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Client: Barbara (Magazine), GER
Article: "Taugt mein Hobby zum Beruf?"
Year: 2017
Opening Ceremony Hochschule Luzern
Projection Mapping
Client: Viscosistadt, CH
Task: Projectionmapping for Opening ceremony of Hochschule Luzern in Emmenbrücke, CH
Length animation: 21:00
Direction & Animation: François Chalet
Music & Sounddesign: Mathias Vetter
Compositing & Motiondesign: Noemi Sugaya
Paper Stop-Motion: Michelle Ettlin
Year: 2016
audiovisual performance
Curators: Denis Schüler and Béatrice Zawodnik (Ensemble vide)
Projection XXL (Life): François Chalet
Musical programmation: Alexandre Babel
percussions: Anne Briset and Jeanne Larouturrou
alphorns: Ian Gordon-Lennox and Pascal Schaer
place: Arcoop, Geneva, CH
Date: 1.10.2016
length: 50 min
Opening ceremony for the longest tunnel in the world
task: realisation of 30 minutes of animation and sequences in motion for the opening ceremony in Pollegio
artistic director of the opening ceremony: Volker Hesse
producer: Rolf Derrer, Claudia Capecchi
artistic director LED Screen: François Chalet
animations: Noemi Sugaya (Lead), Chermaine Bossert, Joel Hofman, Jonas Habermacher, Michelle Ettlin, Noel Marti, François Chalet
compositing: Noemi Sugaya
music: Knut Jensen
choreographie groundartists: Laia sanmartin guirado
choreographie aeral artists: Ingrid Flor, Paula Riquielme, Chris Klotz
and many more!!!
fotos © Judith Schlosser
year: 2016
Garba Reloaded
Event: Opening ceremony Hochschule Luzern, Emmenbrücke, CH
Task: Guide for the audiovisual partner school project "Garba reloaded" with the National institut of Design, Ahmedabad, India
Year: 2016
Visuals and Choreography: Shweta Bendre, Alpika Singh, Deval Vala
Szenography, Cloths and main dancer: Barbara Hennig, Stephany Geiser, Wanda Dufner
Year: 2016
"I don't want"
client: Eltern family, GER
theme: Puberty and pre-puberty
Year: 2015
Illustration for children
Client: Geomini, GER
Theme: Zoo
Task: find the differences
Year: 2015
Interactive Installation for the exhibition "animierte Wunderwelten"
Client: Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, CH
Exhibition curated by Andres Janser and Suzanne Buchan
Concept: François Chalet and Jan Huggenberg
Animation: François Chalet
Interaction: Jan Huggenberg
Music: Mathias Vetter
CoverIllustration for the book "animierte Wunderwelten": François Chalet
Bookdesign: Müller&Hess
Year: 2015
Videos © Museum für Gestaltung Zürich - realized by schwarzfilmpictures.ch
Stop-Motion Videoclip made with pieces of a wooden train
Client: Troimer, CH
Direction: François Chalet
Animation: Michelle Ettlin and François Chalet
Cut: Michelle Ettlin
Year: 2015
Animation festival
client: Anima, Brussels, BEL
Task: Poster, Trailer, Umbrella-installation, projections, App, Tattoos, colouring sheet ...
Year: 2015
fotos 7-17 @ Gilles Moins
Comic book
client: Folioscope Editions, Anima Brussels, BEL
Year: 2015
Lucerne stories - Kapellbrücke enlighted
Walking on water, going trough fire
Task: Competition - Enlightment of the Kapellbrücke in lucerne (CH)
Team: Chalet - Brückner
Music: Idee und Klang
Year: 2014 (competition contribution)
Der kleine Spross
Client: Grosseltern Magazin, CH
Task: Comic for the magazine
Year: 2015
A demain
Trailer and Visuals for the piece "A demain".
Dance company: Thomas Duchatelet
Music: Jean-Paul Brédif
Dancers: Tuomas Lahti et Sébastien Perrault, Elodie Siccard, Michiko Uehara et Aki Funatsu
Place: Kobe Art Villlage Center, Kobe, Japon
Performances: 28.10, 29.10 and 30.10.
Year: 2011
Fotos: © Shimizu Toshiro
theme: Zoo
Year: 2015/16
@ François Chalet
Label Dalbin produced tailor-made video installation: a dragon animation created by Swiss artist François Chalet that moves from one screen to another over the whole table, superimposed over a mosaic of Asian television news broadcasts imagined by Starck.
Client: Missko Paris (Designed by Philipp Starck)
Agency: Eric Dalbin
Year: 2013
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The first years with Caspar. François Chalet is telling stories about his child. And about yours. Harcover, 208 pages, color pictures throughout. Euro 22.00
Publisher: Order at Echtzeit Verlag, CH
Task: Book
Year: 2014
Multiplatform project including a tatoo, the trailer of the festival, the animated prizepanels and a projection on a 50 meter high wall.
Client: Fantoche, CH
Place of the projection: Informationcenter Fantoche
Loop: Length 45 min.
Year: 2011
Lila Lamm
Client: Salzhaus, CH
Agency: Urs Althaus, CH, Sound © Andreas Moesch
Task: Creation of a character for a series of parties
Year: 2014
What is art?
Animation of the book "what is art?", made by Müller & Hess
Client: Fondation Beyeler
Design/Concept: Müller & Hess
Director: François Chalet
Animation: William Crook
Music: Mathias Vetter
Photographs: Andri Pol
Authors: Stefanie Bringezu, Daniel Kramer, Janine Schmutz
Year: 2014
Zurich Festival
Installation for the opening of the Zurich Festival
client: Theaterhaus Gessnerallee , CH
Fotos: © Mareike Spalteholz
Year: 2010
Duzi Kids
Drawings for children clothes
please order: Duzi Kids
Fotos: »Chalet for Duzikids«: Silke Weinsheimer
Creation of the videoclip for the song "Berlin"
Client: Modeselektor, GER
Scenography: Meike Eckstein
Year: 2012
eBay euro rally
Creation of characters and illustrations for the eBay euro rally 2010 conference
Client: eBay europe
Agency: Moire
Event: Auditorium (Casino Kursaal), Interlaken, CH
Year: 2010
Dans la tête du monstre
Audiovisual sculpture "Inside the monster's head": The idea was to create the head of a scared monster. The audience is allowed to enter his head and see through his eyes.
Concept andvisual creation: François Chalet
Musical composition: Mathias Vetter
Construction: Binôme (Frédéric Pain und Ingrid Michel)
Producer: Eric Dalbin
Co-producer: Maison des Arts de Creteil, FRA et Le Manège Maubeuge
Year: 2009
Exhibitions: Exit Festival in Creteil (FRA) and VIA Festival in Maubeuge (FRA) in 2009, St. Nazaire (GB), Toulouse (FRA) and Paris (FRA) in 2010, Théâtre de l'Avant-Seine de Colombes in 2014
Les Tours du Chalet
Audiovisual installation during "Nuit Blanche": Projection of a ten minutes story on an 80 meter high building
Producer: Nuit Blanche, Paris
Co-producer: Eric Dalbin
Music: Mathias Vetter
Place: Tours Tolbiac, Paris, FRA
Year: 2007
Mon Oeil!
VJ live act
Music: Jérôme Sachs
Place: Espace Culturel Condorcet, Viry-Chatillon, FRA
Year: 2010
Client: ZKB (Zürcher Kantonalbank), CH
Agency: Gestalten AG, CH
Task: Ilustrations for Tresor, the magazine for the employees
Issues: 8
Year: 2012-2014


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Law Hopes To Deter Copper Thieves
Soon people who give false contact information to metal recyclers will face felony charges.
With copper theft on the rise and thieves hitting everything from construction sites to city utility buildings, police say the risk isn't worth the payoff.
"It's just not worth that much," said Tallahassee Police Officer David McCraine. "It's worth about $2.50 a pound, but you've got to get a lot of copper in order to get any money out of that."
People bring copper by the truck loads to Gator Core, a metal recycler in Tallahassee. Co-Owner Joy Davis says they keep a suspicious eye on their customers.
"If they've got more than 30 or 40 pounds, you're going to ask them where it came from, and if it looks pretty new, you're definitely going to ask them where it came from," said Davis.
Davis also copies the seller's driver's license and keeps it on file. Police officers will look at the file if they suspect a thief has visited the company.
"When they get there, they've got to provide their identification and a lot of information which enables us to trace back who sold the product and make an arrest in a lot of cases," said McCraine.
A new law will require metal recyclers to keep a record of their customers in an electronic database. It will also increase the penalties for anyone who gives a metal recycler a fake ID or false contact information.
The law adds kegs of beer to the list of regulated metals upping the ante for anyone who gambles and tries to cash in on a stolen keg.
Many metal recyclers won't buy kegs, and according to Joy Davis they also won't buy metal from anyone who can't tell them where it came from.
The law will go into effect in October of this year.


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Serious Read: Qatar
October 03, 2014, 01:59:03 AM »
I found this read quite interesting.
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Al Gore, Al Jazeera, and Qatar
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Qatar and Brookings Institute
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From Qatar to the Gaza Strip
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Guest Column: The Road from Qatar to the Gaza Strip
by Reuven Berko
Special to IPT News
October 15, 2014
In a recent speech, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor mentioned the central role of Qatar in supporting international terrorist organizations. Money flowing from Qatar to Hamas, for example, paid for the terrorist attack tunnels dug from the Gaza Strip under the security fence into Israeli territory, and for the thousands of rockets fired at Israeli civilian targets in both the distant and recent past. In response, State Department spokesperson Marie Harf rushed to Qatar's defense, claiming it had an important, positive role in finding a solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Qatar's funding for Islamist terrorist organizations all over the world is an open secret known to every global intelligence agency, including the CIA. It was exposed by Wikileaks, which clearly showed that funds from Qatar were transferred to al-Qaida. Qatar also funds the terrorist movements opposing the Assad regime in Syria, such as the Al-Nusra Front, encourages anti-Egyptian terrorism in the Sinai Peninsula and within Egypt itself, and is involved in Islamic terrorism in Africa and other locations. It accompanies its involvement in terrorism targeting Israel and Egypt (through the Muslim Brotherhood) with vicious and inflammatory propaganda on its Al-Jazeera TV channel.
Qatar also spends millions of dollars supporting the Islamic Movement in Israel, a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood headed by Sheikh Ra'ed Salah. The Islamic Movement is responsible for ongoing acts of provocation on the Temple Mount and in Judea and Samaria, and incites the entire Islamic world against Israel, claiming that the Jews are trying to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque and replace it with the Jewish Temple. The incitement continued even as the Islamic Movement's sister movement, Hamas, fired rockets at Jerusalem and endangered both the mosques on the Temple Mount and Jerusalem's sites sacred to Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
As Qatar's representative, the Islamic Movement, which has not yet been outlawed in Israel, contributed to Hamas what it could during Operation Protective Edge by instigating riots, blocking roads and seeking to foment a third intifada which, according to the plan, would be joined by Israeli Arabs to augment the deaths of thousands of Israelis killed by rockets and the mass murders through the attack tunnels planned for the eve of the Jewish New Year.
In his recent UN speech, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rebutted Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' accusations of Israeli "genocide" of the Palestinian people. He reminded his audience of Hamas' use of Gazan civilians as human shields and of the rockets fired to attack specifically civilian Israeli targets. Unfortunately, he did not mention the Hamas charter, which calls for the murder of all the Jews. The fact that Abbas now heads a national consensus government in which Hamas is a full partner commits him to the slaughter of the Jewish people a true genocide and it is to the disgrace of the international community that such an individual was permitted to address the UN instead of being tried for war crimes.
In fact, the similarities between Hamas and ISIS are clearly stated in the Hamas charter, which defines Hamas as part of the Muslim Brotherhood's global Islamic movement. One of its objectives is to fight "infidel Christian imperialism" and its Zionist emissaries in Israel in order to impose the Sharia, Islamic religious law, on the world. According to the charter's paragraph 7, Hamas' intention is to slaughter every Jew, as ordered by Muhammad and those who accept his legacy. That is the basis for the threat issued by ISIS "Caliph," Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, that under his leadership, Islam will "drown America in blood."
Throughout its history, Hamas, like ISIS, has been committed to the concept of the global caliphate, which it plans to help construct by creating its own Islamic emirate on the ruins of the State of Israel. Since its founding, Hamas has attacked Israel and murdered thousands of its citizens exactly as ISIS has attacked and murdered "infidels." They share the same slogans, with "There is no god but Allah" and "Allah, Prophet Muhammad" inscribed on their flags and headbands. Hamas terrorists have blown themselves up in Israel's coffee shops, hotels, restaurants, buses, malls and markets, wherever there are large concentrations of civilians. The way Hamas executed suspected collaborators during the final days of Operation Protective Edge bore the hallmarks of the al-Qaida execution of Daniel Pearl and the ISIS beheading of James Foley and others.
In the decades during which Hamas has carried out a continual series of deadly terrorist attacks against Israel, wearing the same "Allah, Prophet, Muhammad" headbands as ISIS terrorists, the international community rarely voices its support for Israel, or takes into account that by defending itself Israel also defends the West, which has failed to understand that "political Islam" inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood was setting up shop in the free world's backyard and that the ticking bomb was set to go off sooner than expected. The West has not clearly condemned Qatar for openly supporting Hamas and its terrorist activities against Israel or demanded that it stop.
While Israel responded to Hamas' rocket attacks on civilian targets to keep thousands, if not tens of thousands, of Israeli civilians from being killed, the international community demanded "proportionality." That requirement kept Israel from responding as it should have and encouraged Hamas to fire ever more rockets at "military targets" such as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. When Israel built its security fence to keep Hamas suicide bombers from infiltrating into Israeli territory to blow themselves up in crowds of civilians, the international community opposed it, rushed to embrace the Palestinians' vocabulary of "racism" and "apartheid," and willingly played into the hands of Hamas and Abbas. This reaction occurred although Israel is the only truly democratic country in the Middle East, where Jews and Arabs can live in peace without "apartheid."
Today President Obama says he "underestimated" the threat posed by ISIS, while Israel has been warning the world of extremist military Islam for at least a decade, as Netanyahu warned the world of a nuclear Iran in his UN speech.
The international community has been curiously silent about the genuine apartheid in the Arab states neighboring Israel. There, descendants of the original 1948 Palestinian refugees, by now in their fourth generation, still live in refugee camps, do not have citizenship, and are excluded from jobs and social benefits. Israel, however, absorbed hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees, many of them destitute, who fled Europe and were expelled from the Arab countries when the state was founded, and were given citizenship and enjoy full rights, as do the Arabs who remained in Israel after the War of Independence.
Israel, which has nothing against the Palestinian people, would like to see the Gaza Strip rebuilt for both humanitarian reasons and to give Hamas something to lose. Radical Islamic elements around the globe, however, including Hamas, ISIS, al-Qaida, the Al-Nusra Front and Hizballah, all financed by Qatar, do not want to see the Israeli-Palestinian conflict resolved. They all have the same global agenda, based on fueling the conflict to unite Islam around it, under their leadership.
Therefore, Qatar continues to support global Islamic terrorism. On Sept. 13, Qatar paid the Al-Nusra Front a ransom of $20 million to free abducted UN soldiers from Fiji. The world praised Qatar for its philanthropy, but in effect, it was a brilliant act of manipulation and fraud, both filling the Al-Nusra Front's coffers and representing itself as the Fijians' savior. Qatar is using the same underhanded trick in the Gaza Strip. After sending Hamas millions of dollars to fund its anti-Israeli terrorist industry, it pledged $1 billion to help rebuild the Gaza Strip during last weekend's conference in Cairo.
While the world hopes Operation Protective Edge was the last round of Palestinian-Israeli violence, senior Hamas figures reiterate their position of gearing up to fight Israel again. Not one Hamas leader is willing to agree to a full merger with the Palestinian Authority to establish a genuine unified Palestinian leadership. Hamas rejects even the idea of disarming or demilitarization as part of an agreement to rebuild the Gaza Strip and promote the peace process. Unfortunately, no one has suggested it as a pre- condition for any U.S. dollars that will be contributed to the reconstruction of Gaza.
All that is left now is to hope that the billions of dollars poured into the Gaza Strip for its rebuilding will be accompanied by the disarmament of Hamas and the establishment of an honest mechanism for overseeing the money and materials Egypt and Israel allow into the Gaza Strip. It is imperative that they not be diverted to rebuild Hamas' terrorist infrastructure and tunnels, or to bribe UNRWA officials to look the other way, as has happened so often in the past. There is every indication that only Hamas and Qatar know whether there is anything to justify that hope.
Dr. Reuven Berko has a Ph.D. in Middle East studies, is a commentator on Israeli Arabic TV programs, writes for the Israeli daily newspaper Israel Hayom and is considered one of Israel's top experts on Arab affairs.
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Qatar's insidious influence on the Brooking Institute
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IPT Exclusive: Qatar's Insidious Influence on the Brookings Institution
A Four Part Investigative Series: Brookings Sells Soul to Qatar's Terror Agenda
by Steven Emerson, John Rossomando and Dave Yonkman
IPT News
October 28, 2014
Part 1 of a 4-part series.
The Brookings Institution bills itself as "the most influential, most quoted and most trusted think tank in the world," but should it be?
Brookings' long-term relationship with the Qatari government a notorious supporter of terror in the Middle East casts a dark cloud over such a lofty claim to credibility.
A September New York Times exposé revealed Qatar's status as the single largest foreign donor to the Brookings Institution. Qatar gave Brookings $14.8 million in 2013, $100,000 in 2012 and $2.9 million in 2011. In 2002, Qatar started subsidizing the Brookings outreach program to the Muslim World which has continues today. Between 2002 and 2010, Brookings never disclosed the annual amount of funds provided by the Government of Qatar.
Sources of funding should not automatically discredit an organization, but critical facts and claims about Brookings should be examined in light of them, starting with a harsh indictment by a former scholar.
The Investigative Project on Terrorism has reviewed the proceedings of 12 annual conferences co-sponsored by Brookings and the government of Qatar comprising more than 125 speeches, interviews, lectures and symposia; a dozen Brookings-based programs that were linked to the Qatari financed outreach to the Muslim world; and analyzed 27 papers sponsored and issued by the Brookings Institution and scholars based in Washington and at the Brookings Doha Center since 2002. Our review, which will be detailed in a four-part series beginning with this story, finds an organization that routinely hosts Islamists who justify terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and American troops, who advocate blasphemy laws which would criminalize criticism of Islam, and which never scrutinizes or criticizes the government of Qatar, its largest benefactor.
"[T]there was a no-go zone when it came to criticizing the Qatari government," Saleem Ali, who served as a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center in Qatar in 2009, told the New York Times.
"If a member of Congress is using the Brookings reports, they should be aware they are not getting the full story. They may not be getting a false story, but they are not getting the full story." Ali noted that he had been told during his job interview that taking positions critical of the Qatari government in papers would not be allowed, a claim Brookings vigorously denies.
"Our scholars, in Doha and elsewhere, have a long record of objective, independent analysis of regional affairs, including critical analysis of the policies of Qatar and other governments in the region," Brookings President Strobe Talbott said in response to the Times story.
Unfortunately for Talbott, Qatar's own Ministry of Foreign Affairs openly acknowledges that the partnership gives Qatar exactly what it wants: a public-relations outlet that projects "the bright image of Qatar in the international media, especially the American ones," a statement announcing a 2012 memorandum of understanding with Brookings said.
Indeed, their close collaboration stretches back more than a decade.
After Islamist terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Shanksville, Pa. on September 11, 2001, the Brookings Institution looked to Qatar to answer the question, "Why do they hate us?"
Former Qatari emir, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani answered Brookings' call in 2002, providing the think tank with the necessary seed money and resources to initiate its engagement with the Islamic world.
The alliance culminated with the 2002 Doha Conference on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World, co-sponsored by the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution and Qatar. Qatar underwrote the conference's cost.
Ambassador Martin Indyk, who headed the Saban Center at the time, and other Brookings leaders noted their desire to "build strong bridges of friendship" and avoid a "clash of civilizations."
Indyk took a leave of absence from Brookings in 2013 and the first half of 2014 to serve as President Obama's envoy for the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. Indyk placed excessive blame on Israel for their failure.
At an April 2013 Brookings forum in Washington, Indyk mentioned that he and Qatar's al-Thani had remained friends for "two decades." This relationship dates to when Indyk served as special assistant to President Clinton and senior director for Near East and South Asian affairs at the National Security Council.
Indyk noted that he approached the sheik after the 9/11 attacks, informing him that Brookings planned to launch a project focused on American engagement with the Islamic world.
"And he said immediately, 'I will support it, but you have to do the conference in Doha.' And I said, 'Doha, well that sounds like an interesting idea,'" Indyk said at the 2013 forum. "Three years into that, he suddenly then told me we want to have a Brookings in Doha. And I said, 'Well, okay, we'll have a Brookings in Doha, too,' and we ended up with the Brookings Doha Center" (BDC), in 2008."
Brookings' Qatar-based scholars see their host country with rosy spectacles, ignoring the emirate's numerous terror ties.
Sultan Barakat, research director at the Brookings Doha Center (BDC), portrayed Qatar as an emerging peacemaker in the Muslim world and as a force for good in a 2012 report titled, "The Qatari Spring: Qatar's Emerging Role In Peacemaking."
" [D]uring the Arab Spring, Qatar has emerged as a 'reformer'; that is, as a vocal and progressive leader of modern Arab nations, with the willingness and the capacity to utilize a broad range of both hard- and soft-power initiatives to achieve its foreign policy goals," Barakat wrote.
Highlighting Qatar as a regional peacemaker seems strange in the light of its longstanding support for Hamas and allegations that its leaders aided al-Qaida in the past. Cables released by Wikileaks and other U.S. government documents demonstrate these connections proved disturbing to American policymakers.
"Qatar's overall level of [counter-terrorism] cooperation with the U.S. is considered the worst in the region," a top level U.S. State Department official wrote in a secret Dec. 30, 2009 State Department cable. "Al-Qaida, the Taliban, UN-1267 listed LeT (Pakistan's Lakshar- e-Taiba), and other terrorist groups exploit Qatar as a fundraising locale."
The official also noted that Qatar's security services fail to act against known terrorists because the Gulf state feared terrorist reprisals "out of concern for appearing to be aligned with the U.S." Another 2008 State Department cable noted that Qatar's government "has often been unwilling to cooperate on designations of certain terrorist financiers."
Qatar's royal family has a long history of harboring terrorists. Former Minister of Islamic Affairs Sheikh Abdallah bin Khalid bin Hamad al-Thani, a member of the royal family, personally invited 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to relocate his family from Pakistan to the emirate during the 1990s, according to the 9/11 Commission Report. Mohammed accepted a position as project engineer with the Qatari Ministry of Electricity and Water which he held until 1996, when he fled back to Pakistan to evade capture by the United States.
Mohammed dedicated much of his considerable travel while working for the ministry to terrorist activity.
Qatar Charity, formerly the Qatar Charitable Society and currently headed by Hamad bin Nasser al-Thani, a member of Qatari royal family, demonstrates a lingering link between Qatar and terror financing.
Russia's interior minister accused Qatar Charitable Society of funneling money to Chechen jihadist groups in 1999. Al-Thani responded to the accusation in a 1999 interview with Al-Jazeera, saying his government would not interfere with the funding because the Russian actions in Chechnya were "painful for us as Qatari, Arab, or Muslim citizens."
Qatar Charitable Society played a key role in financing the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, according to the U.S. government.
Recent reports suggest the charity's connection with al-Qaida persists. Maliweb, a U.S.-based independent news source, accused Qatar Charity of significantly financing "the terrorists in northern Mali operations." French military intelligence reports accused Qatar of funding Ansar Dine a group that works closely with al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb and MUJAO in Mali at the time of France's January 2013 intervention.
U.S. court documents note additional ties between Qatar Charity and al-Qaida dating back to the 1990s. Osama bin Laden complained to an al-Qaida member following a failed 1995 assassination attempt against former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak that the then-Qatar Charitable Society funds had been spent in the operation. Consequently, the terror mastermind became concerned that his ability to exploit charities for al-Qaida's ends would be compromised.
Qatar also funded the Ahfad al-Rasoul Brigade in Syria, which engaged in joint operations with Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaida's Syrian affiliate.
Qatar played a similar role in Libya where it has openly funded and armed jihadists. IHS Jane's Defence Weekly found that Qatar sent a C-17 cargo plane to provide arms to a
militia loyal to Abdelhakim Belhadj, a Libyan warlord who fought alongside Osama bin Laden in Tora Bora in 2001 and was in touch with the leader of the 2004 Madrid train bombing.
Brookings scholar Bruce Reidel openly acknowledged in a Dec. 3, 2012 piece published in The Daily Beast that Syria's al-Qaida branch benefitted from arms supplied by Qatar.
In a separate Aug. 28, 2013 column in Foreign Policy magazine titled, "The Qatar problem," Brookings scholar Jeremy Shapiro observed that Qatar had undermined "U.S. efforts to isolate and delegitimize Hamas." Shapiro laid blame for Qatar's misbehavior at the feet of American policymakers. Yet he argued that the U.S. should not "oppose Qatar at every turn" and that it should "thus should seek to get the best deal on every transaction" with the emirate, which he classed as neither a friend nor a foe of the United States.
However, such observations have not translated into public criticism of Qatar or recommendations that the emirate alter its stances by Indyk, Talbott or other top people who been involved in managing Brookings' partnership with Qatar. They also have not brought about any public talk of reassessing Brookings relationship with the emirate.
The think tank denies that Qatari money and the involvement of a senior member of the emirate's royal family in its BDC translates into subservience to Qatar's foreign policy objectives.
"Brookings is an independent research institution, none of whose funders are able to determine its research projects," Indyk said after the New York Times story. "I hope nobody really believes that I cashed a check for $14.8 million dollars, which is what's going around in right-wing Jewish circles. We should all take a deep breath about some of these lurid, scandalous stories."
The figure Indyk cites stems from Brookings Foreign Government Disclosure. The nearby United Arab Emirates ranked a distant second among foreign government donors with a $3 million donation in 2010 and another $3 million in 2012.
Qatari involvement in Brookings goes beyond conventional donor relations, evidenced by Sheik Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr Thani's appointment as chairman of the BDC's board of advisers.
Even if Qatar exerts no overt control over Brookings' activities and policy positions, partnering with Qatar to discuss bridge-building with the Islamic world following 9/11 appears peculiar considering the oil-rich emirate's established ties with Islamic extremist groups and individuals at the time of the attacks.
Heritage Foundation scholar James Phillips slammed Brookings' cooperation with Qatar in comments to the Investigative Project on Terrorism.
"Qatar finances foreign entities for a reason: to advance its own foreign policy goals, which entail working closely with Islamist ideologues to empower Sunni Arab movements, including Hamas," Phillips said. "By accepting Qatar's money, Brookings risks appearing to be a tool of Qatar and unfortunately could help to legitimize such Islamist groups in the West.
"The implicit quid pro quo inherent in accepting money from foreign governments is one reason that the Heritage Foundation does not accept funding from foreign governments, which often attach strings to their donations, or even from the U.S. government."
Despite denials from both Talbott and Indyk, numerous examples illustrate how Brookings' pro-Qatar bias manifests itself, not always in what its Qatar-based scholars say, but in what they omit. A review of Brookings studies mentioning Qatar finds a consistent description of the emirate as a force for peace; complimenting its commitment to democracy and human rights; and education.
Even worse, Brookings reports gloss over the harsh realities of jihad terror and Islamism, instead recommending that the U.S. reach out to and cooperate with Islamist and jihadist groups.
Brookings calls for U.S. rapprochement with al-Qaida-linked group
In a January Foreign Policy magazine piece, Brookings scholars Will McCants, Michael Doran and Clint Watts urged the Obama administration against classifying Ahrar al-Sham, an organization backed by Turkey and Qatar and linked to al-Qaida, as a terror organization. Ahrar al-Sham founder Mohamed Bahiaiah, aka Abu Khalid al-Suri, was a senior al-Qaida operative, and the group routinely fights alongside Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), both of which were affiliated with al-Qaida at the time.
Al-Qaida leaders mourned the Islamic State's killing of Ahrar al-Sham's top leadership in September on their Twitter accounts.
"The al Qaeda of yesterday is gone. What is left is a collection of many different splinter organizations, some of which have their own and profoundly local agendas. The U.S. response to each should be, as Obama put it, 'defined and specific enough that it doesn't lead us to think that any horrible actions that take place around the world that are motivated in part by an extremist Islamic ideology are a direct threat to us or something that we have to wade into,'" the Brookings scholars wrote.
They argued that U.S. policymakers required "flexibility" in dealing with Ahrar al-Sham because it stood as a lesser of two evils when compared to the greater threat posed by ISIS.
"The Islamic Front, including Ahrar al-Sham, represents the best hope in Syria for defeating ISIS," the article said. "[D]esignating Ahrar al-Sham as a terrorist group would destroy what little chance the United States has of building relationships with the other militias in the Islamic Front."
Thus far, the Obama administration has not designated Ahrar al-Sham as a terrorist group despite its intimate ties to al-Qaida.
An October 2013 report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Ahrar al-Sham of war crimes.
Brookings' support for the Muslim Brotherhood
Peter W. Singer, co-coordinator of the 2002 conference, wrote in the conference's proceedings that "moderate," e.g. non-violent, Islamist parties needed inclusion in the political systems of majority Muslim countries.
"In dealing with burgeoning democracies, a general finding is that outside parties should support integration of Islamist parties into [the] political system rather than exclusion," Singer wrote. "The key is that inclusion helps moderates moderate, rather than forcing them outside the power structures, into possible violence."
Recent experience in Egypt discredits the theory. Egypt's MB pursued an authoritarian course during its year in power and supported its Palestinian sibling, Hamas, despite its access to Egypt's political process. Even some liberals conceded Egypt's Brotherhood proved itself incapable of adapting to democratic norms during its tenure.
Yet Brookings scholars continued to advocate including the MB in Egypt's political process in the wake of its defeat, even while conceding its authoritarian tendencies.
Tamara Cofman Wittes, director of Brookings' Center for Middle East Policy, suggests that Islamists, including those in the MB, Jordan's Islamic Action Front and Morocco's Party of Justice and Development, differ from groups such as Hamas or al-Qaida. She argues that they "want to transform society and government into something that is more 'Islamic,'" but aim to do so below the radar rather than through revolutionary change.
Wittes conceded that MB President Mohamed Morsi governed in an "exclusionary manner that derailed Egypt's nascent democratic transition," in a July 4, 2013 piece published the day after Morsi's ouster.
Nonetheless, any effort to ban the MB and "forcibly secularize the public sphere" would alienate the majority of Egyptians who believe politics should reflect Islamic values, Wittes warned. She predicted that any attempt by the military to purge the Brotherhood from public life would lead to "destabilizing social conflict." Her piece additionally labeled Morsi's departure a "coup" even as she admitted that millions of Egyptians took to the streets demanding it.
A month later, Wittes petitioned the Obama administration to cut off military aid to Egypt's military leaders.
"The United States must establish distance from an Egyptian military that's stoking vicious anti-Americanism, violating human rights, and revitalizing the repressive apparatus of the old dictatorship," Wittes wrote. "That means doing what should have been done on July 3 and complying with the Foreign Assistance Act.
"This law requires that aid be halted in the face of a military coup until a democratic government is restored."
Wittes also warned on multiple occasions that the crackdown would lead MB members to resort to terror. Writing with Daniel Byman, director of research and a senior fellow at Brookings' Center for Middle East Policy, they warned that Morsi's dismissal lent credibility to al-Qaida's view that participation in electoral politics was "treacherous" and that the "Islamist project could be only advanced through violence."
"Morsi's tenure forced the Brotherhood to accede to measures to contain Hamas in Gaza, but the coup gives the Brotherhood incentives to strengthen ties with its terrorist cousins," Byman and Wittes wrote in a Jan. 10, 2014 column titled "Now that the Muslim Brotherhood is declared a terrorist group, it might just become one," published in the Washington Post. "If even if a fraction of the millions of Brotherhood supporters embrace violence, that means tens of thousands of Egyptians are potential recruits for jihadis."
Two weeks later, Byman and Wittes followed up these sentiments by imploring American policymakers to pressure the Egyptian government "to allow paths for Brotherhood supporters to participate in legitimate political and social activity."
"To sustain a peaceful alternative for Brotherhood supporters, you should press the Egyptian government to release from prison Islamist politicians who commit to non-violence, and to allow a range of Islamist parties to organize, compete in elections, and participate in governance," Byman and Wittes wrote.
Brookings scholar Shadi Hamid, former research director at the BDC, disputed his colleagues' alarmism at the April launch of his book about the Egyptian MB's missteps. Hamid noted that no credible evidence existed that MB members had joined Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis as a consequence of the crackdown.
Brookings' support for Turkey's Islamization
In addition to lamenting the fate of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, Brookings scholars use a light touch when discussing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP).
Erdogan's Turkey embodies a sort of American-style secularism in which religion and government remain separate, yet a visible role for theology remains in public life, visiting BDC Fellow Ahmet T. Kuru wrote in a February 2013 paper. The AKP is a "model for governance" for Islamists throughout the Middle East, demonstrating the possibility of "pursuing Muslim politics without establishing an 'Islamic state.'"
"Islamic parties can also promote diverse understanding of shariah [Islamic law] through free and democratic processes," Kuru wrote. "Internationally, the AKP has succeeded in convincing the United States and European countries that a party with roots in Islamism can be a reliable ally.
Turkey's refusal to fight the Islamic State (IS), formerly the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, amid its onslaught against the Kurds underscores the NATO member's failure as an ally. Turkish troops sit idle on their side of the border with Syria even as the terrorist army squeezes the Kurds. Erdogan equates the Kurdish groups that have fought the Turkish government for decades with IS, and has been reluctant to cooperate unless the West turns its guns on the Assad regime.
Evidence suggests double-dealing between Turkey and IS using the Turkish charity Humanitarian Aid Foundation (IHH) as an intermediary. Turkey's intelligence service MIT is known to have maintained close ties with IHH and has been alleged to have unofficially funded the charity since 2003.
The charity allegedly smuggled weapons into Syria for use by various jihadist factions including IS. Some members of Turkey's parliament became so alarmed by these allegations that they wrote to Erdogan and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu asking for an explanation of the Turkish government's relations with IS this summer.
"One could argue that the AKP experience in the 2000s is one of the reasons why Western countries are today tolerant toward Islamists in states affected by the Arab Spring," Kuru wrote.
Turkish opponents, however, insist that AKP's pragmatism serves as a means to an end. Under AKP rule, the strict secularism introduced by Turkey's founder, Kemal Mustafa Attaturk, has eroded. Government policies encourage religious sects economically and assist them in expanding their causes, Turkey's Hurriyet Daily News newspaper reports in a 2008 article.
Secularists assert that such policies expose them to discrimination.
"Some social pressures, such as the government-origin discrimination and compulsion against the secularists, the activities of the religious sects in education, the isolation of secularists from economic life, alcohol bans, intolerance toward people who do not fast during Ramadan, and compulsory attendance at Friday prayers, show the presence of a new atmosphere which did not exist," the article said.
Talk of turning Istanbul's Hagia Sophia, formerly Byzantine Christianity's holiest church, into a mosque this summer over Orthodox Christian objections highlights the trend. Tens of thousands of Islamists protested outside the religious site in June demanding that Erdogan reopen it to Muslim worship.
AKP's Turkish critics maintain that it has a "flawed understanding of democracy" and accuse it of speaking the language of pluralism in a "selective way." Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian tendencies highlight this failing.
A 2014 HRW report explores the erosion of basic democratic freedoms under the AKP, including press autonomy, freedom of assembly, women's rights and the rule of law.
The report does not begin to cover Erdogan's role in supporting Islamist terror groups such as Hamas and his rumored double-dealing with the Islamic State.
Israeli intelligence provides evidence of Turkey's emergence as Hamas' top financial backer since 2012. Erdogan's government transferred $250 million to Hamas between 2012 and January 2014. It happened with the "full support of Erdogan and his aides."
Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal spoke with Erdogan in October 2013 about moving its headquarters from Qatar to Turkey, and many key Hamas operatives operate there.
Whitewashing conditions inside Qatar
The Brookings Doha Center "also works to contribute to the local society, supporting the National Vision's goals of human and social development in Qatar," Director Salman Shaikh wrote in an April opinion piece. "At the same time, the Center's publications and public events foster Qatar's 'knowledge economy' by promoting a culture of informed citizenship."
Such studies read like propaganda designed to encourage foreign investment in the emirate rather than provide complete and unvarnished truth.
Reality in Qatar is quite different from the picture Brookings paints. Human Rights Watch notes that only 10 percent of Qatar's population of 2 million are citizens. Most are foreign migrants who live under conditions that HRW describes as those of "exploitation" and "forced labor." Shaikh makes no mention of this.
The January HRW report also finds that "[d]omestic migrant workers, almost all women, are especially vulnerable to abuse," and that Qatar's standards fall well short of international labor norms.
"Qatar's record on freedom of expression causes concern. In February, an appeals court affirmed the conviction of a Qatari poet for incitement to overthrow the government over poems critical of Qatar's then-emir," HRW wrote.
None of these independent observations appear in any Brookings reports published by its Doha-based scholars.
Building one-way bridges
Brookings engaged with Qatar 12 years ago, seeking to build bridges with the Muslim world, but that bridge seems to steer traffic in one direction. As subsequent stories in this series will show, Muslim participants in its Doha conferences remain unflinching in their support for Hamas and other Palestinian terror factions. Brookings scholars, similar to their Islamist partners, now unequivocally classify al-Qaida and similar groups as terrorists while attaching caveats to describing Hamas in the same vein.
Such a shift marks a clear victory for Qatar.
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Qatar, Hamas, and Al Fatah
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Today's Opinion
The Role of Hamas and Fatah in the Jerusalem Disturbances
Everyone is competing for Qatar money a fact that only spurs local groups
towards greater levels of violence
Pinhas Inbari October 26, 2014
Jerusalem Issue Briefs Vol. 14, No. 34
The Muslim Brotherhood seeks to unite all of the regions Islamic movements
around the idea of the Muslim Caliphate with the Al-Aqsa Mosque as its hub.
-Hamas Khaled Mashal lives in Qatar and has helped the Qataris realize that
by ratcheting up the Palestinian issue they can reignite the passion of the
Arab masses throughout the Arab world in support of the Muslim Brotherhood.
-Fatahs Silwan (Jerusalem) branch was quick to glorify the hit-and-run
killer of the three-month-old American-Israeli baby, Chaya Zissel Braun. On
the issue of funding Fatah activity in Jerusalem, eyes are turned to Qatar.
-Both Fatah and Hamas compete for Qatars favor, provoking greater levels of
violence on the ground in Jerusalem.
The deterioration of the security situation in Jerusalem cannot be
understood only on the Israeli-Palestinian level; it is umbilically
connected to the chaos in the Middle East and to the great struggle between
the moderate Sunni regimes and the Muslim Brotherhood, which seeks to make
the Jerusalem issue a rallying cry of the Arab Storm. The Brotherhoods
strategy hopes to unite all of the regions Islamic movements around the
idea of the Muslim Caliphate with the Al-Aqsa Mosque as its hub.
As demonstrated during Operation Protective Edge, the Brotherhood flaunted
the banner the siege of Gaza to incite European Muslims to demonstrate in
the streets with their leftist allies, thereby advancing the status of Islam
on the Christian continent. Today, the Muslim jihadists use the Save
Jerusalem campaign to again bring millions of agitated Muslims into the
streets of Europe.
Before the recent hit-and-run terror attack on a Jerusalem light rail
platform that killed an American-Israeli infant, the head of Hamas
Political Bureau, Khaled Mashal, published a special announcement calling
on our people to hasten immediately to defend Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa, and on
the Muslim nation to send a painful message of rage to the world that the
Palestinian people and with them the Arab and Islamic nation will not keep
quiet about Israeli crime.1 Thus, in Hamass view it is the Jerusalem issue
that can place the Palestinians at the forefront of the revolution unfolding
in the Arab world, and of the Muslim awakening in Europe.
A Call to Muslim Faithful to Converge on Jerusalem
The clarion call of Al-Aqsa was sounded by the eminent Muslim Brotherhood
jurist, Doha-based Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, when in Cairos Tahrir Square
in February 2011, immediately after the ouster of President Mubarak, he
called for Al-Aqsas liberation. Subsequently, he published a book titled
Jerusalem: The Problem of Every Muslim.2 In the introduction, the preeminent
scholar of the Muslim Brotherhood says, O nation of Islam, arise, the hour
has come, and the hour of danger beckons to Jerusalem, to Jerusalem
Al-Aqsa, Al-Aqsa!
Sheikh Qaradawi got into a bitter polemic with the head of the Palestinian
Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, after Abbas called to inundate Jerusalem with
massive Muslim tourism so as to preserve its Muslim nature in the face of
the Judaization of the city. Sheikh Qaradawi has ruled that visiting
Jerusalem is forbidden so long as it is under Israeli occupation;3 Jerusalem
must be liberated by force and not by tourism.4
The leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh
Raed Salah, who belongs to the circles closest to Sheikh Qaradawi,5 stated
that Jerusalem is the capital of the imminently approaching Islamic
In monitoring Hamass websites, one gets the impression that pressure to sow
discord in Jerusalem greatly intensified after the overthrow of former
Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, the crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood
there and its designation as a terrorist movement.7 Meanwhile, a crisis
erupted between Saudi Arabia and Qatar over the funding of the Brotherhood
branches in the Arab world, including Hamas, based on the claim that these
are terror organizations.8 Presumably, Qatar tried indirectly to help the
Brotherhood in Egypt by inspiring support for them on the Jerusalem issue.
It is also evident that in Syria, Qatar has funded an attempt to establish
terror groups that put Jerusalem at the top of their concerns, such as the
Al-Aqsa Army.
The fact that Khaled Mashal is living in Qatar has helped the Qataris
realize that by ratcheting up the Palestinian issue it can reignite the
passion of the Arab masses throughout the Arab world in support of the
Muslim Brotherhood. As we saw in Operation Protective Edge, Qatar dictated a
tough line against a ceasefire in the hope of bringing the Arab masses out
into the streets. Qatar failed in the Arab world but succeeded in Europe.
Muslim Brotherhood Pressures Jordan
The use of the Jerusalem issue to exert pressure on the Arab world in
general has greatly increased the pressure on Jordan, which was recognized
in its peace treaty with Israel as custodian of the Jerusalem holy places.9
The pretension of the worldwide Muslim Brotherhood movement to represent the
Jerusalem issue has led the Brotherhood in Jordan to censure the Hashemite
government in this regard and question whether Jordan is really safeguarding
The fact that the Palestinian Authority has joined Hamass campaign to Save
Al-Aqsa, notwithstanding the agreement that the Authority has signed with
Jordan, will likely lead to difficulties between the latter two. King
Abdullah has harshly castigated Israel on the Jerusalem issue;11 it must be
understood that he himself is in distress.
During the two previous intifadas, Fatah of Jerusalem in fact took pains to
exclude Jerusalem from the sphere of the conflict. Fatah sources say it was
indeed the Fatah Tanzim in Jerusalem that told Arafat, The interest of the
residents of east Jerusalem in steadfastness sumud requires excluding
them from the sphere of violence. Hence, whereas the West Bank and Gaza
engaged in terror, the Fatah Tanzim made the struggle an issue of sumud,
such as safeguarding illegal construction; and even though the Second
Intifada was dubbed the Al-Aqsa Intifada, Fatah took care to distance it
from the holy place.
Today, the situation is the opposite: quiet Gaza is licking its wounds, the
West Bank is also relatively quiet, while most of the focus is on
Jerusalem. The main reason is a drastic decline in support for Fatah in
Jerusalem, so that it is the Islamic movements such as Hamas and the
international Hizb ut-Tahrir movement, which advocates a caliphate, that are
directing the events. For Fatah there is nothing left but to be pulled along
by Hamas.
Looking for Qatari Funding
With an eye to the seventh Fatah conference, planned for the end of the year
though its date has not yet been set, Abbas met with members of the
Jerusalem district of Fatah. Fatah sources in Jerusalem say that the
makeup of the cadres has been changed so that street punks and even the
underworld have been recruited to foment an intifada in Jerusalem. They
have demanded payment for their activity but so far no budget has been
provided to them. Legal costs for those arrested are supposed to have been
paid, but receipt of the funds is not certain.
Fatahs Silwan (Jerusalem) branch was quick to glorify the hit-and-run
killer of the three-month-old American-Israeli baby, Chaya Zissel Braun,
posting an obituary for the murderer on its official Facebook page, and also
using the words heroic Martyr.12
On the issue of funding Fatah activity in Jerusalem, eyes are turned to
Qatar, the great financier of all the movements that are undermining
regional stability, including in Israel. The large sums evidently being used
by the websites of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood to wage the Jerusalem
campaign indicate that much Qatari money has already flowed their way, and
Fatah is now waiting in line.
Fatahs very weak standing in the Al-Aqsa compound was apparent in the
attack wild to the point of life-endangering on Palestinian religious
affairs minister Mahmoud al-Habash when he visited the Al-Aqsa Mosque at the
end of June this year. His attackers were Hamas and Hizbat ut-Tahrir men,
and the Palestinian Authoritys security forces had a very hard time
rescuing him. 13 The joint attack also conveyed a message that these two
movements, which have struggled over hegemony on the Mount, have reconciled
and are now acting in unison.
Yet everyone is competing for Qatar money a fact that only spurs local
groups towards greater levels of violence. Fatahs joining of the Al-Aqsa
campaign as a wagon hitched to fundamentalist Qatar may well herald a
takeover of Ramallah by the radical Islamic movements unless the
Palestinian Authority regains its bearings in time.
* * *
Roger Gerber explains:
Jerusalem has been subjected recently to a steady barrage of violence against both civilians and infrastructure, resulting in both loss of life and serious damage to about one-thrid of the city's light rail cars. Palestinian Authority President Abbas has spread unfounded incendiary rumors among his populace to the effect that Israeli settlers were "desecrating" Al-Aqsa Mosque and, in a public speech last week, he asserted that "We must stop them (the settlers) from entering by any means possible." It should be noted that under both Arafat and Abbas whenever it was deemed necessary to stir up the populace the imaginary threat against al-Aqsa Mosque was invoked (the brutal second intifada was even dubbed the "Al-Aqsa Intifada"). Accordingly, P.M Netanyahu has charged that "the attacks in Jerusalem are supported by P.A. Chairman Abu Mazen [Mahmoud Abbas] who both extols the murderers and embraces the organization that the terrorists belong to, Hamas". Israel's Ambassador to the U.S., Ron Dermer, on October 26 averred that Mahmoud Abbas is an enemy of Israel, who educates children to hate Jews and wants to establish a Judenrein state. One wonders whether our State Department is truly oblivious to all this or just pretends not to see or hear it. The following analysis by Pinhas Inbari should be read in conjunction with the complementary piece by Nadav Shragai distributed simultaneously.]
4 Sheikh Kamal Hativ of the Islamic Movement in Israel said in response to a
visit to Al-Aqsa by Egyptian religious figures that Jerusalem will receive
these ulema as conquerors and not as tourists.
5 At one point it was reported that Sheikh Raed Salah had attacked Sheikh
Qaradawi for a ruling that forbade tourism in Jerusalem. Sheikh Raed Salah
hastened to publish a special announcement denying this; on the contrary, he
recognized Sheikh Qaradawis authority as head of the World Federation of
Muslim Scholars. He supported the sheikhs visit to Gaza in lieu of
Jerusalem because Gaza has already been liberated.
7 Thus, for example, several campaigns were inaugurated such as Al-Aqsa Is
Ours and Is Not Your Temple, which were disseminated via Facebook to the
whole Arab world and even to Europe.
9 Even after the Palestinian Authority joined UNESCO, Jordan forced Ramallah
to ratify Jordans status as custodian of Al-Aqsa and as the representative
of Jerusalem in UNESCO.
About Pinhas Inbari
Pinhas Inbari is a veteran Arab affairs correspondent who formerly reported
for Israel Radio and Al Hamishmar newspaper, and currently serves as an
analyst for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
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The Qatar "Crisis"
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The Qatar "Crisis"
I asked an informed source about this "crisis" that seems to have recently erupted without warning. This is what I learned:
First of all, though there's some recent news which seems to be sparking this -- leaked documents showing cooperation between the UAE and Israel, leaked documents showing Qatar cozying up to Russia -- in fact, those are just shots being fired in an information operation war that has been going on for years. Those are not the cause of the tensions, just the recent signs that the Gulf States are no longer willing to paper over its problems with Qatar.
Although states like Saudi Arabia are frequently charged with inciting terrorism or permitting their citizens to fund terrorism, they are, at least officially, anti-terrorist-uprising/anti-Islamist-takeover, if only for reasons of self-preservation. States that align against destablilization by Islamists are Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Bahrain, and Kuwait.
And Egypt, which was briefly given to the Islamists, gift-wrapped by Barack Obama.
Also Jordan, a fairly friendly country, and also, kind of secretly, Israel. The Gulf States do not openly brag about their cooperation with Israel, and Israel keeps it quiet so as not to embarrass them, but Israel is a quiet secret partner against the Islamists.
Meanwhile, there's a pro-Islamist slate of powers in the region: the once secular, now Islamist Turkey, the Mohammad Brotherhood (not an official power, but can't say Obama didn't try), and... Qatar, which openly supports Islamist movements itself, and propagandizes for them through its Al Jazeera network.
Meanwhile, not only is Qatar funding and fueling Sunni Islamist movements, but they're also cozying up to Obama's favorite country Iran, against which most of the Sunni Muslim world is allied.
Recently members of the Qatar royal family were kidnapped while in Iran, likely by Iranian agents or Iran-supported groups, and Qatar paid more than $700 million in ransom to have them back. This money is now in the hands of Iran and its various terror sects.
So the other members of the non-openly-Islamist-supporting coalition have demanded that Qatar announce it is one one side of the line or the other -- with the Islamist terrorists and Iran, or with the other Sunni Arab states -- and stop funding the terrorist-friendly Al Jazeera. Several countries have shut Al Jazeera's local offices down as part of this effort.
One more thing: We have an airbase in Qatar, and some claim that this is a major complicating factor. However, I'm told the UAE actually would like to host a US airbase, so if we were to isolate Qatar (and cause them to demand we depart their nation), it would be a temporary problem rather than a long-term strategic loss.
Also, expect the elements of the Iran Echo Chamber to begin pumping out pro-Qatar propaganda. Qatar is looking to have leftwing "think tanks" provide the same support that Iran got under Obama, and have just agreed to pump millions of dollars into the leftwing Brookings Institute.
Can a leftwing "institute" be corrupted by foreign terror 'n oil money? Only time will tell.
But the answer is
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The Gazette (Montreal)
The first of the official receptions on the White Star-Dominion R. M. S.
Laurentic takes place today, when a luncheon will be provided, to which the
following, amongst others, are the invited guests: Sir Wilfred Laurier,
[Prime Minister of Canada], ... [IMM representatives] P. A S. Franklin,
John Lee, F. Toppin, John Torrance, W. M. Macpherson [and] G. W. Torrance,
... [Montreal] Mayor [Louis] Payette, ... [railroad executive] Chas. M.
Hays, [and many others, whose names will not be included here].
Representative exporters in grain, flour, fruit and hay; prominent cattle
shippers, the leading lumber dealers, and men prominent in Canadian business
matters are also included in the list.
It is understood that Sir Wilfred Laurier will be unable to attend, but a
large number of the other invited guests have signified their intention of
being present.
Tomorrow there will be a ladies' reception, to which over 800 of the fair
sex have been invited, and will continue between 4 and 6 p.m., with a
special tea. On Thursday there will be a lunch to the passenger agents,
many of whom will be from the western divisions, to meet their confreres of
the east.
Related Biographies:
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What do two teenage girls do when they have a little free time on their hands?
In the case of Saylor Keener and Pamela Burr, they head to Rum River Drive to earn a quick hundred bucks.
The two Princeton Middle School students are this year's winners in the Rum River Festival medallion contest.
Saylor and Burr found the medallion on Tuesday night. The medallion was found taped under a plastic coffee cup lid in a flower bed at the little house on Rum River Drive across from the Dairy Queen.
The two needed just two clues before finding the medallion on the second day of the medallion hunt. While people were following day three clues to the little house on Rum River Drive, the girls were already claiming their $100 prize money.
The girls ventured off on the medallion hunt Tuesday, because, they said, they had nothing better to do. Saylor's mom, Audra Keener, began searching for the medallion Monday. She was unsuccessful in finding the medallion and couldn't continue the search on Tuesday.
"I was too busy Tuesday, so I suggested the girls go out," Audra Keener said.
After reading Monday's clue, the girls headed out to the roundabout. But sixth-grader Saylor and eighth-grader Pamela came up empty.
On their bikes, they headed south on Rum River Drive. They headed all the way down to Ace Hardware. They made a few stops along the way, but came up empty-handed.
Saylor called her Mom to have Tuesday's clue read one more time. That's when the three agreed that the girls should turn around and make their way to the little house across the street from the Dairy Queen.
"I was talking to my Mom when (Pamela) picked up the lid to the coffee cup and started screaming," said Saylor, noting that they had walked past the medallion's location at least four times.
It wasn't long before the girls were running into the Keener home screaming. Audra Keener knew right then and there what had happened.
"One of them came in screaming. She ran right out of her shoes in the yard," Audra Keener said.
The girls weren't only excited about finding the medallion. They were excited for the plans they were making with their winnings.
"We're going shopping," the girls said.


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Like a lot of ladies out there, I'm a sucker for a bargain, and an even bigger sucker for a pair of pretty shoes, so when the two come along together, who am I to say no?! I spotted these slingback shoes in the Next sale for a bargain not to be missed at an amazing £7. Were they sparkly? Yes. Were they gorgeous? Yes. Was the heel far too high, but made my calves look fab? Yes. Did they fit? No. Did I buy them? Of course!
The front of the shoe fitted perfectly without any rubbing, and they felt like the right size underfoot, but the slingback bit kept falling down, which was extremely annoying because when you go out dancing, you need reliable footwear! I had seen Scholl Party feet Invisible Slingback Strips, but I had never had any reason to buy them until now, so I headed to Superdrug where I picked up a pack of four strips (two pairs) for £3.99. I thought that this was a bit expensive, considering that the shoes had only cost me £7, but I bought them anyway, believing that Scholl is a trusted brand - their Party Feet Gel Pads have rescued my feet on more than one occasion, and have always been reliable.
The strips come in a flat plastic pouch like packet, which has an attractive lilac design and a picture of a classy shoe on the front. It says that these strips will help to prevent shoe straps slipping and rubbing, and that they are ideal for strappy shoes; exactly what I needed. The rear of the pack again confirms their purpose and says that the discreet strips will stay firmly in place for lasting comfort and protection (Remember that for later!), also on the back you will find the instructions for use and contact information.
Inside the pack, the clear gel strips are stuck to a clear plastic film; you are simply supposed to peel these off, and stick them into your clean and dust free shoes. The strips are quite wobbly and fiddly, so it took me a while to get these into place, especially as they are quite sticky - almost magnetically so, and they wanted to stick to anything! Eventually I managed it and I headed out.
I think that I made it about 100 meters down the road before they started to come off! I could feel the strips moving as I walked and the "discreet" strips were now flapping about my heel in a not very discreet way! I was surprised, as the glue had earlier seemed so sticky, but luckily I hadn't got that far so I headed back home, found the spare pair and Superglued them into my shoes - I am not one to give up easily! I made it further this time, and they lasted around an hour before they started to edge their way out of my shoe, and I had to remove them completely before anybody noticed.
In principal, these strips are a great idea, but I do not think that the glue is strong enough. The natural movement of your foot whilst walking is bound to pull these out, and if Superglue wouldn't hold them, I doubt that anything could. All of the claims on the pack are completely untrue I have to wonder whether these were tested at all before they came to market. I have now learnt my lesson, and I'll only buy sensible shoes that fit me properly in the future! My "bargain" shoes can now be found in the bottom of my wardrobe gathering dust, in the vain hope that one day my feet will grow!
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Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz is a Professor of Law at Georgetown and a Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute. He teaches and writes about constitutional law and federal jurisdiction, and he is currently developing a new theory of constitutional interpretation and judicial review. The first installment, entitled The Subjects of the Constitution, was published in the Stanford Law Review in May of 2010, and it is the single most downloaded article about constitutional interpretation, judicial review, or federal courts in the history of SSRN. The second installment, The Objects of the Constitution, was published in May of 2011, also in the Stanford Law Review. And the comprehensive version is forthcoming as a book by Oxford University Press.
Rosenkranz has served and advised the federal government in a variety of capacities. He clerked for Judge Frank H. Easterbrook on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (1999-2000) and for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy at the U.S. Supreme Court (October Term 2001). He served as an Attorney-Advisor at the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice (November 2002 - July 2004). He often testifies before Congress as a constitutional expert—most recently before the Senate Judiciary Committee, regarding the nomination of Justice Sotomayor. He has also filed briefs and presented oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Rosenkranz is a member of the Board of Directors of the Federalist Society.
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Bruce Brown claims 5th Judicial DA race
November 7, 2012
Democrat Bruce Brown won a decisive victory in the race for 5th Judicial District Attorney. Brown received 54 percent of the total votes, while his opponent Republican Scott Turner garnered 46 percent overall according to early results.
All four counties – Clear Creek, Eagle, Lake and Summit – voted for Brown over Turner. Brown's margin was greatest in Lake County, 58 percent to Turner's 42 percent. In Summit, Brown took 53 percent of the vote, and Turner took 47 percent.
"I want to congratulate Scott Turner on a race that was very well run," Brown said. "And I want to express my gratitude to the people of Summit County for voting in large numbers and allowing me to become a leader in the district attorney office and provide the justice that the victims deserve."
A big part of Brown's campaign was focused on change. Turner was endorsed by current district attorney, Mark Hurlbert, also a Republican. Brown maintained that a change in leadership was necessary for improvements, and garnered the endorsements of 11 of the 12 county commissioners, all Democrats, in the district's four counties.
Brown is originally from California, and has been practicing law for 26 years. A private defense attorney, Brown has been involved in cases involving fraud, homicide, drugs and sex assaults. He moved to Colorado in 2002, and currently resides in Evergreen.
"It was a hard campaign," Brown said. "I made a big effort to listen to voters and I think I understood their concerns and I hope that I'll be able to craft an office that reflects the values within our community."
No stranger to campaigns, Brown ran for district attorney in 2004, losing to Hurlbert.
Brown has expressed his desire to incorporate more mentoring for younger and inexperienced attorneys, a move which he claims will aid in trial skills. He is also interested in pushing softer penalties for young, first-time offenders. Most important, he says, are victims' rights.
"My No. 1 priority is to make sure that victims' rights are respected and expanded," said Brown. "My primary emphasis within the office is to make sure that from the beginning of the case, victims are well-communicated with, to the end of the case, when they're heard."
Scott Turner could not be reached for comment Tuesday night.


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Recently I have bought Samsung 305T plus.
Monitor has quite not bad quality. Angles of view are very good.
Colors are the best, I don't see so called wide gamut issue, on the contrary, colors are pleasant and vivid, but in my opinion there are no reasons to be worried.
Angles are practically the same as S-IPS models have.
Color shifting is just a little more than S-IPS/H-IPS panels have.
Actually monitor is practically suitable for Photoshop and similar color critical applications except fine operations at deep shadows.
There is widespread opinion that S-PVA must not be used for color critical applications, but now I see it's not absolute true. And it's good news for last generations S-PVA panels.
Uniformity of screen light is very nice too.
Build quality is the best. There are no clickings, noises and any sounds
There is just one really non-perfect thing - there is so called the sparkling effect. Usually this disadvantage have S-IPS panels, the effect is known as the silk screen effect, the crystalline effect etc.
Usually it's clear visible at big white homogeneous surface.
This disadvantage is real essential thing for people who has sensitive eyes.
It's not a problem for applications where are not many white surface, but it's unpleasant fact when we're working with some diagrams where are lines with continuous white background. To be honest the sparkling effect is almost not visible already when your eyes are more than 15-20" from screen.
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