“Twice in the last seven days, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have secretly launched airstrikes against Islamist-allied militias battling for control of Tripoli, Libya.”
If the strikes were secret, how did anybody come to know of them?
”Arrayed against them and backing the Islamists are the rival states of Turkey and Qatar…the government of Qatar has already provided weapons and support to the Islamist-aligned forces inside Libya.”
So, it is clear as to who are backing the Islamists. Don’t above two statements sound like the hallucinations of usually trashed conspiracy nuts? Ain’t U.A.E., Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey all bosom pals of USA? The last named, Turkey, is part of NATO, which USA desires to expand into former Soviet block countries including Ukraine to encircle Russia and progressively even China. NATO’s secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen and its European Commander, General Philip Breedlove, have articulated very aggressive plans.
“We have something already called the Nato response force, whose purpose is to be able to be deployed rapidly if needed. Now it’s our intention to develop what I would call a spearhead within that response force at very, very high readiness. “In order to be able to provide such rapid reinforcements you also need some reception facilities in host nations. So it will involve the pre-positioning of supplies, of equipment, preparation of infrastructure, bases, headquarters.“
“He plans to recommend placing supplies — weapons, ammunition and ration packs — at the headquarters to enable a sudden influx of thousands of Nato troops…called for “stockpiling a base in Poland with enough weapons, ammunition and other supplies to support a rapid deployment of thousands of troops against Russia”“
Strange as it may sound, the man by the name, Breedlove, is not only a general, but recommending Breed-War with a heavyweight nuclear power Russia. Turkey would be expected to play its part or would have to play one due to its proximity to Russia and Ukraine, if a conflagration involving NATO and Russia were to be a reality. Why then accuse such a “useful” ally of supporting Islamists against whom USA has ceaseless war of terror declared? Who, then, made those insanely mischievous and damaging statements about USA’s Arab allies and Turkey? DAVID KIRKPATRICK and ERIC SCHMITT wrote in that hugely prestigious and frontrunner of MSM in US, New York Times, no less: Arab Nations Strike in Libya, Surprising U.S. Why was US surprised? Because, did U.A.E.-Egypt-“venture” in Libya go “unnoticed” in real time? Or because, the duo usurped the “American Exceptionalism” to end up taking unilateral action? Both possibilities seem absolutely impossible if one looks at the geography, US capabilities, and from what NYT has revealed. First the NYT disclosure:
“Egypt’s role, the American officials said, was to provide bases for the launch of the strikes…The officials said the U.A.E. — which boasts one of the most effective air forces in the Arab world, thanks to American equipment and training — provided the pilots, warplanes and aerial refueling planes necessary for the fighters to bomb Tripoli out of bases in Egypt.“
The US manufactured planes, bombs, missiles would have to be first flown west from U.A.E. to Egypt before latter’s bases would be used to destroy Islamists in Libya, which is further west.
Cursory look at the map above shows that shortest aerial route from U.A.E. to Egypt is over Saudi, the staunchest US ally and its most loyal and avid consumer of weapons of destructions in the region. Could the U.A.E. have flown its bomb flotilla across the Arab Peninsula to Egypt undetected by air-space control radars? Unlikely, because that would have meant flying below the radar lookup angle. Moreover, is it believable when US-CENTCOM bases that have most advanced surveillance capability to track every object in the sky litter that region?
The preposterousness of NYT’s suggestion -“…surprising USA“- is further ridiculed by the fact that the U.A.E. pilots would have have to rely for navigation on the very global positioning system (GPS) that is developed, owned, controlled and operated by US-Department of Defence (DOD). In U.A.E. itself, USA has 1 x Air Force and 2 x Naval bases. Even a “fly” could not have left U.A.E. without the knowledge and permissions of USA. Therefore, this is an egregious lie including the pre-scripted denials from Egypt and U.A.E. about their involvement in this “venture”, which NYT has so “ably” fed to its readers without raising even a single doubt over story’s authenticity. Yet another proof of, if one was needed, how compromised the MSM is. What is the purpose of “planting such a story” now? Obviously, US wants to portray that its loyal allies and willing pawns have all of a sudden turned rogue.
“The strikes in Tripoli are another salvo in a power struggle defined by Arab autocrats battling Islamist movements seeking to overturn the old order…Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have launched a campaign across the region — in the news media, in politics and diplomacy, and by arming local proxies — to roll back what they see as an existential threat to their authority posed by Islamist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood.“
The problem with this formulation is that Qatar is an autocratic monarchy much like Saudi Arabia and U.A.E. Then why doesn’t Qatar see Islamists as an existential threat just like it’s peers? Turkey is the only state where government is formed through democratic elections. But, wedded to the NATO how dare it support Islamists? Consider this in the backdrop of the following. Less than 2 years ago, in September, Chris Stevens, US ambassador to Libya and 3 other US personnel were killed in “mysterious” circumstances in Benghazi: in a rocket attack by Islamist militants on the car they were travelling or in Al Qaeda terrorist attack on Consulate compound or by a lethal injection after Al Qaeda attempt to kidnap failed. Wasn’t this grave provocation enough for “ever righteous” USA to bomb both Turkey and Qatar for supporting the murderers of Steven? It has done much worse for far lesser crimes. But, No! Why? A whiff of the necessity for creating this web of lies and counter-lies by US administration slips through later in the NYT article.
““In every arena — in Syria, Iraq, Gaza, Libya, even what happened in Egypt — this regional polarization, with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, or U.A.E., on one side and Qatar and Turkey on the other, has proved to be a gigantic impediment to international efforts to resolve any of these crisis,” said Michele Dunne, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former Middle East specialist at the State Department.“
The reference to Gaza among Syria, Iraq and Libya is rather curious. Because, unlike the others where “autocratic-regime change” has been carried out or is under way; Gaza has been very stable open-prison run with superb “efficiency” by Israel for long. And, while on the subject of “autocratic regimes”, USA has curiously made no efforts to “export democracy” to autocratic regimes in -Saudi, U.A.E., Qatar- that were identified by senior US officials in NYT report. Why? May be there are useful Autocrats much like useful idiots. Moreover, Islamists in Libya are merely used as “starters”, while real purport of the NYT article is the Islamists in Syria and Iraq, or ISIS.
What is really pinching hard US and West is the sudden and meteoric rise of Islamists under the aegis of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or Al Shams (ISIS). Question that begs answer is: Is Saudi Arabia truly against the Islamists as NYT spin suggests?
Speaking at the Royal United Services Institute last week (second week of July 2014), Sir Richard Dearlove, who headed MI6 from 1999 to 2004,said that some time before 9/11 Prince Bandar Bin Sultan, once the powerful Saudi ambassador in Washington and head of Saudi intelligence until a few months ago,”The time is not far off in the Middle East, Richard, when it will be literally ‘God help the Shia’. More than a billion Sunnis have simply had enough of them.” The fatal moment predicted by Prince Bandar may now have come for many Shia, with Saudi Arabia playing an important role in bringing it about by supporting the anti-Shia jihad in Iraq and Syria.Dearlove added, “Such things simply do not happen spontaneously“. since the tribal and communal leadership in Sunni majority provinces is much beholden to Saudi and Gulf paymasters, and would be unlikely to cooperate with Isis without their consent. Western governments traditionally play down the connection between Saudi Arabia and its Wahhabist faith, on the one hand, and jihadism, whether of the variety espoused by Osama bin Laden and al-Qa’ida or by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s Isis.
(For more on this read, The Independent, UK: Iraq crisis: How Saudi Arabia helped Isis take over the north of the country).
Dearlove (what a coincidence after Breedlove) echoing almost a month ago an opposite spin to Saudi role to what US has proposed now. Clearly, this is a concerted and well coordinated effort by US-UK led West to conceal its role in the creation of ISIS and lay all the shit at the doors of its Arab allies. Saudi’s too have their own perceptions of the crisis as seen in this report on Prince Bandar Bin Sultan in The Middle East Quarterly: Bandar bin Sultan’s Botched Syrian Intervention.
The stunning rise of ISIS seemingly “out of nowhere” has pressed a an urgency on USA and West to obliterate tracks or at least obfuscate them through overlay of tracks of other red-herrings so that they don’t lead to them. It is not without reason that the crazed violence of ISIS appears like Devil’s scourge to most. That makes the urgency dire. But, such “Dissociative Stratagems” would hardly help bury the truth. When the facts starts peeping through the holes in the cloak of secrecy and disinformation, lying through the teeth is hardly effective. It is better to tell half truths interspersed with lies to sow doubt and confusion in the minds of people. That miserable effort now seems to be on in the hope it would sweep everything in its sight. This is the more charitable to West explanation of it. But, there are others who believe march of ISIS is by design and not default as Justin Raimondo in a copiously referenced article argues: ISIS: Made in Washington, Riyadh & Tel Aviv.
Israel’s goal in the region has been to gin up as much conflict and chaos as possible, keeping its Islamic enemies divided, making it impossible for any credible challenge to arise among its Arab neighbors – and aiming the main blow at Tehran.
As Ambassador Oren so brazenly asserted – while paying lip service to the awfulness of ISIS and al-Qaeda – their quarrel isn’t really with the Arabs, anyway – it’s with the Persians, whom they fear and loathe, and whose destruction has been their number one objective since the days of Ariel Sharon.
Why anyone is shocked that our Middle Eastern allies have been building up Sunni radicals in the region is beyond me – because this has also been de facto US policy since the Bush administration, which began recruiting American assets in the Sunni region as the linchpin of the Iraqi “surge.”
This was part and parcel of the so-called “Sunni turn,” or “redirection,” in Seymour Hersh’s phrase, which, as I warned in 2006, would become Washington’s chosen strategy for dealing with what they called the “Shia crescent” – the crescent-shaped territory spanning Iran, Iraq, Syria, and parts of Lebanon under Hezbollah’s control, which the neocons began pointing to as the Big New Threat shortly after Saddam Hussein’s defeat.
The pro-Sunni orientation of US policymakers wasn’t reversed with the change of administrations: instead, it went into overdrive, especially after the much-vaunted Arab Spring. Both Hillary Clinton, then Secretary of State, and David Petraeus, who had yet to disgrace himself and was still CIA director, lobbied intensively for more support to the Syrian rebels.
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