CHINA BEFRIENDS PHILIPPINES, INDONESIA, PAKISTAN; RUSSIA BEFRIENDS PAKISTAN

The vice chairman of China's Central Military Commission meets with Sjafrie Sjamsuddin, secretary general of Indonesia's Defense Ministry, in Beijing, in 2009.

A number of countries are growing closer to China, at a time when Pakistan, and others, fear being attacked by the USA and its allies.

(KISSINGER SEES WAR BETWEEN INDIA AND PAKISTAN)

There is a fear that the 'Osama incident' in Abbottabad may be used to weaken Pakistan.

This is ironic if OSAMA 'WAS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN'

1. In May 2011, the Chinese Defence Minister has been visiting Indonesia, the Philippines and Singapore.

Indonesian Vice President Boediono met with visiting Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie in Jakarta on 21 May 2011.

"Boediono said that the bilateral relations between Indonesia and China have grown rapidly since the two countries established a strategic partnership...

"He said Indonesia attaches great importance to enhancing comprehensive cooperation with China, including the cooperation in defense and security..."

Indonesian VP meets with visiting Chinese defense minister /Indonesia Calls For Strong Defence Cooperation With China

2. "China's Defense Minister General Liang Guanglie will be in the Philippines from May 21 to 25, 2011, having previously visited Singapore and Indonesia as part of his Southeast Asian tour.

"The visit is expected to further advance China-Philippines friendly relations, specifically military exchanges and pragmatic cooperation." (China exec's visit d)

3. According to Webster Tarpley, on 20 May 2011: The USA and Pakistan are near Open War; A Chinese Ultimatum Warns Washington ...

"China has officially put the United States on notice that Washington's planned attack on Pakistan will be interpreted as an act of aggression against Beijing.

"This blunt warning represents the first known strategic ultimatum received by the United States in half a century, going back to Soviet warnings during the Berlin crisis of 1958-1961, and indicates the grave danger of general war growing out of the US-Pakistan confrontation."

4. On whose side is Russia?

Pakistan Allied with China and Russia Islamabad Globe

After the US raid on the 'Osama compound' "the support for Islamabad has come from Beijing, Moscow, Istanbul, Riyadh, and a host of other countries...

"Moscow has signaled superb support to Islamabad, and doubled it up with billions of Dollars of projects.

"Unlike US aid that only corrupts and bribes, and fills the pockets of US contractors, Russian aid has built steel mills and other infrastructures that have benefited the country and provided employment to thousands."

(Many thanks to Entity for some of the links.)

PAKISTAN CAPTURES 'CIA' TERRORIST?

Umar Patek

On 31 March 2011, we learn of the arrest in ABBOTTABAD in Pakistan of Umar Patek, who is suspected of working for the CIA.

ISI claims credit for arrest of Bali bomb suspect

Umar Patek is a member of the "CIA-linked" militant group Jemaah Islamiyah and he is believed to have been involved in the 2002 Bali bombing.

The Pakistan inteligence service ISI claims that it was responsible for the arrest of Patek.

Java

According to an ISI officer: "We captured him a few days ago and now ... will ensure that he is taken back to Indonesia."

When asked if it was a joint effort by several intelligence organisations that resulted in the arrest, the officer said: "No, it was entirely the efforts of the ISI."

Patek is a 35-year-old Javanese Arab.

Reportedly he was trained at CIA-Al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan in the 1990s.

Patek was reportedly killed on 14 September 2006 in the Sulu province of the Philippines. But this report was never confirmed.

Bali Bomb 'mastermind' Al Faruq

In The Age, (We must not get back in bed with Kopassus - theage.com.au), Dr Damien Kingsbury wrote about Moslem militants in Indonesia and their links to the Indonesian military.

Komando Jihad, which became Jemaah Islamiah - was set up by (American trained) Indonesian generals.

Dr Kingsbury wrote: "Kopassus (Indonesian special forces) ...set up the Islamic organisation Komando Jihad ... which has since emerged as Jemaah Islamiah."

Java

What about the 2002 Bali Bomb?

Bali bomb 'mastermind' Al Faruq - 'worked for the CIA.'

Former Indonesian State Intelligence Coordinating Board (BAKIN) chief A.C. Manulang was quoted by Tempo magazine as suggesting that Al-Faruq was a CIA-recruited agent.

Kuwaiti citizen Omar Al Faruq was arrested in Bogor on June 5, 2002 and handed over to US authorities.

Al Faruq was then able to escape from custody.

According to a news story in the Sydney Morning Herald, November 2, 2002:

"Some time around the 30 October 2002, senior officers in the Indonesian military HQ gave a piece of information to a military attache from a Western embassy in Indonesia -the source of explosive used in the October 12 bombing in Bali was the head of the counter-terrorism unit with the army's special forces."

The father-in-law of the officer concerned is Hendropriyono, Indonesia's former spy chief.

Java

The airline manifest of Garuda airlines shows that at least two generals from Jakarta visited Bali three days before the bombings and that they returned to Jakarta one day before the Sari Club was blown up.

This was confirmed by armed forces chief General Sutarto, who claimed that General Djaja Suparman was on vacation, while General Ryamizard Riyacudu, chief of staff, was said to have gone to Bali for health reasons. (Jakarta Post)

The CIA in Malaysia and Indonesia; Hambali, Hasbi ...

JAKARTA HOTEL BOMBS, THE MILITARY AND THE CIA

BIEBER AND CHURCH BOMB PLOT IN INDONESIA

On 23 April 2011, we read that Justin Bieber is in Bogor, in Indonesia, at a time of heightened security fears.



Bogor (ANTARA News) - "The Police bomb squad team in Bogor has been alerted to secure the Canadian singer...



"We have deployed the bomb disposal team ... to anticipate any terrorist bomb" said the police Head of Public Relations on 22 April...



"Bogor police have been combing ...the concert locations."





Justin Bieber arrives in Jakarta.



In Indonesia, there have been a number of recent bomb threats and the discovery of explosives intended to blow up a church on Good Friday, the day before Justin Bieber's concert.



(TV Cameraman Arrested in Good Friday Bomb Plot)



"Police have arrested a cameraman from Indonesian television station Global TV who was allegedly recruited to film the foiled Good Friday bomb attack on the outskirts of Jakarta.



"National Police spokesman Chief Comr. Boy Rafly Amar identified the man by his initials, IF.



“He was arrested at Jakarta on Friday,” Boy told the Jakarta Globe on Saturday.



"He said P had also asked IF to invite foreign cameramen to film the explosions, saying he 'wanted the blast to be broadcast internationally.'...



"P, one of 20 people detained in connection with the bomb plots, has been identified as the husband of Deni Karmelita, a civil servant working at the National Narcotics Agency (BNN)."







Indonesia is the world's biggest 'Moslem' country and is of great strategic importance.



China and Indonesia are becoming closer friends.



China, Indonesia experiencing closer relationship



So, the CIA may be using its Islamist friends to stir up trouble?



President Yudhoyono and family.



The latest Moslem country to be attacked by Wikileaks is the biggest of them all - Indonesia.



Can we now expect some violence?



In 2009 there were bombs attacks on hotels in Jakarta; more recently there have been attacks on churches; on 15 March 2011 a parcel bomb targeted moderate Muslims.‎



On 11 March 2011, we read that Indonesia, now run by General Yudhoyono, is as corrupt as ever. (Asia Sentinel - Explosive Wikileaks Cables Nail Yudhoyono)



The Wikileaks cables may be intended by the CIA to destabilise Indonesia, and topple its president.



Under Indonesia's current president, General Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesia has been friendly with China, Russia and Iran.



China takes an interest in Indonesia's natural resources, including oil and coal.



China has increased its trade and defence ties with Indonesia.



Indonesia's powerful Army Special Force, Kopassus, has cooperated with China. (RI vows to remain neutral amid global power shift )



Indonesia and China signed a strategic partnership during the visit of President Hu Jintao to Jakarta in 2005.



"You are next!"



According to the allegations in the diplomatic cables:



1. President Yudhoyono has got prosecutors and judges to protect the bad guys.



2. He has used the spooks to spy on rivals.



3. His wife wife and family have enriched themselves.



4. He has protected Taufik Kiemas, husband of former president Megawati Sukarnoputri.



Taufik is believed to have profited from various big infrastructure projects.



Taufik is now speaker of Indonesia's parliament.



5. Yudhoyono's former vice-president, Jusuf Kalla, paid "enormous bribes" to win the chairmanship of Golkar, Indonesia's largest political party.



6. Yudhoyono got cabinet secretary Sudi Silalahi to "intimidate" at least one judge in a 2006 court case arising from a fight for control of former president Abdurahman Wahid's National Awakening Party (PKB).



7. Yudhoyono has used the Indonesian State Intelligence Agency (BIN) to spy on both his allies and opponents.



He got the intelligence service to report on Golkar presidential candidate General Wiranto.



At a meeting of Yudhoyono's cabinet, BIN chief Syamsir described Wiranto as a "terrorist mastermind."

Tomy Winata

8. Yudhoyono has links to Chinese-Indonesian businessmen, especially Tomy Winata, an alleged underworld figure and member of the "Gang of Nine" or "Nine Dragons," a leading gambling syndicate.



In 2006, Agung Laksono, now Yudhoyono's Co-ordinating Minister for People's Welfare, told US embassy officers that TB Silalahi "functioned as a middleman, relaying funds from Winata to Yudhoyono."



Tomy Winata reportedly used the entrepreneur Muhammad Lutfi to give money to Yudhoyono.



Yudhoyono appointed Lutfi chairman of Indonesia's Investment Co-ordinating Board.



Senior State Intelligence Agency official Yahya Asagaf also told the US embassy Tomy Winata was trying to cultivate influence by using a senior presidential aide as his link to the president's wife, Kristiani Herawati.



9. In 2006, one presidential staff member told US embassy officers that Kristiani's family members were "specifically targeting financial opportunities related to state-owned enterprises."



The President was "witting of these efforts, which his closest operators (e.g. Sudi Silalahi) would advance, while Yudhoyono himself maintained sufficient distance that he could not be implicated."



The president's wife is "the president's undisputed top adviser."



"Members of the President's staff increasingly feel marginalised and powerless to provide counsel to the President."



Yahya Asagaf of the State Intelligence Agency said the first lady's opinion is "the only one that matters."



10. "Ten years of political and economic reform have made Indonesia democratic, stable, and increasingly confident about its leadership role in south-east Asia and the Muslim world.



"Indonesia has held successful, free and fair elections; has weathered the global financial crisis; and is tackling internal security threats."



But, a series of political scandals in 2009 and 2010 seriously damaged Yudhoyono's political standing.



Yudhoyono was increasingly "paralyzed" as his popularity diminished.



"Unwilling to risk alienating segments of the parliament, media, bureaucracy and civil society, Yudhoyono has slowed reforms. He is also unwilling to cross any constituencies ...



"Until he is satisfied that he has shored up his political position, Yudhoyono is unlikely to spend any political capital to move his reform agenda, or controversial aspects of US -Indonesia relations, forward."



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