REPORT: IRANIAN RED CRESCENT TO SEND TWO SHIPS TO GAZA

JPOST.com - THE JERUSALEM POST ^ | 06/07/2010 10:05 | n/a

[Cindy]

  The Iranian Red Crescent is planning to send two ships to Gaza this week it was announced on Monday.

AFP quotes Red Crescent director for international affairs Abdolrauf Adibzadeh  as saying: "One ship will carry donations made by the people and the other will carry relief workers. The ships will be sent to Gaza by end of this week."  

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/irgc/index
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html

#

Quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2528860/posts

Iran Revolutionary Guards ready to escort Gaza ships
Alertnet.org ^
Posted on June 6, 2010 5:59:13 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Iran Revolutionary Guards ready to escort Gaza ships 06 Jun 2010 12:40:35 GMT Source: Reuters TEHRAN, June 6 (Reuters) - Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards are ready to provide a military escort to cargo ships trying to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza, a representative of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday.

“Iran’s navy forces are ready to escort the peace flotilla to Gaza with all their powers and capabilities,” Ali Shirazi, Khamenei’s representative inside the Revolutionary Guards, was quoted as saying by the semi-official Mehr news agency.

Any intervention by the Iranian military would be considered highly provocative by Israel which accuses Iran of supplying weapons to Hamas, the Islamist movement which rules Gaza.

The Guards, with their own navy, air force and command structure separate from the regular armed forces, are seen as fiercely loyal to the values of the Islamic Republic.

“If the Supreme Leader issues an order for this then the Revolutionary Guard naval forces will do their best to secure the ships,” Shirazi said. “It is Iran’s duty to defend the innocent people of Gaza.”

(Excerpt) Read more at alertnet.org ...

[F15Eagle]

“and the other will carry relief workers”

translation:

“islamic jihadists dressed in civilian attire”

[Cindy]

Note: This is the CURRENT flotillas/aid ships thread.

Previous threads:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2528781/posts

“ANOTHER AID VESSEL TO ARRIVE FROM LEBANON”
YNET NEWS.com ^ | Published: 06.06.10, 07:44 / Israel News | Roee Nahmias
Posted on June 5, 2010 11:22:47 PM PDT by Cindy

#

Previously...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2528561/posts

“Muslim Brotherhood Leader to Arab Rulers: Open Your Borders To Jihad Fighters”
(”Source: Ikhwanonline.com, June 3, 2010”) via THE MEMRI BLOG.org ^ | Posted June 4, 2010 | n/a
Posted on June 5, 2010 12:25:55 PM PDT by Cindy

#

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2528299/posts

‘Rachel Corrie’ ignores Navy request to stop”
Ynet reporters and AP ^ | Latest Update: 06.05.10, 09:14 / Israel News | N/A
Posted on June 4, 2010 11:50:43 PM PDT by Cindy

#

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2524432/posts

“Gaza flotilla: 2 dead, dozens injured in navy boarding”
JPOST.com - JERUSALEM POST ^ | 05/31/2010 07:00 | By JPOST.COM STAFF AND YAAKOV KATZ
Posted on May 30, 2010 9:42:20 PM PDT by Cindy

[library user]

This could get real ugly, real quick.

[Cindy]

ON THE INTERNET:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/humanrightsactivists/index

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/peaceactivists/index

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/humanitarianaid/index

[BigFinn]

Relief workers, my falafel....

such compassion from those who shoot their protesting countrymen and women like dogs in the streets...

[Cindy]

ON THE INTERNET:

http://www.youtube.com/user/idfnadesk?blend=3&ob=4

[Cindy]

(Note: Advertisement at the beginning of the video.)

Note: Video included.

http://www.danielpipes.org/8455/flotilla-raid-war-for-world-future

“Pipes: Flotilla Raid a War for World’s Future”

CBN: The 700 Club
June 3, 2010

[marron]

They are going to force Israel to re-occupy Gaza.

At a certain point, the tactic of boarding ships pretending to be relief ships but actually carrying armed fighters is a losing tactic.

Any ships they do have to board, at this point, they should seize and auction. The captains should be jailed. But if Iran and Turkey are going to up the ante and force a violent confrontation at sea, the answer is to re-occupy Gaza so that they control the beaches and the ports. At that point, then, there is no where for the ships to dock that isn’t under Israeli or Egyptian control.

[Shaun_MD]

Abdolrauf? Sounds vaguely familiar to someone else who hated Jews...

[sten]

FOLLOW-UP REPORT:

IDF to send 2 iranian red crescent ships to the bottom of the med

0bama to be on vacation

[Cindy]

RECAP:

JPOST.com - THE JERUSALEM POST: "REPORT: IRANIAN RED CRESCENT TO SEND TWO SHIPS TO GAZA" (June 7, 2010, 10:05

ALERTNET.org (REUTERS): "IRAN REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS READY TO ESCORT GAZA SHIPS)" (June 6, 2010, 13:16 GMT)

Link

THE MEMRI BLOG.org ("Sources: Rasanews, Kayhan, Jomhouri-e Eslami, Iran, June 3, 2010; Jomhouri-e Eslami, IRNA, Leader.ir, Iran, June 1, 2010"): "FOUR IRANIAN MAJLIS MEMBERS SIGN UP FOR NEXT GAZA FLOTILLA" (Posted June 3, 2010)

MEMRI.org - Special Dispatch No. 2998: "Reactions in Iran to Gaza Flotilla -- 'Kayhan': Ayatollah Khomeini's Logical, Humane, and Completely Practical Plan -- To Remove the 'Cancerous Tumor' Israel, That Is, Eradicating It -- Must Be Implemented" (June 3, 2010)

[Cindy]

http://www.thememriblog.org/turkey/blog_personal/en/27566.htm
(”Source: haberler.com (Turkey), June 2, 2010”)

“The son of Ibrahim Bilgen who dies during the Gaza flotilla incident: “My father always wanted a death like this. I am proud of him””

SNIPPET: “The son of Ibrahim Bilgen who was an electrical engineer, Yusuf Bilgen said that his father always wanted a death like this. He stated that his father always wanted to be martyred and he was proud of him.”

Posted at: 2010-06-06

[denydenydeny]

"One ship will carry donations made by the people and the other will carry relief workers."

Wink, wink.

[stevie_d_64]

Wow...

Obviously this turn of events does not surprise me...

The results (outcome) will not either...

[Cindy]

Ditto.

[Cindy]

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3901351,00.html
(AFP)

“Mubarak meets Biden at Sharm el-Sheikh”
Published: 06.07.10, 12:10 / Israel News

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/oic/index

#

Quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2529221/posts

‘ISLAMIC CONFERENCE’ TO ARAB STATES: RECONSIDER YOUR RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL
(AFP) via YNET NEWS.com ^

Note: The following news brief is a quote: | n/a
Posted on June 7, 2010 2:31:56 AM PDT by Cindy

SNIPPET: “Organization of Islamic Conference, currently meeting in Jeddah...”

SNIPPET: “Representatives from 57 Arab and Muslim states, including the Iranian and Turkish foreign ministers, took part in the conference.”

(Excerpt) Read more at ynetnews.com ...

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/muslimbrotherhood/index
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/unionofgood/index

#

http://globalmbreport.org/?p=3148

“BREAKING NEWS: Global Muslim Brotherhood Intends To Prosecute Israeli Government Over Gaza Flotilla”
(June 7, 2010)

[Cindy]

Previously...

Quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2168627/posts

NEFA Foundation Report - “The Union of Good: A Global Muslim Brotherhood Hamas Fundraising Network”
COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG.org ^ | January 20, 2009 10:24 AM | By Evan Kohlmann
Posted on January 20, 2009 11:56:25 PM PST by Cindy

NEFA Foundation Report - “The Union of Good: A Global Muslim Brotherhood Hamas Fundraising Network” By Evan Kohlmann

The NEFA Foundation has released a new report by NEFA Senior Analyst Steve Merley titled, “The Union of Good: A Global Muslim Brotherhood Hamas Fundraising Network.” The Union of Good is a coalition of Islamic charities that provides financial support to both the Hamas “social” infrastructure, as well as its terrorist activities. It is headed by global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi, and most of the trustees and member organizations are associated with the global Muslim Brotherhood. The Union of Good was banned by Israel in 2002 and recently designated a terrorist entity by the United States, although neither Youssef Qaradawi nor any of the Trustees were similarly designated.

(Excerpt) Read more at counterterrorismblog.org ...

TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Reference; Society; Click to Add Topic
KEYWORDS: 101dayscampaign; 2000; 2002; abdulmutallab; alimanuniversity; alsalahsociety; alzindani; boston; bostoncell; cbsp; charitycoalition; coalitionofgood; etelafalkhair; hamas; interpal; isb; itilafalkhair; itilafalkhayr; jihad; khaledmishaal; mb; mishaal; musimbrotherhood; muslimbrotherhood; mutallab; qaradawi; roxburymosque; terrorcharities; terroristfundraising; theunionofgood; unionofgood; yemen; youssefqaradawi; yusufqaradawi; zindani; Click to Add Keyword
[ Report Abuse | Bookmark ]

1 posted on January 20, 2009 11:56:27 PM PST by Cindy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies | Report Abuse]
To: All
Related Links:

http://www.nefafoundation.org/reports.html#unionofgood
http://www.nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/nefaunionofgood0109.pdf

2 posted on January 20, 2009 11:56:58 PM PST by Cindy

###
###

NOTE The following post SNIPPET is a quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2131693/posts

Treasury Designates the Union of Good
WWW.TREAS.GOV ^ | November 12, 2008 | The U.S. Department of The Treasury
Posted on November 13, 2008 3:47:41 PM PST by Cindy

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/hp1267.htm

November 12, 2008 HP-1267

Treasury Designates the Union of Good

Washington, DC-The U.S. Department of the Treasury today designated the Union of Good, an organization created by Hamas leadership to transfer funds to the terrorist organization.

“Terrorist groups such as Hamas continue to exploit charities to radicalize vulnerable communities and cultivate support for their violent activities,” said Stuart Levey, Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. “The U.S. Government will continue to expose and undermine the activities of charities working on behalf of Hamas and other terrorist groups. At the same time, we are working with the charitable sector to expand the range of legitimate alternatives for providing charitable assistance to the Palestinian people.”

Union of Good was designated today under Executive Order 13224, which targets terrorists, terrorist organizations, and those providing financial, technological, or material support to terrorists, terrorist organizations, or acts of terrorism. Any assets the Union of Good holds under U.S. jurisdiction are frozen and U.S. persons are prohibited from engaging in any transactions with the Union of Good.

The leadership of Hamas created the Union of Good in late-2000, shortly after the start of the second Intifada, in order to facilitate the transfer of funds to Hamas. The Union of Good acts as a broker for Hamas by facilitating financial transfers between a web of charitable organizations—including several organizations previously designated under E.O. 13224 for providing support to Hamas—and Hamas-controlled organizations in the West Bank and Gaza. The primary purpose of this activity is to strengthen Hamas’ political and military position in the West Bank and Gaza, including by: (i) diverting charitable donations to support Hamas members and the families of terrorist operatives; and (ii) dispensing social welfare and other charitable services on behalf of Hamas.

Among the primary financiers of Union of Good projects are several organizations designated pursuant to E.O. 13224 for providing support to Hamas and other terrorist groups, including the International Palestine Relief and Development Fund (Interpal), Al- Aqsa Foundation, Comite de Bienfaisance et de Secours aux Palestiniens (CBSP), the Association de Secours Palestiniens (ASP) of Switzerland, the Palestinian Association in Austria (PVOE), and the Sanabil Association for Relief and Development in Lebanon. The Union of Good facilitates the transfer of tens of millions of dollars a year to Hamas- managed associations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Funds raised by the Union of Good affiliates have been transferred to Hamas-managed organizations in the West Bank and Gaza. In addition to providing cover for Hamas financial transfers, some of the funds transferred by the Union of Good have compensated Hamas terrorists by providing payments to the families of suicide bombers. One of them, the Al-Salah Society, previously identified as a key support node for Hamas, was designated in August 2007 under E.O. 13224. The Society employed a number of members of the Hamas military wing and supported Hamas-affiliated combatants during the first Intifada.

The Union of Good’s executive leadership and board of directors includes Hamas leaders, Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), and other terrorist supporters. The secretary general of the Union of Good, for example, also acts as the vice-chairman of the United Kingdom-based Interpal, which was designated in 2003 for providing financial support to Hamas under the cover of charitable activity. As of mid-2007, this official served on the Hamas executive committee under Hamas leader Khaled Misha’al.

Board members of the Union of Good include a West Bank Hamas member, and Abd al Majid al-Zindani, a Yemen-based Hamas fundraiser who was designated pursuant to E.O. 13224 in 2004 for providing support to al-Qaida. In 2006, Zindani delivered a fundraising speech at a Hamas conference in Yemen where the crowd pledged millions of riyals for Hamas.

The United States is also actively working with the Arab-American community and other interested donors to provide alternate relief mechanisms to the Palestinian people as we take action against the HAMAS charitable infrastructure.

Identifying Information

UNION OF GOOD AKAs: Charity Coalition Coalition of Good I’tilaf Al-Khair I’tilaf Al-Khayr 101 Days Campaign Etelaf Al-Khair

[Just Lori]

Here we go. Ahmanutjob is licking his lips on this one. He can’t wait to stir up some trouble with Israel.

Pray for Israel. God can help them. Our beloved leader (gag me) won’t help them.

[Just Lori]

“It is Iran’s duty to defend the innocent people of Gaza.”

Since when?

[Cindy]

Ongoing propaganda.

[Just Lori]

I could barely make out the Israeli’s side of the conversation.

[Just Lori]

Bambam doesn’t even vote “present” anymore. He just skips town when the fit is hitting the shan.

[Cindy]

Note: The following blog entry is a quote:

http://www.thememriblog.org/iran/blog_personal/en/27573.htm

Blog Details

Thousands Register for Iranian Aid Flotilla

Nearly 6,000 volunteers have already registered to take part in an Iranian aid flotilla to Gaza. Volunteers register by leaving their personal details and contact information on the website of the Society for the Defense of the Palestinian Nation (www.pngo.ir).

Source: Kayhan (Iran), June 6, 2010

Posted at: 2010-06-06

[SJackson]

Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

..................

[tacticalogic]

I think Israel should announce something to the effect of the following:

"In order to prevent unnecessary loss of life while respecting the rights of religious freedom and self determination, we request that everyone who wants to be a martyr be aboard the next flotilla."

[jwparkerjr]

Our enemies know they have been given the green light by Team Zero to up the ante at trouble spots all over the world. Sink a sip, ambush a boarding party, it's just the opening shots.

Iran has paid no price for 30 years of waging war on us. The stage PR stunts where they are the hands-down winner and then it's off to the next stunt. They up to their collective asses in the American deaths of the Iraq war and the problems throughout that part of the world. The former administration refused to make them pay a price and was content to take them to task verbally from time to time. Team Zero is actively encouraging them to carry on their evil.

[dartuser]

One ship will carry donations made by the people ...

i.e., weapons

and the other will carry relief workers.

i.e., terrorists

[Republic]

Note to uhbama...you had better get a couple of AMERICAN WAR SHIPS there ASAP...You know what is on those ships and so do we...and we KNOW WHO IS SENDING ROCKETS INTO ISRAEL and WHO NEEDS to be REPLENISHED with ARMED STOCK.

We already have first hand accounts that there is plenty of food and water and goods and services in Gaza...there IS NO PROBLEM other than GAZA is running LOW ON ARMAMENTS thanks to the blockade.

Get off your ASS Uhbama, for ONCE, get off the golf course and DO THE HONORABLE THING. NOW!

[Jewbacca]

Worked for the North Koreans.

[caww]

Somebodies just aching for a fight....this thing will be milked for all it’s worth by the Muslim countries now.

[Cindy]

OPINION: It’s like the cartoon jihad, all part of jihad, all part of the global jihad.

[Cindy]

http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/001716.html

#

Quote:

ORE DOCUMENTATION ON GAZA FLOTILLA CHARITY IHH
OSINT.INTERNET HAGANAH.com ^ | n/a
Posted on June 7, 2010 3:57:01 PM PDT by Cindy

June 07, 2010

MORE DOCUMENTATION ON GAZA FLOTILLA CHARITY IHH

(Excerpt) Read more at osint.internet-haganah.com ...

TOPICS: Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror; Click to Add Topic
KEYWORDS: gazaflotilla; globaljihad; ihh; internet; osint; Click to Add Keyword

[ Report Abuse | Bookmark ]

1 posted on June 7, 2010 3:57:02 PM PDT by Cindy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies | Report Abuse]

To: All
ON THE INTERNET:

http://s88179113.onlinehome.us/2010-06-07/IHH-Hamas.jpg

2 posted on June 7, 2010 3:57:51 PM PDT by Cindy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse]

To: All
http://www.nefafoundation.org/documents-legal-A_M.html#ihh
http://www.nefafoundation.org/featured-area-Israel-PalTerr-Lebanon.html#ihhhamas
http://www.nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/ihhhamas.pdf

#

http://counterterrorismblog.org/2010/06/more_documentation_on_gaza_flo.php

“More Documentation on Gaza Flotilla Charity IHH”
By Evan Kohlmann

SNIPPET: “The NEFA Foundation has released two new documents relating to the Turkish Muslim charitable group Insani Yardim Vakfi (IHH), sponsor of the Gaza freedom flotilla.”

(June 7, 2010)

3 posted on June 7, 2010 4:01:27 PM PDT by Cindy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies | Report Abuse]

To: All
ON THE INTERNET:

http://www.nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/ihhhamas.pdf

4 posted on June 7, 2010 4:03:27 PM PDT by Cindy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies | Report Abuse]

To: All
ON THE INTERNET:

http://www.nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/US_v_Alamoudi_GentrupIHH.pdf

5 posted on June 7, 2010 4:04:13 PM PDT by Cindy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies | Report Abuse]

To: All
ON THE INTERNET:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/ihh/index

6 posted on June 7, 2010 4:05:04 PM PDT by Cindy

[Cindy]

NOTE This link is to the thread where the links post no. 46 are listed:

Quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2529696/posts

ORE DOCUMENTATION ON GAZA FLOTILLA CHARITY IHH
OSINT.INTERNET HAGANAH.com ^ | n/a
Posted on June 7, 2010 3:57:01 PM PDT by Cindy

June 07, 2010

MORE DOCUMENTATION ON GAZA FLOTILLA CHARITY IHH

(Excerpt) Read more at osint.internet-haganah.com ...

[Cindy]

http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/001714.html

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israel-worried-by-new-turkey-intelligence-chief-s-defense-of-iran-1.294568

Published 00:48 07.06.10
Latest update 00:48 07.06.10

“Israel worried by new Turkey intelligence chief’s defense of Iran”

SNIPPET: “Israeli sources believe Hakan Fidan aided in orchestrating an intentional change in relations between Israel and Turkey.”

By Amir Oren

[Cindy]

RECAP:

stepping back in time...

http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/001713.html

June 04, 2010

“TESTIMONY OF JUDGE BRUGUIERE REGARDING IHH INVOLVEMENT IN THE MILLENIUM BOMB PLOT”

#

RECAP:

http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/001712.html

June 02, 2010

“REPORT DAMAGING TO TURKISH “HUMANITARIAN” ORGANIZATION/ERDOGAN REGIME BEING SUPPRESSED?

Signs point to yes.”

[caww]

Yes, and non-stop.

[Cindy]

Note: The following text SNIPPET is a quote:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/06/danish-reporter-humanitarian-crisis-in-gaza-what-humanitarian-crisis.html

Danish reporter: Humanitarian crisis in Gaza? What humanitarian crisis?

“We have nothing! Potatoes? What potatoes?”

A Danish reporter finds that in Gaza, the victimhood propaganda is as much in abundance as the foodstuffs. Poor, Starving Palestinians Update: “Danish report from Gaza: ‘Where’s the humanitarian crisis?,’” from Elder of Ziyon, June 2 (thanks to Steven):

Danish reporter Steffen Jensen visits Gaza to see how bad things are, given that the entire world is in an uproar over the humanitarian crisis there (translated):

Judging from the media, the situation in Gaza is desperate, everything is about to collapse, and the community is on the brink or at the level of a third world country.
The Palestinian community’s immediate downfall has been prophesied numerous times in the media. People have nothing to eat, we sometimes know. The UN must from time to time to stop food distribution, either because their stocks are running low, or because they can not get diesel for their trucks, and therefore can not carry food in. And so on.

Yesterday I drove into the Gaza Strip. I don’t do this as often as before [because it takes much longer to get through the checkpoints now.]

This time, I had expected to see real suffering, because with all the fuss in recent days about bringing tons of humanitarian relief in - so much that people actually sacrificed their lives for it - there certainly had to really be a deep, desperate situation in the Gaza Strip. No food. Long queues in front of UN food stocks. Hungry children with food bowls.

But this was not the picture that greeted me.”

[Cindy]

Quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2529941/posts

AHMADINEJAD: FLOTILLA RAID STEP TOWARDS ISRAEL’S ANNIHILATION
YNET NEWS.com ^ | Published: 06.08.10, 08:40 / Israel News | n/a
Posted on June 8, 2010 1:51:29 AM PDT by Cindy

“Ahmadinejad: Flotilla raid step towards Israel’s annihilation”

SNIPPET: “Iranian president tells worshippers at Istanbul mosque, ‘Turkey, Iran are brother nations’ says Israel ‘creating crimes that have been unprecedented in history of mankind’”

SNIPPET: “Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke before worshippers at the end of a prayer service at an Istanbul mosque on Monday, and said the “Zionist regime’s’” recent raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla is a major step towards its total annihilation, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

The IRNA report demonstrates a more extreme tone than the one expressed earlier by Ahmadinejad in an interview to a French television station, in which he said the soldiers involved in the raid should be prosecuted for their “inhumane” conduct.”

(Excerpt) Read more at ynetnews.com ...

[Cindy]

http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4296.htm

Antisemitism Documentation Project

June 3, 2010
Special Dispatch No.2998

“Reactions in Iran to Gaza Flotilla – ‘Kayhan’: Ayatollah Khomeini’s Logical, Humane, and Completely Practical Plan – To Remove the ‘Cancerous Tumor’ Israel, That Is, Eradicating It – Must Be Implemented”

SNIPPET: “Iran’s leaders have stated that the Gaza flotilla events are a sign of Israel’s end. They called on the Muslims of the world to act against the “cancerous tumor” Israel, and warned Israel’s supporters worldwide to distance themselves from it lest they be harmed as well. The daily Kayhan, the regime mouthpiece, called on the Turks to avenge the blood of their comrades who were killed, and announced that Israelis are not safe anywhere in the world.

Following are the main reactions:”

[Cindy]

http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=177777

“’Iranian ships won’t reach Gaza’”
By HERB KEINON AND YAAKOV KATZ
06/08/2010 00:55

“Gov’t likely to ok probe of flotilla raid with two int’l observers.”

SNIPPET: “Israel said on Monday it would not let Iranian ships sail to Gaza after the Iranian Red Crescent announced it would send two vessels to the region in the coming week.”

[Cindy]

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/pdf/hamas_e110.pdf

#

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hamas_e110.htm

Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
June 7, 2010

“IHH Preparations for a Violent Confrontation with IDF Soldiers
Aboard the Turkish Ship Mavi Marmara

Initial conclusions from questioning passengers
and examining equipment on board the ship”

[Cindy]

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3902562,00.html

“MK El-Sana asks military advocate general to probe flotilla raid”
Published: 06.09.10, 11:01 / Israel News

SNIPPET: “Knesset Member Talab El-Sana (United Arab List-Ta’al) has sent a letter to Military Advocate General Major-General Avichai Mendelblit requesting the latter to order an investigation into the Navy’s raid on the Gaza-bound ship Marmara.”

[Cindy]

ADDING to post no. 45:

http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/001717.html

June 08, 2010

“ANSWER: BULENT YILDIRIM’S LAPTOP COMPUTER, AMONG OTHER THINGS
Question: What did the IDF collect from the Mavi Marmara.”

SNIPPET: “The reader may recall that Turkey’s Islamist Prime Minister Recep Erdogan was formerly the mayor of Istanbul - thus we see a likely connection between IHH’s purchase of the Mavi Marmara and Erdogan cronies in the Istanbul Deniz Otobusleri.”

[Cindy]

http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4340.htm

June 7, 2010
Special Dispatch No.3004

“Narrative of Struggle and Jihad in Statements By Islamist Participants in Gaza Flotilla”

SNIPPET: “The following are further excerpts from reports in the Arab press about the participants in the Gaza Flotilla, and statements by participants and their acquaintances.

For earlier reports, see MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 2990, “Arab Media Reports on Flotilla Participants: Writing Wills, Preparing for Martyrdom, Determined to Reach Gaza or Die,” June 1, 2010,

http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/833/4265.htm.
· To view the MEMRI page for Flotilla, visit http://www.memri.org/subject/en/833.htm.
· To view the MEMRI TV page for Flotilla, visit http://www.memritv.org/subject/en/834.htm.
· To view the MEMRI Guide to the Middle East’s page about the Flotilla, visit http://www.memri.org/flotilla/. “

[Cindy]

Reminder: This is still the current Gaza Flotilla/Gaza - Humanitarian Aid Thread.

#

Quote:

Quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2532307/posts

Video Recordings of Statements from Mavi Marmara Crew Members about Preparations Made by IHH...
TERRORISM-INFO.org.il - INTELLIGENCE AND TERRORISM INFORMATION CENTER ^ | June 9, 2010 | n/a
Posted on June 10, 2010 9:20:14 PM PDT by Cindy

“Video Recordings of Statements from Mavi Marmara Crew Members about Preparations Made by IHH Operatives for the Violent Confrontation with IDF Soldiers 1”

SNIPPET: “Overview

1. The videotaped statements of two Mavi Marmara crew members show that preparations for a violent confrontation with IDF forces were put in motion about two hours before the boarding began, when the Israeli Navy hailed the ship and told it to halt.

2. According to the statements, the atmosphere aboard the Mavi Marmara was tense and the crew noticed a gathering on the main deck. When they checked the upper deck they discovered that IHH operatives were cutting the ship’s railings with metal disks they had brought with them into lengths suitable to be used as clubs. The crew members said the activities worried them and that they tried to stop the operatives but were unsuccessful.

3. The following are the statements of the one of the ship’s captains and an officer. This bulletin contains the text of the statements and the videotaped interviews.”

(Excerpt) Read more at terrorism-info.org.il ...

[Cindy]

NOTE The following post is a quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2532677/posts

Fethullah Gulen’s cave of wonders
Asia Times ^ | 6/9/2010 | Spengler
Posted on June 11, 2010 10:03:12 AM PDT by a_Turk

We’ve been had, boys and girls: the international community, the world press, Israeli intelligence, the United Nations, the lot of us. The existential drama off the Gaza coast turns out to be a Turkish farce, the kind of low comedy that in 1782 Wolfgang Mozart set to music in the opera The Abduction from the Seraglio, with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan playing the buffo-villain Osmin and Turkish self-exiled preacher and author Fethullah Gulen as the wise Pasha Selim.

In the post-American world, where every wannabe and used-to-be power makes momentary deals with other powers it plans to kill later, one makes inferences with caution. But I’ve seen this opera before.

Gulen, who lives in Pennsylvania in the United States, was silent as a jinn in a bottle about politics until last Friday, when he told the Wall Street Journal that the Free Gaza flotilla’s attempt to run the Israeli blockage of Gaza “is a sign of defying authority, and will not lead to fruitful matters”.

Erdogan’s Islamists have run a two-year campaign of judicial activism against secular politicians, journalists and army officers, and secular critics long have alleged that Gulen is the clerical power behind the prime minister.

~snip!

Read the rest here: http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LF09Ak02.html

(Excerpt) Read more at atimes.com ...