The NY times just published an article regarding the Iranian dhow that was seized off the Yemeni coast. The ship was found with sophisticated Chinese antiaircraft missiles. The article elaborates on implications associated with this incident. Please click on this link below and read for yourself:
Ali Khan
United States Central Command
www.Centcom.mil/UR
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The world has been listening to stories like this since long. Be it iraq's WMDs or Iran's bomb.
This is why most people do not believe concocted Zionist stories, especially when they come from a newspaper like nytimes, owned by Jewish Zionists themselves,
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^ The New York Times is one of the most respectable and credible newspapers in the world. It’s considered an institution in the world of journalism with few rivals, and its website draws the second highest number of visitors to any news site in the entire world. Finding conspiracies in everything and parroting “Zionist” “Zionist” ill behooves a reasonable person.
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On a similar note, large merchant ships have been spotted in the past, carrying large weapons caches from the US to Israel, a widely recognized apartheid and belligerent state.
Iran does not present any tangible threat to US interests. All we have heard is silly rhetoric from Ahmedinajad....and that is not enough to target the country with threats of war. America needs to quit playing Israel's pet dog.
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US supplies Israel with all kinds of deadly weapons to slaughter the children of gaza and destroy their homes
these kids either become orphans because the israeli bombardment, they die or have limbs missing, and the ones who have survived see fragments of missles saying made in USA!
your government sends $3.1 billion of weapons to the illegal state of israel.
care to comment?
as far as USA/CENTCOM is concerned, Israel has the right to defend itself.
Funny how only the US & Israel has that RIGHT while the rest of the world should curl up and die.
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I can appreciate the points made about how wrong it is that Israel is being blindly supported by the US but is there not an important point being made by the article that Iran is sponsoring rebel groups in other countries and thus destabilizing it.
So that is the word of Yemen against the word of Iran. Is Iran right in supplying these weapons, or is it a complete lie that America has concocted and the independent nation of Yemen is playing along with it.
Al-Jazeera reported this as well, not being sacastic but are they also a Zionist organization?
Intercepted ship ‘carried weapons from Iran’ - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
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I can appreciate the points made about how wrong it is that Israel is being blindly supported by the US but is there not an important point being made by the article that Iran is sponsoring rebel groups in other countries and thus destabilizing it.
Noone disagrees with the possibility/fact that Iran may be supplying weapons to yemeni rebels. But can you begin to count the number of rebels that have been financed and armed by the US and allies in other countries across the world? Syrian rebels are the most recent example, many of whom are Al-qaeda allied.
Rather than trying to sound righteous, it would make more sense for the US and Mr. Centcom to just plainly say that Israel is our ally, and we will support it in everything, right or wrong....and Iran is our enemy, we will oppose it in everything, right or wrong, rather than BSing and pretending to be holy.
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Dear goodname, you would have said the same thing about the US government when it was harping lies about Iraq’s WMDs. Later the whole world saw that it was nothing but a big fat Zionist lie. Same thing with Iran’s nukes. They keep giving deadlines of when Iran is going to make a bomb … 6 months, 2 years, 3 years … but Iran still has not made the bomb. It shows that their deadlines are also lies, only to make the world fearful of Iranian nukes.
So this is how their government works when it comes to protecting Israel.
Now we also know that their media is completely in the hands of Zionist. You cannot call it parroting because there are books written in the US about how Israeli lobby controls US government policies and media.
And lastly, NY Times is owned by Jewish Zionists. And has a reputation of being extremely pro Israel.
Remember that America has very special relationship with Israel. It will do for the sake of Israel what it won’t do in other cases. Same thing applies to NYT. It may be a credible newspaper in other issues but not in case of Israel. That issue is their dukhti rag.
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^ What Khoji said.
Simply put, recent history does not support your grand standing and lecturing on conspiracy theories. The Iraqi WMD fiasco was perhaps the greatest hoax of our time. How many people subscribed to that conspiracy theory? I don’t think a single American media outlet can claim otherwise…
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I don’t know why these Americans do not feel any shame in doing the same thing which they accuse others of doing. I wish this CENTCOM bot could explain why he is posting supposed Iranian arms reaching Yemeni rebels, when US and its Gulf allies are supplying arms to Syrian rebels.
Gulf arms to Syria rebels reaching ‘right people’: Kerry | World | DAWN.COM
We see one again that US has special relationship with Zionist regime. US has no shame in being plain hypocrite when it comes to Israel.
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Dear Khoji, I would just like to say that from a distance our perceptions do not always correlate with the entire reality. Some outsiders, for example, may perceive Pak as a hellhole of sorts, an “epicenter” of extremism etc. etc. But those of us who do live there or know the country well know that things are not as black-and-white as those assertions make it appear.
As for the stance of media, there are some misconceptions so I would encourage you to read “Zero Dark Zero,” an Op-Ed piece by the NYT columnist, Roger Cohen, that was published in that newspaper just last Thursday. Also, if you have time, please go over some of the readers’ comments, including the “NYT Picks.”
Seeing a Zionist hand in everything or dismissing a NYT article as a concocted Zionist story does not strike to me as very reasonable thing to do. The same news here was reported by AJE as well. Of course, you can continue to believe what you want. No hard feelings there. As for the Iraqi WMD issue, first it was not a ‘Zionist’ conspiracy. Second lessons have been learned from its coverage; the New York Times actually apologized for some of its uncritical coverage of the issue.
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With the United States government being the worlds biggest gun runners aka arms suppliers as announced by amnesty international. Even supplying the worst dictatorships and abusers of human rights. How the US government then have the nerve to complain about other nations and their weapons is the biggest piece of hypocrisy going.
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This is a problem with politicians worldwide, they support rebellion in the nations of their enemies but brutally quell them at home. The leaders of the US, Iran, Saudi, Pakistan and India are all adept at this game. It is foolish of us to only criticize those we do not approve of but not those who we support.
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I understand how many people think the NYT is a Zionist organisation but Al-Jazeera also reported Yemens complaint against Iran.
Intercepted ship ‘carried weapons from Iran’ - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
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Dear Khoji, I would just like to say that from a distance our perceptions do not always correlate with the entire reality. Some outsiders, for example, may perceive Pak as a hellhole of sorts, an “epicenter” of extremism etc. etc. But those of us who do live there or know the country well know that things are not as black-and-white as those assertions make it appear.
As for the stance of media, there are some misconceptions so I would encourage you to read “Zero Dark Zero,” an Op-Ed piece by the NYT columnist, Roger Cohen, that was published in that newspaper just last Thursday. Also, if you have time, please go over some of the readers’ comments, including the “NYT Picks.”
True enough. One needen’t go on about Zionism. The Western media in general has enough bias inherent in them to dismiss what is reported without invoking one’s pet boogy man.
But then, when it comes to Mid east policy, it’s not very reasonable to think that America has a foreign policy that is somehow distinct from Israeli policy. To recipocate, no hard feelings if you think otherwise. But claims of zionist propaganda/conspiracy are hardly out of place for this particular story.
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America has never made a secret of its support of Israel but it has NOTHING to do with zionism. Only in the last few years there is a non-trivial number Americans who have started talking about shifting the balance slightly from where it has been.
That's a distinction with little difference. It has EVERYTHING to do with Israel, and the pejoritive term for that nation state here is "Zionist/Zionist entity"....perhaps a bit outmoded, as Zionism has seen to have served it's purpose and is now a bit of a spent idea. Perhaps not so much for the Palestinians, who continue to be on the recieving end of it.
So, to recap, unthinking media supports 'official line' from a state that's on the payroll or at least pliant to American interests in the ME which is (and it's laughable to think otherwise) driven by Israeli policy and special interest groups. NYT doesn't bother mentioning that fact...and so... the critique.
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^ The New York Times is one of the most respectable and credible newspapers in the world. It's considered an institution in the world of journalism with few rivals
really it so respected is it? then why did it wait till end of the iraq war to start reporting on the torture the abuse and the massacres by American forces and US mercenaries?
It had the information years before the war ended by the way. Respected i think not, it plays political games and seeks self benefit like the rest of the two faced western media.
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^ Lies, hyperbole, and mischaracterizations. As usual. 
It’s your perspective. People in general do seem to rely upon the word of Western media over a great many of the ragtag media outlets masquerading as newspapers elsewhere.
Some people might be absolutely convinced that American policies are driven by some Freemasonry. The New York Times or most other newspapers, for that matter, would hardly deem it necessary to address those concerns. By the way,* that is not a fact. At best,* it’s your opinion. Just because you think “it’s laughable to think otherwise” doesn’t make it so.
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It's your perspective. People in general do seem to rely upon the word of Western media over a great many of the ragtag media outlets masquerading as newspapers elsewhere.
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Well, that' somewhat of a false distinction, as many of the so called ragtag media outlets are Western.
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Some people might be absolutely convinced that American policies are driven by some Freemasonry. The New York Times or most other newspapers, for that matter, would hardly deem it necessary to address those concerns. By the way,* that is not a fact. At best,* it's your opinion. Just because you think "it's laughable to think otherwise" doesn't make it so.
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Nonsense. No one suggested some wild eyed secret organization is behind the unthinking support of Israeli policies. It's Israel and their very real lobbies. If you can't respond to that in a rational way, you'd please refrain from false analogies.
Second, I didn't use the word fact. I suggested it is implausible, to a an absurd extent, to think otherwise. But it *is *as close to an empirical observation you will get. Naturally this is my opinion. Evidence to the contrary is always welcome.