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

Nice to see so many of the regular crowd on today!

Power is out in Damascus and south and Russia is evacuating. If anyone cared, this could be something, but I think we are all numb from the lack of action so far.

not really

Oh My - I thought I'd end the night with the song that got Lupe Fiasco kicked out of the inaugural event last night. Did they listen to the song before they invited him?

Syria potential set-up; Algeria seems to be a set-up....

EEK - Conspiracy overload

Hey steve, i got more

I used to work for a Jewish carpenter.
He used to check my fingers for splinters to make sure I wasn't stealing.

How was copper wire invented?
two jews found the same penny

I'd like to see things from your point of view but I can't seem to get my head that far up my ass. Just what the fuck is wrong with you?

Let's hope we never find out, Gerry.

Actually...know thine enemy...

Doesn't strike me as bright enough to be a real enemy

This is from my Mali thread - but some things are worth a re-post -

British Forces Prepare to be Deployed in Mali.

British forces are on alert for an emergency deployment to Mali as David Cameron commits the UK to a fully-fledged battle against al-Qaeda in northern Africa.

The Times understands that units from the Army, Royal Navy and RAF are on “high readiness” to deploy if requested in support of France, which is attempting to repel Islamist extremists from the north of the country.

[link to www.thetimes.co.uk]

Also, there was an attempted coup in Eritrea today...

So both of the hot spots - North Africa & the Horn of Africa are getting hotter...

Enemies that are idiots are less predictable, but also less dangerous. They have very poor imaginations.

You are now the master of understatements! This will not end well or soon in Mali....

I can't answer your question directly, but here is some current information that may help...

The ANI news agency in Mauritania, which was in contact with the hostage-takers throughout the siege, has received a statement about the raid from Mokhtar Belmokhtar's Mulathameen Brigade (“the Masked Ones”) – of which the Signatories in Blood group that carried out the Algerian kidnapping seems to have been a sub-group.

The statement said the group was willing to direct more attacks towards the states taking part in the war in Mali. It said the In Amenas operation had been planned some time ago. The site was chosen after an “intelligence survey”.

The group explained what they said had happened at the gas facility:

A Fidayeen battalion of the “Those Who Signed In Blood” brigade of al-Qaida has conducted a double operation aiming at controlling the gas compound and Al-Hayatt base affiliates to British company BP and to detain some of the western workers in the compound.

They took control of the compound, as was planned, in a daring move and after the Fadayeen had collected a number of the westerners, they released the Muslims who were in the site, despite the Algerian army claiming they had released them.

They contacted the company’s board and asked for negotiations and they demanded the army stay away from the detention site in order to protect the lives of the Muslims and the hostages but the army responded by sniping [at] two of the detained hostages. After that the Algerian helicopters started to strike Al-Hayatt base where the hostages were in an attempt to kill the hostages and put an end to the crisis as soon as possible.

At that time, the fighters decided to move to the factory to avoid the killing of those hostages who were left or the injured Mulsims in the site and to keep the hostages safe from the bombing, in contrast to what the Algerian regime has claimed: that they were moving them to a neighbouring state.

The [Algerian] helicopters shelled the convoy which was moving the hostages to the factory and destroyed it all in a barbaric way and with direct killing.

This indicates the carelessness of the army towards the lives of the hostages, as they claimed, and the Fadayeen group which was in the factory stayed to offer negotiations a new and mentioned its legitimate demands: halting the aggression against the Muslims in Mali and releasing our prisoners held by the Crusaders. But the Algerian army did not respond to these legitimate demands, yet they began to break in to the gas factory, which led to the killing of the hostages.

The group said that the siege had confirmed a number of things to them:

1. The states who are taking part in the Crusader campaign against the Muslims and Islam have only one target, which is to attack the young Islamic project in Mali and in any country where sharia has been implemented, and they did not interfere to protect the isolated Syrian people, who have been killed and displaced for two years now, and this confirmed their new colonial greed.

2. We opened the negotiations with the westerners and Algerians and gave them safety right from the beginning of the operation but one of the senior intelligence officials confirmed to us in a phone call that they will destroy the entire site with the people inside and in accordance to our information this general is the one who supervised the operation.

3. We confirm the falsity of the Algerian security interests and ministry of interior’s allegation regarding controlling the borders. The operation confirmed the fragility of the security system and its lies and confirm that … the military barracks which has more than 250 soliders specialising in the protection of foreigners and oil companies between the the two targeted sites …. was shocked by the Fadayeen’s bravery and their speed in conducting the operation.

4. The Algerian regime’s chicanery and the illusion of the western states that the group who conducted the operation is local and can be controlled easily, though they knew the truth in the first hours and despite the fact that there were only five Algerians in the operation and none of them were locals from the city.

5. The operation was prepared a while ago after an intelligence survey of many sites in different locations and this site was chosen after we found that Algeria was taking part with France in the war against our people in Mali and they have violated its air and land by the French and they closed the borders to siege the Azwadi [northern Malian] Muslim people and this is what pushed us to give the signal for the beginning of the operation in Algeria.

6. We confirm to our Muslim brothers the necessity of staying away from all western compounds and companies for their safety, especially French ones, and this what the Fadayeen brothers have confirmed when they controlled the site, to our Muslim brothers who are working there.

Finally we warn all the states who took part in the Crusader campaign against the Azwad region [northern Mali] that if they do not retreat from their decision there will be more operations.

“The Masked Ones”

...and if your looking for a conspiracy...how about this?

Riad, an Algerian employee of Japan's JGC engineering firm, described how three of his Japanese colleagues were executed after the Islamists attacked the bus that was taking them to the airport.

“We were all terrified when we heard bursts of gunfire at 5.30am (04.30 GMT) on Wednesday, after we realised that they had just killed our Japanese colleagues who tried to flee,” he said.

The gunmen then took the passengers to the plant's residential compound, where they had seized hundreds of foreign and Algerian hostages.

“A terrorist shouted 'open the door!' with a strong North American accent, and opened fire. Two other Japanese died then and we found four other Japanese bodies” in the compound, said Riad, choking with emotion.

It's been confirmed 2 of the terrorists including the leader were Canadian - link on the "Watch as it develops" Mali thread...

Thread: Watch as it Develops - The Staged War Against Islamists in Northern Mali (Page 15)

See posts from 9:43 last night and 11am and 1:12 PM today... The leaders name was Chedad

BTW - I only speak twitter French - but my Hebrew is progressing nicely...

Algeria was a inside job. I can now confirm 3 Americans dead. Our guy on the scene is talking 80 dead, but we don't know how many were hostages yet. There were several executives on property at the time of the attack along with a personal protection security detail.

Bad voodoo alert.