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Russia warns US over Syria

Posted by seumasach on August 26, 2013

Russia warns US of ‘extremely dangerous’ fallout of strike on Syria

PressTV

26th August, 2013

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned the United States against the ‘extremely dangerous consequences’ of military action against Syria.

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The madness before the fall

Posted by seumasach on August 25, 2013

Cailean Bochanan

25th August, 2013

William Hague seems to be quite sure that the Syrian government is responsible for the chemical weapons attack last week. Presumably, he arrived at this conclusion through a process of elimination: it couldn’t possibly have been carried out by Al Qaida, alleged perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks. Oh no! They couldn’t have done a thing like that!

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Defeated NATO dangerously desperate in Syria

Posted by seumasach on August 25, 2013

Did the West Gas Thousands to Rescue Failed Syrian War?

Tony Cartalucci

Activist Post

24th August, 2013

As far back as 2007, it was a documented fact that the West, including the United States and its allies Saudi Arabia and Israel, conspired to use terrorists drawn from the ranks of the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda in an attempt to overthrow the governments of Iran and Syria.

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Sabbahi: Not a coup, but popular revolution

Posted by seumasach on August 25, 2013

Ahram Online

24TH AUGUST. 2013

Egypt is currently at war against terrorism, and the people are backing the army and the police, ex-presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi told Slovakian Ambassador in Cairo Anton Pinter Saturday, in one of a series of meetings Sabbahi has been holding with ambassadors in recent weeks.

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Chemical attack: ‘rough work’ of Syrian opposition

Posted by seumasach on August 24, 2013

Voice of Russia

22nd August, 2013

Russia has declared that according to its information, chemical weapons in the suburbs of Damascus had been used (on August 21) by opposition militants, and not the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. The accusations in the address of the government troops are based on unverified information. And the aggressive campaign in regional and Western media only confirms that this refers to a “prearranged provocation”. This came as a special statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry. It is not for the first time that such provocations occur.

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Sarin gas : a new propaganda campaign against Syria

Posted by seumasach on August 23, 2013

Voltairenet

23rd August, 2013

According to the Free Syrian Army, the Syrian authorities have bombarded the ghoutta, a suburb of Damascus, with sarin gas, Wednesday, August 21, 2013, resulting in a total of 1700 deaths. This announcement was immediately commented on by German, British and French authorities who have called an emergency meeting of the Security Council so that UN observers can be allowed to investigate. All of this information is taken over by the Atlanticist media as a certainty, the conditional being formally employed to allow investigators time to report evidence in the West.

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Russia suggests Syria ‘chemical attack’ was ‘planned provocation by rebels

Posted by seumasach on August 21, 2013

RT

21st August, 2013

Reports by “biased regional media” about alleged chemical weapons use near Damascus might be “a provocation planned in advance,” says Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Aleksandr Lukashevich.

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No US solution to quell chaos in Egypt, Syria

Posted by seumasach on August 20, 2013

“With regard to Syria, the US is yet to deliver on its promise to send weapons to Syrian rebels after the White House in June concluded that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government used chemical weapons.”

“Also limiting Washington’s options is the fact that Americans have no taste for overseas conflicts after a brutal war in Iraq and more than a decade in Afghanistan.”

DNA India

20th August, 2013

Spiralling violence has engulfed Cairo and has spread nationwide after the recent military takeover of power from the Muslim Brotherhood.

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Russia announces preliminary Geneva2 meeting

Posted by seumasach on August 20, 2013

Russia: Preliminary Meeting for International Conference on Syria Will Be Held Next Week

Fars News Agency

20th August, 2013

TEHRAN (FNA)- Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Gennady Gatilov, said that the US-Russian preliminary meeting for the international conference on Syria in Geneva will be held in the Hague next week.
ITAR-TASS quoted Gatilov as saying that the meeting will be held on the level of deputy foreign ministers.
Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN envoy to Syria, will take part in the meeting.

 

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Syria faces a systematic terrorism

Posted by seumasach on August 19, 2013

Archbishop of Sebastia: Those, who set fire to churches in Egypt also destroy Syria

Syria News

18th August, 2013

The Archbishop of Sebastia from the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Theodosios (Atallah Hanna) of Sebastia, made several statements about the current violence and chaos in Egypt as well as about the Syrian conflict and the gruesome deeds of the Takfiri groups in both Arab states in a meeting with figures from the occupied area of Jerusalem (al-Quds).

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Syria rebels fight each other in Raqa

Posted by seumasach on August 17, 2013

[The FSA, increasingly controlled by the US via Saudi Arabia, is now engaged in battle against jihadists formerly supported by the US via Turkey and Qatar.This reformed FSA will presumably attend the Geneva2 conference representing “the rebels” although not the ones they’re now eliminating.]

Middle East Online

15th August, 2013

BEIRUT – A jihadist group has expelled rebel Free Syrian Army fighters from their positions in the northern city of Raqa, a watchdog reported on Wednesday.

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