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		<title>By: etominusipi</title>
		<link>http://www.deliberation.info/from-al-jazeera-to-wikileaks-pavlovs-dogs/#comment-14743</link>
		<dc:creator>etominusipi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2012 07:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2oW63XkBhw&amp;feature=related

Sheikh Imran Hossein - another man of moral integrity.]]></description>
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<p>Sheikh Imran Hossein &#8211; another man of moral integrity.</p>
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		<title>By: etominusipi</title>
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		<dc:creator>etominusipi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2012 07:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[can&#039;t remember the URL, but a while ago i saw a piece suggesting that JA&#039;s mother had involvement with a cult-type org which undertook abusive mind-kontrol ops on members&#039; children. that JA is a victim of this seems quite plausible - his personality seems narcissistic. compare him, for instance, with Jack Otto, a man of real feeling and moral integrity:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVomYbbb3L0&amp;feature=related

&quot;leaks&quot; and disinfo have always been part of &#039;the Great Game&#039;. the idea that dissemination of knowledge of the details of specific acts of wrongdoing by the powerful, or the naming of particular miscreants, has any great power to provoke change for the better, should be viewed with caution.

in England the magazine Private Eye has &#039;leaked&#039; corruption stories for decades, with no noticeable improvement in the standards of business ethics.

aside from their deceptive role in suggesting that there is some degree of &#039;freedom&#039; in the media, such leaks are often a weapon used by factions within the &#039;power elite&#039; against each other. the main motive for interest, on the part of the general public, is plain, old-fashioned prurience - that little bit of prurience which is left-over from tales about the sex-lives of rock or movie &#039;stars&#039;..

yet progressive people seem never to tire of the old shock-horror &quot;just look what &lt;i&gt;they&lt;/i&gt; have done now!&quot; syndrome. all such exercises in continually re-assigning oneself a secure position on the moral high ground are a waste of energy.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>can&#8217;t remember the URL, but a while ago i saw a piece suggesting that JA&#8217;s mother had involvement with a cult-type org which undertook abusive mind-kontrol ops on members&#8217; children. that JA is a victim of this seems quite plausible &#8211; his personality seems narcissistic. compare him, for instance, with Jack Otto, a man of real feeling and moral integrity:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVomYbbb3L0&#038;feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVomYbbb3L0&#038;feature=related</a></p>
<p>&#8220;leaks&#8221; and disinfo have always been part of &#8216;the Great Game&#8217;. the idea that dissemination of knowledge of the details of specific acts of wrongdoing by the powerful, or the naming of particular miscreants, has any great power to provoke change for the better, should be viewed with caution.</p>
<p>in England the magazine Private Eye has &#8216;leaked&#8217; corruption stories for decades, with no noticeable improvement in the standards of business ethics.</p>
<p>aside from their deceptive role in suggesting that there is some degree of &#8216;freedom&#8217; in the media, such leaks are often a weapon used by factions within the &#8216;power elite&#8217; against each other. the main motive for interest, on the part of the general public, is plain, old-fashioned prurience &#8211; that little bit of prurience which is left-over from tales about the sex-lives of rock or movie &#8216;stars&#8217;..</p>
<p>yet progressive people seem never to tire of the old shock-horror &#8220;just look what <i>they</i> have done now!&#8221; syndrome. all such exercises in continually re-assigning oneself a secure position on the moral high ground are a waste of energy.</p>
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		<title>By: who_me</title>
		<link>http://www.deliberation.info/from-al-jazeera-to-wikileaks-pavlovs-dogs/#comment-14732</link>
		<dc:creator>who_me</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2012 01:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[a nice deconstruction of stratfor bs:

http://www.israelshamir.net/English/OurMan_in_Havana.htm

Our Man in Havana, Stratfor style]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>a nice deconstruction of stratfor bs:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.israelshamir.net/English/OurMan_in_Havana.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.israelshamir.net/English/OurMan_in_Havana.htm</a></p>
<p>Our Man in Havana, Stratfor style</p>
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		<title>By: who_me</title>
		<link>http://www.deliberation.info/from-al-jazeera-to-wikileaks-pavlovs-dogs/#comment-14673</link>
		<dc:creator>who_me</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://stopwar.org.uk/index.php/julian-assange-dictators-and-terrorists-spot-the-difference

Julian Assange, dictators and terrorists - spot the difference and why he&#039;s seeking asylum

&quot;Why is Wikileaks founder Julian Assange seeking political asylum in Ecuador? Watch this short film, see how an Interpol Red Notice has been issued for his arrest -- which is usually used only for dictators and terrorists -- even Syria&#039;s Assad and Libya&#039;s Ghadaffi were not subjected to one -- and know why he has resisted extradition to Sweden.&quot;

is it for the leaks, or for something else? as the leaks as often helped zionazi war criminality, by playing a propaganda role against countries targeted for regime change, as they exposed their criminality, it&#039;s hard to believe assange is wanted for these. with britain even threatening war with equador and assange not even had been charged with any crime by sweden, the case has reached absurd dimensions.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://stopwar.org.uk/index.php/julian-assange-dictators-and-terrorists-spot-the-difference" rel="nofollow">http://stopwar.org.uk/index.php/julian-assange-dictators-and-terrorists-spot-the-difference</a></p>
<p>Julian Assange, dictators and terrorists &#8211; spot the difference and why he&#8217;s seeking asylum</p>
<p>&#8220;Why is Wikileaks founder Julian Assange seeking political asylum in Ecuador? Watch this short film, see how an Interpol Red Notice has been issued for his arrest &#8212; which is usually used only for dictators and terrorists &#8212; even Syria&#8217;s Assad and Libya&#8217;s Ghadaffi were not subjected to one &#8212; and know why he has resisted extradition to Sweden.&#8221;</p>
<p>is it for the leaks, or for something else? as the leaks as often helped zionazi war criminality, by playing a propaganda role against countries targeted for regime change, as they exposed their criminality, it&#8217;s hard to believe assange is wanted for these. with britain even threatening war with equador and assange not even had been charged with any crime by sweden, the case has reached absurd dimensions.</p>
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		<title>By: who_me</title>
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		<dc:creator>who_me</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 06:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[the following story adds much more info about this stratfor organised crime/espionage outfit.

http://rt.com/usa/news/trapwire-stratfor-email-burton-786/

&quot;An email hacked from Stratfor that discusses the use of the TrapWire surveillance system has been decrypted, revealing insider claims that the widespread spy program was adopted by the White House, Scotland Yard, Canadian authorities and others.

When WikiLeaks published a trove of correspondence last week reported to be from the servers of Strategic Forecasting, or Stratfor, included in the data dump was at least one email that initially appeared as pure gibberish. The communiqué, sent from Stratfor Vice President of Intelligence Fred Burton to seven other staffers within the private firm, has now been decoded, however, and its content suggests that the TrapWire surveillance program was put into the hands of the most elite and powerful governments and law enforcement agencies in the entire world.

The email, dated September 23, 2010, includes a string of correspondence between Burton and more than half-a-dozen colleagues exchanging information for a full day about how Stratfor is distributing feeds from its TrapWire system and with whom. Although encoded, the emails are encrypted in Base64 format, which can easily be decoded online. A decoded copy has also been uploaded to the Web by hacktivists aligned with Anonymous.&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>the following story adds much more info about this stratfor organised crime/espionage outfit.</p>
<p><a href="http://rt.com/usa/news/trapwire-stratfor-email-burton-786/" rel="nofollow">http://rt.com/usa/news/trapwire-stratfor-email-burton-786/</a></p>
<p>&#8220;An email hacked from Stratfor that discusses the use of the TrapWire surveillance system has been decrypted, revealing insider claims that the widespread spy program was adopted by the White House, Scotland Yard, Canadian authorities and others.</p>
<p>When WikiLeaks published a trove of correspondence last week reported to be from the servers of Strategic Forecasting, or Stratfor, included in the data dump was at least one email that initially appeared as pure gibberish. The communiqué, sent from Stratfor Vice President of Intelligence Fred Burton to seven other staffers within the private firm, has now been decoded, however, and its content suggests that the TrapWire surveillance program was put into the hands of the most elite and powerful governments and law enforcement agencies in the entire world.</p>
<p>The email, dated September 23, 2010, includes a string of correspondence between Burton and more than half-a-dozen colleagues exchanging information for a full day about how Stratfor is distributing feeds from its TrapWire system and with whom. Although encoded, the emails are encrypted in Base64 format, which can easily be decoded online. A decoded copy has also been uploaded to the Web by hacktivists aligned with Anonymous.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: who_me</title>
		<link>http://www.deliberation.info/from-al-jazeera-to-wikileaks-pavlovs-dogs/#comment-14658</link>
		<dc:creator>who_me</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 06:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i forgot to post the link the story above is from. I believe i found the story listed at antiwar.com.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i forgot to post the link the story above is from. I believe i found the story listed at antiwar.com.</p>
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		<title>By: who_me</title>
		<link>http://www.deliberation.info/from-al-jazeera-to-wikileaks-pavlovs-dogs/#comment-14653</link>
		<dc:creator>who_me</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 23:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[wikileaks was under ddos attack for more than a week:

&quot;Trapwire connection

Wikileaks Press, a Wikileaks-endorsed website that publishes news about the organisation, noted that the attack had started shortly after emails were leaked about surveillance by software company Trapwire.

The firm collects data from CCTV cameras and number plate readers in a bid to forecast acts of terrorism.

The emails were obtained after a hack of US-based intelligence company Stratfor.

Wikileaks started publishing millions of emails from Stratfor in February. Many were related to US government agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security and the Defense Intelligence Agency.

But the site was hit by a DDoS attack after it leaked documents about Trapwire earlier this month.

&quot;Yes, Wikileaks revealed a whole bunch of documents on #Trapwire, no, you can&#039;t read them easily, because of the current DDoS attack,&quot; Wikileaks tweeted.

&quot;Attacks on #Wikileaks are not only intended to prevent secrets from being revealed, but also to maintain a monopoly on influence,&quot; said the website in another tweet.&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>wikileaks was under ddos attack for more than a week:</p>
<p>&#8220;Trapwire connection</p>
<p>Wikileaks Press, a Wikileaks-endorsed website that publishes news about the organisation, noted that the attack had started shortly after emails were leaked about surveillance by software company Trapwire.</p>
<p>The firm collects data from CCTV cameras and number plate readers in a bid to forecast acts of terrorism.</p>
<p>The emails were obtained after a hack of US-based intelligence company Stratfor.</p>
<p>Wikileaks started publishing millions of emails from Stratfor in February. Many were related to US government agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security and the Defense Intelligence Agency.</p>
<p>But the site was hit by a DDoS attack after it leaked documents about Trapwire earlier this month.</p>
<p>&#8220;Yes, Wikileaks revealed a whole bunch of documents on #Trapwire, no, you can&#8217;t read them easily, because of the current DDoS attack,&#8221; Wikileaks tweeted.</p>
<p>&#8220;Attacks on #Wikileaks are not only intended to prevent secrets from being revealed, but also to maintain a monopoly on influence,&#8221; said the website in another tweet.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: who_me</title>
		<link>http://www.deliberation.info/from-al-jazeera-to-wikileaks-pavlovs-dogs/#comment-13080</link>
		<dc:creator>who_me</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 03:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[possible chance for bradley manning&#039;s charges to be dropped. sure hope this works out.

http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_07_30/Manning-case-back-on-the-agenda/

&quot;At present, the defence team, led by David Coombs, is collecting evidence to substantiate a claim that Manning was subjected to torture-style treatment at Quantico. If the defense’s move turns out to be successful, the judges may drop all the charges against Manning on the grounds that he was subjected to illegal pretrial punishment in violation of Chapter 13 of the law on military proceedings.

The defense has enough witnesses to testify in favor of this. Military psychiatrists and leading medical experts have long been trying to point out to the Pentagon that harsh treatment of prisoners is inadmissible. However, from the very outset, the prosecution resorted to all sorts of tricks to obstruct the court’s proceedings. The Pentagon refused to hand the defense the requested documents. However, since a defeat in the battle for Manning could become a serious blow for the government and the military, his defense should brace up for new surprises.&quot; and extreme banana republic corruption...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>possible chance for bradley manning&#8217;s charges to be dropped. sure hope this works out.</p>
<p><a href="http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_07_30/Manning-case-back-on-the-agenda/" rel="nofollow">http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_07_30/Manning-case-back-on-the-agenda/</a></p>
<p>&#8220;At present, the defence team, led by David Coombs, is collecting evidence to substantiate a claim that Manning was subjected to torture-style treatment at Quantico. If the defense’s move turns out to be successful, the judges may drop all the charges against Manning on the grounds that he was subjected to illegal pretrial punishment in violation of Chapter 13 of the law on military proceedings.</p>
<p>The defense has enough witnesses to testify in favor of this. Military psychiatrists and leading medical experts have long been trying to point out to the Pentagon that harsh treatment of prisoners is inadmissible. However, from the very outset, the prosecution resorted to all sorts of tricks to obstruct the court’s proceedings. The Pentagon refused to hand the defense the requested documents. However, since a defeat in the battle for Manning could become a serious blow for the government and the military, his defense should brace up for new surprises.&#8221; and extreme banana republic corruption&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Ariadna Theokopoulos</title>
		<link>http://www.deliberation.info/from-al-jazeera-to-wikileaks-pavlovs-dogs/#comment-11977</link>
		<dc:creator>Ariadna Theokopoulos</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Leaks&quot; orchestrated to push the official lies, and the grand wikileaks operation, complete with the heroic figure of Assange, the loner who &quot;speaks truth to power,&quot; demonstrate that the hasbara producers have realized a growing lack of confidence in the MMS among the general public in all the Western world. 
So they started focusing on the alternative media, whose imprimatur as &quot;independent&quot; (as some are indeed) can make their material more credible.
Nevertheless the MSM itself contains &quot;rebels&quot; that manage to get some accurate news through, as it happens in Germany.
Der Spiegel, owned by Axel Springer like much of the German media sees its lies confronted and contradicted by reports like these:
	
http://www.trans-int.com/
Reading the report one has to conclude that the German government, accurately informed by its information agencies about the &quot;rebels&quot; being the authors of attacks on the civilian population, decides to seal these reports &quot;in the national interest&quot; and proceed to expel the Syrian ambassador nonetheless by reason of.... what? Orders from Tel Aviv/Washington?

German intelligence: al-Qaeda all over Syria 
By John Rosenthal 

German intelligence estimates that &quot;around 90&quot; terror attacks that &quot;can be attributed to organizations that are close to al-Qaeda or jihadist groups&quot; were carried out in Syria between the end of December and the beginning of July, as reported by the German daily Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). This was revealed by the German government in a response to a parliamentary question.
 In response to the same question, the German government admitted that it had received several reports from the German foreign intelligence service, the BND, on the May 25 massacre in the Syrian town of Houla. But it noted that the content of these reports was to remain classified &quot;by reason of national interest&quot;, 

Like many other Western governments, Germany expelled Syria&#039;s ambassador in the immediate aftermath of the massacre, holding the Syrian government responsible for the violence. 

Meanwhile, at least three major German newspapers - Die Welt, the FAZ, and the mass-market tabloid Bild - have published reports attributing responsibility for the massacre to anti-government rebel forces or treating this as the most probable scenario. 

Writing in Bild, longtime German war correspondent Jurgen Todenhofer accused the rebels of &quot;deliberately killing civilians and then presenting them as victims of the government&quot;. He described this &quot;massacre-marketing strategy&quot; as being &quot;among the most disgusting things that I have ever experienced in an armed conflict&quot;. Todenhofer had recently been to Damascus, where he interviewed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for Germany&#039;s ARD public television. 

Wring in Die Welt, Alfred Hackensberger noted that Taldo, the sub-district of Houla where the massacre occurred, has been under rebel control since December 2011 and is in an open plain, making it unlikely that &quot;hundreds of soldiers and Assad supporters&quot; could have entered the village to commit the massacre. (An abridged version of Hackenberger&#039;s report also appeared in Die Berliner Morgenpost.) Hackensberger visited Houla to conduct investigations for his report. 

He also interviewed an alleged eyewitness - identified simply by the pseudonym &quot;Jibril&quot; - at the Saint James Monastery in Qara, Syria. In contrast to an earlier report in the FAZ, which had claimed that the victims were largely Shi&#039;ites and Alawis, Jibril told Hackensberger that all of the victims were Sunnis &quot;like everybody here&quot;. By his account, they were killed for refusing to support the rebellion. Jibril added that &quot;a lot of people in Houla know what really happened&quot; but would not say so out of fear for their lives. &quot;Whoever says something,&quot; he explained, &quot;can only repeat the rebels&#039; version. Anything else is certain death.&quot; 

While traveling in the region of Homs, Hackensberger heard similar stories about the conduct of the rebels. One - now former - resident of the city of Qusayr told him that not only were Christians like himself expelled from the town, but that anyone who refused to enroll their children in the Free Syrian Army had been shot. Hackensberger&#039;s source held foreign Islamists responsible for the atrocities. &quot;I have seen them with my own eyes,&quot; he said, &quot;Pakistanis, Libyans, Tunisians and also Lebanese. They call Osama bin Laden their sheikh.&quot; 

A Sunni resident of Homs told Hackensberger that he had witnessed how an armed group stopped a bus: &quot;The passengers were divided into two groups: on the one side, Sunnis; on the other, Alawis.&quot; According to Hackenberger&#039;s source, the insurgents then proceeded to decapitate the nine Alawi passengers. 

That the German government would cite national interest in refusing to disclose its information concerning the circumstances of the Houla massacre is particularly notable in light of Germany&#039;s support for the rebellion and its political arm, the Syrian National Council (SNC). 

While France, the United Kingdom, and the United States have figured as the most visible Western powers supporting the rebellion, Germany has been quietly playing a major role behind the scenes. According to a new report in the FAZ, the German foreign office is working with representatives of the Syrian opposition to develop &quot;concrete plans&quot; for a &quot;political transition&quot; in Syria following the fall of Assad.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Leaks&#8221; orchestrated to push the official lies, and the grand wikileaks operation, complete with the heroic figure of Assange, the loner who &#8220;speaks truth to power,&#8221; demonstrate that the hasbara producers have realized a growing lack of confidence in the MMS among the general public in all the Western world.<br />
So they started focusing on the alternative media, whose imprimatur as &#8220;independent&#8221; (as some are indeed) can make their material more credible.<br />
Nevertheless the MSM itself contains &#8220;rebels&#8221; that manage to get some accurate news through, as it happens in Germany.<br />
Der Spiegel, owned by Axel Springer like much of the German media sees its lies confronted and contradicted by reports like these:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.trans-int.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.trans-int.com/</a><br />
Reading the report one has to conclude that the German government, accurately informed by its information agencies about the &#8220;rebels&#8221; being the authors of attacks on the civilian population, decides to seal these reports &#8220;in the national interest&#8221; and proceed to expel the Syrian ambassador nonetheless by reason of&#8230;. what? Orders from Tel Aviv/Washington?</p>
<p>German intelligence: al-Qaeda all over Syria<br />
By John Rosenthal </p>
<p>German intelligence estimates that &#8220;around 90&#8243; terror attacks that &#8220;can be attributed to organizations that are close to al-Qaeda or jihadist groups&#8221; were carried out in Syria between the end of December and the beginning of July, as reported by the German daily Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). This was revealed by the German government in a response to a parliamentary question.<br />
 In response to the same question, the German government admitted that it had received several reports from the German foreign intelligence service, the BND, on the May 25 massacre in the Syrian town of Houla. But it noted that the content of these reports was to remain classified &#8220;by reason of national interest&#8221;, </p>
<p>Like many other Western governments, Germany expelled Syria&#8217;s ambassador in the immediate aftermath of the massacre, holding the Syrian government responsible for the violence. </p>
<p>Meanwhile, at least three major German newspapers &#8211; Die Welt, the FAZ, and the mass-market tabloid Bild &#8211; have published reports attributing responsibility for the massacre to anti-government rebel forces or treating this as the most probable scenario. </p>
<p>Writing in Bild, longtime German war correspondent Jurgen Todenhofer accused the rebels of &#8220;deliberately killing civilians and then presenting them as victims of the government&#8221;. He described this &#8220;massacre-marketing strategy&#8221; as being &#8220;among the most disgusting things that I have ever experienced in an armed conflict&#8221;. Todenhofer had recently been to Damascus, where he interviewed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for Germany&#8217;s ARD public television. </p>
<p>Wring in Die Welt, Alfred Hackensberger noted that Taldo, the sub-district of Houla where the massacre occurred, has been under rebel control since December 2011 and is in an open plain, making it unlikely that &#8220;hundreds of soldiers and Assad supporters&#8221; could have entered the village to commit the massacre. (An abridged version of Hackenberger&#8217;s report also appeared in Die Berliner Morgenpost.) Hackensberger visited Houla to conduct investigations for his report. </p>
<p>He also interviewed an alleged eyewitness &#8211; identified simply by the pseudonym &#8220;Jibril&#8221; &#8211; at the Saint James Monastery in Qara, Syria. In contrast to an earlier report in the FAZ, which had claimed that the victims were largely Shi&#8217;ites and Alawis, Jibril told Hackensberger that all of the victims were Sunnis &#8220;like everybody here&#8221;. By his account, they were killed for refusing to support the rebellion. Jibril added that &#8220;a lot of people in Houla know what really happened&#8221; but would not say so out of fear for their lives. &#8220;Whoever says something,&#8221; he explained, &#8220;can only repeat the rebels&#8217; version. Anything else is certain death.&#8221; </p>
<p>While traveling in the region of Homs, Hackensberger heard similar stories about the conduct of the rebels. One &#8211; now former &#8211; resident of the city of Qusayr told him that not only were Christians like himself expelled from the town, but that anyone who refused to enroll their children in the Free Syrian Army had been shot. Hackensberger&#8217;s source held foreign Islamists responsible for the atrocities. &#8220;I have seen them with my own eyes,&#8221; he said, &#8220;Pakistanis, Libyans, Tunisians and also Lebanese. They call Osama bin Laden their sheikh.&#8221; </p>
<p>A Sunni resident of Homs told Hackensberger that he had witnessed how an armed group stopped a bus: &#8220;The passengers were divided into two groups: on the one side, Sunnis; on the other, Alawis.&#8221; According to Hackenberger&#8217;s source, the insurgents then proceeded to decapitate the nine Alawi passengers. </p>
<p>That the German government would cite national interest in refusing to disclose its information concerning the circumstances of the Houla massacre is particularly notable in light of Germany&#8217;s support for the rebellion and its political arm, the Syrian National Council (SNC). </p>
<p>While France, the United Kingdom, and the United States have figured as the most visible Western powers supporting the rebellion, Germany has been quietly playing a major role behind the scenes. According to a new report in the FAZ, the German foreign office is working with representatives of the Syrian opposition to develop &#8220;concrete plans&#8221; for a &#8220;political transition&#8221; in Syria following the fall of Assad.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://rt.com/usa/news/assange-wikileaks-film-dreamworks-976/

&quot;DreamWorks, the studio behind such box-office hits as Saving Private Ryan, American Beauty and Almost Famous, acquired the rights to two books about WikiLeaks last year. Now the studio is believed to be taking the next steps to start work on a film based off of the books, and according to the website Deadline.com, The Bourne Legacy&#039;sJeremy Renner “is looking hard” at landing the role of Julian Assange.&quot;

if one doubted the jewish influence and psyops behind wikileaks, there is really no reason to do so any more.

i can see the title for this hollywood jewish mogul epic right now: &quot;saving sayan julian&quot;]]></description>
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<p>&#8220;DreamWorks, the studio behind such box-office hits as Saving Private Ryan, American Beauty and Almost Famous, acquired the rights to two books about WikiLeaks last year. Now the studio is believed to be taking the next steps to start work on a film based off of the books, and according to the website Deadline.com, The Bourne Legacy&#8217;sJeremy Renner “is looking hard” at landing the role of Julian Assange.&#8221;</p>
<p>if one doubted the jewish influence and psyops behind wikileaks, there is really no reason to do so any more.</p>
<p>i can see the title for this hollywood jewish mogul epic right now: &#8220;saving sayan julian&#8221;</p>
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