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By Steven MacMillan

Britain is gripped by fear, panic and anger, after being struck by three terror attacks in the space of three months. Innocent men, women and children have been killed in the terror rampage, filling many homes with tragedy and despair. Martial law has practically been declared in many regions of the country, with troopsnow being a common site on the streets of Royal Britannia. Many are looking for someone or something to blame, as rage is increasingly triumphing over reason.

Lost in all this hysteria however, there sits a glaring connection that needs to be illuminated: the connection between these terror attacks and British foreign policy in Syria. Although Jeremy Corbyn has correctly highlighted the link between British wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, and the growth of terrorism at home, there is a still a conflict – arguably the most important in the rise of terrorism – that no one dares speak about; namely, the war in Syria.

Sadly, most people in Britain are still completely ignorant of the real truth of the Syrian war, and the role that the British establishment has played in supporting an array of terrorist groups, including ISIS. Even if we accept for a moment that all the official stories of the last three terror attacks are 100% true (something I don’t believe, see here for instance), a significant portion of the blame should still be directed towards the British establishment for the policies it has pursued overseas.

The Syrian proxy war has provided fertile ground for the rise of ISIS and other extremist groups, with ISIS claiming responsibility for the last three terror attacks in Britain; namely, the London Bridge attack, the Manchester Arena attack and the Westminster attack. Britain has been part of a nefarious troika that have supported an array of terrorist groups in Syria for years now, a fact that legendary journalist and documentary filmmaker, John Pilger, highlighted in an interview at the end of 2015. In response Afshin Rattansi – the host of the RT show, Going Underground – asking “how are ISIS the progeny of Washington, London and Paris?”, Pilger said:

They are not only the progeny, they are the fully grown-up, manic, adolescent creature belonging to Paris, London and the United States. Without the support of these three countries, without the arms that have been given to ISIS – either they have been given directly to Jabhat al-Nusra and have gone to ISIS; or they have gone the other way; or they have gone to the Wahhabists in Saudi Arabia or in Qatar- but the French, the British, the Americans and the Turks have all supplied those that have kept ISIS going. You know, if David Cameron had won his Commons vote a couple of years ago, ISIS would now be in charge in Syria… The Middle East’s most multi-ethnic, multi-cultural state, would be finished, and these fanatics would be in charge, and that would-be thanks entirely to Western actions.

For years, the UK has been pouring millions into the Syrian opposition. In 2012, the British Foreign Secretary at the time, William Hague, admitted that Britain had been helping the Syrian rebels in a “practical and non-lethal way,” and vowed to increase British assistance. As the Independent noted, this non-lethal aid consisted of Britain sending the Syrian opposition £8m-worth of body armour, vehicles with ballistic protection, trucks, forklift trucks, communications equipment, laptops, water purification kits and other equipment needed to fight a war. In 2013, a report claimed that Britain was involved in an operation with other European states and the US to send the Syrian rebels 3,000 tons of weapons, sent in 75 planeloads, from Zagreb to the rebels.

ISIS Has Always Been a Major Part of the Syrian Opposition

But who exactly are these Syrian rebels? According to a declassified US military intelligence report – by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) – from August 2012, the opposition largely consisted of terrorists and extremists, including ISIS (emphasis added):

The Salafists, the Muslim Brotherhood and AQI [al-Qaeda in Iraq], are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria.” The report added that “AQI supported the Syrian opposition from the beginning, both ideologically and through the media,” and that “events are taking a clear sectarian direction.

Al-Qaeda in Iraq was the main precursor to ISIS, as a summary from Stanford University explains (emphasis added):

The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS or ISIL), is a Salafi-Jihadist militant organization in Syria and Iraq… The group has its origins in the early 2000s, when Abu Musab al-Zarqawi began training extremist militants. The group was a major participant in the Iraqi insurgency during the American occupation, first under the name Jama’at al-Tawhid wa’al-Jihad and then, after swearing fealty to Al Qaeda, as Al Qaeda in Iraq.
Facing backlash from the community and increased pressure from U.S. and Iraqi forces, the group declined until 2011, when it began to grow through its involvement in the Syrian Civil War. In 2013, it changed its name to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Over the course of 2013 and 2014, ISIS quickly took over territory in Syria and Iraq… On the ground, ISIS fought the Assad Regime and allied Shiite forces, Syrian opposition groups, the Iraqi military and militias, and the Kurdish peshmerga.

So, according to US military intelligence in August 2012, AQI – later to be known as ISIS – was a major part of the Syrian opposition, and Britain was officially supporting the Syrian opposition by means of non-lethal aid. According to some reports, Britain was also directly arming the opposition, but we know for sure that Britain’s partners in crime – France and the US– were certainly arming the opposition directly, not to mention British allies in the Middle East. Britain was also involved in training the Syrian rebels in Jordan, with British intelligence teams on the ground, according to the Guardian. If this is just what is admitted, imagine how many clandestine operations Britain has been involved in but never have been officially recognised.

It isn’t just US military intelligence that has acknowledged that a large percentage of the Syrian rebels are terrorists. Even the former Prime Minister of Britain, David Cameron, who was always a strong proponent of forcing regime change in Syria, admitted in early 2016 that many of the ‘moderate’ rebels actually belonged to “relatively hardline Islamist groups” (i.e. terrorist groups):

But if you’re arguing: are all these people impeccable democrats, who would share the view of democracy that you and I have: [then] no. Some of them do belong to Islamist groups, and some of them belong to relatively hardline Islamist groups.

Britain’s collusion with terrorist forces in Syria was further highlighted during a court case at the Old Bailey in 2015. Bherlin Gildo, a Swedish national, was accused of fighting for Syrian militant groups – including Jabhat al-Nusra (or al-Qaeda in Syria), who have now changed their name multiple times – but the case was quickly dropped after his lawyer’s argued that British intelligence was involved in arming and providing non-lethal aid to the very same terrorist groups he was allegedly fighting for.

Britain’s Long-held Desire to Force Regime Change in Syria

Britain has a long history of wanting to force regime change in Syria, and install a regime that would be subservient to the Anglo-American (and by extension, Israeli) establishment. In 1957, the British Prime Minister at the time, Harold MacMillan (no relation by the way), approved a joint CIA-MI6 plan to stage fake border incidents in order to provide a justification for an invasion of Syria, and the assassination of prominent Syrian political figures. Although this plan was never acted upon – mainly due to resistance from Syria’s Arab neighbours – it illustrates how long Britain has had Syria in its sights.

In more modern times, there is strong evidence to support the notion that Britain was one of the main architects of the engineered Syrian ‘civil war’ that began in 2011. In an 2013 interview, the former French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Roland Dumas, stated that he was approached in the UK “two years before the violence” erupted in Syria, to see if he would like to participate in organizing “an invasion of rebels” into the country (emphasis added):

I’m going to tell you something. I was in England two years before the violence in Syria on other business. I met with top British officials, who confessed to me that they were preparing something in Syria. This was in Britain not in America. Britain was organizing an invasion of rebels into Syria. They even asked me, although I was no longer minister for foreign affairs, if I would like to participate. Naturally, I refused, I said I’m French, that doesn’t interest me…
This operation goes way back. It was prepared, preconceived and planned… In the region, it isimportant to know that this Syrian regime has a very anti-Israeli stance. Consequently, everything that moves in the region – and I have this from the former Israeli prime minister who told me: ‘we’ll try to get on with our neighbours, but those who don’t agree with us, will be destroyed.’

Interestingly, even the BBC admitted that there was a plan circulating around the British establishment in 2012 to “train and equip a 100,000-strong Syrian rebel army” to fight against Bashar al-Assad. The BBC tried to spin the story by saying the plan was deemed too risky by the Prime Minister and ultimately rejected, but considering that is exactly what happened (was happening, and is happening), albeit in conjunction with the US, France and Britain’s Middle Eastern allies, it hardly seems the plan was rejected.

May Pushes for Internet Regulation

In the wake of the most recent (at the time of writing anyway) terrorist attack at London Bridge – which, as always, was carried out by extremists who were known to the authorities – the British Prime Minister has advocated internet regulation. May said that the internet provides a “safe space” for terrorist ideology to spread, and called for governments to “reach international agreements” to regulate the Internet:

We cannot allow this ideology the safe space it needs to breed; yet that is precisely what the internet, and the big companies that provide internet-based services, provide. We need to work with allied democratic governments to reach international agreements that regulate cyberspace, to prevent the spread of extremist and terrorism planning.

The truth may never come to light regarding these three terror attacks, but we know for sure that the establishment will exploit these atrocities in order to further their agendas. May’s call for Internet regulation has been an objective of the British establishment for years, with May’s proposal further proving that the elite never let a crisis go to waste.

Steven MacMillan is an independent writer, researcher, geopolitical analyst and editor of The Analyst Report, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”, where this article first appeared.

(activistpost.com)

Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 6/9/2017 5:58:02 PM
	'Barbaric' burglars who tortured couple with boiling water have jail sentence almost doubled Ellen Manning Yahoo News UKJune 8, 2017 Two ”barbaric” burglars who tied up a couple in their home and poured boiling water over their heads have had their prison sentences almost doubled. Kacey Adams, 34, and Daniel Wallace, 33, broke into John and Janis Buswell’s Kent bungalow as Mr Buswell, 66, watched TV and his 64-year-old wife knitted clothes for her expected great-grandchild. During the break-in Adams, of Ilford, and Wallace, of Dagenham, tied the couple up with cable ties and subjected them to almost two hours of torture as they demanded the codes to their safes. Barbaric – the men tortured the couple before fleeing the country (Pictures: PA) Both men, who had earlier been found guilty of conspiracy to murder after a man was shot in the face in a revenge attack, admitted aggravated burglary and causing grievous bodily harm with intent. They were jailed for life with a minimum term of 12 and a half years but three Court of Appeal judges have increased that minimum term to 23 years, saying the original sentences did not reflect the extreme gravity of the crimes. Mrs Buswell, who was left permanently disfigured by the attack, described the men as “barbaric”. They poured two kettles of boiling water over her and threatened to sever her fingers and gouge one of her eyes out. They poured one kettle over Mr Buswell, punched him repeatedly in the face and threatened to cut his ears off. The pair made off with around £50,000 before going to Dubai on a spending spree and were arrested on their return with more than £18,000 of luxury goods in their luggage. Two ''barbaric'' burglars who tied up a couple in their home and poured boiling water over their heads have had their prison sentences almost doubled. (Yahoo News)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 6/9/2017 11:44:49 PM
	How Britain Helped Create ISIS JUNE 9, 2017 By Steven MacMillan Britain is gripped by fear, panic and anger, after being struck by three terror attacks in the space of three months. Innocent men, women and children have been killed in the terror rampage, filling many homes with tragedy and despair. Martial law has practically been declared in many regions of the country, with troopsnow being a common site on the streets of Royal Britannia. Many are looking for someone or something to blame, as rage is increasingly triumphing over reason. Lost in all this hysteria however, there sits a glaring connection that needs to be illuminated: the connection between these terror attacks and British foreign policy in Syria. Although Jeremy Corbyn has correctly highlighted the link between British wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, and the growth of terrorism at home, there is a still a conflict – arguably the most important in the rise of terrorism – that no one dares speak about; namely, the war in Syria. Sadly, most people in Britain are still completely ignorant of the real truth of the Syrian war, and the role that the British establishment has played in supporting an array of terrorist groups, including ISIS. Even if we accept for a moment that all the official stories of the last three terror attacks are 100% true (something I don’t believe, see here for instance), a significant portion of the blame should still be directed towards the British establishment for the policies it has pursued overseas. The Syrian proxy war has provided fertile ground for the rise of ISIS and other extremist groups, with ISIS claiming responsibility for the last three terror attacks in Britain; namely, the London Bridge attack, the Manchester Arena attack and the Westminster attack. Britain has been part of a nefarious troika that have supported an array of terrorist groups in Syria for years now, a fact that legendary journalist and documentary filmmaker, John Pilger, highlighted in an interview at the end of 2015. In response Afshin Rattansi – the host of the RT show, Going Underground – asking “how are ISIS the progeny of Washington, London and Paris?”, Pilger said: They are not only the progeny, they are the fully grown-up, manic, adolescent creature belonging to Paris, London and the United States. Without the support of these three countries, without the arms that have been given to ISIS – either they have been given directly to Jabhat al-Nusra and have gone to ISIS; or they have gone the other way; or they have gone to the Wahhabists in Saudi Arabia or in Qatar- but the French, the British, the Americans and the Turks have all supplied those that have kept ISIS going. You know, if David Cameron had won his Commons vote a couple of years ago, ISIS would now be in charge in Syria… The Middle East’s most multi-ethnic, multi-cultural state, would be finished, and these fanatics would be in charge, and that would-be thanks entirely to Western actions. For years, the UK has been pouring millions into the Syrian opposition. In 2012, the British Foreign Secretary at the time, William Hague, admitted that Britain had been helping the Syrian rebels in a “practical and non-lethal way,” and vowed to increase British assistance. As the Independent noted, this non-lethal aid consisted of Britain sending the Syrian opposition £8m-worth of body armour, vehicles with ballistic protection, trucks, forklift trucks, communications equipment, laptops, water purification kits and other equipment needed to fight a war. In 2013, a report claimed that Britain was involved in an operation with other European states and the US to send the Syrian rebels 3,000 tons of weapons, sent in 75 planeloads, from Zagreb to the rebels. ISIS Has Always Been a Major Part of the Syrian Opposition But who exactly are these Syrian rebels? According to a declassified US military intelligence report – by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) – from August 2012, the opposition largely consisted of terrorists and extremists, including ISIS (emphasis added): The Salafists, the Muslim Brotherhood and AQI [al-Qaeda in Iraq], are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria.” The report added that “AQI supported the Syrian opposition from the beginning, both ideologically and through the media,” and that “events are taking a clear sectarian direction. Al-Qaeda in Iraq was the main precursor to ISIS, as a summary from Stanford University explains (emphasis added): The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS or ISIL), is a Salafi-Jihadist militant organization in Syria and Iraq… The group has its origins in the early 2000s, when Abu Musab al-Zarqawi began training extremist militants. The group was a major participant in the Iraqi insurgency during the American occupation, first under the name Jama’at al-Tawhid wa’al-Jihad and then, after swearing fealty to Al Qaeda, as Al Qaeda in Iraq. Facing backlash from the community and increased pressure from U.S. and Iraqi forces, the group declined until 2011, when it began to grow through its involvement in the Syrian Civil War. In 2013, it changed its name to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Over the course of 2013 and 2014, ISIS quickly took over territory in Syria and Iraq… On the ground, ISIS fought the Assad Regime and allied Shiite forces, Syrian opposition groups, the Iraqi military and militias, and the Kurdish peshmerga. So, according to US military intelligence in August 2012, AQI – later to be known as ISIS – was a major part of the Syrian opposition, and Britain was officially supporting the Syrian opposition by means of non-lethal aid. According to some reports, Britain was also directly arming the opposition, but we know for sure that Britain’s partners in crime – France and the US– were certainly arming the opposition directly, not to mention British allies in the Middle East. Britain was also involved in training the Syrian rebels in Jordan, with British intelligence teams on the ground, according to the Guardian. If this is just what is admitted, imagine how many clandestine operations Britain has been involved in but never have been officially recognised. It isn’t just US military intelligence that has acknowledged that a large percentage of the Syrian rebels are terrorists. Even the former Prime Minister of Britain, David Cameron, who was always a strong proponent of forcing regime change in Syria, admitted in early 2016 that many of the ‘moderate’ rebels actually belonged to “relatively hardline Islamist groups” (i.e. terrorist groups): But if you’re arguing: are all these people impeccable democrats, who would share the view of democracy that you and I have: [then] no. Some of them do belong to Islamist groups, and some of them belong to relatively hardline Islamist groups. Britain’s collusion with terrorist forces in Syria was further highlighted during a court case at the Old Bailey in 2015. Bherlin Gildo, a Swedish national, was accused of fighting for Syrian militant groups – including Jabhat al-Nusra (or al-Qaeda in Syria), who have now changed their name multiple times – but the case was quickly dropped after his lawyer’s argued that British intelligence was involved in arming and providing non-lethal aid to the very same terrorist groups he was allegedly fighting for. Britain’s Long-held Desire to Force Regime Change in Syria Britain has a long history of wanting to force regime change in Syria, and install a regime that would be subservient to the Anglo-American (and by extension, Israeli) establishment. In 1957, the British Prime Minister at the time, Harold MacMillan (no relation by the way), approved a joint CIA-MI6 plan to stage fake border incidents in order to provide a justification for an invasion of Syria, and the assassination of prominent Syrian political figures. Although this plan was never acted upon – mainly due to resistance from Syria’s Arab neighbours – it illustrates how long Britain has had Syria in its sights. In more modern times, there is strong evidence to support the notion that Britain was one of the main architects of the engineered Syrian ‘civil war’ that began in 2011. In an 2013 interview, the former French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Roland Dumas, stated that he was approached in the UK “two years before the violence” erupted in Syria, to see if he would like to participate in organizing “an invasion of rebels” into the country (emphasis added): I’m going to tell you something. I was in England two years before the violence in Syria on other business. I met with top British officials, who confessed to me that they were preparing something in Syria. This was in Britain not in America. Britain was organizing an invasion of rebels into Syria. They even asked me, although I was no longer minister for foreign affairs, if I would like to participate. Naturally, I refused, I said I’m French, that doesn’t interest me… This operation goes way back. It was prepared, preconceived and planned… In the region, it isimportant to know that this Syrian regime has a very anti-Israeli stance. Consequently, everything that moves in the region – and I have this from the former Israeli prime minister who told me: ‘we’ll try to get on with our neighbours, but those who don’t agree with us, will be destroyed.’ Interestingly, even the BBC admitted that there was a plan circulating around the British establishment in 2012 to “train and equip a 100,000-strong Syrian rebel army” to fight against Bashar al-Assad. The BBC tried to spin the story by saying the plan was deemed too risky by the Prime Minister and ultimately rejected, but considering that is exactly what happened (was happening, and is happening), albeit in conjunction with the US, France and Britain’s Middle Eastern allies, it hardly seems the plan was rejected. May Pushes for Internet Regulation In the wake of the most recent (at the time of writing anyway) terrorist attack at London Bridge – which, as always, was carried out by extremists who were known to the authorities – the British Prime Minister has advocated internet regulation. May said that the internet provides a “safe space” for terrorist ideology to spread, and called for governments to “reach international agreements” to regulate the Internet: We cannot allow this ideology the safe space it needs to breed; yet that is precisely what the internet, and the big companies that provide internet-based services, provide. We need to work with allied democratic governments to reach international agreements that regulate cyberspace, to prevent the spread of extremist and terrorism planning. The truth may never come to light regarding these three terror attacks, but we know for sure that the establishment will exploit these atrocities in order to further their agendas. May’s call for Internet regulation has been an objective of the British establishment for years, with May’s proposal further proving that the elite never let a crisis go to waste. Steven MacMillan is an independent writer, researcher, geopolitical analyst and editor of The Analyst Report, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”, where this article first appeared. (activistpost.com)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 6/10/2017 12:14:29 AM
	HOW ISIS-INSPIRED TERRORISM CAME TO THE U.K. BY MIRREN GIDDA ON 6/8/17 AT 7:10 AM There was a time when the U.K. considered itself insulated against the Islamic State militant group known as ISIS. Britons flowed out of the country to join the violence abroad, but the carnage never came home. Europe was not so lucky. In May 2014, a month before ISIS declared the formation of its so-called caliphate, a man opened fire at a Jewish museum in Brussels killing three people and fatally wounding a fourth. A former prisoner of ISIS, the French journalist Nicolas Hénin, identified the suspect Mehdi Nemmouche as one of his tormentors. The brutality continued, reaching into Germany and into the streets of Parison November 13, 2015 in attacks that killed 130 people. The Brussels attacks of March 22, 2016 killed 32 people; that in Nice on July 14, 2016 killed 86. People attend a vigil for the victims of the May 22 Manchester bombing in Manchester, U.K. on May 29, 2017. This was the second of three ISIS-inspired attacks that claimed a total of 34 victims.ANDREW YATES/REUTERS The U.K., however, remained inviolable. Despite more than 850 Britons traveling to join ISIS, none of the group’s supporters managed to penetrate the country’s defenses. Separated from Europe by sea, with rigid gun control laws and a strong security apparatus, the U.K. seemed a relative safe haven. It didn’t last. On March 22, 2017, a man rammed his car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, killing four. He then climbed out of the vehicle and fatally stabbed an unarmed police officer by the Houses of Parliament. Exactly two months later, a bomb exploded at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester killing 22 people. Then on June 3, three men mimicked the Westminster attacker by driving a van into people out in London Bridge before leaping out to stab people. Their tally came to eight. Three attacks in a little over three months left Britons seeking answers to the question: “Who’s to blame?” Ahead of the country’s general election on June 8, many pointed the finger at the U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May. Speaking to the Guardian, Robert Quick, who led the U.K.’s counterterrorism efforts from 2008 to 2009, said that government cuts to police funding had made terrorist attacks more likely. The austerity measures, under which 20,000 officer jobs were cut, began back in 2010, when May was home secretary and in charge of domestic security. “Cuts to the general policing budget has impacted on neighborhood policing teams in many parts of the country including London,” Quick said. “This has reduced the capacity of the police to work in communities building relationships and trust, to in turn generate community-based intelligence about persons of concern.” His words, which former police officers echoed, do not quite tell the full story. In recent months, attempted attacks in the U.K. have increased, with counterterrorism officials stretched thin trying to prevent them. On March 6, Quick’s successor, Mark Rowley said counterterrorism investigators had foiled 13 terrorist attacks in the past four years. Speaking on Tuesday after the London Bridge assault Rowley told reporters: “In nine weeks, we’ve had five plots foiled and three successful attacks [Westminster, Manchester and London Bridge]. That is completely different to anything we have seen for a long time.” Though Rowley did not specify the motivations behind the attacks, Rashad Ali, resident senior fellow at the anti-extremism think-tank the Institute for Strategic Dialogue says many are likely to have been planned by ISIS sympathizers. “ISIS arrived on the scene in 2014 and initially inspired people to go and join them in its territory,” Ali says. In mid 2016, as the group began to lose chunks of territory, “it began requesting people not to move.” Instead, Ali notes, ISIS actively encouraged people to carry out attacks at home, leading to the increase in attempted plots. This might explain why, from March 2016 to March 2017, the U.K.’s anti-terrorism hotline received more than double the number of calls compared to the year before. That the first ISIS-related attack didn’t occur until March 22, says Richard Barrett, a British diplomat and founder of the United Nations’ Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force, is to the U.K.’s credit. “I think our security might be better [than France and Belgium’s] in some ways,” says Barrett. “Certainly there’s a great deal of effort going into it.” The problem, says Raffaello Pantucci, director of international security studies at the U.K.’s Royal United Services Institute, is that even the best counterterrorism officials cannot effectively guard against the new form of terrorism. “The threshold for attacks is now very low,” Pantucci says. ”Groups like ISIS are saying do something, anything, and we’ll accept you as our own. The target you can choose is utterly random, you can use any weapon—all these indicators are pointing in a menacing direction.” All the analysts Newsweek spoke to echoed Pantucci’s comments. Islamist extremists, they said, are attempting more attacks on Britain, armed with everyday objects. It is inevitable that some will slip through the security net. But, this analysis does not explain what happened in Manchester. Akin more to the events in Paris and Brussels, the May 22 bombing was a carefully planned attack that killed over 20 people. If security officials can be forgiven for not catching every attempted car-rammer, exculpating them for the concert bombing is harder. Since the attack, police have arrested 19 people in connection and admitted that the assailant, Salman Abedi, was known to them and had traveled to Libya the month before. “Counterterrorism police received multiple calls about Abedi,” Ali said. “He definitely would have been on the intelligence radar and yet it never led to anything.” U.K. officials have been frank about the pressures they are under. In each of the three attacks, some of the suspects were known to the police, but with counterterrorism officers managing 500 active investigations involving 3,000 potential suspects, constant surveillance of this year’s assailants proved impossible. With analysts predicting that more attacks are imminent, Britons will have to hope that another Manchester can at least be prevented. (Newsweek)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 6/10/2017 10:36:22 AM
	Biafra: Nigerian Governors Condemn Call for Ethnic Cleansing of North Conor Gaffey NewsweekJune 8, 2017 Nigerian politicians have criticized a call to expel members of one of the country’s main ethnic groups from the north of the country, as tensions rise ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Biafran civil war. The governor of Kaduna State in northern Nigeria said he had ordered the arrest of the leaders of a coalition of group claiming to represent the north’s interests, which on Tuesday issued a statement calling for the expulsion of all Igbos from the north. The Igbo are one of the three largest ethnic groups in Nigeria and are based mostly in the east of the country. Governor Nasir El-Rufai said that he had ordered police to arrest signatories to the statement, whom he said had sought to “promote their own agenda of hate, division and incitement.” The call relates back to the Biafran war, which was preceded by the flight of Igbos across Nigeria to their ancestral homelands in the east of the country. On May 30, 1967, a former Nigerian military commander, Odumegwu Ojukwu, declared the annexation of a Republic of Biafra in eastern Nigeria. “We totally condemn such irresponsible pronouncements by those groups. We condemn, we disown, and we are totally distancing ourselves from those faceless groups who don’t have the mandate of the people of northern Nigeria to make such loud pronouncements,” said Shettima at a meeting of the forum on Wednesday, Nigeria’s Premium Timesreported. Modern Nigeria was created by the union of northern and southern British protectorates in 1914, and the country retains deep ethnic and religious divisions. The West African country is home to more than 200 ethnicities: Besides the Igbo, the other two largest groups, the Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani, are based in the southwest and north of the country respectively. Nigeria is also almost equally divided between a mostly Muslim north and a largely Christian south. Pro-Biafra activists have complained that Igbos have been marginalized by numerous Nigerian governments, including that of President Muhammadu Buhari, a Muslim from the north who fought on the Nigerian side during the Biafran war. Buhari—who is currently on medical leave in the U.K.—has previously dismissed pro-Biafra sentiment as the work of “some people who were not even born during the war...saying they want to divide Nigeria.” Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, a southern Christian who is the acting president in Buhari’s absence, recirculated a statement made in May on Wednesday, in which he said that “no person or group is more important or more entitled than the other” in Nigeria. (Yahoo News)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 6/10/2017 11:09:16 AM
	U.S. DIDN’T KNOW IT BOMBED SYRIAN MOSQUE IN MARCH, INVESTIGATION FOUND BY GREG PRICE ON 6/8/17 AT 11:57 AM A top Army general admitted Wednesday that the U.S. was “unaware” it was conducting a March airstrike on a mosque in northern Syria while stating only one civilian had been killed after initial reports stated dozens died from the drone and aircraft strike, the Washington Examiner reported. A spokesperson for U.S. Central Command confirmed to Newsweek in emailed statements that an F-15 fighter aircraft and MQ9 remotely piloted aircraft, or drone, had hit its intended target but also caused “superficial” damage to an adjacent mosque. A second strike also occurred against militants. “Unfortunately, the evidence gathered during the investigation indicates that the strike likely resulted in the death or injury of one non-combatant, who may have been an adolescent,” part of the statement read. “The investigation also determined the target building should have been on the ‘No Strike List’, which is a register of buildings or entities that must be more carefully evaluated at a higher level before an approval to strike due to their characterization.” A picture taken on March 17, 2017, at the site of a reported airstrike on a mosque in the village of Al-Jineh in Aleppo province, shows a damaged motorcycle outside as Syrian civil defense volunteers, known as the White Helmets, conduct rescue operations and dig through the rubble.GETTY IMAGES/OMAR HAJ KADOUR Still, while the strike was lawful, the investigation also found that there were “critical information gaps” and a “lack of understanding of the situation,” according to the statement. The investigation into March 16’s strike in a rural Raqqa Province area found two dozen al Qaeda members and one civilian were killed during a meeting at a mosque, but based off gathered intelligence the U.S. did not know the struck building’s religious significance prior to the strike., Brig. Gen. Paul Bontrager, deputy director for operations of U.S. Central Command, said according to the Examiner. Follow Jamie McIntyre @jamiejmcintyre BGen. P Bontrager @CENTCOM finds 3/16 US strike in Syria killed 2 dozen al Qaeda at meeting, not a large # of civilians. Only 1 CivCas. 10:11 AM - 7 Jun 2017 3 Retweets 2 likes Twitter Ads info and privacy Follow Jamie McIntyre @jamiejmcintyre BGen. Bontrager @CENTCOM: 3/16 Syria strike hit “valid target,” al Qaeda, but US was UNaware of the religious significance of meeting place 10:22 AM - 7 Jun 2017 1 Retweet likes Twitter Ads info and privacy Initially, the Pentagon denied the strike hit a mosque and said it had struck a building 40 feet away from the mosque. Central Command later said the building it struck was part of a “mosque complex,” CNN reported May 5. Bontrager said no negligence was found but that the meeting place should have been on the no-strike list, which usually includes places like schools and hospitals. But according to CNN’s report, there are ways to remove such a place from the no-strike list if it’s later found to be in use by terrorists and civilians aren’t there. In Central Command’s daily strike release report, coalition military forces conducted 19 strikes and 51 engagements on the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) in Syria and Iraq on March 16. Twelve of those strikes and 14 of the engagements occurred in Syria on that date, including eight on six ISIS tactical units. The report indicated that three fighting positions were destroyed, as well as a vehicle, an “ISIS-held building” and an oil refinement still. There have been conflicting reports over the number of civilians killed in the strike from both local media accounts as well as a human rights group. The deadly strike in question, according to residents and Syrian state television, claimed at least 30 Syrian civilians, the New York Times reported March 22. An initial report from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed at least 49 people were killed and more than 100 injured in the village of al-Jina outside of Aleppo, according to ABC News on March 17. “If fighters were among those killed, they were attending a religious lecture, not fighting or preparing to fight,” director of the Syrian Observatory Rami Abdulrahman said to ABC. (Newsweek)
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U.S. DIDN’T KNOW IT BOMBED SYRIAN MOSQUE IN MARCH, INVESTIGATION FOUND