British intelligence and Scotland Yard were involved in an international operation to protect Saif al-Islam, the son of Muammar Gaddafi, from an Islamist plot to assassinate him on British soil, secret files discovered by The Independent have revealed. The British intelligence services suspected that the plot was linked to Qatar, currently the West's foremost Arab ally against the Libyan regime.

(...) in the past, MI6 urgently contacted its French counterparts after Libyan authorities reported that a terrorist cell linked to the Gulf state of Qatar was planning the attack from Paris. The French told UK officials at the time that "the Qatari Interior Minister was known to be an Islamist extremist sympathiser". No evidence was presented to back up the charge. But, in 2003, the same minister was likewise believed by members of the US intelligence community to have links to al-Qa'ida. In a Los Angeles Times report in March of that year, Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalid al-Thani was said to have sheltered terrorists at his farm. Richard Clarke, a former White House counterterrorism director, said that his role as security chief inside Qatar presented a serious danger to US forces posted there. Qatari officials did not comment on the claims. Seven years on, Qatar is now one of the largest funders of the Libyan opposition who are forming the new government in Tripoli after overthrowing Muammar Gaddafi. Qatar is also a conduit, it is claimed, for supplying Western arms to the rebels.

(...) In the process, the regime also exposed the activities of the Pakistani scientist A Q Khan, who had been running a black market selling nuclear know-how to rogue states and striving to create an "Islamic bomb".

bron

Its founder is the avuncular Mahmud Shammam, a well-known Libyan expatriate journalist who edits:

• Foreign Policy's Arabic edition
• + nearly 10 years at the helm of Newsweek's Arabic edition
• + a frequent guest on Al Jazeera, where he was a board member for four years

Libya TV has set up a studio in Benghazi and another in London, in addition to its headquarters in Doha (Qatar).

bron

Waar halen we objectieve informatie vandaan over de oorlog in Libië?
22 mrt 2011

(...) De vertegenwoordiger van India heeft tijdens de resolutie-1973 vergadering van de Verenigde Naties gesteld dat er een beslissing is genomen over Libië zonder dat er objectieve gegevens beschikbaar zijn. Eigenlijk lijkt de wereld zich gebaseerd te hebben op de informatie die vanuit de westerse media en Al-Jazeera naar buiten zijn gebracht. Voorheen had ik bij Al-Jazeera nog het gevoel dat ze een neutralere houding hadden ten opzichte van de wijze waarop het nieuws wordt gepresenteerd, maar sinds we weten dat er zelfs gevechsvliegtuigen uit het land waar Al-Jazeera uitzendt, namelijk Qatar, meedoen met de strijd wordt het hoogst onwaarschijnlijk dat we iets anders dan propaganda zullen vinden bij Al-Jazeera. Waar moeten we dan onze informatie vandaan halen? Alleen van de Libische staats-TV? De Libische regering vraagt al geruime tijd om objectieve waarnemers, maar dat verzoek wordt massaal genegeerd: gebeurt dat omdat we anders misschien niet zo goed onze propaganda-oorlog kunnen uitvoeren? (...)

Does Al Jazeera report the news, or create the news?
Philippe Cayla, Euronews
7 feb 2007

Wag The Dog
16 aug 2008

Al Arabiya is a Pan-Arabist Saudi-owned Arabic-language television news channel. Launched on March 3, 2003, the channel is based in Dubai Media City, United Arab Emirates, and is majority-owned by the Saudi broadcaster Middle East Broadcasting Center (MBC).

:arrow: As a response to Al-Jazeera's criticism of the Saudi royal family throughout the 1990s, members of the Saudi royal family established Al-Arabiya in Dubai in 2002.

5 000 Forces spéciales du Qatar avaient été déployées en Libye
Georges Malbrunot
Le Figaro.fr
6 nov 2011

Qatar sent 5,000 X (Blackwater) troops inside Libya
9 nov 2011

This information reported by Voltaire Network is not accurate. The 5,000 troops sent from Qatar are not Qatari but belonging to X private security contractor (former Blackwater). The 5,000 troops include military and mercenaries from US, UK, France, Australia, Nepal, Jordan and Kazakhstan. They were sent from Qatar to Tunisia and Egypt. The Tunisian army helped them entering Libyan territories.

(...) On 21 February the world was shocked by the news that the Gaddafi regime was using its airforce to slaughter peaceful demonstrators in Tripoli and other cities. The main purveyor of this story was al-Jazeera, but the story was quickly taken up by the Sky network, CNN, the BBC, ITN et al. Before the day was over the idea of imposing a no-fly zone on Libya was widely accepted, as was the idea of a Security Council resolution imposing sanctions and an arms embargo, freezing Libya’s assets and referring Gaddafi and his associates to the ICC on charges of crimes against humanity. Resolution 1970 was duly passed five days later and the no-fly zone proposal monopolised international discussion of the Libyan crisis from then on.

(...)

(...) In the days that followed I made efforts to check the al-Jazeera story for myself. One source I consulted was the well-regarded blog Informed Comment, maintained and updated every day by Juan Cole, a Middle East specialist at the University of Michigan. This carried a post on 21 February entitled ‘Qaddafi’s bombardments recall Mussolini’s’, which made the point that ‘in 1933-40, Italo Balbo championed aerial warfare as the best means to deal with uppity colonial populations.’ The post began: ‘The strafing and bombardment in Tripoli of civilian demonstrators by Muammar Gaddafi’s fighter jets on Monday …’, with the underlined words linking to an article by Sarah El Deeb and Maggie Michael for Associated Press published at 9 p.m. on 21 February. This article provided no corroboration of Cole’s claim that Gaddafi’s fighter jets (or any other aircraft) had strafed or bombed anyone in Tripoli or anywhere else. The same is true of every source indicated in the other items on Libya relaying the aerial onslaught story which Cole posted that same day.

(...)

Who said Gaddafi had to go?
Hugh Roberts
17 nov 2011

(...) On 21 February the world was shocked by the news that the Gaddafi regime was using its airforce to slaughter peaceful demonstrators in Tripoli and other cities. The main purveyor of this story was al-Jazeera, but the story was quickly taken up by the Sky network, CNN, the BBC, ITN et al. Before the day was over the idea of imposing a no-fly zone on Libya was widely accepted, as was the idea of a Security Council resolution imposing sanctions and an arms embargo, freezing Libya’s assets and referring Gaddafi and his associates to the ICC on charges of crimes against humanity. Resolution 1970 was duly passed five days later and the no-fly zone proposal monopolised international discussion of the Libyan crisis from then on.

(...)

(...) In the days that followed I made efforts to check the al-Jazeera story for myself. One source I consulted was the well-regarded blog Informed Comment, maintained and updated every day by Juan Cole, a Middle East specialist at the University of Michigan. This carried a post on 21 February entitled ‘Qaddafi’s bombardments recall Mussolini’s’, which made the point that ‘in 1933-40, Italo Balbo championed aerial warfare as the best means to deal with uppity colonial populations.’ The post began: ‘The strafing and bombardment in Tripoli of civilian demonstrators by Muammar Gaddafi’s fighter jets on Monday …’, with the underlined words linking to an article by Sarah El Deeb and Maggie Michael for Associated Press published at 9 p.m. on 21 February. This article provided no corroboration of Cole’s claim that Gaddafi’s fighter jets (or any other aircraft) had strafed or bombed anyone in Tripoli or anywhere else. The same is true of every source indicated in the other items on Libya relaying the aerial onslaught story which Cole posted that same day.

(...)

3 minute video debunks the Libyan war.flv
12 okt 2011

Unknown Snipers and Western backed "Regime Change"
A Historical Review and Analysis
30 nov 2011

(...) how Western intelligence agencies, human rights groups and the corporate press collude in the systematic destruction of countries whose leadership conflicts with the interests of big capital and empire.

Syria 2011

The people of Syria have been beset by death squads and snipers since the outbreak of violence there in March. Hundreds of Syrian soldiers and security personnel have been murdered, tortured and mutilated by Salafist and Muslim Brotherhood militants. Yet the international media corporations continue to spread the pathetic lie that the deaths are the result Bachar Al Assad’s dictatorship.

When I visited Syria in April of this year, I personally encountered merchants and citizens in Hama who told me they had seen armed terrorists roaming the streets of that once peaceful city, terrorizing the neighbourhood. I recall speaking to a fruit seller in the city of Hama who spoke about the horror he had witnessed that day. As he described the scenes of violence to me, my attention was arrested by a newspaper headline in English from the Washington Post shown on Syrian television: “CIA backs Syrian opposition”. The Central Intelligence Agency provides training and funding for groups who do the bidding of US imperialist interests. The history of the CIA shows that backing opposition forces means providing them with arms and finance, actions illegal under international law.

A few days later, while at a hostel in the ancient, cultured city of Aleppo, I spoke to a Syrian business man and his family. The business man ran many hotels in the city and was pro-Assad. He told me that he used to watch Al Jazeera television but now had doubts about their honesty. As we conversed, the Al Jazeera television in the background showed scenes of Syrian soldiers beating and torturing protestors. “ Now if that is true, it is simply unacceptable” he said. It is sometimes impossible to verify whether the images shown on television are true or not. Many of the crimes attributed to the Syrian army have been committed by the armed gangs, such as the dumping of mutilated bodies into the river in Hama, presented to the world as more proof of the crimes of the Assad regime.

There is a minority of innocent opponents of the Assad regime who believe everything they see and hear on Al Jazeera and the other pro-Western satellite stations. These people simply do not understand the intricacies of international politics.

But the facts on the ground show that most people in Syria support the government. Syrians have access to all internet websites and international TV channels. They can watch BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, read the New York Times online or Le Monde before tuning into their own state media. In this respect, many Syrians are more informed about international politics than the average European or American. Most Europeans and American believe their own media. Few are capable of reading the Syrian press in original Arabic or watching Syrian television. The Western powers are the masters of discourse, who own the means of communication. The Arab Spring has been the most horrifying example of the wanton abuse of this power.

Disinformation is effective in sowing the seeds of doubt among those who are seduced by Western propaganda. Syrian state media has disproved hundreds of Al Jazeera lies since the beginning of this conflict. Yet the western media has refused to even report the Syrian government’s position lest fair coverage of the other side of this story encourage a modicum of critical thought in the public mind.

Al-Jazeera involved in killing Syrians (GRAPHIC IMAGES) (english subs)
upload 30 nov 2011

Russia downgrades relations with Qatar over attack on ambassador
5 dec 2011

Russia will downgrade its diplomatic relations with Qatar following an attack on the Russian ambassador by customs officers at Doha airport, the Foreign Ministry said on its website on Monday.

Evil Role of Qatar in Destruction of Once Independent & Prosperous Libya, Now Syria
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NATO Dirty Games At United Nations To Destroy Syria
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