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 Syrians Look to Arab League as 26 Killed in CrackdownPosted on Nov 11, 2011
So much for promises: Although Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s administration made a very public peace deal just nine days ago, 26 people were reported killed Friday as protesters came out in force in hopes that the Arab League would punish Assad’s government by suspending Syria’s membership, according to The New York Times.
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By blogdog, November 17, 2011 at 3:04 pm Link to this comment
http://tarpley.net/audio/getfile.php?f=20111115-WGT_on_AJS.mp3
Report thisBy heterochromatic, November 17, 2011 at 2:36 pm Link to this comment
takes a real asshole, a really stupid one at that, to read PRESS-TV without laughing
at the bullshit.
Report thisyou really ARE removing all doubt that you’re senseless.
By blogdog, November 17, 2011 at 2:24 pm Link to this comment
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/210597.html
Report thisBy blogdog, November 14, 2011 at 4:52 pm Link to this comment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JwRe5i_VDQ
Report thisBy heterochromatic, November 14, 2011 at 4:16 pm Link to this comment
is this the same guy who said of bin laden…..”“If you read him in his own words,
he sounds like somebody who would be a very high-minded and welcome voice in
global politics,””
there’s some doubt that the guy who said that the tape was faked actually is Bruce
Lawrence. several people who are said to know Lawrence said that they doubt it
was him. one went so far as to say….
Report this“Yes Lawrence is a complete jackass, but even he isn’t stupid enough to have gone
so far as to say that the tape isn’t authentic because it doesn’t contain a Koranic
quotation.”
By blogdog, November 14, 2011 at 4:01 pm Link to this comment
http://cutdc.com/2011/05/05/expert-bin-laden-confession-is-bogus-former-cia-officials-faked-bin-laden-video/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-tCq4qYWXk
Report thisBy heterochromatic, November 14, 2011 at 3:08 pm Link to this comment
and of course bin Laden’s claim that he ordered the attacks has no legal
Report thisevidentiary value as he didn’t boast about it while under oath.
By blogdog, November 14, 2011 at 2:53 pm Link to this comment
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_terrorists/usama-bin-laden
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_terrorists/usama-bin-laden/status-image.jpg?scale=image_thumb
FBI says, it has “No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13664.htm
By Ed Haas
[...]
Report thisOn June 5, 2006, the Muckraker Report contacted the FBI Headquarters, (202)
324-3000, to learn why Bin Laden’s Most Wanted poster did not indicate that
Usama was also wanted in connection with 9/11. The Muckraker Report spoke
with Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity for the FBI. When asked why
there is no mention of 9/11 on Bin Laden’s Most Wanted web page, Tomb said,
“The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden’s Most Wanted
page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.”
[...]
By heterochromatic, November 14, 2011 at 2:40 pm Link to this comment
you’re down to simple stupidity in your argumentation…...
“In addition, Bin Laden is a suspect in
other terrorist attacks throughout the world.”
you also failed to note that the FBI mentioned that bin Laden is currently deceased.
maybe you also don’t believe that bit of info…...
Report thisBy blogdog, November 14, 2011 at 1:33 pm Link to this comment
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_terrorists/usama-bin-laden
Get FBI Updates
Home • Most Wanted • Most Wanted Terrorists • USAMA BIN LADEN
Murder of U.S. Nationals Outside the United States; Conspiracy to Murder U.S.
Nationals Outside the United States; Attack on a Federal Facility Resulting in
Death
note - missing: “Conspiracy to Murder U.S. Nationals Inside the United States”
USAMA BIN LADEN
Multimedia: Images
Aliases:
Usama Bin Muhammad Bin Ladin, Shaykh Usama Bin Ladin, The Prince, The
Emir, Abu Abdallah, Mujahid Shaykh, Hajj, The Director
DESCRIPTION
Date(s) of Birth Used:
1957
Place of Birth: Saudi Arabia
Height: 6’ 4” to 6’ 6”
Weight: Approximately 160 pounds
Build: Thin
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Complexion: Olive
Sex: Male
Nationality: Saudi Arabian
Language:
Arabic (probably Pashtu)
Scars and Marks:
None known
Remarks: Bin Laden is left-handed and walks with a cane.
CAUTION
Usama Bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998, bombings of
the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya.
These attacks killed over 200 people. In addition, Bin Laden is a suspect in
other terrorist attacks throughout the world.
REWARD
The Rewards For Justice Program, United States Department of State, is offering
a reward of up to $25 million for information leading directly to the
apprehension or conviction of Usama Bin Laden. An additional $2 million is
being offered through a program developed and funded by the Airline Pilots
Association and the Air Transport Association.
SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS
If you have any information concerning this person, please contact your local
FBI office or the nearest American Embassy or Consulate.
Field Office: New York
Report thisBy heterochromatic, November 14, 2011 at 1:00 pm Link to this comment
“In 2005, Chossudovsky stated that “Osama bin Laden and the Taliban were
identified as the prime suspects of the 9/11 attacks, without a shred of evidence”
loon for loon,
futlie and forlorn
Report thisBy blogdog, November 14, 2011 at 12:51 pm Link to this comment
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25955
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26043
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26351
What triggered the crisis in Syria?
[...]
It was not the result of internal political cleavages, but rather the consequence
of a deliberate plan by the US-NATO alliance to trigger social chaos, to
discredit the Syrian government of Bashar Al Assad and ultimately destabilize
Syria as a Nation State.
Since the middle of March 2011, Islamist armed groups covertly supported by
Western and Israeli intelligence have conducted terrorist attacks on government
buildings and acts of arson.
Amply documented, trained gunmen and snipers have targeted the police, the
armed forces as well as unarmed civilians.
The objective of this armed insurrection is to trigger the response of the police
and armed forces, including the deployment of tanks and armored vehicles with
a view to eventually justifying a “humanitarian” military intervention, under
NATO’s “responsibility to protect” mandate.
The Nature of the Syrian Political System
There is certainly cause for social unrest and mass protest in Syria:
unemployment has increased in recent years, social conditions have
deteriorated, particularly since the adoption in 2006 of sweeping economic
reforms under IMF guidance. The later include austerity measures, a freeze on
wages, the deregulation of the financial system, trade reform and privatization.
(See IMF Syrian Arab Republic — IMF Article IV Consultation Mission’s
Concluding Statement,
http://www.imf.org/external/np/ms/2006/051406.htm, 2006).
Moreover, there are serious divisions within the government and the military.
The populist policy framework of the Baath party has largely been eroded. A
faction within the ruling political establishment has embraced the neoliberal
agenda. In turn, the adoption of IMF “economic medicine” has served to enrich
the ruling economic elite. Pro-US factions have also developed within the upper
echelons of the Syrian military and intelligence.
But the “pro-democracy” movement integrated by Islamists and supported by
NATO and the “international community” did not emanate from the mainstay of
Syrian civil society.
The protests largely dominated by Islamists represent a very small fraction of
Syrian public opinion. They are of a sectarian nature. They do no address the
broader issues of social inequality, civil rights and unemployment.
The majority of Syria’s population (including the opponents of the Al Assad
government) do not support the “protest movement” which is characterised by
an armed insurgency. In fact quite the opposite.
Ironically, despite its authoritarian nature, there is considerable popular support
for the government of President Bashar Al Assad, which is confirmed by the
large pro-government rallies.
Syria constitutes the only (remaining) independent secular state in the Arab
world. Its populist, anti-Imperialist and secular base is inherited from the
dominant Baath party, which integrates Muslims, Christians and Druze. It
supports the struggle of the Palestinian people.
The objective of the US-NATO alliance is to ultimately displace and destroy the
Syrian secular State, displace or co-opt the national economic elites and
eventually replace the Syrian government of Bashar Al Assad with an Arab
sheikdom, a pro-US Islamic republic or a compliant pro-US “democracy”.
The role of the US-NATO- Israel military alliance in triggering an armed
insurrection is not addressed by the Western media. Moreover, several
“progressive voices” have accepted the “NATO consensus” at face value: “a
peaceful protest” which is being “violently repressed by the Syrian police and
armed forces”.
[...]
Copyright © Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, 2011
Report thisBy heterochromatic, November 14, 2011 at 12:29 pm Link to this comment
blogdog, you’re digging for a bone, but it’s futile.
you’re posting links that aren’t helping you claims…..that story is from Aug, and
talks about fighting back during the previous week…Assad started killing
peaceful protesters long before then
and you’re link clearly states that…...
” ... a number of protesters have also taken up arms to defend
Report thisthemselves against the regime’s relentless slaughter of unarmed civilians. ”
By blogdog, November 14, 2011 at 11:43 am Link to this comment
...co-ordinated attacks against government troops since as long ago as
April.
Syrian opposition admits armed insurgents are operating on fringe of uprising
against Assad regime
http://tinyurl.com/74jc8ex
Syria’s opposition has admitted that armed insurgents are operating on the
fringes of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, raising fears that
extremists could take the country into civil war.
By Adrian Blomfield, Middle East Correspondent9:12PM BST 06 Aug 2011
A number of activists at the forefront of the civilian protest movement in
Syria confirmed that a bloody attack on government troops in the city of Hama
last week was almost certainly the work of extremists involved in the
insurgency against US forces in Iraq.
The Assad regime has claimed that more than 400 government soldiers and
members of the security forces have been killed since the uprising began in
mid-March.
While it is almost impossible to prove the extent of the death toll, there is
growing evidence that violent elements pledging allegiance to the opposition
have carried out well armed and carefully co-ordinated attacks against
government troops since as long ago as April.
[...]
© Copyright of Telegraph Media Group Limited 2011
Report thisBy heterochromatic, November 14, 2011 at 10:14 am Link to this comment
yup. I’m entirely a dupe and Assad isn’t killing people rather than allowing political
Report thisdissent…...I’m really, really fooled.
By blogdog, November 14, 2011 at 9:55 am Link to this comment
indeed - rationally duped: WAR IS PEACE
Report thisBy heterochromatic, November 14, 2011 at 8:47 am Link to this comment
yes, I do think….rationally.
Report thisBy blogdog, November 14, 2011 at 12:48 am Link to this comment
... loons ... knew you’d get to it - forgot the tin foil -
Report thisalways happens sooner or later in virtually every TD thread - gratuitous ad
hominem invective - though from one so ‘old fashioned’, a retiring, glancing blow
- barely felt it - no doubt some of your students actually thought they were being
praised whilst their feeble intellects were being stealthily belittled, besmirched
and derided by insults their parents probably couldn’t even understand, and their
old-sod-of-a pedant now left to exercise his misanthropy on the internet for
god’s sake - sad, alienating, the pub really would be more rewarding, don’t you think
By heterochromatic, November 13, 2011 at 10:20 pm Link to this comment
thanks for your suggestion about where I should go….....
however, I ‘m old-fashioned and believe it’s ladies, kids and loons first….
bon voyage.
Report thisBy blogdog, November 13, 2011 at 10:13 pm Link to this comment
this is his network http://www.voltairenet.org/en go there to leave your steaming
Report thispile of critical wisdom - maybe he’ll send you some Freedom Fries
By heterochromatic, November 13, 2011 at 8:53 pm Link to this comment
well, if independent journalist Thierry Maysan sez something…..
wait a minute, dog, do you mean Thierry Meyssan, author of “9/11 the Big Lie” ?
that piece of shit???????
Report thisBy blogdog, November 13, 2011 at 8:37 pm Link to this comment
according to this soldier, it’s an armed rebellion, and he’s the leader -
http://tinyurl.com/7bv9vsb
Syrian colonel says he heads armed rebellion against Assad regime
Col. Riad Assad’s boasts of strikes against Syria’s government are impossible to
verify, as is his contention that more than 10,000 soldiers have deserted and
taken up arms.
Syrian army Col. Riad Assad, seen here last month in a refugee camp in the…
(Hasan Yetmez / Reuters)
November 01, 2011|By Ruth Sherlock and Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles
Times
Reporting from Antakya, Turkey, and Beirut — From his heavily guarded
enclave in Turkey, a leading Syrian defector says he is heading an armed
rebellion against the regime of President Bashar Assad.
[...]
In the interview, Assad declined to say whether his forces were conducting
cross-border operations from Turkey. He appealed to the international
community to impose a “no fly” zone similar to what the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization enforced over Libya. He also called for a “buffer zone” in Syria
that would provide protection for fleeing civilians — and create a haven for his
forces.
“We don’t have the ability to buy weapons, but we need to protect civilians
inside Syria,” the colonel said.
NATO officials have said the alliance has no intention of intervening in Syria.
Turkey, a NATO member, has not moved to create a buffer zone in Syrian
territory.
[...]
____________________
looks like ‘wag the dog’ redux - one more failed state - Wesley Clark said some
5 years back, plans were on the board then to take out a load of them… e.g.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUhlFO5qjVE
probably why he’s no longer commanding any Empire operations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQYI7uYrxxQ
an RT interview covering both - broad perspective
http://rt.com/news/libia-syria-war-africa/
The NATO-led intervention in Libya and the unrest in Syria are both steps
in a decades-long plan by the US and its allies to completely reshape the face
of Africa, believes independent journalist and peace activist Thierry Maysan.
“It’s quite obvious that the USA wanted to enter war at the same time with Libya
and Syria. That wish was made public by John Bolton in 2002. The plan was
passed over to France and Britain, who decided to bring it to life in November
last year,” the author believes.
What is called public uprising of the free-loving people are actually coup
Report thisattempts staged by the Western nations, Maysan says.
[...]
By heterochromatic, November 13, 2011 at 5:30 pm Link to this comment
blogdog—-how about Press-TV and al-Manar?
should we trust them?
Is it true that the it’s not the Syrian military and security services killing innocent
Report thiscitizens and the real truth is that Syrians taking part in the anti-authoritarian
protests are actually undergoing a mysterious wave of spontaneous bodily
disintegration?
By M.H.Buraleh, November 12, 2011 at 4:00 pm Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)
Shame Arabs they lost or their sense,their lust comes
Report thisfirst.
By blogdog, November 12, 2011 at 12:35 pm Link to this comment
trust nothing printed in the either the mainstream or so-called ‘progressive’ media (.e.g.
Soros-funded organs like Democracy Now) - expect only agitprop in support of an
instigated ‘color revolution’, heavily infiltrated with provocateurs - as just cited, how can
one determine who is killing whom? - it’s clearly pushing toward civil war with so-called
‘revolutionaries’ begging NATO to bomb them - Libya redux
as for the so-called ‘progressive’ media… so many love to love Democracy Now, but when
one reviews the commentary of Juan Cole in particular on Libya, his regurgitation of the
NATO agitprop based on Soros-funded Human Rights Watch - wholly unverified
fabrications - it leaves no question - intelligence infiltration is deeply advanced - a
malicious cancer in many loved and trusted ‘left/lib/prog’ media organs
one might make the case that ‘left/lib/prog’ media organs are so ‘correct’ on so many
issues… think more deeply, it’s called ‘bonafides’ - one trusts them on that, so why not this?
the point: in this era one must question everything one reads or hears
Report thisand, if established media dismisses something as ‘conspiracy theory’,
that’s a cue to take it more seriously
By Oceanna, November 12, 2011 at 11:18 am Link to this comment
Were the fatalities the result of the Islamists, who are the ones armed? The
Report thiscoverage we receive blackouts their factions. They’re miniscule compared to the
legitimate protestors, who refer to the factions as terrorists.
By EmileZ, November 12, 2011 at 4:29 am Link to this comment
testing 123
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