| Israel's
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| On 21 March 2003, the British and Australian Special Air Services Regiments [SAS] were unwittingly tasked with protecting “Israeli Assets” H2 and H3 in Iraq’s Western Desert. Their British and Australian political masters stood these elite troops into clear and present danger, without ever explaining the real reason for their presence. |
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When Part One of Operation Shekhinah was first published in January
2002, it was viewed by many as a work of complete fiction. “Where
is the proof,” my mainly Jewish critics asked, “that Israel
intends to illegally invade Iraq and steal its strategic oil
reserves?” At the time, I asked everyone to examine the evidence and reach their own conclusions, because I was not yet ready to divulge the fact that this critical intelligence was sourced directly from the offices of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. I had every intention of living long enough to write this sequel, an ambition that may have been thwarted by Israel if I had revealed my source at that early stage. Those readers wishing to review part one should click on the links at the top or bottom of this page, but in summary, the March 2001 Israeli operational planning envisaged a lightning strike on southern Iraq, followed by captured oil supplies being back-flowed to Haifa via the existing Trans Arabian Pipeline [Tapline]. Possible protests by the “International Community” about the Blitzkrieg were to be stifled by the Zionist-controlled media in New York and Washington, DC, who would explain patiently that this was merely a surgical strike against the “Evil Tyrant Saddam Hussein”. Shekhinah planning accelerated through the northern summer of 2001, with a firm invasion date set for 2 October 2001, the first day of a seven-day Jewish holiday, and thus a most unlikely time to expect an Israeli attack. Then, as if from nowhere, the Zionist-banking center in New York was razed to the ground on 11 September 2001. At a single stroke, the World Trade Center attack removed Shekhinah’s reserve funding and its critical equipment supply from America, including a large number of F15 Strike Eagle ground attack aircraft, instantly relegating the premeditated Israeli invasion of Iraq to the back burner. Thwarted in this first attempt to expand their territory to a “Greater Israel” stretching east to the Iranian border, the Zionists were forced to find another way of gaining control of Iraq’s oil reserves. So in early April 2002, George W. Bush was programmed to start attacking the “Evil Tyrant Saddam Hussein” and his fictional “Weapons of Mass Destruction” on television. With the Israeli-Jewish lobby pressing all the right buttons, George Dubya completely redefined the term “megalomania’, occasionally dribbling spittle down his shirt front as he made countless speeches aimed at directing hatred towards the Iraqi President. Without their knowledge or consent, American and other “Coalition” troops, and countless Iraqi citizens were about to be sacrificed on the high altar of Zion. As the fresh-faced youngsters took up their positions for the fight ahead, most did so believing that this was a heroic western effort to rid the world of “Weapons of Mass Destruction”, while a cynical minority nodded sagely, muttering under their breath that America really wanted to steal Iraq’s oil reserves. As this report proves with hard evidence, both claims are completely false. On the weapons side, UN Chief Inspector Hans Blix had already made it very clear to the Security Council that, in his view, Iraq no longer possessed any long range Scud missiles, nor any viable chemical or biological weapons. By the time American-British-Australian invasion forces had cluster-bombed their way to the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, this first reality had become became self-evident. Though defensive chemical warfare suits and atropine antidotes were found in plenty, clearly positioned to protect Iraqi troops from an [expected] American VX nerve gas attack, there were no Iraqi “Weapons of Mass Destruction” to be found. That leaves American domination and theft of Iraqi oil, right? No, it does not. The American and British oil multinationals already have enough oil and gas reserves for their needs in various countries around the world, without taking on a hostile country recognized in oilfield geopolitical terms as a Russian client. Oil is a strategic military asset, and the American oil multinationals knew then, and they still know now, that taking this insane Iraqi road could easily lead to World War III. Forget any and all television ramblings by “Texan Oilman” George Bush, who would have trouble distinguishing between an oil wellhead and a retail gas pump. Like most politicians, George has grabbed seats on the boards of a couple of minor oil companies for the cash benefits, but that is all. The problem for George, is that he has so far failed to provide a valid American motive for Operation Iraqi Freedom. All crimes including the illegal invasion of a sovereign nation like Iraq, require opportunity, motive and method. Any policeman on the street will happily confirm this. Out of these three criteria, motive is by far the most important, for without it the crime would not be committed in the first place. A drug addict is motivated to steal by an uncontrollable need for narcotics, and a car thief is motivated to steal by the need to convert identifiable goods into anonymous cash. The Israeli-Jewish lobby’s motive for the original Operation Shekhinah, and latterly for Operation Iraqi Freedom, was and is based on the certainty that the American economy and social structure is in steep decline. Unless the Israel-Jewish lobby could somehow find a massive independent income stream, the parasitic Jewish State would completely collapse in less than a decade. We will examine this harsh reality later in the report. |
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On the first day of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the British and
Australian SAS, in the company of unspecified American special
forces, were deployed to the Western Desert of Iraq in order to
“protect” two strategic “airfields” code-named H2 and H3,
which “might” be used to fire Scud missiles at Israel. This
despite the fact that everyone from the UN Secretary General down to
the most humble of weapons inspectors, knew the claim was pathetic
rubbish. The last of Iraq’s scuds were destroyed many years ago. What you were told quite clearly by the media, however, is that these highly trained specialist troops, normally reserved for strategic reconnaisance ahead of the main military force, had mysteriously been assigned to the mere “sideshow” of protecting the Jewish State. In Australia, this startling announcement was promptly followed by visits and telephone calls from former Israeli Prime Minister Barak, and current Prime Minister Sharon, publicly heaping lavish praise on Australian Prime Minister John Howard, for protecting Israel against Scud missiles, which Israel itself already knew no longer existed. So exactly what were these two Prime Ministers thanking Australia for? The short answer is that “airfields” H2 and H3 are actually “Haifa 2” and “Haifa 3”, critical pumping stations on the oil pipeline that originally ran all the way from Mosul in the north of Iraq to Haifa in Palestine, and pumped oil until 1948. During that year Palestine was invaded by the “Jewish State”, at which time Iraq blocked the pipeline near its western end. But recent Israeli claims that this Mosul to Haifa pipeline is nowadays “dilapidated”, “out of action” and “runs through Syria” are intentional disinformation. As you can see on the map above, the Mosul to Haifa pipeline runs all the way down the Western Desert of Iraq, then crosses into Jordan rather than Syria, continuing west to a point near Amman, just a few miles short of the Israeli border. Until very recently, Iraq pumped free oil along this pipeline to Jordan, as a way of saying thank you for Jordan’s support during the 1990-1991 Gulf War. “Free” oil for Israel has thus always been tantalizingly close, and is the sole reason for “Operation Iraqi Freedom”. For unspecified reasons that are now becoming much clearer, Bush, Blair and Howard demanded that the best special forces in the western world should defend a line running from H3 in the south, to Mosul in the north. By an odd coincidence perhaps, this is the exact route of “Israel’s” Mosul to Haifa pipeline. Proof that this initial Israeli objective of securing the pipeline as far north as Mosul had been achieved, was inadvertently provided by Jane’s Defence Weekly on 3 April 2003. “The parading on Al Jazeera television of UK equipment in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on 31 March provided a brief glimpse into the SAS role in toppling Saddam Hussein's regime. Footage showed Iraqi civilians jubilantly driving a Land Rover through the streets of the city, then a quad-bike and a collection of weapons being displayed at an Iraqi military base. “This included hand-held rocket launchers, 40mm grenades, machine guns and specialized radio equipment, suggesting this was not from an conventional British Army unit. The location of the incident, far from the main UK operating area around Kuwait and Basra, immediately led to media speculation that the highly secretive 22nd SAS Regiment was in some way involved.” According to Russian Military Intelligence [GRU] reports, this was indeed the case. In a chilling report released on 2 April, twenty-four hours before Jane’s wrote about the Land Rover, quad-bike and other special forces equipment in Mosul, the GRU stated: “Tactical attack units from the American 82nd Airborne Division and the 22nd SAS Regiment, earlier deployed to northern Iraq near the town of Al-Buadj, were destroyed and dispersed as the result of a daylong battle with the Iraqi troops. The exact number of [coalition] losses is still being verified. “Intercepted radio communications show that the coalition troops are retreating in small groups and have no exact information about their own losses. Currently the remaining units are trying to reach the Kurdish-controlled territory. It is believed that up to 30 [coalition] soldiers were killed or captured by the Iraqis.” The Mosul to Haifa pipeline is a “bonus” not originally envisioned under the original 2001 Operation Shekhinah, which called only for the capture of southern Iraq and the old Trans Arabian Pipeline, which runs east to west along the extreme northern edge of Saudi Arabia [see map]. The original 2001 Operation Shekhinah was a “can do” solo Israeli objective, bearing in mind the sheer distance over flat desert separating Baghdad from Basrah, and Israel’s overwhelming air superiority. If the Iraqi Republican Guard moved south over the desert in an attempt to intervene, they would be swiftly decimated by state-of-the-art Israeli aircraft, all provided free of charge by generous American taxpayers. With the rich Mosul to Haifa pipeline now added to the war booty, predicted profits have already gone through the roof, with Israeli traders excitedly muttering to each other about “New Rotterdam” becoming the jewel in the Israeli-Jewish crown. At a more subtle level, the hijacked oil supplies are intended to help fund the planned expansion of the Jewish State, east to the Iranian border. Nowadays, visible Israeli-Jewish greed for free Iraqi oil borders on the obscene. Less than a week ago while body bags containing dead Americans and Britons were still piling up in Kuwait refrigerated storage [believe me, you really don’t want to know how many], Israeli-Jews were already starting to gloat publicly about their future oil wealth. A leading Tel Aviv newspaper explained: “Israel's National Infrastructures Minister Yoseph Paritzky is already meeting with Jordanian officials about the [Mosul-Haifa] pipeline, on the assumption that a pro-Western government will be set up following the US-led war. “Minister Paritzky reportedly believes that restarting the pipeline could reduce Israel's fuel costs by 25 percent and turn Haifa into "the Rotterdam of the Middle East" - a major oil export terminal. UPI quotes international relations researcher Dr. Hooman Peimani of Geneva as saying that the venture will reduce Israel's dependence on Russian crude and the cost of its energy imports.” |
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What the newspaper failed to report, was that on the very same day
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called American Secretary of
State Colin Powell, instructing him to start pumping oil as quickly
as possible. Evidently, indicted war criminal Ariel Sharon wished to
make it crystal clear exactly who was really in control of American
foreign policy, and in charge of US military assets. Before examining exactly how the “New Rotterdam” expects to operate, we should first answer the obvious question of “Why bother with Operation Shekhinah at all?” It is an open secret that when the powerful Israeli-Jewish lobby snaps its fingers in New York, American taxpayer cash and defense equipment is immediately provided by the shipload. Which of course brings us right back to the failing American economy and social structures mentioned earlier in this report. Since early 2000, it has been obvious to most informed analysts that America’s economy and employment have been in ever-decreasing decline, made worse by several nations switching their oil trading from US Dollars to Euros. If the situation worsens, perhaps triggered by OPEC switching all oil trade to Euros, with China and Japan panicked into converting their own massive holdings to Euros, the United States Dollar will crash completely, driving America into a depression of hitherto unimaginable severity. The Jewish State is a true parasite, wholly dependent on massive American funding in order to survive. Remove that funding either intentionally or accidentally, and the Jewish State would be overrun and destroyed in a matter of months. Though the entire Middle East now hates America with a passion, it reserves its deepest loathing for the Jewish invaders, who, every single day without end, bring more death and destruction to the helpless women and children of Palestine. So what is a poor parasite to do, when its host appears to be running out of the fiscal nourishment it depends on for its very survival? Most normal parasites would seek out a new host, but this is an impossible task for the Jewish State. There is simply no other country on earth capable of generating sufficient revenue to cope with the greed and corruption in Tel Aviv. The only answer of course was Operation Shekhinah “mark two”, renamed Operation Iraqi Freedom and designed to provide the Jewish State with massive income streams from stolen Iraqi oil. The prime objectives were to decapitate [murder] President Saddam Hussein, decimate the Iraqi military structure, and destabilize the country completely. After that, a carefully selected “Military Governor” would be installed, followed by a carefully selected “Interim Administrator”, both of whom could be relied on to look after Israel’s best interests, rather than those of America. The Israeli-Jewish lobby in New York vetted a few possible candidates, then made their final choices. The new “Military Governor” of Iraq will be retired American Lieutenant General Jay Garner, a very close and ardent supporter of Israel. In fact, Garner is a member of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), a cabal of Jewish American military officers who have long advocated putting Israel's security needs before those of the United States. From Israel’s viewpoint, Garner is their perfect point man in Iraq, guaranteed to solve any little “problems” that might be encountered while setting up the two massive oil pipelines running from Iraq to Haifa. Following in Jay Garner’s footsteps will be new “Interim Administrator” Ahmad Chalabi, who was convicted in Jordan in 1992 of 31 charges of embezzlement and misuse of funds while running the Petra Bank, a known Mossad front. Chalabi was sentenced to 22 years imprisonment, but somehow managed to “escape” from police custody in Amman before he could be transported to prison. With a Mossad man in place and ready to select the final “democratic” Government of Iraq, Israel predictably feels very confident that any and all other little problems with oil supplies for New Rotterdam can be swiftly resolved, either with a few shekels or with a bullet. Iraq was[apparently] already conquered by coalition forces and [apparently] under western control, so the impatient Israeli-Jewish lobby immediately pointed George W. Bush and Co. at Syria, which, as I noted back in January 2002, is the wild card in the Shekhinah pack, because of its close proximity to the massive oil pipelines running along its southern border, from Iraq to the New Rotterdam at Haifa: “It should be noted very carefully though, that in every sense Syria is the wild card in the pack. If Israel seriously underestimates Syrian military equipment, skill and determination, that country can and will terminate not only Operation Shekhinah, but also the Jewish State. The same will apply if Israel sends too large an occupation force to southern Iraq, thereby leaving itself wide open to an attack on what it fondly regards as its ‘Home Land’, i.e. Palestine.” Obviously I wrote this paragraph many months before the Israeli-Jewish lobby managed to suborn the entire US Military for a massive attack across the length and breadth of Iraq. This changed things considerably in the planning phase, with Israel now intent on using American firepower to eliminate the Syrian risk completely After the Bush-Rumsfeld-Powell choir launched the catchy new “Syria is Harboring Weapons of Mass Destruction” jingle on 14 April, Powell gave a speech to the Israeli-Jewish lobby AIPAC [American Israel Public Affairs Committee], confirming that the US will not stop with Iraq: "Syria can continue direct support for terrorist groups and the dying regime of Saddam Hussein, or it can embark on a different and more hopeful course. Either way, Syria bears the responsibility for its choices -- and for the consequences." [Wild applause and hooting from the audience, largely composed of powerful and well-connected establishment Jews.] The word “consequences” has only one meaning in the megalomanic worlds of the US State Department and the Israeli-Jewish lobby. Syria must immediately agree to replace President Bashar al-Assad with Ahmad Chalabi’s younger brother, or be bombed back into the Stone Age. |
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Theoretically then, only a few thousand more American cluster bombs
on Damascus lie between Israel and its staggering quantities of
black gold flowing through New Rotterdam, made possible solely by
Coalition firepower and Coalition lives. Israeli-Jews will be able
to strut their stuff on the streets of Tel Aviv, as tons of freshly
minted Shekels cascade all over the entire city. To hell with
America! In reality, things are set to be a whole lot more difficult than that. The academic Israeli-Jewish lobby planners in New York were living in a dream world where nothing could go wrong, and who in turn were advised by resplendent retired generals in business suits. The closest any of these jokers ever got to real combat, was driving a Jeep around the Pentagon car park on Halloween. As Jay Garner and Ahmad Chalabi hide nervously behind bodyguards in southern Iraq, they know that things are not what they were planned to be. Peter Arnett and Robert Fisk have already confirmed that Saddam Hussein was not decapitated in the bunker-buster attack, meaning that he, his two sons and the Iraqi Command Council are still out there somewhere. Military counts have confirmed that very few Republican Guardsmen were killed in the coalition attacks, in turn meaning that somewhere in Iraq there are 300,000 trained soldiers with at least one rifle each. All are now in civilian clothes, and all hate America and Israel with a passion bordering on fanaticism. Very likely arranged in small cells of four to six men, these soldiers will probably wait until sheer cost forces America to remove much of its heavy armor from the country. After that, Iraq will probably resemble Northern Ireland at the height of IRA power, but on a much larger scale. If you can imagine a Northern Ireland nearly twice the size of Vietnam, containing 299,900 more trained shooters than the IRA, you will probably be close to the reality of Iraq after most of the coalition invaders withdraw to the south. Then there is the small problem of sorting out the vast oilfields and pumping crude to Israel, the main objective of “Operation Iraqi Freedom”. Speaking as a former oilfield troubleshooter, I can assure you this will be an impossible task if the Iraqis wish to block it. There are a thousand ways to sabotage the operation, not the least of which is picking off the workers with sniper rifles. Sooner or later, no one will want to go to work at all. Externally, Russia might be a problem, though Vladimir Putin has assured the world that the nine Russian warships and three nuclear submarines currently on their way to the northern Indian Ocean, “will only be engaging in exercises with the Indian Navy”. Thank heavens for that, because the Russian fleet is packing enough nuclear punch to completely wipe out Saudi Arabia, or the eastern seaboard of America! History has taught us however, that the poker-faced “Black-Belt Vlad” [only to personal friends at his Dojo], can sometimes be rather economical with the truth, making it essential to listen to retired admirals in Moscow if you want to get the whole picture. Two weeks ago, one of these admirals commented “It is interesting that a very large amphibious assault ship with commandos and tanks on board, has been included in the fleet.” When he was predictably asked what sort of target the assault ship might be used against, the Admiral replied, “Oh, for attacking and capturing a small port, perhaps the size of Umm Qasr or Basrah.” During 1933, famous author H. G. Wells wrote a book called The Shape of Things to Come, in which he accurately forecast that World War II would start, “out of a conflict between Germany and Poland circa 1939”. In the same book, Wells also wrote that World War III was to commence, “from some future [unidentified] event in Basrah, Iraq.” |
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19 April 2003 Israel Officially Approaches Turkish Labor For Help Stealing Iraqi Oil |
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At 16:36 local time on 17 April in Istanbul, Turkey, less than 24
hours after this Operation Shekhinah report was first linked on the
Internet, it was reported that Israel has already approached Turkish
contracting firms to re-activate the Mosul to Haifa Pipeline. This
report from www.turks.us: “Israel has made an offer to Turkish contacting firms to reactivate the Mosul-Haifa pipeline, which has been closed for the last 55 years. Not only the Israeli government but also Israeli firms have reportedly approached Turkish companies for an oil pipeline that would provide transportation of 5 million barrels of oil from northern Iraq to the Israeli port of Haifa. “Turkish Contractors Union Chairman Nihat Ozdemir confirmed the offers from Israel and noted that a considerable part of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline construction had been carried out by Turkish firms. Pointing out that Turkish construction firms had important experience in the subject of international oil transportation, Ozdemir said that it was ‘normal’ that Turkish firms had been chosen to rebuild the pipeline.” For those readers puzzled by what at first appears to be a ‘one-time-only’ transportation of 5 million barrels of oil, is it pointed out that oil pipeline contracts are quoted in barrels per day [bbpd] continuous flow. This means that the Israeli-Jews have indirectly advised us though Turkey, that they are already planning to steal 1,825 million barrels of Iraqi oil per annum. Taking a nominal price of US$25.00 per barrel FOB “New Rotterdam” [after the deduction of engineering expenses and bribes], the Israeli-Jewish terrorists stand to make a cool US$ 45,625,000,000.00 each year over the bodies of thousands of dead Iraqi, American and British soldiers, deliberately sacrificed in the deserts and cities of Iraq for the “Greater Good of Israel”. The fact that the Israeli-Jews will probably not be allowed to get away with it, does nothing to diminish their despicable cold-blooded planning and intent. Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul is now aware of Israeli intent, and is stated to be “very angry”, which may the diplomatic understatement of the year. Since sanctions were imposed in Iraq after Gulf War I, Turkey has lost at least US$6 billion in oil transit and handling fees, which has left Turkey all but destitute. Thus Gul is unlikely to stand by and watch this essential income stream destroyed forever by Tel Aviv. Local media reports suggest that Turkey currently has around 60,000 troops with a very large quantity of armor on the northern Iraqi border, which lies within easy striking range of Mosul. The next few weeks and months might turn out to be very interesting. The prestigious “Jane’s Intelligence” organization in Britain has shown a passing interest in this Israeli thirst for Iraqi oil, and has posted a cautious analysis, which can be read by clicking here. |
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22 April 2003 Bush Demands Iraqi Airfields to Protect “Israeli” Oil |
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| US Marine tear down statue of Saddam Hussein in Paradise Square, Baghdad, at 1130 hrs on 9 April 2003. Four hours after this American public relations spectacular, the real Saddam Hussein appears less than six miles north of Paradise Square, mobbed by armed supporters! |
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In a move once that once again reinforces the accuracy of the
original Operation Shekhinah intelligence, George Dubya Bush
has demanded four “key” airfields for an ongoing “strategic
alliance with the new Government of Iraq.” To say this is
premature would be seriously understating the case. As of yesterday,
American forces had actual physical control of less than
three-percent of sovereign Iraq. For those who remember Vietnam, the pattern will seem disturbingly familiar: America has now installed several small but heavily defended “Fire Bases” across Iraq [including Paradise Square, Baghdad], and is using media trickery to try to convince the public that these tiny fire bases represent the complete conquest of Iraq. The public certainly believed this pathetic media rubbish about Vietnam, right up to the point where Americans were finally and desperately evacuated from the roof of the US Embassy in downtown Saigon. Back then, the Vietcong and North Vietnamese Army controlled roughly 97% of South Vietnam, i.e. all of the country except the tiny American fire bases,plus three heavily defended airfields and a few brothels in Saigon. One way and another, this led to 50,000 Americans being repatriated to the United States in body bags. Today, the Iraqi Republican Guard and Home Guard Units control roughly 97% of greater Iraq, and the serious killing will probably commence when temperatures exceed 50C, just a few weeks from now. |
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The actual positions of Dubya’s four new “key” bases
shown on the map above are critical. The New York Times
reports, “One will be at the international airport just
outside Baghdad, according to Bush administration officials, while
the others will be at Tallil, near An Nasiriyah in the south;
at an isolated airstrip called H-1 in the western desert, along an
old oil pipeline that runs to Jordan; and at the Bashur air field in
the Kurdish north” Extraordinary! H1 [Pumping Station Haifa 1] has at last been mentioned officially, obliging the Israeli-Jews to upgrade last month’s very deceptive, “old Haifa-Mosul pipeline that once used to run through Syria” to the somewhat more accurate “old [operational] oil pipeline that runs to Jordan”. Even a cursory glance at the large maps above shows how strategic these bases are, specifically in terms of protecting the massive Israeli-Jewish theft of Iraqi oil to Haifa, the “New Rotterdam”. The H1 you were never told about before, is located just south of the pipeline manifold where American forces recently cut the flow of oil from Iraq to Syria. This airfield will be used to effectively “control” Eastern Syria. Bashur in the north will be used to crush any Kurdish dissent, while Tallil will guard the old Tapline from Saudi Arabia. Well, theoretically at least. Before using H1, the Americans will have to do a lot of hard work laying and extending the runways. At present, the rough airstrip at H1 is suitable only for light aircraft servicing the pipeline pumping station. , "There will be some kind of a long-term defense relationship with a new Iraq, similar to Afghanistan," said one senior American administration official. Yeah, right! Nowadays Afghan puppet president Hamid Karzai, who was installed by New York to protect the CIA’s heroin trade from Afghanistan through to the Golden Triangle, is completely surrounded by angry Afghan warlords, who kill American soldiers whenever and wherever they want to. A true though disturbing sign of things to come in the new Israeli-Jewish ‘Democratic’ Iraq. On a lighter note, it seems that US Central Command in Qatar lied to us yesterday, which I feel sure will come as an enormous surprise to everyone! Apparently in an attempt to deflect attention away from the very real Mosul to Haifa pipeline that the SAS has been inadvertently protecting for Israel, the PR folk hastily rushed out some really pretty pictures which, they claimed, showed the SAS "guarding captured Iraqi aircraft at a secret airfield west of Baghdad". |
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What these [unidentifiable] hooded men are guarding is a very rare
Russian aircraft known as the Mig 25-PU. Known generically to the
world as the Mig 25 "Foxbat", this version is a two-seat
interceptor trainer produced in numbers so small that every aviation
buff in the world knows where they all are. Iraq had never bought
any Mig 25-PUs, has not borrowed or been given any Mig 25-PUs, so
this official picture from US Central Command cannot have been shot
in Iraq. It really is that simple... The headgear worn by these heroes is mildly interesting, because it is very similar if not identical to that worn by Russian special forces, normally but not always in Russia. The colors on the aircraft indicate that is most likely one belonging to Tajikistan, where certain units of the SAS [hush my mouth...] went on exercise a year or two ago. Remember Exercise "Enduring Freedom"? Someone really should have a quiet word with US Central Command. If you know their telephone number, call and tell them that if they really want to fool the western public, their PR folk really should use a picture of an aircraft that most people will actually believe is [or can be] in Iraq. Try to stick to the ubiquitous Mig 21. Almost everyone in the Middle East has a few of these, including Saddam... |
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06 May 2003 The London Observer "Outs" Israeli Plans to Steal Iraqi Oil |
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"Plans to build a pipeline to siphon oil from newly conquered
Iraq to Israel are being discussed between Washington, Tel Aviv and
potential future government figures in Baghdad. The plan envisages
the reconstruction of an old pipeline, inactive since the end of the
British mandate in Palestine in 1948, when the flow from Iraq's
northern oilfields to Palestine was re-directed to Syria. "Now, its resurrection would transform economic power in the region, bringing revenue to the new US-dominated Iraq, cutting out Syria and solving Israel's energy crisis at a stroke. It would also create an end less and easily accessible source of cheap Iraqi oil for the US guaranteed by reliable allies other than Saudi Arabia - a keystone of US foreign policy for decades and especially since 11 September 2001. "Until 1948, the pipeline ran from the Kurdish-controlled city of Mosul to the Israeli port of Haifa, on its northern Mediterranean coast. The revival of the pipeline was first discussed openly by the Israeli Minister for National Infrastructures, Joseph Paritzky, according to the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz . "The paper quotes Paritzky as saying that the pipeline would cut Israel's energy bill drastically - probably by more than 25 per cent - since the country is currently largely dependent on expensive imports from Russia. US intelligence sources confirmed to The Observer that the project has been discussed. One former senior CIA official said: 'It has long been a dream of a powerful section of the people now driving this administration [of President George W. Bush] and the war in Iraq to safeguard Israel's energy supply as well as that of the United States. 'The Haifa pipeline was something that existed, was resurrected as a dream and is now a viable project - albeit with a lot of building to do.' The editor-in-chief of the Middle East Economic Review , Walid Khadduri, says in the current issue of Jane's Foreign Report that 'there's not a metre of it left, at least in Arab territory'. "To resurrect the pipeline would need the backing of whatever government the US is to put in place in Iraq, and has been discussed - according to Western diplomatic sources - with the US-sponsored Iraqi National Congress and its leader Ahmed Chalabi, the former banker favoured by the Pentagon for a powerful role in the war's aftermath. "Sources at the State Department said that concluding a peace treaty with Israel is to be 'top of the agenda' for a new Iraqi government, and Chalabi is known to have discussed Iraq's recognition of the state of Israel. The pipeline would also require permission from Jordan. Paritzky's Ministry is believed to have approached officials in Amman on 9 April this year. Sources told Ha'aretz that the talks left Israel 'optimistic'. "James Akins, a former US ambassador to the region and one of America's leading Arabists, said: 'There would be a fee for transit rights through Jordan, just as there would be fees for Israel from those using what would be the Haifa terminal. 'After all, this is a new world order now. This is what things look like particularly if we wipe out Syria. It just goes to show that it is all about oil, for the United States and its ally.' "Akins was ambassador to Saudi Arabia before he was fired after a series of conflicts with then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, father of the vision to pipe oil west from Iraq. In 1975, Kissinger signed what forms the basis for the Haifa project: a Memorandum of Understanding whereby the US would guarantee Israel's oil reserves and energy supply in times of crisis. "Kissinger was also master of the American plan in the mid-Eighties - when Saddam Hussein was a key US ally - to run an oil pipeline from Iraq to Aqaba in Jordan, opposite the Israeli port of Eilat. The plan was promoted by the now Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and the pipeline was to be built by the Bechtel company, which the Bush administration last week awarded a multi-billion dollar contract for the reconstruction of Iraq. "The memorandum has been quietly renewed every five years, with special legislation attached whereby the US stocks a strategic oil reserve for Israel even if it entailed domestic shortages - at a cost of $3 billion (£1.9bn) in 2002 to US taxpayers. This bill would be slashed by a new pipeline, which would have the added advantage of giving the US reliable access to Gulf oil other than from Saudi Arabia." For the Observer newspaper click Here. Though this Observer report is a reasonable summary of current events in Iraq, and the advanced state of planning for Operation Shekhinah, it has been somewhat misled by the apparent absence of the Haifa Pipeline in Jane's Foreign Report, which apparently states, 'there's not a metre of it left, at least in Arab territory'. When it comes to pipelines of critical strategic value to Israel, map makers and newspaper editors alike seem to to develop a rare form of collective myopia. The Haifa pipeline still runs through Iraq and Jordan, is clearly visible from any airliner, and remains fully operational with pumping stations in place and well maintained. So what about Israel's second route for stealing Iraqi crude oil, the old "Tapline" running acroos the extreme northern edge of Saudi Arabia? What chance that another branch of the myopic media might try to tell you 'there's not a metre of it left, at least in Arab territory'? Rest assured that if they do, they will be lying. The Trans Arabian Pipeline, just like the Haifa Pipeline, is currently not pumping, but it is full of oil, with pumping stations properly maintained. There is a slight glitch, however. According to reliable inside sources, the western oil multinationals have refused to connect the pipelines or transfer Iraqi oil, because there is no proper "sovereign title" to the product, and they are not prepared to start World War III with Russia over the matter. |
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20 October 2003 First Tacit American Admission of Defeat in Iraq |
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In the months following America’s illegal invasion of Iraq, it has
become increasingly obvious that the northern pipeline from Mosul,
planned to be reconnected to an export terminal in Haifa, is an
impossible Zionist dream. Whenever American troops approach the
northern half of this particular pipeline [see map at top of page],
they are shot at and often killed by Saddam Hussein’s Sunni
counter-insurgency teams. Whenever American troops approach
the southern half of the same pipeline, they are shot at and often
killed by Muqtada Al-Sadr’s Shiite counter-insurgency teams. While these attacks are actually taking place, additional Sunni and Shiite counter-insurgency teams repeatedly blow up large sections of the main and branch oil pipelines, making the movement of crude oil and refined product impossible. Thousands of kilometers of oil pipeline are exposed above ground level, which, as I accurately forecast before the invasion started, cannot be defended by American troops. All oil pipelines are pressurized, meaning that any Iraqi with a simple RPG [Rocket Propelled Grenade] can shut down any part of any pipeline whenever he wants, with a single shot. The last time I bothered to check, Iraq still had more than 600,000 RPG rounds available, meaning that American troops can go on getting killed and maimed for the next ten years, without any significant oil flow from Iraq to Israel, or from Iraq to America. Two weeks ago, in what may be the first tacit admission of defeat in northern and central Iraq, America ordered its principal puppet in Baghdad, Ahmed Chalabi, to approach Saudi Arabia with a plan to pump Iraqi crude south-west through pipeline IPSA-1, for “onward transmission to the Red Sea.” In fact, IPSA-1 was Israel’s original choice for Operation Shekhinah in March 2001, when the plan was for IPSC-2 and IPSC-1 to intersect the Trans Arabian Pipeline [Tapline], for the onward transmission of stolen Iraqi oil to the port of Haifa in Israel. Understandably perhaps, the “Red Sea” was not mentioned anywhere in the Shekhinah planning documents. Though Chalabi’s approach came far too late in the day, it was without doubt the only plan that had even a remote chance of success, which is why the Israelis selected it months before their backers in Lower Manhattan were suddenly razed to the ground on 11 September 2001. As a quick glance at the maps on this page show very well, IPSC-2 and IPSC-1 start in the huge southern Rumaila Field, then closely hug the Kuwaiti border before crossing the Neutral Zone into Saudi Arabia. When American forces are finally compelled to leave northern and central Iraq and retreat to the south, it is not difficult to see the logic of America’s latest desperate tactical plan. Though 150,000 American troops have absolutely no chance of defeating and holding greater Iraq, there is no reason to believe they could not hold defensive positions in the relatively small portion of Iraq to the south of an east-west line drawn across the top of the Rumaila Field at Basra. Theoretically, this would then give America absolute control of the massive Rumaila Field, of the oil export terminals near Basra, and finally control of land pipelines running south-west, which are well out of reach of Iraqi Sunni & Shiite counter-insurgency teams. Unfortunately for America, the Saudi Government knows only too well who pulls George Bush’s puppet strings, and it also knows about Operation Shekhinah. Al Jazeera reported on 20 October 2003 [link below] that Chalabi’s approach was smoothly rebuffed by the Saudis, with an anonymous Aramco official saying the Iraqis "don't know what they are talking about. The pipeline is not in a stage to be utilized." The Saudis know as well as I do that there is nothing wrong with either IPSC-1 or IPSC-2, both of which remain full of oil [to exclude oxygen and avoid corrosion], and could be put back into operation in less than three months, as could the Tapline across to Jordan and then on to Israel. Unfortunately for Chalabi and his bunch of cutthroats in Baghdad, the Saudis kicked the Americans out of the Kingdom only last year, and very sensibly refuse to let them back in. Shipping substantial quantities of crude oil out of Iraq via the Persian Gulf remains unthinkable, with significant dangers on the al Faw peninsula, and also from Iran just a few kilometers away. With the northern and western pipelines to Turkey and Israel now in tatters, IPSC-1 is the sole remaining route along which Israel and America can steal Iraqi crude oil, but they have left it too late. |