Posted earlier today, FWIW:
The Obama Libya Cover-Up Explained (Long Article)
Friday, October 19, 2012 4:28:05 PM · 19 of 31
MestaMachine to Cicero
“And, ironically, our ambassador to Libya, who was murdered, was at the forefront of assisting those terrorists during the revolt backed by Obama’s illegal war against a sovereign ally.”
That is why Stevens is dead. Seems that he was becoming too mouthy. Once he started receiving death threats and as his fears were increasing, his cables became more frequent and more frantic. He lost their confidence in his willingness to keep his mouth shut and bang.
Watch for more from Lt. Col. Andy Wood who has already stated he would put his entire career in jeopardy to get the truth out and take the consequences for outing classified information...including prison if necessary.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2947158/posts?page=1
How US Ambassador Chris Stevens May Have Been Linked To Jihadist Rebels In Syria
Business Insider ^ | Oct 19, 2012 | Michael Kelly
Posted on Friday, October 19, 2012 9:37:14 AM by KeyLargo
How US Ambassador Chris Stevens May Have Been Linked To Jihadist Rebels In Syria
Michael Kelley | 46 minutes ago
US Weapons Are Going To Hard-Line Jihadists Fighting To Topple The Syrian Regime
The details of the September 11 attack that killed four Americans at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi are still murky and there’s certainly more to be known.
Former CIA officer Clare Lopez argues that the key issue is “the relationship of the U.S. government, Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya with Al Qaeda.”
That relationship, Lopez argues, could be connected to the rise of Islamic brigades in Syria, who recently created a “Front to Liberate Syria” to wage jihad against the Syrian regime and turn the country into an Islamic state.
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-syria-heavy-weapons-jihadists-2012-10
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Read thread for great info.
October 29, 2004
Notes from the Pentagon
ElBaradei’s revenge
Defense officials tell us the disclosure this week of the 380 tons of missing high explosives from Iraq was the work of International Atomic Energy Agency director Mohamed ElBaradei, who is said to be opposed to the United States.
Officials speaking on condition of anonymity said they believe Mr. ElBaradei, an Egyptian, sought to influence the outcome of the presidential election when his agency called on the new Iraqi government to account for the stored high explosives at Al-Qaqaa.
“There’s no question that most people here think the whole [Iraqi explosives] thing was cooked up,” one official said.
The IAEA wrote a letter to Iraqi Science and Technology Minister Rashan Mandan Omar, who then had his chief monitor, Mohammad Abbas, write back. It was Mr. Abbas who claimed that the explosives were looted after the U.S.-led invasion, a claim defense officials dispute.
The Bush administration has been frustrated that Mr. ElBaradei has been slow to deal with the growing crisis over Iran’s nuclear program and the refusal of Tehran to halt uranium enrichment in violation of IAEA rules.
Mr. ElBaradei also has not been tough on North Korea, for its rogue nuclear program.
An IAEA spokesman could not be reached for comment.
The speed with which the campaign of Sen. John Kerry exploited the issue also has raised suspicions in the Pentagon that U.S. intelligence agencies helped the Kerry campaign with the story, at least until it began to fall apart shortly after the report appeared in the New York Times on Monday.
.http://www.gertzfile.com/gertzfile/ring102904.html
Iran’s Nuclear Program: What Is Known and Unknown
The Heritage Foundation ^ | March 26, 2010
...Moreover, on December 14, 2009, The Times of London reported that Western intelligence agencies had uncovered Iranian documents indicating that Iranian scientists had tested a neutron initiator, the component that triggers a nuclear weapon. A neutron initiator has no peaceful application. This discovery directly contradicts the U.S. intelligence community’s position that Iran halted nuclear weapons-related work in 2003.[3] On December 18, Iran announced that it was testing more advanced centrifuges, which could enrich uranium faster.
Since 2002, the IAEA has bent over backwards to give Iran the benefit of the doubt, in large part due to the politicized leadership of IAEA Director General Mohammed ElBaradei, who was an outspoken critic of the Bush Administration and often acted as an apologist for Iran. In November 2009, ElBaradei was replaced by Yukiya Amano of Japan.
Under Director General Amano’s leadership, the IAEA appears to be taking a more objective look at the Iranian nuclear program. On February 18, it issued a confidential report that warned for the first time of evidence that Tehran is working on a nuclear warhead for its missiles.[4] This warning contradicts the controversial 2007 U.S. National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), which concluded that Iran had stopped working on a nuclear weapon in 2003.[5]...
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2484396/posts
Egypt Protests: Will the Real Mohammed ElBaradei Please Stand Up?
By Anne Bayefsky
Published February 01, 2011
FoxNews.com
In the name of democratic reform, Mohammed ElBaradei is doing his best to appear as the annointed one to succeed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarek, should the government fall. In reality, ElBaradei has more in common with Iranian demagogue Mahmoud Ahmadinejad than anything remotely resembling democracy. He is the former Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), where his primary legacy was running interference for Iran and ensuring that Iran is now on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons.
Year-after-year for a decade, ElBaradei used his position at the IAEA to stall for time on behalf of Iran. In September 2005 ElBaradei helped push the issue off the Security Council table and bragged: “I am encouraged that the issue has not been referred to the Security Council, precisely to give time for diplomacy and negotiation.” Typical of his foot-dragging was his February 2006 report: “Although the Agency has not seen any diversion of nuclear material to nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, the Agency is not at this point in time in a position to conclude that there are no undeclared nuclear materials or activities in Iran. The process of drawing such a conclusion ... is a time consuming process.”
In January 2007, in the midst of growing calls for sanctions against Iran, ElBaradei suggested a “time-out.” In September 2007, with stiffer sanctions on the horizon, ElBaradei again called for a “time-out.” In January 2008 the IAEA reported: “ElBaradei has repeatedly noted that ... the IAEA has not seen any diversion of material to nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices.”
As soon as ElBaradei was finally replaced as IAEA head early last year, his successor Yukiya Amano attempted to distance himself from the obvious cover-up. He issued a report in which the IAEA, for the first time, said things like - on the basis of “extensive” and “credible” information the IAEA now has “concerns about the possible existence in Iran of ... current undisclosed activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile,” and “concerns about possible military dimensions to Iran’s nuclear program.’’
If El Baradei were ever to become President of Egypt, not only would he have helped Iran acquire nuclear weapons, he would undoubtedly turn around and lead the charge for an Egyptian nuclear weapon. Nobel Prize notwithstanding, his calling card is to cast nuclear proliferation as some kind of equal rights game between developed and developing countries.
Here is the frightening interview he gave to the Financial Times on February 19, 2007 that indicates the kind of Iranian look-alike which is in the making: “Iran sees enrichment... as a strategic goal because they feel that this will bring them power, prestige and influence...[A] lot of that is true. A nuclear capability is a nuclear deterrent in many ways...When you see here in the UK the programme for modernising Trident, which basically gets the UK far into the 21st century with a nuclear deterrent, it is difficult then for us to turn around and tell everybody else that nuclear deterrents are really no good for you...”
Reports out of Egypt directly connecting ElBaradei’s political ambitions with Tehran surfaced last September via a political rival, Abdul Mabboud. A story translated from Egyptian Newspaper Al Youm Al Sabeh last September said: “in a communication to the Attorney General of Egypt, Dr. Yasser Najib Abdel Mabboud, has accused Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei...of receiving funds exceeding $7 million (US) from Iran’s leadership as support for ‘political reform in Egypt’.” The story claimed that “the check in the amount of $ 7 million is said to be meant to cover the financial costs of the election campaign and the activities of the Front for Change.”
The shoe sure seems to fit. ElBaradei told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Sunday that: “The Muslim Brotherhood ...has nothing to do with extremism...[T]hey have a lot of credibility...And I have been reaching out to them.” Actually, ElBaradei’s comrade-in-arms is a viciously antisemitic and anti-Western organization that would send Egyptian women back to the stone ages and rupture peace agreements with Israel as a warm-up act.
If the Obama administration throws Mubarek overboard in the immediate future with nothing but an ElBaradei-Muslim Brotherhood front man in the wings, Egyptians will be farther away from democracy than they ever were and the rest of the world will be a far more dangerous place.
The shoe sure seems to fit. ElBaradei told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Sunday that: “The Muslim Brotherhood ...has nothing to do with extremism...[T]hey have a lot of credibility...And I have been reaching out to them.” Actually, ElBaradei’s comrade-in-arms is a viciously antisemitic and anti-Western organization that would send Egyptian women back to the stone ages and rupture peace agreements with Israel as a warm-up act.
If the Obama administration throws Mubarek overboard in the immediate future with nothing but an ElBaradei-Muslim Brotherhood front man in the wings, Egyptians will be farther away from democracy than they ever were and the rest of the world will be a far more dangerous place.
Anne Bayefsky is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust....
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/02/01/egypt-protests-real-mohammed-elbaradei-stand/#ixzz29n6VeYrZ
Thomas L. Friedman: Getting to Know You ... (January 15, 2012)
Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel-Prize winning diplomat who helped galvanize the demands for democracy here, said on Saturday that he was dropping his presidential bid in protest over the military’s continued hold on power nearly a year after the ouster of the strongman Hosni Mubarak.
He helped found an umbrella group, the National Association for Change, which became a rallying point for many of the young activists who later helped lead the uprising against Mr. Mubarak.
Mr. ElBaradei appears to have been one of the few who publicly anticipated the revolt that forced out Mr. Mubarak. In a widely circulated online video he released weeks before the revolts broke out in Tunisia and then Egypt, Mr. ElBaradei bluntly told the Mubarak government that it faced its “last chance,” predicting “there will be violence.”
“A day of reckoning will come,” he said. “And I am asking the Egyptian people to keep a record of every case of torture and oppression and the violation of personal liberty.”
In an interview in December 2010, about a month before the uprising began, he repeatedly invoked his visits to the Tehran Hilton on the eve of the Iranian revolution in 1979. “Things were boiling underground, and that is what I see here in Egypt,” he said. “I would not be surprised if you saw violence in a couple of weeks, or in a month or two.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/world/middleeast/mohamed-elbaradei-pulls-out-of-egypts-presidential-race.html?_r=0
ElBaradei is a front man for the Muslim Brotherhood, he’s also a board member of the International Crisis Group where Thomas Pickering (Hillary’s pick to head-up their Libya Attack Investigation) is Chair (along with Louise Arbor ICC (she was the prosecutor of the Serbs). Soros is also a board member - he had a part in setting up the ICG but his friends and frontmen Mollach Mark Brown (UN, oil for food - International Rescue...), and Mort Abramowitz - Century Institute, Carnegie Peace International...put their names to it)
ElBaradei knew a little too much on what was going to happen in Libya, Cairo etc., he’s either a prophet or in it up to his neck. These committees are made up of the usual suspects. Track back to the Balkans. I had stuff on each of them but computer trouble erased the file had trouble with my computer but will do another search time permitting.
ICG Board Members:
http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/about/board.aspx
ICG Advisors:
http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/about/%7E/link.aspx?_id=AFAAD992BC154C93B71B1E76D6151F3F&_z=z
International Rescue Committee (IRC):
http://www.rescue.org/board-and-overseers
Bottomline:The Balkans, Sierra Leone, Philippines, Afghanstan, Georgia - Orange Revolution, Turkmenistan... , along with this whole Arab Spring deal is about Pipelines (water/minerals/land). Interesting that the cities that have been taken over by the Jihad Salafists are port cities. The UN is the umbrella - the US gets used for her money and military. Thomas Pickering (Hillary’s old friend) is a board member of TMK OIl and Pipelines - Moscow. Some government aka elected officials and otherwise, are in on the deals while others refuse...the people that refuse are being systematically removed. Their Human Rights Watch (Soros) does the reporting which is picked up by the MSM which makes their boss’ happy because some of them are in on it. Yes, it sounds crazy but being rich isn’t where it’s at with these people, it’s the power, and the game of making more money. Their supposed concern for refugees, the poor etc., is also a front to gain followers - the Jihad Salafists do the same thing.