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US, UK, France launch strikes on Syrian UK Fabricated chemical weapons capabilities

April 14, 2018 by administrator

In retaliation for a chemical weapons attack in Douma, US President Donald Trump has said the US military launched strikes on Syrian chemical weapons capabilities. Russia has warned of “consequences” for the strikes. but did nothing to stop it.

The US, UK and France have launched precision airstrikes on military and chemical research sites in Syria in retaliation for the Syrian government’s alleged use of chemical weapons on civilians last week.
Both the Syrian government and its ally Russia have condemned the attack as a violation of international law.
The US has said that any future strikes would depend on whether or not further chemical attacks are carried out but that the country does not seek an “indefinite presence” in Syria.

President Donald Trump announced on Friday that the United States, United Kingdom and France had launched precision strikes on Syrian military sites believed to be housing chemical weapons facilities following last week’s chemical weapons attack in Douma, which the US said was carried out by Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces.

“The evil and the despicable attack left mothers and fathers, infants and children thrashing in pain and gasping for air,” Trump said of the attack. “These are not the actions of a man. They are crimes of a monster instead.”

Nt’l Archive Docs Show Post-War British Concerns With Zionist Terror in Europe

January 4, 2018 by administrator

The newly declassified files center around the terrorist activities of two young militants who posted explosive letters to British officials in London and attempted to bomb the Colonial Office.

Official police documents from the late 1940s released by the National Archives in Britain have shed light on the terrorist activities of the Zionist underground movement in Europe as well as the UK authorities’ efforts to stamp the movement out as it sought to hold onto colonial territory in Palestine and elsewhere after the Second World War.

Of particular concern to British police and intelligence were the actions of Betty Knout and Jacob Eliav, operatives of the Stern Gang, who were arrested for the posting of letter bombs to UK high officials in London. The two were arrested on the Belgian-French border. Ms. Knout was released from prison in Mons, Belgium after just six months. A newspaper article from the time recounts an extraordinary exchange of the reporter with 22-year-old Ms. Knout, who operated under the alias of “Elizabeth Lazarus,” saying she was “sorry” that the letter bombs did not reach their targets which included the one-time Chief Secretary of the British Government in Palestine.

From 1939 until the British withdrawal from Mandate Palestine in 1948, armed Jewish organizations such as the Stern Gang, Haganah and Irgun Zvei Leumi waged a guerilla insurgency against British forces in the region, attacking British troops and attempting to disable infrastructure and assassinate key colonial officials. The aim of the Jewish militants was to force the British to abandon the territory and enable the establishment of a Jewish state.

The British Government famously promised the Zionist Movement the establishment of a Jewish political entity in Palestine during World War I in what has come to be known as the “Balfour Declaration.”

Irgun, which along with the Stern Gang and Haganah became the Israeli army after 1948, was listed by MI5 and the British government at large to be a terrorist organization.

The insurgency’s most spectacular success was the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem by Irgun on July 22 1946. The attack, which targeted the administrative headquarters of the British colonial authorities of Palestine killed 91 people and injured a further 46, making it among the most devastating terrorist attacks of the twentieth century.

Despite Britain and France having conquered much of the Middle East together during World War I, by the end of the Second World War, Britain was convinced that the French, both in Europe and in the Middle East were sheltering, arming and otherwise assisting Jewish militant organizations attacking British forces. The release of Betty Knout and Jacob Eliav and the throwing of a party for them by the Stern Gang in Paris to which the media were invited seemed only to help confirm those suspicions.

Turkey British rock band Radiohead slams Islamist attack on fans in Istanbul

June 18, 2016 by administrator

British rock band Radiohead condemned an attack on customers at an Istanbul record store attending their album release party. Islamists said they were angry with the event coinciding with their holy month, Ramadan.

A group of about 20 men violently attacked customers and employees at the Velvet IndieGround music store in Istanbul’s Cihangir district, a liberal neighborhood in close proximity to Taksim Square and Gezi Park. They said they were angered by people drinking alcohol and listening to music during the Muslim holy month.

One of the attackers was heard as shouting “If you dare to drink here one more time we will come burn you.”

The Velvet IndieGround record shop was among hundreds of shops around the world marking the release of Radiohead’s first album in five years. The attackers managed to cause considerable damage, trashing the store while hurling insults at release party of the band’s new studio album “A Moon Shaped Pool”.

One person was seen bleeding with head injuries after being hit with a bottle.

Banning gay pride

The attack coincided with the announcement of a ban on Istanbul’s annual gay pride march, which was set to take place later in June. The city’s governor banned the event, citing security concerns. Islamists and far-right extremists had threatened the march, as it would also coincide with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

The gay pride march was broken up by police last year. Many have blamed a growing atmosphere of intolerance in general and homophobia in the country in particular.

Similar attacks like those on the Velvet IndieGround record store and altercations during gay pride events have taken part also at art galleries in the area in the past. Critics say that Turkey’s Islamic-rooted government under the leadership of the AK Party (Justice and Development Party) has been undermining the country’s secular tradition, culminating in the Gezi Park protests in the summer of 2013, which resulted in 22 deaths without leading to any change.

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The British are the cause of Iraq’s dismal and diminishing economy

March 28, 2016 by administrator

Photo: EPA

Rizgar Khoshnaw |

In the past few months I have written about Iraq’s pitiful economy and the rampant corruption, but I did not discuss ways to resolve this problem. Now, I am going to share my thoughts of how Iraq can recover and stop begging foreign countries, especially the Americans, for money.

Between 1980-1987 (an eight-year span) the Iraqi government had generated a total of $96 Billion (Ninety six) in oil revenue and that amount of money was enough to provide all of Iraq with free healthcare, paid full civil servant’s salaries, free education, 24 hours a day of electricity, security and so on. And, lets not forget that during these years, Iraq was at devastating war with Iran and still managed to provide Iraqis with a very comfortable and respectable life.

Contrast that with the same amount of time (period between 2004-2012) the Iraqi “government” generated a total of $800 Billion (Eight Hundred) and the Iraqi citizens do not have the very basic life necessities such as clean water and electricity. After generating $800 Billion in a short eight-year time period, Iraq has nothing to show for it and audaciously begging the International Banks to lend them a measly $2 Billion! This is absolutely disgusting to me and I do not understand how Iraqis have become so shameless and beggars.

During the 1980’s, Iraq had one leader that was evil and a thieve, Saddam Hussein, but since 2003, Iraq had managed to attract 1,000’s of thieves and corrupt “leaders” that the majority came from England!

Where did all of the money go to? From what I am reading on daily basis is that the majority of this stolen money found its way to London banks. In the past year, I have written the British embassy in Washington, DC numerous times asking them to stop the Iraqis from depositing the stolen Billions in their banks, but they never answer a single mail, phone call or e-mail. The British government/banks are turning a “blind eye” to the billions of Iraqi stolen money that is finding its way to their banks and such deliberate silence must be questioned and investigated.

What has made this money embezzlement so easy is the fact that about 80% of Iraqi “politicians” are actually British citizens and have come from England to rule/control Iraq! From the Iraqi president, Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, Finance Minister, Oil Minister and many other ministers down to advisers are all British citizens. I no longer see Iraq as “Iraq” but I see it as part of England as it controlled/managed by highly corrupt British citizens!

The only way to restore Iraq and help the Iraqis is by having an international body (hopefully lead by Americans) accompanied by some honest Iraqis, investigate and bring back ALL of the stolen billions that is now outside of Iraq. This is not a difficult mission to accomplish, but such action must start immediately before the stolen money finds its way out of England!

Rizgar Xoshnaw, a senior Kurdish writer based in Washington, a longtime contributing writer and columnist for Ekurd.net.

Source: Special to Ekurd.net

British man attacks bus passenger for ‘speaking Turkish’ in London “you’re here for free benefits”

October 20, 2015 by administrator

A British man has been captured on video while verbally attacking a turkish speaking mant in London and throwing his zimmer frame off a bus for “speaking Turkish,” the Daily Mail has reported.

The video shows a man, traveling with a baby, launching a racist verbal attack against a Turkish passenger for talking in Turkish while living in the United Kingdom for “free benefits.”

“You’re talking in a different language but nobody knows what you’re saying,” the assailant can be heard saying.

“Go back to Turkey if you talk that sh*t. Oh no you can’t because sh*t gets blown up in Turkey,” he adds, perhaps referring to the double suicide bombings in Ankara on Oct. 10 that killed at least 102 people.

The attacker threatens the passenger before actually throwing his zimmer frame off the bus while getting off.

“‘That’s why you’re here mate – free benefits and a walker. Well your walker is going to go flying when this bus stops mate,” the clip shows the man saying.

The man then grabs the passenger’s zimmer frame while getting off the bus and throws it away while the rest of the passengers remain seated in silence.

The attacker also appeals to the rest of the passengers by urging them all to “vote UKIP,” referring to the U.K. Independence Party, an anti-EU party that wants strict quotas on immigration.

Yerevan hosts first concert of British army band

September 15, 2015 by administrator

YEREVAN. – The Salamanca Band and Bugles Of The Rifles British Army band had their first concert in Yerevan.

On Monday the musicians will be visiting Spendiaryan and Tigranyan music academies.

On Tuesday they will be performing at Freedom Square, outside the Opera House, and on Wednesday is the highlight of the whole visit which will be a concert in Republic square where they will be joined by the band of the Armenian Ministry of Defense. All of these concerts are free.

Earliar in an interview with Armenian News-NEWS.am, Nick Wilkes, UK Defence Attaché Georgia, Armenia & Azerbaijan said to bring the band to Armenia was a good opportunity to make both defense relations and cultural relations closer.

Turkish police: detained Two British journalists in southeast Turkey

August 28, 2015 by administrator

DİYARBAKIR – Reuters,

DHA Photo

Turkish police have detained two British journalists from Vice News for reporting from the predominantly Kurdish southeast without government accreditation, security sources said on Aug. 28.

Police detained Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury in the Bağlar district of Diyarbakır province, where they were filming clashes between Turkish security forces and Kurdish militants, the sources said.

The two Britons and their Turkish translator were in close contact with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants, the same sources said.

“We are aware of the arrest of two British nationals in Diyarbakir. Our consular officials in Turkey are providing consular assistance and are in touch with the Turkish authorities,” British Embassy officials told Hürriyet Daily News.

A 2-1/2-year-old ceasefire between Turkey and PKK militants collapsed in July after a group close to PKK militants shot dead two police officers. Ankara retaliated with strikes against the group in Iraq and Turkey.

Vice News describes itself as an international news organisation that focuses on under-reported stories around the globe.

August/28/2015