Archive for the ‘Drive to Global War’ Category
Posted by seumasach on July 3, 2013
This army statement seems to be a reference to precisely this issue: “We swear to God that we will sacrifice even our blood for Egypt and its people, to defend them against any terrorist, radical or fool,”
Morsy role at Syria rally seen as tipping point for Egypt army
Egypt Independent
3rd July, 2013
Army concern about the way President Mohamed Morsy was governing Egypt reached tipping point when the head of state attended a rally packed with hardline fellow Islamists calling for holy war in Syria, military sources said.
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Posted by seumasach on July 1, 2013
Huffington Post
30th June, 2013
TUNIS. As the Obama administration has parried pressures to enmesh the United States more deeply in Syria’s murderous civil war, last year’s high tide of international insistence on Bashar al-Assad’s departure seems to be receding. One sign has been in eroding vote tallies in the United Nations. Another is the very public rethinking of Syria policy one hears here in Tunisia, where the Arab uprisings began.
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Posted by seumasach on July 1, 2013
Francois Murad, Catholic Priest Beheaded By Jihadist Fighters In Syria, Vatican Confirm
Huffington Post
1st July, 2013
A Catholic priest has been beheaded by jihadist fighters in Syria, it has been confirmed by the official Vatican news agency.
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Posted by seumasach on June 30, 2013
Russia Accused Saudi Arabia Of “Arming International Terrorists In Syria”
In Serbia
27th June, 2013
The Russian Foreign Ministry has accused Saudi Arabia of financing international terrorists in Syria, a commentary of official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich says in connection with the statement of Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia, Prince Saud al Faisal, who blamed Russia for unlimited military support of mass killings in Syria.
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Posted by seumasach on June 29, 2013
PressTV
29th June, 2013
The former US national security adviser says the ongoing crisis in Syria has been orchestrated by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and their western allies.
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Posted by seumasach on June 29, 2013
“Details of Britain’s potential long-term role emerged during Mr Cameron’s visit. He backed up the view of Lieutenant-General Nick Carter, deputy commander of Nato’s forces, who said earlier today that the west should have opened political talks with the Taliban a decade ago.”
Now they tell us!
Telegraph
29th June, 2013
The Prime Minister, on a visit to the country to mark Armed Forces Day, said the settlement put in place after the Allied invasion in 2001, which drove the Taliban out of power, “could have been better arranged.”
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Posted by seumasach on June 27, 2013
Al-Jaafari: No meaningful conference can be held if weapons continue to flow into Syria
SANA
26th June, 2013
New York, (SANA)_ Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari said that the UN Assistant secretary-general for political affairs Oscar Fernandez-Taranco has not provided a complete picture of the situation in the Middle East, especially as regards the situation in the Syrian Golan.
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Posted by seumasach on June 27, 2013
La résistance de la Syrie, un casse-tête sans solution pour l’Occident
Ghaleb Kandil
Voltairenet
24th June, 2013
La guerre universelle menée par Barack Obama contre la Syrie est entrée dans une nouvelle phase après une remobilisation des moyens sous l’égide de l’Arabie saoudite et de la France. La répartition des rôles a eu lieu à la réunion de Doha.
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Posted by seumasach on June 27, 2013
Voltairenet
26th June, 2013
The second USA-Russia-UN meeting, which was held on 25 June 2013 in Geneva, was no more successful than the one held on 5 June: Participants parted without fixing a date for “Geneva 2” or drawing up the list of participants.
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Posted by seumasach on June 27, 2013
AKI
26th June, 2013
Telkalakh, 26 June (AKI) – The Syrian army backed by pro-government militia have overrun the strategic western town of Telkalakh, close to the Lebanese border, an opposition watchdog reported on Wednesday.
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Posted by seumasach on June 27, 2013
For all the huff and puff the Americans understand that the options they face are regional, possibly global war or the Geneva II peace conference. Uncharacteristically all options are not on the table.
Arab News
27th June, 2013
More than 100,000 people have been killed in Syria’s uprising, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The death toll from the civil war is now 100,191 people, it said.
Violence raged as US Secretary of State John Kerry ruled out a military solution for Syria and called for a settlement based on last year’s Geneva peace plan.
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