WORLD at WAR, OFFICIAL 2013 THREAD (Doom always only a moment away)

Nathan J Hunt ‏@ISNJH 1m Monday morning US Flat top Nimits CVN 68 to leave port to take part in drills with #ROK [link to english.yonhapnews.co.kr] …

expect the Norks to whine and brood about this

North Korea Reports ‏@NKoreaReports 56s NKorea Slams 'Reckless' Arrival Of U.S. Aircraft Carrier [link to DON'T_USE-THIS] via @newspin

They have known it was coming for a week. I swear, they have the worst propaganda writers...

'Reckless'...like the captain forgot to signal a turn when docking...

I don't know what to make a this...

I have a DM to a Tunisian friend for context, but he's in France, so I won't hear from him tonight.

Leader of Tunisian Ansar al Sharia declares war on Tunisian authorities

[link to translate.google.com]

This guy founded Ansar al Sharia in Tunisia in 2011. It's been a political movement in the country, leading protests against Western influences

It is estimated to have up to 100k members.

Here's wiki entry on Ansar al Sharia in Tunisia

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Is this puffing?? Or is there a possibility of civil war in stable middle class Tunisia?? Its economy has been improving recently

Sorry if this is Re-Post - Assad forces gaining ground in Syria

Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are beginning to turn the tide of the country’s war, bolstered by a new strategy, the support of Iran and Russia and the assistance of fighters with Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement...

Pro-Assad analysts credit a major restructuring of government forces that has better equipped them to confront the insurgency. The ranks of the conventional Syrian army — weary, depleted and demoralized by defections, casualties and more than a year of continuous fighting — are being swelled by the deployment of some 60,000 militia irregulars trained at least in part by Hezbollah and Iranian advisers...

Hezbollah disputes assessments by Western diplomats in Beirut that several thousand of its members are fighting in Syria. Zahran says a distinction should be drawn between a Hezbollah-trained force of 2,000 Lebanese Shiites recruited from Lebanese border villages that is fighting in Homs and the other Hezbollah cadres dispatched on a smaller scale to locations elsewhere in Syria, who number in the hundreds....

“The fighters tell us that battling Hezbollah is very difficult compared to the army,” he said. “Hezbollah are more professional than the army”...

[link to m.washingtonpost.com]

The whole world has gone nuts. Saudis with pressure cookers in airports???; UN troops patrolling the streets in Maine; schools on lockdown because of bomb threats; mass shootings in parades; countries on the verge of cutting each others' throats....and on and on and on.

I don't know who runs this carnival, but stop the ride. I want to get off already.

Sheesh!

Three people died today in a bombing in Benghazi. Two of the Libyans I've gotten to know through twitter, who I often mention on this thread, commented on the attack. I'll share their comments

Rami El Obeidi's radio interview w/ RFI: [link to audioboo.fm]

Mohammed Eljarh's post about the attack in Foreign Policy: [link to transitions.foreignpolicy.com]

Meanwhile - Here's an English language report on the comments made by the founder of Ansar al Sharia in Tunisia.

The head of a radical Salafist group in Tunisia has threatened to wage war against the government...

“To the tyrants who think they are Islamists... know that the stupid things you are doing are dragging you to war,” said Abu Iyadh, the fugitive leader of Ansar al-Sharia who is wanted by the police over deadly unrest last year...

“If you continue with these stupid policies, the support of America, the West, Algeria, Turkey and Qatar will not save you when the sound of swords makes itself heard,” the hardline preacher warned.

“I remind you simply that our youth sacrificed themselves for the defense of Islam in Afghanistan, in Chechnya, in Bosnia, in Iraq, in Somalia and in Syria, and they won’t hesitate to sacrifice themselves for their religion in Kairouan,” he said...

[link to english.alarabiya.net]

Not surprisingly, Tunisia's stock market crashed today.

We know who is running the show, but WE win in the end!!! Just keep looking up. Praying for protection of G-ds people.

Amein.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in three states in the northeast of the country, admitting Boko Haram extremists now control some villages and towns.


[link to www.france24.com]

Erdogan rejects joint probe with Damascus on Turkey blasts

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday firmly rejected a Syrian proposal to hold a joint probe over a twin car bomb attack that killed 51 people.

“The administration in power in Damascus is illegal ... how can we recognize a structure that isn’t even recognized by its own citizens,” Erdogan told reporters before leaving for a meeting with U.S President Barack Obama in Washington on Thursday.

[link to english.alarabiya.net]

Furloughs for DOD Civilian Employees - Down to 11 days; will begin in July

[link to www.csmonitor.com]

Libyan Special Forces have been deployed in Benghazi - gun battles have been reported in the streets tonight (it's 3 am Libya time)

Thread: AGAIN Tonight - Running Battles & Bombings in Benghazi, Libya

Been working much. Doom is in a waiting pattern, watch for the following.

Report: Israel warns Assad not to retaliate to airstrikes
[link to www.ynetnews.com]
Israeli senior official tells New York Times Israel considering further military strikes on Syria to stop transfer of weapons to Hezbollah. 'If Assad reacts, he will risk forfeiting his regime,' he says

There is a thread on point - but - here is is again. White House releases Benghazi e-mails -

Here's a link to a .pdf file containing the released files

[link to i.cdn.turner.com]

Why Iraq is about to become Obama's problem. Iraq is unraveling (again)

[link to www.foreignpolicy.com]

NBC Nightly News (@nbcnightlynews)
5/15/13, 7:34 PM
BREAKING: Central figure in #Benghazi attack ID'd, not yet in US custody; fed. charges to soon be made public -@PeteWilliamsNBC @jonathan4ny

They talk about Iraqis politicians wanting to divide the country into several smaller countries...

THIS WAS THE PLAN ALL ALONG...

Could we be so lucky as to find out it is a senior Al Qaeda agent, not some protester?

My guess -
It will be someone who is connected in Libya. No one in US has ever heard of him.

There's been gossip in Benghazi since the attack the the ringleader was "known" but "politically sensitive"

If he's al Qaeda he'll be no bigger than Sami al Saadi - one of the co-founders of LIFG who was in Afghanistan on 9/11. Al Saadi was captured by the CIA in Hong Kong & then sent on a rendition flight back to Libya. Rumor is he became a special friend of one of Gaddafi's sons...

But I digress...

'Massive' troop deployment in Nigeria

[link to www.aljazeera.com]

Mohamed Fadel Fahmy (@Repent11)
5/15/13, 9:05 PM
US State Department issues travel alert to US citizens in Egypt which expires August 15,2013"be vigilant regarding their personal security"

Mohamed Fadel Fahmy (@Repent11)
5/15/13, 9:30 PM
3 Police officers/4 Army officers kidnapped today in North-Sinai in separate incidents! Military on high alert! El-Arish/ #Egypt #Sinaistan

Heads up, Obama is getting cornered with more shit hitting the fan tomorrow. A cornered despotic dictator with Stalinist tendencies, something bad is bound to happen!

Home front report: High likelihood of chemical terror
Internal report obtained by Ynet points to 'high probability' of chemical terror, says there would be no warning. Gas masks shortage is 'critical,' could harm citizens' resilience and confidence'
[link to www.ynetnews.com]



Damascus no more is becoming prophetically much more likely as the days pass.

A chemical attack on Israel would certainly lead to a war engulfing the whole ME region and probably beyond.

Exactly what the terror groups in Syria want all along.

Unmoved by Israel, Russia will send top air-defense system to Assad

[link to www.timesofisrael.com]