Posted by seumasach on September 14, 2013
14th September, 2013
US President Barack Obama will drop his insistence that the threat of a military strike be included in a UN resolution on Syria, a move that could clear the way for a compromise between Russia and the United States at talks in Geneva.
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Posted by seumasach on September 11, 2013
“On the other hand, many of the “cold warriors” in the Washington establishment who harbor antipathy toward Russia also happen to form a vocal segment of the war camp clamoring for regime change in Syria – whom Obama is neatly sidestepping by his decision to work with Russia.”
M.K.Bhadrakumar
11th September, 2013
Through an agonizing Tuesday, with the prospects alternating between good, indifferent or bad, the idea of the international community taking control over Syria’s chemical weapon stockpiles seemed struggling to take off.
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Posted by seumasach on September 11, 2013
11th November, 2013
TEHRAN (FNA)- Russia passed proof of the use of chemical weapons by the militants inside Syria to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
“There are suspicions that the militants have used these (chemical) weapons repeatedly,” said the Head of Duma international affairs committee Alexei Pushkov on Wednesday, adding “Russia has just passed existing proof to the UN Security Council”, press tv reported.
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Posted by seumasach on September 10, 2013
Gareth Porter
10th September, 2013
WASHINGTON – Contrary to the general impression in the United States Congress and the news media, the Syria chemical warfare intelligence summary released by the Barack Obama administration August 30 did not represent an intelligence community assessment, an IPS analysis and interviews with former intelligence officials reveals. The evidence indicates that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper culled intelligence analyses from various agencies and by the White House itself, but that the White House itself had the final say in the contents of the document.
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Posted by seumasach on September 10, 2013
“We call for strikes and we warn the international community that this [Assad] regime tells lies, and the liar [Russian President Vladimir] Putin is its teacher. Putin is the biggest liar,” Free Syrian Army chief Selim Idriss told Al Jazeera.
“The regime wants to buy time to save itself,”Idriss added.
A glowing testimonial to Vladimir Putin coming as it does from the FSA
10th September, 2013
Damascus welcomes Russia’s call to hand control over its chemical weapons to the international community, the Syrian foreign minister said responding to Sergey Lavrov’s statement after the two met in Moscow.
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Posted by seumasach on September 10, 2013
This is a good line for the warmongers, claiming their threats led to a “turnaround” by Russia. A bit like “Stop the War” claiming a few people milling around in a square listening to denunciations of Assad “stopped the war”.
Top French diplomat: Russian ‘turnaround’ on Syria’s chemical weapons due to Western pressure
10th September, 2013
PARIS – France’s top diplomat is trumpeting Western pressure for leading to a “turnaround” in Russia’s position about chemical weapons in Syria.
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Posted by seumasach on September 10, 2013
These claims by HRW are the final, definitive proof that Assad didn’t do it!
Syrian regime behind chemical attack: Human Rights Watch
10th September, 2013
An international human rights group says evidence “strongly suggest” that Syrian government forces fired rockets with warheads containing a nerve agent into a Damascus suburb in August, killing hundreds of people there.
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Posted by seumasach on September 10, 2013
Fall-out from the US-Russian entente over Syria will be coming thick and fast. Firstly, of course, from that unhappy band, the Syrian “rebels” now in despair over Obama’s “useless procrastination”.
10th September, 2013
BEIRUT: Syria’s main opposition group denounced as a “political manoeuvre” a Russian plan to head off threatened punitive US airstrikes on Syria by destroying the regime’s chemical weapons.
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Posted by seumasach on September 10, 2013
Obama again puts military strike – and vote in Congress – on hold to give Russian proposal a chance
10th September, 2013
US president Barack Obama went against the words of his advisers, Secretary of State John Kerry and National Security Adviser Susan Rice Monday, and offered in TV interviews early Tuesday, Sept. 10, to “absolutely” put on hold military action against Syria, as well as the vote in Congress, if Bashar Assad abandoned chemical weapons. He said he found some positive signs in the Russian proposal [for Assad to hand over his chemical arsenal to international control] and said he was willing to run it to ground in the next few days to see if the Syrian issue can’t be solved without the military option.
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Posted by seumasach on September 9, 2013
9th September, 2013
MOSCOW, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Russia urged Syria on Monday to put its chemical weapons under international control in the hope that this would avert U.S. military strikes over an alleged gas attack, and President Bashar al-Assad’s government said it welcomed the proposal.
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Posted by seumasach on September 5, 2013
[The treacherous role of the left as anti-Assad, anti-Ghaddafi propagandists in the whole “Arab Spring”episode cannot be overstated. This is another group heading for a fall after this madness finally plays itself out.]
How “Progressives” and the American “Left” are Failing Over Syria
Shamus Cooke
3rd September, 2013
September 03, 2013 “Information Clearing House – It’s now painfully clear that Obama’s war on Syria is a replay of Bush’s march to war in Iraq, both built on lies. Zero evidence has been put forth that proves the Syrian government used chemical weapons. On the contrary, evidence has been collected that suggests the U.S.-backed Syrian rebels are responsible for the attack.
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In These New Times 