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Russian security chief: 'We found traces of exposives. Terrorists blew up Flight 9268 over the Sinai'


RT
Tue, 17 Nov 2015 13:14 UTC
The Russian plane crash in Sinai, Egypt, was caused by a terrorist attack as traces of explosives have been found in the wreckage of the plane, Federal Security Service director Aleksandr Bortnikov told President Vladimir Putin.

"We can say that the [Sinai plane crash] was a terror act," Bortnikov told Putin. According to the FSB chief, experts analyzed passengers' belongings as well as the parts of the plane. "After the examination on all these objects, we have found traces of a foreign-made explosive substance," Bortnikov said.

"During the flight, a homemade device with the power of 1.5 kilograms of TNT was detonated. As a result, the plane fell apart in the air, which can be explained by the huge scattering of the fuselage parts of the plane," he added.

This not the first time that Russia has faced "barbarous terrorist crimes, more often without apparent causes, outside or domestic, as it was with the explosion at the railway station in Volgograd at the end of 2013," He added: "We haven't forgotten anything or anyone. The murder of our nationals in Sinai is among the bloodiest crimes in [terms of] the number of casualties."

Comment: And so the Russians synch up their narrative with the West's. It's interesting that this comes soon after the Paris terrorist attacks, and the day after Putin's meeting with Obama in Turkey.

They can't come out and blame the U.S. for the attack, but for those in the know, blaming ISIS amounts to the same thing.

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'Plane security concerns' ground two EU leaders in Turkey


RT
Tue, 17 Nov 2015 13:10 UTC
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© Salah Habibi / AFPEuropean council President Donald Tusk (L) is welcomed at the airport by Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid on March 31, 2015.
Several top EU officials, including Donald Tusk and Jean-Claude Juncker, were unable to leave Turkey for Brussels due to "a security concern regarding their plane," Reuters reports. It comes as European services are on high alert after attacks in Paris.

Tusk, President of the European Council; and Juncker, President of the European Commission, were grounded in the Turkish resort city of Antalya on Monday after meeting with G20 leaders.

The officials had been due to leave for Brussels on the Belgian Air Force plane that they normally use.

However, an unnamed EU official told Reuters that the two will have to wait for another aircraft on Tuesday due to security concerns "about the plane." Turkish services have reportedly been investigating the concern in question.

The delay did not affect other flights to and from Antalya.
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From post 9/11 America to 11/13 France: Lessons we learned too late

John W. Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
Mon, 16 Nov 2015 02:09 UTC
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." ― Benjamin Franklin
"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."—Hermann Goering, German military commander and Hitler's designated successor
Herman Goering
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For those who remember when the first towers fell on 9/11, there is an unnerving feeling of déjà vu about the Paris attacks.

Once again, there is that same sense of shock. The same shocking images of carnage and grief dominating the news. The same disbelief that anyone could be so hateful, so monstrous, so evil as to do this to another human being. The same outpourings of support and unity from around the world. The same shared fear that this could easily have happened to us or our loved ones.

Now the drums of war are sounding. French fighter jets have carried out a series of "symbolic" air strikes on Syrian targets. France's borders have been closed, Paris has been locked down and military personnel are patrolling its streets.

What remains to be seen is whether France, standing where the United States did 14 years ago, will follow in America's footsteps as she grapples with the best way to shore up her defenses, where to draw the delicate line in balancing security with liberty, and what it means to secure justice for those whose lives were taken.

Here are some of the lessons we in the United States learned too late about allowing our freedoms to be eviscerated in exchange for the phantom promise of security.
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Turnabout? Some French politicians call for course corrections on Syria, Assad, ISIS, Saudi Arabia, Russia

Hazem Sabbagh
Syrian Arab News Agency
Sun, 15 Nov 2015 00:00 UTC
Fillon, Juppe
© www.lefigaro.frFrançois Fillon and Alain Juppé urge France to reverse its policies toward Syria, Iran, Russia
A number of French deputies and politicians called on the French government to alter its foreign policy and correct its course immediately and reconsider its relation with Syria following the recent terrorist attacks in Paris.

Deputy Jacques Myard said that there's a need for revising France's foreign policy, particularly in Syria, voicing belief that France adopted an erroneous policy towards Damascus, asserting that France's enemy today is ISIS and Al Qaeda, not President Bashar al-Assad.

Likewise, deputy Jean-Frédéric Poisson said that there's need to revise France's foreign policy and to become closer to those who are fighting ISIS, in addition to calling on his government to reconsider its relations with Saudi Arabia and Qatar, something that fellow deputy Bruno Le Maire also called for.

That sentiment was also echoed by president of the National Front (FN) party Marine Le Pen who said that there is need to specify who are France's allies and who are its enemies, and that states that sponsor extremism are supposed to be France's enemies along with states that have a vague position toward terrorist organizations, while those who fight terrorism are France's allies and should be treated as such.

For his part, deputy Gérard Bapt voiced regret over the fact that the French Interior Ministry had ignored his advice to cooperate with Syria, noting that after his visit to Syria, he informed the Ministry that Syria is prepared to cooperate in exchanging information if France agrees to reopen its embassy in Paris. Bapt asserted that France must stop its policy of ostracizing Syria and lift the diplomatic embargo imposed by the French Foreign Ministry.

Comment: What France will or won't do remains to be seen. When you pick a side, sometimes the price to pay is exceedingly high. It best be the right side and worth it.

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USS Harry Truman deployed to strike Islamic State in wake of Paris attack


RT
Tue, 17 Nov 2015 01:00 UTC
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© Paul Farley / ReutersThe aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman.
The US Navy has deployed the aircraft carrier 'Harry S. Truman' to the Middle East, where it will help the US-led coalition launch strikes against the Islamic State terrorist group in Iraq and Syria.

Although the deployment of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier has been scheduled for more than a year, according to the Navy Times, news of its departure comes in the wake of the Paris massacre that claimed the lives of at least 129 people. The Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIS/ISIL) has claimed responsibility.

The Truman's deployment will last for seven months, the Washington Post reported. The carrier left Norfolk, Virginia on Monday and will arrive in the Persian Gulf in roughly six weeks. It is accompanied by the rest of the carrier strike group, which consists of the Carrier Air Wing Squadron 7, Destroyer Squadron 28, and the ships USS Anzio, USS Bulkeley, USS Gravely and the USS Gonzalez, according to The Hill.
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Not enough civilians being killed apparently: US greenlights sale of $1.3 billion in 'smart' bombs to Saudi Arabia


Sputnik
Tue, 17 Nov 2015 00:53 UTC
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The US State Department approved the sale of $1.29 billion in smart bombs to Saudi Arabia, despite allegations that the kingdom has killed and injured civilians in airstrikes against rebels in Yemen.

The Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), which facilitates foreign arms sales, notified lawmakers on Friday that the sale had been approved.

The approval clears the way for the sale to go through - that is, unless lawmakers block it in the next 30 days, which is a rare move.

The sale includes 22,000 smart and general purpose bombs, including 1,000 GBU-10 Paveway II Laser Guided Bombs, and more than 5,000 Joint Direct Attack Munitions kits to turn older bombs into precision-guided weapons using GPS signals, Reuters reported.

Comment: That is a lot of bombs being used mainly on civilians. The thirst for more killings is unbelievable!

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The road to Damascus - from Cambodia: The roots of U.S. led wars in the Middle East

John Pilger
Stop the War Coalition
Mon, 16 Nov 2015 22:47 UTC
Henry Kissenger and Tony Blair
© n/aHenry Kissenger and Tony Blair, culpable in war crimes that killed hundreds of thousands, from Cambodia to Iraq.
In transmitting President Richard Nixon's orders for a "massive" bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said, "Anything that flies on everything that moves".

As Barack Obama wages his seventh war against the Muslim world since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and Francois Hollande promises a "merciless" attack on that ruined country, the orchestrated hysteria and lies make one almost nostalgic for Kissinger's murderous honesty.

As a witness to the human consequences of aerial savagery - including the beheading of victims, their parts festooning trees and fields - I am not surprised by the disregard of memory and history, yet again.

A telling example is the rise to power of Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge, who had much in common with today's Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). They, too, were ruthless medievalists who began as a small sect. They, too, were the product of an American-made apocalypse, this time in Asia.

According to Pol Pot, his movement had consisted of "fewer than 5,000 poorly armed guerrillas uncertain about their strategy, tactics, loyalty and leaders". Once Nixon's and Kissinger's B-52 bombers had gone to work as part of "Operation Menu", the west's ultimate demon could not believe his luck.

The Americans dropped the equivalent of five Hiroshimas on rural Cambodia during 1969-73. They leveled village after village, returning to bomb the rubble and corpses. The craters left giant necklaces of carnage, still visible from the air. The terror was unimaginable.

A former Khmer Rouge official described how the survivors "froze up and they would wander around mute for three or four days. Terrified and half-crazy, the people were ready to believe what they were told... That was what made it so easy for the Khmer Rouge to win the people over."


Comment: And such tactics of psychological warfare are now very well documented. The reader should be in no doubt that this same psychological information was known and used by the U.S. at the time, as it is today, in it's endless war on humanity.

From a review of Martha Stout's book Paranoia Switch
Limbic Warfare

When a leader chooses to exploit this contagion, rather than to calm and heal it, he is engaging in what Stout calls "limbic warfare." "If a leader chooses to focus the group's attention on the terrifying "others" - if he or she pounds the paranoia switch installed by trauma - the group's fear level is likely to remain over the top for a long time, and, whether or not he is competent, the leader's perceived authority will hold... [A]fter group trauma, large-scale social changes can be inaugurated, intentionally or not, by a handful of scaremongers who play to the anger and paranoia of a vulnerable population" (92-3, 95). It is at these key points in history that countries are ripe for pathocracy, a macrosocial disease that can last for decades - even centuries.
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Russian Deputy FM: 'Hand cream' terror attack on plane prevented ahead of Sochi Olympics


RT
Mon, 16 Nov 2015 21:16 UTC
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A terror attack on a plane was thwarted ahead of the Sochi Winter Olympic Games in 2014, Oleg Syromolotov, Russia's deputy foreign minister said, adding that cooperation between international security agencies had averted the tragedy. According to Syromolotov, who is responsible for counter-terrorism in the ministry, the suspected attackers were detained in Austria and France "after a check in four countries by five international security agencies.

The female suicide bombers, who were in France, had plans showing where they were supposed to put the explosives," he told the upper house of Russian parliament, the Federal Assembly, on Monday. "Their explosives were in hand cream, while their microfuses were brought from Syria. So, the threat was real," the deputy FM said, as cited by TASS news agency. He added that this was the reason all kinds of liquids, including hand creams, were prohibited from carry-on luggage during the Olympics. The official didn't mention the identity of the suspects or the location and time planned for the detention of the explosives.

The safety of the Olympic Games, which was held in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi in February of last year, was achieved through international security cooperation, Syromolotov said. "82 security agencies from 62 countries" participated in the forum organized by Russia ahead of the event and "they all worked for the security of the Sochi Games," he said.

Comment: See also: Sochi Olympic Games and the threat of a terrorist attack: Who is behind the Caucasus terrorists?

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"Pitiless war": Illegal French airstrikes on Syria hit stadium, museum, clinics

David Raven, Anna Dubius
Mirror, UK
Mon, 16 Nov 2015 20:26 UTC
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Anti-ISIS activists in Syria claim a stadium, a museum, medical clinics and a political building have been hit after France launched airstrikes in retaliation for the Paris terror attack.

Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently, a group of anonymous activists inside the ISIS stronghold, wrote that heavy strikes had been taking place since this morning. The group began documenting the airstrikes at around 8am and said it had increased to "30 airstrikes" this evening. No civilian casualties have been reported yet, according to the group.

A spokesperson for the group suggested it was France who were behind the bombs. They said water and electricity was cut due to the strikes. They added: "It's sad how it always falls on our heads, god bless and safe [sic] the civilians of Raqqa."

Comment: The Guardian is saying the same:
The Raqqa strikes, 20 in total, targeted parts of the city that had not been hit before, including a sports stadium, a museum, an equestrian centre and several administration buildings.
Now, who is going to come out and state the obvious? Regardless of what targets are hit or not, these airstrikes have no legal mandate. They are a violation of international law.

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ISIS can be defeated - Putin laid it out in September UN speech

Alexander Mercouris
Russia Insider
Mon, 16 Nov 2015 19:29 UTC
Baghdadi ISIL leader
Ibrahim Abu Bakr Al - The Leader of the Islamic State - the self proclaimed "Caliph Ibrahim"
At the UN General Assembly Session Putin set out a clear plan to defeat ISIS. It is workable but is the West interested?

Ever since the Islamic State emerged on the global stage in 2014 following its capture of Mosul, the Russians have been hammering away warnings about the threat it represents.

Here is what President Putin said at the UN General Assembly:
"The so-called Islamic State has tens of thousands of militants fighting for it, including former Iraqi soldiers who were left on the street after the 2003 invasion.
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And now radical groups are joined by members of the so-called "moderate" Syrian opposition backed by the West. They get weapons and training, and then they defect and join the so-called Islamic State.

In fact, the Islamic State itself did not come out of nowhere.

It was initially developed as a weapon against undesirable secular regimes.

Having established control over parts of Syria and Iraq, Islamic State now aggressively expands into other regions.

It seeks dominance in the Muslim world and beyond. Their plans go further.

The situation is extremely dangerous.
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