Saudi Arabia says a man disguised a woman and shot dead in a shootout last week was an an al-Qaida operative Mohammed Issam Tahir al-Baghdadi, who entered the country from Yemen

From AP,

police are now sure the dead man is Mohammed Issam Tahir al-Baghdadi, an al-Qaida operative wanted for terrorist activities

al-Baghdadi [who had earlier entered Saudi Arabia from neighboring Yemen] was disguised as woman


An earlier report from Reuters,

Saudi security forces shot dead a suspected al Qaeda militant and arrested another after one of them opened fire at agents at a checkpoint on Friday, the interior ministry said.

One of the two men, who was disguised as a woman, opened fire after their car was stopped at the checkpoint in the central town of Wadi al-Dawasir, said Mansour al-Turki, the ministry's security spokesman.

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Source: AP, Reuters

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Comments: Cowards.

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Iranian journalist Mashallah Shamsolvaezin jailed for insulting (megalomaniac or crazy) President Ahmadinejad & undermining establishment

From AFP

" … one year in prison on the charge of undermining the establishment for giving interviews to foreign TV networks and news agencies”

" … four-month sentence for calling Ahmadinejad a megalomaniac in an interview with Al-Arabiya TV which the prosecutors misinterpreted as crazy and so insulting the president," he said.

One of the accusations mentioned in the verdict was "defending" in an analysis Nazak Afshar, an employee of the French embassy in Tehran who was jailed in the aftermath of Iran's post-election unrest in 2009, he added.

Source: AFP


Comments: Another blasphemy case but this time not a religious blasphemy but a secular blasphemy.

What it shows is that Islamists and Islamophilic politically correct elite establishment and 'petty tyrant' officials are against free speech and freedom of expression, and are extremely hypersensitive.

These tyrants have their 'dogma' and no body is allowed to question it or defend what they consider blasphemies, both religious and secular.

 You are expected to simply shut up and accept what they say.

These sort of repression are also emerging in the West too with the collusion of the PC brigade and shows the threat to freedom of expression, free speech and ultimately all other freedoms.

People should therefore watch out and speak out against this trend of censorship.


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Conspiracy theories and blame games: South Sinai governor, Mohamed Abdul Fadil Shousha says Mossad could be behind Sharm el-Sheikh shark attacks

Last week, 'oceanic white tip sharks mauled three Russians and a Ukrainian tourist'² 'off the coast of Sharm el-Sheikh.'² 'In one of those attacks, a shark bit off an elderly woman's hand and tore off another woman's leg.'²

After those attacks authorities hunted down two sharks and reopened the beach deeming it safe.¹

'However, an Egyptian NGO warned on Saturday that at least one of the sharks behind the attacks was still at large.'¹

On Sunday an elderly³ German woman tourist snorkeler died after a shark 'mauled her thigh and arm'.¹

According to AFP, 'South Sinai governor Mohammed Shosha has said the sharks could have turned frenzied after a ship transporting livestock dumped dead sheep into the sea, while marine experts said overfishing may have forced them closer to shore.'¹

'Environmentalists warned that the string of recent attacks is likely a result of the Red Sea's declining ecosystem. Gabar, the head of the CDWS [Chamber of Diving and Water Sports], said he's seen a jump in the number of sharks off Egypt's Red Sea coast, which he said could be caused by overfishing, which could force sharks to swim closer to shore in search of food.'²

BBC reports that,

Conspiracy theories are always popular in the Middle East, with unlikely suggestions often made that troubles in Arab countries could be caused by Mossad agents.³

Rumours had circulated in Egypt that there could be an Israeli connection to this unusual spate of Red Sea shark attacks.³

An official Egyptian news site reported South Sinai governor, Mohamed Abdul Fadil Shousha, as saying³ 

"What is being said about the Mossad throwing the deadly shark [in the sea] to hit tourism in Egypt is not out of the question, but it needs time to confirm"³

Sources: 1. AFP, 2. AP, 3. BBC


Comments: Conspiracy theories and blame games in the Muslim world are nothing new and reaches up to the highest levels of society.

And as usual, such beliefs are followed by further beliefs of being persecuted (victim-card) and visions of the grandeur and supremacy of Islam.

This problem is made worse by politically correct censors who censor any attempt to expose it, while feeding the fire with politically correct lies that praise those in the wrong as being good, right and wonderful, and condemn legitimate criticisms as 'hate', 'bigotry' and 'Islamophobia' (worse things said and done by the other side are ignored). 

A few days ago this site reported the revelation from US embassy cables leaked by WikiLeaks that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was susceptible to Islamist conspiracy theories - some of them pulled from the web. The following quote is from that story.

AFP reports other cables as saying,

Erdogan lacks "vision" and "analytic depth", reads "minimally", ignores foreign ministry expertise and is guided by an "iron ring of sycophantic (but contemptuous) advisors... which partially explains... his susceptibility to Islamist theories."

He is said to rely on "his charisma, instincts, and the filterings of advisors who pull conspiracy theories off the Web or are lost in neo-Ottoman Islamist fantasies, e.g., Islamist foreign policy advisor... Ahmet Davutoglu."

A cable signed by the US ambassador in January 2010 says Davutoglu wants to reassert on the Balkans the influence the Ottoman empire used to exert on the region.

As for the blame game, here are some quotes from two previous articles which can be found here and here.

Walter Rodgers, a former senior international correspondent for CNN said,

Bernard Lewis, the renowned Princeton scholar of Islam, has called attention to the Arab tendency to play “the blame game.”

He notes Arabs traditionally blamed the Mongols, the Ottoman Turks, the colonial powers, and now the Jews and the Americans for everything that has gone awry

And Political science teacher Houchang Hassan-yari, of Canada's Royal Military College said,

it is Tehran's standard practice to finger "outside forces and outside enemies for everything bad that goes on inside the country."

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Taqiyya vs Taqiyya, "they lie to us, and we lie to them" - Qatar Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani on relations with Iran

 In a US embassy cable leaked by WikiLeak and published by The Guardian (UK), Qatar's Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani (HBJ) 

-- HBJ characterized Qatar,s relationship with Iran as one in which "they lie to us, and we lie to them."

7. (S) Asked for his advice on how best to approach the Iranians, HBJ said it is imperative that the Iranians commit to draft any deal, including a timetable. He reiterated that it is important to "make them tell you (what they will do). Otherwise they will say 'yes, but...' and the 'but' will be worse than a 'no.'"

Cable information is

Sunday, 20 December 2009, 12:14
S E C R E T DOHA 000728
SIPDIS
EO 12958 DECL: 12/14/2019
TAGS ENRG, PREL, TRGY, EPET, QA
SUBJECT: QATAR,S PRIME MINISTER ON IRAN: "THEY LIE TO US;
WE LIE TO THEM."
Classified By: Ambassador Joseph E. LeBaron, for reasons 1.4 (b, d).


Source: The Guardian (UK)


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UK's MI6 'intelligence' conned by impostor claiming to be Taliban's Mullah Mansour – “naive” Westerners “excited so quickly” about peace talks

"My good friends, this is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time [emphasis added]. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. And now I recommend you to go home and sleep quietly in your beds." - British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain just before World War Two (From Wikipedia) 

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An imposter who managed to fool Britain's MI6 foreign intelligence agency into believing that he was senior Taliban commander Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour^1,4 has now vanished after being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to engage in peace talks.^1,2,3

The man was flown on British C130 transport aircraft a number of times for “secret peace talks”,⁴ described as a "historic breakthrough",⁴ and participated in three sensitive meetings between Taliban and the Afghan government.³ He allegedly even met Afghan president Hamid Karzai once³ after being flown to Kabul, although this has been denied by Karzai.^1,2,4 

The Americans - believed to have helped the British check him using signal intelligence¹ – now say they had been skeptical¹ of the identity of “the Brits' guy”, judging him a few inches shorter than the real Mansour.³

The man, now thought to have been either a shopkeeper in Quetta,^2,3,4 a low level Taliban commander, a conman^3,4  or a Pakistain spy,³ disappeared after an Afghan official who had met the real Mansour pointed out it was not him.^1,2,3

Michael Scheuer, who until 2004 was the CIA's point man for the hunt for Osama bin Laden suggested a reason for the debacle saying²

the Taliban's strength and the U.S. administration's stated goals of getting out of Afghanistan has created desperation for successes.²

A senior Afghan official said¹

"British intelligence was naive and there was wishful thinking on our part."^1,2,4 [Something which this site has been warning about since the beginning!]

Mr Karzai's chief of staff, Mohammad Umer Daudzai warned³

"The last lesson we draw from this: International partners should not get excited so quickly with those kind of things,"³

Sources: 1. AFP, 2. AP, 3. BBC, 4. Reuters


Comments: This must be the result of politically correct censorship that makes it an 'Islamophobic' blasphemy (Geert Wilders, Thilo Sarrazin) punishable by death or imprisonment for life in some places (Asia Bibi, Walid Husayin) any questioning or criticism of Islam or Muslims.

If anyone expresses even the slightest of doubt, based on sound evidence, about Islam or Muslims, they are branded bigots and 'Islamophobic'. Everyone is instead brainwashed into believing fairy tales and swallowing whole the politically correct version of events.

So it would not be surprising if MI6 agents didn't dare doubt what a Muslim said in this case. They would probably be branded bigots and disciplined and given corrective cultural lessons if they did. (There were concerns about Major Nidal Malik Hasan before his shootings but nothing was done.)

This is symptomatic, especially of the British among the rest of the wishful thinkers, who in their immature and childish psychology, naively and arrogantly think that being 'nice' will solve everything. (There were reports that British troops were replaced by the Americans in Musa Qala, Helmand province, Afghanistan, after their be 'nice' approach didn't work, with Marine commander Lt. Col. Michael Manning saying, "They didn't pursue the Taliban," "We'll go after them." There were also earlier claims by US General Jack Keane and Col Peter Mansoor that the Brits left in disgrace and defeat from souther Iraq after a similar approach failed and handed the place over to Islamic extremists and as a result, among other things, '45 women were killed by the militia for "un-Islamic" behaviour'. So being nice to terrorists is not nice to their victims. The French intelligence even claimed their own capital has been taken over by the Islamists and called it 'Londonistan'. The British are only hard on other British and non-British who speaks out against Islamic extremism as the recent example of 'anti-terror' police John Larkin shows.)

 The case of New York city 'human rights' commissioner Omar T. Mohammedi, recently reported here, has been claimed by some to have happened as a result of similar problems.

This from the World Net Daily report

Debra Burlingame, sister of the pilot killed in the hijacked 9/11 flight that hit the Pentagon, says it's possible that Bloomberg was not aware of Mohammedi's background when he named him to the commission.

"That happens, unfortunately, as local governments cast about for someone to partner with in the Muslim community," she said. "CAIR and other similar groups have capitalized on the government's desire to engage."

And as for lessons, don't bet that they will learn anything. Dodo's never do.

There is a possibility that this conman was a double agent for the Pakistanis trying to sabotage Afghan peace talks. As reported earlier on this site here and here, Pakistan supports the Taliban with the aim of using them as their proxies in Afghanistan once foreign troops leave. But he could also be a Taliban double agent as well.

Finally, remember words such as "naive", "peace", "historic", "excited" and "desperation". They are words always heard before some tragedy or farce. 


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Gambia, without explanation, orders Iranian diplomats to leave the country within 48 hours

 Gambia has without explanation, ordered Iranian diplomats in the country to leave within 48 hours.²

 Essa Bokarr Sey, a former Gambian ambassador to the United States, said it might be related to the recent seizure of a weapons shipment from Iran, in Nigeria, that news reports strongly suggest was destined for Gambia. He said that although it was fine for a country to purchase arms for it's own use, it might not be if they were bought for re-export.²

 The two countries have previously developed ties after both were internationally ostracized – Gambia over accusations of human rights abuses and Iran over its nuclear program.¹

 Gambia supported Iran's nuclear program and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in 2006 that they were both being pressured by “bullying” powers.¹

 Sey suggested that Iran might be the latest victim to be used by the Gambian President Yayah Jammeh who has a history of making U-turns.¹

 He said that Jemmeh had in the past named an avenue after the Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi during a period of good relations, only to reverse it when things later went sour.¹

 He explained that,

Whenever there is a lot of noise and he feels scared and he has been unearthed and identified as somebody who was meeting behind the curtains, he would react in this way to clean himself up²

Sources: 1. AFP, 2. Voice of America (VOA)


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Taqiyya BIG talk: Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid exaggerates death toll, as they regularly do

 Taliban suicide car bomb attack in a bazzar in Dwa Mandala district of Afghanistan's Khost province killed a policeman and an Afghan soldier, and injured four others, according to provincial police chief Abdul Hakim Eshaqzai.

 Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the attack was targeted at foreigners and claimed 14 were killed and 9 injured.

 The Associated Press (AP) writer RAHIM FAIEZ explained the discrepancy saying,

the Taliban regularly exaggerate casualties caused by their attacks

[Could add, minimize their losses and blame attacks, deliberate or accidental, that kill scores of innocent civilians on their opponents. Just another psychological feature or behavioral pattern associated with some Muslim cultures. Typical.]

Source: AP 

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