سر كشفه تقرير ألماني: الإستخبارات الأمريكية شجعت حزب إلله على مواجهة دموية مع جبهة النصرة بسوريا

BECAUSE THE ARABS WILL NEVER LEARN!

"عمان- القدس العربي: تؤطر مداخلة الدكتور أيمن الظواهري الأخيرة في الموضوع السوري القناعة بان تنظيم القاعدة يتعامل حاليا مع (فخ) تكتيكي نصب بعناية ودفع التنظيم إلى مواجهة (دموية) هذه المرة مع حزب إلله اللبناني تحت عناوين طائفية يمكنها أن تدوم طويلا.

بعض الخبراء لديهم قناعة بأن سياسات فتح الحدود أمام الجهاديين التي إتبعت بدول مثل الأردن وتركيا ولبنان في بداية الأزمة السورية كانت تتقصد تحشيد أكبر عدد ممكن من السلفيين الجهاديين أنصار تنظيم القاعدة أو الذين يمكن أن يتحولوا إلى أنصار للتنظيم في رقعة جغرافية محددة وبمهام قتالية.

معلومة خاصة جدا حصلت عليها القدس العربي تشير إلى تقارير إستخبارية ألمانية تحديدا إستعرضت مؤخرا ما حصل في سوريا والظروف والإعتبارات التي دفعت حزب إلله للمجازفة بالدخول على خطوط المواجهة المستعرة في بلاد الشام.

التقدير الألماني يتحدث بوضوح عن (غطاء إستخباري أمريكي) منح للدول الثلات وهي تركيا والأردن ولبنان بغرض إنضاج تسهيلات للجهاديين والسلفيين عبر تمكينهم من الدخول للأراضي السورية وبكثافة.

لكن المثير أن الغطاء نفسه منح دون إعتراض لحزب إلله اللبناني حتى يتدخل في بلدة القصير ليشاهد العالم موجة عنيفة ودموية من الصراع بين المتشددين الشيعة والأصوليين السنة الذين أظهر الدكتور الظواهري بوضوح أنهم يتبعون تنظيم القاعدة عندما خاطبهم مؤخرا.

طبعا تسهيلات الدخول سمحت بوجود نحو 30 ألفا من المقاتلين الجهاديين إلى سوريا والكثير من هؤلاء من المغرب العربي ودول الخليج والأردن وبعض الدول الأوروبية , الأمر الذي تشير له الإستخبارات الألمانية وهي تلمح لعملية محكمة إنتهت بتحشيد نوعين من الكوادر في مدن الشمال والجنوب السوري هم الأفراد الفعليون في تنظيم القاعدة والأفراد الجهاديون الذين يمكن للقاعدة أن تستقطبهم بسهولة مما يفسر إعلان جبهة النصرة الولاء لتنظيم القاعدة في وقت مبكر قبل عدة أشهر.

اللافت حسب المعلومات الألمانية التي إطلعت (القدس العربي) على جزء حيوي منها أن الإدارة الأمريكية عملت من وراء الكواليس وبنشاط وخلافا للإنطباع العام على (تشجيع) حزب ألله على الدخول لساحة الحرب وبثقله المعتاد في مؤشر بدأت السلطات الأردنية مثلا تختبر كلفته وتداعياته ونتائجه المحتملة.

والهزيمة التي منيت بها جبهة النصرة في بلدة القصير بمحاذاة الشريط اللبناني مؤخرا إنتهت بتطورين الأول إنتقال الحزب لتحشيد قواته في بلدة بصرى الشام تمهيدا لدخول محافظة درعا كما اكد للقدس العربي مباشرة القيادي في الجبهة أبو عبدلله الشامي.

والتطور الثاني تخطيط الجبهة للإنتقال إلى حرب العصابات بدلا من الإحتفاظ بالأرض إستجابة للوضع التكيتكي في الميدان.

كل هذه المعطيات على الأرض تفيد بأن الإدارة الأمريكية شجعت عمليا الطرفان تنظيم القاعدة وجبهة النصرة على التواجد في ظروف (الصدام والمواجهة) داخل الأراضي السورية… على الأقل هذا ما تقولة الورقة الألمانية.

 وذلك حصل على الأغلب لسبب سياسي تكتيكي يمكن توقعه فواشنطن معنية بان يتصادم الخصمان على أرض سوريا مما يضعف قدرة الطرفان, الأمر الذي سيتم التعبير عنه عبر سلسلة بيانات وإفصاحات ستصدر تباعا بإسم الظواهري لإستعراض ظروف المعركة في بلاد الشام.

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Real News Video: NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: 'I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things'

Guardian's Glenn Greenwald talks to Edward Snowden, the source behind the NSA files about his motives for the biggest intelligence leak in a generation  

Al-Jazeera Video: Lebanon rally supports Syrian rebels

"At least one person has been killed, and five others injured, during protests outside the Iranian Embassy in Lebanon. People were demonstrating against Hezbollah's involvement in Syrian war. The Iranian-backed group's support for Bashar al Assad is blamed for causing instability inside Lebanon. There's also support for the Syrian rebels in Lebanon. Al Jazeera's Hoda Abdel Hamid filed this report from a rally in the southern city of Sidon."

Like a Pack of Wolves Beating Up a Lone Protester at the Iranian Embassy in Beirut

These Thugs with Clubs Belong to......
The "Party of God," or Hizbullah......
It Must be the Iranian "god"!
Tfuh!

Al-Jazeera Video: احتجاجات ضد حزب الله في بيروت

"قتل شخص أمام السفارة الإيرانية في بيروت متأثرا بطلق ناري أصيب به، وجرح أربعة آخرون أثناء مواجهة بين متظاهرين رافضين لتدخل حزب الله في سوريا وبين مناصرين للحزب.
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Al-Jazeera Video: Inside Syria - What next after the fall of Qusayr?

"We look at how the balance of power has shifted after government retakes strategic city cutting off aid to rebels. Ghida Fakhri discusses with guests: Robert Densemore, a defense and military analyst, the editor of Defence Report - an online publication about global defense and security; Aron Lund, a writer and Syria analyst; and in the studio, Saleh Mubarak, a member of the opposition Syrian National Council."

Al-Jazeera Video:عناصر من حزب الله يرفعون لافتات في مسجد بالقصير

Al-Jazeera Video: حديث الثورة- تداعيات معركة القصير

For second time, Palestinians from Syria torch Hezbollah aid

The Daily Star

"SAADNAYEL, Lebanon: Some 1,500 packages of food aid donated by Hezbollah were burned by Palestinian refugees from Syria and local residents in the Bekaa Wednesday, the second such incident in a week. Omar Halabi, the head of the Saadnayel Youth League, told The Daily Star that a truck with boxes of aid was unloaded in the morning at the offices of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Halabi said when the aid was distributed, the refugees noticed the labels attached to each package explaining that the aid was a gift from the “Islamic Resistance in Lebanon to our brethren, the displaced Palestinians from Syria.”
“When the refugees realized that the aid was from the same party which is killing their people in Qusair and in other places, they, with dozens of locals, took the boxes from the Palestinian Cultural Center and burned them,” Halabi said.
The DFLP is politically affiliated with the Syrian regime, and its leader, Nayef Hawatmeh, lives in Syria.
In February he was wounded after a bomb exploded in the Syrian capital of Damascus.
Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, switched allegiances and broke off with President Bashar Assad’s government in the wake of the uprisings.
Last Thursday, Palestinian refugees from Syria set fire to humanitarian aid donated by Hezbollah in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp, citing their anger over the party’s role fighting alongside the Syrian regime.
Refugees gathered in front of the camp’s Kifah School holding banners explaining their decision to destroy the aid, which the party is distributing across a number of Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon."

Qusair portends great danger ahead

June 08, 2013 01:00 AM
By Rami G. Khouri

The Daily Star

"..........The Hezbollah-Syria-Lebanon dynamic now also feeds into the newest regional problem arena: deteriorating Sunni-Shiite relations across the Middle East, including increasing incidents of outright ethnic cleansing, bombings, and intense provocations that started after President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair invaded Iraq and turned it into the first modern Arab battleground of Sunni-Shiite mutual demonization and death.

The Syria-Lebanon battlefield is now being defined by this same demon, which is dragging in regional actors. The most frightening example this week was Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti supporting the influential Islamist-televangelist Youssef Qaradawi’s call for all able-bodied Sunnis to fight Bashar Assad, Iran and Hezbollah in Syria. The dangers ahead may make Iraq look like a picnic.

As Syria and its battles rekindle old tensions and create new ones, Hezbollah reflects the dramatic and dangerous new directions in which many Middle Eastern actors navigate through crumbling edifices of Euro-manufactured statehood, battle each other for survival, and cling to older, indigenous identities of sectarianism, ethnicity, tribalism and other sub-national configurations.

One day, they will all have to manage the hard task of rebuilding credible, secure and legitimate states. But that day is down the road.

Now is the time to fight, it seems, and Qusair was only a hint of the stupidity and waste that lies ahead."

Protester killed outside Iran's Beirut embassy

"(Reuters) - A Lebanese protester was killed outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut on Sunday after gunmen from the Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia Hezbollah opened fire when anti-Hezbollah Shi'ite demonstrators approached, witnesses and officials said.
The Lebanese army deployed tanks and erected roadblocks across Beirut following the shooting, fearing a flare-up in sectarian and factional hostility. Protesters had condemned Iranian and Hezbollah backing for the Syrian president in a civil war that has been spreading across Lebanon's border.
A Reuters journalist outside the Iranian embassy saw men with handguns and dressed in black with the yellow arm-bands of Hezbollah scuffle with a group who drew up in a bus. The gunmen drew their weapons and fired. Several protesters were hit.
Lebanese security officials said a member of a Shi'ite party that opposes Hezbollah was killed and several were injured. They said the protesters had not been armed.
They named the dead man as Hashem Salman of the Intima party, led by Ahmad al-Assad whose family has been politically eclipsed within the Shi'ite community since Iran and Syria backed Hezbollah during the Lebanese civil war in the 1980s.
When the bus carrying the Intima group stopped outside the embassy, Hezbollah supporters, identifiable by their yellow arm-bands and black clothing, wearing pistols on their belts, attacked the vehicle with batons, smashing its windows.
The two groups scuffled in the road and the Hezbollah men drew their weapons and opened fire. Several people appeared to be hit and fell, the Reuters journalist said. Lebanon's official news agency put the number of wounded in the incident at three.
The clash between Shi'ites, one of the main religious groups in Lebanon, was relatively unusual. There has been recent fighting between Shi'ite supporters of Hezbollah and Lebanese Sunni Muslims who support the mainly Sunni rebels in Syria.
Tension between Sunnis and Shi'ites has risen in Lebanon and across the Middle East, notably in Iraq, since the Syrian civil war began in 2011. Last week, Hezbollah fighters played a key role in helping troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad retake the strategic town of Qusair, near the Lebanese border, further inflaming Sunni anger at Hezbollah and Tehran.
Lebanese troops on Sunday strung barbed wire across roads around central Beirut and along the highway running south through suburbs that are a stronghold of Hezbollah support.
Demonstrators, including Sunnis and members of Lebanon's large Christian community as well as Shi'ites opposed to Hezbollah, had marched in the direction of the Iranian mission.

Following the shooting, streets were very quiet in central Beirut as people stayed indoors, fearing more violence."

Hizbullah's Thugs Beat Up Demonstrators at the Iranian Embassy in Beirut

One Demonstrator was Shot and Killed by a Hizbullah Shabih 

Hezbollah supporters attacked a bus carrying anti-Hezbollah protesters near the Iranian embassy in Beirut [Reuters]

Jordan's web of media control

The not-so-subtle art of keeping journalists in line

By Brian Whitaker

".......There are three principal mechanisms for restricting press freedom in Jordan. One is the anachronistic Press and Publications Law of 1998 which was heavily criticised even before parliament approved it. Another is the Jordanian Press Association (JPA), a body established under a separate law, which regulates the activities of journalists. Finally, there is an atmosphere of intimidation which results in extensive self-censorship.

Besides bringing websites under the aegis of the Press and Publications Law and its licensing system, the authorities are also trying to tie websites into the Jordanian Press Association by requiring websites to appoint an editor-in-chief who is a member of the JPA.

This aspect has not been much discussed, but it's worth a closer look.

Ostensibly, the purpose of the JPA is to maintain professional standards by ensuring that journalists are properly trained and adhere to ethical principles. Others view it as a tool for keeping journalists in line politically.....

The JPA's code of ethics (in Arabic) contains some odd ideas about the duty of journalists – they are supposed to affirm national unity, support the judiciary, refrain from insulting the authorities, show commitment to the religious and moral values of society and not agitate about crimes and scandals – but compulsory membership is the biggest problem......."

Al-Jazeera Video: Exclusive: Wounded rebels of Syria's Qusayr treated in Lebanon

Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data

Revealed: The NSA's powerful tool for cataloguing data – including figures on US collection

• Boundless Informant: mission outlined in four slides
• Read the NSA's frequently asked questions document

Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill
guardian.co.uk, Saturday 8 June 2013

The color scheme ranges from green (least subjected to surveillance) through yellow and orange to red (most surveillance). Note the '2007' date in the image relates to the document from which the interactive map derives its top secret classification, not to the map itself.

"The National Security Agency has developed a powerful tool for recording and analysing where its intelligence comes from, raising questions about its repeated assurances to Congress that it cannot keep track of all the surveillance it performs on American communications.
The Guardian has acquired top-secret documents about the NSA datamining tool, called Boundless Informant, that details and even maps by country the voluminous amount of information it collects from computer and telephone networks.

The focus of the internal NSA tool is on counting and categorizing the records of communications, known as metadata, rather than the content of an email or instant message.
The Boundless Informant documents show the agency collecting almost 3 billion pieces of intelligence from US computer networks over a 30-day period ending in March 2013. One document says it is designed to give NSA officials answers to questions like, "What type of coverage do we have on country X" in "near real-time by asking the SIGINT [signals intelligence] infrastructure."

An NSA factsheet about the program, acquired by the Guardian, says: "The tool allows users to select a country on a map and view the metadata volume and select details about the collections against that country."
Under the heading "Sample use cases", the factsheet also states the tool shows information including: "How many records (and what type) are collected against a particular country."
A snapshot of the Boundless Informant data, contained in a top secret NSA "global heat map" seen by the Guardian, shows that in March 2013 the agency collected 97bn pieces of intelligence from computer networks worldwide.
 

The heat map reveals how much data is being collected from around the world. Note the '2007' date in the image relates to the document from which the interactive map derives its top secret classification, not to the map itself.
Iran was the country where the largest amount of intelligence was gathered, with more than 14bn reports in that period, followed by 13.5bn from Pakistan. Jordan, one of America's closest Arab allies, came third with 12.7bn, Egypt fourth with 7.6bn and India fifth with 6.3bn......."

Is the Middle East heading for a full-blown religious war?

Are recent events in Syria the beginning of a wider conflict between Shias and Sunnis, or merely another stage in the regional political changes begun by the Arab spring?

Peter Beaumont
The Observer, Saturday 8 June 2013 

"Nine days ago the influential Sunni cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi denounced the Lebanese Shia Hezbollah movement – whose fighters helped Bashar al-Assad's regime retake the Syrian city of Qusair last week – as the "party of Satan".
Speaking in Doha not long before Qusair's fall, Qaradawi did not stop there: the cleric, whose speeches and sermons are heard by millions, went a dangerous step further, calling on Sunni Muslims with military training to support the Syrian uprising against Assad.
It was a sermon that not only marked a sharp shift in the sectarian tensions in the Middle East between Sunni and Shia but an escalation in Qaradawi's own rhetoric. When I heard him preach on Syria at Cairo's crowded al-Azhar mosque last autumn, he was sharp in his condemnation of the Assad regime, but stopped short of endorsing a jihad.
In Doha, however, Qaradawi's remarks embraced a more dangerous sectarian notion. "The leader of the party of the Satan comes to fight the Sunnis … now we know what the Iranians want … they want continued massacres to kill Sunnis," Qaradawi said. "How could 100 million Shias defeat 1.7 billion [Sunnis]? Only because [Sunni] Muslims are weak."
Qaradawi's comments – endorsed last week by Saudi Arabia's grand mufti, Abdul Aziz al-Asheikh – did not come out of nowhere. They were a direct response to a speech made by Hezbollah's general secretary, Hassan Nasrallah, in Beirut, not only admitting that his fighters were in Syria but pledging that his men would help Assad – a member of the Shia Alawite sect – to final "victory".
If ever evidence was needed of the escalating sectarian dimension to the growing regional instability in the Middle East – in which the worsening conflict in Syria is playing a large part – it was visible last week.
It is visible in the rubble of Syria's Qusair, emptied now of much of its population, and taken by a joint force of Hezbollah and Assad government forces, as well as in Lebanon's seaside city of Tripoli, the country's second largest, where gun battles between Alawites and Sunni militias are continuing.
It has been visible, too, in Iraq, where lethal tensions, in part inspired by Syria but more largely by the country's own political tensions, have been growing almost by the week, witnessing more than 1,000 deaths in May, the highest monthly toll since 2008....."

A Great Cartoon by Carlos Latuff: BarackObama: the new Big Brother!

Nasrallah's "Resistance"..........in Syria! By Emad Hajjaj

USA: Revelations about government surveillance ‘raise red flags’

Amnesty International

"New revelations about the alleged reach of the US National Security Agency (NSA)’s surveillance efforts raise serious questions about the US authorities’ respect for the right to privacy, Amnesty International said today.

On Thursday The Washington Post in the USA and The Guardian in the UK reported on the NSA’s alleged ongoing efforts to monitor activities of millions of people both inside the USA and overseas.

This includes accessing information on social media and other internet sites, as well as collecting data from mobile phone call records.

“The sweeping nature of the records allegedly sought by the government and the systems it has reportedly accessed raises red flags about privacy,” said Frank Jannuzi, Deputy Executive Director of Amnesty International USA........."

The "Heroic" Syrian Air Force on the Attack.....No Not Against Israel, but Against Lebanon! Long Live the "Resistance"!

مقاتلات سورية تطلق صواريخ على شرق لبنان

بيروت- (د ب أ): ذكرت الشرطة اللبنانية أن مقاتلات سورية استهدفت السبت مناطق في شرق لبنان للمرة الثانية في أقل من أسبوع.

وأضافت ان الطائرات اطلقت ستة صواريخ على الاقل على وادي حميد القريب من بلدة عرسال على الحدود اللبنانية خلال مطاردة مقاتلي المعارضة الذين يفرون من بلدة القصير السورية القريبة.

ولم يتم تسجيل وقوع خسائر بشرية.

وسيطرت القوات السورية وحلفاؤها من مقاتلي حزب الله على القصير الأربعاء بعد أسبوعين من القتال فى مواجهة قوات المعارضة التي تسعى للاطاحة بالرئيس السوري بشار الأسد.

وقال المرصد السوري لحقوق الإنسان الموالي للمعارضة ومقره نيويورك إن الاشتباكات استمرت بين القوات النظامية السورية المدعومة بحزب الله والمعارضة السبت على مشارف القصير.

وتردد ان المعارضة تستخدم القصير كطريق امداد من لبنان.

واثار اعلان حزب الله وقوفه الى جانب القوات السورية فى مواجهة قوات المعارضة المخاوف بشأن تورط لبنان في الصراع السوري الذي بدأ قبل 26 شهرا.