May 22 2013

israel: S-300 Missiles Moving to Syria

Israel’s Air Force Commander Major General Amir Eshel said today that S-300 advanced missile defense system will soon arrive in Syria.

The S-300 systems have been modernised repeatedly to maintain it’s reputation as the ultimate rocket and aircraft destroying machines. The S-300PMU2 Favorit can launch six missiles at once, each capable of destroying aircraft flying at several times the maximum speed of the F-16 and F-22 fighter jets – the flaunted possessions of the Israeli and US air forces, as well as intercepting ballistic targets.

Speaking at a convention in Herzliya, Eshel added “there is a clear understanding that such capabilities will produce confidence and aggressive behavior.”

“Aerial superiority is a condition to win and win quickly, and is of great strategic importance. The other side understands that well, which is why Assad, with his low budget, has invested billions into purchasing antiaircraft missiles.”

“It’s not just our problem. The challenge that is developing in the north did not start yesterday and there isn’t a challenge that has no solution,” the air force chief noted, adding that Syria could collapse soon and different forces could get hold of Assad’s armory.

“This does not mean we will act, but it means we must be ready with our planes and missile defense systems. No one is going to tell us ‘take two weeks to prepare for the war.’ We will have to be ready for confrontations in Gaza and Lebanon, including long-range ones. Failure to prepare for this would mean a failure to learn the lessons of the Yom Kippur War.”

IDF Chief of Staff Brig. Gen. Benny Gantz added: “In light of the region’s instability, the military faces a real scenario of a confrontation on multiple fronts, and is in a new resource reality which could change it completely.”

The revelations come after an IDF vehicle was destroyed by Syrian forces in the Golan Heights.

Source: Syria Report

May 22 2013

Syria: Al-Qusayr and the Hezbollah

The line of reports from Al-Qusayr remains the same as yesterday, and today we are almost able to say, that the “battle” is pretty close to its end.

Meanwhile, such reports of the presents of fighters of the Lebanese Tayyar Al-Mustaqbal (Future Movement) in al-Qusayr are interesting:

“Province of Homs. The cleanup operation against those armed gangs and groups, who are entrenched in the neighborhoods, continues. Currently, the main forces of the surviving terrorists still remain in the northern districts, where also the airport Ad-Dabaa, occupied by them, is located; it seems they apparently intend to use it for their escape from the encirclement.

In the course of the battles from today[21/05/2013 - author], a group of Lebanese fighters was destroyed by Syrian Army members, the group belonged to the Al-Mustaqbal, led by Saad Hariri; as well as a terrorist unit, consisting of 20 men, under the led of the field commander Wrtan al-Zkhuri from the al-Nusra-Front (Dschabhat al-Nusra).

Once again, a group of armed men was tracked down and liquidated at the border to Lebanon, while the gunmen tried to break through the blockade around the city and to help the encircled terrorists.” (ANNA-News)

Both Salafi and Israeli sources, and with the later, the “world community”, hardly get any air while they are getting loudly worked up (het up / excited) that Hezbollah takes part around Al-Qusayr. They modestly ignore the reasons for this, respectively they rant about an “alliance with the dictator”.

The Lebanese Hariri units are the reason. Hariri controls the comfortable and wide swath from the Lebanese Tripoli up to the Syrian border, which was set up by the sponsors of the aggression against Syria.

Foreign terrorists (especially North-African), tons of weapons, and ammunition reach Syria through this corridor. The Al-Mustaqbal will know how to feed themselves from the arsenals, which are passing by. Of course, the safe passage costs something.

Ultimately, Hezbollah is nothing else doing in this scenario than what israel is doing against Hezbollah – they are trying to prevent the rearmament of the Hariri units. Which are not arming themselves against israel, but against a much more uncomfortable enemy in the inland.

That there are Lebanese terrorists groups in Syria for a long time, this does not fit into the world picture which is jointly drawn by Israel and the Salafists (Salafis). So, without further ado, this gets suppressed without hesitation, and therefore, the half-truth looks similiar to a dangerous lie. Continue reading →

May 22 2013

Accord de libre-échange transatlantique : USA-UE Des pans entiers de la société visés. (doc à télécharger)

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Prêchi-Prêcha via l’Humanité.fr

Le document que l’humanite.fr s’est procuré, datant du 12 mars, est actuellement discuté par les Parlementaires européens et les gouvernements nationaux. C’est une base de négociation sur l’accord de libre-échange transatlantique, déjà passé en commission au Parlement, et ses amendements seront votés ce jeudi 23 mai. S’il était adopté, cet accord frapperait tous les pans de la société européenne.

La Commission annonce des gains économiques significatifs : de 119,2 milliards de dollars pour l’UE et de 94,2 milliards de dollars pour les Etats-Unis… à condition d’éliminer toutes les « entraves » au libre-échange, barrières non tarifaires pour commencer (voir notamment page 7, point 9).

Ce projet comporte donc aussi, et surtout, de nombreux risques. Tout d’abord, pour qu’il y ait accord, les Européens devront renoncer à un grand nombre de leurs normes (juridiques, environnementales, sanitaires, culturelles…). Ensuite, les standards invoqués sont ceux de l’Organisation mondiale du commerce. En réalité, une bataille se joue actuellement à ce niveau. Les Etats-Unis sont, dans le même temps, engagés dans des négociations de partenariat transpacifique en vue de conclure un accord de libre-échange. Quel est l’objectif ? « S’assurer que le capitalisme version occidentale reste la norme mondiale et pas le capitalisme d’Etat chinois », comme l’a indiqué Bruce Stokes, du German Marshall Fund of the United States. Autrement dit : imposer leurs normes aux dépens des règles européennes jugées trop contraignantes (voir notamment pages 10-11, point 18).

Des cadres juridiques, sanitaires, environnementaux… jusqu’au droit du travail, par « ricochet », c’est tous les pans de la société européenne qui sont visés.

Document à télécharger :

Base de travail du projet d’accord de libre échange transatlantique

May 22 2013

Russia Adds Two More Warships To Mediterranean Task Force Near Syria

A few days when reporting that the Russian Pacific fleet had crossed the Suez canal for the first time in decades in order to form a Mediterranean task force parked in Cyprus for obvious symbolic reasons (in close proximity to Syria and the Israel-parked Kearsarge), some observed that while the submarine support was adequate, the actual warship fleet designated to support any potential escalation in Syria would be largely insufficient. Perhaps the Russian Navy heard these complaints, and several hours ago RIA reported that two extra warships from the Russian Black Sea fleet had joined the Mediterranean task force, citing Capt. First Rank Vyacheslav Trukhachyov, has said. None of these recent deployment should come as a surprise: in March Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said a permanent naval task force in the Mediterranean was needed to defend Russia’s interests in the region. Read Syria, Cyrpus (where the task force will be on anchor indefinitely), and, of course, any and all western offensive involving Iran. And slowly but surely said task force is nearing completion.

“During a planned rotation, large landing ships Nikolai Filchenkov and Azov from Russia’s Black Sea Fleet have started performing their tasks in the Mediterranean,” Trukhachyov said.

The two ships in question:

the Azov

and the Filchenkov

 

 

The two ships will be added to a fleet that is becoming increasingly imposing in both numbers and capability: the task force currently includes vessels from the Pacific, Northern, Baltic and Black Sea fleets: the Admiral Panteleyev and Severomorsk destroyers, the Yaroslav Mudry frigate, the Peresvet and Admiral Nevelskoi amphibious warfare ships, the Fotiy Krylov, Altai and SB-921 salvage/rescue tugs, the PM-138 repair ship, the Pechenga, Lena and Dubna tankers. The task force may be enlarged to include nuclear submarines.

Admiral Vladimir Komoyedov, head of the parliamentary defense committee, previously told RIA Novosti that the Mediterranean task force should be comprised of 10 warships and support vessels as part of several tactical groups tasked with attack, antisubmarine warfare and minesweeping.

In other words, check to you America, we are ready.

And speaking of checking, just a month earlier it was the US that was deploying its own naval support in the area with the LHD-3 Kearsarge crossing the Suez canal, and now on anchor in Israel. Here is a 60 second timelapse video of what it looks like when a US naval ship cross the Suez Canal, direction escalation.

Source: Zero Hedge

May 22 2013

Les relations entre les Américains et les islamistes tunisiens remonteraient à 2004

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Tunisie-secret.com via E&R

On ne remerciera jamais [assez] Wikileaks. Dans les documents suivants, on découvre la servilité des Nahdaoui à l’égard des Américains et la naïveté de ces derniers à l’égard des islamistes. C’est sous la présidence de George W. Bush, le criminel de guerre en Irak, que les relations de maître à esclave entre certains hauts dirigeants d’Ennahda et les Services de l’ambassade américaine en Tunisie se sont renforcées. Mais elles existaient depuis le début des années 80, lorsque les Américains ont décidé d’écarter Bourguiba et de placer leurs pions islamistes, aussi bien en Tunisie qu’en Algérie.

Ils ont raté leur coup en 1987, mais pas en janvier 2011. Ce qui est étonnant dans ces documents, c’est que Ben Ali était au courant des tractations islamo-impérialistes, mais il laissait faire. Pourquoi n’a-t-il pas réagi ? Pourquoi n’a-t-il pas remis en prison ces traîtres ? Pourquoi a-t-il manqué de fermeté ? Autant de questions auxquelles il va falloir un jour répondre. À la lecture de ces documents de Wikileaks, on comprend que, ce n’est pas parce qu’ils sont majoritaires ou populaires que les islamistes sont arrivés au pouvoir, mais parce qu’ils ont vendu leur âme à l’Oncle Sam. Merci aux USA d’avoir imposé ces obscurantistes à un peuple qui voulait la démocratie.

Des documents émanant de l’ambassade américaine à Tunis et faisant partie des récents documents qui ont filtré et ont été révélés récemment par Wikileaks attestent des très bonnes relations entre les membres du parti islamiste tunisien Ennahda et la mission diplomatique américaine à Tunis du temps du président déchu Ben Ali. Échange de visites entre les deux parties et insistance des dirigeants d’Ennahda sur le fait qu’ils représentent l’islam modéré, ce qui est à leur avis la solution pour la démocratie dans la région et précisément en Tunisie. Mais il semble qu’il y a une grande différence entre ce que déclarent (pour la consommation locale) les Nahdaouis à propos de la politique des États-Unis et ce que révèlent ces documents à propos de leurs cordiales relations avec eux.

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May 21 2013

Main al-Nusra Front commander killed in Qusayr clashes

Syrian troops celebrate as they take control of the village of Haydariyah, some 7 km outside al-Qusayr on May 20, 2013.

The main commander of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front has been reportedly killed in clashes with the Syrian army in the western city of al-Qusayr.

According to Syria’s national television, top al-Nusra Front commander identified as Abu Omar was killed in al-Qusayr on Tuesday as clashes between Syrian troops and foreign-backed militants in the border town entered their third day.

The Syrian army says it is now in control of more than 70 percent of the strategic city, which connects the capital city of Damascus to the Mediterranean port of Tartous.

Intense fighting is reported to be still under way in some parts of al-Qusayr, about 30 km southwest of Homs, with the Syrian army making advances on terrorist groups fighting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

According to Syria’s official news agency, SANA, scores of militants were killed in clashes with government forces on Tuesday. Syrian troops also defused several explosive devices in the city.

Syrian troops entered al-Qusayr from several directions on May 19 after weeks of clashes with militants. Syrian sources say over 100 militants have been killed in the military operation to clear al-Qusayr of militants.

On Monday, Syrian army confiscated an Israeli military vehicle used by foreign-backed militants in al-Qusayr. A number of military uniforms as well as wiretapping and jamming equipment were found in the vehicle.

Source: Press TV

May 21 2013

Syrian army destroys Israeli military vehicle in Golan Heights

File photo shows the line that separates Syria from the Israeli-occupied lands on the Golan Heights.

 

Syria says its army has destroyed an Israeli military vehicle that had crossed the ceasefire line in the occupied Golan Heights.

The Syrian army said in a statement issued on Tuesday that the vehicle drove toward the village of Bir Ajam, located in the “liberated area of Syrian territories where there are armed terrorist groups.”

“Following that, the Israeli enemy fired two rockets from the occupied site of Tal al-Faras toward one of our sites in al-Zubaydiah site; no casualties reported,” the statement added.

Also on Tuesday, the Israeli military said its troops had shot at a target inside Syria, following an incident where gunfire from Syria hit the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

The Israeli regime has recently boosted its military activities in the Golan Heights, where clashes between the Syrian army and the militant groups continue.

Syria has been gripped by unrest for over two years, and many people, including large numbers of Syrian soldiers and security personnel, have been killed in the foreign-sponsored militancy.

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad said on May 18 that militants from 29 different countries were fighting against the government in different parts of the country.

Source: Press TV

May 21 2013

‘Israel forces fired at target in Syria’

The file photo shows an Israeli tank on Syria’s illegally annexed Golan Heights.

The Israeli military says its troops have shot at a target inside Syria, after gunfire from Damascus hit the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

The military said in a Tuesday statement that the gunfire from Damascus damaged a military vehicle without causing any injuries.

The statement added that the Israeli soldiers “returned precise fire.”

Tel Aviv has recently boosted military activities in the occupied Golan Heights, where clashes between Syrian forces and foreign-sponsored militants have spiked dramatically in recent weeks.

The Israeli military has set up a “military field hospital” at military outpost 105 in the occupied Golan Heights to treat wounded militants fighting against the government in neighboring Syria.

The Israeli military has carried out three airstrikes against Syria so far this year.

On May 5, Syria said the Israeli regime had carried out an airstrike targeting a research center in a suburb of Damascus, following heavy losses of al-Qaeda-affiliated groups at the hands of the Syrian army. According to Syrian media reports, Israeli rockets struck the Jamraya Research Center.

The Jamraya facility was also targeted in an Israeli airstrike in January.  Continue reading →