Media coverage of Syrian violence partial and untrue, says nun
A NUN who has been superior at a Syrian monastery for the past 18 years has warned that media coverage of ongoing violence in that country has been “partial and untrue”. It is “a fake”, Mother Agnes Mariam said, which “hides atrocities committed in the name of liberty and democracy”.PATSY McGARRY, Religious Affairs Correspondent
Superior of the Melkite Greek Catholic monastery of St James the Mutilated in Qara, in Syria’s diocese of Homs, which is in full communion with Rome, she left Ireland yesterday after a three-day visit during which she met representatives of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference in Maynooth.
She told The Irish Times she was in Ireland “not to advocate for the (Assad) regime but for the facts”. Most news reports from Syria were “forged, with only one side emphasised”, she said. This also applied to the UN, whose reports were “one-sided and not worthy of that organisation”.
UN observers in Syria had been “moderate with the rebels and covered for them in taking back positions after the withdrawal of heavy equipment, as seen so tragically in Homs”, she said.
When it was put to her this suggested the whole world was out of step except for Syria, Russia and China, she protested: “No, no, there are 20 countries, including some in Latin America” of the same view.
The reason the media was being denied easy access to Syria currently was because in the Libyan conflict journalists placed electronic devices for Nato in rooms used at press conferences in that country, she said. “So Syria didn’t want journalists,” she said.
Christians make up about 10 per cent of Syria’s population, dispersed throughout the country, she said. The Assad regime “does not favour Christians”, she said. “It is a secular regime based on equality for all, even though in the constitution it says the Koran is the source of legislation.”
But “Christians are less put aside [in Syria] than in other Islamic countries, for example Saudi Arabia,” she said. “The social fabric of Syria is very diverse, so Christians live in peace.”
The “Arab insurrection” under way in that country included “sectarian factions which promote fundamentalist Islam, which is not genuine Islam”, she said.
The majority of Muslims in Syria are moderate and open to other cultural and interfaith elements, she said. “Wahhabism (a fundamentalist branch of Islam) is not open,” she added.
Christians in Syria were “doubtful about the future if the project to topple the regime succeeded”. The alternative was “a religious sectarian state where all minorities would feel threatened and discriminated against”, she said.
There was “a need to end the violence”, she said. “The West and Gulf states must not give finance to armed insurrectionists who are sectarian terrorists, most of whom are from al-Qaeda, according to a report presented to the German parliament,” she said.
“We don’t want to be invaded, as in Aleppo, by mercenaries, some of whom think they are fighting Israel. They bring terror, destruction, fear and nobody protects the civilians,” she said. There were “very few Syrians among the rebels”, she said. “Mercenaries should go home,” she said.
What she and others sought in Syria was “reform, no violence, no foreign intervention.” She hoped for “a new, third way, a new social pact where the right to autodetermination without outside interference” would be respected.
The Prisons Crisis Group in Derry have published and new pamphlet calling for the immediate release of Marian Price.
The 24 page booklet is the latest initiative in the long running campaign to bring about the immediate release of Marian Price.
Copies of the booklet (launched at the PFC with Paul O'Connor in the Rath Mor Centre in Creggan this morning including Eamonn Mc Cann and Betty Doherty) is now available from the PFC, Free Derry Museum, Tar Abhaile and An Culturlann.
It is also available in Belfast at Na Croisbhealaà workers' co-op. From the WSM in Dublin as well as other outlets will be published soon.
Osama Bin Laden, Junior, who is thought to be hiding on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and is believed to be Bin Laden’s only son by his Saudi wife, has called for the acceleration of the destruction of Britain. Indymedia Ireland have however branded him a CIA asset in article references below.
Bin Laden just before his death, was also exploring the possibility of using Indymedia ireland to persuade the Irish population, sickened by repeated scandals within the Catholic Church, to convert en masse to Islam. Ireland's last census shows, there are now more than 50pc more Muslims in Ireland than in previous census figures, making it the fastest-growing religion in Ireland, which will eventually overtake Catholicism. It is also the world's fastest growing religion. Al-Qaida documents prove that the crisis in the Catholic Church and in Irish media such as Indymedia Ireland has attracted attention from all around the world.
"Al-Mahdi al-Harati: The Next Osama Bin Ladin; Coming to a Town Near You!
CIA’s Hired Global Mercenary Commandos: al-Harati, from Libya to Syria; You Up Next?
July 28th, 2012
NewsRescue- Far from being spontaneous and organized by the locals, the fall of Libya was a strategically organized, thoroughly planed and facilitated covert military operation, with fight foreign commandos, leading almost all fight squads.
For Libyans, the revolution, if there really was any intended was totally highjacked. The elite team of global CIA commandos are not new. It is the old game in the book. The Osama Al Qaeda elite team used against the Soviets in Afghanistan has been publicly recognized as a CIA created machine.
A top director of the new elite command is Al-Mahdi al-Harati, born 1973, an Irish national who lived the last 22 yeas of his life in Ireland before leading the Benghazi armed overthrow of the Libyan regime. Al-Harati is recognized as the new ‘Osama’,- trained, funded and aided to lead covert successful militant campaigns of terror and destabilization in troubled Arab and African nations, that are not in the Wests good books.
Al-Mahdi al-Harati was actively recruited sometime in 2011 and fully funded by the CIA, according to heaping evidence, to lead much of the military Benghazi campaign against Libya’s leadership. Though it is generally understood that he has long been a CIA agent, in active duty and training.
Al-Harati’s CIA employ was verified by intelligence experts, when he was robbed of ‘€200,000 CIA money’ in 2011. It must be noted that these destabilization and overthrow efforts are highly funded and cash based. Mercenaries are hired to fight these wars – made to appear as though the people are fighting, and they are paid tall sums, in hundreds to thousands of dollars per day of fight, on average $500-800/day.
BATTLEZONE: Mahdi al-Harati helped to lead the assault on Tripoli which ultimately resulted in the fall of Sirte. From the Irish newspaper Sundayworld, Wednesday, 9 Nov 2011
A GANG of Irish traveler thieves are in the middle of a holy war – after liberating €200,000 cash destined for Libyan ‘rebels’. In a tale worthy of the John le Carre thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, the scam artists from Rathkeale in Co Limerick hit the jackpot when they robbed a home in Dublin’s Firhouse.
As well as a haul of family jewels, they stumbled upon €200,000 in €500 bills hidden in the hot press. But the homeowner was well-known Irish Libyan ‘freedom fighter’ Mahdi al-Harati, who was one of the leaders of the bloody ‘revolt’ against Gaddafi.
The Sunday World asserted al- Harati’s being a CIA asset based on his statements after the robbery of his fat earnings:
Indymedia, Ireland: CIA asset , Mahdi al-Harati
http://www.sundayworld.com/columnists/index.php “[After the robbery], astonished officers made contact with Mahdi al-Harati who told them that he had traveled to France, the United States and Qatar the previous month and that representatives of an American intelligence agency had given him a significant amount of money to help in the efforts to defeat Gaddafi. He said he left two envelopes with his wife in case he was killed and took the rest of the cash with him when he went back to Libya.”
Mahdi al-Harati has been well-known in antiwar and Palestine solidarity circles in Dublin over the years . He had been a passenger in the Challenger 1 ship last year when it attempted to break the seige of Gaza as part of the Free Gaza Flotilla . He was the last Irish member of the flotilla to arrive home after the Israeli raid and was given a hero’s reception at Dublin Airport by members of the IPSC and the IAWM . According to an indymedia comment from last year written by Kev from the IPSC : “Freda Hughes of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign welcomed his safe return and saluted his bravery: “Al Mahdi, like all of the Freedom Flotilla participants, is deserving of our praise for his courage in attempting to break the illegal siege of Gaza and deliver humanitarian aid to the besieged people there. We are all relieved that he is safely back in Ireland. We hope that his family, who we know were extremely worried about his health, can rest easy now and celebrate his return..”’
View link: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100895
He is noted to have led the siege and capture of Tripoli.
Alqaeda flag above ‘liberated’ Libya Courthouse
The very interesting and confusing aspect of these elite commands is their being not merely the property of the CIA, but also Al Qaeda agents. The two are becoming more and more synonymous, and on some internet fora, Al Qaeda is re-branded, ‘ALL CIA duuh’.
The fall of Libya to these Al Qaeda commandos was made obvious to the world as the Al Qaeda flag was the hallmark victory symbol. It was pictured and videoed in on top of the Benghazi courthouse and in the hands of the celebrating victors.
Al Qaeda got its first official country, Libya. Since then, terror has been spreading all over North and sub-Saharan Africa, to Algeria, Mali with the regime deposition and terror rule, and up to Nigeria, where the abundance of Libyan ammunition’s and unlimited freedom, funds, training and support given terrorists by NATO support of terror commandos is leading to an upsurge in state terror.
The fall of Syria is once again being led, not by Syrians, but by the same CIA elite ‘ALL CIA duuh’, mercenaries. Al-Mahdi al-Harati has been seen active in Syria for months and has appeared in numerous videos, organizing and leading attacks against the nations army and people.
In the video below, he was recorded staging terror ops in Syria
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Few days ago, the German intelligence agency released its findings that terrorists, Al Qaeda was responsible for much of the Syria rebel activity. The Houla massacres, famed for the British BBC usage of a fake photo to distort the happenings, has been blamed on these terrorist elements, who have been in control of Houla.
Ajel news- Anti government forces in Libya, have in the recent Aleppo battle, the so-called battle of all battles, been seen burning corpses of dead comrades. This act of burning corpses is to hide their foreign identities.
Breaking News exclusive source confirmed that militants have burned this dawn 18 terrorists bodies that were killed in Jabal Al-Zawieh and Sarakeb during clashes with Syrian security forces to hide their faces.
Breaking News sources said one of the two groups leader named “Abu Issa” has threatened to kill anyone who turns himself into Syrian security forces and to target his family. Read link: http://breakingnews.sy/en/article/2271.html
The easy flow of these commandos and weapons into and out of Syria is enabled by their neighbor, Turkey, who either for ‘religious’ purpose, Syria being led by the Alawite house, as against Turkey leaderships’ co-called Sunni alliance, which is the more popular in Muslim nations.
Friday, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Britain raised his fear over the assault of his commando anti-Syrian government forces, being hammered on in recent Syrian crackdowns. He called on the Arab League, International Security council and and the Arab League to support the armed rebels who use the Turkish territories as their bases and route to infiltrate Syria.
CNN in a recent article, admitted to the presence and active recruitment by al-Harati of Libyans in Syria. Stopping short of admitting the foreign powers actively behind his ability and track record, including his supreme capacity to bring down the Libyan government and now again, his monumental capacities against the Syrian government.
In their report, the mentioned the publicity of Youtube videos exposing him and his commandos in Syria. Obviously, this exposition by the peoples media has prompted a conciliatory admission by the Mainstream.
CNN- Under the command of one of Libya’s most well known rebel commanders, Al-Mahdi al-Harati, more than 30 Libyan fighters have made their way into Syria to support the Free Syrian Army rebels in their war against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
Al-Harati, who commanded the Tripoli Revolutionary brigade — which was the first group of rebels to enter the Libyan capital last August — has been in Syria for months leading some of his former men and Syrian military defectors who have joined his “Liwaa al-Umma” or “The Banner of the Nation” brigade.
Recent YouTube videos show at least two different Syrian rebel factions announcing that they are part of the Liwa al-Umma.
Read this: http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/28/world/meast/syria-libya-fighters/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
al-Harati may be coming to your town soon
Mahdi al-Harati {feb17.info}
The consequences of such funded global mercenaries can never be over stated. These paid fighters manipulate peoples minds to gain volunteers, and with special doctrine, developed for them, they brain wash people who have good intentions into believing that such political and capitalistic wars are divine.
In the end, we have people with amazing skill and power, al-Harati, a new Osama, and you end up with trained terror remnants, who in their inactive state, after the fall, this time, of Syria, look for where else to pick up such ‘noble’ causes. As happened in Mali, in Africa, the entire Middle East and the world at large is never going to be safe or the same again with this action against Syrian government.
Al-Harati resigned as deputy leader of the Libyan Military soon after take over and in October 2011, returned to Ireland, where he and his Irish wife have lived for the past 20 years. He is now fully employed and engaged in leading the Syrian anti-government terror campaign. Apparently he is better engaged in commanding global terror ops, than state leadership.
And this growing army of skilled CIA commandos who have a track record of brilliant success, from the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, to hundreds of other wars, and more recently their success against Libya’s government and now Syria, who knows, you could be up next. So be ready, al-Harati may be coming to your town soon.
London 2012 Rock Star Morrissey Pisses on Olympics @ Royals
Rock Star Morrissey blasts the Olympics and the royals. Morrissey, a London native compared his home country England to Nazi Germany. In an open letter Morrissey true to his feelings wrote about London 2012, the royals and the Olympics.
Morrissey writes:
I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The “dazzling royals” have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press. It is lethal to witness. As London is suddenly promoted as a super-wealth brand, the England outside London shivers beneath cutbacks, tight circumstances and economic disasters. Meanwhile the British media present 24-hour coverage of the “dazzling royals”, laughing as they lavishly spend, as if such coverage is certain to make British society feel fully whole. In 2012, the British public is evidently assumed to be undersized pigmies, scarcely able to formulate thought.
As I recently drove through Greece I noticed repeated graffiti seemingly everywhere on every available wall. In large blue letters it said WAKE UP WAKE UP. It could almost have been written with the British public in mind, because although the spirit of 1939 Germany now pervades throughout media-brand Britain, the 2013 grotesque inevitability of Lord and Lady Beckham (with Sir Jamie Horrible close at heel) is, believe me, a fate worse than life. WAKE UP WAKE UP.
Morrissey has expressed previously his disappointment with how his country is run. In his song Irish Blood, English Heart, his lyrics are as follows: “Irish blood, English heart, this I’m made of| There is no one on earth I’m afraid of, and no regime can buy or sell me| I’ve been dreaming of a time when to be English is not to be baneful| To be standing by the flag not feeling shameful|“
The Royal Family may not be amused but some of their subjects are! )
Buggered if I know what all the fuss is about. In these days of openly-gay bishops, who gives a toss if the Heir to the Throne bonks a butler or has cunnilingus with a corgi? We already know he wants to be re-incarnated as a tampon.
So what's the big deal?
The joke is on US because we put up with the whole Monarchy show. Surely it has now descended to little more than another long-running Soap which should call it a day like Brookside.
Then again, think of the entertainment value! Then again, switch channels. Royality is a dying brand which no longer deserves our loyalty (not that it ever did.)
Marian Price is seriously ill in hospital with pneumonia. Her family has expressed “deep concern” about her deteriorating mental and physical health.
In June Price, who is suffering from severe depression after a year in solitary confinement, was moved from Hydebank prison to Belfast City Hospital’s Windsor House unit, which treats patients with psychiatric issues.
But her health has continued to fail. On Tuesday she was diagnosed with pneumonia and moved to the main hospital.
Her husband, Jerry McGlinchey, told the Belfast Telegraph: “We’re extremely worried. Marian has been in constant pain for months. Nobody has to agree with my wife’s politics to see this is wrong and violates her human rights.”
Arrested after she participated in a republican commemoration ceremony, despite being granted bail, she was returned to prison after her licence was revoked by Secretary of State Owen Paterson and she has been in jail since. The fact Marian was never on licence having received a Queen's pardon when she was released from prison after serving a long sentence for her part in the Old bailey bombing, epitomises the British governments contempt for the rule of law when it involves Irish people. When her lawyers demanded a copy of her pardon, a ministerial gofer claimed the documents relating to Marian release have been lost.
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Owen Paterson.
Ever since the UK Coalition government came to power in 2010, it is as if they wish to row back from the Good Friday Agreement. In this case and that of Martin Corey, they have behaved in the most provocative way. If you add in the mistreatment of Republican prisoners in Maghaberry prison who are members of small groups who do not support the Peace Process, one cannot help catching glimpses of the bad old days when British governments believed they could ride roughshod over the democratic and human rights of the nationalist working classes.
One certainty about Irish history is the croppies will not lie down in the face of injustice, if the peace process is to offer Republicans a democratic avenue it must be seen to work for all, even its most implacable opponents.
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