Title: In Kurdistan, Mossad is is an embarassment to Washington, by G.M. in Le Figaro International, 28 Sept 2005.

Resumed after the war which drove Saddam Hussein out of power in Baghdad in 2003, the secret security co-operation between Israelis and Iraqi Kurds was put to a crushing stop these last few months, under Washington's influence. After Jalal Talabani's (the Kurdish leader) nomination to the presidency of the Republic of Iraq in spring 2005, "a conflict of interest appeared between the two allies", estimates an expert in Middle East safety. "In order not to be criticized by the Shiites and the sunnites," he adds, "the new Head of the State Talabani could not allow the further development of a relationship that is condemned by the immense majority of the Iraqis. The Kurdish two-sided-game was stopped." Since then, some of the Israeli agents sare believed to have left the north of Iraq. Apparently, there would remain only one hundred of them, and Israeli businessmen practically only act through Kurdish or Jordanian intermediaries.

The conflict had however helped to tighten the partnership between Mossad, the Israeli secret service, and the Kurdish leadership, who combined their effort in thirty years struggle against the nationalist regime of Baghdad. Israel wanted to support the Kurds' federal aspirations and contain the Iranian influence over Iraq. "After the hostilities, the Israelis, anxious to see thousands of so-called Iranian pilgrims entering Iraq, tried in vain to convince the Americans to close the border between Iran and Iraq", explains Patrick Clawson, deputy manager of the American research center "The Washington Institute for Near East Policy". But the United States, willing to preserve their relationship with their Iraqi Shiites allies, refused to act.

The Israelis then decided to take matters in their own hand. In Erbil and Souleymanieh, Israeli instructors, often disguised as businessmen, were charged to improve the training of the pechmergas, the Kurdish militiamen. Beginning of 2004, approximately 1,200 agents either from Mossad or from the Israeli military intelligence operated in Kurdistan, according to French military estimates. Their mission was to set up sufficiently strong Kurdish commandos that could effectively counter the Shiites militia in the South of Iraq (that are more or less manipulated by Teheran), in particular that of the troublemaker Moqtada Al-Sadr. The Kurdish leaders returned the favor by making positive declarations. Last 6 June, Massoud Barzani, of the democratic Party of Kurdistan, estimated that a relation with Israel "is not a crime since the majority of the Arab countries maintain the relationship" with the Hebrew State.

Kurdistan' mountains have always been filled with spies. "The presence of many people in this area, autonomous since 1991, makes it possible to the Israelis to recruit agents which will infiltrate other organizations", declared the former boss of a European intelligence service. Today, the Kurdish priority to infiltrate the new Iraqi army, directed by one of their own, serves the Israeli interests. Through its alliance with the Irqai Kurds, the Hebrew State has reinforced its monitoring on Iran and Syria, its two great enemies in the Middle East. But Israeli actions ended up disturbing Washington. "We've received strong pressure from Washington to stop our operations with the Kurds", said an Israeli sent to Erbil under cover of being a student. "the Americans do not agree any more with the Israeli plans", he affirms. Washington does not seem to tolerate anymore this presence that threathens its interests. - M. R.

"Better they should kill each other than us!" -- Official White Horse Souse - M. R.

In other words, the US has been TORTURING INNOCENT PEOPLE TO DEATH.

How will that look in the history books? - M. R.

Meaning: You have freedom of speech in this nation so long as you keep it to yourself. - M. R.

It is for this reason that the US Government has worked to protect Israel's spy ring. Israel and the US were equal partners in creating these wars.

"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information." -- US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring and its connections to 9-11. - M. R.

I mean, let's get real here. The people running the Dutch Railroad today were not running it in the middle of the last century. More than likely they had not even been born yet. It is the crassest political pandering to demand apologies from people who did absolutely nothing.

But for people not trapped in the past, the people running the airlines TODAY helping the US carry out its policy of torture TODAY, well, they ARE the guilty parties. Why no demands for apologies from them? Is it not "politically correct" to go after the people actually committing the crimes? - M. R.

In other words, Judith's real source remains concealed. - M. R.

Would you care to comment on the entire US Congress accepting campaign donations from the now-admitted spy organization AIPAC, despite having known for two years AIPAC was suspected of being a spy outfit? - M. R.

By way of deception. - M. R.

You could bring back decent paying jobs and the crime rate would go down.

You could stop criminalizing harmless personal behavior and the crime rate would go down.

You could hang all the liars in government and the media and the crime rate would go down.

Ever since New Orleans I have seen what appears to be a concerted effort to fan racial tensions in this country. At first I thought it was merely to cast the Victims of the hurricanes as unsympathetic, in order to deflect anger from Bush for slashing flood control funding to pay for his illegal war in Iraq. But as Bennett's idiocy proves, that campaign to fan the flames of race hate is still continuing, and I think i know why.

Right now George Bush knows that the country is starting to hate him and the government that backed his lies. Bush is trying to figure out a way to declare martial law. Race riots in multiple cities would provide such an excuse, and even better, the Neocons would feel safer if they can trick the American people into fighting each other, instead of uniting to fight a corrupt and illegal government that continues to lie us all into wars.

So, you think about this as you see more and more media efforts to pit one race against the other. It's just another government scam against We The People. If we are fighting each other, we cannot fight the tyrant, and the tyrant knows this. If you pick up a rock or a stick and aim it at your fellow American, you are doing EXACTLY what George Bush and his Neocon perpetual-war-for-Israel thugs want you to do. - M. R.

Clearly, unless We The People stop them, the Neocons will have us sucked into yet another of Israel's wars any time now. - M. R.

Talk about Chutzpah! - M. R.

Remember back when I said Americans have only two choices, to allow themselves to get dragged down to poverty or save themselves by dumping the government and its bad debts? You waited too long to choose. - M. R.

Going to court to enforce the teachings of the Bible sets mankind right back in the dark ages, when Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for saying that the stars were just other suns, only further away, and that they probably also had planets.

They call the Dark ages that name for a reason. Theocracy blindfolds the people to make them helpless. And I note that the buy-bull bangers most intent on establishing a theocracy here are the same ones who condemn the same system in the nations of the Middle East. - M. R.

As a note to European readers who wrote in saying that America has nothing to complain about because gas prices are much higher in Europe, the fact is that gas costs aren't higher in Europe; your governments tax gas higher than the American government. Whether you are getting value back for those taxes is something you need to decide for yourselves. (But I do admire the Autobahn and how well it is maintained compared to US highways). - M. R.

Certainly the haste and desperate measures used to rescue the men suggests that at least one of the men is not what the British claimed him to be. If Israelis were proven to be staging fake terror attacks in Israel to blame on Muslims (as they have a long history of doing), that would really blow up into a scandal even worse that catching British agents shooting at Iraqi policemen while wearing Arab clothing. - M. R.

I think Russia is sending a subtle message to the US not to invade Iran. - M. R.

One of the reasons given for the invasion of Iraq was that Saddam was defying the United Nations. In truth he was not. Saddam did not have the banned weapons of mass destruction the US accused him of.

Israel on the other hand, DOES have weapons of mass destruction, and does flagrantly defy the United Nations. - M. R.

"If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched." -- George H. W. Bush, cited in the June, 1992 Sarah McClendon Newsletter - M. R.

So ignore what Elvis is telling you. - M. R.

We are at that final stage I predicted many years ago. Everyone in government and the corporations are grabbing what they can as fast as they can, without regard to long term consequences, because they know the economy will not hold together much longer. - M. R.

Go to your supermarket. Take a look at the size of the beer and wine section. It's two whole isles at one local store here.

That should tell you something. - M. R.