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Siege of Bani Walid

Posted by seumasach on October 9, 2012

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Turkey shows double duplicity on Syria

Posted by seumasach on October 9, 2012

Kaveh Afrasiabi

Asia Times

10th October, 2012

With the blessing of the US and its other North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) partners, as well as its own national legislature if not the entire Turkish population, some of whom have been holding mass rallies in opposition to Ankara’s war policy vis-a-vis Syria, the Turkish government has resorted to a double hypocrisy.

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Maliki in Russia for huge arms deal, Syria agreement

Posted by seumasach on October 9, 2012

This epitomises the total failure of the USA to take control of the Middle East as ,once again, a government imposed under US occupation escapes their control

Times of Oman

9th October, 2012

AFP: Russia: Russia eyes a record arms deal and rare agreement over Syria on Tuesday when it hosts Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki for the first time in almost four years.

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Has the world gone mad!!!!!! Is terrorism now fashionable?

Posted by seumasach on October 9, 2012

Friends of Syria

8th October, 2012

Rebel: a person who rises in opposition or armed resistance against an established government or leader.

Terrorist: a person who uses terrorism in the pursuit of political aims.

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Demonstrations and anger of Erdogan in Turkey over Syria grows

Posted by seumasach on October 9, 2012

Friends of Syria

8th October, 2012

Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi affirmed on Monday that what Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said reflects obvious political and diplomatic confusion and blundering.

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BBC finds crates of Saudi weapons in Syrian rebel base

Posted by seumasach on October 9, 2012

John Glaser

Antiwar

8th October

For several months now it has been known that the US is cooperating with its allies in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar to provide aid and weapons to the rebel fighters in Syria. While the US has sent “non-lethal” aid to the rebels – like money, communications gear, and intelligence – it was also sent the CIA to the Turkish-Syrian border to funnel weapons coming primarily from Saudi Arabia and Qatar to various rebels. In recent weeks, the Obama administration has redoubled these efforts, sending more spies to help organize the Syrian rebels and tens of millions more in aid.

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Syria: The Grenades on Turkey are NATO Ammunition

Posted by seumasach on October 8, 2012

Syrian News

6th October, 2012

This is a translation of the recent blog post by the German Blog “Alles Schall und Rauch” about the allegedly attack of a Turkish border town by the Syrian Arab Army. It seems that NATO ammunition was used in this attack.

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NATO rebels obvious suspects in mortar attack

Posted by seumasach on October 8, 2012

Syria’s Ayn El Isa village was in the control of the rebels when the mortar shells were fired to the Akcakale

Summary of the article by the Turkish Yurt Newspaper

Libya S.O.S.

7th October, 2012

It was confirmed that Syria’s Ayn El Isa village was in the control of the rebels for 10 days when the mortar shells were fired to the Turkish town Akcakale and killed 5 Turkish civilians.

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Al qaeda terrorists are not freedom fighters!

Posted by seumasach on October 7, 2012

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Security Council press statement on terrorist attacks in Allepo

Posted by seumasach on October 6, 2012

United Nations

5th October, 2012

The following Security Council statement was issued today by Council President Gert Rosenthal ( Guatemala):

 

The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attacks in Aleppo, Syria, on 3 October, causing dozens of deaths and over 100 civilians injured, responsibility for which was claimed by the Jebhat al-Nusra group affiliated with Al-Qaida.  They expressed their deep sympathy and sincere condolences to the families of the victims of these heinous acts and to the people of Syria.

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Syria investigating source of gunfire on Turkey

Posted by seumasach on October 4, 2012

Fars News Agency

4th October, 2012

TEHRAN (FNA)- Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi said that relevant authorities in Syria are investigating the source of the Wednesday mortar fire on a border town in Turkey.

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