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Tag: Syria
The Russian amphibious landing ship Nikolai Filchenov of the Black Sea Fleet will be leaving Novorossiyisk to be deployed off the coast of Syria, report Russian and Syrian media, quoting Russian military sources. The ship…
Relations between us have passed through different stages. We stood against each other during the cold war. But we were also allies once, and defeated the Nazis together. The universal international organization — the United…
The myopic view of the world’s most powerful men in Washington never ceases to amaze me. I am reminded of the 1980s when then American president Ronald Reagan compared the Afghan Mujahideen to America’s founding…
The rebels also claim that it was Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the chief of Saudi intelligence who arranged for the provision of the sarin nerve gas to the rebels. There is little doubt that Syrian rebels, including the Al Qaeda affiliate, the Jabhat Al Nusra, have been in possession of chemical weapons in Syria and have used these weapons against civilians and Syrian government forces. The U.S. intelligence that Syrian forces used chemical weapons has, according to CBS News, been has been rated as «low to moderate» confidence, hardly believable enough for America to launch an attack on Syria. The Russian government has provided a 100-page report to the United Nations showing that Syrian rebels conducted a chemical attack on Khan al-Assal in northern Syria on March 19.
[anyplayer:url=http://player.youku.com/player.php/sid/XNjA4MTg0MzU2/v.swf type=SWF width=600 height=450] As leaders of countries making up half of the world’s population firmly opposed military action against Syria without a UN mandate, the US kept pushing for a strike, claiming that…
China’s Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, says the Syria issue should be dealt with under the framework of the UN Security Council. Wang stressed China’s stance in a telephone call to US Secretary of…
Politically entrenched in a self-made predicament, US President Barack Obama is going through tough times these days regarding Syria. Those whom he thought would unconditionally support him in launching an invasion of Syria and ridding…
In a stern tone, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Wednesday not to indulge any one-sided military action against Syria amid increasing fears that Washington is preparing to put this sinister idea into…
The intelligence gathered against Syria’s Assad was manufactured by elements within the spy community in order to mislead the US President to take punitive action, Ray McGovern, a veteran CIA analyst, told RT. McGovern was among the signatories to the letter from veteran intelligence professionals to Obama, warning the US president that Assad is not responsible for the chemical attack, and that “CIA Director John Brennan is perpetrating a pre-Iraq-War-type fraud on members of Congress, the media, [and] the public.” RT: You were one of the signatories to that letter to the US President. Do you think it will influence Obama?