Israeli Colonel “Caught with IS Pants Down”

Guess Who is Behind the Islamic State?

This was definitely not supposed to happen. It seems that an Israeli military man with the rank of colonel was “caught with IS pants down.” By that I mean he was captured amid a gaggle of so-called IS–or Islamic State or ISIS or DAESH depending on your preference–terrorists, by soldiers of the Iraqi army. Under interrogation by the Iraqi intelligence he apparently said a lot regarding the role of Netanyahu’s IDF in supporting IS.

In late October an Iranian news agency, quoting a senior Iraqi intelligence officer, reported the capture of an Israeli army colonel, named Yusi Oulen Shahak, reportedly related to the ISIS Golani Battalion operating in Iraq in the Salahuddin front. In a statement to Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency a Commander of the Iraqi Army stated, “The security and popular forces have held captive an Israeli colonel.”

He added that the IDF colonel “had participated in the Takfiri ISIL group’s terrorist operations.” He said the colonel was arrested together with a number of ISIL or IS terrorists, giving the details: “The Israeli colonel’s name is Yusi Oulen Shahak and is ranked colonel in Golani Brigade… with the security and military code of Re34356578765az231434.”

Why Israel?

Ever since the beginning of Russia’s very effective IS bombing of select targets in Syria on September 30, details of the very dirty role of not only Washington, but also NATO member Turkey under President Erdogan, Qatar and other states has come into the sunlight for the first time.

Coverage of more than a decade of conspiracy for Wars in the middle East!

As the same establishment press that sold the public the Iraq WMD lies "breaks" the "news" that Bush and Blair planned the invasion in advance, James shows the documents we've had for a decade telling us the exact same thing. And people wonder why trust in media is at an all-time low...

ISIS closes in on Baghdad, joined by former allied tribes turned enemies

Ex-MI6 chief threatens to expose secrets of Iraq war.

Ex-MI6 chief threatens to expose secrets of Iraq war if he faces censure from the Chilcot inquiry.

Former head of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove has threatened to expose secrets of Iraq war if he faces censure from the Chilcot inquiry into British involvement in the Iraq war.

Sir Richard told the Daily Mail that he wrote a detailed account of events leading up to Iraq invasion that he intended to make available to historians after his death. 

Sir Richard, who provided intelligence about former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) said he might release his memoir “sooner” depending on the finding of the long-awaited Chilcot inquiry. 

“What I have written (am writing) is a record of events surrounding the invasion of Iraq from my then professional perspective,” he said in an email to the newspaper. 

“My intention is that this should be a resource available to scholars, but after my decease (may be sooner depending on what Chilcot publishes). I have no intention, however, of violating my vows of official secrecy by publishing any memoir,” he added. 

According to the Daily Mail, sources close to Sir Richard say he accepts the inaccuracy of some MI6’s information on Iraq WMDs and that he believes the inquiry’s chairman Sir John Chilcot should investigate misleading statements by former British PM Tony Blair and his chief spokesperson and strategist Alastair Campbell about WMDs. 

The US and Britain invaded Iraq in blatant violation of international law in 2003 under the pretext of finding WMDs allegedly stockpiled by Saddam Hussein. No WMDs, however, were ever discovered in Iraq. 

The Chilcot Inquiry was established by former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who succeeded Blair in 2007. 

Those appearing before the inquiry included Blair, other leading figures within the 1997-2010 Labour government, former cabinet secretaries and the military high command. 

source : MOS/HE

Iranians effected with depleted uranium toxic air from Iraq?

Published on Aug 15, 2012 by presstvmobile.

Iraq Attacks Cloud Debate Over Syria Intervention

Published on Jul 24, 2012 by VOAvideo : The wave of bombings that killed more than 100 people across Iraq Monday is prompting fears that extremist groups could be making a comeback after U.S. forces left last year. As Henry Ridgwell reports, analysts say the long shadow of the Iraq war and its aftermath are coloring the debate over intervening in Syria.

'UNSC, IAEA serving West against Iran'

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US Soldiers Close Down Bases, Head Out of Iraq.

Uploaded by VOAvideo on 9 Dec 2011 - The U.S. military has almost completed the huge job of packing up all of its bases and equipment and moving out of Iraq. VOA's Sharon Behn reports. 

Strategic Destabilization in the Middle East:-

Uploaded by amtvmedia on 7 Sep 2011 - WWIII? It's hard to really get a unified picture of what is really going on, and see what the the U.S. and Nato's real objectives are with their meddling in the Middle East without plotting it on a map. So that's what I've done.

Report: Israel using Saudi air base

Uploaded by MEWarPeace on 22 Jul 2010 : What had happened within this 17 months?

A World of Lawlessness and Chaos - As The Drone Flies

By Ralph Nader

September 28, 2011 "Information Clearing House" --  The fast developing predator drone technology, officially called unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs, is becoming so dominant and so beyond any restraining framework of law or ethics, that its use by the U.S. government around the world may invite a horrific blowback.

First some background. The Pentagon has about 7,000 aerial drones. Ten years ago there were less than 50. According to the website longwarjournal.com, they have destroyed about 1900 insurgents in Pakistan’s tribal regions. How these fighters are so clearly distinguished from civilians in those mountain areas is not clear.

Nor is it clear how or from whom the government gets such “precise” information about the guerilla leaders’ whereabouts night and day. The drones are beyond any counterattack—flying often at 50,000 feet. But the Air Force has recognized that a third of the Predators have crashed by themselves.

Compared to mass transit, housing, energy technology, infection control, food and drug safety, the innovation in the world of drones is incredible. Coming soon are hummingbird sized drones, submersible drones and software driven autonomous UAVs. The Washington Post described these inventions as “aircraft [that] would hunt, identify and fire at [the] enemy—all on its own.” It is called “lethal autonomy” in the trade.

Military ethicists and legal experts inside and outside the government are debating how far UAVs can go and still stay within what one imaginative booster, Ronald C. Arkin, called international humanitarian law and the rules of engagement. Concerns over restraint can already be considered academic. Drones are going anywhere their governors want them to go already—Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and countries in North Africa to name a few known jurisdictions.

InformationClearingHouse : read full report  - 28 Sept 2011

US gives away billions in assets in Iraq

Will Iraq has to pay for this ?

US gives away billons in assets in Iraq

The United States Depart of Defense has found a nifty way of cutting costs in planning for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Rather than ship home millions of pieces of equipment from Americans bases abroad, the military is simply giving them away.

Nearly two-and-a-half million pieces of equipment, estimated at a cost of $250 million, have so far been given to the Iraqi government by the US military in the last year alone, reports The Huffington Post. As the DoD looks to empty out the bases that cost Americans billions of dollars towards erecting during the last decade, everything from air conditioning units to army tanks are being handed over to the foreign government in order to avoid the costly bill of shipping those supplies back to the States.

“It’s all sunk costs,” retired Army Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton tells HuffPo. “It’s money that we spent and we’re not going to recoup.”

Meanwhile, as the US hands over millions, they are scraping their pockets in order to make ends meet domestically. Yet again, the government is being posed with a possible shutdown in the days ahead, lest lawmakers find a way to balance their ledgers.

The United States spent over $2.4 billion on building posts in Iraq, reports the Congressional Research Service, and nearly $2 billion of that came from contracts with the US Army Corps of Engineer between 2004 and 2010 — and more than half of those deals were inked in 2005 alone.

While President Obama urges lawmakers to allow for the building up of America’s own infrastructure, it looks as if the country invested billions in the last decade overseas. Now that troops prepare to come home, however, all of that is being marked up as a loss.

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UK military deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The number of British military deaths in operations in Afghanistan since 2001 stands at 358, following the death of a soldier from the Royal Army Veterinary Corps killed in a gunfight on 1 March 2011.

Two other soldiers, serving with the Royal Logistic Corps, died as a result of what was thought to be a domestic fire at Camp Bastion, in Helmand province, on 14 February.

If the fire is found not to be the result of enemy action, it will mean 44 service personnel have died from accidents, illness, or non-combat injuries. Others have yet to be assigned a cause of death. Details of fatalities are in the table below.

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Is WikiLeaks a "manufactured dissent"?

Is WikiLeaks A CIA Operation?

Webster Tarpley points to the possibility that Wikileaks is a CIA operation.More evidence that wikileaks is an intelligence operation. The lesson from Watergate, FOLLOW THE MONEY. The money leads to George Sorros and his shady circles of influence. Sorros has always been connected to CIA and its front companies.Webster Tarpley attempts to expose Julian Assange and Wikipedia as a CIA operation.

Iraq gets new government after coalition deal.

Iraq will finally get a new government on Thursday after politicians hammered out a late-night deal to end eight months of wrangling following an indecisive election.

The country's 249 days of impasse set a new world record, and led to fears in America and among its neighbours that it could descend into civil war.

The nationalist Iraqiya party, headed by the pro-western secular former prime minister, Ayad Allawi, agreed under heavy pressure to back a national unity coalition.

Telegraph Nov 11, 2010: Read full report.

Iraqi without a government - a decry soaring deadlock costs

AlJazeeraEnglish | November 09, 2010 - Iraqis frustrated by party leaders' failure to form a unity government after eight months of political deadlock, have staged a massive rally in Baghdad, calling on officials to speed up the process of reaching a power-sharing deal.

Much of the public anger stems from soaring economic costs the country accrued since March's general elections failed to yield a leadership because not a single bloc won enough seats.

Many complain that the impasse has caused a standstill in the country, freezing job growth and public services. They also say officials' salaries, which are many times more than the average Iraqi's pay, are a major waste of money.

Rawya Rageh reports from Baghdad.

‘Iraqi reconstruction a sham’ – former contractor.

RT, Nov 2010 - He explained that the Iraqis had little say in how things functioned, how the government was formed or where things would even be placed. The Iraqi government was ill prepared to transition to power and unable to run the nation adequately.

A systematic campaign...it this a sign of US failure?

AlJazeeraEnglish | Iran's role in Iraq.

October 24, 2010 - The leaked documents reveal Iran's extensive role in Iraq, with thousands of reports of Tehran funding and suppling Shia militias.

Many of these reports implicate members of Iran's intelligence services, accusing them of building bombs and even manning checkpoints in Baghdad.

Iraqi Government Formation Dilemma.

Press TV-Middle East Today | October 23, 2010 - Iraq remains in a cycle of uncertainty as its incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is on a regional tour to gather support for his bid for premiership. Maliki's tour included a visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran where the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khameneie, called on political factions in Iraq to reach a consensus on forming a new government. Maliki's main rival for premiership, Eiad Alawi, is also trying to garner support.

The questions raised by Mariam Saleh in this edition of Press TV's Middle East Today:

Have the Iraqis questions been solved and finalized behind closed doors between regional powers or are there other complications in the way of reaching consensus?

Contradictions in Iraq.

lauraflanders | September 16, 2010 - Tariq Ali, author of The Obama Syndrome, discusses the US war and occupation in Iraq--whether it is over, and whether anything can be called victory, or defeat. Distributed by Tubemogul