The truth about Syria

[Arpa]

May he RIH, Rot In Hell

[Arpa]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24997876

 

At least 22 people have been killed and more than 140 injured in a double suicide bombing outside the Iranian embassy in the Lebanese capital Beirut.

There are conflicting reports as to whether the Iranian cultural attache died in the attack.

Iran is a major backer of the Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah, which has sent fighters to Syria to back the government of Bashar al-Assad.

The Sunni jihadist group Abdullah Azzam Brigades said it was behind the attack.

The head of the al-Qaeda-linked group described the attack as a "double martyrdom operation carried out by two heroes from the heroic Sunnis of Lebanon

 

Yet, we the US and our so called allies chase and try to destroy our long time nemesis those dogs known as al Qaeda, except it seems in Syria. where we aid , abet, arm and finance them. All those dogs should move out of Syria and go to ankakara.

How do you spell Hypocrisy.

　

[Yervant1]

500 TURKISH CITIZENS FIGHT ALONGSIDE AL QAEDA-LINKED GROUPS IN SYRIA

November 27, 2013 - 13:58 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - A recent report published by the Turkish Interior
Ministry says around 500 Turkish citizens have gone to Syria to fight
alongside the al Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front against President Bashar
al-Assad's forces, adding that among these 500, some have received
training in al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

According to Today's Zaman, the report, based on information and data
obtained from the National Intelligence Organization (MÄ°T) and the
National Police Department, says more than 500 Turkish citizens have
joined the ranks of al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and the
Levant (ISIL) and that many Turkish citizens have died during clashes
between the rebels and Assad's forces. Official data shows that 13
Turkish fighters with al-Nusra have been killed during the clashes.

The report adds that around 75 other Turkish citizens, whose names
were not recorded, have also been killed in the Syrian conflict.

Meanwhile, a delegation from the National Police Department recently
met with Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) to discuss
the al Qaeda issue. According to media sources, the Turkish side
told the Germans: "Why do you allow individuals that you don't want
Turkey to allow entry to leave your country? You should forbid those
individuals from leaving your country."

According to the report, there are around 3,000 foreigners among
those individuals who are banned from entering Turkey. Among them are
citizens of Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Norway, Saudi Arabia,
Jordan and Pakistan.

As the conflict in Syria continues and as Assad's forces, with the
backing of Iran and Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah, make gains on the
Syrian battlefield, al Qaeda and other jihadist groups, which were
not key players in Syria initially, have started to entrench their
influence in the country.

Now these groups, which pose a serious threat to the entire region,
have started to play an increasingly prominent role in the power
vacuum, aiming to transform Syria into a proxy battlefield between
diverse groups.

[Johannes]

500 TURKISH CITIZENS FIGHT ALONGSIDE AL QAEDA-LINKED GROUPS IN SYRIA

November 27, 2013 - 13:58 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net -Assad's forces.

A short message to those war propaganda media puppets for millionth time; Syrian Army's name is Syrian Army.

 

Obama's forces, holland' gangs, Cameron's hooligans...

[Yervant1]

DR. STRANGELOVE

Hurriyet Daily news, Turkey
Nov 29 2013

BURAK BEKDÄ°L

When I read the news that quoted Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu as
promising "to bring peace and stability to the Caucasus," I shivered
with a bizarre blend of horror and pity for our Caucasian neighbors. I
am not sure if the Caucasus would like its foreign relations be
"catalyzed" by Professor Davutoglu.

That was the wording when the Woodrow Wilson Center decorated
the minister with its Public Service award in 2010: "Davutoglu has
catalyzed the development of Turkey's foreign relations, by elevating
its position in international discussions." For some reason, the
directors at the Wilson Woodrow Center reminded me of Dick Rowe,
the Decca Records genius who in 1962 rejected The Beatles with his
later famous line: "The Beatles have no future in show business."

Two years later, the "Leader of the 21st Century" award came from
a grouping of Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian intellectuals. Three
years after the Woodrow Wilson Center acknowledged Mr. Davutoglu's
"catalyzation effect," and one year after his Balkan fan club declared
him the "Leader of the 21st Century," his country is the only one
in the whole world that does not have an ambassador in all of Syria,
Egypt and Israel, (plus Armenia and Cyprus).

Shortly after Egypt expelled the Turkish ambassador to Cairo, Minister
Davutoglu told Al-Jazeera that "We have deep love for Egypt." An
unrequited love, apparently. But in Mr. Davutoglu's (and his boss's)
mental calculus, Turkey loves the Syrian people but not the Syrian
regime. It loves the Egyptian people but not the Egyptian government,
because neither regime has been democratically elected. Which explains
why Turkey has very good relations with Saudi Arabia and perfect
relations with Sudan and Qatar, all oases of democracy.

Israel, of course, goes out of context in this logic. "We don't have
a problem with the people of Israel (not that we deeply love them,
in this case) but the problem is their government." Is Israel being
run by a coup government? Who are "the people of Israel" if not those
who, in majority, have voted for their government?

Sometime it is so puzzling for us journalists to decipher the mental
codes of foreign policymakers, especially when they "catalyze the
development of their country's foreign policy." After the Oct. 31
Israeli aerial attack aimed at destroying the Russian-made SA-125
missiles heading to the Lebanese Hezbollah, some reports claimed
Turkish cooperation for the operation which Mr. Davutoglu said was
"black propaganda." And he explained why this could not be true:
"The Turkish government has never cooperated with Israel against
any Muslim country, and it never will." Now, things look simple,
but may not be so.

The minister was proudly saying that Turkey would never cooperate
with the Jewish state against any Muslim country. Is that the Turkish
policy red line? That Turkey would not cooperate with the Jewish state
against a Muslim country? Does Mr. Davutoglu's policy whitepaper say
Jewish only? Especially since his government willingly cooperated with
a coalition of Christian countries against Muslim Iraq; and, more
aggressively, it is cooperating with a reluctant group of Christian
nations against Muslim Syria.

Is Turkey not overtly cooperating with non-Muslim nations against
Muslim Iranian interests over Muslim Syria? All the same, it is nice
to know that Mr. Davutoglu's principle about not cooperating against
a Muslim country is limited to cooperation with Israel only - because
it is Jewish. Christian states are always welcome. Now go tell this
at public rallies, minister.

One can always enjoy his own quarter-baked, Kodak moments of triumph
and joy, especially with fancy award ceremonies and loud applause at
enthusiastic party meetings. Until, of course, one hits the invisible
walls of reality.

One simple piece of advice to Minister Davutoglu: Those who admit
they may not have fully understood the Middle East may know a thing
or two about the Middle East; while those who claim they know the
Middle East perfectly often know nothing about the Middle East.

November/29/2013

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/dr-strangelove.aspx?pageID=449&nID=58701&NewsCatID=398

[Yervant1]

Nearly a century after the Armenian genocide, these people are still being
slaughtered in Syria

Robert Fisk <http://www.independent.co.uk/biography/robert-fisk>
Sunday 1 December 2013


And now, almost unmentioned in the media, their holy places are also being
desecrated

Just over 30 years ago, I dug the bones and skulls of Armenian genocide
victims out of a hillside above the Khabur River in Syria. They were young
people - the teeth were not decayed - and they were just a few of the
million-and-a-half Armenian Christians slaughtered in the first Holocaust
of the 20th century, the deliberate, planned mass destruction of a people
by the Ottoman Turks in 1915.

It was difficult to find these bones because the Khabur River - north of
the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zour - had changed. So many were the bodies
heaped in its flow that the waters moved to the east. The very river had
altered its course. But Armenian friends who were with me took the remains
and placed them in the crypt of the great Armenian church at Deir ez-Zour,
which is dedicated to the memory of those Armenians who were killed - and
shame upon the `modern' Turkish state which still denies this Holocaust -
in that industrial mass murder.

And now, almost unmentioned in the media, these ghastly killing fields have
become the killing fields of a new war. Upon the bones of the dead
Armenians, the Syrian conflict is being fought. And the descendants of the
Armenian Christian survivors who found sanctuary in the old Syrian lands
have been forced to flee again - to Lebanon, to Europe, to America. The
very church in which the bones of the murdered Armenians found their
supposedly final resting place has been damaged in the new war, although no
one knows the culprits.

Yesterday, I called Bishop Armash Nalbandian of Damascus, who told me that
while the church at Deir ez-Zour was indeed damaged, the shrine remained
untouched. The church itself, he said, was less important than the memory
of the Armenian genocide - and it is this memory which might be destroyed.
He is right. But the church - not a very beautiful building, I have to say
- is nonetheless a witness, a memorial to the Holocaust of Armenians every
bit as sacred as the Yad Vashem memorial to the victims of the Jewish
Holocaust in Israel. And although the Israeli state, with a shame equal to
the Turks, claims that the Armenian genocide was not a genocide, Israelis
themselves use the word Shoah - Holocaust - for the Armenian killings.

In Aleppo, an Armenian church has been vandalised by the Free Syrian Army,
the `good' rebels fighting Bashar al-Assad's regime, funded and armed by
the Americans as well as the Gulf Sunni Arabs. But in Raqqa, the only
regional capital to be totally captured by the opposition in Syria,
Salafist fighters trashed the Armenian Catholic Church of the Martyrs and
set fire to its furnishings. And - God spare us the thought - many hundreds
of Turkish fighters, descendants of the same Turks who tried to destroy the
Armenian race in 1915, have now joined the al-Qa'ida-affiliated fighters
who attacked the Armenian church. The cross on top of the clock tower was
destroyed, to be replaced by the flag of the Islamic State of Iraq and the
Levant.

Nor is that all. On 11 November, when the world honoured the dead of the
Great War, which did not give the Armenians the state they deserved, a
mortar shell fell outside the Holy Translators Armenian National School in
Damascus and two other shells fell on school buses. Hovhannes Atokanian and
Vanessa Bedros, both Armenian schoolchildren, died. A day later, a bus load
of Armenians travelling from Beirut to Aleppo were robbed at gunpoint. Two
days later, Kevork Bogasian was killed by a mortar shell in Aleppo. The
Armenian death toll in Syria is a mere 65; but I suppose we might make that
1,500,065. More than a hundred Armenians have been kidnapped. The
Armenians, of course, like many other Christians in Syria, do not support
the revolution against the Assad regime - although they could hardly be
called Assad supporters.

Two years from now, they will commemorate the 100th anniversary of their
Holocaust. I have met many survivors, all now dead. But the Turkish state,
supporting the present revolution in Syria, will be memorialising its
victory at Gallipoli that same year, a heroic battle in which Mustafa Kemal
Ataturk saved his country from Allied occupation. Armenians also fought in
that battle - in the uniform of the Turkish army, of course - but I will
wager as many dollars as you want that they will not be remembered in 2015
by the Turkish state which was so soon to destroy their families.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/nearly-a-century-after-the-armenian-genocide-these-people-are-still-being-slaughtered-in-syria-8975976.html

[Yervant1]

Terrorist to Turkish Newspaper: Weapons sent through Turkey

http://sana.sy/eng/21/2013/11/24/514230.htm
Nov 24, 2013


Ankara, (SANA) - A terrorist confessed to a Turkish newspaper that the
weapons come from Turkey to Syria and that the training courses are
held in the Turkish lands.

In a report published Sunday on Yurt Newspaper, terrorist "M T" said
that the materials which are stolen by the terrorists are being
smuggled mostly to Turkey, adding that the terrorists were cultivating
and trafficking drugs in their camps before removing their activities
into areas which are under their control in Syria.

The terrorist, who is a member of one of the "Turkmen Brigades", said
that the weapons are being smuggled to the terrorists in Syria in
various ways, sometimes in ambulances, adding that he himself examined
an ambulance which was loaded with weapons, rockets and explosives,
adding that all of them were U.S. made.

He added that Turkey had set camps for those terrorists before the
events of Jisr al-Shoughour even took place, adding that the majority
of the trainees were of non-Syrian nationalities, mainly Turkmen and
Chechens.

He said that "Haytham Tubali" is a dangerous gunman with connections
to the Turkish government, adding that he is bringing terrorists from
all the world's corners to the Syrian-Turkish lands. "He can bring you
a tank to the Syrian-Turkish lands, with its key in it", he said.

M. Nassr/ M. Eyon

[Johannes]

Damascus (AsiaNews) Islamist rebels have kidnapped a group of nuns from the Greek Orthodox monastery of St Thecla (Mar Taqla) in Maaloula (north of Damascus). Mgr Mario Zenari, the Vatican nuncio in Damascus, confirmed the information after speaking with the Greek-Orthodox Patriarchate. Through the Vatican diplomat, the latter calls on all Catholics to pray for the women religious.

 

Armed men burst in the monastery of St Thecla in Maaloula this afternoon. From there, they forcibly took 12 women religious, Mgr Zenari said, citing a statement from Patriarchate. The group of Islamist rebels has apparently taken them to Yabrud, some 80 km north of the capital. Neither the nuncio nor the church Greek Orthodox Church know reason behind the kidnapping.

 

Islamist Rebels from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) had invaded the small town on 5 September after driving out regime troops with the support of al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Brigades. After taking control of the city, they went on a rampage against Christian buildings, killing three young Catholic men.

 

More than 3,000 people, the towns entire Christian population, fled their homes seeking refuge in Bab Touma, the Christian quarter of Damascus. Some found shelter with relatives in Lebanon or in local Greek-Catholic convents.

 

Only Muslims were left in town, plus 40 nuns at the St Thecla Monastery who stayed to help care for dozens of orphaned children.

 

As of yesterday, Maaloula became again the scene of heavy fighting between the army and Syrian rebels, including many members of the extremist Jabat-al-Nusra militia.

 

Clashes are concentrated mostly in the upper, oldest part of the town, where the St Thecla Greek-Orthodox and the Sts Sergius and Bacchus Greek-Catholic monasteries are located.

 

From there, the rebels have launched repeated attacks against army positions in the lower part of town.

 

Fighting is intensifying, sources told AsiaNews. The army is trying to regain control over the villages north of Damascus. For this purpose, it has launched a major offensive against the rebels, who are trying to hold government forces back through a scorched earth policy in the areas under their control.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/syria-islamist-rebels-abduct-12-nuns-from-orthodox-monastery-in-maaloula/5360101

 

 

 

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http://www.zoover.com/syria/syria/maaloula/photos

Edited December 3, 2013 by Johannes

[Arpa]

Those cowardly qatsordi dogs. Their only targets are soft, defenseless Christian convents, nunneries and Armenian enclaves. I will never forget when a wreckful dogs drove up and down in the Armenian quarters yelling alyom yahud, bukra ermen, Today the jews, tomorrow the ermens.

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Nearly a century after the Armenian genocide, these people are still being slaughtered in Syria

http://www.independent.co.uk/biography/robert-fisk

Their aim is to resume and complete the job of the unfinished process to exterminate the last vestiges of us who found safe havens in friendly countries like Syria.

WHERE ARE THOse SO CALLED CHRISTIAN CRUSADERS?

http://www.yerakouyn.com/?p=44822

Այսօր, 4 Դեկտեմբեր 2013-ին, առաւօտեան Հալէպի Սիւլէյմանիէ-Վիլլաներ-Նոր Գիւղ եռանկիւնի վրայ երեք հրասանդի հրթիռներ ինկան: Առաջինը՝ Գաբրիի ետեւի պարտէզը, երկրորդը՝ Թեթթէն պենզինի կայանի դիմացի պարտէզը, իսկ երրորդը վիլլաներու դէպի նպարավաճառ Ժիրոյի մօտ: Այս մասին կը տեղեկացնէ «Բերիոյ նիւզ»-ը:

Բարեբախտաբար ֆիզիքական վնասներ չկան, սակայն ահ ու սարսափի մատնուեցան բնակիչները: Արձանագրուեցան նաեւ կարգ մը բնակարաններու եւ ինքնաշարժներու տարբեր աստիճանի վնասներ:

Նշենք, որ անցնող քանի մը օրերուն Հալէպի մէջ սուրիական բանակի եւ զինեալ ընդդիմադիրներուն միջեւ տեղի կ՛ունենան ծանր բախումներ, մէկ կողմէ երբ հրասանդի հրդիրներ կ՛արձակուին հայկական թաղամասերու եւ յատկապէս ծայրամասերը, իսկ միւս կողմէ մերթ ընդ մերթ կը լսուին տարբեր զէնքերու հրաձգութեան եւ ռումբերու ահեղ ձայներ։

 

[Arpa]

Syria is being cleansed of all vestiges of Christianity.

Iraq is practically cleansed of all Christians.

Show me a picture of a Christian church in saudia.**

** Here is the Greek St. Sofia Christian church?

http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/eintracht/eintracht0909/eintracht090900071/5601718-view-of-the-famous-hagia-sofia-mosque-museum-in-istanbul-turkey.jpg

And here a Coptic Christian Church?***

http://www.st-antonious.org/images/stmary.jpg

***The Copts/Ghptis of Egypt are being exterminated.***

The name of that country Egypt is based on the Ghpti/Eghypto/Coptic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt

[Yervant1]

The irony this is happening under the guidance of Christian nations, it's truly sad very sad.

[Yervant1]

16:54 07/12/2013 » SOCIETY

Syria conflict: Foreign jihadists 'use Turkey safe houses'

Foreign jihadist fighters are using safe houses in southern Turkey to cross into Syria to fight against government forces, the BBC has learnt.
A man running one such house near the border town of Reyhanli said more than 150 people - including up to 20 Britons - had used it in the past three months.
The route through Turkey used by al-Qaeda-linked foreign jihadists is now becoming increasingly organised.
Opposition activists say jihadists are destroying the Syrian revolution.
The man in charge of the safe house near Reyhanli told the BBC's Richard Galpin that "more than 150 people stayed at the house" in the past 90 days.
"Between 15 and 20 were British. It's all done through invitations from friends."
He added that jihadists usually "stay for a day or two before crossing into Syria and stay on the way back when they are waiting for flights back to their home countries."
One such fighter from France told our correspondent that "there are thousands of us, literally from every corner of the world."
"And we are all al-Qaeda," he added.
The jihadist, a former student in France, said he had joined a brigade which had 8,000 men.
He added that the brigade had recently pledged allegiance to the radical Islamist organisations called the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria.

Over the past year, thousands of foreign fighters - including about 300 British nationals - have poured into Syria to fight President Bashar al-Assad's forces.
But Syria's original armed opposition say the jihadists are not just fighting the regime but are also systematically targeting Free Syrian Army fighters.
A former FSA commander said he had to flee to Turkey after his unit had been captured by jihadists.
"They told us we were not true Muslims," the commander said.
"I saw how they beat my friends with iron bars, smashed their faces with ammunition boxes and then killed them. The floor was covered with blood.
"We made the revolution for freedom and equality but the jihadists don't want this. They've come to destroy Syria."
The commander added that he was one of the few men from the unit to survive.

Source: Panorama.am

[Johannes]

"Syrian free army" or as above said "original opposition" is ikhwan muslimin (Muslim brotherhood)

Turkey and Qatar (mursi's Egypt) supported them, Turkish AKP goverment belongs to Muslim brotherhoods ideology.

 

Different alqaida groups are supported by Saudi Arabia (jubhat nusra, Iraq and sham Islamic state)

 

Turkey is NATO country. Turkey can'T do anything without American permission, Obama himself

Qatar and Saudi Arabia are Allies to USA in gulf region and there are many military bases of US army.

 

if mr. Obama really wants peace in Syria, he can order, just order. A phone call to saudi's bandar prince is enough.

[Johannes]

No decision to end antisyrian international proxy war until now

[Arpa]

No decision to end antisyrian international proxy war until now

 

This whole thing is a warm war, not quite cold, neither yet hot.

It is a proxy war between the NATO and their hirelings, saudia, qatar and ankakra against Moscow. To not forget against the Shiite Tehran vs. Sunni saudia and furkey. Those primitive so called judeo-islam religions whose theology is under the belt, in their underpants. (Do you know that (sunn-e-h) sunnet in furkish means circumcision?)

So far Moscow has not said or done anything overtly, except maybe assisting the Assad regime underhandedly, like moving warships closer to the Syrian shores. It may become a hot war when Assad, in desperation decides to attack mehmet’s ankakra.

It is also surprising when Egypt crushed the islamists and no one interfered.

I hope those al-qaeda move to ankakra and show them what it will be like, when non-islamist, non-sectarians take over and erbokhan runs and hides under that Rock in Mecca. Who is going to sink, that pariah, the pseudo-country known as furkey to the bottom of the Atlantis? And when that clown moshe ben yahud bombs Tehran then we will know what a hot war is.

What?

You think Tehran has no access to telaviv?

How long does it take for the 70 million Iranians to walk across, Quwait and beyond, or how long for the Iranian navy to reach eilat at the sinai?

Who’s gon’a stop them?

Qatar,** UAE, Oman? Yemen? Saudia or Egypt?

See map

http://itouchmap.com/?r=w&t=c&c=IR

** Qatar, an absolute monarchy HUH!! l(like the absolute monarchy of thr US?) Less than 4000 sq. mi, smaller than Artsakh. Population less than 2 million. If everyone of them were a soldier, naval officer, aviator, warplane pilot?

Edited December 7, 2013 by Arpa

[Johannes]

They tried to defend mursi's regim, by different ways; sancts, money, but egyptian people was inflexible.

30 million demostrators Requested mursi's Withdrawal.

 

Obama Sends U.S. Troops to Prop Up Morsi

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/defending-an-islamofascist-with-u-s-troops/ Edited December 8, 2013 by Johannes

[Yervant1]

18:53 09/12/2013 » SOCIETY

Seizure of nuns stokes Syrian Christian fears

Syrian Christians offered prayers Sunday for a group of more than a dozen nuns and orphanage workers held by rebels for nearly a week, fueling fears in the minority community that they are being targeted by extremists among the fighters seeking to oust President Bashar Assad, RIA Novosti reported.
The seizure of the 12 Greek Orthodox nuns and at least three other women is the latest attack to spark panic among Syria's Christians over the strength of al-Qaida-linked militants and other Islamic radicals in the nearly 3-year-old revolt against Assad's government.
A priest and two bishops previously kidnapped by rebels remain missing, and extremists are accused of vandalizing churches in areas they have captured. Rebels seized the nuns on Monday from the Greek Orthodox Mar Takla convent when fighters overran Maaloula, a mainly Christian village north of Damascus that lies on a key highway and has changed hands several times in fierce fighting between rebels and government forces.
The group, along with three women - themselves orphans - who work in the convent's orphanage were taken to the nearby rebel-held town of Yabroud. The eldest of the nuns is nearly 90 years old, and the youngest of the orphanage workers is in her mid-teens, according to Mother Superior Febronia Nabhan, head of the Saidnaya Convent.
On Friday, a video was released of the nuns, in which they denied being kidnapped, saying they were in good health and that fighters had taken them to a location away from the combat out of concerns for their safety. The video only stoked the worries of Christians who gathered Sunday for a Mass at the Mariamiya Church in Damascus, the main Greek Orthodox church in the country.
"They're coming after us," Odette Abu Zakham, a 65-year-old woman in the congregation who lives in the nearby historic Christian district of Bab Touma. "All they do is massacre people, all they know is killing."
Another woman at the Mass noted that in the video, the nuns appeared in their black robes but with no signs of religious symbols on them. "They didn't even let them wear their crosses," she said. "This just shows they aren't capable of respecting Christians." "It's been a week. If they're only holding them for their safety, they could have handed them over by now," she said, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation against herself or her family.
Christians and other minorities tend to support the government of Assad, who comes from a Shiite offshoot sect. Syria's Sunni Muslim majority form the backbone of the uprising against Assad. But nationalist fighters among them have been overshadowed by the increasing power of extremists, including Syrian rebels who have taken up hard-line al-Qaida-style ideologies and foreign fighters.
In his sermon at the Mass, the Greek Orthodox patriarch for Antioch and All the East, Yohanna al-Yaziji, asked "anyone with any connection, direct or indirect" to intercede to win the group's return. "We hope this will happen today, not tomorrow. We urge everyone to adhere to the logic of dialogue and peace, not to violence and weapons." He carefully avoided describing the nuns as "kidnapped" or asking for their release - praying only for their "return" - a sign of concerns among Church officials that any statements could enflame the situation.
The rebel faction that released the video, aired on Al-Jazeera television, did not identify itself, and no faction has announced it is holding the group. Syrian opposition activists and Church officials have said the al-Qaida-linked group Jabhat al-Nusra, or the Nusra Front, is holding them.
One activist said a Syrian Christian businessman is trying to mediate between the Nusra Front and the government for their release in return for the release of seven Saudi fighters. The activist spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the secret mediation, but did not have further details. Greek Orthodox Church officials would not comment.

Source: Panorama.am

[Arpa]

Christians and Armenians in Syria should arm their nuns and women like this Sosseh Mayrig

http://jdemirdjian.com/Armenians/Yeghisapeth%20najarian%20yotneghperian.jpg

http://jdemirdjian.com/Armenians/Yeghisapeth%20najarian%20yotneghperian.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/Sose_Mayrig_Egyptian_passport.jpg

Ձայն տուաՎ Մոսէն , Սերոբ ճան Հոս եմ:

Not quite to my taste, yet. We need good classical singers. Not accompanied with oud, dumbek or yamaha automatic synthesizer keyboard..

 

 

[Johannes]

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Մեռնիլ տենչացող մարդուն եւ աւազակախումբին զսպելը դժուար է:

[Yervant1]

09:46 10/12/2013 » INTERVIEWS

Foreign-backed rebels in Syria retreating: Glenn

Press TV has conducted an interview with Mark Glenn, an author and journalist from Idaho, to discuss the situation in Syria.
- Mr. Glenn, day by day as the war in Syria goes on, who is gaining the upper hand?
- Clearly the President of Syria has gained the upper hand here. If we think back over the last three years, the decline in the amount of violence that has taken place, and not that the violence taking place presently is acceptable, but [there has been] a serious decline in the amount of daily attacks on the part of these terrorists. We have to conclude two things.
Number one [is] that al-Assad is winning, and number two that America and these other western agencies that have been responsible for funding and training these wild dogs in Syria are pulling back. They realize now that the game is up.
The entire world knows that America has funded this terrorist group and all of the atrocities that have come from this. And so, what we see taking place now is that this is the death rows of this conspiracy against the nation of Syria and I think that is the only conclusion that we can come to about that at this time.
- Of course, with threats by the insurgents to attack the US and the UK, just what would be the devastating consequences of such a threat and how imminent would that be?
- Well, I think it is entirely possible. They have got to be absolutely furious right now that the United States that pushed them into doing this now is basically leaving them out there twisting in the wind.
And we cannot rule out the possibility that one of these dogs may get loose from the pack and find their way either to the United States or Europe where they could inflict all sorts of violence.
I mean both the United States and Europe are very soft targets. It is very easy to get into either one of these enclaves and to just with something as simple as a firearm to cause mass death and chaos.
But at the same time, what I foresee taking place is that the United States and Israel and these other western-backed groups that have been funding this, they are going to probably mop this up. And hopefully this will just be nothing more than a memory in people’s minds so that the United States can more or less slip out the backdoor and not have to face the embarrassment of this anymore.

Source: Panorama.am

[Yervant1]

HERSH: OBAMA ADMINISTRATION LIED ABOUT GAS ATTACK IN SYRIA SEYMOUR HERSH

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/12/08/338946/hersh-obama-lied-about-syria-gas-attack/
Sun Dec 8, 2013 10:28PM GMT

Fact Corner

Hersh said that a high-level intelligence officer described the Obama
administration's assurances of Syrian government's responsibility a
'ruse'. The attack 'was not the result of the current regime', the
officer wrote in an email to a colleague.

Prominent American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh says US
President Barack Obama did not tell the whole story about a chemical
weapons attack near the Syrian capital of Damascus in August.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, in a new report published in
the London Review of Books, wrote that the administration of President
Obama was aware of the fact that the militants fighting against the
Syrian government had the ability to make chemical weapons but did
not inform the public about it.

"Barack Obama did not tell the whole story this autumn when he tried to
make the case that Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the chemical
weapons attack near Damascus on 21 August. In some instances, he
omitted important intelligence, and in others he presented assumptions
as facts," he wrote in the article.

Hersh added that the US president refused to acknowledge that the
al-Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda affiliated group, according to classified
US intelligence reports, had mastered the mechanics of producing
Sarin gas. Sarin is a nerve agent which based on the findings of a
UN investigation team was used in the chemical rocket attack near
Damascus.

"When the attack occurred al-Nusra should have been a suspect, but
the administration cherry-picked intelligence to justify a strike
against Assad."

Obama in a televised speech on 10 September accused the Syrian
government of carrying out the chemical attack which killed hundreds
of people including women and children.

"We know the Assad regime was responsible ... And that is why, after
careful deliberation, I determined that it is in the national security
interests of the United States to respond to the Assad regime's use
of chemical weapons through a targeted military strike." said Obama.

President Obama was going to war with Syria but he was doing so
without knowing for sure who did what in the early morning of 21
August, Hersh went on to add.

The American investigative journalist said that military and
intelligence officials were angry with "the deliberate manipulation
of intelligence" over the incident.

Hersh said that a high-level intelligence officer described the Obama
administration's assurances of Syrian government's responsibility a
'ruse'. The attack 'was not the result of the current regime', the
officer wrote in an email to a colleague.

He wrote that another senior intelligence official told him that "the
Obama administration had altered the available information - in terms
of its timing and sequence - to enable the president and his advisers
to make intelligence retrieved days after the attack look as if it had
been picked up and analyzed in real time, as the attack was happening."

The Syrian government has vehemently denied the US allegations. It
blames the foreign-backed Takfiri militants for carrying out the
deadly chemical attack.

DT/DT

[Arpa]

Good News?

Islamist State?

http://news.yahoo.com/us-suspends-non-lethal-assistance-northern-syria-101229493.html

The United States has suspended all non-lethal aid to the opposition in northern Syria after Islamist rebels seized key bases and warehouses belonging to the Western-backed Free Syrian Army, a US official said Wednesday.

Associated Press

"We have seen reports that Islamic Front forces have seized the Atmeh headquarters and warehouses belonging to the Supreme Military Council and we are obviously concerned," T.J. Grubisha, spokesman for the US embassy in Ankara, told AFP.

"Because of the current situation, the United States has suspended deliveries of non-lethal assistance into northern Syria," he said.

The Islamic Front, the largest Islamist rebel force in Syria, seized depots belonging to the FSA near the Bab el-Hawa border crossing with Turkey on Saturday.

The group on Tuesday also took control of the crossing itself, the Syrian Observatory for Human rights, a monitoring group, said.

Non-lethal aid provided to the rebels by Washington has included armoured vehicles, night vision goggles and advanced communications equipment.

Grubisha said the US decision to suspend such aid would not impact on humanitarian assistance which was coordinated by international and non-governmental organisations including the United Nations.

"We are gathering the facts and consulting with friends of the Syrian opposition on next steps in support of the Syrian people," Grubisha said.

"We are working with General Idriss and SMC staff to inventory the status of US equipment and supplies provided to the SMC," he added, referring to the Supreme Military Council of the FSA headed by Selim Idriss.

The Islamic Front was formed last month when six groups merged and pledged to work towards forming an Islamic state. It has rejected the authority of the FSA.

Turkey on Tuesday shut its side of the border in Hatay province after the Islamic Front seized the Bab al-Hawa post, customs officials said in a statement.

"The crossing into Syria via Cilvegozu has been closed ... due to the clashes between rebel groups in Syria," the statement said.

But a foreign ministry official, contacted by AFP, said the measure was temporary and would not affect refugees entering Turkey.

Turkey, which is fiercely opposed to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, has taken in about 600,000 refugees from the Syrian conflict and has become a base for Syrian rebels and army defectors who form the very core of the FSA.

The FSA was the first organised rebel military entity to emerge after peaceful demonstrations against the Assad regime in 2011 degenerated into an armed uprising.

Since then, numerous other groups have emerged, many of them Islamist, which are operating with a high degree of autonomy from the FSA if not totally independently.

Syria's civil war, which has killed more than 126,000 people and displaced millions, has become more complicated as jihadist and other rebel groups battle not only Assad but, increasingly, each other.

The United States has not committed to providing any weaponry for Syrian rebels out of fear that it may end up in the hands of extremists.



Edited December 11, 2013 by Arpa

[Johannes]

Britain too...

[Johannes]

"Non lethal" military aid?

 

 

Գեներալ Իդրիսի ոճրագործներն ալ ալլահու աքբար գոռալով մարդ կը մորթէին

Ամենը իսլամական են..

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Edited December 11, 2013 by Johannes

[Johannes]

An Syrian Arab wrote this.

 

احلى نكتة قال اوباما اوقف المساعدات العسكرية "غير الفتاكة" للجيش الكر بعد سيطرة التكفيريين على المعابر و على باقي الارض المحتلة! يعني عدا انها نعوة رسمية من السيد الكبير لخادمه الصغير، ما رح نشوف ابداً بعد اليوم دوشكايات مي و صواريخ مي و مدافع مي و دبابات مي و هاونات جرات مي!!