This War is Going Global(thanks Putin): it's still China's!

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Boy, it's a good thing Iran has helped Assad "win"....

-Syrian rebels blow up army base in major hit against Assad regime, insurgent claims
-Iran Recruiting Afghan Refugees to Fight for Regime in Syria

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It's just unreal that we continue to think "progress" is being made...

Exclusive - Iran pursues ballistic missile work, complicating nuclear talks

Despite apparently reducing illicit purchases that breach U.N. sanctions, Iran is pursuing development of ballistic missiles, a confidential U.N. report says, posing an acute challenge to six powers negotiating with Tehran to rein in its nuclear programme.

On Sunday, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei described as "stupid and idiotic" Western expectations for his country to curb its missile development. He decreed mass production of ballistic weapons, striking a defiant tone just before nuclear talks resumed on Wednesday in Vienna.

The high-stakes negotiations aim for a deal by a July 20 deadline to end a long stand-off that has raised the risk of a wider Middle East war.

Tehran's often repeated view that missiles should not be part of the nuclear talks appears to enjoy the support of Russia, one of the six global powers.

Iran Threatens to Mobilize 1300000 Troops in Syria

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Mar 7, 2014 1:19:32 GMT -5 Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger said:

Russia could very well collapse because the Wahhabist want nothing more than for Russia to get itself into a position where they will have to support a fight in central Asia. This will stop support to Syria, allowing a surge there and into Iran. If Russia goes, a wildfire spreads across Europe...

-Central Asia continues work against jihadist recruitment
-Putin Tries New Approach To Imposing Order In North Caucasus
-Russian commandoes storming house with gunmen in North Caucasus’ Dagestan
-2 Terrorists Killed by Police in Russia's North Caucasus

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Going away, this "situation" is not..

-Syria war, refugees add to Lebanon's economic crisis
-Two rockets from Syria hit Bekaa Valley town
-Lebanese president urges Hezbollah to leave Syria
-Syria air defence head killed, rebels take northern town
-IDF, US Rehearse for Missile Attacks
-24 countries to take part in Jordan military drills

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May 18, 2014 23:27:37 GMT -5 Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger said:

Going away, this "situation" is not..

One killed, several wounded in Jordan-Syria border clashes

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The collapse of Islam.... The other two started outside the mid east, this one has started inside and is spreading out. The author didn't even mention the civil war that is unfolding in Iraq, or the refugee problem that Lebanon and Jordan are facing.


Is the Middle East on verge of a regional war?

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China lulling Russia and Iran into thinking they are backing them:

-I'm sure most heard of the 30 year gas deal.
-China calls for new security pact with Russia, Iran

Thing is Isreal and China have been friends since before Russia was Russia, and Iran was Persia. Fact is without USD's China is screwed
-Israel Announces Plan to Expand Bilateral Economic Ties With China

Then there is the Jihad that is causing Islam to fall in on itself, and the fact that China will have to deal with it. I mean, aside from them stating there needs to be Asian security without the US. Stay :
-Islamic extremism on rise in Jordan
-Jihadists seek Islamic state on Syria-Iraq border
-One shot dead in China's troubled Xinjiang after attack on police
-China's Xinjang region rocked by explosions as 31 killed in attack on market

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I have been waiting to post this article: What If the 21st Century Begins in 2014? since the end of last year. It is well written, balaced, and full of historical facts.

I was waiting to post it because it really tells the two sides of the story and just like 100 and 200 years ago, the global economy again has two very distinct stories going on. One is of course the American Renaissance, the other of course is the trends I outlined back in march. Building on those trends, which I will post again soon, well.... the headlines say it all.. Stay

-A Middle Eastern ‘Perfect Storm’
-China: 23 extremist groups busted, 200 arrested in May
-Muhajireen Army commander calls for Muslims to wage jihad in the Ukraine
-Jihad Will Continue Until America Is No More
-Feiglin's Sovereignty on the Temple Mount Seminar

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The reason why all this "winning" talking is nothing but wishing in one hand, and $#'ting in the other..

Syria, Iraq and Lebanon Merging Into a Single Sectarian War

Iraqi forces have stepped up their patrols along the barren 605km Syrian border recently, but they admit they have very little to show for it. The flow of guns, fighters and money moving in and out of Iraq has just grown too heavy to control.
One day this spring they caught a convoy of fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or Isis, starting a firefight, only to hear word two days later of an even larger convoy that had made its way past them. The best the border controls can do is serve as the eyes and ears of Baghdad.

"We maintain a strong presence on the border to try to cut their supply lines, but mostly to try to find out what is happening on other side," says Brigadier General Saad Maan Ibrahim, spokesman for Iraq's interior ministry. "It is clear that what is happening in Syria is impacting us and hurting the Iraqi people directly. If there is any problem in Syria or fresh outbreak of violence in Syria, this will be reflected in Iraq."

Lebanese and Iraqi Shia militiamen take up arms in Syrian towns and cities. Syrian insurgents set off bombs in southern Beirut. Sunni fighters flow from Syria to Iraq, where they battle government troops on the outskirts of Baghdad, while Lebanese and Palestinian Sunnis in Lebanon fight in the Syrian city of Homs. Governments in Baghdad and Beirut, backed by their patron in Tehran, look the other way -- or sometimes help -- as arms and fighters make their way into Syria for battles from Aleppo to Damascus to Deraa.

This is more than just the "spillover" from the Syria conflict analysts warned about when the uprising against Bashar al-Assad began in 2011. The various conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon are increasingly merging into one war stretching from the Zagros Mountains to the Mediterranean Sea in what the writer Rami Khoury calls "a single operational arena in terms of the ease of movement of fighters and weapons".

While few believe that the map of the region is about to be redrawn, the emerging conflict represents a dangerous breakdown of the nation states created in the Sykes-Picot agreement sealed by French and British colonial overlords 90 years ago.

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"This is qualitatively different from the contained war in Iraq in the 2000s or the Lebanese civil war of the 1970s and 80s," says Kirk Sowell, an analyst for Uticensis, a risk-management firm. "What's happening is potentially far more dangerous than what was happening in Afghanistan in the 1990s."

A 35-year war

Like the 30 years war, which spelt the end of the Holy Roman Empire, this one is rooted in the breakdown of an old order. The radical Shia clerics who replaced Shah Mohammed-Reza Pahlavi in Iran in 1979 created a new anti-western bloc opposed to the Sunni-dominated moderate regimes ledby Saudi Arabia and its patron,the US. Sunni regimes hit back by supporting Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq war, which along with the last decade of the Lebanese civil war, could be seen as an early phase of the longer conflict.

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Mar 7, 2014 1:19:32 GMT -5 Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger said:

There is a huge debate going on right now in Israel about the Temple Mount

Palestinian-Led Sharia Movement Rallies at Al-Aqsa Mosque, Calls for Pakistan Army to Liberate Jerusalem

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Mar 7, 2014 1:19:32 GMT -5 Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger said:

Israel has been shelling Lebanon and Syria more frequently because the war is just growing in the mid east...

Russia could very well collapse because the Wahhabist want nothing more than for Russia to get itself into a position where they will have to support a fight in central Asia. This will stop support to Syria, allowing a surge there and into Iran. If Russia goes, a wildfire spreads across Europe...

-Israel strikes Gaza and Syria in response to rocket attacks
-Syrian al Qaeda reach foothills of Israeli-held Golan
-Israel fires back at Syria after mortar shell lands in Golan Heights
-Tatars warn Russia risks provoking jihadi backlash in Crimea
-Two arrested at Heathrow over Syria 'terror':
-France arrests 4 in jihadist network, day after Jewish museum shooting suspect detained

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Aleppo has become the second Syrian city to be left in ruins, and the constant shelling and tunnels under Damascus should ensure that the city is on the way to becoming uninhabitable.

I thought this was fairly interesting as well. It's not only Putin that is laughing...

Iran’s Leader Says Obama Has Removed Military Option

Speaking from a stage decorated with a banner proclaiming “America cannot do a damn thing,”

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The last two global conflicts spread into the Mid East, this one is spreading out...

-How is the Ukraine crisis affecting Central Asia?
-European countries agree to take measures to try to stop European jihadists
-China: Violence in the name of jihad increasing in Xinjiang
-Beijing, Kunming, Urumqi and Guangzhou: The Changing Landscape of Anti-Chinese Jihadists

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From Iraq to Syria, splinter groups now larger worry than al-Qaeda. Why? Victorious in Mosul, militants in Iraq wrest control of Tikrit and Al-Qaida splinter group encircles Syrian city.

And then there is this... Stay

-Gaza rocket hits Israel, first time since Palestinian unity government formed
-Hard-liner Rivlin to become Israel’s next president,

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Welll... Iraq militants move nearer to Baghdad.

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Closer and closer...

-China to boost anti-terror cooperation with Central Asia
-Kyrgyzstan seeks unified front against extremism

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I'm amazed that people are "shocked" by the "situation" in Iraq. I guess paying closer attention may have been warranted, eh?

May 16, 2014 0:55:39 GMT -5 Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger said:

Iran Threatens to Mobilize 1300000 Troops in Syria

May 20, 2014 10:24:56 GMT -5 Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger said:

The collapse of Islam.... The other two started outside the mid east, this one has started inside and is spreading out. The author didn't even mention the civil war that is unfolding in Iraq, or the refugee problem that Lebanon and Jordan are facing.


Is the Middle East on verge of a regional war?

Iran’s intervention in troubled Iraq could broaden regional conflict

Indeed, two battalions of the elite Quds Forces from Iran are reported by the Wall Street Journal already to have been deployed to help the Iraqi Army deal with the militant forces.

In a speech on Thursday, Mr. Rouhani drew a line in the sand. “The Islamic Republic of Iran will not tolerate this violence and we will not tolerate this terror,” he said. “We will fight and combat violence, extremism, and terrorism in the region and the world.”

Iran was responding to threats issued by ISIL spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, who vowed that the jihadists, who have chalked up several conquests in Iraq from Mosul to Tikrit, would not stop there but press on to Baghdad and to Najaf and Karbala, site of the two most important Shia shrines, which millions of pilgrims visit every year.

“We have a score to settle,” Mr. al-Adnani said in a video statement, urging on the ISIL fighters. And the score must be settled with the Shiites.

A senior security official of Iran, a Shia state, elaborated on Mr. Rouhani’s message, accusing Saudi Arabia of being behind the ISIL campaign. The Saudis, he said, are trying to take revenge in Iraq for their failure to oust President Bashar al-Assad in Syria. In an interview with the independent Al Mayadeen satellite news channel, the unnamed official said the Saudis “will feel the heat soon.”

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Apr 23, 2014 23:55:07 GMT -5 Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger said:

Al-quada controls large swaths of Iraq now, and they are pulling a repeat in Syria. There are millions of refugees in Lebanon and Jordan, just like there was in Syria during the Iraq war. I would say the Jihad is essentially letting Assad take territories, at which point these refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan will start erupting.(This is already happening on a small scale). Once the fighters are drawn out of Syria, the Jihad will strike there once again, just like Iraq.

Syria Islamist militants pause and reinforce from Iraq

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This won't be a regional issue much longer. As I pointed out above when Iran and Syria were saying they won this war, they were $#'ting in one hand and wishing in the other.

-Syria car bomb near Iraq kills at least 8: monitoring group
-Jihadists Besiege Syrian Town
-Jordan: 4 vehicles destroyed on Syria border

This is called, being spread thin, especially now that Iran has troops in both Syria and Iraq. Stay

-Iraq's military claims victories

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Oh, I forgot the not regional much longer part...

What next after Karachi Airport terrorist attack - something big in China?

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Just like not enough butter on toast.

As Iraqi military regains footing, explosions rock Baghdad

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The reality of the situation is setting in. Stay

If Anyone Bombs Iraq, Shouldn't It Be China?

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But, but... Oh ya that's right, spread like not enough butter on toast...

Iraq conflict: ISIS extends grip in north as U.S., Iran talk

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Much more of this and we will see WTI oil at $130 a barrel+.

Iraq car bomb kills 10 as violence spreads
A car bomb in Baghdad’s Shia Sadr City district has killed 10 people and wounded 25.

Officials said the blast targeted a crowded outdoor market in the sprawling district in eastern Baghdad.

The latest death toll takes to 20 the number of people killed in violence in Baghdad today.

Meanwhile, Iraq’s biggest oil refinery, Baiji, has been shut down and its foreign staff evacuated, refinery officials said today, adding that local staff remain in place and the military is still in control of the facility.

Militants from al Qaeda splinter group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (Isis), also known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, who seized Iraq’s second-biggest city of Mosul last week have advanced into the oil refinery town of Baiji and surrounded the refinery.

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China's boots are one step closer to hitting the ground, the headlines show the way. Stay

-Army, insurgents battle for Iraq's largest oil refinery<---- BP and XOM have evacuated staff
-Saudis give apparent warning to Iran: don't meddle in Iraq
-Iran vows to defend Iraq Shi'ite sites
-Iraq's al-Maliki lashes out at Saudi Arabia’s Sunni royals
-Saudi Arabia backs China in terror fight: ambassador

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Apr 28, 2013 0:43:14 GMT -5 Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger said:

there is literally nothing standing in the way of this war spreading across the region very quickly.

Here we are just a little over a year later... Stay

-Isis breach of Iraq-Syria border merges two wars into one 'nightmarish reality'
-Decay of Libyan state clears desert trail for Africans to Europe
-Egypt Policeman Killed in Clashes With Islamists
-Lebanese Army raids refugee camps, steps up security efforts

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

As I was saying, Iran Leader Warns of 'War in Muslim World'. Finally, something we agree on!

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Truly amazing how desensitized things are right now..

Iraq Militants Seize Old Chemical Weapons Facility

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Jun 19, 2014 18:54:46 GMT -5 Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger said:

Truly amazing how desensitized things are right now..

Iraq Militants Seize Old Chemical Weapons Facility

Wait just a damn minute! There's WMD's in Iraq?!? 

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Lol, yep. It's going to get interesting now. I guess old al-Maliki's plan to suppress the Sunnis has backfired in a big way.