Syria
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‘Rebels killed Western journalists in Syria, not Assad army’
According to a source working for the office of the medical examiner in Syria, a nail was found in the skull of US journalist Marie Colvin, which proves she was killed by a handmade bomb. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 5 March 2012: Report: “Army Kidnaps Palestinians For Training Purposes”
5 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center WAFA: Israeli Forces Commit 25 Violations Against Journalists in February IMEMC – The Palestinian News and Information Agency, WAFA, issued a report on Monday documenting the violations committed by Israeli forces against Palestinian journalists during February 2012. … Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 5 March 2012: Putin Not Part of NWO, Labelled Evil by Elites
5 March 2012 — Information Clearing House Wikileaks Bin Laden’s Body Taken To US: Stratfor By The Journal Secret emails sent by American based intelligence company Stratfor, give rise to growing speculation the US military did not dispose of Osama Bin Laden’s body at sea. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30718.htm Continue reading
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13 undercover French army officers seized in Syria – report
According to the source, the officers were taken captive in the city of Homs – the heart of the internal conflict between forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, and insurrectionists – and are being held in a field hospital there. The source claims the French and Syrian governments are locked in negotiations over the fate… Continue reading
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The New Mediterranean Oil & Gas Bonanza: Part II By William Engdahl
The discovery in late 2010 of the huge natural gas bonanza off Israel’s Mediterranean shores triggered other neighboring countries to look more closely at their own waters. The results revealed that the entire eastern Mediterranean is swimming in huge untapped oil and gas reserves. That discovery is having enormous political, geopolitical as well as economic… Continue reading
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IED Use by Syrian Rebels Soars By Jason Ditz
The Pentagon’s report says the number of IED attacks is up 134% from December to January, though they insisted that the exact number of attacks is, for some inscrutable reason, classified. Continue reading
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Israeli and US Weapons Found in Syria
Syrian security forces have found US and Israeli-made weapons among the armaments seized to rebels in anti-insurgent operations, Syrian state media reported. Continue reading
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BBC propaganda: “Bashar Assad rapes children” By As’ad AbuKhalil
Propaganda against the Syrian regime is not confined to the Saudi and Qatari Arab media. Western media have largely suspended their journalistic missions and have become willing transmitters of the claims, lies, rumors, fabrications, hoaxes, exaggerations, and stories of the Ikhwan-dominated Syrian opposition. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (and there are two organizations by… Continue reading
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Imperialist-backed conferences set stage for intervention in Somalia & Syria By Abayomi Azikiwe
Back-to-back conferences held Feb. 23-24 to determine the destiny of Somalia and Syria took place outside the respective countries with the full backing of the imperialist states, guaranteeing that these efforts oppose the best interests of the two countries’ people. Continue reading
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Mossad, Blackwater, CIA Led Operations in Homs By Israa Al-Fass
Around 700 Arab and Western gunmen surrendered in Baba Amro, well-informed sources told Al-Manar website, adding that “huge and critical surprises will be uncovered in the coming few days… such as the kinds of arms seized, as well as the military tactics the armed groups followed, and the sides that supervised the operations.” Continue reading
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Syria: Aljazeera massages the message
This is rather explosive. You know how low Aljazeera has sunk when Syrian regime TV stations have a field day with the shoddy journalism and fabrication procedures of Aljazeera. It seems that people inside Aljazeera have leaked raw footage and pre-air reports to someone in Syrian regime TV. Continue reading
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Syrian security forces arrest foreign gunmen in Baba Amr
According to reports many of those detained are Arab nationals, among them Qatari intelligence agents. Others are reportedly from Afghanistan, Turkey and a number of European countries, including France. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 3 March 2012
3 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Accepts Appeal Against New Settlement Plan In HebronIMEMC – The Israeli Higher Planning Council, running under the Military leadership in the occupied West Bank, accepted an appeal against a construction plan for a new Israeli settlement, south of the southern West Bank city of… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 3 March 2012: Annihilation Hovers over Palestine, Not Israel
3 March 2012 — Information Clearing House Annihilation Hovers over Palestine, Not Israel By Imtiaz Muqbil As the threat of Iran‘s nuclear potential is hyped in Tel Aviv and Washington, it is the people in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem who are in real danger. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30704.htm Continue reading
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Hillary Clinton and Middle East war crimes By Bill Van Auken
The ratcheting up of Washington’s rhetoric is aimed at winning public support for yet another imperialist intervention in the Middle East, with regime-change once again dressed up as a crusade for human rights. Clinton’s statement, however, begs a question. How precisely does she determine when armed violence against civilians constitutes a war crime? Continue reading
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Arms supplies to Syrian opposition call for legal evaluation – Russia
An armed antigovernment mutiny has been crushed in the Syrian city of Homs. More than 100 mercenaries have been seized. The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has admitted that supplying arms to Syrian rebels is in no way contributing to a settlement in Syria. The Russian Foreign Ministry has, for its part, urged the United Nations… Continue reading
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Syria: Western Bloodlust Unleashed In Service Of Regime Change
Statements from Western leaders on Syria have grown harsh, if not menacing, as criticisms of the Bashar Assad government are unleashed and regime change becomes a common theme. Continue reading
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Video: Gunmen executing people in the streets – Homs eyewitness
RT in Damascus managed to contact an eyewitness in Homs, who says gunmen are killing civilians in the streets. Galina says leaving home is out of the question, as snipers “can shoot you in the back.” Continue reading
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Red Cross officials arrive in Homs
3 March, 2012 — Voice of Russia Officials of the International Red Cross have arrived in the Baba Amr area of the city of Homs, known to be the worst-damaged during the recent clashes between the Syrian government troops and armed opposition units. Access to the area has been closed by the authorities for security… Continue reading
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