Huge Attack In Islamabad

September 20, 2008

Elaine Meinel Supkis

Al Qaeda always does their big hits on big days. So when the news of the latest major bombing of Western interests hit the internet, I immediately looked up interesting anniversaries for this day and there certainly is one: Saladin's seige of Jerusalem began on this day. The radicals who are dragging the US into increasing wars are extremely aware of these connections. Jerusalem is like the center of a wheel that is the wheels of the machine of the Apocalypse.

A hotel filled with foreigners in Pakistan is totally destroyed in a very violent explosion:

A huge truck bomb exploded at the entrance to the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad on Saturday evening, killing at least 40 people and wounding more than 150, the police said.

The blast, one of the worst acts of terrorism in Pakistan’s history, went off just a few hundred yards from the prime minister’s house, where all the leaders of government were dining after the president’s address to Parliament.

The toll was expected to grow because of reports that people had been trapped inside the six-story hotel, which has been a favorite meeting spot of both foreigners and well-connected Pakistanis in the heart of the capital. The building was quickly engulfed in flames and continued to burn for hours Saturday night.
*snip*
Coming after a bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, earlier this year at the Serena Hotel, another gathering spot for foreigners, the Marriott attack appeared to send a message not just to Pakistan but to Washington and other Pakistani allies.

We can see from the pictures, this was no minor attack. The US has moved the Pakistan embassy to a remote location surrounded by military with many walls and fences. No longer do any Pakistanis bother with attacking it directly. Instead, they watch and wait. The US has declared unilateral war on Pakistan this year. We sent the rather foolish tool, General Petraeus to Afghanistan to do the same 'magic' he did in Iraq.

The stupid surge didn't work because it was good. The ethnic cleansing hosted by the Shiite government has finally finished there. Now, only one American a day dies. This is sort of a nasty reminder by the Shi'ites to remind us who is boss. The situation in Iraq is evolving, as expected, towards a Shi'ite confederation which will enfold the Shi'a in Lebanon, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Palestine. This is exactly what the Saudi Royals, the fat little pigeons of Kuwait and the ancient Christians of Lebanon feared the most. And the Israeli Jewish invaders are utterly terrified of this.

So all parties want us permanently in Iraq. This is, obviously, totally impossible. I don't see the freeloaders in Tel Aviv paying for this. The Saudi royals don't want to be bothered with paying for this. Everyone wants this on our dime. Since we seem determined to take on infinite debt, why should anyone bother with supporting us financially?

And al Qaeda knows this.

Siege of Jerusalem (1187)

The Siege of Jerusalem took place from September 20 to October 2, 1187. It resulted in the recapture of Jerusalem by Saladin and the near total collapse of the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. It served as the catalyst for the Third Crusade.

Here is a painting by Delacroix showing the Normans entering Jerusalem.

The Normans killed everyone they could find, of course. The concept of mercy being totally devoid in Christianity. The Muslims, when they retook Jerusalem after a short siege by Saladin, didn't want to kill everyone. They wanted slaves. Makes more profits.

Here is another illustration of the Crusaders surrendering to Saladin:

Bin Laden has two targets: Jerusalem and Mecca [Makkar]. These 'high holy places' are of uttermost importance to him. This month, al Qaeda blew up more US facilities such as the embassy in Yemen. Many Americans forget that some of the 9/11 hijackers were from Yemen. The importance of understanding how the US rulers miscalculated and misunderstood the thinking and skills of bin Laden can't be stressed enough. There are many people who think the US has to plan and implement all these attacks itself as if there is NO Islamic forces at work is particularly pathetic.

One of the most potent forces is the rebirth of Islam. It fell into decrepitude after 1600 and the failure to take Vienna. Ever since then, it has been all downhill for the Ottoman empire and all other Islamic communities as the Europeans picked them all apart using modern military tactics. And Islam went bankrupt due to falling into this eternal depression.

This financial failure was due to their concept of banking: they didn't believe in interest rates or compound interest. The lack of new revenues from enslaving populations ceased once the Ottoman empire ceased growing. Instead, a terrible depression took grip of the empire. This is a hazard of all empires built mostly on conquests. Looting new victims is an important part of imperialism.

So instead of encouraging industry, the Ottoman empire used taxes, bribery and extractions of odious nature to fund a lavish lifestyle of the ruling elites. Who were not the head of government. For all Ottoman emperors were kept locked in a tower until ascending the throne, locked away with no commerce with ANY humans on the outside, locked up with nurses and a few concubines.

These insane people were in charge of a mess that was ruled by viziers and eunuchs working with powerful wives of the emperors. This was very similar to the hothouse environments of the Chinese Manchu courts and the Indian Mogul courts. The imposition of modern citizen/state sovereignty upon the tattered remains of these older empires has created explosive conditions for religious revivalism and other tectonic plate forces of history.

This is what the genius, Osama Bin Laden, is so artfully exploiting. This is what all the 'conspiracy theorists' ignore: the rebirth of epic Islamism of the SALADIN style. Just liken in the 1100's, many Europeans wish to exploit this Saladin-revolution. But it will fail just like it did in the past. The Islamic revolution was very weak when the first Crusaders poured suddenly into Jerusalem and killed everyone.

It took 100 years to revive but it did revive! When the Mongols came pouring in, they nearly destroyed Islam yet again in 1245 AD. But Islam won their hearts and minds and they became huge champions of Islam and spread it even further than the earlier conquests!

From Antiwar.com: Senior CIA officers were target of Islamabad blast

(ANI): Several senior officers of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who are reported to be currently visiting Islamabad were the target of the blast at the Marriott Hotel which took place here tonight.

Well placed sources said that Marriott Hotel is usual hotel choice of the US officials and it seems that militants tipped off that certain high level US intelligence officers were currently staying at the hotel.

Bin Laden wasn't just a CIA operative, he grew up cheek and jowl with the Bushes who are ruining America. The CIA is very mysterious to outsiders and utterly mundane to insiders. Osama is an insider, all the way to the core. He toys with the CIA. He knows the CIA is very obsessed with magic, the top ranks are, that is. So he plays 'magic games' with them. Much of his activities are pitched in such a way, they reverberate with similar historical events as well as often, magic numbers or interesting timeframe intersections.

I would suggest, he is creating a huge spell. And this can be ignored except it is good information: figuring out what he wants to do is based on this objective of his. He is certainly a believer in the forces of magic.

General Petraeus told he 'must succeed' in Afghanistan

The man behind the "surge" strategy in Iraq will take charge of US Central Command tasked with bringing fresh direction to an Afghan campaign that was seen as "marking time".

But he will face a tough battle to bring unity to the 40 nations and 53,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan that come under several different chiefs.

In a downbeat assessment of the current state of the campaign in Afghanistan, the officer said there was "100 per cent chance of success if we do it the right way but if we do it the wrong way there is a zero per cent chance".

He admitted that it was unlikely other nations such as Germany would get more involved in the fighting in southern Afghanistan.

The US decided to use missiles and assassin drones to fight a brave and focused people. Winning hearts and minds via heartless slaughter isn't working very well. As the US flounders and fails, the Taliban and the al Qaeda revolutionaries read of the US financial distress because they have access to the internet! They can track on a daily basis, the collapse of the US empire. Unlike when they fought Russia, they have a catbirds' seat on the drama of the US implosion.

Petraeus comes fresh from Iraq imagining his 'surge' worked. The goal of the surge was to stop the Sunni/Shi'ite infighting as well as the Sunni insurgency against the US invaders. The tool used to stop the IEDs was very primitive: bribes.

ALL empires since day one, since Egypt and Ur, was to bribe fractious insurgents. This always ends up bankrupting empires unless they can use these insurgents to attack other people and enslave them. This is what the Scotsmen did for the British crown, for example. Sent off to Australia or China, India or Africa, they were the shock troopers who battled outraged natives.

The US/UK/Israel empire pays insurgents in China, Russia or Iran, just for example. Far from being honest brokers for peace, the US actually supports insurrections and terrorism in other empires. We think this is very clever and all the other players on the world stage also mouth anti-terrorism promises. But since the dawn of empires 8000 years ago, no one really means any of this talk.

Occasionally, empires endorse 'Realpolitik'. But most of the time, they prefer cloaking themselves in high rhetoric. Which is used by the revolutionaries who seek to unseat older powers. The queer games between Mother Russia and her various dependencies and provinces are one sector the US can't play very well. We see with negotiations between Georgia and Russia, all sorts of mysterious permutations and sudden shifts of the sands. Both parties there know that the US is a dying entity today and so both are once again, dancing with each other. Stalin took over Russia at one point, just to show how deep and mysterious this game can be.

Karzai Agrees To Meet With Palin

The meeting is part of a broader effort to demonstrate the Alaska governor's ability to handle foreign policy issues, at a time when she has come under fire for a lack of experience on the international stage. The opportunity to speak before the United Nations annually draws the world's leaders to Manhattan, and the GOP presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), plans to use the occasion to introduce Palin to those officials, McCain aides have said.

"It's a great opportunity for Governor Palin to meet and interact with some of the world leaders she will deal with as vice president," said one McCain adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because her U.N. schedu

HAHAHA. The Whore of Babylon who wants to see eternal damnation of all Muslims in the Apocalypse will be visiting with this poor, bedraggled non-ruler! Oh, this will fly like a kite in the huge areas of Afghanistan that are now swearing fealty to the Taliban! No wonder the poor man was so reluctant. Petreaus probably twisted his arm so hard, it left bruises. The US skin headed military treats this captive princeling like he is a prisoner. And everyone can see this clearly which is why everyone has nothing but contempt for the creature. I feel sorry for him.

Since the hockey hero who impregnated her daughter won't marry her, maybe Karzai can suggest husbands willing to take on extra wives. After all, the born again Christians are supposed to look down on out-of-wedlock teens. Or maybe they gave that up along with the 'turn the other cheek' and the 'rich can't enter heaven anymore than a camel can go through the eye of a needle' parts of the Good Book. Or perhaps she can loan him that exorcist from Africa who chases witches. But then, we know what would happen next.

Robert Fisk's World: Why does the US think it can win in Afghanistan?

And now? After the "unimaginable" progress in Iraq – I am quoting the fantasist who still occupies the White House – the Americans are going to hip-hop 8,000 soldiers out of Mesopotamia and dump another 4,700 into the hellfire of Afghanistan. Too few, too late, too slow, as one of my French colleagues commented acidly. It would need at least another 10,000 troops to hope to put an end to these Taliban devils who are now equipped with more sophisticated weapons, better trained and increasingly – sad to say – tolerated by the local civilian population. For Afghanistan, read Irakistan.

Back in the late 19th century, the Taliban – yes, the British actually called their black-turbaned enemies "Talibs" – would cut the throats of captured British soldiers. Now this unhappy tradition is repeated – and we are surprised! Two of the American soldiers seized when the Taliban stormed into their mountain base on 13 July this year were executed by their captors.

And now it turns out that four of the 10 French troops killed in Afghanistan on 18 August surrendered to the Taliban, and were almost immediately executed. Their interpreter had apparently disappeared shortly before their mission began – no prizes for what this might mean – and the two French helicopters which might have helped to save the day were too busy guarding the hopeless and impotent Afghan President Hamid Karzai to intervene on behalf of their own troops. A French soldier described the Taliban with brutal frankness. "They are good soldiers but pitiless enemies."

Some things never change. Taliban wearing turbans in the mountains of Afghanistan have a long history of being what they are and who they are: they are extremely resistant to being 'civilized.' The pathetic Saudi royals were once nomadic bandits, too. And they struck oil and became fat little pigeons who are just waiting to be devoured by some harsher, more aggressive, black turbaned revolutionary hoards waving the flag of Islam. This is what Bin Laden hopes and dreams. And his chances of seeing this happen rises every year.

Dead or alive, he is a historical force to be reckoned with.

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[PJSV]

A certain point of view:

McCain/neocons use «their» own networks to make events to increase their numbers on the polls;

Obama/neo-liberals also use «their» own networks to make events to increase their numbers on the polls (Soros short selling the banks).

[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

Al Qaeda wants the GOP to run the US into the ground. They know when to strike fear in hearts and thus, gain more stupidity at the top in the US.

[Blunt Force Trauma]

I was going to say that perhaps because of who typically stays at this hotel and what has happened lately with the missile firings by the US and the killing of Pakistanis as a result of those US missile attacks, that maybe; this was in retaliation?

Just putting it out there.

[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

Yup, it is retaliation. Tit for tat. We send in assassin drones and they send in assassin bombers.

[JT]

Osama is dead and has been since 2001.

Still a powerful figure though, he helps get republicans elected.

[Q]

The solution to eliminating the Taliban is simple. Make peace with Iran, let Israel fend for itself, and most definitely leave the Middle East and South Asia in order to get out of the crossfire. Let India, Russia and China deal with the literal fall out. The US needs to retrench and rebuild fortress America and pursue energy self sufficiency.

Won't happen though and something bad will probably happen around the time the scales of Libra are in perfect balance on October 7 at 10 pm GMT.

[gg battams]

i do not believe 911 was a attack by middle east terrorists it was a attack promoted by george bush and the other vipers who have injected thier venom into the throat of america. this recent attack comes at a time when pakistan was getting very pissed off with the rambo type tactics of america.it would not surprise me if the cia were not behind this attack .hello george great idea lets bomb the shit out of a big hotel in pakistan and blame it on some one else? then we will have a free hand to kill more tribes people.oh sorry i mean terrorists.yes but how are we going to get a stupid dumb religous nut who is so stupid that he thinks god is real to blow himself up? oh thats very easy we have several double agents who are very good at persuading religous nuts that god wills it .besides if we can get the homer simpsons of america to belive that the twin towers fell down into a pile of dust then we can easily fool a illeterate goat herder. great agent 666 meet you at the bohemian grove next summer

[Bokonon]

This time, Elaine, you are right and you are right.

The drone attacks took place on the same day the USA embassy issued a press release guaranteeing Pakistan sovereignty. Please see http://islamabad.usembassy.gov/pr-08091701.html.

It is worth reading just for the following sentence -"The conversations were extremely frank, positive, and constructive."

I know the "extremely frank" when used in context with Admirals normally means salty language delivered at high volume. Any insight on the "positive and constructive."?

It does look like the Pakistani military have replied in a frank manner. They simply lifted their hand. Essentially the USA wants Pakistan to go to civil war and this is their reply.

For Australia, this is now our most serious geo-political threat. If Pakistan fails, it could release a refugee tsunami bigger than the combined populations of Afghanistan and Iraq. We will have to triple our billion dollar bribe to Indonesia and we will truly find out how christian a country we really are, especially considering how excited we got over about 500 boat people, what will we do when a million turn up.

[Bokonon]

Debka.com is reporting that the Pakistani President and Prime Minister were supposed to be at the Marriot but changed plans.

[gg battams]

re Bokonon .it is like the israelis who took the day off from the twin towers on 911?

[Bokonon]

I would suspect that Debka.com is trying to say that the Pakistan ruling elites are telling the USA that they have to be part of the solution or bad things will happen to the USA (and their allies).

[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

Al Qaeda already said they want to target the President of Pakistan.

[Blunt force Trauma]

What Was Mysterious Activity Going on in the Marriott Hotel Islamabad by United States Marines

'Marriott Hotel has now become a ghost house which was yesterday the most beautiful and prestigious hotels in the Islamabad. While the condemnation of the blasts and the deaths and the loss of property is going on from all the quarters, some intriguing news is also pouring in.

After the blast, mysteriously fire was started at the fourth and fifth floors. It was said that this fire was the result of gas pipeline burst running through the hotel. The million dollar question is that was the gas pipeline not running through the other floors? Why the fire broke out from the fourth and fifth flours? That is the question which perhaps holds the key to the mystery as why the hotel was targeted yesterday, in which more than 60 people died including many foreigners.

Though it would never get confirmed but the fire on the fifth and fourth floor of the hotel broke out because those flours were housing the mysterious steel boxes under the heavy guard of United States marines and no one including the Pakistani security forces and the security men of the hotel were allowed to go near with the them. These boxes were shifted inside the hotel when the Admiral Mike Mullen met Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and others in Islamabad.

It is said that one member of parliament Mumtaz Alam who belongs to the PPP, the ruling party was there eye witnessed the whole scene when the white truck of US embassy came to the gate of Marriot Hotel and US marines themselves unloaded the steel boxes from the trucks and shifted them to the fourth and fifth floors without passing through them the scanners at the entrance of the hotels. When the truck was there, all the entrance and the exit passage way to the hotels were closed.

And now this blast has occurred at the Marriott, while that mysterious activity was going on.'

[Blunt Force Trauma]

Marriott Marines mystery (Saudi Gazette)

ISLAMABAD – Was there a top secret operation of the US Marines going on inside the Marriott in Islamabad when it was attacked on Saturday evening? No one will confirm it but circumstantial evidence is in abundance.
A group of 30 US Marines, allegedly part of a security team for this week’s visit of Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, to Islamabad might have been the intended targets of the truck-bomb attack that killed 53 people in the hotel and injured up to 266 others.
Witnesses said the Marines unloaded a US embassy truckload of steel boxes and shifted them inside the Marriott Hotel on Wednesday, the same night that Admiral Mullen met Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and others in Islamabad. It was a high-security operation carried out with both the main gates of the hotel closed. Only the US Marines could approach the truck to unload the steel boxes and shift them inside the hotel.
Hotel sources said the boxes were not passed through the scanners installed at the entrance of the lobby and were shifted to the fourth and fifth floors of the Marriott.
Among several people who witnessed the whole thing were PPP parliamentarian Mumtaz Alam Gilani and his two friends, Sajjad Chaudhry, a PPP leader, and one Bashir Nadeem. The leading English language daily The News said Alam Gilani and his friends were leaving the Nadia restaurant of the Marriott at midnight when they found a white US embassy truck parked right in front of the hotel’s main entrance and almost a dozen well-built US Marines in fatigues unloading the steel boxes and taking them into the hotel without passing through the scanners. A third PPF friend of Gilani, who was waiting for the hotel’s main gates to open to get his car in, was informed on enquiry that the boxes were being shifted to the fourth and fifth floors.
Gilani was furious over having to wait and also over the security lapse he was witnessing. He protested but the Marines ignored him and the security men he approached were helpless.
Gilani was heard telling his friends that he would never visit the hotel again. He also threatened to raise the issue in parliament.

[Blunt Force Trauma]

Marriott Hotel Blast (Pak Tribune)

"On 20 September, 2008, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has stated in his Maiden Speech to Joint Parliamentary session that no country would be allowed to violate territorial integrity of Pakistan in the name of curbing terrorism. But just after few hours terrorists have responded to the government will and shattered the capital peace through hitting a Five Star Hotel “Marriott”. In this attack at least 60 people were killed and over 300 injured when an explosives laden truck along with a small vehicle rammed into the gate and reached to the lobby of the hotel. It was the third attempt of targeting this hotel."

Full article here:

http://tiny.cc/V1Vs1

[Blunt Force Trauma]

The Marriott Bombing: ‘Pakistan’s 9/11’? (Chowk)

(Well it was a mighty big blast out front and the whole building was burned out. But it didn't fall. So much for NIST's 'thermal expansion' theory. Or was it not tall enough to fall with only 5 floors? Pffft, please.)

Full story:

http://tiny.cc/Ojg5Y

[Greg]

No sorry Elaine It wasnt Al Qaeda just some pressure from AL Ciada on the pakistanis.....

What Was Mysterious Activity In Marriott Hotel Islamabad by U. S. Marines? 21 Sep 2008 After the Marriott Hotel blast, mysteriously, fire started at the fourth and fifth floors. It was said that this fire was the result of gas pipeline burst running through the hotel. The million dollar question is, was the gas pipeline not running through the other floors? Why did the fire erupt on the fourth and fifth floors? These questions perhaps hold the key to the mystery of why the hotel was targeted. Though it would never be confirmed, the fire on the fifth and fourth floor of the hotel broke out because those floors were housing mysterious steel boxes under the heavy guard of United States Marines and no one -- including the Pakistani security forces and the hotel security men -- were allowed to go near them. These boxes were shifted inside the hotel when Admiral Mike Mullen met Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and others in Islamabad. It is said that one member of parliament, Mumtaz Alam who belongs to the PPP, the ruling party, witnessed the scene when the white truck of the US embassy arrived at the gate of Marriott Hotel and US marines unloaded the steel boxes from the trucks and shifted them to the fourth and fifth floors, without passing through them the scanners at the entrance of the hotel. When the truck was there, the entrance and exit passageways to the hotel were closed. The blast occurred at the Marriott, while that mysterious activity was taking place. [Note: Grammatical edits have been made to this summary of the Pakistan Daily article. --LRP]

Two US marines killed in Marriott blast: Pentagon 21 Sep 2008 The US Department of Defence at Pentagon has confirmed the deaths of its two marines in Marriott blast in Islamabad. According to GEO News, the Pentagon said that its two marines succumbed to injuries in the blast. The soldiers were deployed in US embassy in Islamabad.

Official: warning on terrorist attack in Islamabad received 3 days ago --Interior Advisor: Preliminary investigations showed that RDX and TNT of high intensity were used for the attack, which is used by the army --600 kg of explosives used for attack 21 Sep 2008 Pakistan's interior ministry said on Sunday that the authorities had information three days ago that terrorists would carry out a attack in the capital Islamabad. "We had information that terrorist can strike near the parliament or any other place in Islamabad," Interior Advisor to the prime minister Rehman Malik told reporters at a news conference.

[GK]

I remember studying the Bali bombing and seeing the EXACT SAME insane crater.

You would have to be mentally retarded to believe that a conventional above ground truck bomb can create an underground crater like that.

http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=59898.0

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message611641/pg6

"The US forces and Pakistan have been involved in border confrontations for six months, and Mossad agents are saying that the US is teaching Pakistan a lesson. The truth is this is about creating a trail to the sale of some of Pakistan's nukes.

Pakistan has 125 nukes, and they are an Islamic country. There is no doubt that Israel will pull A False Flag on an American city, and blame it on Iran. But they need a clear trail to an Islamic nuke, and that is what this is all about.

The Zionists are starting to implode the world economy, and that has to be tied to a Muslim False Flag. The Zionists have planned this for 100 years, and with any con there has to be a fall guy. If America goes into a financial collapse, and a leader comes along that makes the case it was orchestrated like 1929, than the rope will come out.

A nuke in an American city that leads to war in the Persian Gulf is just the ticket that international Jewry wants."

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