http://www.christiantoday.com/article/muslim.mob.kills.six.christians.in.ethiopia/8559.htm

The US-based human rights group International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned a mob of 300 Muslims killed six Christians in early October while 15 others were left seriously wounded by the attack during a midnight worship service in Beshasha, a town located in the Agaro province in Ethiopia.

On 14 October, a group of three hundred Muslims, carrying guns and knives approached the church where the Orthodox Christians were holding a midnight worship service. When the locked doors prevented the mob from entering the church they forced the congregation out of the church by pouring gasoline around the building.

The men of the church came out first and attempted to defend the men and women but because they had no real weapons in comparison to the guns and knives used against them they were attacked by the mob.

Fifteen individuals from the church suffered severe knife wounds and six people died as a result - two priests, two elderly women, and two men.

Two weeks later, the Ethiopian media announced that the police had arrested the leader of the massacre. But ICC warns that the violence against Christians continues to increase steadily despite the arrest.

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I suppose many of you can explain how this is probably America and Israel's fault.

 

Here is some background info on Raymond Close, an advisor to the Iraq Study Group.

Mr. Close has been an ally of Saudi Arabia. In 1977, on the day of his retirement from the CIA, while still in Jedda, Mr. Close began working with Saudi Arabia's then intelligence chief, Kamal Adham, according to one of his former bosses at the agency's directorate of operations.

"On the day he retired from the CIA, Ray walked across the street and joined Kamal Adham in a business relationship," Duane Clarridge said yesterday in an interview. "To many officers in the CIA this seemed untoward because as a government official, he had an official relationship with Kamal Adham. Now he was in a commercial relationship which over the years reportedly made Close a very wealthy man."

Mr. Adham later went on to play a key role in the BCCI banking scandal, where the bank was accused of bribing senior government officials in a variety of countries as well as graft.

Mr. Close's son, Kenneth, is a registered foreign agent for Saudi Arabia.

I'm waiting for Walt and Meirsheimer's next report, this time on how the Saudi lobby is manipulating and undermining America's Middle East policy to their advantage. I'm also waiting for the left to speak out with righteous indignation over former government officials now on the Saudi payroll lobbying for a pro-arab Mideast policy, and others, as in the case of Close, actually advising the administration on Mideast policy.

james baker is a morally reprehensible individual. Certainly the james baker cabal, from encouraging Iraqis after the first gulf war to rise up against saddam and then abandoning them to their slaughter, and baker's otherwise "realist" policies of coddling dictators, was an abysmal failure. I don't know why this guy is so respected and his ideas seen as the answer to the problems of the Middle East. At least the neocons ideas are based on moral convictions of wanting to bring freedom to people and standing against evil in the world, an idea liberals used to support until they decided to embrace the "realist" baker and company policies of coddling and befriending vile dictators. I find it ironic that those who believe we will have greater security by making deals with terrorists and the most evil regimes in the world, are labeled "realists.

While there’s a lot of talk about the Israel lobby, the fact is we have people in this country such as baker and former diplomats directly on the Saudi payroll, lobbying for Middle East policies favorable to the arabs, and which hurt not only Israel, but our own interests as well. This pro-arab lobby is more powerful financially than the pro-Israel lobby. I don’t expect Walt and Meirsheimer to write a paper on that however. Nor do I expect leftists to lament the arab influence on our government, academia and media as a direct result of such financial power.

So essentially, Baker and the Iraq study group’s brilliant plan is to give in to Iranian and Syrian blackmail, where these two countries, which are the ones fomenting trouble in Iraq, will agree to “help” stabilize Iraq, meaning they will stop fomenting trouble in Iraq in return for giving Syria the Golan Heights and control over Lebanon, and letting it off the hook for the Harari, Gamayel assassinations, and for allowing Iran nuclear weapons. And such a deal with these two dangerous regimes is considered a “realist” policy. As far as I'm concerned, baker and his ilk are dangerous traitors who are willing to sell out America to arab potentates, dictators and islamists. Once Baker and the Iraq Study Group take control of Mideast policy, America will be longing for the return of the neocons.