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Cape Times oped

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Jordanian spy’s presence in Afghanistan shows America’s enemies collaborate

By Robert Fisk

(source: Cape Times, January 07, 2010 Edition 1)

In the vast American embassy in the hills outside the Jordanian capital, Amman, a senior US Special Forces officer runs an equally special office. He buys information from Jordanian army and intelligence officers – for cash, of course – but he also helps to train Afghan and Iraqi policemen and soldiers. The information he seeks is not just about al-Qaeda but about Jordanians themselves, about the army’s loyalty to King Abdullah II as well as about the anti-American insurgents who live in Jordan, primarily Iraqi but also Iraqi al-Qaeda contacts with Afghanistan.

It’s easy to buy army officers in the Middle East. The Americans spent much of 2001 and 2002 buying up the warlords of Afghanistan. They paid for Jordanian troops to join their own occupation army in Iraq – which was why the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad was ruthlessly bombed by Washington’s enemies.

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Greed is the cause of terrorism

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By Dr Firoz Osman-Laudium, Tshwane

(source: STAR – January 07, 2010 Edition 1)

The  Star’s editorial, "Terror: no easy answers" (January 5), cites the example of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian who tried to blow up a US airline, in the difficulty in countering terrorism.

Part of the problem, and solution, lies in the statement "that citizens of 14 nations will be subject to intensified screening at airports worldwide". Every targeted country – with one exception, Cuba – is Muslim.

They are Iran, Sudan, Syria, Afghanistan, Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Yemen.Most of the Muslim nations are either invaded and occupied, or have a despotic puppet ruler – armed and propped up by the US and its allies – oppressing the population.

Others are determined to guard their ideology and sovereignty and follow an independent foreign policy, so they are victimised.The problem, therefore, is the invasion, occupation, suppression and exploitation of Muslim lands by the US, Israel, Russia, India, UK and the Nato countries.

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Israeli general brigadier general uzi eilam denies Iran is nuclear threat

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By Uzi Mahnaimi in Tel Aviv

(source: The Wisdom Fund)

A general who was once in charge of Israels nuclear weapons has claimed that Iran is a very, very, very long way from building a nuclear capability.

Brigadier-General Uzi Eilam, 75, a war hero and pillar of the defence establishment, believes it will probably take Iran seven years to make nuclear weapons.

The views expressed by the former director-general of Israels Atomic Energy Commission contradict the assessment of Israels defence establishment and put him at odds with political leaders.

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