Video - Ted Cruz: History will record Barack Hussein Obama and John Kerry as relentless enemies of Israel.

Video - Iraqi MP Kadhim Al-Sayadi: We Should Cancel the Strategic Framework Agreement with the U.S., Sign One Sponsored by Russia and Iran.

Iraqi MP Khadim Al-Sayadi said, in a recent TV interview, that the "only thorough solution" to the problem of terrorism in the region was to cancel the "infamous" American Strategic Framework Agreement, and instead try to achieve an agreement "sponsored by Russia, Iraq, and Iran," along with Turkey, if it wants to join "as a true friend, not a hypocritical one." MP Al-Sayadi, who is a member of the State of Law Coalition, was speaking on Mayadeen TV on January 2.

No Role for 'State sponsors of terrorism' Saudi Arabia and Qatar in Syria Peace Talks: IRGC Spokesman.

No Role for 'State sponsors of terrorism' Saudi Arabia and Qatar in Syria Peace Talks: IRGC Spokesman. (IFP).

In an interview with Tasnim, Head of the IRGC Public Relations Department General Ramezan Sharif said the Syrian nation will definitely disapprove of presence of Saudi Arabia and Qatar in the process of peace talks.

Saudi and Qatari regimes have been spearheading logistical, financial and media supports for the terrorist groups that have been wreaking havoc on Syria for six years, he added.

But on Turkey, the general said Ankara can begin to play a positive role by reviewing its previous policies and respecting Syria’s legitimate government, pointing to Turkey’s recent coordination with Iran and Russia in the Syria peace efforts.

He also underlined that the main purpose of the axis of resistance, including the IRGC, is to maintain Syria’s territorial integrity and national unity.

The spokesman finally noted that the IRGC’s ultimate goal is “liberating the holy city of al-Quds” in Palestine, saying the whole tactics and efforts are aimed at countering Israel.

Islamist Dwarf country Qatar, population 1,8 Million biggest Arms importer in the world .

Islamist Dwarf country Qatar, population 1,8 Million biggest Arms importer in the world. (TN). [Google Translated].

According to the annual report of the US Congress, Qatar has led the world's largest arms importers with a flow of $ 17 billion. The report covers the period from 2008 to 2015.

According to the same report, Egypt (population 82 Million) came second with 12 billion dollars, Saudi Arabia (population 28,8 Million) comes in third with 8 billion dollars.

According to BBC, the list of the largest importers of weapons for the year 2015 are: Qatar, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Pakistan, Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Iraq.

Hmmm.....Biggest Arms seller for 2016 .....The Obama 'Admin'.Anyone wondering what such a tiny Country does with so many weapons? To Whom they sell them? Why he's arming all Israel's enemies?

Video - Egyptian TV Host Moussa Congratulates Trump: 'The Muslim Brotherhood Have Bought all the Anti-Diarrhea Drugs in Egypt'.

Egyptian TV Host Ahmed Moussa Congratulates Trump on Victory: The Muslim Brotherhood Have Bought all the Anti-Diarrhea Drugs in Egypt. (Memri)

Egyptian TV host Ahmed Moussa hailed President-elect Donald Trump's victory, saying that he had "taught a lesson" to Clinton and the Obama administration, the "allies of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood."

Clinton, he said, had "planted the seeds of terrorism in the Arab world and the Middle East." 

Reassuring his audience that Trump's problem was with the terrorists, not the Muslims, he mocked the Muslim Brotherhood, saying that following Trump’s victory, "they bought up all the anti-diarrhea drugs in the country." Moussa made the statements on his Sada Al-Balad TV show on November 9.

Muslim Brotherhood Calls Trump election as U.S. President a Disaster

Muslim Brotherhood Calls Trump election as U.S. President a Disaster.  (AW).

The first leader among Arab states' presidents and king who congratulated Donald Trump  was Egyptian Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, saying he hoped the US president-elect would "pump new life" into Egyptian-American relations.

"The Arab Republic of Egypt is looking to see Donald Trump’s presidency pump new life into the course of Egyptian-American relations, and more cooperation and coordination that will benefit both the Egyptian and American peoples, and promote peace and stability and development in the Middle East region, especially in the face of the huge challenges that it faces,” a statement issued by Egyptian presidency on Wednesday read.

In a meeting with Sisi in New York at the United Nations last September, Trump told "under a Trump administration, the United States of America will be a loyal friend, not simply an ally that Egypt can count on".

However the Arab country's Muslim Brotherhood opposition movement reacted fiercely to Trump's triumph, saying Trump’s victory is a “disaster” for the Arab and Muslim world.

Mamdouh Al-Muneer, a member of the supreme body of the Freedom and Justice Party, wrote on social media that the results of the elections were a catastrophe as a “racist” has ascended to the White House.

 “Goliath is coming himself, with his horses and men… what our nation has witnessed in the last period is something and what is to come is something different. God willing it will be for us not against us.” 

Hmmm......Yeah the Muslim brotherhood White House dream is over and buried. 

@realDonaldTrump Now is the time to pass a resolution declaring the Muslim Brotherhood a #terrorist organization. https://t.co/tzah3lC3lV

— MFS - The Other News (@MFS001) November 9, 2016

Trump adviser @WalidPhares says next president will move to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group: https://t.co/hFcPvBByx8

— Eric Trager (@EricTrager18) November 10, 2016

Experts say meeting of Russian, Iranian, Syrian ministers views on the main issues converge.

Experts say meeting of Russian, Iranian, Syrian ministers key for coordination of actions for Syrian settlement. (Tass).

The trilateral meeting of the Russian, Iranian and Syrian foreign ministers that took place in Moscow on October 28 was an important landmark that allowed to coordinate positions on a number of issues including the Syria settlement, experts said at a round table dedicated to the recent talks.

According to Lukyanov, the parties coordinated their positions on such important issues as the US presidential elections and the operation to free Iraq’s Mosul, in addition they assessed the position of the Kurds. "Both Russia and Iran are in search for new formats of cooperation," he said noting that the parties were trying to find common approaches to the Afghan issue as well as other problems.

"The trilateral meeting is a significant landmark," a leading researcher of the Center for Arabic and Islamic Studies at Russia’s Academy of Science Boris Dolgov noted. "

After the meeting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for the first time said that the US wasn’t fulfilling and was not going to fulfill its obligations." 

"This is the correct assessment proving that the possibility of cooperation with the US is no more than an illusion," Dolgov said. "The Russian authorities need to realize that such cooperation is impossible, at least for now."

The meeting of the Russian, Iranian and Syrian top diplomats "turned out to be an important tool for coordination of actions between the three countries that are on the same side," Deputy Director of the Institute for Forecasting and Political Settlement Alexander Kuznetsov said.

In his opinion, "these countries’ views on the main issues converge." According to the expert, the issues include the territorial integrity of Syria as well as Bashar al-Assad’s staying in power for the interim period.

According to Pentagon data, the only money it spent in Syria from 2009-15 went to buying 150-odd teapots.

According to Pentagon data, the only money it spent in Syria from 2009-15 went to buying 150-odd teapots. (ToI).

In some odd news, The Bureau for Investigative Journalism based in the UK says that Pentagon data shows that the only money spent in Syria for six years was on Turkish teapots.

Source:

Make tea not war? According to #Pentagon data, the only money it spent in Syria from 2009-15 went on buying 150-odd of these Turkish teapots pic.twitter.com/vq51BFRLRU

— The Bureau (@TBIJ) October 20, 2016

Hillary Clinton admits Qatar, Saudi Arabia Support Daesh in Leaked Emails.

Hillary Clinton admits Qatar, Saudi Arabia Support Daesh in Leaked Emails. (Sputnik).

A message in the latest batch of emails between Hillary Clinton and her campaign chairman John Podesta shows the presidential candidate knew the governments of Saudi Arabia and Qatar provided financial and logistical support to Daesh terrorists in the Middle East.

The email exchange, which starts with Hillary Clinton outlining a eight-point plan for dealing with Daesh, includes the enlistment of Peshmerga forces in the fight against terrorism, significant military support from the US and its allies, and more. She goes on to say that the US should be ready and willing to arm the FSA against the Syrian government — as well as put pressure on Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

"While this military/para-military operation is moving forward, we need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region."

And while the claim is not new — Hillary did, in fact, accuse Saudi Arabia and Kuwait of supporting terrorism in the region earlier this year — there is one small difference. The email to Podesta was written in August 2014, right after the beginning of the US-led coalition fight against Daesh in Syria, of which both Qatar and Saudia are members.

Adviser to Khamenei Velayati Warns US against Targeting Syria Army.

Adviser to Khamenei Velayati Warns US against Targeting Syria Army. (IFPNews).

Speaking on Sunday, Ali Akbar Velayati said the Syrian nation can fight back potential American aggression.

“It is almost six years that the people of Syria have been resisting interference by foreigners, especially the Westerners, with the US at the top,” Velayati said. “The Syrian nation has the capability to withstand US military intervention, and the Americans will not do that (launch aggression).”

Recently, there has been talk of a scenario in which the US would directly target the Syrian Arab Army, which is the army of the Syrian Arab Republic.

Velayati, who is an adviser to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, said the US has suffered a defeat in military campaigns both in Afghanistan and Iraq and a third adventure, in Syria, would hand Washington its third defeat — a more stinging one.

So far, the US has been supporting, with the provision of military hardware and likely intelligence sharing, what it calls “moderate” militants fighting the Syrian government. Despite a recent case in which the US directly targeted Syrian soldiers, which it said happened by mistake, Washington has refrained from direct military involvement in the Arab country.

Video - Max Abrahams explains Hillary Clinton's foreign policy positions.

Max Abrahams:

Northeastern University 2013-Present Assistant Professor of Public Policy Department of Political Science Boston, MA

Northeastern University 2016-Present Assistant Professor School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs Boston, MA

Council on Foreign Relations 2013-Present Term Member New York, NY

Center for Cyber & Homeland Security 2014-Present Senior Fellow George Washington University Washington, DC

Center for the Study of Terrorism 2014-Present Board Member University of Rome Rome, Italy

Nusra (AlQaeda) commander in Syria: Obama 'Admin' supporting us…but not enough.

Nusra (AlQaeda) commander in Syria: Obama 'Admin' supporting us…but not enough. (almasdarnews).

A high-ranking commander of the al-Qaeda branch in Syria revealed that the United States indirectly supports rebel forces fighting Assad government in Syria, Kölner Stadtanzeiger newspaper reported.

"The U.S. support the opposition, but not directly. They support the countries which support us.

But we are not yet satisfied with this support. They should support us with highly developed weapons.

We have won battles thanks to the "TOW" missiles. We reached a balance with the regime through these missiles. We received the tanks from Libya through Turkey. 

Also the "BMs" - multiple rocket launchers", Abu al-Ezz, the jihadi commander, told reporter Jürgen Todenhöfer.

To whom did the U.S. hand those missiles before they were brought to you? Were those missiles first given to the Free Syrian Army by the U.S. and from there to you?

No, the missiles were give directly to us. They were delivered to a certain group. When the "road" was closed and we were besieged we had officers here from Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Israel and the United States.

What did those officers do?
Experts! Experts for the use of satellites, missiles, reconnaissance work, thermal surveillance cameras ...

Were there also American experts?

Yes, experts from several countries.

Including Americans?

Yes. The Americans are on our side, but not as it should be. For example we were told: We must capture and conquer "Battalion 47". Saudi Arabia gave us 500 million Syrian pounds. For taking the "al-Muslimiya" infantry school years ago we received from Kuwait 1.5 million Kuwaiti dinar and from Saudi Arabia 5 million U.S. dollars.

From the governments or from private persons?


From the governments.

Interestingly, the al-Nusra Front commander also mentioned the UN aid convoy. Keep in mind that Todenhöfer, the first Western journalist to be granted access to Daesh's caliphate, conducted the interview ten day ago, before the attack.Read the full story here.


Click here to see the full interview in English

Click here to see the original German version

Update! 

Alleged #Nusra-commander contradicts #Todenhoefer, names location as Sheikh Saeed NOT Khan Tuman! https://t.co/tVTvQr6yqm @joshua_landis

— Fabian Schmidmeier (@derorient) September 28, 2016

Intel Report Confirms More “Transferred” Gitmo prisoners Return to Terrorism.

Intel Report Confirms More “Transferred” Gitmo prisoners Return to Terrorism. HT: JudicialWatch.

As President Obama scrambles to release captives from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba his own intelligence advisers reveal that a growing number of inmates freed from the compound reengage in terrorism. This is nothing new and in fact, has been documented over the years in various government assessments but this latest information comes in the midst of a frenzy to clear out the maximum security facility in order to realize the president’s longtime dream of closing it.

A new report released this month by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) shows that of the 161 Gitmo detainees released by the Obama administration, nine are confirmed to be “directly involved in terrorist or insurgent activities.”

The ODNI, the broad agency that serve as an umbrella for the intelligence community and advises the president, also writes that 113 of the 532 Gitmo captives released during the George W. Bush administration have engaged in terrorist activities.

This demonstrates that recidivism among this demographic is hardly earth-shattering news yet the administration keeps releasing more and more captives from the facility at the U.S. Naval base in southeast Cuba.


The ODNI further reveals that at least two prisoners released from Gitmo by Obama and two others released by Bush have returned to “terrorist activities” during the first half of this year alone. Read the full story here.

Video - Hamas Designated Global Terrorist by the U.S. State Dep: 'This Will Lead to Global Instability… Will Affect World Peace'

Video - Hamas Designated Global Terrorist by the U.S. State Dep: 'This Will Lead to Global Instability… Will Affect World Peace'

FSA 'Moderates': “Nobody believes in it. You’re like, ‘Fuck this,'”

FSA 'Moderates': “Nobody believes in it. You’re like, ‘Fuck this,'” (Sofrep).

“Nobody believes in it. You’re like, ‘Fuck this,'” a former Green Beret says of America’s covert and clandestine programs to train and arm Syrian militias. 

“Everyone on the ground knows they are jihadis. No one on the ground believes in this mission or this effort, and they know they are just training the next generation of jihadis, so they are sabotaging it by saying, ‘Fuck it, who cares?'”

“I don’t want to be responsible for Nusra guys saying they were trained by Americans,” the Green Beret added. 

A second Special Forces soldier commented that one Syrian militia they had trained recently crossed the border from Jordan on what had been pitched as a large-scale shaping operation that would change the course of the war. Watching the battle on a monitor while a drone flew overhead, “We literally watched them, with 30 guys in their force, run away from three or four ISIS guys.”

Another militia commander came back to Jordan to be debriefed by CIA case officers stationed at Damascus X, the exiled CIA station now located in Amman, Jordan, since departing Syria’s capital after the civil war began. The Syrian proxy broke down saying that he might as well join ISIS-something the case officer had to talk him out of.

But perhaps this was a step in the right direction from a the recent past, when the commander of the now-defunct Syrian Revolutionary Front came in for a debriefing, telling his CIA handler that a helicopter was shot down and destroyed some of his equipment but he also claimed that he had an expensive suit onboard the aircraft that the CIA also needed to replace.

While the press has reported extensively on the over 100 armed groups within Syria vying for control, and the occasional report comes out about U.S. special operations troops in Syria and wasteful spending on covert action programs, the wider story about the U.S. Special Forces arming Syrian anti-ISIS forces while the CIA conducts a parallel program to arm anti-Assad regime forces has yet to be told-until now. 

It is a story of fraud, waste, and abuse, as well as bureaucratic infighting and a disgusting excess, which has only contributed to perpetuating the Syrian conflict. Hmmm.......Another 'Obamination'. Read the full story here.

11,491 Syrian Refugees Admitted Already by Obama 'Admin'; 0.46% Are Christians.

11,491 Syrian Refugees Admitted Already by Obama 'Admin'; 0.46% Are Christians. (CNS).

With three weeks of the fiscal year to go, the Obama administration has exceeded its Syrian refugee admission target by 15 percent, with 11,491 resettled in the United States as of the beginning of this week.

Since President Obama’s goal of 10,000 Syrian refugee admissions in FY 2016 was achieved on August 29, the number continues to pick up steadily.

August ended with a new monthly record of 3,189 Syrian refugee arrivals, and a further 751 have been ushered in so far in September: 749 Sunni Muslims; two Catholic Christians.

State Department Refugee Processing Center data show that of the now total 11,491 arrivals this fiscal year, the vast majority – 11,300, or 98.33 percent – are Sunnis.

Just 54 of the 11,491 – 0.46 percent – are Christians. They comprise 14 Catholics, six Orthodox, four Protestants, one Greek Orthodox, plus 29 refugees identifying themselves simply as “Christian” rather than by denomination or sect.

The remaining 137 are made of up of 20 Shi’a Muslims, 90 refugees described simply as Muslims, 17 Yazidis, four Jehovah’s Witnesses, five refugees identified as “other religion,” and one as having “no religion.”

Millions of Syrians of all religious persuasions have fled the civil war that has ravaged their country since mid-2011. At the start of the conflict an estimated 74 percent of Syrians were Sunni and an estimated 10 percent were Christians.*

Since the civil war began, the U.S. has admitted a total of 13,364 Syrian refugees, of whom 13,019 (97.4 percent) are Sunnis and 102 (0.7 percent) are Christians.

The remainder include Shi’a Muslims (33), other Muslims (150), Yazidis (18), Jehovah’s Witnesses (12), Zoroastrians (6), refugees self-reported as having “no religion” (8), refugees identifying themselves as “other religion” (11), atheists (3) and Baha’i (2).

Under the 1951 Refugee Convention, persecution on the grounds of religion is one of five criteria for determining whether an applicant should be granted refugee status (the others relate to race, nationality, political opinion or membership of a particular social group.)

Hmmm.......If the 10 %* rule would be applied it would mean 1,100 Christian refugees would be admitted.

'Two peas in a pod' - Obama Is the Real Turkey in This Scenario.

'Two peas in a pod' - Obama Is the Real Turkey in This Scenario. (Algemeiner).

US President Barack Obama met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday at the G-20 summit in China.

Though the purpose of the two-day gathering was for representatives of governments and central banks to discuss policy issues pertaining to international financial stability, the tete-a-tete between Obama and Erdogan on the sidelines of the forum was not about money. It was, rather, a meeting of the minds on a subject close to the hearts of both NATO allies.

With his Cheshire-cat grin and dead eyes, Obama patted his Turkish counterpart on the back and congratulated him on a job well done. Erdogan had not only survived an attempt to oust him, but had quashed it like a true tyrant. Obama could only look on in awe and envy.

Following their little chat, the two leaders addressed the press at the JW Marriott Hotel in Hangzhou.

“By taking to the streets to resist the coup attempt, the Turkish people once again affirmed their commitment to democracy and the strength and resilience of democratic institutions inside of Turkey,” Obama said. “I indicated at the time the unequivocal condemnation of these actions and spoke personally to President Erdogan to offer any support that we might be able to provide in both ending the attempted coup, but also in investigating and bringing perpetrators of these illegal actions to justice.”

Erdogan also made a statement, calling the president of the United States “Barack,” before launching into one of his usual self-serving rants. Typical of a violent Islamist appropriating the moral high ground, the Turkish president agreed that fighting terrorism is of utmost importance. But the “terrorists” to whom he mainly referred were Gulen and the Kurds. Groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas — which live by the sword, the rifle and the suicide-bomb are just fine, as far as he is concerned.

Obama did not bat an eyelash, however, indicating that the foreign policy of his nearly eight-year administration is firmly intact. And it still involves being on the wrong side of every conflict, while presenting the bad guys in a favorable light. Turkey is but one of many examples.

It is typical of Obama to condemn the victims of such a travesty. But to describe the failed coup as a re-affirmation of the Turkish people’s “commitment to democracy and the strength and resilience of democratic institutions inside of Turkey” borders on willful lunacy and blindness. 

As was the case with the foiled Green Revolution in Iran, when the newly instated administration in Washington watched from afar as the regime in Tehran gunned down protesters trying to extricate themselves from the mullahs dictating their every move, the White House once again simply watched from afar, and let the forces of evil wreak their havoc uninterrupted.

We now fully grasp what Obama was up to in 2009 — a total capitulation to the world’s greatest state sponsor of terrorism, culminating in last year’s signing of the nuclear deal with the ayatollahs. What he has in store for Turkey during his remaining lame-duck tenure in office remains to be seen. But it won’t be good. Hmmm........The Muslim Brotherhood White house. Read the full story here.

Parents Of Slain US Army Captain, Khizr Khan and his wife Ghazala Appear At US Muslim Brotherhood Convention.

Parents Of Slain US Army Captain,  Khizr Khan and his wife Ghazala Appear At US Muslim Brotherhood Convention. HT: GlobalMBWatch.

Local media is reporting that Khizr Khan and his wife Ghazala, the parents of slain US Army Captain Humayun Khan, have appeared on stage at the 2016 national conference of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). According to a Chicago Tribune report:

September 3, 2015 The couple who lost a son in the Iraq War and were attacked by Donald Trump after their appearance at the Democratic National Convention this summer on Saturday thanked those at a national Islamic convention for their support but warned the ‘assault’ on the Muslim community won’t end with the November election. 

Khizr Khan and his wife, Ghazala, whose son, Capt. Humayan Khan, was killed in 2004 in Iraq, spoke to the annual Islamic Society of North America convention in Rosemont on Saturday afternoon. 

Khan praised Muslim leaders for being a voice for the community and also thanked the scholars and mentors in his life.

‘The burden of the scholar has gotten heavier because of the assault,’ Khizr Khan said. ‘Some people believe that this assault may be over, assault on my community and assault on my religion, will be over in November. Do not be mistaken. This assault is far beyond elections.’ 

Linda Sarsour, executive director of the Arab American Association of New York, introduced the couple. 

Calling the Khans ‘remarkable human beings,’ Sarsour said that Khizr Khan was ‘Unapologetically Muslim’ and that ‘we as American Muslims know exactly what the U.S. Constitution says, and we expect those who are going to be the leaders of the United States of America to abide by that Constitution.’

Khizr Khan, the father of a soldier killed in Iraq, speaks at the Democratic National Convention. Sarsour also praised Ghazala Khan’s silence during the Democratic convention, something Trump raised questions about, saying that the Republican presidential candidate was blind to ‘the power, the grace of Ghazala Khan.’ 

‘We do not have to scream, we do not have to speak for people to know that we as Muslim women are powerful women, that we are the foundations of our communities and our institutions, and it is because of us that our communities thrive,’ Sarsour said. 

Ghazala Khan spoke first, thanking everyone for the love and respect they have received.

‘I’m so grateful for all of you and all of America and all of the world,’ Ghazala Khan said. ‘I feel so close to you guys. … I have given one son and got this many back.’ 

In his remarks, Khizr Khan said, ‘The ink of the pen of the scholars is more sacred than the blood of the martyrs,’ and said scholars must play a large role in shaping the reaction of the Muslim community to the ‘chaos’ in American society.”

Read the rest here.

Local media reported that the Khans were introduced by US Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson who also spoke at the conference. A Washington Post report described Johnson as the first sitting Cabinet secretary and the highest-ranking U.S. official to address an ISNA conference. Read the full story here.

Video - Egyptian Philosopher - Islamic Fundamentalism Will Play a Role in the Destruction of USA

Video - Egyptian Philosopher - Islamic Fundamentalism Will Play a Role in the Destruction of USA. (MEMRI).

Egyptian philosopher Mourad Wahba expressed his views on the dangers inherent in religious fundamentalism in two TV interviews that aired on August 8. Speaking on Egypt's Channel 1 TV channel, he said that the Arab culture was "backward" and that Egyptian mentality needed to be "liberated" from the religious fundamentalism present both in Islam and in Christianity. In a Mehwar TV interview, Wahba said that he had warned of the dangers of Islamic fundamentalism back in the 1980s, when he foresaw that it would play a role in the destruction of the Soviet Union and later of the U.S. "There is inadequate awareness in the U.S. of the dangers inherent in fundamentalism," he said. Channel 1 (Egypt)

Mourad Wahba: Our culture is backward.

Interviewer: Right.

Mourad Wahba: I am generalizing. Our culture is backward. and tries to distance itself from the West, purporting to have some sort of exceptionalism, a special identity. This exceptionalism...

Interviewer: But this is meaningless.

In 1986, or rather, before 1988, the American philosopher John Somerville told me that he would like us to organize an international conference together, and invite Soviet and American philosophers to attend, because the world was under threat of a nuclear war. I liked the idea, and we organized a conference in St. Louis, in the US. At the conference, I told the philosophers that I expected religious fundamentalism, especially Islamic fundamentalism, to play a role in the destruction of the Soviet Union, and after that, to play a role in the destruction of America. That, in my opinion, would free up planet Earth for an Islamic Caliphate. That was the view I expressed in St. Louis in 1986, with the Soviet and American philosophers. They told me that I was a pessimist, and that it couldn't happen. Then, in 1991, the Communist bloc fell, and in 2001, America began to fall with the destruction of...

Interviewer: The World Trade Center…

Mourad Wahba: That's right. To this day - and you can see this for yourself - America is undergoing an internal struggle, and it will continue to face difficulties, because it does not understand the violence of religious fundamentalism.

In the days of Obama... I've written an article about Obama, titled: "A Fundamentalist in the White House," in which I consider Obama to be a fundamentalist, who has six advisors from the Muslim Brotherhood. Now that the US has awoken, you can see the internal struggles raging within it, along with the suicide-bombers. All this is because there is inadequate awareness in the US of the dangers inherent in fundamentalism.

'Leaked' German report: "Islamist Turkey cooperates with Islamic terror groups fighting Assad in Syria"

'Leaked' German report: "Islamist Turkey cooperates with Islamic terror groups fighting Assad in Syria" (DW).

Members of Germany's government have accused Turkey's regime of supporting militant groups in the Middle East public media report. ARD cited a classified document sent from the Interior Ministry to the Left party.

Citing a classified document from the Interior Ministry to representatives of the Left party on Tuesday the German public broadcaster ARD reported, that members of the government consider Turkey's regime a supporter of militant groups in the Middle East.

German officials appear to have publicly acknowledged, if in a classified document, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's weapons support for militants fighting the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, which Turkish journalists have reported in the past.

"Especially since the year 2011, as a result of its incrementally Islamized internal and foreign policy, Turkey has become a central platform for action for Islamist groups in the Middle East," the German officials said, according to ARD.

German security officials also said Erdogan had an "ideological affinity" with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, ARD reported. Suppressed under Hosni Mubarak's dictatorship, the movement went on to produce Egypt's first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi. Read the full story here.

More here in German: Brisante Einschätzung der Bundesregierung : Türkei "Aktionsplattform" für Islamisten