BREAKING : Saudis Forces Mass on Jordanian, Iraqi Borders; Turkey, Syria Reinforce Strength - CIA Agents in Turkey Secretly Helping Terrorists to Destablise Syria

Looks like Obama gets his war after all, U.S. can look forward to Martial Law, walking when gas hits $50.00 U.S. a gallon:  Saudis throw in with Obama, CIA in last ditch effort to save "royals" from being deposed

DEBKA File
06/29/2012

SPECIAL REPORT

Friday, June 29, on a knife edge between a Western-Arab-Turkish military offensive in the next 48 hours and a big power accord to ward it off.

Bloated, apostate Saudi "king" will have his alcoholic ass handed to him

Debkafile’s military sources report heavy Saudi troop movements toward the Jordanian and Iraqi borders Thursday overnight and up until Friday morning, June 29, after King Abdullah put the Saudi military on high alert for joining an anti-Assad offensive in Syria. The Saudi units are poised with tanks, missiles, special forces and anti-air batteries to enter Jordan in two heads:

One will safeguard Jordan's King Abdullah against potential Syrian or Iranian reprisals from Syria or Iraq.

The second will cut north through Jordan to enter southeastern Syriam, where a security zone will be established around the towns of Deraa, Deir al-Zour and Abu Kemal – all centers of the anti-Assad rebellion. The region is also the home terrain of the Shammar tribe, brethren of the Shammars of the Saudi Nejd province.

Snivelling, bedwetting British SAS "commander" leads his mercs in a cheer for the good old "Mum" on Syrian border, will most likely be going home in a box:  British terrs have it coming

The Saudi units deployed on the Iraqi border are there to defend the kingdom against potential incursions by Iraqi Shiite militias crossing into the kingdom for reprisals. The Iraqi militias are well trained and armed and serve under officers of the Iranian Al-Qods Brigades, the Revolutionary Guards’ external arm.
Western Gulf sources report that Jordan too is on war alert.

Following the downing of a Turkish plane by Syria a week ago, Turkey continues to build up its Syrian border units with anti-aircraft guns, tanks and missiles towed by long convoys of trucks.

CIA terrorists paying out millions of taxpayer dollars to hire merks in Turkey, Jordan

A Free Syria Army officer, Gen. Mustafa al-Sheikh, reported Friday that 170 Syrian army tanks of the 17th Mechanized Division were massed near the village of Musalmieh northeast of Aleppo, 30 km from the Turkish border. He said they stood ready to attack any Turkish forces crossing into Syria.

It's war for the Hag:  Clinton, Obama, Panetta responsible all deaths

As these war preparations advanced, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in St. Petersburg Friday for crucial talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. They meet the day before the new UN-sponsored Action Group convenes in Geneva to discuss UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan’s latest transition proposal for Syria. He hopes for a political settlement that will ward off military intervention.
Invited to the meeting are the five veto-wielding UN Security Council members plus Turkey and Arab League envoys from Qatar, Kuwait and Iraq.

Annan proposes forming a transitional national unity government in Damascus that includes the opposition and excludes unacceptable regime members.

It was widely reported Thursday that Russia had agreed to this formula, even though it entailed evicting Bashar Assad from power. However, Lavrov stepped in to correct the record, stressing in reference to the Annan proposal that Moscow would not lend its support to “any outside interference or imposition of recipes in Syria.”

This position is doubly aimed at the intensive military movements afoot around Syria.
Clinton and Lavrov are therefore expected to go at the Syrian issue hammer and tongs. The outcome of their meeting will not only determine the course of the Action Group’s discussions but, more importantly, whether the Western-Arab-Turkish alliance goes forward with its military operation against Syria.

As always, American military personnel will get the booby-prize:  Cheap metal coffins - hundreds if not thousands of them, American electorate cowards ultimately responsible for war and all military deaths, they could have stopped madman Obama

US-Russian concurrence on a plan for Assad’s removal could avert the operation. The failure of their talks would spell a worsening of the Syrian crisis and precipitate Western-Arab military intervention, which according to military sources in the Gulf is scheduled for launch Saturday, June 30.

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U.S. Attorney General Found in Criminal Contempt of Congress : What Happened to the Karl Rove Subpoenas

Holder has blood on his hands, but WHAT ABOUT ROVE

PRESS TV
06/29/2012

US Attorney General (AG) Eric Holder has been found in criminal contempt of Congress for withholding documents related to a botched gun-tracking operation along the country’s border with Mexico.

Holder to investigate himself

In a 255-67 vote, the head of the country’s Department of Justice was cited for contempt by the Republican-led House of Representatives, The Associated Press reported on Thursday.

The vote set a precedent, with Holder becoming the first sitting Attorney General and presidential Cabinet member to be held in contempt. The citation was applied without a Senate vote being a requirement.

Seventeen Democrats joined the House's Republican majority to pass the vote.

However, many Democratic lawmakers refused to cast votes. A dozen Democratic lawmakers, including leader Nancy Pelosi, walked out of the chamber in protest.

"We don't want to play a part in this political game," Democratic Representative Gregory Meeks said.

The vote marked triumph for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's push to blame the government for the failure of “Fast and Furious,” an operation aimed at tracing guns purchased in Arizona to determine whether they would flow into Mexico for use by drug cartels.

No big surprise here, Bohner still a boner, needs to go to alcohol rehab

Fast and Furious was terminated in early 2011 after disclosures that federal agents had lost track of many of the high-powered arms, which were subsequently traced to crimes, including the murder of US Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.

In the meantime between rounds of golf, drinks and the best of everything stolen taxpayer money can provide these two war criminals are laughing their asses off, spitting in the face of the U.S. "justice" system; Rove still has to answer to telling congress to stuff their subpoenas

"Today's vote is the regrettable culmination of what became a misguided -- and politically-motivated-- investigation during an election year," Holder said.

Rove telling congress, American People to shove it

"By advancing it over the past year and a half, Congressman Issa and others have focused on politics over public safety. Instead of trying to correct the problems that led to a series of flawed law enforcement operations, and instead of helping us find ways to better protect the brave law enforcement officers, like Agent Brian Terry, who keep us safe, they have led us to this unnecessary and unwarranted outcome.”

On Wednesday, US Republican Senator Scott Brown had called on Holder to resign, accusing him of misleading Congress, saying “he can’t effectively serve the president.”

“For the best interest of the country, I think he should step down and resign. He’s lost the confidence of the American people. Certainly, he’s lost the confidence of Congress. He misled Congress. They have a right to know,” Brown added.

Democrats accused Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa and other Republican lawmakers of taking political advantage out of targeting Holder.

The National Rifle Association -- a lobby group of generous contributions to US electoral campaigns -- had told House members that anyone withholding his or her contempt vote would be “held to account” during upcoming congressional and presidential elections in November.

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"Disable the Purveyors" - Is U.S. Secretly Liquidating Dissidents?

As may be imagined by readers, The 5th Estate has been bombarded by death threats from U.S. and Israeli sources, and we do not take them seriously - it is those that do not threaten that should be guarded against, the rest is just hot air:  Unfortunately, Americans are now so conditioned to cowardice that they take them as genuine threats, the reality being that if someone wants to kill you there is simply nothing you can do about it except spit in their faces; Dr. Barrett sets a shining example of courage that Americans would do well to emulate


PRESS TV
By Dr. Kevin Barrett
06/28/2012

A government that extra-judicially murders, disappears, and tortures its own citizens should clean up its own act before it criticizes other nations. The US should heed former President Carter and start obeying its own Constitution if it wants to have any credibility on human rights

Will writing this article put me on a US government hit list? Twenty years ago, such a question would have sounded absurd. Today, with the USA becoming more of a banana republic every day, it sounds increasingly realistic.

Like Bush, Obama will some fine day be held accountable for murders

In many countries, people who cross the line in opposing the government risk incarceration, torture, or murder.

Until recently, it was hard for American dissidents to cross that line. If they wanted to get arrested for saying something subversive, mere ideas weren't enough; they would have to actually threaten to physically harm the President or another high official.

But the post-9/11 USA is no longer a beacon of human rights. As former President Jimmy Carter recently wrote in the New York Times, “The United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights.” In his article, Carter points out that top US officials are now openly targeting US citizens for political assassination, “disappearance,” unlimited surveillance, and other forms of gross human rights abuse.

Since we now know that a secret National Security committee is ordering the murder of American citizens, and since we know the CIA has the power to easily simulate deaths from illness and accident, we might as well assume that every time a dissident dies unexpectedly, he or she has been murdered by the US government.

Consider the chilling words of Obama's information czar Cass Sunstein, who openly advocates that the US government should “disable the purveyors of conspiracy theories.” Sunstein's article “Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures” argues that “conspiracy theories” (by which he means the 9/11 truth movement) are so dangerous that the government should “cognitively infiltrate” 9/11 truth groups, “disable” those who spread these ideas, and possibly even make the ideas illegal. 

This psychotic, murdering piece of shit set the stage and began by assassinating journalists, an example that Obama has followed and expanded upon to include anyone that criticizes his criminal regime

One way to “disable the purveyors of conspiracy theories” is to terrorize them with death threats. This is precisely what happened recently in Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia. 

Murderer, pedophile, American traitor: Obama's lickspittle information czar Cass Sunstein, who openly advocates that the U.S. government should “disable the purveyors of conspiracy theories” - Only problem is that THERE ARE NO SUCH THINGS AS CONSPIRACY THRORIES; this is just a cute little propaganda term created by Bush/Rove to discredit journalists, and now Obama is having a field day with it while his lapdog Sunstein will face the death penalty when he is connected to the murders of journalists and patriots

On June 13, Dr. James Fetzer, the founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, was scheduled to speak at the University Heights Community Center in Seattle. Shortly before the event, the Community Center received a letter that read:

“Community Center, the 9/11 truth event on June 13th is going to be attacked to Kill Jim Fetzer because he says 'Space Beams' brought down the Twin Towers. The attack may be a bomb or fire bomb or maybe just gun fire. The Bombing may come at a future date to pay you back for supporting the 9/11 truth movement. Kill Jim Fetzer and the 9/11 truth movement. Kill Jim Fetzer (repeated 6 times). Kill University Heights Community Center (repeated twice) Kill you now.”

Detective Kerry Hays of the Seattle Police Department is currently investigating the case.

The Community Center hastily canceled Dr. Fetzer's talk. Fortunately, an alternate venue was found at the last minute.

Then a few days later, a similar death threat was emailed to the owner of the Denman Theater in Vancouver, British Columbia, where Dr. Fetzer was organizing the Vancouver 9/11 Hearings. This time, the threat named me and Press TV Canadian correspondent Joshua Blakeney as well as Dr. Fetzer. Fortunately, the theater owner was too busy hosting the event to read his email, so he did not become aware of the threat until the Hearings were over.

Death threats are one way to “disable the purveyors of conspiracy theories.” Actual assassinations are another.

A long list of people who were trying to expose the truth of 9/11 have met with untimely, suspicious deaths. Barry Jennings, the deputy director of Emergency Services Department for the New York City Housing Authority on 9/11, appears to have been murdered after speaking publicly about explosions he witnessed that partly demolished World Trade Center Building 7 on the morning of 9/11. (The demolition of WTC-7, begun in the morning, was completed shortly after 5:20 that afternoon, after WTC owner Larry Silverstein and colleagues “made the decision to pull” the building according to Silverstein's own statement.)

Another 9/11 truth advocate and eyewitness, Dr. David Graham of Shreveport, Louisiana, was murdered - apparently by the FBI - for writing a book about two of the alleged 9/11 hijackers, who were obvious intelligence assets controlled by people at Barksdale Air Force Base. Graham was poisoned with ethelene glycol (antifreeze). The case is discussed in Sander Hicks' new book Slingshot to the Juggernaut.

It might be objected that Jennings and Graham were murdered because they were eyewitnesses to a State Crime Against Democracy, or SCAD, not because they were dissidents. Is there any evidence that the US government (or a rogue network infiltrating it) is “disabling the purveyors” of dangerous ideas by killing or otherwise physically harming them, even if they are not eyewitnesses?

Mike Ruppert, the original leader of the 9/11 truth movement, writes that his office was attacked by microwave and/or EMF weapons after he began publishing critiques of the official story of 9/11. The attacks may have contributed to Ruppert's poor health and distraught frame of mind, which led him to quit the 9/11 truth movement and temporarily flee the USA in 2006.

Another early 9/11 truth advocate, publisher Byron Belitsos, told me that he and many other 9/11 truth organizers in California were targeted by EMF or microwave weapons during the first years after 9/11. Belitsos says the weapons were wielded by men in plain white vans that would park in front of the victim's house, and that victims suffered immediate and sometimes extreme health effects including headaches, ringing in the ears, nausea, vomiting, severe depression, dizziness, and loss of consciousness.

It does seem that bad things have happened to far too many of the most trail-blazing, prestigious, and/or effective 9/11 truth leaders. Justin Raimondo, the pioneer investigator of Israeli complicity in 9/11, was warned away from the subject - and after he disregarded the warning, he suffered a severe heart attack, despite his relative youth and excellent physical condition. Since his mysterious heart attack, Raimondo has stayed away from the subject of 9/11, and has remained in good health.

David Ray Griffin, the world's leading voice of 9/11 truth, suffered a partially-disabling stroke in the summer of 2010. While he has recovered sufficiently to continue to write and research, the stroke left him with a slight aphasia that has ended his career as a prolific public speaker.

Dr. Bob Bowman, the former head of Star Wars under two US presidents, has had his 9/11 truth efforts slowed by his struggle with cancer.

Even more tragically, the most prestigious scientist ever to take up the cause of 9/11 truth, Lynn Margulis, died of a stroke November 22, 2011. When I last spoke to Lynn, less than a year before her death, she told me she did not want to speak publicly about 9/11 any more, because “politics is too dangerous.” She sounded scared - like someone had warned or threatened her.

Steven Jones, the physics professor who was forced out of Brigham Young University for researching the demolition of the World Trade Center, was warned to stop by a “connected” colleague. Jones did the right thing: he immediately went public about the apparent threat.

Richard Gage, the founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, may have been attacked by the type of EMF or microwave weapon described by Ruppert and Belitsos. In the summer of 2009, in Washington, DC, Gage suddenly suffered vertigo and hearing loss. Activist colleagues who were present suspect some kind of covert attack. Today, Gage still suffers from the after-effects: partial loss of hearing in one ear.

Though some consider microwave and EMF weapons the stuff of science fiction, Maj. Doug Rokke, Ph.D., the former head of the US Army's depleted uranium cleanup project after Gulf War I, says these weapons are very real, and commonly used in military circles. He described to me how he personally used such weapons on a regular basis while training with Special Forces at US Army facilities: “We had them van-mounted, truck-mounted, plane-mounted, and hand-carried. We would go around zapping each other for fun. This was during exercises, or sometimes just as a practical joke.” Rokke assured me that, based on his firsthand knowledge of US military mind-set and capabilities, 9/11 truth activists have undoubtedly been targeted by exotic non-lethal (and lethal) weapons.

Will writing this article put me on a US government hit list? Twenty years ago, such a question would have sounded absurd. Today, with the USA becoming more of a banana republic every day, it sounds increasingly realistic.

A government that extra-judicially murders, disappears, and tortures its own citizens should clean up its own act before it criticizes other nations. The US should heed former President Carter and start obeying its own Constitution if it wants to have any credibility on human rights.

Dr. Kevin Barrett, a Ph.D. Arabist-Islamologist, is one of America's best-known critics of the War on Terror. 

Dr. Kevin Barrett

Dr. Barrett has appeared many times on Fox, CNN, PBS and other broadcast outlets, and has inspired feature stories and op-eds in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Tribune, and other leading publications. Dr. Barrett has taught at colleges and universities in San Francisco, Paris, and Wisconsin, where he ran for Congress in 2008. He currently works as a nonprofit organizer, author, and talk radio host. He is the co-founder of the Muslim-Christian-Jewish Alliance, and author of the books Truth Jihad: My Epic Struggle Against the 9/11 Big Lie (2007) and Questioning the War on Terror: A Primer for Obama Voters (2009). His website is www.truthjihad.com. More articles by Dr. Kevin Barrett 

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Turkey Sends Missile Batteries to Volitile Syria Border

Erogdan must be smoking too much of that great Turkish hash; has bought off on Obama's fantasy bullshit and may just now pay the price as Iran and Syria have been itching for an excuse to get rid of both him and his NATO-sucking dictatorship along with the apostate Saudi regime, who have now insanely, self-destructively gone on full military alert

Agence France-Presse
By Ceren Kumova
06/29/2012

Turkey has sent missile batteries, tanks and troops to the border with Syria as a "security corridor", almost a week after the Syrian downing of a Turkish military jet, media reports said on Thursday.

Erogdan has just stepped into a huge pile of "Obamacrap"

There was no official confirmation of the military moves, which came after Turkey branded its former ally a "clear and imminent threat" following Friday's attack over the Mediterranean.

About 30 military vehicles accompanied by a truck towing missile batteries left a base in the southeastern province of Hatay for the border, about 50 kilometres (30 miles) away, the Milliyet newspaper reported.

Footage aired on state-run TRT showed dozens of military vehicles loaded with army personnel, reportedly on the move for the volatile border, in a convoy that included low altitude air defence systems and anti-aircraft guns.

Taraf newspaper, citing unnamed sources, said the deployments represented the establishment of a "de facto security corridor" on Turkish soil.

Nutcase Erogdan actually believes NATO, Obama will come to the rescue when Syria, Iran attack in unison and as allies

The moves follow the downing of a Turkish Phantom F-4 jet by Syrian fire over the eastern Mediterranean on Friday in what Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said was a "heinous attack" in international waters.

Erdogan vowed Tuesday that any hostile Syrian movement towards the border would be "treated as a military target," hinting at a harsher retaliation for any future border violations.

Laughing stock of the real world and now best known as NATO, Obama mouthpiece Kofi Annan fighting to save any residual credibility left, does not realize there are no reserves now to draw on

Turkey has described Syria as "a clear and imminent threat" but Erdogan said Wednesday that Ankara had no intention of attacking its neighbour.

Relations between the two countries have been left in tatters over the Damascus regime's brutal crackdown on an uprising that has now left about 15,800 people dead since March last year, according to activists.

SCREWED by Obama:  NATO puppet Erogdan

In a separate deployment, several trucks loaded with tanks were sent to the frontier in the province of Sanliurfa after a Kurdish rebel flag was hoisted in a Syrian village just across the border, provincial media said.

The flag, which reportedly belonged to a Syrian wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) was taken down early Thursday, the Anatolia news agency said, citing local witnesses.

Turkish officials have frequently accused Syria of aiding the PKK after Ankara's ties with Damascus broke down, saying many recent attacks targeting Turkish security forces were carried out by rebels infiltrating from Syria.

Turkey's powerful army has not confirmed the deployments, but earlier it dismissed reports that it was "on alert" after the downing of the jet, whose two crew members are still missing.

Turkish media have interpreted the mass deployments both as a means to intimidate Kurdish rebels, whose activities have increased in recent months, and as a challenge to Syria, which shares a 910-kilometre border with Turkey.

"Wouldn't such moves inevitably cause Syria to put its own forces on alert and shift troops to the border while at the same time it has to deal with clashes inside?" Taraf columnist Almet Altan said in an article on Tuesday.

Erdogan was once a friend and ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad but relations have broken down since the revolt erupted in Syria last year, sending more than 33,000 refugees across the border into Turkey.

Turkey closed its embassy in Damascus earlier this year after kicking out the Syrian ambassador to Ankara.

Meanwhile, the Turkish military said it had found some materials from the downed jet and some of the crew's belongings but has not found the wreckage nor the two missing men.

The search involves five military boats and four helicopters and the army said it has also mobilised a hydrographic survey ship and will be using another vessel to search at a depth of about 1,260 metres (over 4,000 feet).

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Turkey Reinforces Border as Syria Violence Rages

Turkey, Saudi Arabia, U.S. supporting Persian Gulf nations may just find out exactly what it means to dance to Obama's, Netanyahu's tune

Agence France Presse
06/29/2012

Twin bombs exploded outside the Palace of Justice in Damascus on Thursday as deadly violence raged across the country and Turkey deployed missile batteries along its volatile border with Syria.

This is not the work of "rebels" as it is much too sophisticated, they simply do not possess the expertise to engineer these bombings; this is the work of experts

On the political front, world powers were preparing for a crucial meeting on ways to end the conflict and to discuss a plan by peace envoy Kofi Annan for an interim government.

The meeting in Geneva, agreed only after wrangling between Moscow and Washington over the agenda and the guest list, will be attended by some regional governments but not by rival Middle East heavyweights Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Mighty white:  U.S./Saudi backed mercenaries on Syrian border, looking pretty damned white judging by hands, modified, flash-supressed shotgun; perhaps they are dove hunting with plugs removed:  Syrian Fish and Wildlife agents must be on vacation, and only COWARDS HIDE THEIR FACES ON THE BATTLEFIELD

Annan spokesman Ahmad Fawzi said delegates of countries attending the talks would gather in Geneva on Friday for a "preparatory meeting."

Russia has already poured cold water on Saturday's meeting, with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov saying Moscow rejects Western pressure for the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad.

White boy mercenaries gone wild:  Nobody ever accused Obama's CIA mercs of being intelligent, as this lily-white caucasian hand demonstrates along with it's cute little inscription “Free Syria” in a field in the western town of Al-Qaim close to Iraq’s border with Syria  (AFP Photo / Azhar Shallal)

In central Damascus, three people were wounded when bombs blasted a car park outside the court complex, state media reported.

A police source told AFP that two magnetic bombs exploded in judges' cars and that a third was being defused.

Anyone up for WWIII?  Obama's Christers in the USAF - the owners of the U.S. long range nuclear arsenal - believe that they need to give "God" a helping hand in the Middle East by starting WWIII and bringing about Armageddon so they can get a jump on being vacuumed up and magically transported to "Heaven," leaving us sinners behind to deal with the radioactive parking lot that was the Middle East

Elsewhere, violence killed at least 69 people, including 38 civilians, after one of the bloodiest days of the 15-month revolt left at least 149 dead on Wednesday, a watchdog said.

Thursday's heaviest toll was in the northern Damascus suburb of Douma where 18 civilians, 12 from one family, were killed when troops clashed with rebel fighters, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The day's death toll also included 23 soldiers and eight rebels, said the watchdog, adding that that regime forces backed by helicopters pounded several areas of the eastern city of Deir Ezzor.

More than 15,800 people have been killed since the uprising broke out in March 2011, including nearly 4,700 since April 12, when a UN-backed ceasefire was supposed to have taken effect, the Observatory says.

Turkey has sent missile batteries, tanks and troops to the border as a "security corridor" after Syria shot down a Turkish warplane last Friday, media reports said.

There was no official confirmation, but state-run TRT television showed dozens of military vehicles reportedly heading for the border, in a convoy that included air defence systems.

About 30 military vehicles accompanied by a truck towing missile batteries left a base in the southeastern province of Hatay for the border, about 50 kilometres (30 miles) away, Milliyet newspaper reported.

The Turkish Phantom F-4 jet was downed by Syrian fire over the eastern Mediterranean in what Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said was a "heinous attack" over international waters.

Diplomats at the United Nations revealed on Wednesday that Annan is proposing setting up a transitional government to include representatives of both sides in the Syria conflict.

The proposed interim authority would exclude officials whose presence might jeopardise the transition "or undermine efforts to bring reconciliation," according to a summary given by one UN diplomat.

"The language of Annan's plan suggests that Assad could be excluded but also that certain opposition figures could be ruled out," said another UN diplomat.

The Geneva meeting was agreed only after protracted wrangling between Moscow and Washington.

US officials had warned that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton could stay away from the conference if transition from Assad's rule was not on the agenda.

Russia also insists Iran should be part of the solution to Syria's conflict.

"Iran is an influential player in this situation and to leave it out of the Geneva meeting, I believe, is a mistake," Lavrov said on Thursday.

And Assad's fate "must be decided within the framework of a Syrian dialogue by the Syrian people themselves" without foreign interference, he insisted.

Clinton, who will meet Lavrov in Saint Petersburg on Friday, rejected any idea that Annan was proposing a transition imposed from outside.

"In his transition document it is a Syrian-led transition, but you have to have a transition that complies with international standards on human rights, accountable governance, the rule of law," she said.

The opposition Syrian National Council, meanwhile, said it would boycott any government if Assad stays.

SNC spokesman George Sabra told AFP the group's position "remains that the opposition would not participate in any political project unless Bashar al-Assad is removed from power."

Syria's Muslim Brotherhood, an SNC member, criticised Annan's plan in a statement saying forming a national unity government as violence continues "would be to delude ourselves and play the regime's game."

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UPDATED : SAUDI MILITARY GOES ON HIGH ALERT - ABDULLAH CLAIMS “FOREIGN OR TERRORIST ATTACKS" - EROGDAN REPORTEDLY SENDS ABDULLAH MESSAGE TURKS WILL LAUNCH AIRSTRIKE ON SYRIAN TROOPS

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PRESS TV
06/28/2012

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud has ordered the country’s security forces to go on a state of high alert due to what he calls a 'turbulent situation' in the region. 

King Abdullah issued the order in a "top secret" letter addressed to the kingdom’s security and intelligence chiefs as well as the ministers of defense and interior.

A copy of the letter, dated June 27, 2012, has been obtained by Press TV.

The decree, calling for preparation against “foreign or terrorist attacks,” warns the Saudi security forces against any negligence in following the order.

The Saudi Defense Ministry consequently put all armed forces on high alert, saying all the forces inside and outside of the kingdom were ready to take part in an operation dubbed as “al-Farouq.”

Reports say King Abdullah has issued the order over what he claims to be “foreign or terrorist attacks.”

The decree also warns Saudi security forces against any negligence in following the order.

Saudi Arabia is one of the authoritarian states in the Middle East.

The country has witnessed anti-regime demonstrations over the past months.

Since February 2011, Saudi protesters have held demonstrations on an almost regular basis in the oil-rich Eastern Province, mainly in the Qatif region and the town of Awamiyah, calling for the release of all political prisoners, freedom of expression and assembly, and an end to widespread discrimination.

However, the demonstrations have turned into protests against the Al Saud regime, especially since November 2011, when Saudi security forces killed five protesters and injured many others in the Eastern Province.

According to Human Rights Watch, the Saudi regime “routinely represses expression critical of the government.”

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BREAKING AND CONFIRMED:

SAUDI TROOPS ON HIGH ALERT (#1 WHICH IS DESIGNATED FOR IMMINENT WAR )

1. National guard, army brigades, and air forces troops were ordered to be on highest alert ( #1, never seen before) starting late today June 28th.

2. Ministry of the Interior ordered all of their sectors to be on high alert starting 7 a.m. tomorrow morning [28th].

Erdogan has reportedly sent the Saudi king a message saying that Turkey will launch an air strike on Syrian troops very soon (maybe near Geneva summit this Saturday).

Saudis are preparing for any reaction from Syria or Iran.

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Britain Introduces Law to Hide Torture

Fuck Queen Elizabeth and her filthy, cross-dressing, torturing MI5, MI6* scum:  The TRUTH will prevail

PRESS TV
06/27/2012

The UK government has introduced its new secrecy law in Parliament, which, if enacted, would mean details of the emerging torture scandals would be hidden forever.

Irish Civilian Tortured In The British Occupied North

If the Justice and Security Bill becomes law, Ministers will be able to demand secret hearings, and to prevent the victims from ever seeing evidence about their claims.

Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas Mercer, the chief British Army lawyer in Iraq during the 2003 invasion, has said what went on in the secret prison network amounted to ‘war crimes’.

He said it was his part of his job to monitor the treatment of prisoners taken by British Forces and the conditions at detention facilities. But he was kept ‘totally in the dark’ about the secret network’s existence.

“This prisoner facility operated entirely outside the normal chain of command,” said Lieut Col Mercer, who has left the Army.

“I find it remarkable that I knew nothing about it at the time. What is clear now is that, if the Justice and Security Bill does become law, the truth may never come out. These are alleged war crimes, but what Britain did may never be disclosed. Indeed, the Bill may be specifically designed to prevent such allegations ever coming to light”.

Senior Conservative MP David Davis said the Bill seemed to be ‘tailored to produce a cover-up’.

What the British have done over 700 years to the Irish

“I find it astonishing that the military authorities responsible for the legality of prisoner detention were not even notified about these secret camps. If these allegations are substantiated, they amount to a serious blow to the rule of law. The Bill, if passed, would be another, giving Ministers the power effectively to instruct judges to withhold evidence in court cases”, he said.

The pending action will be taken by solicitor Phil Shiner of Public Interest Lawyers, whose earlier work brought to light details of the murders of the hotel worker Baha Mousa and other Iraqis detained by British troops. The new focus is on a number of almost simultaneous incidents at two black site locations.

It is thought there were at least two more.

MOL/JR/HE

* Here's to you fuckers, yer goddamn days are numbered.

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Pedophile TSA "Agent" Leaves Grandfather's Ashes On Floor

If any one's ashes should be scattered they are those of Janet "Butch" Napolitano, who should have her ashes dumped in the traditional busted urinal at LaGuardia Airport:  These Satanic, pedophile criminals need to be TAKEN OUT, EXTERMINATED

Indiana RTV 6
06/25/2012

INDIANAPOLIS --

A man's attempt to bring the ashes of his grandfather home to Indianapolis ended with an angry scene in a Florida airport, with the ashes spilled on the terminal floor.

Red-nosed, alcoholic TSA pedophile molesting grandmother

John Gross, a resident of Indianapolis' south side, was leaving Florida with the remains of his grandfather -- Mario Mark Marcaletti, a Sicilian immigrant who worked for the Penn Central Railroad in central Indiana -- in a tightly sealed jar marked "Human Remains. "Gross said he didn't think he'd have a problem, until he ran into a TSA agent at the Orlando airport.

"They opened up my bag, and I told them, 'Please, be careful. These are my grandpa's ashes,'" Gross told RTV6's Norman Cox. "She picked up the jar. She opened it up. "I was told later on that she had no right to even open it, that they could have used other devices, like an X-ray machine. So she opened it up. She used her finger and was sifting through it.

Criminal TSA Chief pedophile, freak John Pistone

And then she accidentally spilled it."Gross says about a quarter to a third of the contents spilled on the floor, leaving him frantically trying to gather up as much as he could while anxious passengers waited behind him. She didn't apologize. She started laughing. I was on my hands and knees picking up bone fragments. I couldn't pick up all, everything that was lost. I mean, there was a long line behind me.

"TSA rules say a crematory container in carry-on baggage must pass through the X-ray machine at the security checkpoint.But the agency's own website says human remains are to be opened under, “no circumstances.”"I want an apology,” said Gross. “I want an apology from TSA. I want an apology from the lady who opened the jar and laughed at me. I want them to help me understand where they get off treating people like this."

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"Gunmen" Kill Seven Including Journalists at Syrian Pro-Assad Ikhbariya TV

Journalists and security guards killed; Would these "terrorists" have had British and American accents?  Let's see the fraud "citizen journalists" as they call themselves put thier asses where there mouths are and go into Syria to "report" - that is if Wal Mart will give them the time off from their greeter jobs

BBC
06/27/2012

Gunmen have attacked a Syrian pro-government TV channel, killing seven people, state media say.

Obama, CIA stepping up killing of journalists in Syria

Journalists and security guards died in the attack on al-Ikhbariya TV south of Damascus, Sana news agency reported.

Hours earlier, President Bashar al-Assad said Syria was in "a real state of war" and US intelligence officials predicted a long, drawn-out struggle.

UN and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan has called a meeting of the UN action group for Syria for Saturday.

His deputy envoy said on Wednesday that the violence in the country had "reached or surpassed" levels before the April ceasefire deal. 'Cold blood'

The BBC's Jim Muir in Beirut says that Syrian TV dropped normal programming on Wednesday to run live coverage of the attack on the headquarters of Ikhbariya TV in the town of Drusha, some 20km (14 miles) south of the capital.

al-Ikhbariya TV

State TV showed pictures of burnt and wrecked buildings, with fires still smouldering.

Syria's Information Minister Omran al-Zoebi, on a visit to the site, said some of the victims had been abducted, bound, and killed in cold blood.

He also condemned the EU's decision to impose sanctions on Syria's state-run TV and radio agency for its support of the Assad government.

The Ikhbariya attack followed fierce clashes in suburbs of the capital, Damascus, described by opposition activists as the worst there so far.

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said fighting had taken place near positions of the Republican Guard, which is led by President Assad's younger brother Maher and has the role of protecting the capital.

"Gunmen" incapable of this level of destruction, images point to plastic explosives

The Observatory also reported violence on Wednesday in the central city of Homs, Deir al-Zour in the east and in Idlib in the north.

Mr Annan has announced there will be a meeting in Geneva on Saturday of the Syrian action group - the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Turkey, Iraq, Kuwait and Qatar.

There was no mention of including Iran, whose presence in talks has been urged by Russia.

Obama, CIA swine sending a message to journalists:  Get Out

Mr Annan said the aim of the meeting was to secure full implementation of an agreed peace plan and back the "principles for a Syrian-led political transition".

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who will attend the meeting, said that if all the parties agreed to Mr Annan's roadmap for political transition then there was "great hope that this perhaps can be a turning point in the very tragic circumstances affecting the Syrian people".

In April, following months of bloodshed, the Syrian government agreed to a six-point peace plan. UN monitors were deployed to oversee a ceasefire but the truce never took hold and the monitors have suspended patrols.

Mr Annan's deputy envoy, Jean-Marie Guehenno, warned the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday that "time was running out".

He was speaking shortly before a commission of inquiry gave details of its report on the one of the worst attacks on civilians since the conflict began - the 25 May Houla massacre in which 108 people died.

Commission chairman Paulo Pinheiro told the council that "forces loyal to the government may have been responsible for many of the deaths" but he said his team had been unable to determine who was behind the massacre.

Mr Pinheiro said the perpetrators were from one of three groups: "shabiha" or other local militia from neighbouring villages, perhaps acting with the army; anti-government armoured groups; or foreign groups.

"While the commission could not rule out the possibility of anti-government fighters being responsible for the killing, this was considered very much unlikely," he said.

Syrian ambassador Faisal Khabbaz Hamoui condemned the meeting as "flagrantly political" and walked out of the hall. 'Holding firm'

Senior US intelligence officials have described the conflict between the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and the government as a "seesaw battle", suggesting that it is likely to be a long, drawn-out struggle.

"The regime inner circle and those at the next level still seem to be holding fairly firm in support of the regime and Assad," one official told Reuters.

The BBC's Ian Pannell, who has spent the past two weeks with rebel groups in Idlib province, says that over the past two months there have been marked changes, with the rebels clearly getting weapons across the border and from the Syrian military.

The rebels are becoming more organised and are going on the offensive, he says, and are controlling large swathes of northern areas.

The UN says at least 10,000 people have been killed since pro-democracy protests began in March 2011. In June, the Syrian government reported that 6,947 Syrians had died, including at least 3,211 civilians and 2,566 security forces personnel.


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2009 Swine Flu Outbreak Was 15 Times Deadlier - Direct Link to Weaponized H5N1 Virus Creators Yoshihiro Kawaoka and Teridah Ernala Ginting, Kobe University

Below e-mails received by 5th Estate Editor confirms Kobe University virologists Yoshihiro Kawaoka and his then student Teridah Ernala Ginting were weaponizing H1N1 in 2009 - just in time for the pandemic

THE 5TH ESTATE
By Robert S. Finnegan
06/28/2012

Tuesday, 5 May, 2009 20:35

From:
"Ida - Teridah Ernala" <ida_lutu@yahoo.com>

To:
seanews1@yahoo.com

Robert,

I'm doing reverse genetic technology also in my research. Currently, I'm creating an H1N1 human virus and manipulating the genes to study its transmission capability.

My professor is Yoshihiro Kawaoka, he and Neumann established this technology in 1997. The same technique which Taunberger used to ressurrect 1918 virus.

This whole story made me think about what I am right now. 

Ida [Teridah Ernala Ginting]

REUTERS
By Sharon Begley
06/25/2012

* Up to 579,000 deaths, not 18,500

* 51 percent of fatalities in Africa, southeast Asia

* Elderly accounted for just 20 percent of deaths

NEW YORK, June 25 (Reuters) -

The swine flu pandemic of 2009 killed an estimated 284,500 people, some 15 times the number confirmed by laboratory tests at the time, according to a new study by an international group of scientists.

Kawaoka also weaponised H5N1 at illegal Kobe lab

The study, published on Tuesday in the London-based journal Lancet Infectious Diseases, said the toll might have been even higher - as many as 579,000 people. The original count, compiled by the World Health Organization, put the number at 18,500. Those were only the deaths confirmed by lab testing, which the WHO itself warned was a gross underestimate because the deaths of people without access to the health system go uncounted, and because the virus is not always detectable after a victim dies. 

The new study also shows the pandemic's impact varied widely by region, with 51 percent of swine flu deaths occurring in Africa and southeast Asia, which account for only 38 percent of the world's population.

"This pandemic really did take an enormous toll," said Dr. Fatimah Dawood of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who led the study. "Our results also suggest how best to deploy resources. If a vaccine were to become available, we need to make sure it reached the areas where the death toll is likely to be highest."

Tuesday, 5 May, 2009 20:02

From:

This sender is DomainKeys verified

"Ida - Teridah Ernala" <ida_lutu@yahoo.com>

To:

seanews1@yahoo.com

Robert,

Regarding to the Mexican flu, I have feeling that we cannot blame the pigs. There's impossible a new strain suddenly pop-up into the world. It take hundred of years to complete the evolution. I assumed there was something wrong with the vaccination they used in Mexico, or some lab strain 'escaped'. 

Ida [Teridah Ernala Ginting]

The so-called "swine flu" caused by the H1N1 influenza virus, infected its first known victim in central Mexico in March 2009. By April it had reached California, infecting a 10-year-old, and then quickly spread around the world, triggering fears and even panic.

Weaponized H1N1 created at Kobe by Kawaoka and Ernala

The CDC warned Americans not to travel to Mexico if they could avoid it. Egypt ordered the slaughter of all the country's pigs in a misguided attempt to contain the virus, which was in fact spread from person to person.

The fears reflected the unusual nature of the virus, which contained bits and pieces of bird, swine and human flu viruses, a combination never before detected.

Scientists were unsure how transmissible or deadly this mongrel flu would be, but early signs were ominous: the World Health Organization declared swine flu a pandemic in June 2009, when labs had identified cases in 74 countries.

Such lab-based identification is the gold standard, but every expert acknowledges that it misses more cases than it catches.

Ron Fouchier, the influenza researcher at the head of team that created a weaponized H5N1 avian influenza strain transmissible in humans at Wisconsin University and Kawaoka colleague recently decried the controversy surrounding his work

One reason is that "some people who contract flu do not have access to health care," said CDC's Dawood, so their illness and even death goes unnoticed by authorities. Another reason is that the virus is not always detectable by the time a victim dies.

LACK OF DATA LOWBALLS FATALITIES

To get around these obstacles, epidemiologists resort to statistical models. They typically take the number of deaths from pneumonia and complications of underlying cardiovascular disease - both caused by influenza - during non-flu periods, count the number during a pandemic, and attribute the excess to the flu.

The brains behind Unit 731, Shiro Ishii (who also bears an uncanny resemblance to Kawaoka) lived in peace and quiet to the ripe old age of 67, when he died of throat cancer. The United States felt that the research into germ warfare was too valuable to lose and so cut a deal with the Japanese. In 1947, Douglas MacArthur, the General of the US Army, wrote to Washington that “additional data, possibly some statements from Ishii probably can be obtained by informing Japanese involved that information will be retained in intelligence channels and will not be employed as ‘War Crimes’ evidence"

 

Unfortunately, "vital statistics data are non-existent or sparse in many lower-resource countries," said Dawood, making this approach infeasible.

Dawood and her colleagues - from Vietnam, Kenya, New Zealand, Denmark and five other countries - tried a different method.

Set up as a top-secret biological and chemical weapons facility during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War Two, Unit 731 has been referred to as the Asian Auschwitz. Through the practice of lethal human experimentation, the unit is thought to have been responsible for the deaths of up to 200,000 civilians and military personnel – the vast majority Chinese and Korean nationals, but also South East Asians, Pacific Islanders and Allied POWs. In the sprawling six kilometer-square complex in the city of Harbin (now part of Northeast China) those behind the sickening ‘research’ developed some of the most cruel and sadistic experiments ever to be conducted on human victims. These included vivisection, amputations, germ warfare tests, explosive weapons testing, and much more

They started with hard data, such as numbers from health workers going door to door in rural villages and asking about flu-like symptoms and testing nasal and throat swab samples, to estimate the proportion of a country's population infected with 2009 H1N1. Such data were available from 13 countries - wealthy, such as Denmark, and poor, like Vietnam.

Then the scientists estimated the fraction of patients who died in each country. They started with solid data on death rates from respiratory illnesses in five wealthy nations.

Tangerang, Indonesia:  Teridah Ernala Ginting was also involved with the theft of Indonesian H5N1 samples ordered stolen from Indonesia by Kawaoka, along with Indonesian H1N1

 

Since someone with, say, pneumonia has a lower chance of dying if treated in a top hospital in Hong Kong than at a rural clinic in Vietnam, the scientists applied a "multiplier" to the raw data from poor countries.

That is, they assumed that more people with flu-caused pneumonia died in developing nations than developed ones.

Teridah Ernala Ginting "confessed" to H1N1, H5N1 weaponization over a years-long correspondence with 5th Estate editor Robert S. Finnegan

 

These estimates and assumptions can introduce errors, critics note. Newly released mortality data from Mexico, for instance, show that H1N1 killed even more people than the new study estimates, said Lone Simonsen of George Washington University School of Public Health, co-author of a commentary on the study. Estimates of deaths from Japan and Singapore, in contrast, may be too high.

Overall, however, the under- and over-estimates probably even out, said Simonsen, making the global estimate - of 15 times more deaths than those confirmed at the time - about right.

Kobe University, Japanese authorities refuse to comment on Kawaoka

The results paint a picture of a flu virus that did not treat all victims equally. It killed two to three times as many of its victims in Africa as elsewhere. Overall, the virus infected children most (4 percent to 33 percent), adults moderately (0 to 22 percent of those 18 to 64) and the elderly hardly at all (0 to 4 percent).

Even though the elderly were more likely to die once infected, so few caught the virus that 80 percent of swine flu deaths were of people younger than 65.

In contrast, the elderly account for roughly 80 percent to 90 percent of deaths from seasonal influenza outbreaks. They were probably spared the worst of 2009 H1N1 because the virus resembled one that had circulated before 1957, meaning people alive then had developed some antibodies to it.

Kawaoka and Fouchier defending their weaponization of H5N1 and other eradicated viruses

The relative youth of the victims meant that H1N1 stole more than three times as many years of life than typical seasonal flu: 9.7 million years of life lost compared to 2.8 million if it had targeted the elderly as seasonal flu does.

H1N1 had begun petering out by November 2009, and the WHO declared the epidemic at an end the following August.

Editing by Michele Gershberg and Xavier Briand.

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