as a legitimate opposition to the government in Damascus. "I don't see any evidence that there are any [moderates in Syria]," Jatras said. "What you have is a variety of Wahhabist terrorist groups some of which are maybe slightly less terrorist than others but I don't know how you measure that exactly. Who are the moderates? Where are the moderates?"
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Hillary linked, SuperPac-owned media outlet creates fake grass-roots social media campaign to arrest, interrogate Trump


Sputnik
Sat, 17 Sep 2016 23:41 UTC
donald trump and hillary clinton
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The liberal news outlet Share Blue, formally Blue Nation Review, owned by the head of the SuperPac Correct the Record which directly coordinates with Hillary's campaign called for the use of official state organs against Trump in a move eerily reminiscent to third-world crackdowns on dissent.

Advisor to Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign Peter Daou, the lead editor for the liberal media news outlet ShareBlue, previously known as Blue Nation Review, launched a rallying cry on Twitter on Friday for Donald Trump to be interrogated and arrested by the United States Secret Service after the bombastic billionaire made a poorly worded but seemingly innocent comment regarding Clinton's position on the second amendment raising the specter of use of official state violence against political dissidents.

Comment: This certainly wouldn't be the first time that Hillary Clinton has used underhanded tactics to achieve her psychopathic aims:

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How Britain is whitewashing its Libyan crime as the US is ignoring it

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Sat, 17 Sep 2016 21:25 UTC
Tony Blair and Muammar Gaddafi
Just a few weeks have passed since the Chilcot report, which looked at the Blair government's role in the Iraq war, and a British House of Commons Committee has now published a report into the Cameron government's role in the Libyan war.

Its assessment is scathing. Given the state of Libya, it could hardly be otherwise. This is how the report describes Libya's economic state before the Western powers intervened in 2011 to "save" it from "Gaddafi's tyranny":
"The Libyan economy generated some $75 billion of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2010. This economy produced an average annual per capita income of approximately $12,250, which was comparable to the average income in some European countries. Libyan Government revenue greatly exceeded expenditure in the 2000s. This surplus revenue was invested in a sovereign wealth fund, the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), which was conservatively valued at $53 billion in June 2010. The United Nations Human Development Report 2010—a United Nations aggregate measure of health, education and income—ranked Libya as the 53rd most advanced country in the world for human development and as the most advanced country in Africa. Human rights remained limited by state repression of civil society and restrictions on freedom of assembly and expression."
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