China Confidential
China Says it Foils Bomb-Making Plot
An explosives ring in Xinjiang--broken up--as reported here.
Gold Hits Record High; $1,400 Next Peak to Climb
Gold continued its rally Wednesday, hitting a record high. Click here.
Canadian mining experts continue to see $1,400 as the next big milestone; thereafter, gold could hit $2,000 before the end of next year.
Sarkozy Says Iran Working on Nukes
The French president has gone farther than any Western leader, except for Israel's prime minister, in telling the truth about Iran: the turbaned tyranny is developing nuclear weapons, and Western intelligence agencies know what's happening. Click here for the story.
Al Qaeda Adopts Rhetoric of US, European Left
Al Qaeda released a message Monday that was purported to be from its leader, Osama Bin Laden.
The message, which was posted on Islamist websites, constituted a major propaganda shift. Bin laden blamed U.S. support for Israel for 9/11; the "Israel lobby" and neo-conservatives for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; and Bush administration holdovers for "weakening" a well intentioned U.S. President, Barack Obama.
In short, the speech reads like it could have been written by the left wing of the U.S. Democratic Party, or the Swedish foreign ministry, for that matter, or any one of several, anti-Israel U.S. pundits--Pat Buchanan, for example.
Fox News has this analysis:
Bin Laden then went on to say that "our two Umma (meaning America and the Muslim world) are both victims" of one aggressor, that is in his words, those "who control the White House, particularly the Israel lobby and the multinational corporations." He endorsed two books for Americans to understand how these lobbies control the White House. "A book by a former CIA agent who apologized for his crimes as a hit man," which most likely is John Perkins's "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man;" and another book called "The Israel Lobby," by professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt. He claimed that these two books "will give you the truth." Mearsheimer and Walt are thus becoming Al Qaeda's main recommended authors.
Bin Laden also praised President Obama for having "admitted at last in his speech in Cairo, the existence of our people's miseries." He also praised "former President Carter's statements about the Palestinians during his last visit in Gaza, and particularly his statements on Israel's racism."
"Those who are stating from the White House that the war in Afghanistan is one of necessity, are like Bush; they represent the interests of the corporations." He declared that the authors of statements are the ones responsible for the war not the Mujahidin. "The White House is occupied by pressure groups," he said. "You Americans should liberate the White House from these groups instead of liberating Iraq." Pushing the drama, Bin Laden added that "any leader [i.e., the president] of the White House is set on tracks he can't leave. This president has become like a train set to move in a particular direction. He must accept these pressures otherwise his fate (as president) could be like President Kennedy's or his brother (Robert)."
He called on Americans "to free themselves from the intellectual terror of the neo-cons and the Israel lobby." He asked them to review their alliance with Israel. "Is your security and well-being worth sacrificing for Israel's securit?" He added that polls shows that Americans are opposed to wars and thus they must act against those "who threaten our security," meaning Israel.
Then the Al Qaeda leader makes an offer: "We are ready to accept talking about ending this war." However, he believes that President Obama won't be able to meet that challenge. "Obama is a Mustad'aaf." In some of the media analysis in English the term was translated automatically as "Obama is weak." In fact such that translation is not accurate. "Istidaaf" means he has been rendered weaker. In other word he has been weakened -- by forces around him-- "Mustdaa'f" here means "victimized" or forced to act against his original intentions.
Bin Laden then goes on to explain how the weakening of Obama has been taking place. "He maintained the men of Bush and Cheney in power: Secretary Gates, Admiral Mullen and General Petraeus." Bin Laden says "Obama can't stop the war with these men in charge. "He should have appointed generals who were against the war like General Sanchez and Admiral Fallon."
He tells Americans that if they can stop the war, "that is fine, if not the jihadists will continue this war of attrition as they did with the USSR for ten years leading to its collapse." This war you are waging, "is already lost."
Read the entire article here.
At the rate things are going in terms of appeasement of radical Islam, it is only a matter of time before the Left and the old-line isolationists suggest negotiating with "reconcilable" elements of Al Qaeda as well as the Taliban.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Gold Bugs Buzzing About $3,000
Could the price of gold triple or even rise to $5,000 an ounce? Click here for the answer.
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