Posted by seumasach on September 3, 2012
Checkmate! As the US top brass veto overt military intervention in Syria Cameron, Hollande and Erdogan are left twisting in the wind.
30th, August, 2012
Dempsey warned against the viability of creating safe zones and helping bring rebels with terrorist ties to power in Syria
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Posted by seumasach on September 3, 2012
3rd September, 2012
A group of Israelis have gathered outside the house of the Israeli Minister for Military Affairs Ehud Barak to protest against a potential military strike against Iran.
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Posted by seumasach on September 2, 2012
1st September, 2012
After a completely meaningless resignation, Libya’s Interior Minister has finally come clean and is saying that the police will not in any way interfere with Islamist violence. Most newspapers are not carrying his full remarks and their real implications.
Interior minister Fawzi Abdel A’al initially offered his resignation on Saturday after he was criticized for not doing enough to stop the Tripoli assault, which took place in broad daylight in the center of the city as security forces looked on.
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Posted by seumasach on September 2, 2012
1st September, 2012
The Turkish People are taking to the streets in support of the Syrian people and against the USA. They are now getting fed up with Erdogan helping the USA starting wars. The USA are now making more and more enemies around the world because of Hillary Clinton’s actions and Obama’s foreign policy.
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Posted by seumasach on September 2, 2012
But observations made by German journalist Daniel Etter during a recent visit to rebel-controlled towns near the embattled city of Aleppo suggest that there is no mere “presence” of jihadists among the rebels: religiously-inspired mujahideen is what the rebels are. The real question is whether there is a presence of anything else.
John Rosenthal
14th August, 2012
Asia Times
There has recently been a small stir in the American media, as media organizations from the New York Times to the Wall Street Journal to the Associated Press have finally gotten around to acknowledging a “presence” of al-Qaeda and like-minded jihadist groups among the Syrian rebel forces seeking to topple the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
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Posted by seumasach on September 2, 2012
2nd September, 2012
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called for Tony Blair and George Bush to be hauled before the international criminal court in The Hague and delivered a damning critique of the physical and moral devastation caused by the Iraq war.
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Posted by seumasach on September 2, 2012
2nd September, 2012
The UN Security Council’s push for a human corridor in Syria, which critics say could bring military intervention, has sparked protests in Germany. About 1,000 people gathered in Frankfurt demanding an end to foreign meddling in the Syrian conflict.
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Posted by seumasach on September 1, 2012
1st September, 2012
Amidst the old familiar platitudes, one ‘action point’ stood out in the NAM summit in Tehran that is about to conclude later today — initiative on Syria. The details are yet to be unveiled, but the content is immaterial since it is going to be robustly contested anyway and may not endure. The big powers have their own axe to grind.
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Posted by seumasach on September 1, 2012
Kaveh Afrasiabi
1st September, 2012
Egypt and Iran this week took a giant step toward overcoming their diplomatic estrangement, brought together by the exigencies of a global movement and, even more so, a complex regional calculus that has a long history of being shaped by foreign powers.
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Posted by seumasach on September 1, 2012
28th September, 2012
TEHRAN, Aug. 28 (MNA) – Foreign ministers of the Non-Aligned Movement issued a draft statement on Tuesday in which they stated the Syrian crisis must be resolved without foreign intervention and welcomed Lakhdar Brahimi as the representative of the UN secretary general for Syria, replacing Kofi Annan.
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Posted by seumasach on September 1, 2012
1st September, 2012
The UN Security Council has no right to support a revolution or foreign intervention in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned. Any plan to withdraw government troops while fighting continues is untenable, and naïve at best, he added.
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