China Confidential
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Obama Warns Israel Against Attacking Iran
An American President is relentlessly pressuring an American ally--the only democracy in the Middle East.
Haaretz reports:
U.S. President Barack Obama has sent a message to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanding that Israel not surprise the U.S. with an Israeli military operation against Iran. The message was conveyed by a senior American official who met in Israel with Netanyahu, ministers and other senior officials. Earlier, Netanyahu's envoy visited Washington and met with National Security Adviser James Jones and with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and discussed the dialogue Obama has initiated with Tehran.
The message from the American envoy to the prime minister reveals U.S. concern that Israel could lose patience and act against Iran. It is important to the Americans that they not be caught off guard and find themselves facing facts on the ground at the last minute.
Obama did not wait for his White House meeting with Netanyahu, scheduled for next Monday, to deliver his message, but rather sent it ahead of time with his envoy.
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NY Post Confirms China Confidential Nuke Story
On April 9 China Confidential reported that President "Obama intends to focus attention on Israel's nuclear deterrent in an attempt to appease Iran while also currying favor with Saudi Arabia, which is competing with Iran for influence over Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist organization that has become an Iranian proxy and is clearly committed to Israel's destruction."
Benny Avni reports in today's edition of the New York Post that the "Obama administration is widely signaling that in order for the world to press Iran on its nuclear-weapons program, Israel will also have to make some concessions."
Click here to read Avni's article.
Why Obama Chose Egypt Over Indonesia
Left-wing columnists and bloggers are criticizing and questioning President Barack Obama's decision to address "the Muslim world" from Egypt instead of Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation. Obama defenders say he chose the Arab nation to show support for Saudi Arabia and other supposedly moderate, Islamist-leaning, Arab states in the Middle East that are aligned with the United States against non-Arab, Islamist Iran and its Islamist, Arab proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah, and still secular--but steadily Islamizing--Arab ally, Syria.
China Confidential analysts disagree. Obama chose Egypt, they say, because he did not want to refocus attention on his controversial connection to Indonesia--i.e. his childhood years in the home of his Indonesian, Muslim stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, who introduced him to Islam (and to such indigenous customs as dog-eating) and enrolled him in elementary school as a Muslim, Indonesian citizen under the name Barry Soetoro, as shown by an apparently authentic, Indonesian school certificate. Obama's Indonesian childhood was a hot topic in the politically conservative bloggersphere during the 2008 U.S. Presidential campaign.
An American President is relentlessly pressuring an American ally--the only democracy in the Middle East.
Haaretz reports:
U.S. President Barack Obama has sent a message to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanding that Israel not surprise the U.S. with an Israeli military operation against Iran. The message was conveyed by a senior American official who met in Israel with Netanyahu, ministers and other senior officials. Earlier, Netanyahu's envoy visited Washington and met with National Security Adviser James Jones and with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and discussed the dialogue Obama has initiated with Tehran.
The message from the American envoy to the prime minister reveals U.S. concern that Israel could lose patience and act against Iran. It is important to the Americans that they not be caught off guard and find themselves facing facts on the ground at the last minute.
Obama did not wait for his White House meeting with Netanyahu, scheduled for next Monday, to deliver his message, but rather sent it ahead of time with his envoy.
Continue here.
On April 9 China Confidential reported that President "Obama intends to focus attention on Israel's nuclear deterrent in an attempt to appease Iran while also currying favor with Saudi Arabia, which is competing with Iran for influence over Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist organization that has become an Iranian proxy and is clearly committed to Israel's destruction."
Benny Avni reports in today's edition of the New York Post that the "Obama administration is widely signaling that in order for the world to press Iran on its nuclear-weapons program, Israel will also have to make some concessions."
Click here to read Avni's article.
Why Obama Chose Egypt Over Indonesia
Left-wing columnists and bloggers are criticizing and questioning President Barack Obama's decision to address "the Muslim world" from Egypt instead of Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation. Obama defenders say he chose the Arab nation to show support for Saudi Arabia and other supposedly moderate, Islamist-leaning, Arab states in the Middle East that are aligned with the United States against non-Arab, Islamist Iran and its Islamist, Arab proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah, and still secular--but steadily Islamizing--Arab ally, Syria.
China Confidential analysts disagree. Obama chose Egypt, they say, because he did not want to refocus attention on his controversial connection to Indonesia--i.e. his childhood years in the home of his Indonesian, Muslim stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, who introduced him to Islam (and to such indigenous customs as dog-eating) and enrolled him in elementary school as a Muslim, Indonesian citizen under the name Barry Soetoro, as shown by an apparently authentic, Indonesian school certificate. Obama's Indonesian childhood was a hot topic in the politically conservative bloggersphere during the 2008 U.S. Presidential campaign.
GM Bailed Out to Import Chinese-Made Cars
Insolvent General Motors, which has to date received more than $15 billion of taxpayer money, aims to become America's biggest importer of Chinese-made cars. Click here for the story.
Escalating Ahead of New Nuclear Blast, N. Korea Says it Will Put Two US Hostages on Trial in June
As the Obama administration begs China's vassal, North Korea, to return to six-party nuclear disarmament talks, the Stalinist/Kimist/criminal regime responds by announcing a trial date for two innocent American hostages--reporters captured on Chinese territory and dragged across the border.
Reuters reports:
North Korea said on Thursday it would put two U.S. journalists it arrested in March on trial on June 4, further ratcheting up tension after a defiant rocket launch and a threat to conduct a nuclear test.
Euna Lee and Laura Ling, of [Al Gore's] U.S. media outlet Current TV, were arrested along the North Korea-China border accused of illegally entering North Korea with "hostile" intent and Pyongyang said they face criminal charges.
"The Central Court of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) decided to try the American journalists on June 4 according to the indictment of the competent organ," the North's official KCNA news agency said in a one-sentence dispatch.
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Pentagon Official, Apparent Victim of False Flag Operation, Charged with Spying for Chinese Gov't
In the world of espionage and clandestine activities, false flag operations are designed to deceive an agent into believing that he or she is working for his or her own government or a friendly power or ally. The term is derived from the military concept of flying false colors; that is, flying the flag of a country other than one's own.
A U.S. defense official is charged with falling for just such an operation. The charges are extremely serious.
AFP reports:
A Pentagon official with "top secret" security clearance has been charged with conspiracy to pass classified information to an agent of China, the US Justice Department said Wednesday.
A criminal complaint said that retired air force Lieutenant Colonel James Wilbur Fondren, a deputy director of the US Pacific Command's Washington Liaison Office, "unlawfully and knowingly conspired" to communicate secrets.
"The allegations in this case are troubling -- providing classified information to a foreign agent of the People's Republic of China is a real and serious threat to our national security," said Dana Boente, acting US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
"The US government places considerable trust in those given access to classified information, and we are committed to prosecuting those who abuse that trust," he said.
The complaint said that Fondren, 62, start providing business consulting advice to a Taiwan-born friend called Tai Shen Kuo around February 1998, about two years after he retired from the US Air Force.
Fondren continued to provide consulting services to Kuo even after becoming a civilian employee of the Pacific Command in August 2001, where he held a "top secret" security clearance with a classified computer in his cubicle.
Unbeknownst to Fondren, Kuo was working under the direction of an unidentified Chinese government official, the affidavit said. Kuo had introduced Fondren to the official in about March 1999, it said.
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