Thursday, September 5, 2013

Leaked Documents: U.S. Framed Syria in Chemical Weapons Attack

Leaked Documents: U.S. Framed Syria in Chemical Weapons Attack

Important Notice: The key documents in this report are not authentic.  We are leaving the article up for historic record not to endorse its accuracy. In particular the first document reported, the Leaked Britam Defence Syrian documents, seem to be fraudulent.  The source of this article, Storm Clouds Gathering, who we find to be credible, has taken their original post down for the same reason — the lack of veracit of the Britam documents.


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On August 21st, 2013 chemical weapons were used the Syrian conflict yet again. Western powers, the U.S. and France in particular enthusiastically didn’t hesitate for even a moment to take advantage of the tragedy, decrying it as a crime against humanity and using it as a springboard to announce their preparations for military strikes against the Syrian government.
Make no mistake this was a crime against humanity… but the gas was NOT used by the Syrian government, it was used by the NATO backed rebels. In this video we’re going to show you definitive evidence to support this claim and we’re going explain the U.S. and NATO’s motive for committing such an atrocity. The leaked documents that we are going to be presenting are available for you to download yourself. You’ll find a in a link in the description to that download and you’ll also find links to the mainstream articles we used in our research.
Now in order to really understand this event we need to look at it in context.
The United States has had Syria and Iran in their cross hairs for a long time. The plans for these wars have been in the works for over a decade.
[Wesley Clark video]
The U.S. government doesn’t like to present its wars as empire building, they prefer to paint themselves as defenders democracy and human rights. To accomplish this little public relations sleight of hand they have have proven time and again that they are willing to flat out make stuff up and they’re willing to kill thousands of people to advance their political objectives. We saw a blatant example of this in the Iraq war where they tried accusing Saddam of still harboring the chemical weapons that the U.S. had provided him in his war agains Iran.
Even back the 80s the U.S. was trying to take out the Iranians, they didn’t like the fact that their puppet, the Shah, had been ousted in 1979 and as Wesley Clark pointed out the end game is still Iran. For a long time they tried going after Iran directly by accusing them of building nuclear weapons but this line of worn out propaganda fell apart when elements within the CIA and Mossad came forward stating that there was no evidence that Iran even intended to build such a weapon. You can only cry wolf so many times before people start rolling their eyes, so these chicken hawk neo-cons switched strategy and decided to go after Syria to get to Iran. They know that Syria and Iran have a mutual defense agreement and if NATO forces enter Syria Iran will be drawn into the fight.
Rather than attacking Syria directly the U.S. and NATO have been running a proxy war by arming and funding the Syrian rebels (aka the FSA) funneling these resources through their allies in the region. To obscure the source of this support Qatar has been used to purchase weapons from countries like Sudan and then route them to Syria via Turkey.
Qatar is a close military ally of the U.S. They provided tank support in the Gulf war of 1991 and Qatar served as the US Central Command headquarters during the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Fast forward to January of 2013 when it was revealed that emails and a large quantity of sensitive documents from Britam Defence a, UK-based military contractor, were leaked by a hacker. [See note at the top of this article.]  These documents exposed a proposal coming from Qatar to launch false flag chemical weapons attacks in Syria and blame it on the Syrian government. According to the documents the plan had the full support of Washington and enormous sums of money had been offered to for the project.
“We’ve got a new offer. It’s about Syria again. Qataris propose an attractive deal and swear that the idea is approved by Washington.
We’ll have to deliver a CW to Homs, a Soviet origin g-shell from Libya similar to those that Assad should have. They want us to deploy our Ukrainian personnel that should speak Russian and make a video record.
Frankly, I don’t think it’s a good idea but the sums proposed are enormous. Your opinion?
Kind regards
David”
The person sending the email was David Goulding, the managing director of Britam, the addressee was Phillip Doughty Dynamic Director and founder of Britam Defence. By accessing the servers the hacker was able to obtain scans of Doughty’s passport, resume as well as the passports of the Ukranian operatives that the email suggested should be used to carry out the attack. [See note at the top of this article.]
The leak also included hundreds of other documents containing detailed financial and operational information for Britam Defence, including scores of signed contracts weekly assessments and incident reports for projects in multiple countries. Among these were details regarding a contract with Saudi Arabia to help prepare their forces for a war with Iran. The leaks also depicted a tight business relationship with the infamous war profiteer Haliburton. [See note at the top of this article.]
The documents acquired by this hacker were not easy to come by, most of the places where they were uploaded were taken down very quickly without explanation. However we managed to get the files and we’ve spent some time analyzing them. After investing this time it’s very clear to us that they are real. But don’t take my word for it. Just take a look in the description for the download link and go verify for yourself. [See note at the top of this article.]
This leak was never mentioned by the mainstream media at all in the United States or Europe, and there was no investigation whatsoever even though what was being discussed here was clearly plans to commit a war crime. Three months passed and on March 19th sarin gas was used in Syria near Aleppo. Israel and the U.S. promptly blamed the Syrian government for the attacks even though many of those who were killed were Syrian government soldiers. Obama began talking about the event as a red line that had been crossed and the war mongers began their saber rattling in ernest.
However the U.N. insisted on investigating the issue themselves, and on May 6th, 2013 UN investigator, Carla Del Ponte, went public stating that evidence from their investigation indicated that it was Syrian rebels that had used the sarin gas and that there was no indication that the Syrian government had launched any chemical attacks whatsoever.
Russia’s U.N. ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, agreed with Del Ponte after Russian experts visited the location where the projectile struck and took their own samples of material from the site. Those samples were then analyzed at a Russian laboratory certified by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. According to lab results they found that the presence of Hexogen, utilized as an opening charge, and which is not used in standard munitions pointed to the attack being launched by the rebels.
Rather than cover this development, the mainstream media did what they always do when they don’t want the public to look at something: the simply changed the subject.
Now of course the fact that the U.S. backed rebels had attempted to frame the Syrian government in order to build support for a NATO invasion would be bad enough, they were trying to start a war of aggression, but let’s remember that sarin gas was in fact used. This means that the U.S. and its allies were willing to commit a blatant war crime, killing scores of civilians in order to justify toppling Assad. Nor did the U.S. withdraw their support after this event, in fact they increased it.
You would think that the fact that after this first plot had blown up in their face the west would back down or try a different approach, but no, apparently those running this circus only have so much material or grey matter to work with. In July the U.S. began openly discussing “kinetic strikes” against Syria as if their lies hadn’t been exposed. This of course brings us to the attack on August 21st, 2013 where they attempted once again to frame the Syrian government for the use of sarin gas, and once again they got caught.
The first wave of media coverage tried to pin the attack on the Syrian government, and the U.S. and France instantly came out condemning Assad. By August 24th the Pentagon had already announced plans for missile strikes, but even as they did their story was already falling apart again.
The Syrian army came forward that same day with footage to back up their report that they had uncovered a massive chemical weapons cache in rebel tunnels in the Damascus suburb of Jobar. This is the exact neighborhood where the chemical attack took place.
The Syrian government’s version of events is backed up with several other key bits of evidence:
1. On May 31st, 2013 security forces in Turkey found a 2kg cylinder filled with sarin gas after searching the homes of Syrian militants.
2. On July 7, the Syrian army went public about a chemical lab they had found belonging to rebels in the city of Banias.
3. We already have documents clearly showing that the U.S. was backing a plan to frame the Syrian government with chemical weapons.
All of this clearly shows that the rebels had the means and the intent, however the most obvious variable in this equation is motive: the only parties that benefit from launching this attack are the Syrian rebels, the U.S. and its NATO allies. The Syrian government knows full well that the U.S. and NATO have been looking for any excuse to invade. The last thing they want to do is hand them that excuse. The rebels on the other hand have already been caught committing brutal atrocities and they’ve already been caught creating fake video of civilian casualties. The clip you’re watching right now is one of the most obvious examples. This chemical attack launched on August 21st
fits with their previous pattern.
The rebels further exposed their hand when two days after the attack they released a video statement vowing to strike back with any and all means. They claimed to have access to chemical weapons and they stated that they now intended to use them in the conflict with zero reservations from this point forward. Essentially, they are using their own crime as a pretext to openly start using chemical weapons in combat.
The stakes in this coverup are high. Both Russia and China have openly sided with Syria and Iran, and Russia has warned that thermonuclear war could result if the U.S. continues down this path. That’s a outcome that’s too horrific to even contemplate. However even if that worst case scenario is averted this is still a matter of life and death for the Syrian and Iranian people. If the U.S. invades a lot of civilians are going to die. Their situation is not going to be improved by the U.S. attacking anymore than it was in Iraq or any of the other countries that we’ve toppled.
We have to do everything in our power to stop this. Please, don’t just treat this like a bit of entertaining political drama. Please help us get this information out to everyone especially to the military. Share this to facebook, to twitter, post it on your website. Download those documents put them on disc with this video and hand them out on the streets. If you’re in the military and you find this video please send it to your commanding officer and to everyone you trust in your unit. If you are afraid of being punished then find a way to send it anonymously.
Hundreds of people were killed in these attacks many of them children, and the U.S. government was behind it. If you’re a parent imagine what that would feel like if it were your son or daughter that had been slaughtered to forward the political objectives of these psychopaths. Think about it long and hard because these things have a way of coming home to roost.
To understand the real reason for this conflict please watch our video entitled The Road to World War 3.
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See Note Above about this first document
Leaked Britam Defence Syrian documents for download:http://stormcloudsgathering.com/leaked-britam-defense-syrian-documents-d…
Chemical weapons confirmed in Syrian conflict:http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/08/24/gas-attack-syria.html
U.S. helped Saddam as he was using chemical weapons on Iran:http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/08/25/secret_cia_files_prove_…
CIA and Mossad both say the Iran hasn’t even made the decision to seek a nuclear weapon: http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/mossad-cia-agree-iran-has-…
Iran and Syria confront US with defense pact:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/feb/17/usa.syria
Iran already sending troops to Syria: http://rt.com/news/iran-troop-deployment-syria-782/
The proxy war in Syria: http://www.globalresearch.ca/americas-imperial-left-and-the-proxy-war-ag…
The U.S. funneling weapons to rebels through Qatar:http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2013/06/29/sending-missiles-syrian…
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/mar/01/syria-conflict-rebels-qatar…
Russia opposes arming militants in Syria:
http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/05/04/301705/russia-opposes-arming-mi…
Russia warns Syria/Iran Crisis may go nuclear:http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/17/us-g8-russia-idUSBRE84G18M2012…
UK Quatar plot to frame Syria for Chemical weapons:
http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/01/30/286331/ukqatari-plot-against-sy…
The March 19th, 2013 Sarin Attack:
Israel and the U.S. blame Assad:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/04/israel-accuses-syria-of-us…
Obama’s red line:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9488314/Barac…
U.N. launches their own probe:http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/21/us-syria-crisis-chemical-un-id…
According to the U.N. investigation the March 19th chemical weapons attack turned out to be committed by the rebels:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22424188
Russia agrees: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/09/us-syria-crisis-chemical-russi…
The August 21st, 2013 Chemical Attack:
Syrian soldiers enter rebel tunnels, find chemical agents
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/24/us-syria-crisis-jobar-idUSBRE9…
Video from attack apparently shows the rockets were small and primitive:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/23/us-syria-chemicals-idUSBRE97M0…
Iran says they have proof rebels used chemical weapons:
http://news.yahoo.com/iran-says-proof-syria-rebels-used-chemical-weapons…
Turkey finds sarin gas in homes of suspected Syrian Islamists
http://rt.com/news/sarin-gas-turkey-al-nusra-021/
FSA says they are going to use chemical weapons from now on:http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/171240#.Uhrr2rwYfUp

Obama Launching Syria War Over Admittedly Staged Chemical Attack

Obama Launching Syria War Over Admittedly Staged Chemical Attack

Anthony Gucciardi
by
August 25th, 2013
Updated 08/25/2013 at 3:09 pm
The Obama administration is on a war path with Syria following the admittedly staged chemical attacks that even mainstream news initially documented was an attempt to launch war with Assad — an admission that no one is talking about as naval cruisers sail to Syria.
obama-syria-chemical-attack-stagedIn an inside glimpse of how truly controlled the media really is, there is now literally zero mention of the admitted plan to launch a chemical attack within Syria via the Syrian rebels and blame it on Assad. Now sure, that’s amazing enough that no one is talking about this, but what’s more disturbing is that the plan itself was broadcast on the largest website in the United States: Yahoo News.
With one click you can read for yourself in the January 2013 Yahoo article titled ‘US ‘backed plan to launch chemical weapon attack on Syria, blame it on Assad govt” how the Obama administration gave the ‘green signal’ to initiate chemical weapon attacks on Syria to blame it on Assad in order to initiate military action. Not nuclear weapons, not missiles, not car bombs, chemical weapons. And this was written in January of 2013. Here’s the first paragraph from the report:
“The Obama administration gave green signal to a chemical weapons attack plan in Syria that could be blamed on President Bashar al Assad’s regime and in turn, spur international military action in the devastated country, leaked documents have shown.”

Obama Launches Hot War

In other words, it’s the exact thing we’re seeing now. Obama has launched the chemical attacks that took some time to properly execute using the Syrian rebels, and now is blaming Assad while also launching immediate military action. We’re talking about naval ships loaded with cruise missiles immediately being deployed to go ahead and wreak havoc in Syria. But you say ‘he would never do that’. You say ‘Obama would never hurt innocent people to initiate a war’.
Well, I would direct you to the reality behind the Syrian rebels, who Obama has funded and equipped with heavy weaponry since 2011 as reported by Reuters. As you can see, this is not a new development. Obama has been reaching into Syria and placing it into a state of chaos in order to send the troops in and recreate yet another Libya scenario. And these Syrian rebels are so bloodthirsty that I continually need to highlight to you just how despicable of an ‘administration’ Obama and his handlers are by showing you their deeds.
By examining the fact that Obama continues to arm these rebels that go around burning churches and killing all Christians, we get a full understanding that he does not care about killing thousands of people in a staged chemical attack. He literally does not care. Why would he? He never mourns for the innocent families beheaded by the Syrian rebels, and he never even talks about it. That’s why he has been secretly aiding them since 2011.
What’s going right now is similar to if we were able to obtain the opposing sports team’s playbook and know every move they were going to make during the big game. Obama’s hand is up, and we now know that this chemical attack was indeed pulled straight from the initial plot — and they don’t even seem to care. Why? Because they think that the mainstream media gatekeepers will be successful in sheltering the public from any knowledge.
The fact is, however, they will not. Share this article and get the word out on this blatant plan that exposes the entire agenda and initiatives of the Obama administration and its handlers.

RECOMMENDED READING: “Saudi-backed Tycoon Finances Jamaat-e-islami”

RECOMMENDED READING: “Saudi-backed Tycoon Finances Jamaat-e-islami”

Print This Post Print This Post The Money Jihad blog has posted an article titled ”Saudi-backed tycoon finances Jamaat-e-Islami” that looks at the financing of the Jamaat-e-Islam (JEI) by a Saudi tycoon. The report begins:
March 19, 2013 Mir Quasem Ali Mir Quasem Ali serves as the de facto treasurer of Jamaat-e-Islami (JEI or simply ‘Jamaat’), the Islamist political party in Bangladesh with close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and militant causes.  He has served for nearly 40 years as Saudi Arabia’s money man in Bangladesh, being involved major Wahhabi-backed institutions since the 1970s.Mir Quasem Ali (also often spelled Mir Kashem Ali) is in jail at the moment for war crimes he and his Al-Badr group committed during Bangladesh’s struggle for independence in 1971, but he is still sometimes touted as the party’s next leader. According to one account, Mir Quasem Ali fled to Saudi Arabia after Bangladesh secured its independence, and returned after amnesty was offered in 1974.  He landed a job at the newly founded Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited, Bangladesh’s biggest sharia bank (which itself has close ties to Saudi Arabia’s Al Rajhi Bank), and he became IBBL’s director for many years according to an article by Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury: …IBBL provides JEI an opportunity to launder money from abroad and also channel un-audited funds to various militant groups in the country and abroad. Islamic Bank Foundation (IBF), a JEI floated organization oversees all the projects of IBBL and profits generated by it and the interest / commission accrued on foreign donations goes to the IBBL account of IBF. The IBF is headed by Mir Qasem Ali, JEI Executive Committee member and Country Director of the Saudi based Islamic NGO Rabeta-al-alam-al-Islami that funds a number of projects in Bangladesh. Mir Quasem Ali, the main brain behind JEI’s finances, is now in jail facing trial on war crimes charges. He remained Director of IBBL for a number of years since its inception in 1975…Money Jihad readers will recall that Bangladeshi authorities say that IBBL has diverted 8 percent of its corporate zakat to terrorists.  The U.S. Senate also blasted HSBC last year for its banking relationships with IBBL.
Read the rest here.
The Jamaat-e-Islami (JEI )was founded in 1941 and had it’s origins in the thoughts of Maulana Sayyid Abul A’la Maududi (1903-79), the most important Islamist intellectual in the history of Southeast Asia. Maududi was also a major influence on the global Muslim Brotherhood with whom the JEI has long enjoyed close relations. In the United States, the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) is generally considered to represent the JEI.
Recent posts have discussed the current war crimes trials of JEI leaders.

U.S. Intelligence Says Muslim Brotherhood and Hardline Jihadists Allowed To Join Egyptian Military Academy

U.S. Intelligence Says Muslim Brotherhood and Hardline Jihadists Allowed To Join Egyptian Military Academy

Print This Post Print This Post U.S. media is reporting that the U.S. intelligence reports indicate that the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood government has recently permitted Muslim Brotherhood members and “hardline jihadists” to join Egypt’s military academy for the first time. According to a Washington Post report, U.S. intelligence agencies are also investigating reports that Egyptian President Morsi has concluded a secret agreement with Hamas:
Friday, March 29, 2013 Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated government recently allowed members of the Brotherhood and hardline jihadists to join Egypt’s military academy for the first time as part of what U.S. officials say is a covert effort to impose Islamist rule in the key Middle East state. According to U.S. officials with access to intelligence reports, the government of President Mohamed Morsi is covertly taking steps to take control over the pro-Western military and the police forces as part of a campaign to solidify Islamist control. Egypt for decades had banned the Muslim Brotherhood and radical Islamist groups from both the military and police academies after Islamic terrorists in the military assassinated Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat in 1981. The Egyptian military also for decades has maintained close ties to the U.S. military. Analysts in the U.S. intelligence community and the military are viewing the introduction of Islamists into the national military academy, disclosed last week, with concern. Muslim Brotherhood members and hardline Salafi groups are regarded as dedicated first to jihad, or holy war, and other Islamist principles rather than to the country. ’Any opening of the Egyptian military to Islamist elements would be a big and complicated change,’ said one U.S. official. ‘It’s not clear how it would be managed or how well the rank and file would absorb it.’ Disclosure that the Muslim Brotherhood and other radical Islamists are now being admitted to the military academy was made public March 19 in Egyptian news reports. The head of the military academy, Ismat Murad, told reporters the new batch of Islamist students included the nephew of Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood leader. Meanwhile, U.S. officials said intelligence agencies are investigating reports that Morsi recently concluded a secret agreement with the Palestinian terror group Hamas, another disturbing sign the Egyptian government is shifting away from its former pro-Western stance and toward radical Islam. There are concerns the agreement involves collusion between the Muslim Brotherhood and a plan to settle Palestinians in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood filling pro-Western military’s ranks with Islamists

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood filling pro-Western military’s ranks with Islamists


Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated government recently allowed members of the Brotherhood and hardline jihadists to join Egypt's military academy for the first time as part of what U.S. officials say is a covert effort to impose Islamist rule in the key Middle East state.
According to U.S. officials with access to intelligence reports, the government of President Mohamed Morsi is covertly taking steps to take control over the pro-Western military and the police forces as part of a campaign to solidify Islamist control.
Egypt for decades had banned the Muslim Brotherhood and radical Islamist groups from both the military and police academies after Islamic terrorists in the military assassinated Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat in 1981.
The Egyptian military also for decades has maintained close ties to the U.S. military. Analysts in the U.S. intelligence community and the military are viewing the introduction of Islamists into the national military academy, disclosed last week, with concern.
Muslim Brotherhood members and hardline Salafi groups are regarded as dedicated first to jihad, or holy war, and other Islamist principles rather than to the country.
"Any opening of the Egyptian military to Islamist elements would be a big and complicated change," said one U.S. official. "It's not clear how it would be managed or how well the rank and file would absorb it."
Disclosure that the Muslim Brotherhood and other radical Islamists are now being admitted to the military academy was made public March 19 in Egyptian news reports.
The head of the military academy, Ismat Murad, told reporters the new batch of Islamist students included the nephew of Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood leader.
Meanwhile, U.S. officials said intelligence agencies are investigating reports that Morsi recently concluded a secret agreement with the Palestinian terror group Hamas, another disturbing sign the Egyptian government is shifting away from its former pro-Western stance and toward radical Islam.
There are concerns the agreement involves collusion between the Muslim Brotherhood and a plan to settle Palestinians in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
Hamas militants in recent days have attacked Egyptian troops engaged in demolishing tunnels from the Sinai into Israel. Hamas has asked the Egyptian government to halt the tunnel demolition. The tunnels are a major source of covert support into Gaza.
Morsi was elected president last year. His Freedom and Justice Party was founded by the Muslim Brotherhood, an anti-democratic Islamic political movement whose motto states, "Jihad is our way." The group claims to be nonviolent but has spawned numerous Islamic terror organizations including al Qaeda.
Under Morsi, the Egyptian government has appointed hardline Islamists as presidential advisers and assistants, including members of the Salafist Al-Nour Party.
In addition to the military academy, Cairo also is taking steps to Islamicize the police forces.
According to recent reports, the Muslim Brotherhood is planning to restructure the Egyptian Interior Ministry. The restructuring is said to include plans to place Brotherhood members in key ministry positions.
On the secret agreement with Hamas, Egyptian daily Al-Watan published documents in early February purportedly exposing a secret agreement between the government and Hamas. One document stated that Hamas' military wing was sending militants to Egypt to defend the current regime from supporters of the ousted Mubarak government.
A second document was written by a Qatari foreign affairs official granting Hamas $250 million to support Morsi.
The Morsi administration has agreed to several construction deals in Gaza, along with security and intelligence-sharing agreements with Hamas.
Morsi also has sought closer ties to Iran, whose President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited Cairo in February. Intelligence officials said the two intelligence services also are collaborating.
Many Persian Gulf states are worried about the threat to their regimes posed by the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, with the exception of Qatar emerging as a connection point for Brotherhood's expansion efforts.
In Saudi Arabia, several Islamist Saudi clerics are supporting the Muslim Brotherhood transformation in Egypt, putting them at odds with Riyadh's opposition to the Muslim Brotherhood government there.
There are concerns that Egypt will create religious police along the lines of Saudi Arabia's Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, as the Sharia-law enforcement police are called.
Thousands of police in Egypt went on strike to protest the Muslim Brotherhood Islamist efforts earlier this month. Riots broke out March 22 between pro- and anti-Muslim Brotherhood protesters. The police went back to work after the government said it would bring in contractors, raising fears of further Islamicization.
The Brotherhood announced it planned to form vigilante groups to prevent attacks on Islamists.
An Egyptian military adviser went public with concerns about Muslim Brotherhood activities in Egypt on March 11. Maj. Gen. Abd-al-Munim Katu, an adviser to the Egyptian Armed Forces Morale Affairs Department, told the Dubai news outlet Al Bayan Online that the military is resisting Morsi's Islamicization efforts.
Specifically, Katu said the Muslim Brotherhood was pressuring Egypt's Defense Minister Abdul-Fattah Al-Sisi to ignore the Sinai tunneling into Gaza.
"I think that the current situation in Egypt is alarming and confused, in general," Katu said.
Asked if Morsi will complete his term as president, Tatu said: "The vision is blurry. Indicators suggest that he may not be able to complete his term. The people have legitimate demands, but the Muslim Brothers are busy seizing control of the joints of the state. The gap between the two parties is widening."
The Obama administration, whose religious outreach advisers include several Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers, is not directly challenging the far-reaching campaign of Islamicization being carried out by the Morsi government in Egypt.
Instead the administration adopted conciliatory policies toward the current government in Egypt. The administration hopes to continue working with Egypt's government but has not pressured Cairo into making needed democratic reforms, U.S. officials said.
Secretary of State John Kerry visited Cairo March 4 and mentioned U.S. hopes for democratic reform. He also announced the release of $250 million in U.S. aid out of $1 billion promised by President Barack Obama after Egypt's revolution overthrew long-time ally Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak last year.
Kerry said he urged Morsi to initiate "homegrown reforms."
Pro-democracy protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square carried banners during the visit that read "Kerry, member of the Brotherhood," and "Kerry, you are not welcome here."
Analysts have compared Obama's policy toward Egypt to those of President Jimmy Carter who in the late 1970s tacitly supported Iran's exiled radical cleric Ayatollah Khomeini. Carter eventually abandoned the Shah of Iran, a longtime U.S. ally, and paved the way for 1978 revolution that brought the current hardline Islamist state in Tehran into power, a regime that is now on the verge of developing nuclear weapons for its large ballistic missile force.
Frank Gaffney, head of the Center for Security Policy, said Obama's foreign policy has been accurately described as "Jimmy Carter's policies on steroids."
"What's happening in Egypt today with the Muslim Brotherhood takeover and the ascendancy of Islamist throughout the Middle East and North Africa, makes Jimmy Carter's debacle in Iran pale by comparison," Gaffney said.
Bill Gertz is the senior editor of the Washington Free Beacon.
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