Syria

[winston]

Arab League Prepares for Syria Sanctions

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Arab officials will prepare plans for sanctions against Syria on Saturday over its failure to let Arab League monitors oversee an initiative aimed at ending a violent crackdown on protesters seeking an end to President Bashar al-Assad’s rule.

http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?a ... &buid=3281

[winston]

Are US Troops Deploying on the Jordan-Syrian Border?
WashingtonsBlog

The U.S. planned “regime change” in Syria and Lebanon long before 9/11.

So the allegation by Boiling Frogs Post (former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds’ site) that the U.S. is amassing troops on the Jordan-Syria border is disturbing.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/ ... order.html

[winston]

Syria death toll hits 5,000 as insurgency spreads

AMMAN (Reuters) - More than 5,000 people have been killed in nine months of unrest in Syria, the U.N. human rights chief said, as an insurgency began to overshadow what had initially been street protests against President Bashar al-Assad's 11-year rule.

Source: Reuters

[winston]

Does that mean that they are going to take out Syria, either directly or indirectly ?

US Citizens Urged To Leave Syria Immediately

(RTTNews) - The United States has urged its citizens not to travel to Syria due to ongoing violence and civil unrest in that Middle East country.

In an updated Travel Warning issued on Wednesday, the State Department urged U.S. citizens currently in Syria to depart immediately while commercial transportation is available. The number of airlines serving Syria has decreased significantly since the summer months, and many of the remaining airlines have reduced frequency of their flights.

U.S. citizens who must remain in Syria have been advised to limit non-essential travel within the country. For the time being, the Embassy continues to provide passport services, as well as other emergency services to U.S. citizens. However, staff levels at the Embassy are being further reduced.

http://www.rttnews.com/ArticleView.aspx?Id=1786362

[winston]

Who is behind mystery spy devices dropped over Syria?
By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org |

On December 14, residents of a small town in northern Syria reported seeing unidentified aircraft circling overhead, and dropping several small items attached to mini-parachutes.

Two days ago, one local resident, Adnan Mustafa, posted on Facebook several photographs of some of these items, which were found scattered around the area.

The gadgets, pictured here, look suspiciously like surreptitious listening devices. Residents say the question is: who dropped them, and why?

The devices were found in the hills around Afrin, a predominantly ethnic-Kurdish town 20 miles south of the Syrian-Turkish border.

Local townsfolk said the flight patterns of the planes observed on December 14 resembled those of previous sightings of Turkish aircraft, which routinely invade Syrian airspace before returning to the Turkish air base in Incirlik, about 100 miles north of Afrin.

Syrian newspaper Al-Hakikah (The Truth), which supports the opposition Syrian National Council for Truth, Justice and Reconciliation, said the suspected spy gadgets weigh about 90 grams each and bear “Made in Germany” labels, as well as “GRAW DFM-06” inscriptions.

Graw is a Nuremberg-based German company that produces radiosondes, small radio transmitters used in weather balloons, that measure various atmospheric parameters and transmit them to fixed receivers.

But Al-Hakikah reports that the devices found in Afrin seem to transmit GPS coordinates, and appear to have been modified to intercept radio communications.

Some suspect that the devices are aimed at eavesdropping on the communications of Syrian government troops and of Syrian Air Force planes, which are engaged in an increasingly bloody conflict against the opposition Syrian National Council.

This, says Al-Hakikah might point to American intelligence agencies, which are known to support the opposition Syrian Free Army, as the originators of the modified radiosondes.

But others speculate that the devices may have been dropped by Turkish military planes, in an attempt to monitor suspected activities of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), an armed secessionist group fighting the Turkish state, which is known to operate from bases in northern Syria.

Last August, leading Turkish newspaper Zaman published a classified report from Turkey’s main intelligence directorate, the MİT, which said that the Syrian government had started to support PKK guerrillas in an attempt to win over Syria’s ethnic Kurds in its fight against the opposition Syrian National Council.

http://intelnews.org/2011/12/23/01-893/

[winston]

More Than 5,400 People Have Been Killed in Syria’s Crackdown on Dissent, the UN Estimates

Source: AFP GLOBAL EDITION

[winston]

Simple. How can they condemn Syria when they are also doing the same thing to their own citizen ?

Why do China, Russia protect Assad?

Fellow Security Council members are furious after their rejection of yet another Syria resolution -- but analysts say both China and Russia have their reasons to maintain good relations with Syria

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/05/world ... ?hpt=hp_c1

[kennynah]

i think China ans Russia are trying to stop america from invading Syria

[winston]

In this day and age, an outright invasion is politically incorrect ...

I'm sure Special Forces are already on the ground helping the resistance organize democracy rallies, planning strikes, whipping up the people's emotion etc.

All these I learn from American Movies

[kennynah]

ya lor... 挑拨是非