SYRIA: Arab League Observer Mission Refutes Mainstream Media Narrative
Global Research
February 1, 2012
http://blogs.taz.de/netizenblog
The Arab League Observer Mission succeeded in providing a different perspective from that of the mainstream western media about what has been happening on the ground in Syria. After a resolution by the Arab League which was worked out in an agreement with the Syrian government, Observers from the League went to Syria and provided a means of investigating what was happening.
The report of the Observers mission that was concluded on January 19, noted several important observations.(1)
1. The mission noted that there were false reports being made of explosions or violence and when the observers went to the location, they found that the reports were unfounded.
2. The mission found that media accounts were exaggerated about the nature of incidents or numbers of people killed in incidents and protests.
3. There were discrepancies in the lists the Mission received of people in detention. Names were repeated, or information was missing or inaccurate about detainees.
4. The Mission observed armed groups committing acts of violence against Government forces, resulting in the death and injury of the forces being attacked. Some of the armed groups were using flares and armour-piercing projectiles.
5. A French journalist who was killed and a Belgium journalist who was injured were the victims of opposition mortar shells.
6. The mission was the target of a hostile media campaign with media publishing untrue statements, distorting the truth, and attributing statements to the head of the mission which were never made.
7. Such accounts by the media undermined the work of the observer mission and seemed to be aimed toward making the mission fail.
8. The Observer mission was able to fulfill its mandate.
The most important observation was as the Report stated, that it had “determined that there is an armed entity” that had not been mentioned in the protocol setting up the mission.
This armed opposition entity was a force that needed to be taken into account in structuring the mission. The report listed a number of violent incidents, some of which were carried out by the Free Syrian Army and some of the other armed opposition groups, stating that such incidents would widen the gap and increase the bitterness in the situation.
The observers requested the continuation of the mission, but with proper equipment and numbers, for another month. The committee in charge approved the request. The mission was to be extended. But suddenly, a different agenda was put into action, an agenda calling for regime change in Syria. Similarly, armed attacks against the government were stepped up and government forces sought to stem these attacks.
What had been a promising beginning for a contribution to a peaceful settlement of the conflict, was hijacked by forces intent on imposing a military solution of regime change on Syria.
Subsequently, pressure was put on the UN Security Council, pressure from both inside and outside the Council to authorize a proposal for regime change in Syria and for foreign intervention against Syria.The scenario is to play out with a high level meeting at the Security Council on Tuesday, January 31, of Foreign Ministers of some of the nations on the Council.
Also there was a report at Voltaire Network that on Sunday night, January 29, the Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Abdul Al-Zayani, went to Brussels to meet with the Secretary General of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen. (2)
Recent information is that the Arab League Secretary-General decided to freeze the Observer Mission which had been renewed for another month by the League’s Ad Hoc Ministerial Council. The Committee, according to an article at Voltaire Network is “an Arab Plan follow-up organism consisting of 5 States out of 22 (Algeria, Egypt, Oman , Qatar, Sudan). (3) This Ad Hoc Ministerial Committee adopted the observer’s report by a vote of 4 votes in favor (Algeria, Egypt, Oman and Sudan), 1 against(Qatar). Little media coverage was given to this vote.
Voltaire Network also reported that the Secretary General of the Arab League, Nabil Al-Arabi took the view that the observers were jeopardized after “the spiritual leader of the Syrian Salafists, Sheikh Adnan Al-Arouri announced over Al-Arabiya airwaves that it was lawful to kill the Arab observers.” (4)
The decision to support the regime change plan by the Arab League was also made by a vote of the Ad Hoc Ministerial Council. According to the Voltaire Network, this vote was 3 in favor (Egypt, Oman and Qatar), 1 against (Sudan) and 1 abstention (Algeria). On the basis of this vote of 3 members of the Arab League, the Prime Minister of Qatar and the Secretary General of the Arab League were going to the UN to ask the Security Council to back their plan for regime change in Syria.(5)
On Friday, January 27, a new resolution drawn up by some of the members of the council and presented by Morocco, was introduced to the Security Council diverting the discussion from focusing on the positive results of the Arab League Observer Mission and how to support its continuation.
The hijacking of the Security Council Agenda from a discussion on continuing the process begun by the Observer Mission to a regime change resolution against Syria was a process that received little media attention, but much media hype reminiscent of the media pressure on the Security Council which resulted in its resolutions against Libya.
While there has been the claim of great media concern over unverified reports of 5000 casualties in Syria over an 8 month period, there was comparatively no media attention to the estimated 60,000 or more casualties of the NATO bombing and armed rebels attacks in Libya over a comparable period.
The buildup of pressure on the United Nations to undertake support for using the Security Council to provide legitimacy for military and political action against Syria is a challenge to the obligation of the UN Charter to support peaceful solutions to conflict situations and to respect the sovereignty of nations.
Notes:
1. “League of Arab States Observer Mission to Syria: Report of the Head of the League of Arab States Observer Mission to Syria for the period from 24 December 2011 to 18 January 2012″
http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/Report_of_Arab_League_Observer_Mission.pdf
(2)“The GCC and Turkey Turn to NATO”, Voltaire Network, 29 January 2012,
http:// www.voltairenet.org/a172551
(3)“Media confusion around the Arab League meeting”, Voltaire Network, 23 January 2012,
http://www.voltairenet.org/a172476
(4)“The GCC and Turkey Turn to NATO”, Voltaire Network, 29 January 2012,
http://www.voltairenet.org/a172551
(5)“Media confusion around the Arab League meeting”, Voltaire Network, 23 January 2012,
http://www.voltairenet.org/a172476
Ronda Hauben is a frequent contributor to Global Research. Global Research Articles by Ronda Hauben
There Never Was A 9.0 Earthquake At Fukushima
By The Tap Blog
Before It’s News
February 9, 2012
From Henry Makow via an anonymous comment.
(Jeff Rense refused to link to this article. He thinks it is a psy-op to absolve the nuclear industry of blame for Fukushima. Fine. But when I posted it anyway so people could decide for themselves, he announced he would no longer link to my site. You will no longer find my work on Rense’s site. Sad that a 10 year relationship should end in this fashion.)
Former NSA analyst, Jim Stone, argues that there was no mag 9.0 earthquake. The tsunami was caused by nuclear bombs in the sea and the Fukushima explosion and meltdown was caused by mini-nukes hidden in cameras installed by an Israeli security firm. The motive: punish Japan for offering to enrich Iranian uranium and straying from Illuminati diktat. This website reserves judgment but offers this introduction by James Farganne in the spirit of free discussion.
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by James Farganne
(henrymakow.com)
When we compare the 6.8-magnitude earthquake which devastated Kobe, Japan January 17, 1995 with Fukushima, the evidence does not stack up.
A quick Google Images search of Kobe reveals incredible destruction of buildings, bridges, elevated highways, and other infrastructure.
The Fukushima quake, magnitude 9.0, struck about 70 km off the coast of Japan on March 11, 2011.
It sent a 15-meter tsunami crashing over perfectly undamaged bridges, houses, roads, and cars — over a populace which had not been warned of the incoming tsunami, because there was no mag 9.0 earthquake. They were taken completely off-guard. Yet helicopters were waiting, and people all over Japan got to watch the tsunami roll in on live TV.
What on earth was going on?
Ordinarily, the Japanese people are warned of tsunamis.
Why weren’t they warned?
Why was there no structural damage, no reason for them to suspect that a tsunami was coming?
The quake must have seemed like nothing special to a nation of people who are used to quakes. In a video taken in one Tokyo newsroom during the Fukushima quake, staff were seen to continue typing at their computer stations, totally unfazed by it.
A 9.0-magnitude earthquake is more than 100 times stronger than a 6.8.
A 9.0 should have devastated everything within a 1,000-km radius.
There should have been widespread urban carnage, even worse than what Kobe suffered.
Yet the Fukushima quake of 3/11/11 did not cause a single structure to collapse.
But don’t take my word for it. Go look up the helicopter footage on YouTube. Look at the infrastructure the tsunami was crashing onto.
Not the slightest bit of damage.
Common sense is enough to make you wonder.
Jim Stone did more than wonder. He dug up and analyzed the Japanese seismograms. He proved there was no 9.0 quake, and no epicenter out at sea. Instead, there were three simultaneous quakes of much lesser magnitude, all of them inland.
The authorities lied about the 9.0 quake — made it up out of whole cloth.
An earthquake did not cause the tsunami.
There must have been another cause.
Reactors Destroyed by Nukes
It turns out that the official explanation for the Fukushima reactor explosions was bogus as well. Nuclear power containment walls are extremely thick and strong. Hydrogen explosions could never have destroyed them. As a historical reference, hydrogen explosions occurred at Three Mile Island and caused no structural damage, nor even any injuries to plant personnel.
Furthermore, Reactor Four contained no fuel on 3/11/11, and was therefore nonoperational — yet it exploded and was destroyed as completely as were the other reactors that day.
Reactor Four is like Building 7 at the World Trade Center – an utter impossibility, a blatant smoking gun.
A reactor containing no fuel cannot operate; a nonoperational reactor cannot explode unless someone explodes it. The destruction of Reactor Four can only have been the result of sabotage.
Israeli Involvement
In February 2010, Japan offered to enrich uranium for Iran. Soon thereafter, an Israeli firm by the name of Magna BSP secured a contract to run security at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. They installed oversized cameras strongly resembling gun-type nuclear weapons.
There is strong evidence that they planted Stuxnet, an Israeli computer virus that attacks Siemens power plant control systems, and which Israel previously used to damage Iran’s nuclear program. Magna BSP also established internet data links in the reactor cores, in blatant violation of international nuclear regulations.
All twelve members of that security team returned to Israel in the week before 3/11/11. In the aftermath of the disaster, the Israelis publicly monitored the reactor cores via their illegal internet data links. Yet no one took them to task for this.
Jim Stone Targeted for Revealing Truth
What caused the tsunami? What destroyed the reactors?
Using skills honed as a former NSA analyst with an engineering background, Jim Stone concluded that Israel was behind the destruction of Fukushima Daiichi. Now he is paying the price.
Stone proved that there was no 9.0-magnitude quake to cause the tsunami.
The tsunami must have been artificially induced, perhaps by an atomic bomb placed in the Japan Trench.
The tsunami was blamed for flooding the reactors and causing the explosions. But Stone presents compelling evidence that Israel destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi plant by installing gun-type nuclear weapons in the guise of security cameras, and then setting them off in the tsunami’s aftermath.
Stone demonstrates that the Stuxnet virus continues to distort sensor readings at the disaster site to this day.
Unlike many others in the world of whistle blowers, Stone bases his conclusions on hard evidence and unassailable logic. Anyone can review and challenge his work. He is open to it.
Since releasing his report and making several radio appearances to support it, Jim Stone has been harassed, threatened, unlawfully detained, and is currently facing prison time on completely trumped-up charges.
I have watched the reaction to his work on the net. Some have slandered him. Others have railroaded his work.
No one has debunked him……………………….. yet.
Written by Henry Makow.
His conclusions have ramifications that make 9/11 pale in significance.
Why, all across the alternative media, this roaring silence on the work of Jim Stone?
Why haven’t more truth sites simply linked to his report, directing people to review the evidence and decide for themselves?
Some have expressed suspicion that Stone might not be what he claims to be. That’s irrelevant. Facts are facts. The report stands on facts.
If you haven’t done so yet, I urge you to study Jim Stone’s Fukushima report. It is well worth the considerable time and effort. Then, if you agree that his conclusions are correct, please do your part in spreading this information and dispelling the alternative media’s silence on it.
To conclude, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake never happened in Japan on 3/11; the tsunami must have been artificially induced. Nor did hydrogen explosions obliterate containment walls of concrete and rebar several feet thick. The official story is impossible. Israel was punishing Japan, and Zionist operatives now are attempting to destroy Jim Stone, the man who exposed the truth.
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The original report: www.jimstonefreelance.com/fukushima1.html
Interview with visuals: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G9QlynPBcQ
How Close Are We to a Nano-based Surveillance State? [video included]
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By Michael Edwards
Activist Post
February 11, 2011
In the span of just three years, we have seen drone surveillance become openly operational on American soil.
In 2007, Texas reporters first filmed a predator drone test being conducted by the local police department in tandem with Homeland Security. And in 2009, it was revealed that an operation was underway to use predator drones inland over major cities, far from “border control” functions. This year it has been announced that not only will drone operations fly over the Mexican border, but the United States and Canada are partnering to cover 900 miles of the northern border as well.
Now that the precedent has been set to employ drones over non-combat areas, the military is further revealing the technology of miniaturization that they currently have at their disposal. As drone expert, P.W. Singer said, “At this point, it doesn’t really matter if you are against the technology, because it’s coming.” According to Singer, “The miniaturization of drones is where it really gets interesting. You can use these things anywhere, put them anyplace, and the target will never even know they’re being watched.”
So what exactly is on the horizon?
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) funds military tech development through the private sector with defense contractors such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Honeywell. It was Honeywell that introduced the T-Hawk micro drone — now purchased by Miami-Dade county for use in the metro area — which weighs all of 16 pounds and can fly in any direction. However, this is not so “micro” compared to the latest spy drone to be revealed: the Nano Hummingbird, produced by AeroVironment. The video below illustrates the capabilities of this 19g vehicle:
This mimicking of nature heralds a range of science fiction nightmare scenarios, but the name of this vehicle, “nano”, is what should spark a red alert. Because, in fact, DARPA and their contractors are working on true nano surveillance that will have biological components . . . and applications.
Here are some surveillance and detection concepts already in operation, or under development (keeping in mind that what is revealed in the public domain is often quite far behind the reality):
- A group of smaller surveillance drones called NAV (nano air vehicles) or MAV (micro air vehicles) already have been commissioned: mapleseed drones; sparrow drones by 2015, dragonfly drones to fly in swarms by 2030, and eventually a housefly drone. And if the reconstruction of nature doesn’t pan out, nature itself can be hijacked using electrical impulses to create cyborg surveillance insects being studied at major universities.
- Nano sensors for use in agriculture that measure crops and environmental conditions.
- Bomb-sniffing plants using rewired DNA to detect explosives and biological agents.
- “Smart Dust” motes that wirelessly transmit data on temperature, light, and movement (this can also be used in currency to track cash).
- Nano-based RFID barcodes that can be embedded into any material for tracking of all products . . . and people.
- Devices to detect molecules, enzymes, proteins and genetic markers — opening up the door for race-specific bioweapons, as mentioned in the Project For a New American Century’s policy paper Rebuilding America’s Defenses.
There are countless ways that we are already tracked in our daily lives, which has acclimatized us to the next steps underway. We know that the military has a desire to track large groups of people in real time. The Gorgon Stare program is currently undergoing some operational difficulties, but the political will is there to continuously expand surveillance of large populations abroad in order to keep us safe at home in the never-ending War on Terror. Combine miniaturized surveillance capabilities with DARPA’s Mind’s Eye program of “smart camera” artificial intelligence that can “think” and make visual reporting decisions independently, and things become exponentially creepier.
The Speed of Nanotech Development
Nanotech has been receiving official federal funding for only the past 10 years when it was raised to the status of a federal initiative in 2001, which sparked massive investment in the private sector. By 2003, the newly opened Department of Homeland Security showed immediate interest in SensorNet, a program spearheaded by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and their strategic partners to research ways to fully integrate nano and micro sensors into one overall Internet-like matrix of real-time detection and surveillance. The Department of Defense allocated $3 million to the initiative for the first year, with a projected budget into the billions being allocated over the long term for “detection systems.”
Strategically mounted sensors and a communications network are the heart of SensorNet. (click on image for source)
By 2006, Oak Ridge announced that they planned to turn Fort Bragg military base into a prototype for America’s future cities. According to Department of Energy researcher, Bryan Gorman, “Any sensor can talk to any application. Just like with the Internet or with telephone systems, it doesn’t matter what kind of computer or telephone you have, where you are or what application you’re running. The system just works.” There is even a proprietary social network that has been designed to provide online access and collaboration.
SensorNet has since morphed into an even more comprehensive system “to integrate safety and security measures . . . into the transportation system,” which includes concerns surrounding transportation and commerce in the “political, economic, or environmental” arenas. It is here that the full scope of surveillance integration can be seen as a management strategy that merges legislation, federal inspection systems, international standards, security threat assessments, and the latest in nanotechnology. Just one example is their discussion of “highway sorting” systems and screening, which begins on page 15 in the previous link; it must be read to be believed. As an aside: the Senior Research Scientist and Senior Program Manager who co-authored the paper linked above is Robert K. Abercrombie, Ph.D. who has a decided interest in cybersecurity. To see where the transportation component of the surveillance grid is heading over the near term, the ITS Strategic Research Plan 2010-2014 is a good indication.
The Promise of Total Integration
February 4, 2011 brought the release of the National Nanotechnology Initiative 2011 Strategic Plan. This 60-page must-read document lays out a projected future “to understand and control matter” for the management of every facet of human life within the surveillance matrix of environment, health and safety. Here is the short-list of the 25 participating Federal agencies and samples of their stated applications:
- Department of Defense (persistent surveillance)
- Intelligence Community (unmanned aircraft)
- Department of Energy (solving energy and climate change challenges)
- Department of Homeland Security (low-cost sensor platforms)
- Department of Justice (applicable to criminal justice needs)
- Department of Transportation (modifying or coordinating travel behavior)
- Environmental Protection Agency (environmental sensing, transformational capabilities)
- Food and Drug Administration (biological systems and effects on human health)
- National Institute of Food and Agriculture (global food security)
- National Institutes of Health (precise control to achieve predictable outcomes)
- Department of the Treasury (improved governance, implementing economic sanctions)
- National Science Foundation (education and societal dimensions)
The promise of integrating technology in a way that will benefit human knowledge and society already has been re-directed toward military applications for decades. It has manifested in the out-of-control military-industrial complex that has engaged America abroad in costly wars and destabilization campaigns. However, the fallout from this misappropriation of technology is beginning to take its toll on America in the form of militarized police and the monitoring of everyday Americans.
How much longer before the full spectrum of military sci-tech, including what we cannot even see, is unleashed upon an American people willing to accept total control to be safe? Has it happened already? Or, more importantly, how long before Americans come to the realization that when the construction of this surveillance prison has been completed — when the door is locked, and the key thrown away — it ultimately will have been our own money that was used to build it.
Additional sources for this article:
Little Brother is Watching You: The future of surveillance is small, very small
On Race-Targetable Biological Weaponry
It’s a Bird, It’s a Spy, It’s Both
The plan for smaller, faster, deadlier UAVs
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In a directive, issued in December 2010, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service was given permission to employ such information in cases where, it claimed, ‘public safety is at stake,’ a Canadian news agency reported Tuesday.
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CrossTalk: Syrian Series [video]
Russia Today
February 10, 2012
Why is the Arab League so concerned about the protests in Syria? How far will the Turks go? Should the international community help the rebels, and what options does it have? Is there any way to stop violence in the country without turning it into a new Libya or Iraq? CrossTalking with James Carafano, Nick Ottens and James Morris.
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Anyone Else Feeling The Strange Vibes?
by Zen Gardner
Before It’s News
February 10, 2012
It’s weird out. I mean weird. Anyone getting the dizzies, battling disorientation? Myself and my friends and loved ones are, and it’s not that pleasant. I’d like to think it’s the vibrational change just turning up but it’s not bearing real good fruit just yet as far as I can feel.
It’s not on that transcendent vibrational level. It’s physical.
What’s the buzz?
I don’t know, maybe it’s just me and a few others and a side effect to the good stuff, but it’s weird. My sleep cycle is so screwed up I almost work the same hours as friends I correspond with overseas…and they’re sleeping less and feeling it as well.
I mean we’ve been finding even our cell phones are literally stinging our heads now when we don’t use our protective earphones.
In the US, as in many countries now, it’s a cesspool of electromagnetic and chemical pollution. They’re trying to sedate, control and poison us all so fast it’s almost comical if it weren’t so horrific, watching these roiling elitest rats scramble to foist more controls and do more damage to us than the other.
Disgusting vermin.
But are they playing with this cosmic and toxic soup combo?
Cosmic Correlations
I know we’re passing through some serious cosmic changes. The sun is clearly emanating major energy including massive coronal flares, and the magnetosphere is getting rocked by all kinds of influences. Cosmic impulses and alignments are apparently affecting the energy and rotation of the core of the earth, the giant dynamo that drives our magnetic field and gravitational pull in conjunction with our inner sun.
Hence part of the reason for the earthquake uptick and possibly the strange sounds and no doubt other phenomena. So we’re bound to feel these things in our circuitry.
Planetary and inter-stellar arrangements are hitting peak alignments while we simultaneously also pass through a vast photon cloud of some sort. Research it for yourself, but we’re in that very special time of convergences we’ve been anticipating.
Never let a good crisis go to waste
Those natural changes are happening for sure, but I can’t help but wonder if the mad scientists aren’t jamming the circuits as well. This barrage feels more like the PTBs turning up their HAARPs, cell phone circuits, GWEN towers and any other damned EMF producing crap they’ve got.
It would make sense at a time like this to fire away into an amped up atmosphere laden with metallic chemtrails. We’ve been sucking this toxic soup into our bodies for years, as well as via metallic fluoridated food and water. This not only dumbs us down but makes us better receptors for EMFs I’m sorry to say. Apparently we each have enough barium in us to make us visible from space.
Just another tool for the drones? Nasty, I know.
They’ve declared war on the awakening so we know this is well within their agenda and capabilities.
As always, I’m wondering, but at the least maybe this is advanced warning to remember to guard our thoughts and be well aware of these potential effects on our physical electromagnetic bodies and hence our thoughts during these times.
Stay calm and vigilant on the outside…but keep paddling underneath
It’s always the same message for me. Transcend. Not like a flitting new ager or religionist in denial, but seriously tune into the higher mental and spiritual frequencies by being consciously aware of what’s going on. Just think how hard this worldwide crash is gonna hit those who can’t see it coming.
And they’re not even aware they’re being deliberately drugged and dumbed down and are sitting squarely on the Illuminati depopulation chopping block on top of it.
Similarly we need to take this to higher and higher levels. I mean, try telling someone their TVs watching them and sending mind control signals, and their house is being wired for full electromagnetic influence over them as well as for their monitoring. Then you have to tell them to watch their minds because the Control freaks can implant thoughts and emotions that are not really theirs.
Crazy, but true.
We need to see this for what it is and stay free from its domination over our lives. For me, keeping a pulse on the real news with sources and people I love and trust for honest insights and commentary is paramount. Then I have to digest it and formulate what I’m learning and perceiving. That’s what keeps me awake.
I’m like the guy who’s pacing the house and mumbling to himself, trying not to fall asleep or else the zombies will get him.
Very much so. That is a very real scenario, anyway you want to spiritualize or conceptualize it. We’re under attack.
Conclusion
We are going through major changes as we expected. There’s not much we can do about the natural ones, although we do need to monitor them closely and keep each other informed.
We certainly need to dwell on the wonderfully empowering aspect of these vibrational changes. A transformation is under way and it’s wonderful. However it’s happening at the same time as the NWO crackdown, so it’s going to be confusing for many as they can’t decipher which is which.
And that’s their intent.
The insidious side of all these changes is the Controllers’ master plan for our final stages. And it is something we can do something about…by being well aware of their plans and activities and exposing them in order to alert and empower others.
That they want to control our minds is a no-brainer, so to speak. That’s the name of the game. When they have that, which they’re also working on via a fully controlled mass media, false education, debasing distractions and chemical contamination, the compliance and lack of consciousness will follow. They’re also broadcasting all the “wonderful” technological advances toward this end more than ever, getting the public to swallow the transhumanist pill..or should I say RFID chip.
Those of you who know what I’m talking about will get this and take it seriously. Those who don’t, please investigate further. We’re being empowered but also under attack and people need to be made aware of what we’re undergoing.
Don’t delay, please.
You don’t just sidle casually away from an oncoming tornado now, do you?
This is not a game….but it’s also not the ultimate reality.
They’re trying to keep you from that.
Screw ’em.
Love, Zen
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Good Guns, Bad Guns? US Arms in Reach of Syria Rebels [video]
Russia Today
February 10, 2012
The US is setting up an international coalition aimed at supporting rebels in their struggle. The so-called “Friends of Democratic Syria” will involve countries willing to prop up the opposition, and pile more pressure on the regime. Direct military action is ruled out, but reports suggest British and Qatari special forces are already in the conflict zone. And while the US and its allies criticize Russia for supplying military hardware to Damascus, there are now calls from American lawmakers to arm the opposition. As RT’s Marina Portnaya reports, the region’s already been flooded with firepower made in the USA.
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