Nasrallah: Syria's Allies Will Not Allow Assad to Fall

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2013/Apr-30/215619-nasrallah-says-syrian-regime-cannot-be-toppled-militarily.ashx#axzz2Rzmy8EnJ

And how far are they willing to go to prop him up? 

Europe Has a New Export: Jihadis!!!

http://rt.com/news/european-jihadists-fight-syria-317/

Letting them go seems like a good idea. The problems will develop when they come home.  And here's another piece from Elliott Abrams.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/344225/syria-s-european-jihadis-elliott-abrams

And the report he mentioned. 

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3634/european-jihadists

And another report. 

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/2013/04/30/Euro-mayors-try-to-keep-youths-from-going-to-Syria.html

West and Jews Stoke Muslim Internal Discord

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9107165560

Yea, if it wasn't for those evil Westerners and, of course, the Jews, everything would be just perfect in the Islamic world.

What this means in practice is that anytime an opposition group emerges, it is immediately associated with outsiders and thus can be accused of something approaching treason.  You can actually see this happening in Egypt presently, with the Muslim Brotherhood making the accusations against its opposition.

Taliban Step Up Pressure in Afghanistan

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/28/17955309-taliban-marks-start-of-monumental-spring-offensive-with-deadly-attack?lite

Hopefully, they won't be able to apply so much pressure that we have to rethink our withdrawal schedule.

The Mess Obama Faces in Syria

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/world/middleeast/islamist-rebels-gains-in-syria-create-dilemma-for-us.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&hp

Nearly Half-Million Syrian Refugees in Lebanon

https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/lebanonnews/over-444000-syria-refugees-in-lebanon-report-says

Then there's Turkey and Jordan. 

How the Mighty Have Fallen!

http://www.aawsat.net/2013/04/article55300053

Ouch!

Arab World Imploding?

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/04/2013427101245324267.html

Iraqi sectarian clashes kills 200 in five days. Lebanon to Iraq; here it comes. 

Coptic Pope Calls Government Line "Lies"

http://www.aawsat.net/2013/04/article55299971

The political and economic situations in Egypt are steadily deteriorating. 

Guess Who Is Responsible for Boston and the Earthquake in Iran?

The Jews!

Al Arabiya Plays Video of Obama Calling Chemical Use Game Changer

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/04/26/Obama-says-facts-needed-to-cast-judgment-on-Syria-chemical-weapons-.html

What will Obama do? 

Jews Staged French and Russian Revolutions!!!

And Lenin was a Jew!

The Sunni-Shia Civil War is Deepening

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/04/25/Iraqi-official-says-Hawija-incident-harms-army-s-image.html

From Lebanon to the Iranian border! What a fucking mess!

Still Fight Left in Assad Regime

http://www.arabnews.com/news/449386

They've retaken a key town. 

Syrian News Agency Now Offline for More than a Week

http://www.sana-syria.com/index_eng.html

Who Is Calling Hezbollah's Shots?

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Opinion/Columnist/2013/Apr-25/214965-hezbollahs-mad-gamble-in-qusair.ashx#axzz2RVMEzQdd

According to this piece, Tehran! 

Hezbollah Drone Downed by IAF

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/IAF-shoots-down-drone-which-flew-south-from-Lebanon-311098

If the Iranians are supplying their Shi'a buddies with drones, will they give them nukes when they get them? 

Hagel Says Syrians Using Chemicals

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/25/world/meast/syria-civil-war/index.html

Obama said this would be a "red line." So what is he going to do?

Sunni Lebanese Go to Syria to Fight Hezbollah!

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/04/24/Lebanese-Sunni-youth-sign-up-for-holy-war-against-Hezbollah.html

How long can it be before they restart fighting at home, in Lebanon? I means why trek a couple hundred of miles to kill our neighbor, when you can kill him right here?

Sprited Debate on Syria!!!!

Ouch!

Islamic Flag Will Fly over Whitehouse!

Yea, they are already saying Muslim prayers in the White House, so he claims.

More Hezbollah Losses in Syria

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/04/23/Free-Syrian-Army-kills-18-Hezbollah-fighters-in-Syrian-city-of-Qusayr.html

Bishops Released

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Apr-23/214783-two-orthodox-bishops-held-in-syria-freed-christian-association.ashx#axzz2RFRkBqqV

Syrian Rebels Kidnap Bishops

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Apr-22/214676-rebels-kidnap-two-aleppo-bishops.ashx#axzz2RFRkBqqV

Two Syrian bishops kidnapped by rebels. 

Did the FBI Drop the Ball?

According to this British report, based on Russian sources, the elder Tsarnaev's Russian trip took him to Dagestan where he made "six visits to a known Islamic militant in a mosque...." The Russians turned that info over to the FBI. I saw another report that the info didn't alert the FBI because of a different spelling of Tsarnaev's name.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10008638/Boston-bomber-FBI-dropped-the-ball-over-Tamerlan-Tsarnaev.html

May 2011 Statement of Obama Declaring Causcasus Emirate Group Terrorists

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/26/joint-statement-presidents-united-states-america-and-russian-federation-

I keep seeing experts saying how the Caucasus jihadis had no beef with the US; they only hate the Russians. But in May 2011 Obama signed a joint statement, and issued an executive order, declaring them international terrorists. He even placed a $5 million reward on the head of the group's leader.One could say that Obama declared war on these bozos.

So know think of the timeline involving the Russian request that we check out Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and his visit to Russia and the region.

Hezbollah Chief Reportedly Visits Iran

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Report-Nasrallah-makes-secret-visit-to-Iran-310618

Al-Arabiya: US Arms Sales Sends Signal to Iran

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/world/2013/04/21/Pentagon-chief-to-finalize-10bn-arms-deal-on-Middle-East-visit.html

Among the items in question, long range aerial refueling aircraft tat would be useful for an Israeli strike. 

Tsarnaev's Mosque Article from 2005 and City of Boston Subsidy

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/459hffer.asp?page=2

And there's this.

The taxpayers of Boston subsidized the mosque!

http://dailycaller.com/2013/04/19/city-of-boston-gave-subsidy-to-bombing-suspects-radical-mosque/#ixzz2R125Ns4E

Hezbollah Sees Syrian Struggle as Existential

https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/nownews/hezbollah-views-syria-conflict-as-existential-sources-say

Wouldn't it be great if Hezbollah went down with Assad? 

Egypt Needs More Martyrs!

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/04/20/Abu-Ismail-.html

Yea, that's the ticket. And we wonder why guys like the Tsarnaev Brothers succumb to Sudden Jihad Syndrome? 

Will Syria Become Hezbollah's Vietnam?

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Report-Dissent-within-Hezbollah-over-involvement-in-Syria-310316

Apparently, not all Hezbollah fighters are eager to die for Assad in Syria. 

Photo of the Suspects from the New York Post and the FBI

Well, the NYPost, apparently following the lead of CNN, fingered the wrong guys. I wonder if the Post will get sued? Imagine if a crowd had gotten a hold of these poor guys and lynched them?

One thing that can be said about Boston Massacre-2, is that the American media is in sorry shape.

Here is the link to the FBI site with the real photos. 

http://www.fbi.gov/news/updates-on-investigation-into-multiple-explosions-in-boston/photos

US Troops to Jordan: Syrian Civil War Fallout

http://rt.com/news/jordan-us-troops-syria-028/

In a post yesterday I noted that Assad had threatened Jordan for supporting the rebels.  This story states that the US is sending a few hundred troops to Jordan, in response.

Next Stop for the Brothers? The Judiciary!

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/69521/Egypt/Politics-/Egypts-Brotherhood-calls-for-judicial-purge-at-Fri.aspx

The Salafists and their Ikhwan brothers control the executive and the legislative branches. Their next target is the judiciary. 

Assad Warns West and Jordan

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/04/18/Assad-warns-fire-in-Syria-could-reach-Jordan.html

News reports have made clear that the US and assorted Arab nations are supporting Syrian rebels that are being armed and trained in Jordan. One has to assume that they operate from bases in Jordan and move into Syria. Assad anger with Jordan is entirely reasonable, and yet another indicator of how the Syrian cancer is metastasizing regionally. 

Nuclear Orientalism?

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/04/201341695253805841.html

The author raises a legitimate question but he also grossly undermines his own case by what he doesn't discuss.

If the only "oriental" states to go nuclear were North Korea and Iran, he'd have a fine argument. Unfortunately, he doesn't mention the existence of nuclear weapons programs in China, India, or Pakistan. The United States did not issue comparable--to those issued to North Korea or Iran--threats to any of those countries. We hardly  have had trade and banking sanctions against China since it went nuclear.

I would argue that this broader context suggests that the American problem with Iran and North Korea is, in fact, linked to our appreciation that they are unstable regimes, and not that they are "oriental."

Clear Evidence SECSTATE Kerry Is Incompetent!

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/69487/World/Region/Kerry-says-window-for-Mideast-peace-is--years.aspx

Two years? Really? Kerry is saying that we have to achieve peace in the Middle East by the spring of 2015 or else? Or else what?

What a dumb statement, and what a foolish idea to fix the goalpost for peace within the confines of President Obama's second term.  Although, it is true that Obama is a Nobel Peace Prize winner, so what the hell.

Muslim Brotherhood Claims Economy Recovering Fast!

http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=30832

Wow! What a bunch of crap. Negotiations with the IMF broke off yesterday.  There are all kinds of reports around about deep problems with the economy, subsidies, and dollar reserves.

You have to wonder if the Brothers simply are clueless and don't know enough to know what is going on, or just a bunch of serial liars.

Summer 2010 Al Qaeda Mag Ran Article on Pressure Cooker Bomb

http://azelin.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/aqap-inspire-magazine-volume-1-uncorrupted.pdf

You'll find the article on bomb making, using a pressure cooker, on pages 33-40. On page 39 you'll find the illustrations detailing all the crap you can put in the bomb to make shrapnel, such as nails, etc.

US Offered Support to Assad if He Cut Ties with Iran

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9107161368

Interesting Syrian claim from Iranian source.

Syrian Rebels Warn Lebanon

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Apr-16/213884-lebanon-must-stop-hezbollah-attacks-in-syria-opposition.ashx#axzz2Qf0Ie6iY

Syrian rebels warn the Lebanese government to stop Hezbollah from operating in Syria. 

Ihkwan Double Talk on Boston!

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/04/16/muslim_brotherhood_conspiracy_boston

They say one thing on their English-language site, another on their Arabic site. 

Enemies of the People in Egypt!

http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=30840

Morsi is all for greater press freedom, as long as the press lives up to its honor code--whatever that means.  Apparently, it appears, given what the story states, that you have to write stories that support the revolutionary narrative, and not stories that can be deemed reactionary or counter-revolutionary. In other words, you cannot criticize Morsi.

Rape to the Call of "Allah is Great!"

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/raymond-ibrahim/video-christian-girls-gang-raped-in-egypt-to-screams-of-allahu-akbar/

This is a great piece by Ibrahim, who is himself an Arab Christian. It is accompanied by a horrible video of two Christian girls being assaulted on an Egyptian street to cries of "Christian" Christian" and "Aahu Akbar!" 

What is as horrific as the scene, are the excuses made for the attacks. Well,  it took place in 2009 before the Arab Spring, which is true. Or that the attacks were revenge for a rape of a Muslim woman by a Christian. (Would we buy that excuse if a gang of whites retaliated for the rape of a white woman by a black man by gang raping two young black women on a street in broad daylight and filming it while white men shout the "N" word and yell "Christ is great!"?)

An Arab Critique of Obama's Syrian Policy

http://www.aawsat.net/2013/04/article55298766
That assumes that Obama actually has a Syrian policy, or that "leading from behind" the Al Qaeda-tied Al Nusra front is a policy.

As I've written in an earlier post, the Syrian "Arab Spring" revolt morphed into a Syrian civil war, which then morphed into a regional sectarian conflict between Shia and Sunni, that now extends from Lebanon to the Iranian border.

Obama is the oncologist who sits and watches as a cancerous tumor grows and spreads. If we stick with the medical analogy, the obvious conclusion is that the doctor in question is guilty of incompetence.

Egyptians Rip thru Cash Reserves

http://www.aawsat.net/2013/04/article55298801

They can't keep this up for more than, at best, eighteen months. 

CIA Involvement in Arms to Syria

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/2013/03/25/Arab-nations-CIA-help-boost-arms-shipment-to-Syria-rebels-report.html

 According to this report, the arms are going through Jordan and Turkey. There have been other reports that the US is training Syrian rebels in Jordan for operations in Syria.

Iraqi Militias Fighting in Syria

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Apr-11/213306-iraqi-shiite-militants-start-to-acknowledge-role-in-syria.ashx#axzz2QBTFy7dS

Now Iraqi Shia militiamen are fighting for Assad in Syria. 

We are now looking at a growing battle between Shia and Sunnis stretching from Lebanon to the Iranian plateau. Russia and Iran are backing the Shia. What is the US to do?

More Ihkwan Warnings

http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=30818

The Brotherhood keeps talking about these unnamed forces who keep stoking the fires of sectarian violence in an effort to destroy Egyptian national unity.

Who might those "forces" be?

How long before they get named?

Anyone want to speculate on just ho those forces might be? Could it be the . . . ?

Iranians Speed Enrichment

http://www.tehrantimes.com/politics/106705-iran-opens-uranium-mines-yellowcake-plant

Yea, obviously those sanctions are really having an impact. 

More Hezbollah Fighters Killed in Syria

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2013/Apr-09/213082-two-members-of-hezbollah-killed-in-syria.ashx#axzz2Q0yYMZvP

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9107159336

According to this report the number of Hezbollah fighters killed was twelve, not two. 

Morsi Sinks in the Polls!

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Egyptian-poll-shows-Morsi-popularity-at-all-time-low-309291

But no one is popular enough to beat him in an election.

Syrian and Iraqi Jihadists Merge

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323550604578412280884558740.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsForth

You Reap What You Sow!

First, watch these videos.
 
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/7097.htm

Then watch this one.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/04/09/A-video-proves-Bouti-was-assassinated-by-gunfire-not-explosion-.html

Ihkwan Take on Cathedral Attack

http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=30819

No, it has nothing to do with religion. You see, there are these unnamed people who are doing these things in Egypt to cause sectarian strife.

I wonder who these unnamed people are?

This is the same minister who a few days ago termed the Obama administration's complaints about human rights abuses "interference" and "intervention." 

So I guess the answer is: the US and those damned Jews!

And if Egyptian Christians cannot see that they are being played by these forces, well then, bad for them.

Syrians Reinforce Capital

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Apr-08/212939-assad-forces-step-up-defense-of-damascus.ashx#axzz2PrkscSSl

This report is probably related to the previous post about the Syrians pulling forces from the Golan. 

Syrians Redeploy from Golan

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Huge-shift-in-Syrian-troops-from-Golan-309059

The Syrians are finally getting serious, but probably too late. 

Muslim Brotherghood Report on Demonstrations

http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=30814

Note the picture!

 http://www.ikhwanweb.com/uploads/flash/KQFPGKG3SCM213H.jpg

Looks like someone holding a cross and a pocket New Testament.

The report states that Muslims and Christians died in the demonstration.

Iranian-5+1 Talks End without Result

http://old.irna.ir/News/Politic/Iran-underlines-its-legitimate-right-to-enrich-uranium/80602914

You have to read between the lines of this report, but the BBC reports that the talks ended without agreement or progress. 

Video of the Egyptian Demonstrations

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentMulti/68621/Multimedia.aspx

Egypt on the Brink?

http://www.newsmax.com/newswidget/Egypt-Chaos-Morsi-Brotherhood/2013/04/05/id/498030?promo_code=EE9E-1&utm_source=jpost&utm_medium=nmwidget&utm_campaign=widgetphase1

This is a rather pessimistic view of current events in Egypt.