The BBC of course said nothing about the immense drug trade: "No reason was given for the indefinite suspension of troop flights from the Manas airbase - a decision taken by the US military in Kyrgyzstan. The Manas airbase is a key transport hub for US-led operations against the Taliban in Afghanistan."
US/NATO offensive in Kandahar: No competition in the drug trade!
Henk Ruyssenaars
April 10th 2010 - For war prone and profiteer George Soros and the CIA, who were in the frontline with an office of the Soros Foundation in the Kyrgyzstan capital Bishkek, the blowback crash is continuing. The managers of the criminal cartel in the U.S. have until further notice stopped the flights to Afghanistan from the Manas air base in Kyrgyzstan, showing that blowbacks are bad for business...
For the cartel's racket and their armed errand boys - aka as 'troops' - the Manas US air base in Kyrgyzstan is a crucial one. Meaning monthly the transport of thousands of other troops/gofers, and $billions in wealth from the cartel's drug trade in Afghanistan. The criminal cartel, via it's smuggle organisation the CIA, now controls 95% (ninety-five percent) of the world's heroine market.*
In the story I did before, concerning the Golden Triangle, the US, Banks & UK, it was the same as every year the illegal invasion of Afghanistan resulted in a record opium harvest. Just think about: who has the millions to do this, and how much profit offers a liter of oil compared to a kilo of heroine?
Concerning the criminal cartel financing all this, there was another one who told the truth: "It is not the ordinary people that are the problem," said Col. Miakhel Muhammad Mangal, commander of the force's Third Battalion, who found mines laid in the fields against his unit.
"It is the groups behind them, the mafia."
Quote from The New York Times*
And by the way: the cartel's mafia bosses are in a troubled spot, because this was just the time when the criminals wanted this other criminal, the brother of the present US 'front man' Karzai in Afghanistan, Wali Karzai, who is the 'big shot' and the biggest drugs dealer of Kandahar, out of the way. As John D. Rockefeller once said: "Competition is sin!"
That's why the huge NATO offensive in Kandahar.
It's not the dead on both sides which count for the cartel, but only the drugs. And the $billions in profits thereof. But now the humanoids running this global dealership of drugs are in trouble, with one of their main transport lines closed.
Anyhow: "US Central Command spokesman Maj John Redfield told the BBC that troop flights from the base just outside Bishkek would resume once conditions in Kyrgyzstan allow. Meanwhile, the US would transport all forces to Afghanistan via Kuwait, he said.
The US base is crucial to US operations in Afghanistan, says the BBC's Madeleine Morris in Washington - some 50,000 coalition troops passed through in March alone - but its lease is due to expire in July." - [end quote]*
Not a word about the illegality of all invasions for power and profit? War propaganda? No, that can't be right! We all know the BBC is strictly impartial! How do we know that? Because that's what they keep saying on the telly! But: the BBC the last decade has given just 2 per cent to broadcasting anti-war dissent! They have shown to be worse than FOX, CNN and the other main stream war propaganda media.
One has to keep in mind that the BBC - now short for: 'Broadcasting Brown's Crap' - is a sheer propaganda broadcaster. Controlled day and night by the military and secret services.* Spying on all the world, and serving its masters. Which are not the people but the war profiteers.*
DEFENDING THE DRUGS CARTEL: BBC BROADCASTS 'FAKE' NEWS REPORTS
Concerning the BBC: David Miller of Spinwatch revealed in 2005 already that fake journalists were operating in the UK. The government pays for their wages and they provide news as if they were normal journalists rather than paid propagandists.
Spinwatch investigation has revealed that journalists working for the Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC) have been commissioned to provide news reports to the BBC. The BBC has been using these reports as if they were genuine news.
In fact, the SSVC is entirely funded by the Ministry of Defence as a propaganda operation, which according to its own website makes a 'considerable contribution' to the 'morale' of the armed forces." - [end excerpt]
The rest is here at Url.: http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2005/03/274743.php
But anyhow, keeping the propaganda factor in mind, this is what the BBC publishes today:
"US suspends Kyrgyzstan-Afghanistan troop flights."
BBC 2010/04/10 - The US has suspended all troop flights to Afghanistan from Kyrgyzstan, where tensions remain after a violent uprising against the president. Funerals are to take place later of some 75 people killed in the uprising.
The first funerals were held as a day of mourning for those killed was observed on Friday, with thousands of mourners gathering to lay flowers in the main square of the capital Bishkek. More than 1,500 are also believed to have been injured in the violence.
Kyrgyzstan is now in the hands of an interim government led by former Foreign Minister Roza Otunbayeva. Ousted Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev said that although he still regarded himself as the legitimately elected president, with widespread support, he feared he would be killed if he returned to the capital, Bishkek.
Speaking from a secret location in the southern city of Jalalabad, he told the BBC that armed opposition supporters had targeted his office during Wednesday's uprising, and were still trying to track him down. - [ ]
Russia also has an airbase in Kyrgyzstan, and the presence of both has been the focus of debate in recent months. Mr Bakiyev told the BBC the opposition wanted to close the base down. "I think that would be wrong. It's really vital, not only for America but also for Kyrgyzstan and for the whole of Central Asia," he said.
But Ms Otunbayeva said on Friday: "We will not touch the airbase. The existing contracts will remain in place."
Foreign interference?
In his interview with the BBC from his powerbase in the country's south, Mr Bakiyev said the uprising was a well-organised, covert operation." He said there had been foreign involvement in the uprising, but refused to point the finger at a specific country. Mr Bakiyev he would stay in the country to prevent civil war that could erupt because of the deep divide between the north and the south of the country.
He also poured scorn on the interim government, saying it was unable to restore law and order, while he and his ministers were continuing to work in order to stabilise the country. Mr Bakiyev has offered to talk to the opposition but Ms Otunbayeva has said she has no plans to do so and that the president must resign.
She said Mr Bakiyev had the opportunity "to leave the country. We will guarantee his security, only his personal security, if he resigns," Ms Otunbayeva said.
'Incidents of violence'
On Friday, many of those mourning their loved ones blamed the deaths on Mr Bakiyev. "Bakiyev must be tried and executed for all these crimes," said Fatima Imanaliyeva, whose two friends were killed when security forces opened fire on protesters.
"We will never forgive him. This is our revolution," she said.
Ms Otunbayeva has accused Mr Bakiyev's supporters of continuing to orchestrate "incidents of violence" around the capital, saying that "several bombs" had been planted in Bishkek.
Russia appears to have given its backing to Ms Otunbayeva's leadership.
She has already held telephone talks with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, and the deputy head of her interim government, Almazbek Atambayev, had gone to Moscow "for talks on economic aid"." - [end excerpt]
The rest, including a time line, is here at the BBC Url.: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/asia-pacific/8612778.stm
As said: 'blowbacks' are bad for business...
HR
RELATED:
* HR articles concerning Afghanistan, the opium drug business, and the "Lotus Eater." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/ydspatd
* Golden Triangle US, Banks & UK: Record Opium Harvest Afghanistan - Url.: http://disc.yourwebapps.com/discussion.cgi?disc=234999;article=513;
* "BBC? Why war propagandists are kidnapped and killed." - HR, Indymedia, Jakarta, Indonesia. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/y3vzu7t
* Google search: Web results 1 - 10 of about 4,010 for HR +BBC +propaganda - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/y6h5o4u
* Kyrgyzstan: Newspapers and News Media Guide - ABYZ News Links - Url.: http://www.abyznewslinks.com/kyrgy.htm
* BLOWBACK: SOROS AND THE CIA CRASH IN KYRGYZSTAN - Url.: http://forpressfound.livejournal.com/#post-forpressfound-35077
* "Kyrgyzstan protests greet UN chief Ban Ki-moon." - BBC Url.: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8601792.stm
* "Future of US base in Kyrgyzstan in question." - BBC Url.: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8611141.stm
* Google search: HR & the criminal cartel - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/ya84asq
* HR: "David Frost 'front man' at al-Jazeera International?" - Dec. 27, 2005 - Url.: http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/12-28-05/discussion.cgi.31.html
* CIA and the criminal cartel's 'blowbacks' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/y9xyu3b
* TIME - "Kyrgyzstan: Did Moscow Subvert a U.S. Central Asian Ally? - Url.: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1978590,00.html
* Google search: HR & George Soros - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/yjrkku2
* Wikipedia about George Soros - Url.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros
* Quote: "New Initiative of the Soros Foundation - Kyrgyzstan - 'Forum of Reforms Project' focused on infilling vacuum in country development scenarios resulted from the take-over of a country after the events in March, 2005." - Url.: http://www.eurasianet.org/resource/kyrgyzstan/links/sfk_reform.shtml
* Al Jazeera - tekst + video - CIA crash in Kyrgyzstan - Url.: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/04/20104833448686852.html
* THE BRITISH DEFENSE DEPARTMENT CONTROLS ALL THE MEDIA IN THE UK BY THE INFAMOUS 'D-NOTICE' - How free are the press and broadcasting media in Britain? - Url.: http://www.serendipity.li/cda/dnot.html
* BBC BIAS? NO, THAT CAN'T BE RIGHT. - Url.: http://www.labour-watch.com/bbcbias.htm
* BBC BROADCASTS 'FAKE' NEWS REPORTS - Url.: http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2005/03/274743.php
* THE PENTAGON THREATENED AND KILLED JOURNALISTS - Url.: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2005/marzo/mier16/peatagon-apartado-i.html
* JOURNALISTS ARE KILLERS TOO! - Url.: http://www.countercurrents.org/henk040803.htm
* ROME TRIBUNAL ON WAR CRIMES AND MEDIA: Held Guilty of Deception - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/68jws
* THE US PNAC WARS & NATO’S SECRET ARMIES LINKED TO TERRORISM? - (NATO, the Pentagon, NSA, MI6, the CIA, Mossad, BND, and all other European and global 'intelligence services' are negatively linked to inhuman terror, coups d’état, 'rendition', the PNAC Gulags and torture - HR) - by Daniele Ganser - Url.: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/GAN412A.html
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Showing posts with label Soros. Show all posts
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Saturday, April 10, 2010
Thursday, April 8, 2010
WIKILEAKS IS A MOSSAD & CIA CYBER-WARFARE TRAP
Is There a War on Wikileaks?
April 8th 2010 - On March 29th, Steven Aftergood wrote that "WikiLeaks.org, which publishes confidential documents online, says that it is being harassed by U.S. military and intelligence agencies because of its disclosures of restricted information, including the forthcoming release of a classified U.S. military video of an air strike in Afghanistan that produced civilian casualties. But those claims are disputed and can hardly be taken at face value." - [end quote]*
And yes, personally I think - and this is based on more than 40 years as an independent correspondent - that Steven Aftergood is totally right. As far as I can see it Wikileaks is a Mossad/CIA trap. A way of getting at the IP's - the Internet addresses, names etc. of the 'leakers' to this site. And then it's easy to pick up those 'dissidents' everywhere.
To make up your own mind, read for instance this article about Wikileaks and its nefarious dealings.
"Suspicions that Wikileaks is part of U.S. cyber-warfare operations."
March 2010 - WMR [Wayne Madsen Report] has learned from Asian intelligence sources that there is a strong belief in some Asian countries, particularly China and Thailand, that the website Wikileaks, which purports to publish classified and sensitive documents while guaranteeing anonymity to the providers, is linked to U.S. cyber-warfare and computer espionage operations, as well as to Mossad's own cyber-warfare activities.
Wikileaks claims to have decrypted video footage of a U.S. Predator air strike on civilians in Afghanistan and that covert U.S. State Department agents followed Wikileaks's editor from Iceland to Norway in a surveillance operation conducted jointly by the United States and Iceland. Iceland's financially-strapped government recently announced a policy of becoming a haven for websites that fear political oppression and censorship in their home countries. However, in the case of Wikileaks, countries like China and Thailand are suspicious of the websites' actual "ownership."
Wikileaks says it intends to show its video at an April 5 press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC but that its presenters may be detained or arrested before that time. WMR's sources believe the Wikileaks "militancy" in the face of supposed surveillance appears fake.
Our Asian intelligence sources report the following: "Wikileaks is running a disinformation campaign, crying persecution by U.S. intelligence- when it is U.S. intelligence itself. Its [Wikileaks'] activities in Iceland are totally suspect." Wikileaks claims it is the victim of a new COINTELPRO [Counter Intelligence Program] operation directed by the Pentagon and various U.S. intelligence agencies. WMR's sources believe that it is Wikileaks that is part and parcel of a cyber-COINTELPRO campaign, such as that proposed by President Obama's "information czar," Dr. Cass Sunstein.
In January 2007, John Young, who runs cryptome.org, a site that publishes a wealth of sensitive and classified information, left Wikileaks, claiming the operation was a CIA front. Young also published some 150 email messages sent by Wikileaks activists on cryptome. They include a disparaging comment about this editor by Wikileaks co-founder Dr. Julian Assange of Australia. Assange lists as one of his professions "hacker." His German co-founder of Wikileaks uses a pseudonym, "Daniel Schmitt."
Wikileaks claims it is "a multi-jurisdictional organization to protect internal dissidents, whistleblowers, journalists and bloggers who face legal or other threats related to publishing" [whose] primary interest is in exposing oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we are of assistance to people of all nations who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their governments and corporations. We aim for maximum political impact. We have received over 1.2 million documents so far from dissident communities and anonymous sources."
In China, Wikileaks is suspected of having Mossad connections. It is pointed out that its first "leak" was from an Al Shabbab "insider" in Somalia. Al Shabbab is the Muslim insurgent group that the neocons have linked to "Al Qaeda."
Asian intelligence sources also point out that Assange's "PhD" is from Moffett University, an on-line diploma mill and that while he is said to hail from Nairobi, Kenya, he actually in from Australia where his exploits have included computer hacking and software piracy. - [end excerpt]
The rest of the article is very interesting too, and can be read here at Url.: http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/print.asp?ID=12441
Among other things it shows more fake stories: “That WikiLeaks is being targeted by the U.S. Government for surveillance and disruption is beyond doubt,” declared Glenn Greenwald in Salon.com. In support of this conclusion he cited the detention of a minor in Iceland last week who was supposedly questioned about an incriminating WikiLeaks video. But there is no independent corroboration of this incident. And WikiLeaks’ account of what transpired, though recounted by Salon as fact, is disputed by Iceland’s police:
“Chief of police in Reykjavik, Fridrik Smari Bjorgvinsson, said the only link he has been able to establish between the allegations and his force was the arrest of a 17 year-old in Kopavogur on Monday for breaking into a business premises. Bjorgvinsson emphasised that Icelandic police have not been working with the American secret services on the matter, as Wikileaks spokesmen allege.”
Perhaps the Reykjavik police chief is also part of a global campaign to destroy WikiLeaks. Or perhaps the whole story is one of mystification and error." - [end quote] - Url.: http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2010/03/war_on_wikileaks.html
And when I see Wikileaks on all propaganda-channels of the mainstream media, and I know a couple of languages, my experience too tells me that this Wikileaks is as wrong as can be. Since I've lived and worked for many years as a Scandinavian correspondent too, I often visited Iceland an learned to like it very much. So of course I keep an eye on it, and read stories like these:
"Wikileaks and Iceland media law are stalking horses for Soros."
Following up on WMR's March 25, 2010 report on Wikileaks's ties to U.S. intelligence, Mossad, and George Soros, WMR has received additional information that points to the Icelandic media law that would turn the economically-battered country into an information safe haven for websites like Wikileaks as being a contrivance of George Soros's Open Society Institute (OSI).
WMR has learned that OSI's Mark Thompson spoke at the May 2009 First Council of Europe Conference of Ministers responsible for Media and New Communications Services. Present at the conference was Katrin Jakobsdóttir, Iceland's Minister of Culture, Education, and Science and members of the Icelandic parliament, the Althing. It was after this conference that the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative was introduced with much fanfare from Wikileaks and its co-founder Julian Assange.
Thompson has a background that includes propagandizing for the western incursion into the Balkans, including directing the Media Analysis Unit for the UN mission in Yugoslavia, UNPROFOR; the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and Soros's OSI." - [end excerpt]
You can read the rest, and a lot more about Soros manipulations, here at Url.: http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/print.asp?ID=12441
Because George Soros really is a global bastard, and has his dirty claws into everything which is profitable one way or the other, to him or/and the criminal cartel he's taking part in.
"BLOWBACK: SOROS AND THE CIA CRASH IN KYRGYZSTAN" - LiveJournal blog - Url.: http://forpressfound.livejournal.com/#post-forpressfound-35077
And this US 'judge' was immediately whisled back by the 'judicial' arm of the criminal cartel so Wikileaks can go on with its cyber spy operations:
"Judge in Wikileaks Case Reverses Course, Wikileaks.org is Back Online."
Posted February 29th, 2008 by David Ardia - in California Legal Threat Prior Restraints. "We've just received word that the judge in the Wikileaks case, Jeffrey White, has vacated the Permanent Injunction that ordered Wikileaks' domain name registrar, Dynadot, to disable the entire Wikileaks.org domain name and remove all DNS hosting records.
The judge also refused to renew the Temporary Restraining Order that enjoined Wikileaks from publishing or distributing copies of purported bank documents and tentatively denied the plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction, indicating that he would issue an order addressing the motion in the near future.
For now, the only official record from the hearing is a one-page "Minute Order" issued by the clerk. CNET News has also just posted an update on the hearing. As we get more information, we'll update this post.
UPDATE: The judge issued an Order denying the plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction against Wikileaks, dissolving the permanent injunction against Dynadot, and setting a briefing and hearing schedule for the remaining motions before the court (primarily motions to intervene and dismiss the case)." - [end excerpt] - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/yhkzqmf
One only has to connect the dots...
Samuel Knight writes about it last March too: "Iceland - Free Press Haven?"
"More than volcanos are rumbling in Iceland these days," as In These Times reports, by Samuel Knight: "Icelandic members of parliament have plans to transform their crisis-ridden North-Atlantic nation into a sanctuary for publishers, production companies and information technology firms from around the world.
“It would free the press from fear,” says Thor Saari, one of the members of parliament spearheading the proposal, which is known as the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative (IMMI). Iceland’s Parliament, the Althingi, is expected to support the effort.
To craft their bill, members of parliament (MPs) drew on existing laws in the United States and European countries. “We tried to find the best [laws] in each country and merge it all into one proposal that the government will enact as legislation,” Saari says. A draft of the initiative proposes strengthening protection for whistleblowers, ensuring the anonymity of journalists’ sources, liberalizing the country’s freedom of information regulations, and creating Iceland’s first international award, which would honor freedom of expression.
The energy behind IMMI comes from the three MPs who belong to a protest party called the Movement and from members of the ruling Social Democrat/Left-Green coalition. They have received help from Julian Assange and Daniel Schmitt, the founders of the website Wikileaks. Assange and Schmitt became heroes in Iceland after publishing details of corporate loans issued by Kaupthing, a failed Icelandic bank. State television was forbidden by a court order to reveal the information due to banking secrecy laws. It appeared instead on Wikileaks.
An opportunity to propose the changes arose when Icelandic lawmakers recently decided to bring the country’s media laws up to speed with new technology. With a cool climate kind to computer servers and abundant, clean-burning geothermal energy, Iceland is already considered an ideal host for data centers from all over the globe. “‘The Switzerland of Bits’ is what they’re calling us,” Saari says." - [end quote] - More at Url.: http://beforeitsnews.com/news/26861/Iceland_--_Free_Press_Haven.html
And there's a lot of those 'false flag' and faked stories, trying to give Wikileaks an undeserved position: "Wikileaks Asks CIA to Stop Spying on It" - by Mathew Ingram, March 26, 2010:
"Wikileaks, the crusading non-profit web site that publishes documents companies and governments don’t want released, is alleging that the U.S. State Department and possibly the CIA have been spying on the group and its volunteers, following them on airplanes and even monitoring their production meetings in an Icelandic fish-and-chip restaurant.
In a blog post on the Wikileaks site, the group’s co-founder, Julian Assange, asserts that the spying “includes attempted covert following, photographing, filming and the overt detention & questioning of a WikiLeaks’ volunteer in Iceland.” - [end quote] - The rest of this piece advocating cyber spying by Wikileaks is here at Url.: http://gigaom.com/2010/03/26/wikileaks-asks-cia-to-stop-spying-on-it/
But I think stories like in 'Mother Jones' magazine about the shadowy side of Wikileaks are correct:
"Inside WikiLeaks’ Leak Factory. - WikiLeaks has revealed the secrets of the Pentagon, Scientology, and Sarah Palin—and the explosive video of a US attack on civilians and journalists in Iraq. Meet the shadowy figure behind the whistleblower site." The rest of the Mother Jones text about this fishy business, by David Kushner on Tuesday Apr. 6, 2010, is here at Url.: http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/04/wikileaks-julian-assange-iraq-video
As said, I visited Iceland and here's my take. Google search: HR + Iceland - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/yj5mbwx
So, from my point of view:
Beware of Wikileaks!
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April 8th 2010 - On March 29th, Steven Aftergood wrote that "WikiLeaks.org, which publishes confidential documents online, says that it is being harassed by U.S. military and intelligence agencies because of its disclosures of restricted information, including the forthcoming release of a classified U.S. military video of an air strike in Afghanistan that produced civilian casualties. But those claims are disputed and can hardly be taken at face value." - [end quote]*
And yes, personally I think - and this is based on more than 40 years as an independent correspondent - that Steven Aftergood is totally right. As far as I can see it Wikileaks is a Mossad/CIA trap. A way of getting at the IP's - the Internet addresses, names etc. of the 'leakers' to this site. And then it's easy to pick up those 'dissidents' everywhere.
To make up your own mind, read for instance this article about Wikileaks and its nefarious dealings.
"Suspicions that Wikileaks is part of U.S. cyber-warfare operations."
March 2010 - WMR [Wayne Madsen Report] has learned from Asian intelligence sources that there is a strong belief in some Asian countries, particularly China and Thailand, that the website Wikileaks, which purports to publish classified and sensitive documents while guaranteeing anonymity to the providers, is linked to U.S. cyber-warfare and computer espionage operations, as well as to Mossad's own cyber-warfare activities.
Wikileaks claims to have decrypted video footage of a U.S. Predator air strike on civilians in Afghanistan and that covert U.S. State Department agents followed Wikileaks's editor from Iceland to Norway in a surveillance operation conducted jointly by the United States and Iceland. Iceland's financially-strapped government recently announced a policy of becoming a haven for websites that fear political oppression and censorship in their home countries. However, in the case of Wikileaks, countries like China and Thailand are suspicious of the websites' actual "ownership."
Wikileaks says it intends to show its video at an April 5 press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC but that its presenters may be detained or arrested before that time. WMR's sources believe the Wikileaks "militancy" in the face of supposed surveillance appears fake.
Our Asian intelligence sources report the following: "Wikileaks is running a disinformation campaign, crying persecution by U.S. intelligence- when it is U.S. intelligence itself. Its [Wikileaks'] activities in Iceland are totally suspect." Wikileaks claims it is the victim of a new COINTELPRO [Counter Intelligence Program] operation directed by the Pentagon and various U.S. intelligence agencies. WMR's sources believe that it is Wikileaks that is part and parcel of a cyber-COINTELPRO campaign, such as that proposed by President Obama's "information czar," Dr. Cass Sunstein.
In January 2007, John Young, who runs cryptome.org, a site that publishes a wealth of sensitive and classified information, left Wikileaks, claiming the operation was a CIA front. Young also published some 150 email messages sent by Wikileaks activists on cryptome. They include a disparaging comment about this editor by Wikileaks co-founder Dr. Julian Assange of Australia. Assange lists as one of his professions "hacker." His German co-founder of Wikileaks uses a pseudonym, "Daniel Schmitt."
Wikileaks claims it is "a multi-jurisdictional organization to protect internal dissidents, whistleblowers, journalists and bloggers who face legal or other threats related to publishing" [whose] primary interest is in exposing oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we are of assistance to people of all nations who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their governments and corporations. We aim for maximum political impact. We have received over 1.2 million documents so far from dissident communities and anonymous sources."
In China, Wikileaks is suspected of having Mossad connections. It is pointed out that its first "leak" was from an Al Shabbab "insider" in Somalia. Al Shabbab is the Muslim insurgent group that the neocons have linked to "Al Qaeda."
Asian intelligence sources also point out that Assange's "PhD" is from Moffett University, an on-line diploma mill and that while he is said to hail from Nairobi, Kenya, he actually in from Australia where his exploits have included computer hacking and software piracy. - [end excerpt]
The rest of the article is very interesting too, and can be read here at Url.: http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/print.asp?ID=12441
Among other things it shows more fake stories: “That WikiLeaks is being targeted by the U.S. Government for surveillance and disruption is beyond doubt,” declared Glenn Greenwald in Salon.com. In support of this conclusion he cited the detention of a minor in Iceland last week who was supposedly questioned about an incriminating WikiLeaks video. But there is no independent corroboration of this incident. And WikiLeaks’ account of what transpired, though recounted by Salon as fact, is disputed by Iceland’s police:
“Chief of police in Reykjavik, Fridrik Smari Bjorgvinsson, said the only link he has been able to establish between the allegations and his force was the arrest of a 17 year-old in Kopavogur on Monday for breaking into a business premises. Bjorgvinsson emphasised that Icelandic police have not been working with the American secret services on the matter, as Wikileaks spokesmen allege.”
Perhaps the Reykjavik police chief is also part of a global campaign to destroy WikiLeaks. Or perhaps the whole story is one of mystification and error." - [end quote] - Url.: http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2010/03/war_on_wikileaks.html
And when I see Wikileaks on all propaganda-channels of the mainstream media, and I know a couple of languages, my experience too tells me that this Wikileaks is as wrong as can be. Since I've lived and worked for many years as a Scandinavian correspondent too, I often visited Iceland an learned to like it very much. So of course I keep an eye on it, and read stories like these:
"Wikileaks and Iceland media law are stalking horses for Soros."
Following up on WMR's March 25, 2010 report on Wikileaks's ties to U.S. intelligence, Mossad, and George Soros, WMR has received additional information that points to the Icelandic media law that would turn the economically-battered country into an information safe haven for websites like Wikileaks as being a contrivance of George Soros's Open Society Institute (OSI).
WMR has learned that OSI's Mark Thompson spoke at the May 2009 First Council of Europe Conference of Ministers responsible for Media and New Communications Services. Present at the conference was Katrin Jakobsdóttir, Iceland's Minister of Culture, Education, and Science and members of the Icelandic parliament, the Althing. It was after this conference that the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative was introduced with much fanfare from Wikileaks and its co-founder Julian Assange.
Thompson has a background that includes propagandizing for the western incursion into the Balkans, including directing the Media Analysis Unit for the UN mission in Yugoslavia, UNPROFOR; the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and Soros's OSI." - [end excerpt]
You can read the rest, and a lot more about Soros manipulations, here at Url.: http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/print.asp?ID=12441
Because George Soros really is a global bastard, and has his dirty claws into everything which is profitable one way or the other, to him or/and the criminal cartel he's taking part in.
"BLOWBACK: SOROS AND THE CIA CRASH IN KYRGYZSTAN" - LiveJournal blog - Url.: http://forpressfound.livejournal.com/#post-forpressfound-35077
And this US 'judge' was immediately whisled back by the 'judicial' arm of the criminal cartel so Wikileaks can go on with its cyber spy operations:
"Judge in Wikileaks Case Reverses Course, Wikileaks.org is Back Online."
Posted February 29th, 2008 by David Ardia - in California Legal Threat Prior Restraints. "We've just received word that the judge in the Wikileaks case, Jeffrey White, has vacated the Permanent Injunction that ordered Wikileaks' domain name registrar, Dynadot, to disable the entire Wikileaks.org domain name and remove all DNS hosting records.
The judge also refused to renew the Temporary Restraining Order that enjoined Wikileaks from publishing or distributing copies of purported bank documents and tentatively denied the plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction, indicating that he would issue an order addressing the motion in the near future.
For now, the only official record from the hearing is a one-page "Minute Order" issued by the clerk. CNET News has also just posted an update on the hearing. As we get more information, we'll update this post.
UPDATE: The judge issued an Order denying the plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction against Wikileaks, dissolving the permanent injunction against Dynadot, and setting a briefing and hearing schedule for the remaining motions before the court (primarily motions to intervene and dismiss the case)." - [end excerpt] - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/yhkzqmf
One only has to connect the dots...
Samuel Knight writes about it last March too: "Iceland - Free Press Haven?"
"More than volcanos are rumbling in Iceland these days," as In These Times reports, by Samuel Knight: "Icelandic members of parliament have plans to transform their crisis-ridden North-Atlantic nation into a sanctuary for publishers, production companies and information technology firms from around the world.
“It would free the press from fear,” says Thor Saari, one of the members of parliament spearheading the proposal, which is known as the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative (IMMI). Iceland’s Parliament, the Althingi, is expected to support the effort.
To craft their bill, members of parliament (MPs) drew on existing laws in the United States and European countries. “We tried to find the best [laws] in each country and merge it all into one proposal that the government will enact as legislation,” Saari says. A draft of the initiative proposes strengthening protection for whistleblowers, ensuring the anonymity of journalists’ sources, liberalizing the country’s freedom of information regulations, and creating Iceland’s first international award, which would honor freedom of expression.
The energy behind IMMI comes from the three MPs who belong to a protest party called the Movement and from members of the ruling Social Democrat/Left-Green coalition. They have received help from Julian Assange and Daniel Schmitt, the founders of the website Wikileaks. Assange and Schmitt became heroes in Iceland after publishing details of corporate loans issued by Kaupthing, a failed Icelandic bank. State television was forbidden by a court order to reveal the information due to banking secrecy laws. It appeared instead on Wikileaks.
An opportunity to propose the changes arose when Icelandic lawmakers recently decided to bring the country’s media laws up to speed with new technology. With a cool climate kind to computer servers and abundant, clean-burning geothermal energy, Iceland is already considered an ideal host for data centers from all over the globe. “‘The Switzerland of Bits’ is what they’re calling us,” Saari says." - [end quote] - More at Url.: http://beforeitsnews.com/news/26861/Iceland_--_Free_Press_Haven.html
And there's a lot of those 'false flag' and faked stories, trying to give Wikileaks an undeserved position: "Wikileaks Asks CIA to Stop Spying on It" - by Mathew Ingram, March 26, 2010:
"Wikileaks, the crusading non-profit web site that publishes documents companies and governments don’t want released, is alleging that the U.S. State Department and possibly the CIA have been spying on the group and its volunteers, following them on airplanes and even monitoring their production meetings in an Icelandic fish-and-chip restaurant.
In a blog post on the Wikileaks site, the group’s co-founder, Julian Assange, asserts that the spying “includes attempted covert following, photographing, filming and the overt detention & questioning of a WikiLeaks’ volunteer in Iceland.” - [end quote] - The rest of this piece advocating cyber spying by Wikileaks is here at Url.: http://gigaom.com/2010/03/26/wikileaks-asks-cia-to-stop-spying-on-it/
But I think stories like in 'Mother Jones' magazine about the shadowy side of Wikileaks are correct:
"Inside WikiLeaks’ Leak Factory. - WikiLeaks has revealed the secrets of the Pentagon, Scientology, and Sarah Palin—and the explosive video of a US attack on civilians and journalists in Iraq. Meet the shadowy figure behind the whistleblower site." The rest of the Mother Jones text about this fishy business, by David Kushner on Tuesday Apr. 6, 2010, is here at Url.: http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/04/wikileaks-julian-assange-iraq-video
As said, I visited Iceland and here's my take. Google search: HR + Iceland - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/yj5mbwx
So, from my point of view:
Beware of Wikileaks!
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BLOWBACK: SOROS AND THE CIA CRASH IN KYRGYZSTAN
This is a black 'blowback' day for the criminal cartel's war machine, which relies heavily on it's Manas base there. Not only for the transfer of armed 'errand boys' aka 'troops' for the illegal occupation, but also for Big Pharma's billion dollar drug industry in Afghanistan.* To make matters worse: apart from their Kant base, Moscow also wants a second base.
Henk Ruyssenaars
April 8th 2010 - Five years after the global criminal cartel* via their front; the U.S. administration and with armed 'gofers' from the NSA/CIA and their 'Tulip Revolution' - with war criminal and speculator George Soros financing a lot - their 'president' Bakiyev was deposed the same way as he came to power: in a bloody uprising.* Bakiyev by the way - who now has fled - symbolically named the building where his totalitarian adminstration was seated on it's bloody throne the same as in Washington: the 'White House.' Usurped by the criminal cartel here as there...
The battle among those gory and Gargantuan giants, has as always absolutely nothing to do with human beings. They are - in the eyes of the profiteers - only 'colletaral damage.' This is about power and profit from the wars and the drugs.
The latest US TIME magazine: "In a March 5 interview with TIME, an Obama Administration senior official said it had been a close call for the U.S. "That we have the Manas base in Kyrgyzstan is a great achievement," he said. "Russia didn't want to allow us to have that. They put down $2 billion to get us out. But Obama had very frank discussions with [Russian President Dmitri] Medvedev.
He said, If you believe we have a common enemy in Afghanistan, then this is going to help us fight that common enemy. Had we lost that, it would have been a major blow. It is a major hub for getting our soldiers in and out of there." - [end quote]*
It's all a battle about power and profit for the war criminals in Central Asia, and Al Jazeera* - which years ago turned into a propaganda broadcaster for the cartel's war machine, justifying more or less the illegal invasions - writes today about the Kyrgyz opposition which 'seizes power' - and because al Jazeera is advocating the cartel - it's written in brackets:
Kyrgyz opposition 'seizes power'
Opposition leaders in Kyrgyzstan say they have seized power after taking control of security headquarters, state television and other government buildings following a day of deadly unrest. "The security service and the interior ministry, all of them are already under the management of new people," Rosa Otunbayeva, a former foreign minister, told the Russian-language Mir TV channel on Thursday.
The opposition claim came after Kurmanbek Bakiyev, the president, fled the capital Bishkek amid violent clashes between anti-government protesters and riot police on Wednesday. Reports said that Bakiyev is currently in the southern city of Osh." - [end quote]*
But Soros' role in the criminal cartel's 'Tulip Revolution' disaster is evident. Website encyclopedia Wikipedia - which also is managed by Soros' 'Brethren in the Faith' - writes this about him:
"George Soros (pronounced /ˈsɔroʊs/ or /ˈsɔrəs/,[3] Hungarian IPA: [ˈʃoroʃ]; born August 12, 1930, as Schwartz György) is a Hungarian-American currency speculator, stock investor, businessman, philanthropist, and political activist. The [jewish] family changed its name in 1936 from Schwartz to Soros, in response to growing anti-semitism with the rise of Fascism."*
Soros, who is part and parcel of the criminal actions globally going on, is always up-front, albeit often 'covered'. Soros, like the rest of those humanoids, makes money out off the blood, sweat and tears of human beings everywhere.
The treacherous 'Soros Foundation' - which through those so called 'colored revolutions' only 'helps' itself, the CIA and the criminal cartel - also had an official office at 55A, Logvinenko St. in Bishkek, 720040, Kyrgyzstan. - Url.: http://www.soros.kg/?lang=en
You can imagine what Soros and his collaborators did to these 5 million people too. No wonder the Soros collaborators are silent now... And run...
The best analysis of the situation in Kyrgyzstan - and the general battle for power and profit in Central Asia - appeared today in Australia.to News, and is written by Rick Rozoff:
'KYRGYZSTAN AND THE BATTLE FOR CENTRAL ASIA"
Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev was deposed five years after and in the same manner as he came to power, in a bloody uprising. Elected president two months after the so-called Tulip Revolution of 2005 he helped engineer, he was since then head of state of the main transit nation for the U.S. and NATO war in Afghanistan.
The Pentagon secured the Manas Air Base (as of last year known as the Transit Center at Manas) in Kyrgyzstan shortly after its invasion of Afghanistan in October of 2001 and in the interim, according to a U.S. armed forces publication last June, "More than 170,000 coalition personnel passed through the base on their way in or out of Afghanistan, and Manas was the transit point for 5,000 tons of cargo, including spare parts and equipment, uniforms and various items to support personnel and mission needs. "Currently, around 1,000 U.S. troops, along with a few hundred from Spain and France, are assigned to the base." [1]
The White House's Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke paid his first visit in his current position to Kyrgyzstan - and the three other former Soviet Central Asian republics which border it, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - in February and said "35,000 US troops were transiting each month on their way in and out of Afghanistan." [2] At the rate he mentioned, 420,000 troops annually.
The U.S. and NATO also established military bases in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan for the war in South Asia, but on a smaller scale. (U.S. military forces were ordered out of the second country following what the government claimed was a Tulip Revolution-type armed uprising in its province of Andijan less than two months after the Kyrgyz precedent. Germany maintains a base near the Uzbek city of Termez to transit troops and military equipment to Afghanistan's Kunduz province where the bulk of its 4,300 forces is concentrated.)
In February of 2009 the Kyrgyz government announced that it was also evicting U.S. and NATO forces from its country, but relented in June when Washington offered it $60 million to reverse its decision.
Kyrgyzstan borders China.
It not only borders China, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, but is only separated from Russia by a single nation, Kazakhstan. To gain an appreciation of Russian and Chinese concerns over hundreds of thousands of U.S. and NATO troops passing through Kyrgyzstan, imagine a comparable amount of Chinese and Russian soldiers regularly passing through Mexico and Guatemala, respectively. For almost nine years and at an accelerating rate.
It is not only a military "hard power" but also a "soft power" threat that the Western role in Kyrgyzstan poses to Russia and China. The nation is a member of the post-Soviet Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) along with Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - seen by many as the only counterpart to NATO on former Soviet space - and of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) with China, Russia and the three above-mentioned Central Asian nations.
According to U.S. officials, during and after the Tulip Revolution of 2005 not a single U.S. or NATO flight into the Manas Air Base was cancelled or even delayed. But a six-nation CSTO exercise scheduled for days afterward was cancelled.
The uprising and the deposing of standing president Askar Akayev in March of 2005 was the third self-styled "color revolution" in the former Soviet Union in sixteen months, following the Rose Revolution in Georgia in late 2003 and the Orange Revolution in Ukraine in late 2004 and early 2005.
As the Kyrgyz version was underway Western news media were asking the question "Who's next?" Candidates included other former Soviet states like Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova and Uzbekistan. And Russia. Along with Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan those nations accounted for ten of the twelve members of the post-Soviet Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
As Agence France-Presse detailed in early April of 2005: "The CIS was founded in December 1991 on the very day the Soviet Union disappeared....But over the past year and a half, three faithful Kremlin allies were toppled in...revolutions: Eduard Shevardnadze in Georgia, Leonid Kuchma in Ukraine, and, last week, Askar Akayev in Kyrgyzstan....Even though Kyrgyzstan’s new interim leaders have vowed to continue their deposed predecessor’s Moscow-friendly policies, the lightning toppling of the government there has spawned speculation that the CIS would soon collapse." [3]
The leader of the "color revolution" prototype, Georgia's Mikheil Saakashvili, gloated over the Kyrgyz "regime change," attributing the "brave" actions of the opposition in Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan "to the Georgia factor," and added, "We are not waiting for the development of events, but are doing our best to destroy the empire in the CIS." [4]
Shortly after the uprising former Indian diplomat and political analyst M.K. Bhadrakumar wrote of the then seemingly inexorable momentum of "color" revolts in the former Soviet Union: "[A]ll the three countries [Georgia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan] are strategically placed in the post-Soviet space. They comprise Russia's 'near abroad.'
"Washington has been expanding its influence in the arc of former Soviet republics — in the Baltics...the Caucasus, and Central Asia — in recent years with a tenacity that worries Moscow. "Ever since 2003 when Mr. Akayev decided on allowing Russia to establish a full-fledged military base in Kant he knew he was on the American 'watch list.' The political temperature within Kyrgyzstan began to rise.
"The Americans made it clear in many ways that they desired a regime change in Bishkek....The 'revolution' in the Central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan has already thrown up surprises. A comparison with the two earlier 'colour revolutions' in Georgia and Ukraine will be a good starting point. "First, the striking similarities between the three 'revolutions' must be duly noted. All three are meant to signify the unstoppable spread of the fire of liberty lit by the United States in Afghanistan and Iraq in the aftermath of 9/11.
"But behind the rhetoric, the truth is that the U.S. wanted regime change in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan because of difficulties with the incumbent leadership. The leaders of all the three countries — Eduard Shevardnadze in Georgia, Leonid Kuchma in Ukraine, and Askar Akayev in Kyrgyzstan — had enjoyed the support of the U.S. during most of their rule. Washington had cited them repeatedly as the beacons of hope for democracy and globalisation in the territories of the former Soviet Union. "Their trouble began when they incrementally began to edge towards a resurgent Russia under Vladimir Putin." [5]
The two Georges - Bush and Soros - were not alone in fathering the "color" geostrategic transformations from the Balkans to the former Soviet Union and the Middle East. They received generous assistance from the likes of Freedom House, the National Endowment for Democracy, the National Democratic Institute, the International Republican Institute and other alleged non-governmental organizations." - [end excerpt]
You should do yourself a favor and read the rest here at: Australia.to News - Article Url.: http://tinyurl.com/yznjzqe
RELATED:
* HR articles concerning Afghanistan, the opium drug business, and the "Lotus Eater." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/ydspatd
* Google search: HR & the criminal cartel - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/ya84asq
* HR: "David Frost 'front man' at al-Jazeera International?" - Dec. 27, 2005 - Url.: http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/12-28-05/discussion.cgi.31.html
* CIA and the criminal cartel's 'blowbacks' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/y9xyu3b
* TIME - "Kyrgyzstan: Did Moscow Subvert a U.S. Central Asian Ally? - Url.: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1978590,00.html
* Google search: HR & George Soros - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/yjrkku2
* Wikipedia about George Soros - Url.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros
* Quote: "New Initiative of the Soros Foundation - Kyrgyzstan - 'Forum of Reforms Project' focused on infilling vacuum in country development scenarios resulted from the take-over of a country after the events in March, 2005." - Url.: http://www.eurasianet.org/resource/kyrgyzstan/links/sfk_reform.shtml
* Al Jazeera - tekst + video - CIA crash in Kyrgyzstan - Url.: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/04/20104833448686852.html
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Henk Ruyssenaars
April 8th 2010 - Five years after the global criminal cartel* via their front; the U.S. administration and with armed 'gofers' from the NSA/CIA and their 'Tulip Revolution' - with war criminal and speculator George Soros financing a lot - their 'president' Bakiyev was deposed the same way as he came to power: in a bloody uprising.* Bakiyev by the way - who now has fled - symbolically named the building where his totalitarian adminstration was seated on it's bloody throne the same as in Washington: the 'White House.' Usurped by the criminal cartel here as there...
The battle among those gory and Gargantuan giants, has as always absolutely nothing to do with human beings. They are - in the eyes of the profiteers - only 'colletaral damage.' This is about power and profit from the wars and the drugs.
The latest US TIME magazine: "In a March 5 interview with TIME, an Obama Administration senior official said it had been a close call for the U.S. "That we have the Manas base in Kyrgyzstan is a great achievement," he said. "Russia didn't want to allow us to have that. They put down $2 billion to get us out. But Obama had very frank discussions with [Russian President Dmitri] Medvedev.
He said, If you believe we have a common enemy in Afghanistan, then this is going to help us fight that common enemy. Had we lost that, it would have been a major blow. It is a major hub for getting our soldiers in and out of there." - [end quote]*
It's all a battle about power and profit for the war criminals in Central Asia, and Al Jazeera* - which years ago turned into a propaganda broadcaster for the cartel's war machine, justifying more or less the illegal invasions - writes today about the Kyrgyz opposition which 'seizes power' - and because al Jazeera is advocating the cartel - it's written in brackets:
Kyrgyz opposition 'seizes power'
Opposition leaders in Kyrgyzstan say they have seized power after taking control of security headquarters, state television and other government buildings following a day of deadly unrest. "The security service and the interior ministry, all of them are already under the management of new people," Rosa Otunbayeva, a former foreign minister, told the Russian-language Mir TV channel on Thursday.
The opposition claim came after Kurmanbek Bakiyev, the president, fled the capital Bishkek amid violent clashes between anti-government protesters and riot police on Wednesday. Reports said that Bakiyev is currently in the southern city of Osh." - [end quote]*
But Soros' role in the criminal cartel's 'Tulip Revolution' disaster is evident. Website encyclopedia Wikipedia - which also is managed by Soros' 'Brethren in the Faith' - writes this about him:
"George Soros (pronounced /ˈsɔroʊs/ or /ˈsɔrəs/,[3] Hungarian IPA: [ˈʃoroʃ]; born August 12, 1930, as Schwartz György) is a Hungarian-American currency speculator, stock investor, businessman, philanthropist, and political activist. The [jewish] family changed its name in 1936 from Schwartz to Soros, in response to growing anti-semitism with the rise of Fascism."*
Soros, who is part and parcel of the criminal actions globally going on, is always up-front, albeit often 'covered'. Soros, like the rest of those humanoids, makes money out off the blood, sweat and tears of human beings everywhere.
The treacherous 'Soros Foundation' - which through those so called 'colored revolutions' only 'helps' itself, the CIA and the criminal cartel - also had an official office at 55A, Logvinenko St. in Bishkek, 720040, Kyrgyzstan. - Url.: http://www.soros.kg/?lang=en
You can imagine what Soros and his collaborators did to these 5 million people too. No wonder the Soros collaborators are silent now... And run...
The best analysis of the situation in Kyrgyzstan - and the general battle for power and profit in Central Asia - appeared today in Australia.to News, and is written by Rick Rozoff:
'KYRGYZSTAN AND THE BATTLE FOR CENTRAL ASIA"
Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev was deposed five years after and in the same manner as he came to power, in a bloody uprising. Elected president two months after the so-called Tulip Revolution of 2005 he helped engineer, he was since then head of state of the main transit nation for the U.S. and NATO war in Afghanistan.
The Pentagon secured the Manas Air Base (as of last year known as the Transit Center at Manas) in Kyrgyzstan shortly after its invasion of Afghanistan in October of 2001 and in the interim, according to a U.S. armed forces publication last June, "More than 170,000 coalition personnel passed through the base on their way in or out of Afghanistan, and Manas was the transit point for 5,000 tons of cargo, including spare parts and equipment, uniforms and various items to support personnel and mission needs. "Currently, around 1,000 U.S. troops, along with a few hundred from Spain and France, are assigned to the base." [1]
The White House's Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke paid his first visit in his current position to Kyrgyzstan - and the three other former Soviet Central Asian republics which border it, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - in February and said "35,000 US troops were transiting each month on their way in and out of Afghanistan." [2] At the rate he mentioned, 420,000 troops annually.
The U.S. and NATO also established military bases in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan for the war in South Asia, but on a smaller scale. (U.S. military forces were ordered out of the second country following what the government claimed was a Tulip Revolution-type armed uprising in its province of Andijan less than two months after the Kyrgyz precedent. Germany maintains a base near the Uzbek city of Termez to transit troops and military equipment to Afghanistan's Kunduz province where the bulk of its 4,300 forces is concentrated.)
In February of 2009 the Kyrgyz government announced that it was also evicting U.S. and NATO forces from its country, but relented in June when Washington offered it $60 million to reverse its decision.
Kyrgyzstan borders China.
It not only borders China, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, but is only separated from Russia by a single nation, Kazakhstan. To gain an appreciation of Russian and Chinese concerns over hundreds of thousands of U.S. and NATO troops passing through Kyrgyzstan, imagine a comparable amount of Chinese and Russian soldiers regularly passing through Mexico and Guatemala, respectively. For almost nine years and at an accelerating rate.
It is not only a military "hard power" but also a "soft power" threat that the Western role in Kyrgyzstan poses to Russia and China. The nation is a member of the post-Soviet Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) along with Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - seen by many as the only counterpart to NATO on former Soviet space - and of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) with China, Russia and the three above-mentioned Central Asian nations.
According to U.S. officials, during and after the Tulip Revolution of 2005 not a single U.S. or NATO flight into the Manas Air Base was cancelled or even delayed. But a six-nation CSTO exercise scheduled for days afterward was cancelled.
The uprising and the deposing of standing president Askar Akayev in March of 2005 was the third self-styled "color revolution" in the former Soviet Union in sixteen months, following the Rose Revolution in Georgia in late 2003 and the Orange Revolution in Ukraine in late 2004 and early 2005.
As the Kyrgyz version was underway Western news media were asking the question "Who's next?" Candidates included other former Soviet states like Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova and Uzbekistan. And Russia. Along with Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan those nations accounted for ten of the twelve members of the post-Soviet Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
As Agence France-Presse detailed in early April of 2005: "The CIS was founded in December 1991 on the very day the Soviet Union disappeared....But over the past year and a half, three faithful Kremlin allies were toppled in...revolutions: Eduard Shevardnadze in Georgia, Leonid Kuchma in Ukraine, and, last week, Askar Akayev in Kyrgyzstan....Even though Kyrgyzstan’s new interim leaders have vowed to continue their deposed predecessor’s Moscow-friendly policies, the lightning toppling of the government there has spawned speculation that the CIS would soon collapse." [3]
The leader of the "color revolution" prototype, Georgia's Mikheil Saakashvili, gloated over the Kyrgyz "regime change," attributing the "brave" actions of the opposition in Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan "to the Georgia factor," and added, "We are not waiting for the development of events, but are doing our best to destroy the empire in the CIS." [4]
Shortly after the uprising former Indian diplomat and political analyst M.K. Bhadrakumar wrote of the then seemingly inexorable momentum of "color" revolts in the former Soviet Union: "[A]ll the three countries [Georgia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan] are strategically placed in the post-Soviet space. They comprise Russia's 'near abroad.'
"Washington has been expanding its influence in the arc of former Soviet republics — in the Baltics...the Caucasus, and Central Asia — in recent years with a tenacity that worries Moscow. "Ever since 2003 when Mr. Akayev decided on allowing Russia to establish a full-fledged military base in Kant he knew he was on the American 'watch list.' The political temperature within Kyrgyzstan began to rise.
"The Americans made it clear in many ways that they desired a regime change in Bishkek....The 'revolution' in the Central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan has already thrown up surprises. A comparison with the two earlier 'colour revolutions' in Georgia and Ukraine will be a good starting point. "First, the striking similarities between the three 'revolutions' must be duly noted. All three are meant to signify the unstoppable spread of the fire of liberty lit by the United States in Afghanistan and Iraq in the aftermath of 9/11.
"But behind the rhetoric, the truth is that the U.S. wanted regime change in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan because of difficulties with the incumbent leadership. The leaders of all the three countries — Eduard Shevardnadze in Georgia, Leonid Kuchma in Ukraine, and Askar Akayev in Kyrgyzstan — had enjoyed the support of the U.S. during most of their rule. Washington had cited them repeatedly as the beacons of hope for democracy and globalisation in the territories of the former Soviet Union. "Their trouble began when they incrementally began to edge towards a resurgent Russia under Vladimir Putin." [5]
The two Georges - Bush and Soros - were not alone in fathering the "color" geostrategic transformations from the Balkans to the former Soviet Union and the Middle East. They received generous assistance from the likes of Freedom House, the National Endowment for Democracy, the National Democratic Institute, the International Republican Institute and other alleged non-governmental organizations." - [end excerpt]
You should do yourself a favor and read the rest here at: Australia.to News - Article Url.: http://tinyurl.com/yznjzqe
RELATED:
* HR articles concerning Afghanistan, the opium drug business, and the "Lotus Eater." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/ydspatd
* Google search: HR & the criminal cartel - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/ya84asq
* HR: "David Frost 'front man' at al-Jazeera International?" - Dec. 27, 2005 - Url.: http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/12-28-05/discussion.cgi.31.html
* CIA and the criminal cartel's 'blowbacks' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/y9xyu3b
* TIME - "Kyrgyzstan: Did Moscow Subvert a U.S. Central Asian Ally? - Url.: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1978590,00.html
* Google search: HR & George Soros - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/yjrkku2
* Wikipedia about George Soros - Url.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros
* Quote: "New Initiative of the Soros Foundation - Kyrgyzstan - 'Forum of Reforms Project' focused on infilling vacuum in country development scenarios resulted from the take-over of a country after the events in March, 2005." - Url.: http://www.eurasianet.org/resource/kyrgyzstan/links/sfk_reform.shtml
* Al Jazeera - tekst + video - CIA crash in Kyrgyzstan - Url.: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/04/20104833448686852.html
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