Posted by seumasach on May 22, 2013
“Last year, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and CIA Director David Petraeus presented the White House with a plan to arm some elements of the Syrian opposition that was supported by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey. The White House rejected the Clinton-Petraeus plan.”
Obama successfully marginalised the above but now faces a Congress intent on taking over the war-mongering baton
Senate Moves Toward Arming the Syrian Rebels
Daily Beast
22nd May, 2013
So far the Obama administration has pledged only nonlethal and humanitarian aid, but the Senate Foreign Relations Committee wants to go much further—approving a bill Tuesday to arm the rebels.
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Posted by seumasach on May 22, 2013
Fars News Agency
22nd May, 2013
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Syrian troopers detained dozens of foreign officers in the restive al-Qusseir region, sources said on Tuesday, adding that most of the detainees were from France, Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Qatar.
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Posted by seumasach on May 22, 2013
PressTV
22nd May, 2013
Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi has lauded the army’s achievements in its fight against the militants operating in the country, saying that “victory is nearing.”
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Posted by seumasach on May 22, 2013
Albawaba
22nd May, 2013
The core ministerial members of the “Friends of Syria” group is due to meet in Amman on Wednesday, in a bid to put forward a solution that will bring the ongoing violence in Syria to an end, officials said.
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Posted by seumasach on May 21, 2013
Cailean Bochanan
21st May, 2013
As the Syrian army continues to reclaim its control over sovereign territory the West faces complete failure and humiliation. Failure because utter hubris has led us into overreach and humiliation because defeat has exposed the nefarious nature of our engagement with Salafist terrorists and NATO death squads and our complicity with, amongst other things, the ethnic cleansing of Christians, our presumed co-religionaries. All that matters now is that realism prevail and we go into reverse gear. We must end our aggression against Syria and we can do so under the cover of a “peace process” being provide for us by the Russians. This allows us to pose as mediators between a legitimate government which we have tried and failed to overthrow and the armed gangs which we have sponsored to that end. We have been given a lifeline, a chance to repackage ourselves as bringers of peace rather than murder and mayhem. Let us take this opportunity with open arms!
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Posted by seumasach on May 21, 2013
TEHRAN (FNA)- Moscow did not want to rush into a new international conference on Syria unprepared and risk an embarrassing failure, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
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Posted by seumasach on May 21, 2013
Hubris leading to a fall. Now the aggressors have to pick up the peaces of this dreadful mess they’ve got themselves into. They have been exposed as sponsors of Islamic terrorism, apologists for the ethnic cleansing of Christians and bringers of chaos and mayhem in the name of democracy. This is a disgraceful end to the imperial project but all that matters now is that realism should prevail and a global peace process based on a strategic partnership between the US and Russia be initiated. Obama, I think, has understood this but hardline elements and vested interests fear the consequences of retreat.
PressTV
An Israeli website has said in an article that the US, Turkey, and Israel had made “strategic errors” on their assessments of the situation in Syria.
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Posted by seumasach on May 20, 2013
Chinese Creating New Auto Niche Within Detroit
New York Times
12th May, 2013
DETROIT — Dozens of companies from China are putting down roots in Detroit, part of the country’s steady push into the American auto industry.
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Posted by seumasach on May 19, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Indian Punchline
18th May, 2013
The Turkish prime minister Recep Erdogan’s visit to Washington on Thursday was expected to put pressure on the Obama administration to take a tougher stance against the Syrian regime. Erdogan was quoted as seeking the imposition of a US-led ‘no-fly-zone’ in Syria and increased arms supplies to the rebel fighters. In the event, however, Obama stood his ground and insisted there is no “magic formula” to resolve the crisis. Of course, he couched the rebuff in extravagant diplomatic niceties during the joint press conference in the White House, but it was a rebuff nonetheless.
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Posted by seumasach on May 18, 2013
PressTV
18th May, 2013
On 11 May, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claimed that his country was completing its delivery of surface-to-air missiles to Syria. “Russia is not planning to sell – Russia has sold and signed contracts a long time ago, and is completing supplies of the equipment – which is anti-aircraft systems, according to the already signed contracts,” Lavrov told reporters in Warsaw.
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Posted by seumasach on May 18, 2013
PressTV
18th May, 2013
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Erdogan went to Washington this week with a shopping list for more direct American intervention in the NATO regime-change operation in Syria.
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