For the Love of Oil: Pakistan PM Assassination by Americans & USA-British Iran Coup

Pakistan's first Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan was assassinated by America By Abdus Sattar Ghazali, The Milli Gazette Online Published Online: Apr 27, 2015 Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan, Pakistan's first Prime Minister, was assassinated on October 16, 1951 while addressing a public meeting in the garrison city of Rawalpindi. His assassin, later identified as Saad Akbar Babrak was shot dead on the spot. Saad Akbar Babrak was an Afghan national and a professional assassin. For more than 63 years controversy continued about the motives and perpetrators after the assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan. Conspiracy theories abounded with little to substantiate. However, the controversy is now coming to end as declassified documents of the US State Department disclosed that Americans murdered the first elected prime minister of Pakistan through the Afghan government. The US documents, released several years ago but highlighted recently by the Pakistani media and social media. A leading English newspaper of Pakistan, the Nation and also the Express News reported on April 17: The United States wanted to get contracts of oil resources in Iran. Pakistan and Iran enjoyed cordial ties and Afghanistan used to be the enemy of Pakistan during 1950-51. The neighboring Afghanistan was the only country that didn’t accept Pakistan at that time. The US demanded Pakistan use its influence in Tehran and persuade it to transfer control of its oil fields to the US. Liaquat Ali Khan declined to accede to the request, saying that he would not use his friendship for dishonest purposes. On which, then US President Harry Truman had threatened Liaquat Ali Khan. Not only that, Liaquat Ali Khan also asked US to vacate air bases in Pakistan within next 24 hours, dropping a bombshell on Americans. Americans didn’t find a suitable person in Pakistan and then turned to Afghanistan for this purpose, according to the documents. Washington contacted the US Embassy in Kabul, offering Zahir Shah to search a murderer. Afghan government had found a man Syed Akbar to take the job and also made arrangements for him to be killed on the spot. All three stayed at a local hotel in Rawalpindi. Akbar fired and Liaquat Ali Khan fell, saying Allah help Pakistan. Two persons killed the murderer of Liaquat Ali Khan at the spot while crowd also massacred the two persons in order to leave no sign of the conspiracy. The bullets used to kill the Pakistani prime minister were not easily available in the market. Coup against Mossadegh Not surprisingly, August 1953 the CIA staged a coup against the Iranian nationalist Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh to safeguard the west's oil interests in the country. In April 1951 Iranians democratically elected the head of the National Front party, Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh, as prime minister. Mossadegh moved quickly to nationalize the assets in Iran of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (the forerunner of today’s BP) a step that brought his government into confrontation with Britain and the US. Britain’s MI6 military intelligence then teamed up with the CIA and carried out a coup that ousted Mossadegh in August 1953 and returned Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to power. In August 2013, 60 years after the coup, the CIA admitted staging a coup against Mossadegh though at least two US Presidents, Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama, have publicly acknowledged the US role in the Iranian coup. "The military coup that overthrew Mossadegh and his National Front cabinet was carried out under CIA direction as an act of US foreign policy, conceived and approved at the highest levels of government," reads a previously excised section of an internal CIA history titled The Battle for Iran. The declassified documents, under the US Freedom of Information Act, related to CIA’s TPAJAX operation that sought regime change in Iran through the bribery of Iranian politicians, security and army high-ranking officials, and massive anti-Mossadegh propaganda that helped to instigate public revolt in 1953. Mossadegh was replaced with Iranian general Fazlollah Zahedi, who was handpicked by The  CIA and M16. Mossaddegh was later sentenced to death, but the Shah never dared to carry out the sentence. Mossadegh died in his residence near Tehran in 1967. The Shah’s pro-Western dictatorship continued for 27 years and ended with the Islamic Revolution of 1979, which paved the way for today’s Iran, where anti-American sentiments remain strong. The 1953 coup still casts a long shadow over Iranian-US relations. Liaquat Ali Khan visits USA Going back to the assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan which came almost two years after his visit to the United State in May-June 1950. His visit perhaps set the tone of Pakistan's foreign policy because he disregarded an invitation to visit the Soviet Union. In December 1949, Liaquat Ali Khan received an invitation from President Truman to visit the USA. This was readily accepted and the visit took place in May 1950. While on US soil, Liaquat confirmed that he intended to visit the Soviet Union. Liaquat's visit to USA brought the two countries closer. This was shown by Pakistan's support for the use of force by the UN in June 1950 against North Korea to secure its withdrawal from South Korea, as also support for the peace treaty negotiations with Japan in 1951. The Soviet Union opposed both of these developments. In October 1949, the Communists came to power in China. The US strongly opposed this development and refused to recognize the Communist regime. It continued to recognize the ousted Kuomintang regime of Gen. Chiang Kai-shek as the legitimate government of China. The US also managed to prevent most countries in the world from recognizing Communist China which was thus kept out of the UN as well. However, Liaquat Ali Khan decided to extend recognition to Communist China in January 1950. The Chinese Ambassador arrived in Karachi in September 1951, a month before Liaquat's death, and the first Pakistani Ambassador presented credentials in Beijing in November 1951. Pakistan thus became the first Muslim country, and one of the few countries in the world, to establish diplomatic relations with Communist China. This shrewd decision laid the foundation for strong relations with China that have since become a pillar of Pakistan's foreign policy. When Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan visited the USA, Pakistan was non-aligned between the US-led Western Bloc and the Soviet-led Eastern Bloc and it had recognized the Communist-led People's Republic of China, ignoring Washington's opposition to Peking. It was Pakistan's membership of US backed military pacts in 1954 that aroused Soviet hostility. The Soviet veto on Kashmir was not applied until 1957. The Soviets themselves have never put the blame for unfriendly relations on the inability of Liaquat Ali Khanto visit the Soviet Union. As the declassified documents of the US State Department reveal, Liaquat Ali Khan, was victim of politics of oil resources grab by the U.S. and British oil companies. Abdus Sattar Ghazali is the Chief Editor of the Journal of America (www.journalofamerica.net) email: asghazali2011 at gmail.com blog comments powered by Disqus Social-icon-fb Social-icon-tw Social-icon-ml Social-icon-yt Social-icon-rss http://www.milligazette.com/news/12191-pakistan-s-first-prime-minister-liaquat-ali-khan-was-assassinated-by-america COMMENT Thought this was a pretty cool article.  Didn't know that the US had assassinated a Pakistani PM. The Iran coup also probably demonstrates how the US managed to pull off the Ukraine coup.  Bribery of key figures & propaganda work just as well today as they did in the 50s.

Finian Cunningham - America’s Weaponizing of Ignorance

America’s Weaponizing of Ignorance Now the assassination of political opponents who are deemed to be «pro-Russian» takes the Kiev regime to a new level of lawlessness and ideological extremism.  By Finian Cunningham - Apr 17, 2015 [Originally appeared in:  Strategic Culture Org] The contract killing of two opposition figures in Kiev this week is stark evidence that the country under the Western-backed regime is descending into a fully-fledged state of chaos and criminality. We have already seen the rise of Neo-Nazism militarism, and now the assassination of political opponents on the streets of Kiev. Yet, still, the Western governments and their dutiful news media steadfastly refuse to deal with the grim reality. Instead, they continue to regurgitate slanderous aggression against Russia. And when the West cannot cope with explaining reality they simply disparage Russia for telling lies and «weaponizing information». But the truth is that it is the West that is «weaponizing ignorance». Wilful, unabashed, woeful ignorance. Former Ukrainian newspaper editor Oles Buzina was gunned down reportedly by two masked assailants near his home in the Ukrainian capital on Thursday. Only the day before, former parliamentarian Oleh Kalashnikov was also murdered at his Kiev home. Both men were known for their outspoken critical views of the ultra-rightist regime that seized power last year with the backing of Washington and Brussels. Kalashnikov had been a senior member of the Party of Regions – the party of ousted President Viktor Yanukovych. The latest execution-style killings follow a spate of at least four suspicious deaths among other former parliamentarians who had also belonged to the Yanukoych government before it was overthrown in February 2014 in a Western-sponsored coup. The new regime has gone on to oversee a state of illegal war waged against the dissident pro-Russian eastern Ukraine regions, as well as teetering bankruptcy, widespread social and economic misery, the rise of private militias under the control of competing corrupt oligarchs, and the systematic glorification of former Nazi collaborators. The formation of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which perpetuated mass killings on behalf of the Nazi Waffen SS during World War Two, has been made into an official public holiday in commemoration of that death squad. Last week, the regime’s parliament in Kiev, which is dominated by openly fascistic parties, voted to ban Communist organizations and to erase all symbols of Soviet-era history. Public statues of Soviet leaders and Red Army heroes who liberated Ukraine from Nazi domination have been obliterated. The regime is planning to spend more than $200 million purging cities and towns of their Russian place names. Now the assassination of political opponents who are deemed to be «pro-Russian» takes the Kiev regime to a new level of lawlessness and ideological extremism. For the past year, Western governments and media have persisted in branding the regime in Kiev as a «pro-democracy» vanguard that was endeavoring to orient the former Soviet Republic towards «Western values», membership of the European Union and joining the US-led NATO military alliance. The Western depiction of developments under the Kiev regime is a stupendous feat of denial over what is really happening in Ukraine. The practice of oligarch-banditry and the surge in Nazi-styled paramilitaries, brashly donning SS insignia and carrying out war crimes against the ethnic Russian population; the indiscriminate shelling of eastern Ukrainian cities and villages under the orders of Kiev leaders; and the economic blockade of the breakaway region in a Nazi policy of collective punishment – all these violations have been comprehensively denied by Western governments and their mass media. The West’s preferred distortion is to invert reality by accusing Russia of «invading» Ukraine and sponsoring proxy pro-independence rebels in the east. No matter that there is no credible evidence to support such claims; no matter that Moscow has repeatedly denied the allegations, including this week by President Vladimir Putin in his annual public Q&A conference; no matter that the eastern Ukrainian rebels deny the «Russian proxy» charge; no matter that the monitors of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe can’t find evidence of Russian invasion;  no matter that the head of French military intelligence Christophe Gaumard just this week told his country’s National Assembly that there is no evidence of Russian military incursion in Ukraine, or even plans for such an incursion. However, with the emergent campaign of murder against opposition politicians and journalists in Kiev, the Western distortion of reality stretches its elastic credulity to breaking point. Innocent, unarmed civilians are being gunned down in the streets of Kiev for the sole reason that these individuals have expressed political views that are critical of the Western-installed Kiev regime. If that isn’t evidence of the regime descending into the fascist practices that it eulogizes then what is? Ironically, against this appalling background of Western collusion with atavistic Nazi barbarism in Kiev, the United States Congress this week held hearings on what it called Russia’s «weaponization of information». Speakers told the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee of their fears that Russia was winning a propaganda war. Their evidence? Well, because reputable Russian news channels, such as RT, Itar-Tass and Sputnik, were reaching Western audiences with an alternative perspective on the crisis in Ukraine. A perspective that actually explains the nature of the Ukraine conflict in a credible geopolitical context of Washington seeking regime change for its wider pursuit of global military dominance vis-a-vis Russia. Just because Russian media do not peddle an anti-Putin, anti-Moscow narrative – as the Western outlets shamelessly do – then that is construed as «evidence» that the Kremlin is conducting an information war and «weaponizing information». Earlier this year, US Secretary of State John Kerry told Congress that «Russia’s military aggression is matched only by its propaganda». Kerry appealed for more than $630 million to counteract the influence of Russian news media on the American public by setting up Russian-language satellite TV stations that will beam Fox-News-style into Russia. Kerry’s chain of thought based on false assertion leading to false conclusion is espoused unanimously among the White House, the State Department, the US media and the two chambers of Congress – the Senate and House of Representatives. In other words by the entire American political establishment. Last month, the House of Representatives voted by a landslide calling on President Barack Obama to send lethal weapons to support the Kiev regime «against Russian aggression». One of the Representatives, Republican party member Steve Pearce (New Mexico), had this to say to a concerned American citizen, who had written to Pearce deploring Congressional support for the Kiev regime and the drive for war with Russia. Disturbingly, Pearce’s letter reveals an astounding dearth of knowledge. He writes: «Thank you for contacting me to express your concerns regarding Ukraine. I appreciate hearing from you on this issue… »On February 22, 2014, the Ukrainian parliament unanimously voted to impeach President Viktor Yanukovych, following months of protest. Former President Yanukovych has since fled to Russia – with Russia now challenging the sovereignty of Ukraine. It is very concerning that Russia is acting in Ukraine and not allowing the will of the people to determine the future of the nation. The United State [sic] should stand up, and let it be known that we will not tolerate Russia invading its neighbors. Ukraine has the right to determine its own course». Note how there is no mention by the Congressman of how the US State Department funded the violent Maidan protests in Kiev at the end of 2013, or how the CIA colluded with Pravy Secktor Neo-Nazi paramilitaries to violently topple the constitutionally elected Yanukovych government. The concerned US citizen who shared this correspondence, Randy Martin, a social media activist, said of Congressman Pearce’s reply: «In his response to my letter, he apparently had no clue about the US role in backing the Neo-Nazi coup that has resulted in the overall collapse of the Ukraine economy, a brutal civil war and genocide against Russian-speaking people in Ukraine, and the fact that the US military is now actively training the only standing Neo-Nazi military in the world». The Congressman – as with the rest of the ruling elite in Washington – evidently lives in a state of blissful ignorance about what is really going on in Ukraine. Yet based on this ignorance, he and his fellow Congressmen voted for the supply of billions-of-dollars-worth of weaponry to the Nazi-adulating Kiev regime – a regime where opposition politicians and journalists are being gunned down in their homes. Across the spectrum of official American politics and that supposed pillar of democracy – the news media – what we see is «systematic ignorance». Never mind American claims that Russia is «weaponizing information». America is weaponizing ignorance on an industrial scale. http://mycatbirdseat.com/2015/04/91127americas-weaponizing-of-ignorance/ COMMENT Great article. Infuriating reading this.  Guessing this is pretty much what has happened during and after all the previous regime changes the US has engineered.  It's just how it goes and how they spin-doctor what they're doing. Doubt the politicians or the press are truly ignorant.  More likely they are wilfully ignorant, while serving aggressive corporate and military interests, without regard for the costs to others - simply because they're sociopathic cogs in a sociopathic system that doesn't care who is destroyed in the scramble for money, power, advantage etc.

USA INVESTS $5-BILLION IN UKRAINE PUPPET REGIME - FRUITS OF INVESTMENT: 34-DAY MURDER SPREE

Anti-Government Journalist Killed in Ukraine Oles Buzina, 45, was known for his pro-Russian opinion pieces published in Ukraine Published 16 April 2015 (17 hours 25 minutes ago) Journalist Oles Buzina is the second prominent critic of Ukraine's government killed this week. A journalist critical of the Ukrainian government was gunned down in the capital Kiev Thursday, one day after a pro-Russian politician was found dead. Journalist and activist Oles Buzina was shot on the street in broad daylight, according to the interior ministry. “Today at 13:20 (local time) ... two unidentifiable men in masks shot journalist Oles Buzina,” the ministry said in a statement. Buzina was one of President Petro Poroshenko’s fiercest critics in the Ukrainian media. He was also a prominent voice in the “Anti-Maiden” movement, which opposed the pro-Western protests that ousted Poroshenko's predecessor, Viktor Yanukovych. In 2014, Buzina launched an unsuccessful bid for a seat in Parliament with the Russian Bloc party. The night before Buzina's death, Member of Parliament Oleh Kalashnikov was also shot under mysterious circumstances. Kalashnikov was a key Yanukovych ally. Russian President Vladimir Putin has alleged the two killings were politically motivated. “This is not the first political assassination. Ukraine is dealing with a whole string of such murders,” he said. Poroshenko hit back by claiming the deaths play “into the hands of our enemies.” “It is aimed at destabilizing the internal political situation in Ukraine, at discrediting the political choice of the Ukrainian people."   http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Anti-Government-Journalist-Killed-in-Ukraine-20150416-0019.html Murder of Ukrainian ex-MP, leader of Anti-Maidan movement Oleg Kalashnikov in Kiev on: April 16, 2015 15th April 2015, Kiev, Ukraine Oleg Kalashnikov, former MP from the Party of Regions was shot in Kiev on April 15th. The press service of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry reported that the murder occurred around 7.20 p.m. in the residence of the former MP, the cause of death was gunshot wounds. An operational investigative group is working at the crime scene. According to Ukrainian media, Kalashnikov was killed on the 8th floor of a residential building in residential area Vynohradar of Kiev in his apartment. The media also reported that Kalashnikov received threats of physical violence recently due to his political views, in particular the the call to widely celebrate the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. However, Kalashnikov also had an extremely bad reputation among the activists of Euromaidan as one of the organizers of the tent camp in support of Viktor Yanukovich in Mariinsky Park during the events of the so-called “Revolution of dignity” in winter of 2013-2014. Notably, Kalashnikov was the fourth prominent member of the Party of Regions, who had suddenly passed away in the course of the last two months: former deputy head of the Party of Regions faction in the Verkhovna Rada [Parliament] Mikhail Chechetov allegedly committed suicide by jumping out of the window of his apartment on the 17th floor on February 28; ex-MP Stanislav Miller was found dead on March 10, and on 12 March the body of former governor of the Zaporozhye region, Alexander Peklushenko, was found. The last two, according to the police, shot themselves.  http://novorossia.today/murder-of-ukrainian-ex-mp-leader-of-anti-maidan-movement-oleg-kalashnikov-in-kiev/ Former Ukrainian MP Assassinated in Kiev 21:46 15.04.2015 A former Ukrainian MP and a vocal critic of the country’s ruling government was murdered on Wednesday in Kiev. A number of top Ukrainian officials have died under mysterious circumstances during one 34-day period, leading many to suspect foul play. Five High-Ranked Ukrainian Officials Die in String of Mysterious Suicides  Oleh Kalashnikov, a Ukrainian MP and a member of the Party of Regions, was assassinated on Wednesday evening near his residence in Kiev, one of his relatives told local media. The relative also said that Kalashnikov was recently threatened with bodily harm due to his political views, particularly for his call for a lavish celebration of the 70th anniversary of the victory in WWII, and that the slain politician received a considerable amount of hate mail. The Security Service of Ukraine, SBU, was investigating Kalashnikov’s statements for a potential threat to the national security. Recently, a number of former members of the Party of Regions and high ranking officials have died under mysterious circumstances, with their deaths being officially declared suicides. http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150415/1020939474.html COMMENT The US-puppet Ukraine fascists are getting away with murder. The fascist regime's SBU investigating 'potential threat to the national security' in relation to Oleh Kalashnikov is laughable. 34-DAY MURDER SPREE UNDER US-BACKED UKRAINE REGIME   Oles Buzina Journalist Highly Critical of Poroshenko govt. Voice of “Anti-Maiden” movement 13:20pm 16/04/2015 Broad daylight, gunned down Kiev Oleg Kalashnikov former MP Party of Regions 7:20pm Shooting – 15/04/2015, 18th Floor Residential building Vynohradar, Kiev Sergei Sukhobok Donetsk journalist co-founder of websites ProUA and Obkom murdered 12/04/2015 or 13/04/2015 Killers arrested Thursday Charges: heavy bodily harm No information / Likely beaten or bludgeoned Alexander Peklushenko former governor Zaporozhye region South-eastern Ukraine 12/03/2015 Firearm death:  most likely staged suicide Stanislav Miller ex-MP 10/03/2015 Firearm death:  most likely staged suicide Mikhail Chechetov former deputy head Party of Regions 28/02/2015 17th Floor building Most likely:  thrown from window MORE Oles Buzina, 45 columnist & editor of daily newspaper Segodnya Segodnya financed by Rinat Akhmetov (Ukraine’s richest man & a leading sponsor of Yanukovych’s Party of Regions) Oles Buzina: "an opposition journalist, writer and TV host, well-known for his criticism of Poroshenko’s goverment." Sergei Sukhobok   Donetsk journalist, murdered 13/04/2015 Killers arrested Thursday Sukhobok was also the author of several hundred articles on socio-political, social, legal and economic issues. His works were published in many publications, particularly in the “Ukrainian Truth”. Russia’s MFA spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that this is, unfortunately, only the beginning of political purges in Ukraine. SOURCE:  http://www.globalresearch.ca/three-prominent-poroshenko-critics-killed-in-kiev-in-three-days/5443485 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Slain Ukrainian author Oles Buzina: "I am a Ukrainian - it's a type of Russian" http://fortruss.blogspot.com.au/2015/04/slain-ukrainian-author-oles-buzina-i-am.html Farewell to Oleg Kalashnikov, Rest in Peace http://thesaker.is/farewell-to-oleg-kalashnikov-rest-in-peace/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

WIKILEAKS: Releases December 2014

WikiLeaks Releases - Dec 2014 To Improve Assassination Operations, CIA Studies Failures of Colonial Powers to Combat Resistance http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2014/12/18/to-improve-assassination-operations-cia-studies-failures-of-colonial-powers-to-combat-resistance/ WikiLeaks Releases CIA Manual Advising Undercover Agents on Travel & Avoiding ‘Secondary Screenings’ http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2014/12/21/wikileaks-releases-cia-manual-advising-undercover-agents-how-to-evade-secondary-screenings/ Articles in relation to the new WikiLeaks releases (above). Had a quickie look at the travel article.  Undercover travel doesn't sound fun at all.  Travel is crap as it is, without worrying about covering all bases when it comes to being picked up and questioned. Don't know what to make of the 'High Value Target' assassinations article.  Should this even be a legitimate agenda of any government? The French colonists supposedly made mistakes in Algiers and through their actions wound up with popular insurgents in the occupied territory, as well as losing domestic and international support.  But I'm inclined to think that it wouldn't matter what actions the French took:  they're foreign occupiers.  Of course, the occupied people are going to support their own kind.  Why would an occupier expect to have support, apart from the support of the few at the top that they may collude with to maintain control?  I haven't read the linked documents.  It's my first impression on that subject.  But who am I to argue with the experts? If CIA want to know about suppressing revolution, they should have a chat to the British.  Think WikiLeaks put out a military manual on that subject some time ago. Yep.  UK Counter Insurgency Operations 2007.  I started a summary of types of insurrections, but didn't get far.  Why?  Just something that seemed interesting at the time.  Became one of those things that I started and forgot about. Guerilla warfare. Rural insurgents versus own government: Only x3 achieved victory in open fighting against govt regular army: China – 1949 Cuba  – 1959 Nicaragua – 1979 Think that was more of an analysis of tactics of insurgents.  Couldn't find anything about elimination of leaders.  But I only did a quickie word search.  Went back to doc for another look.  Page 70, point 18, advocates physical destruction -- but limiting the numbers to what is required to achieve ends (rather than wholesale elimination of the insurgents).  Soft methods should prevail, to avoid negative consequences. It goes on to say that physical attrition course has blow-back and the consequence is that the costs lead to domestic displeasure.  Maybe that's why drones are so popular. "Hearts and Minds campaign" is a really sick phrase, when you consider that this is ultimately just a game of domination and exploitation. Almost all of the the population (90%) will be neutral, according to UK estimates.  At  the beginning of the campaign this mob will support whoever is strongest.  It is this bunch of sheep that need to be won over. Targeting the support networks is key to bringing down the insurgent -- it's vital, as it then exposes the insurgent group to vulnerabilities. Captured support network members make the best informants on the insurgent group. This is really fascinating, but I'm going to have to stop here.  Not up for over 200 pages of reading at the moment. No, wait. There's more.  Discovered 'neutralising' insurgents.  No wonder my word search didn't reap results.  I was looking for 'assassination'. Scrolling through, I must have missed the neutralising bits.  Couldn't be bothered persevering.  The propaganda section looks really interesting, though.  Black, grey, white, cohesive and divisive are the spin choices. Black - held out as being from some fake source (true source withheld). Grey - doesn't identify a source. White - source out in the open & acknowledged. Cohesive - targets the neutral / uncommitted. Divisive - targets the hostile. While checking out counter-insurgency strategies, it's hard not to be confronted by the might of the machinery that rules the masses.  People have no hope.  People can't resist armies.  Armies are there to control the people; to put a stop to any resistance.  Revolutions are seldom successful without the outside assistance of a sympathetic state.  So imagine the degree of planning and work that was put into the US backed Ukraine coup.

SYRIA - Yaquoub Al-Omar assassination confirmed

Sat Aug 02, 2014 1:32 Syria: Notorious Al-Nusra Commander Killed in Idlib Yaqoub Al-Omar was killed in Khan Al-Sabal district in the Southern parts of the Idlib city, Al-Mayadeen satellite news channel reported. Al-Omar was killed after a bomb went off inside his car near Khan Al-Sabal district. The conflict in Syria started in March 2011, when sporadic pro-reform protests turned into a massive insurgency following the intervention of western and regional states. The unrest, which took in terrorist groups from across Europe, the Middle-East and North Africa, has transpired as one of the bloodiest conflicts in recent history. As the foreign-backed insurgency in Syria continues without an end in sight, the US government has boosted its political and military support to Takfiri extremists. Washington has remained indifferent to warnings by Russia and other world powers about the consequences of arming militant groups. Source - Fars Newsagency - here.

Looks like it's real news.

Twitter reports said house was bombed.

Judging by this report, the US is arming extremists?

Finding it hard to follow who the extremists are.

TWITTER - BREAKING NEWS - ASSASSINATION - SYRIA

TWITTER - BREAKING NEWS SYRIA - ASSASSINATION - IED BOMB

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Nusra_Front
source re following:

Jabat an Nusra means:   'al-Nusra Front'

Al-Nusra Front is described as a Sunni Fundamentalist 'Salafi Jihaddist' organistion - for specifics see here.

Wikipedia indicates that:

In 2011, Salafi jihadists were actively involved with protests against King Abdullah II of Jordan, and the kidnapping followed by a swift murder of Italian peace activist Vittorio Arrigoni in Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

Salafist jihadists groups include Al Qaeda ... [as above here]

Caucasus Emirate

In the North Caucasus region of Russia, the Caucasus Emirate retains a hard-line Salafist-takfiri jihadist ideology:

Tawhid / Monotheism in Islam

Reject practice of the following:

• Shirk [idolatry]
• taqlid [belief in fundamentals of faith with own insight]
• Ijtihad [independent reasoning interpretation of Islamic law] 
• Bid'ah [newly invented beliefs or action]

Endorse:

Complete separation between Muslim and Non-Muslim

by propagating Al Wala' Wal Bara' :

[No idea what this is.  Relates to 'one hand' pleasing to the Messenger and the 'other hand' (ie non believers)  is not.]

and declaring takfir 

[excommunication - unbeliever or kafir (infidel)] 

against any Muslim who is a mushrik (polytheist) and does not return to the observance of tawhid [doctrine of oneness .. monotheism/Islam]

and the strict literal interpretation of the Quran and the Sunnah 

["Sunnah is the way of life prescribed as normative for Muslims on the basis of the teachings and practices of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and interpretations of the Quran"]  ...

SYRIA

In Syria, the group Jabhat al-Nusra has been described as possessing "a hard-line Salafi-Jihadist ideology" and being one of "the most effective" groups fighting the regime.

[source - wikipedia - as above]
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Seems like big news.

But unsure whether to post this or not, for two reasons:

1.  Could not see news report apart from Twitter, so maybe it's a hoax?
2.  Group sounds a really scary to me, to be honest.