What The Frack Is Going On?

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[DailyBail]

Buried Secrets

http://www.propublica.org/series/buried-secrets-gas-drillings-environmental-threat

[john]

Mideast peace envoy Mitchell to resign: official

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/13/us-mideast-usa-mitchell-idUSTRE74C4CY20110513

[snip]

Obama has recently made changes to his Middle East policy team and named Daniel Shapiro, a senior adviser who has helped shape the response to the Middle East upheaval, as his nominee to be the new U.S. ambassador to Israel.

Who is Daniel Shapiro?

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/142470

and what about his background?

http://www.pon.harvard.edu/faculty/daniel-shapiro/

[snip]

Dr. Shapiro directs the Harvard International Negotiation Program, a pioneering research program on the emotional and identity-based dimensions of regional conflict and terrorism. He travels throughout the United States and the world teaching negotiation to groups such as governmental officials, corporate executives, lawyers, psychologists, and dispute resolution professionals. He also is an advisor to the International Criminal Court. During the Bosnian War, he conducted conflict management trainings in Croatia and Serbia. Through funding from the Soros Foundation, he developed a conflict management program that now reaches one million people across more than 30 countries.

[john]

U.S. Shift to Mideast Crisis Management

http://www.cfr.org/israel/us-shift-mideast-crisis-management/p24974

[snip]

Now, Washington faces the looming challenges of a Palestinian government that it may not be able to talk to and a potential diplomatic crisis in September that could spark renewed violence on the ground.

[john]

Blackwater Founder Builds Mideast Mercenary Army to Put Down Revolts

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/blackwater-founder-building-mercenary-army-to-put-down-arab-revolts/

[john]

Here is an even better in depth article regarding Erik Prince.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/world/middleeast/15prince.html?pagewanted=5&_r=3&hp

[snip]

Emirati military officials had promised that if this first battalion was a success, they would pay for an entire brigade of several thousand men. The new contracts would be worth billions, and would help with Mr. Prince’s next big project: a desert training complex for foreign troops patterned after Blackwater’s compound in Moyock, N.C. But before moving ahead, U.A.E. military officials have insisted that the battalion prove itself in a “real world mission.”

That has yet to happen. So far, the Latin American troops have been taken off the base only to shop and for occasional entertainment.

On a recent spring night though, after months stationed in the desert, they boarded an unmarked bus and were driven to hotels in central Dubai, a former employee said. There, some R2 executives had arranged for them to spend the evening with prostitutes.

[john]

Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged sustained cross-border fire on Sunday, security officials said, a day after an Indian soldier was killed by Pakistani troops while patrolling one of the world's most heavily guarded borders.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/15/us-india-pakistan-shooting-idUSTRE74E11F20110515

[john]

Drug gangs in remote Guatemala kill 27, beheading most

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/05/15/114227/drug-gangs-in-remote-guatemala.html

Note: read my 4:43 post.Pay attention to the following sentence ' So far, the Latin American troops have been taken off the base only to shop and for occasional entertainment'.

Remember the School of the Americas? XE and other contractors tend to use Latin American 'troops' for certain operations.