Islam and geopolitics. links post 5 for July 8 2014

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1. Published on Jul 8, 2014
   Earlier today, terrorists attempted to infiltrate Israel from the sea near Zikim in order to carry out an attack. The IDF neutralized them.

   http://youtu.be/-ff1Vb1ZqSE

2. Death toll 90 in Uganda weekend attacks; President blames tribal leader (CNN, July 9, 2014)
   http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/08/world/africa/uganda-violence/index.html

   “Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni says sectarian and chauvinistic cultural leaders are behind weekend attacks by people, armed mainly with machetes and spears, who killed security personnel and civilians in the western part of the country.

   Police raised the death toll to 90 on Tuesday afternoon. Hundreds have been arrested, police said, including cultural leaders of rival ethnic groups in the Rwenzori Mountains region and in the oil-rich Lake Albert region bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo.

   Most of the dead “are attackers killed in a counterattack at a military camp in Bundibugyo district and civilians,” police spokesman Fred Enanga said. “We have so far found 86 key suspects out of hundreds, and we continue with a cordon and search in the communities looking for 22 guns we lost.

   “Most of guns were stolen at a police station and at a bank” where there are police guards and private guards, he added.

   In a statement Tuesday, Museveni said the killings were the result of “schemes of some confused or a selfish bunch of people,” adding that 51 attackers and eight security force members are among the dead.

   “On account of chauvinistic ideas being bandied around for so long, it seems some groups hatched this criminal scheme that has caused the deaths of so many people,” he wrote.

   While the attacks were dealt with by the police and army, Museveni said, “of course, there was a failure of intelligence.” He asks: “How did these people weave such a scheme without being preempted?”

   Museveni says altogether, there were 13 daylight attacks across three districts in the Rwenzori Mountains and Lake Albert regions.”

3. ISIS claims responsibility for Baghdad bombings (CNN, July 8, 2014)
   http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/08/world/meast/iraq-crisis/index.html

   “The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has claimed responsibility for recent suicide bombings in the capital that killed nearly two dozen people, according to SITE Intelligence, which monitors terrorist groups.

   ISIS identified the suicide bombers who struck Baghdad on Sunday and Monday as Libyan and Lebanese, SITE reported, citing a website linked to the terror group.

   One of the bombings occurred Sunday in the Washash district of Baghdad, when a suicide bomber struck a coffee shop, killing at least a dozen people, security officials told CNN.

   The second occurred Monday in the Kadhimiya neighborhood, security officials told CNN. A suicide car bomb exploded in heavy traffic at a security checkpoint there, killing at least 10 people and wounding 14, security officials told CNN.

   The bomb exploded at about 1 p.m. near the checkpoint, which created a sort of bottleneck of traffic. The explosion occurred about 1 kilometer (.6 miles) from the Kadhimiya shrine, which is revered by Shiites….”

4. Floodgates open as ISIS takes over swaths of both Syria and Iraq (CNN, July 8, 2014)
   http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/08/world/meast/syria-civil-war/index.html

   “After three years of seesaw battles with the regime, Syrian rebels now face another daunting challenge: fending off radical Sunni militants who are taking over swaths of the country.

   The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has gained notoriety in recent weeks after capturing city after city in Iraq. It’s goal: To create a caliphate, or Islamic state, spanning Iraq and Syria.

   Now, the crises in both countries are blending into a combined regional disaster as ISIS now controls land on both sides of the border — opening the floodgates for weapons and fighters between Syria and Iraq.

   All the cities between Deir Ezzor city and the Iraq border — a stretch of 90 miles (150 kilometers) — have fallen to ISIS, said Omar Abu Leila, a spokesman for the rebel Free Syrian Army.

   Deir Ezzor itself is controlled partly by the government and partly by opposition militants, he said.

   That’s not all. ISIS also took over six Syrian oil and gas fields and a major pumping station that distributes oil from Iraq into Syria, Abu Leila said.

   The captures include the al-Omar oil field, Syria’s largest oil facility that can produce 75,000 barrels of oil a day. ISIS has also seized a military airport and a local army base.
   The land grabs by ISIS now stretch from Syria’s Deir Ezzor province to the group’s recently gained territories in Iraq’s Sunni heartland, the opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said.

   ISIS has gained not just cities, but also some Syrians’ claims of allegiance. After capturing the town of al-Shahil, ISIS demanded last week that fighters surrender their weapons and repent for fighting ISIS.

   The militants then called on residents to leave the town for a week to 10 days until “peace returns to the streets,” according to a social media video obtained by activists…”

5. #1 We had the most powerful and sophisticated military the world has ever seen, aided by the finest civilian scientist minds and equipment, looking for these weapons, over a period of years. And they found nothing. These trained chimpanzees found them in a week.

   • Um, we sold these weapons to Saddam. Of course we knew.

     http://rense.com/general29/wesold.htm

     • No we didn’t sell them Saddam.

     • How Saddam Built His War Machine – With Western Help

       By Glenn Frankel
       Washington Post Foreign Service
       Monday, September 17, 1990; Page A01
       http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/iraq/stories/wartech091790.htm

       “Chemical

       Experts say that Iraq has the largest chemical weapons program in the Third World, developed entirely with the aid of foreign firms, especially those from West Germany. Iraq can presently produce up to 700 tons of chemical warfare agents per year, according to these estimates, but its capacity is expected to increase sizeably in the 1990s. There are at least two plants at Samarra where Iraq produces mustard gas and the nerve agents tabun and sarin; and two more at Fallujah, where Iraq reportedly is building a manufacturing complex for “precursors” — the ingredients used for nerve gas. Experts say that Iraq also has built a research facility for biological warfare at Salman Pak.”

     • Some of the Germans sold him the tech to make chemical weapons, that doesn’t make it the entire west (we) sold them to him. Generalizations like that make it easier for the left to spread their hatred for the west and freedom.

   • Some of Saddams people were with ISIS they lead them to the weapons dump.

     • Many former Ba’ath Party thugs are lurking in sleeper ISIS cells throughout the country. They come out according to pre-arranged times, e.g. when they get word of a certain airport takeover.

6. Amran : Thousands flee fighting in north Yemeni city (BBC, July 8, 2014)
   http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28212609

   “Ten thousand families have fled the north Yemeni city of Amran to escape a battle between Zaidi Shia rebels and the military, the Red Crescent says. A further 5,000 families are said to be trapped inside the city, about 50km (30 miles) north of the capital Sanaa, after rebels overran several areas.

   The clashes erupted last week after a ceasefire collapsed and troops reportedly attacked rebel positions. Medics and officials said at least 60 people had been killed and 180 wounded.

   The rebels, known as Houthis, have staged periodic uprisings over the past 10 years in an effort to win greater autonomy for their strongholds in the far north.

   In February, they seized areas of Amran province in fighting that left more than 150 people dead, and at least 120 others were reportedly killed in another flare-up of violence in June….”

7. A farce is a farce is a farce…

   Iran needs more nuclear enrichment capacity – Khamenei (BBC, July 8, 2014)
   http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28208175

   “Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said that Iran could eventually need tens of thousands of centrifuges for its nuclear programme.

   Within five years, he said, Iran would need far more than the 10,000 that world powers wanted to limit it to.

   Nuclear negotiations are continuing between Iran and the P5+1 group, with a deadline of 20 July for an agreement.

   But France’s foreign minister has hinted at growing differences between the Western countries in the talks….”

8. #3 Why isn’t he is prison? The CPS could easily get any 12 member jury to convict him on the barest pretext of ‘she said, he said’.
   His only defence to be let off, (guilty he may be but is of no interest to The Party), is that he just merely submit and grovel to become an unswerving Loyal Citizen by swallowing the lie that it was never his fault, he could not help himself, it was a disease called “Rolfitis”(discovered in 2014).
   Otherwise it’s back to Sharia and the woman is flogged with 100 lashes for not covering herself up.

   Men with low consciousness like this, give Islam the recognition it deserves.

   http://www.answering-islam.org/Muhammad/Inconsistent/menstruation.htm

9. Here is what those civilized muslims are saying about the Israel – Judea/Samaria conflict on facebook.

   https://www.facebook.com/Pukaliciious/posts/893965273953161

   I took screenshots of it and wanted to send it to Eeyore/Vlad but couldn’t find his email anywhere on here.

   • Thank you. If you register with your real email I will write you from mine. Thanks again for the link. It is revealing.

     • thank you

10. More than 50 bodies, including 2 children, found in Iraq (CNN, July 9, 2014)
    http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/09/world/meast/iraq-crisis/index.html

    “More than 50 unidentified bodies were found in the predominantly Shiite town of Alexandria on Wednesday, Iraqi security officials said. Two children were among the dozens of bodies found in different parts of the town. Details about the circumstances of the deaths were not immediately available, and officials did not say when the people may have been killed. The discoveries follow weeks of carnage across the country as Iraqi forces battle radical Sunni militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria….”