International Military Review – Central Asia: US to Build anti-Russian, anti-Iranian Axis

A US judge has dismissed claims against Saudi Arabia by families of victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks, who accused the country of providing material support to Al Qaeda.

District Judge George Daniels in Manhattan said Saudi Arabia had sovereign immunity from damage claims by families of nearly 3,000 people killed in the attacks, and from insurers that covered losses suffered by building owners and businesses.

“The allegations in the complaint alone do not provide this court with a basis to assert jurisdiction over defendants,” Judge Daniels wrote.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-30/us-judge-says-saudi-arabia-cannot-be-sued-over-september-11-att/6815942

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Three banks must turn over Sudanese funds to victims of al Qaeda’s deadly 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen to help satisfy a $315 million judgment, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Wednesday.

>The plaintiffs, 15 American sailors injured in the attack and three of their spouses, filed a lawsuit in 2010 against Sudan in Washington, D.C., claiming the country provided material support to al Qaeda that helped facilitate the bombing.

>In an effort to collect some of the money, the plaintiffs secured orders from U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres in New York requiring the banks to turn over certain assets they held for Sudan.

The amount of money held in the accounts is redacted from court filings.

The banks themselves were not parties to the appeal and did not contest the orders.

In a statement, Mashreqbank said it turned over the funds, which were frozen under U.S. sanctions, in December 2013, pursuant to the court order. Credit Agricole also confirmed it had turned over the money.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/23/us-sudan-security-lawsuit-idUSKCN0RN2MK20150923

Another article here more relevant to anti Russian anti Iranian. Kosovo is part of Obama’s anti Assad meeting at the UN?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/29/us-un-assembly-russia-complaint-idUSKCN0RT25I20150929
Russia’s U.N. envoy complained about the presence of Kosovo representatives at a counter-terrorism summit organized by the United States on Tuesday, saying the U.N. building was under the “command” of U.S. President Barack Obama.
“They (Kosovo officials) are sitting in the hall together with other U.N. members,” Russian U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told reporters. “It is not correct, of course. To hold such meetings on U.N. premises means they have no respect for the U.N. … It is beyond U.N. rules.”

More than 110 countries have recognized Kosovo. While it is a member of a number of international organizations, it is unable to join the United Nations as long as Russia, which has veto power on the Security Council, opposes its U.N. membership.

I’ll bet most people here forgot that Sunday was Poroshenko’s birthday,I know I forgot.But before we all get excited and start to wish him a belated “Happy Birthday”.I thought it might be nice to see some of the thoughts Ukrainians and Novorossians are having about his happy day:

“The news agency Novorosinfo could not ignore this event. Scores of residents of Donbas and the former Ukraine expressed their desire to congratulate Poroshenko. Unfortunately, most of them can not be quoted here because of the censorship. We will provide a selection of the typical ones, though.

I will also write a couple of lines. Long ago, in another country, in another world, a little boy named Peter was born. Certainly, it was a happy event for his family.

The boy grew up, studied hard and, as they say, was kind and sympathetic. Probably, like all boys of his age he dreamed of becoming a sea captain or a cosmonaut. He played war games fighting the Nazis. And then he grew up …

I wish not to this grown-up Petr Alekseevich, but to that boy to find a “time machine” and to visit Vanya in a Moscow hospital, to talk to the children in Gorlovka, Pervomaisk, Lugansk. To be in Odessa on May 2 and to see a Nazi march in Kharkov.

Then I would turn on the TV and let him listen to the speech of an adult Petr.

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Today, on the twenty-sixth of September, the fifth President of Ukraine Petr Poroshenko is celebrating his birthday! Undoubtedly, for the natives, the birthday of their governor-general is a very important and significant event. That is why the Ukies staged a competition – who will congratulate this war criminal with more sickly-sweet pathos.

In a frenzy of crazed adoration these patriotic Ukrainians wished all kinds of goodies: “wealth” (to this oligarch who has robbed them?), good health to the children (well, the children of Petr Alekseevich are in London, so they will be all right), and speedy victory over the “Moskals”.

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Disesteemed Petr Alekseyevich!
We would like to congratulate you on the day of your birth (damn that day).
We wish you and your family to hear the whizzing of shells flying close, we wish you to live in the basement for a year or two while bombs will be hitting your house.

We also wish that your workplace is hit with a ballistic missile “Tochka U” and you, with your whole team, are crushed under the rubble!
What else do you wish? In general – damn you!

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We do not congratulate Petrushka Alkoshenko with his jubilee and wish him …. To be brought before the tribunal of the people of Donbas. Let this bastard be brought to account for all his crimes!
May the tunes of Frederic Chopin sound in his ears along with groans, prayers and sobs of women, children and the elderly of Donbas.
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May the crying of the killed and maimed children of Donbas accompany you every night till your death.

We wish your grandchildren would be consumed by a fierce fratricide. And you, scoundrel, should be witnessing that and remembering how people in Odessa were burnt alive.

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Peter has achieved a lot. He can be proud of himself – mountains of corpses, neck-deep in blood, poverty in the country – you are “the best” president of Ukraina-Ruina, Peter, congratulations!

Burn in hell, scumbag! And while you live – be tormented every moment of day and night ….

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It does not matter on what day a pig was born, it is important what day it will slaughtered … We will mark the occasion then.”

http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/09/who-forgot-poroshenkos-birthday-was.html

I couldn’t agree more:

AZAROV: “I WAS NEVER AS ASHAMED FOR UKRAINE AS DURING POROSHENKO’S UN SPEECH”

I had never experienced such level of shame due to Ukraine’s humiliation as after listening to Poroshenko’s speech at the UN General Assembly.

During the whole history of the UN, our representatives have never given such empty speeches bereft of sense and content and instead full of dishonest statements which only bring shame to the entire country–which happens to be one of the founding members of the UN, which Poroshenko didn’t even deign to acknowledge at this jubilee session.

Yanukovych could occasionally confuse Akhmatova with Akhmetova in an improvised speech, but his official speeches were always prepared very thoroughly, they were always thought-through and balanced.

In order to show what I mean, I’ll cite a few of Poroshenko’s “gems”.

How are we to understand this phrase of his: “In order to reduce poverty by a factor of three–nevertheless thanks to the Russian aggression, we expect that indicator to decrease.”

Did anyone understand what he had in mind? So will the level of poverty decrease or not decrease? If we are to use the UN criteria, the vast majority of Ukraine’s population is living below the poverty line, and it is not the mythical Russian aggression that is responsible, but Mr. Poroshenko & Co with his inherent greed. Even two years ago our country occupied a respectable mid-range position, according to UN criteria, while today we are one of the world’s poorest countries.

According to Poroshenko & Co, “every day of the war costs $5 million.” An interesting admission. First of all, in theory there is no war, only the ATO. Secondly, and of greater interest to every “ATO participant”, is that Poroshenko spends $50 a day on each of ATO servicemembers. There have been no active combat operations since the Debaltsevo cauldron of February 2015, so one wonders “where are these huges sums going”? Into “whose pocket”? (This based on calculation that there are 100 thousand ATO participants at the front line, though in actuality there are far fewer of them).

It was interesting to listen to his promise to “improve maternal health care system.” What was that supposed to mean? Additional cuts and cancellations of benefits due to mothers after childbirth? Well, they are working pretty hard on that. They haven’t built or brought into operation a single maternity center in a year and a half, not a single pre-natal center. Yanukovych’s “evil government” was actively engaged in building them and managed to reduce the infant mortality rate. But today’s “European” leadership has not even managed to provide hospitals with sufficient medicines and vaccines. It’s running around the whole world, begging, but Russia’s “aggression” is somehow responsible?

Then there’s Poroshenko’s promise to “increase the quality of higher education” which fits perfectly with Yatsenyuk’s project to completely do away with free higher education. What do the peasants need education for???

Naturally, a large part of the speech was dedicated to “Russian aggression” which supposedly led to the “deaths of thousands of people and the destruction of critical infrastructure.” Here Poroshenko even shed a tear or two. As if it wasn’t Turchinov who sent tanks to the Donbass, and it wasn’t Poroshenko who gave orders to shell cities and other populated areas using rocket artillery, howitzers, aircraft, and all other types of weapons. As if it wasn’t Poroshenko who gave the order to destroy gas pipelines, electric transmission lines and substations, water mains, bridges.

His crocodile tears on the subject of a horrible ecological catastrophe due to the Donbass being saturated with harmful industries are totally critically, so much so that if one recalls the Tochka-U ballistic missile strikes aimed at the underground storage facilities of the Gorlovka and Donetsk Chemical Plants, one starts to shudder at the thought that such people are in power and have highly destructive weapons at their disposal.

Reading the text of the speech, one gets the impression it was written by foreigners who don’t understand the reality of Ukraine’s problems, who wrote it quickly, in a hurry, in order to satisfy a specific audience. They apparently achieved their goal, but Ukraine got nothing except for humiliation and empty promises.

http://southfront.org/azarov-i-was-never-as-ashamed-for-ukraine-as-during-poroshenkos-un-speech/