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The Khorasans: As Fake As the Kardashians
Obama is now - after the fact - scrambling to justify bombing the sovereign nation of Syria without the permission of either the Syrian government or even the United States Congress by saying that we were going after the super-evil Khorasans, who were about to attack us.
My God! That sounds terrifying ... like a cross between Genghis Khan, Klingons and the Kardashians!
The U.S. is saying that they're even more dangerous than ISIS.
There's just one wee little problem ... the Khorasan threat is as as fake as the Kardashians' physiques. (Admittedly, it's confusing, given that the Kardashians have also inserted themselves right in the middle of the Syrian conflict.)
Agence France-Presse reports:
The US says it has hit a little-known group called "Khorasan" in Syria, but experts and activists argue it actually struck Al-Qaeda's affiliate Al-Nusra Front, which fights alongside Syrian rebels.
In announcing its raids in the northern province of Aleppo on Tuesday, Washington described the group it targeted as Khorasan, a cell of Al-Qaeda veterans planning attacks against the West.
But experts and activists cast doubt on the distinction between Khorasan and Al-Nusra Front, which is Al-Qaeda's Syrian branch.
"In Syria, no one had ever heard talk of Khorasan until the US media brought it up," said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
"Rebels, activists and the whole world knows that these positions (hit Tuesday) were Al-Nusra positions, and the fighters killed were Al-Nusra fighters," added Abdel Rahman, who has tracked the Syrian conflict since it erupted in 2011.
Experts were similarly dubious about the distinction.
"The name refers to Al-Qaeda fighters previously based in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran who have travelled to Syria to fight with... Al-Nusra," said Matthew Henman, head of IHS Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre.
"They... should not be considered a new or distinct group as such."
Aron Lund, editor of the Syria in Crisis website run by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, raised similar doubts.
"The fact that news about this Al-Qaeda-run, anti-Western cell linked to Al-Nusra emerged just over a week ago, through US intelligence leaks -- well, it's certainly an interesting coincidence," he told AFP.
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Claims of a distinction are lost of many of Syria's rebels, who have also often rejected the world community's designation of Al-Nusra as a "terrorist" group.
When Washington added Al-Nusra to its list of "terrorist" organisations, even the internationally-backed Syrian opposition National Coalition criticised the decision.
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On the ground, almost all rebel groups have been willing to cooperate with Al-Nusra, seeing them as distinct from the Islamic State group (IS), which espouses transnational goals and includes many non-Syrians among its ranks.
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[The] history of cooperation [between the various crazies in Syria] has left some rebels and activists on the ground suspicious and even angry about the strikes on Al-Qaeda.
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Some key members are believed to maintain channels of communication with Al-Nusra, including Qatar, which has helped negotiate the release of prisoners held by the group.
McClatchy adds:
Raad Alawi, the commander of a smaller group of fighters, the Squadrons of Al Haq, told McClatchy he was very angry.
“Starting the war with the bombing of Nusra is an indication that this is a war against the revolution and not [ISIS] ... “Maybe next they will bomb the bases of the Free Syrian Army.”
Well, okay ... experts and Syrian Islamic jihadis think there's no distinction between the Khorasans and plain vanilla Al Nusra/Al Qaeda/Free Syrian Army fighters.
But surely America and our allies treat the moderate Syrian rebels ... I mean Al Nusra ... er, I mean the Khorasans ... with a consistent iron fist?
Well, no ... we've been - directly or indirectly - backing them. And - as we've been warning for some time - the boys we're arming are threatening to attack us.
So - while I'd like to believe that I'm being shown the real deal as a justification for long-term, direct involvement - I'm just not buying it .
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Obunker has swamp-balls but that's even before he gets out of the limo and on to the first hole
Kardashians?
That's gonna take one big ass bunker buster to get in there....
Not really. I think it's pretty damn easy to get into a Kardashian.
bet there's lottsa grease twixt them cheeks---ta slide on in on---
the title : that gives me a belly ache from laffing!
This isn't geopolitics any more, it's the theatre of the absurd.
Completely absurd. I overheard 3 conversations about this at the office yesterday. In general they went something like:
"Are you kidding me? Do they actually think anybody believes this nonsense?"
If nothing else, I think it's good that they are finding it difficult to build voter support for this horse shit. It seems a fair amount of people either flat out don't care or are calling this thing what it is: a manufactured situation totally lacking in any credibility.
And then you mention Elliot Shimon and the selfies with John McCain...
poor, poor Theather of the Absurd, being dragged in this mess:
"The Absurd in these plays takes the form of man’s reaction to a world apparently without meaning, and/or man as a puppet controlled or menaced by invisible outside forces. Though the term is applied to a wide range of plays, some characteristics coincide in many of the plays: broad comedy, often similar to Vaudeville, mixed with horrific or tragic images; characters caught in hopeless situations forced to do repetitive or meaningless actions; dialogue full of clichés, wordplay, and nonsense; plots that are cyclical or absurdly expansive; either a parody or dismissal of realism and the concept of the "well-made play".
Playwrights commonly associated with the Theatre of the Absurd include Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Jean Genet, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Fernando Arrabal, Václav Havel and Edward Albee."
there you have it: the plot is cyclical. There Must Be War. Ammo has to be spent
The Horror...The Horror... Marlon Brando in "Apocalypse Now".
Not sure how well that fits with Theatre of the Absurd.
But Brando's Character "Kurtz" seems to be caught in a meaningless war deep in the Jungle where everyday is "Groundhog Day".
The Fascist Model Adopted by Henry Kissinger & Zbigniew Brzezinski to create the USA as we know it under the guise of a "Democracy" is also a kind of nightmare.
- Deceitful government statistics,
- Controlling the media,
- Punish whistle-blowers with the national security act or - Patriot Act,
- Flat out hide the total liabilities,
- Never mention or Address in detail the full federal budget,
- Change the Accounting Rules, Financial Rules
- Have a Central Bank that takes away responsibility
- Continuing Resolutions with double digit increases,
- Endless War,
- Corporate welfare & subsidies,
- Privatization of Utilities, Public Works, Bridges, Highways,
- Privatization of War,
- Hidden Networks of Government in Corporate Bodies for Logistics, Communications, Spying, Police, Prisons, Courts of Justice, Banking,
- Networks of Corporate Interests in Executive Branch, Treasury, Central Bank,
"Broad comedy mixed with tragic images"
"Characters caught in hopeless situations forced to do repetitive or meaningless actions" (Great explanation of why Obama has ended up looking exactly like a Bush.)
"Dialogue full of cliches, wordplay, and nonnense." (Watched Fox News or MSNBC lately?)
"Parody or dismissal of realism" (U.S. economic policy?)
Every part of that definition could be used to accurately describe U.S. politics and foreign policy.
I will wait with my opinion until i see some photoshopped pictures of those Khorasans.
Khorasans ? Are they aliens? Where did they park their flying saucer ?
Please change your name George. The real George Washington is turning over in his grave
Oh, the one that cut down the cherry tree. For fucks sake man, pull your head outta yer arse.
What fools indeed ;)
This is great stuff, Banzai.
They shoulda gone after these guys, they sound terrifying!
Bombing the Kardashians sounds a pretty good idea.
I bet they have Klingons too.
You mean Kartrashians ?
what are the Kardashians?
Big Ass Kardash?
I wish I didn't know they're part of the Jenner Tribe.
Does this guy remind you of Bruce?
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/highest-paid-female-ceo-martine-rothblatt-...
He is Trans/woman now.
and what is the Jenner Tribe? in the linked article, she claims Armenian heritage. I could go on a rant about many people in the West not understanding tribes or how many tribes there are, particularly outside the West
Just be satisfied that you know everything; and don't subject us to anymore of your "wisdom"; okay ? thanks.
Armenian blood didn't make the Kardashians. Hollywood and a deranged mother did.
The gentleman who stores, cleans and repairs my antique Persian rugs is a fine fellow that is a pleasure to do business with.
He also has a better eye for appreciation than any broker.
Hey George / ZH... By far the BIGGEST story in a long time here: http://rt.com/news/188332-mox-nuclear-fuel-production/
Word is Pres Carter in "bondage" to CFR interests made an executive order BANNING continued use of this type of reactor as many of the USA's top nuke scientists were baffled as they were about to "close the loop" which they had been working on doing since the first reactor was put on line.
Appears that interests tied to the price of Urianium would have seen some undesirable price pull backs... No large Uranium deposits in the US but a HUGE one up in Canada... This is MASSIVE and US could have done it back in 1985 !!! US reactors use only 5% of the material in the fuel -- with the closed loop process the stuff can be taken out virtually by hand after its exhausted!!!!! Can ya feel me here???
Not withstandning MSM relentlessly water hosed Kardashian Rump Regalia -->
What are the claimed fission products?
I have a theory that the 1,000 years of the slow progressing Middle Ages were caused by oligarchy/fascist control of raw materials and communist like control of arable and hunt-able land.
When producers and sellers of intermittent and/or consumer goods control the crimes of government they can slow technological development and innovations in the underlying economy. However, when the producers and extractors of base commodities, energy, arable land, etc. control the depravity of government, new technologies are completely blocked. Nothing is permitted to replace or supplant previous uses of controlled commodities.
Additionally base materials become expensive and difficult to attain for experimentation and innovation. I.e. a farmer might like to improve the plow, but not have access to iron to experiment with, etc. And a farmer wouldn't be that motivated to invent or innovate since he pretty much lives and works on a commune called a manor.
In current times one sees the oil industry stymie nuclear power and then nuclear power stymie more efficient nuke technologies. One also sees the same forces at work on arable land with corp. farming and especially GMO crops.
Seems toward war and human stagnation mankind flies at again.
An American, not US subject.
"The solution to oppression--fascism, socialism, communism--is the guillotine."
But first the CIA needs to finish their recruitment through Blackwater.
We need to wait until they get there before we start talking about how evil and bad they are......give it some time.
Reminds me of Building No # 7
I thought he said Coruscant
Obi Won Kenobi on Washington DC: "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy"
Oh, yeah? try Oakland. it's at lest in the running.
When do we get to the point where we look up at each other, shrug, and say, "fuck it. Nuke em all let's move on."?
Russel, that's a stupid thing to say. Let's not nuke anybody?
Meanwhile, in Syria Is a NATO invasion about to begin?
Even maps of ISIS territory used by the Western media reveal well- defined corridors leading from Turkish territory and into both Syria and Iraq. It is clear that ISIS is not a "state," but rather an invasion and occupation originating from NATO territory.
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/