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9/14/2015 11:28:35 PM

Social Engineering 101: How to Make a Refugee Crisis, by Tony Cartalucci

http://journal-neo.org/2015/09/13/social-engineering-101-how-to-make-a-refugee-crisis/

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Starting in 2007, the US was already in the process of engineering the overthrow and destruction of all prevailing political orders across the Middle East and North African (MENA) region.

It would be in Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh’s 2007 New Yorker article, “The Redirection: Is the Administration’s new policy benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism?” that it was explicitly stated (emphasis added):

To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has coöperated with Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda.

Hersh would also reveal that at the time, the US – then under the administration of President George Bush and through intermediaries including US-ally Saudi Arabia – had already begun channeling funding and support to the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood who would in 2011 play a crucial role in the opening phases of the destructive war now raging across the Levant.

In 2008, from Libya to Syria and beyond, activists were drawn by the US State Department from across MENA to learn the finer points of Washington and Wall Street’s “color revolution” industry. They were being prepared for an unprecedented, coordinated US-engineered MENA-wide campaign of political destabilization that would in 2011 be called the “Arab Spring.”

Through the US State Department’s National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and US State Department’s Movements.org, agitators were literally flown on several occasions to both New York and Washington D.C. as well as other locations around the globe to receive training, equipment and funding before returning to their home countries and attempting to overthrow their respective governments.

In an April 2011 article published by the New York Times titled, “U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings,” it was admitted:

A number of the groups and individuals directly involved in the revolts and reforms sweeping the region, including the April 6 Youth Movement in Egypt, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and grass-roots activists like Entsar Qadhi, a youth leader in Yemen, received training and financing from groups like the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute and Freedom House, a nonprofit human rights organization based in Washington.

The article would also add, regarding the US National Endowment for Democracy (NED):

The Republican and Democratic institutes are loosely affiliated with the Republican and Democratic Parties. They were created by Congress and are financed through the National Endowment for Democracy, which was set up in 1983 to channel grants for promoting democracy in developing nations. The National Endowment receives about $100 million annually from Congress. Freedom House also gets the bulk of its money from the American government, mainly from the State Department.

It is clear that the political cover – the Arab Spring – and the premeditated support of terrorist groups including Al Qaeda brought in afterward, were planned years before the Arab Spring actually unfolded in 2011. The goal was admittedly the overthrow of governments obstructing Washington and Wall Street’s hegemonic ambitions and part of a much wider agenda of isolating, encircling, and containing Russia and China.

The destruction of the MENA region was intentional, premeditated, and continues on to this very day.

As the Wave of Regime Change Crashes

Since 2011, each and every one of the West’s “color revolutions” has predictably devolved into armies of US-backed terrorists attempting to divide and destroy each nation. In Libya, this goal has already long-since been accomplished. In Egypt and Syria, with varying degrees of failure, this agenda has been stalled.

Egypt through sheer virtue of its size and the capabilities of its military, has prevented nationwide warfare. In Syria, facing invasion primarily from both Turkey and Jordan, violence has been far more dramatic and enduring.

But despite initial euphoria across the West that their insidious conspiracy had indeed upended the MENA region entirely, Syria’s ability to resist the West’s proxy forces, and now, more direct intervention, has entirely disrupted this wave of regime change.

US Senator John McCain (Republican – Arizona) who literally posed for pictures with terrorist leaders in both Libya and Syria, including the now head of the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) in Libya, Abdul Hakim Belhaj, at the height of the Arab Spring prematurely taunted Moscow and Beijing with threats to bring similarly US-orchestrated chaos in their direction. Suffice to say, Moscow and Beijing were not only ready for this destabilization, they were prepared to foil it before it so much as reached their borders.

And as momentum stalled, the US and its regional collaborators attempted to justify direct military intervention in Syria first as they did in Libya – by claiming they would be averting a humanitarian disaster and assisting “freedom fighters.” However with the crimes the US and NATO perpetrated in Libya still fresh in the global public’s minds, this narrative was entirely untenable.

Staged chemical weapon attacks were perpetrated on the outskirts of Damascus, under the nose of UN inspectors in a bid to frame the government of Damascus and again justify direct US military intervention against Syria. Again, the global public, recalling similar fabrications peddled by the West ahead of its ten year invasion and occupation of Iraq along with expert diplomacy by Moscow, averted war.

And while it is increasingly obvious that Al Qaeda and ISIS’ presence in Syria and Iraq is the direct, premeditated result of US-NATO and their regional allies’ sponsorship of both groups, the West has attempted to use them as a pretext for direct military intervention not only in Syria, but again, against the government of Damascus itself.

Cue the Refugees

As this last attempt to justify a final push toward regime change in Syria falters, and as European powers begin deciding whether or not to intervene further in Syria alongside the US, a sudden and convenient deluge of refugees has flooded Europe, almost as if on cue. Scenes like that out of a movie showed hordes of tattered refugees herded along various borders as they apparently appeared out of what the Western media has portrayed as a puff of smoke at Europe’s gates.

In reality, they did not appear out of a puff of smoke. They appeared in Turkey, a NATO member since the 1950’s and one of America’s closest regional allies. Turkey is currently hosting the US military, including special forces and the CIA who have, together with Turkish military and intelligence agencies, been conducting a proxy war on neighboring Syria since 2011.

Turkey has suspiciously maintained a very enthusiastic “open door” policy for refugees, spending inexplicable sums of money and political capital in accommodating them. The Brookings Institution – one of the chief policy think tanks helping engineer the proxy war with Syria – reported in its July 2015 “Order out of Chaos” article, “What Turkey’s open-door policy means for Syrian refugees,” that:

Turkey is now the world’s largest recipient of refugees. Since October 2013, the number of Syrian refugees has increased more than threefold and now numbers almost two million registered refugees.

Brookings also reports that:

The cost has been high to Turkey. Government officials are quick to point out that they have spent over $6 billion on the refugees and complain about the lack of international support.

Brooking details the vast efforts Turkey is undertaking in coordination with Western NGOs to manage the refugees. There is little way that these refugees could suddenly “disappear” and end up in Europe without the Turkish government and more importantly, European governments either knowing about it or being directly involved.

Pawns of War

Clearly Turkey lacks any altruistic motivation behind its refugee policy. Turkey is one of the chief facilitators of terrorists operating in Syria, and a primary collaborator in NATO’s proxy war against its neighbor. Turkey has allowed literally hundreds of supply trucks a day to cross its borders uninhibited and destined for ISIS territory. Turkey has also been tasked throughout various US policy papers with establishing a “buffer zone” or “safe haven” to move these refugees into, as well as for establishing a Syrian-based stronghold for NATO’s terrorist proxies to launch military operations from. Likely, the refugees were to serve as the initial population of whatever proxy state NATO planned to create with territory it seized and established no-fly-zones over in northern Syria.

Now it appears many of these refugees are instead being rerouted to Europe.

However, not all of the refugees flooding into Europe from Turkey are even from the Syrian conflict. Many are being trafficked first to Turkey from other theaters of NATO operations, including Afghanistan and Pakistan as well as Iraq. It appears that Turkey is serving as a central transit point, not just for terrorists it is feeding into the Syrian conflict, but also for collecting refugees from across MENA and Central Asia, before allowing them to proceed in vast numbers to Europe.

Some reports even indicate that the refugees are receiving direct assistance from the Turkish government itself. The International New York Times’ Greek Kathimerini paper, in an article titled, “Refugee flow linked to Turkish policy shift,” claims (emphasis added):

A sharp increase in the influx of migrants and refugees, mostly from Syria, into Greece is due in part to a shift in Turkey’s geopolitical tactics, according to diplomatic sources.

These officials link the wave of migrants into the eastern Aegean to political pressures in neighboring Turkey, which is bracing for snap elections in November, and to a recent decision by Ankara to join the US in bombing Islamic State targets in Syria. The analyses of several officials indicate that the influx from neighboring Turkey is taking place as Turkish officials look the other way or actively promote the exodus.

Catastrophes that are meant to look “sudden” and “unexpected” as well as “unstoppable” but are in fact, allowed to unfold within an operational theater completely controlled by the US and NATO constitutes instead a conspiracy – pitting desperate and/or exploited refugees intentionally sent out of Turkey and into Europe, against a manipulated, fearful, and ill-informed Western public.

Also brought into sharp focus, are the string of staged attacks allowed to unfold across Europe – allegedly the work of “ISIS.” In every case without exception, the perpetrators had been well-known to Western intelligence agencies, including the shooters involved in the Paris “Charlie Hebo massacre.” In that incident, all members involved were tracked by French security agencies for nearly 10 years. At least one member was even imprisoned, had traveled afterward to collude with Al Qaeda abroad, and returned to Europe, all while under surveillance. “Coincidentally,” for the 6 months needed to plan and carry out their final act, French security agencies stopped monitoring the group, claiming a lack of resources to do so.

Those familiar with NATO’s Cold War Gladio program can see clearly that the attacks were staged to play into a strategy of tension used to produce fear domestically and build up support for wars abroad.

The recent refugee crisis is being used for precisely this same purpose. In fact, while a false debate is being managed by the Western media and Western political figures to either unconditionally accept the refugees or unconditionally reject them, the only singular narrative both sides are being made to agree on is that instability across MENA is to blame and more bombing is the answer.

Debates over increased, direct military intervention in Syria are now almost entirely predicated not on supporting “freedom fighters,” stopping “WMDs,” or fighting “ISIS,” but instead on how military intervention can help solve the “refugee crisis.”

The main narratives undulating media headlines dismiss both the West’s role in devastating the MENA region, as well as acknowledging the fact that the “refugee crisis” is emanating primarily from within NATO’s borders, not from beyond them. The refugees are pawns, intentionally moved across the game board to illicit a predictable reaction from their hopelessly unskilled opponents – the public. While the social engineers are engaged in a game of three-dimensional chess, the Western public appears to be infantilely eating their checkers.

Considering this unfortunate reality, whatever justifications the West is able to predicate upon the refugee crisis will have to be confronted again by Syria and its allies alone – with the Western public hopelessly defenseless against a conspiracy they have been made accomplices of.

Social Engineering vs. the Inevitable Rot of Empire

A refugee crisis was inevitable, regardless of the timing and magnitude of any given deluge that may have been created or manipulated by the West. Destroying the planet in pursuit of empire, pillaging nations and hauling away the wealth of the world, inevitably leads to endless streams of victims following their stolen wealth back to the thieves’ den. As an empire expands and the list of its victims expands with it, the number of those an empire is able to fully assimilate versus those who will inevitable overwhelm it eventually tips the balance against the empire’s favor.

Such was the fate of the Roman Empire, which over the course of its decline, had its institutions overwhelmed by peoples it had conquered faster than it could assimilate them.

For the West, it has chosen confrontation rather than cooperation. It has closed economic ties with Russia, alienated China, and wages ceaseless war across the MENA region and Central Asia. It pursues a now exposed campaign of divide and conquer across Southeast Asia augmented with terrorism and political subversion all while neglecting every virtue that ever made it a respected global power to begin with.

How much of the most recent refugee crisis is social engineering versus simply the inevitable rot of empire is difficult to tell – though the fact that social engineers would be tempted to use a vast number of refugees created by their own foreign policy indicates that their ploy in and of itself is indicative of immense, irreversible geopolitical rot.

Tony Cartalucci, Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer, especially for the online magazine“New Eastern Outlook”.


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9/15/2015 12:01:08 AM

Stunning Video Emerges As 1000s Flee California Wildfires After Governor Calls 'State Of Emergency'

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As if the drought was not disheartening enough, wildfires are now raging across many parts of northen and southern California focing
Governor Jerry Brown to call a state of emergency. Nowhere is the crisis more evident than in NorCal's Lake County where, as The LA Times reports, the untamed wildfire forced chaotic evacuations, is consuming hundreds of homes and businesses, and has outrun the efforts of a growing army of firefighters to corral it.However, as the following clip shows, one car-driver ran the gauntlet and managed to outrun "the worst tragedy Lake County has ever seen," in a scene right out of a disaster movie.



The pictures from CA's newest fire are simply apocalyptic. Too hot, too dry, for too long




As Reuters reports,

A swiftly spreading wildfire destroyed hundreds of homes and forced thousands of residents to flee as it roared unchecked through the northern California village of Middletown and nearby communities, fire officials said on Sunday.

The so-called Valley Fire, now ranked as the most destructive among scores of blazes that have ravaged the drought-stricken Western United States this summer, came amid what California fire officials described as "unheard of fire behavior" this season.

A separate fire raging since Wednesday in the western Sierras has leveled more than 130 buildings and was threatening about 6,400 other structures,with thousands of residents under evacuation orders there, too, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) reported.

Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in both areas, and mandatory evacuations were expanded as shifting winds sent flames and ash from the Valley Fire toward a cluster of towns in the hills north of Napa Valley wine country.

As the following clip shows, locals had no time to prepare as they ran the gauntlet to survival...




"Middletown is basically gone,"
said one local evacuee.

"I saw flames all around ... The wind was insane. I have never been so scared," she said.

Mark Donpineo, 54, said he and two friends were trapped by the fire for four hours Saturday evening at a golf course in Hidden Valley Lake, taking cover in a culvert until the flames had passed.

"We got some towels, wetted them down and basically saw the fire coming. You could hear explosions of propane tanks, the ridge was totally on fire, trees were blowing up," he said.

Meanwhile, Cal Fire reported that 81 homes and 51 outbuildings had been lost in the four-day-old Butte Fire, which has charred more than 65,000 acres in the mountains east of Sacramento but was 20 percent contained.

As of Sunday, firefighters were battling nearly three dozen large blazes or clusters of fires in California and six other Western states, according to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho.

Sheriff Brian Martin described the fire as “the worst tragedy Lake County has ever seen.”


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9/15/2015 12:27:58 AM

LaRouche: ‘Most Momentous Weeks in Modern History—We Must Now Take This Moment’


Within the next two weeks, Russian President Putin will arrive in New York with a proposal for creating a truly international coalition to crush ISIS and the other barbaric terrorist organizations spawned by the Bush-Cheney-Obama criminal wars of destruction. Russia’s military initiative is already being launched in Syria, leaving President Obama and his White House team in utter confusion, exposed by Putin’s brilliant flanking operation, which would make Gen. Douglas MacArthur proud. Some in the White House and the State Department are taking actions to build a blockade around Syria to stop Russian humanitarian and military assistance — an act which would rapidly turn all of Syria over to the barbarians funded by the Wahhabists in Saudi Arabia.

But increasingly, leading figures in the U.S. and Europe are rising to denounce the war policy, and embrace Putin’s initiative. Leading this effort in the U.S., Lyndon and Helga LaRouche, joined by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark and former U.S. Senator from Alaska Mike Gravel, who addressed a conference in Manhattan, mobilizing the citizens of New York and the nation and the world via the Internet— for action in these upcoming “most momentous weeks,” as the UN General Assembly convenes in New York. “We must now take this moment,” said Mr. LaRouche,

“of this new international assembly, which is fully aware—its best people are fully aware—of the implications of this situation, now. What we must organize, in the United States, in particular, but throughout the world, is to prevent the launching of a thermonuclear war.”


In Germany, a dramatic turn is taking place, first in Germany’s decision to open its arms to the waves of refugees driven out of northern Africa by Obama’s murderous wars and the terrorists they spawned, and today by Chancellor Angela Merkel openly declaring that”Germany and other Western European powers need to work with Russia as well as the United States to solve the crisis in Syria.”

In Russia, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov previewed the speech to be given by President Putin at the UN. In very clear terms, Lavrov said that Putin will identify, first, the danger of the West’s imperial effort to restrain the emergence of new centers of economic and political power; second, the West’s intentional cooperation with terrorists in order to “achieve some narrow geopolitical objective”; and third, the use of unilateral coercion and sanctions, outside of international law, “under the influence of the American psychology,” to force regime change against targeted nations. Lavrov added that President Putin will speak about the “crushing of the world economic space.”

This initiative creates the capacity to achieve the necessary measures to stop the war and create a new world paradigm based on the common aims of mankind—the removal of President Obama through the 25th Amendment, the shutdown of Wall Street through Glass-Steagall, and the implementation of the World Land-Bridge together with America’s natural allies now represented by the BRICS nations.

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Lavrov Previews Putin Speech, Targets Obama’s Crimes

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov previewed President Putin’s speech at the UN in an interview with Russia’s First Channel TV on Sunday.

He said this is “not a routine” UN meeting, because it is “a jubilee session.” Putin will address Russia’s views on key issues.

First on the list is the U.S. effort to prevent the rise of the BRICS nations (expressed diplomatically):

“[f]irst of all [are] the systematic problems, emerging in connection with the attempts to restrain the objective process of formatting of a new multi-polar world order, which could reflect the objective formation of new centres for economic, financial might and for political influence,”


Lavrov said, as translated by TASS.

Second, U.S. cooperation with terrorists:

“From this come the topics we all know: fighting terrorism, which should be free of double standards, terrorists cannot be divided into good and bad, it is useless to suppose it may be possible to cooperate with some of those `bad’ extremists in order to achieve some narrow geo-political objectives.”

Then, U.S. unilateral imperialist policies:

“Besides, there is the problem of unilateral means of coercion, and not only against the Russian Federation…. [the] Western counterparts, first of all under the influence of the American psychology, are losing the culture of dialogues and diplomatic settlement.”

“The Iranian nuclear programme was an outstanding and extremely rare exception,” Lavrov said, while in most cases, which continue to emerge in the Middle East and Northern Africa, they”are trying to use measures of force, direct interference, like it was in Iraq and Libya, thus violating decisions of the UN Security Council, or to use sanctions.”

They impose some political process, he said, on the domestic situations, “be that in Yemen or South Sudan,” and try to control it from the outside. Lavrov concluded:

“This approach, if it were more firmly based on agreements of the parties, not only on advice from outside, could be more viable. As soon as such a system begins ‘slipping,’ which is inevitable in cases of imposed solutions, they immediately take out their ‘sanctions truncheons’ in the desire to punish those who would not observe their approach,””President Putin will be speaking about it and about the problem of crushing of the world economic space, as now, in the framework of the WTO, we do not have effective progress in talks on universal approaches to new spheres of economic and technological relations between countries…He will also touch upon certain detailed aspects, like Syria or the Ukrainian crisis. All the crises of the kind develop from systemic problems in the attempts to freeze the process of forming the poly-centre world.”



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9/15/2015 10:37:31 AM

Bond denied for ex-cop on murder charge in black man's death

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Former police officer Michael Slager walks to the defense table bond hearing, in Charleston, South Carolina, September 10, 2015. Attorneys for Slager, who is charged with killing an unarmed black man who ran from a traffic stop in South Carolina, argued in court on Thursday that he is not dangerous and should be freed on bail. The shooting, caught on video by a bystander using his cellphone, showed Slager firing his gun eight times at Walter Scott's back as he fled from the officer. REUTERS/Randall Hill


CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A judge denied bail Monday for a white former South Carolina police officer charged with murder in the shooting death of a black motorist, saying his release would "constitute an unreasonable danger to the community."

In a brief order, Circuit Judge Clifton Newman denied bond for Michael Slager.

The former North Charleston officer has been held in solitary confinement since his arrest on murder charges in the April 4 shooting death of Walter Scott.

A bystander's cellphone video showed Slager firing eight times as Scott tried to run from a traffic stop. The incident inflamed the national debate about how blacks are treated by law officers.

Prosecution and defense attorneys sparred over the bond question during a hearing Thursday and met again to discuss the case Friday.

"After careful consideration of all the evidence presented and the nature and the circumstances of the offense, the court finds that the release of (the) defendant would constitute an unreasonable danger to the community and the request for release on bond should be denied," the order said.

"Today isn't cause for celebration, there are no winners or losers when one man has lost his life at the hands of another," Scott's brother Anthony Scott said in a statement released to the media. He said he has confidence in the judicial system.

"Our family respects the judge's decision to deny bond for Michael Slager. We trust in God and our prayer is that something like this never happens again to any family, anywhere," he added.

The Associated Press left messages with the prosecutor and Slager's defense attorney seeking comment.

Prosecutor Scarlett Wilson on Thursday had called Slager "a firing squad and executioner" and said he planted evidence, taking his Taser from where it fell and dropping it near Scott's body hundreds of feet away.

Slager's attorneys argued that their client posed no threat to the public. Among the 150 pages of documents they filed ahead of the hearing was a toxicology report showing there was cocaine in Scott's blood when he was killed, and a psychological assessment saying Slager poses little future danger of committing violence.

In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, Scott's family called for peace. Some have credited their action — along with the officer's speedy arrest — with staving off the protests and violence that have erupted in other cities where black men have died during encounters with police. If Slager were released, some community leaders had warned that could change rapidly.

During the Thursday hearing Scott's mother, Judy Scott, fought back tears as she told the court, "My heart is totally broken today. I cannot hug my son anymore. That was my son murdered without mercy, no mercy at all."

It was the first time the family had been in the same courtroom with Slager.

Slager told investigators after the incident that Scott tried to grab his gun and Taser. But Wilson told the court that Scott was running away from the officer and the only time Slager could be seen running was to go back, pick up the Taser and then drop it by Scott's body.

Defense attorney Andy Savage urged the judge to allow his client to post a bond and remain under house arrest. He said Slager had no criminal record, was an exemplary officer and has a wife and three children.

Slager, 33, was fired after the shooting. He faces 30 years to life without parole if convicted of murder. There were no aggravating circumstances such as robbery or kidnapping, so the death penalty doesn't apply in the case, the prosecutor has said.

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Associated Press writer Meg Kinnard in Columbia, South Carolina, contributed to this report.


Bail denied for ex-officer in S.C. shooting


Michael Slager is charged with murder in the shooting death of a black motorist.
'Unreasonable danger to the community'


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9/15/2015 5:09:42 PM

Inmate who raped Arizona prison teacher gets life in prison

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FILE - This Jan. 30, 2014 photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections shows inmate Jacob Harvey, accused of attacking a state prison teacher in Florence, Ariz. Harvey, who pleaded guilty to raping a prison teacher at the Eyman state prison, is set for sentencing Monday, Sept. 14, 2015. (Arizona Department of Corrections via AP, File)


FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona inmate who pleaded guilty to raping a prison teacher apologized to the woman in court Monday before being sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars.

Jacob Harvey's apology came after the teacher's attorney read a lengthy statement from her describing how the January 2014 rape had traumatized her and led to what she called "unwanted psychological reactions, unwanted memories and psychological distress."

The 35-year-old woman sat with her parents in the courtroom while her attorney, Scott Zwillinger, read her words.

"At one point after the rape I wished inmate Harvey had just killed me because death seemed like a relief compared to the hell I was living," her statement said. "While I may have wanted to die shortly after the rape, I now have a greater purpose and will to live."

She asked Pinal County Superior Court Judge Kevin White to give Harvey the harshest possible sentence. Her name was withheld by The Associated Press because she is a sex assault victim.

Harvey, 21, addressed White in a quiet voice, never looking back at the teacher he had attacked in a prison classroom.

"I just want to say that I do feel true remorse for everything that happened," Harvey said. "Most of all I would like to say to the victim that I truly am sorry for what I have done. I hope she will forgive me one day."

White then handed down the mandatory life term for rape, plus two lengthy terms for kidnapping and assault.

Harvey was in the first year of a 30-year sentence for raping a suburban Phoenix woman when he assaulted the teacher. The new sentence starts when the first ends.

The woman in the latest case is suing the state over the attack in a classroom at the Eyman state prison in Florence.

The attack raised questions about prison security because the teacher was put into a room full of sex offenders with no guards nearby and no closed-circuit cameras. She had only a radio to call for help.

The Department of Corrections tightened security for teachers in state prisons after the assault.

In a statement Monday, prisons spokesman Andrew Wilder said the agency was pleased with the sentence.

"The Arizona Department of Corrections appreciates that justice has been served for the violent and reprehensible criminal actions committed by inmate Harvey against our employee," it said.

Arizona prison officials are appealing a $14,000 fine levied by state workplace safety regulators for failing to protect a teacher. The action by the state Division of Occupational Health and Safety marked a rare fine by the state agency against the Department of Corrections.

The agency also is investigating the April 13 sexual assault of a corrections officer at the state prison in Yuma.

In the previous case in 2011, Harvey — just 17 at the time — had knocked on the woman's door in the middle of the day, asked for a drink of water, then forced his way inside while her 2-year-old child was in the apartment.

He fled naked when the woman's roommate arrived home.

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