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U.S. STATE DEPT. CONDEMNS GENOCIDE, YET FAILS TO PRONOUNCE THE TERM

April 15, 2015 - 13:04 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - The U.S. Department of State condemned the mass
killing of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in early 20th century, yet
failing once again to recognize them as genocide.

"The President and other senior Administration officials have
repeatedly acknowledged as historical fact and mourned the fact that
1.5 million Armenians were massacred or marched to their deaths in the
final days of the Ottoman Empire, and stated that a full, frank, and
just acknowledgement of the facts is in all our interests, including
Turkey's, Armenia's and America's," the acting spokesperson, Marie
Harf, said at the daily press briefing on Tuesday, April 14, when
asked to comment on Pope Francis's statement characterizing the
massacres as the first genocide of the 20th century.

She further refused to comment on Ankara's recalling the ambassador to
the Vatican following the Pope's remarks or Barack Obama's 2008
campaign promise to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/190679/

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It is a sad truth about US politics, that US allies tend to get away with anything, just as Saddam got away with gassing Iranians and then Kurds.

However, the strains are beginning to show between the US and Turkey, as it is forced to realize that:
A) Turkey doesn't want to exclusively buy US weapons anymore, thus rendering mute the nonsense argument that Turkish arms contracts are worth more than history, human life and human rights. Turkish lobby will have a harder time bribing Congress now.
B) Links are becoming clearer every day over how Turkey either does nothing over ISIS, or actively helps them.
C) Turkey has lost a lot of ties with Israel, and its lobby groups are less and less inclined to support the Turkish line over the genocide.
D) The Pope has openly come out and declared there was an Armenian Genocide, and the Turkish government retaliated by calling the leader of the Catholic Church 'evil', in effect offending billions of Christians. Turkey can expect more vocal opposition from Republicans, who already see Turkey as turning a blind eye to Islamic terrorism and persecution of Christians.
E) As usual, more and more countries recognize the genocide, leaving Turkey more isolated in it's denial.

[Shant03]

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Germany not only recognizing the genocide but also admitting they had a hand in it was a huge blow to Turkey's credibility. Aside from that, it was great to see "I apologize to Armenians" written in a turkish hashtag trending top 5 in the world today and #1 in turkey. The people there know the truth! It's only a matter of time..

[hipeter924]

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Only partially, as their foreign minister let off some denialist line.

[Haykakan]

Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

Nice nothing like the cops getting the best equipment out there while soldiers get still get cheap soviet gear. The government's priorities are obvious. Dam shame.

Yup its like that in all fascist countries including USA. The cops are governments security so they will get the best gear. The cops in USA have so much crap they don't know which to use. They pull a gun instead of a tazer..

[Mher]

Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

Yup its like that in all fascist countries including USA. The cops are governments security so they will get the best gear. The cops in USA have so much crap they don't know which to use. They pull a gun instead of a tazer..

Not that I want to be defending US policemen
but in the United States the troops already have the best gear in the world, and they are not defending the borders for the survival of the nation. They're thousands of miles away on imperialistic adventures. Moreover the cops in America aren't there to legitimize a ruling party that is in power illegitimately and without the support of the majority, or even a significant minority.

[Haykakan]

Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

Not that I want to be defending US policemen
but in the United States the troops already have the best gear in the world, and they are not defending the borders for the survival of the nation. They're thousands of miles away on imperialistic adventures. Moreover the cops in America aren't there to legitimize a ruling party that is in power illegitimately and without the support of the majority, or even a significant minority.

Your statements regarding USA always prove how little you know and understand that country. The majority of the people in USA are so disconnected with their government that they do not even vote. To say that the USA government has the support of the majority is the exact opposite of reality. The entire governmental system of USA is illegitimate since it is entirely based on corruption and blackmail. I think some people want to believe so badly that good exists somewhere that they will blind themselves of much evil just to be able to state that here is an example of good. This demonstrates the sad shape of the world we live in today.

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Have you been following the news lately? What would you say if Turkey started lecturing on how evil genocide is? You would probably say wow what a hypocrite..Well the news is full of hypocrisy. We have one of the most corrupt organizations going after a much lesser corrupt organization. I am referring to the FBI going after FIFA. The USA is indicting FIFA members for doing the exact same things that all of its politicians do daily. Sure you will get people like Hastert and Menendez who get indicted but they are not being punished for being corrupt. If corruption was the real reason for their indictments the pretty much all of the house, senate, president, judges would be indicted also. Those who do get convicted are being punished for not staying in line, stepping on bigger feet,... People are very much out of touch with reality and that is just the way fascist states like it.

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Spain: Podemos party in the crosshairs of US intelligence agencies

By Nil Nikandrov
<http://www.strategic-culture.org/authors/nil-nikandrov.html>* | 20.06.2015 | 00:00


On the 7th floor of the US Embassy's enormous building in Madrid is the CIA
station. For more than half a century, active intelligence work has been
carried out from this site, but its objective is not only to gather secret
information on the domestic and foreign policies of Spain. A wide range of
delicate issues aimed at guaranteeing the US' strategic interests in the
country are looked at on a daily basis. Thus the station focuses on
preventive operations to `neutralise' organisations and politicians that
are potentially hostile to the US.

Spain is quite rightly considered to be one of the EU's weakest links. A
series of corruption scandals has undermined the credibility of Mariano
Rajoy's government (Sp. Presidente del Gobierno Mariano Rajoy). The
antipopular austerity policy has sharply aggravated the situation in the
country: there has been a rise in unemployment, especially among young
people, the salaries of public sector workers have been cut, social
expenditure has been reduced, and education and healthcare has
deteriorated. Many people unable to pay their rent and utility bills have
been thrown out onto the street. Television reports on forced evictions
have had a far greater impact on the mood of the Spanish electorate than
any opposition propaganda: the crisis is not sparing anyone, we could find
ourselves in their place tomorrow, and the country needs a new leader and a
new domestic and foreign policy.

Surveillance of young, radical left-wing politicians in Spain began long
before the groups and organisations they led were consolidated into the
Podemos party (in English, Podemos translates as `We can'). Every stage of
the process was monitored via agents, electronic surveillance and social
networking sites. Operations files were replenished with information on
university lecturers and students, political and social activists, members
of the creative intelligentsia, and sympathetic journalists. Every step
taken by the project's key players - Pablo Iglesias, Juan Carlos Monedero
and Ă=8Dńigo Errejón - was documented.

Contact between these young `protesters' and members of populist regimes in
Latin America - Venezuelans, Ecuadorians, Nicaraguans and Bolivians - has
caused, and is still causing, American and Spanish security agencies a
great deal of anxiety, while trips by the `protesters' to Brazil, Argentina
and Cuba have caused just as much alarm. Juan Monedero, who was an adviser
to President Hugo Chávez on financial and economic issues between 2005 and
2010 and provided expert assistance to the Ministry of Planning and the
Miranda International Centre on staff training, has aroused particular
suspicion. Monedero also advised the governments of Venezuela, Bolivia,
Ecuador and Nicaragua on establishing non-cash settlements in regional
trade.

The Podemos party's entry onto the Spanish political scene (in February
2014) was accompanied by the intelligence agencies stepping up their covert
activities to expose `possible' compromising information on Podemos
activists and the party's leader, Pablo Iglesias. It is no secret to the
`subjects' of the surveillance that they are being vigilantly monitored by
the CIA and the US National Security Agency (NSA). It stands to reason that
the National Intelligence Centre (CNI) of Spain, whose senior officials
regard the activities of Podemos in a negative light, is not staying on the
sidelines. The reason is clear: the seemingly stable two-party system is
becoming a thing of the past and the emergence of a new political force has
become problematic.

General elections are to take place in Spain at the end of 2015 and,
according to the predictions of political analysts, they are going to
change the balance of political forces in the country considerably. It is
becoming increasingly obvious that the centre-right People's Party
(Partido
Popular - PP) and the centre-left Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
will lose their dominant positions. The popularity of the Podemos party was
confirmed at the local elections on 24 May 2015. Suffice it to say that
Manuela Carmena, a protest movement activist, is now in charge of Madrid's
city hall, which has traditionally been ruled by PP protégés, and Ada
Colau, an advocate of real, rather than cosmetic, reforms in the country,
is now the mayor of Barcelona. Hundreds of new mayors are promising to make
the fight against economic inequality, social justice, and the involvement
of the people in the running of the country their priority.

Pablo Iglesias attended the inauguration ceremony for the new mayor of
Madrid and called for his fellow countrymen and Podemos supporters not to
rest on their laurels, but to continue fighting for change and defeat
Mariano Rajoy's People's Party in the general elections.

Podemos' success was overshadowed by the resignation of Juan Monedero. In
January 2015, the Complutense University of Madrid and the Finance
Ministry, as if on command, began looking into the legality of substantial
sums of money received by the politician from the governments of ALBA
countries (the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, (Sp.
Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América), is a socialist
alliance of Latin American and Carribbean states). At the same time, an
article appeared in the Conservative newspaper El Pais accusing Monedero of
`falsifying' most of his academic employment history. There is no doubt
that this compromising information would not have emerged without the
involvement of US intelligence agencies. I need only mention that the
newspaper Diario Las Americas (published in Miami), which is used by the
CIA to disseminate so-called `active measures', published an interview with
Spain's former prime minister, José Aznar. He accused Podemos
of being
financed by Venezuela: `Podemos is a political movement that fully
advocates totalitarian models and populist ideas'. Naturally, the party
filed a lawsuit for libel and slander.

After a huge hullabaloo in the media, the issue of `subversive funding from
Hugo Chávez' was explained satisfactorily and El Paisissued an apology, but
Monedero still felt it necessary to leave Podemos. The upcoming election
campaign promises to be tense, and his previous association with Latin
American populists and adherence to Marxist ideology will certainly be used
by his political opponents.

It is important to note that Podemos has recently been avoiding provocative
political language. Now, its moderate-centre electoral programme is geared
towards the wider electorate. There is no mention of plans to abolish the
Spanish monarchy, to grant the regions the right to secede from Spain, to
nationalise key industries and banks, and to seize without compensation
surplus accommodation from its owners and give it to the homeless. Pablo
Iglesias himself is declaring his allegiance to social democratic ideals
and the Swedish model of socialism. He has even talked about the history of
the party's name, Podemos. Apparently, it does not come from Marx or Lenin,
but from Barack Obama, who led his fight for the presidency in 2008 under
the slogan `Yes, we can!'

Distrust of Podemos in the higher echelons of the US is only getting
stronger, however. That the party intends to use the experience of
Venezuelan populists to conquer hegemony in the country is constantly being
emphasised in the information coming from the intelligence agencies. For
now, however, Podemos' minimum goal is to win in the elections. Only then,
apparently, will Pablo Iglesias and his team take steps to seize the real
powers. Such `focus' by the Americans on interpreting Iglesias' plans is
intended to justify the magnitude of the complex intelligence measures
against the Podemos party. One needs only compare the list of US Embassy
personnel in Madrid over the last five years with the current one
(published by the Spanish Foreign Affairs Ministry) to see that the size of
the CIA station operating under the roof of the political department has
more than tripled.

The question of whether the US intelligence agencies in Spain have
sufficient potential to `adjust' the results of the forthcoming elections
still remains open. During the last election campaign in Mexico, the
moderate populist López Obrador had a distinct advantage. Washington's
candidate, however, was Peńa Nieto, and with the help of questionable
manipulations behind the scenes of the electoral process, he became the
next president of Mexico.

During closed parliamentary hearings, the head of the National Intelligence
Centre (CNI) of Spain, Félix Sanz Roldán, said he `felt uneasy' about the
operations of US intelligence agencies in the country, especially the US
National Security Agency (NSA). `They are guided by their own laws», said
Roldan. He also referred to the covert activities of secret service agents
in Spain from `allied countries'. Nine such agents have been expelled from
Spain in recent years. Roldan did not specify which countries exactly, but
judging from publications and independent sources, he was referring to the
US and Israel. The number of `illegals' like these in Spain is measured in
three figures.



The Ministry of Foreign Affairs invited US Ambassador James Costos, and
later the charge d'affaires Luis Moreno, to get an explanation regarding
the NSA's illegal `wiretaps' and its monitoring of
information exchanged
over the internet, including social networking sites. The Spanish
authorities' timid attempts to at least normalise the behaviour of
US
intelligence agencies in their country are proving fruitless.



One gets the impression that in some cases, Rajoy's government is not
dealing with the activities of foreign intelligence services against
Spanish citizens in the country as categorically as CNI head Roldan tried
to prove in parliament. Observers are not ruling out the possibility that
the Podemos leader's involvement in the presidential elections will be
sabotaged with the help of a large-scale act of provocation by US
intelligence agencies.

http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2015/06/20/spain-podemos-party-crosshairs-us-intelligence-agencies.html

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FBI Agent: The CIA Could Have Stopped 9/11

By Jeff Stein

June 20, 2015 "Information Clearing House
<http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/>" - "Newsweek
<http://www.newsweek.com/saudi-arabia-911-cia-344693>" - Updated : Mark
Rossini, a former FBI special agent at the center of an enduring mystery
<http://www.newsweek.com/2015/01/23/information-could-have-stopped-911-299148.html>
related
to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, says he is `appalled' by the
newly declassified statements by former CIA Director George Tenet defending
the spy agency's efforts to detect and stop the plot.

Rossini, who was assigned to the CIA's Counterterrorism Center (CTC) at the
time of the attacks, has long maintained
<http://www.newsweek.com/2015/01/23/information-could-have-stopped-911-299148.html>
that
the U.S. government has covered up secret relations between the spy agency
and Saudi individuals who may have abetted the plot. Fifteen of the 19
hijackers who flew commercial airliners into the World Trade Center towers,
the Pentagon, and a failed effort to crash into the U.S. Capitol, were
Saudis.

A heavily redacted 2005 CIA inspector general's report
<http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/DOC_0006184107.pdf>, parts of
which had previously been released, was further declassified earlier this
month. It found that agency investigators "encountered no evidence" that
the government of Saudi Arabia "knowingly and willingly supported" Al-Qaeda
terrorists. It added that some CIA officers had `speculated' that
`dissident sympathizers within the government' may have supported Osama bin
Laden but that `the reporting was too sparse to determine with any
accuracy
such support.'

Over 30 pages relating to Saudi Arabia in the report were blacked out. The
Obama administration has also refused
<http://www.newsweek.com/saudi-arabia-911-george-w-bush-barack-obama-prince-bandar-bin-sultan-bob-297170>
to
declassify 28 pages dealing with Saudi connections to the hijackers in a
joint congressional probe of the attacks.

As has been previously reported
<http://www.newsweek.com/2015/01/23/information-could-have-stopped-911-299148.html>,
Rossini and another FBI agent assigned to the CTC, Doug Miller, learned in
January 2000 that one of the future hijackers, an Al-Qaeda operative by the
name of Khalid al-Mihdhar, had a multi-entry visa to enter the U.S. By
mid-summer of 2001, the CIA was repeatedly warning President George W. Bush
and other White House officials that an Al-Qaeda attack was imminent. But
when Miller and Rossini attempted to warn FBI headquarters that al-Mihdhar
could be loose in the U.S., a CIA supervisor ordered them to remain silent.

Rossini says he is `deeply concerned' by how the agency continues to
suppress information related to contacts between the CIA and Saudi Arabia,
particularly when the spy agency is declassifying other portions of
documents to show that it did everything possible to thwart the September
11, 2001 plot.

`There would have not been a 9/11 if Doug's CIR [Central Intelligence
Report] on al-Mihdhar was sent,' he told Newsweek in an email.
`Period.
End of story.

`The total lack of accountability, nor a desire to drill down on the truth
as to why Doug's memo was not sent,' he added, `is the reason why the 28
pages pertaining to the Saudis have been blocked' from release.

In 2005, Tenet, the CIA director at the time of the attacks, angrily
refuted the judgment of then-CIA Inspector General John Helgerson who said
Tenet did not do enough to stop the Al-Qaeda plot.

"Your report challenges my professionalism, diligence and skill in leading
the men and women of U.S. intelligence in countering terrorism," Tenet
wrote to Helgerson in another heavily redacted document released June 12.
"I did everything I could to inform, warn and motivate action to prevent
harm. Your report does not fairly or accurately portray my actions, or the
heroic work of the men and women of the Intelligence Community."

Rossini claims still-classified documents would `show a pattern of
financial assistance, and moreover, the CIA's role to try and recruit
al-Mihdhar.' He says he was `convinced' of that and that `there is no other
explanation" for the CIA refusing to release further information.

A former CIA field operative who worked at the CTC in 2001 told
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Newsweek earlier this year that Rossini's theory had merit. =80=9CI find that
kind of hard to believe, that [al-Mihdhar] would be a valid source,' says
the former operative, who spent 25 years handling spies in some of the
world's most dangerous places, including the Middle East. `But then again,
the folks that were making a lot of calls at the time there were junior
analysts, who had zero general experience and absolutely zero on-the-ground
operational experience or any kind of operational training.'

The analysts had begun to take intelligence collection initiatives beyond
their skill level, usually by developing their own confidential `sources'
in Middle East spy services, says the former operative, who spoke on
condition of anonymity to freely discuss such a sensitive issue. So it is
entirely reasonable, the former operative says, that an intelligence
analyst at the CTC was trying to develop al-Mihdhar as a source through
Saudi contacts.

`I don't think they ever personally talked to anybody' in the field, the
former operative added. `They probably got a source through liaison. So
their source [on the hijackers] might have been someone in the Saudi
service who said they are talking to somebody, or someone in the Jordanian
service who said he was talking to someone. As far I was concerned, they
were a bunch of lying pieces of xxxx. So they could've done that.'

Rossini and his colleague, Miller, following the CTC's strict rules on
secrecy, kept silent for years about their thwarted effort to warn FBI
headquarters about al-Mihdhar, providing critics with ammunition to cast
doubt on their story. But in a Newsweek interview, a former FBI colleague
has now come forward publicly for the first time to buttress their version
of events.

James Bernazzani, who took charge of the FBI contingent at the CTC in
Langley, Virginia, soon after 9/11 attacks, recalled an encounter with
Rossini. `Mark walks into my office one day at Langley and says,
`Something's been really bothering me.' He tells me the whole story" about
how he and Miller had been prohibited from telling anyone about the likely
presence of at least one Al-Qaeda terrorist, al-Mihdhar, in the U.S. the
previous July, Bernazzani says.

`I said, Mark, if it ain't on paper, it never happened. He said,
`I got
it.' After a few minutes he came back and showed it to me.' Miller, as it
turned out, had made a copy of the warning cable he had prepared for FBI
headquarters.

`I looked at it and I said, `Holy friggin' xxxx,'' Bernazzani recalls. `I
said, `This would've stopped this thing.' I called up Assistant Director
Pat D'Amuro,' who was in charge of the FBI's investigation into the 9/11
attacks. `I said I needed to see him right away. He said, `This better be
worth it.' I assured him it was. I drove straight to FBI headquarters. It
took me only about 15 minutes to get there. I probably set some speed
records.'

Bernazzani, who retired in 2008 with a Presidential Award for Meritorious
Service
<https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-recognizes-presidential-rank-award-recipients>,
says D'Amuro `looks at it, he looks at me, and he says, `I'll take care of
it.''

Bernazzani returned to CIA headquarters. `I told Mark it was done,
it was
in the right hands,' Bernazzani says. Later, when congressional
investigators came looking for documents related to the 9/11 attacks, =80=9Cthe
FBI couldn't find it in their computers,' he says. `If they did, they
didn't tell me.'

D'Amuro, now managing director of 930 Capital Management in New York, did
not immediately respond to request for comment.

All these years later, `What Mark said is true,' Bernazzani says. `It did
happen' as Rossini told it.

As for why CIA analysts at the CTC ordered Rossini and Miller not to tell
the FBI about Al-Qaeda terrorists at large in the U.S., Bernazzani can only
theorize. "It was a classic example of analysts owning information,' he
says. `Operators share information. Some analysts tended to think of
information as none of your business.'

Rossini is more blunt. `They ran a clandestine op in the U.S., and
they
didn't want the bureau involved in it.'

Correction: An earlier version of this story mistakenly said FBI agents
Rossini and Miller learned about al-Mihdhar's multiple visas to America in
the summer of 2001. It was in January 2000 when they learned of his visas.

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