New Agreement Lets US Strike Any Country From Inside Iraq

By Basil Adas

05/06/08 “Gulf News” — 03/06/08 — Baghdad: A proposed Iraqi-American security agreement will include permanent American bases in the country, and the right for the United States to strike, from within Iraqi territory, any country it considers a threat to its national security, Gulf News has learned.

Senior Iraqi military sources have told Gulf News that the long-term controversial agreement is likely to include three major items.

Under the agreement, Iraqi security institutions such as Defence, Interior and National Security ministries, as well as armament contracts, will be under American supervision for ten years.

The agreement is also likely to give American forces permanent military bases in the country, as well as the right to move against any country considered to be a threat against world stability or acting against Iraqi or American interests.

The military source added, “According to this agreement, the American forces will keep permanent military bases on Iraqi territory, and these will include Al Asad Military base in the Baghdadi area close to the Syrian border, Balad military base in northern Baghdad close to Iran, Habbaniyah base close to the town of Fallujah and the Ali Bin Abi Talib military base in the southern province of Nasiriyah close to the Iranian border.”

The sources confirmed that the American army is in the process of completing the building of the military facilities and runways for the permanent bases.

He added that the American air bases in Kirkuk and Mosul will be kept for no longer than three years. However, he said there were efforts by the Americans to include the Kirkuk base in the list of permanent bases.

The sources also said that a British brigade was expected to remain at the international airport in Basra for ten years as long as the American troops stayed in the permanent bases in Iraq.

Iraqi analysts said that the second item of the controversial agreement which permits American forces on Iraqi territories to launch military attacks against any country it considers a threat is addressed primarily to Iran and Syria.

Iran has raised serious concerns in the past few days over the Iraqi-American security agreement and followed it with issuing religious fatwas and called for demonstrations, mainly by the powerful Shiite leader Moqtada Al Sadr movement, who is close to Iran, against the agreement.

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Challenging Ignorance on Islam

I have faith in the American people – I know they can come out of this ignorance and know Islam for what it really is.

 

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* “We should invade [Muslim] countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.”
Columnist Ann Coulter,
National Review Online, Sept. 13, 2001

* “Just turn [the sheriff] loose and have him arrest every Muslim that crosses the state line.”
Rep. C. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA),
chairman of the House Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland security and Senate candidate, to Georgia law officers, November 2001

* “Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith where God sent his Son to die for you.”
Attorney General John Ashcroft,
interview on Cal Thomas radio, November 2001

* “(Islam) is a very evil and wicked religion wicked, violent and not of the same god (as Christianity).”
Rev. Franklin Graham, head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, November 2001.

* “Islam is Evil,Christ is King.”
Allegedly written in marker by law enforcement agents on a Muslim prayer calendar in the home of a Muslim being investigated by police in Dearborn, Michigan, July 2002.
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People with power and influence in the U.S. have been saying some very stupid things about Islam and about Muslims since September 11.

Some of it is rooted in conscious malice, and ethnic prejudice that spills over into religious bigotry. But some is rooted in sheer historical and geographical ignorance. This is a country, after all, in which only a small minority of high school students can readily locate Afghanistan on the map, or are aware that Iranians and Pakistanis are not Arabs. As an educator, in Asian Studies, at a fairly elite university, I am painfully aware of this ignorance. But I realize it serves a purpose. It is highly useful to a power
structure that banks on knee-jerk popular support whenever it embarks on a new military venture, at some far-off venue, on false pretexts immediately discernable to the better educated, but lost on the
general public.

The generally malleable mainstream press takes care of the rest.

When offered the honor of becoming President of Israel, Albert Einstien replied, “No thanks, I’d rather win the Nobel Peace prize, I have no interest in Israel.”

“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
— Mark Twain

“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”
–George W. Bush

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A Glaring Preventive Tactic

 

The Lebanese resistance fighters’ actions purifying the capitol from para-military fighters and connected to Walid Jumblatt and the 14th of March Political Movement was Hizbollah’s second preventive strike against the complicated Ameircan-Israeli plans against Hizbollah. The public force of the resistance lead by Hizbollah surprised the hands that were at work after suspicious activity was seen and before it was too late for them to do anything. Capturing 800 para-military fighters made the plan of acting against the resistance from inside Beirut until the Mediterranean Sea unpractical. Some other actions that the popular resistance was able to do in 24 hours were blocking all roads leading to the airport, stopping the activities of some television, radio, and newspaper outlets (such as Al-Mustaqbal and al-Sharq). This confused the enemies’ plots. These measures occurred hours after Hizbollah’s Secretary-General’s speech and news conference where he laid it all out for the opposition who is in authority. The authorities who operate by Saudi Arabian money and who are representatives of America and Israel in Lebanon tried to destroy Hizbollah’s political, informational, and security strength in a few moves. If they were successful they would have been the groundwork for implementing America’s stratedgy of crippling Hizbollah.

 

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About three months after Hajj Imad Mughniyeh’s, Hizbollah’s high commander, assassination which has been said to have been carried out by Jumblatt’s and Saudi Arabian security forces helped by Israeli spy agents, many accusations have been made against Hizbollah by Walid Jumblatt and newspapers connected to the 14th of March Political Movement. They tried to put public pressure on Hizbollah to disarm themselves. They claimed that Hizbollah, with the cooperation of Wafiq Shaqir (the head Beirut’s airport security), put video cameras around the airport in order to be able to control political figures movement and possible carry out assassinations. Another accusation was that Hizbollah overhears governmental phone conversations with their own phone system. The Siniora government, which is itself an illegal government, made a move by firing Shaqir and planned to cut Hizbollah’s phone system – which is a successful informational tool and one of the factor’s behind their victory in the 33-Day-War. Add this to the addition of American warships in Lebanese waters and the leakage of the American-Israeli plan to bomb Beirut and assassinate the leaders of the resistance including Sayyid Hassan Nasrullah.

 

Hizbollah is known in Beirut to be exclusive and because of this the authorities thought that they would be successful in a cold-war against them. They thought that they would be destroyed without war and without bloodshed. But, Hizbollah’s sudden move purifying Beirut and taking control of the country, which will probably end in Siniora’s resignation, shows that Sayyid Hassan Nasrullah and his people have completely surprised their enemies. Just as they did 2 years ago in the summer – shook up Israeli’s plans of a huge attack on Lebanon – they did it again now.

 

Sayyid Hassan Nasrullah once again showed that he is an ancestor of Ali bin Abi Talib (a)!

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Israeli Spy Case Will Name More Spies

 

This is an article showing that there is another Israeli spy case emmerging from the United States after the John Pollard inncident. It astonishes me to see that although Israel gets caught red-handed spying and conducting actions to the detremint of the United States the US government continues its unconditional support of the Israeli regime and continues to give the rouge state millions of dollars a year. The citizens of America must wake up to this and put an end to this problem – spend American tax dollars on Americans!

 

This is an exerpt from the article. To read the full article click here.

 

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Israeli sources are reporting that the FBI investigation of the Ben-Ami Kadish spy case resulted from a leak coming from inside the government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. The information on Kadish and on a number of other Americans who have spied for Israel was provided to the FBI anonymously, leading to the Bureau’s opening of a full nvestigation. One source reports that the National Security
Agency was provided with Yosef Yagur’s current phone number and address and was able to obtain corroborating information on the case by tapping the phone.