"Hezbollah rocked in Lebanon blast; Car bomb injures 53 in stronghold, inflames tensions" by Bassem Mroue and Zeina Karam | Associated Press, July 10, 2013
BEIRUT — A powerful car bomb exploded in a Hezbollah stronghold in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Tuesday, wounding at least 53 people in the most troubling sign yet that Syria’s civil war is beginning to consume its smaller neighbor.
Israel already being blamed in my world media, and on the eve of Ramadan?
The blast in the heart of the Shi’ite militant group’s bastion of support raised the worrying specter of Lebanon being pulled into the violent Sunni-Shi’ite struggle in the region, with sectarian killings similar to those plaguing Syria and Iraq.
Related: Occupation Iraq: Divide and Conquer
Interesting how it has been migrating back there after defeat in Syria, 'eh?
The Syrian conflict, now in its third year, is whipping up sectarian fervor....
I'm sorry, folks, but I had to stop there because I can barely tolerate that rank narrative spilling forth from my Jewish war paper.
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Why Am I No Longer Reading the Newspaper?
I sick of looking through that pri$m, that's why.
While there was no claim of responsibility, the car bomb struck a bustling commercial and residential neighborhood in Beir el-Abed, an area of particularly strong Hezbollah support, as many Lebanese Shi’ites began observing the holy month of Ramadan....
The HALLMARK of a covert, western intelligence, false flag operation.
The HALLMARK of a covert, western intelligence, false flag operation.
Related: Breaking the Ramadan Fast
Also see: Ramadan attacks continue, killing 28
Apparently Ramadan is only being celebrated in Syria and Iraq this year.
“The explosion was so strong I thought it was an Israeli air raid,” said Mohammad al-Zein, who lives near the blast site....
Not really a surprise he would think that.
Beir el-Abed is only few hundred yards from what is known as Hezbollah’s “security square,” where many of the party’s officials live and have offices. It was heavily bombed by Israeli warplanes during the monthlong war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006.
The area, where Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah received dignitaries before the 2006 war, was destroyed by Israeli airstrikes. He has since gone underground, only rarely appearing in public and never for more than few minutes, fearing Israeli assassination.
Related: At Syria's Side
One might even say they turned the tide.
Tuesday’s attack inflamed long-simmering tensions in Lebanon, where deadly clashes between Shi’ites and Sunnis have grown increasingly common as the civil war in Syria has taken on ever darker sectarian overtones. Some Sunnis in Lebanon, many of whom support Syria’s rebels, have expressed resentment over what they see as Hezbollah’s unchecked power in the country.
It's a caretaker government, but don't let that get in the way of the Jewish war narrative.
The anger was clear among residents of Dahyeh, Hezbollah’s stronghold in Beirut’s southern suburbs. At the scene, some cursed Sunni politicians and Syrian rebels, calling them Israeli agents.
With smoke in the air, about 100 outraged Hezbollah supporters stormed the area, carrying posters of Nasrallah and chanting sectarian slogans.
“Shi’ite blood is boiling!” they shouted as Hezbollah operatives wearing red caps and holding radios kept watch.
At one point, the Hezbollah agents fired in the air to disperse protesters pelting the interior minister with stones after he inspected the scene of the blast, trapping him for 45 minutes in a building before he was escorted through a backdoor.
?????
Interior Minister Marwan Charbel is seen by some Shi’ites as sympathetic to hardline Sunni cleric Ahmad al-Assir, who has agitated against Hezbollah for months and is on the run.
Oh!
Clashes between Assir’s supporters and Lebanese Army troops last month in the coastal city of Sidon increased sectarian tensions in the country.
Are you getting the message from my jewspaper?
“We, the sons of Imam Hussein, have been targeted for 1,400 years,” said Abbas Kobeissi, 32, a barber being treated for head wounds after Tuesday’s blast. He referred to the grandson of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, a key figure in Shi’ite Islam whose death in the seventh century increased divisions between Sunnis and Shi’ites.
Fourteen hundred years of relative peace and harmony (when compared to western civilizations), but now, all of a sudden, as the neo-con plan for world domination reaches its end stages we have the narrative of spiraling sectarianism.
And who benefits?
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I'm starting to feel sick reading this s***:
"Syrian rebels reject Russian claims on chemicals" by Diaa Hadid | Associated Press, July 11, 2013
BEIRUT — Syria’s main Western-backed opposition group on Wednesday rejected Russian accusations that rebels made sarin nerve gas and used it in a deadly chemical attack outside Aleppo in March.
That's been common knowledge to those who care to pay attention for a while now, thank you.
The Syrian National Coalition called the charges ‘‘desperate’’ and ‘‘fabricated.’’ Russia is a key ally of President Bashar Assad’s regime.
Use of chemical weapons is an explosive issue, potentially guiding whether the West increases its aid to rebel forces. President Obama called chemical weapons use by the Assad government a ‘‘red line,’’ while such accusations against the rebels could reinforce Western misgivings about arming them.
Russia’s UN ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, blamed opposition fighters for the March 19 attack in the government-controlled Aleppo suburb of Khan al-Assal, which he said killed 26 people, including 16 government troops, and injured 86.
The rebels have blamed the government for the attack. The United States, Britain, and France have said they have seen no evidence the opposition has acquired or used chemical weapons....
I did:
As seen this clip from the video, the chemicals in the hands of the hired mercenaries come from US companies. -- WhatReallyHappened
Yeah, I know you didn't see that in your AmeriKan newspaper.
The samples taken from the impact site were analyzed at a Russian laboratory, Churkin said, and ‘‘there is every reason to believe that it was the armed opposition fighters who used the chemical weapons in Khan al-Assal.’’
Yeah, it's called a FALSE FLAG!
British UN Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant told reporters Wednesday, ‘‘It’s nice that the Syrian regime has given access to Russian experts to collect samples of alleged chemical weapons use, but it is considerably more important that they give access to independent and credible UN investigators.’’
Amazing. Russia a member of the U.N.
And does anyone ever question Israel's bulls***? Interesting flashback considering where we are now, huh?
In Washington, White House spokesman Jay Carney replied, ‘‘We have yet to see any evidence that backs up the assertion that anybody besides the Syrian government has had the ability to use chemical weapons or has used chemical weapons.’’
Well, OPEN YOUR EYES, Jay!
The United States says it has ‘‘high confidence’’ that Assad’s forces have killed up to 150 people with sarin gas.
And they said the same thing about Iraq's WMD.
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At least the rebels are winning:
"Gunmen linked to Al Qaeda kill Syrian rebel leader" by Bassem Mroue and Barbara Surk | Associated Press, July 13, 2013
BEIRUT — Al Qaeda-linked gunmen killed a rebel commander in Syria aligned with the Western-backed militias fighting against President Bashar Assad’s regime, the highest-profile casualty of growing tensions between moderate and jihadi fighters among rebel forces.
That can't be a good sign!
Observers worried Friday that the commander’s death will increase distrust and suspicion between forces already at odds over territory and leadership as the nearly three-year civil war continues in Syria.
Loay Al-Mokdad, a spokesman for the Free Syrian Army, said members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant — a group reportedly made up of Al Qaeda branches in Iraq and Syria — were behind the killing of Kamal Hamami. Hamami, known as Abu Basir, served in the Supreme Military Council of the Free Syrian Army, a group headed by a secular-minded moderate that has the support of Western powers.
Al-CIA-Duh killed him.
Hamami’s killing marks the first time a commander from the Supreme Military Council has been killed by rebel jihadists. His death underlines a deepening power struggle between moderate and extremist groups fighting in the civil war.
Divided you fall.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said gunmen shot Hamami dead late Thursday after militants tried to remove a checkpoint he set up in the Jabal al-Turkoman mountain in the coastal province of Latakia. The observatory said two of his men were seriously wounded in the shooting.
Activists monitoring the war previously reported occasional clashes between rebel groups and Islamic militants active in rebel-held areas, especially in the north where the opposition has control of a large part of the region.
Do they? Still?
There also has been infighting among Kurdish and Arab groups over control of territory captured from the government along the border with Turkey in the past year. That fighting subsided after a cease-fire agreement early this year.
????? No bloodthirsty sectarianism there?
‘‘It’s hard to tell where things are going to. It could really go either way,’’ said Charles Lister, an analyst at IHS Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Center. ‘‘I personally don’t think it’s in either of the sides’ long-term interest to spark an escalation.’’
More than 93,000 people have been killed since the Syrian conflict began in March 2011 with largely peaceful protests against Assad’s rule that escalated into a civil war in response to a brutal government crackdown.
I heard it was over 100,000 now, but I'm tired of the narrative.
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"Rebel factions turn on each other in Syria’s largest city; Exchange shows deepening rift in opposition ranks" by Barbara Surk | Associated Press, July 14, 2013
BEIRUT — Western-backed opposition fighters and a faction of Al Qaeda-linked rebels turned their guns on each other Saturday in Syria’s largest city, battling for control of a key checkpoint in the latest eruption of infighting among the forces trying to topple President Bashar Assad’s regime, activists said.
The clashes between rebels affiliated with the Free Syrian Army and fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant underscored the growing phenomenon of rebel-on-rebel violence that has sapped strength from the broader anti-Assad movement.
It also underscores the rebels’ inability even more than two years into the conflict to unite around a unified command, as well as the deepening rift between more secular opposition fighters and Islamic extremists in the rebel ranks.
Related:
"Prime minister, Ghassan Hitto, who was appointed in March to assemble an administration that would govern rebel-held territory [and is] a naturalized US citizen from Damascus who lived in Texas for years, was seen as a capable technocrat. He helped manage the exile group’s humanitarian aid effort. But he was a favorite of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and of its main foreign backer, Qatar. The group’s new president, Ahmad Assi al-Jarba, is seen as close to Saudi Arabia, a rival of Qatar for influence among the rebels, was seen as a counterweight to Hitto and his Muslim Brotherhood backers."
The U.S. just shuffled leadership for what it is worth, and pretty much confirmed the Egyptian coup.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday’s clashes were focused on the strategic checkpoint in Aleppo’s Bustan al-Qasr district that serves as the sole gateway between rebel-held eastern districts and the government-controlled areas in the west.
Earlier this week, Al Qaeda-linked militants seized the checkpoint and closed it for several days, cutting the flow of food supplies to the government-held quarters of the city. That spurred protests by residents suffering from food shortages at the start of the Muslim Holy month of Ramadan.
I'm sorry, but not even the most pious "Al-CIA-Duh" Muslim would do that.
The Observatory said the fighting rattled the neighborhood throughout the morning, but subsided by the afternoon as the Al Qaeda-linked rebels pulled out of the area.
Because government hit squads, strike teams, and hired armies can not hold ground.
It was not clear which group was in control of the checkpoint, where residents were staging a protest to vent their anger at soaring food prices. The area also witnessed clashes between rebels and government troops.
Translation: the people helped chase away the CIA-Duh terrorists.
One of the most troubling outbursts of infighting among opposition fighters took place Friday....
I covered it above.
Activists monitoring Syria’s more than 2-year-old conflict have previously reported sporadic infighting among rebel groups over control of the territory they have captured in the north along the border with Turkey. Those clashes were mostly between Kurdish and Arab rebels, and have subsided since a ceasefire agreement was reached earlier this year.
The fighting between moderate and jihadi groups that have for months battled Assad’s regime together have become more frequent in recent weeks. The clashes have largely focused on border crossings with Turkey and vital installations, like bakeries, water wells, gas stations, and checkpoints in the north, according to the Observatory.
Another activist said the fighting is aimed at establishing control over the flow of food and aid to the residents. Each group is also trying to set up governing structures over the territory in the north the opposition has controlled for a year and take a cut of money from goods being smuggled into Syria over the border with Turkey....
Yeah, CIA-Duh fighters want that!
Militant Islamic groups, including those with links to Al Qaeda, have been the most effective fighting force on the opposition side in the past year.
They have spearheaded many of the attacks that led to the capture of military bases, towns, and villages and whole neighborhoods in Aleppo.
In late February, Islamic battalions led the assault and conquered the eastern city of Raqqa, making it the first Syrian city to entirely fall under rebel control. Moderate factions are now fighting jihadi groups for a say in running of Raqqa.
Reading this you would never know the mercenary army is getting its ass kicked all over Syria.
In the central province of Homs, video emerged Saturday that appeared to show a government airstrike on the Krak des Chevaliers, one of the world’s best-preserved Crusader castles. Government troops have been pressing an offensive against rebels in the province in recent months, and the town, which goes by the same name as the castle, has been under attack by regime troops for the past four days.
Oh, look, a PHRASE of TRUTH around the BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!
I spent a week catching up on six months of lies, then spent days catching up on two months worth of the same lies repeated over and over, and now I am spending this afternoon correcting a week's worth of the same rolled-up shit.
And you wonder why I don't want to do this anymore?
The Observatory said Syrian warplanes carried out at least three airstrikes in the area on Friday, but the activist group could not confirm whether the fortress itself had been hit. It also said government forces have ordered residents to evacuate the town, apparently in preparation for a full-scale attack on the area.
The imposing Krak des Chevaliers held off a siege by the Muslim warrior Saladin nearly 900 years ago, and was lauded centuries later by Lawrence of Arabia. The fortress has already been damaged over the course of the civil war, but if the hit it took Friday is confirmed, it would mark the worst destruction to the building so far.
Amazing how those buildings lasted for centuries despite the sectarian hatred, huh? Funny how that stuff only starts getting blown up after we get there, 'eh, 'murkn?
An amateur video posted to YouTube appeared to show a missile striking one of the castle’s towers, sending a plume of smoke and dust into the sky.
Well, the AmeriKan media and its outlets like CNN have already been caught with fake video and phony website sources regarding Syria -- as well as a whole host of other things, from the Zimmerman protests back through the Boston Marathon bombings, Sandy Hook hoax, and even phonying up Fourth of July fireworks, so.... please forgive me if I grain of salt the s*** video my Jewish war instrument cites with the implication being it was the Syrian government.
Related: Sunday Globe Special: Qatar Quickly Arms Syrian Insurgents
Oh, yeah, REBELS HAVE MISSILES, too!
Of course, it's not like they would use them -- or chemical weapons -- in some sort of false flag attack, though. I know so because my jewspaper told me so.
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"Syrian tanks, troops seek to overrun rebels near Damascus" Associated Press, July 15, 2013
DAMASCUS — Government troops fired tank shells and artillery in heavy clashes between Syrian forces and rebels Sunday on the edge of Damascus, where the military has been pushing its offensive to retake key districts that have been in opposition hands for months.
The Syrian Army has seized the momentum in the civil war over the past three months, wresting back territory lost to rebel forces and solidifying its hold over contested areas, particularly on the fringes of Damascus....
Something we have known for a while even if my paper hasn't been reading it that way.
Assad’s government routinely describes the rebels fighting to overthrow him as terrorists playing out a foreign conspiracy hatched by Israel, the United States and some of its Arab allies in the region, such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
That's about right, yeah. Sad when it is the "enemy" that tells the truth in my newspaper.
Sunday’s tour came as Syria’s main Western-backed opposition group claimed that 200 civilians were trapped in a mosque in Qaboun as fighting raged outside between rebels and Assad’s army. It warned that thousands of civilians in Qaboun could be ‘‘massacred’’ by Assad’s army.
Oh, right. Better invade now then.
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More asshole wolf-hollering:
"Israeli prime minister calls for urgency on Iran; Wants pressure increased over nuclear program" by Jodi Rudoren | New York Times, July 15, 2013
JERUSALEM — At the same time, Israeli leaders were rankled by US officials who confirmed over the weekend that Israel had attacked a shipment of Russian-made antiship missiles in Latakia, Syria, this month, said to be the fourth Israeli strike in Syria since January.
Yuval Steinitz, a senior minister close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, said on Israeli radio that “intelligence leaks are bad whether they come from there or from here.” Uzi Landau, another government minister, said, “The less they talk, the better it is for everyone.”
I can't take this hypocritical, double-talk garbage anymore. Look at them complaining about leaks when they wanted this out. Syria doesn't need confirmation; they know Israel did it.
Asked about the Latakia attack on “Face the Nation,” Netanyahu said he was “not in the habit of saying what we did or we didn’t do,” but that his policy was “to prevent the transfer of dangerous weapons to Hezbollah,” the Lebanese Shi’ite militant organization, “and other terror groups.”
Remember those links I put at the beginning of this post regarding the media pri$m presented to me? Is there anything else to type?
Itamar Rabinovich, a former Israeli ambassador to the United States, said tension over revelations about Israeli operations has surfaced in several administrations and did not threaten the two countries’ “longstanding, complex relationship with manifold interests.”
Yeah, I've come to the conclusion that this is all s***-show fooleys so USrael can claim they are not in lock-step. Israel gets everything they want no matter what they do, so pffft!
“Let’s say that Israel would rather this would not have been leaked out of Washington,” he said. “So be it. These squeaks are part of the relationship.”
Israel has been carefully watching the Syrian conflict since it erupted in March 2011.
That all they been doing, watching?
While it has been careful not to take sides in the civil war, Israel has repeatedly said it would take action to prevent what it calls ‘‘game-changing’’ weapons, including chemical weapons and advanced guided missiles, from reaching Hezbollah or other militant groups. Syrian President Bashar Assad is a key backer of Hezbollah.
Related: Israel Rescues Al-Qaeda Terrorists From Syria
US, Israel and Saudi Arabia propping up al-Qaeda in Syria
But they are not taking sides.
In January, Israeli aircraft destroyed what was believed to be a shipment of advanced Russian antiaircraft missiles in Syria that were bound for Lebanon.
Who says they were headed for Lebanon -- as if it were a matter of fact?
In May, two Israeli airstrikes near Damascus targeted advanced Iranian ground-to-ground missiles also thought to be headed for Hezbollah....
Do I have to type anything?
Netanyahu tried Sunday to step up pressure on the White House and the world regarding Iran’s nuclear program, saying there was not enough urgency on the issue.
Related: Can We Talk About.... Iran?
Not with him.
Speaking on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Netanyahu said Washington must demonstrate to Iran’s newly elected president “by action” that “the military option which is on the table is truly on the table.”
How do you do that, other than use it? Is he advocating an attack on Iran to show its an option? Really wants that official WWIII, doesn't he?
Btw, as an American citizen, I am TIRED of the ENDLESS ISRAELI BROWBEATING and BLACKMAIL!
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Netanyahu described Iran’s new president, Hasan Rouhani, as a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” who would “smile and build a bomb.”
See: Iran's Election
We know who the wolves are.
The prime minister said Iran had not yet crossed the red line he laid out last fall in a UN speech but was nearing it. He also said that because Israel is closer and “more vulnerable,” it would “have to address this question of how to stop Iran, perhaps before the United States does.”
The CBS interview followed similar remarks Netanyahu made Sunday morning at the opening of his Cabinet meeting here, part of a stepped-up campaign planned in the coming days to return the world’s attention to the Iranian nuclear program.
Then I expect I will see several articles in my Globe!
The implied criticism of the US government’s approach since Rouhani’s election came as Israeli and Palestinian officials were expecting Secretary of State John Kerry to return to the Middle East this week for his sixth visit in four months to try to revive peace talks.
I'd rather he cancel the trip and save some greenhouse gas emissions.
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I'd be a BIT WORRIED about a FALSE FLAG ATTACK come the END of SUMMER, Obama. Looks to me like the shadow USraeli faction that has penetrated the U.S. government may be preparing to nuke Chicago. I mean, we have been here before.
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