Live Thread: Syria Crisis Continuous Updates

Wednesday, August 28, 2013 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

As the war drums for Syria get louder, let this thread serve as a repository for news, background, Tweets, photos, video, on-the-ground reports, etc., as was done recently with Egypt.

[maggief]

Chad PergramVerified

Source says House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) briefed personally by National Security Advisor Susan Rice late Monday on #Syria

ajamlive

Britain’s Foreign Secretary Hague says it’s time the UN Security Council ‘shouldered its responsibilities’ on #Syria-@Reuters #breaking

TwitterDan Williams @DanWilliams
Israel calls up reservists, deploys missile defenses against Syria http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE97R0QB20130828 via @Reuters

10:00 AM
TwitterDan Williams @DanWilliams
Syria evacuates most army buildings in Damascus: residents http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE97R0R320130828 via @Reuters

9:59 AM
TwitterDan Williams @DanWilliams
Bomb attacks kill 71 in Baghdad and suburbs http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE97R07J20130828 via @Reuters

9:58 AM
TwitterDan Williams @DanWilliams
U.N. Council set for Syria clash as West readies attack http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE97K0EL20130828 via @OliReports @ErikaSolomon @Reuters

[Lera]

What’s Wrong with Going into Syria
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/robert-spencer/whats-wrong-with-going-into-syria/

[McGruff]

What about the crisis in Albania?

[a fool in paradise]

"WE ARE GOING TO WARn you not to overreact."

[AU72]

Looks like we are about to destroy 5 empty warehouses with 500 million dollars worth of ordinance.

[Dacula]

Can I get added to your ping list

[Old Sarge]

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) briefed personally by National Security Advisor Susan Rice late Monday

Issued her marching orders, more likely...

[autumnraine]

WW3 If China and Russia gets pissed at us for attacking Syria.

[NFHale]

“..what, exactly, is the “crisis” - in terms of my life - in Syria?...”

There is none.

[EQAndyBuzz]

““Syrian government forces have never used chemical weapons – such claims are just a pretext. We have proof of this, which we passed to the inspectors of the UN commission,” Al-Mikdad said.”

That’s like Eric Holder investigating the IRS. Nothing to see here, move on.

[maggief]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/world/syria-map/?hpid=z2

Where probable strike targets are

[NormsRevenge]

Washington Free Beacon

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U.S.: Al Qaeda-linked Group Behind Benghazi Attack Trains Jihadists for Syrian Rebel Groups

Ansar al-Sharia running training camps in Benghazi and Darnah

http://freebeacon.com/u-s-al-qaeda-linked-group-behind-benghazi-attack-trains-jihadists-for-syrian-rebel-groups/

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U.S. intelligence agencies earlier this month uncovered new evidence that al Qaeda-linked terrorists in Benghazi are training foreign jihadists to fight with Syria’s Islamist rebels, according to U.S. officials.

Ansar al-Sharia, the al Qaeda-affiliated militia that U.S. officials say orchestrated the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound and a CIA facility in Benghazi, is running several training camps for jihadists in Benghazi and nearby Darnah, another port city further east, said officials who discussed some details of the camps on condition of anonymity.

The officials said the terror training camps have been in operation since at least May and are part of a network that funnels foreign fighters to Syrian rebel groups, including the Al-Nusra Front, the most organized of the Islamist rebel groups fighting the Bashar al-Assad regime in Damascus.

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Whose side is O on?

Benghazi,, a black op aiding and abetting sworn enemeies?

supported by our own ‘duly elected’ gubamint uhh ‘dirtily elected’ regime?

Oh My.

[NormsRevenge]

Israel deploys full missile defenses against Syria: radio

http://news.yahoo.com/israel-deploys-full-missile-defenses-against-syria-radio-125218826.html

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel is deploying all of its missile defenses as a precaution against possible Syrian retaliatory attacks should Western powers carry out threatened strikes on Syria, Israeli Army Radio said on Wednesday.

[maggief]

Confirmed??

Interfax News Wire » Russia News
Representatives of Russia and China leave UN Security Council session on Syria – Al Jazeera
BULLETIN RELEASED: 28/08/13 4:42PM GMT :: 20 mins ago

UN-SECURITY/COUNCIL-RUSSIA-CHINA DUBAI. Aug 28 (Interfax) – Russian and Chinese representatives have left the UN Security Council session that discussed the draft resolution on Syria proposed by Great Britain, …

REUTERS:

RT @_RichardHall : UN spokesman says weapons inspectors inside Syria currently have no plans to leave the country before 14 day mandate expi…

[NormsRevenge]

Bashar Al Assad’s Brother May Have Ordered Last Week’s Chemical Weapons Attack

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/bashar-al-assads-brother-may-141653456.html

Maher al Assad.

The reported chemical weapons attack in Syria last week that killed more than 1,000 people and sent the Western world baring down on the conflict may have been ordered by the little brother to Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad, according to a new report from Bloomberg.

Bloomberg cites an unnamed UN official who monitors armed conflicts in the region. The official said that the attack appears to have been a brash act by Maher rather than a strategic decision by the Bashar.

[Publius]

Back in the late Fifties during the Eisenhower days, there were periodic war games involving military and intelligence assets. When situations like this were war-gamed, the confrontation led to a nuclear exchange either immediately or incrementally over a two-week period.

[TornadoAlley3]

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[expat2]

From the UKs Daily Mail:
Leaked emails [in the UK] have allegedly proved that the White House gave the green light to a chemical weapons attack in Syria [by rebels] that could be blamed on Assad's regime and in turn, spur international military action in the devastated country. A report released on Monday contains an email exchange between two senior officials at British-based contractor Britam Defence where a scheme 'approved by Washington' is outlined explaining that Qatar would fund rebel forces in Syria to use chemical weapons [to form a pretext for military action].

I have no support for Assad, but none for the AlQ rebels, either. We should not be creating false pretexts, but just stay out of it and let them fight it out, IMO.

[autumnraine]

And how many of us were mocked for thinking he was a muslim?

[melancholy]

Huma is Tiqeyya impersonated!

Not only she was “allowed” by Islamists, including her Pakistani mother, to marry a non-Moslem, which is forbidden in Islam, but also a twice-enemy (American and Jewish) of MB!

With Weiner’s shenanigans, she wouldn’t even divorce him because he may become very important as a pervert Democrap!

I hear that Huma has one of the highest clearances in the USA!

Don’t forget the 7-8 WH-appointed MB are pressuring everyone they can, including the MSM, to support the MB everywhere in the world, especially after their defeat in Egypt and their eventual international demise.