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6/5/2018 9:23:04 AM

AMID RISING TENSION WITH IRAN, ISRAEL TO JOIN LARGEST INT'L NAVY EXERCISE

Taking place off of the coast of Hawaii, 26 nations will participate in the US-led Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) from June 27 to August 2nd.

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ANNA AHRONHEIM JUNE 3, 2018 13:03


Israeli navy exercises. (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM)


In face of rising tensions with Iran, Israel will participate - for the first time - in the biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) multinational naval exercise led by the US 3rd fleet off of the coast of Hawaii and Southern California later this month.



RIMPAC, the world’s largest international maritime exercise, will be be held from June 27 to August 2nd and will see the participation of 26 nations, 47 surface ships, five submarines, 18 national land forces, and more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel.


"As part of the efforts to maintain its competence and develop its capabilities, the Navy takes part in international exercises regularly. In the coming weeks, Israel's naval arm is expected to participate in the RIMPAC exercise, one of the largest exercises in the field of naval warfare,” read a statement provided to The Jerusalem Post by the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit.

With the theme of RIMPAC 2018 being “Capable Adaptive Partners,” the drill will work to increase multi-national cooperation and trust as well as enhance interoperability of troops.

Israel will be joining other first-time participants Brazil, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.

Other countries participating in RIMPAC 2018 are Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, South Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Tonga and the United Kingdom.

China was uninvited from participating due to its ongoing militarization of the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.

According to the US Navy RIMPAC will focus on a wide range of capabilities “critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world's oceans” with drills ranging from disaster relief to counter-piracy, mine clearance operations, air defense exercises to complex maritime warfare.

“Participating nations and forces will exercise a wide range of capabilities and demonstrate the inherent flexibility of maritime forces,” read a statement released by the US 3rd fleet.

“These capabilities range from disaster relief and maritime security operations to sea control and complex warfighting. The relevant, realistic training program includes amphibious operations, gunnery, missile, anti-submarine and air defense exercises, as well as counter-piracy operations, mine clearance operations, explosive ordnance disposal, and diving and salvage operations.”

The combined live field training exercise will included tactical level and limited operational level training and will feature live firing of a Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) from a US Air Force aircraft, surface to ship missiles by the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, and a Naval Strike Missile (NSM) from a launcher on the back of a Palletized Load System (PLS) by the US Army.

While Israel’s Navy is relatively small compared to other IDF corps it has a significant amount of territory to protect since the expansion of the country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) from 40 miles to 150 miles four years ago.

Israel regularly participates in naval exercises with the United States such as the trilateral Noble Dina exercise between the US, Israeli and Greek navies as well as a joint IDF Special Forces and US Marines military exercise in the Negev Desert dubbed ‘Noble Shirley,’ which involved special units from the Israeli Air Force, Navy and ground forces.

Israeli Navy’s Salvage and Underwater Missions Unit also held a wide-ranging two-week drill in Haifa dubbed "Noble Melinda" with its counterparts from the US and France where the three navies drilled on scenarios involving naval mines, underwater demolitions and sea-based terror attacks.


(The Jerusalem Post)


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6/5/2018 10:25:26 AM
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Eyewitness in Douma: Syrian Civilians from Ground Zero Expose Chemical Weapons Hoax

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Residents of Douma, after I interviewed them on April 29, 2018.
Western media keeps referring to an alleged chemical attack on Douma, Syria, as an established fact, but have yet to produce one iota of evidence from the town that, until recently, was controlled by Jaysh al-Islam.

Unverified videos, emanating from the Western-funded propaganda construct the White Helmets, do not constitute evidence, nor do testimonies taken in Turkey or Idlib, Syria, which is under terrorist rule.

On the other hand, there are many testimonies that contradict the accusations, including those of 17 Syrians from Douma (among them doctors and medical staff), who, on April 26, spoke at the headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in the Hague, stating that there was no chemical attack.

The leaderships of the US, UK, France and their lapdog media, unsurprisingly, dismissed the Syrian testimonies as "obscene" and a "masquerade". It should be noted that the same media took as utterly credible the words attributed to a then-seven year-old girl named Bana al-Abed, living in eastern Aleppo, before it was liberated. Corporate media and Western leaders had no issues with the credibility of Bana, who was living surrounded by twenty-five terrorist cells in her district alone. But the testimonies of Syrians from Douma are "obscene."

There are other statements by civilians that contradict the accusations, given to journalists who bothered to go to Douma and listen to them, like Robert Fisk, Germany's ZDF, One American News, and Vanessa Beeley.

In fact, it was the Syrian and Russian governments who called for the OPCW to investigate, and it was the US, UK, and France which illegally bombed Syria with 103 missiles, including 76 missiles on Damascus itself, before the OPCW inspectors could investigate.

None of the accusations have been "proven" and, when the OPCW does eventually issue its report, it is worth recalling that their report in the previous year, on the allegations of a chemical attack in Khan Sheikhoun, Idlib, contained "irregularities," to put it mildly. The most glaring irregularity (mentioned in the annex section of their report) was the admission of 57 "victims" to hospital beforeany alleged attack even could have occurred. Another unexplained irregularity was sarin showing up in urine but not in blood tests from the same sample.

Douma residents expose lies of chemical accusations

In late April, I traveled by taxi to Douma, with a translator only, where I spent a few hours in the town, talking to civilians so traumatized by the rule of the terrorist group Jaysh al-Islam that they mostly wanted to talk about how hellish their lives had been. But first I went to the hospital in question.
douma underground hospital
© Eva Bartlett
Douma's hospital has been partly buried to protect it from militant shelling
Passing through Martyr's Square, one of the sites allegedly targeted by a chemical attack but now busy with pedestrians and traffic, the underground hospital was just some hundred metres beyond. Inside, I recorded an interview with a medical student who was at the hospital on April 7, the day of the alleged attacks.
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Inside the underground hospital, April 29, 2018, Douma.
According to Marwan Jaber, patients who came in were being treated for normal shelling injuries, as well as for breathing difficulties, due to the combination of dust and their having taken refuge for extended periods in basements.

Jaber told me that, while staff were treating normal bombing injuries and breathing cases, "strangers" entered screaming about a chemical attack and started hosing people with water. Hospital staff calmed the situation down and went back to treating the patients as 'normal' shelling victims, as they had not exhibited any indications of having been exposed to a chemical agent.


Patients' symptoms were "not in line with the symptoms of a chemical attack. There wasn't pupil constriction or broncho-constrictions leading to death," Jaber recalled. "The symptoms we received were all symptoms of choking, patients affected by the smoke and regular war injuries. They came here, we treated them, and dispatched them home," Jaber said, noting that none, not one, had died.
Nor were any of the hospital staff affected, as one might expect they would be had a chemical agent been used. The staff, as seen in the video produced by the White Helmets, wore no protective clothing, as would have been necessary when dealing with a toxic chemical.

In Marwan Jaber's opinion, the unfamiliar men who barged into the hospital screaming weren't trained in medicine. He went so far as to doubt whether they'd finished high school.

Below the hospital, a network of extensive, reinforced tunnels, large enough for vehicles, enabled Jaysh al-Islam to move freely while they held Douma residents hostage.


Ghouta residents on alleged chemical attacks, 2018 and 2013

As I walked around Douma, I asked residents about life there and especially about whether they believed there was a chemical attack in their town. Some replied they had no idea about an attack. But most replied decisively no, there hadn't been any.
residents duma syria fake chemical attack
© Eva Bartlett
Tawfeeq Zahran and other Douma residents, April 29, 2018.
At a stand selling vegetables and fruits, Tawfeeq Zahran replied that he believed Jaysh al-Islam had spoken of a chemical attack to frighten them, to make them fear the Syrian army and government. Men around him nodded their agreement. They spoke more about their starvation under Jaysh al-Islam and about the public executions by sword that the terror group had routinely carried out.
douma resident street vendor
© Eva Bartlett
Douma street vendor
A group of young men selling baked goods waved me over, handing me one. They also replied that they knew nothing of an attack. They were more concerned about the fact that, under Jaysh al-Islam, they couldn't get the flour needed for their baked goods, much less food to live. This was a constant among every civilian I met: Their hunger and terror under Jaysh al-Islam's rule.

In 2013, the West and its media had accused the Syria government of a chemical attack in eastern Ghouta (oddly at the very time when OPCW inspectors were in the country to investigate a previous allegation). These accusations were shot down by reports from investigative journalists, particularly Seymour Hersh, who concluded that terrorists possessed sarin and the workshops to manufacture rockets. Indeed, I saw one of these mortar and rocket workshops when in Saqba, eastern Ghouta. Massive amounts of missiles of varying sizes lay, as-yet unused, inside the workshop.


Two days after allegations of a chemical attack in April 2018, the Saudi ambassador to the US, Khalid bin Salman, tweeted a condemnation of the Syrian government's "barbaric" act. The irony, aside from Saudi's support to the barbaric Jaysh al-Islam, lies in the fact that, according to Mint Press News, Saudi Arabia also gave chemical weapons to terrorists in Ghouta for the 2013 attack.

The Mint Press article cited anti-government fighters who said they'd been given chemical weapons which they didn't know how to use, naming Saudi Prince Bandar as the source.

The co-authors of that Mint Press article came under intense pressure to retract the article. According to a statement from Mint's executive director and editor, Mnar Muhawesh, the authors suspected the pressure was from the then-head of Saudi Intelligence, Prince Bandar, one author saying "that the Saudi embassy contacted him and threatened to end his career," if he continued investigating the attack.

So, in early May, I went to Kafr Batna where, in August 2013, hundreds of people had allegedly been treated at the Tuberculosis Hospital.
douma hospital syria
© Eva K Bartlett
Kafr Batna hospital. May 2, 2018,
Mohammed al-Aghawani, administrator of the hospital, told me:
"There was no chemical attack. I wasn't at the hospital that night, but my staff told me what happened. Around 2am, there was suddenly noise, shouting, cars arriving at the hospital, bringing civilians. Some people, armed men, said there was a chemical attack. Some of them had foreign accents. They took people's clothes off and started pouring water on them. They kept bringing people in till around 7am. Around 1,000 people, mostly children, alive, from nearby villages like Ein Terma, Hezze, Zamalka. Many people later said their children never came back."

Upon closer analysis, footage from that night shows that some of the victims appeared to have had their throats slit, peculiar indeed if they had "died from a nerve agent."
Abdallah Darbou

Abdallah Darbou
In an ice cream shop in Kafr Batna's main square, I asked employee Abdallah Darbou whether he knew anything about the alleged 2013 attacks.

"Yes, we heard about it, but that didn't happen. They claimed that the Syrian regime had carried a chemical attack on us. No, they didn't. I was living in Jisreen, close by, I have been living the real story for seven years. They didn't attack us."

Other residents I spoke with had no idea about the alleged attacks.

I took a taxi to the Horjilleh centre for displaced persons, just southeast of Damascus, where I met Marwan Qreisheh, from Kafr Batna. Regarding the 2013 incident, he recalled the fighting between Jaysh al-Islam and Faylaq al-Rahman, saying, "500 were killed, from both sides. They spread them on the ground, released something like tear gas, and started to film, saying the 'regime' bombed the area with a chemical weapon."
Marwan Qreisheh
© Eva K Bartlett
Marwan Qreisheh, from Kafr Batna. April 25, 2018,
Also at the Horjilleh centre, Mahmoud Souliman Khaled, a younger man from Douma, spoke of his young niece. "My sister from Beit Sawa decided to bring her children to our house. While they were on the street, there was a big explosion and a strange smell. Her daughter fell to the ground. They took her to the nearest hospital and they found out that she suffocated and died instantly. Her mouth was open and she had blue lips, it was obvious that she had suffocated."
Mahmoud Souliman Khaled
© Eva K Bartlett
Mahmoud Souliman Khaled, from Douma. April 25, 2018,
Khaled spoke of the aftermath, how terrorists exploited the toddler's death: "They took photos of her and they started using them on social media and on websites. They said that she was killed in a chemical attack from the government. But she died from the chemicals that they produce. They killed her."

Another hoax

After speaking with many civilians in Douma, Kafr Batna and Horjilleh, not only about whether the Syrian government had bombed them with chemicals or nerve agents but also on the truly horrific conditions they'd endured under Jaysh al-Islam, it is my opinion that the videos alleging a chemical attack in Douma were a hoax. There are enough testimonies to the contrary of the accusations, there is a dearth of any evidence to support the claims, and there is every reason to believe that terrorists and the West's propaganda group, the White Helmets, would stage videos and fake accusations in order to incriminate Syria and Russia.

Syria and Russia are the two parties with zero interest in perpetrating a chemical attack against Syrian civilians, for moral reasons and for the obviously pragmatic one of not wanting to be militarily attacked as a consequence. FUKUS (France, UK & US), the Gulf states and Israel are parties with every reason to want a chemical attack scenario in Syria, to prolong their dirty war on Syria.

The media was right to use the words "obscene" and "masquerade", but only in regards to the official story of events in Douma, the corporate media's lapping up of another dodgy White Helmets video and that same media's obfuscation of the cruelty and barbarism of the terrorists who ruled in Douma and all of eastern Ghouta.



Comment: That chemical weapons were present in Douma is without question. Who they belonged to and who was supplying the manufacturing materials is another matter

(sott.net)


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6/5/2018 10:41:32 AM
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British teen found guilty of plotting terrorist attack on British Museum

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Teenager Safaa Boular has been found guilty of plotting a grenade and gun terrorist attack on London's iconic British Museum. She is one of the youngest females to be convicted of terrorism offenses in the UK.

The 18-year-old, who lived at home with her mother, Mina Dich, 44, in Vauxhall, London, was accused of plotting terrorist attacks in London with her Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS, ISIL) partner, Naweed Hussain. She was also found guilty of attempting to travel to Syria to commit acts of terrorism. Boular denied the two counts of preparing acts of terrorism.

It was revealed in court that when Safaa Boular was detained on the latter charges, she handed over the terrorist plot to her older sister, Rizlaine Boular, 22. Her older sister and mother had pleaded guilty at an earlier court hearing to taking over the plot and planning a knife attack with family friend Khawla Barghouthi, 21, after Safaa was arrested in April 2017.

It is the first all-female terrorist cell linked to IS in Britain, The Guardian reports.

The court also heard that Boular had planned to travel to the Middle East to marry Hussain, who was fighting for the terrorist group in Syria. The pair spent hours each day chatting online and sharing pictures, many of a violent nature.

The court was shown numerous pictures of Hussain posing with weapons and explosives. He also shared images of himself in attendance at IS executions.

Messages recovered from Boular's mobile phone identified that she had discussed the act of suicide bombing with Hussain on 16 August 2016, when he sent her a picture of himself in a suicide vest.

He told her: "Don't eva b hesitant 2 pull da pin ok. Ur honour is worth more than any kaafirs [non-believer's] life. Me n u in jannah [paradise] 2gether. We depart 2 world holdin hands."

She replied: "Wanna leave dunya [this world] tho. I want jannah so bad."

In December 2016, Hussain told an MI5 agent that the plot involved someone he "trusted with his life," saying, "The place that has to be visited is the capital. I believe this is best for maximum carnage. The other person will not go alive, I tell you this now, so all out until you reach jannah [paradise]."

Jurors heard how the pair had shared a love for TV game shows such as Deal or No Deal, as well as fantasizing about killing former US President, Barack Obama.

Dean Haydon, the Met's senior national coordinator for counter-terrorism said: "This was without doubt a major investigation for the counter-terrorism command working jointly with the security service.

"Not only because it involved a family with murderous intent, but because it is the first all-female terrorist plot that's been launched in the UK related to Daesh [Isis]."
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6/5/2018 4:33:24 PM

Guatemala volcano eruption: Locals warned of ANOTHER eruption as 1.7m affected

GUATEMALA’S Fuego volcano could erupt again according to experts who have warned residents to stay away from nearby ravines as 1.7 million people flee their homes as lava and ash continue spew.



Victims, including young children, have been rushed to hospital with second and third-degree burns after the Fuego volcano in Guatemala erupted spewing ash and molten rock thousands of feet into the air and blanketed villages with lava.

Officials said 25 people have been killed and 300 are injured after the volcano, which lies around 27 miles from Guatemala City, erupted just before midday local time on Sunday and lava attacked villages and roads by 4pm.

A total of 1.7million people have also been forced to flee as residents were urged to prepare for the raging volcano to blow again in a terrifying warning.

The warning from the National Institute of Seismology, Vulcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology read: “The eruption has ended.

GUATEMALA VOLCANO ERUPTION LIVE

"However there is ash in the environment at a distance of 20 kilometres in the volcanic perimeter with probability that the wind speed can move it to a greater distance.

“You also have to take into account that there is a probability of a reactivation, so you should not stay near or inside the ravines affected by the flows.

“It should be taken into account that the deposits of pyroclastic flows have filled the ravines and that the rain of this winter season is strong, so big lahars will happen in the next hours or days, which can overflow villages in the south, southwest and southeast and affect populations that were not affected now.”

The army evacuated more than 3,000 people from around the volcano and dramatic pictures emerged of soldiers carrying children covered in ash from their homes.

Two children, aged two, were rushed to Hospital Roosevelt from Escuintla Hospital to be treated with second and third degree burns, according to the country’s health ministry.

You also have to take into account that there is a probability of a reactivation

National Institute of Seismology, Vulcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology

A 22-year-old woman and a 16-year-old girl are also being traded for extensive burns on the body.

There is also a fifth person who is being treated for burns.

Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales has declared a state of emergency in the states of Chimaltenango, Sacatepequez and Escuintla.

Eddy Sanchez, Guatemalan director of seismology and volcanology institute, said the volcano's temperatures reached a torturous 1,300 degrees.

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Guatemala volcano has erupted causing widespread devastation

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Guatemala volcano could blow again

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Guatemala volcano: Thousands have been forced to flee

Volcan de Fuego, which mean the volcano of fire, is one of Central America’s most active and is near the colonial city of Antigua - a popular tourist spot.

The Central American country of Guatemala is situated on the Ring of Fire, which is an area of a lot of seismic activity.

The volcano also erupted on January 31, but it ended after 20 hours of activity.

Additional reporting by Maria Ortega

(express.co.uk)

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6/5/2018 5:42:25 PM

Earthquakes rock Kilauea's summit, lava covers nearly 5,000 acres


Updated 0505 GMT (1305 HKT) June 5, 2018



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(CNN) Earthquakes are still rattling the summit of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, after a magnitude 5.5 quake rocked the area Sunday, according to Hawaii County Civil Defense officials.

Sunday's quake sent an ash plume 8,000 feet into the sky, but did not cause a tsunamithreat, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.
There were 500 quakes in the summit area of Kilauea in a 24-hour period over the weekend -- the highest rate ever measured at the summit area, according to Brian Shiro, supervisory geophysicist at the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.
    Those earthquakes have continued near the summit, according to Jim Kauahikaua, a geophysicist with the US Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. He told reporters on Monday that temblors are nearly continuous at the summit and that gas emissions remain "very high."
    A helicopter view from Monday morning shows lava entering the ocean at Kapoho Bay.
    Lava from a fissure near the volcano entered Kapoho Bay late Sunday or early Monday, forcing billowing clouds of steam into the atmosphere as hot lava hit the cool water of the Pacific Ocean. The flow prompted warnings from Hawaii County Civil Defense authorities about laze, a nasty mashup of lava and haze that sends hydrochloric acid and volcanic glass particles into the air.
    Hawaii Civil Defense Administrator Talmadge Magno told reporters that people needed to stay at least 1,000 feet back from the bay to avoid health effects from the laze, in accordance with Environmental Protection Agency standards.
    "It stings," he said. "It will irritate your eyes. And you don't want to be breathing that."
    When lava hits the ocean it sends hydrochloric acid and volcanic glass particles into the air.
    Lava from Kilauea has covered an area of nearly 5,000 acres, according to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Magno described the molten lava as being "like a flood, pouring out, covering everything in its path."
    At least 117 homes have been destroyed in the four weeks since lava began flowing, Magno said Monday. He said that number was sure to grow because there were many more damaged homes to count.
    Team uses drones to map lava in Hawaii 02:05
    Nearly a dozen people were left stranded in an area cut off by lava on Sunday. Hawaii Civil Defense Service officials said they went through the neighborhood to warn residents this was their last chance to evacuate before their final escape route was cut off by lava.
    Businesses suffer following volcano eruptions
    Businesses suffer following volcano eruptions 02:30
    Some chose to stay in the area, which now has no power, cell reception, landlines or county water, officials said.
    Authorities are planning to airlift people out if the lava spreads farther and endangers the dozen or so holdouts. Some said they were staying because they had nowhere else to go, officials said.
    Four people were evacuated from an isolated part of the Kapoho community Sunday, according to the Hawaii Fire Department.
    "USGS was on a routine overflight and saw people on the road in an area cut off by the lava. They stopped to inquire of their situation, and then when asked, airlifted them to a safe place. They had become trapped after trying to move belongings, and had no cell service," according to they agency statement.
    When asked at a news conference Monday about the number of evacuations, he said he didn't have a good estimate because up to 80% of the houses in some areas are vacation rentals. He told reporters that there is still plenty of shelter space but that state officials are working with federal counterparts to work on a plan for housing people who've lost their homes to the lava.



    This photo from USGS shows the flowfront, which was active and spreading.
    Meanwhile, seven people were cited Saturday for loitering in a disaster zone, and they will have to appear in court, Hawaii officials said.
    Four weeks have passed since the first eruption rocked Hawaii's Big Island and lava continues oozing from volcanic fissures, burning homes to the ground and turning into rivers of molten rock. This eruption has lasted longer than the 1955 and 1924 eruptions, the USGS said.

    CNN's Chris Boyette, Dave Alsup, Deanna Hackney, Artemis Moshtaghian, Stephanie Becker and Sheena Jones contributed to this report.


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