INDONESIA HEATS UP

Robert Gates, on a 2010 visit to Indonesia, during which he announced that the US would continue helping to train Kopassus, an elite special forces unit accused of kidnappings and assassinations. Defense Dept. photo by Cherie Cullen

Indonesia is under attack.

1. On 21 March 2012, a bomb hit the outside of the Indonesian embassy in Paris.

The gas cylinder package had originally been inside the building but was removed by an observant member of staff.

(Bomb blast shakes Paris as 'gas cylinder package' explodes outside.)

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2. On 19 March 2012, we read that five suspected militants, who had reportedly surveyed targets for attack on Bali, have been shot dead by Indonesian police.

The killings follow the start of a trial of Umar Patek, an Islamist militant believed to have worked for the CIA.

Patek is accused of making the bombs used in the 2002 Bali nightclubs attack, which has been linked to the CIA and elements of the Indonesian military.

Umar Patek was captured in Abbottabad, where the CIA is believed to have had a number of safe houses.

Patek is also accused of mixing chemicals for 13 bombs that hit five churches in Jakarta on Christmas Eve, 2000, killing about 15 people. These church attacks are believed to have links to elements of the Indonesian military.

Police shoot dead five terror suspects in Bali

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Why is Indonesia under attack?

1. China and Indonesia have signed deals worth a potential $17 bln

China and Indonesia signed prospective deals worth potentially more than $17 billion on Friday in the fields of mining, hydropower and steel, state media reported, during a visit by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to Beijing.

2. INDONESIA has called on Australia to accept that the rise of China is natural and not threatening.

"Indonesia's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Marty Natalegawa, said countries should not react to the rise of China ''through traditional alliances and fault lines'', a veiled reference to the proposed US Marine deployment to the Northern Territory, a decision he criticised four months ago."

Indonesia urges calm over rise of China‎

3. Indonesia's 'Resource Nationalism' is upsetting foreign investors‎

A new law in Indonesia forces foreigners to divest at least 51 percent of their shares to Indonesians over a 10-year period.

Certain powerful Indonesians want a bigger share of the cake.

Indonesia has some of the world's biggest untapped mineral reserves, including tin, nickel, copper and gold.

In 2011 a three-month strike at a giant gold and copper mine owned by US company Freeport-McMoRan, led to a 37 percent pay rise for workers.

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4. Indonesia wants oil from Iran.

Indonesia does not want an Iran crisis that will put up the cost of oil even further.

Indonesia Must Buy Iranian Oil Erwin Wirawan

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What happens next?

1. Indonesia is considering raising fuel prices or lowering the subsidy to private vehicles.

The government is expected to make a decision by the end of March.

There have been protests.

Some protesters have chanted "Crush SBY, bring down SBY-Boediono regime", referring to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Indonesian labour unions are threatening to close ports and toll roads Ahead of the Fuel Hike

Thousands protest against proposed fuel hike in Indonesia

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CIA'S MEK DID BANGKOK EXPLOSIONS - REPORT

On 20 february 2012, we learn from the Bangkok Post that the people who did the Thailand Bombing were 'Anti-Iran Exiles'.



(Bomb suspects 'were anti-Iran exiles')



"Four Iranians suspected of involvement in a botched bomb plot ... in Bangkok were members of an exiled Iranian opposition group which wanted the incident to reflect badly on Tehran....



"The four belonged to the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organisation - known as MEK."



MEK and MOSSAD



MEK helped the CIA and MI6 topple the Shah in 1979. (Exiles.)



"It is widely known within intelligence circles that the Israelis use the MEK for varied acts of espionage and terror", according to Richard Silverstein - (Source)



Scott Ritter has described how MEK, working exclusively for the CIA's Directorate of Operations, is carrying out remote bombings in Iran. (Website)



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aangirfan: BANGKOK TERROR - CONFLICTING REPORTS - MOSSAD CONSPIRACY.



aangirfan: BANGKOK 'TERRORISTS' LIKED TO PARTY



aangirfan: PLOT TO BREAK UP THAILAND

IRAN IS BACKWARD AND EASY TO BREAK UP?

1960s Iran - Website for this image

On 16 February 2012, in congressional hearings, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said that Iran has not decided to develop an atomic bomb.

Panetta: No Iranian nukes

"The intelligence does not show that they've made the decision to proceed with developing a nuclear weapon," Panetta said.

The US, however, continues to apply sanctions on Iran.

The CIA and MI6 put the Ayatollahs into power to weaken Iran and keep it backward.

They have succeeded.

Boyscouts in 1960s Iran

Iran has recently made an announcement about nuclear energy development.

US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the announcement was 'hyped' for a domestic audience.

"Our view on this is that it’s not terribly new and it’s not terribly impressive," she said.

The Shah was toppled by the CIA and MI6 partly because he was modernising Iran, and cutting down on the heroin trade.

The well informed Mostaque Ali (Further clarification after "lock-step" faux pas.) comments:

"Mullah Iran has a track record of boasting about alleged technological achievements that don't exist going back to the 1980's

"There are various domestic psychological reasons for this.

"The Mullahs came to power in 1979, as latter day Luddites (people opposed to modern machinery) at the behest of the USA/UK

"The mullahs shut down the ... Shah's ambitious nuclear program of $90 billion ...which would be $360 billion at today's prices (2012).

"Though the mullahs have restarted the civilian nuclear program begun by the Shah, and attempted to complete nuclear power stations begun in the 1970's by the Shah, there is no way the mullahs are going to invest the huge amounts of capital investment that the Shah promised.

"Maybe only 10% of what the Shah would have spent, in the next 10-20 years.

"Why?

(i) "The Mullahs are Luddites who aren't into technical modernization of the Iranian economy, which might produce a very large prosperous middle class.

"Instead the mullahs have been busy encouraging the technical class/middle class leave Iran - up to 5,000,000 of them.

"The mullahs see the middle class as threats to their power, and have thus allied themselves with the villagers and urban working class, at least through sloganism.

(ii) "The fear that Iran might run out of oil ... has passed. Hence the urgency to build alternative power no longer exists."


Iran by Sergio Pessolano

Professor Bernard Lewis, at the Bilderberg Meeting in Baden, Austria, on April 27-29, 1979 "proposed the fragmentation and balkanization of Iran along regional, ethnic and linguistic lines."

On 27 December 2009, SELIG S. HARRISON, at the new York Times, wrote about Tehran's Biggest Fear.

According to Harrison, the biggest threat to the ruling ayatollahs and generals in Iran comes from the separatist groups in Kurdish, Baluch, Azeri and Arab ethnic minority regions that make up some 44 percent of Iran's population.

During the Bush administration, the plan was "limited covert action carried out by proxy, in the case of the Baluch, through Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate or, I.S.I., and in the case of the Kurds by the C.I.A. in cooperation with Israel’s Mossad."

The C.I.A. provided weapons aid and training to the main Kurdish rebel group in Iran, according to U.S. journalists, Jon Lee Anderson and Seymour Hersh of the New Yorker and Borzou Daragahi of the Los Angeles Times.

The Arab separatists live in a province which produces 80 percent of Iran's crude oil revenue.

aangirfan: CHANGE IS COMING TO IRAN

NATO TO ARM IRAN?

Remember Iran-Contra?

"Ok so you smell a rat, but maybe the wrong rat.

"Nato needs to strengthen Iran before it leaves Afghanistan.

"It needs Iran to participate in the rounding up and ethnic cleansing process of exiting Afghanistan...

"The function of the Fox Werrity Gould meetings was to discuss how to give Iran a great deal more firepower, to reassure Israel, than it could admit to be doing.

"Hence the secrecy. Werrity is a broker for the vast orders for arms to be placed at Iran’s disposal, and Fox is the broker for the policy of helping Iran."

Gould-Werritty: the Continuing Cover-Up

Iran and Afghanistan

Following the emergence of the Taliban and their harsh treatment of Afghanistan's minorities, Iran stepped up assistance to the Northern Alliance.

Relations with the Taliban deteriorated further in 1998 after Taliban forces seized the Iranian consulate in Mazari Sharif and executed Iranian diplomats.

Following this incident, Iran almost went to war with the Taliban but intervention by the United Nations Security Council and the United States prevented it.

Iran was a key factor in the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001. (Afghanistan–Iran relations a)


According to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) (Iran and the Future of Afghanistan - Council on Foreign Relations):

"Gen. David H. Petraeus ... says Washington and Iran could coalesce around stabilizing Afghanistan.

"Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, echoed the sentiment (PDF) in late January 2009.

"NATO partners, too, have sought to include Iran in Afghan strategy decisions.

"German lawmakers have called for the creation of a 'contact group' of nations to chart a new regional course.

"'Such an initiative, that would include Iran, would benefit if it came to direct talks between Washington and Tehran,'" Andreas Schockenhoff, vice chairman of Germany's Christian Democratic Party, said in a statement reported by German media."

SYRIA BEFORE IRAN

No Iran strike 'for the moment' says the Israel defence minister

"Under present circumstances, a military strike against Iran is not strategically possible for the United States."

Iran Threat Is a Tactic: Main Goal Is to Checkmate Syria

Syria, Iran's ally, is to be dealt with first

Iran Threat Is a Tactic: Main Goal Is to Checkmate Syria