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Oct 14 Others

حملة احتلوا وول ستريت تقترب من إتمام شهرها الأول.. وتتحول إلى كابوس يهدد إدارة أوباما
Campaign Occupy the Wall Street close to the completion of the first month .. And turn into a nightmare that threatens the Obama administration (Syrian comment on "Occupy the Wall St" protests in the US)
http://www.sana.sy/ara/7/2011/10/14/375547.htm
October 14, .2011
New York - SANA

استطلاع للرأي يظهر شعبية غير متوقعة لحملة احتلوا وول ستريت
An opinion poll shows the unexpected popularity of the campaign Occupy the Wall Street
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/10/14/375533.htm
October 14, .2011
WASHINGTON (SANA) -


اتهام قطر بتمويل نواب وخلايا لإثارة القلاقل في الكويت
Accusation against Qatar for funding and the cells to stir up unrest in Kuwait denied
http://www.syrianow.sy/index.php?d=2&id=38223
2011/10/14

Under this title, published Kuwaiti newspaper: says "Kuwaiti security sources familiar with the circulation of some websites on the Syrian and Iraqi forces, denied the news" adjust the Kuwaiti security services are preparing three cells to cause "unrest" in Kuwait with the support and funding from the Qatar ..

Oct 14 Economy

توريد نحو ربع مليون طن من الأقطان إلى المحالج
Supply about a quarter million tons of cotton to ginning factory (cotton production this year increased by 34% compared to the same period last year)
http://www.sana.sy/ara/4/2011/10/14/375371.htm
October 14, .2011
Aleppo, (SANA) -

Reached the total amount of cotton supplied to the centers and gins the General Corporation for ginning and marketing of cotton since the start of the procurement for the current season to 244,353 tonnes of which 35,205 tons of production of the province and about 6793 tons of Idlib and 8091 tons of Hama and 37,838 tons of Deir Al-Zour, and 78,012 tons of tenderness and 78,405 tons of Hasaka .

The Engineer Nazir Lababidi Director-General of the institution that the processes of the supply is still ongoing and general condition of the crop as good as that the climate is suitable for harvesting and marketing.

It is noteworthy that the quantities of cotton marketed for the same period of last year reached 182,184 tons.


Cost of "Arab Spring" more than $55 billion-report
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Business/Middle-East/2011/Oct-14/151302-cost-of-arab-spring-more-than-$55-billion-report.ashx
October 14, 2011 04:26 PM
Reuters

LONDON: The uprisings that swept the Middle East this year have cost the most affected countries more than $55 billion, a new report says, but the resulting high oil prices have strengthened other producing countries.

A statistical analysis of International Monetary Fund (IMF) data by political risk consultancy Geopolicity showed that countries that had seen the bloodiest confrontations – Libya and Syria – were bearing the economic brunt, followed by Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain and Yemen.

Between them, those states saw $20.6 billion wiped off their gross domestic product and public finances eroded by another $35.3 billion as revenues slumped and costs rose.

But as the major oil producers such as the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait avoided significant unrest – often through increasing handouts as oil prices rose – they saw their GDP grow. Oil prices rocketed from around $90 a barrel of Brent crude at the start of the year to just short of $130 in May before retreating to around $113 now.

"As a result, the overall impact of the 'Arab Spring' across the Arab realm has been mixed but positive in aggregate terms," the report estimated, saying overall the year to September saw some $38.9 billion added to regional productivity.

Libya looks to have been the worst affected, with economic activity across the country – including oil exports – halted at an estimated cost to GDP of $7.7 billion, or more than 28 percent. Total costs to the fiscal balance were estimated at $6.5 billion, roughly 29 percent of gross domestic product.

In Egypt, nine months of turmoil eroded some 4.2 percent of gross domestic product with public expenditure rising to $5.5 billion just as public revenues fell by $75 million.

HANDOUTS NOT REFORM?

In Syria, where protests have continued throughout the year in the face of a bloody crackdown, the impact is hard to model but early indications suggested a total cost to the Syrian economy of some $6 billion or 4.5 percent of GDP.

The report said the number of Yemenis below the poverty line was expected to be pushed above 15 percent as a result of currency falls and protracted unrest. Total cost to the economy was estimated at 6.3 percent of GDP, with the fiscal balance deteriorating by $858 million, 44.9 percent of GDP.

Tunisia, where the protests began in late 2010, lost some $2.0 billion from its GDP, roughly 5.2 percent, with negative impacts across almost all sectors of the economy including tourism, mining, phosphates and fishing. Tunisia's government increased expenditure by some $746 million, pushing its fiscal balance some $489 million into the red.

Saudi Arabia's newly instituted handouts and wider public investment programme, the report estimated, amounted to some $30 billion – perhaps seen by the kingdom's rulers as a way of avoiding real reform. But increased oil prices and production helped boost gross domestic product by more than $5 billion and push up public revenues by $60.9 billion.

In Bahrain, oil helped cushion the impact of weeks of protest, with the fall in GDP relatively low at some at 2.77 percent. Public expenditure rose some $2.1 billion, partly because of cash transfers of $2,660 to each family.

None of these steps, the report argued, addressed the underlying causes behind the unrest. A better solution, it said, was much broader international support through the G20 or United Nations aimed at much wider reform.

Oct 14 Regional

الأخبار : الرئيس الأسد أبلغ زواره أن أمير قطر اتصل به و سأله عن أحوال البلاد
al-Akhbar: President al-Assad told his visitors that the Emir of Qatar called him and asked him about the conditions of the country
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=5eaa64e98ba4e3dcc5b738fd2e844d39&ar=591031887
Friday - October 14 - 2011 - 11:45:40

Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported that President Bashar al-Assad told the Lebanese visitors that the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani called him for holiday occasion of Eid al-Fitr.

And according to the newspaper, the Emir of Qatar asked President Assad about the situation of his country, Assad replied, saying they tend to calm after the failure of most of the foreign goals.

And Assad stressed the strength of the economic situation of Syria, citing the movement on that business in the province of Damascus.

It is noteworthy that the Syrian-Qatari relations are in crisis because of the seriousness of the situation the country events in the role of Syria and its channel (Al Jazeera) "inflammatory" as seen by the system.


هاكرز سوريون يخترقون صفحة " الجزيرة مباشر " و موقع " الجزيرة لابس "
Hackers infiltrate Syrian Page "Al Jazeera direct" and site "Al Jazeera Labs" (Syrian Electronic Army)
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_articles&id=8e79c2fc138c9f60834d0745e00d964d&ar=34989916
Friday - October 14 - 2011 - 20:48:16


اجتماع عسكري سوري - لبناني بحث اوضاع الحدود وتفعيل التعاون لمنع التهريب
Meeting of the Syrian-Lebanese military - to discuss the status of borders and promote cooperation to prevent smuggling
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=67d39f18fe597b060704ee1f6c86b1a3&ar=964995482
Friday - October 14 - 2011 - 13:57:37


Syrian ambassador calls on Rifi to present evidence over kidnappings
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2011/Oct-14/151287-syrian-ambassador-calls-on-rifi-to-present-evidence-over-kidnappings.ashx
October 14, 2011 11:08 AM
The Daily Star

BEIRUT: Syria's ambassador to Lebanon lodged a protest Friday against allegations of Syrian Embassy involvement in the kidnapping of four Syrian opposition figures and called on Lebanon's police chief to present evidence.

"I urge [Lebanese police chief Maj. Gen. Ashraf Rifi] to present evidence to prove the embassy involvement," Ali told reporters after meeting with Lebanese Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour.

Ali said he had lodged a protest with Mansour over the allegations.

Rifi said Monday that the Internal Security Forces had collected "dangerous information" pointing to the Syrian Embassy's involvement in the May disappearance of Shibli Aisamy, an 86-year-old Syrian dissident who was abducted in the mountainous town of Aley.

He also said embassy personnel and ISF staff were involved in the kidnapping in February of three brothers from the Jasem family, one of whom had been seen a few days earlier handing out flyers calling for reform in Syria, according to Human Rights Watch.

Sources told The Daily Star Thursday that Rifi's evidence was based on documents, secret service agents, pictures, video from surveillance cameras installed in the Syrian Embassy parking lot and along roads surrounding the embassy, as well as witness testimonies.


Hard evidence backs up Rifi's remarks on abducted Syrians
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2011/Oct-14/151252-hard-evidence-backs-up-rifis-remarks-on-abducted-syrians.ashx
October 14, 2011 12:47 AM
The Daily Star

BEIRUT: Allegations against the Syrian Embassy by ISF commander Maj. Gen. Ashraf Rifi of involvement along with ISF personnel in the kidnapping of Syrian opposition figures in Lebanon were based on concrete and indisputable evidence, security and political officials told The Daily Star Thursday.

The sources said that members of the ISF and the Syrian Embassy were involved in the kidnapping and the disappearance of at least four Syrian opposition figures in Lebanon.

During a meeting of the Parliamentary human rights committee Monday, Rifi briefed MPs on two high-profile kidnapping cases he said had been carried out this year by personnel from the Syrian Embassy in Beirut.

Three Syrian brothers from the Jasem family disappeared in February, after two of them went to pick up their brother, Jasem Merii Jasem, from a police station east of Beirut.

Human Rights Watch said in March that Jasem was originally picked up by military intelligence agents in Beirut after he was seen handing out flyers calling for democratic change in Syria.

Rifi said Monday that a car belonging to the Syrian Embassy in Beirut had been used to kidnap the brothers, according to participants in the session.

He also told the committee that he had collected "dangerous information" pointing to the embassy's involvement in the May disappearance of Shibli Aisamy, an 86-year-old Syrian dissident and former high-ranking Baath Party official who was abducted in the town of Aley.

The ISF commander also expressed his belief that the kidnappings had been undertaken by Lebanese ISF personnel working in the embassy.

Security sources told The Daily Star Thursday that Rifi's evidence was based on documents, information from secret service agents, photographs, video from surveillance cameras installed in the Syrian embassy parking lot and along roads surrounding the embassy, as well as witness testimonies.

Metn MP Sami Gemayel, who was among the lawmakers who attended Monday's session, said Rifi had provided "dangerous information that implicates the Syrian Embassy in Aisamy's kidnapping."

Several lawmakers attending Monday's session, including Sami Gemayel and Baabda MP Hikmat Deeb, have questioned the military prosecutor's failure to apprehend those involved in the abductions.

"The committee at Parliament agreed to invite [State Prosecutor Saeed] Mirza for the next session to look into the reasons the Military Tribunal has failed to uncover the perpetrators," Deeb said.

Judicial sources, however, defended the Military Tribunal, telling The Daily Star that the probe into the abduction of Syrian opposition figures was ongoing.

They said both the ISF and judicial authorities had conducted separate interrogations with the head of the Syrian Embassy guard unit, Lebanese First Lt. Salah Hajj after they received information that implicates the Syrian delegation in Lebanon.

Hajj is the son of Maj. Gen. Ali Hajj, Lebanon's former ISF chief who was held along with three other Lebanese generals for four years for alleged involvement in the 2005 Hariri assassination.


الجامعة العربية تتسلم طلب مجلس التعاون الخليجي لعقد اجتماع حول سوريا
Received the Arab League Gulf Cooperation Council's request for a meeting on Syria
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=e9de2980c0325bc47d62618f6f49d4d7&ar=227186428
Friday - October 14 - 2011 - 15:45:14

Arab League announced that it received a request from the Gulf Cooperation Council held an emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers Sunday to discuss current developments in Syria.

Announced the Permanent Representative of Kuwait to the Arab League Ambassador Jamal Mohamed Ghoneim, in a statement to Kuwait News Agency "KUNA". . .

Ghoneim said that the request comes after statements made by the Organization of the United Nations, which warned of the deterioration of the situation taking place in Syria and its orientation towards civil war and described the situation as "extremely dangerous" of all aspects of humanitarian, political and field.

He explained that the Statute of the Arab League Council requires the approval of two states for the meeting and he agreed to the request are six Gulf states, and therefore the meeting will be held on schedule next Sunday evening.

Oct 14 International

روسيا والصين تجددان موقفهما الداعي إلى الحوار لمعالجة الوضع في سورية
Russia and China Reiterate Call for Dialogue to Resolve Situation in Syria
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/10/14/375523.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/10/14/375510.htm
Oct 14, 2011

(Arabic/English)
MOSCOW/BEIJING, (SANA)- Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Alexander Lukashevich reiterated his country's stance which calls for dialogue as soon as possible to find a solution to the situation in Syria and prevent the escalations of events.

Lukashevich's remark came during a press conference in Moscow on Thursday in which he said that Russia aims to encourage dialogue among all the sides in Syria and is using all the channels to contribute to this goal.

The spokesman stressed that the Russian stance towards the Syrian issue and the motives behind his country's voting at the Security Council regarding this issue are well known.

China, in turn, renewed support to restoring stability to Syria and the Middle East region and resolving the current crisis in Syria by means of dialogue and consultation.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Liu Weimin on Thursday said that his country considers the draft resolution submitted by some European countries at the Security Council on Syria focused only on exerting pressures and threatened more sanctions, "which doesn't help in calming the situation in Syria".

Weimin pointed out in a press conference held in the Chinese capital Beijing that it is necessary that the Security Council moves help ease the tension and push forward the political dialogue to settle the differences in Syria and preserve peace and stability in the region.

He stressed that the Council's moves should comply with the UN Charter and the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of states.

The Chinese spokesman expressed his country's hope in the speedy implementation of the reforms announced by the Syrian leadership, calling on the concerned parties in Syria to launch a quick comprehensive political process to solve the problems through dialogue and consultation.

(English)
Anisimov: Western Countries Arm, Finance Terrorists in Syria to Continue Criminal Acts

Head of Association of Former Russian Officers who had served in Syria, Stanislav Anisimov, said Western countries were sending weapons and money to the armed terrorist groups in Syria and inciting them to continue their criminal acts against civilians and military personnel.

In a statement to SANA correspondent in Moscow, Anisimov considered the foreign interference in the internal affairs of Syria as "unacceptable since it is an independent country which only its people have the right to solve their problems in a way that preserves its unity and sovereignty,"

He expressed confidence that President Bashar al-Assad is working to find effective solutions to the domestic issues in his country, regretting that the extremist opposition, backed by foreign powers, rejects any dialogue with the authorities.

Anisimov affirmed that the majority of Russians support the Russian leadership's positions with respect to Syria, underlining the need for all to work to find a peaceful solution inside Syria and reject any UNSC resolution that affects its sovereignty.


باحث روسي: سورية ستخرج بسلام من أزمتها الراهنة
Russian Researcher: Syria will come out safely from the current crisis
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/10/14/375517.htm
October 14, .2011
Moscow - SANA

A researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Vellnak said armed terrorist groups that continue to support from abroad crimes in Syria does not want dialogue or peaceful way out of the situation created.

Vellnak said in an interview to SANA correspondent in Moscow today that he sees what aired by Al Jazeera and others, he was convinced that these channels are waging a war waged against Syria and trying to deliver malicious propaganda into the minds of people and influence them.

Vellnak stressed that the history of Syria, which extends for thousands of years ancient civilization and to the point that it will be able to exit safely from the current crisis.

The Vellnak that Russia used its veto when the UN Security Council draft resolution against Syria, against the West were not want to repeat the scenario, the Libyan experience that resulted in negative converted into a battlefield between government forces and the opposition.

The Vellnak Russia were not seeking to regain their positions in the international arena because it is a superpower and has the geostrategic interests in the Arab countries and other regions of the world must achieve these interests, pointing out that the relations of cooperation between Syria and Russia have a long history, where they were in the eighties signing of the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation between Damascus and Moscow, this relationship is still going on today and will develop later.

Onasimov: Western countries send money and weapons to terrorist groups armed and instigated to continue its criminal acts against civilians and military

For his part, President of the Association of Former Russian officers who served in Syria, Stanislav Onasimov: The Western countries deliberately to send weapons and money to the armed terrorist groups in Syria and abetting to continue its criminal acts against civilians and the military.

He criticized the Onasimov told SANA correspondent in Moscow today the way it deals with the Western countries, Syria and recourse to the imposition of sanctions, while claiming its commitment to peace and stability in Syria.

The Onasimov that foreign interference in the internal affairs of Syria is not acceptable because it is an independent state, the right of its people alone to solve their own problems and to preserve the unity and sovereignty, adding that no country in the world that allow the occurrence of armed actions on its territory.

And across Onasimov confident that President Bashar al-Assad is working to find effective solutions to the issues of his country's internal pointing out that the extreme opposition refuses to deliberately and willfully determination to engage in dialogue with the authority because there are external forces run by paying to the intransigence and further escalation of intense situation in Syria.

He Onasimov support, like the vast majority of Russian citizens of the positions of the Russian leadership, which has repeatedly declared that what is happening in Syria of the armed criminal executed by terrorist gangs, noting the need to work everyone to find a peaceful solution in Syria and rejection of any resolution in the Security Council involves the sovereignty of Syria.


شعبان تلتقي لجنة العلاقات الخارجية بمجلس العلماء الأندونيسي.. رئيس اللجنة: الشعب الأندونيسي وعلماء المسلمين يقفون مع سورية وشعبها
Shaaban to meet with Senate Foreign Relations Committee Indonesian scientists .. Chairman of the Committee: the people of Indonesia and other Muslim scholars stand with Syria and its people
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/10/14/375394.htm
October 14, .2011
Jakarta - SANA


الديار: الفشل في سورية يفجر خلافات بين فرنسا وتركيا وقطر
al-Diyar: failure in Syria spark disagreements between France and Turkey and Qatar
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=198a83f7c7faaba933473d787cda824e&ar=433825037
Friday - October 14 - 2011 - 14:17:01

She noted press reports to the rhetoric between Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, French President Nicolas Sarkozy on the Armenian genocide has been picked up Erdogan's comments by saying, that the French President used a speech Mzdugat which rose from his accusations to Turkey, calling for the recognition of the extermination of Armenians from Yerevan Armenian capital during the past week has Erdogan explained this escalation, Sarkozy needs the voices of the Armenians living in France during the next election, according to the newspaper "Al-Diyar of Lebanon.

And the French weekly "Le Canard Enchaîné" quoted Sarkozy who directed harsh criticism to Qatar, because he considered that the (Turkish?) Prime Minister had deceived him when he pledged to him to persuade Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas not to go to the United Nations to apply for recognition of a Palestinian state, according to the French magazine, Sarkozy thinks that Turkey and Qatar urged Mahmoud Abbas to the top of the tree of peace and withdrew from under it remained pending Sarkozy did not fail in this area and on the subject to emphasize the Turkish rejection of Ankara's accession to the EU.

The newspaper said "First it is clear from these data that the stitches are hidden spacing between the parties to the Triangle French country Turkey's lifting of the power of coordinated in Syrian affairs and intervened limbs directly into a joint plan to support the opposition Syrian politically, financially and militarily, and even practiced all forms of interference and pressure to activate the attack on Syria ".

"Failure in Syria is, according to experts, attributed to emergence of sharp differences between the three parties and led to mutual accusations of responsibility for involvement and the involvement of others and exaggerate the mainstream expectations for near fall of President Bashar al-Assad and his regime, which took up the Qatari partner for France and Turkey in the early Syrian crisis, while linking Turkish Prime Minister escalation of hostility toward Syria occur with the disappearance price the request of Barack Obama through the promise of facilities, security of the Turkish military in northern Iraq against PKK bases are in the eyes of experts and promises of a difficult investigation because the Kurdish leaders of Iraq know very well the high cost of involvement in any direct action against the fighters PKK by the interdependence of tribal transit of the border between Iraq and the Kurds in Turkey and also because the United States relies more heavily on the Kurdish role that cannot be indispensable in shaping the political balances sponsors of interests inside Iraq. "

And it continues, "Washington is unlikely to abandon the priority to maintain close ties with Massoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani, in favor of satisfying Erdogan against the escalation of pressure on Syria, which is questionable in its effectiveness and the possibility of generating the results have yet field developments in the important achievements of the Syrian state on earth and in light of crisis Turkish procedure on Syrian issue and the possible implications. "

It goes on that "secondly, Sarkozy paid the price for his involvement in Syria for the Libyan cake while his two partners, Hamad and Erdogan revolve in a vicious circle after the Russian and Chinese double veto fault coverage of intervention in Syria and the form of a declaration of bankruptcy of the western campaign led by the United States against President al-Assad funding diagonal and harmony Turkish."

And the newspaper concluded by saying, "The cycle of failure of tripartite -Qatar, Turkey and France is the main square of the disputes between these parties and on the sidelines can read the implications of Sarkozy's campaign and the mind that Qatar and the predicament of obligations on the Palestinian issue and shown in the site is unable to influence before Obama admonished Sarkozy harshly on his role in the Declaration on the European position supportive of the request for recognition of a Palestinian state in the beginning, where he was forced after reprimanding the U.S. President to instruct the position of the French conservative and he proposed personally that only the PA seat observer at the United Nations, while Sarkozy was to build his words on the promises of the country not to provide Abbas's request for recognition and thus not France put to the test of the false position in support of the request appears to be just the beginning of the accounts of the losers in the Syrian file. "


Electricity Ministry, German Siemens Sign 305 Million Euro Contract to Expand al-Nasseriyeh Power Plant
http://www.sana.sy/eng/24/2011/10/14/375513.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/4/2011/10/14/375404.htm
Oct 14, 2011

Oct 14 Central government

اللجنة العليا للانتخابات: قانون الانتخابات متميز وعصري بكل مواده وهدفه الوصول لانتخابات حرة وديمقراطية يكون للقضاء الإشراف الرئيسي عليها
Higher Elections Committee: Elections Law Aims at Free, Democratic Elections (explanations about legal framework of elections)
http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2011/10/14/375480.htm
http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2011/10/14/375482.htm
Oct 14, 2011


Electricity Ministry, German Siemens Sign 305 Million Euro Contract to Expand al-Nasseriyeh Power Plant
http://www.sana.sy/eng/24/2011/10/14/375513.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/4/2011/10/14/375404.htm
Oct 14, 2011

DAMASCUS, (SANA) - Ministry of Electricity and the German group Siemens signed a 305 million Euro contract on Thursday for the expansion of al-Nasseriyeh power plant, north of Damascus City.

According to the contract, Siemens group is responsible for design works, manufacturing, importation, transmission, insurance, test, installation and operating all the machines and equipment necessary to establish an additional combined circuit and single axis tracking plant.

The plant's operating capacity reaches 351 MW. It consists of gas turbine which ramps up to a capacity of 250 MW, a recovery boiler, a steam turbine, a capacitor antenna, a water treatment plant and an operating room.

Minister of Electricity Imad Khamis said that expanding al-Nasseriyeh plant came in the framework of the Ministry's plan to provide the increasing demand for electricity in Syria with preserving high quality and performance.

He added that the plant will be funded by Arab funds, referring to underway deliberations with the European Investment Bank to participate by 50% of the total cost.

Siemens Group Deputy Chairman said the plant will help obtain 6 kWh hours of electricity from 1 cubic meter of natural gas.

Oct 14 Pro-government

تمنى التكامل بين " هيئة التنسيق "و " المجلس الوطني" .. ميشيل كيلو: الشعب السوري هو من أدخل روسيا إلى الشرق الأوسط و عليها ان تنتبه كي لا يخرجها
Opposition "Kilo" conducted a dialogue with the government because he wished the integration between the "coordinating body" and "National Council" .. Kilo: it was the Syrian people that draw Russia into the Middle East, so need to pay attention not to lose it
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=a89d6bb1b4680974068259bd077d0f89&ar=456314839
Thursday - October 13 - 2011 - 21:18:57

Oct 14 Incidents

مسلحون يفتحون النار على باص متجه من دمشق الى حلب و يصيبون عدد من الركاب بجروح
Gunmen open fire on a bus traveling from Damascus to Aleppo and injuring a number of passengers injured (in Talbisah, just north of Homs)
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_articles&id=15a88c6032e2dd4d728954906c5179e1&h=%CD%E3%D5&ar=719638051
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/10/15/375598.htm
Friday - October 14 - 2011 - 18:36:00

Gunmen opened fire on the bus belongs to the company "al-Siraaj" bound from Damascus to Aleppo while passing through Talbisah in the province of Homs on Friday afternoon, which led to the wounding three people.

And said a passenger bus for Aks al-Ser, they were surprised firing randomly on the bus did not know the source, the effects of a state of panic to the passengers and injuring the bus driver and a policeman and a woman with various injuries, and led to a crash of some windows of the bus. "

And the source within the company told Aks al-Ser "that the company's management sent a delegation of emergency to the region took command of the bus, and transferred the wounded to Hama National Hospital, before the ambulance transferred the bus driver to an eye hospital in Aleppo."

And the source said that "the driver was wounded in one eye, also affected some parts of his body by shrapnel, and to resuscitate him were later to University Hospital in Aleppo," pointing out that "his health is stable."

And the source indicated that the rest of the passengers arrived safely to Aleppo, while it is not possible for Aks al-Ser to know the fate of the policeman and a woman who were transferred to the National Hospital in Hama.


Oct 14, Tear gas in Andan, Aleppo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0DrK3crrfs
Sound of gunshots, one man killed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUnd6lhdo5A

At 00:11, residents of Kafranbil, south of Idlib city, complain "Americans! If you don't topple al-Assad now, don't boast about democracy again."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AiaD3dShu4

Relatively big demonstration (unless fabricated) in Zamalka, east of Damascus, after having been suppressed for several weeks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6lWP8DuTkM

A protest in al-Sanamain town, Daraa province is like a festival.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p0zWGO9CCs


مقتل شاب انفجرت به عبوة ناسفة أثناء قيامه بتحضيرها في اللاذقية ( صور مؤذية جداً)
Man killed by an explosive device exploded while he was carrying it in Lattakia (very harmful images)
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_articles&id=b9263551489e7e99dc75b2b03e96c1fd&ar=816077333
Friday - October 14 - 2011 - 13:16:37

Young man was killed when a roadside bomb while he was carrying it, about twelve o'clock at night on Thursday in the al-Skantore in Lattakia.

And in the details obtained by Aks al-Ser, the young man and while he manufactures packaging consisting of compost cooked with nails and screws exploded and where he died immediately.

Aks al-Ser source made it clear that the young man in his twenties, which is required an offense to throw dynamite bombs on the military and security.

And re-disclosure of the medical and legal cause of death as "a complete loss of material in the abdomen and thighs and hand as a result of the explosion, and noted in the body and the presence of metallic objects and is a long screws and nails in the abdominal area caused by the explosive body."

And the body was handed over to their relatives to bury them so they can be assets.


استشهاد عنصر من الجيش بهجوم إرهابي على أحد الحواجز في انخل بدرعا ومقتل اثنين من الإرهابيين
Death of an army by a terrorist attack on one of the barriers in the Inkhil in Daraa Countryside and killed two terrorists (1 explosion in Daraa city caused civilian injuries, another bomb dismantled; al-Jazeerah al-Arabiyyah fabrication)
http://www.sana.sy/ara/336/2011/10/14/375511.htm
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/10/14/375524.htm
October 14, .2011
Provinces - SANA

Cited elements of the army a terrorist attack carried out by one of the armed groups at an army checkpoint in the Inkhil in Daraa Countryside which has dropped two bombs on the elements of the barrier.

According to a source familiar with Daraa to SANA correspondent that an armed group attacked an army checkpoint in the Inkhil and the members threw two bombs exploded, one of only pointing out that the elements of the checkpoint responded to the attackers and killed two of them.

As a number of residents were injured in the explosion of an explosive device planted by terrorist groups armed beside the road between Abu Bakr mosque and Omari mosque in Daraa city.

The SANA correspondent in Daraa that the packaging was planted to the south to 200 meters and then planted an explosive 50 meters further, explaining that the unity of engineering that went to the scene managed to dismantle the second packaging and secure it before it explodes.

The correspondent said that the place of planting the explosives often the scene of a traffic density of the citizens before and after the Friday prayers.

For its part, denied civil and popular protests in the town of Daa'il to SANA correspondent which aired on Al Jazeera and the deaths of citizens of the city by the forces of the army confirming that this story is baseless and untrue at all.

And by some citizens are worried that this is a story of leaving al-Jazeerah to its customers on the floor of the elements of armed terrorist groups, as it did previously in more than one region of the country.

The citizens felt that the purpose of this false news cause concern and confusion of the people.

In Hama the Director of Religious Endowments, Sheikh Abdul Basit Sulaiman definitively denied the news reported by Al-Arabiya of shooting and that worshipers in some mosques in the province to prevent them from praying, stressing that people performed Friday prayers quietly and spirituality, saying that the news broadcast by Al-Arabiya and other intervention in the context of incitement to Syria to create chaos and instability there.

The manager of endowments that conditions in the city of Hama, a quiet, natural, and going on a regular basis like any other day, and the worshipers came out of the mosque and went to their homes and their jobs.

In al-Qadam neighborhood in Damascus SANA correspondent reports that some business owners categorically denies shooting and demonstrations in the neighborhood on the Al Arabiya, emphasizing that this story a hoax and completely untrue.

And saw several areas in rural communities scattered Idlib after Friday prayers broke on its own.


مقتل شخص وإصابة 7 بمشاجرة بين عصابات مسلحة في داعل
Killing one person and wounded 7 in a quarrel between gangs armed in Daa'il, Daraa (al-Jazeerah fabrication for Daa'il, Hama and al-Qadam)
http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2011/10/14/375543.htm
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/10/14/375555.htm
October 14, .2011
Shield - SANA

Resulted in a mass brawl between gangs armed Daa'il in Daraa countryside to the death, Muhammad Qasim buffalo and wounding seven others.

SANA correspondent in Daraa Countryside denied any demonstrations in the city as Al Jazeera saying that the security forces and the army did not enter the city, a non-existent in the region and that what was originally broadcast on this channel for inciting the army clashed with demonstrators in the city from the truth altogether.


Military Source: Ten Army and Law Enforcement Members Martyred, 19 Wounded in Binnish, Idlib (10 personnel, 6 soldiers and 4 policemen, died)
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/10/14/375444.htm
Oct 14, 2011

DAMASCUS, (SANA)-Ten Army and law enforcement members, among them one officer, were martyred and 19 others were wounded after they were ambushed by an armed terrorist group at Binnish region in Idlib, an official military source announced on Thursday.

The pursuit operations for members of the terrorist groups led to the killing of a number of armed men and arresting others, confiscating big quantities of weapons, ammunitions, modern communication sets and stolen cars.

Interior Ministry: One officer, three policemen martyred

Interior Ministry announced today that a Lieutenant Colonel, three policemen were martyred by fires of armed terrorist groups in Binnish, Idlib.


شهيد وستة جرحى بينهم عنصرين من حفظ النظام في إطلاق نار بعندان
Dead and six wounded, including two of maintaining order in a shooting in Andan
http://www.aksalser.com/?page=view_articles&id=2bf061a0e35b071bbe095cd8e8b43ff7&ar=139108268
Friday - October 14 - 2011 - 15:11:45

Citizen was killed and six wounded people, including two of maintaining order in a shooting in the village of Andan of Aleppo on Friday.

The citizens of Andan the shooting occurred in the village after Friday prayers, which led to the martyrdom of a citizen named "Mohammed Hishom" and the injury of others.

The injured were taken to a hospital, "Razi" government, where the medical source told Aks al-Ser conditions in stable patients.

The dead was buried in the village to his final resting place.


الجيش اللبناني يضبط سيارة محملة بأسلحة متجهة إلى سورية
Lebanese Army Sets a car loaded with weapons bound for Syria
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/10/15/375579.htm
October 15, .2011
Beirut, (SANA) -

Adjust the Lebanese army car / van / with weapons, explosives and headed to Syria in the region of Akkar in northern Lebanon last night.


السلاح يصل إلى المسلحين السوريين " مجاناً " بكلفة " الديلفري " .. الصحافية غدي فرنسيس تعد تقريراً مصورا بشهادات حية عن تهريب السلاح إلى سورية ( تقرير مصور )
Arms reach the Syrian insurgents "free of charge" and "no negotiation" .. a female journalist Ghadi Francis prepare a photo report with a living testimony of arms smuggling to Syria (photo report) (smuggling)
http://www.aksalser.com/?page=view_articles&id=95c35cdef94809a880f75e6193f0503d&ar=653468786
Friday - October 14 - 2011 - 15:41:05 (Watch her report on YouTube)

Published a report on the Lebanese channel new witnesses of live video for the smuggling of arms to Syria through the "Wadi Khalid," and cost, and routes used by smugglers.

Ghadi Francis, Lebanese journalist bold, which paid a lot, or fought thought of that "pay it" a lot after that penetrated the center of Hama in the top of anarchy, and comparing also the fact that others dare not what it was, "Kandahar Syria."

Report begins with "Ghadi" on a motorcycle, with the words on the screen says "During the past two months, the Lebanese authorities arrested more than six shipments of weapons en route to," only to find Ghadi smuggler tells her, "We started with Syria."

Smuggler who says she met the press, which has been hidden features, that the smuggling of weapons is through the "motors" and four "engines" that can smuggle 50 weapons.

And the prices of the smuggled weapons, said that the price of "Albompkhn" $ 700, and "The Omen" from 1700 to $ 2000 and the "Kalashnikov" from 1200 to $ 1600, "Mother Sixteen" from 1800 to 2500 dollars.

And detect contraband explicitly that any Syrian who wants to arm itself, does not have to pay only the cost of "Aldeliveri," (delivery charge), amounting to only $ 200, and weapons are free, according to the "identity" of the Syrian citizen in the words of a getaway.

The report, which you can view it (bottom of page) lines, arms smuggling, and the routes used by smugglers, between the Lebanese and Syrian territories.

He was smuggled to the process of "smuggling" recipe "work" jihadist, to support what he called "the Great Syrian Revolution."

He revealed one of the citizens whom Ghadi met possess 400 weapons, and a range of weapons, ammunition and explosives, (a box) written on it "free (liberty) and Wadi Khaled."

The report is the first of its kind in the Syrian crisis that appears real, live testimonies, the fact that the arms flow to Syria, where many still insist that there is no armed, and that what is happening in Syria is "peaceful" purely.

It is noteworthy that the press Ghadi Francis was harassed by the Syrian authorities, and the Syrian opposition, both having revealed the truth of what is happening in Hama, and then she was laid off "rudely" by al-Safir newspaper, after Syrian oppositions whom they call as "intellectuals" submitted her document to the newspaper".


اجتماع عسكري سوري - لبناني بحث اوضاع الحدود وتفعيل التعاون لمنع التهريب
Meeting of the Syrian-Lebanese military - to discuss the status of borders and promote cooperation to prevent smuggling
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=67d39f18fe597b060704ee1f6c86b1a3&ar=964995482
Friday - October 14 - 2011 - 13:57:37

Directorate announced guidance in the leadership of the Lebanese army was "on 13/10/2011 Committee held joint military between the Syrian and Lebanese armies met in al-Dabbousiyyah crossing a number of officers on both sides.

Directorate said that during the meeting, they discussed the situation on the border and the mechanism of seizure of the various aspects of security, was also consensus on the activation of the Joint Coordination and further field procedures to prevent smuggling and infiltration in both directions through the illegal crossings.

2011/10/14

Oct 13 Economy

مليار و904 ملايين ليرة إيرادات مرفأ اللاذقية في 9 أشهر وخطط لتوسيع المرفأ بهدف زيادة طاقته الاستيعابية
1,904 million pounds revenue port of Latakia in 9 months and plans to expand the port to increase its capacity
http://www.sana.sy/ara/348/2011/10/13/375378.htm
October 13, .2011
Lattakia, (SANA) -

Revenues for the General Company for the port of Latakia, until the end of the third quarter of this year to one billion and 904 million pounds while the total number of vessels which his nation during the same period in 1073 a ship loaded on board, iron minerals cement grain barley, timber glass cars tile, marble, machinery, chemicals, yarns, fabrics, clothing and food and cotton, and stone.

Also reached the weight of containers covered by the port of incoming and outgoing during the same period to 3870 thousand tons, of which 3062 thousand tons of cargo included 808 thousand tons of cargo issued while the total amount of goods bulk consumed 2076 thousand tons, of which 2026 thousand tons of incoming and 50 thousand tons issued.

The total number of containers dealt with 398,480 TEUs of T j U 197 333 201 147 incoming and outgoing goods in transit and total 129 thousand tons.


نصف تريليون ليرة قيمة الاستثمارات بالمدن الصناعية
Half a trillion pounds to the value of total investments in the industrial cities (also figures of facilities and workers)
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=8f89e969249c11f94db4a1411799f41a&ar=910932068
Thursday - October 13 - 2011 - 10:05:51

Declared, "Akram Hassan," Director of the industrial cities in the Ministry of local administration that the volume of total investment in cities four (Adra, Shaikh Najjar, Hsia, Deir Al-Zour) reached 500 billion pounds with 240 billion in Adra 0.169 billion in Shaikh Najjar 0.87 billion in Hsia, 3.5 billion in Deir Ezzor.


البحوث الزراعية تستنبط تقانات يحتاجها القطاع الزراعي بمردودية اقتصادية عالية تقدر بـ16 مليار ليرة سنوياً
Agricultural research derived technologies of high cost-effectiveness needed by the agricultural sector - budget at 16 billion pounds per year
http://www.sana.sy/ara/343/2011/10/13/375311.htm
October 13, .2011
Damascus, (SANA) -

Oct 13 Regional

The problem of fine-tuning policies on Syria
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=the-problem-of-fine-tuning-policies-on-syria-2011-10-12
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
sergin1@hurriyet.com.tr
SEDAT ERGİN, Opinion

But there is another scenario that should not be entirely disregarded either. And that is, despite all the international pressure and severe domestic opposition, the Baath regime in Damascus survives even though this survival becomes more difficult each day. When considering that all bridges were burned mutually, this possibility is the one that would frustrate Turkey the most.

The policy is essentially correct but…

Kurdish issue creates conflict

The fact that Turkey has staked out such a stark position against Syria poses a series of drawbacks. The first one of these is that, with such a sharp attitude, Turkey is keeping the door open to the expectation of an instant contribution in the event the West chooses the military option against Syria in the future.

Another drawback stems from the conflicting situation created by Turkey's diversion from its own domestic issues, especially from the democratic initiative in the Kurdish issue. The Syrian regime's actions against opposition groups coincides with a time when Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) members are being subjected to mass arrests, when elected deputies are kept in jails and when the space for the Kurdish political movement to operate within democratic bounds is being entirely constricted in Turkey.

Also, will the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government, which has adopted such a critical attitude against Syria, be able to demonstrate the same principled attitude against the Tehran regime when similar movements erupt in Iran in the future? It is useful to contemplate this question starting now.

*Sedat Ergin is a columnist for daily Hürriyet in which this piece appeared on Oct. 12. It was translated into English by the Daily News staff.


Gulf states call for Arab League meeting on Syria
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2011/Oct-13/151210-gulf-states-call-for-arab-league-meeting-on-syria.ashx
October 13, 2011 09:35 PM
Reuters

Dubai: Gulf Arab states Thursday called for an immediate meeting of Arab League states to discuss the "dire" situation in Syria, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) said in a statement.

They said the meeting be should held at foreign ministers' level and discuss the humanitarian situation in Syria, and study ways "to stop the bloodshed and machine of violence," they said.

The GCC is a loose political and economic alliance of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain.


العربي : مشاورات لعقد اجتماع وزاري لبحث الموقف في سوريا
Arab consultations to hold a ministerial meeting to discuss the situation in Syria
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=823b97743e07bb2d8b246490f8a5c9b6&ar=25579930
Thursday - October 13 - 2011 - 9:16:00

The Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Nabil el-Arabi, in Cairo, said that consultations are being held between the Arab Foreign Ministers to convene a meeting of the University Council at the ministerial level to discuss the situation in Syria, but he said he had not been so far from any Arab country to hold the meeting.


حردان: الرئيس الأسد لديه رؤية مكتملة حول طبيعة المؤامرة على سورية وسبل احباطها
Hardan: President Assad has a complete view about the nature of the conspiracy against Syria and ways to thwart (expressions of support from Lebanese SSNP, former Lebanese President Lahhoud, and Mufti of Jabal Amil and Tyre/Sour)
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/10/13/375330.htm
http://www.sana.sy/eng/22/2011/10/13/375340.htm
October 13, .2011
Beirut, (SANA) -


Authorities deny Syria Army incursion into Anjar
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2011/Oct-13/151196-syrian-army-reaches-anjar-turns-back-sources.ashx
October 13, 2011 11:54 AM (Last updated: October 13, 2011 07:45 PM)
The Daily Star

BEIRUT: Lebanese authorities denied Thursday reports that the Syrian Army had entered the Bekaa town of Anjar a day earlier.

Residents told The Daily Star earlier Thursday that a 15-strong Syrian infantry unit infiltrated at 5 p.m. Wednesday about 150 meters into Wadi Anjar.

The Syrian Army had taken up a position near an earth mound in the area that is considered a smuggling route, the residents said, adding that the unit then pulled back following contacts carried out by the Lebanese Army.

Security and Lebanese Army sources said they had no reports of an incursion, adding that the Syrian Army did not go beyond the Syria-Lebanon border.

Syrian troops have made several incursions into the Bekaa town of Arsal since the beginning of October.


ISF personnel, Syrian Embassy had role in kidnappings: officials
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2011/Oct-13/151203-isf-personnel-syrian-embassy-had-role-in-kidnappings-officials.ashx
October 13, 2011 06:19 PM
The Daily Star

BEIRUT: Allegations levied against the Syrian embassy by ISF commander Maj. Gen. Ashraf Rifi of involvement along with ISF personnel in the kidnapping of Syrian opposition figures in Lebanon were based on concrete and indisputable evidence, security and political officials told The Daily Star Thursday.

Sources said that members of the ISF and the Syrian Embassy were involved in the kidnapping and the disappearance of at least four Syrian opposition figures in Lebanon.

During a meeting of the parliamentary human rights committee Monday, Rifi briefed MPs on two high-profile kidnapping cases he said had been carried out this year by personnel from the Syrian Embassy in Beirut.

Three Syrian brothers from the Jasem family disappeared in February, after two of them went to pick up their brother, Jasem Merii Jasem, from a police station east of Beirut.

Human Rights Watch said in March that Jasem was originally picked up by military intelligence agents in Beirut after he was seen handing out flyers calling for democratic change in Syria.

Rifi said Monday that a vehicle belonging to the Syrian Embassy in Beirut had been used to kidnap the brothers.

He also told the committee that he had collected "dangerous information" pointing to the embassy's involvement in the May disappearance of Shibli Aisamy, an 86-year-old Syrian dissident who was abducted in the town of Aley.

The ISF commander also expressed his belief that the kidnappings had been undertaken by Lebanese ISF personnel working in the embassy.

Security sources told The Daily Star Thursday that Rifi's evidence was based on documents, secret service agents, pictures, video from surveillance cameras installed in the Syrian embassy parking lot and along roads surrounding the embassy, as well as witness testimonies.

Kataeb MP Sami Gemayel, who was among the lawmakers who attended Monday's session, said Rifi had provided "dangerous information that implicates the Syrian embassy in Aisamy's kidnapping."

Several lawmakers attending Monday's session, including Gemayel and Baabda MP Hikmat Deeb, have questioned the military court's failure to apprehend those involved in the abductions.

"The committee at Parliament agreed to invite [State Prosecutor Saeed] Mirza for the next session to look into the reasons the Military Tribunal has failed to uncover the perpetrators," Deeb told The Daily Star Wednesday.

Judicial sources, however, defended the Military Tribunal, telling The Daily Star that the probe into the abduction of Syrian opposition figures was ongoing.

They said both the ISF and judicial authorities had conducted separate interrogations with the head of the Syrian Embassy guard unit, Lebanese First Lt. Salah Hajj after they received information that implicates the Syrian delegation in Lebanon.

Hajj is the son of Maj. Gen. Ali Hajj, Lebanon's former ISF chief who was held along with three other Lebanese generals for four years for alleged involvement in the 2005 assassination of statesman Rafik Hariri.

"What else could the military court do besides issuing summons?" one judicial source told The Daily Star Thursday.

Oct 13 International

مسؤول روسي: لحظة توقف في مجلس الأمن بخصوص قرار ضد سورية
Russian official: the moment of pause in the Security Council on a resolution against Syria
http://arabic.rt.com/news_all_news/news/568951
2011.10.13

Said Gennady Gatilov, Deputy Russian Foreign Minister, to the existence of a moment stopped in the UN Security Council resolution concerning the right to condemn Syria.

He Gatilov on 13 October, told Itar-Tass that "the situation is not clear (on the Security Council resolution), because there is a stop certain after the vote on the draft resolution west. There was no discussion of this issue in the Security Council vigorously."

The official noted at the same time that "the Syrian issue is still within the field of vision of the members of the Security Council", a lecturer of the minds that "our attitude toward Western styles is well known. We voted against the Western project."

He Gatilov "We do not refuse to discuss the situation in Syria to the Security Council .. The draft resolution, which was prepared with Chinese partners, is still around, that the Security Council table," adding, "Our project reflects our approach, the search is done about the crisis in Yemen also is that the the international community to persuade the government and the opposition sides start political dialogue. We consider that this is the only viable basis for the application to resolve the crisis in Syria. "

He Gatilov say "I would like to point out that you must follow vis a vis the other crises in the Middle East, which is the proper mindset .. We believe that the approach to dealing with Syrian affairs this would be justified, and specifically call for the international community to invite interested parties to participate in the political process and dialogue to find a solution-fits-all and the settlement of the situation in Syria. "


غليون يدعو موسكو لاقناع دمشق بوقف العنف
Burhan Ghaliyoun calls on Moscow to persuade Damascus to stop violence
http://arabic.rt.com/news_all_news/news/568938
2011.10.13


اللجنة الاقتصادية توافق على مذكرة تفاهم بين سورية والصين لضمان حماية حقوق الملكية الصناعية
Economic Commission approve the memorandum of understanding between Syria and China to ensure the protection of industrial property rights
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=73a59e9723593c3db024f2dc18e9ba3d&ar=449607926
Thursday - October 13 - 2011 - 16:15:51


EU adds one more Syrian entity to asset freeze
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-10/13/c_131190058.htm
English.news.cn 2011-10-13 22:48:16

BRUSSELS, Oct 13 (Xinhua) -- The European Union on Thursday expanded its sanctions on the Syrian government by adding one more of its entity to asset freeze, said the EU in a statement.

"Our measures are not aimed at the Syrian people, but aim to deprive the regime of financial revenues and the support base necessary to maintain the repression," said the EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.

The statement didn't disclose the nature of the entity, saying that the legal act, together with the details about the entity, will be published in the Official Journal of the EU on Friday.

Some diplomats said the newly added entity on the sanction list is the Commercial Bank of Syria

The move has brought the number of Syrian entities targeted by an EU asset freeze to 19.


روسيا تعرب عن قلقها لقرار الاتحاد الاوروبي فرض مزيد من العقوبات ضد سوريا
Russia expresses concern about the EU decision to impose further sanctions against Syria
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=9641a0106fbeb681dd3ffa3855a4c02a&ar=525862563
Thursday - October 13 - 2011 - 12:33:57


Man charged in U.S. for spying on Syrian protesters
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2011/Oct-13/151194-man-charged-in-us-for-spying-on-syrian-protesters.ashx
October 13, 2011 10:25 AM
Reuters

Mohamad Anas Haitham Soueid, 47, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was accused of acting as an agent of the Syrian intelligence service and collecting video and audio recordings of protesters against Syria and President Bashar al-Assad.


Syrian-American Is Arrested on Charges of Spying for Damascus
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/us/syrian-american-is-accused-of-spying-for-syrian-government.html?_r=2&ref=world&pagewanted=print
By CHARLIE SAVAGE and J. DAVID GOODMAN
October 13, 2011

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Wednesday accused a Syrian-American man of secretly working for a Syrian intelligence service. It said he collected information about people in the United States who were protesting the Syrian government's crackdown on the country's pro-democracy movement, as part of a scheme to "silence, intimidate and potentially harm the protesters."

The man, Mohamad Anas Haitham Soueid, 47, a resident of Leesburg, Va., was arrested on Tuesday and charged with six offenses, including serving as a foreign agent without registering and making false statements, authorities said. They described him as a naturalized American citizen born in Syria.

(omitted)

It also says he was working with an official at the Syrian Embassy in the United States, and that in June the Syrian government paid for him to travel to Syria, where he met with intelligence officials and spoke with the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, in private. In addition, the indictment cites a handwritten letter to a Syrian official in which Mr. Soueid is alleged to have expressed the belief that the Syrian government was justified in using violence against protesters and raiding their homes.


Britain to work with Turkey on Syria issue
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=britain-to-work-with-turkey-on-syria-issue-2011-10-13
Thursday, October 13, 2011
LONDON / WASHINGTON

British Foreign Secretary William Hague says they will work with Turkey to up pressure on al-Assad's regime. Speaking in the house of commons on Middle East and North Africa, Hague said: "Turkey anounced its plan to take unilateral action against Syria. We will work with Turkey and other countries which think the same to up the pressure on the Syrian regime." Hague also criticized Russia and China for vetoing the U.N. resolution against Syrian regime, Anatolia news agency reported.


Syria envoy summoned over dissident harassment
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2011/Oct-13/151209-syria-envoy-summoned-over-dissident-harassment.ashx
October 13, 2011 09:25 PM
By Adrian Croft
Reuters

London: The Foreign Office called in Syria's ambassador to London Thursday to protest about alleged intimidation of Syrian dissidents in Britain, Foreign Secretary William Hague said.


وزير خارجية أندونيسيا لـ شعبان : من واجب دول العالم دعم مسار الإصلاحات في سورية وليس عرقلته
Indonesia: World States' Duty Is to Support Reforms in Syria, Not Hindering Them
http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2011/10/13/375394.htm
http://www.sana.sy/eng/22/2011/10/13/375409.htm
Oct 13, 2011

Met with Dr. Shaaban Political and Media Advisor at the Presidential Palace this afternoon Marty Natalie Gao and Foreign Minister of Indonesia at the Indonesian Foreign Ministry confirmed that it is the duty of the world to support the path of reforms in Syria and not hamper it.

Oct 13 Local government

يرفضون العمل بالخاص.. ويطالبون بالعام...محافظ الريف في لقاء الثلاثاء: إغلاق «المحال المزعجة»
They refuse to work in the private sector .. but they demand in the public sector ... Governor of the Damascus countryside in an interview Tuesday: Close «disturbing stores» (complaint about the lack of diesel just before winter.)
http://www.alwatan.sy/dindex.php?idn=110217
http://backupurl.com/6i2den
10/12/2011

More than 150 residents went to the governorate building in Damascus countryside yesterday to make their complaints and demands heard during a meeting of citizens, which lasted more than two hours and focused demands to increase the allocation of heating fuel to gas stations due to lack of diesel, especially with the advent of winter and the demand in the provision of new job opportunities, especially in the public sector, refusing to the private sector and the completion of the phenomenon of random irregularities.

. . . particularly in the industrial city of Adra and some private companies for through communication between the province and the owners of private companies as the province and provided more than 1000 jobs during the past months, . . .

. . . the Directorate of technical services and administrative units of 7,800 workers, . . . seasonal contracts to more than 170 disabled persons. . .


محافظ حلب ينقل بعض العاملين إلى دوائر بعيدة ويتوعد آخرين بالصرف من الخدمة إثر جولة مفاجئة
After sudden inspection, Governor of Aleppo, deported some of the workers to remote areas, and threatened other workers a dismissal
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=2c4c1f2021e19e33ca0949f284d6b306&ar=479370601
Thursday - October 13 - 2011 - 11:23:51

Engineer Mowaffaq Khallouf Governor of Aleppo demanded the Director of Finance, Mr. Abdul Wahab Tafah transfer of 6 workers from Directorate of Finance in Aleppo to remote rural areas as a result of neglect career, according to the newspaper, "Tishreen."

The decision came during his surprise to the Directorate of Finance before nine o'clock yesterday morning and met a lot of reviewers and staff, where he noticed a large number of managers of transactions at the expense of the reviewers and the absence of many of the workers from their desks and the lack of hygiene in most offices.

Oct 13 Central government

الموافقة على اطلاق مشروع البطاقة الذكية وفق برامج زمنية تتوافق وأغراض استخدامها
To approve the launch of the smart card in accordance with schedules compatible with the purposes of use
http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2011/10/13/375303.htm
October 13, .2011
Damascus, (SANA) -

Chaired by Dr. Adel Safar, Chairman of the Council of Ministers meeting today during which they discussed the actions taken at the level of completion of technical studies and project-related technical smart card multi applications and fields of applications and issuance requirements.

It was decided at the meeting approved the launch of the smart card in accordance with schedules compatible with the purpose of using this card and coordination between the Ministries of Communications and Technology and the Interior to follow the necessary procedures to start it in 2012 and phased manner responsive to the needs of some other ministries.

Participated in the meeting of Ministers of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, the local administration, communication and technology, interior, finance, economy and trade, transportation, and the Secretary General of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and the Chief of Planning and International Cooperation and a number of general managers.


سفر معاون الوزير يؤخر تطبيق قرار إلغاء تعليق المستوردات !!
Safar, Deputy Minister delaying the implementation decision to cancel the suspension of imports!!
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=f0135e7f7e9edfd879112a5859f3d2e6&ar=274119850
Thursday - October 13 - 2011 - 9:50:29

Chairman of Damascus Chamber of Commerce Ghassan al-Qallaa "The Deputy Minister of Economy and Foreign Trade is making a trip abroad, so after coming back later (today or tomorrow) he will issue operational instructions for the application of the resolution."

And was issued a wise decision to cancel the decision to suspend imports in the fourth month of October, after he caused a sensation in Alawasit economic and social development of Syria.

The Chairman of Damascus Chamber of Commerce that the effects of the decision you need to for a long time up to a year.

Oct 13 Pro-government

مؤتمر موسع للحوار الوطني في دمشق يضم معارضين من الداخل
Extended conference of the National Dialogue in Damascus, including opposition from the inside
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=9bb210004c43e3023e15c36ecc400466&ar=893941609
Thursday - October 13 - 2011 - 10:05:08

Local sources confirmed that the Syrian government is preparing soon to call for national dialogue after the completion of a broad national dialogue sessions held in the Syrian governorates, and lasted nearly a month, and marked some high ceiling and political criticism over its security.

The sources said that the approach is to invite between 50 to 70 personal from each province. . .


مصادر دبلوماسية : المؤامرة ضد سورية تتهاوى.. والغـــرب يتعامـــى عـــن الحقيقـــة
Diplomatic sources: the conspiracy against Syria falling apart .. And the West turn a blind eye for the truth
http://thawra.alwehda.gov.sy/_archive.asp?FileName=31604640720111012011342
http://backupurl.com/s9b6hg
Wednesday 12/10/2011

It seems that the bullets which killed by the Syrian people safe .. And scientific cadres, and the blind hatred in their minds .. Prevent them from seeing the reforms undertaken by the Syrian government on all levels .. Fterahm Anakon demanding reform .. Without knowing what they mean to those of the word.

Because their goal is not reform, but to undermine the strong support of Syria's opposition to the forces of resistance and rejection of the arrogance of the U.S. .. So all is not over strings plot shared by Western and Gulf states and circuits different intelligence in addition to some of the parties to the Syrian opposition, especially those that call themselves «National Council of Transition», which has been installed and «ejected» by systems and governments aimed at Syria and its location and its role from Erdogan's government to the ruling family in Qatar, and the end of what remains of the neo-conservatives in the administration, led by the notorious Jeffrey Feltman.

The observers for each details of the situation in Syria are fully aware of, that things in recent weeks has become different from what it was before the age of the crisis, ie a few months ago, which is appropriated by the embassies of many Western countries and the Gulf, which play roles significant negative in inciting the crisis continues financing and monitoring of this field and reached echoed to various destinations including the Arab diplomatic sources, which noted that the States participating in the process of incitement cannot jump over what happened recently positive developments on many levels including:

Widening circle of support and incubation of the policy expressed by President Bashar al-Assad, so that large groups of citizens who were standing on the side of the so-called opposition? After that proved to them that those oppositions raise slogans are meant to cover up the conspiracy aimed at Syria and its national, and even though the percentage of those who responded to opposition calls since the start of the crisis are the very small percentage. According to diplomatic sources, even as reports reached the Western embassies that the number of demonstrators was so small that it cannot be measured on the first phase as the crisis. Where these events no longer than a few thousand, even in a few areas such as Homs, Hama and Deir Al-Zour. Most of these events are not more than hundreds Although «The zoom» that used by some satellite channels, such as suspicious «al-Jazeerah» and »al-Arabiyyah» and others.

We have already proved and the facts that so-called opposition abroad any «Transitional National Council» is unpopular among the Syrian public opinion, and that this opposition is betting on two issues to weaken Syria, namely: the first is done by terrorist groups of sabotage and attacks to hit the internal stability and create negative reactions at the level of the citizen against the State, and the second bet on the outside intervention by repeating the experience of Libya, and what does it mean to invite spokesman «National Council of Transition»: a certain proof pipe of the international community to intervene and protect his claim «the Syrian people», note that the external opposition tried in the first phase of the crisis by armed groups to control one of the cities in order to be «a foothold» to enter the Atlantic and the West, even if they are pushing the issue a decision by the Security Council in this regard as was the case in the crisis, the Libyan, but diplomatic sources revealed also in this framework, the role subversive terrorist groups was the elimination of most serious aspect of it by seeking to control a major city, after having managed the security forces were killed and hundreds arrested and reveal much that was planned in the rooms black by western and Gulf intelligence circles, so they moved these groups subversive to the attempts at destabilization by targeting the scientific and religious figures and party, also targeting some vital sites such as oil pipelines, trains and government institutions.

Go to the reform process at different levels to the greatest extent possible, even beyond what is demanded by the «opposition», in some aspects of the Constitution, and therefore the practical plans of the steps and political reform, constitutional and partisan, informational and economic development.

The diplomatic sources and based on what happened finally see that Syria was able to overcome the most serious episode of the conspiracy that was intended to overthrow and fragment into small all the way to enter into a civil war, but the sound coming back to the internal situation of all levels. Although many factors have had a positive impact for the return of well-being to Syria. The sources say that the Syrian leadership finally began to attack politically and diplomatically in more than a tendency to respond to external parties organisms and the conspiracy.

However, the sources, notes that this positive situation has not convinced the countries conspiracy of trying to destabilize Syria and, consequently, not to look realistically what is happening inside Syria, but these countries, led by Erdogan's government and the authority of Qatar and the other, particularly Western circles in Washington and Paris do not back down from seeking to blackmail Syria and incitement to violence and sedition, after the failure of all of this «Maestro» to impose concessions on Damascus in the issues affecting the essence of the conflict between the forces of resistance and the owners of the new Middle East project, which has worked his administration of U.S. President George W. Bush.

Oct 13 Anti-government

معارضون سوريون : المجلس الوطني لن يستمر طويلا
Syrian opposition: National Council will not last long
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=b8be44563b813e47eaa50dd66befd0a2&ar=331769856
Wednesday - October 12 - 2011 - 21:28:12 (Read original in Arabic, cache)

The Syrian opposition considered "the Syrian National Council, which was announced recently in Istanbul will not last long," and justified it as "one ghost dominates the Council, the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, and refuses to expand its base," and thought "it's not serious at work, it doesn't have an action plan."

And the Saudi site "Elaf" carried a report about "Muhammad Mustafa al-Mousa" a member of the movement of dignity in Syria, as saying, "We do not really know who all members of the National Council are, and what the objectives of the Council or his plan and his strategy will work on it?".

"It is forbidden for the Council to collect the opposition, and expands its base," and added "we (want to?) return to the regime of Bashar al-Assad itself with this Council, whose name prevents us to do so."

He stressed, "that this Council such as previous councils will not last long, despite the hope of the people in it," and urged "the necessity to act in the interest of Syria, and not for specific names."

"I met with many of the spectra of the Syrian opposition, they are against the Council, did not agree with it, because it has been marginalized."

The dignity movement was founded by Syrian opposition in Cairo.

The stated position of dignity movement, according to the Secretary-General of the Movement, "Moatazz Shaqlab", regarding the Council, "they are with the Council until further notice."

"We are today faced with choices to establish the Council we need, or to delay the Syrian opposition make the revolution. We have no one represents us, and the oppositions abroad are asleep."

He pointed out that "in the history of revolutions abroad always supports the inside, but that in the Syrian Revolution this is contrary, and the inside is supporting the outside," said "our revolution supports the opposition, and supports the revolution abroad."

He emphasized that the "internal Syrians challenged the regime, and the young unarmed and demonstrator fighter who support the foreign opposition, not a work to protect civilians properly, and the street is no longer likely, the inside gave what he has, and must work to seek international protection for civilians, and it was time to move work rapidly to the opposition abroad. "

And Shaqlab expressed his regret on the state of the Syrian opposition and said, "We are obliged to support the Council's problems and flaws and narcissism some of his companions, but do not want to question one, but with due respect for all, some members of the brain is" thick ", as there is in the Council some of the people patriots who have thought high contribution to the success of the revolution duration shorter than what we see on the ground. "

For his part, Syrian dissident, who preferred anonymity, said that "there is a rule by a single stream over the National Council, ie the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria."

Regarding the visit of some members of the Syrian National Council in Cairo, he replied, "Thank God it were not true there is media coverage of their visit, and only revealed as hardcore in front of everyone, inside and outside Syria, and especially in light of conflicting statements."

He noted "that there were no meetings of the members of the National Council in Cairo, except for the meeting with the Wafd Party," stressing that "the Muslim Brotherhood is mobilizing the Council."

He thought "it must be members of the National Council on the" big "names to meet the stated Syrian dissidents and exchange and cross-fertilization of ideas and discussion on a broad level."

He said, "that the visit of members of the Syrian National Council in Cairo was the visit of recreation, and cannot be described as a working visit," he acknowledged that the main problem is that there is no alternative to this Council.

"We should make a substitute on an urgent basis, then at least we all talk seriously or without sacrificing anyone." The Syrian Conference for Change (Conference Antalya) regretted for participating in the National Council, and wished all the best for its members.

The National Council has been criticized, inter alia, the national coordinating body, which includes in its ranks leading opposition such as Lawyer Hassan Abdel Azim and writer Michel Kilo and Fayez Sarah and Aref Dalila, who have credibility in the Syrian street, in addition to the National Exhibition Haytham Manna, who revealed that the Council managed by the "Washington Club."

Oct 13 Incidents

Oct 12. Residents in Homs rejoice at the entry of the Syrian army.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6pZinnkcEU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9AmoijSlu8


Oct 12. Adnan Bakkour, former Attorney General of Hama, releases new short video message, in which he demands international protection.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6LuqaKl_rg


المسؤولون «مشغولون» عن سائق القطار الذي أصيب بتفجير إرهابي!
Officials «busy» the train driver, who suffered a terrorist bombing! (train in Idlib)
http://www.alwatan.sy/dindex.php?idn=110352
http://backupurl.com/9jxyjn
13/10/2011

«No official in the institution railway nor any union official has visited me despite the passage of 11 days on my injury as a result of a terrorist act aimed at the train you Oudah near the town of Biddaama in Idlib as if they are too busy for me in other, more important», as Omar Shaikh in Syrian-French private hospital in the city of Aleppo told «alwatan.sy», who appeared to hoarseness of his voice the weekend bemoaned the 32-year stint in the service of the institution.

According to Shaikh «born in 1959» he stayed a week in Shihan government hospital in Aleppo, was forced this week to spend the night in the hospital harmony on the lack of devices ambulatory before moving to the hospital Syrian-French four days ago under the direction of the Governor of Aleppo Muwaffaq Khallouf at the request of the party «Baath» in Idlib. «However, General Manager of Railways ignores my presence and my injury, as well as Director of the traction directly responsible for the practical and head of the union railway with that and my health is bad because of the break three paragraphs, and compression of the entire spine so I cannot move my feet from the without surgical work ».

And ignorant of the Shaikh who will pay the hospital costs after paying 21 thousand pounds for a meeting one night in the hospital of his own harmony!.


Official Source: 95 Wanted Men Arrested, Firearms, Explosives and Vehicles Confiscated in Homs
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/10/13/375233.htm
Oct 13, 2011

HOMS, (SANA) – During their pursuit of armed terrorist groups, the authorities in Homs governorate on Wednesday arrested 95 wanted men and confiscated a number of cars with fake license plates used by terrorists in their crimes.

An official source at Homs governorate told SANA's correspondent that in addition to the cars, the authorities confiscated a large amount of firearms, ammunition, digital cameras and satellite transmission equipment.

The source said that the authorities also found several caches of explosives and a car with fake governmental license plates rigged with explosives in al-Bayyada neighborhood, in addition to a car full of firearms such as RPG rounds, rifles and handguns.

More than 160 smuggled cigarette cartons were also confiscated, in addition to a truck with a hidden container for smuggling fuel. Five people who were in the truck were arrested.


الإرهابي شلهوم يعترف بإطلاق النار على المظاهرات وقتله أحد المتظاهرين في حي النازحين بحمص
Shalhoum Confesses to Opening Fire at Protests in Homs, Killing a Protester to Accuse Army (confession)
http://www.sana.sy/ara/336/2011/10/13/375402.htm
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/10/13/375414.htm
Oct 13, 2011

Terrorist "Juma Muhammad Shalhoum" confessed to his participation in the shooting of demonstrators in the city of Homs, killing one demonstrator and named Khalid rates across the shot from a gun Bombakeshn during his participation in a demonstration in the neighborhood of the displaced in order to abuse of the army and security and to charge them.

Shalhoub said the terrorist .. They promised me and giving me my money with them in return for the first time gave me the amount of 1,500 Syrian pounds, but then did not give me any money.


Injured Law Enforcement Personnel Relate Details of Attacks by Armed Terrorist Groups in Homs (west of al-Shammas, Dair Ba'lbah)
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/10/13/375228.htm
Oct 13, 2011


وفد إعلامي يضم وسائل إعلام محلية وعربية وأجنبية يطلع على آثار الاعتداءات التي قامت بها المجموعات الإرهابية المسلحة في الرستن
80-Member Media Delegation Inspects Sabotage Acts Committed by Armed Groups in al-Rastan
http://www.sana.sy/ara/336/2011/10/13/375396.htm
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/10/13/375432.htm
Oct 13, 2011

A delegation comprising about 80 media representatives, a reporter for various local media, Arab and foreign accredited in Damascus today, the city of Rastan and examined the effects of acts of sabotage and attacks by the armed terrorist groups on the civilian population and institutions, and public utilities in the city.

The governor of Homs Ghassan Abdel-Al. . .

. . . pointed out that one reason for targeting militants Homs its long borders with both Lebanon and Iraq, which has been exploited by arms dealers to enter large amounts of weapons to destabilize the security and stability.

He noted the governor that the situation in Homs are generally good except for some criminal acts that disrupt people's lives and which include theft, criminal offenses and crimes of revenge and acts of smuggling and settlement of accounts by some criminals taking advantage of the preoccupation of the police and security to address the armed terrorist groups.


Life in Syria's restive town gradually settles down after military operation
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-10/14/c_131190089.htm
English.news.cn 2011-10-14 02:02:29

DAMASCUS, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- The restive Rastan town in Syria's central Homs province has gradually started to settle down after months of relentless anti-regime protests and after the government unleashed an army operation in early October to fight alleged " armed groups."

Many activists and opposition figures have belied the government version of the events, claiming that the army operations in Rastan and other restive areas such as Idlib were launched to fight army defectors.

Sporadic reports of defections have emerged lately, as activists have posted online videos picturing alleged army defectors calling on other fellow soldiers to join what they called the "free Syrian Army" to fight Syrian security forces and alleged pro-regime gunmen known as "Shabbihah" that attacked and killed opposition protestors.

During a government-organized trip for journalists to Rastan Thursday, life in the town seemed half normal, as most markets were closed and the streets were empty except for schoolchildren and other kids that were playing around.

On the sidelines of the trip, the governor of the restive city of Homs Ghassan Abdul-Aal told reporters that the situation is getting better in the city, pledging that all reconstruction works will end by the end of this month.

He said that the protesters "had initially righteous demands, but those demands have turned to armed and violent acts ... The number of gunmen has increased in al-Rastan and they have jeopardized civil peace, a matter which entails the interference of the Syrian authorities."

The governor said all the arrested gunmen were Syrians, adding that some of them fled the town to nearby areas.

Abdul-Aal said 45 percent of government institutions in al- Rastan have been ruined, and land telephones and electricity have been cut-off.

He dismissed reports claiming that a big number of army officers have defected, saying only a handful of army members fled. He also denied claims that the city was bombarded by artillery.

He confirmed that all food stuff and medical supplies are abundantly available.

Journalists were taken to the Sport Club in Homs, where weapons, the Syrian government says it has seized from the arrested gunmen, were displayed. Nearly 200 pieces were put on display, including shotguns, assault rifles, pump-action rifles, military uniforms, rocket-propelled grenades and automatic rifles.

The Syrian army retook al-Rastan on Oct. 2 and it has been combing the area since then in hunt of "fleeing and hiding gunmen. "

A lot of buildings in the city were burned and others hold bullet holes.


عسكري سوري منشق: لا وجود للعصابات المسلحة والجيش الحر يحمي المتظاهرين
Syrian military defector: There are armed gangs and the Free Army protects the protesters
http://arabic.rt.com/news_all_news/news/568996
2011.10.13

Dissident Syrian army recruiter assistant Omar Shaikh, said in an interview with "Russia today," he joined the "the Free Syrian Army " after watching closely the way the army and security forces with peaceful demonstrators in Daraa, Duma and Hama. He added that the army's mission is to protect the free peaceful demonstrators.

The Shaikh of the movement of divisions of the army grows with the expanded scope of the protests in Syria, and that he was surprised after being admitted to Daraa the absence of armed gangs there and explained to him his commanders in the army, and confirmed that he and his comrades had received clear orders to shoot, and provided each one of them sixty rounds and machine gun Kalashnikov, in addition to the pistol, and said that the security elements of the army were paid into the front rows, and stressed that there are no armed groups and military encountered when he saw groups Shabbihah.

2011/10/13

Oct 12 Others

السفارة الاميركية في بغداد.. العراق مسؤول عن أجوائه بالكامل للمرة الأولى منذ العام 2003
U.S. embassy in Baghdad .. Iraq was responsible for the entire airspace for the first time since 2003
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/10/12/375180.htm
October 12, .2011
BAGHDAD - SANA

The U.S. embassy in Baghdad today that Iraq is now responsible for the airspace in full for the first time since 2003.

The embassy said in a statement carried by Agence France-Presse that in the first of October, the current U.S. Air Force transferred control of the airspace of Baghdad/Balad to the Iraqi Civil Aviation Authority.

The statement pointed out that the movement of air transport for all aircraft within this area, which is the busiest and most complex in Iraq are now under way by the Iraqi air traffic controllers, adding that this step take over Iraq will resume full control of the country's airspace for the first time since 2003.

Delivered to Iraq and partial control over the airspace above 24 thousand feet / recipients in more than seven miles, in accordance with the security agreement signed between Baghdad and Washington on December 31, 2008.

The Iraqi airspace is subject to absolute control by the American-led coalition forces since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.


'Turkey eyes more natural gas from Iran'
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/204126.html
Wed Oct 12, 2011 10:3AM

Iranian Deputy Oil Minister Javad Oji says Turkey has requested Iran to increase its natural gas exports to its northwestern neighbor amid a Russia-Turkey row over the price of gas.

Oji also said on Wednesday that Iran's gas exports to Turkey stood at 24 million cubic meters per day on average this year and expressed Tehran's readiness to provide Ankara with further natural gas, Mehr news agency reported.

He further noted that the two countries have held negotiations in the past over an increase in the gas exports to Turkey.

The Oil Ministry official said that Iran has a capacity to export an average of 36-40 million cubic meters of natural gas to Turkey.

Turkey currently has natural gas purchase deals with countries such as Russia, Iran and Azerbaijan, as well as liquefied natural gas (LNG) deals with Nigeria and Algeria.

The country has refused to extend a gas supply contract with Moscow after failing to secure a 20 percent discount from Russia's gas giant Gazprom.

"Turkey has annulled a gas contract with Russia because we've failed to agree on discount for fuel delivery," said Turkey's Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Taner Yildiz.

In 2009, Iran exported an average of 21 million cubic meters of natural gas to Turkey per day.

Iran has the world's second-largest natural gas reserves after Russia and is Turkey's second-biggest supplier after Moscow.

Oct 12 Economy

الخسائر 2.2 مليار ليرة والمخازين 12.9 ملياراً .. سماق: استمرار النسيجية بوضعها الراهن غير مقبول
Loss of 2.2 billion pounds and stores 12.9 billion .. Sumaaq: the continuation of their current textile unacceptable
http://thawra.alwehda.gov.sy/_archive.asp?FileName=31601514120111011224911
http://backupurl.com/yypelr
Wednesday 12/10/2011


15 مليار ليرة فروق الأسعار .. الزراعي : نبيع الأسمدة بأقل من التكلفة منذ عام 2004
15 billion pounds price differences .. Agricultural fertilizers sell for less than cost since 2004
http://thawra.alwehda.gov.sy/_archive.asp?FileName=31601514120111011224855
http://backupurl.com/hfruvf
Wednesday 12/10/2011
Abdullatif Younis

Said Faisal Qasim Director-General of the Bank of Agricultural Cooperative in a statement «al-Thawrah» that requested the General Union of Peasants financing farmers, regardless of the solvency violates the system of the Agricultural Bank and the system of the central bank and therefore meet this demand needs to be a decision of the Prime Minister. . .

The total spreads fertilizer sales below cost during the period (The accumulated deficit) is 15 billion pounds, this amount is considered support for the agricultural sector.


شركات الزيوت العامة تعترض على توزيع نسب بذار القطن مع «الخاص» .. «زيوت حلب»: تفويت أرباح كبيرة على الخزينة
Oil companies objected to the general distribution of cotton seed ratios with the «private» .. «Oils Aleppo»: miss the big profits to the treasury
http://thawra.alwehda.gov.sy/_archive.asp?FileName=31601514120111011224941
http://backupurl.com/h8pclw
Wednesday 12/10/2011
Wafaa Faraj


Damascus stock price index for this week

10/Oct/2011 922.66 trading volume 88 thousand
11/Oct/2011 914.40 trading volume 113 thousand
12/Oct/2011 910.37 trading volume 194 thousand

(In a temporal measure, the market is open for 3 days a week only.)

16/Dec/2010 1752.50 (historial high)
19/Sep/2011 904.67 (historical low)

Weekly closing rates
19/May/2011 1323.11
26/May/2011 1256.80
02/Jun/2011 1234.13
09/Jun/2011 1136.82
16/Jun/2011 1133.09
23/Jun/2011 1057.36
30/Jun/2011 1031.04
07/Jul/2011 1067.50
14/Jul/2011 1032.62
21/Jul/2011 1010.06
28/Jul/2011 1013.81
04/Aug/2011 993.89
11/Aug/2011 950.89
17/Aug/2011 951.66
24/Aug/2011 950.73
29/Aug/2011 951.05
07/Sep/2011 933.34
14/Sep/2011 909.16
21/Sep/2011 927.12
28/Sep/2011 957.97
05/Oct/2011 931.37

Oct 12 Regional

اجتماع عربي لبحث الأوضاع السورية .. و أمير قطر يدعو دمشق للتفاهم مع"المجلس الوطني السوري"
Arab meeting to discuss the Syrian situation .. And the Emir of Qatar calls for an understanding with Damascus, "the Syrian National Council"
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=a8e80687094abe93abf71edd695ffd12&ar=705773694
Wednesday - October 12 - 2011 - 12:21:51

The Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad al-Sabah said on Tuesday that Arab foreign ministers will hold a meeting to discuss the situation in Syria.


سليمان وخوري يبحثان تفعيل عمل اللجان المشتركة بين سورية ولبنان
Sulaiman and Khoury discuss activating the work of joint committees between Syria and Lebanon
http://thawra.alwehda.gov.sy/_archive.asp?FileName=31605406320111012022223
http://backupurl.com/kkltor
Wednesday 12/10/2011

Activation of bilateral cooperation .. And activating the work of the Syrian-Lebanese joint committees, the main points discussed by the Lebanese President Michel Sulaiman Nasri Khoury, secretary-general of the Supreme Council on the Lebanese-Syrian

At a time when Lebanese authorities arrested a young man in Beirut after the suspicion in his dealings with Israel.

Search the Lebanese President Michel Sulaiman Nasri Khoury, Secretary General of the Supreme Syrian-Lebanese Council's work in promoting cooperative relations between Syria and Lebanon in addition to the development of the situation in Syria.

The Information Office of the Lebanese presidential palace said in a statement yesterday that Sulaiman called to activate the work of joint committees between the two countries at the provincial level to prevent the occurrence of any problems or confusion on the common land border.

In the meantime, stop the Information Branch of the Directorate General of Internal Security Forces Lebanese youths in the southern suburbs of Beirut after the suspicion in his dealings with Israeli intelligence.

The newspaper News of Lebanon in its issue of yesterday that the detainee was born in 1978 and graduated from the Lebanese University in 2001, working as an engineer for communications in Beirut with an international company renowned in the field of communications and its organs are that remained for years supplied semi-exclusive networks of the cell in Lebanon for the past years.

They pointed to the newspaper that security officials involved in the Directorate General of Internal Security Forces have refused to disclose any of the results of the investigation with the detainee.


Trade with Syria OK, minister says
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=trade-with-syria-ok-minister-says-2011-10-11
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
ANKARA - Anatolia News Agency

Turkish Economy Minister Zafer Çağlayan has said Turkey's trade with Syria continues to increasing.

Commenting on Syria's decision to ban import of products that have more than a 5 percent customs duty, Çağlayan said yesterday that Syria has lifted the ban, and thus, Turkey's exports to Syria maintained the same level with last year.

"We have a serious amount of products shipping to the Arabian Peninsula via Syria," he said

Çağlayan also said that despite the current problems, Turkey's trade with Israel continued, too.

Turkish companies recently undertook business worth $238 million in Turkmenistan, adding that the total amount of construction business Turkish companies undertook in Turkmenistan in 2011 reached $3.2 billion.

Trade and business with Turkmenistan is another problematic issue as Turkish companies doing business in the Asian country claim high amounts of failed payments at state projects there.


هيئة تنمية الصادرات : التجارة الحرة مع تركيا تسببت بإغلاق 100 منشأة نسيج
Export Development Authority: free trade with Turkey caused the closure of 100 establishment
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=d70e191b396c787bd7062159d362717d&ar=33373364
Wednesday - October 12 - 2011 - 13:22:12

The Director of the Export Promotion Fund in the development and promotion of exports, "Ihab Ismandar" The clothing industry and textile Syrian declined in recent years, with an estimated number of establishments that have closed in part or in full or transferred their activities to outside Syria between 70 and 100 facility, because of the free trade agreement with Turkey.

And continued, "and that the agreement is not the only reason behind it but the quality of the Turkish textile industry and competitive price is one of the reasons for the bad conditions of the Syrian textile industry."

He added, "and of the trade agreement with Turkey caused negative impact on the Syrian business sector, as some sources indicate that the industry producers of home furniture exposed to strong competition led to the closure of 20% of the establishments in this sector."

And among the products which deteriorated after the liberalization of trade with Turkey, grain industry and, according to "Ismandar", as many as 40 Syrian plants were closed due to low grain prices compared to the Turkish-Syrian grain products.

And signed a free trade agreement with Turkey in 2004 and entered into force in 2007, led to the lifting of trade volume per year up to 30% as it reached in 2010 reached two billion and $ 272 million compared with the year 2009, which reached one billion and $ 700 million.

And grown Syrian exports to Turkey increased by 100%, especially after the abolition of visas between the two countries, which facilitated the transition process for individuals and goods.


الرئيس الأسد لوفد الحزب السوري القومي الاجتماعي: سورية استطاعت بإرادة ووعي شعبها تجاوز المرحلة الأصعب.. الاستفادة مما جرى لجعلها نموذجاً يحتذى به في المنطقة
President al-Assad to Lebanon's SSNP Delegation: Syria Has Overcome the Hardest Stage with its People's Awareness
http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2011/10/12/375164.htm
http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2011/10/12/375179.htm
Oct 12, 2011


تهديدات اسرائيلية إلى سوريا و لبنان
Israeli threats to Syria and Lebanon
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=199e145ef0f7c3f20062fa8ab0f1bbaf&ar=924096141
Tuesday - October 11 - 2011 - 22:20:41

Leaks Hebrew said, he had not warned in time, Israeli security services have the potential advertiser, Tel Aviv hit by threats from the event that Damascus's recent attack by NATO, the government of Tel Aviv, quoted a warning message to Assad via a European intelligence services, which confirmed that Tel Aviv is the center of the economy and money in the Jewish state, and that if the city were for the bombing of a Syrian or Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, and even Hamas in the Gaza Strip, not only the Israeli response to Syria only, but would apply to Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.

In a commentary on the message that is going to talk about, she circles Israeli military: "The message of Israel to a lion with the content and clear, is that the fate of Syria if it is exposed Tel Aviv bombing of Damascus will not significantly different from the fate of Lebanon, not only the Israeli bombardment, then the Hezbollah forces or southern Lebanon only, but will also include Lebanon. "