Posted on 08/28/2013 7:06:18 AM PDT by 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.
Tunnels, weapons from Turkey, massacring civilians and military.
Where did I hear this before? Ah, Egypt !
Tunnels, weapons, massacring civilians and security forces in Rafah, el Arish, Sheikh Zewayd and now the mb bastards are being mopped up by the Egyptian military.
One huge difference, though; no missiles to save the MB crybabies!
Martyrdom delivered!
The UK papers are heavily under the thumbs of MI5 ad the Official Secrets Act.
#BREAKING: US: ‘No avenue’ forward on UN Syria resolution
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3059830/postsl
SHOCKING Graphic Video Surfaces of Execution of Truck Drivers for Non-Muslim Ties
freepatriot.org ^ | August 27, 2013 | Sam Wright
Posted on Wednesday, August 28, 2013 1:12:26 PM by Fawn
A new video has surfaced on YouTube portraying what is said to be Sunni Muslims executing 3 Syrian truck drivers. The Al Qaeda linked terrorists are waving over the drivers and questioning them about their religious affiliations to ascertain whether they be Muslim or not. Upon finding them to be non-Muslim, the men are lined up and shot execution style. Their bodies then appearing to be posthumously shot multiple times.
NOTE: This video contains extremely graphic material.
Got your tunnel picture posted for you...
WoW! We can name that tune in one note!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3059841/posts
Official: White House seeks Syria response ‘just muscular enough not to get mocked’
The Hill ^
Official: White House seeks Syria response ‘just muscular enough not to get mocked’ By Justin Sink - 08/28/13 12:45 PM ET
A U.S. official briefed on the military options being considered by President Obama told the Los Angeles Times that the White House is seeking a strike on Syria “just muscular enough not to get mocked.”
“They are looking at what is just enough to mean something, just enough to be more than symbolic,” the official told the paper, giving credence to similar reports describing a limited military strike in the aftermath of last week’s alleged chemical weapons attack.
NBC News reported earlier this week that the administration would launch three days of missile strikes, while CNN cited a senior administration official saying that the White House wanted to conclude any action before the president departs for the G-20 summit next week.
The New York Times also reported that the initial target list drafted by the Pentagon had fewer than 50 sites. The Pentagon has moved four U.S. Navy destroyers off the Syrian coast, which can launch low-altitude cruise missiles at selected sites.
On Tuesday, White House press secretary Jay Carney said that no course of action had been decided upon, but that the administration was not seeking “regime change” with its response.
“It is not our policy to respond to this transgression with regime change,” he said.
In the U.K., foreign secretary William Hague said at a press conference that the government there was approaching the retaliation in Syria as a “very different situation from Iraq.”
“Our government is going about it in an entirely different way,” he said.
Meanwhile, Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi said Wednesday said his county would turn into a “graveyard of the invaders” if foreign powers intervened in its civil war.
The “colonialist threats” of Western powers “do not terrorize us because of the will and determination of the Syrian people, who will not accept being humiliated,” Halqi said, according to AFP.
...”No avenue forward on UN Syria resolution”...
Stuck just like they were in Egypt....playing out here the same...
However Russia will not sit idly by...and therein is the difference.
‘Talking about it’ carries as much weight in Obama’s mind as action.....The Administration has peddled more information in 18 hours on this than they have in 11 months on Benghazi-gate......sums it up pretty nicely....
Amateurs on stage!
RT:
18:00 GMT: UK Foreign Minister William Hague has called the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to exchange views on the situation in Syria, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman told Itar-Tass.
Hague has informed Lavrov of the draft UK resolution connection with the alleged chemical weapon use in Syria, the spokesman said.
Lavrov then told his UK counterpart that the UN Security Council should not consider a resolution on Syria before the UN inspector team reports on the alleged chemical weapons use.
17:46 GMT: Russian UN representatives did not stage a walk-out at the meeting of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, Itar-Tass reports citing Russias permanent mission to the UN. The statement came in response to earlier reports claiming that Russian and Chinese diplomats left what was said to be a closed-door discussion of the UK-drafted resolution on the alleged chemical weapons use in Syria.
The Russian representative went out when the meeting ended. That was not a demarche. It is just that some of the delegations did not leave for a long time, the diplomatic source was quoted as saying.
They really sound quite pathetic when the venture outside their echo chamber.
“It would seem odd to put Israel in harm’s way on Shabbat.”
Maybe that was the idea. Didn’t all of Israel’s neighbors go after Israel on Yom Kippur?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/28/us-syria-crisis-usa-un-idUSBRE97R11X20130828
U.S.: Syria can’t hide behind Russia at U.N. Security Council
“We do not believe the Syrian regime should be able to hide behind the fact that the Russians continue to block action on Syria at the U.N. and we will make our decision on appropriate action going forward,” State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters.
AFP:
A resolution condemning Syria’s alleged poison gas use has stalled in the UN Security Council due to Russian “intransigence,” the United States said Wednesday.
“We see no avenue forward, given continued Russian opposition to any meaningful Council action on Syria,” State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf said after Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States discussed a British drafted resolution that could allow military action in Syria.
A rally against an attack on Syria in central London today.
AFP - A resolution condemning Syria’s alleged poison gas use has stalled in the UN Security Council due to Russian “intransigence,” the United States said Wednesday.
“We see no avenue forward, given continued Russian opposition to any meaningful Council action on Syria,” State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf said after Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States discussed a British drafted resolution that could allow military action in Syria.
This is exacrly why we need these threads. We have to see the ugly truth with our own eyes and try, try, try to inform the world.
Only way China gets involved is if Russia attacks China or we attack China.
China’s debt makes the US’s look positively prudent. Charlene Chu from Fitch Ratings is the rock star analyst for having the guts to a) call attention to it, and b) still live and work in Beijing.
China’s borrowing is at 216% of their STATED GDP, which is a lot higher than their actual.
Keeping their own confederation of conscripted states together is going to be a big enough job for the moment.
Nothing is destabilizing the world right now as the US green lighting the ‘Arab Spring’. They must have fired the German in charge of marketing the first pogrom and hired a Park Avenue guy. The German would have called it “The Final Solution”.
What BS!
After his preliminary consultation with the White House on Monday, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, made clear that before any action is taken there must be meaningful consultation with members of Congress, a spokesman said.
Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., expresses his view on the Obama administration’s response to the crisis in Syria over the past two years. McCain made the remarks Tuesday after an immigration town hall in his home state.
Likewise, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., a vocal critic of President George W. Bushs wartime actions, stopped short of demanding a vote on Syrian operations. She said House members stand ready to consult with President Obama to consider the appropriate course of action in response to these acts of brutality.
Right now, I hope they stay as intransigent as a 200 ton boulder.
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