De rol van Israël en de VS in de 9/11 aanslagen op het WTC

Het uitvoerige 9/11 rapport, n.a.v. de aanslagen in 2001 laat veel vragen open, vragen als waarom werden een fiks aantal zaken niet onderzocht, terwijl ze wel degelijk heel belangrijk waren (en zijn) voor het onderzoek naar die aanslagen. Niet alleen werd Saoedi-Arabië afgeschermd terwijl het grootste deel van de 'daders' uit dat land kwam, maar ook een groep Israëlische mannen die met de Twin Towers brandend op de achtergrond feest vierden en elkaar 'high fives gaven', waarbij het geheel werd gefilmd.......

'Daders': dus degenen die de vliegtuigen zouden hebben gevlogen, waar het volgens deskundigen onmogelijk is voor slecht opgeleide piloten om een vliegtuig een gebouw in te vliegen als op de manier die werd gebruikt op 11 september 2001 met de Twin Towers..... Bovendien is het meer dan duidelijk dat de torens en gebouw 7 van het WTC werden ondermijnd met explosieven, vliegtuigen zouden onmogelijk het instorten van deze gebouwen kunnen veroorzaken, zo stelt intussen een heel leger aan deskundigen......

E.e.a. kan maar tot 1 conclusie leiden: de geheime diensten van de VS hebben meegewerkt aan deze aanslagen..... Niet voor niets dat de VS de grootste baat had bij het instorten van de Twin Towers en gebouw 7 van het WTC....... Ten eerste had men weer een vijand nodig voor het militair-industrieel complex, een vijand die er niet meer was met het verdwijnen van de Sovjet-Unie, tien jaar eerder..... Ten tweede dacht men hiermee een excuus te hebben om Irak aan te vallen, de wens van de psychopathische Bush administratie..... Ten derde verdween een groot deel van de schulden van de VS. Ten vierde kon men het instorten van de beurs (die al gaande was voor 9/11) afwentelen op een terreuraanslag. Ten vijfde kwamen met de aanslagen van 9/11 enorme kapitalen vrij voor de geheime diensten van de VS., bovendien werden de bevoegdheden van die diensten fiks uitgebreid ten koste van de privacy van burgers........ Ook Israël, de 'grote' bondgenoot van de VS, had baat bij de aanslagen, zoals Palestijnenslachter Natanyahu zelf opmerkte..... Mensen er zijn nog meer redenen, zoals het oppompen van de populariteit van Bush, die op een dieptepunt was beland, maar de hiervoor genoemde redenen zijn wel de belangrijkste.

Echter vergeet niet dat Israël naast het hieraan voorgaande, belang had bij de 'war on terror' die begon met de 9/11 aanslagen en waarbij een aantal vijanden van Israël het doelwit werden van VS terreur, want zo moet je de ongebreidelde agressie (o.a. in de vorm van illegale oorlogen) van de VS zien..... Niet voor niets dat de Bush administratie alles op alles zette om Irak, een vijand van Israël, de aanslagen in de schoenen te schuiven (zo zou Saddam Hoessein Al Qaida, NB een terreurgroep die tot zijn grootste vijanden behoorde, hebben ondersteund bij de aanslagen). De Bush administratie begon de illegale oorlog in 2003 uiteindelijk op basis van de leugens over massavernietigingswapens, een oorlog die intussen aan meer dan 1,5 miljoen Irakezen het leven heeft gekost.......

Lees het volgende ontluisterende artikel, ook al was veel eerder bekend, de feiten tellen dubbel zo zwaar...... Het artikel werd geschreven door Philip Giraldi, eerder gepubliceerd op Unz Review en door mij overgenomen van Information Clearing House:

Israel's Role In 9/11

FBI evidence supports prior knowledge or complicity

By Philip Giraldi

June 03, 2019 "Information Clearing House" -  The tale of 9/11 will just not go away, largely because it is clear to anyone who reads the lengthy 9/11 Commission Report that many issues that should have been subject to inquiry were ignored for what would appear to be political reasons. The George W. Bush Administration quite obviously did not want to assume any blame for what had happened and that bias also extended to providing cover for U.S. “allies,” most particularly Saudi Arabia and Israel. Those who have sought the truth about 9/11 have been persistent in their attempts to find out information that was suppressed but they have been blocked repeatedly in spite of numerous FOIA requests.

Now, eighteen years after the event, there has been something like a breakthrough, penetrating the wall of silence erected by the government. FBI reports on the possible Israeli role in 9/11 were released on May 7^th and they serve to support speculation by myself and other former intelligence officers that Israel, at a minimum, had detailed prior knowledge of what was to take place. More than that, Israeli intelligence officers working in the United States might well have enabled certain aspects of the conspiracy.

To recount some of what is already known and suspected, one should first examine the 2016 release of a heavily edited and redacted 28 pages long annex to the 9/11 Commission Report that explored the Saudi Arabian role in the terrorist attack . The section concluded that the Saudi government may have played a direct role in 9/11 by assisting two of the hijackers, including a dry run exercise intended to learn how to get into a plane’s cockpit. There was also considerable evidence suggesting that wealthy Saudis and even members of the Royal Family had been supporting and funding al-Qaeda.

But far exceeding the Saudi role is the involvement of the Israeli intelligence service Mossad, which was not subject to any serious inquiry or investigation by U.S. intelligence or police agencies. Israel, in spite of obvious involvement in 9/11, was not included in the 9/11 Commission Report despite the existence of an enormous Israeli intelligence operation freely working in the United States that was known to the FBI. Some of those Mossad officers were notably filmed celebrating as the Twin Towers were burning and collapsing.

In the year 2001 Israel was running a massive spying operation through a number of cover companies in New Jersey, Florida and also on the west coast that served as spying mechanisms for Mossad officers. The effort was supported by the Mossad Station in Washington D.C. and included a large number of volunteers, the so-called “art students” who traveled around the U.S. selling various products at malls and outdoor markets. The FBI was aware of the numerous Israeli students who were routinely overstaying their visas and some in the Bureau certainly believed that they were assisting their country’s intelligence service in some way, but it proved difficult to actually link the students to undercover operations, so they were regarded as a minor nuisance and were normally left to the tender mercies of the inspectors at the Bureau of Customs and Immigration.

American law enforcement was also painfully aware that the Israelis were running more sophisticated intelligence operations inside the United States, many of which were focused on Washington’s military capabilities and intentions. Some specialized intelligence units concentrated on obtaining military and dual use technology. It was also known that Israeli spies had penetrated the phone systems of the U.S. government, to include those at the White House.

In its annual classified counterespionage review, the FBI invariably places Israel at the top for “friendly” countries that spy on the U.S. In fact, the pre-9/11 Bureau did its best to stay on top of the problem, but it rarely received any political support from the Justice Department and White House if an espionage case involved Israelis. By one estimate, more than 100 such cases were not prosecuted for political reasons. Any Israeli caught in flagrante would most often be quietly deported and most Americans who were helping Israel were let off with a slap on the wrist.

But the hands-off attitude towards Israel shifted dramatically when, on September 11, 2001, a New Jersey housewife saw something from the window of her apartment building, which overlooked the World Trade Center. She watched as the buildings burned and crumbled but also noted something strange. Three young men were kneeling on the roof of a white transit van parked by the water’s edge, making a movie in which they featured themselves high fiving and laughing in front of the catastrophic scene unfolding behind them. The woman wrote down the license plate number of the van and called the police, who responded quickly and soon both the local force and the FBI began looking for the vehicle, which was subsequently seen by other witnesses in various locations along the New Jersey waterfront, its occupants “celebrating and filming.”

The license plate number revealed that the van belonged to a New Jersey registered company called Urban Moving Systems. At 4 p.m. the vehicle was spotted and pulled over. Five men between the ages of 22 and 27 years old emerged and were detained at gunpoint and handcuffed. They were all Israelis. One of them had $4,700 in cash hidden in his sock and another had two foreign passports. Bomb sniffing dogs reacted to the smell of explosives in the van, which had very little actual moving equipment inside.

According to the initial police report, the driver identified as Sivan Kurzberg, stated “We are Israeli. We are not your problem. Your problems are our problems. The Palestinians are the problem.” The four other passengers were Sivan’s brother Paul, Yaron Shmuel, Oded Ellner and Omer Marmari. The men were detained at the Bergen County jail in New Jersey before being transferred the FBI’s Foreign Counterintelligence Section, which handles allegations of spying.

After the arrest, the FBI obtained a warrant to search Urban Moving System’s Weehawken, N.J., offices. Papers and computers were seized. The company owner Dominick Suter, also an Israeli, answered FBI questions but when a follow-up interview was set up a few days later it was learned that he had fled the country for Israel, putting both his business and home up for sale. The office space and warehouse were abandoned. It was later learned that Suter has been associated with at least fourteen businesses in the United States, mostly in New Jersey and New York but also in Florida. Suter and his wife Omit Levinson Suter were the owners of 1 Stop Cleaner located in Wellington Florida and Dominick was also associated with Basia McDonnell, described as a Polish “holocaust survivor,” as a business partner in yet another business called Value Ad. Florida was a main focus for the Israeli intelligence operation in the U.S. that was directed against Arabs.

The five Israelis were among 140 Israelis arrested after 9/11, most of whom had military backgrounds, including some who were trained in “intelligence.” The five were held in Brooklyn, initially on charges relating to visa fraud. FBI interrogators questioned them for more than two months. Several were held in solitary confinement so they could not communicate with each other and two of them were given repeated polygraph exams, which they failed when claiming that they were nothing more than students working summer jobs. The two men that the FBI focused on most intensively were believed to be Mossad staff officers and the other three were volunteers helping with surveillance.

The Israelis were not exactly cooperative, but the FBI concluded from documents obtained at their office in Weehawken that they were targeting Arabs in New York and New Jersey, most particularly in the Paterson N.J. area, which has the second largest Muslim population in the U.S. 
They were particularly interested in local groups possibly linked to Hamas and Hezbollah as well as in charities that might be used for fund raising. The FBI also concluded that the Israelis had actually monitored the activities of at least two of the 9/11 hijackers.

To be sure, working on an intelligence operation does not necessarily imply participation in either the planning or execution of something like 9/11, but there are Israeli fingerprints all over the place, with cover companies and intelligence personnel often intersecting with locations frequented by the hijackers.

Apart from the interrogations of the five men from Weehawken, the U.S. government has apparently never sought to find out what else the Israelis might have known or were up to in September 2011. There are a lot of dots that might well have been connected once upon a time, but the trail has grown cold. Police records in New Jersey and New York where the men were held have disappeared and FBI interrogation reports have been inaccessible. Media coverage of the case also died, though the five were referred to in the press as the “dancing Israelis” and by some, more disparagingly, as the “dancing Shlomos.”

Inevitably, the George W. Bush White House intervened. After 71 days in detention, the five Israelis were released from prison by Attorney General John Ashcroft, put on a plane, and deported. Two of the men later spoke about their unpleasant experience in America on an Israeli talk show, one explaining that their filming the fall of the Twin Towers was to “document the event.” In 2004 the five men sued the United States government for damages, alleging “that their detention was illegal and that their civil rights were violated, suffering racial slurs, physical violence, religious discrimination, rough interrogations, deprivation of sleep, and many other offenses.” They were represented by Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, who in the previous year had founded the Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center which seeks to bankrupt groups that Israel considers to be “terrorists.” Shurat HaDin is closely tied to the Israeli government.

Now it is just possible that the Urban Moving Israelis were indeed uninvolved in 9/11 but nevertheless working for Mossad, which the Israeli government even subsequently admitted, but the new evidence suggests that the Israelis almost certainly had considerable prior knowledge and were likely involved in what developed. The new information reveals that minutes after the first plane struck the World Trade Center, five Israelis had taken up position in the parking lot of the Doric Apartment Complex in Union City, New Jersey, where they took pictures and filmed the attacks while also celebrating the fall of the towers and “high fiving.” One eyewitnessinterviewed by the Bureau had seen the Israelis’ van circling the building parking at 8:00 a.m. that day, more than 40 minutes prior to the attack, indicating prior knowledge of what was about to happen.

The eyewitness testimony is supported by copies of photos taken by the men that the FBI seized. 
The photo reproductions were obtained via a FOIA request made by a private citizen and are of poor quality, deliberately made so by the FBI to conceal faces and other details. They constitute only 14 of over seventy photos taken by the Israelis. Nevertheless, they clearly demonstrate that a celebration was going on. One photo, intriguingly, shows Sivan Kurzberg holding a lit lighter in front of the Manhattan Skyline on September 10^th, one day before 9/11. It was apparently taken at the Doric Complex on a reconnoitering visit made on that day and suggests that Kurzberg was simulating the attack on the towers on the following day.

Why would the Israelis do it? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described 9/11 initially as “a good thing.” He was later quoted as saying somewhat more expansively “We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq.” To be sure, 9/11 was a gift to Israel and it is a gift that keeps on giving. America is at war in a number of Muslim countries and its troops blanket the Middle East, to include a base in Israel dedicated to the defense of that country. It is all a result of the Global War on Terror and the GWOT started with 9/11. And just maybe it was a fire that was ignited by Israel.

Philip Giraldi is a former counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and a columnist and television commentator who is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is councilforthenationalinterest.org, address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is inform@cnionline.org.

This article was originally published by "Unz Review"-

Fox News Report: Israel's Involvement In 9/11:

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Zie ook:
'Spanningen met Iran: VS geschiedenis van false flag operaties en andere manipulaties die tot oorlog hebben geleid'

'9/11: de leugens over smeltend staal van de Twin Towers'

'9/11 getuigen totaal genegeerd door media (en overheid)'

'9/11 Israël nogmaals aangewezen als hulp- bij het neerhalen van de Twin Towers en gebouw 7 van het WTC'

'9/11: Al Qaida tjokvol agenten van Saoedi-Arabië, VS, Israël en Egypte'

'9/11 voorafgegaan door CIA visa fraude.....'

'9/11: de VS heeft niets geleerd......'

'9/11: Palestijnen hebben niet gejuicht voor de aanslagen op de Twin Towers'

'9/11 eerst de explosie waarna de 'vliegtuigen' de Twin Towers raken'

'9/11: professor stelt dat WTC-gebouwen gecontroleerd zijn gesloopt, de bewijzen daarvoor zijn overweldigend'

'Pearl Harbor (7 december 1941) en de aanslagen van 9/11 hebben veel overeenkomsten.........'

'9/11 de verklaring van de VS overheid aangaande het instorten van WTC gebouw 7 is vals..........'

'911 samenzweringstheorie wint nog meer aan geloofwaardigheid......'

'911, de beurs en geschiedvervalsing.......'

'9/11, WikiLeaks, Prism en 'complottheorieën''

'911, een 'leuk' feit'

Voor meer berichten over de 9/11 aanslagen, klik op het label 911, direct onder dit bericht. Let wel: na een aantal berichten wordt het laatst gelezen bericht telkens herhaald, dan onder dat laatst gelezen bericht even opnieuw op het label 911 klikken, enz. enz.

VS heeft Saoedische terreurcoalitie getraind hoe Jemen te bombarderen

Geen nieuws, hoewel het nooit kwaad kan als zaken middels officiële documenten worden bevestigd, zoals in het hieronder opgenomen artikel, dat eerder verscheen op Middle East Eye (MEE). Via de Freedom of Information Act (FOIA; te vergelijken met een Wob-verzoek in Nederland) verkreeg Yahoo News officiële overheidsdocumenten waaruit blijkt dat de VS de Saoedische terreurcoalitie o.a. heeft getraind in het bombarderen van doelen in Jemen met F-16 straaljagers........ Het zou m.n gaan om training van terreurtroepen die de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten (VAE) leveren aan de Saoedische terreurcoalitie en dat in de periode van januari 2016 tot december 201..........

Eerder was al bekend dat de VS het vliegend oorlogstuig van deze coalitie van terreurstaten vliegend van brandstof voorzag, een zaak die volgens de VS niet meer gebeurt sinds afgelopen november...... Voorts is meer dan duidelijk dat de VS bombardementsvluchten coördineerde met AWACS-vliegtuigen. Dit naast training door de VS van Saoedische militairen, een training die ook door Groot-Brittannië wordt uitgevoerd.

Het voorgaande, nog naast de levering van wapens, munitie, plus die van varend, vliegend en rollende oorlogstuig door de VS en GB (en Nederland...)..... Wat betreft de levering van Nederlands oorlogstuig aan Saoedi-Arabië, stelt de oplichtersregering Rutte 3 dat het niet om wapens ging, waar het in werkelijkheid onderdelen voor wapensystemen betrof, ofwel de zoveelste smerige leugen van een Rutte afbraakkabinet, Rutte 'premier' van Nederland, tevens lid van misdadigers partij VVD en zonder meer de grootste leugenaar in politiek Nederland.........

Terug naar het artikel op Middle East Eye: tijd dat de rest van de VS steun voor de genocide openbaar wordt gemaakt, een genocide die de Saoedische terreurcoalitie met hulp van de VS en GB (en o.a. Nederland) uitvoert in Jemen, zodat de wereld eindelijk kan ingrijpen, i.p.v. weer weg te kijken terwijl er een genocide wordt uitgevoerd......

US Military Caught Teaching Saudi Coalition Troops How to Drop Bombs on Yemen

January 17, 2019 at 10:04 pm

Written by Middle East Eye

(MEE) — Newly obtained documents revealed that the United States, despite past denials, was involved in training United Arab Emirates troops for combat in Yemen, where the UAE is fighting as part of a Saudi-led coalition, Yahoo News reported.

The US Air Forces Central Command documents specifically state that units at the US’s Air Warfare Center in Al Dhafra, about 30km south of UAE capital Abu Dhabi, “advanced the UAE’s F-16 pilot training program”, Yahoo News reported late Wednesday.

Those trainees were then “immediately deployed for combat operations in Yemen” between 1 January 2016 and 31 December 2017, the news outlet said.

Additionally, the documents state that the US was involved in an advanced aerial combat training exercise in which American and allied pilots assisted “150 airmen … to prepare for combat ops in Yemen”, Yahoo News said.

The news outlet said it obtained the documents through the Freedom of Information Act.

Still, a US Central Command (CENTCOM) spokesperson, as well as a second CENTCOM official, told Yahoo News that the US does not “conduct exercises with members of the [Saudi-led coalition] to prepare for combat operations in Yemen”.

The denials echoed statements made last month by General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, who stressed that the US is “not a participant in the civil war in Yemen nor are we supporting one side or the other”, as reported at the time by US media.

Still, the Yahoo News report comes amid heightened pressure on President Donald Trump’s administration to end US involvement in the war in Yemen, which has left thousands on the brink of starvation and caused a cholera outbreak.

Saudi Arabia launched its military campaign in Yemen in 2015 to root out the country’s Houthi rebels, who had taken over the capital, Sanaa, and ousted the internationally recognised and Saudi-backed government of President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi.

The US military has since provided intelligence sharing and training to the Saudi-led coalition, which includes the UAE.

The Pentagon had also been conducting air-to-air refuelling for coalition aircraft, but in November said it would stop.

In December, the US Senate voted to halt Washington’s assistance to the Saudi-led coalition, marking the first time that the US Congress has invoked the War Powers Resolution of 1973, which gives it the power to withdraw US involvement from wars it has not authorised.

While a parallel effort in the US House of Representatives was shot down by the Republican leadership last year, the Senate-approved measure is expected to move forward in the now-Democratic controlled House.

Trump’s administration pushed hard against the Senate’s Yemen resolution by sending US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and then-Secretary of Defence James Mattis in late November to brief lawmakers on Washington’s relationship with Saudi Arabia.

The senior officials insisted that Washington must maintain its support for the Saudi-led coalition and described Riyadh as a key US ally in the region.

By MEE and agencies / Republished with permission / Middle East Eye / Report a typo

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Zie ook:
'Genocidepleger Saoedi-Arabië klaagt Houthi's en Iran aan bij VN Veiligheidsraad vanwege terreur'

'Frankrijk dreigt journalisten met gevangenisstraf voor openbaarmaking documenten Jemen'

'Activistische Franse burgers blokkeren met succes het laden van wapens voor Saoedi-Arabië'

'Strijd in Oost-Jemen waar lokale stammen de Saoedische import van militair materieel blokkeren'

'Meer bewijs voor VS betrokkenheid bij transport en bevrijding van IS leden'

'Al Qaida Jemen krijgt VS wapens van Saoedi-Arabië'

'Verenigde Arabische Emiraten bewapenen ISIS en Al Qaida' (in Jemen)

'Robin Ramaekers (VTM 'oorlogscorrespondent') vertelt Radio1 luisteraars van de NOS over Jemen......'

'Facebook censureert foto's van verhongerende Jemenitische kinderen als 'sexual content''

'Verenigde Arabische Emiraten bewapenen ISIS en Al Qaida' (in Jemen)

'VS blokkeert VN resolutie tot een staakt het vuren in Jemen, waar VS vriend Saoedi-Arabië een genocide uitvoert'

'VS heeft vliegend oorlogstuig van Saoedische terreurcoalitie gratis van brandstof voorzien.....'

ISIL weapons traced to US and Saudi Arabia 

''Topgeheim' NSA document bewijst dat Syrische 'rebellen' worden aangestuurd door Saoedi-Arabië, met medeweten van VS.......' 

'VS steun voor terreurgroepen IS (ISIS) en Al Qaida tot november 2018'

'Marina de Regt (VU en Midden-Oosten Instituut) slaat de Jemenitische plank volledig mis'

'VS dreigt Iran met militair geweld op beschuldiging van terreur die de VS zelf op grote schaal uitoefent'

'Slachting in Jemen gaat door met volledige steun van de VS.........'

'Pentagon: nieuwe geheime operatie voor steun aan Saoedische coalitie die genocide uitvoert in Jemen......'

'VN bespreekt humanitaire hulp aan Jemen met bewind in Teheran; voorts: hoe de Saoediërs en de VS Jemen vernietigen'

Yemen Be Damned, Pompeo Doubles Down on US Support for Saudi Arabia

'Blok (VVD 'minister' van BuZA) wenst in VN geen oproep tot wapenboycot te doen i.z. Jemen, in de VS blokkeerde huis van afgevaardigden een debat over de genocide in Jemen'

'Trump administratie staat op het punt de Houthi's in Jemen op de terreurlijst te zetten.......'

'Jemen: genocide en oorlog hebben tot nu toe al rond de 200.000 mensenlevens geëist.....'

'Amal Hussain, het meisje van 7 dat voor het westen symbool stond voor humanitaire crisis (lees: genocide) in Jemen, is overleden.......'

'Jemen: VS politici roepen uiterst hypocriet om een onmiddellijk eind aan de 'oorlog......''

'Saoedische terreurcoalitie stuurt 10.000 militairen extra naar de Jemenitische havenstad Hodeida >> de genocide in een hogere versnelling'

'Jemen: ware dodental door geweld Saoedische terreurcoalitie veel hoger dan eerder geschat'

'Jemen genocide: democratische oppositie steunt met bijna 100% Trumps terreuragenda, terwijl ze hem aanvallen op niet bewezen Russiagate......'

'Jemen: VS wapenindustrie medeplichtig aan misdaden tegen de menselijkheid'

'Saoedi-Arabië bombardeert busstation in Jemen.......'

'Saoedische terreurcoalitie geeft eindelijk toe dat de aanval op een schoolbus niet gerechtvaardigd was......'

'Saoedische terreurcoalitie raakt alweer een bus met kinderen, dit keer tijdens een bombardement van een vluchtelingenkamp........'

'Genocide Jemen: 'eindelijk ontdekt' door reguliere media VS, nu nog Nederland en de EU'

'Saoedische aanval op schoolbus in Jemen: 43 kinderen vermoord......'

'Aanval op schoolbus Jemen, door Saoedi-Arabië opzettelijk als doel gekozen, geen reden voor VS veroordeling......'

'Bom waarmee schoolbus in Jemen werd getroffen is van VS makelij'

'Democratisch congreslid eist antwoorden over de rol van de VS bij de massamoorden in Jemen, zoals de aanval op een schoolbus'

'Saoedi-Arabië woedend over VN rapport waarin de waarheid wordt verteld over S-A en de oorlog in Jemen'

'Trump wijst elke bezuiniging af op de hulp van de VS voor de genocide die Saoedi-Arabië uitvoert in Jemen'

'8 miljoen Jemenieten, inclusief een groot aantal kinderen, dreigen te sterven van de honger........'

'Door VS geregisseerd bombardement op ziekenhuis Hodeida >> 50 doden......'

'Jemen, de gemartelde, vermoorde of 'verdwenen' Jemenieten, onder verantwoording van de Saoedische coalitie......'

'Jemen: de vergeten genocide en haar kinderslachtoffers.........'

'Saoedi-Arabië geeft toe in Jemen gruwelijke oorlogsmisdaden te hebben begaan.... ' (en daarmee is ten overvloede nog eens duidelijk gemaakt dat ook de VS meewerkt aan oorlogsmisdaden en die genocide in Jemen.....)

'Agressie vanwege een vermeende gifgasaanval op Douma, terwijl de tienduizenden kinderen die in Jemen worden vermoord middels een genocide blijkbaar niet meetellen......'

'Saoedische coalitie valt in Jemen de laatste haven voor humanitaire goederen aan...... Weer ziekenhuis met hulp van VS gebombardeerd.........'            

'Congres VS geeft akkoord voor verdere steun aan de Saoedische genocide in Jemen......'

'VS versterkt militaire terreur t.b.v. genocide >> deelname aan aanval op Jemenitische havenstad Hodeida.......'

'VS en Groot-Brittannië weigeren een onmiddellijk staakt het vuren op haven t.b.v. door genocide geterroriseerd Jemen.....' (zie ook de links in dat bericht)

'VS vecht in Jemen, Pentagon loog weer eens >> Congres eindelijk 'wakker''

'Saoedi-Arabië vermoordde minstens 20 bruiloftsgangers in Jemen'

'Saoedi-Arabië dreigt Iran aan te vallen voor vanuit Jemen afgevuurde 'raketten' op Saoedische 'doelen..........''

'VS doet planning van de Saoedische genocide in Jemen.....'

'VS rol in Jemen gaat verder dan eerder gemeld, ofwel nog meer VS hulp bij Saoedische genocide op sjiieten.....'

'Jemen: meer VS steun voor genocide op sjiieten met grote levering 'slimme munitie' aan Saoedi-Arabië......'

'Jemen: BBC propaganda voor genocide door Saoedische coalitie........'

'Mike Pompeo (ex-CIA, VS min. van BuZa en 'christen') liegt openlijk over genocide in Jemen' (zie ook de links in dat bericht)

'Saoedi-Arabië heeft op verzoek van de VS intensief haar islam ideologie (en die van ISIS) verspreid.....' (soennitisch, terwijl het merendeel van de Jemenitische bevolking en haar beschermers, de Houthi's sjiitisch zijn)

Geheime oorlogvoering van de VS in Afrika duurt voort, het aantal VS operaties in Afrika is zelfs groter dan in het Midden-Oosten

Het bericht met deels de bovenstaande kop lag tot mijn schaamte nog op de stapel concepten, ik vond het terug bij nazoeken van een artikel dat afgelopen woensdag werd gepubliceerd op Vice News door Nick Turse, het eerdere artikel van dezelfde schrijver is getiteld: 'U.S. SECRET WARS IN AFRICA RAGE ON, DESPITE TALK OF DOWNSIZING'. Zoals gezegd: afgelopen woensdag publiceerde Turse het ander artikel over de VS oorlogsvoering in Afrika, dit keer met de titel: 'EXCLUSIVE: THE U.S. HAS MORE MILITARY OPERATIONS IN AFRICA THAN THE MIDDLE EAST'. Als eerste het artikel van Turse dat op 26 juli jl. werd gepubliceerd, daarna een korte inleiding tot het laatste artikel van Turse. (waarin wordt gesteld dat de militaire operaties in de VS niet geheim moeten worden gehouden en dat door een hoge VS militair)

Oktober vorig jaar liepen 4 VS militairen in een hinderlaag waarbij ze omkwamen, dit gaf nogal wat ophef in de VS, waarop het Pentagon aangaf het aantal troepen in Afrika te verminderen...

Niet eens een jaar later blijkt er van dit voornemen, troepenvermindering in Afrika, niets terecht te zijn gekomen....... De VS vecht (dat vechten wordt ontkend, ondanks alle bewijzen daarvoor, zoals de 4 militairen die in Niger werden gedood) in de volgende Afrikaanse landen Kameroen, Kenia, Libië, Mali, Mauritanië, Niger, Somalië en Tunesië...

Vreemd ook dat in het rijtje landen Zuid-Soedan ontbreekt, terwijl ook daar VS militairen opereren....... De president van Soedan, Omar al-Bashir, is bepaald geen vriend van de VS en ondanks dat de VS een wapenembargo heeft ingesteld tegen Zuid-Soedan*, werkt de VS, in het 'niet-zo-geheim', samen met het terreurbewind in Zuid-Soedan.......

Generaal Thomas Waldhauser, hoofd Africa Command (AFRICOM), zei tijdens een Pentagon conferentie afgelopen mei, dat ondanks alle moeilijkheden de VS militairen hun werk geweldig doen over het hele continent Afrika....... (beter had hij gezegd: dat de VS militairen hun werk uiterst gewelddadig doen, immers het gaat om grootschalige terreur in landen waar de VS niets te zoeken heeft, terreur waarmee de VS zelfs terreur kweekt! Tja als je dat erbij zou zeggen kan je moeilijk volhouden dat de VS goed werk verricht in Afrika....) 

Lees het volgende artikel van Nick Turse, zoals eerder geplaatst op The Intercept:

U.S. SECRET WARS IN AFRICA RAGE ON, DESPITE TALK OF DOWNSIZING

 Nick Turse July 26 2018, 7:15 p.m.

LAST OCTOBER, FOUR U.S. soldiers – including two commandos – were killed in an ambush in Niger. Since then, talk of U.S. special operations in Africa has centered on missions being curtailed and troop levels cut.

Press accounts have suggested that the number of special operators on the front lines has been reduced, with the head of U.S. Special Operations forces in Africa directing his troops to take fewer risks. At the same time, a “sweeping Pentagon review” of special ops missions on the continent may result in drastic cuts in the number of commandos operating there. U.S. Africa Command has apparently been asked to consider the impact on counterterrorism operations of cutting the number of Green Berets, Navy SEALs, and other commandos by 25 percent over 18 months and 50 percent over three years.

Analysts have already stepped forward to question or criticize the proposed cuts.

“Anybody that knows me knows that I would disagree with any downsizing in Africa,”

Donald Bolduc, a former chief of U.S. commandos on the continent, told Voice of America.

While the review was reportedly ordered this spring and troop reductions may be coming, there is no evidence yet of massive cuts, gradual reductions, or any downsizing whatsoever. In fact, the number of commandos operating on the continent has barely budged since 2017. Nearly 10 months after the debacle in Niger, the tally of special operators in Africa remains essentially unchanged.

According to figures provided to The Intercept by U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), 16.5 percent of commandos overseas are deployed in Africa. This is about the same percentage of special operators sent to the continent in 2017 and represents a major increase over deployments during the first decade of the post-9/11 war on terror. In 2006, for example, just 1 percent of all U.S. commandos deployed overseas were in Africa – fewer than in the Middle East, the Pacific, Europe, or Latin America. By 2010, the number had risen only slightly, to 3 percent.

Today, more U.S. commandos are deployed to Africa than to any other region of the world except the Middle East. Back in 2006, there were only 70 special operators deployed across Africa. Just four years ago, there were still just 700 elite troops on the continent. Given that an average of 8,300 commandos are deployed overseas in any given week, according to SOCOM spokesperson Ken McGraw, we can surmise that roughly 1,370 Green Berets, Navy SEALs, or other elite forces are currently operating in Africa.

The Pentagon won’t say how many commandos are still deployed in Niger, but the total number of troops operating there is roughly the same as in October 2017 when two Green Berets and two fellow soldiers were killed by Islamic State militants. There are 800 Defense Department personnel currently deployed to the West African nation, according to Maj. Sheryll Klinkel, a Pentagon spokesperson. “I can’t give a breakdown of SOF there, but it’s a fraction of the overall force,” she told The Intercept. There are now also 500 American military personnel – including Special Operations forces — in Somalia.  At the beginning of last year, AFRICOM told Stars and Stripes, there were only 100.

“None of these special operations forces are intended to be engaged in direct combat operations,” said Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Robert S. Karem, while speaking about current troop levels in Niger during a May Pentagon press briefing on the investigation into the deadly October ambush. Despite this official policy, despite the deaths in Niger, and despite the supposed curbs on special operations in Africa, U.S. commandos there keep finding themselves in situations that are indistinguishable from combat.

In December, for example, Green Berets fighting alongside local forces in Niger reportedly killed 11 ISIS militants in a firefight. And last month in Somalia, a member of the Special Operations forces, Staff Sgt. Alexander Conrad, was killed and four other Americans were wounded in an attack by members of the Islamist militant group Shabaab. Conrad’s was the second death of a U.S. special operator in Somalia in 13 months. Last May, a Navy SEAL, Senior Chief Petty Officer Kyle Milliken, was killed, and two other American troops were wounded while carrying out a mission there with local forces.

Between 2015 and 2017, there were also at least 10 previously unreported attacks on American troops in West Africa, the New York Times revealed in March. Meanwhile, Politico recently reported that, for at least five years, Green Berets, Navy SEALs, and other commandos — operating under a little-understood budgetary authority known as Section 127e that funds classified programs — have been involved in reconnaissance and “direct action” combat raids with local forces in Cameroon, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Somalia, and Tunisia. Indeed, in a 2015 briefing obtained by The Intercept, Bolduc, then the special ops chief in Africa, noted that America’s commandos were not only conducting “surrogate” and “combined” “counter violent extremist operations,” but also “unilateral” missions.

While media reports have focused on the possibility of imminent reductions, the number of commandos deployed in Africa is nonetheless up 96 percent since 2014 and remains fundamentally unchanged since the deadly 2017 ambush in Niger. And as the June death of Conrad in Somalia indicates, commandos are still operating in hazardous areas. Indeed, at the May Pentagon briefing, Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, the chief of U.S. Africa Command, drew attention to special operators’ “high-risk missions” under “extreme conditions” in Africa.  America’s commandos, he said, “are doing a fantastic job across the continent.”

Top photo: An American Special Forces soldier trains Nigerien troops during an exercise on the Air Base 201 compound, in Agadez, Niger, on April 14, 2018.

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* Volgens de NRC exporteerde de VS al minimaal wapens naar Zuid-Soedan...... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Het is de redactie blijkbaar nog niet opgevallen dat de VS ook via omwegen een land vol kan proppen met wapens (zoals de CIA al zo vaak heeft geregeld), desnoods (of zelfs het liefst) aan elkaar bekampende groeperingen......
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De VS heeft meer militaire operaties in Afrika dan in Midden-Oosten

Hier het tweede artikel van Nick Turse op Vice News, een artikel dat zoals gezegd afgelopen woensdag werd gepubliceerd. Met iets meer actuele informatie. Gezegd moet worden dat Turse bij de aanvang van dit bericht een fout maakt, hij doelt duidelijk op een hinderlaag die in oktober 2017 plaatsvond, terwijl je uit z'n schrijven zou kunnen opmaken dat het om oktober 2018 gaat, in het artikel hierboven wordt ook oktober 2017 aangehaald.

In dit bericht schrijft Turse over het grote aantal militaire operaties die de VS uitvoert in Afrika, operaties die de operaties van de VS in het Midden-Oosten ver overtreffen, al is het aantal VS militairen in het Midden-Oosten veel groter.

Mijn excuus voor de belabberde weergave, krijg het niet op orde.

EXCLUSIVE: THE U.S. HAS MORE MILITARY OPERATIONS IN AFRICA THAN THE MIDDLE EAST

By Nick Turse Dec 12, 2018

The deadly ambush in Niger last October that left four U.S. serviceman dead prompted months of hand-wringing inside the Pentagon. But that botched operation, which drew national attention to U.S. counterterror operations throughout Africa should not have shocked military leadership, the former commander of U.S. Special Operations forces in Africa told VICE News.

“These weren’t the first casualties, either. We had them in Somalia and Kenya,” said retired Brig. Gen. Donald Bolduc, who served as commander of Special Operations Command Africa (SOCAFRICA) from April 2015 to June 2017, in an interview with VICE News. “We had them in Tunisia. We had them in Mali. We had them in Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Chad. But those were kept as quiet as possible. Nobody talked about it.”

Indeed, two separate military efforts — named Juniper Shield and Obsidian Nomad — that were set to intersect but failed to on the night of the deadly ambush near Tongo Tongo in Niger were part of a pattern of expansion on the African continent that has made it the most active U.S. military theatre in the world. The United States has conducted more than 30 named operations and activities in Africa over the last three years, according to documents obtained by VICE News. While more troops are deployed to, and engaged in combat in, the Greater Middle East, the sheer number of named efforts in Africa actually surpasses that region.

VICE News reviewed documents from the U.S. Army, Africa Command, and Special Operations Command Africa, and conducted interviews with current and former military personnel and experts familiar with America’s “war on terror” in Africa. These documents and testimony paint a startling picture of a sprawling, labyrinthine, and at times chaotic shadow war on the African continent, in which commandos are endangered by a lack of resources and “assistance” operations blur with combat.

“Africa has more named operations than any other theater, including CENTCOM [the command that oversees the Middle East],” Buldoc confirmed to VICE News. “But remains under-resourced for doing what it’s been directed to do.”

SECRETIVE AND SPRAWLING

In 2017, U.S. troops carried out an average of nearly 10 missions per day —3,500 exercises, programs, and engagements for the year — across the African continent, according to Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, the AFRICOM commander.

These efforts — carried out in at least 33 countries — range from capture-or-kill commando raids to more banal training missions. Americans are also gathering intelligence, involved in surveillance and reconnaissance missions carried out by drones, engaged in construction projects, and accompanying allies on tactical operations.

There are also now 34 U.S. military outposts on the continent, concentrated in the north and west and the Horn of Africa, according to a recent report by The Intercept.

This March 2018 briefing authored by Africa Command Science Advisor Peter Teil outlines current U.S. military operations throughout the African continent. (Nick Turse for VICE News).

Through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), AFRICOM provided VICE News with a list of 21 named operations conducted between January 1, 2016 and September 25, 2018. According to a separate March 2018 briefing, authored by Africa Command Science Advisor Peter Teil and also obtained via FOIA, eight current operations in North and West Africa were aimed at countering the Islamic State and Boko Haram and assisting local allies and French counterterrorism efforts. Six operations in East Africa focused on defeating al Shabaab, assisting the African Union Mission in Somalia, and counter-piracy. Two theater-wide efforts focused on crisis response in the event U.S. government personnel or facilities are threatened, while one operation — Echo Casemate — provides support to French and U.N. forces in the troubled Central African Republic.

A separate Defense Department document, marked “For Official Use Only,” that appears to have been posted online inadvertently, lists 12 named activities not on AFRICOM’s list, including eight in the east and another four in the northwest.

Taken together, these documents represent the most current and complete record of named U.S. operations and activities recently conducted on the continent, offering a window into a collection of little-understood, often overlapping, military efforts unknown to most Americans.

SPREAD THIN, AND BLURRING LINES

Somali soldiers are on patrol at Sanguuni military base, where an American special operations soldier was killed by a mortar attack on June 8, about 450 km south of Mogadishu, Somalia, on June 13, 2018. - More than 500 American forces are partnering with African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) and Somali national security forces in counterterrorism operations, and have conducted frequent raids and drone strikes on Al-Shabaab training camps throughout Somalia. (MOHAMED ABDIWAHAB/AFP/Getty Images).

The proliferation of so many concurrent counterterrorism efforts courts danger, said Bill (William) Hartung, the director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy (ASPCIP).

“Running so many operations with combat implications without making them known to the American public is both unwise and ultimately undemocratic. It is no way to run foreign policy in a democracy,” he said. “And running sensitive operations that are secret, or simply not widely publicized, increases the risks of failure, because they are not subject to public debate or adequate scrutiny.”

Bolduc also criticized the lack of transparency on the part of AFRICOM. “What we’re doing shouldn’t be a mystery,” he said.

Alice Hunt Friend, the principal director for African affairs in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from 2012 to 2014, said the risks are compounded by the way these operations tend to blur between “assistance” and combat.

“If the primary military activity in a country is assistance, then as we saw in Niger, U.S. combat-related resources are not readily on hand,” Friend explained.

Among the operations that provide “assistance” are the classified 127e programs. These secretive efforts are “aimed at assisting foreign forces who support U.S. counterterrorism operations,” said Friend.

But these activities often consist of far more than assistance, said Bolduc. Classified 127e programs are “direct action” efforts, which are defined by the Pentagon as “short-duration strikes and other small-scale offensive actions conducted as a special operation in hostile, denied, or diplomatically sensitive environments.”

Such direct-action missions were carried out in Cameroon, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Niger, Somalia, and Tunisia in recent years, as well as two nations where the 127e programs have now ended, Ethiopia and Mauritania, said Bolduc.

Through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), AFRICOM provided VICE News with a list of 21 named operations conducted between January 1, 2016 and September 25, 2018. Above is the list. (Nick Turse for VICE News.)

The Department of Defense declined to provide details about these activities because many were “ongoing,” said Navy Commander Candice Tresch, a Pentagon spokesperson.

“We are extremely lucky that there have not been more situations like Niger,” said Hartung. “Running dozens of missions where U.S. troops are liable to be thrust into combat roles is an extremely risky approach, putting both their lives and our interests at risk.”

Buldoc expressed particular concern over what he explained was a persistent lack of support from the Pentagon. “When I left command, I had 96 missions and 886 tasks associated with those missions in 28 different countries, in an area that was two and a half times the size of the United States,” Bolduc said. “I was under-resourced in personnel recovery. I was under-resourced in ISR [intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets]. And I was under resourced in medical support — the three key things that I needed.”

For years, the special operations community and its supporters have expressed concern over deployment rates, operations tempo, and the amount of resources being allocated to direct action missions. “Most SOF units are employed to their sustainable limit,” General Raymond Thomas (III), the Special Operations Command chief, told members of Congress last spring.

In June, the New York Times reported that Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had grown concerned that commandos across the globe were spread too thin. And the resources afforded to the team ambushed in Niger in 2017, for example — who relied on contracted medical evacuation services, French airpower, and lightly armored vehicles — have been criticized as inadequate and dangerous.

Bolduc, the former SOCAFRICA commander, laid much of the blame of the Niger ambush on such deficits and a failure to adequately support local allies. “That lack of resources — as well as fundamentally misunderstanding the environment, the situation, and the threat — meant that we were unable to help our partners solve a regional problem. Because we didn’t provide an adequate military and security response, the threat got stronger and more effective. The direct result was the ambush of our SOF team in October 2017.”

Africa Command's official investigation, however, concluded that the “direct cause of the enemy attack in Tongo Tongo is that the enemy achieved tactical surprise there, and our forces were outnumbered approximately three to one,” according to AFRICOM’s former chief of staff, and now the head of the U.S. Army in Africa, Maj. Gen. Roger Cloutier.

DRAWING DOWN — SORT OF

The Pentagon told VICE News that the total number of troops assigned to AFRICOM — about 7,200 personnel — would be cut by less than 10 percent over several years, as it reviews its priority areas on the continent and reorients itself toward great power rivals.

There are, by comparison, roughly 24,000 troops deployed to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, although President Trump recently suggested that U.S. troops might be withdrawn from the Middle East due to lower oil prices.

President Donald Trump with, from left, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, Trump, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford and Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert Neller, speaks during a briefing with senior military leaders in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Pentagon spokesperson Tresch said that the ambush in Niger had nothing to do with the Defense Department’s decision to modestly decrease troop levels in Africa. She said the move is predicated on the National Defense Strategy, released earlier this year, which calls for increased focus on near-peer competitors. The Trump administration is reportedly poised to unveil a broader strategy for Africa specifically focused on countering the influence of Russia and China on the continent.

“As we prioritize where we need to place concentrations of troops, there were certain specialties — especially in the Special Operations arena — that we didn’t necessarily need employed in Africa,” AFRICOM’s Senior Enlisted Leader Chief Master Sergeant Ramon Colon-Lopez told VICE News.

Few, if any, troops will be cut from hotspots like Libya and Somalia, nor Djibouti, whose bases also play a pivotal role in U.S. operations in Yemen and the greater Middle East. Nor will any region of the continent see all U.S. forces removed. Troop drawdowns in West Africa will be marked by a shift from tactical-level support to a greater emphasis on advising, training and intelligence-sharing, the Pentagon said.

Bolduc, who supports robust military and diplomatic engagement on the continent, warned that any significant cuts to special operations forces would irreparably harm U.S. interests in Africa. 

“We’re becoming risk averse and it’s slowing down the amount of support we provide to our partner nations in training, advising, assisting, and accompanying them,” he said. “We’re basically ceding our strategic leverage and relationship with our African partners to the Chinese and the Russians.”

But Friend said there was greater risk in small teams of special operators conducting far flung and secretive missions on the continent.

“The fact that American forces were out in the field like that made them vulnerable to [ISIS in the Greater Sahara] attacks. If they’re not forward and not out there, it’s much harder to attack them,” she said. “So, one of the choices in front of DoD decision-makers is ‘do we want to keep forces forward?’ and therefore ‘what kind of support do we need to give them?,’” Friend said.

Cover image: Malian soldiers take part in training at the Kamboinsé general Bila Zagre military camp near Ouagadougo in Burkina Faso during a military anti-terrorism exercise with US Army instructors on April 12, 2018. (ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images)

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Zie ook:
'VS vermoordt zoals gewoonlijk straffeloos burgers in geheime Somalische oorlog'

'VS bombardementen: 62 vermoorde stadsbewoners in Somalië'

'De VS heeft 500 militairen ingezet in Somalië, het imperium breidt zich verder uit......'

'VS illegaal militair ingrijpen in Niger, ofwel de uitspattingen van een imperium met expansiedrift'

'VS 'helden' helpen Somalische troepen bij het vermoorden van kinderen, één van de specialiteiten van deze helden..........'

'Jeroen Leenaers (CDA): Somalië is 'veilig' voor vluchtelingen.............' en in het verlengde daarvan: 'Jeroen Leenaers (CDA EU): 'veilige landen' moeten asielzoekers terugnemen, anders zwaait er wat........ OEI!!!' en: 'Amnesty International beschuldigt Nederland van het schenden van de mensenrechten, door Somaliërs terug te sturen......'

'VS, in 2016 vermoordde de VS 24.000 mensen, uit landen die op de lijst van inreisverboden staan.......'

'VS pleegt aanslag op een leider van al-Shabaab, geen 'onschuldige slachtoffers.....''