Saturday, August 16, 2014

U.S. AIRSTRIKES FAIL AGAINST ISIS / ISIL IN IRAQ

THE PENTAGON HAS ADMITTED THAT ITS AIRSTRIKES AGAINST "ISIL" HAVE DONE NOTHING TO STOP ITS OVERALL MOMENTUM.

Aug 11, 2014

U.S. airstrikes have broken up the formations of extremist militants in northern Iraq but failed to stop the overall advances of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the Pentagon's operations chief said Monday. 

In reaction to the airstrikes, the ISIL fighters were "now starting to dissipate and hide among the people" to escape the U.S. warplanes, said Army Lt. Gen. William, C. Mayville.
"Targeting is going to get more difficult," Mayville said at a Pentagon news conference.  

The general called the ISIL fighters "very well organized, very well equipped and thus far they have shown an ability to attack on multiple axes."
Kurdish forces reported have retaken several towns from ISIL but one of the problems faced by the peshmerga Kurdish fighters was the longer-range weapons employed by ISIL, Mayville said. The U.S. was looking at the possibility of supplying the Kurds with long-range weapons to match those of ISIL, Mayville said.

ISIL HAS CAPTURED MANY U.S.-SUPPLIED ARMS AND VEHICLES FROM FLEEING IRAQI ARMY...U.S. DRONES ALSO CAPTURED.
Aug 15, 2014
U.S. warplanes on combat patrols over northern Iraq increasingly are hitting U.S.-made armored vehicles captured by Islamic militants from the fleeing Iraqi army.

In the latest airstrikes Thursday, the U.S. Central Command said that a mix of fighters and armed drones destroyed one of the heavily-armored Mine Resistant-Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles that were a mainstay of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The MRAP was targeted after the warplanes destroyed two other armored vehicles northeast of the Kurdish capital of Irbil that were being used by fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant to fire on positions held by the Kurdish peshmerga forces, the Central Command said in a statement.

DESPITE AMERICA'S SLOW RESPONSE TO KURDISH REQUESTS FOR BETTER ARMS AND DEFENSIVE EQUIPMENT, REFUSAL TO AIRLIFT FLEEING REFUGEES, OTHER NATIONS HAVE AGREED TO HELP.
In Brussels Friday, foreign and defense ministers of the European Union gave a positive response to the Kurdish requests.
The 28 nations of the EU bloc agreed on a plan to allow direct arms shipments to the Kurds while boosting humanitarian aid for members of the Yazidi sect and other refugees who have fled the ISIL advance.
"First of all we need to make sure that we alleviate humanitarian suffering," Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans said, the Associated Press reported.
"Secondly, I believe we need to make sure that (ISIL) is not in a position to overrun the Kurds or to take a stronger hold on Iraq," Timmermans said.
French President Francois Hollande has already pledged to ship weapons to the Kurds, and Britian has pledged to deliver ammunition.
"Weapons are already being delivered by other countries," German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen told the Bild newspaper Friday. "We are at present examining what kind of further military equipment we can send," she said.
U.S. AIRSTRIKES NEAR MOSUL DAM MAY THREATEN DAM'S INTEGRITY
August 15, 2014
(CNN) -- U.S. warplanes carried out airstrikes in northern Iraq near ISIS-controlled Mosul Dam early Saturday morning, the Kurdish news agency Rudaw reported, citing eyewitnesses.
CNN confirmed that a U.S. and Iraqi military operation aimed at retaking the country's largest hydroelectric dam from the so-called Islamic State was scheduled to begin early Saturday morning (Friday at 6 p.m. ET).
The operation was to begin with U.S. and Iraqi airstrikes against ISIS positions, with Iraqi and Kurdish Peshmerga forces following up on the ground.
U.S. fighter jets began carrying out the strikes early Saturday morning local time, Rudaw reported.
The dam sits on Iraq's Tigris River about 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of the city of Mosul.
Should the dam fail or ISIS fighters open its floodgates, massive flooding could result.

STRIKES NOT AIMED AT DRIVING ISIS/ISIL OUT OF IRAQ!
President Obama did not say that airstrikes would be used to eject ISIS forces from Mosul or Kirkuk or Fallujah.
In densely populated cities like these, air power has real limitations. An enemy in defensive positions, particularly in urban terrain, is very difficult to engage with air power. Even if the target can be hit, the possibility for collateral damage that causes civilian casualties is very real. And if the target is missed, the collateral damage can be exponentially higher, even catastrophic.

AMERICA ONCE AGAIN COUNTING ON KURDS TO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE...
A senior administration official has stressed to reporters that U.S. forces are NOT launching a “sustained campaign” against ISIS in Iraq. 

Since ISIS began its rampage through Iraq in early June, both the U.S. and Iraqi governments have tacitly bet on the Kurds’ ability to repel ISIS advances in the north. But betting on the Peshmerga to hold the line now looks like a riskier proposition after ISIS broke through Kurdish defenses and set in motion the current crisis.
In truth, it was never that safe of a bet. Since early June, representatives of Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government have warned the United States that the Kurdish Peshmerga were not positioned to protect the Yazidi and Christian minorities in the Kurdish region.
“We have significant interests and assets in the region,” one senior Kurdish official told The Daily Beast in June, describing the message to the U.S government. “But also more worryingly, we have a Yazidi and Christian populations that are gravely under threat right now.”

The consensus among ex-CIA analysts, former military officers, and Iraq veterans who spoke with The Daily Beast is that the Peshmerga’s abilities were overrated. No one questions the Kurds’ willingness to fight, but their military prowess appears to have degraded in the years since the U.S. military stopped training them and withdrew from Iraq.

A former Special Forces officer in Iraq who maintains extensive contacts among the Kurdish forces points out another factor affecting their performance. “The Kurds’ biggest weakness is the size of the border they have to protect from ISIS and the imperative they are under to yield nothing,” he said. “ISIS can give up territory, but the Kurds cannot.”
Air strikes against ISIS targets can weaken the group, buy time, and prevent it from massing on Kurdish forces, but according to military and CIA veterans, air power alone will not be decisive.

Moving U.S. special operations forces onto the battlefield, even as advisors, “greatly raises the profile of American involvement and will eventually lead to highly visible American casualties,” according to the Special Forces veteran.
President Obama made his political career, in part, on his opposition to the Iraq war. Those casualties are something he is desperately trying to avoid. But the situation on the ground in Iraq may leave him no choice.

Obama’s Iraq airstrikes could actually help the Islamic State, not weaken it
For most Iraqis, the U.S. is still known for sanctioning, invading and occupying Iraq. Across the region, returning to direct U.S. military involvement in Iraq, against the Islamic State or not [MAY BE MISCONSTRUED].
[THIS ARTICLE GOES ON TO ARGUE THAT AMERICAN PRESENCE AND FURTHER BOMBING INSIDE IRAQ WILL GIVE ISIS/ISIL GOOD PROPAGANDA TO RECRUIT MORE MEMBERS FROM DISGRUNTLED IRAQIS WHO HATE AMERICA'S DESTRUCTION OF IRAQ.]
President Obama himself called Iraq a “dumb war.” As he’s said, there is no U.S. military solution in Iraq.  So why is he authorizing U.S. actions that set us up to fail?

ISIS LEADER, CALIPH OF ISLAMIC STATE, HAS FLED TO SYRIA
15 Aug, 2014
In comments to Asharq Al-Awsat, Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) spokesman Saeed Mamo Zinni said: “Caliph of the Islamic State Abu-Bakr Al-Baghdadi left Mosul for Syria a few days ago.”
“According to our intelligence sources, Abu-Bakr Al-Baghdadi traveled to Syria as part of a convoy of 30 Hummer vehicles after fearing being targeted by US airstrikes,” Zinni said. He added that Kurdish Peshmerga forces have been able to kill a number of ISIS senior leaders.

DESPITE THE AIRSTRIKES, ISIS YESTERDAY MASSACRED 80 MORE IN AN IRAQI  VILLAGE
Aug 16th 2014The insurgents allegedly stormed into the small village of Kojo in northern Iraq, where they spent five days trying to persuade villagers to take up their religion.
When they refused, the male members of the ancient Yazidi sect were reportedly rounded up and shot dead, while more than 100 women and girls were kidnapped.

The women and girls abducted from the village, situated around 12 miles south of Sinjar, were being taken to the ISIS-controlled cities of Mosul and Tal Afar, the official said.
British jihadist Nasser Muthana also posted this claim on his Twitter account, saying that he and other Islamic State fighters had captured hundreds of Yazidi and were holding them hostage in Syria.

The Islamic State continued its push to the border with the Kurdish region.

NO, AIRSTRIKES WILL NEVER STOP ISIS, AND THE ISLAMIC STATE WILL MARCH ON.
































Sunday, August 10, 2014

THE ISLAMIC STATE VOWS TO ELIMINATE ALL OTHER MUSLIMS

THE NEW "BRIDE" OF AN ISIS MEMBER???

Some say yes, others say no...
Do they bed children? 
YES!
Is it allowed by Islam?
YES.

ISLAM'S FOUNDER CONSUMMATED HIS MARRIAGE TO HIS "FAVORITE WIFE", AISHA, WHEN SHE WAS 9 YEARS OLD.
HE BEGAN "THIGH TRAINING HER" WHEN SHE WAS 6.

ISIS CLAIMS IT IS 100% PURE ISLAM.
IT WILL ACCEPT NO "MODERATES", NOR WILL IT ACCEPT "AMERICANIZED MUSLIMS" AS MUSLIMS.  
RECENT HEADLINES ON AN ISIS WEBSITE ANNOUNCED: 

“We have come to you with slaughter.”

 ISIS has declared its intentions to conquer  Jordan, Lebanon, Gaza, Sinai as well as Jerusalem, Rome, America and Spain.

ISIS is a group of what is known as “Salafist jihadists” committed to what they see as the original meaning of the sacred texts of Islam, including the Quran. 

They combine that with a total commitment to violent jihad and a belief that the United States is its greatest ENEMY on earth, that ALL who live in America belong to SATAN, including what they see as "APOSTATE MUSLIMS" who ran to America and turned their backs on ISLAM.

ISIS considers OTHER Salafis to be apostate Muslims who have turned away from God to appease Arab oil sheiks (which is why the jihadists call the other Salafis “sheikists.”) 

So, Enemy No. 2: The Salafis.

Enemy No. 3: The Arab oil sheiks.
They seem to especially hate the House of Saud. 

ISIS considers ALL Shiites to be apostates and reject any form of Shiite rule. 
(The Shiites govern Iran and are the primary leaders in Iraq. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is an Alawite, a mystical branch of Shiia Islam.)  

Enemy No. 4: All Shiites.  

Enemy No. 5: The government of Iran and its military. 

Enemy No. 6: The government of Iraq and its military. 

Enemy No. 7: The government of Syria and its military.

ISIS considers Hamas, the Sunni organization fighting in the Arab-Israeli conflict, to be TRAITORS to the faith who must be removed or killed before any Islamic victory against Israel can be achieved, and has since pledged to fight Hezbollah and its Lebanese supporters.  

ISIS considers Hamas, the Sunni organization fighting in the Arab-Israeli conflict, to be traitors to the faith who must be removed or killed before any Islamic victory against Israel can be achieved, and has since pledged to fight Hezbollah and its Lebanese supporters.  

And one ISIS commander, a Tunisian named Abu Mus’ab, declared Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of Al-Qaeda to be an apostate. 

Enemy No. 8: Hamas. 

Enemy No. 9: Hezbollah. 

Enemy No. 10: Al-Qaeda. 

Some Sunnis have identified the group’s members as modern Kharijites—a sect that is neither Shia nor Sunni that in the seventh century refused to accept the leadership of the cousin of the Prophet Muhammad.  
ISIS Threatens America! 'We Will Raise the Flag of Allah in the White House' .


“I say to America that the Islamic Caliphate has been established,” Abu Mosa, a spokesman for the terror group.
“Don’t be cowards and attack us with drones. Instead
 send your soldiers, the ones we humiliated in Iraq.”  


THE DECAPITATED BODY OF A CHILD IN SYRIA, 2012.
ISIS USES THESE PHOTOS ON ITS WEBSITES TO STRIKE TERROR INTO THE HEARTS OF THE NATIONS.


ISIS HAS "VOWED TO ALLAH" THAT IT WILL KILL ALL SHIITES, ALL "APOSTATE' SUNNIS, ALL WESTERNIZED/AMERICAN MUSLIMS, THE KINGS OF JORDAN AND SAUDI ARABIA, ALL CHRISTIANS WHO DO NOT CONVINCINGLY CONVERT, ALL JEWS, ALL OF "SATANIC AMERICA", ALL WHO DO NOT PLEDGE OBEDIENCE TO AND SUBMISSION TO ISIS DOCTRINE, TO THE TYPE OF ISLAM THAT ISIS INSISTS UPON.

A REPORT BY THE UNITED NATIONS, ISSUED IN OCTOBER, 2014, GIVES THE STATISTICS OF ISIS' MURDERS OF FELLOW MUSLIMS.  

"On September 5, ISIS executed three Sunni women in Mosul. What was their “crime”? They refused to provide medical care to ISIS fighters. 
- On September 9, ISIS executed a Sunni Imam in western Mosul for refusing to swear loyalty to ISIS. 
- On August 2, a man from the Salah ad Din province was abducted and beheaded for refusing to swear allegiance to ISIS. 
-On August 19, a female Muslim doctor south of Mosul was killed for organizing a protest to object to ISIS’ mandate that female doctors cover their faces with religious veils when treating patients.  
-On August 31, 19 Sunni Muslim men were executed in Saadiya for refusing to swear allegiance to ISIS. -On July 22, a Sunni Imam in Eastern Baquba was killed for simply denouncing ISIS. 
-On September 9, ISIS executed two Muslim women by shooting them in the back of the head. Their exact “crime” was not known. 

And the list goes on from ISIS slaughtering 1,500 Iraqi soldiers in June to blowing up numerous Sunni mosques because apparently the leaders of those mosques refused to swear loyalty to ISIS.   

Do take time to go read the U.N.'s long list of SUNNI AND OTHER MUSLIMS, THOUSANDS OF THEM, killed by ISIS.   

LET THE FOLLOWING VERY GRAPHIC AND SHOCKING VIDEOS AND PHOTOS CONVINCE YOU OF THEIR INTENTIONS.

MANY, ACTUALLY MOST OF THESE HAVE BEEN COPIED FROM THE ISIS WEBSITE, "Welayat Salahuddin", BUT YOU DO NOT WANT TO EXPOSE YOUR COMPUTER TO THAT SITE!


MOST OF THESE HAVE ALSO APPEARED IN ARABIAN MEDIA AND HAVE BEEN COPIED FROM THOSE.


I POST THESE, NOT AT ALL WANTING TO, BUT FEELING I MUST, AS SO FEW WILL FIND THESE AND KNOW WHAT ALL THE WORLD IS UP AGAINST FROM THESE "JIHADISTS".

THEY ARE NOT THE "REBELS" MANY OF YOU MAY THINK THEY ARE!

WHILE THESE ALL APPEAR ON SEVERAL WEBSITES, I HAVE CHOSEN THE ONES BELOW FOR CLARITY AND FOR SAFETY IN VISITING THE LINKS PROVIDED.

PLEASE NOTE: I DO NOT SHARE THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ON SOME OF THESE WEBSITES, BUT, AS I SAID, THEY ARE BUT THE "SAFEST" SITES THAT HAVE COPIED THESE FROM PURPORTED ISIS WEB PAGES.

IN SYRIA, CRUCIFIXIONS AND BEHEADING OF SHIITES, APOSTATE SUNNIS, ASSYRIANS, CHILDREN AND CHRISTIANS, SHOOTINGS OF PRIESTS.


http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/01/world/meast/syria-bodies-crucifixions/index.html

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ead_1372329728 


http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3bb_1379478168


FROM www.alhayat.tv:

Islamic State jihadist announces his marriage to terrified 7-year-old in conquered city in Syria -

Girls as young as 9 years old are eligible to be married “if the signs of puberty are visible,” said the Chairman of the Council on Islamic Ideology, Maulana Muhammad Khan Shirani.


The photo at the top of this blog was published on twitter by a Muslim user (@Fadel_alHadidi) and professes to be an ISIS militant marrying a 7-year old kafir (NON-MUSLIM) in occupied minority district of either Mosul or Syria (location is unconfirmed). When a forced conversion takes place, the victim is  first forced to recite the Qur'an to make the marriage halal according to Sharia law.


http://catholic.org/news/international/middle_east/story.php?id=51537


http://www.catholic.org/news/international/middle_east/story.php?id=56481



Killing a woman by slitting her throat and capturing her blood in a bowl, holding her firm as her life literally drains from her neck. Such forms of execution are intended to intimidate others.  

[NOTE: SOME SAY THIS IS A PHOTO-SHOPPED FAKE.   
TO THOSE I WOULD SAY, GO, FIND THE ISIS/IS WEBPAGES, AND YOU WILL SEE MUCH WORSE THAN THIS!  
THIS IS TAME IN COMPARISON TO MANY POSTS BY ACTUAL MEMBERS OF THE ISLAMIC STATE!]  


                           ISIS USED A CHILD TO BEHEAD TWO MEN IN SYRIA!  

http://humanrightsinvestigations.org/2012/12/10/syrian-rebels-use-a-child-to-behead-a-prisoner/


IN IRAQ, ISIS HAS EXECUTED ALMOST 2000 IRAQI AND KURDISH SOLDIERS, IS EXECUTING CHRISTIANS WHO HAVE HAD TO REMAIN THERE, UNABLE TO ESCAPE, AND HAS A GROUP OF ABOUT 40,000 REFUGEES SURROUNDED ON A MOUNTAINTOP AND IS STARVING THEM TO MAKE THEM SURRENDER. 

THE U.S. FINALLY BEGAN FOOD DROPS TO HELP THEM.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/06/15/these-dramatic-images-show-apparent-mass-execution-of-iraqi-soldiers-by-isis/


http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/07/us-aid-iraqi-trapped-mountain-isis


THERE ARE REPORTS THAT AS MANY AS 150,000 YAZIDI REFUGEES ARE FLEEING TO THE SINJAR MOUNTAINS THERE:
http://youtu.be/QcmS233UPlA


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2656905/ISIS-jihadists-seize-two-towns-bear-Baghdad-U-S-tanks-helicopters-stolen-fleeing-western-trained-Iraqi-forces.html 

"'The gunmen film themselves shooting cars off the road then move in to video close-ups of the victims' blood-stained bodies slumped in the seats.'"   

U.N. human rights spokesman Rupert Colvill said the number of people killed after Sunni Islamist militants overran the city of Mosul earlier this week may run into the hundreds.
 He also said four women had killed themselves after being raped, 16 Jordanians had been kidnapped, and prisoners released by the militants had been looking to exact revenge on those responsible for their incarceration.  

'We've also had reports suggesting that the government forces have also committed excesses, in particular the shelling of civilian areas on 6 and 8 June,' he said. 'There are claims that up to 30 civilians may have been killed.'  


British ISIS fighter Abu Abdullah Al-Habashi, 20, poses in front of a soldier strung up and decapitated, and hundreds of British-born jihadists are said to have joined ISIS.  

The stories, the videos, the acts of unfathomable brutality have become a defining aspect of ISIS, which controls a nation-size tract of land and has now pushed Iraq to the precipice of dissolution.   


Its adherents kill with such abandon that even the leader of al-Qaeda has disavowed them. “Clearly, [leader Ayman] al-Zawahiri believes that ISIS is a liability to the al-Qaeda brand.  

CHRISTIANS IN IRAQ, AS ELSEWHERE, ARE PRIME TARGETS FOR ISIS.  

http://www.christianpost.com/news/isis-systematically-beheading-children-in-iraq-they-are-killing-every-christian-they-see-says-chaldean-leader-124594/

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/08/chaldean-christian-leader-isis-is-beheading-children-in-iraq-video/  


In another recently-released video reported by the Associated Press, ISIS fighters capture a tribal militia commander along with his two sons. The prisoners are forced to dig their own graves. “I advise whoever is with the Sahwa to repent and quit,” the commander says into the camera. “Here I am digging my grave with my own hands…. They can get to anyone.”  

Then the jihadists slit their throats.   

https://web.archive.org/web/20140616033123/http://www.startribune.com/world/262982531.html  

http://www.barenakedislam.com/2014/06/13/iraq-isis-terrorists-mass-executions-and-beheadings-of-iraqi-soldiers-and-civilians-warning-graphic/


IF THESE HORRIFIC VIDEOS, REPORTS AND PHOTOS DON'T CONVINCE YOU OF ISIS' INTENTIONS, THEN JUST WAIT...WAIT UNTIL THEY COME TO YOUR COMMUNITY.


THOSE UNDER THEIR REIGN OF TERROR TODAY DID NOT BELIEVE THEY COULD BE THIS SAVAGE EITHER.

THEY, TOO, WERE WRONG!

IT SEEMS THAT IT WOULD BE IN ALL OUR BEST INTERESTS IF WE BAND TOGETHER TO DEFEAT THIS EXTREMIST GROUP.


AND TO THOSE WHO DOUBT THESE REPORTS, VIDEOS, ETC, TALK TO THOSE WHO HAVE SEEN THIS FIRST-HAND....I DID...AND THEY CAN'T BELIEVE THEY SURVIVED.

THEY ALSO WILL NEVER GO HOME AGAIN!

ISIS HAS RECENTLY ISSUED VIDEO INSTRUCTIONS TO AMERICAN MUSLIMS TO KILL AMERICAN 'INFIDELS', TO PROVE THEY ARE WORTHY OF BEING SPARED BY ISIS.
THOSE MUSLIMS UNWILLING TO DO SO FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF ISIS IS ABLE TO GET INTO THE UNITED STATES.

IF AMERICAN MUSLIMS WON'T COMMIT TO JIHAD, WON'T BOW TO ISIS' WISHES, WON'T PLEDGE THEMSELVES TO BE MARTYRS FOR ISLAM, THEY WILL DIE WITH ALL OTHER AMERICANS, ISIS HAS SAID.
ISIS HAS ALSO INVITED AMERICAN MUSLIMS TO GET OUT OF THE "GREAT SATAN NATION" AND JOIN THEM IN SYRIA, IRAQ, AND PROVE THEIR COMMITMENT TO ISLAM.

SO FAR, ABOUT 200 YOUNG AMERICAN MUSLIMS HAVE DONE JUST THAT.

Thursday, August 7, 2014

ISIS VOWS TO DESTROY MECCA AND KILL JORDAN'S KING

Crucifixions in Syria by ISIS.

Their next targets are Mecca and Jordan.
It was a member of ISIS, news sources say, who recently tweeted via Twitter:
“I swear to God, if we conquer Saudi Arabia, as you worship, none other than Allah will demolish the Kaaba.”


ISIS has been called the most brutal and lethal terrorist group on earth.
Even Al Qaeda has said this of them.
ISIS follows a strict interpretation of the Sunni faith, which is against idolatry of anything other than God, and ISIS sees Mecca and its worship of the Kaaba as idolatry.
It has also threatened to kill any it finds near the Kaaba, or who have "rubbed the stone".
ISIS has become notorious for singling out Shiite Muslims and executing them.

Amnesty International listed a few ISIS atrocities in their 18-page report “Rule of fear;ISIS abuses in detention is northern Syria.”

“They have conducted hundreds of executions, beheadings, even crucifixions in Mosul, Iraq. They destroy anything that is not Islamic, such as the Assyrian Church in Mosul. Hundreds have been slain for being “infidels.”

Saudi reconnaissance planes have found ISIS terrorists heading for the Saudi border, aiming to seize control of the Iraqi-Saudi border crossing at Ar Ar.

30,000 soldiers have been sent to Saudi's border by the king there.

Baku. Rashad Suleymanov – APA. Representatives of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) stated that they will ruin the Kaaba after capturing Saudi Arabia.

APA reports quoting Turkish media that ISIS wants to take control of Arar city of Saudi Arabia and start operations here.

ISIS member Abu Turab Al Mugaddasi said that they would destroy the Kaaba in Mecca:
“If Allah wills, we will kill those who worship stones in Mecca and destroy the Kaaba. People go to Mecca to touch the stones, not for Allah.”


“The militant group's announcement is a message to all the states in the region that you are inside the red circle now,” Nouri Al-Maliki of Iraq said. 

A total of six mosques across the northern Nineveh province of Iraq have been destroyed by ISIS forces.
ISIS operatives have also destroyed four religious Muslim shrines in the region, including the Ahmed al-Rifai shrine and tomb, also in Tal Afa.
ISIS is leaving a path of destroyed churches, shrines and mosques in its wake as it storms across Syria and Iraq, and has even set its sights on Mecca -- Islam's holiest site.
The nihilistic jihadis, led by self-proclaimed descendant of Prophet Muhammad Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, have already bulldozed or blown up some of the most sacred places in Iraq, and seem bent on killing and destroying anyone or anything that does not measure up to their vision of Islam. Experts say the group, which originally stood for Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, but now simply calls itself "Islamic State," has appointed itself the leading proponent of the Muslim faith.
The threat to Mecca itself, the holy city in Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia, was unprecedented.
In the early 10th century, the extremist Shia group known as the Qarmatis raided Mecca, burned the Kaaba, and carried off the famous Black Stone as an "idolatrous relic". “They believed that other Muslims would stop making the pilgrimage. When people kept going to Mecca anyway, the Qarmatis finally parted with the Black Stone for an immense ransom.

But if ISIS actually tried to destroy the Kaaba, they would be met with extraordinary opposition.

Saudi King Abdullah has put the army and security forces on the highest alert. According to the Saudi state-run news agency:
June 26, 2014
"The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz has issued a royal order calling for measures to be taken to protect the Kingdom’s national security in the face of regional turmoil. The Royal Court issued the following statement today:

“Upon the current events in the region, especially in Iraq, the National Security Council, presided over by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, has reviewed the course and consequences of events and, based on the commitment of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques to protect the national security of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, anticipating that the terrorist organizations or others might carry out actions that might disturb the security of the homeland, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques has ordered taking all necessary measures to protect the gains of the homeland and its territories in addition to the security and stability of the Saudi people.”
Custodian of the Two Holy ‎Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz today addressed the Arab and Islamic nations and international community. King Abdullah stated that it’s the responsibility of the Muslim world not to allow Islam to serve as justification for terrorist acts.

“I call on leaders and scholars of the Islamic nation to carry out their duty towards God Almighty, and to stand in the face of those trying to hijack Islam and present it to the world as a religion of extremism, hatred, and terrorism, and to speak the word of truth, and not fear anybody.  Our nation today is passing through a critical, historic stage, and history will be witness against those who have been the tool exploited by the enemies to disperse and tear the nation and tarnish the pure image of Islam,” said King Abdullah.

King Abdullah called upon the international community to do more to combat terrorism in this time of historical and regional instability.

AL QAEDA ALSO CALLS FOR UPRISING AGAINST SAUDI ROYALTY!
Al Qaeda Calls For Uprising Against Saudi Arabia, ‘One Of The Worst Corrupt Governments’
 “Al Qaeda chief Ayman Al Zawahri last Thursday urged Saudis to rise up against the kingdom’s ruling Al Saud family.

Egyptian-born Zawahri, who took over the leadership of Al Qaeda after Saudi arch-terrorist Osama Bin Laden was killed, invoked the ‘Arab Spring’ in his call.

‘Muslim brothers in the land of the holy mosques, a year has passed since the uprising of the Arab people against their rulers…my dear brothers why do you still accept to be ruled by the Al Saud family,’ Zawahiri said in a video posted on an Islamist website.

‘They are one of the worst corrupt governments who steal your money,’ he said. ‘Why don’t you rise up [against the Al Sauds] as you are the companions of the Prophet?’
   
While Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter, has largely succeeded in riding out the storm, its eastern province – which has a large Shiite population – has seen sporadic demonstrations since March last year.”
In November four people were killed, according to the Interior Ministry and activists. Riyadh asserts - like its Gulf Arab allies - that Shiite Persian Iran is stirring up unrest in a bid to destabilize the monarchy.
Protesters' demands have focused on political reform in the mainly Sunni kingdom, with calls to improve life for the country's Shiite minority, and the release of political prisoners.

According to activists, security forces have arrested and released around 500 people over the protests, of whom 80 are still incarcerated.
Zawahiri's call underscores the difficult position the slowly-reforming and business-minded Saudi monarchy finds itself in vis-a-vis the rising tide of political Islam that characterizes the Arab Spring.

Al Qaeda has also been behind a virulent Islamist terror campaign in neighboring Yemen.

US military and intelligence officials have used Saudi Arabia as a staging ground for an expanding drone strike campaign targeting the terror group there.

Saudi Arabia believes it is under attack as never before, say analysts with close ties to the kingdom’s elite, and sees Syria’s civil war, the chaos in Iraq, Iran's arming oh HAMAS, and Egypt’s political crisis as posing a domestic threat to the kingdom. The threats from ISIS only fan the flames of unease.

Responding to these perceived threats, Saudi Arabia has passed a set of laws that banned citizens from fighting abroad, donating money to any faction in Syria or sympathizing with militant ideologies.

Islamists from the kingdom’s conservative Sunni majority are the main focus of government unease, most clearly via a decree that branded the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization.


ISIS Threatens to Invade Jordan, 'Slaughter' King Abdullah


ISIS terrorists recently posted a video on YouTube in which they threatened to "slaughter" Abdullah, whom they denounced as a "tyrant." Some of the terrorists who appeared in the video were Jordanian citizens who tore up their passports in front of the camera and vowed to launch suicide attacks inside the kingdom. 

    "The danger is getting closer to our bedrooms." — Oraib al-Rantawi, Jordanian political analyst

ISIS terrorists from both Iraq and Syria have begun creeping into neighboring countries of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and into the Gaza Strip.
Individuals with known ties to ISIS are known to already be inside their borders.

 ISIS leader Abu Baker al-Baghdadi recently discussed with his lieutenants the possibility of extending the group's control beyond Syria and Iraq.

He sees Jordan as a lover of the West, a friend to America.

One of the ideas discussed envisages focusing ISIS's efforts on Jordan, where Islamist movements already have a significant presence.
Few have forgotten the massacre of thousands of Palestinians' along with many PLO members that became known as "Black September". Those inside Jordan from Gaza and the West Bank have previously made sporadic attempts to make their voices heard in Jordan, to gain full rights as citizens there, and to depose the Hashemite king.

Jordan was also chosen because it has shared borders with Iraq and Syria, making it easier for the terrorists to infiltrate the kingdom.

Jordanian political analyst Oraib al-Rantawi sounded alarm bells by noting that the ISIS threat to move its fight to the kingdom was real and imminent. "We in Jordan cannot afford the luxury of just waiting and monitoring," he cautioned. "The danger is getting closer to our bedrooms. It has become a strategic danger; it is no longer a security threat from groups or cells. We must start thinking outside the box. The time has come to increase coordination and cooperation with the regimes in Baghdad and Damascus to contain the crawling of extremism and terrorism."

The ISIS terrorists see Jordan's Western-backed King Abdullah as an enemy of Islam and an infidel, and have publicly called for his execution. ISIS terrorists recently posted a video on YouTube in which they threatened to "slaughter" Abdullah, whom they denounced as a "tyrant." Some of the terrorists who appeared in the video were Jordanian citizens who tore up their passports in front of the camera and vowed to launch suicide attacks inside the kingdom. 

Security sources in Amman expressed deep concern over ISIS's threats and plans to "invade" the kingdom. The sources said that King Abdullah has requested urgent military aid from the U.S. and other Western countries so that he could foil any attempt to turn Jordan into an Islamist-controlled state.

Marwan Shehadeh, an expert on Islamist groups, said he did not rule out the possibility that ISIS would target Jordan because it views the Arab regimes, including Jordan's Hashemites, as "infidels" and "apostates" who should be fought.

The recent victories by ISIS terrorists in Iraq and Syria have emboldened the group and its followers throughout the Middle East. Now the terrorists are planning to move their jihad not only to Jordan, but also to the Gaza Strip, Sinai and Lebanon.

Who is to say that radical Palestinians and Islamists in Jordan will not open the gates of that country to ISIS, just as Syrians reached out to them at their cost? 


ISIS marches on.




Tuesday, August 5, 2014

MOST GAZANS HATE HAMAS

CHILDREN IN GAZA PROTESTS BLACKOUTS IMPOSED BY HAMAS AFTER A 3-YEAR OLD BOY DIED AS A RESULT OF POWER OUTAGE.

July 29, 2014 http://www.worldtribune.com/2014/07/31/sources-hamas-quickly-puts-dissent-gaza-kills-palestinian-protesters/
An incident on Monday, in which Hamas police officers killed two hungry citizens and wounded many others, illustrates the level of intensity in the Gaza Strip these days. 
A large group of residents in the Beit Hanoun neighborhood had gathered outside a local food stand, holding food vouchers given to them by the regime. The hunger and lack of food led to a quarrel among the waiting masses. Very quickly the quarreling spiraled into violence, weapons were drawn with some residents opening fire.
Hamas policemen hurried to the scene to suppress the violence. In an attempt to calm the situation down, the policemen too drew their weapons and directed them at the residents. In the ensuing moments, Hamas shot and killed two residents from Beit Hanoun and wounded dozens more.
The day before yesterday in Gaza City many residents in the Al Shifa hospital protested against the terrorist organization hiding in its basemnent, with Hamas consequently extracting some of the protesters and executing them on the spot.


Gazans are fed up with Hamas but most say that they won’t revolt for fear of death. “The public in Gaza rightly assumes that the weapons are in the hands of Hamas and know they will end up dead,”  Orit Perlov, a researcher at the Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS), tells reporters.
She was moved, she said, by this tweet from a young Gazan man:
“I want to survive, and if I don’t, remember that I was not a Hamas man or a fighter."
When she asked GAZAN CITIZENS for the reasons behind their reluctance in protesting against Hamas, Perlov received the following response: “Hamas has the weapons and so when we [the Gazan public] see what’s happening in Syria, Iraq, Bahrain, Iran, and Turkey, we understand that Hamas won’t think twice about shooting us.” 

David Pollack, who recently polled Gaza citizens about Hamas and their war against Israel said, “With so many Palestinians actually saying they want peace and support an immediate cease fire, it means Hamas is imposing this war against Israel on its own people.”

88% want the Palestinian Authority (PA) — not Hamas — to run Gaza administratively.

A large majority (71 %) said that crime was a “significant” problem in Gaza.

Two-thirds said that another significant problem was official corruption.

70% also agreed or strongly agreed with the statement “Hamas should maintain a ceasefire with Israel in both Gaza and the West Bank.”

A Gaza journalist, just a few days ago, told international reporters, " Nobody can forgive Hamas for what they’re doing. No one can forgive Hamas for butchering Palestinians to get power. Most Gazans hate Hamas with a passion.”
He continued, “The only reason Hamas rules Gaza is because of its ruthless iron fist and military dictatorship,” he said. “We would love to have an independence from both Fatah and Hamas, who are profiting off the Palestinian people. We need to rule ourselves.”

Another Gaza journalist who tried to report about Hamas brutality, Haidar Ghanem, was accused of "collaborating with Israel" during Operation Cast Lead and was executed by Hamas on or about January 7. 2009.
 "the PA state security court had sentenced Ghanem, a father of two, after holding only two brief sessions."

Mudhar Zahran, a Palestinian politician in the West Bank, said publicly that Hamas has never been so unpopular in Gaza. “No normal human being can watch what’s going on and still support Hamas,” said Zahran. "I beg the Israeli army to understand that Hamas uses civilians, while their own leaders (like Mashaal) are hiding in Qatar.”

When asked why Gazans don't turn to the U.N. to get rid of Hamas, one person said, "United Nations is controlled by the OIC (Organization of Islamic Conference) which has turned into Islamic gestapo for the world. They support terrorist groups like Hamas."

THE SADDEST TESTIMONY OF GAZANS DURING RECENT FIGHTING WAS THIS ONE:
A GAZAN FATHER rushed his little daughter to a Israeli field hospital set up across the border in Gaza. She as unconscious, laboring for breath and he was asked what happened. "She was standing too close to the rocket. Hamas fired the rocket and she collapsed. Help her! Oh, God, help her!"
I don't know the fate of the little girl, or of the father because he took her to an ISRAELI field hospital and he may have been killed for that.

Testimonies from Gaza civilians documented in the course of war imply that people do not dare to speak out openly against Hamas; those who tried to object were shot by Hamas operatives.

Hamas and Fatah have been bitter rivals since June 2007, when Hamas ousted Fatah from Gaza after launching a bloody coup against the Abbas government. About 400 Fatah supporters were killed and many others badly maimed.
Fatah officials said at least 19 of its members were immediately executed and many more brutally tortured after Hamas "won" the last elections.
Many Gaza residents say they were forced to vote for Hamas.

Several brave Gazans have told international reporters that Hamas is using schools and other public buildings in Gaza City to launch strikes at Israel, and that the towns of Khan Yunis and Rafah are used as detention centers to interrogate members of Fatah and their supporters. They said three men had been blinded during questioning and more than 60 had been shot in the legs as punishment soon after Hamas took power.

Fatah leaders in the West Bank also accused Hamas of stealing U.N. aid convoys
Gazans are not allowed to see news reports from outside Gaza, so few have seen the daily films of hundreds of aid trucks carrying food and necessary supplies into Gaza from Israel.
We in the West keep track of those trucks going into Gaza, but No one knows what Hamas is doing with the goods.

Few Gazans know that the monetary aid earmarked for the CITIZENS of Gaza is being spent on things that Hamas cannot account for to the international community.
While nations like Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan and Egypt say there should be more than enough money each month that Arabs and Westerners send millions to Gaza for all citizens to have benefit, Hamas cannot account for those missing millions each month.

That is why Arab nations and others are slowing on humanitarian relief funds for Gaza.
They know the citizens are not reaping any benefit from it.

Hamas should care for its own people, but instead, they attack them and spend the money on themselves.
May, 2007, Hamas opened fire on a school in Gaza.
Several terrified children were shot. A guard was shot dead.
Why?
Because boys and girls were "intermingled".
That is against Sharia Law, Hamas said.

A human rights group based in Ramallah has often decried the attacks by Hamas on the people of Gaza, releasing a statement that read, "A number of citizens have been extra-judicially executed during and after the Israeli military aggression on the Gaza Strip... Fire was opened on affected citizens at a close distance. In addition, individuals in official uniform or masked persons opened fire on people's legs, severely beat others, imposed house arrests, and threatened to punish citizens along with their families if they would not comply."  

These are the atrocious things Hamas does.
They were so cruel that Mosab Hassan Yousef (Arabic: مصعب حسن يوسف‎) (born 1978), a Palestinian and son of a Hamas founder and leader, Sheikh Hassan Yousef fled Gaza and even abandoned Islam, citing the cruelty he saw carried out on his own people by the terrorist groups who rule over them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb2SHCSD74o

Another brave Gazan citizen uploaded a video to Youtube which went viral and was copied and shared around the world. He asks, "Why do you say Hamas is not murderers? Look what they do!" [WARNING, THIS IS A VERY GRAPHIC VIDEO]

In another video he shows us the attack on a wedding party in Gaza by Hamas, and says the groom was killed.
The people of Gaza never know when Hamas GOON SQUADS will attack them!

They never know where Hamas will fire their next rockets from...from a school, as in this video of Hamas firing  at Israel from UNRWA primary school in Gaza in October, 2007?

According to Mouin Gasser, a 45-year-old teacher there, the area around the school was hit four times in about two minutes by the shells that landed just outside the school. Gasser said that he did not see any militants in the area. The Daily Mail quoted an eyewitness stating that he saw the marks from five separate explosions.
Hanan Abu Khajib said that Hamas militants fired just outside the school compound, likely from the secluded courtyard of a house across the street some 25 yards from the school, and that Israeli return fire minutes later landed outside the school along its southwest wall, killing two Hamas fighters.Two unnamed residents, who spoke to an Associated Press reporter by phone on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal, said a group of militants had been firing mortar shells rounds from a street close to the school.
Jonathan Miller wrote in a Channel 4 story that "local residents in the street told me that militants had been firing rockets – as the IDF claimed – and having been targeted in retaliatory fire by the IDF, they ran down the street past the school.
Residents of the neighborhood said two brothers who were Hamas fighters were in the area at the time of the attack.
WHY WOULD HAMAS FIRE ROCKETS FROM NEAR THAT SCHOOL KNOWING ALL INSIDE IT MIGHT BE KILLED?
WHY?

Gazan teenagers and college students, have formed a group to let the world know what they suffer every day under Hamas, wondering when retaliatory strikes will come from Israel.  

They wrote a Manifesto for the youth in Gaza. It gained international attention.
[WARNING, THE LANGUAGE IS VERY GRAPHIC WITH SOME STRONG OBSCENITIES!]
1 January 2011
<<"An anonymous group of students has created a document to express their frustration born of Hamas's violent crackdowns on 'western decadence', the destruction wreaked by Israel's attacks and the political games played by Fatah and the U.N.
The young Gazans say they are fed up with Hamas and 'sick of bearded guys with guns'.
This is the first time that a group of young Palestinian cyber-activists has agreed to meet a journalist since launching what it calls Gaza Youth's Manifesto for Change. It is an incendiary document – written with courage and furious energy – that has captivated thousands of people who have come across it online, and the young university students are visibly excited, but also scared. "Not only are our lives in danger; we are also putting our families at risk," says one of them, who calls himself Abu George.
"Fuck Hamas..." begins the text. "Fuck Israel. Fuck Fatah. Fuck UN. Fuck UNWRA. Fuck USA! We, the youth in Gaza, are so fed up with Israel, Hamas, the occupation, the violations of human rights and the indifference of the international community!"
It goes on to detail the daily humiliations and frustrations that constitute everyday life in the Gaza Strip.
"Here in Gaza we are scared of being incarcerated, interrogated, hit, tortured, bombed, killed," reads the extraordinary document. "We are afraid of living, because every single step we take has to be considered and well-thought, there are limitations everywhere, we cannot move as we want, say what we want, do what we want, sometimes we even can't think what we want because the occupation has occupied our brains and hearts so terrible that it hurts and it makes us want to shed endless tears of frustration and rage!"
The text ends with a triple demand: 
"ENOUGH! Enough pain, enough tears, enough suffering, enough control, limitations, unjust justifications, terror, torture, excuses, bombings, sleepless nights, dead civilians, black memories, bleak future, heart-aching present, disturbed politics, fanatic politicians, religious bullshit, enough incarceration! WE SAY STOP! This is not the future we want! We want three things. We want to be free. We want to be able to live a normal life. We want peace. Is that too much to ask?"


Two of the group have been detained by the Gazan authorities several times, accused among other crimes of "immoral" behaviour. They say that they have been abused in jail and claim that physical and psychological punishment is commonplace in Gaza's detention centres.

"We are supposed to be the engine of change in this society, but our voices are muted. In the press, at university, there is no room in our society to talk freely, out of the frame, without putting yourself and your family at risk," says one, who wants to be called Abu Yazan. He adds: "In Gaza, you feel watched at school, in the streets, everywhere. You can be thrown into jail at any time. [Hamas] will threaten you with ruining your family reputation and that would be it."
These youngsters do not represent anybody except themselves, but their call for change has resonated strongly, not only abroad but also inside Gaza. Their Facebook page already has thousands of friends – including, they say, many from the Strip. 

Going out, meeting friends in cafés – let alone clubs or discotheques – or attending cultural events has become an increasingly complicated task as Hamas cracks down on western "decadence".

In the places where young men and women are allowed to meet, considered an "oasis" by the less conservative youth, the police are quick to interrogate mixed couples suspected of not being married or engaged.

The "last straw" for the writers of the Gaza manifesto came a month ago, when Hamas closed Sharek, an internationally financed organisation offering training and summer activities for thousands of adolescents and young people. Sharek had also became a hang-out place for the more liberal-minded in Gaza. Human Rights Watch recently issued a statement condemning its closure. "Hamas authorities in Gaza should allow an organisation that helps children and youth to reopen, and penalise officials who have harassed its workers," it said."

THE YOUNG PEOPLE EXPLAINED TO THE INTERVIEWER ...With high unemployment in the Strip and little access to other job markets after graduation, many feel that they have reached a dead end. Some keep studying and accumulating degrees and foreign languages, which they learn via the internet, hoping for better days to come. Others kill their time smoking hookahs with their friends day after day. There is an increasing number who rely on drugs to cope with their conflict traumas and frustrations. >>

TO BACK UP WHAT THESE YOUNG PEOPLE CLAIM:
A German journalist filmed video of Hamas' attack on a young man, a woman, and others as they tried to leave an area that Israel had warned them would be coming under fire. Hamas stops them, begins shoving and brutally beating while the woman cries out "WHY? WHAT HAVE WE DONE? You are worse than the Jews!"
A young man is dragged away, another is slammed into a car and we don't see him anymore.
The journalist is threatened by Hamas, but stands his ground.
MANY OF THE CAPTIONS ARE IN GERMAN, BUT NOT ALL.

July 310, 2014: A journalist in Gaza backs the IDF version of a missile strike on a school playground and says Hamas rockets went astray. But it’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Returning from a stint in Gaza, and safe from what HE ominously referred to as potential “Hamas retaliation”, Italian journalist Gabriele Barbati on Tuesday afternoon broke the media silence by tweeting the following message, confirming that Hamas terrorists rushed to cover up evidence of what was indeed THEIR OWN errant rocket fire aimed at Israel:
<<Out of #Gaza far from #Hamas retaliation: misfired rocket killed children yday in Shati. Witness: militants rushed and cleared debris>>

Verifying facts on the ground in Gaza is notoriously difficult for foreign reporters, and even for Palestinian journalists seen as aligned with the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority, as journalists are closely watched by Hamas security forces and can face interrogation and a permanent ban from Gaza for publishing material deemed unfavorable to the territory’s Islamist rulers. As such, little information has emerged on what exactly happened that day in Shati.Hamas, through coercion and violence, limits the freedom of foreign journalists in Gaza, but many are speaking out once they reach safety.

Twice last week, Wall Street Journal reporters posted on Twitter statements and photos implicating Hamas — but then quickly deleted their tweets.
Those who request the tweets are being censored.

The first deleted tweet, posted by Wall Street Journal Middle East correspondent Nick Casey on July 21, referenced Hamas’s use of the Shifa Hospital in Gaza as a shield against Israeli attack:
<<You have to wonder w the shelling how patients at Shifa hospital feel as Hamas uses it as a safe place to see media>>
He followed that tweet with another: “@IDFSpokesperson said truth in communique released yesterday about Shati camp massacre. It was not Israel behind it.”

A second deleted tweet, posted by Tamer El-Ghobashy, suggested Hamas was likely responsible for a strike that hit the Shifa Hospital that day:
<<An outside wall on the campus of Gaza'smain hospital was hit by a strike. Low level damage suggest Hamas misfire.>>

Wall Street Journal DID initially reply to questions of why the Tweets were removed by forwarding some of the THREATS their journalists had received!

Radjaa Abu Dagga, a Palestinian-born photojournalist from France also told his story of being summoned to the Shifa hospital and threatened for reporting Hamas' use of human shields.
Even after he told them he was Palestinian, they wared him, "You must leave Gaza as soon as possible and stop working!"

A Spanish journalist told filmmaker Michael Grynszpan that the reason television news does not broadcast images of Hamas fighters in action is because of fear of immediate execution.
 ‘If ever we dared point our camera on them they would simply shoot at us and KILL us.’

Several Western journalists currently working in Gaza have been harassed and threatened by Hamas for documenting cases of the terrorist group’s involvement of civilians in Hamas' warfare against Israel, saying that some in the international media are intimidated and do not report on such incidents.

A reporter for Finland’s Helsingin Sanomat admits what we already knew. Hamas are firing rockets from a hospital.

Gallagher Fenwick was doing a live broadcast from Gaza when a Hamas rocket went off very nearby...as shown on France24.
8/3/2014

"This was a rocket,”, a rattled Fenwick told his audience, “this was a rocket, rockets were just shot right next to where we are standing, so I'm not going to stand here very long because usually there's a strike just moments after this occurs.”
The occurrence proves Israel's contention that Hamas fires rockets from among civilians, using them as human shields and manipulating any civilian casualties.VIDEO LINK:
http://youtu.be/OFKg1Gi08nU  


CNN’s Anderson Cooper, was perhaps the only fearless journalist in Lebanon filming Hezbollah.
He publicly reported on their tactics, which are the same as journalists are reporting that Hamas is using now:
“As the video showed a group reporters and photographers interviewing a single woman on a blanket, Cooper explained, ‘Civilian casualties are clearly what Hezbollah wants foreign reporters to focus on. It keeps the attention off them — and questions about why Hezbollah should still be allowed to have weapons when all the other militias in Lebanon have already disarmed.’”“After letting us take pictures of a few damaged buildings, they take us to another location, where there are ambulances waiting.”This is a heavily orchestrated Hezbollah media event. When we got here, all the ambulances were lined up. We were allowed a few minutes to talk to the ambulance drivers. Then one by one, they’ve been told to turn on their sirens and zoom off so that all the photographers here can get shots of ambulances rushing off to treat civilians. That’s the story that Hezbollah wants people to know about.”“These ambulances aren’t responding to any new bombings. The sirens are strictly for effect.” 

What will Hamas stop at?
A Gaza water park was burned down by Hamas in 2010 and several were "punished" because, Hamas said, of "events where men and women sit together".

In May of 2010, Hamas Jihadists burned a UN-run summer camp for children and teens in Gaza, They threatened to kill John Ging, head of the anti-Israeli UNRWA in Gaza.
"about two dozen armed and masked men targeted a seaside camp in central Gaza, ... The assailants tied up an unarmed guard, then tried to set fire to two tents and a perimeter fence made from tarp-like material. Wielding knives, they slashed a plastic swimming pool, blow-up slide and toys."

ANOTHER VERY SAD STORY OF HOW MUCH SUFFERING IS IMPOSED ON THE PEOPLE OF GAZA BY HAMAS IS HEART-BREAKING:

GAZA CITY (Reuters) 26/09/2012  -- At least 500 protesters in the Gaza Strip have called for the overthrow of the ruling Hamas government in a rare demonstration triggered by the death of a three-year-old boy in a fire during a power outage.

Protesters in the Bureij refugee camp, where the boy's family live, called for Hamas to be toppled and chanted "The people want to down the regime" late on Tuesday night, echoing slogans adopted in Arab revolutions in neighboring countries. The police swiftly dispersed the crowd.

The dead boy's father called for more protests, saying he hoped a healing of internal Palestinian political rifts could ease the Strip's problems."I call on people to take to the streets and not to fear being clubbed by policemen," Abdel-Fattah Al-Baghdadi, 23, told Reuters."I hold both the governments in Gaza and in the West Bank responsible for what happened to us," he said.

Hamas has banned protests, including any demonstrations calling for an end to divisions between it and Fatah.

Police in Gaza also dispersed what they said was an unlicensed rally organized by dozens of women calling for unity between Gaza and the West Bank.

THE PEOPLE WANT A NEW ELECTION
Many citizens in Gaza have asked for new elections.
There have been NO elections since the setting up of the Palestinian Authority since 2006.
The dictator for life, Arafat, died in 2004, requiring the ONLY new Palestinian "election".
Only 700 people in ALL Gaza are allowed to vote in the "Palestinian National Council".

INSTEAD, HAMAS WANTS MARTYRS!
Hamas MP Fathi Hammad (ON Palestinian Al-Aqsa TV)

[The enemies of Allah] do not know that the Palestinian people has developed its [methods] of death and death-seeking. For the Palestinian people, death has become an industry, at which women excel, and so do all the people living on this land. The elderly excel at this, and so do the mujahideen and the children. This is why they have formed human shields of the women, the children, the elderly, and the mujahideen, in order to challenge the Zionist bombing machine. It is as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: "We desire death like you desire life."

GAZA'S CITIZENS ARE BOMBARDED WITH THIS EACH DAY!

Following the Hamas takeover of Gaza in August 2007, Hamas banned Palestinian public access television, controlled by rival faction Fatah, from making or broadcasting programs into Gaza. The ban left most of Gaza's electronic media in the hands of Hamas.
Much of Al-Aqsa TV programming glorifies violence and focuses on children AS MARTYRS.

A March 2013 segment included an interview with child-relatives of Umm Nidal, the Palestinian mother of four sons who became suicide bombers. The children expressed pride in their fathers' bombings and told viewers that, "I ask all Muslim sisters, mothers and daughters and sisters, that the Al Aqsa expects us, the next generation, to fall into line for it, God Willing and Exalted. Do not withhold from us the commanders, do not withhold from us the soldiers, and do not withhold from us lovers of martyrdom." The children also sang a song glorifying martyrdom.

Al-Aqsa TV maintains a Web site, which serves as a medium for news and announcements from the station. News stories posted on the site justify rocket attacks against civilians as retaliation for "the crimes of the occupation." The site also includes many graphic pictures of martyrs wrapped in shrouds and carried by large crowds. The site is hosted by a German company.

I AM NOT STUPID.
I KNOW THAT HUNDREDS OF INNOCENT LIVES WERE LOST AS ISRAEL RETALIATED AGAINST HAMAS IN GAZA.
BUT, SINCE I BELIEVE WHAT THE PEOPLE OF GAZA ARE SHOWING US, TELLING US,  I ALSO KNOW THAT MORE OF YOU ARE KILLED BY HAMAS EVERY YEAR! 
YOU ARE CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO NIGHTMARES!

BUT, LOOK AT THE WEST BANK!
THERE ARE NO DEAD THERE TODAY AS HAMAS IS NOT THERE TO PUT THE LIVES OF CITIZENS IN DANGER! 
NO ROCKETS FLEW AT ISRAEL FROM THE WEST BANK!

I BELIEVE THE BRAVE PEOPLE OF GAZA WHO WANT PEACE, THE YOUTH, ALL WHO HAVE DARED COME FORWARD WITH THESE HEART-WRENCHING TESTIMONIES OF WHAT THEY ARE SUFFERING UNDER HAMAS.

I FEEL THAT, IF MORE WOULD SPEAK OUT, SOMEHOW, IN ANY WAY POSSIBLE, THAT ALL THE WORLD WOULD DEMAND THAT YOU ARE FREE OF THE BRUTALITY YOU DAILY SUFFER UNDER HAMAS.

MILLIONS OF US HAVE SEEN THEIR TACTICS AGAINST YOU, BUT YOUR VOICES MUST BE RAISED WITH OURS.
YOU ARE THE ONLY EYEWITNESSES TO WHAT IS GOING ON IN YOUR OWN STREETS.
YOU ARE THE ONLY ONES WHO CAN SHOW THE REST OF THE WORLD WHAT IS GOING ON THERE.


I WISH YOU WELL.

Sunday, August 3, 2014

MIDDLE EAST IN FLAMES

IT CERTAINLY IS NOT ONLY GAZA AND ISRAEL AT WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
EVERY NATION IN THAT REGION IS AT WAR AND MOST OF THE BATTLES ARE BROTHERS AGAINST BROTHERS, ACCORDING TO AL JAZEERA REPORTS.

[See my blog, "
ARAB NATIONS SUPPORT ISRAEL'S WAR AGAIST HAMAS]

Egypt, continued deadly clashes over politics and violence between sects breaks out across the nation. Retribution killings continue. Violence against Christians mounts.
The extremist group, the Muslim Brotherhood, is partnering with HAMAS ad Egypt wants them both destroyed.

Iraq is weathering its deadliest outburst of violence since 2008, sees daily violence as different factions of Islam fight for control. The Islamic State is capturing towns at an alarming rate, CAPTURED THE MOSUL DAM, 3 MORE TOWNS AND ANOTHER OIL FIELD TODAY, and is executing what they call "apostate Shia Muslims, Christians, all opposed to them, as they go.
A food crisis is panicking civilians this week in Iraq, but they will soon be faced with a water crisis as ISIS has taken that dam.
Suicide bombings are highest in 6 years.

Afghanistan has seen an upswing in fatal strikes by the Taliban, suicide bombings, attacks against American and allied forces. Iran is fueling Afghan unrest as well. The Iranian Embassy in Kabul had "a very active" agenda of triggering anti-American sentiment, and Iran has been paying Afghan president Hamid Karzai millions of dollars each year a fact he has stated repeatedly in his negotiations with America.
Corruption is rampant in the Karzai administration.
Syria sees escalation in sectarian violence, bombings, destruction of entire villages, deaths of thousands. Two years after the first anti-government protests, conflict in Syria rages on. Following the military crackdown, the United States tightened sanctions. The United States shut down its embassy in Damascus, citing security concerns. The Arab League voted to suspend Syria's membership and then imposed sanctions, accusing the Assad government of failing to implement a peace plan. On June 21, 2012, Syrian government forces shot down a Turkish jet near its border.
The U.N. Human Rights Council says the Syrian military committed war crimes in the massacre of more than 100 civilians, half of them children, in the village of Houla in May 2012.
At least 65 people are found dead Jan. 29 in the contested Syrian city of Aleppo, many of them bound and shot execution-style.
Saudi Arabia aims to provide rebels with weapons and has called on the U.S. to do so as well. America complied.

Saudi Arabia's Wahabbist regime continues its violence against other Muslim sects while it also continues funding Islamic extremist groups across the Middle east.
Saudis imprisoned dozens on terrorism charges back in June of this year.
Jail terms ranging from six months to 30 years handed down to 33 people for forming a "terror cell", official media says.
A court in the capital Riyadh sentenced two people to death and jailed a third for 25 years after they were convicted of violence during Shia protests.
Scores of Shia Muslims are on trial after they were detained for anti-government protests in the Eastern province.
Demonstrations in the oil-rich region, where most of the kingdom's two million Shia Muslims live, erupted in 2011 alongside a Shia-led protest movement in neighbouring Bahrain.
They turned violent in 2012 and clashes between police and protesters have so far killed 24 people, including at least four policemen, according to activists.

In Pakistan, radical Islamic terror groups continue to thrive, and Pakistan is still using America to carry out drone strikes against enemies of the Pakistani government, while the Haqqani network, one of the most dangerous militant factions operating out of Pakistan, continues fighting American troops in neighboring Afghanistan.
Dozens of dead are reported every day in Pakistan.
Internal threats to Pakistan come from several sources: ethnic unrest (brother fighting brother), the recurrent intervention in the government of the Pakistani military, the rampant gun culture and spread of narcotics-based corruption, particularly since the war in Afghanistan, and Pakistan's ambivalent attitude toward terrorism, to name a few.


The small Arabic states of Oman and Qatar seem to be stirring from a peaceful slumber.
Unemployment is relatively high in Oman, which has only limited oil reserves and is one of the poorest of the oil-producing countries. Sultan Qaboos is now facing unprecedented challenges from the streets as a direct result of the wave of uprisings that has swept through the region.
Outside the Majlis al-Shura, Oman's consultative assembly, there is a permanent encampment of protesters demanding jobs. They say they will not budge until their demands are met.Two people were killed in 2011 during clashes in the city of Sohar between security forces and protesters demanding more jobs.

In contrast to economically strapped Oman, Qatar evokes thoughts of incredible wealth.
Qatar is now reckoned to be the richest country in the world.
It is also home to HAMAS terrorist leaders, and has provided financial support to several radical Islamic groups over the years.
Some say that without the support of Qatar and Turkey, Hamas would never have been able to start the bloody war now going on in Israel.
Jordan, Egypt and the Palestinian Authority seem to also see Qatar and Turkey as allies of Hamas and enemies of moderate Arab states.

Bahrain, a small nation under the influence of Saudi Arabia, continues to be the site of sectarian violence and human rights violations.
Bahrain recently demanded that a U.S. official leave after he met with a Shia opposition group.
Bahrain's foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday that US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Tom Malinowski is not welcome in the country.

Bahrain is a tiny island nation that is home to the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet, but has been roiled by near-daily protests by Shia Muslims seeking greater political rights and inspired by the Arab Spring wave of revolutions that started in early 2011.
The government moved to crush the uprising, which threatened to spill into neighbouring Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries with Shia populations, with the help of regional Gulf Arab forces.
Repeated rounds of political talks have failed to significantly close the rifts between the country's Sunni monarchy and majority Shia factions.

Iran has long called for the complete annihilation of the State of Israel, the United States, and other "powers of arrogance", but Iran has troubles of its owm.
A long and bitter rivalry between Iran’s president and an influential band of brothers in the political hierarchy exploded in 2012.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the head of the powerful judiciary, Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani, of protecting “certain individuals” from prosecution for economic corruption who are widely understood to be high officials, including Ayatollah Larijani’s oldest brother.
Ayatollah Khamenei recently pointed out that massacre, bloodshed, blind terrorism and its related catastrophes as well as the opportunities created for the occupying Zionist regime are all outcomes of division and difference in the Islamic Ummah.
As is the case in ALL Middle Eastern conflicts, deaths in Iran are the result of "family feuds", one sect kills the other.

Kuwait's favorite "preacher" has just called for all Gazan mothers to suckle their children on hatred for Jews and to raise their children up to accept matyrdom for Islam.
Iraq and Kuwait are still at outs and the tension is increasing.
Kuwait still demands war reparations from Iraq, with some $20 billion still outstanding, as well as full cooperation regarding the return of its national archives and other artifacts and the fate of Kuwaiti prisoners of war.
Kuwait's Parliament has, in recent years, shown a profound inability to take difficult decisions when necessary. Instead, MPs seem preoccupied with ousting the embattled prime minister and blocking much needed investment packages.
Kuwait is often accused of "a kind of nationalistic tub thumping", fodder for nationalistic politicians, keen to distract attention from domestic ills and incite outcry against U.S. pressure to extend its troop presence there.
Kuwait often produces very militant videos by popular Imams that inflame and incite all of radical Islam.
"Kill all Jews", "The West is trying to destroy Islam" are common themes of these Islamic rants.

Libya defines chaos ever since the U.S. decided to depose Gaddafi.
It is a nation completely devoid of leadership or sanity.
[UPDATE: December 29, 2014,  NEW OIL WELL FIRES IN LIBYA RAISES CRUDE OIL PRICES BACK TO $60 PER BARREL.  http://profit.ndtv.com/news/commodities/article-oil-rises-to-60-per-barrel-libya-fire-supports-719668 ]
Tunisian guards fired tear gas on Sunday, August 3, to stop thousands from storming across the border after fleeing violence in Tripoli.
Thousands of stranded Egyptian and foreign nationals, fleeing ongoing fighting and violence in Libya, tried to break through the passage, the Tunisian news agency said.
Armed rebel groups had overrun army bases in Libya's second largest city, Benghazi, and claimed control of the city over the last few days.
TUNISIA ITSELF HAS BEE EMBROILED IN ETHNIC FIGHTING FOR A VERY LONG TIME!

Lebanon is once again heating up as clashes between its long-warring factions intensify as well as trouble at its border with Syria.
Arsal, a Sunni town where tens of thousands of Syrian refugees have fled to escape fighting across the mountainous border, has seen frequent spillover from Syria and has been a tinder box for domestic tensions in Lebanon.
Syrian warplanes have bombed Arsal's surrounding areas and rebel fighters often cross the porous frontier, sometimes resting or seeking medical treatment in Arsal.
The Lebanese army pledged on Saturday "decisive and firm" action to prevent the Syrian conflict from spilling over into Lebanon.
Not long ago, a French-Lebanese psychologist who visited Lebanon with his wife expressed his pessimism concerning the general situation there, even though it looked stable at the time. He noted that the language used in everyday dialogue included a high level of violence against others, especially when talking about sectarian and ethnic identities.
It is clear that the years following the assassination of the late Prime Minister Rafik Hariri were characterized by increased political tension. In the aftermath of the assassination, the masses took to the streets under the umbrella of their various sects.
The sudden eruption of violence multiplies the negative effect of the anticipation that lacks certainty, which makes the psychological state of the people even more fragile.

Jordan has also aligned against HAMAS, as it did years ago when its clash with the PLO left 25,000 or so dead inside Jordan's borders.
Jordan struggles daily to retain its Hashemite kingdom and still refuses its initial role as established by the original British Mandate as THE Palestinian State.
There are still "honor" killings in Jordan.
A mass protest in Amman, Jordan, November 2012, over price hikes, with Maan,Jordan as the scene of violent protests in recent years, often reflecting Bedouin resentment, Jordan is no peaceful kingdom.
Jordan's economy continues to struggle, weighed down by a record deficit of $2 billion this year.
Jordan has a history of persecuting activists and journalists. The country amended its penal code in August 2010 and passed a Law of Information System Crimes, to regulate the Internet. Revised laws continue to criminalize peaceful expression and extend those provisions to Internet expression. Jordanian authorities prosecuted peaceful dissidents and prohibited peaceful gatherings to protest government policies. Dissidents confined by the General Intelligence Department routinely sign confessions. According to a report by Amnesty International, intelligence agents in Jordan frequently use torture to extract confessions from suspects.

TURKEY, POT-STIRRER OF THE MIDDLE EAST.May Day saw violent clashes between Turkish police and protesters who had been banned from gathering in Taksim Square.
‘‘Those who think this violent unrest is against my friends, our government, our political party and the people who voted for us, are making a big mistake. This violence is against the people of this country, against the freedom, the beliefs and the future of the people of this country,’‘ Tayyip Erdogan said. Riots and unrest are common in Turkey, as is her meddling in wars in other Arab nations, especially in Syria.

On Thursday, Ankara was engaged in an intense effort to free 80 Turkish nationals captured by the Sunni militant group Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham.
Alongside Iran, Turkey is the most involved in insuring continued in-fighting in the Middle east.

Ankara has been criticized for turning a blind eye to foreign jihadists crossing into Syria from Turkey's long and porous southern border to fight against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
 

Turkey seem to place no value on workers.
Violence erupted in the industrial town of Soma, Turkey, the site of a mine collapse that killed at least 238 workers.
Turkey's violence against women, its disturbing high numbers of domestic abuse cases, sums up its continued war on women.
Even other Islamic nations who see wife-beating as the norm have pointed fingers at Turkey's abuse of women. 

WHAT DOES ALL THIS VIOLENCE IN THIS AREA OF THE WORLD TELL US?
WHY IS VIOLENCE SO RAMPANT HERE FOR HUNDREDS IF NOT THOUSANDS OF YEARS?
IT SEEMS THAT THE MIDDLE EAST HAS BEEN BURNING SINCE RECORDED TIME.
WHY?

THESE ARE A RELATED PEOPLE, THEY HAVE KINSHIP AMONGST THEM, YET THEY SEEM PRONE TO KILLING ONE ANOTHER FOR CENTURIES ON END!
WHY?
WHAT COULD MAKE BROTHER KILL BROTHER FOR SO LONG?