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السفير أحمد يبلغ الأمانة العامة للجامعة العربية بترحيب سورية وتعاونها مع زيارة بعثة من الجامعة للاطلاع على حقيقة الأوضاع فيها
Ambassador Ahmad: Syria to Cooperate with the AL Mission
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/11/11/380948.htm
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/11/11/380966.htm
Nov 11, 2011

CAIRO, (SANA)- Syria's Permanent Representative to the Arab League (AL) Yousef Ahmad on Friday announced that he had presented an official memorandum to the League on Syria's welcome of the visit of an AL mission to Syria and its cooperation with it.

The Arab Committee concerned with the situation in Syria had decided to form a mission from the AL to be sent to Syria to inspect the reality of the situation there and present a report to the Committee.

Ambassador Ahmad reiterated Syria's commitment to the Arab work plan, approved by the AL Council on November 11, 2011, and its seriousness about implementing the plan's articles as it has already put most of them into effect.

"The visit of the AL mission to Syria will contribute to showing the reality of its commitment to the plan and revealing the motives and agendas of some internal and external sides which are seeking to foil the Arab work plan," said the Ambassador.

He affirmed in a statement to SANA that Syria invited the Arab League about a month ago to be present on the ground and get acquainted with the reality of the situation away from the political instigation and media falsification still practiced by several foreign parties against Syria.

Ambassador Ahmad pointed out that the aim behind this instigation and falsification is to inflame the situation inside Syria and incite some opposition parties outside and the armed terrorist groups inside not to respond to the appeasement efforts and initiatives and to reject national dialogue "in a clearly coordinated operation with those foreign parties to call for blatant foreign interference by some international powers in the Syrian internal affair."

In this context, the Syrian Representative referred to the U.S. Secretary of State spokesman's call upon the gunmen in Syria not to hand over their weapons and the French Foreign Minister's description of the Arab work plan as "dead", considering this as "conclusive evidence on these sides' involvement in inflaming the situation inside Syria and their rejection of any positive Arab role aimed at calming the situation and creating a secure and peaceful atmosphere on the ground in preparation for national dialogue demanded by the majority of the Syrian people."


السفير السوري في لبنان ينفي وجود لاجئين والاشتراك في عمليات خطف للمعارضين
Syrian ambassador in Lebanon denies the presence of refugees and to participate in the kidnapping of dissidents
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=30f5eb3bca2b33128156081746cf87da&ar=493789313
Friday - November 11 - 2011 - 15:51:40

Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdel Karim was not involved in the embassy to participate kidnap Syrian residents on Lebanese territory, describing the news as "fabricated stories and non-real."

He denied Abdul Karim, told Kuwait News we kill her newspaper Thursday, a Syrian refugees in Lebanon and asked denounced "The families present on both sides of the border of Lebanon - Syrian, and there are reciprocal visits between the two, how the visitor is in this case is a refugee?".

Abdel-Kareem added that "the Syrian state does not accept that turns citizens into refugees because they are keen for their security.", Stressing at the same time the strength of the relations that combine Beirut and Damascus.

He was Abdul Karim Syria's keenness on the security and integrity of Lebanon, saying, "The Syrians are keen to address these matters and to preserve Lebanon and Syria and their security."

He stressed Abdul Karim that "Syria is keen to implement the Arab initiative and it is going ahead with the reforms, saying that in the case of blame or accountability must be guided by the university to the parties that are trying to tamper with security of Syria and to the local media inflammatory which inflation events are not based on facts to move the image true of what is happening on the ground and thus harm to Syria and the Arab initiative. "


نصرالله: المقاومة والممانعة في المنطقة أقوى من أي زمن مضى..أمريكا تضغط على سورية لتقبل ما لم تقبله سابقا
Nasrallah: Resistance and opposition in the region is stronger than ever before .. American pressure on Syria to accept what was previously accepted by
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/11/11/380987.htm
http://www.sana.sy/eng/22/2011/11/11/381029.htm
November 11, 2011
Beirut, (SANA) -

The Secretary General of Hezbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the importance of upholding the option of resistance and the popular will and the military because they are elements of the real power in Lebanon against any possible Israeli aggression against him.

Nasrallah said in a speech on the occasion of Martyr Al-Manar TV reported today .. Rule out a war is imminent in Lebanon because it is no longer weak but has become a strong army and its people and its resistance and able to defend its territory where he became the site who can it turn the tables on his enemies, stressing the readiness of the resistance and continued vigilance to counter any potential aggression against Lebanon.

The victory is that, while weakening the power of Lebanon and disintegrate determination and the will of Israel can re-thinking of assaulting him, but as long as the faith and will Qaúmin will remain standing disabled and unable to wage war, saying that when one day mount the entity, the Israeli war on Lebanon will be the war Allakhiar The last adventure in the life of this entity.

Nasrallah pointed out that some in Lebanon bet on regional developments and has hopes and illusions of the fall of the regime in Syria on his way to say to them .. They called this bet will fail and has failed to set aside all previous bets do not waste your time and despite all the threats in the region today The situation of local and regional interests of their peoples and the axis of resistance and opposition better than ever before.

And Nasrallah that the focus of resistance and opposition that refuses to Israel and the hegemony projects a strong and large in the direction of movements in the region provides to Iran and Syria combined to bag allies and supporters and new members of the axis, which means more influence, attendance and efficiency, stressing that America is trying to compensate for losses incurred in the region through Jump to Syria and Iran to the site and engage in a defensive situation and in particular, security and economy.

He said Nasrallah .. The U.S. wants to subject Iran and Syria and trying to drag Iran into direct negotiations with Syria and to accept what were not accepted in the past and this is the real goal, warning that any war against Iran and Syria Sttdhrj at the level of the entire region, and these accounts are real and realistic and not a threat.

He said Nasrallah, a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, a major defeat for the American project in the region and America defeated in Iraq, trying to withdraw under fire, political and media through the hype on the countries of the region, pointing out that it is trying to punish Syria and Iran, which worked to defeat the American project in the region and rejected the occupation of Iraq.


Report: Campaign against Army Aimed at Lifting its Control of Lebanese-Syrian Border
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/19915-report-campaign-against-army-aimed-at-lifting-its-control-of-lebanese-syrian-border
by Naharnet Newsdesk
10 November 2011, 08:14

The media campaign that is targeting the Lebanese army aims at forcing it to lift its control of the Lebanese-Syrian border, As Safir newspaper reported on Thursday.

"The military should remain neutral. They want chaos along the border, but the army will not be affected by their (campaign)," high-ranking military sources told the daily.

The sources stressed that "the campaign and cheap accusations will not change anything," saying that the army is committed to carrying out its national tasks.

They added that the problems that took place along the border were limited.

"The Syrian authorities cooperated with their Lebanese counterparts to resolve the conflicts," the sources said.

They noted that the media has exaggerated the issue.

Media reports said that army trucks had entered Syrian territory, which was interpreted as a sign of the army's interference in the ongoing events in Syria.

However, the sources stated that the army has been buying logistic equipment from Syria since 1990 and therefore their entry to Syria is normal.

"A while ago, the army signed an agreement with Syria through the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank to buy a phone quad cable, which required the army trucks enter Syria," they said.

They stated that the army acquires some spare parts for military vehicles, noting that the Syrian state is a mandatory path for the trucks that transfer logistic equipment to the army from Jordan.


Shebli al-Aysamy's Daughter Demands Hizbullah Mediate Release of Her Father
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/19919-shebli-al-aysamys-daughter-demands-hizbullah-mediate-release-of-her-father
by Naharnet Newsdesk
10 November 2011, 09:37

Rajaa Sharafeddine, the daughter of a Syrian opposition member who was allegedly kidnapped in the eastern Lebanese region of Aley, has demanded that Hizbullah mediate with its close ally Syria the release of her father, Shebli al-Aysami.

She told the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat in remarks published on Thursday that the Syrian regime "should not turn its mistake into a sin and it should therefore ensure his immediate release."

She added that she had not received any response from Syrian officials to her pleas to release al-Aysami.

"We have exhausted all means to contact them," she stressed.

"All Lebanese forces have voiced their sympathy with us, especially PSP leader MP Walid Jumblat and MP Akram Chehayeb," Sharafeddine said.

"The Lebanese state is obligated to uncover the sides that kidnapped al-Aysami," she continued.

She stated that she was certain that her father has been handed over to the Syrian regime.

Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour had asserted in the past that there is no evidence indicating that Syrian opposition members were kidnapped in Lebanon.

The March 14 camp has meanwhile accused the Lebanese government of providing cover to the security officials who have allegedly abducted these opposition figures.

In addition, the executive board of the Syrian National Council has expressed its concern with reports by rights groups that 13 Syrian national have been kidnapped.

It said in a letter to Prime Minister Najib Miqati: "The Council is very worried that opposition members are being handed over to the Syrian security services and as such risk death."

Aysami is a co-founder of Syria's ruling Baath party but fled his native Syria in 1966 over political differences with the group. He was last seen in the eastern Lebanese region of Aley.

Three Syrian brothers also went missing in March after one of them was seen in Beirut distributing tracts for a demonstration against the regime in Damascus.

According to Lebanese authorities, some 5,000 Syrians have sought refuge in Lebanon since the outbreak of the revolt in Syria last March.


Aisamy being held in Syria: daughter insists
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2011/Nov-11/153773-aisamy-being-held-in-syria-daughter-insists.ashx
November 11, 2011 01:52 PM
By Rima S. Aboulmona

BEIRUT: The daughter of Syrian dissident Shibli Aisamy, Rajaa Sharafeddine, hit back Friday at comments suggesting her father had been killed, saying the family had received confirmation that the 86-year-old is being held in Syria.

"We have received confirmation from a number of sources that my father was kidnapped in Lebanon and taken to Syria where he is being held," Sharafeddine told The Daily Star.

She was responding to comments made by Baath Party MP Assem Qanso Thursday in which he said it "is not unlikely" that Druze leader Walid Jumblatt and Aley MP Akram Shehayeb "oversaw the liquidation of Aisamy."

"I don't care what he [Qanso] says. I care about what officials say concerning this case," Sharafeddine said.

She slammed Qanso and people of the like who "are not objective and issue remarks that are not based on facts."

"We have not accused anybody of my father's kidnapping. All we want is to have him back with us," Rajaa said.

"His kidnapping is inhuman due to his old age," she added. "Kidnapping of innocent and elderly people in general is ruthless."

Aisamy, who fled Syria in 1966 over political differences with then President Hafez Assad, was abducted in May in the town of Aley, minutes after leaving his daughter's home for a walk.

With regards to a local newspaper report that quoted a senior Lebanese military official as saying that Lebanese Army intelligence had "no reports of Syrians kidnapped in Lebanon," Sharafeddine said: "I hope Lebanese authorities would take the probe more seriously and not succumb to political pressure."

Rajaa said she was confident of a September report by police chief Maj. Gen. Ashraf Rifi in which he said investigations into Aisamy's abduction were not yet complete, but that data collected so far indicated similarities between his kidnapping and those of the four brothers from the Jasem family, who Rifi said had been kidnapped by ISF personnel working at the Syrian Embassy in Beirut.

On May 26, the Syrian Council for Human Rights reported that Aisamy went missing amid "mysterious circumstances."

According to Sharafeddine, her father went missing after he left her home in the afternoon of May 24. He was spending the summer with his Syrian wife in Aley, where Sharafeddine, who is married to a local resident, lives.


Military Source Denies Syrians Abducted in Lebanon
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/20020-military-source-denies-syrians-abducted-in-lebanon
by Naharnet Newsdesk
11 November 2011, 09:07

A high-ranking military source has stressed that no Syrian activists have been kidnapped in Lebanon only saying that the General Security Department had arrested Syrian nationals on criminal charges.

"Based on Lebanese Army reports, there are no kidnapped Syrians in Lebanon and the Intelligence Branches in the areas haven't recorded any case of kidnapping," the source told An Nahar daily published Friday.

The Army has the names of eight Lebanese and Syrians detainees, some of whom were arrested by the General Security at Rafik Hariri international airport on criminal charges and were referred to the judiciary, the source said.

He also denied that the Army was blockading an area in northern Lebanon where Syrian refugees have resorted to.

Internal Security Forces chief Maj. Gen. Ashraf Rifi has said in a report that four brothers from the Jassem family were kidnapped by the head of the guards unit of the Syrian embassy.

He has also said the disappearance of Syrian opposition member Shebli al-Aisamy had links to the kidnapping of the Jassem brothers.


الحزب العربي الديمقراطي الناصري في مصر: تصريحات الخارجية الأميركية تدخل سافر في سورية ودليل على تورطها بالأحداث الجارية فيها
Statements of US State Department Evidence on Involvement in Events in Syria
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/11/11/381008.htm
http://www.sana.sy/eng/22/2011/11/11/381014.htm
Nov 11, 2011

CAIRO, SANA_ The Arab Nasserite Democratic Party in Egypt on Friday said that recent statements made by the U.S. State Department on Syria is a flagrant interference in its internal affairs and give further evidence on the involvement of the United States in the current events in Syria to divide the region and hit the national forces and resistance in.

Secretary General of the party, Ahmad Hassan, told SANA correspondent in Cairo that such statements are not new to the U.S. administration which continuously interferes in the region, supports terrorism and the Zionist entity at the expense of Arab rights.

Hassan said the AL, in accordance with its charter, should support stability of Arab countries and not adopt positions based on false and fabricated news broadcast by some malicious Arab TV channels on non-commitment of the Syrian government to implement the Arab work plan.

He was surprised that the AL didn't adopt any position towards the Syrian opposition abroad, who categorically rejected the Arab work plan, saying that this position raises serious inquiries about the seriousness of the AL in solving the crisis in Syria.

" Syria, thanks to awareness of its people who exposed the plot and stressed their support to the reforms led by President Bashar al-Assad, will emerge stronger from the crisis and more solid to add a new failure of the US and western schemes in the region." Hassan concluded.


" متظاهرون" بينهم 20 أردنياً يحاولون اقتحام وحرق سفارة دمشق في عمّان
"Protesters", including 20 Jordanians trying to storm the embassy and burning in Amman, Damascus
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_articles&id=aa6d7ff9006856d37301fa7187c7ab9e&h=%CD%E3%D5&ar=409986417
Friday - November 11 - 2011 - 13:30:39

Try "protesters" including about 20 storm the Jordanian and the burning of the Syrian embassy in the Jordanian capital Amman on Thursday.

And Jordanian media reported that five of the "Jordanian police" were injured Groj mostly in the eye, were transferred to the King Hussein Medical City for treatment to protect them during the building of the Syrian Embassy

Said the spokesman for the Public Security Lt. Colonel Muhammad Khatib in a interview with the newspaper "the Constitution" Jordanian casualties among the police officers during the line of duty, explaining that a group of dissidents were carrying bags full of paint and mixed material kerosene were thrown toward the embassy in an attempt to storm and burn, however, and parking Police prevented that and threw the bags led to the injury of 5 of public security personnel were wounded with their own eyes, where they were transferred to the King Hussein Medical City for treatment.

He submitted that Khatib was arrested on a group of them, including Jordanians and will be transferred to eliminate charges of abuse eloquent estimated the number at 130 people of Syria and about 20 Jordanian.

The newspaper reported that the vicinity of the embassy has seen frictions between opposition supporters chanted expelled the Syrian ambassador, where security forces prevented them from developing and to prevent the entry of the Syrian embassy where he sought a number of demonstrators to storm the village.


Syrian protesters demand expulsion of ambassador
http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=43186
By Raed Omari
11 November 2011

AMMAN - Dozens of Syrians gathered outside their embassy in Amman on Thursday, chanting slogans against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad and calling for the expulsion of the Syrian ambassador in the Kingdom.

Meanwhile, another, smaller group of Syrians held a counter-protest, raising banners saying: "NATO will not intervene in Syria," and chanting slogans condemning the "US interference and the Zionist conspiracy" against their country.

During the protest, the embassy broadcast Syrian national ballads at loud volume - a move interpreted by protesters as "part of the regime's attempts to silence calls for freedom".

An anti-regime protester, who preferred to be referred to as "Al Homsi", told The Jordan Times that the Syrian ambassador in Amman provoked Syrians residing in Jordan and committed a "sin" when he ordered the broadcast while a group of Syrians was performing Eid Al Adha prayers in front of the embassy on the first day of Eid Al Adha on Sunday.

"That move was nothing short of an act of tyranny and subjugation… a desperate attempt to silence mouths calling for freedom," he said.

Marching arm-in-arm, the anti-regime protesters chanted slogans denouncing the regime and condemning the "massacres" committed by Syrian security forces in the cities of Daraa, Homs, Baniyas and Latakia.

"We wanted to show a sign of solidarity with our brothers back home who are facing difficult times and to emphasise our irreversible demand for freedom," said another protester, who identified herself as "Um Abdullah".

Among the slogans chanted by anti-regime protesters were: "The Syrians want a transitional council," "People want the downfall of the Baath regime" and "Syrians want to expel the ambassador."

Meanwhile, the pro-regime protesters carried pictures of Assad and the Syrian flag, chanting slogans rejecting what they described as a "conspiracy of the imperial powers" to destabilise Syria and end its resistance of US and Israeli "colonial plans".

A minor scuffle broke out between the two groups of protesters and security personnel intervened and separated them.


'Al-Jazeera serves Israeli interests'
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/209561.html
Fri Nov 11, 2011 5:50PM

The Qatari-based news network, Al-Jazeera, has been severely criticized over its biased coverage of popular uprisings in the Arab world.

Activists in the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar have accused the Doha-based Al-Jazeera news channel of serving Israeli interests in the region.

Posting photos showing the Emir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, and his prime minister shaking hands with Israeli officials, activists also criticized the government for its close ties with Tel Aviv.

It is widely believed that the Emir of Qatar has direct influence on the nature of programs broadcast by Al-Jazeera.

The news network has been repeatedly accused of uneven coverage of the events of the "Arab Spring."

Al-Jazeera is accused of blowing the opposition movement in Syria out of proportion while turning a blind eye to the Bahraini government's violent crackdown on peaceful anti-government protesters.

A number of well-known journalists, including Ghassan Ben Jeddo, have resigned from the TV in the past months over the channel's coverage of Middle East events.

A profile, titled "The Qatari Revolution Page" has recently appeared on Facebook. Qatar is a country where there are no government elections. It houses a huge US airbase used for military operations in Iraq.

Qatari activists claim that many citizens living in the Arab Emirate are unhappy with their ruler's policies.

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