Mystery Sponsor Of Weapons And Money To Syrian Mercenary “Rebels” Revealed
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/16/2013 Previously, when looking at the real underlying national interests responsible for the deteriorating situation in Syria, which eventually may and/or will devolve into all out war with hundreds of thousands killed, we made it very clear that it was always and only about the gas, or gas pipelines to [...]
UN says US drones violate Pakistan’s sovereignty
Mar 15, 2013 Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The head of a U.N. team investigating casualties from U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan declared after a secret research trip to the country that the attacks violate Pakistan’s sovereignty. Ben Emmerson, the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, said the Pakistani government made clear to [...]
Karzai Accuses U.S. of Taliban Collusion as Hagel Visits
By Gopal Ratnam – Mar 10, 2013 Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was greeted on his first visit to Afghanistan since taking office by suicide bombs, threats and Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s accusation that the U.S. is colluding with the Taliban. As Hagel prepared to leave a U.S. military compound in Kabul on March 9, a [...]
UN Syrian Envoy: Syria ‘Breaking Apart’
UN-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, January 11, 2013. Margaret Besheer January 29, 2013 UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations-Arab League envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, warned Tuesday that Syria “is being destroyed” and called on a divided U.N. Security Council to take action to prevent the situation from escalating further. Brahimi held private [...]
Revealed: America’s Arms Sales To Bahrain Amid Bloody Crackdown
A Bahraini Shiite protester is detained by riot police during a demonstration in September 2012. The U.S. has long sold military equipment to the small Mideast nation’s government. (Mohammed Al-Shaikh/AFP/GettyImages) by Justin Elliott ProPublica, Jan. 15, 2013 Despite Bahrain’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, the U.S. has continued to provide weapons and maintenance to the [...]
Russia Calls for Political Transition in Syria
VOA News Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov (L) arrives at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva, January 11, 2013 January 12, 2013 Russia is calling for a political transition process in Syria, but has stopped short of saying President Bashar al-Assad should relinquish power as part of a deal to end the country’s [...]
Cleric Issues Fatwa Allowing Gang Rape of Syrian Women
Tue, January 1, 2013 Printer-friendly version A Saudi Arabian imam, who is a very influential cleric in jihadist circles, has issued a fatwa (religious edict) that essentially allows all jihadists fighting in Syria to rape women. Muhammed al-Arifi, a Wahhabi religious cleric, officially calls this act an “intercourse marriage” that can last only a few [...]
Could Saudi Arabia be next?
Monday 31 December 2012 Nobody can predict which way the ‘Arab Awakening’ will turn this year. But Robert Fisk has ventured a very tentative punt or two… Syria ‘Yes, Assad will go. One day. He says as much. But don’t expect it to happen in the immediate future. Or Gaddafi-style.’ Israel and the Palestinian [...]
US, French Troops Prepare For Syria Invasion In Response To “Chemical Weapons” Threat
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/06/2012 The 8 day mini war between Israel and Gaza has come and gone and any attempts at provoking a wider regional conflict, one involving Iran (if indeed this was the intention), have failed. Which means the fallback plan – Syria – is back in play. And sure enough, as [...]
U.S.-Approved Weapons Transfer Ended Up With Libyan Jihadis
By JAMES RISEN, MARK MAZZETTI and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT Published: December 5, 2012 WASHINGTON — The Obama administration secretly gave its blessing to arms shipments to Libyan rebels from Qatar last year, but American officials later grew alarmed as evidence grew that Qatar was turning some of the weapons over to Islamic militants, according to [...]
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