Corbett: Turkish Police Clash with Kurds [video]
GlobalResearchTV
December 4, 2012
James Corbett says that a crackdown on the PKK in Kurdistan region has been instigated by Turkey to soften resistance for launching Free Syrian army rebels into Syria.
Turkish police have clashed with hundreds of Kurdish protesters in a south eastern province in Kurdistan territory after police interrupted a funeral with water cannons and stun grenades as part of Erdogan’s crackdown on PKK militants in the region.
Press TV interviews Mr. James Corbett, Editor of corbettreport.com about this issue.
Originally aired on PressTV, December 4, 2012
As seen on The Corbett Report:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HynASlyHSw
The West Can’t Pay Syria’s Price – Syrian Girl [video]
108morris108
December 3, 2012
SyrianGirl shows an objective view that the Syrian conflict will go on a long time, thanks to the UK and France etc.
We also speculate on what Putin will be saying to Erdogan in Turkey today …
URGENT RELEASE: The CIA’s Terence McKenna FOIA request response – POSITIVE affiliation
by Jan Irvin
Gnostic Media
November 15, 2012
Recently I filed a CIA Freedom of Information Act request on Terence Kemp McKenna with the CIA. The response came back that it’s “classified” information, and that he maintained “an openly acknowledged Agency affiliation”.
A basic glossary is here to help people understand the FIOA.
AFFILIATION – A MEMBER OF
DENY – REJECT OR TURN DOWN THE REQUEST
CLASSIFIED – SECRET OR HIDDEN – SEE (b)(1).
RESPONSIVE – Letters that are NOT classified that the CIA MAY send. Such responsive letters are marked with the CIA’s stamp and release date when they’re allowed to be sent out as “responsive” to the FOIA act requests.
APPEAL – this means to appeal their decision to deny my request and not provide the documents they don’t consider “responsive”.
A DENIAL of FOIA RESPONSIVE documents does not mean that they didn’t find anything. It means they found classified documents that they cannot send, and are waiving the law around as justification, and therefore they denied my request and said that I could APPEAL their decision within 45 days. If there was nothing found, there would be no “openly acknowledged Agency affiliation” to reveal, nor would there be a request to deny, much less any need to appeal such! Just some common sense needed here, folks! Basic understanding of the English language is key to understanding this document.
I have been shocked by most people’s complete lack of ability to understand the basic English terms in this document. Hopefully the above glossary helps you and I won’t have to address this nonsense again. READ and COMPREHEND WHAT you’re reading.
Download the PDF here: www.gnosticmedia.com/txtfiles/TerenceMcKenna_CIA_FOIAresponse02.pdf
U.N. pulls nonessential international staff from Syria
by John Heilprin
Washington Times
December 3, 2012
GENEVA — The United Nations has ordered all of its non-essential international staff to leave Syria, saying Monday that the escalating violence in the civil war-struck country is making it harder and more risky for humanitarian workers to do their jobs. The U.N. also plans to reduce some of its field work in the Arab state.
More than 40,000 people have been killed since Syrians began a revolt against President Bashar Assad in March of last year. Dozens of aid workers have been caught in the crossfire and killed.
Officials said up to a quarter of the 100 international staff working for several U.N. agencies could exit by week’s end.
The U.N. also has decided to halt field trips into Syria from the capital Damascus by its international staff except in certain emergency cases. Some U.N. agencies also are relocating staff from the hard-struck city of Aleppo, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
The Lebanese Conduit For The Syrian Insurgency – Lebanese Girl [video]
108morris108
December 1, 2012
Lebanese Jihadis dying and politicians financing terrorism in Syria
Sorry for the Tech problem – My mistake (Morris)
US Considers Directly Arming Syrian Rebels
by Jason Ditz
Global Research
November 29, 2012
Antiwar.com 28 November 2012
In July, Syrian rebel lobbyists reported that the Obama Administration had told them they would not be able to intervene in a serious way until after the November election. The vote’s over and now the meddling can begin in earnest.
That’s the message from US officials tonight, who say the president is now considering several options for deeper intervention into the ever worsening civil war, including the possibility of directly arming certain rebel factions.
Up until now the US has just been playing the role of facilitator, with the CIA smuggling other nations’ arms into Syria for them throughvarious intermediaries. Officials say no decision has been made yet on whether or not to move directly into arms supplying.
If the decision is made, it will make the question of which factions to arm all the more difficult, as the US at present maintains at least a level of deniability in its current smuggling. With various groups vying to be the Western-friendly “umbrella,” and myriad secular and Islamist factions on the ground, it will be an uphill battle for the US to convince the world it isn’t arming terrorists.
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NY Times Scrubs Mention Of CIA Arming Syrian Rebels
In an article about France urging Syrian rebels to form a provisional government, the New York Times scrubbed a passage which revealed that the CIA was helping funnel arms to rebel groups that have aligned themselves with Al-Qaeda terrorists.
Version three of the story, posted at 19:45:05 UTC yesterday and entitled France Says It Would Recognize Provisional Syrian Government, included the line, ” American intelligence agents have helped funnel arms to rebel groups.”
However, fifteen minutes later the revelation that the CIA was arming the rebels was removed and replaced with the words, “American intelligence agents have helped to identify the rebel groups that receive arms.”
Copies of the two different versions of the article can be viewed here.… -
Sudan: Israel arming Darfur rebels
Israel has supplied a rebel group involved in the Darfur conflict in Sudan with a considerable amount of weaponry, a new report says.
The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) has received considerably heavy military logistical support from Israel, Sudan’s state media reported on Sunday.… -
CIA Arming Syrian Insurgents
On June 21, The New York Times headlined “CIA Said to Aid in Steering Arms to Syrian Opposition,” saying:
Operating covertly from southern Turkey, CIA operatives are “decid(ing) which Syrian opposition fighters across the border will receive arms to fight the Syrian government, according to American officials and Arab intelligence officers.”
Weapons supplied include “automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, ammunition, (and) antitank weapons….”
They’re smuggled across Turkey’s border through “a shadowy network of intermediaries….”
They’re also entering through Lebanon.…
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France arming Libyan rebels in violation of UN resolution
France has become the first country openly to admit it has supplied the Libyan rebels with weapons – a measure banned by the UN Security Council. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has labeled the move as a major violation of the UN resolution.…
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British Special Forces Training Syrian Rebels
Several articles in the British media confirm that British Special Forces are training Syrian rebels.
The underlying pattern is similar to that of Libya where British SAS were on the ground prior to the launching of NATO’s military intervention.
These reports confirm unequivocally foreign interference in the affairs of a sovereign state.…
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“Western Leaders Are Encouraging Terrorist Blood Bath in Syria” says Henningsen [video]
21stCenturyWireTV
December 2, 2012
21st Century Wire’s analyst Patrick Henningsen talks with RT News about the West and their Gulf State proxies’ backing of terrorist groups in Syria in order to accelerate regime change in Syria and to further destabilize the Middle East region. Washington and Britain are actively supporting al Qaeda and other FSA-related foreign fighters in Syria, a policy which is an international war crime and is costing thousands of innocent lives, and billions of dollars to western taxpayers and to the people in Syria.
http://www.21stcenturywire.com
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