Deep Politics Monitor: December 28, 2009

Dec 28, 2009

"There will be blood" warns greek labour minister as crisis deepens

(image: Xmas in Athens)

The Labour minster of the socialist government in greece has expressed fears of bloodshed due to the measures set to be imposed in the next 3 months in response to the debt crisis of the country.

Mr Lomberdos the Minster of Labour of the socialist party (PASOK) ruling
greece since October this year has expressed worries that the measures
needed to lift the national debt crisis that is threatening to kick greece
out of the euro-zone might result in bloodshed. "There is little we can do
to prevent that" he added, days after his resignation from office was
overruled by the PM. The declaration that has hit the political and economic
world in greece as a lightening in the midst of the rather reluctant
Christmas festivities comes only days after the Communist Party (KKE 3rd
largest in parliament) responded to his criticism of union take-overs of the
Ministry of Labour and other government premises during protest marches this
month by declaring that "workers and farmers have the right to resort to any
means of struggle to defend their rights", a far step from the usual
law-abiding stance of the KKE.

Last week the traditionally anarchist means of state-building occupations
was employed for the first time by the KKE and the Radical Left Coalition.
Members of the latter symbolically occupied a train bound to Salonica. The
development has angered the government which has been seeking "national
unity" to guarantee peaceful implementation of the austerity measures. The
latter, the Minister of Labour, indicated could include a reduction of the
current 14 pension salaries to only 10, a move that is sure to create an
uproar as well as wide spread misery. The Minister has indicated that such
measures "can only be implemented in a violent way".

Earlier this month the greek PM in an address to the Parliament had said
that the national debt crisis is "the first national sovereignty crisis
since 1974", i.e. since the Cyprus war and the collapse of the colonels'
junta. Amidst spreading rumors in Athens that the government is not willing
to implement the anti-popular measures alone, despite it having the largest
parliamentary majority since the mid 80s, and that it is seeking to forge an
emergency national unity government that will be able to suspend articles of
the constitution protecting the right to public assembly, demonstration and
strike, the new leader of the right-wing opposition, ultra-nationalist Mr
Samaras, has gone public denying any intention to form a coalition
government with PASOK in order to face the crisis.

A further blow to the call of national unity has been most peculiarly dealt by a group of orthodox priests who have formed a "priests' struggle movement" . The priests have refused to denounce the armed struggle "as a means of defending the people's conquests", and have pledged to work through their churches to "rise class consciousness". It is the first time that such a rift appears in the usually monolithic orthodox church since the civil war when many priests took up arms against the monarcho-fascists.

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Nigerian bomb plot oddities

Chris Floyd - December 27, 2009
- Wow, that didn't take long at all. Scant days after the American war machine took the cloaking device off its direct military involvement in Yemen, we have an alleged attempted terrorist attack by an alleged attempted terrorist who, just scant hours after his capture, has allegedly confessed to getting his alleged attempted terrorist material from ... wait for it ... Yemen! Yemen-trained terrorists on the loose in American airplanes! At Christmas!...
Read all

More: The Lap Bomber Mystery
A case that just gets curiouser and curiouser
by Justin Raimondo, December 28, 2009

More, from CLG: Flight 253 passenger: Sharp-dressed man aided terror suspect Abdul Mutallab onto plane without passport 27 Dec 2009
A Michigan man who was aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 says he witnessed Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab trying to board the plane in Amsterdam without a passport. Kurt Haskell and his wife, Lori, of Newport, Mich., were returning from a safari in Uganda when they boarded the NWA flight on Friday. Haskell said he and his wife [attorneys with Haskell Law Firm in Taylor] were sitting on the ground near their boarding gate in Amsterdam, which is when they saw Mutallab approach the gate with an unidentified man. While Mutallab was poorly dressed, his friend was dressed in an expensive suit, Haskell said. He says the suited man asked ticket agents whether Mutallab could board without a passport. "The guy said, 'He's from Sudan and we do this all the time.'" Mutallab is Nigerian. Haskell believes the man may have been trying to garner sympathy for Mutallab's lack of documents by portraying him as a Sudanese refugee.

Yemen confirms receiving US military support 27 Dec 2009
The Yemeni national security chief has declared that the country is receiving assistance from the US in the crackdown on what he called 'al-Qaeda operatives' in southern Yemen. Mohamed al-Anisi has told the Saudi Arabian newspaper Okaz that Yemeni forces were cooperating with the US military on attacks against al-Qaeda camps, DPA reported on Saturday. Yemen's confirmation comes as an ABC report revealed that US President Barack Obama had signed the order for a recent military strike on Yemen in which scores of civilians, including children, were killed.

US bombs Sa'ada governor's house, Houthis say 27 Dec 2009
A US fighter jet has carried out multiple airstrikes on the home of a senior official in Yemen's northern rugged province of Sa'ada, Houthi fighters say. The Yemen-based Houthi fighters say the warplane struck the home owned by the governor of Sa'ada province, Hassan Mohammad Manna in five blitzes. There were no reports on possible casualties in the attacks.

Lieberman: United States Must Pre-Emptively Act In Yemen 27 Dec 2009
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, (I-Israel) a renowned hawk and one of the foremost champions of the invasion of Iraq, warned on Sunday that the United States faced "danger" unless it pre-emptively acts to curb the rise of terrorism in Yemen. "Somebody in our government said to me in Sana'a, the capital of Yemen, Iraq was yesterday's war. Afghanistan is today's war. If we don't act preemptively, Yemen will be tomorrow's war. That's the danger we face," LIEberman said during an appearance on "Fox News Sunday."

Officials Point to Suspect's Claim of Qaeda Ties in Yemen 27 Dec 2009 Federal authorities on Saturday charged a 23-year-old Nigerian man with trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day, and officials said the suspect told them he had obtained explosive chemicals and a syringe that were sewn into his underwear from a bomb expert in Yemen associated with Al Qaeda. The authorities have not independently corroborated the Yemen connection claimed by the man, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who was burned in his failed attempt to bring down the airliner and is in a hospital in Michigan. But a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation said on Saturday that the suspect’s account was “plausible,” and that he saw “no reason to discount it.”

Al-Qaida links to Christmas Day plane bomb plot investigated --Officials investigate British link to Nigerian's plan to destroy US airliner 28 Dec 2009 Investigators on both sides of the Atlantic were last night urgently investigating the background of the would-be plane bomber, as international attention turned to al-Qaida's stronghold in Yemen. Scotland Yard and MI5 want to establish how Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was radicalised and by whom, and whether he had accomplices in the UK or the Arabian peninsula. He has told US officials that he met 'al-Qaida' operatives in Yemen who gave him the device which almost brought down Northwest Airlines flight 253 to Detroit and taught him how to use it.

Airline bomber was barred from Britain --Man who allegedly attempted to blow up US jet had UK visa request refused in May 27 Dec 2009 The son of a prominent Nigerian banker, who allegedly attempted to blow up a transatlantic flight over America, was barred from returning to Britain earlier this year. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, graduated from a university in London last year but his visa request was refused in May when he attempted to apply for a new course at a bogus college. Abdulmutallab, described as a devout Muslim, attempted to ignite an explosive device on a plane from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day after shouting about Afghanistan.

25 Brits in jet bomb plots 28 Dec 2009
Cops fear that 25 British-born Muslims are plotting to bomb Western airliners. The [alleged] fanatics, in five groups, are now training at secret terror camps in Yemen. It was there London-educated Umar Abdulmutallab, 23, prepared for his Christmas Day bid to blow up a US jet. The British extremists in Yemen are in their early 20s and from Bradford, Luton and Leytonstone, East London. They are due to return to the UK early in 2010 and will then await internet instructions from al-Qaeda [al-CIAduh] on when to strike. A Scotland Yard source said: "The great fear is Abdulmutallab is the first of many ready to attack planes and kill tens of thousands. We know there are four or five radicalised British Muslim cells in the Yemen. They are due back within months when they will be under constant surveillance."

Updates: Michael Rivero reports:

People are already asking how Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab was able to get onto an airplane in Amsterdam bound for Detroit with a bomb strapped to his leg when the Amsterdam airport uses the full-body “see your naked butt” scanners.
As it turns out, security at the Amsterdam airport is run by ICTS, THE VERY SAME ISRAELI-OWNED COMPANY THAT RAN SECURITY AT EVERY SINGLE AIRPORT FROM WHICH THE 9-11 TERRORISTS DEPARTED, APPARENTLY ALSO BYPASSING SECURITY CHECKS!