Sunday, December 7, 2014

UN reveals Israeli links with al Qaeda in Syria

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 Haaretz "...  Reports by UN observers in the Golan Heights over the past 18 months reveal the type and extent of cooperation between ...

Jordan against ISIL at home

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 Al Jazeera English "...  "Just clicking 'like' or 'share' on social media in Jordan could get you in jail nowada...

US: 'Recognizing Iran’s de facto 'positive' participation in the anti-ISIL coalition'

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"...  The tragically failed hostage rescue attempt in Yemen will have done little to redress the public perception of the Administrati...
Friday, December 5, 2014

Hawkish?

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"The commentary following the resignation of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has been notably confused. Some observers have attributed h...

"Something honest needs to be done about coordination with the Iranians & the Syrian Armed Forces!"

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"... - Kirby, the DoD press person, says that there is no "coordination" with Iranian forces in Iraq. When pressed by Blitze...

"Terrorists elected in Bahrain!"

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"... "Four seats also went to male candidates from Sunni Islamist blocs, including two from the Muslim Brotherhood's Islamic M...
Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Lebanon detains wife and son of Al-Baghdadi

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Al Jazeera English " The Lebanese army has detained a wife and a son of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq ...
Monday, December 1, 2014

Obama Falsely Claims Human Rights Law Does Not Apply To Syrian Mercenary Training

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MoA: "Buried down in a  report  about Pentagon plans to train more mercenaries to fight against Syria we find this declaration of inte...

Over $80 Billion Wasted in “Training” Iraqi, Afghan Forces: No Lessons Learned!

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"...  And yet, despite this clear history of failed efforts to train and equip forces, the US now plans to spend more than another $5...
Sunday, November 30, 2014

What Obama Doesn't Understand About Syria

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"...  Yet the regime's position around Aleppo is so strong, given its progress toward severing the final rebel supply line to the ...
Friday, November 28, 2014

Lebanon’s Dangerous Downward Spiral

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"...  While everyone seems loath to admit it, Lebanon now has—for the first time in its history—a Sunni majority. This has been obscure...
Monday, November 24, 2014

Aaah those 'vetted moderate' rebels

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"...  They have also launched homemade rockets, often inaccurate, at government forces stationed in landmark structures, frequently k...

"... Instead & in the Interim, Iran ..."

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"... Instead, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said it "was not possible to meet the deadline"....He stressed th...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Contrary to Turkish pronouncements, the US is not considering a no-fly zone over Syria

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"...  When asked about the US position on the establishment of a no-fly zone in Syria, as Turkey is pushing for, White House sources s...

'The US recognizes Hezbollah for shared anti-ISIS enmity & the stabilization of Iraq & Lebanon'

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"...  Despite Hezbollah’s role in anti- American rhetoric, the organization shares many interests with the United States—though both ...

Iran and the Syrian and Iraqi Crises

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Wilson Center "... With regard to recent events, the Obama Administration seems to be pursuing a contradictory policy. On one hand, t...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Remarks by President Obama at G20 Press Conference | November 16, 2014 | The White House

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Q But just to put a fine point on it -- are you actively discussing ways to remove him as a part of that political transition? PRESIDENT OBA...

The FSA toy army: 'Ceasing activity & fleeing to Turkey'

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While Saudi prince Miteb bin Abdullah is in Washington primarely to prode the WH to go after Assad , ... "...  The Free Syrian Army (...
Monday, November 17, 2014

'Executive Orders'

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' The most closely watched foreign policy deadline in Washington is the November 24 th timeline for concluding a nuclear agreement wit...

'Official Stresses Iran's Key Role in Iraqi Army's Ground Operations against ISIS'

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"...  " The Iranian advisors were present in the battle ground during the Jarf Asakhr operations and provided excellent counse...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

'Israeli infested sections!'

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'Some may see President Obama's decision to deploy an additional 1,500 troops to Iraq in support of the anti-ISIL campaign as an e...

'Injecting the ISIS into Egypt

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"On Monday,  Egypt ’s most dangerous militant group, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, also pledged obedience to the organization that calls itse...

“I Sent ISIS Fighters To Europe”

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“The Western world thinks there is no ISIS in their countries — that all the jihadis have gone to fight and die in Syria.”   BuzzFeed News ...

RAND: "Syrian Regime collapse, not a likely outcome, is the worst possible outcome for U.S. strategic interests."

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Thanks to MoA: "... While still seeing the Assad regime as an adversary based on its patron-client relationship with Iran and its...

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"So you rub it a little on this side and Genie will solve all your middle eastern problems & make you charismatic!"

Confirmation long-time Iranian accusations of US ties with Jundallah?

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"....  Just as hinting falsely that Iran was negotiating away its enrichment technology was a move by the Times that could have disast...

Are you: “A) Moderate, B) Very moderate, C) Crazy moderate or D) Other.”

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“We’re completely out of our league,” one former CIA vetting expert declared on condition of anonymity, reflecting the consensus of intelli...
Thursday, November 6, 2014

Regardless, 'the American public mood remains skeptical about further ground wars...'

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'... The (US) election outcome will not turn on foreign issues and, while there is a widespread perception among experts and some emer...

'The neocons’ revenge or the year of the hawks'

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"...  You could call it the neoconservatives’ revenge or the year of the hawks. But it has produced an interesting moment in Washingto...

Hawks & Kooks to dominate US Foreign policy? ...

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Hawks & Kooks to dominate Foreign policy ..

'Jamal Ma`ruf and the moderate rebels'

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The AA News Service " Did you notice how restrained the US media have been about the defeat and humiliation of Jamal Ma`urf forces in ...

'Covering Syria; Anne Barnard & Liz Sly'

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Covering Syria; Anne Barnard and Liz Sly :  Do you notice that the propaganda pitch by those Western correspondents in Beirut ... ...?
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

" Syrian rebel forces join battle to protect Kobane" (grand title in Qatar's Al Jazeera!)

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Al Jazeera  "...  50 Arab fighters from the Western-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) arrived in the embattled town on Wednesday in a mov...

"The US has been at war since 2001 -- nearly this entire century so far ..."

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"... The problem that Obama has , which has crippled his foreign policy, is that his principles have not been defined with enough rigo...

Ignatius romancing ISIS wants US boots back in Iraq & Syria: NOW!!

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"... When the jihadists stand and fight, as they have done in the northern Syrian town of Kobane, they get pounded. U.S. officials es...

Obama's WH: "The intent is not to create a field force to liberate Damascus"

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Via MoA . Very informative interview of Gen. John Allen, the WH's anti-ISIS Czar! "... Q: But you don’t see the FSA units that a...
Sunday, October 26, 2014

Umm Mahmoud, Abou Mahmoud, Mahmoud... & ... the fantasms & infighting of a mercenary force!

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"... A spokeswoman for Legion 5, an umbrella group of rebel units that receive American support through a covert CIA program, said th...

Winds in Washington: "Tel Aviv now exercises less of a veto over the US-Iran talks..."

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'... The Administration is also gearing up for a final push on the P5+1 nuclear talks with Iran, hoping to meet the late November dea...
Friday, October 24, 2014

27 abducted Lebanese soldiers & Cedarland Banana Republic still 'negotiates'

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Al Jazeera English "...  Despite his arrest warrant, Hujeiri still moves around the town of Arsal freely...  He is out of the hands of...

"American policymakers continue to see Saudia as indispensable not because it has shown itself willing to change.. but because it does not.

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"...  Anti-Shiism today is not so much the product of a retrograde or orthodox interpretation of Islam — widely labeled   Wahhabism  —...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

Iranian Foreign Minister at the Council on Foreign Relations

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"...  It is a sensible and sophisticated presentation that drives US neocons crazy. They can hardly control their grief at no longer ha...

STATE Official: “We have to face whether we are going after ISIL or Assad or both, but for the present we just want to postpone the decision.”

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'....  Externally , the picture is not much better. While the commanding general of the anti-ISIL operations in Iraq and Syria is rep...

'Out of courtesy'

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"...  Because of the consistency of such behaviour, the source added, many in the international community have started meeting opposit...

Western 'artificial creations' will collapse, says Israel's Ya'alon!

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Yaalon predicts end to Middle East newly created 'artificial' states.  Not those TWO who are (by order of antiquity) 5000 & ...

Border Incidents Escalate Again: Iran Kills Pakistani Soldier

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"...  The big question is whether Iran feels that Pakistan’s Frontiers Corps is aiding the groups that cross into Iran or whether the...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

US & Syria to share intelligence on ISIL, via Moscow!

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Al Jazeera English "...  Also on Tuesday, US Secretary of State John Kerry met his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Paris, to disc...

Z Moussawi wants to testify against 'several' Saudi banks & the Arab Bank ..

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... and the crusade of the 'invisible hand' against the whole Arab banking sector continues! "...  After a federal jury in...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

'America'ss allies' logic of the situation believe that the US will be compelled to intervene on the ground'

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"As the pace of operations against ISIL accelerates but with inconclusive results, there are signs of rising tension between Preside...

'Kobani will be remembered as a turning point for Turkey in the expanding US-led coalition’s war on ISIL'

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"...  Turkey is in the least enviable position in the region. Bursting at the seams with Syrian refugees, crawling with foreign and l...

The origins of Russia’s new conflict with the West

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"...  The Ukraine crisis demonstrated that the West has no means to impose its twenty-first century worldview on Putin. To paraphrase ...

The U.S. government does not trust the Free Syrian Army!!

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"...  Being excluded from Tuesday’s coalition meeting is only the latest clear signal to the Syrian Opposition Coalition and the FSA ...

The Syrian clowns of Saudia & Qatar

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'Mama & the Emir' GulfNews.com "...  The two countries are seen as competing for influence in regional affairs. Over the w...

'Kurdish forces at Kobani benefit from U.S. airstrikes while being targetted by Erdogan'

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"...  Turkey has blocked military aid or Kurdish volunteers from crossing into Kobani, but Idriss said he is hopeful that talks with ...

Our friends in the Middle East are issuing new passports

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Friday, October 10, 2014

Taking down Assad "not on the front burner"

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"...  Turkish Kurds fought a decades-long insurgency in which 40,000 people were killed. A truce last year has been one of the main ac...
Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Romancing ISIS continues in Erdogan's Turkey

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"...  Former Deputy Prime Minister Emrullah İşler defended the terrorist group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which...

Moscow & Tehran to Erdogan: 'Do not attempt regime change in Syria!'

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' MOSCOW. Oct 8 (Interfax) - Moscow believes it is unacceptable to take advantage of the fight against the Islamic State as a pretext ...