[Centraal] Crisis in Syri� #266 Iran is altijd nr. 1

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RanaHarbi twitterde op maandag 11-05-2015 om 15:58:55 WTF"Your virginity hymen is in Jisr Shughur hospital. It will be torn & your blood will drip over Nasrallah's face" http://t.co/rJsUSpvPb8 reageer retweet

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Op maandag 11 mei 2015 18:47 schreef Atak het volgende:

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Zinvor twitterde op maandag 11-05-2015 om 15:18:25 Hariri-installed billboards praising Saudi king keep getting burned, defaced & torn in Saida. http://t.co/oyZ3uegeir http://t.co/FG6hy9teA6 reageer retweet

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A senior member of Iran’s Assembly of Experts warned the Riyadh government that the execution of the prominent Shiite cleric, Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr, would put an end to Al Saud dynasty.

“Some Saudi media have announced that the Riyadh government plans to execute Sheikh Nimr by May 14; the Saudi government should know that taking such a move will put an end to its shameful rule,” Ayatollah Seyed Ahmad Khatami told FNA on Sunday.

Khatami, who is a presiding board member of Iran’s Assembly of Experts, warned the Saudi government that bloodshed in Yemen and killing a religious scholar is tantamount to following the path of pharaohs and blasphemers.

Ayatollah Khatami called on religious seminaries and intellectuals of the Muslim world to prevent continued crimes by the Saudi regime.

On Saturday, several Saudi rights activists warned Al Saud that Sheikh Nimr’s execution would set fire to Saudi Arabia.

“The Saudi people will ask for a halt in the execution of the death sentence (for Sheikh Nimr) by staging peaceful rallies and protests,” Sheikh Abbas al-Qatifi told FNA.

Stressing the strong opposition of Saudi Arabia’s Eastern province to the execution of the Shiite cleric, he said, “The case of Sheikh Nimr is a Saudi show played by the Saudi princes at the order of the US and the Zionist regime as part of a plot in the country and even other Islamic countries.”

Also in relevant remarks on Saturday, Abdolhadi al-Sattari, another Saudi rights activist, told FNA that the Saudi officials have resorted to terrorists to suppress the Shiites inside and outside Saudi Arabia.

He warned that the Eastern province’s people will take revenge for the blood of their martyrs.

Also other rights activists said that the Saudi youth have condemned plans to execute Sheikh Nimr and are preparing themselves for a big revolution against the country’s cruel rulers.

An informed Saudi source told FNA on Wednesday that Riyadh planned to execute Sheikh Nimr on May 14.

“The Saudi regime plans to execute Sheikh Nimr on the death anniversary of Nayef bin Abdullah, the former Saudi crown prince,” the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of his information, said.

The source said the Saudi rulers know that the move would engulf the monarchy in the flames of unrest and they might have to pay a heavy price for the execution of Sheikh Nimr, and they have prepared riot combat plans after consultations with several western security experts.

Nimr was attacked and arrested in the Qatif region in July 2012. His arrest sparked widespread protests in the kingdom leaving several people dead.

On October 15, 2014, Nimr was sentenced to death at the Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh. In reaction to the sentence, people took to streets in the city of Qatif in Eastern Province to condemn the move.

Amnesty International has called the death sentence “appalling”, saying the verdict should be quashed.

Nimr was given the death sentence on charges of disturbing the kingdom’s security and making anti-government speeches.

He is the Imam of al-Awamiyya Mosque in Qatif and has spent most of his two-year detention in solitary confinement at the al-Ha’ir prison in Riyadh, according to Amnesty International.

Protesters have staged rallies worldwide to condemn the death sentence handed down to Sheikh Nimr, and have voiced solidarity with the dissident Saudi religious scholar.

There have been numerous demonstrations in Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich Eastern Province since 2011, with the protestors calling for political reform and an end to widespread discrimination. Several people have been killed and many others have been injured or arrested during the demonstrations.

The Persian Gulf monarchy has come under fire from international human rights organizations, which have criticized it for failing to address the rights situation in the kingdom. Critics say the country shows zero-tolerance toward dissent.

In January, Joe Stork, the deputy director of the Middle East and North Africa division for Human Right Watch, slammed Saudi Arabia’s crackdown on activists in the kingdom.

“Saudi Arabia should free imprisoned activists and take other concrete, visible steps to show the government is willing to improve its abysmal rights record,” Stork said.

Stork also questioned the election of Saudi Arabia as a member of the Human Rights Council in November last year, saying that Riyadh has a record of repression and its membership is not warranted.

Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy that does not allow any election.

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The testimonies of four public prosecutors, who were jailed last week for their role in the search of trucks allegedly carrying weapons to opposition groups in Syria, have revealed that some state officials had links with the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and similar organizations operating in Syria, media reports said on Sunday.
Former Adana Chief Public Prosecutor S�leyman Bağrıyanık, former Adana Deputy Chief Public Prosecutor Ahmet Karaca, Adana prosecutors Aziz Tak�ı and �zcan Şişman and former Adana provincial gendarmerie commander Col. �zkan �okay were arrested on Thursday on charges of “attempting to topple or incapacitate the Turkish government through the use of force or coercion and exposing information regarding the security and political activities of the state.”
The trucks, which were found to belong to the National Intelligence Organization (MİT), were stopped by gendarmes in two separate incidents in the southern provinces of Hatay and Adana in January 2014 after prosecutors received tip-offs that they were carrying arms to Syria.
Although the government has claimed that the trucks were transporting humanitarian aid to the Turkmen community in Syria, opposition voices have continued to question why, if the operation was within the law, the minister and local authorities stepped in to prevent the trucks from being searched.
In his testimony, Şişman, who stopped the MİT trucks in Hatay, said investigations that were being carried out either by himself and the deputy chief prosecutor's office at that time coincidentally revealed that some state officials did not differentiate between a state duty, collecting intelligence and being involved in terrorism, and that they had unlawful relations with ISIL and similar organizations operating in Syria.
In his testimony, Şişman added that if the trucks were really carrying weapons to Syria, this cannot be described as a state secret. “A criminal action cannot be described as a state secret,” he said.
Referring to the search in Adana, the prosecutor said that missile warheads and rocket launcher warheads were found in one of the trucks there. Şişman said two of the individuals involved in the “crime” told him that they did this with the knowledge of the state and even that some state officials helped them.
Şişman said the same truck was found to have unloaded some ammunition at a border military post located in Reyhanlı's B�k�lmez village on Oct. 6-26, 2013, and that the ammunition had been taken across the border, adding that security footage proved this and that the ammunition was taken to a camp of the hardline militant group Ahrar al-Sham.
Prosecutor Bağrıyanık's testimony showed the unlawful interference of then Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ in the incident. Bağrıyanık testified that he received a call from then-Justice Ministry Undersecretary Kenan İpek, telling him that he was not authorized to order a search of MİT trucks as it would run against article 26 of MİT law. İpek allegedly told Bağrıyanık that if a search was to take place, those making the search along with Bağrıyanık would be saddened and that this is not something he would like to happen.
The prosecutor said he later discussed the issue with deputy prosecutor Karaca who told him that the search not only wouldn't violate MİT law, but that an immediate search should be made in the case of the existence of evidence whose collection should not be delayed.
Bağrıyanık said the undersecretary called him several times regarding the same issue and he once gave the phone to the then-Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ, who allegedly told Bağrıyanık that the search of the MİT trucks was unlawful and that he should immediately remove the prosecutor conducting the search.
The prosecutor said he did not abide by Bozdağ's order because the then-minister was not authorized to intervene in judicial proceedings.
In the meantime, the existence of security footage was revealed which shows the ammunition found in MİT trucks, and samples of the ammunition found in MİT trucks were taken. In addition, a report prepared by an expert detailed the type of ammunition found.
In his testimony, prosecutor Tak�ı asked the trial judge under which law the ammunition on the trucks was being transported and to where. He said the weapons in question were transported in an illegal way. “On which legal grounds was this transportation being made? Is there a decision of the MGK [National Security Council], the Cabinet or an order from the then-prime minister? … Laws are obvious. Since when, was the transportation of weapons by MİT described as a state secret? Does MİT have a duty to transport weapons?” he asked.
The investigation carried out by prosecutor Şişman revealed that the vehicle escorting the MİT trucks was registered in the name of al-Qaeda member A. Demir. Şişman questioned how MİT officials could get on a vehicle belonging to an al-Qaeda member.

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Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari and Syrian Ambassador in Baghdad Sattam Jadaan al-Dandah held a meeting on Monday and discussed bilateral relations.
Talks during the meeting touched on the progress of Syrian-Iraqi relations and cooperation mechanisms, in addition to the overall situation in the region and the world, with the two sides stressing the need to exert all possible efforts to restore security and stability in the region and the world.
In a statement to SANA’s correspondent, Ambassador al-Dandah said that the meeting is part of the coordination between the two countries that face mutual challenges and confront a vicious terrorist attack, stressing the need for countries that are affected by terrorism to band together to deal with this scourge.

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The “Syrian Sunday” event in France yesterday focused on accounts given by French citizens who visited Syria in a solidarity trip late last month.
Members of the delegation emphasized that the visit proved to them the lies propagated by misleading media about the situation in Syria and gave them a first-hand look at the steadfastness of Syrians and their passion for life in spite of terrorism and war.
Alexei Dobral, a French lawyer and a member of the delegation, said in a statement to SANA that it is regrettable that France had severed diplomatic relations with Syria and interfered in the internal affairs of a sovereign country, adding that the French government should respect other countries and review its policy towards Syria, and respect the right of the Syrian people to live in peace.
For his part, Abdul-Nasser al-Araq from Tunisia expressed his admiration for the strong will of the Syrians who have persevered during four years of war.
A documentary movie premiered during the event documented the places that delegation had visited in Syria and featured testimonies by Syrians talking about terrorist acts committed by foreign and Arab backed-terrorists.
About 16 French and Arab figures living in France visited a number of Syrian cities and provinces late last month.

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Op maandag 11 mei 2015 21:41 schreef Aloulu het volgende:

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De sjitische Libanese bevolking is beperkt om een langdurige oorlog aan te gaan waar vele mannen het leven laten en daarnaast ook nog hun eigen gebieden in Libanon goed bemand te houden, waaronder de grens met Israel. Dat is net zoals de Alawieten in Syrie het onderspit gaan delven omdat ze gewoon te weinig mankracht hebben in vergelijking tot de rebellen.