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Oct 3 2012

US prepares to strike Libyan militia suspected in Benghazi attack

Islamists hold weapons as hundreds of heavily armed Libyans from a “Pro Sharia” group demonstrate.(AFP Photo / Abdullah Doma)

The US military and intelligence agencies are preparing to capture and kill militants involved in the attack on the US consulate in Libya, despite the Libyan government’s demand that no foreigners will fight on their country’s land.

The top-secret Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) is currently gathering information on the attack that killed a US ambassador and three other Americans, planning to launch drone strikes or raids against the suspects, the New York Times reportes.

“They are putting together information on where these individuals live, who their family members and their associates are, and their entire pattern of life,” an unnamed American official told the news organization. Continue reading →

Jun 13 2012

Syria targeted by US advocates of unipolar global order

By Clifford A. Kiracofe 

Source: Global Times

Washington’s regime change policy in Syria is about the world order. While human rights and democracy are featured in the propaganda mix, the real issue turns on the future of the international system and the role of international law.

The Obama administration, just as the Bush administration before it, mistakenly seeks through geopolitical measures to enforce a US-led unipolar world and to delay the emergence of a multipolar world.

In the Middle East, many Washington politicians and policymakers see Israel as the key US strategic ally. As the US pivots to the Asia-Pacific, they want Israel’s regional position strengthened and its enemies, such as Syria and Iran, weakened.

US general and former head of NATO command, Europe, Wesley Clark revealed in 2007 the game plan of the neoconservative network around then vice president Dick Cheney which played the key role in the Iran and Afghan wars of the Bush administration.

In a speech to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Clark said that in the wake of the 9/11 attack, he learned from Continue reading →

Feb 19 2012

‘Syrian govt. legally allowed to target US drones flying over Syria’

Watch the interview on Press TV
A political analyst says the Syrian government has the legal right to target the US military and intelligence drones operating over Syria, Press TV reports.

“Syria has the right to use military capability to disturb this mission and even to attack those aircraft,” said Hisham Jaber, the director of Center for Middle East Studies in an interview with Press TV on Saturday.

He made the comment after NBC News claimed earlier that the US military has dispatched a “good number” of unmanned drones for operations in Syrian airspace to monitor “the Syrian military attacks against opposition forces and civilians.”

“They [the Syrian government] can sue them [the US] before the international court,” Jaber added.

Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March 2011. Hundreds of people, including many Syrian security forces, have been killed in the course of the turmoil.

Damascus blames “outlaws, saboteurs and armed terrorist groups” for the unrest, insisting that it is being orchestrated from abroad. The West and the Syrian opposition, however, accuse the government of killing the protesters.

Feb 13 2012

Syria rejects new Arab League resolutions

Damascus has rejected the Arab League’s call to bring international peacekeepers into Syria, labeling it a hostile act aimed at undermining security and stability in the country.

An emergency session of foreign ministers of the 22-member Arab League in Cairo has issued a resolution appealing to the UN to bring peacekeeping force into Syria. The international contingent, they insist, should be consisted of UN blue helmets and troops from Arab countries, “to oversee the implementation of a ceasefire.”

The plan comes as the UN General Assembly prepares to debate Syria.

The Arab League Secretary General Nabil El-Arabi proposed to form a new monitoring group for Syria, consisted of international observers of both the UN and the Arab League specialists. He also proposed former foreign minister of Jordan Abdelilah Al-Khatib to be a UN special envoy for Syria, a diplomat that previously worked as a UN special envoy for Libya.

Syria’s ambassador to Cairo Yusef Ahmed, who did not attend the meeting, said “The Syrian Arab Republic categorically rejects the decisions of the Arab League,” reports Xinhua. Continue reading →

Nov 7 2011

Ahmedinejad: US Acts Out of Fear

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad warned Monday against a military attack on Iran reiterating that his country’s atomic program was for peaceful usage, and on the US claims that Iran was planning to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in the United States, Ahmedinejad said: “Iran and the people of Iran’s thinking is far from executing such an operation, but the US always fabricates such schemes against Iran.”

“Those (America) published this fabrication to create a gap between the Saudis and us. American is the world’s greatest terrorist, and uses terrorism to achieve its goals… America fears a friendly relation between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and so we must make great efforts to strengthen our relations.” he added.

In an interview with the Egyptian Al-Akhbar newspaper Ahmedinejad further responded to the US and Israeli threats Continue reading →

Nov 3 2011

Syrian Tartous Rejects Foreign Interference, Voices Support to Reform & Stability

More than half a million Syrian citizens from Tartous and its countryside gathered on the Coastal Corniche in a mass rally to express their support to the comprehensive reform process led by President Bashar al-Assad.

The participants expressed rejection of foreign interference in Syria’s internal affairs, thanking Russia, China and the friendly countries for their stances in support of Syria at the international forums.

The crowds greeted the Syrian army members for their sacrifices for the sake of preserving Syria’s safety and security, stressing that the Syrian people adore freedom and reject injustice and they will always be.

Professor Bassam Abu Abdullah and journalist Hanaa al-Saleh delivered a speech during Continue reading →