by Chris Schang
A recent report by a Jordanian news site indicates that Syria is currently in the process of moving hundreds of SCUD missiles to the border with Turkey and Israel. Turkey has been a sore point for Syrian President Bashar Assad as the Turks have insisted that the nearly 14 month old civil war stop immediately. Turkey has in the past moved military assets to their own border with Syria to help fleeing refugees from Assad’s reign of death. The Israel National News website is reporting:
Jordanian news site Ahbar Baladna reports that western spy satellites have recently spotted movements of Syrian heavy missile launchers northward and southward, toward Syria’s borders with Turkey and Israel. The site says hundreds of high-caliber launchers are being moved, and that these could only be long range Scud missile launchers.
Syria has threatened in the past that in the event of foreign military intervention on its soil, it will not hesitate to fire missiles at Israel and Turkey in order to ignite a large scale regional war.
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by Bill Wilson
The Western media is expressing surprise and alarm that Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Abu Zaid may well be the next President of Egypt. This should be no shock at all. The White House and other Western governments assisted the Muslim Brotherhood in overthrowing the Mubarak government in deference to "democracy." The Muslim Brotherhood won a position of strength in the "democratic" elections, as did another Sharia Law Islamic party. Now Egypt will likely totally fall under the control of extremist Islam–another win for the man who occupies the Oval Office and America’s new foreign policy strategy of his "New Beginning" speech given June 4 in Cairo. Another acceleration of end time prophecy.
At the time, the US president raised controversy when he allowed representatives of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) to attend his speech where he stated his mission:
I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world; one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect; and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles – principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings."
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by Bill Wilson
There will be no ultimate peaceful solution to the Iranian nuclear standoff. From early in the turn of the century, Iran has been cooperative just enough to prevent firm opposition while developing its nuclear program. Since it is a member of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty with the United Nations, UN inspectors were supposed to have access to Iran’s nuclear developments. This, however, was based on a cat and mouse game that Iran played by not allowing inspectors, then allowing them restricted access, and so on. Iran also had on its side the Islamic UN inspector, Mohamed ElBaradei, who continuously said he saw no evidence of a nuclear weapons program. This is modeled after an ancient Muslim treaty.
The Treaty of Hudaybiyyah was executed between Mohammed and the Quraish tribe of Mecca in 628 AD. It was a ten year peace treaty resulting from the Quraish preventing Mohammed’s pilgrimage to Mecca. In essence, the treaty was a huge defeat for Mohammed and his band of marauders disguised as a religion. There were many parts to the treaty. It prevented Mohammed from entering Mecca for a year; anyone wanting to join Mohammed from Quraish against the family’s wishes must be returned, but anyone from Mohammed’s gang joining Quraish would not be returned. Mohammed, now at peace with Quraish, raided others and gained strength over the next year.
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by Bill Wilson
The Stonegate Institute International Policy Council says that the Arab Spring revolutions backed by the White House have resulted in such democratically-elected oppression that the Muslims in those countries are wishing for a return of the dictators. Stonegate claims to enable human rights activists, moderate Muslims and expert investigative reporters in promoting free speech, exposing funding for terrorist cells, and pressing for transparency in international institutions. The conclusion of one such journalist with Stonegate is that Muslims are worse off a year after Arab Spring revolutions. This is clear evidence that US Middle East policy has acted counter to freedom, human rights, and the best interest of Americans.
In an article entitled "Arabs Are Beginning to Miss the Dictatorships," Arab Muslim journalist Khaled Abu Toameh writes:
"On the first anniversary of the "Arab Spring," many Arabs are beginning to wonder whether they would soon start missing the corrupt dictators who ruled them for the past few decades."
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by Aaron Klein
Turkey has been arming al-Qaida organizations as part of its aid to the opposition targeting the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, according to Egyptian security officials speaking to KleinOnline.
Turkey is a member of NATO. It has been coordinating its arming of many Syrian opposition groups with the U.S. and several Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia and Jordan, the security officials said. The officials did not have specific information that the U.S. was aware of or involved in the direct arming of the al-Qaida groups.
Al-Qaida’s leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, last month released a video calling on Muslims to support Syrian rebels to oust Assad’s “pernicious, cancerous regime.”
In an interview published Friday, Iraqi Prime Minister warned Al-Qaeda is moving from his country to Syria to aid the opposition there.
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by Jim Fletcher
As the ostensibly cultured, British-educated Bashar Assad continues feasting on the blood of his countrymen (and women and children), I thought back a good long while at the Murder, Inc. legacy of the Assad family.
Hafez, the sociopath father of Bashar, was an efficient killer from the beginning.
His defense minister, Mustafa Tlas, was particularly sadistic to Israeli POWs during the Yom Kippur War. We learned just how bad it was after an elite Israeli counter-terrorism unit captured several Syrian officers, who were then exchanged for the POWs.
Then Hafez himself ordered the flattening (as in, like a parking lot) of Hama, a northern city that had a few too many brave souls critical of the regime back in 1982.
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by Michael Youssef
We have poured trillions of dollars into Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Egypt, to say nothing of what is more precious than money—the blood of the brave men and women of the United States military. And for what?
To watch Iran’s influence permeate Iraq? To see the butcher of Teheran hold and raise hands with the propped-up presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan? If there is a picture worth a billion words, that is it. That picture of Islamic unity is like using American sacrifice and tax dollars to jab a finger in America’s eye.
Some misguided policymakers in Washington, D.C. actually think we can do good in Syria by supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda types against Bashar al-Assad, the Shiite dictator and ally of Shiite Iran. Those policymakers will say we need to abide by our humanitarian principles and support the revolutionaries, regardless of their Islamic stripes.
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by Chris Schang
