Dominating New Egyptian Parliament, Muslim Brotherhood Controls that Body’s House Speaker

COMMENT: Hav­ing gained 45 % of the seats in the new Egypt­ian par­lia­ment, the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood has now maneu­vered the sec­re­tary gen­eral of its Free­dom and Jus­tice Party into the posi­tion of house speaker.
Por­trayed as “mod­er­ate,” the Broth­er­hood is, of course, noth­ing of the sort.  Allied with the Axis in World War II, the [...]

Al Taqwa Imam Mediating Talks with Taliban?

COMMENT: The Indian media report that Youssef al-Qaradawi is medi­at­ing talks with the Tal­iban. Closely linked to the Bank al-Taqwa, Qaradawi may well be the most impor­tant of the Mus­lim Brotherhood’s reli­gious the­olo­gians.
In part, this devel­op­ment (if true) may well be an out­growth of the State Department’s alliance with the Broth­er­hood, delin­eated in the [...]

Droning On: Interesting Timing in the Middle East

COMMENT: The appar­ent cap­ture and down­ing by Iran of a U.S. drone air­craft raises a num­ber of inter­est­ing ques­tions.
If the account pre­sented in “Debka” can be believed, the pos­si­bil­ity of some sort of “inside job” is one to be care­fully con­sid­ered. (“Debka” is an intel­li­gence newslet­ter spe­cial­iz­ing in Mid­dle East­ern and Israeli national security [...]

Egyptian Army and Muslim Brotherhood Join Forces

COMMENT: While the euro­zone debt cri­sis pro­pels Europe toward German-dominated fas­cism, the “Mus­lim Broth­er­hood Spring” seems poised to bring war and/or fas­cism (“cor­po­ratism”) to the Mid­dle East.
The Egypt­ian army and the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood have appar­ently joined forces, amid reports that the Broth­er­hood con­tin­ues to agi­tate for war with Israel.
(The Broth­er­hood is an Islamic fas­cist organization, [...]

Depressing, Terrifying Article about Pakistan’s Nukes

COMMENT: The Atlantic has pub­lished an arti­cle that should scare the Hell out of any­one with half a brain. It is no secret that Pak­istan, while nom­i­nally a U.S. ally  and the recip­i­ent of vast amounts of U.S. aid, actively sup­ports the Tal­iban and Haqqani fight­ers, who are killing U.S. troops, as well as [...]

Update on “A Night in Tunisia”

COMMENT: In the long For The Record series deal­ing with Wik­iLeaks and the Piggy-Back Coups in the Mid­dle East, that tor­tu­ous jour­ney began with the coup in Tunisia, believed by some observers to have been trig­gered by the dis­clo­sure of State Depart­ment cables crit­i­cal of the Ben Ali regime.
As noted by the vig­i­lant “Terrafractyl”, [...]

A 9/11 Message

Dave Emory is tem­porar­ily sus­pend­ing pro­duc­tion of new “For The Record” programs.

Clearstream Network Sued for Trafficking Iranian Terror Money

COMMENT: Sur­vivors of the 241 Marines killed in the 1983 Beirut bar­racks bomb­ing have sued Clearstream, a sub­sidiary of Deutsche Borse (itself owned by the major Ger­man com­mer­cial banks and, by exten­sion, the Bor­mann cap­i­tal net­work.)
Chan­nel­ing mil­lions of dol­lars back to the Iran­ian regime, Clearstream is alleged to have sub­stan­tively aided that government’s terrorist [...]

“Mine is Bigger than Yours Is!”–Prince Alwaleed Hires Saudi Bin Laden Group to Build World’s Tallest Tower

COMMENT: With the destruc­tion of the World Trade Cen­ter on 9/11, one of the world’s tallest build­ings dis­ap­peared. Now comes the news that Prince Alwaleed–supporter of Hamas (Pales­tin­ian branch of the Islam­o­fas­cist Mus­lim Broth­er­hood), apol­o­gist for the 9/11 attacks that destroyed the tow­ers, sec­ond largest stock­holder in Rup­pert Murdoch’s tar­nished media empire) has hired Saudi [...]

Bin Laden Death: Did WikiLeaks Almost Blow the Operation?; “Moderate” Muslim Brotherhood Condemns Raid

COMMENT: First off, speak­ing strictly for myself, I’m glad they got him. Good rid­dance to bad rubbish!

There is a pos­si­bil­ity that good ol’ Wik­iLeaks may have com­pro­mised the effort to neu­tral­ize Bin Laden. As dis­cussed by Wik­iLeaks’ res­i­dent Holo­caust denier Joran Jer­mas (aka “Israel Shamir”), the Guan­tanamo files released by Man­ning to Wik­iLeaks indi­cate that [...]