Saturday 14 November 2015

The Paris Massacres.

Last night 8 terrorists attacked multiple locations against the French capital Paris.

Three of the terrorists attacked the Stade de France stadium which was full to it's capacity of 80,000 with fans watching a football friendly between France and Germany. Fortunately it appears that the suicide bombers succeed in killing no-one but themselves.

The second group of five terrorists did a lot more damage with gun and grenade attacks against four packed restaurants/bars all within 8km (5 miles) of the Stade de France and 6km (3.5 miles) of the iconic Eiffel Tower.

They ended their rampage by storming the Bataclan concert venue which held a capacity crowd of around 1,500. Initially it was reported that people were being held hostage at the Bataclan but it quickly emerged that it was nothing more then a massacre with the terrorist killing the concert goers one-by-one.

By the time police had raided the Bataclan bring the attacks to an end after little more three hours 127 civilians had been killed and at least 180 wounded - 99 of whom remain in a critical condition in hospital.

This makes it the worst terror attack in Europe since the 2004 Madrid train bombings that killed 191 and it may yet exceed that making it the worst terror attack in Europe's history.

The attack has already been claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as an act of retribution for France's military operations against ISIL in Syria and Iraq.

ISIL's claim of responsibility has been strengthened by the discovery of a Syrian passport in the possession of one of the attackers. This is likely to be one of the hundreds of thousands of forged passports that Turkey has produced to facilitate the transit of ISIL recruits between Europe and Syria.

Beyond mawkishly revelling in the gore of it all I'm not sure what more I am supposed to add. T

his is something that we all knew was going to happen. It is something that has been happening for the last five years now.

At the start of December Paris is supposed to be the scene of a new global deal to end the World of the scourge of global warming.

The existence of the fiefdom of the al-Saud family - Saudi Arabia - is almost entirely dependent on nations being forced to continue to buy and use fossil fuels at hugely inflated prices further contributing to global warming. As such the al-Saud's long ago decided that they will not allow this deal to be signed.

Initially they hoped it would die out in the dust of Doha, Qatar in 2012. However this did not happen and as momentum has grown ahead of next month's climax Saudi Arabia has increasingly used violence and intimidation to terrorise nations into not signing up.

A large part of Saudi Arabia's efforts have focused on supporting the Islamist extremists of al-Shabaab in Somalia. From there Saudi Arabia has been able to attack nations across east Africa and into the resource rich nations of central Africa such as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Central African Republic (CAR).

So between 2012 and 2014 there were around 60 terror attacks in Kenya killing at least 253 people. The majority of these attacks were exactly the same style of attacks as seen in Paris yesterday with people being attacked by guns and grenades wherever the gather in bars and restaurants. One such attack occurred at the Jericho Beer Garden in Mombasa where people had gathered to watch the Euro 2012 football game between England and Italy.

One of the worst attacks came on September 21st 2013 (21/9/13) when terrorists armed with guns and grenades stormed the Westgate Mall in Nairobi massacring 69 and wounding more then 175.

Following this attack US President Barack Obama - himself the son of a Kenyan father - along with the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) offered some weasel words of condolence but took no action to stop the attacks.

On April 2nd 2015 (2/4/15) terrorists armed with guns and grenades stormed the Garissa University in Garissa massacring 147 people and wounding 70 more.

Again US President Obama and the UNSC offered some weasel words of condolence but took no action to stop the attacks.

Saudi Arabia has also exploited the chaos that has engulfed Libya since 2011 to terrorise nations in west Africa.

In 2012 Islamists with a very similar ideology to ISIL swept down from Libya and established as self-styled Islamic State across a section of Northern Mali roughly the size of France.

Here US President Obama did not even offer words of condolence. Instead he saw it as an opportunity to increase US domination of the region by tricking west African nations in conducting an operation of liberate Mali.

None of those African nations fell into the trap and in January 2013 France stepped up and removed Mali's 'Islamic State" in just over four and a half weeks.

Saudi Arabia simply transferred the Islamists from Mali to oil-rich Nigeria where they became known as Boko Haram. This was intended as punishment for Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan's principled refusal to fall into the Mali trap.

Since then Boko Haram have killed, raped and terrorised so many people in Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad it has become almost impossible to keep count. The death toll has been so great that western liberals continued obsession with the just 276 schoolgirls who were kidnapped from a boarding school in Chibok in April 2014 seems like an insult to all the other victims.

Again here US President Obama didn't even bother offer words of condolence. Instead he led an electoral coup in April 2015 to oust President Jonathan and replace him with Boko Haram sympathiser and former military dictator Muhammadu Buhari.

Seven months later Buhari has still not appointed a government instead choosing to horde all power for himself while the attacks from Boko Haram continue.

With their brutality going unchecked for so long on January 7th 2015 (7/1/15) Saudi Arabia felt confident enough to show that it could strike both at the heart of Europe and the heart of the climate change negotiations by attacking Paris, France. 

This began with the attacks on the Charlie Hebdo magazine - which is very close to the scene of yesterday's attacks - that killed 11. It continued for two days with the Charlie Hebdo attackers finally being cornered and killed at an industrial estate just outside Paris while an accomplice killed four in an attack on a Jewish supermarket both on January 9th (9/1/15).

To this day US President Obama refuses to acknowledge that these attacks took place.

The people of Yemen from where the attacks had been launched noticed though and on January 22nd 2015 (22/1/15) overthrew the Saudi backed government of Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi which had sponsored the attacks.

The overthrow of Hadi cut Saudi Arabia's supply route across the Gulf of Aden to al-Shabaab in Somalia and therefore east and central Africa. So Saudi Arabia immediately launched an invasion of Yemen to re-install Hadi as their puppet and re-open the supply route. 

Seven months into this war that has seen Saudi troops fight directly alongside members of ISIL and Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) some 5,600 people have been killed - more then half of them civilians. Saudi Arabia's blockade of Yemen which has seen it bomb aircraft belonging to the International Red Cross/Crescent alongside numerous hospitals has driven more then 5 million civilians into famine.

US President Obama responded to this by immediately leaping to Saudi Arabia's aid. Not only is he providing weapons, air-to-air refuelling tankers and targeting intelligence to assist the Saudi war against Yemen Obama is also providing it with diplomatic cover by supporting UNSC resolutions demanding that Saudi Arabia has the right to dictate Yemen's government in clear violation of the UN's own Charter and all relevant aspects of international law.

Once again being told that no-one dares stop them Saudi Arabia again attacked France on August 21st (21/8/15) when an Islamist terrorist attacked passengers on a Thlys train travelling between Brussels, Belgium and Paris, France. It was only through miraculous bravery that this was stopped from being a massacre of some 300 civilians.

So yesterday's attacks in Paris were just the latest in a long string of attacks over the past several years.

What should happen now is that the leaders of the 28 nations who make up the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) should immediately hold an emergency summit to discuss this act of war against one of it's members. 

Just as the did after the September 11th 2001 (11/9/01) attacks on the US they should invoke Article 5 - the mutual defence clause that declares an attack on one to be an attack on all. This would obligate all NATO members to do everything in their power to defeat ISIL wherever they may be in accordance with UNSC Resolution 2170 (2014).

However if US President Obama's supposed campaign promise to tackle climate change along with all the horrors we have seen over the past five years are not enough to shock him up off his knees it is unlikely that these latest Paris attacks will make any difference to him.

Therefore it is extremely likely that Obama will respond by travelling to Turkey for the G20 Summit where he will once again kiss the feet of Islamist terror.

This puts me in an extremely difficult position because I can help write the best, fairest and most equitable climate change agreement the World has ever seen. 

However I know I cannot get nations to sign up to it if the supposed Commander-in-Chief of the World's largest military is telling them that Saudi Arabia will be allowed to attack them if they do.

16:30 on 14/11/15 (UK date).

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