Sunday, January 15, 2012

'60 Minutes'-Emir call for invasion of Syria "was recorded in November!"



As usual meticulous 'b' flags that kind of stuff for us;
"At present, there is no discussion at all of a NATO role with respect to Syria," NATO spokeswoman Carmen Romero told Xinhua by phone.
Haven't we seen such before? Oh, yeah:
NATO has no plans to intervene in Libya: Rasmussen, February 24 2011"I would like to stress that NATO has no plans to intervene and we have not received any request," Rasmussen said after talks with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
We documented the Rassmussen/NATO headlines which followed after the one above. But there is another more curious headline that ran yesterday: Emir of Qatar calls for Arab troops in Syria Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani's comments to CBS "60 Minutes", which will be aired Sunday, are the first statements by an Arab leader calling for the deployment of troops inside Syria.(That dictator emir was also the one who pressed arranged for the Arab League to invite NATO to attack Libya. But what is really curious here (and what only Qatar's AlJazeera(!) reports) is that the CBS interview is oldThe interview was recorded in mid-November.
Why and/or on who's request did CBS hold back this interview for two month?
Were the preparations not yet finished for the NATO intervention in Syria? Was some time needed to make the Arab League observer mission fail to convince other Arab states to agree to the next war phase?
The interview was given after Syria in early November agreed to an Arab league cease fire plan which the rebels immediately rejected. "Western" news by now is always forgetting that last point. Despite continuing attacks from the opposition the Syrian government has largely followed the agreement, pulled back tanks, released prisoners and is implementing reforms. The observer mission was agreed to on December 19. Unless renewed it will run out in five days.
But it seems that all along the plan was not to allow for a peaceful solution for Syria. Why else would the Emir of Qatar, in aninterview for the U.S. public, call for troops to attack Syria, in mid November?"

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