According to some informed diplomats, there is a plan for the delivery of more weapons to the foreign-backed terrorists and jihadists who are fighting in Syria against the secular Arab nation and the government in Damascus and are also responsible already for many massacres, rapes and all the tortures for Syrian women and men. Read More »
The “Sharia committee of the province of Aleppo (Halab)” has announced a general mobilization of “all Muslims of the province” for the jihad just some days ago. While it is actually not entirely clear what this “Sharia committee” really is, but it looks like a kind of civil or quasi-civil, and thereby needless to say, armed self-government. In the areas, which are controlled by the rebel brigades, various of such structures do appear: committees, “emirates”, summary courts / martials, security services and so on – like mushrooms out of the blood-saturated soil, in order to be mowed down again shortly after it. Also see Libya just 1-2 years ago. Geographically, this “Shariah committee” could be a member of the al-Nusra Front. And it was probably these “guys”, who were seen recently, when they replaced a FSA flag with their black banner of death. Judging by this (and according to the information associated with the now circulating in all mouths operation “Northern Storm”), the situation of the terrorist brigades in the Syrian city of Aleppo is now almost desperate. Just shortly before the spread of this call (for jihad), there was again some attempts for a reinforcement in order to storm the prison of Aleppo (Halab), in which are more than 1,000 rebel fighters jailed according to different reports. Three days ago the Turkish border for the entry (ie into Turkey) has been closed, whereupon there, between A’zaz and Kilis, were some heavy battles by the Turkish army and the al-Nusra ... Read More »
The Turkish police has injured several peaceful protesters in Istanbul yesterday by using water cannons and tear gas to drive away the demonstrators from the Taksim Square and the Gezi Park in the famous Turkish city. Some hours before, the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (JDP/AKP) has demanded the square and park to be “evacuated”. Read More »
The events which are unfolding in the Golan Heights, in the buffer zone between Syria and Israel, are difficult to explain at first glance. The first question is why the terrorist groups of the Syrian opposition are trying to seize positions in the Golan Heights and kidnap UN peacekeepers. What sense does that make if it has no direct influence on the course of the armed conflict within the country? Read More »
You get the power in the capital – this axion is now apparently also grasped in Turkey. The riots are shifting to Ankara; thereby, the demands of the protesters are still basically negativistic – the dismissal of corrupt officials, the end of certain reforms and Erdogan’s departure. It is tough to see something constructive in it. Read More »
The timing of Tel Aviv’s repeated attacks on Syria in May 2013 and the kindling of yet another round of accusations and tensions between the Turkish government and Syria that have resulted from the car bombings in the Turkish town of Reyhanli say a lot. Firstly, Tel Aviv’s aerial strikes, via illegal use of Lebanese airspace, on the Syrian military research facility in the town of Jamraya, which is an urban galaxy of Damascus, clarifies Israel’s role in destabilizing Syria. Israel is essentially acting as the insurgency air force. Secondly, Turkey’s accusations against Syria are part of the Turkish government’s demonization campaign against Damascus that has been used to justify Turkey’s aggressive stance against the Syrians. Read More »
Omran al-Zohbi, the Information Minister of Syria, said in a new statement that the Prime Minister of the neighboring country Turkey, Recept Tayyip Erdogan, is completely “terrorizing” his own people and Omran al-Zohbi called on the Turkish Prime Minister to finally resign from his post as the head of the Turkish state. Read More »
“Syria is worrying that it will be attacked by Turkey from above and by Israel from below. It is worrying that it will be squeezed between us like a sandwich.” [Israeli President Ezer Weizman (1993-2000), interview with Guneri Civaoglu,Caesarea, Israel, 11 June 1996] [1] “Although Turkey has never taken part in a war alongside us, it is a positive factor for Israel that Syria has an enemy on its northern frontiers. Syria will never attack Turkey, but it cannot exclude the reverse.” [Former Israeli Defence Minister Uri Or (1995-1996), interview with Alain Gresh, Tel Aviv, October 1997] [2] INTRODUCTION When the U.S. and its allies launched the covert war on Syria in 2011, they were expecting that either Syria’s political establishment would collapse within a short duration or they would find a way to ignite an open war. As Syria’s leaders and people proved to be exceptionally resilient, increasingly more brutal means have been deployed to tear the country apart. Being at the forefront of this covert war in every respect, Turkey has been thoroughly complicit in monumental war crimes committed against the neighbouring people of Syria. Read More »
The loose US senator John McCain, the pit bull, the mad dog, the warmonger, bloodthirsty, ex POW by the people he was Napalming, when messing with the Syrian crisis just earned a new title by the profession course he follows: McCain the Kidnapper. On 22 May 2012, more than one year ago a group of FSA terrorists stopped a bus of Lebanese pilgrims on their way back from visiting Shiite holy shrines in Iraq through Syria near Azaz city, north of Aleppo. They released the women and children and kept the men claiming at first they’re Hizbullah fighters, yes, one year ago and 11 months before any interference of Hizbullah in Qussayr countryside battles. 13 men were kept, 2 managed to escape later on, 2 were released after Turkish Muslim Brotherhood, the main sponsor of terror in the region, interfered, and till date 9 men are still held kidnapped under gun point. A number of western allied media outlets met the group kidnapping the Lebanese men and met the men themselves after Turkish intelligence apparatus known for their loyalty to Turkish prime minister Erdogan facilitated the meetings and interviews. Turkey officially denies any responsibility in the kidnapping or influence it can practice on the kidnappers till date..! The families of the kidnapped Lebanese men noticed in one of the pictures the US loose senator McCain took during his illegal entry to Syria he’s surrounded by members of the same group who kidnapped them. The following report by Lebanese Jadeed TV ... Read More »
I participated, May 1-11, 2013 in the Mussalaha International Peace Delegation to Lebanon-Syria alongside fellow TRANSCEND member Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, from Ireland, and 15 others from eight countries. Keenly aware of my responsibility, especially to my newly made Syrian and Lebanese friends left behind, I shall try to report, describe, make sense of what I saw, heard and experienced; also offer views and insights based on interviews. However, this report will take more than one article. Read More »
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