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Monday, November 18, 2013
BROWN MOSES BLOG PROOF of the Weapons Behind the Ghouta Attack : The New Yorker
YET MORE HARD PROOF THAT THE ASSAD REGIME WAS BEHIND THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS ATTACK ON CIVILIANS IN THE GHOUTA DISTRICT OUTSIDE DAMASCUS:
LINK: The Weapons Behind the Ghouta Attack : The New Yorker
LINK: The Weapons Behind the Ghouta Attack : The New Yorker
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Syrian Nun Disseminating Bashar al-Assad Propaganda on U.S. Speaking Tour | Washington Free Beacon
Victims of a chemical weapon attack in Syria / AP
A Syrian nun who critics say is disseminating propaganda for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime is currently on a U.S. speaking tour.
Mother Agnes Mariam of the Cross, a 61-year-old Lebanese-born nun, has said videos depicting hundreds of Syrians choking and dying from poison gas attacks near Damascus on Aug. 21 were fabricated ahead of time in an attempt to provoke foreign intervention. The United States and several Western nations have attributed the attacks that they say killed 1,400 people to Assad’s forces, pointing to a September United Nations report confirming the use of sarin nerve gas against civilians in the rebel-held suburb of Ghouta.
Mother Agnes also recently helped “evacuate” civilians from the town of Moadamiyah, a suburb in Ghouta hit by the sarin gas attacks that has been surrounded by regime forces for close to a year. Residents of the town, denied food and humanitarian aid, subsisted on tree leaves, olives, and grass.
However, there are reports that hundreds of male residents ushered out of the town were subsequently arrested. Some were reportedly conscripted into the Syrian army or mercenary gangs.....(CONTINUED)
FULL ARTICLE: Syrian Nun Disseminating Bashar al-Assad Propaganda on U.S. Speaking Tour | Washington Free Beacon
Monday, November 4, 2013
Stop Mother Agnes Marium's Assad Propaganda Tour
Posted October 31, 2013
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We wanted to make sure you know that Mother Agnes has connections to the Assad government which has killed over 100,000 Syrian people, and she defends this government and fabricates evidence to support her claims. Syrian Christians for Peace has already strongly condemned Mother Agnes and exposed many of her lies, as have the New York Times and Human Rights Watch. Among her lies, Mother Agnes denies the use of chemical weapons that gassed hundreds of children, women, and men to death and was confirmed by the UN, US, UK, France, and other intelligence services. She also denies other massacres and associates herself with war criminals. We can send you a document proving everything I just told you. As someone that supports truth & justice, we ask that you cancel Mother Agnes’s event.
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Friday, September 27, 2013
Group plans war crimes tribunal for Syrian combatants | The Times of Israel
Bodies being buried after the August 21 chemical attack near Damascus (photo credit: AP/Shaam News Network)
A group of international war crimes experts is calling for the creation of a special tribunal in the Syrian capital to try any top-ranking officials, soldiers or rebels who may have committed atrocities during the country’s civil war.
Professor Michael Scharf of Case Western Reserve University, acting as spokesman, showed The Associated Press a copy of the draft statutes that have been quietly under development for nearly two years. They could serve as a template for such a tribunal after the civil war ends.
He said Friday that US diplomats also have copies of the 30-page document, and are sympathetic to the idea of a Syrian war crimes court.
“We believe it’s playing a role in closed-door discussions throughout the US government,” Scharf said.......
A group of international war crimes experts is calling for the creation of a special tribunal in the Syrian capital to try any top-ranking officials, soldiers or rebels who may have committed atrocities during the country’s civil war.
Professor Michael Scharf of Case Western Reserve University, acting as spokesman, showed The Associated Press a copy of the draft statutes that have been quietly under development for nearly two years. They could serve as a template for such a tribunal after the civil war ends.
He said Friday that US diplomats also have copies of the 30-page document, and are sympathetic to the idea of a Syrian war crimes court.
“We believe it’s playing a role in closed-door discussions throughout the US government,” Scharf said.......
FULL ARTICLE HERE:
Group plans war crimes tribunal for Syrian combatants | The Times of Israel
Thursday, September 26, 2013
BEARDING PUTIN IN HIS DEN: Syria’s Chemical Weapons: The Russia Factor | Human Rights Watch
Russian diplomacy has dramatically changed the trajectory of Western response to the Syria crisis and put the Kremlin at the center of international negotiations to control Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal. But the Russian government’s insistence that chemical weapons were used by rebel forces now places it on the fringes of a serious debate over what to do next to end the atrocities in that embattled country.
In his op-ed for the New York Times, President Putin made the case for pursuing diplomacy over military strikes in Syria. He also wrote that there is “every reason to believe” the attack was carried out by opposition forces to provoke a Western military intervention.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has continued to claim that the “obscure case of the August 21” attack was “clearly fabricated.” Last week in Damascus, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov announced that Russia would be analyzing new “evidence” from the Syrian government that exonerates their forces for the attack.
Syrian opposition forces are indeed responsible for serious crimes in their conduct of war, including attacks against civilians, summary executions, kidnappings, torture, and other abuses. They include extremist Islamist elements that should be of real concern. But they are not responsible for the August 21 chemical weapons attack, and a review of the evidence demonstrates that.
The United Nations inspection team remains the only independent group to have accessed the site of the attacks. When US military strikes against Syria appeared imminent, Russian diplomats urged the world to wait for the UN inspectors’ report. But now that the report points clearly to Syrian government responsibility for the attack, the same officials are dismissing it as “politicized,” ”biased,” and “one-sided.”
UN inspectors were able to visit sites and interview victims and eyewitnesses, but it was not within their mandate to state explicitly who they thought was responsible. But they have provided substantial evidence of Syrian government responsibility, and that evidence is backed up by a 21-page research report by Human Rights Watch, an independent, nongovernmental organization......
FULL ARTICLE HERE: Syria’s Chemical Weapons: The Russia Factor | Human Rights Watch
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
The Revolting Syrian-يلا إرØÙ„ يا بشار, One Month On After The World Officially Gave Up on Us.
One Month On After The World Officially Gave Up on Us
The argument most used by those against the planned US airstrikes was that bombing Assad would “make things worse" and "kill more innocent people”. When asked for viable options to the alternative, most agreed that “doing nothing” was best since there “are no good guys in Syria”, including children. One infamous, yet seemingly popular, ex-politican suggested to “let Allah sort it out" as Assad continued to slaughter Syrians on a daily basis using conventional means.
Now, long after the ‘to strike or not’ campaign was resolved (so to speak), the world continues it’s debates over the merits of a UN report on the chemical massacre with no discernible goal. Even a part-time blogger, sitting from his home in the UK proved that only someone with the resources of the Assad regime could have carried out this attack, to think otherwise is fantasy. The Assad regime was not able to muster much of an excuse other than having an advisor to Assad, Bouthaina Sha’aban, claim that rebels kidnapped young Alawite children from Lattakia and then gassed them to death in Damascus. This story was used after the Assad regime denied that any chemical weapons were used at all.
So, just how much better did things in Syria get in the past 30 days? How did the “let’s do nothing” policy affect actual Syrians?
FULL ARTICLE HERE: The Revolting Syrian-يلا إرØÙ„ يا بشار, One Month On After The World Officially Gave Up on Us.
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Israel: We've been 'absolutely certain' for months Assad using nerve gas | The Times of Israel
Brig. Gen. Itai Brun, head of the IDF Military Intelligence research and analysis division, at a Foreign Affairs and Defense committee hearing at the Knesset in 2012 (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)
Israel has been “absolutely certain” for many months — long before the alleged August 21 chemical weapons attack that prompted the current Syria crisis — that President Bashar Assad was using chemical weapons in the civil war, the Israeli army’s top intelligence analyst said in an interview broadcast Saturday.
Brig. Gen. Itai Brun, the senior analyst in the IDF’s Military Intelligence hierarchy, said the Israeli army had an extremely effective intelligence-gathering capacity on Syria, but declined to go into specifics..........FULL ARTICLE HERE: Israel: We've been 'absolutely certain' for months Assad using nerve gas | The Times of Israel
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
NO SURPRISE HERE! Exclusive: U.N. Report Will Point to Assad Regime in Massive Chemical Attack | The Cable
The inspection team, which is expected on Monday to present U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon with a highly anticipated report on a suspected Aug. 21 nerve agent attack in the suburbs of Damascus, will not directly accuse the Syrian regime of gassing its own people, according to three U.N.-based diplomats familiar with the investigation. But it will provide a strong circumstantial case -- based on an examination of spent rocket casings, ammunition, and laboratory tests of soil, blood, and urine samples -- that points strongly in the direction of Syrian government culpability......
FULL ARTICLE HERE:
Exclusive: U.N. Report Will Point to Assad Regime in Massive Chemical Attack | The Cable
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Defecting Syrian chemical doctor blames regime for chemical attacks
Dr. Abdel Tawwab Shahrour speaks Tuesday during a press conference in Syria. (Michael Weiss)"
A defecting doctor from Syria’s chemical weapon program gave a press conference on Tuesday to present evidence on the Bashar al-Assad’s regime use of chemical weapons in Aleppo.
“I have witnessed cold blooded massacres [committed by the Syrian regime], and I coordinated with the rebels and documented these crimes before defecting in August 2013,” Dr. Abdel Tawwab Shahrour, the head of the Chemical Weapons Unit's Forensic Medical Committee in the Aleppo district, said in the press conference.
“We conducted tests on more than four thousand victims and prepared a file that contains the results we found that were submitted to the [Syrian] judiciary, while I kept another copy for myself..............”
FULL ARTICLE HERE: Defecting Syrian chemical doctor blames regime for chemical attacks
Friday, September 6, 2013
VIDEO: Slaughter Without Blood: a report about Assad's Chemical Massacre in Ghouta August 21, 2013
Watch this if you care about humanity:
VIDEO LINK: Slaughter Without Blood a report about Assad's chemical massacre in Ghouta August 21,2013 - YouTube
VIDEO LINK: Slaughter Without Blood a report about Assad's chemical massacre in Ghouta August 21,2013 - YouTube
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
US rabbis urge Congress to back Obama on Syria | The Times of Israel
Rabbis Judy Schindler, Rick Jacobs and Eric Yoffie, previous President of the URJ, at Jacobs' installation. (photo credit: Clark Jones, Courtesy the Union for Reform Judaism)
JTA — Leading rabbis covering the religious and political spectrum urged lawmakers in Congress to support President Obama’s plans to strike Syria to stop its use of chemical weapons...........
FULL ARTICLE HERE: US rabbis urge Congress to back Obama on Syria | The Times of Israel
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
'The great tragedy of this century': More than 2 million refugees forced out of Syria - World News
By Henry Austin and Alexander Smith
NBC NewsMore than 2 million Syrians have poured into neighboring countries as refugees, the United Nations revealed on Tuesday.
Around 5,000 people per day are fleeing the three-year conflict, which the U.N. says has already claimed over 100,000 lives.
Olivier Laban-Mattei / UNHCR via AP, file -United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees special envoy Angelina Jolie, right, speaks with Syrian refugees in a Jordanian military camp in June.
“Syria has become the great tragedy of this century -- a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history,” said António Guterres, the U.N.’s high commissioner responsible for refugees.
The crisis has dramatically worsened in recent months, according to the U.N.'s refugee agency.
FULL ARTICLE HERE: 'The great tragedy of this century': More than 2 million refugees forced out of Syria - World News
NBC NewsMore than 2 million Syrians have poured into neighboring countries as refugees, the United Nations revealed on Tuesday.
Around 5,000 people per day are fleeing the three-year conflict, which the U.N. says has already claimed over 100,000 lives.
Olivier Laban-Mattei / UNHCR via AP, file -United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees special envoy Angelina Jolie, right, speaks with Syrian refugees in a Jordanian military camp in June.
“Syria has become the great tragedy of this century -- a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history,” said António Guterres, the U.N.’s high commissioner responsible for refugees.
The crisis has dramatically worsened in recent months, according to the U.N.'s refugee agency.
FULL ARTICLE HERE: 'The great tragedy of this century': More than 2 million refugees forced out of Syria - World News
Monday, September 2, 2013
French intelligence: Assad’s forces behind ‘massive’ chemical attack - Alarabiya.net English | Front Page
The French nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle is seen in the Mediterranean port in Toulon, August 28, 2013. (Reuters)
Al Arabiya
The report will be presented to lawmakers on Monday as part of a government effort to win domestic support for a planned military action against the Syrian regime.
“This poses a major threat to national and global security,” a government source told Reuters.
The intelligence includes satellite imagery showing the attacks coming from government-controlled areas to the east and west of Damascus and targeting rebel-held zones.
The source said Assad’s forces had since bombed the areas to wipe out evidence.
“Unlike previous attacks that used small amounts of chemicals and were aimed at terrorizing people, this attack was tactical and aimed at regaining territory,” the source said................
FULL ARTICLE HERE: French intelligence: Assad’s forces behind ‘massive’ chemical attack - Alarabiya.net English | Front Page
New video purports to show Syria chemical attack | The Times of Israel
According to opposition forces, footage reveals weapon used in assault US says killed more than 1,400 people on August 21
September 2, 2013, 6:57 am
Screenshot from an unverified video obtained by MEMRI purporting to show the origin of the chemical weapons attack in a Damascus suburb on August 21, 2013. And here is the direct link to the video: http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/3963.htm
New footage obtained by the Middle East Media Research Institute purports to show the weapon carrying the chemical agents fired at a Damascus suburb on the morning of August 21, killing more than 1,400 people, according to US figures....................
FULL ARTICLE W/VIDEO HERE: New video purports to show Syria chemical attack | The Times of Israel
Sunday, September 1, 2013
Sarin gas a vicious, ‘gruesome’ killer with a dark history | The Raw Story
“Just a fraction of an ounce of this stuff, of sarin, on your skin could potentially be fatal,” said CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta in an interview Thursday on “Piers Morgan Tonight.” “It can be absorbed across the skin, it can be absorbed into the lungs, across the eyes. It’s pretty gruesome stuff.”
“It is so indiscriminate. It is tasteless. It is odorless. You can’t see it. And, so you don’t even know that you’ve been exposed, necessarily, until you suddenly start to get sick. And then, it starts pretty quickly and can degrade pretty quickly as well,” Gupta explained.............
FULL ARTICLE HERE: Sarin gas a vicious, ‘gruesome’ killer with a dark history | The Raw Story
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Lawmakers Applaud Obama Seeking Congressional Authorization on Syria - ABC News
WASHINGTON — Members of Congress are applauding President Obama’s decision to seek congressional authorization on a potential military strike against Syria.
“Today the President advised me that he will seek an authorization for the use of force from the Congress prior to initiating any combat operations against Syria in response to the use of chemical weapons. The President’s role as commander-in-chief is always strengthened when he enjoys the expressed support of the Congress,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement.
“Under the Constitution, the responsibility to declare war lies with Congress. We are glad the president is seeking authorization for any military action in Syria in response to serious, substantive questions being raised. In consultation with the president, we expect the House to consider a measure the week of September 9th. This provides the president time to make his case to Congress and the American people,” the House Republican leadership, including House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., wrote in a joint statement.
“President Obama is right that the debate and authorization by Congress for action will make our country and the response in Syria stronger,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said in a statement.....................
LINK: Lawmakers Applaud Obama Seeking Congressional Authorization on Syria - ABC News
Friday, August 30, 2013
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