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Jihad dal Kosovo? Che bella scoperta...

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Flashbacks / News / Par Daniel Salvatore Schiffer
1) 4 arresti tra Brescia e Kosovo. La 'mente' del gruppo, un cittadino kosovaro che ha vissuto diverso tempo in Italia
2) Inside Kacanik, Kosovo's jihadist capital (The Telegraph, 23 Aug 2015)


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FLASHBACKS:

29 settembre 2001 – Il Manifesto: E' AMERICANA LA PISTA BALCANICA CHE PORTA A BIN LADEN (Tommaso Di Francesco)

Feb. 1, 2004 – Associated Press: ARMY INTELLIGENCE CHIEF SAYS AL-QAIDA IN KOSOVO

Apr. 25, 2004 – Borba: MILITANT ISLAMIST TRAINING CAMPS IN BOSNIA AND KOSMET (by Madeline Zapeezda)
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/borba042105.htm

Aug. 1, 2004 – BBC Monitoring: TERRORISM EXPERT SAYS  MILITANT ISLAMISTS "PREPARING CADRES" IN SOUTH SERBIA
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/borba080104.htm

Nov. 24, 2004 – Dan: AL-QAEDA IS BUILDING TERRORIST CAMPS IN KOSOVO (by M.B Trajkovic)
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/dan112404.htm

Apr. 18, 2006 – Associated Press: 'AL QAEDA MEN HAVE BEEN TRANSITING BALKANS FOR YEARS’
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/ap041706.htm
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\04\18\story_18-4-2006_pg4_2

May 6, 2006 – Open Broadcast Network TV - Bosnia: ISLAMIC TERRORIST TELLS BOSNIAN TV THAT UNITED STATES WAS TRYING TO RECRUIT MUJAHEDEEN TO FIGHT IN KOSOVO WAR 

Jan. 12, 2012 – BIRN: KOSOVO TURNS BLIND EYE TO ILLEGAL MOSQUES (Besiana Xharra)
Kosovo’s municipal authorities continue to ignore the growing number of illegally built mosques, which now total more than a hundred...

Rassegna JUGOINFO 28/6/2015: IL KOSOVO TRA RADICALIZZAZIONE E EMIGRAZIONE


NEWS:

ERDOGAN "LAUNDERS MILLIONS BY BUILDING MOSQUES IN KOSOVO" (Aug. 17, 2015)
Millions of euros are flowing from Turkey to Kosovo "through illegal routes, bypassing banks," according to the Pristina-based Albanian language daily Zeri...
http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics.php?yyyy=2015&mm=08&dd=17&nav_id=95116

ALBANIAN TERRORISTS AS OFFICIAL NATO PEACEKEEPING MISSION IN KOSOVO MEMBERS – PHOTO EVIDENCE (by Grey Carter, August 23, 2015)
... the Albanian nationalist guy, wrapped in greater Albanian flag, Lami, who is at the same time – a Swiss peacekeeper!... 

RESURRECTING THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: ERDOGAN LAUNDERS MILLIONS BY BUILDING MOSQUES IN KOSOVO (by Grey Carter, August 29, 2015)
... “TIKA keeps its finances secret in most cases, since there is no official data on how much money is being invested. There is suspiction that the money is being brought in illegally and not via bank accounts"...
https://theremustbejustice.wordpress.com/2015/08/29/resurrecting-the-ottoman-empire-erdogan-launders-millions-by-building-mosques-in-kosovo/

LA TURQUIE D’ERDOĞAN À L’ASSAUT DU KOSOVO (Zeri | Traduit par Belgzim Kamberi | jeudi 10 septembre 2015)
Mosquées, écoles coraniques, patrimoine ottoman : les financements turcs affluent au Kosovo, via de puissantes institutions d’État comme la TIKA, la Diyanet ou la fondation des Vakuf. Il est pourtant impossible de connaître le montant des sommes versées — qui arriveraient même parfois en liquide. Faute de transparence, tous les soupçons sont permis. Zëri a mené l’enquête...
http://www.courrierdesbalkans.fr/articles/la-turquie-d-erdogan-au-kosovo.html

KOSOVO – CORRIDOR FOR RADICAL ISLAM INFLUX INTO EUROPE, SAYS DIPLOMAT IN MOSCOW (November 3, 2015 – by Grey Carter)
Kosovo could become a corridor for radical Islam breaking into Europe since the European Union is not yet ready to solve the migrant problem, Serbian ambassador to Russia Slavenko Terzic said on Tuesday...
https://theremustbejustice.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/kosovo-corridor-for-radical-islam-influx-into-europe-says-diplomat-in-moscow/


Par Daniel Salvatore Schiffer:

Interview à la première chaîne de la radio suisse romande (RTS francophone), autour de son livre "Le Testament du Kosovo - Journal de guerre" (Editions du Rocher).
"Cet entretien de dix minutes, où je raconte la guerre du Kosovo, dont les crimes de guerre de l'OTAN et de l'UCK (le trafic d'organes humains prélevés sur des prisonniers serbes), a été diffusée lors du JT de 12h30' de ce lundi 12 octobre 2015."
http://www.rts.ch/la-1ere/programmes/l-invite-du-12h30/7140400-daniel-salvatore-schiffer-raconte-la-guerre-du-kosovo-12-10-2015.html

Un extrait (bonnes feuilles) du "Testament du Kosovo" est également publié sur le site de l'hebdomadaire français "L'Express":
http://www.lexpress.fr/culture/le-testament-du-kosovo-journal-de-guerre-editions-du-rocher-extrait_1730075.html

Article à la "une" du journal en ligne français "Mediapart", sur les récents attentats de Paris, l'Etat Islamique et la guerre en Bosnie (ex-Yougoslavie), dont bon nombre de Serbes ont été victimes. Il y a là aussi un long extrait du livre "Le Testament du Kosovo - Journal de guerre".
http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/daniel-salvatore-schiffer/231115/vingtieme-anniversaire-des-accords-de-dayton-letat-islamique-de-la-guerre-en-bosnie-a

Daniel S. Schiffer:
Le Testament du Kosovo. Journal de guerre
Paris: Editions du Rocher, 2015
512 pages, 21 euro – ISBN-13: 978-2268079165
https://www.cnj.it/documentazione/bibliografia.htm#schiffer2015


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http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2015/12/01/terrorismo-arrestati-4-kosovari-in-italia-armi-in-pugno-inneggiavano-allisis-sul-web/2266780/

Terrorismo, 4 arresti tra Brescia e Kosovo: “Legami accertati con jihad in Siria”. In chat: “Bergoglio sarà l’ultimo Papa”

La 'mente' del gruppo, un cittadino kosovaro che ha vissuto diverso tempo in Italia, è stato arrestato in Kosovo dalle autorità di Pristina, mentre gli altri tre sono stati fermati tra Veneto e Lombardia, dove risiedevano da anni. La polizia: "Collegamenti con terrorista daesh Muhaxheri"

di F. Q. | 1 dicembre 2015

Armi in pugno, webcam di fronte, inno alla jihad. Sono quattro icittadini kosovari coinvolti nell’operazione “Van Damme” della Polizia nei confronti di una presunta organizzazione che propagandava l’ideologia della guerra santa islamica. Non solo. Il gruppo, secondo gli investigatori, aveva “collegamenti diretti accertati con filiere jihadiste attive in Siria, riconducibili al noto terrorista kosovaro daesh Lavdrim Muhaxheri“. Il particolare è emerso dalla conferenza stampa della Procura di Brescia in merito all’operazione.

Due dei quattro quatto kosovari fermati nel corso del blitz antiterrorismo della Polizia saranno espulsi (uno con provvedimento adottato dal ministro dell’Interno per motivi di terrorismo internazionale, l’altro con decreto del Questore di Brescia), un terzo è stato sottoposto a sorveglianza speciale (con contestuale ritiro del passaporto o di altro documento valido per l’espatrio) e il quarto, bloccato in Kosovo, è stato arrestato.

La richiesta di sorveglianza speciale, utilizzata per la prima volta in questo ambito, è stata avanzata direttamente dal Procuratore nazionale antimafia e antiterrorismo, Franco Roberti. Quello che è considerato la ‘mente’ del gruppo, un cittadino kosovaro che ha vissuto diverso tempo in Italia, è stato arrestato in Kosovo dalle autorità di quel paese, mentre gli altri tre sono stati arrestati in Italia, dove risiedevano da anni. Contestualmente agli arresti, gli investigatori hanno fatto scattare una serie di perquisizioni a Brescia, Vicenza e Perugia a carico di persone, la cui posizione è ancora al vaglio. Gli investigatori stanno esaminando il materiale web.

Gli uomini finiti in manette avevano pubblicato sul web una serie di foto in cui erano ritratti con le armi in pugno. Dalle indagini è emerso che i quattro si erano fortemente radicalizzati, ponendosi su posizioni estremistiche e assumendo atteggiamenti tipici dei militanti dell’Isis. Nelle loro chat c’erano anche minacce nei confronti del Papa nelle chat degli indagati, che annunciavano “visite dai parte dei terroristi dello Stato Islamico”. Gli investigatori hanno trovato frasi come “questo sarà l’ultimo Papa”. Il blitz, in collaborazione con le autorità kosovare, è scattato contemporaneamente in alcune città italiane e in Kosovo. L’indagine che ha portato agli arresti di oggi è stata condotta dagli uomini della Direzione centrale della Polizia di prevenzione, l’Antiterrorismo italiano, e da quelli della Digos di Brescia.

Il kosovaro arrestato, Samet Imishti, aveva come base logistica la cittadina di Chiari, in provincia di Brescia. L’affiliato al daesh, arrestato questa mattina in Kosovo, la utilizzava per i suoi spostamenti dall’Italia. Nella stessa abitazione è stato rintracciato il fratello del capo della cellula, Ismail Imishti: per lui il ministero dell’Interno ha firmato un provvedimento di espulsione per motivi di terrorismo. Un altro cittadino di origine kosovara, associato al gruppo di presunti terroristi, è stato invece rintracciato in provincia di Savona ed espulso dal territorio nazionale con un provvedimento a firma del questore di Brescia.

Il quarto fermato è invece un cittadino macedone residente in provincia di Vicenza a cui il procuratore nazionale Antimafia ha avanzato la proposta per l’applicazione della misura di sorveglianza speciale per motivi di terrorismo con il contestuale ritiro del passaporto.


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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/kosovo/11818659/Inside-Kacanik-Kosovos-jihadist-capital.html

Inside Kacanik, Kosovo's jihadist capital

Tiny town boasts only 30,000 people, yet two dozen local men have gone to fight jihad in Iraq and Syria

By Colin Freeman, Chief Foreign Correspondent
23 Aug 2015

Nestling in a wooded valley that its citizens laid their lives down to defend, the town of Kacanik in southern Kosovo is fiercely proud of its war dead. 
Well-kept cemeteries include nearly 100 victims of Serb-led ethnic cleansing in 1999, while in the town centre, a statue clutching an RPG honours fallen members of Brigade 162 of the Kosovan Liberation Army. 
But a decade and a half on from the war that brought about Kosovo's independence, there is rather less pride in Kacanik's new crop of warriors. 
In the last three years, some 24 local menfolk have gone to fight for jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq, giving the town of just 30,000 people an unwanted reputation as the jihadist capital of the Balkans.
To add to the sense of shame, one of them, a 25-year-old recruiter named Lavdrim Muhaxheri, has committed atrocities as gruesome as any of those carried out in Kacanik in 1999, when British troops unearthed a mass grave containing 81 bodies.
Last summer, in an act that sent shockwaves across Kosovo, Muhaxheri posted Facebook pictures of himself apparently beheading another man suspected of spying against the Islamic State. Another shows him executing a Syrian man using an RPG. 
"Muhaxheri has given Kacanic a name as the most radical city in Kosovo, if not the whole Balkans," said Musli Verbani, a local imam, who claims that hardliners forced him from Kacanik's Islamic Association four years ago. "I warned that this kind of thing was coming, but no-one listened." 
Kosovo, of course, is not alone among European nations in acquiring its own equivalent to Britain's Jihadi John. But for a nation of just 1.8 million people, it now punches well above its weight in terms of the number of citizens joining Isil. 
The interior ministry estimates that some 300 Kosovans have followed in Muhaxheri's’ footsteps, making Kosovo Europe's biggest contributor per capita. Along with neighbouring Albania, which has fielded around 200, and nearby Bosnia, which around 160, it is now seen as a potential launch pad for Isil in its bid to establish a new front against Europe in the Balkans.
What also alarms Western security officials, though, is why any Kosovans would join Isil's fanatics at all. 
After all, back in 1999, it was the West that rescued Kosovo's mainly Muslim population, with Nato bombing raids that halted the campaign of ethnic cleansing by Serb extremists. 
Since then it has been staunchly pro-Western, with the capital, Pristina, boasting both a statue of Bill Clinton and a road named after George W Bush, who was president when Kosovo formally gained independence in 2008. There are even young Kosovans named "Tony" in honour of Tony Blair.
Most Kosovans also follow moderate Islam that allows bars on the same street as mosques, and which is enshrined in a new constitution promoting the diversity suppressed during Communism. 
Yet those same liberal values have also allowed less tolerant voices to flourish, including hardline Islamic charities that arrived during the chaotic post-civil war years. 
Such is the foothold of radicalism in towns like Kacanik that last week, its modest town hall received a personal visit from Kosovo's interior minister, Skender Hyseni.
"Kosovo is a multi-cultural state, not a terrorist one," he told assembled officials, speaking at a conference table decked out with the American and Kosovan flags. "Those going overseas are joining groups that spread violence and terror.” 
In its defence, the Kosovan government argues that other European nations actually have higher rates of radicalisation if it is counted per head of Muslim population. 
But since Muhaxheri’s shocking Facebook post last summer, Mr Hyseni has backed words with action, arresting around 100 suspected extremists, including the grand mufti of the main central mosque in Pristina. 
Prosecutions are already pending of various recruiting networks, including one that passed messages via go-betweens at a kebab shop near the Bill Clinton statue. 
It is, however, already too late, according to Mr Verbani, the Kacanik imam. 
A former KLA fighter, he personifies the moderate face of Kosovan Islam. He studied in Cairo and speaks fluent Arabic, yet looked just like another drinker in the cafe bar where he met The Telegraph, wearing neither a beard nor robes. 
It was precisely that secular outlook that he found himself having to defend as far back as 2006, when a confrontation with a young local radical named Jeton Raka turned violent. 
"At first Jeton was just another good Kacanik kid, but he became more extremist by the day,” said Mr Verbani. “He said the government of Kosovo was against faith, and that school taught children to be unbelievers. I told him he couldn't speak like that at my mosque, and eventually he came to my house, saying 'I will burn you and your family', and petrol bombed my car. Even then, though, the municipality and the police didn't help me."
Raka is now believed to be in Syria along with Muhaxheri, while the government crackdown has largely driven the rest of Kacanik’s radical fringe out of town. Even so, locals remain reluctant to talk about the town's most infamous son, although in such a small community, most know someone now fighting abroad. 
Among them is Sadek Dema whose nextdoor neighbour, Hetem Dema, 41, was killed in January after apparently going to fight with Isil's rival al-Qaeda faction Jabat al-Nusra. 
"He fought in the KLA and was always a good and religious man, although he never showed signs of being radical," said Mr Dema, as Hetem’s five year-old son, Harith, cycled past on his bicycle. 
"Nobody is my father now," Harith shouted out, before Mr Dema could usher him out of earshot. "Now my uncles look after me." 
Quite why Kacanik in particular has become such a hotbed of radicalism is unclear. Some cite its closeness to the border with Macedonia, where they say hardline preachers remain unchecked. Others blame the same lack of prospects that blight everywhere in Kosovo, where the annual GDP is only £2,500 and where youth unemployment is up to 60 per cent. 
That same poverty, they also point out, has made Kosovo fertile ground for Islamic charities from the likes of Saudi Arabia, which offer education and welfare programs but also peddle a hardline vision. 
Arbana Xharra, a Kosovan journalist who has investigated their activities, says that anyone who speaks ill of them can find themselves denounced and threatened as "Islamophobic". 
"I've had to change my kids' school after I got messages online from people saying they would cut my children’s throats - they even knew what time they went to class," she said. 
Like many moderate Kosovans, she also points the finger at Turkey, whose Islamist government has funded networks of mosques across its Ottoman-era provinces of Kosovo, Bosnia and Albania. And while the Turkish government has denied recent claims that has offered tacit support for Isil in Syria, Kosovans are not the only ones to voice concerns. 
One senior diplomat from a moderate Arab regime recently told The Telegraph that radicalism would foster in the Balkans as long as Turkey's influence remained unchecked. "The EU's best chance s to get countries Kosovo and Albania into its club," he warned.
That is a view echoed by Ramadan Ilazi, Kosovo's 30-year-old deputy minister for EU integration, who says the EU is being too slow in accepting Kosovo's membership bid. Kosovo’s constitution, he says, is everything that a liberal EU bureaucrat could want, complete with a national anthem that has only music rather than words so "as not to offend anyone". 
Yet to this day, Kosovans cannot even travel to Europe without visa, giving small town youth in places like Kacanik little chance to broaden their horizons. 
"Kosovo was built as an antidote to nationalism and the causes of the war," said Mr Ilazi, who has a picture on his office wall of him shaking President Clinton’s hand as a 14-year-old boy. "But when people don't see tangible results of their desire to become part of Europe, that allows radicals to suggest that Europe doesn't want us."
Still, with Kosovo still also suffering problems with corruption and organised crime, and with Brussels suffering enlargement fatigue, most estimates are that it may be another decade before Pristina enters the Brussels club. That, gives the radicals plenty more time to urge men in towns like Kacanik to head East rather than West.



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Towards A New War Of Crimea (Verso una nuova Guerra di Crimea)


0) Flashbacks 1853-1856 e 2014-2015
1-2) Die Belagerung der Krim (German-foreign-policy.com 26–27.11.2015.)
Konflikt zwischen Russland und Ukraine eskaliert / Berlin und die Krimtataren


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Flashback 1853-1856:

La Guerra di Crimea. Una crociata russa [sic] che può ricominciare (Matteo Sacchi - 01/08/2015)
Fu lo scontro più violento dell'800, ma trascurato dalla storiografia... Nella sola Sebastopoli gli ossari contengono alla rinfusa i resti di 127.583 uomini [sic] che caddero per difendere la città... Nessuna guerra del XIX° fu così spietata e pervasiva quanto quella di Crimea (1853-56). Nemmeno la guerra di Secessione americana. Ci furono 750mila morti uccisi in battaglia... La guerra lasciò nei russi la sensazione del tradimento nei loro confronti da parte delle potenze europee. Un tradimento religioso per giunta: cristiani che proditoriamente si schierano con i musulmani turchi [ma guarda un po'!] senza capire la «santità» della guerra contro una potenza islamica... Di nuovo i russi sentono gli europei come traditori e gli europei vedono i russi come pericolosi aggressori... Il Mar Nero è stato la polveriera dell'Ottocento e sarebbe [sarebbe stato] meglio non trasformarlo nella polveriera anche del XXI° secolo...


Flashbacks 2014-2015:

Il futuro capo della diplomazia UE: alla Russia non dovrebbe essere consentito di creare un corridoio di terra in Crimea (7/10/2014)
La UE dovrebbe compiere ogni sforzo per impedire la creazione di un corridoio di terra tra la Crimea ed il resto della Russia. Lo ha detto il futuro Alto Rappresentante della UE per gli affari esteri e la politica della sicurezza e vicecapo della Commissione europea 2014-2019 Ministro degli Affari Esteri d'Italia Federica Mogherini...
http://comunicati.russia.it/il-futuro-capo-della-diplomazia-ue-alla-russia-non-dovrebbe-essere-consentito-di-creare-un-corridoio-di-terra-in-crimea.html

Il sito web del governo tedesco ha “cancellato” i russi dalla Crimea (13/12/2014)
Dopo la critica del ministro degli Esteri russo Serghei Lavrov la popolazione russa di Crimea è stata “riammessa” sulla pagina web del governo tedesco…
http://www.rainews.it/dl/rainews/articoli/russi-di-crimea-cancellati-dal-sito-del-governo-tedesco-91fcf138-67bb-40bd-a8fd-ac0980e75261.html

Ukraine Gets New 'Crimea': First All-Muslim Volunteer Battalion in Pipeline (11.07.2015)
Ukraine is set to form a Crimean Tatar battalion and name it “Crimea”; it will be the first volunteer Muslim unit in its Armed Forces, and directly subordinate to the Chief of Staff...
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150711/1024497780.html

Per impressionare la Nato, Kiev manda i nazisti a bloccare la Crimea (di Fabrizio Poggi, 22 Settembre 2015)
... da domenica scorsa alcuni “volontari” di Pravyj sektor e dei tatari di Crimea stanno inscenando il blocco alimentare della penisola, disseminando di chiodi, copertoni e blocchi di cemento la strada che congiunge la regione ucraina di Kherson alla Crimea...
http://contropiano.org/internazionale/item/32969-per-impressionare-la-nato-kiev-manda-i-nazisti-a-bloccare-la-crimea

Daesh-Mitglieder aus Syrien in die Ukraine befördert (Voltaire Netzwerk, 3.11.2015)
... In den letzten drei Monaten wurde von der Ukraine ein Stützpunkt in Cherson gegenüber der Krim aufgebaut. Die Türkei hat dorthin den Transport von mehreren Hundert Daesh-Kämpfern von Syrien in die Ukraine organisiert....
http://www.voltairenet.org/article189172.html
Members of Daesh have been moved from Syria to Ukraine (Voltaire Network, 2.11.2015)
... Over the last three months, a base has been set up by Ukraine in Kherson, facing Crimea. Turkey has organised the transfer of several hundred Daesh combatants from Syria to Ukraine...


Crimea e Kosovo (JUGOINFO 3.11.2015)
1) En direct de Crimée (Slavisa Pavlovic, Oct 2015)
2) Ukraine could learn from Kosovo’s troubles (Scott Taylor, June 28, 2015)
3) Kosovo and Ukraine: Compare and contrast / Kosovo e Ucraina: analogie e differenze (Neil Clark, August 20, 2014)


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Der Originaltext:
Die Belagerung der Krim (I) (Konflikt zwischen Russland und Ukraine eskaliert – GFP 26.11.2015)
KIEW/MOSKAU/BERLIN (Eigener Bericht) - Begleitet von Unmutsbekundungen aus Berlin eskaliert nach dem Stopp der ukrainischen Stromversorgung für die Krim der Konflikt zwischen Kiew und Moskau erneut. Ende vergangener Woche hatten mutmaßlich Krimtataren gemeinsam mit Mitgliedern des faschistischen Rechten Sektors mehrere Strommasten gesprengt und damit die Stromversorgung der Krim, die zu rund 80 Prozent von der Ukraine gewährleistet wurde, gekappt. Die von Berlin protegierte ukrainische Regierung sieht sich nicht imstande, die Stomleitungen zu reparieren, und verhängt ergänzend eine Handelsblockade gegen die Halbinsel. Sie folgt damit dem Vorbild der Embargopolitik, die EU und USA im Sommer 2014 mit ersten Wirtschaftssanktionen gegen die Krim in Gang setzten und die Kiew mit einem Wasserembargo und Verkehrsblockaden seit mehr als einem Jahr immer weiter zugespitzt hat. Beobachter warnen, damit werde die Ukraine die letzten Sympathien verspielen, die sie auf der Halbinsel noch besitze; Vergleichbares sei seit dem georgisch-russischen Krieg von 2008 in den georgischen Sezessionsgebieten Abchasien und Süd-Ossetien zu beobachten gewesen. Die Bundesregierung hat zu Wochenbeginn in Kiew darauf gedrungen, die Stromversorgung der Krim instand zu setzen, um eine erneute, aus deutscher Sicht als nachteilig eingestufte Eskalation des russisch-ukrainischen Konflikts zu verhindern. Ohne Erfolg: Am gestrigen Mittwoch ist die Eskalation eingetreten...
http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/de/fulltext/59260

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The Siege of Crimea (I)
 
2015/11/26

KIEV/MOSCOW/BERLIN
 
(Own report) - Berlin is watching with apprehension as the conflict between Kiev and Moscow escalates again following Ukraine's shutting down electrical power to Crimea. Last week, Crimean Tatars and members of the fascist Right Sector are suspected to have blown up several electric pylons, cutting off the supply of power to Crimea. Crimea receives nearly 80 percent of its electricity from Ukraine. The Berlin-sponsored Ukrainian government sees itself as incapable of repairing the power lines. It has imposed - in accordance with the embargo policies of the EU and the USA - its own trade embargo on the peninsula. In the summer 2014, the EU and the USA began imposing economic sanctions on Crimea, which was aggravated by Kiev's embargo of water and blockade of traffic for over a year. Ukraine will squander its remaining sympathy on the peninsula, warn observers. A similar development had been observed in the Georgian secessionist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia since the 2008 Georgian-Russian war. Early this week, the German government applied pressure on Kiev to restore electricity to Crimea, to avoid another escalation of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, which Germany considers detrimental. To no avail - the escalation began yesterday.

One of the Toughest Embargos in the World

Even before the current energy blockade, sanctions imposed by the EU, the USA and Ukraine were already seriously affecting Crimea, particularly the economic sanctions, more than those targeting individuals. The import into the EU of goods produced in Crimea has been prohibited since last summer; since December 2014 - investment on the peninsula. For EU-based companies even the purchase of real estate is forbidden. Export of energy products - including oil and natural gas - as well as goods from the transportation and telecommunication sectors are not allowed. Even service for Crimean tourism is no longer permitted to be offered within the EU. The United States has imposed similar sanctions. Last summer, Thomas De Waal, an expert at the USA's Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, assessed that this is "one of the toughest embargos in the world." De Waal has characterized this as the "Siege of Crimea."[1]

Turn off the Water

Since last year, the pro-western Ukraine's embargo has been causing additional severe problems in Crimea; one example being an embargo on water for the peninsula. As a report in "Ukraine-Analysen," published by the University of Bremen has confirmed, before secession, the peninsula had received "up to 85 percent of its water supply from the Ukrainian mainland." In May 2014, Kiev turned off the water supply - with dramatic consequences. Agriculture, in particular, was severely affected, reported "Ukraine-Analysen." For example, cultivation of corn and soya had to be "drastically reduced," and rice had to be abandoned entirely. "Providing drinking water to the major industrial cities" such as Kerch and Feodosia "was a major problem," the report continues. According to official data, "consumption of water has fallen by 20 percent over the past two years."[2]

Cut Off From the Mainland

The numerous blockades of transportation and traffic also have an exceedingly damaging effect. The Ukrainian railroad has ceased service to the peninsula, with no railway access yet to Russia. "Ferry service across the Straits of Kerch" is, for the time being, "the only larger transportation link to the Russian mainland," notes the "Ukraine-Analysen." However, the ferry connection is overburdened and interrupted in bad weather. Moscow seeks to solve the problem with the construction of a railway/automobile bridge across the Straits of Kerch. Construction has begun and is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2018 [3] - three long years. Because of the difficult accessibility, the import of food from Russia is insufficient to satisfy the needs of the Crimean population.[4] "Ukraine-Analysen" reports that due to the insufficiency of overland connections, "the air traffic to Crimea has significantly increased." "It has tripled since 2013." Only Russian airliners land in Crimea - under high penalty fines - because Crimea's integration into Russia has not been recognized internationally, Crimean airspace is still attributed to Ukraine.[5]

Backfire

Experts, like Carnegie Endowment's Thomas De Waal have been warning for quite a while that the tough sanctions regime may, in the long run, backfire against the West and its allies in Kiev. For the time being, Kiev still has access to "resources of loyalty" in the Crimea, De Waal quoted the journalist Andrej Sambros, who reports from Crimea for liberal Russian journals, last July. For example, out of the two million people in Crimea, only 20,000 have renounced their Ukrainian citizenship, suggesting that most people want to keep their options open. However, because of the ongoing sanctions, locals now pin their hopes on Moscow, De Waal reports. The sanctions strategy are reminiscent of the methods applied by Georgia towards their separatist territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. After the August 2008 Georgian-Russian War, Mikheil Saakashvili, then the Georgian president, instituted tough laws on “occupied territories.” In South Ossetia in 2008, the Saakashvili government cut the gas supply to the Georgian-majority town of Akhalgori, in the hopes of provoking anti-Russian upheavals. The contrary was the case. Following several freezing winters, the population complained of "Georgian cruelty." Abkhazia also suffered years of economic misery but now has few connections with Georgia and has undergone a slow integration into the Russian economy. De Waal reported that one Crimean Tatar bitterly complained that "we are losing Crimea because of this policy"[6] referring to the embargo imposed by Kiev and the West.

No Electricity

The most recent escalation is spiraling the process even further. Crimean Tatars have been blocking overland access to Crimea with the help of fascist Right Sector militants, already since the end of September, to prevent deliveries from Ukraine from reaching the peninsula. Kiev has turned a blind eye. Late last week, it is suspected that Crimean Tatars blew up several electric pylons, cutting off the 80 percent of Crimea's Ukrainian electrical supply, as had been done earlier with Crimea's water supply. Ukraine's Minister of Energy declared that the electrical lines would be restored, but this requires access to the destroyed pylons.[7] Crimean Tatars and fascists of the Right Sector are blocking access to the scenes of the attacks. The Berlin-sponsored government in Kiev has no intention of forcing the repairs. Instead, it has ordered a halt also to commerce in merchandise with Crimea. Russia has declared a state of emergency and is rushing to lay a submarine cable through the Straits of Kerch, which however will not be completed before the end of the year. The majority of the population will have to brave the Crimean winter without lights and warmth until then.[8]

Criminal Acts

The German government, which had helped instigate the sanctions strategy through the imposition of EU sanctions, is now watching these developments with apprehension. Martin Schäfer, the spokesperson for the German Foreign Ministry, characterized the sabotage of the electrical pylons as a "criminal act." "We are expecting these incidents to be handled as such" and "that the supply of electricity in and to Crimea will be restored," he said at the Federal Press Conference. Berlin would like to get the Ukraine conflict finally under control. The objective is to prevent an EU-endangering resurgence of the civil war, render German business relations with Russia possible again - and, along the way, become Europe's number one regulatory force. (german-foreign-policy.com reported.[9]) However, Kiev - in the process of becoming more radicalized - refuses to heed Berlin's admonitions, balks at re-establishing the supply of electricity. Rather than react to Russia's call to pay its gas bills or have its gas supply cut off, Ukraine has declared it was closing its air space to Russian flights. Escalation spirals further.
The Crimean Tatars, implicated in blowing up the electric pylons, are playing an important role in the escalation strategy against Crimea. german-foreign-policy.com will continue with a report on the Crimean Tatars.

For more information on this topic see: Moving West and Steinmeier and the Oligarchs.
[1] Thomas De Waal: The New Siege of Crimea. nationalinterest.org 09.07.2015.
[2], [3] Julia Kusznir: Russische Wirtschaftsförderung für die Krim - eine Zwischenbilanz. In: Ukraine-Analysen Nr. 158, 28.10.2015, 2-5.
[4] Katerina Bosko: "Es geht ums Geschäft": Die Krim-Blockade und die Realität der Wirtschaftsbeziehungen mit der Krim nach eineinhalb Jahren Annexion. In: Ukraine-Analysen Nr. 158, 28.10.2015, 5-9.
[5] Julia Kusznir: Russische Wirtschaftsförderung für die Krim - eine Zwischenbilanz. In: Ukraine-Analysen Nr. 158, 28.10.2015, 2-5.
[6] Thomas De Waal: The New Siege of Crimea. nationalinterest.org 09.07.2015.
[7] Friedrich Schmidt: Halbinsel im Dunkeln, aber unter Strom. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 25.11.2015.
[8] Axel Eichholz: Krim bleibt dunkel. www.neues-deutschland.de 24.11.2015.
[9] See Kontrollmission in Kiew and Like in the Cold War.


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Der Originaltext:
Die Belagerung der Krim (II) (Berlin und die Krimtataren – GFP 27.11.2015)
KIEW/MOSKAU/BERLIN (Eigener Bericht) - Die Anführer der Krimtataren, die seit Tagen die Stromversorgung der Krim blockieren, haben gute Kontakte in das deutsche Polit-Establishment. Mustafa Dschemiljew und Refat Tschubarow, die in die Blockadeaktionen involviert sind, haben bereits vor Jahren mit Beamten des Auswärtigen Amts und dem Aussiedlerbeauftragten der Bundesregierung über die engere Anbindung der Krim an den Westen diskutiert. Erst vor zweieinhalb Wochen haben sie mit der EU-Außenbeauftragten Federica Mogherini über die "De-Okkupation der Krim" und über dazu notwendige "friedliche Aktionen, besonders hinsichtlich der Energieversorgung", gesprochen. Die Krimtataren, die zur Zeit aktiv mit faschistischen Organisationen und ultrarechten Bataillonen kooperieren, sind über die Liste von Staatspräsident Petro Poroschenko in das ukrainische Parlament gewählt worden. Laut Einschätzung einer Expertin sind sie für Poroschenko ein "Instrument seiner Außenpolitik". Dschemiljew unterhält zudem gute Kontakte ins US-Establishment. Unter den Krimtataren konkurrieren er und Tschubarow, denen in Berlin eine Art Alleinvertretungsanspruch zugestanden wird, einerseits mit tatarischen Salafisten, von denen einige in Syrien kämpfen, andererseits mit an Russland orientierten tatarischen Organisationen...
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The Siege of Crimea (II)
 
2015/11/27

KIEV/MOSCOW/BERLIN
 
(Own report) - Leaders of the Crimean Tartars, who have been blocking the supply of electricity to Crimea for the past few days, have good contacts to the German political establishment. Years ago, Mustafa Jemilev and Refat Chubarov, who were involved in the sabotage action, had held talks on closer ties between Crimea and the West with officials of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs and with the German government's Representative for ethnic German immigration to Germany. Just two and a half weeks ago, they discussed with the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security, Federica Mogherini, the "de-occupation of Crimea" and the necessary "peaceful actions, in particular with respect to power supply." The Crimean Tartars, who are currently cooperating with fascist organizations and ultra-rightwing battalions, have been elected to the Ukrainian parliament on the electoral list of President Petro Poroshenko's party. According to an expert, Poroshenko is "instrumentalizing" them for "his foreign policy" objectives. Jemilev also has good contacts to the US political establishment. Among the Crimean Tartars, he and Chubarov, who in Berlin enjoy exclusive recognition, are competing with Tartar Salafists - some of whom are currently fighting on the battlefields of Syria - and with Russia-oriented Tartar organizations.

Blockade with Fascists

Crimean Tartars are primarily responsible for the current blockade imposed on Crimea. (german-foreign-policy.com reported.[1]) Already on September 20, they had begun autonomously to inspect traffic destined for the Crimea from the Ukrainian region of Kherson, to prohibit commodity transports onto the peninsula. They accepted the help of Ukrainians - euphemistically referred to as "activists" in the German media - who often are members of fascist organizations, such as the Right Sector or ultra-rightwing militias, such as the Aidar or the Donbass Battalions. October 13, fascist organizations honored the most prominent Crimean Tartar leader, Mustafa Jemilev with the "People's Hero of Ukraine" Award for his reliable cooperation. Already by the beginning of October, their joint blockade of Crimea had expanded to the first attempts to not only cut off Crimea from commodities, but from electrical power, as well.[2] At the end of last week, several electric pylons were blown up, shutting down the supply of electricity to the peninsula. Crimean Tartars then blocked access to the scenes of the crimes to prevent the damage from being repaired.

Instrument of Foreign Policy

As "Ukraine-Analysen," a publication of the University of Bremen, points out, actions such as the blockade of the Crimea, could not have been carried out without the "quiet acquiescence" of the administration in Kiev. In fact, already a year ago, President Petro Poroshenko - whose dockyard had been nationalized, when the Crimea was integrated into Russia - had "entered cooperation with the Crimean Tartar leaders." In the October 26, 2014, Ukrainian parliamentary elections, Jemilev and Chubarov, the two last chairs of the Mejlis, the executive council of the Crimean Tartars, were elected to parliament on President Poroshenko's party list. September 26 - with the blockade already in full swing - Poroshenko designated Jemilev to head the National Council for Anti-Corruption Policies, a presidential advisory commission. The Crimea blockade "clearly" demonstrates, writes the editor of the "Ukraine-Analysen," that "in the Ukraine, paramilitary organizations are unofficially engaged in penal functions, permitting President Poroshenko to instrumentalize the co-opted Crimean Tartar leaders for his foreign policy objectives."[3]

No Monolithic Entity

However, Jemilev and Chubarov are in no way representing the standpoint of the entire Crimean Tartar minority. Whereas the Mejlis is seen to be pro-western, and even favoring, to a certain extent, circles linked to the Orange Revolution, the Crimean Tartar Milli Firka ("People's Party"), founded in 2006, has been standing in clear opposition to the Mejlis from the very beginning. Whereas the Mejlis 2013 - 2014 supported the Maidan protests and the putsch, Milli Firka had always been clearly opposed - and in March 2014, had appealed for participation in the referendum on Crimea's status and to vote in favor of integration into Russia. The Mejlis called for a boycott of the referendum and declared Russian integration, illegitimate. Reliable information on the proportion of followers Mejlis and Milli Firka have among the peninsula's 250,000 Crimean Tartars is unavailable. It is clear, however, that a monolithic anti-Russian unity, usually suggested by German media of the Crimean Tartar minority, is non-existent. Whereas Moscow has recognized Crimean Tartar as the third official national language - Kiev has consistently refused - official Russian administrations are repressing anti-Russian circles affiliated with the Mejlis. Jemilev and Chubarov, for example, had been banned for several years from Crimea, which is why they live in Ukraine.

Against Russia

Jemilev's close cooperation with the West's foreign policy establishments, where he has made strong pleas against Crimea being integrated into Russia, may have been what caused Russian repression. A good example is Jemilev's trip to Washington in early April 2014, immediately following Crimea's integration into Russia. The Crimean Tartar leader also had an appearance at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he responded to the question of a threat of radicalization on the Crimean peninsula saying that he may "not be able to control younger Tartars and Islamist factions."[4] One of the "Islamist factions" being referred to is the Tartar organization Hizb ut Tahrir, which has sent militia to fight in Syria. When the US press asked if he can imagine "a road back to Ukraine for Crimea," Jemilev ambiguously responded, "everyone talks about the U.S. Sixth Fleet. Where is it?"[5] Among his interventions, also spoke at an informal session of the UN Security Council - boycotted by Russia - and April 4, 2014, held talks with Wendy Sherman, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs in the US State Department. He recommended that relations to Crimean Tartars be intensified - for example with scholarships, but also with direct support. The exact nature of Jemilev's plea for "direct support" is unknown.

Partner for EU Rapprochement

Berlin, in particular, maintains close relations to leaders of pro-western Crimean Tartars. The Crimean Tartar's Mejlis, with Refat Chubarov as chair, is a member of the ethnicist organization Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN),[6] sponsored by the federal government, as well as various regional governments in Germany. Another ethnicist organization, the Society for threatened Peoples (SFTP), awarded its "Victor Gollancz Prize" to Mustafa Jemilev in 2005. Erika Steinbach (CDU) - at the time the chair of the German League of Expellees (BdV) - held the laudatory address. The SFTP was one of the organizers of the first "German - Crimean Tartar Dialogue," held in the summer of 2011 in Berlin. Mustafa Jemilev, chair, at the time, and his successor Refat Chubarov were among the Mejlis representatives, who traveled to Berlin for the occasion. Viktor Yanukovych had won the Ukrainian election eighteen months earlier. Berlin was searching for a means for keeping Kiev on its pro-western course. According to one report, the German - Crimean Tartar Dialogue had a double objective: on the one hand, to draw attention to the Crimean Tartars and their living conditions, and, on the other, to "search for partners ..., who, at an international forum ... would discuss the Crimean Tartar issue as an element ... of the rapprochement to the EU structures."[7]

High Level Contacts

In Berlin, numerous officials, including some in senior positions, participated in this debate. The Mejlis delegation held talks not only with parliamentarians of the Bundestag and the chairman of the Green Party, Cem Özdemir, it also met with "activists of half a dozen NGOs," it was reported.[8] The delegation was even received by representatives of the Turkish embassy. Ankara claims to be the "protective power" of Crimean Tartars. The Mejlis delegation also met with Christoph Bergner, at the time, Commissary for Ethnic German Immigrants and National Minorities, who was also responsible for cooperation with the FUEN. The delegation concluded with consultations with representatives of the Foreign Ministry.[9]

The De-Occupation of Crimea

Berlin's seasoned foreign policy contacts, Jemilev and Chubarov, are supportive of the past few days' blockade by the sabotage of electric pylons in Ukraine's Kherson region, and are making sure that electrical power will not be restored. Most recently, they both met with Federica Mogherini, High Representative for the EU's Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. They "discussed sincerely and frankly" with Mogherini about the issues of Crimea's "de-occupation," they subsequently reported. They spoke of the extension of sanctions against Russia, and "peaceful actions, in particular with respect to power supply."[10] At the time of these talks, the Crimean Tartars' autonomous trade blockade was already in full swing, blowing up the power pylons was soon to follow.

[1] See The Siege of Crimea (I).
[2], [3] Katerina Bosko: "Es geht ums Geschäft": Die Krim-Blockade und die Realität der Wirtschaftsbeziehungen mit der Krim nach eineinhalb Jahren Annexion. In: Ukraine-Analysen Nr. 158, 28.10.2015, 5-9.
[4] After Annexation: Assessing Crimea's Future With Mustafa Dzhemilev. carnegieendowment.org 02.04.2014.
[5] Matthew Kaminski: A Crimean Tatar Comes to America. The Wall Street Journal 02.04.2014.
[6] See Hintergrundbericht: Die Föderalistische Union Europäischer Volksgruppen.
[7], [8], [9] Mieste Hotopp-Riecke: Der lange Schatten Stalins über den Stiefkindern Eurasiens. www.eurasischesmagazin.de 02.08.2011.
[10] Crimean Tatar leaders met with Federica Mogherini. qha.com.ua 09.11.2015.




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I PRINCIPALI COMPLICI DI DAESH IN FRANCIA





FABIUS, LE DRIAN DÉMISSION ! Assez c’est assez !



D’après la presse belge, en 2014 c’est près de 9,2 millions d’euros qui ont été saisies par le CTIF (l’équivalent belge de Tracfin) dans 34 dossiers liés au financement du terrorisme. De grosses sommes venaient du Qatar et d’autres pétromonarchie avec qui le gouvernement Hollande à la suite du gouvernement Sarkozy n’a eu de cesse de renforcer les alliances. Ce n’est là qu’un secret de polichinelle, pour les spécialistes de la question. Dans le même temps, l’ancien chef du renseignement français Bernard Squarcini déclare dans la presse que Hollande et le gouvernement Valls ont refusé la liste des citoyens français combattant en Syrie dans les rangs islamistes transmises par les services syriens. Faisant passer la déstabilisation impérialiste de la Syrie avant la sécurité des Français. Il est vrai que les impôts des travailleurs français ont servi à armer la « rebellion » en Syrie dont le haut état major américain à reconnu que c’était une des source d’armement de DAECH. Et ce sont bien les mêmes qui plongent la France dans l’Etat d’urgence. Restreignant les libertés des Français pour mieux masquer leur dramatique et écrasante responsabilité.

Assez c’est assez !

par la Commission internationale du PRCF

Le service public audiovisuel devrait être pluraliste. Il ne l’est pas. Que les dirigeants de Radio-France citent un, un seul chroniqueur qui chaque jour s’exprime sur France-Inter ou France-Culture, et qui soit marxiste.

Ce courant philosophique, politique, important en France, est délibérément exclu, censuré, chassé des ondes de la radio publique à l’existence de laquelle pourtant les marxistes contribuent par leurs impôts comme les autres citoyens.

Sans parler de la criminalisation même des communistes, les marxistes en actes, de leur histoire et cela de façon quasi quotidienne sur les ondes. Nous parlons ici des militants franchement communistes, pas des dirigeants du PCF qui votent l’état de siège, insultant ainsi toute l’histoire du mouvement ouvrier.


Mais il est vrai que M. Guetta, le « spécialiste » de la politique extérieure sur France Inter a battu tout de même un record de ridicule et de malhonnêteté intellectuelle ce matin dans sa chronique.

Bernard Guetta ose dire sans que cela suscite un immense éclat de rire de son collègue Patrick Cohen, animateur solférinien de la matinale, « Ce n’est pas Hollande qui a changé de position sur la Syrie, c’est Poutine », ce qui ne peut que faire rire tous les experts en géopolitique… 

Oui, imaginez-vous que Vladimir Poutine, terrorisé pas l’intelligence de Fabius et de sa « fraise des bois » Hollande, a capitulé. Hollande, véritable chef du Monde Libre, a fait reculer le nouveau Tsar….


Mais B. Guetta n’est que la voix de ses maîtres. De ses maîtres Fabius et Le Drian.

En effet ces deux personnages tiennent le même propos, relayés par quelques courageux « experts » tel Bruno Tertrais, auquel personne ne croit, sans doute pas eux-mêmes.

Fabius et Le Drian ont mené la politique étrangère et de défense la plus alignée sur les États-Unis, pire encore, sur les néoconservateurs US, la plus réactionnaire, la plus atlantique, la plus belliciste que la France ait connue sous la Ve République. Et  conséquence de ce qui précède, la plus contraire à l’intérêt national.
Posant comme préalable à toute chose le renversement du président Assad – au non de quoi? -, soutenant militairement, diplomatiquement, médiatiquement les islamistes terroristes en lutte contre le régime laïque d’Assad, vendant des armes aux régimes intégristes du Proche-Orient comme l’ Arabie Saoudite, le Qatar, les Émirats Arabes Unis, ceux qui financent, arment et inspirent idéologiquement la mouvance djihadiste, déstabilisant par la subversion le gouvernement légal d’Ukraine et soutenant les putschistes oligarques et les fascistes Ukrainiens, intervenant au Mali, en Centre-Afrique, en Côte d’Ivoire – en quel honneur? – , faisant de notre armée une légion de l’OTAN, une armée faites pour les ingérences extérieures impérialistes et non la défense nationale, une armée où l’anglais est officiellement devenue la langue de travail vu son assujettissement à l’OTAN (c’est-à-dire aux États-Unis), refusant de vendre des navires Mistral à la Russie mais vendant des Rafales aux coupeurs de têtes intégristes d’Arabie Saoudite ou du Qatar, dont la fréquentation obséquieuse est une honte pour la France.

Mais il ne faut pas oublier qu’en juin 2006 François Hollande, alors premier secrétaire du PS, est allé à l’Ambassade des États-Unis, de même que Sarkozy a pris l’avion pour Washington, afin de faire savoir à Bush que les socialistes désapprouvaient Chirac qui avait refusé de suivre les E-U dans leur guerre en Irak, dénonçant « l’obstruction gratuite de Chirac au Conseil de Sécurité ». Sarkozy, autre semeur de guerre et de chaos en Libye, a eu la même démarche et porte la responsabilité d’avoir réintégré la France dans le commandement militaire intégré de l’OTAN, acte profondément impérialiste et antinational.

Avec un tel bilan et les résultats que nous connaissons, quel ministre pourrait garder sa charge après un tel fiasco qui a semé le chaos au Proche-Orient et qui a rabattu le terrorisme aveugle sur notre territoire alors qu’à l’époque de De Villepin notre pays était épargné? Plus va-t’en-guerre qu’Obama, Fabius et Le Drian voulaient bombarder Damas. Aujourd’hui ils font un virage à 180 degré acceptant ce qu’ils refusaient hier et rampent devant la Russie pour frapper l’Organisation État Islamique (OEI).
Mais en continuant à fermer les yeux lorsque l’Arabie Saoudite et Al Quaïda en péninsule arabique massacrent les Yéménites chiites. 

Mais en continuant à fermer les yeux lorsque Erdogan massacre les Kurdes du PKK, que la France et l’UE continuent de considérer comme « terroriste » alors qu’ils luttent contre l’OEI qui est l’ennemi principal de la France: cherchez la logique.

Mais en continuant à prétendre avec l’UE que le Hezbollah libanais est « terroriste » quand ce dernier lutte côte à côte avec l’armée syrienne d’Assad contre l’OEI.

Mais en ayant tenté jusqu’au bout de saboter la normalisation des rapports avec l’Iran, s’alignant sur les positions fascisantes de Netanyahou.

En conséquence et en conscience il est urgent pour tous les républicains conséquents et les patriotes épris de paix d’exiger la démission des ces deux ministres qui font honte à la France et nuisent aux Françaises et aux Français.




Il giorno 05 set 2015, alle ore 10:51, 'Coord. Naz. per la Jugoslavia' ha scritto su JUGOINFO:

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TRA I RESPONSABILI DELL'ESODO VERSO L'EUROPA

L'ex Ministro degli Esteri francese Laurent Fabius è stato denunciato da un gruppo di 14 cittadini siriani per le sue responsabilità nell'attizzare la guerra civile in Siria e, di conseguenza, per avere causato l'esodo di massa dei loro connazionali. In prima istanza il Tribunale ha riconosciuto le ragioni di merito ma ha ritenuto non siano perseguibili penalmente; lunedì 7 settembre p.v. si tiene l'udienza di appello, dove i denuncianti sosterranno che il sostegno al terrorismo prestato da Fabius va punito per il grave danno procurato non solo ai siriani ma agli stessi francesi...


From: EditionsDémocrite 
Sent: Thursday, September 3, 2015 7:07 PM
 
 

 

 

Communiqué de Presse                         Diffusion immédiate

 

Procès en appel des civils syriens contre Fabius

Attiser la guerre civile, la politique de la France ?

 

De même que les récentes déclarations de François Hollande, les propos tenus par Laurent Fabius depuis sa prise de fonction au ministère des affaires étrangères ont eu pour effet, sur le terrain en Syrie, de relancer l’agression dont les civils de toutes religions et confessions sont les premières victimes.

 

Quatorze civils syriens demandent à l’ État français la réparation du dommage dont elles souffrent à cause des fautes graves commises par l’agent Fabius à l’occasion de l’exercice de ses fonctions.

 

Le Tribunal Administratif de Paris, le 19 décembre 2014, tout en reconnaissant que les déclarations et les prises de position du ministre ont « attisé la guerre civile en Syrie et encouragé la lutte armée contre le pouvoir en place », a pu néanmoins rejeter les requêtes au motif que ces déclarations et prises de position « se rattachent à la conduite de la politique extérieure de la France ».

 

La question qui se pose en appel est de savoir si l’on peut rejeter sur l’ État la responsabilité d’agissements qui consistent à soutenir le terrorisme, si l’on peut imputer à la France pareille politique, alors que la population française en est aussi bien la victime.

 

 

Audience publique

Lundi 7 Septembre 2015 à 10h00

Cour administrative d’appel de Paris

68 rue François Miron - Paris IVème

 

Ferney, 26 août 2015

BARDECHE – CHAMY – JUNOD - – STENNLER – VIGUIER –YON

 

RAPPEL des déclarations du ministre

29 mai 2012, la France interviendra contre le régime syrien.

17 août 2012, Bachar El Assad ne méritait pas d’être sur terre.

14 décembre 2012, le front Al-Nosra fait du bon boulot.

13 mars 2013, France et Grande Bretagne vont livrer des armes aux rebelles.

22 août 2013, appel à réaction de force, sous prétexte du coup monté de l’attaque chimique.






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Ahmad Barqawi: Libya, ISIS and the Unaffordable Luxury of Hindsight / Libia, ISIS e il lusso del senno del poi


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MARCH 9, 2015

Libya, ISIS and the Unaffordable Luxury of Hindsight

by AHMAD BARQAWI


Who are you?” the late Muammar Gaddafi once rhetorically asked in a famous speech of his towards the end of his reign; (rightly) questioning the legitimacy of those seeking to over-throw his government at the time, calling them extremists, foreign agents, rats and drug-addicts. He was laughed at, unfairly caricatured, ridiculed and incessantly demonized; a distasteful parody video poking fun at the late Libyan leader even went viral on social media; evidently the maker of the video, an Israeli, thought the Libyan colloquial Arabic word “Zenga” (which means an Alleyway) sounded funny enough that he extracted it from one of Gaddafi’s speeches, looped it on top of a hip-hop backing track and voila… he got himself a hit video which was widely (and shamefully) circulated with a “revolutionary” zeal in the Arab world. We shared, we laughed, he died.

But the bloody joke is on all of us; Gaddafi knew what he was talking about; right from the get-go, he accused the so-called Libyan rebels of being influenced by Al-Qaeda ideology and Ben Laden’s school of thought; no one had taken his word for it of course, not even a little bit. I mean why should we have? After all, wasn’t he a vile, sex-centric dictator hell-bent on massacring half of the Libyan population while subjecting the other half to manic raping sprees with the aid of his trusted army of Viagra-gobbling, sub-Saharan mercenaries? At least that’s what we got from the visual cancer that is Al Jazeera channel and its even more acrid Saudi counterpart Al-Arabiya in their heavily skewed coverage of NATO’s vicious conquest of Libya. Plus Gaddafi did dress funny; why would anyone trust a haggard, weird-looking despot dressed in colorful rags when you have well-groomed Zionists like Bernard Henry Levy, John McCain and Hillary Clinton at your side, smiling and flashing the victory sign in group photo-ops, right?

Gaddafi called them drug-addicted, Islamic fundamentalists; we know them as ISIS… it doesn’t seem much of a joke now, does it? And ISIS is what had been in store for us all along; the “revolutionary” lynching and sodomization of Muammar Gaddafi amid manic chants of “Allahu Akbar”, lauded by many at the time as some sort of a warped triumph of the good of popular will (read: NATO-sponsored mob rule) over the evil of dictatorship (sovereign state), was nothing but a gory precursor for the future of the country and the region; mass lynching of entire populations in Libya, Syria and Iraq and the breakup of key Arab states into feuding mini-statelets. The gruesome video of Colonel Gaddafi’s murder, which puts to shame the majority of ISIS videos in terms of unhinged brutality and gore, did not invoke the merest of condemnations back then, on the contrary; everyone seemed perfectly fine with the grotesque end of the Libyan “tyrant”… except that it was only the beginning of a new and unprecedented reign of terror courtesy of NATO’s foot-soldiers and GCC-backed Islamic insurgents.

The rapid proliferation of trigger-happy terrorist groups and Jihadi factions drenched in petrodollars in Libya was not some sort of an intelligence failure on the part of western governments or a mere by-product of the power vacuum left by a slain Gaddafi; it was a deliberate, calculated policy sought after and implemented by NATO and its allies in the Gulf under the cringe-inducing moniker “Friends of Libya” (currently known as the International Coalition against ISIS) to turn the north-African country into the world’s largest ungovernable dumpster of weapons, al-Qaida militants and illegal oil trading.

So it is safe to say that UNSC resolution 1973, which practically gave free rein for NATO to bomb Libya into smithereens, has finally borne fruit… and it’s rotten to its nucleus, you can call the latest gruesome murder of 21 Egyptian fishermen and workers by the Libyan branch of the Islamic State exhibit “A”, not to mention of course the myriad of daily killings, bombings and mini-civil wars that are now dotting the entire country which, ever since the West engineered its coup-d’etat against the Gaddafi government, have become synonymous with the bleak landscape of lawlessness and death that is “Libya” today. And the gift of NATO liberation is sure to keep on giving for years of instability and chaos to come.

In an interview with the western media misinformation collective that is the BBC, ABC and the Sunday Times in February 2011; the late Muammar Gaddafi told his condescending interviewers; “have you seen the Al Qaeda operatives? Have you heard all these Jihadi broadcasts? It is Al Qaeda that is controlling the cities of Al Baida and Darnah, former Guantanamo inmates and extremists unleashed by America to terrorize the Libyan people…”. Darnah is now the main stronghold for ISIS in Libya.

In a bizarre coincidence (or some sort of cosmic irony); the date on which ISIS chose to release its video of the beheading of Egyptian captives, thereby officially declaring its presence in the war-torn country with three oil fields under its control, (appropriately) marked the 4th anniversary of the start of the so-called Libyan revolution on February 15th, 2011; a more apt “tribute” to commemorate the Western instigated regime-change debacle in Libya could not have been made.

But even long before ISIS became the buzzword, the acrid nature of a “revolutionary” Libya showed in full, sickening splendor almost instantly right after the old regime fell, everything the late Gaddafi was falsely accused of doing was literally perfected to a chilling degree by the so-called rebels; massacres, indiscriminate shelling of residential areas, car-bombings, mass arrests, torture, theft of oil and national resources… the whole lot. In 2013; two British pro-Palestine activists, on their way to Gaza with an aid convoy, got to experience first-hand the rotten fruits of the Libyan chapter of the so-called Arab Spring when they were abducted by a motely crew of Libyan revolutionaries-turned-warlords in the city of Benghazi and gang raped in front of their father.

Proponents of Humanitarian Interventions must be patting themselves on the back these days; now that Libya has completed its democratic makeover from a country with the highest standard of living in Africa under Gaddafi’s rule into a textbook definition of a failed state; a godless wasteland of religious fanaticism, internal bloodletting and wholesale head-chopping, in fact Libya became so “democratic” that there are now two parliaments and two (warring) governments; each with its own (criminal) army and supported with money and caches of weapons from competing foreign powers, not to mention the myriad of secessionist movements and militias which the illegal coup against Gaddafi has spawned all over the country while free health care, education and electricity, which the Libyans took for granted under Gaddafi’s regime, are all now but relics of the past; that’s the “Odyssey Dawn” the Libyans were promised; a sanitized version of Iraq sans the public outrage, neatly re-packaged in a “responsibility to protect” caveat and delivered via aerial bombing campaigns where even the West’s overzealous Gulf Co-conspirators Club (GCC), driven by nothing beyond petty personal vendettas against Gaddafi, got to test the lethality of its rusted, American-made military aircrafts alongside NATO on the people of Tripoli and Sirte.

This is what Gaddafi had predicted right from the get-go and then some; the ephemeral euphoria of the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions was just too potent and too exhilarating for us to read the fine print; was it a conspiracy or a true revolutionary spirit gone awry? It doesn’t really matter now that ISIS has become the true legacy of Tahrir Square; “they will turn Libya into another Afghanistan, another Somalia, another Iraq… your women won’t be allowed out, they will transform Libya into an Islamic Emirate and America will bomb the country under the pretext of fighting terrorism”, the late Libyan leader had said in a televised speech on February 22nd, 2011, and more prophetic words were never spoken.

America’s “clean war” Libyan prototype proved to be such a success that it was replicated with a wanton abandon in Syria; Paul Bremer’s “Blackwater” death squads of old, which reigned terror all over Iraq, are back… with an Islamic twist; bearded, clad in black and explosives from head to toe and mounting convoys of Toyota Land Cruiser trucks with an ever-expanding, seemingly borderless Islamic Caliphate (that somehow leaves the Zionist regime unencumbered in its occupation of Palestine) set in their sights.

Everyday the Arab World is awakened to a new-videotaped atrocity; steeped in gore and maniacal terror courtesy of ISIS (or IS or ISIL), and countless of other “youtubeless”, albeit more heinous crimes courtesy of America’s very own ever-grinding, one-sided drone warfare; the entire region seesaws between machete beheadings and hellfire missile incinerations. Death from above… as well as below; the War on Terror rears its ugly head once again; to bring in line those nasty terrorists that the West itself funded and sponsored in the name of democracy to destabilize “unsavory” regimes; an unrelenting Groundhog Day that starts with the Responsibility to Protect and ends with the War on Terror, with thousands of innocent lives, typically chalked up to collateral damage, crushed in the process.

This is exactly what Gaddafi foresaw; a Libya mired in utter chaos, civil conflict and western diktats; a breeding ground for Jihadi fundamentalism and extremists… too bad we just laughed his warnings off to an Israeli-made parody tune.

Ahmad Barqawi, freelance columnist and writer.



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Le profezie di Muammar Gheddafi su Libia, sulla instabilità totale, i diktat dell’occidente, sui fondamentalisti islamici, sull’ISIS

Ahmad Barqawi

La previsione di Gheddafi: Libia, ISIS e il lusso del senno del poi


“Chi sei?” chiese una volta Gheddafi retoricamente in un famoso discorso verso la fine del suo governo; biasimando la legittimità di rovesciare il suo governo, puntando il dito verso estremisti, agenti stranieri, topi di fogna di ogni genere e tossicodipendenti.

Fu preso in giro, ridicolizzato, fatto oggetto di caricature offensive ed incessantemente demonizzato con un martellante video trasmesso su tutti i media; chiaramente, l’autore del video, un israeliano, ritiene che il termine arabo colloquiale “Zenga” (che significa passaggio, viuzza) suonasse abbastanza divertente che lo estrapolò da uno dei discorsi di Gheddafi, lo trasformò in una base hip hop e voilà… ecco un video tormentone che è circolato in maniera vergognosa nel mondo arabo. Noi lo abbiamo condiviso, noi abbiamo riso. Gheddafi invece è morto.

Ma il sanguinoso scherzo è ricaduto su noi tutti: Gheddafi sapeva di cosa stava parlando; lui accusava i cosiddetti ribelli libici di essere influenzati dall’ideologia di Al Qaida e dalla scuola di pensiero di Bin Laden; nessuno ha voluto tener in considerazione le parole.

Perché avremmo dovuto farlo? In fondo era solo un “vile, erotomane, ostinato dittatore che ha massacrato metà della popolazione libica”, mentre l’altra metà è stata sottomessa dalla sua violenza orgiastica con l’aiuto del suo fidato esercito di mercenari ingozzati di Viagra. Questo ci è stato detto da quel cancro dell’informazione che è il canale Al Jazeera, assieme al suo concorrente Al Arabiya quando hanno raccontato in maniera totalmente distorta la feroce invasione della NATO ai danni della Libia.

Per giunta vestiva in maniera buffa; perché credere a un macilento, dall’aspetto bizzarro dittatore vestito con stracci colorati, quando si possono avere dei sionisti eleganti e ben pettinati come Bernard Henry Levy, John McCain e Hilary Clinton dalla tua parte, sorridenti, che esibiscono la vittoria in foto di gruppo?

Gheddafi li definì tossicodipendenti, Fondamentalisti islamici; noi li conosciamo come ISIS…adesso non è più uno scherzo vero? L’Isis era il nostro asso nella manica; il “rivoluzionario” linciaggio e la “rivoluzionaria” sodomizzazione di Muammar Gheddafi tra canti maniacali di “Allah au Akbar”, lodati da molti come il trionfo della volontà popolare (leggasi masse pilotate da agenti della NATO) contro la malvagia dittatura (stato sovrano), altro no era che il preludio di ciò che sarebbe avvenuto nella regione; persecuzioni di massa in Libia, Siria, Iraq e la frantumazione degli stati arabi in tanti micro staterelli.

Il raccapricciante video dell’assassinio del Colonnello Gheddafi, che mostra, come nella maggior parte dei video dell’ISIS, la brutalità e la violenza delle loro azioni, non ha suscitato la benché minima condanna, al contrario, tutti sembravano contenti per fine fatta fare al tiranno… questo era solo l’inizio del regno di terrore avvallato dai soldati della NATO e dai “ribelli” islamici.

La proliferazione di terroristi dal grilletto facile e della fazioni della Jihad inzuppati nei petrodollari in Libia, non sono frutto di un’ operazione di intelligence mal riuscita dalle potenze imperialiste, o un sotto prodotto del vuoto di potere del dopo Gheddafi; è una deliberata, studiata, calcolata strategia voluta dalla NATO e dai suoi alleati del Golfo che appartengono alla sigla tremenda “Amici della Libia” (ora conosciuta come coalizione internazionale contro l’ISIS) per trasformare lo stato nord Africano nel più grande e ingovernabile pattumiera di armi, militanti di Al Qaida e commercio illegale di petrolio.

Così possiamo affermare con certezza che la risoluzione 1973 del Consiglio di Sicurezza delle Nazioni Unite che dava il via libera alla NATO di distruggere in 1000 pezzi la Libia ha dato finalmente i suoi frutti… marci fino al seme, come dimostra l’assassinio di 21 fra operai e pescatori egiziani compiuto dal ramo libico dello Stato Islamico; per non parlare della miriade di assassini compiuti ogni giorno, bombardamenti e micro guerre civili che interessano tutto il paese, che da quando l’occidente ha architettato il colpo di stato contro il governo di Gheddafi, è diventato sinonimo di mortale landa desolata senza legge quale è la Libia oggigiorno. Il regalo della NATO rimarrà in dote per anni con instabilità e caos.

In un’intervista con il principale canale di disinformazione occidentale quale è la BBC, ABC e il Sunday Times nel Febbraio 2011, Gheddafi chiese ai suoi altezzosi intervistatori: “Avete mai visto gli agenti di Al Qaida? Avete mai ascoltato le loro trasmissioni? E’ Al Qaida che ha preso il controllo delle città di Al Baida e di Darnah, ex detenuti di Guantanamo ed estremisti liberati dagli americani per terrorizzare il popolo libico…” Darnah oggi è una delle principali roccaforti dell’ISIS.

In una bizzarra coincidenza (una specie di cosmica ironia); la data in cui l’ISIS scelse di mostrare il video della decapitazione degli ostaggi egiziani, che diede l’ufficialità della loro presenza nel paese lacerato dalla guerra con tre giacimenti di petrolio sotto il loro controllo, fu fatto (non a caso) nel quarto anniversario dell’inizio della cosiddetta rivoluzione libica del 15 febbraio 2011; non poteva esserci miglior tributo al golpe sponsorizzato dall’occidente.

Molto prima che ISIS divenisse un termine di moda, la vera natura della “rivoluzione” libica fu mostrata subito dopo la caduta del vecchio regime, tutto ciò di cui fu falsamente accusato Gheddafi, fu fatto in maniera ancor più perfezionata dai cosiddetti ribelli; massacri, bombardamenti indiscriminati di zone residenziali, autobombe, arresti di massa, torture, furto di olio e di risorse nazionali… Nel 2013 due attiviste filo palestinesi britanniche, nel loro viaggio verso Gaza con un convoglio di aiuti, videro in prima persona i frutti marci del capitolo libico della cosiddetta Primavera Araba quando furono rapiti dagli scagnozzi dei signori della guerra libici nella città di Bengasi e stuprate a turno di fronte al loro padre.

I fautori degli interventi umanitari devono tirarsi una pacca sulla schiena in questi giorni; ora che la Libia ha completato il suo look democratico da un paese con il più alto standard di vita in Africa sotto il governo di Gheddafi in una definizione da manuale di uno stato fallito; un deserto senza Dio fatto di fanatismo religioso, salasso interno e il commercio all'ingrosso di ceppi per la decapitazione, infatti, la Libia divenne così "democratica" che ci sono ora due parlamenti e due governi (in guerra fra loro); ognuno col suo esercito di criminali supportato con i soldi di potenze straniere, per non parlare poi della miriade di movimenti secessionisti e milizie che l’illegale colpo di stato contro Gheddafi ha sparso per tutto il Paese, mentre la sanità gratuita, istruzione ed elettricità garantite che i Libici davano per scontati col regime di Gheddafi, sono ora relitti del passato; questa è l’Alba dell’Odissea che fu promessa ai Libici; una versione sterilizzata di quanto già avvenne in IRAQ, senza l’indignazione dell’opinione pubblica, ben ri-confezionato con la scusa di “proteggere” l’opposizione, consegnata via aerea con bombe, appoggiata persino dagli zelanti alleati del Club degli alleati del Golfo, che mossi da nient’altro che piccoli rimorsi personali contro Gheddafi, hanno avuto la possibilità di testare la letalità delle loro armi arrugginite fabbricate in America a fianco della NATO e delle popolazioni di Sirte e Tripoli.

Tutto questo era stato previsto da Gheddafi; l’euforia effimera per le rivoluzioni Egiziane e Tunisine erano troppo potenti o troppo esilaranti per leggerne il vero significato; fu cospirazione o una rivoluzione autentica poi strumentalizzata e deviata? Ora è davvero un problema visto che l’ISIS è divenuto l’eredità di piazza Tahir; “trasformeranno la Libia in un Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq…le vostre donne non potranno più uscire di casa, trasformeranno la Libia in un emirato islamico e l’America bombarderà il paese con la scusa di combattere il terrorismo”, questo fu detto da Gheddafi il 22 Febbraio 2011, e non ci fu discorso più profetico di questo.

Il prototipo libico della “guerra pulita” americana è stato riproposto in Siria; le squadre della morte di Paul Bremer che sparsero il terrore in Iraq sono tornate con un gemello islamico; barbuti, vestiti di nero, armati di esplosivo dalla testa ai piedi e trasportati dai convogli di camioncini Toyota lungo uno sconfinato, sempre in espansione califfato islamico (che non ha nemmeno sfiorato il regime sionista occupante della Palestina) è sotto loro vigilanza.

Ogni giorno il mondo arabo si sveglia con un video shockante riguardante le atrocità, immerso nelle violente atrocità dei terroristi dell’ISIS e altri numerosi video, sebbene altri crimini altrettanto feroci vengano commessi dagli americani con i loro droni; tutta la regione assiste a decapitazioni e bombardamenti coi missili sparati dai droni. La morte sovrasta ogni cosa ora più che mai. La guerra al terrore tira su la testa ancora una volta per riportare nei ranghi gli stessi terroristi che l’occidente ha addestrato nel nome della democrazia per destabilizzare governi sgraditi; un inesorabile Giornata della Marmotta (festa statunitense che osservando il comportamento di una marmotta, cerca di profetizzare la fine o meno dell’inverno, NdT) che comincia con il “dovere di proteggere” e finisce con la “guerra al terrore”, con migliaia di morti innocenti, imputati ai danni/errori collaterali.

Questo profetizzò Gheddafi, una Libia impantanata in un caos totale, guerra civile e diktat occidentali, un vivaio di jihadisti ed estremisti... troppo brutto per riderci su con una canzonetta hip pop fatta da un israeliano che ne banalizzava il contenuto.

 

Da counterpunch   marzo 2015

Traduzione di Pacifico S. per civg.it