Posted on 02/10/2011 3:38:00 PM PST by Libloather
Quick Takes: News You May Have Missed
By Aaron Klein
Posted Feb 09 2011
Hamas Behind Gas Terminal Explosion
Militants working on behalf of Hamas were responsible for the dramatic explosion at a gas terminal that disrupted the supply of fuel to Israel, a senior Egyptian security official told this column.
A top Hamas source in the Gaza Strip refused to comment on the accusation.
Egyptian television reported "terrorists" were responsible for the attack, which took place in the El Arish region of the Northern Egyptian Sinai - an area in which Hamas is known to have a presence.
The Egyptian intelligence official said that Hamas used the explosion as a diversion so that dozens of senior Hamas members who were sprung from jail in recent days could be smuggled into the Gaza Strip.
The imprisoned Hamas members broke out of jail following the breakdown of security in Egypt amid the recent protests targeting President Hosni Mubarak.
The Soros Connection
Philanthropist billionaire George Soros has funded opposition organizations in Egypt and throughout the Middle East, where anti-regime chaos has already toppled the pro-Western leader of Tunisia and is threatening the rule of President Hosni Mubarak, a key U.S. ally.
Mohamed ElBaradei, one of the main opposition leaders in Egypt, has also sat on the board of an international "crisis management" group alongside Soros and other personalities who champion dialogue with Hamas, a violent offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Brotherhood, which seeks to spread Islam around the world in part by first creating an Islamic caliphate in Egypt, now backs ElBaradei, who has defended the group in the news media the last few weeks.
ElBaradei suspended his board membership in the International Crisis Group, or ICG last week, after he returned to Egypt to lead the anti-Mubarak protests.
Soros is one of eight members of the ICG executive committee.
U.S. board members include Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was national security adviser to Jimmy Carter; Samuel Berger, who was Bill Clinton's national security adviser; and retired U.S. ambassador Thomas Pickering, who made headlines in 2009 after meeting with Hamas leaders and calling for the U.S. to open ties to the Islamist group.
Another ICG member is Robert Malley, a former adviser to Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign who resigned after it was exposed he had communicated with Hamas. This reporter first revealed that Malley had long petitioned for dialogue with Hamas.
The ICG defines itself as an "independent, non-profit, multinational organization, with 100 staff members on five continents, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict."
Soros also has other ties to opposition groups in the Middle East.
His Open Society Institute's Middle East and North Africa Initiative has provided numerous grants to a wide range of projects that promote so-called democratic issues across the region, including in Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood stands to gain from any future election.
Soros's Open Society also funded the main opposition voice in Tunisia, Radio Kalima, which championed the riots there that led to the ouster of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
U.S. Official Meets With Muslim Brotherhood
The Egyptian government has information that a diplomat at the U.S. embassy in Cairo secretly met last week with a senior leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, the nation's major Islamist opposition group, this column has learned.
The topic of the meeting was the future of Egypt following the "fall" of President Mubarak, an Egyptian intelligence official said.
The claim comes amid charges from Cairo that the Obama administration has been encouraging the protests rocking Egypt and targeting the rule of Mubarak.
The Egyptian intelligence official said his government has information of a meeting that took place between Issam El-Erian, a senior leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, and Frank Wisner, a former U.S. ambassador to Egypt.
The Obama administration dispatched Wisner to Egypt this past weekend to report to the State Department and White House a general sense of the situation in the embattled country.
The U.S. State Department would neither confirm nor deny the report.
A Year Ago In January
A year before protests erupted throughout Egypt aimed at toppling the regime of President Mubarak, President Obama's own associates provoked anti-regime chaos on the streets of the now embattled Middle East country and longtime U.S. ally.
Egypt has accused the Obama administration of championing the protests and of pressuring Mubarak to resign. The main opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, stands to gain a major foothold in the region as a result.
Similar scenes unfolded in January 2010, when Obama associates provoked chaos in Egypt in an attempt to enter the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip to join in solidarity with the territory's population and leadership.
This column reported at the timethat those protests were led by former Weather Underground terrorists William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn - close Obama associates for years.
Another protest leader was Jodie Evans, co-founder of Code Pink, a far-left activist organization formed in 2002 to protest America's war in Iraq. The group previously met with Hamas and with Taliban leaders. Evans was a fundraiser and financial bundler for Obama's presidential campaign.
Also protesting in Egypt was Ali Abunimah, co-founder of the anti-Israel Electronic Intifada website. This column previously reportedthat Obama spoke at pro-Palestinian events in the 1990s alongside Abunimah. At one such event, a 1999 fundraiser for Palestinian "refugees," Abunimah recalls introducing Obama on stage.
The Gaza saga began when the radicals arrived Dec. 31, 2009. Evans appealed to Suzanne Mubarak, the wife of Egypt's president, to allow some 1,400 activists to cross from Egypt into neighboring Gaza to march there, deliver humanitarian aid and stage a protest at an Israeli border crossing with thousands of Palestinian Gazans. Egypt's Interior Ministry had said the march was illegal and a threat to national security.
Mubarak reportedly offered to allow only 100 activists to cross into Gaza. The decision was at first reportedly accepted by Evans but was later rejected, leading to protests throughout Cairo all week under a heavy police presence.
Eventually, the protesters accepted the Egyptian offer of allowing about 100 marchers into Gaza. The marchers indeed entered Gaza and were reportedly met on the Gaza side by Hamas' former Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh.
About the only ones left out are the *Crintons and Hussein's pooch.
Soros is one angry individual and has been his entire life.
Kapo Soros thinks he’s the messiah.
I will bet the “Crintons” are up to their necks in it along with Obambi.
Yep. One big mistaka America. Obama has got to go. I am calling for a 10 million man Spring Broke March on Washington for a Tar and Feathers Party.
"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at"
--Bill Ayers (1970), quoted in New York Times, September 11, 2001:
Article: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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"Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"
-Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, referring to the Manson murders
Article: Allies in War -by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09
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"It was at the Chicago home of [Bill] Ayers and [Bernardine] Dohrn that Obama, then an up-and-coming 'community organizer,' had his political coming out party in 1995. Not content with this rite of passage in Lefty World — where unrepentant terrorists are regarded as progressive luminaries, still working 'only to educate' — both Obamas tended to the relationship with the Ayers."
Article: The Company He Keeps:
Meet Obama’s circle: The same old America-hating Left
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YThjYTU1ZDBjNmQ2YzcwNzU1MmYwN2JiMWY0ZGI0NDA=&w=MA==
Uhbama and Soros-quite a team. Both despise America and relish power with open hunger.
been working on this for years.
It can’t be a coincidence that obama chose Cairo for his speech
that Ayers and wife have been there a few times in the last two years.
code pink is over there along with other radical left wing groups.
unions have been sending messages and asking for money to send over there.
Left wing groups around the world have been over there and still over there.
What begs the question now is who did obama really talk while over there?
Why the hell is Soros not arrested yet for trying and overthrowing Govts?
WHERE IS THE GOP?
Why has no investigation being done into how our so called media have been a propaganda group for Soros and the white house?
Hell they have not even reported on any of this or even reported how our foreign policy has now changed to pissing on allies to working and helping radical islam take over.
Soros should be held accountable for his actions and obama needs to be investigated as does the DOJ, homeland dept, and that idiot we had today saying MB was alright
The alliance goes way beyond Obama and Soros. It involves Russia, China, Iran, Chavez... They are all in it together.
great article an d about time this was reported, we have far left groups , Soros and his money working with radical islam to overthrow allies and disrupt the world and the economy in order to bring their version of a Govt.
If we had a free and fair media and a GOP which can stop talking about debt for once and actually stand up to this admin then obama and his far left thugs would nto have got away with this.
Hell I’M so pissed with this white house that if there is a protest to shout for obama to be arrested for treason then I will be there and not leave until he does
you know what, if there is a protest then I am there and we should not leave DC until the man is forced out as with his admin.
We should have millions there closing down DC and to have protests outside the media’s HQ’s to demand them tell the truth instead of their far left wing propaganda
Before Egypt was announced as the speech venue, there was speculation by the media about the location of the address. Jakarta, Rabat, Amman, Cairo, and Istanbul were all considered likely choices.[12] Mohammed Habib, the deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest opposition group, dismissed Obama's trip and said it would be "useless unless it is preceded by real change in the policies of the U.S. administration toward the Arab and Islamic world."[13] Nevertheless, Obama's administration insisted that at least 10 members of the Muslim Brotherhood be allowed to attend the Cairo speech.[14]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_New_Beginning
nearly every far left wing nut job group is involved over there and it is no coincidence that obama chose Cairo to make that speech.
That speech was a nod to protesters that they now have a friend and off the far left went with their plans to overthrow the Govt while now looking for the protests to spread and to get rid of Israel.
Why is any American Jew still supporting obama, for crying out loud what does it take for them to wake the hell up
Spring Broke 2012. We have to have 10 million. Maybe Rush could have a bake sale and Beck could bring the 912’rs. We could bring the Freepers. That might get 10 million. Tar and Feathers for the scoundrels!
so he insisted and that wanted assurances that they had obama on board and boy they have got their friend now.
Our while foreign policy has now changed that we now talk with radical muslims, piss on allies and what must Istrael and the UK now be thinking
Uk had it’s nuclear secrets given away to Russian off this admin as well as other kicks in the teeth.
Czech and Poland.
Israel
Egypt
Columbia
Tunisia
Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright and Dr. William Ayers
are greeted by Rebekah Levin with the Committee
for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine.
(Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune / May 17, 2009)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-ayers_wrightmay18,0,6689521.story
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"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..."-Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, 95.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_Underground#cite_ref-Berger_0-0
Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (Paperback) by Dan Berger
http://www.amazon.com/Outlaws-America-Underground-Politics-Solidarity/dp/1904859410
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From the New York Times, August 24, 2003
"they [the Weather Underground] employed revolutionary jargon, advocated armed struggle and black liberation and began bombing buildings, taking responsibility for at least 20 attacks. Estimates of their number ranged at times from several dozen to several hundred."
Article: Quieter Lives for 60's Militants, but Intensity of Beliefs Hasn't Faded
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E4DE1539F937A1575BC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2
Looking more and more like William Ayers, the Pentagon Bomber, and Bernadette Dohrn, Police Murderer, are Obama
Controllers and the Real Presidents of the United States along with George Soros, Hugo Chavez,Teraaayza Heinz, Farrakkon, aand every other Enemy of AMERICA’S Constitution, Freedoms, and Exceptionalism!!!!!
Wake Up America! Mubarik is just the first Ally and Supporter of America to be Destroyed! Obama did his best to destroy Honduras and Kenya before this! Obama is Pure EVIL!!
This is now Clearly Pure Treason!!! Perpetrated by the Illegal POTUS and His Band of Terrorists!!
AMERICA, WAKE UP!!!!
If America doesn’t wake up, this Gang handling Obama Hussein will make HITLER look like an Amateur and a Saint!
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