Sabotage has not been confirmed or denied in this particular case as yet, but attacking the oil and gas supplies of the infidels is certainly part of jihad strategy as witnessed in the web posting urging attacks on the Alaska pipeline. From AP:
TBILISI, Georgia -- Explosions hit natural gas pipelines running through southern Russia early Sunday, cutting the supply to Georgia and Armenia as the countries suffer a cold snap.The blasts hit the pipelines running through the southern Russian region of North Ossetia around 3 a.m. (0000 GMT), Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said.
Ministry spokesman Viktor Beltsov initially said the blasts appeared to be accidental, but Nikolai Shepel, chief prosecutor for Russia's southern region, said a criminal investigation had been opened on charges of sabotage...
Russia's NTV broadcast footage showing twisted and smoking pipelines in what appeared to be a high mountain pass.
In recent years, pipelines in Russia's turbulent North Caucasus region have occasionally been damaged in explosions that investigators have ruled sabotage, but the blasts have not caused major supply disruptions. Criminal groups as well as militants with ties to Chechnya's separatist rebels have been suspected.
ITAR-Tass quoted an Emergency Situations Ministry official in North Ossetia, Vladimir Ivanov, as saying that it would take two to three days to complete repairs.
The cutoff hit Georgia, which has faced extreme energy shortages for more than a decade, with a fresh crisis as it headed into a cold snap. Temperatures in Tbilisi on Sunday were minus 5 Celsius (23 F)...
Neither Georgia nor Armenia produce significant amounts of gas domestically, relying on Russia for the overwhelming majority of their gas imports.
Armenia hopes to reduce its dependence on Russia by building a pipeline to bring gas from Iran, but the first section of that project is not expected to be completed until 2007.
Didn't Russia recently cut supplies to a neighboring country? Energy Karma, perhaps!
Armenia hopes to reduce its dependence on Russia by building a pipeline to bring gas from Iran
WOW YOU THINK??
Yes once again the islamic terrorist call for hits on energy production and who do they hit but, What was it Putin said friends of islam and how do they repay him Take out Oil to people ??
Seams that Birds are being kulled in Basra seams Iran has been lieing Many killed from the Bird Flue??
When will Russia WAKE-UP??
Stop being such dimmis??
What was it Hiliary Clinton said the other day??
BETTER READ THIS
AND PASS IT ON IT WAS NOT JUST ABOUT SEX...
http://www.senate.gov/~rpc/releases/1997/iran.htm
January 16, 1997
Clinton-Approved Iranian Arms Transfers Help Turn Bosnia into Militant Islamic Base
The Islamization of the Bosnian Army
In cooperation with the foreign Islamic presence, the Izetbegovic regime has revamped its security and military apparatus to reflect its Islamic revolutionary outlook, including the creation of mujahedin units throughout the army; some members of these units have assumed the guise of a shaheed (a "martyr," the Arabic term commonly used to describe suicide bombers), marked by their white garb, representing a shroud. While these units include foreign fighters naturalized in Bosnia, most of the personnel are now Bosnian Muslims trained and indoctrinated by Iranian and other foreign militants -- which also makes it easier for the Clinton Administration to minimize the mujahedin threat, because few of them are "foreigners."
Prior to 1996, there were three principal mujahedin units in the Bosnian army, the first two of which are headquartered in the American IFOR/SFOR zone: (1) the 7th Muslim Liberation Brigade of the 3rd Corps, headquartered in Zenica; (2) the 9th Muslim Liberation Brigade of the 2nd Corps, headquartered in Travnik (the 2nd Corps is based in Tuzla); and (3) the 4th Muslim Liberation Brigade of the 4th Corps, headquartered in Konjic (in the French zone). [Bodansky, Some Call It Peace, page 40] Particularly ominous, many members of these units have donned the guise of martyrs, indicating their willingness to sacrifice themselves in the cause of Islam. Commenting on an appearance of soldiers from the 7th Liberation Brigade, in Zenica in December 1995, Bodansky writes: "Many of the fighters . . . were dressed in white coveralls over their uniforms. Officially, these were 'white winter camouflage,' but the green headbands [bearing Koranic verses] these warriors were wearing left no doubt that these were actually Shaheeds' shrouds." [Some Call It Peace, page 12] The same demonstration was staged before the admiring Iranian ambassador and President Izetbegovic in September 1996, when white winter garb could only be symbolic, not functional. [NYT, 9/2/96] By June 1996, ten more mujahedin brigades had been established, along with numerous smaller "special units" dedicated to covert and terrorist operations; while foreigners are present in all of these units, most of the soldiers are now native Bosnian Muslims. [Some Call It Peace, pages 42-46]
In addition to these units, there exists another group known as the Handzar ("dagger" or "scimitar") Division, described by Bodansky as a "praetorian guard" for President Izetbegovic. "Up to 6000-strong, the Handzar division glories in a fascist culture. They see themselves as the heirs of the SS Handzar division, formed by Bosnian Muslims in 1943 to fight for the Nazis. Their spiritual model was Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who sided with Hitler. According to UN officers, surprisingly few of those in charge of the Handzars . . . seem to speak good Serbo-Croatian. 'Many of them are Albanian, whether from Kosovo [the Serb province where Albanians are the majority] or from Albania itself.' They are trained and led by veterans from Afghanistan and Pakistan, say UN sources." ["Albanians and Afghans fight for the heirs to Bosnia's SS past," (London) Daily Telegraph, 12/29/93, bracketed text in original]
Self-Inflicted Atrocities
Almost since the beginning of the Bosnian war in the spring of 1992, there have been persistent reports -- readily found in the European media but little reported in the United States -- that civilian deaths in Muslim-held Sarajevo attributed to the Bosnian Serb Army were in some cases actually inflicted by operatives of the Izetbegovic regime in an (ultimately successful) effort to secure American intervention on Sarajevo's behalf. These allegations include instances of sniping at civilians as well as three major explosions, attributed to Serbian mortar fire, that claimed the lives of dozens of people and, in each case, resulted in the international community's taking measures against the Muslims' Serb enemies. (The three explosions were: (1) the May 27, 1992, "breadline massacre," which was reported to have killed 16 people and which resulted in economic sanctions on the Bosnian Serbs and rump Yugoslavia; (2) the February 5, 1994, Markale "market massacre," killing 68 and resulting in selective NATO air strikes and an ultimatum to the Serbs to withdraw their heavy weapons from the area near Sarajevo; and (3) the August 28, 1995 "second market massacre," killing 37 and resulting in large-scale NATO air strikes, eventually leading to the Dayton agreement and the deployment of IFOR.) When she was asked about such allegations (with respect to the February 1994 explosion) then-U.N. Ambassador and current Secretary of State-designate Madeleine Albright, in a stunning non sequitur, said: "It's very hard to believe any country would do this to their own people, and therefore, although we do not exactly know what the facts are, it would seem to us that the Serbs are the ones that probably have a great deal of responsibility." ["Senior official admits to secret U.N. report on Sarajevo massacre," Deutsch Presse-Agentur, 6/6/96, emphasis added]
The fact that such a contention is difficult to believe does not mean it is not true. Not only did the incidents lead to the result desired by Sarajevo (Western action against the Bosnian Serbs), their staging by the Muslims would be entirely in keeping with the moral outlook of Islamic radicalism, which has long accepted the deaths of innocent (including Muslim) bystanders killed in terrorist actions. According to a noted analyst: "The dictum that the end justifies the means is adopted by all fundamentalist organizations in their strategies for achieving political power and imposing on society their own view of Islam. What is important in every action is its niy'yah, its motive. No means need be spared in the service of Islam as long as one takes action with a pure niy'yah." [Amir Taheri, Holy Terror, Bethesda, MD, 1987] With the evidence that the Sarajevo leadership does in fact have a fundamentalist outlook, it is unwarranted to dismiss cavalierly the possibility of Muslim responsibility. Among some of the reports:
IS THIS TREASON ALL FOR MONEY??
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GOD BLESS THE USA AND HER FIGHTING FORCES AND ALL WHO FIGHT WITH HER GIVE THEM STRENGTH, WISDOM, SIGHT, AND COURAGE TO STAY THE COURSE TO DESTROY ALL ISLAMIC TERRORIST AND ALL WHO SUPPORT THEM LET NOT THE WORLD BE DECEIVED BY THEM GIVE THE WORLD COURAGE TO STAND TOGETHER TO FIGHT THIS EVIL AMEN
PS
WHAT ARE THE DEMOCRATS SAYING are they saying that we should go into Pakistan and Iran to get the YELLOW COWARD WHO RUNS AWAY??
Hmmmm......
...Georgia and Armenia, the two countries damaged by this blast, are both Christian....
...Armenian Christians in Nagorno-Karabakh have repeated the feat of the Jews in 1948, surviving and triumphing over an overwhelming Muslim assault...
...Armenia itself is the remnant of a people other Muslims tried to erase....
...HMMMMMMMMM.....
Off-topic info:
The wheels are turning towards Iran:
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's defense minister hinted Saturday that the Jewish state is preparing for military action to stop Iran's nuclear program, but said international diplomacy must be the first course of action.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060122/D8F9EEN00.html
(AP)-
"Iran on Sunday said Israel would be making a "fatal mistake" should it resort to military action against Tehran's nuclear program and dismissed veiled threats from the Jewish state as a "childish game."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1137605890128&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Most of those critical to the war in Iraq say it is a war for oil. Considering that most of the oil development contracts in Iraq have been secured by interests foreign to the US, it appears that the critics were actually wrong with their assertions.
But the prime targets of terrorists in Iraq have been the various oil product pipelines. Al Queda now threatens to blow up the Alaska pipeline. The pipeline in Russia blows up. Actions all based in a desire to disrupt the economic and social systems of non-believers. The jihadists are actually the ones that are waging a war for oil.
Iran spikes the price of oil, Nigerian supplies suffer due to civil unrest, Venezuelan govt expresses interests counter to US interests, Al Queda actions attempt to disrupt supplies. Maybe the eco-tin foil hat guys were right in their crusade against giant SUV's and support for costly solar energy, we should be taking steps to reduce oil dependence and the economic effect of potential disruptions in supply. That way the muslims will not be able to destroy us with the sword of wealth that we forged for them and handed over so willingly for the oil we buy.
Given the strong presence of Al Qaeda command in the Caucusus, it looks like infrastructure strikes could become the Jihadist's preferred method over the next several years.
As noted in another thread, pipelines are particularly vulnerable. Put another way, pipelines are particularly dependent on civilized behavior.
Posted by: GrimReaperxxx at January 22, 2006 01:02 PM
Maybe so but, do you think they can eat that Black oil??
We can run our cars on Corn oil!!
Of cours this will cause a short fall in food to other country's??
And of course we can grow Fule for our potbelly stoves and eat the cherry's and use the pits to keep warm.
NO the Real loser in the long term will be those who can not grow their own food.
Posted by: kentim at January 22, 2006 12:05 PM
Makes no sence to play poker and give your hand away before the game is over??
Me I think sence Iran has proved it is in league with Syrai would be better for Israel to take out Syria sence they are causing many probles for Iraq included that would be who I'd hit but, I aint in charge...
If they were going to hit Iran I'd hit all their Oil lines this would cause more damage to their take over faster than anything??
And this would be a much easier target??
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/01/10/kadyrov.shtml
MUST LOOK AT THE PICTURE??
300 Sheep Slaughtered by Pro-Moscow Chechen on Muslim Holiday
10.01.2006
THEN ASK YOURSELF??
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/01/12/rabbireturn.shtml
Russia’s Chief Rabbi Returns to Moscow After Synagogue Attack
12.01.2006
“The murderer has come to a synagogue — the House of God; if blood was spilled at a place of worship, what else we can expect,” the rabbi went on to say. He has called on law enforcers to use the power of the law to fight militant extremists and fascists. “I am sure that gunmen will come to every home if our society doesn’t wake up to the problem now,” the head rabbi stressed.
http://www.mosnews.com/feature/2006/01/17/freeze.shtml
18.01.2006
Meanwhile, in the city, virtually paralyzed by the cold, Moscow residents cursed weathermen whose forecasts are true only when they predict crises, and with enviable tenacity marched to work or stood waiting for public transport in blistering cold brooding on all that global warming fuss.
Back in November, Anatoly Chubais, the head of Russia’s sprawling but antiquated electricity network warned that a crippling May 2005 power outage in Moscow could be repeated unless the decrepit grid and generating facilities were not urgently modernized.
JUST MAKES YOU WONDER??
http://www.mosnews.com/images/g/s124.shtml
Frigid Weather Fails to Deter Russian Ice-Hole Swimmers
19.01.2006
Russian Orthodox Christians have a tradition of celebrating the Twelfth-Night (the Eve of the Epiphany) by swimming in ice-holes that symbolize the baptism of Jesus Christ in the river Jordan by John the Baptist. And it does not matter if water in the Israeli river is much warmer than water in Russia rivers. True believers are inspired by their religious enthusiasm.
BOY WHAT A DIFFERENCE WHERE IS PEATA WHEN YOU NEED THEM??
MULSUM KILLING POOR LITTLE SHEEP AND CHRISTIANS SWIMING IN WATER
WHO WOULD YOU RATHER BE AROUND?
SEAMS THE GERMANS NEED TO SUT DOWN AL-JIZZI
SEAMS THEY AIRED SOMETHING FROM MULSUMS ABOUT A TREAT TO RUSSIA And the Next thing you know pipeline goes up in Russia??
Now how Dimmi is this Crap going to be allowed??
Abu Al-Walid threatens the Russians with innovated attacks
The threatening of the Arab field leader in Chechnya republic Abu Al-Walid the Russian forces with the launch of strong and innovated attacks do not occur to a mind . And he threatened in a tape that AlJazeera received a copy with the transfer of the war to inside the Russian cities if what elected the Russian nation who declares the war on Chechnya in referring to the current president Vladimir Putin, explaining that that means that the Russian nation declares the war against the Chechens .
And Abu Al-Walid accused the Russian forces of the launch of military operations that spoke about it violation of the rights of the Chechen nation, and favoured with the mention the throwing of those forces by the helicopters thousands of known small mines in the name of ( the butterfly ) in the villages and the forests that come to it the common people to Fridays the firewood for the purpose of the heating in winter .
And he said that these mines that the Russian forces threw will return it God willing to the Russian nation and will find it in their land and between of .
And he added and our grandfather is a way for the sending of these mines to the Russians and we spread it as spread it between the civilians here and will send things that did not occur to a mind .. These things from them and will return it to them then this their rights we will return it to them .. And they will see how she amputate the man from amid the leg and will find the handicapped in the middle of their house .
And Abu Al-Walid undertook the field command of the Arab fighters in Chechnya after the killing of the leader suitors in April in year 2002, and he has caused a qualitative move in the operations of the Chechens fighters with the launch of attacks in the depth of the Russian lands .
pretty clear to me!!
When is the world going to stop this Dimmi crap and shut down al-jizzi????
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Spider Killer
GOD BLESS THE USA AND HER FIGHTING FORCES AND ALL WHO FIGHT WITH HER GIVE THEM STRENGTH, WISDOM, SIGHT, AND COURAGE TO DESTROY ALL ISLAMIC TERRORIST AND ALL WHO SUPPORT THEM LET NOT THE WORLD BE DECEIVED BY THEM AMEN
PS
REMEMBER
It was FDR who had the Interment camps and we WON the WAR!!
We the American People I have talked to don't give a Damn about the NSA tracking islamic terrorist or any other terrorist THAT IS THEIR JOB'S LET THEM DO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE!!
Libs will get us killed!!
REMEMBER
It was Clinton who told the American People the Iranis were nice now??
http://www.senate.gov/~rpc/releases/1997/iran.htm
January 16, 1997
Clinton-Approved Iranian Arms Transfers Help Turn Bosnia into Militant Islamic Base
READ IT!!
Last paragraph in the article:
Armenia hopes to reduce its dependence on Russia by building a pipeline to bring gas from Iran, but the first section of that project is not expected to be completed until 2007.
Poor Armenia-- bordered by Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Iran. As far as I can tell, the Georgians are treating them alright, but otherwise, their predicament echoes the line from Mel Brooks' Spaceballs: "I knew it, I'm surrounded by @$$holes!"
I don't really think the muslims did it (this time). I think it's Putin playing as his role as what he believes is the third anti-christ and the conqueror of Europe.
There will be much suffering from this man, just I knew right from the start that there would be much suffering caused by a man named Hitler.
Israel had Arafat killed. And the point is???
May be Russia wants to rethink that uranium deal with Iran now?
I don't really think the muslims did it (this time). I think it's Putin playing as his role as what he believes is the third anti-christ and the conqueror of Europe.
Posted by: DrWolffenstein at January 22, 2006 05:57 PM
SO YOU ARE WITH THE STATE DEPARTMENT HUH??
YOU SHOULD GET OUT ALLITTLE MORE YOUR CAVE HAS DRAINED YOUR BRAIN??
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/1/24/122128.shtml?s=lh
Iran Ready to Supply Gas to Georgia
NewsMax.com Wires
Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2006
TBILISI, Georgia -- Iran has expressed a readiness to export natural gas to Georgia to make up for a sharp drop in Russian deliveries, the energy minister of this former Soviet republic said Tuesday.
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-16/0601242521164804.htm
Iran pipeline to be built in segments: Pak daily
Islamabad, Jan 24, IRNA
Iran, Pakistan and India are likely to adopt a segmented approach on the construction of over US dollar 7 billion trans-Pakistan gas pipeline to ward off effects of possible US sanctions against Iran over the nuclear issue.
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-16/0601244298180919.htm
Pakistan cautions action against Iran to destabilize region
Islamabad, Jan 24, IRNA
Pakistan-Iran
Pakistan has opposed any military option against Iran, cautioning this would destabilize the whole region.
Talking to newsmen Pakistan's Ambassador Jehangir Karamat said Pakistan's stance on the stand-off about Iran's nuclear program was very much clear.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/1/24/92401.shtml?s=lh
Reprinted from NewsMax.com
Musharraf Says U.S. Likely Hit al-Qaida
NewsMax.com Wires
Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2006
OSLO, Norway -- Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said Tuesday there were indications that al-Qaida members were killed in a U.S. airstrike near the Afghan border on Jan. 13.
"Investigations have found that there are foreigners there, that is for sure, in the general area," Musharraf said of the airstrike in Damadola, a village in northern Pakistan.
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-16/0601241870173303.htm
EU interested in supply of Iranian gas
Brussels, Jan 24, IRNA
EU-Iran-Energy
The European Union's top energy official said Tuesday that he will be glad if Iranian natural gas would flow to the energy-hungry Europe.
"Definitely Iran has huge gas reserves and I am definitely glad if Iranian gas will come to serve the European market as well,'' EU energy commissioner Andris Piebalgs told a press conference in Brussels in reply to IRNA's question on EU-Iran energy cooperation.
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-16/0601245080175001.htm
160 Pak pilgrims died during pilgrimage
Islamabad, Jan 24, IRNA
Pakistan-Pilgrims
As many as 160 Pakistani pilgrims were killed during the pilgrimage this year.
According to statistics by the Ministry of Religious Affairs, Pakistanis died of heart attacks, pneumonia, hepatitis, epilepsy or renal failure and in road accident this year during Haj.
JUST FOR FUN??
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-16/0601244616200723.htm
January 24, 2006
Separatists rebels blow up power installation in Assam
Guwahati, India, Jan 24, IRNA
India-Assam-Blasts
Separatist rebels Tuesday triggered two powerful explosions wounding three policemen and blowing up a power installation in India's violence-hit northeastern state of Assam, officials said.
The two explosions are the latest in a wave of bombings beginning Friday by suspected militants of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) in which two people were killed and 26 more wounded.
A police spokesman said ULFA rebels militants blew up a power transformer at Dimow town in eastern Assam's Sivasagar district.
I'M SURE IT WAS ISLAMIC TERRORIST WHAT DO YOU THINK??
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-18/0601248367203159.htm
Text of Pakistan-Iran joint statement on gas pipeline talks
Islamabad. Jan 24, IRNA
Pakistan-Iran-Gas Talks
Following is the text of Pakistan-Iran joint statement issued on Tuesday at the conclusion of two-day gas pipeline talks in Islamabad.
The fifth meeting of the Iran-Pakistan Working Group on Iran- Pakistan-India (IPI) Gas Pipeline Project was held in Islamabad on 23rd-24th January 2006. The Iranian delegation was led by Nejad- Hosseinian, Deputy Petroleum Minister of Iran, while the Pakistani delegation was led by Ahmad Waqar, Secretary Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Resources.
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-25/0601245331201123.htm
Malaysia-Iran- Nuclear
Kuala Lumpur, Jan 24, IRNA
Deputy Foreign Minister Mehdi Mostafavi on January 24, 2006, in a meeting with Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar, calls for expansion of political, cultural and economic ties between the two countries.
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-17/0601245130194636.htm
Lebanese Hizbollah condemns explosions in Ahvaz
Beirut, Jan 24, IRNA
Iran-Explosion-Hizbollah
Lebanese Hizbollah on Tuesday strongly condemned explosion in Iran's southern city of Ahvaz, Khuzestan province.
A Lebanese parliamentarian and member of the Fraction of Loyalty to Resistance, affiliated to Hizbollah, Esmail Sakarieh told IRNA that Ahvaz explosions were the result of pressures and interferences of the US, Europe and Israel.
Sakarieh said certain western states have been continuing to exert pressure on Iran since the victory of Islamic Revolution, led by late Imam Khomeini.
COULDN'T BE SOME IRAQIS WHO ARE PISSED ABOUT THE INANIS SENDING ISLAMIC TERRORIST TO KILL THEIR PEOPLE COME ON REALLY??
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-17/0601217945151146.htm
Iran says Palestine is center of Islam, fight against arrogance
Tehran, Jan 21, IRNA
Syria-Iran-President
President Ahmadinejad said Friday Palestine is the center of the final stages of the battle between Islam and arrogance, saying the Palestinian Intifada is progressing.
The plots hatched by enemies against Palestine should not be overlooked even for a moment, Ahmadinejad noted in a meeting with leaders of the Palestinian resistance movements in Damascus, Syria.
YEA RIGHT WONDER IF HE TOLD THEM HE WAS GOING TO BLOW THEM UP FOR THE CAUSE??
WONDER IF HE TOLD THEM TO USE A TIN CUP TO PROTECT THEIR PE-PEA???
YES YOU NEED TO GET OUT OF YOUR CAVE MORE IN THE REAL WORLD 4+2 STILL = 6
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
GOD BLESS THE USA AND HER FIGHTING FORCES AND ALL WHO FIGHT WITH HER GIVE THEM STRENGTH, WISDOM, SIGHT, AND COURAGE TO DESTROY ALL ISLAMIC TERRORIST AND ALL WHO SUPPORT THEM AMEN
PS
I BET YOU BELIEVE THERE ARE SNOWBALLS IN HELL TOO??