In Memoriam September 11

Continuously updated until September 14

يا لحسن الحظ أن الأمريكيين يشتبهون في طـالــبـين فقط، وليس في المدرسة بأكملها Fortunately, the Americans only suspect two students, not the entire school.

Osama bin Laden (r), Ayman al-Zawahiri (l), defunct leadership of Al-Qaeda organisation.

The above joke is based on the fact that Arabic nouns in the singular form not only possess at least one plural form but a dual form as well, for things coming in pairs. That's why the dual of 'student' [spoken: Talib] becomes [Taliban] or 'two students' which is the same expression the Taliban of Afghanistan are using to name themselves. Such, this joke is mocking the Americans who didn't recognize that their enemies in Muslimic countries were far more numerous than they imagined.

After September 11, 2001, the Afghan Taliban were accused of hiding Osama bin Laden, the alleged mastermind behind the disastrous attack. As a consequence, they were "Bombed into Stone Age" on behalf of US President Bush. No wonder they are actually practising some kind of "Stone Age Islam".

This Turkish video by TRT tells us about the disastrous wars on
Afghanistan & Iraq following the 9/11 attacks, and which helped
to create the Islamic State (Daesh or ISIS) out of the remnants
of Al-Qaeda. Their consequences raised a huge wave of human
displacement in Afghanistan, Iraq & Syria, leaving these nations
in a state of unstability.

And here is another suspect in the September 11 case, rarely mentioned together with the sufficiently known terrorists who staged the September 11 attacks: Omar Al-Bayoumi, a Saudi agent with direct contact to some of the terrorists, a direct connection with the Saudi government, and special knowledge of aircraft navigation. Despite his personal background, he was never charged in the frame of FBI investigations. The following video was presented yesterday, September 9, by MONITOR, a special format on the 1st public TV channel of Germany:

If you watch this video directly on YouTube,you
can listen to the auto-dubbed English comment.

Editor's Note:
You might remember the September 11 documentary 'Fahrenheit 9/11' by US activst Michael Moore. I watched the film myself, and I still memember the scene, when it was mentioned that all air traffic was immediately halted that day after the impact of three passenger planes on the WTC twin towers and the Pentagon, emphasizing that only a few Saudi dignitaries, allegedly members of the bin Laden family, were allowed to leave the country in a hurry [background music: "We have to get out of that place"].

=> Mysterious Death of Bin Laden Relatives (2015) <=
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004): A highly controversial critique of the George W. Bush administration, the September 11 attacks, and the subsequent Iraq War. It won the prestigious Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and remains the highest-grossing documentary of all time.

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What is happening elsewhere at the same time:

Oct 7 Attack - Netanyahu Ignored Early Warnings

Update added on September 10

CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour in a live interview with former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert on a neglected warning of PM Netanyahu from UAE, prior to the October 7 attacks of Hamas.

PM Netanyahu has advised his lawyers to sue HAARETZ for their report on the October 7 attack.

Netanyahu caught hushing up the mistakes he made ...

Did he plan to provoke the October 7 attack of Hamas on Israeli
citizens deliberately to have an excuse for the Gaza Genocide ?

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Edwin Samuel Montagu (6 February 1879 – 15 November 1924) was a British Liberal politician who served as Secretary of State for India between 1917 and 1922. Montagu was a "radical" Liberal and the third practising Jew (after Sir Herbert Samuel and Sir Rufus Isaacs) to serve in the British cabinet.

Slave Trade in Medieval Germany

These days, Otto the Great, originally Otto of Saxony, since 962 AD Holy Roman Emperor of German Nationality, found his final resting-place in Magdeburg Cathedral, Eastern Germany. Reason enough to focus on a forgotten chapter of German history: The slave trade crossing wide parts of medieval Europe and which was impossible to realize without imperial protection.

=> Jewish Slave Trade بلاد الصقالبا <=
related PDF file: 1.7 MB, 5 pages, free download

A related article is available
below in its German version:
Die Europäischen Juden - Eine Spurensuche

Replica of the 'Magdeburger Reiter', an equestrian monument
seen as a portrait of Otto the Great (Magdeburg, original 1240)

Trump's Defeat - An Uncompromising Comment

" From Europe with Love "
=> War on Iran - An Uncompromising TV Comment <=

Gaza - Militias and Mercenaries - Protected by IDF

Last Update on 1st September

=> Gaza - Militias and Mercenaries - Protected by IDF <=

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Related Subject:

Displaced Palestinians Not Allowed to Return Home

The Israeli military has told [Israel's] Supreme Court that residents displaced from the Jenin, Tulkarm and Nur Shams refugee camps will not be permitted to return at this stage, according to a report by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

The newspaper said the army intends to maintain a military presence in the northern West Bank camps in order to preserve what it describes as operational and security control, and has not provided a timetable for residents to return.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been displaced from the three camps since the start of large-scale Israeli military operations in the northern West Bank. Palestinian residents and aid organisations have described the evacuations as abrupt and highly disruptive, leaving many families dependent on limited humanitarian assistance.

According to Haaretz, Israeli forces have also carried out extensive demolition and engineering works inside the camps, including widening roads and creating new routes intended to facilitate the movement of military vehicles.

The Israeli military has said such changes are necessary to improve access for security operations and prevent armed groups from rebuilding infrastructure inside densely populated camp areas.

Palestinian officials and rights organisations argue that the destruction and prolonged displacement are fundamentally altering the camps and could prevent residents from returning to their homes.

Human Rights Watch has previously accused Israel of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in connection with forced displacement and destruction in the northern West Bank. Israel rejects such characterisations and maintains that its operations are directed against Palestinian armed groups and are necessary for security reasons.

[Middle East Monitor on August 27]

[شبكة قدس الإخبارية, independent Palestinian news center on August 26]

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History of Palestine

Hanan Ashrawi (*1946), who quoted the above X-post, is a Palestinian politician, activist and scholar. Ashrawi started her career as a scientist at Birzeit University in 1990. She became a member of the PLO's Leadership Committee, serving as the official spokesperson of the Palestinian delegation during the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991. In 1996, she was appointed Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research of the Palestinian Authority under Yassir Arafat. She became an elected member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from where she resigned in 2020.

Count Folke Bernadotte (1895 - 1948) was a Swedish diplomat and nobleman who served as the Vice-President of the Swedish Red Cross during World War II. He became the face of international humanitarianism in the final, desperate months of the conflict, negotiating directly with Heinrich Himmler for the release of prisoners from Nazi concentration camps. His work was a solitary race against time to save the last remnants of the Holocaust.

In the chaos of early 1945, Bernadotte successfully negotiated with the collapsing Nazi regime for the release of prisoners. This mission, known as the White Buses operation, rescued approximately 15,000 people, including thousands of Jewish men and women who were among the last survivors of camps like Ravensbrück and Neuengamme.

According to sources quoted, the absolute numbers might differ as for the total of people rescued or the amount of Jews among them. Nevertheless, the whole operation ended as an extraordinary success.

Editor's Note:
And there should have been even more. I remember a TV documentation I watched in my youth and which was about some other Swedish diplomat, not Count Bernadotte, at the embassy in Berlin who should have tried to save refugees from Nazi persecution with 'illegally provided' German passports in 1945, only weeks before the end of the 'Reich'. While the heavily bombed Swedish embassy had already been transferred to Hamburg, there was still an 'emergency bureau', left in a bunker on the abandoned embassy compound. That diplomat later allegedly tried to contact a commander of the Soviet 'Red Army' whose troops were just approaching Berlin. After his attempt to cross the military front at a rather quiet place, he should have disappeared without a trace. - I am sure that this wasn't just 'great cinema' about some mysteries of World War II but a pictorial record of what had really happened. Yet, I haven't heard the same story, still present in my memory, again at any time later.

Maybe Hanan Ashrawi, born into a Palestinian family in 1946, might have heard from her parents about the Jewish refugees that came to Palestine during the war. Those were probably much different from other Jews, followers of a Zionist doctrine, who simultaneously or later invaded Palestine, pressing for the foundation of Israel as a 'State of the Jews' in 1948.

Iran and the Arab World

Last Update on August 26

يُختزل التوتر بين إيران وبعض الدول العربية في كثير من الأحيان في كونه صراعًا مذهبيًا بين السنة والشيعة، لكن هذه القراءة المبسطة لا تعكس التعقيد الحقيقي للعلاقات في الشرق الأوسط. فهذه العلاقة تشكلت عبر قرون طويلة من التفاعل الحضاري والتنافس السياسي والتحولات الجيوسياسية. وبين الإرث التاريخي للصراعات الإمبراطورية، والتحولات التي شهدتها المنطقة بعد الثورة الإيرانية عام 1979، والعوامل المرتبطة بالجغرافيا السياسية للشرق الأوسط، تتداخل عدة عناصر لفهم طبيعة هذه العلاقة المتشابكة. ومن هنا تبرز الحاجة إلى قراءة استراتيجية أعمق تتجاوز التفسيرات الاختزالية وتضع التوترات الحالية في سياقها التاريخي والسياسي الأوسع.

The tension between Iran and some Arab countries is often reduced to a sectarian conflict between Sunnis and Shiites, but this simplistic reading does not reflect the true complexity of relations in the Middle East. This relationship was formed through long centuries of civilizational interaction, political competition, and geopolitical transformations. Between the historical legacy of imperial conflicts, the transformations that the region witnessed after the Iranian Revolution in 1979, and factors related to the geopolitics of the Middle East, several elements overlap to understand the nature of this intertwined relationship. Hence the need for a deeper strategic reading that goes beyond reductionist interpretations and places current tensions in their broader historical and political context.

=> Iran and the Arab World - Strategic Reading (English / Arabic) <=

إيران والعالم العربي: قراءة استراتيجية في جذور
التوتر بين التاريخ والمذهب والجغرافيا السياسية
Iran and the Arab World: A Strategic Reading at the Roots
of Tension Between History, Sectarianism, and Geopolitics.

Another related article written for blueprint news can be
found here. It is about the peak of Central Asian culture
at the times when Islam reached the Sassanid kingdoms
and the ruler was honoured as a 'defender of the faithful'.

=> History of Persia - The Sassanid Kingdoms <=

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Iraq Targeted by Trump for Trade with Iran

The United States has threatened to exclude countries that continue to trade with Iran from the dollar-based financial system, and Iraq may be an example of how it implements that threat.

Washington has already imposed sanctions on a number of Iraqi banks accused of dealing with Tehran, but it has avoided taking measures that would destroy the economy of the two countries' strategic ally.

US President Donald Trump warned that any country that provides Iran with vital economic support will face dire consequences.

This may put Iran's main trading partners in the past few years, namely China, Turkey, India, Pakistan, and the Sultanate of Oman, in the targeting circle.

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Since its invasion of Iraq in 2003, the United States has exercised effective control over Iraqi oil revenues in dollars, primarily through the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, giving Washington exceptional influence over Baghdad's affairs.

Iraq is a rare ally of both the United States and Iran and maintains reserves exceeding $100 billion in the United States, and relies heavily on Washington's good faith to ensure the continued flow of its oil revenues and money.

In late 2024, Reuters revealed a fuel oil smuggling network that generates at least $1 billion annually for Iran and its agents in Iraq.

Other countries neighboring Iran involved in similar schemes may similarly face US scrutiny.

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Neil Quilliam, an associate fellow at the British-based Chatham House think tank, said US pressure had raised the costs and risks of financial dealings with Iran, forcing Iraqi institutions to improve compliance.

But this pressure did not sever Iraq's economic relations with Iran, which bypass the financial system, leaving Baghdad stuck between its dependence on both Washington and Tehran.

«Countries like China or Turkey have larger economies and a broader ability to withstand pressure, Quilliam said. As for Iraq, it has much fewer alternatives and capacity for financial resilience.

[الغد on August 25]

Israeli - Turkish Conflict ..... Expert Opinion

Former Egyptian Assistant Foreign Minister for Arab Affairs, Ambassador Mohamed Badr El-Din Zayed, said on Thursday that the tension between Turkey and Israel in Syria will not develop into a direct confrontation, noting that Ankara is a strong country and a member of NATO «NATO».

Badr al-Din Zayed's statement comes after Israel bombed Abu al-Duhur Air Base in Syria, warning that Syria was about to violate the status quo in security matters with Israel, by allowing Turkish forces to deploy at the air base.

The American envoy to Syria and the American ambassador to Ankara, Tom Barak, warned that Israel's targeting of Abu al-Duhur Airport in Syria could have led to a confrontation with Turkey, especially since it is located near the Turkish border.

The former Egyptian diplomat added, during his participation in the «Madar Al-Ghad» program with journalist Sami Kleib, that tensions between Turkey and Israel are currently escalating for reasons related to rearranging the Middle East, indicating that each party realizes that its expansion comes at the expense of the other party, which leads to a conflict during which each party seeks to maximize its tools and strategic presence in various files.

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For his part, the senior researcher at the Atlantic Council in Washington, Dr.Samir Al-Taqi, said that there are many controversial issues between Israel and Turkey in more than one file, including oil and the future of the Syrian army in the period after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad.

Al-Taqi added that the tension between Israel and Turkey is not new, noting that Israel wants to send a message that it will not allow Turkey to arm Syria, in light of the existing differences between the two countries regarding the future of the situation in Syria.

He explained that the media of the two countries do not know when the crises between Israel and Turkey will end, pointing out that the differences overlap with a number of regional files that witness competition between the two sides.

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