Archive for October 28th, 2009
New posts from Oct.20 to 26, 2009
Posted by: adonis49 on: October 28, 2009
530. How do you value quality of life? (October 20, 2009)
531. The inevitable Northern Middle East strategic block
(Report #30); (October 21, 2009)
532. Turkey is currently the main cornerstone regional power;
Erdogan next in line for Nobel Peace; (October 21, 2009)
533. Nano-Technologies: Homo sapiens 2.0. Tell me more; (October 22, 2009)
534. BANG, not the Big One: Tell me more; (October 23, 2009)
535. Craig’s-list adverts; (October 24, 2009)
- 536. The Sacred Practical Necessities; (October 25, 2009)
- 537. Sins & Technology: Tell me more; (October 25, 2009)
538. C’est quoi “human dignity”? (October 26, 2009)
Devastating civil war in non oil-producing Yemen: Is it of any concern to the UN?
Posted by: adonis49 on: October 28, 2009
Devastating civil war in Yemen: Is it of any concern to the UN? (Oct. 27, 2009)
The UN did it again! Civil wars in non-oil producing Arab States are left to run its natural steam until the State is bankrupt and ready to be picked up at salvage price.
The UN tends to get busy for years in collateral world problems when civil wars strike any non oil-producing Arab States. Occasionally, the UN demonstrates lukewarm attempts for a resolution in oil producing States as long as it is under control.
Lebanon experienced 17 years of civil war. Morocco still has a civil war in south Sahara for three decades. Sudan has been suffering of a rampant civil war for four decades. Algeria is experiencing a resurgence of a devastating civil war that started in 1990 because Europe refused to accept a democratically elected Islamic majority in the parliament. Iraq was totally neglected while Saddam Hussein was decimating the Shias and Kurds in Iraq for three decades, even after the US coalition forced the Iraqi troops out of Kuwait. Somalia never got out of its miseries for four decades so far. Mauritania is rope jumping from one military coup to another. The other Arab States are in constant low-level civil wars overshadowed by dictators, one party, oligarchic, and monarchic regimes.
A week ago, a few trucks were allowed to cross Saudi borders to Yemen carrying tents and necessary medicines to stem rampant diseases where hundred thousands of refugees huddle in refugee camps on the high plateau of North-West Yemen, by the borders with Saudi Arabia that closed its borders and chased out any infiltration of refugees.
The most disheartening feeling is that you don’t see field reporting of this civil war by the western media. The written accounts are from second-hand sources and decades old. They abridge the problem by stating it is a tribal matter. They feel comfortable blaming Iran; then how this land locked region can be supplied by Iran needs to be clarified. The western media is easily convinced that Al Qaeda moved from Saudi Arabia and was ordered to infiltrate the Somali refugee camps in South Yemen; then how Al Qaeda got to be located in a region of North West Yemen with Shia Yazdi population is irrelevant.
The population of North West Yemen forms the third of the total and it is Yezdi Chiia that agrees to seven Imams and not 12 as in Iran; the Yazdi sect does not care that much about the coming of a “hidden” Mahdi to unite and save Islam. The western media want you to believe that this war, which effectively started in 2004, is a succession problem to prevent the son of current President Abdallah Saleh from inheriting the power. Actually Saleh’s son is the head of the Presidential Guard which has been recently involved in the war after the regular army failed to bring a clear-cut victory.
Yemen was a backward States even in the 60’s. South Yemen had a Marxist regime backed by the Egyptian troops of Jamal Abdel Nasser against North Yemen ruled by an ancient Yazdi Imam; a hereditary regime labeled the “Royalists” and backed by Saudi Arabia. After the Soviet Union disintegrated Yemen unified in 1990. Since then, South Yemen and North West Yemen were deprived of the central State financial and economic distribution of wealth. President Saleh could present the image of a “progressist” leader as long as Yemen was out of the screen and nobody cared about this bankrupt State.
Yemen is on the verge of being divided into three separate autonomous States, the South, North West, and Sanaa the Capital. The problems in the Horn of Africa have migrated its endemic instability into Yemen; refugees from Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Sudan have been flocking into the southern shores of Yemen for same climate. Heavy influx of contraband products are keeping the people of these two regions precariously afloat. The deal between Hillary Clinton and Israel foreign affairs Levny to patrol the Indian Ocean was not just meant for Gaza but mainly to prepare President Saleh for his 2009 campaign against the rebels in North Yemen by monitoring contraband arms shipments to the “hawssy” rebel.
Saudi Arabia, during the duo power brokers of Prince Sultan and Neyef (respectively Ministers of Defense and the Interior) did their best to destabilize Yemen on account of fighting the spread of the Shia sect in the Arabic Peninsula. Yemen has no natural resources to count on and the population is addicted to “Qat” that they chew on at lunch time for hours.
Yemen was the most prosperous region in the Arabic Peninsula for millennia. Land caravans started from Taez and then passed by Maareb from which town the caravans split to either Mecca (then to Aqaba and Syria) or took the direction to Persia and Iraq. All kinds of perfume, seasoning, and textile landed by sea from India and South East Asia; incense was produced from a special tree grown in Yemen and Hadramout. The British Empire didn’t care about this region; all that it wanted to secure were sea ports for commerce and to defend the entrances of the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea to Egypt.
The UN is inheriting the same lax attitude of the British Empire; as long as the US bases are secured in this region then the hell with the people. Qatar arranged for reconciliation in 2007 and Saudi Arabia interfered to fail it. Archaic tribes fighting one another wearing daggers as symbol of manhood are all that there is in Yemen.
Iraq, Iraqis: How wounded are you?!
Posted by: adonis49 on: October 28, 2009
Iraq, Iraqis: How wounded are you?! (Oct. 29, 2009)
Iraqis, your government palaces and institutions are being targeted. Three days ago, two blasts in Baghdad in front of the Justice Palace and the mayor headquarter killed 160 and injured over 550 civilians. Three weeks ago, two blasts in front of the Foreign Ministry and the Treasury in Baghdad killed 100 and injured over 200 injured. Crimes against humanity are prevalent in Iraq on a daily basis. The enemy wants the Iraqi people to kneel and cry “Uncle”.
Iraqis, you must have realized that the periods of least casualties among you were when you focused your attacks on the occupier. Why? Because the occupier had to invest time and energy safeguarding his soldiers instead of leisurely planning suicide terrorist attacks on your civilians in order to divide and rule. Your best strategy to maintaining your internal security and stability is to re-focus your operations against the occupier. The occupier does not need to wait till 2011; he will vacate much sooner with your determination to fight him; not only will the soldiers of the occupying forces get out but also every servicemen, military or civilian personnel.
Iraqis, how wounded are you? Have you learned the latest under-estimated statistics on your state of affairs? Do you know that over one million mothers are widowed? Do you know that over two millions are orphaned, one million are counted as disappeared, one million are dead since the pre-emptive war in 2003, and 1.5 milions have immigrated?
Iraqis, you must have realized in the last six years that occupier main objective is to spread chaos; he needs the Chiaas and Sunnis to massacre one another and create the monster of sectarianism to its zenith. The occupier wants feudal and tribal sentiments to resurface to divide your country into uncontrolled parcels of islands where Iraqis would fail to communicate and interrelate.
Iraqis, how wounded are you? Do you know that entire regions are environmental catastrophe for dumping oil in valleys and incinerating toxic materials? Do you know that your oil production was used for three years to re-construct fictitious infrastructures that are nowhere to be found?
Iraqis, you are told that these terrorist attacks are the work of Al Qaeda; that is a lie. Al Qaeda is no longer an independent and parallel movement: it is totally controlled by regional powers. The regional powers under the mercy of the USA receive direct orders from the CIA to activate the splintered sections of Al Qaeda.
Iraqis, you are told that terrorist attacks are the work of regional powers on your border; that is another lie. The regional powers on your border have hundreds of other tactics to influence and pressure political outcomes; it is not in their interests to destabilize Iraq by fomenting civil unrests while the main occupier is on the field and by the tens of thousands.
Iraqis, it is about time that you realize that the Northern Middle East Block (of Turkey, Syria, and Iran) is in its latest stages of formation. Iraq is the weakest and most strategic link; this block is waiting for the US forces to vacate Iraq and the sooner the better. The Northern block is the surest guarantee for the security and stability of Iraq. Saudi Arabia and Armenia have already realized the inevitable strategic block and are changing their policies to align with this strategic and economic block.
Iraqis, how wounded are you? You must already know that in the first year of occupation more than one thousand Iraqi scientists and intellectuals were assassinated and counted as disappeared. You don’t want this wave of assassinating to target every educated Iraqi and to set fear and apprehension in the younger generation. The nasty and greedy occupier has to go soon, everyone of them, and this will never happen until you chase him out of your land, by any means available.
Iraqis, do not be fooled that Barak Obama is to come to your aid; he is continuing the foreign policies of Bush Junior in their integrality. Do not be fooled that Obama is ignorant of the CIA operations for destabilizing Iraq’s society: the CIA is fundamentally the clandestine operator of the President’s decisions.
Turkey, Iran, and Syria have all the interests in a stable and secure Iraq. It is up to you Iraqi to prove that you hate the occupier and you want him out today. As long as the occupier is in your land then it is your right and honor to resume attacking him to shorten his stay; the occupier will then start respecting your independence and your determination as a free people who wants his share of dignity under the bright sun.
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