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Posted by seumasach on August 30, 2013
Thierry Meyssan
Voltairenet
30th August, 2013
Pretending to believe in a chemical attack by the Syrian government against its own people, Washington, London and Paris are beating the drums of war. Should we take these threats seriously coming from states having announced as imminent the fall of Syria for more than two years? Although one should not exclude this option, Thierry Meyssan thinks it is less likely that an intervention organized by Saudi Arabia. Western agitation would rather aim to test the responses of Russia and Iran.
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Posted by seumasach on August 30, 2013
KUNA
30th August, 2013
ROME, Aug 30 (KUNA) — Italy Friday welcomed the British parliament’s rejection of a government motion to carry out a military strike against Syria, while criticizing lack of coordination among EU countries regarding the military option.
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Posted by seumasach on August 30, 2013
UN Official: Syrian rebels used sarin nerve gas, not Assad’s regime
ABNA
29th August, 2013
(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) – Carla Del Ponte, a member of the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, said testimonies from the victims strongly suggest it was the rebels, not the Syrian government, that used Sarin nerve gas in the eastern Gouta.
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Posted by seumasach on August 29, 2013
Newsmax
29th August, 2013
Any attack on Syria without Congressional approval would be an impeachable act, political commentator Pat Buchanan has told Newsmax in an exclusive interview.
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Posted by seumasach on August 29, 2013
News24
29th August, 2013
Pretoria – Any attack on strife-torn Syria without UN Security Council (UNSC) approval will violate international law, President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday.
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Posted by seumasach on August 29, 2013
[That’s one more ally who won’t be on board. We therefore stand at two definite, France and Turkey, and two possible, Britain if it can get the support of parliament and the UN and the USA, if Obama can finally get round to making a decision after forcing Cameron back from his holiday for an emergency military campaign and then deciding he wasn’t sure after all. Whatever!]
Toronto Sun
28th August, 2013
OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird promises Canada will do more as the “brutal struggle” drags on in Syria – but he says it’s not yet clear whether we have the firepower in the region to contribute to a possible military strike.
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Posted by seumasach on August 29, 2013
Reuters
29th Augiust, 2013
(Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday it was “unthinkable” that Britain would launch military action against Syria to punish and deter it from chemical weapons use if there was strong opposition at the United Nations Security Council.
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Posted by seumasach on August 29, 2013
Indian Express
29th August, 2013
With the United Nations Security Council divided and the western clamour for a strike at Syria becoming imminent, Russia on Thursday said that the country “over the next few days” will be sending an anti-submarine ship and a missile cruiser to the Mediterranean.
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Posted by seumasach on August 29, 2013
Cailean Bochanan
29th August, 2013
David Cameron must have awoken this morning to a dreadful realisation: there likely wasn’t going to be an attack on Syria after all. He would have seen by now Obama’s interview. Apparently, Obama is a ditherer, who still hasn’t been able to make up his mind whether to launch strikes against Syria in a pointless and reckless breach of international law and basic common sense. This a new Obama, a sort of laid-back Hamlet who stresses that he can’t remain indifferent to the totally unacceptable fact that his uncle has killed his father and is now sleeping with his mother and that he is weighing a range of appropriate responses up to and including a possible rapier attack. But, make no mistake, Claudius will be held to account since he, Obama, has incontrovertible evidence, actually from the ghost of his dead father, against him.
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Posted by seumasach on August 29, 2013
Derby Telegraph
29th August, 2013
THE people of Derbyshire say Britain should not take military action in Syria, a Derby Telegraph survey has found.
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Posted by seumasach on August 28, 2013
France’s de Villepin warns against ‘conscience-clearing’ Syria strikes
Yahoo
28th August, 2013
France’s former foreign minister Dominique de Villepin, famed for his passionate 2003 speech at the UN opposing the invasion of Iraq, warned Wednesday against military action in Syria.
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