Bashar al-Jaafari, Syria’s United Nations representative, speaks to the media at UN headquarters in New York on November 29, 2012 Syria has asked the United Nations to try to “prevent any aggression” against…
Category: Specials
Russia is rejecting American evidence of chemical weapons use inSyria as “inconclusive” and urging the United States to declassify all of its intelligence. “What we were shown before and recently by our American partners, as well as…
The ritualistic month long celebration of Merdeka (independence) activities have largely lost their meaning. Discussion about the roles that different groups played in the road to independence has largely been rewritten to support the current…
St. Petersburg, Russia (CNN) — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Friday criticized Western nations for failing to ensure that weapons it plans to supply to Syrian rebels do not fall into the hands of…
Russia emphatically opposes war on Syria. Throughout months of conflict, it’s gone all out to prevent further escalation. With China, it vetoed three Security Council resolutions to do so. Putin and Obama represent opposing doctrines….
The British parliament’s rejection of military action in Syria this week may be just enough to halt the manic march to all-out war – a war that many fear would not only engulf the Middle…
Syrian Rebels Admit Chemical Attack … Members of the Syrian rebel movement have admitted that they were behind the Aug. 21chemical weapons attack near Damascus, Minnesota’s Mint Press News reported on Thursday. According to the report,…
In order to facilitate the action of liberative (sic) forces, …a special effort should be made to eliminate certain key individuals. …[to] be accomplished early in the course of the uprising and intervention, … Once a political decision has been reached to proceed with internal disturbances in Syria, CIA is prepared, and SIS (MI6) will attempt to mount minor sabotage and coup de main (sic) incidents within Syria, working through contacts with individuals. …Incidents should not be concentrated in Damascus … Further : a “necessary degree of fear .. frontier incidents and (staged) border clashes”, would “provide a pretext for intervention… the CIA and SIS [MI6] should use … capabilities in both psychological and action fields to augment tension.”(Joint US-UK leaked Intelligence Document, London and Washington, 1957)
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen The chief of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) says the alliance does not have any plans for a military action against Syria. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh…
The White House is treating the Syrian government like a potential drone strike victim. President Barack Obama’s preferred method for dealing with targeted individuals is not to throw them into lawless prisons. But it’s also…