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  • Syria’s Assad May Be Losing Control Over His Deadly Militias

    09/15/2013 5:35:42 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 33 replies
    Time via Yahoo! ^ | Wed, Sep 11, 2013 | Aryn Baker / Beirut
    Most of the proregime militias around the country are regionally based and funded by local businessmen or religious leaders eager to curry favor with the government and shore up their own protection networks... shabiha has its origins in the loose-knit smuggling and organized crime networks of Latakia province, the coastal enclave where Assad's Alawite sect dominates. These days, shabiha are just as likely to be Sunni, Kurdish or even Eastern Orthodox Christian as Alawite, says Lund. Some gangs have been organized into Popular Committees, a kind of armed neighborhood watch with independent leadership and few centralized directives other than to...
  • Julian Assange should be awarded Nobel peace prize, suggests Russia

    12/09/2010 1:30:40 PM PST · by FS11 · 30 replies
    The Guardian ^ | 12-9-10 | Luke Harding
    Russia has suggested that Julian Assange should be awarded the Nobel peace prize, in an unexpected show of support from Moscow for the jailed WikiLeaks founder. In what appears to be a calculated dig at the US, the Kremlin urged non-governmental organisations to think seriously about "nominating Assange as a Nobel Prize laureate". "Public and non-governmental organisations should think of how to help him," the source from inside president Dmitry Medvedev's office told Russian news agencies. Speaking in Brussels, where Medvedev was attending a Russia-EU summit yesterday , the source went on: "Maybe, nominate him as a Nobel Prize laureate."