Syrian opposition courting dangerous allies in face of Assad defiance

January 20, 2012 06:34

The opposition Syrian National Council has sent a delegation to Cairo to discuss the Arab League referring the Syrian crisis to the United Nations. The Arab League is convening this weekend to hear a final report from its observers to Syria.

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Ramz 22.01.2012 07:55

Some countries talk about democracy yet it is not present in their own country. For example, America has been ruled by the US Congress for ages and guess who makeup the congress, it is the Jewish people who try make existance for Israel on the expense of other countries. They are stealing money, making the rest of americans poor, and even worse distorting the image of america. not to forgot other countries who have been rulled by queens and kings up until now simply because their ancestors ruled before in the past and this gives them the authority to continue their power. Is this what you call democracy. Those who are called the free syrian army, they are simply terriosts direc ted by America and trained and supported using turkey and the Golf countries. But why do not we see terrorism in Israel or in the Golf countries. So terrorism is American invented but excuted by the Golf countries (i.e. Sunis extremest). 

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Alex McShera 20.01.2012 22:39

Everyone pay close attention to how al-qaeda, the terrorist national council and the British muslim brotherhood attack Arab leaders everywhere but not even a an olive tree in Israel is threatened by them. By the way there have been opposition parties in Syria for decades. Turks just want to steal more Syrian territory like they did with Iskanderun. Furthermore, those Syrian traitors working with the Turks are engaging in treason. If it were Americans undermining American sovereignty from Canada those responsible would be aressted and executed.

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art 20.01.2012 19:17

=> Peter Jennings:
// The Turkesh people should be ashamed of their involvement to.// During Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, Zbigniew Brzezinski's Grand Chessboard strategy of fabricating a fundamentalist brand of Islam throughout central Asia kicks off to encircle the Soviets from the south. But soon they realized Ben Laden and Taliban were too limited in scope and neither Americans, nor Israelis or British are hard wired to smoothly run the project. The answer comes with Turkey: NATO member, speaks Turkish, prone to manipulation, wears the same Sunni brand Islam. They spot Fethollah Gulen there. Brought and settled him in the US (Pennsylvania). From 2001, Afghanistan's heroin heads to London by CIA thru Gulen's organization in Turkey, and from London spread throughout the world. Unwittingly right at the wrong time and wrong place shows up Sibel Edmond who blows the whistle later. Gulen quickly turned into a Turkish version of Meyer Lanski whose $25B drug money created the Justice and Development Party in Turkey and won the election in 2002. Abdullah Gul and Recep Tayyip Erdogan (and wife suspected crypto-Jews) have meticulously turned Turkey to a very dangerous Trojan Horse. Ask for one (just one) policy that Turkish government has taken against Israel that cannot be reversed in two weeks time.

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art 20.01.2012 18:29

=> An Arab:
//.. if they are some really some organized "hidden fingers" behind everything, please show us some proof.//Google and read about Bernard Henry Levi. He is a mongrel Hun living in France and the Khazarian version of Black Water (later renamed Xe and now Academi). His involvement in providing cheap local (native looking) merc army for Bosnia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Darfur, Libya, and now Syria is well documented. You can see even his pictures (in local costumes) with all the above so-called rebel leaders. I am sure you already know all this, unlike "An Arab".

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Nay Lin Maung 20.01.2012 18:00

I [Nay Lin Maung] still believe that Sir Mr. Assad is the one who can bring something to reform in his [Sir Mr. Assad] country [Syria]. 

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An Arab 20.01.2012 17:26

Mohammed, lol, please. I thought we are already over this.The theory of  the so-called "hidden fingers" is the joke of the year in the Arab world ;-)For so long the Arab people have been fooled by their leaders with conspiracy  theories. Israel was not just an occupier of Palestine, but they made it responsible for everything that went wrong in the Arab world, even for natural disasters ;-). Now they have to find a new target. It is Al Qaeda, oh no, it is Qatar or Saudi Arabia. Please keep it real! Often things are just the way they are. And if they are some really some organized "hidden fingers" behind everything, please show us some proof. And I mean not some old unrelated videos from Lebanon&nb sp;;-)

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Why? 20.01.2012 16:03

Why should people of Syria ever believe that the so-called opposition supported by Saudi, Qatari, and Jordanian dictators are there to bring them anything better than their current regime? Syrians are already far more advanced than all those arab countries that are supporting the opposition. If the Syrian people want more freedom, they should engage in a national dialogue rather than the wrong path which  ;they are pushed onto by these so called 'armed opposition', i.e. terrorist gangs. 

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Mohammed 20.01.2012 15:55

The problem in Syria, like other so-called revelutions in the MiddleEast, is that a gang of foreign-supported criminals and agents are hiding behind the majority of people who want change to their often closed oppressive political systems. These agents are quite good at 'creating' propaganda for the media that support them. As a strategy they kill and blame the government for the crimes they have committed themselves to increase the pressure on the government and to entice people to join them. As a an example of this, in the Iranian revolution of 1979, the genral accepted fact was that the King had killed 70,000 people. However, after the revolution, the authorities could never come up with more than about 2000 names, most of which are believed to be killed by rival revolutionary groups!In sum, the Syrian regime is oppressive and people are unhappy. The solution is for the authorities to open up the political process and reform their system. But the wrong solution is to let the rage and anger take hold of the masses and replace the regime in a bloody revolution, that is more likely to bring about a more tyrannical regime than what people of Syria could ever imagine in their wildest nightmares!

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John Ellis 20.01.2012 14:50

DARKNESS
An Arab
“No matter who their master is: Western,
Russian or Iranian they are all the same.” LIGHT
In this --- be all you can be world, with its kill or be killed morality, there is safety only in numbers. So, unless nations always organize together and strive to eliminate the most corrupt nation, what Empire USA is doing will never end. For Empire USA the worst nation is hell-bent on elimination first the most moral nation, and working its way up constantly wasting the next best nation, until it has a one-world government with it glorified as god the most high nation.

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John Ellis 20.01.2012 14:24

END CLASS WAR --- TIME FOR A MORAL CLASS TO RULE What if suddenly like a bolt of lighting out of the blue, everyone conscience in Syria did a complete reversal, such as to be all you can be, to take all you can take, this no longer was the dominant morality? Such as everyone feeling so grateful toward nature, feeling that each day of life was a new gift they did not deserve from nature? Well it would be a complete reversible of actions, as everyone would be convicted that they owned nothing and that everything they had belong to those who had less then them, such that most guilty would they feel if ever they missed an opportunity to give all they could give.

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An Arab 20.01.2012 14:10

Dear Peter Jennings,
Thank you! We are united. We are united against all the tyrants ;-). No matter who their master is: Western, Russian or Iranian they are all the same. We are no western puppet's nor do we want to become Russian or Iranian puppets.
"murderi ng unarmed police". Poor Peter, you clearly have no idea what is happening. Did you ever see any prove of those so-called armed gangs ;-)? Please read the comments of user "nobody". I think it is the best description of the situation.

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John Ellis 20.01.2012 14:03

CHANGING OF THE GUARD --- TIME FOR MIDDLE-CLASS TO RULE Assad is the front-man for the 25% highest achievers, as evidenced by their being the 25% most wealthy and owning 80% of everything. Whereas, the opposition leaders are front-men for the 25% intelligent middle-class who own 20% of wealth. So, the 50% uneducated laboring class, just where do they fit in. Well, their the only ones being killed as the snipers are all of the upper 50% of society and not are they going to shoot in the head those dressed in the fine cloths of their class. And as for media and the upper half of society in general, there is a blackout on the term “laboring-class, into any political discussion never is invited the laboring-class, and in any election as the 51% most wealthy would always be the voting majority, not so fool as to waste time voting for their next set of dictators is the laboring class. And so, its the better of two evil, should Assad and his rich ruling class continue to rule, or should some power hungry group of the middle-class with close ties to the brutal and imperial West be given a chance to rule?

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