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Sunday, 29 June 2014
"THE START OF WORLD ONE AND WORLD WAR THREE" BY THE ALWAYS IMPRESSIVE DR JOHN McTERNAN.
SOME POWERFUL READING HERE FROM THE WEEKEND "SHOCKCAST" NEWSLETTER!
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Thursday, 26 June 2014
COULD ISIS NOW BE TWICE AS POWERFUL? MEMBERSHIP OF EXTREME GROUP MAY DOUBLE IN SIZE IF IT MERGES WITH AL QAEDA'S 15000 STRONG SYRIAN OFFSHOOT!!
Could ISIS now be twice as powerful? Membership of extreme group may double in size as it merges with al Qaeda's 15,000-strong Syrian offshoot on border with Iraq
- Al-Nusra Front is said to have pledged allegiance to ISIS on Iraq border
- Merger could see up to 15,000 additional Islamist militants join ISIS ranks
- Leaders of al-Nusra have previously taken oath of allegiance to al-Qaeda
- Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri said group represented him in Syria
- Alliance with ISIS casts doubt on the original agreement with al-Qaeda
- Al-Zawahiri has previously disowned ISIS, calling brutal tactics too extreme
The number of Islamist extremists fighting for ISIS could double after al-Qaeda's 15,000 strong offshoot in Syria is said to have pledged allegiance to the militant group.
The merger is believed to have taken place in Albu Kamel - on the border of Syria and Iraq, where all of the crossings are currently in the hands of Sunni militia, many of them members of ISIS.
In April the al-Nusra Front pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who has previously condemned ISIS' brutal attempts to establish an Islamic state in the Middle East as too extreme, so the development points to a new split within al-Qaeda's ranks.
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Merger: Images shared online appeared to show al-Nusra's alleged leader in the Albu Kamel region, Abu Yusuf al-Masri, shaking hands with ISIS fighters after apparently taking an oath of allegiance to the group
Sealed with an embrace: The 15,000 fighters al-Nusra is believed to have under its control could now switch to ISIS. This would double the number of militants ISIS previously claimed to have under its command
Blast: A suicide bombing today at a checkpoint manned by Kurdish security forces in Kirkuk killed two members of the Kurdish security forces as well as killing and wounding dozens of others
News of the merger between ISIS and the al-Nusra front were made by both the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and an Islamist website this afternoon.
Images widely shared by ISIS supporters online appeared to show al-Nusra's alleged leader in the Albu Kamel region, Abu Yusuf al-Masri, embracing ISIS fighters after apparently taking an oath of allegiance.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, the overall leader of al-Qaeda, has previously disowned ISIS and proclaimed the al-Nusra Front as its official Syrian affiliate.
ISIS which seized Iraq's main northern city Mosul on June 10, has since marched virtually unopposed towards Baghdad and is in control of major border posts on the frontier with Syria.
Only today violence continued, as a suicide bombing at a checkpoint in Kirkuk killed two members of the Kurdish security forces as well as killing and wounded dozens of others.
The group also controls large parts of eastern Syria, where it has both clashed with rival rebels groups - including al-Nusra - and has occasionally fought alongside them.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2669218/ISIS-doubles-size-one-fell-swoop-merges-al-Qaedas-15-000-strong-Syrian-offshoot-border-Iraq.html#ixzz35lBIOtjG
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Wednesday, 25 June 2014
THE RISE OF THE EAST AND THE COMING NEW WORLD ORDER.
The Rise Of The East And The New World Order
June 24, 2014 / Tom Olago
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U.S. and European elites have reportedly been calling for a centralization of economic power under the control of the International Monetary Fund, as a well as a new global currency. Prison Planet.com recently published an article stating that perceived globalists such as Zbigniew Brzezinski and Henry Kissinger (both members of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and Trilateral Commission proponents) are working towards influencing the most powerful heads of state, including Obama and Putin, towards the desired outcomes stated.
To this end, Brzezinski is quoted to have expressed favor towards the gradually yielding of national sovereignty and “greater American sacrifices”. Kissinger, on the other hand is said to favor the creation of “an international political regulatory system with the same reach as that of the economic world” or “shrinking the economic units to a size manageable by existing political structures”, with his ideal outcome being “a new Bretton Woods kind of global agreement”.
Brandon Smith, in his article ‘The New World Order and the Rise of the East’ states that both Kissinger and Brzezinski refer to this harmonized global economic and political structure as the “New World Order.” According to Smith, the fact that the political leaders of Russia and the United States are clearly being directed by such men should not be taken lightly, and suggests that the rise of the East and the crippling of Western elements is actually advantageous to global bankers in the long term.
Smith cites the historic 30-year Russia/China gas deal, the exclusion by both countries of the dollar as the reserve currency in their mutual transactions, and China’s build-up of gold reserves, as some examples of Eastern governments swiftly establishing alliances decoupling from U.S. influence. Smith’s assertion is that in the bigger picture, the New World Order players have positioned the East and West for a scenario that would “cut the legs out from under the dollar completely”.
This would then pave the way for the Bank of International Settlements and the IMF to prepare the financial world for a new global monetary system, brought into existence by a second Bretton Woods conference. Smith argues: “…the debasement of the dollar and the rise of the East are NOT obstacles to this plan. Rather, they are required factors. There can be no truly global economic system without “harmonization”, the demise of the dollar’s world reserve status, and the end of sovereign economic governance”.
In support of this argument, Smith cites Paul Volcker, “the same man who was directly involved in the destruction of the first Bretton Woods agreement and the final death rattle of the gold standard”. Volcker is now reportedly promoting a new Bretton Woods-style agreement in which currencies are pegged to a controlled market system — in essence, a centralized international monetary system, in the name of overall fiscal health.
Smith in conclusion suggests that the rivalries between East and West are but smokescreens, hiding the fact that “both sides are merely puppet pieces in a grand game of global chess, and any conflict will ultimately benefit the small group of men standing over the board. They include the international financiers who have influenced the very policy fabric of each government toward a climactic crisis which they hope will finally give them the “New World Order” they have always dreamed of”.
So is this just age-old conspiracy theory or is there recent evidence that points to the active establishment of a new world order? Recent news seems to suggest that, at the very least, new world order talk is still in vogue. On May 29th, Breitbart.com reported: “both President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden referred to a coming new world order with regard to the United States and its role abroad. Wednesday while giving the commencement speech at the Air Force Academy, Biden told the cadets: I believe we, and particularly you — your class — has an incredible window of opportunity to lead and shaping a new world order for the 21st century in a way consistent with American interests and a common interest.
Similarly, on Thursday President Barack Obama made a similar pitch. In an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep, Obama warned of a changing world order, stating that: “…we have a world order that is changing very rapidly and that can generate diffuse threats, all of which we have to deal with.”
Comments about the “new world order” have been bandied about by Presidents and economic leaders for years, usually in brief comments and within vague contexts. They are mostly not expounded much on, leaving details wide open to research, interpretation and speculation. The recent comments by Obama and Biden also seem to fall into this category.
Among other reportedly globalist groups, the CFR, Bilderberger and Trilateral Commission spokespersons and proponents ( such as Brzezinski and Kissinger) seem to be much clearer and elaborate: they would like to see a one world government, global currency and a unified socio-economic order. Obviously led and controlled by the globalist elite, with the rest of humanity at their mercy.
Will this “new world order” dream ever become reality? The answer is yes: the Bible does prophecy that there will in fact be two “new world orders” – the first will be engineered by Satan in his quest to get the whole world to worship him by taking a mark on their right hand or forehead, without which no man would be able to buy or sell (Revelation 13: 13-18).
After a dystopian period of great suffering and turbulence on the earth (referred to in the Bible as the Great Tribulation) presided over by Satan’s rule and God’s judgments , Jesus Christ will return to earth to destroy Satan’s reign and establish a new heaven and a new earth. This will be the ultimate “new world order”: a utopian one world government built by God and founded on righteousness, which will never end (Isaiah 9:6-7).
Any talk or action towards a new world order can currently be viewed as working towards the prophetic fulfillment of the first phase, which will be Satan’s new world order. This is being rapidly set up in a multi-faceted approach centered on biometric identification and surveillance technologies, unifying cashless financial systems, and global political re-alignments. It will be interesting to see how the pieces of the puzzle continue to rapidly fall into place in these last days, based on the ancient prophecies from God through His prophets.
To this end, Brzezinski is quoted to have expressed favor towards the gradually yielding of national sovereignty and “greater American sacrifices”. Kissinger, on the other hand is said to favor the creation of “an international political regulatory system with the same reach as that of the economic world” or “shrinking the economic units to a size manageable by existing political structures”, with his ideal outcome being “a new Bretton Woods kind of global agreement”.
Brandon Smith, in his article ‘The New World Order and the Rise of the East’ states that both Kissinger and Brzezinski refer to this harmonized global economic and political structure as the “New World Order.” According to Smith, the fact that the political leaders of Russia and the United States are clearly being directed by such men should not be taken lightly, and suggests that the rise of the East and the crippling of Western elements is actually advantageous to global bankers in the long term.
Smith cites the historic 30-year Russia/China gas deal, the exclusion by both countries of the dollar as the reserve currency in their mutual transactions, and China’s build-up of gold reserves, as some examples of Eastern governments swiftly establishing alliances decoupling from U.S. influence. Smith’s assertion is that in the bigger picture, the New World Order players have positioned the East and West for a scenario that would “cut the legs out from under the dollar completely”.
This would then pave the way for the Bank of International Settlements and the IMF to prepare the financial world for a new global monetary system, brought into existence by a second Bretton Woods conference. Smith argues: “…the debasement of the dollar and the rise of the East are NOT obstacles to this plan. Rather, they are required factors. There can be no truly global economic system without “harmonization”, the demise of the dollar’s world reserve status, and the end of sovereign economic governance”.
In support of this argument, Smith cites Paul Volcker, “the same man who was directly involved in the destruction of the first Bretton Woods agreement and the final death rattle of the gold standard”. Volcker is now reportedly promoting a new Bretton Woods-style agreement in which currencies are pegged to a controlled market system — in essence, a centralized international monetary system, in the name of overall fiscal health.
Smith in conclusion suggests that the rivalries between East and West are but smokescreens, hiding the fact that “both sides are merely puppet pieces in a grand game of global chess, and any conflict will ultimately benefit the small group of men standing over the board. They include the international financiers who have influenced the very policy fabric of each government toward a climactic crisis which they hope will finally give them the “New World Order” they have always dreamed of”.
So is this just age-old conspiracy theory or is there recent evidence that points to the active establishment of a new world order? Recent news seems to suggest that, at the very least, new world order talk is still in vogue. On May 29th, Breitbart.com reported: “both President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden referred to a coming new world order with regard to the United States and its role abroad. Wednesday while giving the commencement speech at the Air Force Academy, Biden told the cadets: I believe we, and particularly you — your class — has an incredible window of opportunity to lead and shaping a new world order for the 21st century in a way consistent with American interests and a common interest.
Similarly, on Thursday President Barack Obama made a similar pitch. In an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep, Obama warned of a changing world order, stating that: “…we have a world order that is changing very rapidly and that can generate diffuse threats, all of which we have to deal with.”
Comments about the “new world order” have been bandied about by Presidents and economic leaders for years, usually in brief comments and within vague contexts. They are mostly not expounded much on, leaving details wide open to research, interpretation and speculation. The recent comments by Obama and Biden also seem to fall into this category.
Among other reportedly globalist groups, the CFR, Bilderberger and Trilateral Commission spokespersons and proponents ( such as Brzezinski and Kissinger) seem to be much clearer and elaborate: they would like to see a one world government, global currency and a unified socio-economic order. Obviously led and controlled by the globalist elite, with the rest of humanity at their mercy.
Will this “new world order” dream ever become reality? The answer is yes: the Bible does prophecy that there will in fact be two “new world orders” – the first will be engineered by Satan in his quest to get the whole world to worship him by taking a mark on their right hand or forehead, without which no man would be able to buy or sell (Revelation 13: 13-18).
After a dystopian period of great suffering and turbulence on the earth (referred to in the Bible as the Great Tribulation) presided over by Satan’s rule and God’s judgments , Jesus Christ will return to earth to destroy Satan’s reign and establish a new heaven and a new earth. This will be the ultimate “new world order”: a utopian one world government built by God and founded on righteousness, which will never end (Isaiah 9:6-7).
Any talk or action towards a new world order can currently be viewed as working towards the prophetic fulfillment of the first phase, which will be Satan’s new world order. This is being rapidly set up in a multi-faceted approach centered on biometric identification and surveillance technologies, unifying cashless financial systems, and global political re-alignments. It will be interesting to see how the pieces of the puzzle continue to rapidly fall into place in these last days, based on the ancient prophecies from God through His prophets.
Read more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2014/June24/245.html#gbm465PjeYA6xTBP.99
PUTIN ADVISOR PROPOSES "ANTI DOLLAR ALLIANCE" TO HALT US AGGRESSION ABROAD!
Putin Advisor Proposes "Anti-Dollar Alliance" To Halt US Aggression Abroad
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It has been a while since both Ukraine, and the ongoing Russian response to western sanctions (which set off the great Eurasian axis in motion, pushing China and Russia close together, and accelerating the "Holy Grail" gas deal between the two countries) have made headlines. It is still not clear just why the western media dropped Ukraine coverage like a hot potato, especially since the civil war in Ukraine's Donbas continues to rage and claim dozens of casualties on both sides. Perhaps the audience has simply gotten tired of hearing about mixed chess/checkers game between Putin vs Obama, and instead has reverted to reading the propaganda surrounding just as deadly events in the third war of Iraq in as many decades.
However, "out of sight" may be just what Russia's political elite wants. In fact, as VoR's Valentin Mândrescu reports, while the great US spin and distraction machine is focused elsewhere, Russia is already preparing for the next steps.
However, "out of sight" may be just what Russia's political elite wants. In fact, as VoR's Valentin Mândrescu reports, while the great US spin and distraction machine is focused elsewhere, Russia is already preparing for the next steps.
Which brings us to Putin advisor Sergey Glazyev, the same person who in early March was the first to suggest Russia dump US bonds and abandon the dollar in retaliation to US sanctions, a strategy which worked because even as the Kremlin has retained control over Crimea, western sanctions have magically halted (and not only that, but as the Russian central bank just reported, the country's 2014 current account surplus may be as high as $35 billion, up from $33 billion in 2013, and a far cry from some fabricated "$200+ billion" in Russian capital outflows which Mario Draghi was warning about recently).
Glazyev was also the person instrumental in pushing the Kremlin to approach China and force the nat gas deal with Beijing which took place not necessarily at the most beneficial terms for Russia.
It is this same Glazyev who published an article in Russian Argumenty Nedeli, in which he outlined a plan for "undermining the economic strength of the US" in order to force Washington to stop the civil war in Ukraine. Glazyev believes that the only way of making the US give up its plans on starting a new cold war is to crash the dollar system.
As summarized by VoR, in his article, published by Argumenty Nedeli, Putin's economic aide and the mastermind behind the Eurasian Economic Union, argues that Washington is trying to provoke a Russian military intervention in Ukraine, using the junta in Kiev as bait. If fulfilled, the plan will give Washington a number of important benefits. Firstly, it will allow the US to introduce new sanctions against Russia, writing off Moscow's portfolio of US Treasury bills. More important is that a new wave of sanctions will create a situation in which Russian companies won't be able to service their debts to European banks.
According to Glazyev, the so-called "third phase" of sanctions against Russia will be a tremendous cost for the European Union. The total estimated losses will be higher than 1 trillion euros. Such losses will severely hurt the European economy, making the US the sole "safe haven" in the world. Harsh sanctions against Russia will also displace Gazprom from the European energy market, leaving it wide open for the much more expensive LNG from the US.
Co-opting European countries in a new arms race and military operations against Russia will increase American political influence in Europe and will help the US force the European Union to accept the American version of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, a trade agreement that will basically transform the EU into a big economic colony of the US. Glazyev believes that igniting a new war in Europe will only bring benefits for America and only problems for the European Union. Washington has repeatedly used global and regional wars for the benefit of the American economy and now the White House is trying to use the civil war in Ukraine as a pretext to repeat the old trick.
Glazyev's set of countermeasures specifically targets the core strength of the US war machine, i.e. the Fed's printing press. Putin's advisor proposes the creation of a "broad anti-dollar alliance" of countries willing and able to drop the dollar from their international trade. Members of the alliance would also refrain from keeping the currency reserves in dollar-denominated instruments. Glazyev advocates treating positions in dollar-denominated instruments like holdings of junk securities and believes that regulators should require full collateralization of such holdings. An anti-dollar coalition would be the first step for the creation of an anti-war coalition that can help stop the US' aggression.
Unsurprisingly, Sergey Glazyev believes that the main role in the creation of such a political coalition is to be played by the European business community because America's attempts to ignite a war in Europe and a cold war against Russia are threatening the interests of big European business. Judging by the recent efforts to stop the sanctions against Russia, made by the German, French, Italian and Austrian business leaders, Putin's aide is right in his assessment. Somewhat surprisingly for Washington, the war for Ukraine may soon become the war for Europe's independence from the US and a war against the dollar.
It is this same Glazyev who published an article in Russian Argumenty Nedeli, in which he outlined a plan for "undermining the economic strength of the US" in order to force Washington to stop the civil war in Ukraine. Glazyev believes that the only way of making the US give up its plans on starting a new cold war is to crash the dollar system.
As summarized by VoR, in his article, published by Argumenty Nedeli, Putin's economic aide and the mastermind behind the Eurasian Economic Union, argues that Washington is trying to provoke a Russian military intervention in Ukraine, using the junta in Kiev as bait. If fulfilled, the plan will give Washington a number of important benefits. Firstly, it will allow the US to introduce new sanctions against Russia, writing off Moscow's portfolio of US Treasury bills. More important is that a new wave of sanctions will create a situation in which Russian companies won't be able to service their debts to European banks.
According to Glazyev, the so-called "third phase" of sanctions against Russia will be a tremendous cost for the European Union. The total estimated losses will be higher than 1 trillion euros. Such losses will severely hurt the European economy, making the US the sole "safe haven" in the world. Harsh sanctions against Russia will also displace Gazprom from the European energy market, leaving it wide open for the much more expensive LNG from the US.
Co-opting European countries in a new arms race and military operations against Russia will increase American political influence in Europe and will help the US force the European Union to accept the American version of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, a trade agreement that will basically transform the EU into a big economic colony of the US. Glazyev believes that igniting a new war in Europe will only bring benefits for America and only problems for the European Union. Washington has repeatedly used global and regional wars for the benefit of the American economy and now the White House is trying to use the civil war in Ukraine as a pretext to repeat the old trick.
Glazyev's set of countermeasures specifically targets the core strength of the US war machine, i.e. the Fed's printing press. Putin's advisor proposes the creation of a "broad anti-dollar alliance" of countries willing and able to drop the dollar from their international trade. Members of the alliance would also refrain from keeping the currency reserves in dollar-denominated instruments. Glazyev advocates treating positions in dollar-denominated instruments like holdings of junk securities and believes that regulators should require full collateralization of such holdings. An anti-dollar coalition would be the first step for the creation of an anti-war coalition that can help stop the US' aggression.
Unsurprisingly, Sergey Glazyev believes that the main role in the creation of such a political coalition is to be played by the European business community because America's attempts to ignite a war in Europe and a cold war against Russia are threatening the interests of big European business. Judging by the recent efforts to stop the sanctions against Russia, made by the German, French, Italian and Austrian business leaders, Putin's aide is right in his assessment. Somewhat surprisingly for Washington, the war for Ukraine may soon become the war for Europe's independence from the US and a war against the dollar.
Read more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2014/June24/242.html#P8pxGXyylrFKUX0t.99
Tuesday, 24 June 2014
HERE IS WHY THE MIDDLE EAST WILL BE "ON FIRE" FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE BY MICHAEL B KELLEY.
Here's Why The Middle East Will Be 'On Fire' For The Foreseeable Future
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Iraqi security forces fire an artillery gun during clashes with the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Jurf al-Sakhar, 60 km (40 miles) from the capital April 16, 2014.
The Middle East is being shaken by an intensifying sectarian war stretching from the Mediterranean coast to Iran.
And all signs suggest that the situation created by the ongoing war in Syria — which has spilled over into Lebanon — and the Sunni insurgency in Iraq will get much worse before it gets better.
"The way things look and have progressed over the course of many months demonstrate the region is still hurdling into a highly sectarian future," Phillip Smyth, a researcher at the University of Maryland and expert on Shia militias, told Business Insider in an email.
The Obama administration, which has largely stayed on the sidelines in Syria, has sent U.S. Special Forces to Iraq in an effort to collect intelligence on extremist militants rampaging in the north of the country and protect U.S. interests in and around Baghdad.
The problem is that the most dominant Iraqi forces on the ground are backed by Iran. Qassem Suleimani, the head of the Qods Force, the foreign arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), is directing Baghdad's reaction to the crisis (much like he has done for more than three years in Syria).
Consequently, Washington is working in parallel with a group whoseslogan is "Death To America" as well as Iran-backed Shia militias who boast about killing Americans during the Iraq War.
"It would be very hard if the U.S. worked with [Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki] and the apparatus he created to steer clear of dealing with Iranian proxy groups, including those on the State Department's list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, namely Kata'ib Hizballah," Smyth said. "If anything, this has been one of the goals of these proxies, infiltrate themselves into official apparatuses so that they, in effect, have to be dealt with and can carry on their own agendas free from the state cracking down on them."
Two weeks ago, right after fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) overran Iraq's second largest city, Smyth detailed how Iranian proxy militias had already been recruiting and fighting in Iraq. That was months before Maliki, powerful Iraqi Shiite preacher Muqtada al-Sadr, and Iraqi Shia spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani called for mobilization in early June.
"Shi'a Islamist proxies of Iran been redeploying fighters they had sent to Syria from Iraq *and* recruiting since the start of 2014," Smyth told BI. "The proxy effort demonstrates how Iran via its proxies understood the front of battle was going to grow and that they wanted to take a leading role."
In other words, Iran is two steps ahead of everyone. And the crisis in Iraqplays into their larger geopolitical strategy of dominating the Middle East by claiming to be the defenders of Shi'ites and an enemy of terrorism.
"Simply put, it helps serve their narratives, particularly the one casting themselves as the 'defenders of Shi'ism,' but there also hard power concerns," Smyth said. "With their own build-up and infiltration of the Iraqi government's security establishment, it allows them even more abilities to project."
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What can the U.S. do? Not much. Obama said that any U.S. military assistance "has to be joined by a serious and sincere effort by Iraq's leaders to set aside sectarian differences." But the opposite has happened.
"Unfortunately, Maliki's government has already crossed the line in terms of being too sectarian," Smyth said. "There's very little the U.S. can do save for build its own synthetic groups — possibly some the U.S. has worked with in the past, make overtures to the Kurds who are increasingly pulling away from Baghdad, and combine that with some level of hard power projection. It truly is like threading the needle."
And given that the Obama administration has prioritized ongoing Iran nuclear negotiations over all else in the region, Washington is largely at the mercy of the geopolitical circumstances.
All in all, the region faces increasingly sectarian crises that are becoming more interrelated every day.
"Based on a steady progression of events, it would appear that the Levant [i.e., the Eastern Mediterranean] will be on fire for some time into the future," Smyth told BI.
Add the growing sectarian war in neighboring Iraq to the mix — in addition to the increasing threats to Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, andIsrael — and, it looks like the Middle East will be burning for the foreseeable future.
Read more:http://www.businessinsider.com/the-middle-east-will-be-on-fire-for-a-while-2014-6#ixzz35XmtAl2B
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