Jul 24, 2011
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HOMS, (SANA) - A group of saboteurs on Saturday targeted a train in al-Souda area in Homs at 03:00 am while it was traveling from Aleppo to Damascus with more than 480 passengers onboard most of them are children, women and patients who were traveling to undergo surgeries.  SANA Correspondent mentioned that those terrorist groups loosed parts of the railway as the train derailed and its cabin was burnt and the driver was martyred while a number of the passengers were injured. Official source: the sabotage act aimed at committing massacre against innocents An official source at the Interior Ministry announced that the sabotage act aimed at committing a massacre against 480 innocent passengers traveling from Aleppo to Damascus.  "The Ministry urges all citizens to cooperate with security and police apparatus to give any information available about the saboteurs and criminals who exploit and hide behind demonstrations to carry out terrorist acts that target civilians as well as damaging private and public properties," the source added. It underlined that the authorities will firmly and decisively deal with those saboteurs.  Homs Governor Ghassan Abdul-Al described the sabotage act as a heinous crime against a train which transports women, children and patients who were heading for Damascus for treatment. In a statement to SANA, Abdul-Al referred to the existence of railroad pieces that were loosed by the saboteurs, clarifying that a freight train had crossed from an opposite direction from Homs to Aleppo before 1.00 a.m. when the railroad was safe and tight, adding this leads to the fact that sabotage happened between 1.00 and 3.00 a.m.  About the motives of saboteurs to select this spot to commit their crime, the Governor said that the area of the incident is considered as an arch for the railways from a mechanical point of view, so any derail or sliding will be deadly, but the care of God has rescued that train. He pointed out to the presence of tracks for motorcycles' tires near the bride that was selected to derail the train, particularly the road is very slippery here and might lead to a huge number of losses.  Director of the Railways' General Establishment George Makaabari added that selecting this place to carry out the criminal act by saboteurs indicate their plot was targeting to kill all passengers, particularly they have loosed the links of the railroad and a number of beams to a distance of scores of meters. R. al-Jazaeri / Mazen |
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New York, (PIC)-- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the chairperson of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, has urged the White House not to extend a single penny to the PA in Ramallah until it totally bows to American orders and demands in fighting Palestinian resistance, Hebrew press revealed. Uprooted Palestinian
1. Do you believe that the simultaneous release of the STL indictment along with the issuance of the ministerial statement was a coincidence or deliberate?
26.4% said it’s a coincidence
65.8% said it’s deliberate
2. In your opinion, do the leaks of the indictment’s contents 2 years ago in the western and Arab media cast doubt on the tribunal’s credibility?
63.5% said YES;
33% said NO
3. Did Daniel Bellemare, the STL Prosecutor, deal with the evidence provided by Seyyid Hassan Nasrallah in a professional manner?
26% YES,
60.5% NO
4. do you have confidence in the STL’s autonomy?
36.8% said YES,
60% said NO
5. do you believe that the tribunal should investigate the false witness issue before the trial?
70% said YES,
22.5% said NO
6. what are the objectives pursued by those who support the tribunal?
40.8% said justice,
54.3% said political gains
7. whom in your opinion stood most to gain from the assassination of Hariri
55.8% said Israel and/or US
13.8% said Hizbullah and/or Syria
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"As the Obama administration steps up its support for regime change in Syria, the Arab Spring is moving into what could be its hottest phase. The puzzle is how to help the Syrian opposition gain power without foreign military intervention -- and without triggering sectarian massacres inside the country...
Clinton has left the door open slightly for reformers within the Assad regime.
Last Saturday in Istanbul, she urged "an opposition that can provide a pathway, hopefully in peaceful cooperation with the government, to a better future." The administration is closely monitoring "who in the current power structure might be amenable to a transition," says a senior White House official.
A second White House official summarizes the new approach this way: "The Assad ship is sinking. The most important thing is to get people to realize this, so that, hopefully, they will jump off the ship and get on the lifeboat." For the U.S., this means working with Syrian dissidents, and also with Turkey and other regional powers that can help broker change.
The administration wants to encourage the Syrian opposition inside the country to unite, develop a clear agenda and build an inclusive leadership. Leading that effort is Robert Ford, the U.S. ambassador in Damascus; an administration official describes him as a "vehicle for transition."...
A road map for the opposition was sketched in an interview by Radwan Ziadeh, a visiting scholar at George Washington University who closely follows the dissident groups...
The Syrian equation is shaped by two "X-factors." The first is whether the army will split, with influential officers moving away from the regime...The second wild card is sectarian violence between dissident Sunnis and the ruling Alawite minority. The latest grim warning came on Sunday and Monday, when the U.S estimates that 15 to 30 Syrians were killed in ethnic fighting in Homs. A White House official called those reports "really worrisome."
The strategic stakes are high in Syria partly because Assad is allying himself ever more closely with the stridently anti-Western regime in Iran. White House officials last week were circulating a news report that Iran had pledged $5.8 billion in emergency aid to Assad's regime. Tehran and Damascus may once have pretended that they supported the Arab Spring, but no longer. If Assad falls to citizen protest, the Iranians know they will be the next target..."
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"... But according to Baer, we ain't seen nothing yet.
There is almost "near certainty" that Netanyahu is "planning an attack [on Iran] ... and it will probably be in September before the vote on a Palestinian state. And he's also hoping to draw the United States into the conflict," Baer explained.
The Israeli air force would attack "Natanz and other nuclear facilities to degrade their capabilities. The Iranians will strike back where they can: Basra, Baghdad," he said, and even Afghanistan. Then the United States would jump into the fight with attacks on Iranian targets. "Our special forces are already looking at Iranian targets in Iraq and across the border [in Iran] which we would strike. What we're facing here is an escalation, rather than a planned out-and-out war. It's a nightmare scenario. We don't have enough troops in the Middle East to fight a war like that." He add, "I think we are looking into the abyss."
Masters asked Baer why the U.S. military is not mobilizing to stop this war from happening. Baer responded that the military is opposed, as is former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who used his influence to thwart an Israeli attack during the Bush and Obama administrations. But he's gone now and "there is a warning order inside the Pentagon" to prepare for war...
"The president is up for re-election next year" Blair pointed out, and Israel is "truly out of control."...
Actually, only one person matters: the president. If Israel bombed Iran tomorrow, Congress would forget all about their partisan differences and run, not walk, to the House and Senate floors to endorse the attack and call for unstinting support for Israel. That is what Congress always does, and will always do so long as the lobby (and the donors it directs) are the key players in making our Middle East policies.
And who knows what Obama would do? So far, he has not exactly distinguished himself when it comes to standing up to Netanyahu.
But an Israeli attack on Iran would be different. It would endanger countless Americans (in the region and here at home, too). It would kill off any economic recovery by causing oil prices to skyrocket. It would engulf us in another Middle East war. And it would threaten the existence of the state of Israel..."
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MP Marwan Fares to Al-Manar Website:
Member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) parliamentary bloc MP Marwan Fares said that the accusations launched against his party of involvement in some assassinations that hit Lebanon throughout the last few years were not surprising, since the SSNP took part in the Resistance against the Zionist enemy. He spoke in this context of a linked Saudi-American scheme seeking to get rid of the Resistance in the region.
While welcoming the initiative of President Michel Sleiman to re-vivify the national dialogue, Fares criticized March 14 forces over the conditions they are setting to take part in the dialogue process. He also condemned March 14’s call for the participation of the Arab League in a dialogue that does not concern it. He expressed belief that the government will make achievements, and said that the opposition did not seek Lebanon’s interest, and that all what it wants is to return to power. RESISTANCE ARMS NOT DISCUSSION TOPIC  MP Marwan Fares told Al-Manar Website that the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) supports the initiative of President Michel Sleiman as well as Speaker Nabih Berri to re-vivify the national dialogue. He said that dialogue was the only alternative for the current political differences.Yet, Fares stressed the necessity to put clear and transparent standards for dialogue. He pointed in this context to the importance of backing the Resistance and its arms. He rejected March 14’s claims that dialogue aimed at discussing the fate of the Resistance arms. “This issue is settled since the first dialogue version,” Fares recalled. “It is not a topic for discussion. Now, the dialogue aims at reaching an agreement on national rules to protect Lebanon from any potential Israeli aggression.” SETTING PRECONDITIONS… DENIAL OF DIALOGUE PRINCIPLE  MP Fares rejected the preconditions set by the March 14 forces to take part in the dialogue, such as their announcement that their participation in the dialogue hinges on putting the Resistance’s arms under the control of the State within a certain timeframe, alongside Hezbollah’s approval, before the dialogue launch. He said that productive and effective dialogue cannot have preconditions, and stressed that whoever speaks about conditions does not really want dialogue. “Such rhetoric is in itself a denial of the dialogue’s principle,” he said. “As long as the Resistance arms are divine and protect Lebanon, there are no possible conditions for dialogue. Those who set conditions are in facts the ones connected to a foreign American policy, not a national and internal one.”Fares also found strange the call made by the March 14 forces for the Arab League participation in the Lebanese national dialogue. He questioned the usefulness of such participation, given the Arab League’s absolute absence from the dramatic developments in the Arab region. “Even more, the Arab League has nothing to do with Lebanese internal issues,” he said, as he announced his party’s refusal for any foreign meddling in the Lebanese affairs. OPPOSITION… POWER LOSERS  Asked about the many challenges awaiting the Lebanese government, Fares noted that the formation of this government was in itself an achievement in the face of the American policy in the region, given that the Americans, alongside the March 14 political bloc, were against its formation. “They refused all proposals to take part in the government,” he recalled.Fares, who declared absolute support for the government headed by Prime Minister Najib Miqati, said that it has started to make achievements. However, he expected achievements to increase during the upcoming phase, in the interest of the Lebanese people and not the party that has ruled the country throughout the last few years and implicated the country in unnumbered debts. Commenting on the opposition’s plans to topple the new government with all possible means, Fares said the main problem of this opposition was that it was “power loser”. He explained that its constituents did not seek Lebanon’s interest. “All what they want is to return to power,” he stressed. “We witnessed catastrophes under their rule. We don’t want history to repeat itself.” ALL NATIONALS ARE TARGETS Answering a question about the repercussions of the indictment in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and whether the Lebanese have overcome the storm, Fares pointed to the latest speech of Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah in which he assured to all his supporters that the indictment’s plot will go in vain. “Three hundred indictments, and not only one, will fail in changing the balance,” he noted.  Fares reiterated that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon was a politicized tribunal that yields to the American and Israeli policies. “This tribunal is seeking to take the place of the new Middle East, announced by former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in July 2006,” he pointed out.The SSNP lawmaker, meanwhile, pointed to a report, published earlier this month by a Saudi unknown paper, claiming that his party was involved in many assassinations that hit the country during the last few years. “Accusing the SSNP was not surprising for us because we took part in the resistance project against Israel,” he said. He spoke in this context of a linked Saudi-American scheme seeking to get rid of the Resistance in the region. Fares did not rule out the possibility of adding the SSNP to the list of the targets of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. He said all national figures were potential suspects and targets. He reiterated that the international tribunal was not seeking justice but carrying out Israeli resolutions. He wondered about the reasons preventing the tribunal of seriously considering the Israeli logical involvement in the crime. | ||||
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So, Murdoch is taking a more proactive approach to stop the bleeding. But will it work? postulates Mike Whitney
The Mainstream Press and TV misinformation services in general are doing their best to create the image or the public concept that this is a simple scandal of “hacking” into private and personal affairs, prying, so to speak. It was NOT! 
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Israel’s crushing of nonviolent protest will leave violence as the only remaining option. |
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He said: “The message to whoever attacked us, the message from all of Norway is that you will not destroy us, you will not destroy our democracy and our ideals for a better world."
