(KurtNimmo) – Israel is considering a “buffer zone” stretching ten miles into Syria “to protect itself from fundamentalist rebels on the other side of the border,” the Sunday Times reports. Read the rest of this entry »
(ArutzSheva) – While Russia, Hizbullah, Syria and Lebanon condemned Israel and threatened retaliation over the attack early Wednesday on a convoy carrying Russian-made SA-17 anti-aircraft missiles, and/or of Israel’s alleged attack against a military research center, Syrian rebels said that they were condemning and threatening the wrong guys; it wasn’t Israel that bombed the convoy, the rebels said. Instead, the credit belongs to them. Read the rest of this entry »
(SyriaNews) – Daraya, Syria: It is quite a sure sign that the terrorists in Syria are facing a heavy defeat when their propagandists change their heroic propaganda of victory into wailing. Read the rest of this entry »
(KurtNimmo) – The CIA’s mercenaries in Syria are threatening to kill a Russian journalist unless a $50 million ransom is met by December 13. Word of the deadline arrives as the Obama administration officially recognizes the Free Syrian Army (FSA) as a “legitimate representative” of the Syrian people. Read the rest of this entry »
(KurtNimmo) – State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said Monday Bashar al-Assad is responsible for the presence of the terrorist group al-Nusra in Syria. Read the rest of this entry »
(KurtNimmo) – European Union apparatchiks convened in Brussels on Monday to plot moves against the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad and to plan for a “humanitarian” intervention in Mali. Read the rest of this entry »
Regime pens letter warning that false flag could be used to pave way for NATO attack
(SteveWatson) – The Syrian regime has written to the UN, warning that it believes the US may attempt to frame it by alleging that it has used chemical weapons on so called “rebels”, as well as innocent civilians. Read the rest of this entry »
See Also: (RussiaToday) – Video: Pre-Empty: US ramps up WMD rhetoric against Syria – Video Link Here
(RedFlagNews) – Syrian rebels on Saturday uploaded to YouTube a clip purportedly depicting victims of a chemical weapons attack perpetrated by the regime. The video shows Syrian civilians, some apparently dead and others injured, whose faces were disfigured in a manner that could be caused by a chemical agent.
The rebels claim that the video was filmed in a suburb of Aleppo, where the Syrian regime reportedly maintains its largest depot of chemical weapons. Read the rest of this entry »
(LonInd) – The bigger the lie the more people will believe it. We all know who said that – but it still works. Bashar al-Assad has chemical weapons. He may use them against his own Syrian people. If he does, the West will respond. We heard all this stuff last year – and Assad’s regime repeatedly said that if – if – it had chemical weapons, it would never use them against Syrians. Read the rest of this entry »
(WashingtonsBlog) – If you want to learn what’s really going on in Syria, watch this brief interview with U.S. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell, and the guy who wrote Powell’s famous speech on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction: Read the rest of this entry »
See Also: (Interfax) – Iran starts work on $10 bln pipeline running across Iraq into Syria – Read More Here
(SyriaNews) – The Syrian Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources reported in 2010 that there is evidence for large amounts of oil shale in the region of Khanasser in the district of the Syrian city of Aleppo, amounting to about 37 billion tons, with a thickness of up to 240 meters, and that the oil therein would be of a very high quality and low sulphur content. Read the rest of this entry »
Special forces mass in preparation for final assault
(PaulWatson) – Following the arrival of the USS Eisenhower in the Mediterranean sea just outside Syria, reports are now circulating that other NATO forces are firmly in place to launch an “imminent” Libya-style military assault to topple President Bashar Al-Assad. Read the rest of this entry »
See Also: (Reuters) – Russia, U.S. talk as Syria events “accelerate on the ground” – Read More Here
Also: FLASHBACK – (EUTimes) – Russia Arms Syria With S-300 Missiles To Defend Against NATO Attack – Read More Here
(Hurriyet) – Russia is planning to install Iskander surface missiles in Syria and its Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, in a response to United States missile interceptors in Poland and U.S.-Israeli military aid to Georgia, an Israeli news agency reported on Monday. Read the rest of this entry »
See Also: (RussiaToday) – US to declare leading Syrian opposition group foreign terrorist organization – Read More Here
Also: (NBC) – Video: No evidence Syria mixing chemical agents, Pentagon official says – View Here
(Xinhua) – Military showdown around Syria’s capital Damascus continued Wednesday as the government troops are trying to push the rebels away from the surroundings of the capital at a time when fears mount about Syria’s chemical weapon, local officials said. Read the rest of this entry »
(Reuters) – Western powers are whipping up fear of chemical weapons as a pretext to intervene in Syria, President Bashar al-Assad’s government said on Thursday, after several Western countries said they feared Assad might use poison gas. Read the rest of this entry »
(VoiceofRussia) – The multipurpose nuclear attack carrier the U.S.S. Dwight D Eisenhower is leading the naval assault group which has arrived in the eastern Mediterranean.
It is in close proximity to the coast of Syria. On board the ship are 70 fighter-bombers and a total 8,000 US servicemen. Read the rest of this entry »
See Also: (IND) – Robert Fisk: Syrian war of lies and hypocrisy – Read More Here
This is a war of deals, not bullets.
(AlJazeera) – Deep beneath “Damascus volcano” and “the battle of Aleppo”, the tectonic plates of the global energy chessboard keep on rumbling. Beyond the tragedy and grief of civil war, Syria is also a Pipelineistan power play. Read the rest of this entry »
(LandDestroyer) – Twin car bombs carried out by the Western-backed so-called “rebels” have killed dozens of civilians in a Christian-Druze neighborhood in Damascus, highlighting the sectarian extremism, not “democratic” aspirations, as well as the level of depravity, driving opponents of the Syrian government. Read the rest of this entry »
(LandDestroyer) – The discredited and now obscure, defected Syrian ambassador Nawaf Fares,had claimed mid-summer of 2012 that the Syrian government had been behind the influx of foreign terrorists that entered Iraq during the later phases of the US-British occupation of Iraq. Read the rest of this entry »
(KurtNimmo) – The CIA is working closely with the government of Turkey behind the scenes to exacerbate the situation in Syria and create conditions for a regional war while U.S. officials and NATO publicly call for restraint. Read the rest of this entry »
(KurtNimmo) – “Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists, and not the more secular opposition groups that the West wants to bolster, according to American officials and Middle Eastern diplomats,” the New York Times reported on Monday. Read the rest of this entry »
(FriendsofSyria) – It is as a geographer that Manlio Dinucci scrutinizes the war in Syria: the deployment of NATO forces, the ad hoc coalition that the Alliance put together and, especially, the strategic motive. What is really at stake in this conflict is not regime change, but shutting down the Mediterranean outlet for Iranian gas and controlling Syria’s gas reserves. Read the rest of this entry »
(BusinessInsider) – Syria banned Turkish passenger flights from its airspace from Sunday in a retaliatory move after Turkey confiscated a cargo of what Russia said was radar equipment en route from Moscow to Damascus last week. Read the rest of this entry »
See Also: (PressTV) – Chavez backs Assad, blames US for Syrian crisis – Read More Here
(PressTV) – At his first press conference after his victory in last Sunday’s Venezuelan presidential election, Hugo Chavez reaffirmed his support for the Syrian government during the current unrest. Read the rest of this entry »
(KurtNimmo) – Following days of shelling by Turkey to establish a “buffer zone” in Syria, the United States has sent a military task force of more than 150 planners and other specialists to Jordan to establish a similar zone between Syria and Jordan. The zone on the Syrian side of the border would be enforced by Jordanian troops and be supported politically and logistically by the United States, according to the New York Times. Read the rest of this entry »
(PPLive) – Paul Joseph Watson asks what “values” Mitt Romney thinks America shares with Syrian Rebels who burn U.S. flags, torture and execute prisoners and carry out terrorist attacks.
(KurtNimmo) – The Turkish military shelled Syria for a sixth straight day Monday after the provincial governor’s office claimed a Syrian round landed in a cotton field near the town of Altinozu in the border province of Hatay. Read the rest of this entry »
(KurtNimmo) – Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Saturday that the conflict on the border between Syria and Turkey may spread to neighboring countries and create a regional war. Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – Turkey has warned Syria against making what it calls a fatal mistake by repeating strikes across the border. Turkey fired back Saturday morning after another mortar struck its territory from Syria. No casualties have been reported in the latest exchange, which comes just days after 5 Turkish civilians were killed by Syrian shelling. Read the rest of this entry »
NATO powers desperate to create pretext for regime change
(PaulWatson) – Turkey lied to the United Nations when it claimed that Syria had apologized and taken responsibility for the mortar attack which led to a de facto declaration of war, increasing the likelihood that the shelling was actually carried out by Turkish-backed FSA rebels. Read the rest of this entry »
(HigginsBlog) – In the sick Orwellian nightmare of mass media censorship we live in the media no longer refers to Al Qaeda bombings in Syria as being the work of Al Qaeda. Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – Turkey military continues bombing Syria into the third day after an initial retaliation strike said to be in response to the shelling of a Turkish border. Read the rest of this entry »
Turkey authorizes war, then claims it is not at war with Syria
(PaulWatson) – Following today’s parliamentary authorization for Turkey to conduct military attacks inside Syria, a move that is tantamount to a declaration of war, the assault on Syria is beginning to match precisely a strategy outlined by the neo-conservative Brookings Institution to achieve regime change. Read the rest of this entry »
(LandDestroyer) – After over a year of harboring foreign terrorists and supporting their operations near and across the Turkish-Syrian border, NATO-member Turkey has claimed it has retaliated with military force against “targets” inside Syria for an alleged attack on Turkish territory that it has blamed on the Syrian government. Read the rest of this entry »
See Also: (Currant) – Bachmann: ‘We Must Ban Falafel’ in School Lunches – Read More Here
(LandDestroyer) – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that the US would be providing an additional $45 million in “non-lethal aid” to the “opposition” in Syria, reported the Associated Press. The Western press chose their words carefully, ensuring that the term “civilian opposition” was repeatedly used to describe the armed terrorist forces attempting to violently overthrow the Syrian government. Read the rest of this entry »
(PressTV) – Press TV correspondent in Syria, Maya Naser, has been laid to rest near the country’s western city of Homs in a funeral ceremony attended by Syrian Army personnel. Read the rest of this entry »
Killing of Journalist Maya Naser in Damascus possibly tied to his investigation into Turkey War Crimes
(NSBC) – Wednesday morning the renown journalist Maya Naser was shot dead by a sniper while he was reporting from the scene of two bomb blasts in central Damascus. Maya Naser was working for PRESS TV and Al–Alam in Damascus. Read the rest of this entry »
