About Syria

Sat, 2014-10-04 01:32 by admin

(18/5/15) | NEO by Steven MacMillan

Video footage surfaced last week showing the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) treating a wounded anti-Assad Syrian rebel, following a UN report at the end of last year which found that the IDF and the Syrian rebels (including ISIS) were in regular contact. The Times of Israel reported on this latest video in an article titled,IDF posts footage of medics saving Syrian rebel in Golan:

"The IDF on Saturday released rare footage of its medics performing a life-saving procedure on one of the most severely wounded Syrian combatants medical personnel have encountered in the Golan Heights… The man, a Syrian rebel who belongs to an unnamed organization fighting against the Assad regime and its allies, received treatment at the border and then inside Israel, and was ultimately able to return to Syria… Since the start of the civil war in 2011, the IDF has treated an estimated 1,600 non-combatants and anti-Assad rebels… Although Israel’s treatment of militants from Syria – many of whom are believed to belong to Islamist organizations such as the al-Qaeda affiliated Nusra Front — may seem bizarre given the animosity these types of groups have expressed for the Jewish state in the past, Israel has approached the issue from a humanitarian point of view."

From New Eastern Outlook (NEO): (15/5/15) by Peter Lvov

This article from the otherwise insightful and informative NEO seems ill-founded as swell as pessimistic. That it insists on labelling the govenrnment of Syria, which was as the "Assad Regime" may be one indication of just how much credibility this article has.

An example of the article's dubious analysis comes near the end:

The team of Riyadh, Doha and Ankara is rushing because of the ongoing attempts by the United States to continue cooperation with Tehran and Damascus in order to contain the Islamic State. It is also clear that any delay will be used by the Americans to build itself a loyal military force, which will be an influential player in a post-Assad Syria. The overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in the coming months, according to the Saudis, Qataris and Turks, will put the United States in a tight corner, and this will allow the above listed states to seriously weaken the growing Iranian influence in the region.
First appeared: http://journal-neo.org/2015/05/15/rus-siriya-rezhim-by-stro-slabeet/

Below are links to articles, etc,. from up to November 2014

20 May 2015

From the " id="SANA">Syrian (SANA)

: (27/2/14), (25/2/14), (22/10/14), (21/10/14)

From " id="Voltaire">Voltaire

(Nov 2014), (Nov 2014), (Nov 2014), (6/11/14), (Nov 2014), , by Thierry Meyssan (Nov 2014), (Nov 2014), (Oct 2014), (Oct 2014), by Thierry Meyssan (Oct 2014), by Thierry Meyssan(Oct 2014), (Oct 2014), (Oct 2014), (Oct 2014), by Manlio Dinucci (Oct 2014), (Sep 2014), (Sep 14), (Sep 14), by Barack Obama (Sep 14), by Dilma Rousseff (Sep 14), by Tamin bin Hamad al-Thani (Sep 14), by Thierry Meyssan (Sep 2014), (//14), (//14), (Nov 2014), , , , , , (//14), by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme (Aug 2014), (Jun 2014), by Thierry Meyssan (6 June 2014) – see also with embedded

Pepe Escobar and Thierry Meyssan discuss ISIS and Syria

2 November 2014 on

">Disappearance incriminating tapes of UN assisting Islamic State

Voltaire Network | 22 October 2014

Journalist Serena Chehim had announced she was working on a report including videos showing the involvement of the World Food Programme in transporting jihadists of the Islamic Emirate (Daesh) between Turkey and Syria.

However, this story will never be released. The journalist died after her car was hit by a heavy vehicle on the Syrian border; her cameraman was seriously injured and the video tapes have vanished.

Serena Chehim was a dual Lebanese-US national. She worked for the Iranian news channel Press TV.

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">Australian ISIS adherent vows to fight US, UK until black flags fly over Buckingham Palace, White House

An Australian teenager has appeared in a video saying the Islamic State will keep fighting until there is an Islamic Caliphate established in Britain and the United States.

A new Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) propaganda video purportedly shows Australian teen Abdullah Elmir standing in front of dozens of IS fighters, brandishing weapons and warning the UK and US that the militants will not give up.

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" id="ld_sy_23oct14">US Helping ISIS?

23 October 2014 (Tony Cartalucci - LD) - that the United States military accidentally dropped by air at least one pallet of weapons and supplies that ended up in the hands of the so-called "Islamic State" or ISIS. While a combination of factors about this particular story appear suspicious, including SITE Intelligence Group's involvement in quickly disseminating an alleged video of ISIS terrorists rooting through the supplies, one fact remains.

ISIS Didn't Happen Overnight

Far from springing from the dunes of northern Iraq or eastern Syria, the rise of ISIS is the verbatim fulfillment of long-established documented US conspiracy. It is perhaps best summarized by the prophetic 2007 report "The Redirection: Is the Administration’s new policy benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism?" written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh and published in the New Yorker.

Appendix: Article previously with the same title

Contrary to claims by the mainstream and much of the supposed alternate newsmedia, the government of Syria is not a corrupt and unpopular dictatorship resorting to brutal repression and mass murder to defeat a popular uprising. The supposed "popular uprising" is in fact a terrorist war fought by foreign mercenaries and jihadists against the people of Syria. The terrorists are armed and paid for by the government of the United States and its regional allies including Turkey, Jordan and the even more reactionary feudal Arab states of Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

No government as hated by its own people, as it has been claimed that the Syrian Government was, could have hoped to have survived for more than a few months against a popular uprising without the support of a massive foreign armies of occupation. The supposedly hated Syrian government, without any foreign military forces to support it on its own soil, has somehow managed to defeat a supposedly popular uprising for more than three years now.

Conclusive evidence that the Syrian government had the overwhelming support of Syrians support of its people is the overwhelming vote for President Bashar al-Assad at the Syrian Presidential elections of 4 June 2014. " id="txtSubj4">4 In that election an overwhelming 10,319,723 Syrians, or 88.7% of the 74.42% of eligible voters who voted voted for Bashar al-Assad. A total of 65.15 of all eligible Syrian voter voted for al-Assad. The proportion would have be even higher had countries hostile to Syria, including France, not prevented Syrian expatriates from voting. Which leader of any of the supposed Western democracies can claim anywhere near as high a mandate as that which Bashar al-Assad received on 4 June 2014?

Until March 2011, when the current insurgency against Syria began, the war strategies of the United States and its allies seemed to be succeeding. They had conquered Afghanistan and Iraq and would invade Libya and overthrow its government. However, their plans to overthrow the Syrian government of have not gone according to plan. Three years later, prior to the (Saudi and Qatar financed) so-called "Islamic State" insurgency, the skill, bravery and sacrifice of Syrian soldiers and their support from the Syrian population resulted in the decisive defeat and almost total elimination of the terrorist invaders within Syria. " id="txtSubj2">2

However, no country, not even a country as resourceful and resilient as Syria, can indefinitely defend itself against an almost unlimited numbers of potential terrorists from the Islamic world, in addition to mercenaries and supposed Islamist converts from outside the Islamic world. Already 140,000 Syrians have died in the conflict and much of the countryside, housing and the productive resources of Syria have been ravaged by the terrorist invaders. If Syria is to survive it needs strong support from people outside of Syria and their governments.

To win that support for it is necessary to counteract the lies of the mainstream media with the truth. These pages on this web site is one place on which the truth can be found, or linked to elsewhere. Other sites in which the truth about Syria is to be found are listed ">below.

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(30/9/14) by the on Global Research

Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem, delivered a speech on Monday at the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly, in which he affirmed that Syria supports any international effort to combat terrorism as long as it fully preserves civilians' lives and national sovereignty and is carried out according to international accords.

(30/9/14) by of on PressTV

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"The real intelligence that needs to be gotten to Syria and not to the White House is why their supplies keep being shipped in, and they are shipped in by planes by somebody and ISIS doesn't have any planes," he wondered. "It's the same story with Afghanistan. Why hundreds of tons of heroin leaves American bases in Afghanistan."

"Why are they carrying American weapons? They are carrying and using American weapons. And not the American weapons that they say they captured from the Iraqis. The US gave Iraqis AK-47s. They are carrying American M4 carbines. [It is] very difficult to get those things unless they are delivered directly from the United States by planes," Duff revealed.

(29/9/14) by of (includes YouTube Video) on Global Research

"There is no doubt that Islamic State is an utterly reactionary sectarian force. But it is a force that came out of U.S. Policy and the destruction of the whole region. ISIS or Islamic State, is a direct result of U.S. Policy of fomenting religious, ethnic national differences, in Iraq, in Syria, as policy for the war in Iraq and for overthrowing the government in Syria. Again and again they have used absolutely reactionary groupings in these policies."

(29/9/14) by Rodney Martin of the on PressTV (Video included)

US President Barack Obama's "strategy to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL" is actually designed to topple the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, an American political commentator says.

Rodney Martin, who is the chairman of the American Nationalist Association, www.ana-ann.com, and a host on the American Nationalist Network, the Association's internet radio station, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Monday.

The ISIL terrorists, who were initially trained by the CIA in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government, control large parts of Syria's northern territory. ISIL sent its fighters into Iraq in June, quickly seizing vast expanse of land straddling the border between the two countries.

(29/9/14) by of on Global Research

The sudden reversion of Washington to a 'war on terror' pretext for intervention in Syria has confused western audiences. For three years they watched 'humanitarian intervention' stories, which poured contempt on the Syrian President's assertion that he was fighting foreign backed terrorists. Now the US claims to be leading the fight against those same terrorists.

But what do Syrians think, and why do they continue to support a man the western powers have claimed is constantly attacking and terrorising 'his own people'? To understand this we must consider the huge gap between the western caricature of Bashar al Assad the 'brutal dictator' and the popular and urbane figure within Syria.

(29/9/14) by on Global Research

The recent beheadings of three Westerners, Foley, Sotloff and Haines, at the hands of the Islamic State (ISIS) has sparked a wave of indignation and strong condemnation by Western heads of state.

For anyone aware of what has been truly going on in Syria from the outset of the war in March 2011, there is something unusual in these strong statements, which are now the object of a wave of "humanitarian bombings" under a counter-terrorism mandate directed against the Islamic State.

(27/9/14) on

The United States, along with members of the GCC, has been bombing Syria for two days, ostensibly to destroy the Islamic State.

(17/9/14) by on PressTV

US President Barack Obama recently delivered a national address outlining a four-point strategy to counter the threat posed by ISIL to the Middle East and beyond. Yet, given that ISIL was created by regional players acting under US auspices, we must ask what the real strategy behind this rhetoric emanating from POTUS about forming an international coalition to confront the terrorist threat is? Has Obama experienced a revelation on the road to regime change in Damascus or is the military option disguised as R2P still on the table?

(3/9/14) by of on Global Research

One of the roles of leading politicians and top officials of the state is to enlist public support for policies which serve the goals of the upper stratum of the population from whose ranks they sometimes come and whose interests they almost invariably promote. When these policies are at odds with the interests of the majority, as they often are, the mobilization of public consent is possible only through deception. The deception is carried out through prevarication, equivocation, and fear-mongering, crystallized into misleading narratives which the mass media can be reliably counted on to amplify. So it is that Western officials have ramped up a campaign of deception to provide a pretext for military intervention in Syria to combat ISIS but which may very well serve as a Trojan horse to escalate the war on the Syrian government.

(29/9/14) by of on Global Research

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) had recently announced that a female fighter pilot led the United Arab Emirates Air Force (UAEAF) bombardment of ISIS on Syrian territory. According to the UAE's online news source 'The National' based in Abu Dhabi confirms its nation's first female pilot leading the fight against the Western created terrorist group ISIS reported that:

"Yousef Al Otaiba, the UAE's ambassador to the United States, confirmed on Thursday that the country's first female fighter pilot was involved in recent action against ISIL." He also said that "I can officially confirm that the UAE strike mission on Monday night was led by female fighter pilot Mariam Al Mansouri," he said. "She is a fully qualified, highly trained, combat-ready pilot and she is on a mission."

First, I must say that the pilot, Maj. Mariam Al Mansour who is employed by the government of the UAE leading the way by attacking ISIS targets in Syria deserves no praise or glory for participating in the bombardment of a sovereign nation.

Examples of how Major Mariam al-Mansouri is being used to promote war by the Australian newsmedia include: : (29/9/14) – Melbourne Age and SBS: (26/9/14) – SBS.

(29/9/14) by Tony Cartalucci

(11 April 2014) Tony Cartalucci, aka "", shows how supposedly "humanitarian aid" which is being sent to supposedly alleviate the suffering of the victims of the Syrian conflict is, in fact, being used to supply and arm the terrorists and prolong the suffering of the Syrian people.

">Cairo, (SANA, 11 Apr 2014) The Evangelical Church in the Shubra area in Cairo, Egypt, held prayers for peace in Syria on Friday, with the participation of representative of Egyptian churches along with Muslim religious figures and political, jurist and civil society figures.

Abram Luis, founder of the "Popular Diplomacy for Egyptian-Syrian Relations" initiative, said that the initiative invited all churches in Egypt to participate in this event to send a message of love, peace and solidarity to Syrians. He said that 24 churches in Arab and foreign countries were contacted and they agreed to join in prayers on Friday for the sake of Syria, including churches in Jordan, Palestine, Abu Dhabi, Canada and the United States.

(29/9/14) by Seymour M. Hersh of

In August-September 2013, Barack Obama, David Cameron and François Hollande accused Syria of killing 1,400 opponents in the suburbs of Damascus. Denouncing that a red line had been crossed, they threatened to launch a punitive campaign against Assad's criminal regime. Shortly after, London withdrew, then Washington, and finally Paris. Commenting on these events, Seymour Hersh shows that President Obama knew nothing of what had actually happened, abused the ignorance of his interlocutors and lied when he claimed to have evidence of Syria's guilt.

(29/9/14) by on Global Research

"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidarity to pure wind." – George Orwell.

US secretary of state John Kerry has just delivered what may turn out to be his most shameful moment in history. Kerry has been handed the baton of sabre-rattler-in-Chief by a President that has much vested interest in upholding his facade of "reluctant warmonger". Since President Obama declared his now infamous "red-line" over the use of chemical weapons in Syria; it has invariably been White House underlings and members of the State Department who are given the task of misleading the public – Kerry is not doing a very good job of it.

">Appendix 1: Web resources about Syria

(SANA),, .

Web-sites with a broader focus and which include truthfully about Syria include: , , , , .

Appendix 2: French National Front Vehemently Condemns Paris' Stances on Syria

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Footnotes

" id="fnSubj1">1. ">↑ Even some who genuinely oppose the war against Syria have unfortunately, on occasions, accepted the lie that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is a brutal and corrupt despot. This was claimed by the UK Member of Parliament in August 2013 – the YouTube video can be found at . The video is embedded in the article of 30 Aug 2013 by Max Keiser. In his speech, George Galloway, whilst presenting evidence that disproved the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's claim that the Syrian government had murdered its own citizens with Sarin gas, nevertheless, stated, "[everyone knows that the Assad regime] is bad enough to do it."

" id="fnSubj2">2. ">↑ See (9/4/2014) by on Global Research.

" id="fnSubj3">3. ">↑ The code, for embedding the video:

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... copied from the , doesn't seem to work with this version of the Drupal content management system, so an image linked to the page has been posted instead. The image shown is of the French female news presenter and not of Jean-Marie Le-Pen.

" id="fnSubj4">4. ">↑ For informative reports about the Syrian elections, see by , (28/5/14) by , (23/5/14) by , (4/6/14) by ...

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Sat, 2014-11-01 16:55

This has been -246969">posted to johnquiggin.com. - JS, 1 Nov 14

JD (@ (?)) -246635">wrote on October 27th, 2014 at 20:29:

Here's part of an item I found on the website of the International League for Human Rights (FIDH):

Why didn't you include the link? I tried to find it with a search engine and couldn't.

JD continued:

The Caesar report is ... evidence smuggled out of Syria, including photographs of around 11,000 detainees' corpses. The source of the report is ... a former photographer for the Syrian military police and his job was to take pictures of killed detainees. Ten of the photos were released publicly in January 2014. The report was made available to human rights groups, governments and the UN. ...

Almost certainly this is a fabrication by the same liars who gave us Russian tanks in East Ukraine, Iraqi WMDs, incubator babies,  , the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the Warren Commission, etc.

Until you show me where you obtained this, I cannot comment further.

As for claims that the Russian government discriminates against gays: If true, this would be of concern, but compared with the monumental violations of human rights by the Kiev regime and even more monumental violations in Iraq, Libya and Syria, the prohibition of "propaganda on non-traditional sexual relations" seems almost insignificant by comparison.

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