The Iranian Plot Against Kenya

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THE Iranian bomb plots against Kenya: FALSE FLAGS?

Stranger than fiction? You tell me whether the axis of evil is being laid too thick for local consumption! since, Kenyan coppers be believed, Iran on the face of it has it going for Kenya. --Devising pure evil!

Here is the chief of Kenya (IG) police Boinnet in funereal pose, shocked at the vileness the bearded Persians are capable of. I will come out straight and say the IGP is a man I have invariably described in some of my more vitriolic posts as a toy cop! Not that I am alone in that anyway. He is a gang-bang c.unt for detractors!





After listening to him in this clip, I will be asking whose toy-boy he now is on this one. For his performance does not convince me he is a pro on top of the job, nor a cop on top of the info he peddles. He comes across as a game being played, a pawn the way he was during the fatal Pastor Ng'ang'a range-rover accident near Limuru, where his subordinates stitched him up, up up to dry.

wn.com/kenya_police_2_kenyans_arrested_for_spying_for_iran

28 Nov 2015. Two Kenya terror suspects arrested

Two Kenyans are in police custody for allegedly being members of an Iranian spy network linked to terror. The inspector general of the national police service Joseph Boinet says the suspects – Abu-Bakr Sadiq Louis And Yassin Juma - travelled to Iran last month before returning to Kenya and planned to launch attacks on several undisclosed strategic installations and foreign missions.
Boinet says the suspects have given police useful information about their intended terror mission and would be arraigned in court once investigations are completed. The police boss refused to disclose where the two suspects were arrested but said police are yet to confirm whether the Iranian spy agency is linked to al shabaab or Islamic state group.

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Iran linked to Al-Shabaab!? The Al-Shabaab of sworn alliance to Al-Qaeda!? The Al-Shabaab now flirting with ISIS! The ISIS which, apart from running down the ranks of Iranian-supported Lebanese Hizbollah, is ever laying low Iranian revolutionary guards including senior Generals in the same Syrian battlefield!

One got to come hot on this one, I mean thinking through the rationalities of skulduggery, sordid motives, convoluted geo-political stratagems and temporary confluents of purpose which would force Iran into a proxy alliance with terror attacks on Kenya!

And with all my ears open and my mind wide apart, this Kenyan cop aint giving it to me for real. Added to this is the total absence of cocky punditry as if security paradoxes are a thinking-free area in Kenya, wherefore, like a hot, aroused gal disappointed by a shrivelled prematurely-retired cock, I have been forced to wander away in search of stronger stuff. Finding none, I decided to stop by myself, ask why on my own; and, on my own person and account, do my own thinking or masturbate myself as they case may be, shamelessly to the end! –--So here we go: By the book:

Crime? Look for motive: Why does Iran hate Kenya so much!? What is it in it for them? Why would they be that stupid, just when they signed a deal with the half-Kenyan administration in DC?
With these questions I plunged right into trouble. I can't find a motive firm enough to convince my mind I am not being taken for a ride in this case.

I may need to advise the Jukwaa-reading fraternity by way of a disclaimer, that, whilst I have discovered one of the joys of a cash-crunch enforced total abstention is always keeping a clear-headed perspective on things, the holiday season has inflicted a recidivist tendency in my habits. As such, late into the night on Christmas day my fingers were fidgeting on a variety of glasses of liquids whose tastes are furthest from neutral H-to-O, aka water! Nevertheless I feel sober enough to state: I can't find a motive firm enough to convince my mind I am not being taken for a ride on this one. In other words I think the situation is a manufactured crisis, one where the geo-political power game in the middle east is sucking Kenya in its centrifugal vortex.

Correct. This is not our game.

Meseems the question to be asked is whether our political and security elite are stupid enough to bribed into taking sides, thus, for real, inviting the current Shiite-Sunni quagmire fronted by Saudi Arabia and Iran to our land and (2) siding with Israel in its attempts to keep Iran down and vaporise Palestinian aspirations to own nationhood.

Why would number two be stupid?

Because it that will come the day like When South Africa abandoned Taiwan to ally herself with Beijin because of economic realities. The Islamic republic of Iran coming back from the cold and poised to be a lynch pin in the Eurasian Union, is the country of the future in the middle east –-and that is where we are looking already even if our legs are still twisted and dragging West. Facts on the ground can be very persuasive arguments I tell ya. (I saw it when Taiwan had paid South Africa to accept the Dalai Llama as a guest, then the other China whispered something different in the ears of the ANC, and, pointing to facts on the ground in terms of economic statistics, the ANC retracted with, 'but of course, how foolish of me to consider otherwise!')
The current military security pact between the USA and Israel to which Kenya has been roped, however lucrative for now for the politico-military inferiority complex running Kenya, is a short pitch East Africans need not rub in Eurasian peoples faces. It is an anti-popular quisling arrangement facilitated by parasites without identity, and thus no concept of dignity.

This Boinet act of fingering Iran too soon too forcefully in public is such an unthoughtful act of a dumb elite for rent. And dumb elites for rent are, as a rule, bad for national business.

I go through some history, false flags or otherwise to manipulate events, and more than suspect it is. I would start with the usual suspects: that would be Saudi Arabia and Israel in their zero-sum struggle with a rising Persia, working hard to pitch Iran as a terrorist nest whose offspring are out to blast Kenya to pieces. Their motives are more rational than one cares to imagine.

The truth is Iranian gas was already set to lower the price of cooking gas in Kenya by more than 50%, if the Raila-Kibaki deal went through as planned. And there is more. –--Fat Trade.



But first: The following events opened my mind somewhat to the so-called false flag operations. Some intelligence services have special departments dedicated to these kind of events so-called.

Demonising nuclear Iran

How did a false Iran nuclear narrative come to dominate global politics?

In August 2004, a set of intelligence documents said to have come from the laptop computer of a participant in a purported Iranian nuclear weapons research project fell into the hands of Western intelligence. The documents included drawings of apparent efforts to redesign the re-entry vehicle of Iran's Shabaab-3 missile to accommodate a nuclear warhead, which the Bush administration portrayed as "smoking gun" evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons programme.

IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei and other senior officials of the agency had serious doubts about their authenticity. But Safeguards Department chief Olli Heinonen collaborated with Washington in 2008-09 and pushed the position in IAEA reports in 2008-09 that the documents were "credible" and that Iran was refusing to cooperate with the IAEA "investigation" of the documents. That position made it virtually impossible to question the authenticity of the documents.

It is now clear that ElBaradei's skepticism about the documents was justified. The former coordinator of US-German relations in the German foreign office, Karsten Voigt, revealed in an interview with this writer last year that senior officials of Germany's intelligence agency, the BND, had told him in November 2004 that those documents had been provided by a sometime BND source who was a member of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), the Iranian exile group allied first with Saddam and later with Israel that was listed as terrorist organisation by the US. The BND officials told Voigt that the MEK source was considered "doubtful".

www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/05/demonising-nuclear-iran-2014517195752572663.html

And there is more: here is
another example why you want to leave the middle eastern chaps to their own blood feuds.

Bulgaria backs off blaming Hezbollah for attack on Israeli tourists

New foreign minister says evidence against terror group is ‘indirect, not explicit’
June 5, 2013,

JTA — Bulgaria is backtracking on its assertion that a terror attack in Burgas that killed five Israelis and their Bulgarian driver was carried out by Hezbollah.

In the wake of the bombing, Israel, the United States and several other countries called on the European Union to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist group.
“It is important that the (EU) decision be based not only on the bombing in Burgas because I think the evidence we have is not explicit,” Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin told national state radio BNR, according to Reuters

But if you listened to Binyamin Netanyahu

18 Jul 2012. Iran blamed after seven killed in bomb attack on Israeli bus in Bulgaria

Iran has been blamed for a terrorist attack on an Israeli tourist coach in Bulgaria that killed up to seven people at Burgas airport on Wednesday.
By Bruno Waterfield

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, said Tehran was behind the attack near the popular Black Sea resort of Sunny Beach and warned of retaliatory measures targeting Iran.
"All the signs lead to Iran. Israel will respond forcefully to Iranian terror," he said.
Three buses caught fire after an explosion at around 5.30pm local time ripped through a coach carrying 44 Israeli tourists, including many teenagers, who had just landed on a flight from Tel Aviv. Over 30 people were also injured in the attack.
The blast was confirmed as a terrorist attack linked to the 18th anniversary of Iran's bombing of a Jewish community centre in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires that killed 85 people
"Eighteen years exactly after the blast at the Jewish community centre in Argentina, murderous Iranian terror continues to hit innocent people," said Mr Netanyahu.

I think we should not play an active part as figurants in that ancient rivalry fronted by modern-day maniacs. We should keep a healthy academic interest and distance, otherwise your prosecutors can stars dropping dead like the Argentinean in the telegraph report.

NB: As a footnote I will retell the story of the day, during Nottingham carnaval in London, when, coming to the rescue of a man wearing Kenyan flags being mauled by Arab-looking types, I and my colleague too nearly ended in hospital. The issue was Abdullah Ocalan. These Arab-looking types were Kurdish nationalist revenging on a random Kenyan (supposed). Kenya had betrayed Ocalan and the Kurdish people, so any Kenyan was fair game in revenge.

That was the day I woke up to being very careful about the middle east. At that time I was more Rwandese and Congolese than Kenyan, so much did I gape as the Kurds narrated the fury in their hearts at the treacherous Kenyans. I understood them Kurds, for I remembered this Congolese nationalist woman cursing the Tutsi invader with the last breath in her lungs. But that is another story.

What I know is that the chief of Kenya police should not let himself be such an obvious pawn for whatever reason, even being made forever.

FOLLOW THE MONEY, BIG MONEY.

www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-03-091013.html

The region alone can give Israel arms business worth US$1 billion. Israeli arms sales soared to US$7.5 billion last year, a significant jump on the $5.8 billion raised in 2011. In this, African counties accounted for $197 million. [13]

Conclusion

Israel's special attention towards the nations of South and Southeast Asia; Latin America and Africa, especially for its arms sales, could be attributed to the burgeoning isolation it is facing within its own region, alongside the budgetary issues in Europe and North America. At this juncture, when popular uprisings have engulfed states such as Egypt, one of the few countries having peace treaty with Israel, the Jewish state is reaching out far and wide for business. Till today, the linkages between Israeli arms sales and its foreign policy pursuits still hold some relevance as it was during the 1960s and 1970s.

However, considering rivalry between nations in Africa, Israel should be very tactful while transferring weapons systems. This will also become a harder task for Israel as its arch rival Iran is also making a speedy inroad to Africa with a motive to enhance its diplomatic, defence and commercial deals. Only time will tell how far Israel can yield success in its approach to gain a foothold again in this continent. November 28, 2015 8:43 AM

AAH, Yes, very rational motives. Business.

From the popular press here is a round up of the Iranian evil untoward.
6th may 2013

Iranians jailed for life in Kenya over terror charges
6 May 2013

The court said Mohammed and Mousavi were suspected to have links with a network planning bombings in the capital, Nairobi and the coastal city of Mombasa.
Judge Kiarie said he had decided to sentence them to life in prison because the "cry of victims of previous terrorist attacks is louder" than their pleas for leniency, AFP reports.
Defence lawyers alleged that Mohammed and Mousavi were interrogated by Israeli security officers while in detention.

The prosecution denied the allegation.

Mohamed and Mousavi were arrested in June 2012 and charged with possessing 15kg (33 pounds) of the powerful explosive RDX.
Soon thereafter, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran was plotting attacks against Israel in Kenya.
On Sunday, Iran's ambassador to Kenya, Malik Hussein Givzad, denied his government's involvement involved in any terror plot, Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper reports.
Iran would help Mohamed and Mousavi appeal against the ruling, he added.
However, Iran would not sever ties with Kenya over the issue, Mr Givzad said.
"Iran has cordial business relations with Kenya. This was a judicial process, which we respect," he is quoted as saying.

Kenya has been hit in recent years by a spate of bombings and abductions, blamed on Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group.
It sent troops into Somalia in October 2011 to help the UN-backed government seize territory from the militants.
In 2002, al-Qaeda-linked militants bombed an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, killing 18 people.
A missile was also fired, but it failed to hit its target - an Israeli charter plane flying out of Mombasa, a popular tourist resort.

Remember before Boinet there was another joke named Kimaiyo.

2 Iranians arrested in Kenya with forged passports September 19, 2014

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan official says two Iranians carrying forged Israeli passports have been arrested in Nairobi.

The man and woman were taken into custody Friday as they were about to board a flight out of the country, a senior police officer said on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak with the press.
The officer says a preliminary investigation indicates the two Iranians — who were not identified — bought the forged passports in Armenia before arriving in Kenya on Sept 9.
The officer said the suspects claim they are refugees and were seeking to go to Belgium, but authorities believe their final destination would have been Israel.
Last year a Kenyan court sentenced two Iranian nationals convicted of plotting attacks against Western targets to life in prison.

Years earlier.

Two Iranians from elite Revolutionary Guard unit arrested in Kenya while 'plotting to attack U.S., Israeli and British targets'

By Snejana Farberov 3 July 2012
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Two Iranians who led authorities to a cache of explosives after their arrest planned to attack Israeli, U.S., British or Saudi targets inside Kenya, officials said on Monday.
The two are believed to be members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force, an elite and secretive unit that acts against foreign interests, one of the officials said.
The foiled attack appeared to fit into a global pattern of alleged plots by Iranian agents. Previous plots were uncovered in the U.S. - against Saudi Arabia's ambassador - as well as in Thailand, Azerbaijan and India.
In Israel, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that ‘there are no limits to the Iranian terror.’

‘After Iran sent its people to assassinate the Saudi ambassador on American soil and carry out attacks in Azerbaijan, Bangkok, Tbilisi and New Delhi, now its intention to carry out attacks in Africa is revealed. The international community needs to fight the world's greatest exporter of terror,’ said a statement from Netanyahu's office.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2167999/Two-Iranians-elite-Revolutionary-Guard-unit-arrested-Kenya-plotting-attack-U-S--Israeli-British-targets.html#ixzz3um1Vids2

Iranian spiritual leader Ali Khamenei: he would be stupid enough according to Boinet, to bless bomb blasts in Nairobi!

And last month 2015., we read.

Kenya arrests two Iranians suspected of planning attacks: ministry

REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan security forces have arrested two Iranian men on suspicion of planning attacks in Nairobi, the Interior Ministry and Kenyan media reported on Saturday.
The two men had planned to attack hotels in the Kenyan capital used by tourists, business executives and diplomats, Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinnet said, according to a report carried by the website of Kenya's Daily Nation.
Kenya has suffered from a series of attacks by Somali Islamist group al Shabaab, a Sunni Muslim group that has said its assaults are aimed at driving Kenyan troops and other members of an African Union force out of Somalia.

There was no indication of any link to the latest arrests in the ministry statements. At least one of the Iranians was identified as a Shi'ite Muslim, the predominant sect in Iran.
"Two Iranians arrested by KE (Kenyan) security agencies with a plan to mount a terror attack in NBI (Nairobi). The plan was foiled and suspects arrested," the ministry wrote on Twitter.
An Interior Ministry official confirmed the report.

The ministry identified the two men as Abubakar Sadiq Louw, 69, describing him as a "senior figure" in the Nairobi Shi'ite community. It named the other as 25-year-old Yassin Sambai Juma, saying he was also from Nairobi and describing him as a "recruit".
The two men "have admitted to conspiring to mount terror attacks" in Kenya, the ministry added on Twitter.
Boinnet said Louw admitted to recruiting young Kenyans to spy and mount attacks, Daily Nation reported.
In 2013, two Iranian men were sentenced to life in prison by a Kenyan court for planning to carry out bombings in the country.

In 2014, a court ordered an Iranian man and woman held under anti-terrorism laws to serve two years in jail or pay a fine after admitting to using fake Israeli passports to enter Kenya. They had been detained on suspicion of planning an attack, but officials did not say if those suspicions were laid to rest.
(Reporting by Humphrey Malalo and Edmund Blair; Editing by Hugh Lawson)

Meanwhile, may be kikulacho kiko nguoni mwako.

www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/03/isil-eyes-east-africa-foments-division-150322130940108.html
1.

But, there are also ideological fissures. In Nairobi a firebrand imam, Sheikh Hassaan Hussein, issued a public call for loyalty to ISIL. While the Sheikh has only a small following, he is known to be close both to the al-Shabab leadership and politicians in Kenya.

Analyst Hassan Abukar told Al Jazeera he believes Hussein may be trying to influence the internal politics of al-Shabab.
"Mahad Karate, the deputy emir, favours ISIL, Hassaan perhaps wants to strengthen Karate's position," Abukar said.
None of this bodes well for East Africa, which could either see an influx of foreign fighters if ISIL gains a foothold, or increasing links to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula as Yemen becomes more unstable.

For bomb plots we may not need to look to foreign capitals. Just this speck within our eyes.
2.

In Kenya's Enemy Within we look at the government's proposed border wall and whether it will help stop attacks on Kenyan soil.
Investigative journalist John Allan Namu speaks to people with direct access to the project, who say the plan is infeasible and won't enhance the country's security.
We hear how corruption among immigration officials, poor coordination with intelligence agencies and slow responses from the security forces have left Kenya unable to stem the attacks.
With exclusive access to al-Shabab fighters in Kenya, we are told how the wall represents a futile effort to shut out the group and the biggest threat the country is facing is from within.
We also speak to the Muslim community who say that constant harassment and intimidation at the hands of security forces, and scare-mongering by the government, are helping drive al-Shabab's recruitment and creating the perfect breeding ground for the group.
Source: Al Jazeera

Hassan Rohani,president of Iran.

So he okayed bomb blasts in Nairobi, or he is not in control of his security services, or he is but rogues will be rogues, and sh!t happens everywhere!?

This inspector general of our police needs to come again, even for the sake of his wife!

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Kenyan False Flag Bomb Plot Aimed At Tightening Sanctions Noose On Iran:
Islamic Republic Falls Foul in African Cradle of America’s ‘War on Terror’

By Finian Cunningham
Global Research, July 06, 2012
6 July 2012

An alleged spectacular Iranian bomb plot uncovered in Kenya this week has all the hallmarks of a Western intelligence “false flag” operation – with the aim of tightening international oil sanctions even further on Iran.

Two men alleged to be Iranian nationals and members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps appeared in court in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, earlier this week on terrorism charges. Media reports on 2 July said the men are accused of planning to blow up American, British, Saudi and Israeli targets in Kenya, including the British High Commission office, a chain of hotels and a synagogue.

Then, two days later, on 4 July, the Kenyan government made a surprise announcement that it was cancelling a fresh oil deal that it had signed with Iran. The purchase agreement had been struck with the Islamic Republic only a few weeks ago. The deal would have involved the supply of 80,000 barrels per day (b/d) of Iranian crude to the East African country.

Kenya is East Africa’s largest economy and the new partnership was seen as a welcome opportunity by Iran to open up other African oil export markets in the wake of tough American and European sanctions that came into effect on 28 June and 1 July, respectively. The 27-member EU bloc was a mainstay of Iranian oil exports, representing about 500,000 b/d, or 20 per cent of Iran’s global total.

While the Kenyan deal in itself would have only gone a small way towards compensating for the loss of the EU market, nevertheless it held the promise of a wider regional destination for further Iranian exports. There were reports of similar transactions in the pipeline with Tanzania and Zimbabwe among others.

Only a day before the Kenyan cancellation, the director of the National Iranian Oil Company, Mohsen Ghamsari, spoke to Iranian media in an upbeat tone about the Kenyan contract and how this signified new export markets in Africa circumventing the loss of European markets.

“Under the current conditions, despite the oil exports’ halt to Europe, new contracts with other customer countries have been signed,” said Ghamsari. “One of the new markets for exports of Iran’s oil is that of the African countries,” he added, confirming that Kenya was one of them. “Soon, more details about new Iran oil export contracts to new countries will be announced.”

That promising African development for Iran now seems to have foundered, adding to an already bleak outlook for Iran’s economy following the closure of European oil markets and, even worse, cancellations by major Asian buyers. Some 60 per cent of Iran’s crude exports had until recently been destined for Asia, including China, India, Japan and South Korea. But, despite earlier defiant talk, these buyers have recently balked at Iranian orders so as to avoid American and European financial penalties against banks and shipping insurance companies dealing with Iran.

The upshot is that Iranian oil exports have crashed from 2.5 million b/d last year to about 1.5 million b/d currently – a drop of 40 per cent, representing a loss of $3 billion every month to the Iranian economy. Over the year, that translates into a 10 per cent contraction in Iran’s oil-based national economy, according to World Bank data. This, in turn, is having a drastic impact on social conditions in Iran, with the purchasing power of the currency, the rial, plummeting, and inflation and unemployment spiralling.

Kenya’s oil ministry claims that revoking the Iranian contract was not related to the alleged bomb plot. The ministry says it was merely complying with American warnings of sanctions’ penalties being enforced if it went ahead with the oil deal.

But it seems likely that the suspected terror attacks – reported widely in lurid detail – may have been aimed at making the abrupt scuppering of the Iranian oil purchase more politically acceptable, not just in Kenya, but elsewhere in Africa. Local and international media reports immediately connected the Kenyan bomb scare with other alleged Iranian terror plots over the past year, including the plan to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington DC, and a string of explosions in Thailand, India, Georgia and Azerbaijan.

Iran has strenuously denied any sinister involvement in Kenya or the other countries mentioned. No evidence has been produced to substantiate the high-flown accusations made against Iran, yet Western mainstream media continue to run with such claims months after the alleged incidents have faded into oblivion.

As if on cue, as soon as the news broke about the latest bomb plot in Kenya, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, accused the Iranian government of “a terrorist attack in Africa”.

Netanyahu asserted: “After Iran sent its agents to murder the Saudi ambassador on US soil, the country has engaged in attacks in Azerbaijan, Bangkok, in Tbilisi, in New Delhi, and now we have just discovered a plot for a terrorist attack in Africa. Iranian terrorism knows no borders. The international community must fight against this major player in the world of terrorism.”

Apart from Netanyahu’s scripted, ready response to a breaking news story, there are other aspects about the alleged Kenyan bomb plot that indicate there is far more to it than meets the eye.

The two suspects, named as Ahmad Abolfathi Mohammad and Sayed Mansour Mousavi, are widely reported to belong to the crack Al Quds division of Iran’s revolutionary guards. But their appearance in the Nairobi court showed men who were well over middle age, with slightly disheveled figures, lacking the killer, athletic physiques that one would expect of elite commandos.

Secondly, it was reported that as soon as the men were arrested on 19 June, they voluntarily led police to a warehouse in the coastal city of Mombasa to recover 15 kilos of RDX plastic explosive. That readiness to cooperate with police in locating explosives does not sound like the behaviour of highly trained, elite commandos.

Thirdly, when the men appeared in court this week they denied the charges of a terror conspiracy. That contradicts the above claim that the suspects led police to their bomb store.

Fourthly, Kenyan police were reported in local and international media saying that they believed the alleged terror duo were planning to use 15 kilos of explosive to attack up to 30 high-profile targets.

Now, while RDX (a component of Semtex) is a powerful explosive, a blitz on 30 targets with a total cache of 15 kilos would appear to spread the demolition material a bit thin (0.5 kilo per hit), which seems an unlikely bomb ration if one was indeed planning to carry out terror attacks on embassies, government buildings, hotels, a city centre shopping mall, and a synagogue.

A fifth anomaly in the official story is the allegation that all this synchronized destruction and mayhem was to be carried out by only two men. Given the necessary logistics, surveillance, transport, not to mention the time required to execute such a complex plot, the huge task would be physically impossible for two individuals to pull off – even if they were top-notch Iranian commandos, which the two hapless suspects are clearly not.

One further question mark over the latest supposed Iranian terror plot in Kenya is the shadowy involvement of Western and Israeli intelligence in the former British colony. For several months now the US embassy has been issuing unspecified terror warnings to the public. On 23 April, a Kenya news agency reported: “An advisory from the [US] embassy said the timing of the attacks was unclear, but intelligence information showed the planning was in the final stages.” In a statement, the US embassy said then: “The embassy informs US citizens residing in or visiting Kenya that the US embassy in Nairobi has received credible information regarding a possible attack on Nairobi hotels and prominent Kenyan government buildings.”

Since Kenyan troops invaded neighbouring Somalia at the end of 2011, there have been a series of grenade attacks in Nairobi that have claimed over 10 lives. It is not clear who is behind the attacks. The Somali insurgent group, Al Shabaab, which is said to have links to Al Qaeda, has been blamed by Kenyan police, but the group has denied involvement. While the grenade incidents have proven deadly, there is a distinct sense that the US embassy terror warnings were hinting at a more high-profile event.

Moreover, when the alleged Iranian bombers appeared in court, they claimed that they were interrogated and tortured by Israeli agents upon their arrest. The Israeli embassy declined to comment to media on these claims. But if they are true, that suggests a highly irregular policing matter. Why should Israeli agents be involved immediately in a criminal matter of a sovereign jurisdiction?

A deeper look into the historic role of Kenya in the American-led “war on terror” raises even more disquieting questions that cast doubt on the latest Iranian bomb plot claim.

For a start, Kenya is a key ally of Western intelligence in East Africa. It is believed to serve as a clandestine base for American aerial drone attacks in Somalia, which intensified over the past year, with reports of dozens of deaths, many of them civilians, in the southern Somali region around the rebel-held port city of Kismayu.

Kenya is also a node in the international rendition network run by the US, Britain and Israel. Young men from Somalia and other countries in the region who are suspected of Islamic Jihadi activities or sympathies are rendered to black sites in Kenya, where they are interrogated and tortured before being transferred to other such sites in Afghanistan. Human rights investigator Clara Gutteridge told the US-based Nation magazine in excruciating detail how one young Somali man was captured in Mogadishu in 2003 by a Somali warlord and handed over to American officials, who had him rendered via Kenya and Djibouti to Afghanistan for five years of detention and torture before he was released from Bagram Air Force Base without charge.

The Kenyan authorities have therefore a history of close collaboration with Western intelligence agencies, and this collaboration dates back to before 9/11 and the “war on terror”. Indeed, a case can be made that Kenya served as a crucial incubator for the American conception of fighting a global war against Islamic terrorists.

In 1998, three years before 9/11, one of the most deadly assaults against US personnel and sovereignty was carried out ostensibly by the newly formed Al Qaeda terror network led by Osama bin Laden. On 7 August 1998, a truck bomb carrying 1,000 kilos of explosive was driven into the US embassy in Nairobi. The lethal force demolished the building and killed 219 people, 12 of them American citizens, and injured more than 4,000. Minutes later, in Dar-es-Salaam, the capital of neighbouring Tanzania, a second truck bomb exploded at the US embassy there, killing 11 and injuring 85.

The twin attacks put Al Qaeda and its leader on the global map as America’s enemy number one. This was the genesis of the “war on terror” in which, supposedly, the former American mujahideen proxy army that had defeated the Soviet Union in Afghanistan was transformed from dutiful ally to mortal enemy. The rationale for the switch was said to be the arrival of US troops in Saudi Arabia – the home of the holy Muslim cities of Mecca and Medina – which began in August 1990 in the build-up to the Gulf War against Iraq’s Saddam Hussein over his invasion of Kuwait.

During the 1990s, Bin Laden’s newly formed Al Qaeda (“the base”) was reported to be expanding out of Afghanistan and setting up in Sudan, Kenya and Somalia. Recall that this was at the time of the Soviet Union’s collapse and with its demise the entire rationale of the America’s global military doctrine and spending was in danger of vanishing. During this period, Al Qaeda came to fill the void left by the collapsing Soviet Union as the new enemy for which the Pentagon’s trillion-dollar budget would have to be maintained, rather than it being furnished as a “peace dividend” for the good of American civic society.

The problem for US planners was making the nebulous Al Qaeda a credible threat to the American and world public. The devastating attacks on the US embassy in Kenya and Tanzania would provide such a crystallizing demonstration. But, as with the later, more spectacular 9/11 terror in New York, the bombings of the embassies were not masterminded by Al Qaeda Jihadis, but rather by American military intelligence. The horrific terrorist carnage would serve to mobilize the American public behind a new war agenda, no longer the one against the “evil Soviet empire”, but now against “Islamic extremists” hellbent on destroying American values and the American way of life.

American author and commentator Ralph Schoenman has been researching the 1998 US embassy bombings from that date. Schoenman is convinced that the atrocities were “false flags” to create a new official enemy of the US in the form of Al Qaeda and Muslim extremists generally. In that way, he says, the US planners were able to bestow American imperialism with a badly needed new pretext to justify foreign interventions and wars for the control of natural resources, principally oil.

The American-led wars over the past decade in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia as well as the warmongering policies towards Syria and Iran bear that out.

A key indicator of a false flag operation in the 1998 US embassy attacks, says Schoenman, was the involvement of Ali A Mohamed, also known as Ali “the American”. He is labeled as the “point man”, who masterminded and coordinated the assaults. Two years after the blasts, Mohamed was arrested by the American authorities and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to murder.

It then transpired that the alleged Al Qaeda bomber had an impeccable US military service record, having trained at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and later working as an instructor in explosives at the John F Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School until 1989.

The American government narrative then claimed that Mohamed, who was married to an American citizen and who had lived in California, was all the while working as a double agent for Al Qaeda and that “he turned” by the time of the embassy attacks in 1998. This narrative was dutifully circulated by the American media. One headline in the San Francisco Chronicle in 2001 conveyed the sense of treachery: Bin Laden’s man in Silicon Valley – ‘Mohamed the American’ orchestrated terrorist acts while living a quiet suburban life in Santa Clara.

Schoenman dismisses the official claim as “straining credulity” in face of the facts. He says that during the 1990s Mohamed was working for the American secret services in East Africa, including Kenya. The operative was also known to be travelling and liaising with Bin Laden’s network in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

“There is no way that US intelligence handlers did not know of every move made by Mohamed. This guy was recruited by the CIA in Cairo, where he was a major in the Egyptian army. He was then a handpicked graduate of Fort Bragg for American Special Forces and he went on to instruct green berets in psy-ops and explosives at the JFK School of Warfare. We are talking about the strictest security clearance in the US military. And yet the official account expects the public to believe that somehow Mohamed’s connections with Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda slipped their attention and that he carried out the US embassy bombings in a rogue fashion for the supposed enemy.”

Schoenman’s contention is that the Kenyan and Tanzanian US embassy attacks were a deliberate ploy by American military intelligence that was instrumented by Ali A Mohamed. The blasts involved suicide bombers and Schoenman does not rule out that there may have been willing Jihadi dupes recruited for the mission. But the bottom line is that the carnage was deliberately inflicted by US planners as a prelude to the “war on terror” and the subsequent spectacular of 9/11.

Supporting this contention is the fact that, despite pleading guilty in a New York court in 2000 to conspiracy to murder American citizens, Mohamed has never been sentenced. There are no records of subsequent court proceedings and his whereabouts are unknown. His Californian wife, Linda Sanchez, was quoted in 2006 as saying of her husband: “He can’t talk to anybody. Nobody can get to him. They have Ali pretty secretive… it’s like he just kinda vanished into thin air.”

That sounds like Mohamed made a guilty plea bargain with his handlers, so that he would not have to go to trial thus suppressing all details of the embassy bombings, and in return he would be given a new identity and not have to spend a single day in jail.

To recap, Kenya holds a special place in the evolution of America’s fraudulent war on terror – a war that it is conducting with trillion-dollar budgets in the pursuit of illusory or grossly exaggerated enemies. In the name of this spurious war, the US along with its NATO, Arab and Israeli allies are justified to invade sovereign countries, absolved from committing crimes against humanity, and free to commandeer the natural resources of subjugated nations. Warmongering, criminal imperialism is thus given a badge of respect.

Meanwhile, independent, peaceful countries such as Iran are traduced as “an axis of evil”, “a rogue state”, “sponsor of global terror”, thereby justifying aggression by the self-styled “upholders of international law”.

Paradoxically, the real sponsors of terror, who possess thousands of nuclear warheads in contravention of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, are beating the drums of war against nuclear unarmed Iran and imposing crippling economic sanctions.

And when Iran peaceably seeks new oil markets in Africa to circumvent illegal sanctions, it is not only denied the right to conduct international trade, it is doubly wronged by being blamed for plotting terrorism – by the very states that are the architects of global terrorism.

Finian Cunningham is Global Research’s Middle East and East Africa Correspondent

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SOURCE: www.globalresearch.ca/kenyan-false-flag-bomb-plot-aimed-at-tightening-sanctions-noose-on-iran/31795

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Ahaa, Wanyee,

I hadn't seen this earlier, but it is a gem.

let me use it to intellectually drive a rough bamboo pole up the intestines of the decision makers running Kenya then, 2012. In the run to the General elections of 2013, the leading culprits would be Mwai Kibaki as president, Raila Odinga his Prime Minister, Uhuru Kenyatta at finance, and, forget not, tough men like Michuki and Njenga Karume still alive around him. Sir Michael Gichangi would be at General intelligence, General Waweru (current general intelligence) at Military intelligence, and Julius Karangi at Chiefs of Staff. Ndegwa Muhoro CID and Francis Kimemia head of civil service.

Other influential figures would include Musalia Mudavadi, Kalonzo Musyoka, Peter Kenneth, David Mwiraria and O yeah, just about who is who up there now! The legal brains if any would be the likes of Evans Gicheru and Amos Wako.

It is not conclusive, but that list goes along way in identifying the formal power, the phat hogs whose rears would have to accomodate the skewering pole if the verdict returned for their act, reads national treason. Unofficially there were of course informal power brokers like Mary Wambui, Nick Wanjohi, the other Gachoka and even Jimmy Kibaki. But these I would only pump for information during an inquest. Formal responsibility I wouldn't put on their shoulders.

THE CASE:

That promising African development for Iran now seems to have foundered, adding to an already bleak outlook for Iran’s economy following the closure of European oil markets and, even worse, cancellations by major Asian buyers. Some 60 per cent of Iran’s crude exports had until recently been destined for Asia, including China, India, Japan and South Korea. But, despite earlier defiant talk, these buyers have recently balked at Iranian orders so as to avoid American and European financial penalties against banks and shipping insurance companies dealing with Iran.

The upshot is that Iranian oil exports have crashed from 2.5 million b/d last year to about 1.5 million b/d currently – a drop of 40 per cent, representing a loss of $3 billion every month to the Iranian economy. Over the year, that translates into a 10 per cent contraction in Iran’s oil-based national economy, according to World Bank data. This, in turn, is having a drastic impact on social conditions in Iran, with the purchasing power of the currency, the rial, plummeting, and inflation and unemployment spiralling.
Kenya’s oil ministry claims that revoking the Iranian contract was not related to the alleged bomb plot. The ministry says it was merely complying with American warnings of sanctions’ penalties being enforced if it went ahead with the oil deal.

But it seems likely that the suspected terror attacks – reported widely in lurid detail – may have been aimed at making the abrupt scuppering of the Iranian oil purchase more politically acceptable, not just in Kenya, but elsewhere in Africa. Local and international media reports immediately connected the Kenyan bomb scare with other alleged Iranian terror plots over the past year, including the plan to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington DC, and a string of explosions in Thailand, India, Georgia and Azerbaijan.
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The national leadership did not act in the national interest. Neither did they bother to explain in candour the nature of their motivations.
I read with concentrated awe.

Then, two days later, on 4 July, the Kenyan government made a surprise announcement that it was cancelling a fresh oil deal that it had signed with Iran. The purchase agreement had been struck with the Islamic Republic only a few weeks ago. The deal would have involved the supply of 80,000 barrels per day (b/d) of Iranian crude to the East African country.
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Don't remember any debate about the national interest before this announcement. The following statement seems highly likely to have captured the truth of the case.

But it seems likely that the suspected terror attacks – reported widely in lurid detail – may have been aimed at making the abrupt scuppering of the Iranian oil purchase more politically acceptable, not just in Kenya, but elsewhere in Africa.

Sasa lets go to work and ponder, thinking openly.

In the best of oaths from the romantic books of high office, dignitaries are sworn to do the best for their lands, their peoples, and uphold their ace and renaissance constitutions, so help them their gods. And then the gods go absent on ones country, turning a deaf ear, and like the mischievous crook that once habited High Olympus and toyed around with dread thunderbolts, the gods take counsel to turn men into unreasoning beasts, creatures indulgent in treachery and lip service, and asking for it, all the way.
So let us give it to them. The High and Mighty who, bribed or coerced or otherwise persuaded by Almighty America, betrayed Kenya, betrayed Persia, betrayed their oath of office, and to date, have never come clean on it.

Kenya’s oil ministry claims that revoking the Iranian contract was not related to the alleged bomb plot. The ministry says it was merely complying with American warnings of sanctions’ penalties being enforced if it went ahead with the oil deal.
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Where does the national interest of Kenya lie in such situations? O who, who to say and care thereof!? The national interest does not matter to them, but always lies somewhere far behind the controlling interests of the powers that be: powers from afar who control our simpleton politicians. Today the USA, tomorrow China!? The day after tomorrow, India!?
A plague of vermin has settled at the top of Africa. It goes by the pathological name, His Excellency Mr president. What an excellent dog it takes to earn this title, what an exclusive state of rot to maintain them, what a wonderful prospect for Africa to rid herself of them, what a bloody mess that could be, aah, what a sigh of relief it will be for that generation that, free at last, will walk tall in a really standing Africa.



Meanwhile let us take stock of our vermin. Let us cherish their verminous lessons, study their verminous treachery, record their verminous steps, verminous deeds; let us understand their verminous hearts, deconstruct their verminous lies, unwind their verminous web of deceit and graft; and with a cold eye with a glint, let us remind them, that, just like Hilary Clinton got the hysterics enjoying the picture of a bayonet ransacking the intestines of Muamar Khadafi, from the rear point of entry, so too will an Africa out there in brutal rage, get the hysterics, ransacking the intestines of their excellencies who, in power, did their uttermost best to keep Africa and her people down.

It is a countdown around the continent, and it can not be hidden no more. The era of their excellencies is going under. In turmoil.

Kenya is also a node in the international rendition network run by the US, Britain and Israel. Young men from Somalia and other countries in the region who are suspected of Islamic Jihadi activities or sympathies are rendered to black sites in Kenya, where they are interrogated and tortured before being transferred to other such sites in Afghanistan. Human rights investigator Clara Gutteridge told the US-based Nation magazine in excruciating detail how one young Somali man was captured in Mogadishu in 2003 by a Somali warlord and handed over to American officials, who had him rendered via Kenya and Djibouti to Afghanistan for five years of detention and torture before he was released from Bagram Air Force Base without charge.
The Kenyan authorities have therefore a history of close collaboration with Western intelligence agencies, and this collaboration dates back to before 9/11 and the “war on terror”. Indeed, a case can be made that Kenya served as a crucial incubator for the American conception of fighting a global war against Islamic terrorists.
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If the world is ruthless and men have to be ruthless and lawless in Nairobi to cope, still, why be so stupid? The picture here is not a partnership of equals, but the subservience of a Kenyan state even the collaborators must have nothing but contempt for.

So lets say an American or Jewish security attache looks at the Kenyan Inspector General of police solemnly declaring that these were top-end killer-trained terrorists. Yet an observant if critical journalist writes

The two suspects, named as Ahmad Abolfathi Mohammad and Sayed Mansour Mousavi, are widely reported to belong to the crack Al Quds division of Iran’s revolutionary guards. But their appearance in the Nairobi court showed men who were well over middle age, with slightly dishevelled figures, lacking the killer, athletic physiques that one would expect of elite commandos.
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one wouldn't make it to even an outpost departmental head in security Israel, if such an obvious tautology were not visible to him.
So these foreigners have nothing but contempt for these our heroes in Nairobi, which explains why Israel dispatched a commando unit to do Westgate Mall without even waiting for official request from the Ouru Kenyatta, the some kind of his Excellency holed up in Nairobi. But it is not all dark in Kenya though, for, Praise the Lord, quick-thinking KDF personnel, even if they later turned out to be lootenants, ordered the arrogant invaders out at gun-point and reduced their errand boy Ole Lenku to what he was, a hot dog for sandwiches.



A penny for Ole Lenku's memoirs, tongue around cheek.

Nb: THE CHARLATAN FROM OTHAYA

We know Kibaki was furious when CBK governor professor Njuguna Ndung'u preferred to obey the IMF over him, citing the famous CONDITIONALITIES clause on some giant expenditure of windfall (not yet eurobond days).
Kibaki wanted to spend it financing urgently-needed extra electric-power generation, even by windmills in Turkana; the IMF wanted debts repaid. The IMF won. The Great Mwai Kibaki, his Excellency the president of the republic of Kenya, was just a dummy when push came to shove. Luckily he always had the intellectual calibre not to take himself too seriously even as president.

KIBAKI: John Michuki! Never ever let your lying wretched tongue call me The Boss again, when even a worthless 2-pence Gikuyu goat like Njuguna Ndung'u cannot obey me!
Michuki looked like a dear caught in headlamps, wits scattered. But Njenga Karume, ever mentally on his feet, was a match.
KARUME: –---Let us tell that to Raila Odinga. He is the man ever hungry for morE and equal power which, apparently, is not existent!

And that brings me to a last kick.

Ouru Kenyatta, and to some extent Kalonzo Musyoka, have never pretended to be liberation heroes. They have been pure-breed conservative status quoists, comfortable with the neo-colonial marginalisation of Kenya, appendages safe and comfortable in clientelle auxilliary roles. That they would accept their orders to malign Iran and, under biblical oaths, lie head to toe about it to Kenyans, would be in line with their character and publicly professed ideological predisposition. That is consistency. And it beats hypocrisy in honour, however thinly a coat on thieves honour is.

But Raila is different. He has his issues and pretensions. He is a liberation man. An enigma. He is the personification of progressiveness in the land. As such he gets treated different in my class. His stress test is harsher. He got reputation to keep, face to loose, or, dare I say, mask to be peeled back. Unlike the others, he has a duty to stand up and come clean, explain the defeat, or at least tell the public the honest story of the cancellation of the Iranian oil deal, to rationalise (or as they say these days benchmark) the detriment to the national interest of Kenya.

Ach, let me change that to a new year's joke in my new found political incorrectness. He Raila is a fellow Luo. And for Luos I have exacting standards. I wont suffer mediocrity from the people of the Lake. So hypocritical bull- wont be no cover. But I will gladly lower and dumb the standards down for other tribes! And Kenya no longer has tribes as you know, we all grew up into nations, even our uncircumcised counties did!

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AN EXECUTION IN SAUDI ARABIA, ( brace for ripples in Nairobi?)

Some events are irrelevant to ones country on the face of it, until one remembers the infinite capacities of some leaderships to never miss any opportunity to make a mess of things. I am not so much interested in the spat between Riyadh and Tehran as in the propensity of Nairobi to be a pawn in the manipulative schemes of other peoples objectives. And looking at Boinett and his halting, confused and uninspired performance in this so-called Iranian plots against Kenya, I am not assured we are proof against the pull of that inferno being fanned in the middle east.



Nimr Baqr al-Nimr, is the name, but you wouldn't guess there were nearly 50 others at the gallows with him.
Let us keep out of this Shiite-Sunni thing.

But does not mean one has to deny Saudi Arabia is a prehistoric regime, and is now erratic as to be manic in its approach to conflict resolutions. Iran on the other hand is pioneering a way, experimenting on a mix of democratic political decision making under a theological-state guidance. That is tense, intellectually very audacious.

But archaic Saudi Arabiaa have a very powerful friend to even matters, --the USA, and the USA has a very powerful local tool, Israel –-though this tail sometimes assumes to wag the dog, and, here is the problem, in the stars Kenya is allied to the USA! With Ruto's balls in the manger at the Hague crying for relief, Nairobi is hardly in a position to think straight when Washington lifts an eyebrow.

Gosh! What a mess!

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I REMAIN FEARFUL OF SPILL OVERS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST

There is a third generation of successors emerging from the shadows in the house of Saud, and they are causing shivers around, if only by their brazen aggressiveness. Chief to this pack is the defence minister and Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman. A real rookie, he is all over the place, and deep pockets like he has can buy people.



On the other side is the dawning realisation these upstarts see the middle eastern play as a zero-sum game in which an Iranian gain is a Saudi loss. Those days when President Nixon said Iran and Saudi Arabia were the twin pillars of American power in the middle east seem like fiction.
The house of Saud has a real problem. Leaving the existential one apart, Iran is undeniably coming back from the cold, and will continuously manifest itself in ways beyond containment by the house of Saud alone. And the youngsters have realised this and are going for a large if forced coalition to tame the Persians. The omens are bleak. And not just because of the dwindling oil price.
You are either with them or you are against them, so it seems. But the world is a bit greyer than that.
Now, what worries me is the position of Kenya in this heating up conflict. I am betting Minister Bi Amina of our foreign service has received 'Pesa Position' calls from allies of the Saudis, if not the Saudis themselves, to come out more out of the veil and show her hand. Pro Saudi hand.

ARAMCO IPOS.

And now the Saudis have unearthed a bone which has sent the world in which Kenya orbits into shocked salivation. Aramco is going floating, they call them IPO issuance these days, a modest 5% to test the waters first, but it could go all the way to 50%, –--25% rock-bottom stake tales aside.
The Kingdom needs money.

The markets have been too shocked to react.

uk.reuters.com/article/uk-saudi-aramco-ipo-excusive-idUKKCN0UO0NB20160110

Aramco is worth, officials say, “trillions of dollars”, making it easily the world’s biggest company. It says it has hydrocarbon reserves of 261 billion barrels, more than ten times those of ExxonMobil, the largest private oil firm, which is worth $323 billion.

It pumps more oil than the whole of America, about 10.2m barrels a day (b/d), giving it unparalleled sway over prices. If just a sliver of its shares were placed on the Saudi stock exchange, which currently has a total market value of about $400 billion, they could greatly increase its size.

Saudi defence minister and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is said to be the motor behind these upheavals. He is currently effectively the King of Oil, and with all world oil companies fawning for a stake in Aramco, nobody is telling him stop even as they hope for his speedy demise, following the warning by German Intelligence on his likeliness to overreach.
Overreach!? –-that is code for war with Iran. And the end of the Al-Saud Monarchy, and the end of the middle east as we know it.

I am uneasy about Nairobi's propensity to be bribed, in addition to Kenya being in a vassal state to you know who. The ugly side of the middle east could pay us a visit. It is worth thinking about it upfront.
The power of Saudi Money cannot be underestimated. A hilarious tale is told how a man called Robert Waddle of the serious crimes office in the UK, was ordered by Tony Blair to drop investigations into British Aerospace Engineering (BAE Systems arms group) running corrupt deals for the Saudis. The Saudis merely intimated they would displeased if the investigation continued, and left the British to figure out the consequences themselves. They did, and acted in their national interest, just like recently when they helped elevate the Saudis to a human rights chair at the UN.

With elections coming in Kenya, I shudder to think what ravages that kind of powerful money could inflict amongst Kenya's notoriously amoral political class, judiciary and security. Boinett's performance being a hint.

But I hope I am wasting my time worrying about this. Better is I concentrate on the Kisumu-Nandi border clashes
www.nation.co.ke/news/Death-toll-rises-in-Nandi-Kisumu-border-clashes/-/1056/3027686/-/a5uksg/-/index.html
or the Maa-Kipsigis ones of Narok which blocked the highway for half a day and resulted into some roadside baby deliveries as a traffic jam stretched from Narok to Kaplong, and this side to Mai Mahiu!

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Xi jinping goes to Tehran, Nairobi condemns Iran!

Who defines the national priority?


There are two figures I want to ponder in public. I have ruminated them in private overnight.

1. In an early bird will catch the worm trip, China's President Xi JinPin himself descended on Tehrah and, in a 24-hr economic blitzkrieg, packaged a, wait for it, $600bn bilateral trade protocol. That is for the coming decade.

Iran seeks economic ties worth US$600 billion with China

January 24, 2016 Tehran // Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday hailed a “new chapter” in relations with China after talks with President Xi Jinping, who is touring the region to boost Beijing’s economic influence.

The two countries aim to build economic ties worth up to US$600 billion (Dh2.2 trillion) within the next 10 years, Mr Rouhani announced.
The two leaders oversaw the signing of 17 agreements in areas including politics, the economy, security and cooperation on peaceful nuclear energy.
“With the Chinese president’s visit to Tehran and our agreements, a new chapter has begun in Tehran-Beijing relations,” Mr Rouhani said in a televised speech, flanked by Mr Xi.

Ayat Khamenei & Xi Jinping Rouhani khamenei-Xi Jinping

But a journey of a thousand Kms begins with but a single step. Yet there have been many behind the scenes even as others assiduously observed Western sanctions.


2013, Special Envoy of President Xi Jinping and Minister of Culture Cai Wu met with President Hasan Rowhani of Iran in Teheran.

The national interest of China imperated such niceties toward the chief country in the famous AXIS OF EVIL.

2. FOCAC 2015, Johannesburg South Africa. The $220 bn bilateral trade relationship.
China Pledges $60bn In African Aid At FOCAC Summit

This year’s $60bn pledges from China to Africa

differ from past ones. China’s relationship with Africa has expanded dramatically since the turn of the Millennium. Bilateral trade rose from less than $11 billion in 2000 to around $220 billion in 2015,

Xi’s single largest commitment at the summit is a pledge of investment totaling $60 billion. As noted above, the size of these pledges is surprising, as China had consistently doubled its financing pledges toward Africa at previous FOCAC meetings from $5 billion in 2006, to $10 billion in 2009, and to $20 billion in 2012.


Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech during the opening session of the Forum on Africa and China Cooperation at Sandton, in Johannesburg, on December 4, 2015.

In 2006, China specified that the $5 billion consisted of $3 billion concessional loans and $2 billion of buyer’s credit. In 2009, the $10 billion was in its entirety concessional loans. In 2012, China’s contribution shifted to $20 billion loans. And this time, the $60 billion are defined more broadly as “investment,” including $5 billion for grants and zero-interest loans, $35 billion for concessional loans and buyer’s credit, and the rest as commercial financing. The diversified portfolio sends several messages: 1) China is more confident in the economic future of the African continent; 2) China is becoming more aggressive in its financial input in Africa; and 3) the assets owned by China on the ground in Africa are likely to grow.

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As of November 2015, the majority of African exports to China remains in natural resources. According to the statistics by Chinese customs, crude oil, iron ore, diamonds, and agricultural products together accounted for 56.5 percent of Chinese imports from Africa during the first three quarters of 2015.

Note that the lying Bloomberg News denotes the $60bn as AID! They went to press without reading the brief, or they did, but decided to misconstrue and misinform.

There is no doubt China is the most confident investor in the future of Africa, but still, Iran has a population less than DRC, and the decade trade package signed is a whooping $600bn. That is when I develop a dangerous anxiety about the present and future of my Africa. The figures are a bit too low for my liking. (A growth rate of 12% is hardly break-even stuff in my thinking; yet at 7%, glasses click to breaking point coz that is Africa rising, led by Ethiopia!! --Go away people! or grow up!).

That my anxiety, I believe, is also the reason why young Tunesians are rioting –--burnin' and lootin' tonight as Bob Marley once wailed, telling their democratic president to create jobs now or drop dead and go to hell. Well, he is not dropping dead on his own, so he declared curfew and unleashed the police and army on them.

But now, my point with these figures.

While Uhuru Kenyatta and David Rotich are happy to bend their backs for the largesse of Africa's best friend (OtishOtish terminology for China), as illustrated in the photo below



the government of Kenya is working hard at alienating China's true economic friend/ANCHOR in the middle east. And that is where the extra chinese dollars will be made to subsidise the Nairobi economy!

Alienating? –-yes, watch that stupid cop Boinett engaging in act of economic sabotage, claiming Iran is out to blow buildings in Nairobi to smithereens in the week in which Iran, sanctions lifted and the nuclear issue resolved, re-enters the global market economy and has an itinerary of heads of state and western business moguls lined up for a tribute trip to Tehran.

I believe the copper was a pawn prodded.

Kenyan economic interests speaking. Uhuru should have been among the first visitors to Tehran. Why? Sell them Safaricom's Mpesa of course! You saw the Safaricom profit margins on the KENYA market only? You have seen how many people they employ in good jobs? We therefore can export high-power technicians and modern Monetrans-service to the dazed Persians, instead of exporting domestic servants for ritual sex abuse in Saudi Arabia and other gulf oil floats.

Then there is Equity Bank. Kwani nobody in Nairobi recognises Equity stands a better chance in an emerging Iran than in capitalist savvy South Africa!? he!? Is not Ouru a bank owner? instead of ripping ordinary Kenyans with sky-high interest rates, the man can invest further afield and earn fair keep! No?

But the comprador bourgeoisie does not think like this. They take their quisling orders from elsewhere. And they have been told –--avoid Iran or no aid. Nairobi would rather live cheap on aid, than go out there and make a dollar for itself.

And this is why my anxiety makes me spit and urinate on people I should be referring to as His Excellency.
Ha! vermin!

Alternative opinions?

and then my real beef is this.

PEACEFUL NUCLEAR ENERGY

The two leaders oversaw the signing of 17 agreements in areas including politics, the economy, security and cooperation on peaceful nuclear energy.

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] China and Iran signed a protocol on peaceful nuclear energy.

My thinking is Kenya should have ingratiated or wormed its way into that deal. We need nuclear technology around here for electricity. And Iran, outside North Korea, are the guys who have done it on their own. On the cheap.

Nairobi! a city ran by children!

Sorry William Ruto, old warrior, I think you are a toy soldier where our national interest is concerned. Can't bother to mention Muigai. This is adult talk.

As an afterthought: Rotich said Raila is sabotaging the kenyan economy with his eurobond questions. what really now is the considered opinion on what Boinett was doing in that video clip?

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IRAN: A TERRORIST OUTCAST IN KENYA, A WORTHY PARTNER TO THE WORLD

I have been swallowing bile. And the outward reason is simple. I have been eyeing the triumphant lap of honour around business-starved European capitals, by the president of Iran, Hassan Rouhani. Rolled out were carpets which could not get any redder. And the Persian was charming and courteous in return. He was responsive and sensitive, in fact he even doubled up in cheeky gobbledygook in Italy, claiming Italian hospitality is a gift to civilisation, and Italian modesty a gift to humanity.

I will explain in a moment why this is very cheeky. But first my bile.

While the for business Iranians are being entertained like rock-stars in Europe, and every Euro head of state fawns as if turned into agile Ayatollah groupies, and with reason, courtesy of this ...

January 28, 2016 . Iran Air to buy 118 Airbus jets

Iran Air on Thursday agreed to buy 118 aircraft from Airbus, including 12 A380s, marking the country’s return to the global aviation market and breathing new life into the European group’s troubled superjumbo jet programme.
The agreement, signed in the presence of presidents Hassan Rouhani of Iran and François Hollande of France at the Elysée Palace, would be worth $25bn at list prices and is believed to be the biggest aircraft order by Iran since the revolution in 1979. Tehran is paying substantially below the catalogue price, given the scale of the order.

….... the Jubilee government in cash-strapped Nairobi has a different take on the Persians. We have seen President Kenyatta's top-cop, a certain Mr. Boinett, go live on TV to brand the likes of Rouhani and Khamenei little more than Al-shabaab affiliated goons.
Now stupidity is not a surprise for those in the teaching profession when they come across it, nevertheless, in public office when it is displayed with such shamelessness, even long-serving teachers can still be shocked senseless. I can not bear watching Boinett declare Iran an axis of evil against Kenya! And then have president Uhuru Kenyatta accept millions of dollars from the EU to facilitate our IEBC.
In other words, after the Europeans have done profit trading with the Iranians, Kenya will bow to pick up a few crumbs tossed our way by the EU. Why can't we trade directly with the Persians and make our own dimes to spend our way? (Chinaman Xi Jinpin was of course the first bird to catch the worm! –-That is a man who knows the priorities of his country and go gets!)

I know this score in international trade, and Nairobi returns a zero. That riles me. That sheds my bile, and I swallow. And close my eyes like a nun on a diet of sperm, lest the venomous humiliation within shine through. The also corrupt Raila-Kibaki administration had the temerity to look East, and articulately explain why. –-Enter the Uhuruto Jubilee dim wits! They have trebled the debt in three years and, because of their ICC predicament, entered a trap of blackmail where they became pawns in a geopolitical game ever forcing them to hurt the national interest.
That is how I explain the extraordinary step by the chief of Kenyan police to finger Iran just as she emerges from the cold, unto international commercial celebrity and regional stardom.

Now the Cheek of the Iranian president in Rome: –----statues under veil.



It has continued to be a hilarious episode: No, Iran did not ask for the statues to be veiled! But Rouhani said he is sure 'the Italians rank among the best hosts in the world, and this has been so ever since Goa started to trade with Persian in antiquity!'

ROME (AP) — Italy's culture minister has criticized as "incomprehensible" the decision to cover up naked statues at a Rome museum where Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was visiting, adding a new twist to the controversy that has dominated Rouhani's deal-making visit to Italy.
Culture Minister Dario Franceschini told reporters Wednesday that neither he nor Premier Matteo Renzi were informed about the decision, which was apparently taken by lower-ranking officials in a bid to avoid offending the visiting leader. The cover-up involved the placement of several wooden panels to shield nude statues at Rome's Capitoline Museums, where Rouhani and Renzi held a joint press conference Monday.
The measures made headlines across Italy and prompted some politicians to accuse the government of caving into "cultural submission."

A yes, many 40 year old Italian graduates still living with their mothers because they got nowhere to go, neither job nor abodes. For the prospect of a job they do not mind their government being a masochist host to a triumphalist Ayatollah. Mario Draghi, one of their own at the helm of the ECB, after years at the Italian Central Bank, has nothing to offer them in spite of his implied cultural sophistication. (he can only print fraudulent Euros (QE series) and award these to his fellow bankers!)

NB: When Italian premier Mateo Renzi came for an audience with Uhuru Kenyatta in Nairobi, he wore a bullet-proof jacket inside his coat in the presense of our Prezzo! But he did not wear one in the presence of the Iranian prezzo.

Now, he knows something we don't in Nairobi?
NB-foonote: on the roman empire and nudity

[jakaswanga]

EHM, WHICH WAY THE NATIONAL INTEREST KENYA?

Mr. Kenyatta would have had to go through this, and his picture gone viral.



This diplomatic spat had escaped me! The President of Kenya was barred from visiting the Palestinian Authority!

How does that happen? how is the information communicated?



Aborted flights over Ethiopia or Eritrea forgotten, how does the son of Jomo so continuously get mixed into such protocol horrors!?

Israel is preventing the Kenyan president from visiting the Palestinian Authority, Army Radio says. Uhuru Kenyatta is currently visiting Israel, and met yesterday with Benjamin Netanyahu.
Kenyatta’s camp is furious at the nixing of his plan to visit Ramallah and meet with Mahmoud Abbas.
The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem says in response: “This is an important foreign visit that was planned long ago. The request to visit Ramallah was filed at the last minute and unfortunately there is no way to approve it.”
-timesofisrael.com

Sometime back when Boinett was fingering Iran like a paid-up Judas Iscariot earning his 30 pence, i was disturbed enough to note

I feel sober enough to state: I can't find a motive firm enough to convince my mind I am not being taken for a ride on this one. In other words I think the situation is a manufactured crisis, one where the geo-political power game in the middle east is sucking Kenya in its centrifugal vortex.

Correct. This is not our game.

Meseems the question to be asked is whether our political and security elite are stupid enough to bribed into taking sides, thus, for real, inviting the current Shiite-Sunni quagmire fronted by Saudi Arabia and Iran to our land and (2) siding with Israel in its attempts to keep Iran down and vaporise Palestinian aspirations to own nationhood.

Why would number two be stupid?

Because it that will come the day like When South Africa abandoned Taiwan to ally herself with Beijin because of economic realities.

Read more: jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/9449/iranian-plot-kenya#ixzz41SZ566Bb

I am afraid State House and the MoFA under Bi Aminah, just like PM Kinyua and his letters to Parliament over Judge Tunoi, have let other alecs smart by half, and an assortment of smooth operators, lead them by the nose into a protocol ditch. And a foreign policy disaster. Of course individually they could have made huge profit from it.

February 28, 2016. Palestine Liberation Organisation criticizes Uhuru’s visit to Israel



www.nation.co.ke/news/Group-faults-Uhuru-visit-to-Israel/-/1056/3095572/-/1d2e4oz/-/index.html

Two leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organisation have criticised President Uhuru Kenyatta's recent visit to Israel.
"Such behaviours boost the Israeli occupation and create a position of collusion between Kenya and the Israeli occupation," senior PLO official Hanan Ashrawi said in a statement the organisation issued on Thursday.

The African Union should declare its opposition to such dealings with Israel, Mt Ashrawi added, according to report on Saturday by the Palestine News Network.
The PLO official urged the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to take the same action in response to President Kenyatta's trip to Israel, the first by a Kenyan head of state in 22 years.
The PLO noted that the Kenyan leader did not visit any of the occupied Palestinian territories nor meet with any Palestinian National Authority representatives.

Mr Kenyatta did go to an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank where he met with Kenyan students.
"No one has the right to visit in these territories without an advance coordination with the Palestinian leadership," PLO Secretary General Dr Saeb Erekat declared.

Dr Erekat added that President Kenyatta's three-day visit "breached Kenya's obligations not to recognise as lawful a situation created through the illegal use of force and other violations of peremptory norms under international law."
Kenya voted in the United Nations General Assembly in 2012 for a resolution that gave Palestine the status of a non-member state of the UN.

As a nation, Kenya, do we really want to be counted amongst the peoples indifferent to the the plight of Palestine and her peoples? Do we join the ranks of the enemies of the struggle for Palestinian freedom and nationhood?

A CHECKPOINT



THE NATIONAL INTEREST OF KENYA REINTERPRETED --We must assume this is what Muigai thinks he was serving.

Has Uhuru Kenyatta lost his mind? Or is it that he never had one, and is just some dog being whistled around juicy bones for the amusement of Dr. Pavlov's?

Nairobi, we have a situation.

[jakaswanga]

NO ROOM FOR THE PALESTINIAN FLAG IN KENYA, MONEY TALKS!

Crime? Look for motive: Why does Iran hate Kenya so much!? What is it in it for them? Why would they be that stupid, just when they signed a deal with the half-Kenyan administration in DC?
With these questions I plunged right into trouble. I can't find a motive firm enough to convince my mind I am not being taken for a ride in this case.

Read more: jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/9449/iranian-plot-kenya#ixzz4Djm1zQep

As such, late into the night on Christmas day my fingers were fidgeting on a variety of glasses of liquids whose tastes are furthest from neutral H-to-O, aka water! Nevertheless I feel sober enough to state: I can't find a motive firm enough to convince my mind I am not being taken for a ride on this one. In other words I think the situation is a manufactured crisis, one where the geo-political power game in the middle east is sucking Kenya in its centrifugal vortex.

Correct. This is not our game.

Meseems the question to be asked is whether our political and security elite are stupid enough to bribed into taking sides, thus, for real, inviting the current Shiite-Sunni quagmire fronted by Saudi Arabia and Iran to our land and (2) siding with Israel in its attempts to keep Iran down and vaporise Palestinian aspirations to own nationhood.


Why would number two be stupid?

Because it that will come the day like When South Africa abandoned Taiwan to ally herself with Beijin because of economic realities. The Islamic republic of Iran coming back from the cold and poised to be a lynch pin in the Eurasian Union, is the country of the future in the middle east –-and that is where we are looking already even if our legs are still twisted and dragging West. Facts on the ground can be very persuasive arguments I tell ya

Read more: jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/9449/iranian-plot-kenya#ixzz4DjlloLUD

www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-03-091013.html

This will also become a harder task for Israel as its arch rival Iran is also making a speedy inroad to Africa with a motive to enhance its diplomatic, defence and commercial deals. Only time will tell how far Israel can yield success in its approach to gain a foothold again in this continent. November 28, 2015 8:43 AM

Israel not only looks into Kenya for partnerships, it is also trying to restore its presence in Africa to what it was during the late-1950s and 1960s, before the diplomatic breach following the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. At least in the military arena, countries such as Nigeria, Uganda, Eritrea, Angola, Ivory Coast, and Ethiopia are likely to benefit from Israeli arms supply. The region alone can give Israel arms business worth US$1 billion. Israeli arms sales soared to US$7.5 billion last year, a significant jump on the $5.8 billion raised in 2011. In this, African counties accounted for $197 million

I have always been of the opinion Uhuruto is foolish flaunting her partnership with Bibi Netanyahu. –-You see Kenya, all the way from Kenyatta senior, has always had a very deep and intensive engagement with Israel. Despite the break in diplomatic relations after the 1973 war with Egypt, Israel has remained the prime defence contractor for the Kenyan forces, the trainer of her commando units, and the better part of our crack pilots. But need we say? When the same Uhuru Kenyatta is a major real estate investor in Arab Dubai, and, wait for it, Man Henry Rotich and the ace Patrick Njoroge are deep in Qatar looking to launch SUKUK BONDS! (that is an Islamic variant of the Eurobond I believe.

When ones economic interests are that conflicted and the world is that complex, I would prefer discrete, and more discrete, hush hush! (Arap Moi met Yitzhak Rabin and they sealed a mamoth armament deal and nobody read it nowhere --the thieving Dan!) So methinks there is no point flaunting ones mpango wa kando in the face of the happy family. The joys of mpango wa kando, and they say these are many, can be enjoyed far from the limelight, deep in the dark, and very profusely and satisfactorily too, I think! (how the hell would I know!? I am not OtishOtish!)

Now it would appear Uhuruto has been not too tactful with their illicit affairs. This grumble is a hint of a deeper hurt, brooding.

www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000207798/muslim-leaders-fault-kenya-israel-relations

Muslim leaders fault Kenya-Israel relations

By Philip Mwakio Updated Thu, July 7th 2016

Muslim leaders at the Coast have expressed concern over Kenya's ties with Israel and the recent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit. The leaders warned that expanding security, diplomatic and technology ties with Israel amounts to endorsing the Jewish nation's oppressive policies against Palestinians and occupation of Muslim land and holy sights.

The leaders said this yesterday during Idd prayers that brought together Mombasa Governor Hassan Ali Joho, Senator Hassan Omar and 2013 gubernatorial loser Suleiman Shahbal at Ronald Ngala Primary School. Mombasa Senator Hassan Omar declared the technology and agricultural deals signed between the two nations to promote irrigation were a ruse because, "many nations have this technology".

The senator argued that Kenya could still secure such assistance from other nations with a good human rights record. These sentiments were echoed at various squares, mosques and streets where clerics warned that deals between Netanyahu and President Uhuru Kenyatta might allow Israel's Mossad agency unfettered access inside Kenya to the detriment of those who oppose Israel.

www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000207798/muslim-leaders-fault-kenya-israel-relations

Former Chief Kadhi of Kenya Hamad Kassim declared that increased cooperation with Israeli institutions is likely to enable Mossad to participate in security sweeps targeting Muslim youths and clerics and even secular activists.

He said Israel's growing interest and influence in Kenya is cause for alarm at a time when extra-judicial killing of Muslim youths and clerics and secular lawyers was on the rise. Kassim argued that African nations must not entrench ties with Israel before it changes its policies in the historic Palestine and the Middle East.

How does Netanyahu's Israel look to penetrating Israeli thinkers?
Wait for it!
It will look like birds of the same feathers necessarily must seek out one another!


palestinian children in an Israeli jail. Teaching born terrorists a lesson no doubt!

[jakaswanga]

IN PERSPECTIVE: KENYA AND THE EMPIRE'S PLOT AGAINST IRAN

The obsessions of ones best friends can infest ones own thought patterns, become their own. And if not best friends, the sneezing King will be the court in a catch of cold. The USA isn't our (Kenya's) best friend, but we orbit her in a bond of concubinage, and that has consequences. We ---I think we already did and that is the problem---- will catch the cold alright. Since that is one of those earthly, planetary laws of power.

One of the key obsessions of the US power structure (or military industrial complex) is regime change in Teheran. The Mullah-led Islamic republic which overthrew their clientele, Rehza Pahlavi dynastic sore, must be goner. It reminds of the intolerable staying power of the rebel Cuba of Castro, off Florida.
The dangerous swirls of debris left by the hurricane of regime changes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine and now Syria, all which hint at empirial expertise in the creation of chaos, yet impotence in post-chaos reconstruction or reconfiguration of social relations, does not seem to have triggered a wake-up alarm in DC. On the contrary. Obama's peacenik antics with the nuclear deal with Iran are up for grabs, and his cautious legacy, which includes drawing back from his own line in the sand over Syria, is to be damned out of memory, too shameful to be left chiselled in the pillar of imperial fame. It was proof Putin had overgrown himself.

Yes, New Rome's obsession with Iran has brought forth quite a succession of unhinged Washingtonians. This evolution has culminated, such that the current 'dysfunctional' Trump administration has nowhere to hide except the lunatic asylum. On one hand is your defence secretary, James the literal 'Mad Dog' Mattis, a retired marine General. He is a Former CENTCOM and NATO commander, and is convinced "the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East is Iran". And he means it.



Did your hear that, Mwathethe and Kasaon!? If you look hard enough you will find Iran lurking behind Al-Shabaab! That is your 'Warrior Monk' talking, the way you should at Al-Shabaab!



Then there is the man who now replaces the (due to suspected Russophilia) chucked Gen. Michael Flynn as the national security advisor. His name is Herbert R. McMaster, a serving marine general. He is billed as your cerebral gun, 'Scholar Warrior' (which should remind us of the amorous David Patraeus)! McMaster's writs are compulsory study material at Army Colleges, for instance his Phd Thesis popularly known as Dereliction of Duty. This paper wipes the floor with American military strategy in Vietnam. Further, the decorated marine endorses the neocon world view, that Russia and China are 'revisionist powers' which constitute mortal danger now and later, for the vital interests of the United States. The only game in town is to tame them.

That sounds like FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE of old. This is a viral off-shoot from THE spawns of Zbigniew Brzezinski, the geo-strategist who, of late, has been revising his younger days theories. Zbigniew took a look at new realities like the emergence of Asia with China and India on the up and concluded Western forceful domination of these peoples would raise an hostility beyond meaningful stability.

The Kissinger Doctrine declared the USA had a right to intervene in a country to save it from the stupidity of its own people, like the Chileans when they voted Allende. But that can only be done to lesser powers or compliant vassals. Awakened peoples act and react different from docile and domesticated elites, and the USA soon entered 'imperial overreach', forcing a live-and-let live with the Soviet Union. –--Then the USSR collapsed and Triumphalism surged. In this historical window, the single remaining super power with its awesome military could surely enforce full spectrum dominance! no?

ÓBVIOUS DISFUNCTIONALITY IN WASHINGTON!

That (China nd Russia must be cowed stuff ... with NATO installing killer batteries in the Baltic States) comes down to belief in a WINNABLE NUCLEAR WAR! –--And that is where your 'cerebral general' comes in. He reckons the USA is placeable in a position to roll back 'revisionist powers' like China and Russia, 'leading sponsors of international terrorism' like Iran, North Korea and Cuba, and (failing the chaos of regime change) keep them in the required cage, domesticated like the once European powers, Germany, Britain and France.

McMaster told a sub-committee of the U.S. Congress last year that the U.S. Army is at risk of becoming "too small to secure the nation" and is falling behind technologically.

No sooner was McMaster in after Flynn than we had this

| Trump seeks 'historic' U.S. military spending boost, domestic cuts

Tue Feb 28, 2017. By Steve Holland | WASHINGTON

President Donald Trump is seeking what he called a "historic" increase in defense spending, but ran into immediate opposition from Republicans in Congress who must approve his plan and said it was not enough to meet the military's needs.
The proposed rise in the Pentagon budget to $603 billion comes as the United States has wound down major wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and remains the world's strongest military power.
The plan came under fire from Democratic lawmakers, who said cuts being proposed to pay for the additional military spending would cripple important domestic programs such as environmental protection and education. @reuters

The first Trumpian choice to replace Flynn was, however, Vice Admiral Robert Harward.

But Mr Harward is said to have turned Mr Trump down. “Harward is conflicted between the call of duty and the obvious dysfunctionality,”
As the FT adds, "one of the people familiar with Mr Harward’s decision said he was concerned about whether the top advisers around Mr Trump would allow him to install his own staff on the NSC — particularly after suggestions that KT McFarland, Mr Flynn’s deputy, had been asked to remain. When he was offered the position, Mr Harward had told Mr Trump that he wanted some time to think over the idea."

While he was still doing his deep thinking, faster and cockier minds moved in

Probing for Weakness

What appear to be isolated Russian, Chinese and Iranian actions are part of a geopolitical realignment that cuts against U.S. interests.

By H.R. McMaster March 23, 2016

U.S. rivals from Europe through the greater Middle East to East Asia are on the move, annexing territory, intimidating allies, and using proxy armies and unconventional forces to challenge the post-World War II political order.

Phew, the rising Africa has nor rival worth mentioning as on the move to threaten anybody! Ponder that, take mental note, for talk on another day! we are still dissed, the way Zbigniew Brzezinski did ages ago. His big mind thought of Africa as a mindless landmass which would belong to the winner of the geo-political game! ---Ouch, Achebe!

Here is the billed, or hyped greatest military mind in America today.

Another scapegoat as the Vietnam War dragged on and public support plummeted was the throng of antiwar protesters that nearly paralyzed the nation in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
McMaster said neither were culprits in the outcome of the war, despite political leaders' assertions to the contrary.
"The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the pages of The New York Times or on the college campuses," he concluded. "It was lost in Washington, D.C."

Ahem, I want to laugh, because I know of another actor in the war, an actor our cerebral washingtonian, to put it like Chinua Achebe on why Things Fall Apart went that black, declares an absence of. Achebe declared he had read a lot of literature about Africa by others where the African was wholly absent or only partially noted, yet, living in Africa, he himself couldn't spend a single second without being confronted by the African. 'This absence of the African in colonial, world literature, made me think it wasn't about me. So i decided to write about me!' concluded the Nigerian Igbo man of letters.

A far East Asian reading McMaster might ask
Who is this?

The military's leading warrior-intellectual drew key lessons about the workings of the National Security Council from his exhaustive history of White House deliberations during the Vietnam War.
They could come in handy as he takes the reins following the ignominious departure of President Donald Trump's first national security adviser, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, and joins a White House similarly grappling with deep divisions in the country, public protests and open partisan warfare over Trump's most controversial policies, from immigration to Russia.

The leading Washingtonian warrior intellectual does not think Vo Nguyen Giap –--dubbed the small man with an iron mind in some Asian dialects--- together with his red Vietminh think-tank, had anything to do with the defeat of the US in Vietnam?

Fak Off, Achebe! You think you are the only guy absent from colonial literature! The whole world IS absent! And so the whole world has been writing about themselves, but in the colonial dominance of informational flow, doctored algorithms, it has not been as readily available to the world as the power version. In his twilight days, a chuckling, old and infirm Giap told a Malaysian journalist how Ho Chi Minh had shrugged after being shown one or other map from the powers that be

There are too many Vietnams for me, boys. My mind is rather simple and set. There is only enough room in Vietnam for ONE republic of Vietnam. The South is foreign fiction. The foreign enemy will have to resign himself to that sometime. Convincing him will be bloody though, but you boys will do it!–----Nguyen Ai Quoc.

Faced with the insane determination of Viet nationalism under a forged leadership toward national liberation and self determination, America's best and brilliant soldier, having the benefit of hindsight, still thinks the war was lost in Washington.

I gotta laugh! What conceit! Check the Asian version! aint the pivot Asian?



Be warned Xi JinPin, Vladimir Putin, Ali Khamenei! Here comes the cerebral warrior! No more will wars be lost in Washington. And definitely not The Asia Pivot.

So, which is my chief concern, how do we square this in Nairobi?

I think we, concubines in orbit, have been recruited into regime change in Tehran, when these mad people in Washington decide to move military options from the table (in Washington where wars are lost), to the battlefield where they belong to win. Kenya and Ethiopia with their 'facilitatory AFRICOM military fuel points' would play a designed role in bombing campaigns over Persia.

And then while Obama's pivot to Asia is to contain, neutralise and disperse China, here is Kenya planning to denote her foreign debt in alignment with the new reality, the Yuan as King creditor. So I write all this because I dread a certain event, much like a passenger in the Argo! I don't want to be chewed between the crashing tectonic plates of America and China. We are milking the dragon but sleeping with her hunters! Methinks not everybody we deal with in the real world can be given an UTA DO shrug!

Hey Nairobi, anybody home?
It does not matter anyway, after all, thinking of Ndii, Kenyans are busy negotiating divorce. It will soon be everybody for themselves! Remember to make it velvet if it comes to that, Ghenya!

I will be back! (Because I love Kenya. I live in the caliphate and I can't wait for the PAN AFRICANIST coalition forces to capture our Raqqa!)