Posted by seumasach on July 25, 2012
23rd July, 2012
Damascus (Agenzia Fides) – Radical Islamist groups in the ranks of the revolutionaries sow terror among civilians in Damascus. Those who pay the consequences are those considered “loyalists”, loyal to the regime of Bashar al Assad. Among the victims, report Fides sources in Damascus, there are also Christians of the suburb of Bab Touma and Iraqi refugees who occupied the suburbs of Oujaira and Sada Zanaim.
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Posted by seumasach on July 25, 2012
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Posted by seumasach on July 25, 2012
25th July, 2012
Washington’s reaction to blasts in Damascus is a downright justification of terrorism, slams Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. US State Department announced that terror acts in Syria are not surprising in light of the Assad regime’s actions.
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Posted by seumasach on July 25, 2012
Is Gilead blocking an attempt by the US to deploy Israel against Syria after the failure of last week’s attempted coup in Syria. If so, the West has suddenly seen its options dramatically reduced.
24th July, 2012
Amos Gilead, head of the defense ministry’s political and security division, said Tuesday that Israel should be on heightened alert and prepared for every eventuality in the Syria conflict, but there was no room for panic. The Syrian ruler is in total control of his unconventional arsenal, he said and called the FSA’s report that chemical weapons had been deployed to airports on Syria’s borders “unrealistic.”
DEBKAfile: The official did not explain the discrepancy between his laid back approach and the warning issued the day before by US President Barack Obama or the words of Israel’s prime minister and defense minister – first when Syria first moved its chemical weapons out of storage and then after Damascus threatened to use them against external attackers.
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Posted by seumasach on July 25, 2012
25th July, 2012
Britain’s former Special Air Service (SAS) commandos are reportedly training armed groups fighting against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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Posted by seumasach on July 25, 2012
Pepe Escobar
25th July, 2012
Once upon a time, early in the previous century, a line in the sand was drawn, from Acre to Kirkuk. Two colonial powers – Britain and France – nonchalantly divided the Middle East between themselves; everything north of the line in the sand was France’s; south, it was Britain’s.
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Posted by seumasach on July 24, 2012
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Posted by seumasach on July 24, 2012
24th July, 2012
An Iraqi parliamentarian has tied the latest chain of terror attacks and persisting insecurity in Iraq to the foreign-sponsored unrest in Syria, insisting that the sources of the violence in both countries are the Saudi-backed al-Qaeda terror elements.
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Posted by seumasach on July 24, 2012
Ah, but it’s non-lethal training!
24th July, 2012
Britain’s former Special Air Service (SAS) commandos are reportedly training armed opposition groups fighting against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, reports say.
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Posted by seumasach on July 24, 2012
John Rosenthal
24th July, 2012
German intelligence estimates that “around 90” terror attacks that “can be attributed to organizations that are close to al-Qaeda or jihadist groups” were carried out in Syria between the end of December and the beginning of July, as reported by the German daily Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). This was revealed
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