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Gulf States Endorse "Military Option" Against Iran
The latest development in the neverending saga of Iran, comes via the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) which states that according to the Gulf states, the military option may be the best option to deal with the Iranian nuclear program, as the contra-Iran (no pun intended) axis is now complete. The article also reflected "the Gulf states' growing tension and concern regarding Iran's nuclear program, and mentioned their proximity to the Bushehr reactor." What is scary is that the straw man of military intervention is pretty much presented as a fait accompli, and alternatives to military intervention are not even considered as an option. The timing could not be worse: as we highlighted earlier, John Bolton believes that there is ticking clock (through the 21st) after which the option of "striking" Iran with manageable casualties becomes negligible. And lastly, and certainly not making matters any easier, was the earlier revaluation by AFP, that Iran is preparing to unveil an array of weapons next week. An impartial reader would be forgiven if left with the impression that at this point a military operation is all but granted. Yet, keeping an eye out on spot oil, indicates that the realistic chance of an incursion is still negligible, at least as judged by oil prices. We believe that is still one of the best advance warnings indicators of a geopolitical shift. Unfortunately, if the oil market is in any way comparable to stocks in its predictive ability, it just may be that oil is, for once, a reactionary indicator instead of forward looking, in which case it will be useless as a predictive force.
From MEMRI:
An editorial in the Saudi daily Al-Madina, published in the wake of announcements in Iran and Russia regarding the imminent activation of the nuclear reactor in Bushehr, took a hard line vis-à-vis the Iranian nuclear program, claiming that the military option may be the best way to deal with it. The article reflected the Gulf states' growing tension and concern regarding Iran's nuclear program, and mentioned their proximity to the Bushehr reactor.
Following are excerpts from the editorial:[1]
"Tehran's [August 13, 2010] announcement, confirmed by Russia, that an Iranian nuclear reactor would be inaugurated this month in Bushehr, on the Arabian Gulf coast, and that it would be equipped with fuel and would operate as a nuclear facility, is an indication that the region is now entering a new phase.
"In taking this action, Tehran is ignoring all the advice, warnings, and requests to halt its nuclear program, or at the very least to try to continue it under clear and open international inspection that would guarantee that it does not have a military facet. If [Tehran] insists upon going ahead [with the program] without the agreement of the international community, it will bring embarrassment and suspicion upon every [country] that supported [Iran's] right to peaceful nuclear energy.
"More importantly, by means of this action, Tehran is moving its conflict with the international community into high gear, and [in this case] some may consider the military option to be the best solution. [Delaying recourse to this option] may lead to a point where it is impossible to implement it – if Tehran manages to produce a nuclear bomb of its own.
"What is of concern is [the fact] that the Bushehr reactor is closer to several Gulf capitals than to the Iranian capital itself, as well as the fact that it is very near the crucial oil routes which pass through the Arabian Gulf – placing the neighboring countries in great danger, both in the event of an attack and in the event of radioactive leakage. Moreover, [the Bushehr reactor] may become the site where Tehran will develop its nuclear weapons, which it may use to impose demands or exert pressure on the region. This is a suspicion that Iran has not managed to refute to date.
"If Tehran is interested in the success of its nuclear program for peaceful purposes, and if it wants to make progress in order to ensure prosperity for its people, it must maximize its cooperation with the IAEA. The IAEA, for its part, must display a little flexibility with Tehran, since... equipping the reactor with nuclear fuel is the point of no return. When this happens, the Bushehr reactor will become a facility for nuclear energy.
"All parties must be judicious in confronting the new situation, and must make sure that the inauguration of Bushehr is not a preamble to disturbances or tremors in the region."
[1] Al-Madina (Saudi Arabia), August 15, 2010.
And confirming that Iran will not take any incursion lightly, is the following from AFP:
Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on Tuesday that Iran will unveil next week an array of weapons, including missiles, speedboats and a long range drone, the ISNA news agency reported.
Two missiles, Qiam (Rising) and the third generation Fateh 110 (Conqueror) would be tested next week when Iran marks the annual government week, Vahidi said in reference to the Iranian week which starts on Saturday.
Iran will also unveil the long-range drone, Karar, he said using the nickname of revered Shiite Imam Ali.
On Sunday Iran launches its annual government week which runs until August 30 and is an occasion to showcase Tehran's achievements.
Iran has previously paraded a version of Fateh 110 which has a travel range of 150 to 200 kilometres (90 to 125 miles), but the range of the surface-to-surface Qiam missile was not reported by ISNA on Tuesday.
Vahidi said production lines of two missile-carrying speedboats, Seraj (Lamp) and Zolfaqar (named after Imam Ali's sword) would also be opened next week.
Vahidi said the unveiling of these weapons indicate that "sanctions have had no impact on us, but made us more experienced and self-sufficient."
Iranian officials regularly boast about the Islamic republic's military capabilities and Vahidi's announcements come at a time when local officials have been warning against any attack on the Islamic republic.
Tehran's archfoes, the United States and Israel have not ruled out a military strike against Iran to stop its controversial nuclear programme.
Last week a top commander from the Revolutionary Guards said Iran will mass produce replicas of the Bladerunner 51, often described as the world's fastest boat, and equip them with weapons to be deployed in the Gulf.
Also on August 8, Iran took delivery of four new mini-submarines of the home-produced Ghadir class. Weighing 120 tonnes, the "stealth" submarines are aimed at operations in shallow waters, notably in the Gulf.
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1984, bitchez!
To think that WWIII would pit the US against Russia - who ever could have foreseen that?
ZBIG. Me. You....
Oh you were being rhetorical! Gotcha ;)
More pro-war propoganda...
George Will should stick (schtick) to writing up baseball.
Death by tray it shall be.
many had predicted:Flashback 2007: Israel Warns World War III May be Biblical War of Gog and Magog
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) does not speak for "Islamic States". It is a DC-based neocon zionist-terrorist organization.
During the last century they and they-alike have destroyed Russia. Now, it is America in their cross-hear for a destruction. They wage a total war against the USA.
With total control the mass media, Hollywood, and pornography business they already destroyed the cultural and moral fabric of the American society. They have already ruined the US economy. Involving the USA in endless international wars and the phony war on terror here in the USA, these neocon zionist-terrorists are well no their way to ruin of whatever still left of the US Constitution and democracy.
It is the time for America to defend itself from these neocon zionist-terrorist enemies!
Debka is reporting some crazy action going on in Iran....
"Two mysterious incidents are reported by DEBKAfile in the run-up to the fueling up of Iran's first nuclear reactor Saturday, Aug. 21.Tuesday, Aug. 17, an Iranian F4 Phantom fighter jet was claimed by Tehran to have crashed 6 kilometers north of the Bushehr nuclear reactor in southern Iran. DEBKAfile's military sources report it was shot down by Russian-made TOR-M1 air-missile defense batteries guarding the reactor."
"On Aug. 1, three unidentified UAVs slammed into the reactor buildings, scaring the townspeople who were sure the plant was under American or Israeli attack.
After the heads of government in Tehran put their heads together to try and identify the drones, without success, the defense ministry emerged with a communiqué reporting that a single drone had crashed on the nuclear reactor's dome, but insisted it was launched by Iran's Revolutionary Guards to test the alertness of the air defense personnel guarding it and the effectiveness of its anti-air radar system." http://www.debka.com/article/8973/ Whether any of it is true or not I have no idea.
After the heads of government in Tehran put their heads together to try and identify the drones, without success, the defense ministry emerged with a communiqué reporting that a single drone had crashed on the nuclear reactor's dome, but insisted it was launched by Iran's Revolutionary Guards to test the alertness of the air defense personnel guarding it and the effectiveness of its anti-air radar system."
Whether any of it is true or not I have no idea.
"a communiqué reporting that a single drone had crashed on the nuclear reactor's dome, but insisted it was launched by Iran's Revolutionary Guards to test the alertness of the air defense personnel guarding it and the effectiveness of its anti-air radar system.""
So, was this test classified as a success, or a failure? I'm still scratching my head over that one.
"Stop paying attention to zionist lies."
Very well. Will you provide me with the truth then?
It was a retorical reply. A retoric....... Oh. never mind.
If the Saudis are worried about the reactor, let them bomb it.
Exactly. If the House that is Saud is worried, let them be. Let...them...be.
We're consistently selling these guys fighter jets and other materiel. Let them use it. Not us.
Do they know how to operate these said machines and whatnot?
Anywho; agreed.
Yeah, but the Saudis are not the lean mean fighting machine that overthrew the Hashemite dynasty with a vanguard of Jihad fanatics. The Persians are a different animal altogether. In this case the House of Saud are a bunch of Fraidy Cats. I wonder if Israel is waiting for a public request from them and the Gulf States to take down the Persians. Wouldn't that be ironic?
Ha! Good one.
Expect that count to increase.
He wasn't supposed to tell you how many states there really are. Slip up.
Him and Cameron, couple of loose lipped morons.
Throw this in too, just for fun:Russia's grain ban spotlights Egypt's politically explosive dependence on cheap bread
That's ironic. Rome once depended on Egypt's wheat harvest.
Well all of North Africa's harvest, but the tilt of the earth had something to say about that. Desertification Bitchez!
Had to be man made global warming. West Virginia coal and all.
"FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS" Chuck Heston as a senile political tool.
I'm talking about Moses not Bowling for Columbine.
Did you have a point?
"Did you have a point?"
Not likely, they use James Brady as a semi-functional tool too.
"Get your stinking paws off of me you damned, dirty ape."
-- Moses in Planet of the Apes
"Sir, I don't think we can go any more retarded than we already have been."
"Damnit, son, don't give me problems, give me solutions! Full retard hasn't been enough!"
"Well, sir, we could start cutting out portions of our own brains and then eat the chunks raw."
[one meal later]
"Hrrumrghgl... get Bolton on the line... tell him that the "show must go on." Do you chair green the bumble? Huh? Of course I'm making sense! Just call him!"
Not sure one editorial by a non-official in a Saudi paper can be construed as "Gulf States endorsing military action."
British "intelligence" used an undergraduate's term paper to make the claim that Saddam could attack their nation in 45 minutes.
cue: chortle
++ many clever retorts!
More from the hoist-with-your-own-petard files: If we hadn't destroyed Iraq, they would've kept the balance with Iran (at least more than now). Mind you, if Iran were Sunni instead of Shia, all oil would be cut off for any contemplation of war with their Islamic brothers.
As for Saudi gumption, they can't seem to make much use of the advanced weaponry except for briefly bombing defenseless Yemen.
I don't have a TV, but when I travel, if the hotel room has a TV, I turn it on. ... So there's Anderson-360 going Skud-Stud over "Iranian missiles that can travel 6,000 miles and hit Paris and London." Go to 11:30 PM commercial break. Come back. "That's 6,000 kilometers. That was a mistake. Not 6,000 miles. They can hit Israel."
Orwellian News Flash: "Nobel Peace Prize winning President goes to war."
Ever notice how David Letterman recycles jokes over and over and over?
1984, bitchez! ;)
++ Mitchman
The Loser in Chief is not that desperate. Yet.
maybe the bush twins can join the army now !!!!!!!!!! lol
Tonight on Faux News: Who wants to be an Archduke Ferdinand?
Israel is Germany? Just sayin'.
Not Only Did Harvard Dump Its Israel ETF, It Opened A New Position In A Turkish ETF:
Harvard Explains Israel Share Sales: It Wasn't Divestment, It's Just That Israel Is No Longer An Emerging Market:
Yeah Haaahvaahd has a great track record picking winners...LOL.
Remember, Summers is Obummer's main economic advisor. Yes, the same Summers who nearly bankrupted Harvard, and says women aren't good at math.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Barry clearly has an eye for talent...bringing in nothing but our best & brightest to advise him ;-)
We are indeed fortunate.
Van Jones, a communist, to tilt at windmills for him. Giethner for Treasury, the former NY Fed Prez who can't keep up with his own income reciepts, very reassuring. Kevin Jennings to look after school children (you'll have to Google it, decorum prevents me from trying to explain this character, Jennings).
Appointing Biden to oversee a trillion dollars worth of "shovel ready stimulus"...sheer genius.
The International Nobel Peace Prize winner who accepts the prize with one hand and presses the button on drone attacks with the other. A self styled "constitutional law professor" who thinks Heller vs. DC is as bad as Arizona's new immigration law even though it copies Federal law just like many other state laws, that is, a distinction without a difference. I suppose he will sic Holder on racist states like Massachusetts next...LOL.
Voting present is no longer an option for him...and it shows.
Well, who is small time royalty for a monarchy becoming increasingly irrelevant?
Prince William of Britain. Princess Stephanie of Monoco. A Jordanian or Moroccan princeling that both dislike the Iranians. Kuwaiti, Omarite, Somali? Even a Saud. Tilt can come very fast and from an unlikely event.
Exellent point, to you and Mad Max. The ruling dynasties know their ship has sunk. What to do, what to do? A sacrifice....
The King of Jordan is still the shot caller in his little barrio. But when you say, "The Queen," everyone knows you mean Elizabeth. I think Victoria was the last one to call any shots in Britannia. The King of Thailand has a great deal of moral and popular influence. You don't dis that king if you are smart. All the other royals are just rich people with titles. The Saudis are afraid of their Shiite minority.
"The Saudis are afraid of their Shiite minority."
Then the only answer is to draft them all and send them off to war!
Conscription is the prescription.
It would be dark humor indeed if they waited until all this new military hardware was stretched out in a big fancy parade and laid a string of cluster bombs on the suckers...
I wanted to verbally attack you for such an indifferent and monstrous thought, but... I couldn't stop laughing... :) dark indeed..
Notice the roll-out of new equipment occurs after the reactor is online and after the date the Bolton says is too late to attack without massive radiation casualties.
Hmmm so they have two speedboats and a shallow water sub or two? That makes their navy less well equipped than Roman Abramovich.
Saudi editorials are not known for deviating firm the official line and that one pretty much tells Israel to pull it's finger out it's ass and get on with blowing up that Jerry built reactor. Fucking thing looks like it will take itself out the game within a few years anyway. I wouldn't want to be downwind.
I wouldn't under estimate them too much if I were you.
remember you also have overwhelming firepower on land in Iraq & Afghanistan and guerillas can hurt you there too.
jus sayin'
Iran, with a little help from their friends, are quite capable of taking down a Nimitz class carrier. That being said, They would, in that event, also be in possession of the world's largest glass parking lot, and would probably be reduced to nomadic tribes roaming the "glasslands" for decades to come.
Not to mention, it may set Russia back a few more years in their bid to become a serious player along with China.
Just saying...
In your scenario the US would be the one country that has twice used nuclear weapons first in a conflict, with no other countries having used them at all. Think about how that would affect strategic thinking in other countries. It would be a virtual guarantee of a devastating first strike against us from China or Russia (or both) not too far in the future.
Of course, our political leadership doesn't seem to have the slightest concern about the logical implications of their actions, so it could happen.
That's probably not quite right. A "flexible response" (aka, unilateral use of nuclear weapons to counter a successful conventional attack) has been part and parcel of the NATO (read US) military doctrine for decades now. As long as you maintain a viable second strike capability there isn't much of an incentive for a nuclear aggressor to go against you first.
the world's largest glass parking lot,
And the world's largest glass parking lot is going to upwind of where exactly? Remember, this war is being brought to you by the same folks who produced all that tasty, zesty, sweet, flower scented, shrimp. Not to mention the greatest housing boom the world has ever known.
Ever hear of the sunburn missile, the are not scuds.
even worse, they've upgraded to the onyx.
no doubt they have some nuclear tips to go with them, they aren't exactly hard to find.
ZH duly noted the trial excercise on the japanese super tanker a few weeks ago.
If even one supertanker is actually sunk (how hard can that be? they are sitting ducks, forGawds sake!)
(a supertanker costs roughly 150 million to build and holds 200 million or more worth of crude)
the insurance companies will CLOSE Hormuz to any traffic, no ifs ands or buts.
The strategic reserve now holds as much oil as 6 weeks of US crude oil imports.
6 weeks is not a hell of a long time.
Yes, Iran might be the worlds first glass parking lot,
but the USA would instantly be transformed into
100,000,000 "independent" tea partiers with guns going around looking for any gasoline that they can steal ... and that would be truly quite a spectacle .... such as the world has never seen before!!!!
Can we send Vanderbilt with him?
"Gentlemen, you'll need safari jackets with epilets and kevlar underwear...."
The Saudis and Emirates are trying to reposition as a "financial center" (they don't know what's happening? -Or are the just thinking generationally?).
You bet your ass they want the other fanatic in the neighborhood shut down.
Pick your favorite fanatic. Israel has.
"Some British Jews are desperate to stop the truth about the Jewish state being spread around. The Jewish Chronicle reported today that Jewish "Community leaders are battling to stop an exhibition of paintings by children from Gaza being shown in schools in the North of England'
This picture says much more than a 1,000 words. At first, I was at a loss for words, the evocative painting by a Gazan child, who's evidently seen the horrors of the Judaic War Machine first-hand, jolted me."
Check out the drawing here:
And they call themselves the "world's most moral army". They are liars, and Israel-firsters in all host nations are TRAITORS! Unplug the jew-tube and learn the facts.
Most ZH readers are in time warp when it comes to Israel issues. They could stand to read some Gilad Atzmon.
Most people who stereotype are close minded.
I noticed you got junked already.. I thought to myself, how many israeli-firsters even know who he is.? Must have been an Israeli that junked you. And if it's an Israeli-firster, and knew who he was, then that person is only here to disrupted productive conversation.
I think Gilad Atzmon is a gifted writer. That's good advice you are giving.. Nice
Atzmon was born a secular Jew in Tel Aviv, and trained at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem.[8] His service as a paramedic in the Israeli Defense Forces during the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon caused him to reach the conclusion that "I was part of a colonial state, the result of plundering and ethnic cleansing."[1][4]He told an interviewer that it was there he first learned about Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, legislation to prevent their return, and the wiping out of Palestinian villages. "We were indoctrinated into a denial of the Palestinian Cause. We were not aware of it."[9] From Wiki
Thanks Max. There is no "Jewish problem". There is a Zionist problem.
I wonder how many know, or even care what MEMRI really is? In short: Based out of DC, Israel and Berlin, they have been long ago proven to be a propaganda arm of the Israeli government and American Neocons.
Here's an excerpt from a 2002 article in the Guardian about them:
"The second thing that makes me uneasy is that the stories selected by Memri for translation follow a familiar pattern: either they reflect badly on the character of Arabs or they in some way further the political agenda of Israel. I am not alone in this unease.
Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American-Islamic Relations told the Washington Times: "Memri's intent is to find the worst possible quotes from the Muslim world and disseminate them as widely as possible."
Memri might, of course, argue that it is seeking to encourage moderation by highlighting the blatant examples of intolerance and extremism. But if so, one would expect it - for the sake of non-partisanship - t o publicise extremist articles in the Hebrew media too.
Although Memri claims that it does provide translations from Hebrew media, I can't recall receiving any.
Evidence from Memri's website also casts doubt on its non-partisan status. Besides supporting liberal democracy, civil society, and the free market, the institute also emphasises "the continuing relevance of Zionism to the Jewish people and to the state of Israel".
That is what its website used to say, but the words about Zionism have now been deleted. The original page, however, can still be found in internet archives.
The reason for Memri's air of secrecy becomes clearer when we look at the people behind it. The co-founder and president of Memri, and the registered owner of its website, is an Israeli called Yigal Carmon.
Mr - or rather, Colonel - Carmon spent 22 years in Israeli military intelligence and later served as counter-terrorism adviser to two Israeli prime ministers, Yitzhak Shamir and Yitzhak Rabin.
Retrieving another now-deleted page from the archives of Memri's website also throws up a list of its staff. Of the six people named, three - including Col Carmon - are described as having worked for Israeli intelligence. "
You can read the full article here:
I wonder how many know, or even care what MEMRI really is?
I thought it was a song from Cats.
But seriously, thank you for the background on these people.
Bang on there mate. All, please be aware of who is getting your knickers in a twist and why. MEMRI and Debka are the worst of the worst. Emanations directly from the Belly of the Beast. Or its ass, I'm not sure. Check and you'll see who and what is bringing their mind rotting "info" to you.
ANYONE who cites their spew either doesn't know what they need to know before flinging shit into the blogosphere, or they do and are part of the problem, not our solution. Either way, caveat emptor to fair minded people when it comes to this dreck...
As a normal little boy I probably drew a picture of that equivalent about 100 times, granted they were stick figures and my abilities sucked.
Israhole, nobody has a chance against these destructive monsters. Just hope one day the whole turns against them and their children!
This comment, Israhole, regarding the above evocative exhibit of "What the World's 'Most Moral' Army Doesn't Want You to See," was made today by Musique...
You're absolutely correct, Greg. All the pictures in the exhibition capture a unique & personalized story of death, horror and destruction caused by the most vicious murderous thugs on earth through a child's eyes. Specially the picture called "the world is ONLY watching" - brings tears in eyes. That boy lost almost every family member and the sadness in his eyes, so moving.
Yes, the f____ world is just only f____ watching.
I am totally sick 'n tired of seeing chelsea's "judeo-christian" wedding coverage everywhere - from tv to supermarket rags. They describe her as if she were the princess - huh! clintons? They are considered as barely touchable by the rothschild standard, royalty is just pipe dreams. Remember all the girls lost their chance to be a princess for a day in Bosnia by slick willie?
Rachel Corrie's princess dream was bulldozed by the bloodthirsty gangs.
how about little Kaukab Al Dayah; (http://xymphora.blogspot.com/ has her picture.) Why wasn't she given a chance to be a princess by the chosen devils?
Ahhh, the Goldman-Chelsea religion, otherwise known as the Judeo-Christian religion.
Who says that Israel has to attack Iran by air? I think that's all a feint. If I were the Israeli Mossad I would already have a couple of suitcase nukes in place deep under Teheran and a few other vital targets. I would probably have had agents on the crews pouring the concrete for this new reactor, and buried a nuke there too. When the time comes - reactor accident. And if Teheran retaliates, huge gas explosion devastates Teheran. Of course, if I were Iran, I would already have a number of CBW long since in place in key Israeli ( and US ) cities. By the way, anybody seen those 4 North Korean subs that left DRNK a month or so ago. Could they be lying on the seabed offshore of Israel? I wonder what their mission was/is. Given its remote location, Armageddon (in Syria) might be one of the few places to survive. Irony is the laughter of the Gods.
Hey, I read that book. It was quite a thriller and the hero lived to marry his girl.
spirit, very risky to lose physical control of a weapon. only the former USSR has had the stones to lose that level of control.
agents during construction, no doubt. Influence, tougher.
don't know how gas explosion happens, not hollywood.
chems? maybe if they have binary capability, but mass of the weapon and dispersion pattern requires really high population density. We know definitively that Chi-town is out of the target list.
DPRK diesels? I'd bet a supersized meal at your favourite place that there are 688's playin'.
You don't think that there is SOSUS on either side of Suez Canal, do you?
Armageddon (in Syria) might be one of the few places to survive. Irony is the laughter of the Gods.
The word Armageddon appears only once in the Greek New Testament.[5] The word comes from Hebrew har m?giddô (?? ?????), meaning "Mountain of Megiddo". Megiddo is a small mountain on which ancient forts were built that guarded the main highway, the Via Maris, that connected Egypt with Mesopotamia. Megiddo was the location of many decisive battles in ancient times (including one in the 15th century BC and one in 609 BC). The town Megiddo in Israel is approximately 25 miles (40 km) westsouthwest of the southern tip of the Sea of Galilee (or Lake Tiberias to the Romans) in the Kishon River area.[6]
They found some rabbits to take them all out.
As if we didn't have enough problems already. I am afraid if this does happen soon or at anytime for that matter, we are all in deep shit. Stuff is going to happen that we don't want to happen. Where's the nearest bomb shelter?
Could be kicking over a big fat domino.
As if we didn't have enough problems already. I am afraid if this does happen soon or at anytime for that matter, we are all in deep shit.
Blowing up lots of not quite white people is always a good antidote for fear.
I want one of those Bladerunner 51s.
me too bro, they look badass
It'd sure be fun to sit in that fucker and pick off assholes on Waverunners.
supercavitating torpedoes, bitchez
"Yet, keeping an eye out on spot oil, indicates that the realistic chance of an incursion is still negligible, at least as judged by oil prices."
Spot oil huh, are you serious? Israel is done posturing, they're going to swing for the fences and we're all going to be surprised if/when it happens.
Does Israel hit Hezbollah ahead of Iran or wait for them to fire rockets? They aren't supposed to defend themselves, anyway, I say they might as well go for maximum damage to the jihad martyrs. Whatever, the Strait of Hormuz shuts down and our 18 wheelers are not restocking our supermarkets and fuel pumps.
Hezb'Allah (please get it right-party of God) a sideshow.
SoH totally separate.
Maybe there are plans to keep the puppy open. Probably haven't thought about that since Jimmy Carter's time.
- Ned
someone said I'm supposed to... nah
but I hope things going well, gonna be tough.
- Ned
It (the link) was directed at those who think America still get's the majority of it's oil from the ME...it doesn't...and hasn't for years. That's why I'm in the camp of shutting down our bases in Europe...the child must learn to walk unaided at some point ;-)
Things are well. And it may not be as tough as some predict if a few things turn the right way. And they seem to be, lately.
Nuke the nuke!
I just HATE hate.
Nuke the nuke!
I see you're cheering on destruction by big government again. I really wish you statists would quit picking my pocket in your quest to kill innocent folks overseas and bankrupt the economy at home.
Stop hating America.
USS Jimmy Carter cruising to the Gulf of Aqaba. Operation bitter ole beatch locked and loaded.
does the carrier g.h.w.bush have a glory hole for g.w ?????????
The Carter is a Most Interesting Boat. Nuc sub converted to open deep-water engineering capabilities. Like splicing Internet, telephone, etc., cables amongst other tricks of the trade.
Some years ago, numerous Internet cables (believe it was 3) were severed within hours of one another in the Mediterranean, only to have service restored within, surprise, hours. And there were reports that the Carter was in the vicinity.
Just an odd remembrance. "Woolly sweater" is really somewhat fitting, no?
Ivy Bells - Woolly Sweater - yeah it has a nice ring to it :-)
USS Theodore Roosevelt nick-name: "Big Stick".
lol at "Wooly Sweater".
- Ned
OT: anyone know who's code name was "Pasty"?
The Carter is a Most Interesting Boat. Nuc sub converted to open deep-water engineering capabilities.
Umm, you mean like Habitat for Humpbacks?
The Carter is a Most Interesting Boat.
Hope there aren't any killer rabbits swimming in the vicinity of Aqaba.
I suppose its "Guns Of August" time. Heck, I'll be at the beach watching it all on CNN. And watching the dead fish roll in on each wave.
Sure, put up your feet and watch people die. It's all the rage from one Empire to the next. So you nail Christ to a tree once in a while, what's to worry?
If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned. Ayatollah Khomeini
If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned.
Ayatollah Khomeini
The inference is that this is more than a rare or isolated incident.
Yeah... Right on man!!..
These guys are so different.. They have to be bombed.. Why would someone say that? We need to bomb them. Why would someone discuss sodomy with animals? That is a call to bomb them.. Yeah... Right on man!.. Jesus Rocks!
Even Iran's "moderate" leaders have stated they will be fine with taking several million dead from a Israeli retaliatory strike, if they have destroyed six million Jews it will be worth it. Allahu Akbar bitchez! Here comes the 12th Imam, wait a minute! The Madhi is named Irving and he's pissed!
Israel's leaders openly laugh at Americans who still support them even after all the trouble they caused.
+1 You sealed it for me with Jesus Rocks.
Ever dip into the Talmud on sex with non-Jews? Don't open a can of worms.
Yo OSwald.
If we were to excerpt some of the batshit insane ravings that are present in the collected writings of the cock-slashing cult, we would likewise find much to giggle at... not least of which is the idea that Abraham fucking his half-sister was AOK, and that nobody batted an eye when some Sky Wizard told them that he wanted them to mutilate their children's genitals.
So, y'know... pick your poison, retardation-wise.
As to anything produced by either MEMRI or Debka... let's jsut say that they had as big a hand in promulgating bullshit about Iraq as did CHalabi and Tony Blair... so I would not believe (a) anything they said; or (b) any translation they purported to have done.
The Old Testament proscribes stoning of a woman found guilty of grabbing a man's testicles in a fight but I don't think the Jews or Christians follow that practice today. Islamists still espouse the laws in the Koran so you can be as tolerant as you want but until I hear a loud denouncement of the Taliban by the mullahs I will continue to consider them primitive fanatics and keep my distance.
I suspect your voluntary gesture of keeping your distance is very much appreciated. Too bad your head and your ass didn't have a little day light between them..
I get it. You fuck camels. Ever tried a goat?
...I don't think the Jews or Christians follow that practice today. Islamists still espouse the laws in the Koran...
Rabbi probed for circumcised infants' herpes
Baby died from disease after undergoing procedure
City health officials are investigating the death of a baby boy who was one of three infants to contract herpes after a rabbi circumcised them.
Ten days after Rabbi Yitzhok Fischer performed religious circumcisions on twins last October, one died of herpes and the other tested positive for the virus, according to a complaint filed by the health department in Manhattan Supreme Court.
The complaint, reported in Wednesday's edition of the New York Daily News, also said health officials later found a third baby who had contracted herpes after being circumcised by Fischer in late 2003.
Under Jewish law, a mohel — someone who performs circumcisions — draws blood from the circumcision wound. Most mohels do it by hand with a suction device, but Fischer uses a practice rare outside strict Orthodox groups where he uses his mouth to draw blood after cutting the foreskin.
Herpes can cause potentially severe complications for infants because of their undeveloped immune systems. A recent study published in the journal Pediatrics found that the rare ritual puts newborns at serious risk of contracting herpes simplex virus and shouldn't be performed as part of the circumcision procedure.
Fischer's lawyer, Mark Kurzmann, told the Daily News that Fischer was cooperating with the investigation, although it's unclear whether Fischer submitted to the city's request for a blood test.
"My client is known internationally as a caring, skilled, and conscientious mohel," Kurzmann said.
Appearently cutting and then sucking a bleeding infants cock and passing herpes in the process is the final word on who-has-the grottiest-religious-practicies and Oswald, et. al. will now feel suitable shame and change the subject. Let's see.
Look up glass houses Oswald.
How the Fuck they got any livestock left?
Big Turban, no Camels.
Deep in the heart of Tex er Tehran...
nale or female, ? does it matter? Implication is that excrement and urine may be consumed until anal penetration. Explains a lot of angry Iranians.
Is he talking about the cows in crawford texas ????????
2011 version SAT analogy question:
MEMRI is to the Mossad what CNBC is to the PPT.
ZH doesn't shill for the PPT, so why shill for the Mossad?
It is a disclosure. Keep your friends close... yaodaming?
Ya got Junked 4 times for THIS?
Before taking everything from this group as gospel, please look at their board of directors and advisors. . . it reads like the latest list of neocons.
Right. So the crazy guys are saying something crazy. What is your point?
Too bad they dumped Holbrooke. See the very bottom. I'd say that toned down the war mongers by at least 1%.
MEMRI's Board of Advisors and Directors comprises a group of distinguished figures in government, media, law and academia. Among them are former prime ministers; attorneys-general; justice ministers; leading legal and counterterrorism experts; and recipients of the most prestigious awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the United States Congressional Gold Medal. This group also includes former United States government officials, such as the director of the CIA; Secretary of the Navy; Director of Operations with the FBI; Ambassadors to the United Nations, Iraq, the European Union, and Romania; Secretary of Education; Deputy Defense Secretary; and head presidential counsel. Members of MEMRI's Board of Advisors are bipartisan and have honorably served Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.
The members of MEMRI's Board of Directors are:
· Oliver "Buck" Revell: Former FBI Executive Assistant Director (Investigations) in charge of Criminal Investigative, Counter-Terrorism and Counter?Intelligence programs; former Vice Chairman of the Interagency Group for Counterintelligence, former member of the Senior Review Group of the Vice-President's Task Force on Terrorism; and currently President of The Revell Group
· Elliott Abrams: Former Special Assistant to President George W. Bush, Senior Director of the National Security Council for Near East and North African Affairs, and former Deputy National Security Advisor for Global Democracy Strategy
· Steve Emerson: Executive Director of The Investigative Project and known terrorism expert
· Jeffrey Kaufman: Managing Trademark and Copyright Partner at Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt
· Robert Reilly: Former Senior Advisor at the Department of Defense and Chairman of the Committee for Western Civilization at the Claremont Institute.
The members of MEMRI's Board of Advisors are:
- Bernard Lewis, Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus at Princeton University
- James Woolsey, Former Director of Central Intelligence Agency and Secretary of the Navy
- Elie Wiesel, Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom, the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal, and the Medal of Liberty Award
- Jose Maria Aznar, Former Prime Minister of Spain
- Stephen J. Trachtenberg, President Emeritus and University Professor of Public Service at George Washington University
- John Bolton, Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
- Stuart Eizenstat, Former U.S. Ambassador to the European Union
- Josef Joffe, Editor-in-Chief of Die Zeit
- John Ashcroft, Former U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator (MO)
- Ehud Barak, Former Prime Minister of Israel
- Irwin Cotler, Former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
- Mort Zuckerman, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, U.S. News & World Report
- Michael Mukasey, Former U.S. Attorney General and Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
- Lafif Lakhdar, Tunisian intellectual
- Jana Hybaskova, Former Member of the European Parliament and Chairperson of the European Democrats Party (Czech Republic)
- Norman Podhoretz, Former Editor-in-Chief of Commentary Magazine
- William Bennett, Former U.S. Secretary of Education
- Paul Bremer, Former Ambassador to the Netherlands; former Director of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance in Iraq (de-facto governor)
- Lord George Weidenfeld, Former Vice-President of Oxford University Development Program
- Yehuda Bauer, Former Director of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem
- Dr. Khaled Fouad Allam, Algerian sociologist at the University of Trieste (Italy)
- Alfred Moses, Former U.S. Ambassador to Romania
- Herb London, President of the Hudson Institute
- Natan Sharansky, Former Israeli Minister for Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs, Minister without Portfolio
- James Q. Wilson, Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University
- Edgar Bronfman, Former president of the World Jewish Congress, and president of Distillers Corporation-Seagrams Ltd.
- Max Kampelman, Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom; former U.S. Ambassador to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
- Yohanan Friedmann, President Emeritus of Islamic Studies at The Hebrew University
- Dr. Ikbal Al-Gharbi, Professor of Psychology at the Theological University Ezzitouna in Tunis
- Christopher DeMuth, Former President, American Enterprise Institute
- Dr. Khaled Fouad Allam, Algerian sociologist at the University of Trieste (Italy)
- Dr. Amel Grami, Professor of Comparative Religion at the University Manuba in Tunis
- Lafif Lakhdar, Tunisian intellectual
- Dr. Shaker Al-Nabulsi, Jordanian writer and University Professor
- Magdi Khalil,human right activist and Executive Editor of the Egyptian weekly Watani International
- Faraj Sarkouhi, formereditor of the Iranian literary monthly magazine Adineh
- Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University
Former Member: Ambassador Richard Holbrooke (stepped down when nominated to post of Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan by President Obama).
JOSEF JOFFE is a neo-con, a Bilderberger and a good friend of Merkel! FUCK THEM!
There are some scary names on that list. Thanks for posting it.


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|A Persian onager (Equus hemionus onager) at Rostov-on-Don Zoo, Russia.
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The onager, also known as hemione or Asiatic wild ass[2] (Equus hemionus) is a large equid of the family Equidae (horse family) native to Asia. Unlike most horses and donkeys, onagers have never been domesticated. They are among the fastest mammals, as they can run as fast as 64 km/h (40 mph) to 70 km/h (43 mph). Previously listed as Endangered, they have been classified as Near Threatened by IUCN in 2015.[1]
The onager is closely related to the African wild ass, as they both shared the same ancestor. The kiang, formerly considered a subspecies of Equus hemionus, diverged from the Asiatic wild ass and has been acknowledged as a distinct species.[3]
The onager formerly had a wider range from southwest and central to northern Asian countries, such as Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Russia, and Siberia. During early 20th century, the species lost most of its ranges in the Middle East and Eastern Asia. Today, onagers live in deserts and other arid regions of Iran, Pakistan, India, and Mongolia, including in Central Asian hot and cold deserts of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and China.[4] Other than deserts, it lives in grasslands, plains, steppes, and savannahs.
Like many other large grazing animals, the onager's range has contracted greatly under the pressures of poaching and habitat loss.[2] Of the five subspecies, one is extinct, one is critically endangered, and three are endangered[2] (their status in China is not well known[2]). Persian onagers are currently being reintroduced in the Middle East as replacement for the extinct Syrian wild ass.
Etymology and taxonomy[edit]
The specific name is Ancient Greek ἡμίονος (hēmíonos), from ἡμι- (hēmi-), half, and ὄνος (ónos), donkey; thus, half-donkey or mule. In Persian the archaic word gur preserves the second syllable of the common Indo-European term that includes ona/ono (donkey) and ger/gur (swift).
The species was commonly known as Asian wild ass, in which case the term "onager" was reserved for the E. h. onager subspecies,[2] more specifically known as the Persian onager. Until this day, the species share the same name, "onager".
Widely recognized subspecies of the onager include:[2]
- Mongolian wild ass (khulan), E. h. hemionus - (China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Siberia)
- Turkmenian kulan (kulan), E. h. kulan - (Afghanistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Siberia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan)
- Persian onager (gur), E. h. onager - (Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, and Pakistan)
- Indian wild ass (khur), E. h. khur - (India and Pakistan)
- †Syrian wild ass (hemippe), E. h. hemippus - extinct (Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Turkey)
A sixth possible subspecies, the Gobi khulan (E. h. luteus,[1] also called the chigetai[5] or dziggetai) has been proposed, but may be synonymous with E. h. hemionus.
Debates over the taxonomic identity of the onager occurred until in 1980. As of today, four living subspecies and one extinct subspecies of the Asiatic wild ass have been recognized. The Persian onager was formerly known as Equus onager, as it was thought to be a distinct species.
The Asiatic wild ass, among Old World equids, existed for more than 4 million years. The oldest divergence of Equus was the onager followed by the zebras and onwards.[6] A new species called the kiang (E. kiang), a Tibetan relative, was previously considered to be a subspecies of the onager as E. hemionus kiang, but recent molecular studies indicate it to be a distinct species, having diverged from the closest relative of the Mongolian wild ass's ancestor less than 500,000 years ago.[7]
Physical description[edit]
Onagers are larger than donkeys at about 290 kg (640 lb) and 2.1 m (6.9 ft) (head-body length), and are a little more horse-like. They are short-legged compared to horses, and their coloring varies depending on the season. They are generally reddish-brown in color during the summer, becoming yellowish-brown in the winter. They have a black stripe bordered in white that extends down the middle of the back. Male onagers are usually larger than females.
Distribution and range[edit]
The onagers' favored habitats are deserts, semideserts, arid grasslands, shrublands, and mountain steppes. The Turkmenian kulan is known to live in hot and colder deserts.
During the late Pleistocene era around 40,000 years ago, the Asiatic wild ass ranged widely across Europe to northeastern Asia. The onager have been regionally extinct in Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, and southern regions of Siberia.
The Mongolian wild ass lives in deserts of Mongolia and northern China and is the most common subspecies, but its populations have decreased to a few thousand due to years of poaching and habitat loss. It is regionally extinct in eastern Kazakhstan and Siberia. The Indian wild ass was once found throughout the arid parts and desert steppes of northwest India and Pakistan, but about 4,500 of them are found in a few very hot wildlife sanctuaries of Gujarat. The Persian onager is found in two subpopulations in southern and northern Iran. The larger population is found at Khar Turan National Park. However, it is extinct in the wild of Afghanistan. The Turkmenian kulan used to be widespread in central to north Asia. However, it is now found only in Turkmenistan and has been reintroduced in southern Kazakhstan.
Like all equids, onagers are herbivorous mammals. They eat grasses, herbs, leaves, fruits, and saline vegetation when available, but browse on shrubs and trees in drier habitats. They have also been seen feeding on seed pods such as Prosopis and breaking up woody vegetation with their hooves to get at more succulent herbs growing at the base of woody plants.
During the winter, onagers also eat snow as a substitute for water. When natural water sources are unavailable, the Asiatic wild ass digs holes in dry riverbeds to access subsurface water. The water holes dug by the wild asses are often subsequently visited by domestic livestock, as well as other wild animals. Water is also found in the plants on which the onagers feed.
During spring and summer in Mongolia, the succulent plants of the Zygophyllaceae family form an important component of the diet of the Mongolian wild ass.
Biology and behavior[edit]
Asiatic wild ass are mostly active at dawn and dusk, even during the intense heat.
Breeding is seasonal, and the gestation period of onagers is 11 months, and most births occur from April to September. The mating season in India is in the rainy season. Females with young tend to form groups of up to five females.
Like most equids, onagers are social animals. Stallions are either solitary or they live in groups of two or three. The males have been observed holding harems of females, but in other studies, the dominant stallions defend territories that attract females. Differences in behaviour and social structure likely are the result of changes in climate, vegetation cover, predation, and hunting. In Mongolia alone, the onager can adopt harem-type social groups in the southwest and territory-based social groups in the south and southeast.
The onager is preyed upon by leopards, gray wolves, and hyenas (formerly by tigers and lions), but they are known to have antipredator protection. Groups of stallions cooperate and try to chase off predators. If threatened, onagers defend themselves and violently kick at the incoming predator.
Onagers are notoriously untamable. Equids were used in ancient Sumer to pull wagons circa 2600 BC, and then chariots on the Standard of Ur, circa 2550 BC. Clutton-Brock (1992) suggests that these were donkeys rather than onagers on the basis of a "shoulder stripe".[8] However, close examination of the animals (equids, sheep and cattle) on both sides of the piece indicate that what appears to be a stripe may well be a harness, a trapping, or a joint in the inlay.[9][10]
The greatest threat facing the onager is poaching for meat and hides, and in some areas for use in traditional medicine. It is the one of highest threats for the Mongolian wild ass. The extreme isolation of many subpopulations also threatens the species, as genetic problems can result from inbreeding. Overgrazing by livestock reduces food availability, and herders also reduce the availability of water at springs. The cutting down of nutritious shrubs and bushes exacerbates the problem. Furthermore, a series of drought years could have devastating effects on this beleaguered species.
Habitat loss and fragmentation are also major threats to the onager, a particular concern in Mongolia as a result of the increasingly dense network of roads, railway lines, and fences required to support mining activities.
The Asiatic wild ass is vulnerable to diseases, as well. A disease known as the "South African horse sickness" caused a major decline to the Indian wild ass population in the 1960s. Fortunately, the subspecies is no longer under threat to such disease and is continuously increasing their numbers.
Onagers were once under threat by apex predators from India, Iran, and Pakistan, as they used to be prey for Asiatic lions, Asiatic cheetahs, tigers, striped hyenas, and dholes. However, until today, the Asiatic wild ass is being strictly protected. However, Asiatic leopards and grey wolves are the current threats of the onagers. A few cases of onager deaths due to predation was recorded in Iran, as a Persian leopard attacked and eaten a Persian onager. It is said that leopards do not usually feed on equids such as in Africa. It may be due that Asian leopards are larger and stronger enough to prey on Asiatic wild ass.
Various breeding programs have been started for the onager subspecies in captivity and in the wild, which increases their numbers to save the endangered species. The species is legally protected in many of the countries in which it occurs. The priority for future conservation measures is to ensure the protection of this species in particularly vulnerable parts of its range, to encourage the involvement of local people in the conservation of the onager, and to conduct further research into the behavior, ecology, and taxonomy of the species.
Two onager subspecies, the Persian onager and the Turkmenian kulan are being reintroduced to their former ranges, including in other regions the Syrian wild ass used to occur in the Middle East. The two subspecies have been reintroduced to the wild of Israel since 1982, and had been breeding hybrids there,[11] whilst the Persian onager alone has been reintroduced to Jordan and the deserts of Saudi Arabia.
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c Kaczensky, P., Lkhagvasuren, B., Pereladova, O., Hemami, M. & Bouskila, A. (2015). "Equus hemionus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2015.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 10 Jan 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f "Asiatic Wild Ass Equus hemionus". IUCN.org. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN/SSC Equid Specialist Group.
- ^ Ryder, O.A. & Chemnick, L.G. (1990). "Chromosomal and molecular evolution in Asiatic wild asses". Genetica 83 (1): 67–72. doi:10.1007/BF00774690.
- ^ Grubb, P. (2005). "Order Perissodactyla". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 632. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ Porter, Valerie (ed.); Ian Lauder Mason (2002). Mason's World Dictionary of Livestock Breeds, Types, and Varieties (5th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. ISBN 0-85199-430-X.
- ^ Weinstock, J.; et al. (2005). "Evolution, systematics, and phylogeography of Pleistocene horses in the New World: a molecular perspective". PLoS Biology 3 (8): e241. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0030241. PMC 1159165. PMID 15974804. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
- ^ Ryder OA, Chemnick LG. (1990). "Chromosomal and molecular evolution in Asiatic wild asses.". PubLMed.gov. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
- ^ Clutton-Brock, Juliet (1992). Horse Power: A History of the Horse and the Donkey in Human Societies. Boston, Massachusetts, US: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-40646-9.
- ^ Heimpel, Wolfgang (1968). Tierbilder in der Sumerische Literatur. Italy: Studia Pohl 2.
- ^ Maekawa, K. (1979). "The Ass and the Onager in Sumer in the Late Third Millennium B.C.". Acta Sumerologica' (Hiroshima) I: 35–62.
- ^ Saltz, D. (1995). "Population dynamics of a reintroduced Asiatic wild ass (Equus Hemionus) herd". Ecological Applications 5 (2): 327–335. doi:10.2307/1942025.
- Duncan, P. (ed.). 1992. Zebras, Asses, and Horses: an Action Plan for the Conservation of Wild Equids. IUCN/SSC Equid Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.[clarification needed]]]
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