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    In a related development.

    The former head of the Pakistani ISI, Hamid Gul, gave a very shocking interview yesterday on CNN's GPS show hosted by Fareed Zakaria. I have posted the link to the interview below. I 'strongly' suggest you all to watch this. During the interview, the former ISI chief basically claimed that the Mumbai attacks were staged by Indian intelligence (and by extension the CIA) with the intention of destabilizing Pakistan. And much to Fareed Zakaria's chagrin, Hamid Gul also insinuated that the 9/11 attacks was an "inside job" organized by the CIA and the Israeli Mossad. I believe that the vengeful words of the former ISI chief lends credibility to the claims that Pakistan's governmental/intelligence apparatus, once considered America's closest partners in the region (and accomplices in many terror activities around the world including the one in the US on September 11, 2001) have fallen out of Washington's favor. I'm still not clear, however, on what the contentious geopolitical/geoeconomic issues are between Pakistan and the US. I found the report claiming the the US now wants to place the former ISI chief on a terrorist list. Also, relevant to the topic discussed, it is now being reported that one of the terrorists that supposedly participated in the Mumbai attacks had connections with Indian intelligence.

    Armenian

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    Former ISI Chief: Mumbai And 9/11 Both “Inside Jobs”



    General Hamid Gul, the former head of the Pakistani ISI, told CNN yesterday that both the Mumbai attacks and 9/11 were “inside jobs,” much to the chagrin of host and CFR luminary Fareed Zakaria, who told viewers that Gul’s opinions were “absolutely wrong and thoroughly discredited”. “When you look at the full spectrum of possibilities, who could have done it, then one knows that Samjhauta Express was a similar case, in which Pakistan ISI was accused. But it turned out that it was the militant Hindus themselves who had killed 68 passengers in that train, and that it was an inside job,” said Gul. “Now Colonel Srikant Purohit, who is a serving army officer, he has been caught in this particular case. And the whole thing has turned around.” “So, obviously, there is an inside job.”

    The revelation that Mukhtar Ahmed, a “counterinsurgency police officer who may have been on an undercover mission” working for Indian authorities was arrested for illegally buying mobile phone cards used by the Mumbai gunmen, allied with the numerous intelligence warnings proving that the method, arrival and targets of attack were all known well in advance, proves Gul right in his assertion that the terrorists could not have achieved such carnage without help from people on the inside. Asked by Zakaria, “What is your hunch as to who did - who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks?,” Gul responded, “Well, I have been on record, and I said it is the Zionists or the neocons. They have done it. It was an inside job.” “And they wanted to go on the world conquerors. They were looking upon it as an opportunity window, when the Muslim world was lying prostrate. Russia was nowhere in sight. China was still not an economic giant that is has turned out to be.”

    “And they thought that this was a good time to go and fill those strategic areas, which are still lying without any American presence. And, of course, to control the energy tap of the world.” “Presently, it is the Middle East, and in future it is going to be Central Asia,” added Gul. Gul told Zakaria that the evidence for 9/11 being planned by Osama Bin Laden and executed by Al-Qaeda has not emerged and that the events are still “shrouded in mystery”. “A lot of people have a lot of misgivings about that. And it’s not only me. I think a lot of people in America would be thinking the same way. There are scientists, there are scholars, who have written articles on it,” added Gul, calling for President elect Barack Obama to set up a new commission to investigate the attacks. Gul said the attacks were planned inside America by people with a dangerous agenda who have “turned the world upside-down”. Returning from a commercial break, Zakaria, editor of Newsweek, Council on Foreign Relations kingpin and also a Trilateral Commission board member, told his viewers, “Some of General Gul’s views are simply false. There is a mountain of evidence about 9/11 that refutes his assertions,” but Zakaria failed to cite any of it. Zakaria was then joined by counter-insurgency expert David Kilcullen who said that the Mumbai attacks bore all the hallmarks of a “clandestine operation or a covert operation style activity,” but when pressed he refused to directly implicate Pakistan in the attack.

    Source: http://www.infowars.com/?p=6402

    Pakistan ex-spy chief: US wants him on terror list


    A former head of the Pakistani military's Inter-Services Intelligence agency said on Sunday the United States wants him on a U.N. list of people and organisations linked to al Qaeda and the Taliban. Long retired, Lieutenant-General Hamid Gul told Reuters the U.S. moves against him began several weeks ago, pre-dating the latest controversy surrounding the ISI. The agency is currently under scrutiny because of its past links with Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Kashmir jihadi organisation that India and U.S. officials suspect supplied the gunmen who killed at least 171 people in a horrifying attack on Mumbai last month. Gul, a vocal critic of the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, said Pakistani foreign ministry officials had confirmed to him the United States was trying to put him on the U.N. list. He said he had asked his government for support. "I don't know why America is so much after me," said the bluff, moustachioed Gul from his home in the military cantonment area of Rawalpindi, the garrison town south of Islamabad.

    Lou Fintor, spokesman for the U.S. embassy in Islamabad said he had no information, and added it was government policy not to comment until action had been taken either by the United Nations or the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control. Pakistani officials could not be contacted. The News newspaper reported on Sunday that Gul was one of five former ISI officers the United States wanted the Security Council to put on the list to freeze their assets. Gul was director-general of the ISI from 1987 to 1989, at the end of a mujahideen war, covertly funded by the United States and Saudi Arabia, to drive the Soviet army out of Afghanistan. It was at the tail-end of this period that Pakistani support began for a separatist movement in Indian Kashmir. Lashkar-e-Taiba, a group whose leader hails from Sargodha, the same city as Gul, was founded in 1990. Gul says he supports the Afghan resistance to Western forces at a moral and academic level, but no more than that. A regular guest on Pakistani news channels, Gul maintains the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States were more likely the work of a neo-con/zionist conspiracy than al Qaeda. Speculation among analysts and Western media has bubbled for years that the ISI either secretly supports the Taliban, or there are rogue or retired officers helping the insurgents.

    OLD FRIENDS

    An old ISI colleague of Gul's, Khalid Khawaja said he suspected his was another name the United States aimed to add to the U.N. list. Khawaja said he kept up with old Taliban and militant contacts, but denied those ties extended to anything illegal. "I openly say I have links with these people," he said. In contrast, Gul said he had severed all contact with the Taliban after 2001, and added that he had never been close to them as his Afghan connections were principally with the old mujahideen commanders from the 1980s. The News reported that an unsigned two-page document purported that Gul had recent links to the Taliban and al Qaeda. Gul said he had seen a photocopy of the document and, though it was unsigned and bore no seal, he was sure where it came from. "It was their style, I have no doubt that it was an American document," said Gul. The document said Gul had knowledge of the relocation of al Qaeda fighters from Iraq to the Pakistan-Afghan border region this year, and had earlier provided operational advice, financial and material support to the Taliban, and helped in the recruitment of fighters to attack Western forces in Afghanistan. It also said he had contact with Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, whose fighters were suspected of assassinating two-time prime minister Benazir Bhutto a year ago. Gul was ISI chief during Bhutto's first government in 1988-1990. In a letter to then president Pervez Musharraf shortly before her death, Bhutto named Gul among a short-list of enemies who should be investigated if she was killed. Gul said Bhutto had assured him that she was pressured to put his name in the letter, but she did not say by whom. (Additional reporting by Kamran Haider; Editing by Matthew Jones)

    Source: http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=479680

    India arrests two in Mumbai attacks probe


    Indian police said on Saturday they had arrested two men who helped the Mumbai attackers get mobile phone cards which they used for communications during their three-day rampage. Police in Kolkata identified the men as Tausif Rehman and Mukhtar Ahmed and said they were picked up on Friday after investigators traced some of the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards recovered from the gunmen. “We are questioning them about procurement of SIM cards used in Mumbai,” Jawed Shamim, deputy commissioner of detectives in Kolkata, told Reuters. The arrests are further evidence of Indian complicity in the three-day rampage. Airports in New Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai remained on high alert for a fourth day on Saturday, with extra security personnel deployed after India’s civil aviation authority said it had received intelligence that attacks could be planned. India has remained jittery since the attacks, and on Saturday police in Nagpur in the western state of Maharashtra said they had found explosives in a hospital after a caller phoned doctors with a warning from a public phone booth.

    Aziz Khan, a doctor at the Crescent Hospital, said the caller, speaking Hindi, said a bomb had been placed near the hospital entrance: “You will see the result in 10 minutes,” the caller told him. Patients were evacuated and a police bomb squad and sniffer dog were called in. They found some explosives, Nagpur Joint Commissioner of Police Babasaheb Kangale said. Police said they were pursuing details of local Indian help for the Mumbai attackers after the arrests of Rehman and Ahmed. Rehman, a clerk, used a dead relative’s identity documents to acquire the 22 SIM cards which he later sold to Ahmed, Shamim said later. Both men were charged with conspiracy and forgery. Ahmed was a street vendor and three-wheel taxi driver in Kolkata, Shamim said. He was arrested in New Delhi. Shamim said it was not immediately clear how the SIM cards were passed to the gunmen, whom investigators have said talked to their handlers during the 60-hour rampage.

    Security officials said one of the two arrested men is a counter-insurgency police officer who may have been on an undercover mission. The officials in held Kashmir demanded that police in Calcutta, where the suspect is being held, arrange for his quick release. A senior police official in held Kashmir said one of them, Mukhtar Ahmed, is part of a semi-official counter-insurgency network whose members are usually former Kashmiri militants. Calcutta police have been told Ahmed is “our man and it’s now up to them how to facilitate his release,” said the officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the information. The Calcutta police denied that. “This is not true,” said Rajeev Kumar, a top Calcutta police official. Tauseef Rahman, who was also arrested, allegedly bought SIM cards by providing fake documents, including identification cards of dead people, Kumar said on Saturday.

    The interrogation of the lone surviving gunman from the Mumbai attacks, Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, 21, revealed that the gunmen had detailed pictures of the locations, Rakesh Maria, a senior Mumbai police officer, said. “They were pretty elaborate photographs,” he said, adding that, they had also used maps from Google to study the targets. Kasab told interrogators he had been sent by Lashkar and identified two of the plot’s masterminds as being involved, two Indian government officials familiar with the inquiry said. Police had earlier identified the prisoner as Ajmal Amir Kasab. Kasab told police that a senior Lashkar leader, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, the group’s operations chief, recruited him for the attack, and that the assailants called another senior leader, Yusuf Muzammil, on a satellite phone before the attacks. Meanwhile, police said 10 gunmen who held hostages two hotels and a xxxish prayer centre for 60 hours last week had likely taken amphetamines to remain alert without food or sleep for long stretches, the Hindustan Times reported. “We believe that the terrorists had consumed amphetamines,” the Hindustan Times quoted deputy police commissioner Vishwas Nagre Paril of the anti-narcotics division as saying. Amphetamines, which are readily available on the sub-continent, would have kept the men awake, alert and focused, and suppressed their appetites, said Rajendra Chikle, a police inspector from the same division. He told the newspaper amphetamines also heightened the senses so the “terrorist hence can hear the noise of the lowest decibel and remain awake for a very long time”.

    Source: http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=18841
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      Who stands to gain from Mumbai terrorist attack?



      RIA Novosti military commentator Ilya Kramnik

      The terrorist attack on Mumbai has become one of the largest in recent years. It was perpetrated by militants from the Lashkar-i Taiba grouping (Army of the Righteous), operating in Jammu and Kashmir, long a disputable territory between India and Pakistan. Who could have ordered and initiated such an act? What will be its effects? And who were its perpetrators? Let's begin with the last question. Lashkar-i Taiba is a paramilitary wing of the Pakistani fundamentalist organization Markaz Dawa-Wal-Irshad. It was set up in 1980, but until 1993 operated mainly outside India. In the late 1990s, according to analysts, Lashkar-i Taiba was the most influential Sunni paramilitary organization. At the turn of the century, the group carried out a series of terrorist attacks in India; and following September 11, 2001 stories circulated that it was privy to that super-attack.

      By turning to the aftermath, we can see that Pakistan, which is the "prime suspect," needs involvement least of all. The country is embroiled in a domestic conflict closely connected with the U.S. and allied operation in Afghanistan. In these conditions, to risk a very probable military conflict with India by backing such an attack would be suicidal for any Pakistani forces. So Pakistan's move in sending its head of intelligence to India to exchange information was absolutely logical. Meanwhile, Indian media are launching a new anti-Pakistani campaign. Journalists are angry with the government's "soft attitude" and inability to show "due reaction." But what is due reaction in the absence of reliable information? India, though stronger than its potential opponent, does not need a conflict with Pakistan. Relations between the two countries are currently largely overshadowed by the existence of nuclear weapons and delivery vehicles in both. Bearing this in mind, the two sides try to avoid sudden moves against each other.

      Neither Pakistan nor India can benefit from mutual terrorist attacks, or an escalation of the conflict because of possible tragic results. The sides will most likely join forces to try to find those who led the terrorists from outside and trained them, as well as the masterminds. Who could have planned this attack and could have gained from it? Firstly, one cannot rule out the maverick nature of the terrorist organization itself, which may be controlled by and report to no one. However, it is not impossible that some outside force seeking destabilization in the region and a possible escalation of the conflict between India and Pakistan is the paymaster and planner of the attack.

      Source: http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20081202/118643763.html
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        NATO scuttles US plan to encircle Russia




        Dec 9, 2008

        By F William Engdahl


        North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ministers in Brussels have decided to ignore the wishes of the United States and delay the admission of Georgia and the Ukraine, in effect indefinitely, in what the George W Bush administration is sheepishly trying to claim is a positive "compromise".

        The decision, follows the alarm which peaked among European Union member states last August over the prospect of having to go to war with Russia over an erratic leader in the Caucasus who had provoked Moscow into a reaction.

        The Germans have a far too deep and painful collective memory of the last war with Russia to be willing to treat the prospect as lightly as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice or Washington has. The decision deepens growing fault lines across the Atlantic, and next year will be clearly more turbulent even than 2008 in terms of global geopolitics.

        The Brussels decision is even more remarkable if taken as indication of Washington's diminishing power over European NATO members. The NATO Foreign Ministers meeting on December 3 issued what to the naive observer might appear a masterpiece of diplomacy.

        They unanimously agreed to sidestep the usual Membership Action Plan vote for Georgia and Ukraine, the first concrete step towards full membership of NATO. Instead, NATO will expand the activities of two existing bodies - the NATO-Georgia Commission and the NATO-Ukraine Commission - basically to oversee the same reforms as would have been contained in the action plan. NATO ministers also agreed in their communique to renew ties with Russia "in a conditional and graduated manner".

        Translated into real political language, Washington has undergone a stunning setback in its agenda of encircling Russia with NATO. Despite the fact that president-elect Obama retained Bush Administration Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and named a person to be Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who has strongly supported bringing Georgia and Ukraine into NATO, key European NATO members, led by Germany and France, blocked what must be a unanimous membership decision.

        The real reasons

        The real reason for the refusal is the growing realization within European officialdom that it was Georgia's unpredictable President Mikhail Saakashvili, not Moscow, who first sent Georgian troops into the breakaway province of South Ossetia, after getting a go-ahead from Washington.

        On November 28, during Georgian official Parliamentary Commission testimony on the background to the August events, Saakashvili made the surprising announcement that he had indeed initiated the war.

        According to Saakashvili, the attack on the South Ossetian capital, which involved night shelling of residential areas with multiple rocket launcher systems, was aimed at protecting Georgian citizens. He said it was a response to Russia's "intervention" in the region.

        "We did start military action to take control of Tskhinvali and other unruly areas. But we took this difficult decision to fend off our territory from intervention and save the people who were dying. It was inevitable," Saakashvili said.

        The Georgian president claims Russia moved tanks into South Ossetian territory before Georgia launched its attack. He said: "The issue is not about why Georgia started military action - we admit we started it. The issue is about whether there was another chance when our citizens were being killed? We tried to prevent the intervention and fought on our own territory."

        Saakashvili's surprising admission came only hours after the testimony of Georgia's former ambassador to Moscow, Erosi Kitsmarishvili, who had testified for three hours before he was shouted down by pro-Saakashvili members of parliament.

        A former confidant of Saakashvili, Kitsmarishvili said Georgian officials told him in April that they planned to start a war in Abkhazia, one of two breakaway regions at issue in the war, and had received a green light from the United States government to do so. He said the Georgian government later decided to start the war in South Ossetia, the other region, and continue into Abkhazia.

        He refused to name the officials who told him about planned actions in Abkhazia, as identifying them would endanger their lives. The official US line has been that they had "warned" Saakashvili against taking action in the two enclaves, where Russian peacekeepers were stationed.

        Kitsmarishvili's testimony in front of the parliamentary commission was shown live on Georgian television. The chairman of the commission, Paata Davitaia, said he would initiate a criminal case against Kitsmarishvili for "professional negligence". Deputy Foreign Minister Giga Bokeria, who was called on short notice to comment on Kitsmarishvili's testimony, called the allegations an "irresponsible and shameless fabrication", adding they were "either the result of a lack of information or the personal resentment of a man who has lost his job and wants to get involved in politics". Kitsmarishvili was fired in September by the president.

        Kitsmarishvili walked out amid the furor last week. "They don't want to listen to the truth," he told reporters. Two days later, Saakashvili proved Kitsmarishvili right.

        Full spectrum dominance

        As I detail at some length in my book, due out in January 2009, Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order, the strategy of bringing Georgia and Ukraine into NATO is part of a far larger and more dangerous strategic long-term plan of Washington to ultimately encircle, confront and dismember Russia as a functioning state. Russia, even more than China, is the most formidable obstacle to a Washington-centered sole superpower, Pax Americana.

        Russia's understandable refusal to abandon its nuclear strike force in the face of US violations of agreements made in 1989 between the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev and then US secretary of state James Baker III, namely that NATO would not expand east to the former states of the Warsaw Pact or USSR, presents a dilemma for any plans for sole US superpower domination.

        The Bush presidency was a raw attempt to remedy this by brute military force. The militarization of Iraq and the Middle East oil fields was but one step. The creation of a US 'missile shield' in Poland and the Czech Republic, was another, major step.

        The misnamed "missile defense shield" would in reality be an offensive capability that when installed by perhaps 2012, will put the world, especially Western Europe on a hair-trigger to nuclear war. When combined with the entry of Russian border states Georgia and Ukraine to NATO this would simply present Moscow with de facto defeat. This is not about Russia returning to old Soviet-style rule under Putin or Medvedev. It's about the ultimate survival of Russia as a nation, as Moscow rightly sees it, not about the finer points of democracy.

        No one in either Berlin, Paris, London nor Brussels, and certainly not in Washington, is ignorant of that reality. European NATO members are increasingly nervous about the prospect of a military confrontation with Russia. Last August's swift Russian response to act in aid of South Ossetians against the Georgian invasion sent a reality shock through Europe. Neither Germany nor France wish to admit unstable states like Georgia or Ukraine only to be forced to act militarily in their defense in event of a repeat of the madness of last August.

        That, simply stated, is the real, unspoken reason that Washington on December 3 in Brussels was forced to accept a face-saving compromise. The NATO membership of Georgia and Ukraine to all intent and purposes is dead. As one NATO military official stated, "NATO has lost the glue that once held it together." The statement of Rice following the NATO meeting was telling. She was forced to tell press, "... there is a long road ahead for both Georgia and Ukraine to reach those standards. The United States stands resolutely for those standards, meaning that there should be no shortcuts to membership of NATO." Rice added.

        Polish motorcade shoot was 'Georgia stunt'

        Further adding to the atmosphere of almost Laurel and Hardy comic farce surrounding Georgia's erratic president - who was filmed shortly after the Russian invasion in August by BBC actually swallowing and chewing on his tie - it has now emerged that an alleged shooting incident a week before the Brussels NATO meeting, which involved the motorcade of the Georgian and Polish presidents, was a staged "stunt".

        Special services in Warsaw say the alleged attack near the South Ossetian border was a provocation staged by the Georgians. A report by Poland's Internal Security Agency - the Agencja Bezpieczenstwa Wewnetrznego (ABW), published by the Dziennik newspaper, claims Georgia staged the incident for propaganda purposes.

        The incident took place on Sunday evening when Saakashvili was showing his Polish counterpart Lech Kaczynski the area near the border with South Ossetia. After the convoy stopped at a checkpoint, there was gunfire, which the Georgians claimed was an "attack by Russian troops".

        Lech Kaczynski's personal security chief, Colonel Krzysztof Olszowiec, was accused of failing to ensure proper security for the president during his trip to Georgia and dismissed despite objections from Kaczynski, according to the Polish media.

        The trip to the border area with Russian-backed South Ossetia was the result of a last-minute invitation from Saakashvili, according to Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman Piotr Paskowski.
        Initially, Warsaw blamed Russia for the incident. But now Polish security forces say it was staged by Tbilisi. Russia had strongly denied the allegations, saying Tbilisi was behind it. President Kaczynski confirmed that shooting had taken place but stopped short of blaming anyone. Russia's position has now been supported by Poland's ABW, who said "the shots fired near the cars of Georgian and Polish president were a Georgian provocation". The Polish document points out that Saakashvili kept on smiling after the first shots and his bodyguards didn't react.

        The report also highlights another suspicious fact, namely, that the bus carrying journalists was instructed to travel in front of the motorcade, while the car with Kaczynski's own bodyguards was pushed back by Georgian soldiers. The result was that they were not in a position to witness the alleged shooting.

        All-in-all, it might be Saakashvili's tenure as president that faces major internal challeges over his bent for undertaking such reckless stunts.

        F William Engdahl is author of A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics (Pluto Press), and the book, Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation (www.globalresearch.ca). His new book, Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order (Third Millennium Press) is due out late January 2009. He may be reached through his website, www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net.

        Source: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/JL09Ag01.html

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        • Re: The Rise of the Russian Empire: Russo-Armenian Relations

          Originally posted by ZORAVAR View Post
          NATO scuttles US plan to encircle Russia
          Excellent analysis. Thank you for posting it, Zoravar. Two points that I strongly agree with are -

          1) The American missile defense shield is in fact an offensive shield.

          By the late 1990s the Russian military was so degraded that it was nearing a dangerous point where a sudden first strike by NATO forces could disable it's nuclear deterrence. In theory, a missile shield positioned around Russia would stop the launching of any ICBMs that survived the initial strike. Thus, there was a window of opportunity, a time when Russia was vulnerable to a first strike, according to some military analysts in the West. This is how the plan to encircle Russia with anti-missile systems came into being after the fall of the Soviet Union. With Putin's rise to power, however, this window of opportunity began to shrink quite fast. But it's not fully closed yet. A significant threat to Russia remains today and this threat is the main reason why Moscow has been for the past two years placing all its emphasis on restrengthening its strategic nuclear forces.

          2) The greatest longterm threat to the West is not China - it's a free and patriotic Russia.

          Most Americans have difficulty understanding this. Americans tend think that China is the gravest longterm threat to American/Western power without realizing that China and the West are financially codependents, they are interlocked in a economic union that neither side will jeopardize. The political establishment here in the US, however, knows full well that the only free, competitive, self-sufficient nation-state with vast reserves (natural and monetary) and a massive nuclear arsenal is the Russian Federation. The national interests of Russia directly interferes with the global interests of the West. A free Russia is the number one obstacle to the West's total global hegemony.

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          US conducts successful missile defence test




          Pentagon Shoots Down Missile in Simulated Attack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3r7AL_hLQQ

          The US has successfully conducted a test of its missile defence systems. A spokesman for the US military said a missile launched from Kodiak island in the northern most-state of Alaska was destroyed by an interceptor launched from California, on the country's lower west coast. The Pentagon said 12 tests had been carried out on the system since 1999 out of which seven had been successful. Relations between the US and Russia have been strained by the US' plans to place a missile defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic, former parts of the Soviet Union. Russia fears that the systems placed in its neighbouring countries could be used to target it in the future, while the US maintains that they are to counter the threat posed by rogue states and do not have Russia in mind. Russia has threatened to place missile systems pointing at its neighbours in Kaliningrad in response to the US plans.

          Source: http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/worl...e-defence-test

          Was US anti-missile test aimed at Russia and China?


          A consultant to the head of Russia's Strategic Rocket Forces has said that a simulated anti-missile test by the U.S. was not aimed at stopping a North Korean threat as Washington had claimed. Colonel-general Viktor Yesin said last Friday’s test had China and Russia in mind. He said: “To avoid agitating public opinion, U.S. Missile Defense Agency officials say the test was aimed at intercepting North Korean and Iranian rockets. But we missile specialists understand that it was in fact aimed at stopping Russian and Chinese intercontinental missiles.” During the test last Friday an interceptor rocket was launched from California to knock down a missile launched from Alaska. America spends some $US 10 billion a year on an anti-missile network claiming it's necessary to counteract growing threats from ‘rogue nations’ such as North Korea and Iran.

          Source: http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/34443
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          • Re: The Rise of the Russian Empire: Russo-Armenian Relations

            Thanks for providing more background information on the history of this encirclement of Russia by missle shields, I wasn't aware that this project was initiated as early as the collapse of the Soviet Union, though it makes perfect sense to me now.

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            • Re: The Rise of the Russian Empire: Russo-Armenian Relations

              Originally posted by Armenian View Post
              Excellent analysis. Thank you for posting it, Zoravar. Two points that I strongly agree with are -

              1) The American missile defense shield is in fact an offensive shield.

              By the late 1990s the Russian military was so degraded that it was nearing a dangerous point where a sudden first strike by NATO forces could disable it's nuclear deterrence. In theory, a missile shield positioned around Russia would stop the launching of any ICBMs that survived the initial strike. Thus, there was a window of opportunity, a time when Russia was vulnerable to a first strike, according to some military analysts in the West. This is how the plan to encircle Russia with anti-missile systems came into being after the fall of the Soviet Union. With Putin's rise to power, however, this window of opportunity began to shrink quite fast. But it's not fully closed yet. A significant threat to Russia remains today and this threat is the main reason why Moscow has been for the past two years placing all its emphasis on restrengthening its strategic nuclear forces.

              2) The greatest longterm threat to the West is not China - it's a free and patriotic Russia.

              Most Americans have difficulty understanding this. Americans tend think that China is the gravest longterm threat to American/Western power without realizing that China and the West are financially codependents, they are interlocked in a economic union that neither side will jeopardize. The political establishment here in the US, however, knows full well that the only free, competitive, self-sufficient nation-state with vast reserves (natural and monetary) and a massive nuclear arsenal is the Russian Federation. The national interests of Russia directly interferes with the global interests of the West. A free Russia is the number one obstacle to the West's total global hegemony.
              Interesting. So basically the Cold War sentiment still lingered in the US government after the fall of the USSR, and is re-emerging again because Putin can see what the West is trying to do and is not backing down.

              So ridiculous. The pathetic irony of the whole situation is that Russia are not communists anymore; there isn't a political ideology like communism sweeping the planet...There is no such justification anymore for continued Western quests for dominance. So since there are no battles over ideology, the "Cold War" reigniting today is merely over regional spheres of influence and control of resources, rather than freedom/capitalism vs. totalitarianism/communism.
              Last edited by Mizzike; 12-09-2008, 09:39 PM.

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              • Re: The Rise of the Russian Empire: Russo-Armenian Relations

                Are you guys telling me that Russia is somehow a "free" nation?

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                • Re: The Rise of the Russian Empire: Russo-Armenian Relations

                  Originally posted by Muhaha View Post
                  Are you guys telling me that Russia is somehow a "free" nation?
                  Yeah, but probably not in the sense that you are thinking. Russia is not a nation tied to the western global hegemony.

                  So yeah, Russia is "free", just like Iran is "free".

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                  • Re: The Rise of the Russian Empire: Russo-Armenian Relations

                    Originally posted by mizzike
                    rather than freedom/capitalism vs. totalitarianism/communism.
                    The entire cold war was a pet project of the global elite. When you own both horses it doesn't matter who wins, either way you get your money.
                    For the first time in more than 600 years, Armenia is free and independent, and we are therefore obligated
                    to place our national interests ahead of our personal gains or aspirations.



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                    • Re: The Rise of the Russian Empire: Russo-Armenian Relations

                      Originally posted by Armanen View Post
                      The entire cold war was a pet project of the global elite. When you own both horses it doesn't matter who wins, either way you get your money.
                      Be careful of using terms like "global elite" or "globalists" and all their other derivatives. Take care to use them in a proper context. Otherwise it will undermine your argument. The people who control the flow of money in the West (the international financiers who are also referred to as the global elite or the western elite) financed the Bolshevik movement with the primary purpose of eliminating from the international scene their one and only longterm threat and competitor, the Russian Empire. They did succeeded in destroying the Russian Empire, but it proved to be a limited success. As a result of Stalin and the unpredictable consequences of the Second World War, a patriotic Russian face was placed on Communism. During the Cold War, the financial/political elite in the West attempted to destroy this new Russian Empire, the Soviet Union. Again, they did succeeded when the Soviet Union fell apart, but again this success was limited for a new and stronger Russia emerged by the turn of the new century. Now, the Western elite is again attempting to undermine the Russian Federation. In the absence of ideological movements that they can use to weaken Russia (with the exception of Islamic fundamentalism which was defeated in Chechnya), the Western elite has to resort to other more conventional tactics. [think missile shield and NATO expansion]

                      Let's also refrain from using terms like Free Masonry, Illuminati or International Jewry when discussing serious geopolitical issues. To the detriment of the user, these terms conjure up images of ethnic hatred and the occult. If an entity like the Illuminati exists it's simply a group of the world's most powerful executives having a board meeting with an agenda of protecting their global wealth... If International Jewry exists its simply the attempt of the world's most powerful Jews to protect the State of Israel from its real and perceived enemies... All the nasty consequences in global politics (including the Armenian Genocide) are more or less derived from these types of calculations. So, in a sense, there is nothing unimaginable, magical or fantastic in what these people do. In final analysis, it's all about wealth, power and preservation.

                      To resist these people, we must first categorize them properly and understand why they do what. For various economic and geopolitical factors, the Russian nation has been attacked by the "global lite" for close to two centuries. Russians have been the West's biggest victims.

                      Originally posted by Mizzike View Post
                      Interesting. So basically the Cold War sentiment still lingered in the US government after the fall of the USSR, and is re-emerging again because Putin can see what the West is trying to do and is not backing down. So ridiculous. The pathetic irony of the whole situation is that Russia are not communists anymore; there isn't a political ideology like communism sweeping the planet...
                      Communism or Bolshevism was never the real problem per se. Islamic fundamentalism or terrorism is not the real problem today. The real problem always was, still is and will always be - who controls the world's wealth and who sets the world's economic and political standards. Because Russia controls something like 20% of all natural resources on earth and can directly impact all of Eurasia, a free and patriotic Russia is considered to be the one and only longterm threat/competitor that the West faces. Thus, even if Russia miraculously transformed itself into a true democracy overnight they would still be considered an enemy by the West - more precisely, as long as Russia's national interests interferes with the global agenda of the West.

                      Once you being to looking at global politics beyond mainstream news, catchy labels and personal sentiments, all that is occurring in the world today would make greater sense to you.
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