Qatar builds Sunni intervention force of Libyan, Iraqi terrorists against Assad

The Qatar oil emirate, encouraged by its successful participation in the campaign to overthrow Libya's Muammar Qaddafi, has established a Sunni Arab intervention force to expedite the drive for Syrian President Bashar Assad's ouster, debkafile's military sources report. The new highly mobile force boosts the anti-Assad Free Syrian Army, whose numbers have jumped to 20,000 fighters, armed and funded by Qatar and now forming into military battalions and brigades at their bases in Turkey.

When they saw the Syrian massacre continuing unabated this month, the Qatari and Saudi rulers approved a crash program for the Qatari chief of staff Maj.-Gen Hamas Ali al-Attiya to weld this mobile intervention Sunni Muslim force out of al Qaeda linked-operatives for rapid deployment on the Turkish-Syrian border.

A force of 2,500 has been recruited up until now, our sources report. The hard core is made up of 1,000 members of the Islamic Fighting Group in Libya-IFGL, which fought Qaddafi, and 1,000 operatives of the Ansar al-Sunna, the Iraqi Islamists which carried out 15 coordinated bomb attacks in Baghdad last Thursday killing 72 people and injuring 200.

Qatar has just had them airlifted from Libya and Iraq to the southern Turkish town of Antakya (Antioch) in the border province of Hatay.
It is in this town of quarter-of-a- million inhabitants that the new Sunni force has located its command center and separate camps for the two main contingents to undergo intensive training for combat missions in the embattled Syrian towns and provinces of Idlib, Homs, Jabal al-Zawiya, scenes of the fiercest clashes between Syrian troops and rebels.

debkafile also reveals that the man appointed top commander of the Sunni intervention force headquartered in Antioch is none other than Abdel Hakim Belhaj, whose militia last August seized control of Tripoli after it was captured from Qaddafi by NATO and Qatari forces.

He has picked his deputies - Al-Mahdi Hatari, former head of the Tripoli Brigade and loyal crony Kikli Adem.
Qatari officers have set up communication links between the Libyan and Iraqi camps and since last week are coordinating their operations with the Free Syrian Army.

This flurry of military activity is taking place under the watchful gaze of the Turkish military and its intelligence services but they are not interfering.

debkafile's military and counter-terror analysts stress that the rise of a new Qatari-led Sunni Muslim rapid intervention force breaks fresh strategic ground with ramifications for the United and Israel as well as for the Gulf Arab countries, Syria, Libya and Iraq.
1.  A year has gone by since the Arab Revolt first broke out in December 2010. Yet this is the first time a Sunni Muslim power has established an intervention force - one moreover which is composed almost entirely of fighting men drawn from the ranks of al Qaeda and its extremist Islamist affiliates and allies.

2.  The new Sunni force, funded by the Persian Gulf oil states, is silently backed by the US and NATO members, with Turkey in the forefront of this support group. This means that the Sunni-Shiite divide is spiraling into overt conflict with Western support afforded to one side.
3.  Despite finding itself increasingly isolated by its Arab neighbors, Tehran has so far not intervened directly in conflicts in which it owns an interest – such as Gulf Cooperation Council-GCC intervention against a Shiite-led uprising in Bahrain, and now Sunni militias and terrorists enlisted to battle the Allawite regime of Iran's closest ally, Bashar Assad in Damascus.
4.  Iran's Lebanese proxy. Hizballah's Hassan Nasrallah, must also be feeling an uncomfortable draft coming from a Sunni fighting force near his strongholds and carrying out raids against his closest ally, Bashar Assad. He can't ignore the possibility of that force conducting similar excursions against his own Shiite militia.

5.  Israel too must find cause for concern in the rise of a Sunni military intervention force capable of moving at high speed from one arena to another and made up almost entirely of Islamist terrorists. At some time, Qatar might decide to move this force to the Gaza Strip to fight Israel.

Rape Story Staged to Bolster Libyan "Revolution"

Just in the nick of time, when American support for yet another oil grab -er- I mean – “flowering of democracy” was waning, here comes another anger inducing tale of rape! Designed by the CIA to CLOSE THE MINDS OF AMERICANS AND GET US TO SUPPORT THE LIBYAN OIL GRAB THAT US INDUSTRIALISTS ARE THIRSTING FOR. The only problem is that this story, just like the overblown Lara Logan rape story in Egypt last month is not passing the smell test for credibility and at this point in the history of the machinery of lies called US Aggression, the timing of these events tells more than the event itself.

NATO - "humanitarian assistance" or Terrorist

The International Criminal Court is due to receive a suit against NATO over the killing of Libyan ex-leader Muammar Gaddafi. But the Gaddafi family’s chances of finding justice in The Hague are all too slim, says journalist James Corbett.

Anti Gaddafi plot conceived in Paris

Thierry Meyssan, a political analyst and founder of the international NGO Voltaire Network, explains in an interview with RT that the French and British had been preparing the operation in Libya since November 2010, and that the stakes were high.

Libyan War was staged to start conquering Africa.

This "Revolution" was planned in Washington ten years ago. The NATO-led aggression on Libya and the CIA staged coup attempts in Syria are both steps in a decades-long plan by the US and its allies to completely reshape the face of Africa. An interview with French intellectual and journalist Thiery Meyssan.
 

Pushing Fear: The Child Sex Slave Meme - pt2

 The plan was to track down a child prostitution network get as much of the who, what, where, when, how and why. In the event of locating a child in jeopardy and if the opportunity presented itself and there was clear way to whisk the victim away from the scene, either by a motorcycle or waiting car, and most importantly if i could get an indication that the child wished to be rescued, I would then attempt to assist the victim (and subsequently her family) to escape the sex trade and in doing so help relieve a small part of the suffering in this world.

I was turned off by stories of crusading western journalists and NGOs who operate very questionable "rescue" operations which usually end up creating more suffering than they alleviate. These rescues may place the girl right into the arms of orphanages or Christian NGOs many of whom have been exposed as havens of child sexual abuse themselves. Almost certainly the legal repercussions of these sensationalist rescues involve the girl's mother or family members being incarcerated.

The situation on the ground in Cambodia is like a circus of corruption, deception and danger. There are routinely arrests of abusers themselves operating children's orphanages, charities or NGOs. In 2010, many western males including Sebastiaan Reuyl, David Fletcher, Michael Julian Leach and Nicholas Griffin, were charged with abusing children in their care.

Having only what stories can be gleaned from an Internet search of the situation it seemed there should be a way to make contact with such a network, investigate the story and if possible plan for a child prostitute to be brought to a location where an escape could be made.

For the purposes of my effort I considered only the most vulnerable cases - under the age of fifteen. This criteria was chosen because the idea of age of consent laws in Cambodia is relatively new, and the age being raised to the American standard of eighteen under economic pressure from the US is a recent law for the region and is contrary to the norms and accepted traditions there. The cultural traditions of Southeast Asia and the Mekong region typically considered sexual consent ages to be younger than the American standard and so while the laws changed in Cambodia the cultural norms and behaviors have not caught up. (as is often the case when foreign laws are imposed over local cultural norms.)

The last thing I wanted to participate in was an unwanted rescue of a sex worker who was not coerced into the business and who's rescue would create a ripple effect of destroying her family or mother who could face imprisonment because of some action of this reporter. I would care much less for the middlemen or pimps but I would not wish the family of the girl who already is trapped in an unfortunate situation to have it exacerbated by the actions of a foreigner who could do little to affect a permanent solution to the conditions that created the abusive situation in the first place.

For those under fifteen the issue is less ambiguous and could justify more direct intervention if it was wanted. It would be this age group where the focus of any effort of mine would be made. And though it may sound outrageous, it seems to this author that sensationalist media witch hunts and ruined lives over a john caught with a seventeen year old Cambodian prostitute is not as serious a public menace nor deserving of the media's hysterical mix of gawking fascination and straight up sensationalism as would be a john with a ten year old.

The term "child prostitute" grabs the headlines but makes no distinction between a ten year old victim and a seventeen and a half year old. There is a difference between two. Especially in Cambodia where sex workers in many cases have no other place to turn to survive. And most are involved in the industry willingly and are not coerced or held by any force other than the grips of poverty. Having western media hacks seeking sensationalist news hooks based on these higher age groups are doing little to help any person in Cambodia stuck in poverty and instead runs roughshod over the poor people of this country.

I was disgusted by journalist Nicholas Kristof's voyeuristic adventure in sensationalist heroism when he belatedly joined the throngs of similar self aggrandizing do gooders and "rescued" a 15 year old prostitute in northern Cambodia. Coming on the heels of the NBC child rescue some years prior which actually depicted ten year old children who were involved in the child sex trade, I was curious why Kristof had rescued such an older girl? And if it was concern for 15 year old girls who are in jeopardy, why the need to travel to Cambodia to do so? Just head to any American city and you'll have your work cut out for you.

Reports indicate that two factors may be at work. Firstly the worst abuses - the very youngest children caught up in this business - have been addressed by more awareness and vigilance by authorities and police and it is becoming a more risky business to engage in for a Cambodian procurer and a foreigners sex tourist alike and so this aspect of the sex trade is not visible nor easily attainable and this is why Kristof ended up rescuing a 15 year old girl. Being a sensationalist, if he could have found a 10 year old to rescue he would have done so, but he did not. And it may be precisely the efforts of Kristof and western crusaders that such offerings of the very youngest are no longer available to western tourists and the trade has gone deeper underground and has become an "asian only" trade - no westerners allowed. It is difficult to tell whether the sensationalism of western adventurists like Kristof has simply resulted in the industry shielding itself from the reach of the herds of crusading caucasians or not. Whether this is good for children who may be caught up in the trade is up in the air. But whatever the case may be, that never stops the drive for a juicy headline or a cause célèbre.

As I contemplated the story and my range of possible actions being in Phnom Penn only a few days, the reality began to sink in as to the possible scope of any "rescue" efforts I could possibly achieve there. It was beyond the scope of my mission to attempt to take on organized networks involved in this trade who would likely be connected to the police or military.

And it was equally undesirable to seek to incriminate an impoverished mother or relative of any victim.  The way I saw it - from the girls to the pimps to the procurers to the family members who sell their own children - they are all victims, some more than others but if I was to be of assistance all I could hope to do is to help the girl and to do so properly must also be prepared to assist the family. Otherwise I would be a callous imperialist wrecking ball careening through a culture and environment that I am little connected to and unable to provide a genuine solution for. I would be precisely what I criticize. No one wants to participate in this awful business they do it because they are hungry and I see little benefit in further punishing impoverished Cambodians. So there was no desire to see any family members caught in Cambodia's prison system as a result of any intervention on my part.

I would only act to remove the girl from the situation if she was aware of what that meant and if she indicated a willingness to make a break. And this would apply to any age.

And so with the help of an online english to cambodian translation, I made two sentences that I wrote down in Cambodian and also phonetically for me to pronounce because almost certainly the girl would not be able to read.

1) Do you want to go away from the people who force you to do boom boom? (the cambodian term for sex)
2) Do you want me to take you from here and help you find a better place for you to live?

If the opportunity was possible and if the girl consented to the rescue then the plan was to bring the child to the US consulate or Embassy as a neutral ground and report there that I was a journalist and I was doing a story on child prostitution and came across an actual child prostitute and had an opportunity to remove her from the situation. So it would be the night guard at the US embassy which would serve as the point where the rescue became embroiled on the only thing I could see as the next step - bureaucracy! Once enmeshed in bureaucracy there would be too many eyes on the case for the possibility of the girl being promptly returned to her abusive situation.

But this scenario conflicted with my unwillingness to see a mother incarcerated and so I was seeking another way to achieve the objective.

There are stories of buying a girls freedom, this route would be less dangerous and would avoid the shame and repercussions rippling through whatever community the girl and her family come from. But this route is undesirable because it may have the unintended effect of rewarding those in this trade and create a new twist on an old industry, where girls are simply kidnapped to be sold for ransom.

I didn't care what happened to the various pimps once I freed the girl - that would be their problem - but I was not want to not enrich them in the process - so I preferred it to be an escape, not a purchase.

But as I went through the scenarios in my head I began to see that simply "rescuing" a girl may not only harm her family but may impose a burden on the rest of Cambodian society at large.

Not feeling comfortable with local NGOs who's motivations and operations can be considered questionable, I researched a Cambodian woman named named Somaly Mam who runs a center for rescued girls and who claims to be a former child prostitute herself. She is at odds with most governmental authorities and NGOs which is not hard to do in Cambodia. But there too were a few red flags that caused me pause.  I sensed an insensitivity of Mam regarding the plight of family members of child prostitutes. And Mam recounts an episode where in her past a fellow child prostitute was executed by a gunshot to the head in front of her. I do not ascribe credibility to this story. It is similar to the many fear stories put out by Christian NGOs looking to boost donations by telling fictional stories of child prostitutes being used in snuff films. This has never happened. The "snuff film" story is pure fear pushing and any NGO who uses such fiction doesn't deserve being charged with protecting children.

Reading the news stories of the many NGOs who turned out themselves to be abusing children in their care made for an environment where it becomes difficult to know whom to trust.

Locating a child in jeopardy:
I met a tuk tuk driver by the river that runs through the city, in the first few sentences he asked if I wanted a girl. I explained what I was looking for and he took me to a brothel about fifteen minutes ride. Various girls emerged - none of whom appeared to be within the age range I sought. He presented several girls claiming they were sixteen but they looked older and looked like they had been in this business a while. They did not appear to be coerced or held against their will. I repeated that I was looking for a younger girl and each time his a cohort emerged from the brothel presenting a young looking but easily legal aged girl.

Another tuk tuk driver took me to a brothel. Several guards were in front of the green lit building which had a long stairwell up towards a hallway and a room with a door open. Several men met me and walked me towards the glassed off room. From the hallway looking through the glass there were approximately 25 girls in the room sitting on chairs as if on display. Two or three rows of chairs. I scanned the faces embarrassed for myself and sorry for them, none of them appeared to be under eighteen years of age. I asked the papasan if there were younger ones available. He told me to wait and in ten minutes more girls showed up but all could have been eighteen. No sign of any very young prostitutes.

A different driver took me to a smaller brothel with about eight prostitutes, but there were none who were obvious child prostitutes there either.

The next night a driver who claimed to have a telephone number had a motorcycle driver bring a girl who looked young but not below sixteen and she did not appear to be coerced. I asked if there were younger girls and after fifteen minutes two more motorcycles emerges with young male pimps no older than the girls riding on the backs of the bikes. These girls may have been younger than eighteen but were not under fifteen and also did not appear to be coerced, the girls were aggressively soliciting me to take them for the night. Then still on the street with my tuk tuk driver, the two pimps and the girls, several more girls on foot approached. None appeared to be under fifteen.

Then the tuk tuk driver made a few phone calls and took me to a very small tea house with only three seats and a woman proprietor. It was an open storefront the size of small room. There were a few cheap paintings and a garish calendar thumbtacked to the wall, some snacks behind a glass case and a stove making tea. The driver spoke to the woman and explained to me that she was the shop keeper and mother of a girl who was available for sex. There was a ladder leading to a small loft above the shop and a girl came down and joined us. She seemed to be about sixteen years of age. She too was not showing any signs of coercion, it seemed like she lived there and was not forcibly under any threats. I had a tea and chatted with the girl and her mother and made an excuse to leave. This was not a rescue scenario, it was a girl and her mother trying to survive in tough times. I thought about the feelings the girl will have of that tea shop as she grows older. There was nothing any intervention of mine could achieve there besides wrecking a family and making matters worse. I graciously thanked them, paid for my tea and left into the night.

We drove the tuk tuk to a square in the city with government buildings surrounding us and parked and talked about Cambodia. The driver told me how difficult life was in Cambodia, that he wasn't always a driver, he had owned a cel phone shop but his partner disappeared with the money one day and  put him out of business. He asked multiple times if I wished to purchase heroin. I declined and said I was only interested in girls.

The last brothel that night was down a dirt road where some construction had been going on and inside run down building. Inside a tall slender "ladyboy" in a black tight dress greeted me, we entered and she/he brought me into a room with girls. Again nothing that stood out as a child prostitute. I asked the ladyboy have you got anything younger, around thirteen, and she paused and I got the feeling she knew something but I could see she was eyeing me wondering if I was there to trick her. She decided after some thought to say she didn't have any girls of that age but the pause seemed too long. It seemed she might have known something. I left that place just wanting to go back to my room, get some food and write this down.

The process of delving into these dark abysses like I have spent twenty years of my life doing is a thankless and stressful endeavor. I do it out of sense that we are living in a state of emergency but I don't enjoy it, there are better things in life to spend one's time doing, more enjoyable things. I noticed that when I would be working on this story I was smoking too many cigarettes as a cover to sooth my nerves and cover for the nerve-racking things that came out of my mouth during the writing of this story.

After several days of dead ends I almost gave up the search. I was to fly the day after next to the Angkor Wat temple complex for a much needed escape from phnom penn and from this stressful and thankless story.

With just two days left and no leads whatsoever I went to the brothel village on the outskirts of phnom penn and walked the darkened streets there. Shuddered by the government for many years there was anecdotal reports that the village still supplies girls trafficked for sex. After walking for some minutes a man greeted me, after a few minutes of idle banter he asked if I wanted a girl. After some chatter he presented photos of girls on his cell phone that he said were available for sex. He showed me photos of girls who were definitely no older than ten or twelve at most.

We passed a group of men sitting at an outside table drinking at the end of one of the small streets there, one of the men said something to the pimp. The pimp told me that the men were police and to keep walking and told me that the man had asked if I was there looking for girls.

Believing that I might soon have to make a very improvised and possibly extremely dangerous rescue mission my nerves began to go into high gear. I had finally found a lead on this story and I worked my lead. All the while nervous about whether I would do this thing right. Would the girl even want to be "saved" by a stranger. Would a chase ensue? Would I be able to get out of this tangle of streets lined with local village men hanging around? Would I get caught in a traffic jam while the traffickers caught up with me? And if I could not find a way out what excuse do I make to get out of there myself? They were dark streets, I was alone and not at all familiar with these surroundings.

All I needed was a moment where the girl could be put on the back of a motorcycle and that would be it. I had rented a powerful motorcycle which has more power than most available motorcycles in Cambodia so it would be unlikely that a pimp would be able to follow me if I were able to get the girl onto the motorcycle. But that might not work in this village of winding roads. And I had still not determined exactly where to bring the girl.

The pimp said he would arrange for it the following day. We met at a shopping mall and there he expressed that he also wished to have a girl for himself and asked if I could pay for him - a huge wrench thrown into the gears there. While such an diversion would have provided the perfect opportunity to rescue a child, it would, by the same act, place another child directly in the same danger I was rescuing the first from. I would have rescued the girl but the sacrifice in doing so would have compromised the entire reason for doing so in the first place.

I felt his announcement was to vet a possible suspicion he may have had whether or not I myself was a cop or an NGO or Journalist looking for a sensationalist story. It was the same suspicion I encountered with the many tuk tuk drivers - that I may be undercover and there is a real reluctance among the people in the industry to talk to you out of fear they themselves may be set up.

As my time in Phnom Penn neared it's end I saw no clear way to both get the story and assist a child in need should I actually find one. It became an exhausting exercise of mistrust of local institutions, mistrust of the police system there and uncertainty of those who are the only organizations on the ground who are involved in this trade, the NGOs. I was exhausted and wanting to finish this story one way or another, either find and rescue a girl or leave this country and head to the beaches and write a different story.

After some time I told the pimp that he could participate the next time and that I would bring lots of business for him… the next time. But there wouldn't be a next time - I was flying out the next morning and if he did not produce a girl this story would have a different ending than originally imagined. And I began to realize that this story was more a confirmation of a long held belief that what sits at the nucleus of modern western societies is an underlying and now overarching fear. And it is this fear that is driving most every political decision coming from the west.

After pressing me for money in advance for the girls he would bring later on, I told him that I would need to see the girl first, he left and I never saw him again.

Later that night I followed up on reports that the problem does still exist however it has become largely an "asian only" industry. The South Koreans, Chinese and Japanese have a large presence in this country. With this in mind I went to a karaoke parlor which caters to South Koreans to have a look.

Upon first entering the employees near the door looked summoned a manager who asked what I wanted. I responded that I was just driving by and decided to see what a karaoke place looked like. With reluctance they let me in. I sat at the bar in the lobby near several tables where food was served to several groups of Korean men. There were banquettes lining the large lobby with some single men with prostitutes sitting entertaining them. A few minutes passed and I was ignored by the staff and just observed the scene. After about ten minutes I strolled down the main hallway leading directly back from the lobby. It was lined with doors going into rooms with glass walls facing the hallway, most of which had curtains on the inside blocking the view into the individual rooms. The manager who met me at the front door ran back, asked what I was doing and said that I shouldn't be there. I explained that I was interested in a girl and he responded that there were none! He directed me towards the front lobby again.

For sure I was not welcome in this supposedly public karaoke parlor which was in fact a front for a brothel. I paid for my drink and went outside and down the street to a food vender and sat down on a stool and smoked a cigarette. I watched the doors of the karaoke place down the street for about an hour and a half. All told about 30 or 40 men entered and exited during this time period. I did not see any obvious signs of children but this was not a thorough stake out and if there was any they were likely kept from public view. I had no idea what was going on inside and no South Korean contacts to tell me what they saw. It is a hot and tiring city my feet are in need of a rest and it is a beginning to become a very lonely task peering into the abyss like I do.

During the course of my investigation a pattern emerged. What once may have been freely available has in the age of the internet transformed into a massive trap with western sex tourists seeking prostitutes and western NGOs looking to justify their existence by trying to entrap these same sex tourists. The root causes are seldom addressed - its an all out which hunt. And Cambodians have picked up on the idea that more money can be made through the bribery and payoffs of those ensnared than could ever be made in the sex act itself - with police, judges and NGOs acting independently in their own self interest. and others and Cambodians seeking to entrap Westerners. The very real possibility exists that any offerings of children for prostitution are not merely for the sex act but for the bribery and set up of a trap in which the sex tourist can then be

The conclusion is that there is no overt organized industry serving western tourists seeking child prostitutes. It is sure that instances of juvenile  prostitution occur as a result of the lingering reputation which may still be creating a demand. The cases that reach the news typically involve a westerner who lives in Cambodia. And undoubtedly the majority of sexual abuse of minors in that country involve local Cambodian men, not westerners. It is merely that western countries and their populations are singularly focused on the sexuality of children and terrorism as the vanguard of their world view.

At this point the problem exists on a local scale in Cambodia and likely only for asian clients.

In the end I realized that in a way, I was guilty of some of the same sensationalism that I am so critical of, in the pursuit of a heroic result, a rescue, I pursued flawed rationalization, ego gratification, questionable journalistic tactics and ignored the impossibility of navigating such issues in such a small time period. It's easy to create a hero in a headline if you are prepared to ignore the very real consequences that could ripple through the lives of your "victims." It is the favorite pastime of America to proclaim themselves the heros and saviors of the world, not understanding that in these various people we "liberate" countless numbers of lives are ruined. 

Inside Bangladesh's Organ Bazaar

 JOYPURHAT, Bangladesh — Mehdi Hasan’s scar runs in a wide arc from his waist to a point just beneath his rib-cage.

The jagged pink laceration still aches, the 23-year-old says, a daily reminder of the operation he underwent in the capital Dhaka five months ago, in the hopes of raising some quick cash.

In exchange for 60 percent of his liver, an illegal organ broker had promised him 300,000 taka ($3,960) — a royal sum in Bamongram, his small village of mud- brick homes and verdant rice paddies in Bangladesh’s northeast.

But when the broker failed to show up after the 10-hour operation, Hasan found himself stranded in Dhaka with nothing but mounting hospital bills and chronic pains in his chest and abdomen.

Horrifying Footage of Millions of Pigs Being Buried Alive

They dug 30ft deep massive pits and with bulldozers just threw the large pigs into it alive, until by nightfall the pit was the scene of the screaming horror that you will see in this video. This scene repeated itself throughout South Korea at news of a Hoof and Mouth outbreak. 3 million Pigs suffered such a horrific death as seen in this footage.

This is the cold hard reality of our times. Until human beings understand that so long as scenes like this exist, humankind as a whole will never progress to the next stage. Scenes like this represent a poison which lies at the heart of humanity as a whole. Until we change our treatment of the Animal kingdom, humankind will forever be trapped in a cycle of misery mirroring that which we inflict of the other creatures of the world.