[originally published in February 2013]<\/p>\n
Quetta, the capital of Pakistan\u2019s southwest Baluchistan province, bordering both US-occupied Afghanistan as well as Iran, was the site of a grisly market bombing that has killed over 80 people. According to reports<\/a>, the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has claimed responsibility for the attack. Billed as a \u201cSunni extremist group,\u201d it instead fits the pattern of global terrorism sponsored by the US, Israel, and their Arab partners Saudi Arabia and Qatar.<\/em><\/p>\n The terrorist Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group was in fact created, according to the BBC<\/a>, to counter Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolution in the 1980\u00e2\u20ac\u00b2s, and is still active today. Considering the openly admitted US-Israeli-Saudi plot<\/a> to use Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups across the Middle East to counter Iran\u2019s influence, it begs the question whether these same interests are funding terrorism in Pakistan to not only counter Iranian-sympathetic Pakistani communities, but to undermine and destabilize Pakistan itself.<\/p>\n The US-Saudi Global Terror Network <\/strong><\/p>\n While the United States is close allies with Saudi Arabia<\/a> and Qatar<\/a>, it is well established that the chief financier of extremist militant groups for the past 3 decades, including Al Qaeda, are in fact Saudi Arabia and Qatar. While Qatari state-owned propaganda like Al Jazeera apply a veneer of progressive pro-democracy to its narratives, Qatar itself is involved in arming, funding, and even providing direct military support for sectarian extremists from northern Mali, to Libya, to Syria and beyond.<\/p>\n <\/a> \u201cThe MNLA [secular Tuareg separatists], al Qaeda-linked Ansar Dine and MUJAO [movement for unity and Jihad in West Africa] have all received cash from Doha.\u201d<\/p>\n A month later Sadou Diallo, the mayor of the north Malian city of Gao [which had fallen to the Islamists] told RTL radio: \u201cThe French government knows perfectly well who is supporting these terrorists. Qatar, for example, continues to send so-called aid and food every day to the airports of Gao and Timbuktu.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The report also stated:<\/p>\n \u201cQatar has an established a network of institutions it funds in Mali, including madrassas, schools and charities that it has been funding from the 1980s,\u201d he wrote, adding that Qatar would be expecting a return on this investment.<\/p>\n \u201cMali has huge oil and gas potential and it needs help developing its infrastructure,\u201d he said. \u201cQatar is well placed to help, and could also, on the back of good relations with an Islamist-ruled north Mali, exploit rich gold and uranium deposits in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n These institutions are present not only in Mali, but around the world, and provide a nearly inexhaustible supply of militants for both the Persian Gulf monarchies and their Western allies to use both as a perpetual casus belli to invade and occupy foreign nations such as Mali and Afghanistan, as well as a sizable, persistent mercenary force, as seen in Libya and Syria. Such institutions jointly run by Western intelligence agencies across Europe and in America, fuel domestic fear-mongering and the resulting security state that allows Western governments to more closely control their populations as they pursue reckless, unpopular policies at home and abroad.<\/p>\n Since Saudi-Qatari geopolitical interests are entwined with Anglo-American interests, both the \u201cinvestment\u201d and \u201creturn on this investment\u201d are clearly part of a joint venture. France\u2019s involvement in Mali has demonstrably failed to curb such extremists, has instead, predictably left the nation occupied by Western interests while driving terrorists further north into the real target, Algeria<\/a>.<\/p>\n Additionally, it should be noted, that France in particular, played a leading role<\/a> along side Qatar and Saudi Arabia in handing Libya over to these very same extremists. French politicians were in Benghazi shaking hands with militants they would be \u201cfighting\u201d in the near future in northern Mali.<\/p>\n Lashkar-e-Jhangvi is Part of US-Saudi Terror Network <\/strong><\/p>\n In terms of Pakistan\u2019s Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, as well as the infamous Lashkar-e-Taiba that carried out the 2008 Mumbai, India attack killing over 160, both are affiliates of Al Qaeda, and both have been linked financially, directly to Saudi Arabia. In the Guardian\u2019s article, \u201cWikiLeaks cables portray Saudi Arabia as a cash machine for terrorists<\/a>,\u201d the US State Department even acknowledges that Saudi Arabia is indeed funding terrorism in Pakistan:<\/p>\n Saudi Arabia is the world\u2019s largest source of funds for Islamist militant groups such as the Afghan Taliban and Lashkar-e-Taiba \u2014 but the Saudi government is reluctant to stem the flow of money, according to Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n \u201cMore needs to be done since Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for al-Qaida, the Taliban, LeT and other terrorist groups,\u201d says a secret December 2009 paper signed by the US secretary of state. Her memo urged US diplomats to redouble their efforts to stop Gulf money reaching extremists in Pakistan and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n \u201cDonors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Three other Arab countries are listed as sources of militant money: Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has also been financially linked to the Persian Gulf monarchies. Stanford University\u2019s \u201cMapping Militant Organizations: Lashkar-e-Jhangvi<\/a>,\u201d states under \u201cExternal Influences:\u201d<\/p>\n LeJ has received money from several Persian Gulf countries including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates[25] These countries funded LeJ and other Sunni militant groups primarily to counter the rising influence of Iran\u2019s revolutionary Shiism.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Astonishingly, despite these admission, the US works politically, financially, economically, and even militarily in tandem with these very same state-sponsors of rampant, global terrorism. In Libya and Syria, the US has even assisted in the funding and arming of Al Qaeda and affiliated terrorist groups, and had conspired with Saudi Arabia since at least 2007<\/a> to overthrow both Syria and Iran with these terrorist groups. And while Saudi Arabia funds terrorism in Pakistan, the US is well documented to be funding political subversion in the very areas where the most heinous attacks are being carried out.<\/p>\n US Political Subversion in Baluchistan, Pakistan<\/strong><\/p>\n The US State Department\u2019s National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has been directly funding<\/a> and supporting the work of the \u201cBalochistan Institute for Development\u201d (BIFD) which claims to be<\/a> \u201cthe leading resource on democracy, development and human rights in Balochistan, Pakistan.\u201d In addition to organizing the annual NED-BFID \u201cWorkshop on Media, Democracy & Human Rights<\/a>\u201d BFID reports that USAID had provided funding for a \u201cmedia-center\u201d for the Baluchistan Assembly to \u201cprovide better facilities to reporters who cover the proceedings of the Balochistan Assembly.\u201d We must assume BFID meant reporters \u201ctrained\u201d at NED-BFID workshops.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/a>Image: A screenshot of \u201cVoice of Balochistan\u2019s\u201d special US State Department message<\/a>. While VOB fails to disclose its funding, it is a sure bet it, like other US-funded propaganda fronts, is nothing more than a US State Department outlet. (click image to enlarge)<\/p>\n \u2026.<\/p>\n \u2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n There is also Voice of Balochistan<\/a> whose every top-story is US-funded propaganda drawn from foundation-funded Reporters Without Borders<\/a>, Soros-funded Human Rights Watch<\/a>, and even a direct message from the US State Department<\/a> itself. Like other US State Department funded propaganda outfits around the world \u2014 such as Thailand\u2019s Prachatai<\/a> \u2014 funding is generally obfuscated in order to maintain \u201ccredibility\u201d even when the front\u2019s constant torrent of obvious propaganda more than exposes them.<\/p>\n Image: Far from parody, this is the header taken from the \u201cBaloch Society of North America\u201d website.<\/p>\n \u2026.<\/p>\n Perhaps the most absurd operations being run to undermine Pakistan through the \u201cFree Baluchistan\u201d movement are the US and London-based organizations. The \u201cBaloch Society of North America<\/a>\u201d almost appears to be a parody at first, but nonetheless serves as a useful aggregate and bellwether regarding US meddling in Pakistan\u2019s Baluchistan province. The group\u2019s founder, Dr. Wahid. Baloch<\/a>, openly admits he has met with US politicians in regards to Baluchistan independence. This includes Neo-Con warmonger, PNAC signatory, corporate-lobbyist, and National Endowment for Democracy director Zalmay Khalilzad<\/a>.<\/p>\n Dr. Wahid Baloch considers Baluchistan province \u201coccupied<\/a>\u201d by both the Iranian and Pakistani governments \u2014 he and his movement\u2019s humanitarian hand-wringing gives Washington the perfect pretext to create an armed conflagration against either Iran or Pakistan, or both, as planned in detail by various US policy think-tanks.<\/p>\n There is also the Baloch Students Organisation-Azad<\/a>, or BSO. While it maintains a presence in Pakistan, it has coordinators based in London. London-based BSO members include \u201cinformation secretaries\u201d that propagate their message via social media, just as US and British-funded youth organizations did during the West\u2019s operations against other targeted nations during the US-engineered \u201cArab Spring<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/a>Image: A screenshot of a \u201cBaloch Human rights activist and information secretary of BSO Azad London zone\u201d Twitter account. This user, in tandem with look-alike accounts has been propagating anti-Pakistani, pro-\u201dFree Baluchistan\u201d propaganda incessantly. They also engage in coordinated attacks with prepared rhetoric against anyone revealing US ties to Baluchistan terrorist organizations.<\/p>\n \u2026.<\/p>\n And while the US does not openly admit to funding and arming terrorists in Pakistan yet, many across established Western policy think-tanks have called for it.<\/p>\n Image: Why Baluchistan? Gwadar in the southwest serves as a Chinese port and the starting<\/em> point for a logistical corridor through Pakistan and into Chinese<\/em> territory. The Iranian-Pakistani-Indian pipeline would enter from the west, cross through Baluchistan intersecting China\u2019s proposed logistical route to the northern border, and continue on to India. Destabilizing Baluchistan would effectively derail the geopolitical aspirations of four nations. <\/em><\/p>\n \u2026.<\/p>\n Selig Harrison<\/a> of the Center for International Policy, has published two pieces regarding the armed \u201cliberation\u201d of Baluchistan.<\/p>\n Harrison\u2019s February 2011 piece, \u201cFree Baluchistan<\/a>,\u201d calls to \u201caid the 6 million Baluch insurgents fighting for independence from Pakistan in the face of growing ISI repression.\u201d He continues by explaining the various merits of such meddling by stating:<\/p>\n \u201cPakistan has given China a base at Gwadar in the heart of Baluch territory. So an independent Baluchistan would serve U.S. strategic interests in addition to the immediate goal of countering Islamist forces.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Harrison would follow up his frank call to carve up Pakistan by addressing the issue of Chinese-Pakistani relations in a March 2011 piece titled, \u201cThe Chinese Cozy Up to the Pakistanis<\/a>.\u201d He states:<\/p>\n \u201cChina\u2019s expanding reach is a natural and acceptable accompaniment of its growing power\u2013but only up to a point. \u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n He continues:<\/p>\n \u201cTo counter what China is doing in Pakistan, the United States should play hardball by supporting the movement for an independent Baluchistan along the Arabian Sea and working with Baluch insurgents to oust the Chinese from their budding naval base at Gwadar. Beijing wants its inroads into Gilgit and Baltistan to be the first step on its way to an Arabian Sea outlet at Gwadar.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n While aspirations of freedom and independence are used to sell Western meddling in Pakistan, the geopolitical interests couched behind this rhetoric is openly admitted to. The prophetic words of Harrison should ring loud in one\u2019s ears today. It is in fact this month, that Pakistan officially hands over the port in Gwadar to China<\/a>, and Harrison\u2019s armed militants are creating bloodshed and chaos, attempting to trigger a destructive sectarian war that will indeed threaten to \u201coust the Chinese from their budding naval base at Gwadar.\u201d<\/p>\n Like in Syria<\/a>, we have a documented conspiracy years in the making being carried out before our very eyes. The people of Pakistan must not fall into the trap laid by the West who seeks to engulf Baluchistan in sectarian bloodshed with the aid of Saudi and Qatari-laundered cash and weapons. For the rest of the world, we must continue to uncover the corporate-financier special interests<\/a> driving these insidious plots, boycott and permanently replace<\/a> them on a local level.<\/p>\n The US-Saudi terror racket has spilled blood from New York City, across Northern Africa, throughout the Middle East, and as far as Pakistan and beyond. If we do not undermine and ultimately excise these special interests, their plans and double games will only get bolder and the inevitability of their engineered chaos effecting us individually will only grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [originally published in February 2013]<\/p>\n Quetta, the capital of Pakistan’s southwest Baluchistan province, bordering both US-occupied Afghanistan as well as Iran, was the site of a grisly market bombing that has killed over 80 people. According to reports<\/a>, the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has claimed responsibility for the attack. Billed as a “Sunni extremist group,” it instead fits the pattern of global terrorism sponsored by the US, Israel, and their Arab partners Saudi Arabia and Qatar.<\/em><\/p>\n The terrorist Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group was in fact created, according to the BBC<\/a>, to counter Iran’s Islamic Revolution in the 1980′s, and is still active today. Considering the openly admitted US-Israeli-Saudi plot<\/a> to use Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups across the Middle East to counter Iran’s influence, it begs the question whether these same interests are funding terrorism in Pakistan to not only counter Iranian-sympathetic Pakistani communities, but to undermine and destabilize Pakistan itself.<\/p>\n The US-Saudi Global Terror Network <\/strong><\/p>\n While the United States is close allies with Saudi Arabia<\/a> and Qatar<\/a>, it is well established that the chief financier of extremist militant groups for the past 3 decades, including Al Qaeda, are in fact Saudi Arabia and Qatar. While Qatari state-owned propaganda like Al Jazeera apply a veneer of progressive pro-democracy to its narratives, Qatar itself is involved in arming, funding, and even providing direct military support for sectarian extremists from northern Mali, to Libya, to Syria and beyond.<\/p>\n <\/a> “The MNLA [secular Tuareg separatists], al Qaeda-linked Ansar Dine and MUJAO [movement for unity and Jihad in West Africa] have all received cash from Doha.”<\/p>\n A month later Sadou Diallo, the mayor of the north Malian city of Gao [which had fallen to the Islamists] told RTL radio: “The French government knows perfectly well who is supporting these terrorists. Qatar, for example, continues to send so-called aid and food every day to the airports of Gao and Timbuktu.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The report also stated:<\/p>\n “Qatar has an established a network of institutions it funds in Mali, including madrassas, schools and charities that it has been funding from the 1980s,” he wrote, adding that Qatar would be expecting a return on this investment.<\/p>\n “Mali has huge oil and gas potential and it needs help developing its infrastructure,” he said. “Qatar is well placed to help, and could also, on the back of good relations with an Islamist-ruled north Mali, exploit rich gold and uranium deposits in the country.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n These institutions are present not only in Mali, but around the world, and provide a nearly inexhaustible supply of militants for both the Persian Gulf monarchies and their Western allies to use both as a perpetual casus belli to invade and occupy foreign nations such as Mali and Afghanistan, as well as a sizable, persistent mercenary force, as seen in Libya and Syria. Such institutions jointly run by Western intelligence agencies across Europe and in America, fuel domestic fear-mongering and the resulting security state that allows Western governments to more closely control their populations as they pursue reckless, unpopular policies at home and abroad.<\/p>\n Since Saudi-Qatari geopolitical interests are entwined with Anglo-American interests, both the “investment” and “return on this investment” are clearly part of a joint venture. France’s involvement in Mali has demonstrably failed to curb such extremists, has instead, predictably left the nation occupied by Western interests while driving terrorists further north into the real target, Algeria<\/a>.<\/p>\n Additionally, it should be noted, that France in particular, played a leading role<\/a> along side Qatar and Saudi Arabia in handing Libya over to these very same extremists. French politicians were in Benghazi shaking hands with militants they would be “fighting” in the near future in northern Mali.<\/p>\n Lashkar-e-Jhangvi is Part of US-Saudi Terror Network <\/strong><\/p>\n In terms of Pakistan’s Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, as well as the infamous Lashkar-e-Taiba that carried out the 2008 Mumbai, India attack killing over 160, both are affiliates of Al Qaeda, and both have been linked financially, directly to Saudi Arabia. In the Guardian’s article, “WikiLeaks cables portray Saudi Arabia as a cash machine for terrorists<\/a>,” the US State Department even acknowledges that Saudi Arabia is indeed funding terrorism in Pakistan:<\/p>\n Saudi Arabia is the world’s largest source of funds for Islamist militant groups such as the Afghan Taliban and Lashkar-e-Taiba – but the Saudi government is reluctant to stem the flow of money, according to Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n “More needs to be done since Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for al-Qaida, the Taliban, LeT and other terrorist groups,” says a secret December 2009 paper signed by the US secretary of state. Her memo urged US diplomats to redouble their efforts to stop Gulf money reaching extremists in Pakistan and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n “Donors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide,” she said.<\/p>\n Three other Arab countries are listed as sources of militant money: Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has also been financially linked to the Persian Gulf monarchies. Stanford University’s “Mapping Militant Organizations: Lashkar-e-Jhangvi<\/a>,” states under “External Influences:”<\/p>\n LeJ has received money from several Persian Gulf countries including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates[25] These countries funded LeJ and other Sunni militant groups primarily to counter the rising influence of Iran’s revolutionary Shiism.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Astonishingly, despite these admission, the US works politically, financially, economically, and even militarily in tandem with these very same state-sponsors of rampant, global terrorism. In Libya and Syria, the US has even assisted in the funding and arming of Al Qaeda and affiliated terrorist groups, and had conspired with Saudi Arabia since at least 2007<\/a> to overthrow both Syria and Iran with these terrorist groups. And while Saudi Arabia funds terrorism in Pakistan, the US is well documented to be funding political subversion in the very areas where the most heinous attacks are being carried out.<\/p>\n US Political Subversion in Baluchistan, Pakistan<\/strong><\/p>\n The US State Department’s National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has been directly funding<\/a> and supporting the work of the “Balochistan Institute for Development” (BIFD) which claims to be<\/a> “the leading resource on democracy, development and human rights in Balochistan, Pakistan.” In addition to organizing the annual NED-BFID “Workshop on Media, Democracy & Human Rights<\/a>” BFID reports that USAID had provided funding for a “media-center” for the Baluchistan Assembly to “provide better facilities to reporters who cover the proceedings of the Balochistan Assembly.” We must assume BFID meant reporters “trained” at NED-BFID workshops.<\/p>\n <\/a>Image: A screenshot of “Voice of Balochistan’s” special US State Department message<\/a>. While VOB fails to disclose its funding, it is a sure bet it, like other US-funded propaganda fronts, is nothing more than a US State Department outlet. (click image to enlarge)<\/p>\n ….<\/p>\n ….<\/p>\n<\/div>\n There is also Voice of Balochistan<\/a> whose every top-story is US-funded propaganda drawn from foundation-funded Reporters Without Borders<\/a>, Soros-funded Human Rights Watch<\/a>, and even a direct message from the US State Department<\/a> itself. Like other US State Department funded propaganda outfits around the world – such as Thailand’s Prachatai<\/a> – funding is generally obfuscated in order to maintain “credibility” even when the front’s constant torrent of obvious propaganda more than exposes them.<\/p>\n Image: Far from parody, this is the header taken from the “Baloch Society of North America” website.<\/p>\n ….<\/p>\n Perhaps the most absurd operations being run to undermine Pakistan through the “Free Baluchistan” movement are the US and London-based organizations. The “Baloch Society of North America<\/a>” almost appears to be a parody at first, but nonetheless serves as a useful aggregate and bellwether regarding US meddling in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province. The group’s founder, Dr. Wahid. Baloch<\/a>, openly admits he has met with US politicians in regards to Baluchistan independence. This includes Neo-Con warmonger, PNAC signatory, corporate-lobbyist, and National Endowment for Democracy director Zalmay Khalilzad<\/a>.<\/p>\n Dr. Wahid Baloch considers Baluchistan province “occupied<\/a>” by both the Iranian and Pakistani governments – he and his movement’s humanitarian hand-wringing gives Washington the perfect pretext to create an armed conflagration against either Iran or Pakistan, or both, as planned in detail by various US policy think-tanks.<\/p>\n There is also the Baloch Students Organisation-Azad<\/a>, or BSO. While it maintains a presence in Pakistan, it has coordinators based in London. London-based BSO members include “information secretaries” that propagate their message via social media, just as US and British-funded youth organizations did during the West’s operations against other targeted nations during the US-engineered “Arab Spring<\/a>.”<\/p>\n <\/a>Image: A screenshot of a “Baloch Human rights activist and information secretary of BSO Azad London zone” Twitter account. This user, in tandem with look-alike accounts has been propagating anti-Pakistani, pro-”Free Baluchistan” propaganda incessantly. They also engage in coordinated attacks with prepared rhetoric against anyone revealing US ties to Baluchistan terrorist organizations.<\/p>\n ….<\/p>\n And while the US does not openly admit to funding and arming terrorists in Pakistan yet, many across established Western policy think-tanks have called for it.<\/p>\n Image: Why Baluchistan? Gwadar in the southwest serves as a Chinese port and the starting<\/em> point for a logistical corridor through Pakistan and into Chinese<\/em> territory. The Iranian-Pakistani-Indian pipeline would enter from the west, cross through Baluchistan intersecting China’s proposed logistical route to the northern border, and continue on to India. Destabilizing Baluchistan would effectively derail the geopolitical aspirations of four nations. <\/em><\/p>\n ….<\/p>\n Selig Harrison<\/a> of the Center for International Policy, has published two pieces regarding the armed “liberation” of Baluchistan.<\/p>\n Harrison’s February 2011 piece, “Free Baluchistan<\/a>,” calls to “aid the 6 million Baluch insurgents fighting for independence from Pakistan in the face of growing ISI repression.” He continues by explaining the various merits of such meddling by stating:<\/p>\n “Pakistan has given China a base at Gwadar in the heart of Baluch territory. So an independent Baluchistan would serve U.S. strategic interests in addition to the immediate goal of countering Islamist forces.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Harrison would follow up his frank call to carve up Pakistan by addressing the issue of Chinese-Pakistani relations in a March 2011 piece titled, “The Chinese Cozy Up to the Pakistanis<\/a>.” He states:<\/p>\n “China’s expanding reach is a natural and acceptable accompaniment of its growing power—but only up to a point. ”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n He continues:<\/p>\n “To counter what China is doing in Pakistan, the United States should play hardball by supporting the movement for an independent Baluchistan along the Arabian Sea and working with Baluch insurgents to oust the Chinese from their budding naval base at Gwadar. Beijing wants its inroads into Gilgit and Baltistan to be the first step on its way to an Arabian Sea outlet at Gwadar.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n While aspirations of freedom and independence are used to sell Western meddling in Pakistan, the geopolitical interests couched behind this rhetoric is openly admitted to. The prophetic words of Harrison should ring loud in one’s ears today. It is in fact this month, that Pakistan officially hands over the port in Gwadar to China<\/a>, and Harrison’s armed militants are creating bloodshed and chaos, attempting to trigger a destructive sectarian war that will indeed threaten to “oust the Chinese from their budding naval base at Gwadar.”<\/p>\n Like in Syria<\/a>, we have a documented conspiracy years in the making being carried out before our very eyes. The people of Pakistan must not fall into the trap laid by the West who seeks to engulf Baluchistan in sectarian bloodshed with the aid of Saudi and Qatari-laundered cash and weapons. For the rest of the world, we must continue to uncover the corporate-financier special interests<\/a> driving these insidious plots, boycott and permanently replace<\/a> them on a local level.<\/p>\n The US-Saudi terror racket has spilled blood from New York City, across Northern Africa, throughout the Middle East, and as far as Pakistan and beyond. If we do not undermine and ultimately excise these special interests, their plans and double games will only get bolder and the inevitability of their engineered chaos effecting us individually will only grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
France 24\u00e2\u20ac\u00b2s report \u201cIs Qatar fuelling the crisis in north Mali?<\/a>\u201d provides a useful vignette of Saudi-Qatari terror sponsorship, stating:<\/p>\n\n
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France 24′s report “Is Qatar fuelling the crisis in north Mali?<\/a>” provides a useful vignette of Saudi-Qatari terror sponsorship, stating:<\/p>\n\n
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![\u00a0<\/a>Image: A screenshot of \u201cVoice of Balochistan\u2019s\u201d](\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-YumVvprjMu4\/T4dsifmSmKI\/AAAAAAAABYo\/SMvbR2izQ-s\/s1600\/BaluchistanUSstateDept.jpg\"){kind=link}
![\u00a0<\/a>Image: A screenshot of a \u201cBaloch Human rights activist and information secretary of BSO Azad London zone\u201d Twitter account. This user, in tandem with look-alike accounts has been propagating anti-Pakistani, pro-\u201dFree Baluchistan\u201d propaganda incessantly. They also engage in coordinated attacks with prepared rhetoric against anyone revealing US ties to Baluchistan terrorist organizations.<\/p>\n\u2026.<\/p>\nAnd while the US does not openly admit to funding and arming terrorists in Pakistan yet, many across established Western policy think-tanks have called for it.<\/p>\nImage: Why Baluchistan? Gwadar in the southwest serves as a Chinese port and the starting<\/em> point for a logistical corridor through Pakistan and into Chinese<\/em> territory. The Iranian-Pakistani-Indian pipeline would enter from the west, cross through Baluchistan intersecting China\u2019s proposed logistical route to the northern border, and continue on to India. Destabilizing Baluchistan would effectively derail the geopolitical aspirations of four nations. <\/em><\/p>\n\u2026.<\/p>\nSelig Harrison<\/a> of the Center for International Policy, has published two pieces regarding the armed \u201cliberation\u201d of Baluchistan.<\/p>\nHarrison\u2019s February 2011 piece, \u201cFree Baluchistan<\/a>,\u201d calls to \u201caid the 6 million Baluch insurgents fighting for independence from Pakistan in the face of growing ISI repression.\u201d He continues by explaining the various merits of such meddling by stating:<\/p>\n\n\u201cPakistan has given China a base at Gwadar in the heart of Baluch territory. So an independent Baluchistan would serve U.S. strategic interests in addition to the immediate goal of countering Islamist forces.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nHarrison would follow up his frank call to carve up Pakistan by addressing the issue of Chinese-Pakistani relations in a March 2011 piece titled, \u201cThe Chinese Cozy Up to the Pakistanis<\/a>.\u201d He states:<\/p>\n\n\u201cChina\u2019s expanding reach is a natural and acceptable accompaniment of its growing power\u2013but only up to a point. \u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nHe continues:<\/p>\n\n\u201cTo counter what China is doing in Pakistan, the United States should play hardball by supporting the movement for an independent Baluchistan along the Arabian Sea and working with Baluch insurgents to oust the Chinese from their budding naval base at Gwadar. Beijing wants its inroads into Gilgit and Baltistan to be the first step on its way to an Arabian Sea outlet at Gwadar.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nWhile aspirations of freedom and independence are used to sell Western meddling in Pakistan, the geopolitical interests couched behind this rhetoric is openly admitted to. The prophetic words of Harrison should ring loud in one\u2019s ears today. It is in fact this month, that Pakistan officially hands over the port in Gwadar to China<\/a>, and Harrison\u2019s armed militants are creating bloodshed and chaos, attempting to trigger a destructive sectarian war that will indeed threaten to \u201coust the Chinese from their budding naval base at Gwadar.\u201d<\/p>\nLike in Syria<\/a>, we have a documented conspiracy years in the making being carried out before our very eyes. The people of Pakistan must not fall into the trap laid by the West who seeks to engulf Baluchistan in sectarian bloodshed with the aid of Saudi and Qatari-laundered cash and weapons. For the rest of the world, we must continue to uncover the corporate-financier special interests<\/a> driving these insidious plots, boycott and permanently replace<\/a> them on a local level.<\/p>\nThe US-Saudi terror racket has spilled blood from New York City, across Northern Africa, throughout the Middle East, and as far as Pakistan and beyond. If we do not undermine and ultimately excise these special interests, their plans and double games will only get bolder and the inevitability of their engineered chaos effecting us individually will only grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[originally published in February 2013]<\/p>\nQuetta, the capital of Pakistan’s southwest Baluchistan province, bordering both US-occupied Afghanistan as well as Iran, was the site of a grisly market bombing that has killed over 80 people. According to reports<\/a>, the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has claimed responsibility for the attack. Billed as a “Sunni extremist group,” it instead fits the pattern of global terrorism sponsored by the US, Israel, and their Arab partners Saudi Arabia and Qatar.<\/em><\/p>\nThe terrorist Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group was in fact created, according to the BBC<\/a>, to counter Iran’s Islamic Revolution in the 1980′s, and is still active today. Considering the openly admitted US-Israeli-Saudi plot<\/a> to use Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups across the Middle East to counter Iran’s influence, it begs the question whether these same interests are funding terrorism in Pakistan to not only counter Iranian-sympathetic Pakistani communities, but to undermine and destabilize Pakistan itself.<\/p>\nThe US-Saudi Global Terror Network <\/strong><\/p>\nWhile the United States is close allies with Saudi Arabia<\/a> and Qatar<\/a>, it is well established that the chief financier of extremist militant groups for the past 3 decades, including Al Qaeda, are in fact Saudi Arabia and Qatar. While Qatari state-owned propaganda like Al Jazeera apply a veneer of progressive pro-democracy to its narratives, Qatar itself is involved in arming, funding, and even providing direct military support for sectarian extremists from northern Mali, to Libya, to Syria and beyond.<\/p>\n<\/a>France 24′s report “Is Qatar fuelling the crisis in north Mali?<\/a>” provides a useful vignette of Saudi-Qatari terror sponsorship, stating:<\/p>\n\n“The MNLA [secular Tuareg separatists], al Qaeda-linked Ansar Dine and MUJAO [movement for unity and Jihad in West Africa] have all received cash from Doha.”<\/p>\nA month later Sadou Diallo, the mayor of the north Malian city of Gao [which had fallen to the Islamists] told RTL radio: “The French government knows perfectly well who is supporting these terrorists. Qatar, for example, continues to send so-called aid and food every day to the airports of Gao and Timbuktu.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nThe report also stated:<\/p>\n\n“Qatar has an established a network of institutions it funds in Mali, including madrassas, schools and charities that it has been funding from the 1980s,” he wrote, adding that Qatar would be expecting a return on this investment.<\/p>\n“Mali has huge oil and gas potential and it needs help developing its infrastructure,” he said. “Qatar is well placed to help, and could also, on the back of good relations with an Islamist-ruled north Mali, exploit rich gold and uranium deposits in the country.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nThese institutions are present not only in Mali, but around the world, and provide a nearly inexhaustible supply of militants for both the Persian Gulf monarchies and their Western allies to use both as a perpetual casus belli to invade and occupy foreign nations such as Mali and Afghanistan, as well as a sizable, persistent mercenary force, as seen in Libya and Syria. Such institutions jointly run by Western intelligence agencies across Europe and in America, fuel domestic fear-mongering and the resulting security state that allows Western governments to more closely control their populations as they pursue reckless, unpopular policies at home and abroad.<\/p>\nSince Saudi-Qatari geopolitical interests are entwined with Anglo-American interests, both the “investment” and “return on this investment” are clearly part of a joint venture. France’s involvement in Mali has demonstrably failed to curb such extremists, has instead, predictably left the nation occupied by Western interests while driving terrorists further north into the real target, Algeria<\/a>.<\/p>\nAdditionally, it should be noted, that France in particular, played a leading role<\/a> along side Qatar and Saudi Arabia in handing Libya over to these very same extremists. French politicians were in Benghazi shaking hands with militants they would be “fighting” in the near future in northern Mali.<\/p>\nLashkar-e-Jhangvi is Part of US-Saudi Terror Network <\/strong><\/p>\nIn terms of Pakistan’s Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, as well as the infamous Lashkar-e-Taiba that carried out the 2008 Mumbai, India attack killing over 160, both are affiliates of Al Qaeda, and both have been linked financially, directly to Saudi Arabia. In the Guardian’s article, “WikiLeaks cables portray Saudi Arabia as a cash machine for terrorists<\/a>,” the US State Department even acknowledges that Saudi Arabia is indeed funding terrorism in Pakistan:<\/p>\n\nSaudi Arabia is the world’s largest source of funds for Islamist militant groups such as the Afghan Taliban and Lashkar-e-Taiba – but the Saudi government is reluctant to stem the flow of money, according to Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n“More needs to be done since Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for al-Qaida, the Taliban, LeT and other terrorist groups,” says a secret December 2009 paper signed by the US secretary of state. Her memo urged US diplomats to redouble their efforts to stop Gulf money reaching extremists in Pakistan and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n“Donors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide,” she said.<\/p>\nThree other Arab countries are listed as sources of militant money: Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nLashkar-e-Jhangvi has also been financially linked to the Persian Gulf monarchies. Stanford University’s “Mapping Militant Organizations: Lashkar-e-Jhangvi<\/a>,” states under “External Influences:”<\/p>\n\nLeJ has received money from several Persian Gulf countries including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates[25] These countries funded LeJ and other Sunni militant groups primarily to counter the rising influence of Iran’s revolutionary Shiism.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nAstonishingly, despite these admission, the US works politically, financially, economically, and even militarily in tandem with these very same state-sponsors of rampant, global terrorism. In Libya and Syria, the US has even assisted in the funding and arming of Al Qaeda and affiliated terrorist groups, and had conspired with Saudi Arabia since at least 2007<\/a> to overthrow both Syria and Iran with these terrorist groups. And while Saudi Arabia funds terrorism in Pakistan, the US is well documented to be funding political subversion in the very areas where the most heinous attacks are being carried out.<\/p>\nUS Political Subversion in Baluchistan, Pakistan<\/strong><\/p>\nThe US State Department’s National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has been directly funding<\/a> and supporting the work of the “Balochistan Institute for Development” (BIFD) which claims to be<\/a> “the leading resource on democracy, development and human rights in Balochistan, Pakistan.” In addition to organizing the annual NED-BFID “Workshop on Media, Democracy & Human Rights<\/a>” BFID reports that USAID had provided funding for a “media-center” for the Baluchistan Assembly to “provide better facilities to reporters who cover the proceedings of the Balochistan Assembly.” We must assume BFID meant reporters “trained” at NED-BFID workshops.<\/p>\n <\/a>Image: A screenshot of “Voice of Balochistan’s” special US State Department message<\/a>. While VOB fails to disclose its funding, it is a sure bet it, like other US-funded propaganda fronts, is nothing more than a US State Department outlet. (click image to enlarge)<\/p>\n….<\/p>\nImages: In addition to the annual Fortune 500-funded “Balochistan International Conference<\/a>,” the US State Department’s National Endowment for Democracy has been busy at work building up Baluchistan’s “civil society” network. This includes support for the “Balochistan Institute For Development,” which maintains a “BIFD Leadership Academy<\/a>,” claiming to “mobilize, train and encourage youth to play its effective role in promotion of democracy development and rule of law.” The goal is to subvert Pakistani governance while simultaneously creating a homogeneous “civil society” that interlocks with the West’s “international institutions.” This is how modern empire perpetuates itself.<\/p>\n….<\/p>\n<\/div>\nThere is also Voice of Balochistan<\/a> whose every top-story is US-funded propaganda drawn from foundation-funded Reporters Without Borders<\/a>, Soros-funded Human Rights Watch<\/a>, and even a direct message from the US State Department<\/a> itself. Like other US State Department funded propaganda outfits around the world – such as Thailand’s Prachatai<\/a> – funding is generally obfuscated in order to maintain “credibility” even when the front’s constant torrent of obvious propaganda more than exposes them.<\/p>\nImage: Far from parody, this is the header taken from the “Baloch Society of North America” website.<\/p>\n….<\/p>\nPerhaps the most absurd operations being run to undermine Pakistan through the “Free Baluchistan” movement are the US and London-based organizations. The “Baloch Society of North America<\/a>” almost appears to be a parody at first, but nonetheless serves as a useful aggregate and bellwether regarding US meddling in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province. The group’s founder, Dr. Wahid. Baloch<\/a>, openly admits he has met with US politicians in regards to Baluchistan independence. This includes Neo-Con warmonger, PNAC signatory, corporate-lobbyist, and National Endowment for Democracy director Zalmay Khalilzad<\/a>.<\/p>\nDr. Wahid Baloch considers Baluchistan province “occupied<\/a>” by both the Iranian and Pakistani governments – he and his movement’s humanitarian hand-wringing gives Washington the perfect pretext to create an armed conflagration against either Iran or Pakistan, or both, as planned in detail by various US policy think-tanks.<\/p>\nThere is also the Baloch Students Organisation-Azad<\/a>, or BSO. While it maintains a presence in Pakistan, it has coordinators based in London. London-based BSO members include “information secretaries” that propagate their message via social media, just as US and British-funded youth organizations did during the West’s operations against other targeted nations during the US-engineered “Arab Spring<\/a>.”<\/p>\n <\/a>Image: A screenshot of a “Baloch Human rights activist and information secretary of BSO Azad London zone” Twitter account. This user, in tandem with look-alike accounts has been propagating anti-Pakistani, pro-”Free Baluchistan” propaganda incessantly. They also engage in coordinated attacks with prepared rhetoric against anyone revealing US ties to Baluchistan terrorist organizations.<\/p>\n….<\/p>\nAnd while the US does not openly admit to funding and arming terrorists in Pakistan yet, many across established Western policy think-tanks have called for it.<\/p>\nImage: Why Baluchistan? Gwadar in the southwest serves as a Chinese port and the starting<\/em> point for a logistical corridor through Pakistan and into Chinese<\/em> territory. The Iranian-Pakistani-Indian pipeline would enter from the west, cross through Baluchistan intersecting China’s proposed logistical route to the northern border, and continue on to India. Destabilizing Baluchistan would effectively derail the geopolitical aspirations of four nations. <\/em><\/p>\n….<\/p>\nSelig Harrison<\/a> of the Center for International Policy, has published two pieces regarding the armed “liberation” of Baluchistan.<\/p>\nHarrison’s February 2011 piece, “Free Baluchistan<\/a>,” calls to “aid the 6 million Baluch insurgents fighting for independence from Pakistan in the face of growing ISI repression.” He continues by explaining the various merits of such meddling by stating:<\/p>\n\n“Pakistan has given China a base at Gwadar in the heart of Baluch territory. So an independent Baluchistan would serve U.S. strategic interests in addition to the immediate goal of countering Islamist forces.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nHarrison would follow up his frank call to carve up Pakistan by addressing the issue of Chinese-Pakistani relations in a March 2011 piece titled, “The Chinese Cozy Up to the Pakistanis<\/a>.” He states:<\/p>\n\n“China’s expanding reach is a natural and acceptable accompaniment of its growing power—but only up to a point. ”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nHe continues:<\/p>\n\n“To counter what China is doing in Pakistan, the United States should play hardball by supporting the movement for an independent Baluchistan along the Arabian Sea and working with Baluch insurgents to oust the Chinese from their budding naval base at Gwadar. Beijing wants its inroads into Gilgit and Baltistan to be the first step on its way to an Arabian Sea outlet at Gwadar.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nWhile aspirations of freedom and independence are used to sell Western meddling in Pakistan, the geopolitical interests couched behind this rhetoric is openly admitted to. The prophetic words of Harrison should ring loud in one’s ears today. It is in fact this month, that Pakistan officially hands over the port in Gwadar to China<\/a>, and Harrison’s armed militants are creating bloodshed and chaos, attempting to trigger a destructive sectarian war that will indeed threaten to “oust the Chinese from their budding naval base at Gwadar.”<\/p>\nLike in Syria<\/a>, we have a documented conspiracy years in the making being carried out before our very eyes. The people of Pakistan must not fall into the trap laid by the West who seeks to engulf Baluchistan in sectarian bloodshed with the aid of Saudi and Qatari-laundered cash and weapons. For the rest of the world, we must continue to uncover the corporate-financier special interests<\/a> driving these insidious plots, boycott and permanently replace<\/a> them on a local level.<\/p>\nThe US-Saudi terror racket has spilled blood from New York City, across Northern Africa, throughout the Middle East, and as far as Pakistan and beyond. If we do not undermine and ultimately excise these special interests, their plans and double games will only get bolder and the inevitability of their engineered chaos effecting us individually will only grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-CDmhthOCuzE\/T4dsikhwnvI\/AAAAAAAABYw\/-vrVM3XR3Ro\/s1600\/BaluchistanLondon.jpg\"){kind=link}