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Taliban surrender talks or Obama’s desperation?

By Coach Collins, on February 4th, 2012%

By Jim Emerson, staff writer

This week Washington officials announced  five Taliban prisoners to be released from Guantanamo Bay and transported to Qatar. Even though the exact nature of the prisoner transfer hasn’t been announced it is most likely a good will gesture to encourage the Taliban into enter into peace negotiations. The five terrorists were selected by the Taliban leadership as a precondition to talks.  Ignoring the objections of the military and intelligence experts Barack Obama is going ahead with the transfer the terrorists.  According to Rep Mike Rogers (R-MI) the administration’s outreach to the Taliban is an act of “desperation.”

What will Qatar do?

According to The Cable, Senate leadership was notified of the prison transfer in a classified briefing.  Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), who attended the briefing wanted to know “what assurances we have from the [Qatari] government that they are not going to be released?” According to the Senator the … Continue Reading:Taliban surrender talks or Obama’s desperation?

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Iran Blinked

By Coach Collins, on January 28th, 2012%

 

By  Jim Emerson, staff writer

Last Thursday Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced the Islamic Republic was ready to renew nuclear talks with members of the UN Security council; United States, Russia, China, France and Britain, and Germany. Most likely the action was the result of the oil Embargo placed on the Islamic Nation and pressure placed on the Iranian leadership by the Russians.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the Iranian press “Russia wants a quick renewal of talks between the international community and Iran on the country’s nuclear program and supports holding the meetings in Turkey [without preconditions].”

Embargo

President Ahmadinejad publicly admitted the economic sanctions placed on the country’s central bank and oil production has created hardship for the Iranian people. Oil sales account for 80% of export revenue. Since the embargo Iranians have be dumping rials (their own currency) for gold or foreign currency, fearing that their money would become worthless. This currency crisis contradicts … Continue Reading:Iran Blinked

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Neville Chamberlin lives

By Coach Collins, on January 21st, 2012%

By Jim Emerson, staff writer

This week an Iranian Lawmaker released details from a letter President Barrack Obama wrote to the country’s supreme leader warning against closing the Strait of Hormuz and calling for direct talks with the Islamic Republic’s tyrant.

Oil

According to Iranian Lawmaker Ali Motahari the letter, sent through private channels, threatened the republic if they attempted to cut off oil from the Persian Gulf, days before rejecting the Keystone pipeline from Canada.  The Iranians are seeing the President asking for direct talks as a sign of weakness from the man responsible for the West’s economic troubles. Iran has made it clear; if her oil exports are embargoed she would consider it an act of war. Eighty percent of the terrorist nation’s income is from oil export.

White House denies

Who can we believe? As of this writing the White House is not confirming the existence of the letter to Iran. The Washington Post reported … Continue Reading:Neville Chamberlin lives

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Iran preparing for war

By Coach Collins, on January 14th, 2012%

by Jim Emerson,  staff writer

Last May, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the Revolutionary Guards to rapidly increase the development and deployment of its nuclear weapons program. Recently the Washington Times has reported that the Supreme Leader ordered the Guards to be prepared for war against Israel and the United States. The Iranian regimes’ National Security Council has determined that there is a strong possibility that Israel and the United States will attack the Islamic Republic in 2012. Yet the Council isn’t worried, believing that the Republic will be victorious and viewed as the champion of Islam. (1)

Nuclear Agenda

 The Islamic Republic planned to acquire a cache of nuclear weapons and use them in order to gain respect and spread Islam around the world.  Indeed, Iran would have no compunction about using the bomb to “Bring the West to its knees.” (1)  Washington Times’ reporter Reza Kahlili points out; “They also have concluded that … Continue Reading:Iran preparing for war

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Closing the Strait of Hormuz is Iranian bluster

By Coach Collins, on December 31st, 2011%

By Jim Emerson, staff writer

 In reaction to proposed sanctions over its nuclear program, Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz cutting off the flow of crude from the Middle East.  Iran’s Chief of the Navy,  Admiral Habibollah Sayyari boasted that “Closing the of Hormuz for Iran’s armed forces is really easy.” He was overhyping the capability of his navy in advance of a planned 10 day Iranian navel exercise in the strait. Iran did state that “it would stop the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf if sanctions were imposed on its crude exports.”

 This was the second such threat made by that regime in a week. The Republic’s Navy has no plans to close it in the immediate future, but has even been so bold as to declare that the United States was in no position to “give orders” concerning the use of the Strait.

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