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quote:Syria's Baba Amr is deserted, Red Cross says
Associated Press= BEIRUT (AP) — The U.N. humanitarian chief toured the shattered Syrian district of Baba Amr on Wednesday but found most residents had fled following a bloody military siege, while activists accused the government of trying to cover up evidence of atrocities there.
The visit by Valerie Amos, the New York-based undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, was the first by an independent outside observer since the Syrian military began its month-long assault of the rebellious neighborhood. A key stronghold of the uprising to oust authoritarian President Bashar Assad, it was wrested from rebel control on March 1.
Amos made no statement, but a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross said she entered the ravaged neighborhood with a team from the Syrian Red Crescent that had been waiting nearly a week to be allowed in to deliver aid.
"The Syrian Arab Red Crescent stayed about 45 minutes inside the neighborhood," Red Cross spokesman Hicham Hassan said in Geneva. "Volunteers say that most inhabitants have fled Baba Amr."
The Syrian regime has kept the neighborhood sealed off over the past six days, saying it was too dangerous for humanitarian workers to enter. But activists accused the government of engaging in a "mopping-up" operation to hide their atrocities.
"They haven't let anyone in for a week, and now they are going to let them in?" Homs activists Tarek Badrakhan told The Associated Press. "Today it's simple: They finished their crimes and hid all the proof. Now they think they can show that everything is normal."
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lashed out at the delays.
"The regime's refusal to allow humanitarian workers to help feed the hungry, tend to the injured, bury the dead, marks a new low," she said. "Tons of food and medicine are standing by while more civilians die and the regime launches new assaults."
Amos said the aim of her two-day visit to Syria was "to urge all sides to allow unhindered access for humanitarian relief workers so they can evacuate the wounded and deliver essential supplies."
She met with Syria's foreign minister on Wednesday and was to meet other government officials in Damascus on Thursday, but it was unclear whether she would be allowed to return to Baba Amr or whether any aid deliveries were imminent.
The U.N. says more than 7,500 people have been killed since Syria's uprising began. Activists put the death toll at more than 8,000.
In Washington, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta delivered a sober assessment of Syria's sophisticated air defenses and its extensive stockpile of chemical weapons — a strategic reality check to demands for U.S. military action to end Assad's deadly crackdown on his people.
Republican Sen. John McCain has called on the Obama administration to launch U.S. airstrikes to end Assad's crackdown, but Panetta pushed back Wednesday against the demand.
"What doesn't make sense is to take unilateral action right now," Panetta told the Senate Armed Services Committee. "I've got to make very sure we know what the mission is. ... Achieving that mission at what price?"
Panetta and Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, described a well-armed Syria that bears little resemblance to what the U.S. military and its allies faced in Libya. Syria's air defenses are five times more sophisticated than Libya's, and its chemical and biological weapons stockpile is 100 times larger, they said.
Suppressing the air defenses would require a sustained air campaign over an extended period of time with a significant number of aircraft, and the U.S. would have to lead the effort, Dempsey said.
Because the air defenses are located in populous neighborhoods, airstrikes could mean scores of unintended deaths, Panetta said.
Dempsey warned of the "need to be alert to extremists," and other hostile actors, including Iran, which he said "has been exploiting the situation and expanding its support to the regime."
"And we need to be especially alert to the fate of Syria's chemical and biological weapons. They need to stay exactly where they are," Dempsey said.
After seizing Baba Amr from the rebels, regime forces now appear to be turning their attention to other rebellious areas. A wave of new arrests was reported in Homs by the Local Coordinating Committees, an activist group, as well as assaults on the northern province of Idlib near Turkey.
The shift suggests the Syrian military is unable to launch large operations simultaneously, even though the security services remain largely strong and loyal.
According to witnesses, Syrian troops shelled the northern villages in Idlib on Wednesday. There also were reports of snipers in Homs province.
Russia and China, powerful Syrian allies that have blocked a Security Council resolution against Syria, have made clear they are still standing by the regime in Damascus.
Still, in a sign of China's growing alarm, Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming said Beijing was pulling its workers out of Syria because of the violence.
"I can tell you most Chinese workers have been withdrawn from that country to China," he told a news conference. "There are only about 100 people left there taking care of projects, assets and property. We will wait until the local situation stabilizes."
In Moscow, Russian leader Vladimir Putin said the government wasn't considering granting political asylum to Assad, shooting down rumors that such an offer is on the table as a way to end the Syrian regime's deadly crackdown.
Putin, who is currently prime minister but regained the presidency in an election Sunday, said "We aren't even discussing the issue" of granting asylum to Assad.
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De gevolgen van de argumenten van de anti-rook maffia
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quote:Minister Syri loopt over – hoogste functionaris die Assad rug toekeert
Nog niet eerder keerde een hooggeplaatste regeringsfunctionaris als onderminister Abdo Hussameldin zich af van president Bashar al-Assad. Werkzaam op het ministerie van Olie, neemt hij via een video op YouTube afstand van ‘de misdaden van dit regime’.
Hussameldin zegt zich in het filmpje, waarvan de bron nog niet is vastgesteld, terug te trekken uit de Baath-partij en zich aan te sluiten bij de revolutie van het waardige volk. Hij stelt 33 jaar werkzaam te zijn geweest voor de Syrische regering.
. “Ik geef er de voorkeur aan om te doen wat juist is, ook al weet ik dat dit regime nu mijn huis zal afbranden en mijn familie zal vervolgen. Ik zeg tegen dit regime: je hebt het volk waarvan je beweert dat het het jouwe is een jaar lang ondergedompeld in lijden en verdriet. Hen is een normaal leven en menselijkheid ontnomen, en Syri is naar de rand van de afgrond gedreven.”
‘Economie op punt van instorten’
De regeringstroepen van Assad hebben volgens de VN al zeker 7.500 mensen gedood sinds de opstand een jaar geleden begon. Het rode Kruis probeert al dagen toegang te krijgen tot het epicentrum van de opstand, de stad Homs. Gisteren kregen hulpverleners drie kwartier toegang.
Hussameldin werd volgens Reuters ooit door Assad zelf aangesteld en hield zijn functie als onderminister over aan een regeringsbesluit in 2009. Volgens Hussameldin staat de economie van Syri ‘op het punt van instorten’. Hij zou met hulp van Syrische oppositieleden zijn overgelopen.
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[b]Op dinsdag 6 januari 2009 19:59 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:[/b]
De gevolgen van de argumenten van de anti-rook maffia
[b]Op dinsdag 6 januari 2009 19:59 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:[/b]
De gevolgen van de argumenten van de anti-rook maffia
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[b]Op dinsdag 6 januari 2009 19:59 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:[/b]
De gevolgen van de argumenten van de anti-rook maffia
[b]Op dinsdag 6 januari 2009 19:59 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:[/b]
De gevolgen van de argumenten van de anti-rook maffia
Nu is het Sirie, welk arabisch land is next, ik word er gek van, alsof er in andere landen geen elende is
Poepje miauw, kom eens gauw
bruin substantie lekker rauw
Eet ik snel lekker weg
en andere visjes hebben lekker pech!
bruin substantie lekker rauw
Eet ik snel lekker weg
en andere visjes hebben lekker pech!
Verhofstadt laat weer van zich horen:
www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/246(...)wapens-en-snel.dhtml
www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/246(...)wapens-en-snel.dhtml
quote:Geef de Syrirs wapens, en snel
Vandaag moet de Syrische oppositie zich met geweren verdedigen tegen tanks en granaten. Europa kan helpen, meent oud-premier Guy Verhofstadt, Europees Parlementslid en fractieleider van de Europese liberalen (Open Vld).
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Wat vandaag in Homs gebeurt, maar ook in andere Syrische steden is van eenzelfde omvang en gruwel als de slachtingen in Sabra en Shatila, Srebrenica of Hama. Het is zo erg dat de inwoners van Homs tot alles bereid zijn, als het moet zelfs een bezetting door Isral. En toch gebeurt er niets. De VN-Veiligheidsraad slaagt er niet eens in om de Syrische dictator Bashar al-Assad te veroordelen. En de conferentie in Tunis van de zogenaamde 'Vrienden van Syri' kwam niet verder dan wat nieuwe sancties en de (niet-ingewilligde) eis van Assad dat hulporganisaties toegang zouden krijgen. Een minister van Buitenlandse Zaken zei in de marge van die conferentie dat verder gaan niet ging wegens "de verdeeldheid van de Syrische oppositie en de schrik voor een burgeroorlog en de uitbreiding ervan naar de hele regio". Met zulke vrienden heb je geen vijanden meer nodig.
Over de partijdigheid van al-Jazeera:
http://english.al-akhbar.(...)iased-syria-coveragequote:Al Jazeera reporter resigns over "biased" Syria coverage
Published Thursday, March 8, 2012
Al Jazeera Arabic's Beirut correspondent, Ali Hashem, resigned on Tuesday after leaked emails revealed his frustrations over the news channel's coverage of Syria, according to a source within the television network.
Hashem's resignation comes weeks after pro-Assad hackers leaked emails that revealed the dismay among Al Jazeera's staff over its “biased and unprofessional” coverage of the Syrian uprising.
“Hashem's misgivings are clear and well-known, and are no longer a secret to anyone," the source, wishing to remain anonymous, said.
"You can check the emails he sent to his colleague, Rula Ibrahim, to know his position which changed after the station refused to show photos he had taken of armed fighters clashing with the Syrian Army in Wadi Khaled. Instead [Al Jazeera] lambasted him as a shabeeh (implying a regime loyalist).”
The source also said that Hashem reported his dismay to several officials in the station, not just to his colleague, Ibrahim.
Complicating matters for Hashem was Al Jazeera's refusal to cover the uprising in Bahrain.
“[In Bahrain], we were seeing pictures of a people being butchered by the 'Gulf's oppression machine', and for Al Jazeera, silence was the name of the game,” the source added.
According to the source, Hashem was not the only Al Jazeera reporter to express his frustration over its coverage. Staff members in Al-Jazeera's offices in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, and Bahrain also voiced similar opinions.
The source explained that most reporters at Al Jazeera are professionals and come from prestigious schools of journalism where such biased coverage is unacceptable and particularly since several field reporters are “seeing the truth” themselves.
“There is a division among the staff members in the station. As for Hashem, he thought he could change one thing, but he couldn't so he chose to resign," the source said.
"This is what happens to the majority of people who oppose the station's provocative policy. They end up resigning.”
Al Jazeera is a Qatari owned and based satellite network, and has been the center of controversy throughout its short history.
It made US officials angry when it aired gruesome footage of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq last decade.
But Qatar's hardening foreign policy in the Middle East, in particular its efforts to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad while supporting Bahrain's crackdown on dissent, has made inroads on Al Jazeera's coverage of Arab affairs.
(Al-Akhbar - Wissam Kanaan contributed to this report)
Hij kan beter niks van zich laten horen. Vooral dat dikgedruktequote:Op donderdag 8 maart 2012 21:34 schreef zuiderbuur het volgende:
Verhofstadt laat weer van zich horen:
www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/246(...)wapens-en-snel.dhtml
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And remember, respect is everything!
Kennen jullie 'Syria Danny' die net als debiel Verhofstadt Isralisch ingrijpen in Syri wil?
Hij wordt op deze video 'ontmaskert'
CNN heeft hem vervolgens uitgenodigd
CNN’s attempt to refute claims that dubious activist Danny Dayem, known as ‘Syria Danny’, was caught staging sounds of gunfire during a recent interview with the network only resulted in further embarrassment, when Dayem admitted that the suspect video “should have been deleted,” presumably to hide the evidence of his propaganda stunt.
http://www.prisonplanet.c(...)paganda-scandal.html
Hij wordt op deze video 'ontmaskert'
CNN heeft hem vervolgens uitgenodigd
![[6/3/2012] Cooper and Danny caught lying: Homs fabricated video pathetic excuses](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/JR6cYM3C95g/default.jpg)
CNN’s attempt to refute claims that dubious activist Danny Dayem, known as ‘Syria Danny’, was caught staging sounds of gunfire during a recent interview with the network only resulted in further embarrassment, when Dayem admitted that the suspect video “should have been deleted,” presumably to hide the evidence of his propaganda stunt.
http://www.prisonplanet.c(...)paganda-scandal.html
Het kunnen ook Iraneze drones zijn.quote:Op donderdag 8 maart 2012 20:13 schreef Billy-jazz het volgende:
Is deze video al gepost? Isralische drones helpen Assad om de revolutionairen te doden.
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. ~Franois Fnelon
Of Russischequote:
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Het kunnen ook Iraneze drones zijn.
Hij was daarnet ook bij Pauw en Witteman: http://pauwenwitteman.var(...)66de387b7adb6cbf887dquote:Op donderdag 8 maart 2012 23:17 schreef killfrenzy het volgende:
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Hij kan beter niks van zich laten horen. Vooral dat dikgedrukte
Hij vergeleek het met de toestand in Rwanda.
http://www.washingtonpost(...)IQAAaN9yR_story.htmlquote:Syrian Kurds seen as revolt’s wild card
By: Ernesto Londoo
IRBIL, Iraq — Syria’s long-oppressed Kurdish minority is emerging as a key wild card with the potential to boost the momentum of a scattered and beleaguered opposition movement as a year-old revolt appears poised to become more violent.
So far, the Kurds have not been enthusiastic supporters of the wider revolution, which is primarily led by Syria’s Sunni Arab majority and has increasingly taken on sectarian overtones. They remain fearful that a new government dominated by Sunnis could deepen their marginalization.
But largely unnoticed, the Kurds in the northeast of the country have been sustaining daily peaceful protests against the regime led by President Bashar al-Assad. The government has concentrated most of its efforts to suppress revolt on Sunni Arab cities such as Homs and Hama, and has for the most part refrained from using force against the Kurds.
Sunni Arabs are the majority in the nation of 22 million, which for decades has been ruled by members of the Shiite Alawite sect. Kurds make up between 8 and 15 percent, according to estimates. Syria’s deep ethnic and religious divides make its revolt far more complex and potentially divisive than those in Libya, Egypt and Tunisia.
Syrian Kurds appear divided over what kind of role they want to carve out for themselves if the opposition movement succeeds in toppling the Assad government. But U.S. and allied Western nations are increasingly trying to find ways to bring the Kurds into the mainstream opposition, an effort that remains elusive.
A Western diplomat involved in Syria policy said that the United States and European allies have worked behind the scenes to encourage the mainstream opposition to make commitments about Kurdish rights in a post-Assad era.
“If and when the Kurds decide to get involved in a big way, it could cost the regime physical control over an entire region and could also be key to getting Aleppo and Damascus to rise up,” said the Western diplomat, who insisted on anonymity.
The predominantly Kurdish region, strategically important because it shares borders with Iraq and Turkey and has substantial oil reserves, remains essentially up for grabs.
Officials in Turkey, whose own oppressed Kurdish minority includes an insurgent wing, and in Iraq, where Kurds have attained a great degree of sovereignty, are watching the conflict closely, worried about cross-border ripple effects. The Kurds, an ethnic group spread out in Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria, have long aspired to have their own state, an ambition that has often led to their persecution.
The story of the uprising of Syrian Kurds, based on interviews with experts and with Kurdish leaders in Syria and neighboring Iraq, is key to understanding why the revolt in Syria has been slow to gather decisive momentum and just how messy the post-Assad era could become.
Restraint by the regime
When Syrians first took to the streets in March, buoyed by the successful uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, Kurdish political leaders were initially reluctant to rise up, according to those who were interviewed. As a long disenfranchised segment of society with an extensive history of revolt, Kurds had every incentive to join the protest movement. But political leaders decided they shouldn’t play a visible role early on.
“The Baath regime has always tried to teach that the Kurds are trying to divide Syria,” said Abdul Baki Youssef, a Syrian Kurdish politician, said in an interview in Irbil, referring to Assad’s political party. “If we had started, the regime would have just said we were starting to partition.”
As the revolt gathered steam in the southern Syrian city of Daraa, Kurds began holding large protests in the northeastern town of Qamishly and other predominantly Kurdish areas, at times drawing tens of thousands, Kurdish leaders say. Protesters tore down once-ubiquitous posters and portraits of Assad and tore down a statue of his late father, former Syrian president Hafez al-Assad, Youssef said.
Kurdish antipathy toward the regime soared in October, after the assassination of Mashaal Tammo, a prominent Kurdish activist. As he was buried, tens of thousands of people took to the streets in the northeast, marking one of the relatively rare instances in which security forces were accused of firing live ammunition into crowds in the area, Kurdish activists said.
In addition to chants against Assad, the demonstrations in Kurdish areas featured calls for greater sovereignty and self-determination. Protesters waved the red, white and green Kurdish flag. Security forces kept close tabs on activists and demonstrations, Kurdish activists said, and sought to disperse some with tear gas. But security forces have shown a notable degree of restraint in Kurdish cities, a stark contrast from its recent bombardment of Homs.
“The regime doesn’t want to start clashes with the Kurds,” Saleh Kado, a leader in the Kurdish Leftist Party in Qamishli said in a phone interview. “Until now, we stress that the revolution must be peaceful. Our belief is that change will come through peaceful means.”
Denise Natali, an expert on Kurdish politics at National Defense University, said the Assad regime has sought to woo certain Kurdish factions, making concessions such as offering full citizenship to Kurds who have for years been denied official documents.
“To repress the Kurds violently would be another nail in the coffin,” she said. “It is one of the communities the regime is trying to co-opt.”
Although Kurdish leaders say most Syrian Kurds remain staunchly opposed to Assad, the Kurds have become increasingly alarmed by the leading role Turkey has played in organizing the opposition. Turkey has become a haven for Syrian refugees and members of the opposition’s armed faction, known as the Free Syrian Army.
As Turkish leaders have devised their Syria policy, they have likely been mindful of the Kurdish angle at every turn. Members of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party, which has for years fought the Turkish government in a bid for independence, have used remote Syrian areas as staging grounds for attacks in the past and could more easily do so with complicity from the Assad regime.
Kurdish groups boycotted a summit of Syrian opposition parties in May because it was held in Turkey. Few attended a conference in Istanbul in August during which the Syrian National Council was formed.
“The regime has sought to divide the opposition through divide-and-conquer tactics,” Shelal Gado, a Kurdish political leader, said in an interview in Sulaimaniyah, an Iraqi city where he is now based. “We regret that the majority in the opposition think the same way as the regime: They don’t want to recognize the rights of the Kurdish people.”
Seeking to bridge the divisions among Syrian Kurdish groups, Massoud Barzani, the president of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq, hosted a gathering of Kurdish politicians from the neighboring country last month. He pledged support from the prosperous region as long as long as they found a way to band together. The Kurdish elder also stressed that they should not join the armed resistance.
“The era of armed struggle is over,” he said.
Nee dat zijn geen Israelische drones dus niet liegen, dat is niet netjes.quote:
Is deze video al gepost? Isralische drones helpen Assad om de revolutionairen te doden.
Weet je niet. Weet niemand hier.quote:Op vrijdag 9 maart 2012 00:46 schreef WammesWaggel het volgende:
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Nee dat zijn geen Israelische drones dus niet liegen, dat is niet netjes.
And remember, respect is everything!
Zeg over alle minderheden lees ik vanalles maar de Circassiers blijven aldoor buiten beschouwing, heeft iemand daar nog nieuws over? veel kiezen traditioneel voor een betrekking bij het leger en de veiligheidsdiensten.
Succesquote:
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Gewoon Stratfor hacken en je weet alles.
And remember, respect is everything!
"Speculation abounds online that the UAS caught by an amateur cameraman flying over Kafr Batna on valentines day is either a variant of the Iranian Mohajer or a new platform altogether, being called at the moment ”Pahpad” which is the Persian equivalent of UAV. The drone would very likely be a Syrian government airframe.quote:
Iran has defied arms embargoes and exported several unmanned systems to Sudan and a similar mystery airframe was spotted there." Meer: http://www.suasnews.com/2(...)ver-syria-from-iran/
mohajer-4
En nog steeds hetzelfde. Speculaas.quote:
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"Speculation abounds online that the UAS caught by an amateur cameraman flying over Kafr Batna on valentines day is either a variant of the Iranian Mohajer or a new platform altogether, being called at the moment ”Pahpad” which is the Persian equivalent of UAV. The drone would very likely be a Syrian government airframe.
Iran has defied arms embargoes and exported several unmanned systems to Sudan and a similar mystery airframe was spotted there." Meer: http://www.suasnews.com/2(...)ver-syria-from-iran/
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And remember, respect is everything!
Het propellorgeluid is in ieder geval gelijkend.quote:
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En nog steeds hetzelfde. Speculaas.
Hoe zou Assad aan Isralische drones moeten komen?
Ze zijn buren...quote:
Hoe zou Assad aan Isralische drones moeten komen?
