Turkey Gets F-16 Source Code
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htairfo/articles/20111104.aspx
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November 4, 2011: The U.S. has agreed to supply Turkey with source code for F-16 fire control and flight system software, so that Turkey can modify F-16 software to use Turkish made weapons and equipment. This will be part of a Turkish refurbishment of 213 of their F-16s. This will cost about $5.2 million per aircraft, and include a lot of Turkish made equipment. Over the last decade, Turkey has been producing more military gear locally, and now produces over half its military equipment needs.
But most major items of equipment are still obtained from foreign suppliers. For example, four years ago, Turkey bought another 30 F-16C Block 50 fighters, for over $60 million each. This will give Turkey one of the largest F-16s fleets (nearly 250) in the world. These new F-16s are beginning to arrive.
Like Israel, Turkey is upgrading its older F-16s. There are actually six major models of the F-16 currently in use, and identified by block number (32, 40, 42, 50, 52, 60), plus the Israeli F-16I, which is a major modification of the Block 52. Another special version (the Block 60), for the UAE (United Arab Emirates) is called the F-16E. The various block mods included a large variety of new components (five engines, four sets of avionics, five generations of electronic warfare gear, five radars and many other mechanical, software, cockpit and electrical mods.) Countries like Turkey can thus add the new components and turn an older F-16 into a more powerful model. There are also some older (Block 1, 5, 15, 20, 25, 30) aircraft out there, all with two decade old technology. The Turkish upgrade program seeks countries with these older models, and offers competitive prices for upgrades. With the use of Turkish made components, the newly upgraded Turkish F-16s will be unique (like the Israeli F-16I and the UAE F-16E).
Turkey is also becoming a bigger player in the upgrade market. For example, Pakistan is having a Turkish firm to upgrade elderly Pakistani F-16s from Block 15 configuration to Block 40. Now that the U.S. has lifted its arms embargo on Pakistan, there are many firms competing for all the work needed to update older American weapons still used by Pakistan. The Turks have long had good trade relations with Pakistan, and have also developed, with the help of the U.S. and Israel, a capable aircraft maintenance and upgrade industry. Most of the F-16 work will be done in Pakistan, using Turkish engineers and technicians supervising some local workers, and using largely imported (from Turkey and elsewhere) components.
The F-16 is the most numerous post-Cold War jet fighter, with over 4,200 built, and more in production. There are 24 nations using the F-16, and 14 have ordered more, in addition to their initial order. During The Cold War, Russia built over 10,000 MiG-21s, and the U.S over 5,000 F-4s, but since then warplane production has plummeted about 90 percent. But since the end of the Cold War, the F-16 has been popular enough to keep the production lines going, despite the fact that the F-35 is supposed to replace the F-16. But the F-35 price keeps going up (it's headed north of $100 million per aircraft), and the F-16 continues to get the job done at half that price.
Protesters clash with security forces in quake zone
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=protesters-clash-with-security-forces-in-quake-zone-2011-11-10
Thursday, November 10, 2011
VAN - Doğan News Agency (DHA)
A violent clash occurred today between protesters and police forces in Van at the scene of the collapsed Bayram Hotel.
A group of protesters gathered around the collapsed Bayram Hotel to protest Deputy Prime Minister Beşir Atalay and Münir Karaloğlu, the governor of Van province in eastern Turkey, as they were preparing to depart the scene following their visit.
The group began throwing stones at the police forces, while shouting chants and calling for the governor to resign. Police forces responded with tear gas, turning the protest into a confrontation.
DHA reported that the clashes were still continuing.
The Bayram Hotel collapsed last night when a 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck the eastern province of Van, leaving eight dead and more than 20 wounded. The collapsed buildings gave way to voices of anger regarding the lack of precautions the government was expected to take following the previous 7.2-magnitude earthquake that had hit the province only weeks ago, claiming 600 lives.
Blasts hit Egypt gas pipeline to Israel, Jordan
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=blasts-hit-egypt-gas-pipeline-to-israel-jordan-2011-11-10
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
CAIRO - Agence France-Presse
Two explosions on Thursday hit an Egyptian pipeline that delivers gas to Israel and Jordan, Egypt's security services and state media said, the seventh time it has been attacked by militants this year.
A first blast occurred around 1:00 am (2300 GMT Wednesday) 40 kilometres (25 miles) west of the town of El-Arish in the north of the Sinai peninsula, a security source said. A second unexplained explosion took place near a pumping station in the same sector, the official news agency MENA said, adding that the army was deploying in the region.
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Nov 10 Economy
مركز تنمية الموارد البشرية في غرفة صناعة حلب.. دعم التدريب والتأهيل بالاستفادة من الخبرات العالمية
Center for Human Resource Development in the Aleppo Chamber of Industry .. Support for training and rehabilitation to benefit from international experience
http://www.sana.sy/ara/345/2011/11/10/380747.htm
November 10, 2011
Aleppo, (SANA) -
Center is a human resource development and capacity building in the Aleppo Chamber of Industry, a major training centers that have achieved positive results in terms of training and qualification process and the preparation of cadres in the province where the shares of the graduation of a large number of talented interns in various industrial fields.
Engineer Faris Al-Shihabi Chairman of Aleppo Chamber of Industry said that the opening of the center came in the context of the efforts of the room and the ongoing efforts to keep up with the latest developments in the field of human resources development and upgrade the industrial reality in Aleppo.
Center is the first of its kind in Syria, and aims to support the process of training, rehabilitation and development of human resources
He Shihabi that the center is the first of its kind in Syria, and aims to support the process of training, rehabilitation and human resource development to benefit from international expertise, particularly Japanese, German, and the great support provided by the Government in this area in cooperation with the training bodies and private companies that deal with human resources development. In turn, noted architect Anton Joni director of the room to the activities of the room and their attention to human resources development, training and rehabilitation through the establishment of many training centers and the signing of several agreements in this area, especially the Centre to develop the textile industry and clothing in cooperation with the UN Development Program and Education Project, dual apprenticeship training center and administrative Skills program and in addition to the rehabilitation staff management and development of human Moader through the program of modernization and development of vocational and technical education in Syria.
And Joni that the Board of Directors of the Chamber paid close attention to the development of human resources and because of its importance to the upgrading of the reality of industrial and improve its level of all aspects in addition to providing job opportunities for young people by linking with training providers - colleges - universities - centers, training and cooperation in the field to secure jobs for graduates and the establishment of an employment agency helps graduates of apprenticeship and vocational training centers and other international programs to find suitable employment opportunities.
The Joni was recently holding the first exhibition of recruitment in collaboration with the University of Aleppo, through the Committee of the entrepreneur to ensure effective linkages with the university in order to provide employment opportunities to the students, pointing out that in order to develop the human resources professional and technically been the implementation of several courses in Japan in cooperation with the Organization for International Cooperation JICA in the field of industrial management business has been established, the Office for Studies and Research, Policy Aleppo Chamber of Industry.
He added that he was cooperation with the University of Aleppo, a project of creativity and is currently working for the signing of a memorandum of understanding with the areas of scientific, research, training and preparation for the establishment of incubator information shared, indicating that the chamber is working to spread and deepen the culture of a clean environment and its importance in sustainable development and establish the concept of total quality in industrial work through implementation of seminars on the topic of the environment and quality.
The Joni that the chamber has participated Conference on Quality, organized by the Syrian Scientific Society for Quality in Aleppo, and is currently working on the renewal for the room on ISO 9001 and preparing to start a program of management development for small and medium-dependent quality management as a nucleus to him, plus the tools of Japanese Management in addition to the creation of award quality of the Chamber of Industry during future periods.
The Director of the room collaboration room with constant institutions and local government departments and international organizations in the area of skills development and rehabilitation and training of human resources and secure job opportunities for young people with the opening of special training centers and the establishment of courses and seminars, lectures, workshops and exhibitions, including contributing to the support of laboratory and industrial manpower qualified and expert and improving the level of national industry and provide employment opportunities for young people.
The center aims to bring together the best experience working in human resources development in various fields through a contract with the most successful training centers
In turn, made it clear to Mr. Lara, director of the Center develop the skills and capacity in the Aleppo Chamber of Industry that the center aims to bring together the best experience working in human resources development in various fields through a contract with the most successful private training centers in the city of Aleppo.
Have shown Mr. that the role of the center comes as a supportive and coordinated the training courses to achieve the requirements of the process and theory of the satellites of the topics of training in this regard was contracted with a number of centers and institutes that provide training in the subjects of administrative and accounting, quality and applications of the ISO as well as specialized courses in the field of graphic and industrial design plastic and graphic templates and studies of dynamic courses and CNC courses and engineering drawing and technical design.
She explained Mr. that the Centre carried out since it opened and to date, 7 courses of between month and two and a half with the participation of 150 trainees under the supervision of local trainers and foreign experts pointing out that most of the sessions focused on areas of strategic management of the activities of industrial and management skills and human resources management applied fashion design and communication skills and the development of quality management financial, warehouse management and small and medium enterprises.
For his part, Rizkallah George Heljk Company Top Tex for Textile Industries and one of the trainees involved in the cycle of fashion design to the importance of cycles executed by the Centre to increase access to what areas of different design, especially as there are schools and ideas multiple in the world on this subject can be found and benefit them in order to be applied at the facility in order to develop and upgrade in line with the requirements of the age.
For his part, between the trainee a firm Mari that he participated in the session in order to take advantage of modern information about what the design of fashion, sewing and detail and applied to the ground, noting the importance of Maigdmh the center of information for trainees and improving their level of expertise through an educational program and a modern training and thoughtful line with the requirements of the times and developments .
The Center was established on 7 October of last year and is located in the upper floor of the Aleppo Chamber of Industry and extends over an area of a floor of 625 meters and includes technical center for the textile industry, clothing, office of the Agency Japan International Cooperation and offices of the German Agency for Technical Cooperation "GTZ" hall for lectures and the seat of the vocational training and apprenticeship and another for the JCI addition to the center of the development of small and medium enterprises and the Technical Centre for the plastics industry.
أكثرها في حلب .. 31413 إصابة ليشمانيا جلدية خلال 6 أشهر في سوريا
The largest in Aleppo .. 31,413 cases of leishmaniasis, skin within 6 months in Syria
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=e5dae25f36090d5d7e8911d65aa93055&ar=769369105
Thursday - November 10 - 2011 - 13:23:43
The number of cutaneous leishmaniasis cases recorded in Syria during the first half of this year 31,413 cases.
And, according to the agency SANA, the highest rates in the provinces of Aleppo, 17,639 injured, and Idlib 3915, 3884 Hasaka, and Hama 2426, with only two cases did not record visceral leishmaniasis for the same period, according to the Directorate of Planning and International Cooperation of the Ministry of Health.
Dr. "Mohsen Qalaji" head of the Center leishmaniasis in Aleppo Directorate of Health that the disease leishmaniasis appeared in the province for several centuries, where the doctor called Alexander Russell in 1756 the name of a grain of Aleppo, but infection rates rose in the mid-eighties and has expanded the geographical scope of its spread.
He explained, "Qalaji" The disease Leishmaniasis is a skin lesion affecting the exposed areas of the body and is characterized pill tiny red painless does not soon grow and fester and continue for a full year until cured, and needs the appearance of injury to the incubation period ranges from 2 to 6 months after the bite insect vectors of disease, indicating that the lesion be alone often and leave a scar has healed defective distorted in the absence of the injured receive proper treatment.
Dr. "Qalaji" that "the scourge of Leishmania skin affects all ages but children under fourteen are the most susceptible to infection and insect vectors of disease is an insect yellow color range in size from 5.1 to 5.2 mm, and live in humid places and dark and are active after sunset during the summer while commemorating dormant in the winter and the females need blood meal to develop eggs after fertilization and when access to the insect parasite becomes infectious throughout her life, which lasts for a whole year. "
"When the insect bites the infected person absorbs from the parasite that causes the disease and transmit it to another human being and a sound so complete cycle of infection."
He attributed the Dr. "Qalaji" reasons for the increased spread of the disease to exposed garbage, dust, sewage and open pools of stagnant water and breeding of animals within the house and the collection of organic waste human, animal and construction waste and construction stone.
And Dr. "Ahmed Skhith" head of communicable and chronic diseases in Aleppo Directorate of Health, the cost of treatment per person ranging from 500 to 10 thousand pounds, and extend his term of five sessions to several years depending on the size of injury.
He called on people who appear on the grain of their skin to the initiative to the nearest health center after fifteen days from the appearance to examine the grain and examining the body of the lesion or processed immediately.
The Leishmaniasis affects 14 million people around the world, and spread in 88 countries in the world, and shows each year nearly two million new cases estimated by WHO.
Center for Human Resource Development in the Aleppo Chamber of Industry .. Support for training and rehabilitation to benefit from international experience
http://www.sana.sy/ara/345/2011/11/10/380747.htm
November 10, 2011
Aleppo, (SANA) -
Center is a human resource development and capacity building in the Aleppo Chamber of Industry, a major training centers that have achieved positive results in terms of training and qualification process and the preparation of cadres in the province where the shares of the graduation of a large number of talented interns in various industrial fields.
Engineer Faris Al-Shihabi Chairman of Aleppo Chamber of Industry said that the opening of the center came in the context of the efforts of the room and the ongoing efforts to keep up with the latest developments in the field of human resources development and upgrade the industrial reality in Aleppo.
Center is the first of its kind in Syria, and aims to support the process of training, rehabilitation and development of human resources
He Shihabi that the center is the first of its kind in Syria, and aims to support the process of training, rehabilitation and human resource development to benefit from international expertise, particularly Japanese, German, and the great support provided by the Government in this area in cooperation with the training bodies and private companies that deal with human resources development. In turn, noted architect Anton Joni director of the room to the activities of the room and their attention to human resources development, training and rehabilitation through the establishment of many training centers and the signing of several agreements in this area, especially the Centre to develop the textile industry and clothing in cooperation with the UN Development Program and Education Project, dual apprenticeship training center and administrative Skills program and in addition to the rehabilitation staff management and development of human Moader through the program of modernization and development of vocational and technical education in Syria.
And Joni that the Board of Directors of the Chamber paid close attention to the development of human resources and because of its importance to the upgrading of the reality of industrial and improve its level of all aspects in addition to providing job opportunities for young people by linking with training providers - colleges - universities - centers, training and cooperation in the field to secure jobs for graduates and the establishment of an employment agency helps graduates of apprenticeship and vocational training centers and other international programs to find suitable employment opportunities.
The Joni was recently holding the first exhibition of recruitment in collaboration with the University of Aleppo, through the Committee of the entrepreneur to ensure effective linkages with the university in order to provide employment opportunities to the students, pointing out that in order to develop the human resources professional and technically been the implementation of several courses in Japan in cooperation with the Organization for International Cooperation JICA in the field of industrial management business has been established, the Office for Studies and Research, Policy Aleppo Chamber of Industry.
He added that he was cooperation with the University of Aleppo, a project of creativity and is currently working for the signing of a memorandum of understanding with the areas of scientific, research, training and preparation for the establishment of incubator information shared, indicating that the chamber is working to spread and deepen the culture of a clean environment and its importance in sustainable development and establish the concept of total quality in industrial work through implementation of seminars on the topic of the environment and quality.
The Joni that the chamber has participated Conference on Quality, organized by the Syrian Scientific Society for Quality in Aleppo, and is currently working on the renewal for the room on ISO 9001 and preparing to start a program of management development for small and medium-dependent quality management as a nucleus to him, plus the tools of Japanese Management in addition to the creation of award quality of the Chamber of Industry during future periods.
The Director of the room collaboration room with constant institutions and local government departments and international organizations in the area of skills development and rehabilitation and training of human resources and secure job opportunities for young people with the opening of special training centers and the establishment of courses and seminars, lectures, workshops and exhibitions, including contributing to the support of laboratory and industrial manpower qualified and expert and improving the level of national industry and provide employment opportunities for young people.
The center aims to bring together the best experience working in human resources development in various fields through a contract with the most successful training centers
In turn, made it clear to Mr. Lara, director of the Center develop the skills and capacity in the Aleppo Chamber of Industry that the center aims to bring together the best experience working in human resources development in various fields through a contract with the most successful private training centers in the city of Aleppo.
Have shown Mr. that the role of the center comes as a supportive and coordinated the training courses to achieve the requirements of the process and theory of the satellites of the topics of training in this regard was contracted with a number of centers and institutes that provide training in the subjects of administrative and accounting, quality and applications of the ISO as well as specialized courses in the field of graphic and industrial design plastic and graphic templates and studies of dynamic courses and CNC courses and engineering drawing and technical design.
She explained Mr. that the Centre carried out since it opened and to date, 7 courses of between month and two and a half with the participation of 150 trainees under the supervision of local trainers and foreign experts pointing out that most of the sessions focused on areas of strategic management of the activities of industrial and management skills and human resources management applied fashion design and communication skills and the development of quality management financial, warehouse management and small and medium enterprises.
For his part, Rizkallah George Heljk Company Top Tex for Textile Industries and one of the trainees involved in the cycle of fashion design to the importance of cycles executed by the Centre to increase access to what areas of different design, especially as there are schools and ideas multiple in the world on this subject can be found and benefit them in order to be applied at the facility in order to develop and upgrade in line with the requirements of the age.
For his part, between the trainee a firm Mari that he participated in the session in order to take advantage of modern information about what the design of fashion, sewing and detail and applied to the ground, noting the importance of Maigdmh the center of information for trainees and improving their level of expertise through an educational program and a modern training and thoughtful line with the requirements of the times and developments .
The Center was established on 7 October of last year and is located in the upper floor of the Aleppo Chamber of Industry and extends over an area of a floor of 625 meters and includes technical center for the textile industry, clothing, office of the Agency Japan International Cooperation and offices of the German Agency for Technical Cooperation "GTZ" hall for lectures and the seat of the vocational training and apprenticeship and another for the JCI addition to the center of the development of small and medium enterprises and the Technical Centre for the plastics industry.
أكثرها في حلب .. 31413 إصابة ليشمانيا جلدية خلال 6 أشهر في سوريا
The largest in Aleppo .. 31,413 cases of leishmaniasis, skin within 6 months in Syria
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=e5dae25f36090d5d7e8911d65aa93055&ar=769369105
Thursday - November 10 - 2011 - 13:23:43
The number of cutaneous leishmaniasis cases recorded in Syria during the first half of this year 31,413 cases.
And, according to the agency SANA, the highest rates in the provinces of Aleppo, 17,639 injured, and Idlib 3915, 3884 Hasaka, and Hama 2426, with only two cases did not record visceral leishmaniasis for the same period, according to the Directorate of Planning and International Cooperation of the Ministry of Health.
Dr. "Mohsen Qalaji" head of the Center leishmaniasis in Aleppo Directorate of Health that the disease leishmaniasis appeared in the province for several centuries, where the doctor called Alexander Russell in 1756 the name of a grain of Aleppo, but infection rates rose in the mid-eighties and has expanded the geographical scope of its spread.
He explained, "Qalaji" The disease Leishmaniasis is a skin lesion affecting the exposed areas of the body and is characterized pill tiny red painless does not soon grow and fester and continue for a full year until cured, and needs the appearance of injury to the incubation period ranges from 2 to 6 months after the bite insect vectors of disease, indicating that the lesion be alone often and leave a scar has healed defective distorted in the absence of the injured receive proper treatment.
Dr. "Qalaji" that "the scourge of Leishmania skin affects all ages but children under fourteen are the most susceptible to infection and insect vectors of disease is an insect yellow color range in size from 5.1 to 5.2 mm, and live in humid places and dark and are active after sunset during the summer while commemorating dormant in the winter and the females need blood meal to develop eggs after fertilization and when access to the insect parasite becomes infectious throughout her life, which lasts for a whole year. "
"When the insect bites the infected person absorbs from the parasite that causes the disease and transmit it to another human being and a sound so complete cycle of infection."
He attributed the Dr. "Qalaji" reasons for the increased spread of the disease to exposed garbage, dust, sewage and open pools of stagnant water and breeding of animals within the house and the collection of organic waste human, animal and construction waste and construction stone.
And Dr. "Ahmed Skhith" head of communicable and chronic diseases in Aleppo Directorate of Health, the cost of treatment per person ranging from 500 to 10 thousand pounds, and extend his term of five sessions to several years depending on the size of injury.
He called on people who appear on the grain of their skin to the initiative to the nearest health center after fifteen days from the appearance to examine the grain and examining the body of the lesion or processed immediately.
The Leishmaniasis affects 14 million people around the world, and spread in 88 countries in the world, and shows each year nearly two million new cases estimated by WHO.
Nov 10 Regional
عدد من أعضاء المعارضة الوطنية السورية يؤكدون رفضهم التدخل الخارجي وتمسكهم بخطة العمل العربية
Number of members of the Syrian national opposition affirm their rejection of the Syrian foreign interference and their adherence to the Arab Action Plan
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/11/10/380896.htm
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/11/11/380905.htm
November 10, 2011
Cairo, (SANA) -
A number of opposition members of the Syrian national coordinating body of national and state-building and stream some independents after their meetings with the Secretary General of the League of Arab States in Cairo, Arab, Nabil today announced their rejection of external interference and internal affairs of Syria's adherence to the Arab Plan of Action.
Said Haytham mannaa, a member of the coordination of the forces of democratic change in Syria that the Arab initiative worth trying even if the total area of success only 5 percent because the other scenarios worse and worse and people are talking as if Cyprna the Arab initiative, even if that happens because we came and we met the Secretary General of the League of Arab States and endured what we took of some of the extremists, referring to beatings and humiliation in the Arab League headquarters by those who want to eliminate the Arab plan.
mannaa said to hold on to reject outside interference and the adoption of dialogue with all parties.
In turn, said Dr. Abdul-Aziz al-Khair official spokesman for the Authority that the way the democratic will sooner or later, to a pluralistic democracy in Syria, expressing his rejection of the approach is called the Syrian National Council exclusionary who works on the marginalization of others, pointing out that the Syrian people still had opportunities for the emergence of figures reflect the him.
al-Khair .. The meeting with the Secretary-General of the Arab League, addressed the possible operational procedures that we hope the Arab League to take the initiative without delay, stressing that Syria entered the change in the way of the National Democratic irreversible.
In turn, Louay Hussein from current state-building, said .. We applied to the League of Arab States to offer our report on the situation in Syria and we thought about the possibility of assistance and cooperation we can offer to the university.
On the request of some opposition parties to impose an air embargo on Syria, Hussein .. We do not accept this command because it will cause military intervention, and this would demolish the state and the rhythm of the Syrian society and more deaths.
For his part, called Samir Aita member of the national coordinating body to activate the Arab peace initiative.
Some opponents of the Council of Istanbul, who works on call outside interference in the internal affairs of Syria attacked the opposition delegation coordinating body to prevent him from entering the Arab League and a sign on a policy of exclusion Alaghae and they expressed Batdaúhm to the Delegation of the Coordination Body.
المعلم في رسالة إلى العربي: تصريح المصدر في الخارجية الأمريكية الذي يشجع الدول العربية إلى الانضمام إلى المقاطعة السياسية والاقتصادية ضد سورية قد يشكل مؤشرا لتبرير تدخل خارجي
al-Muallim: Statement of US Official Source Constitutes Justification for Foreign Interference against Syria
http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2011/11/10/380799.htm
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/11/10/380816.htm
Nov 10, 2011
DAMASCUS, (SANA) - Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Muallim expressed the Syrian Arab Republic's wonder over the statement of a US State Department source that encourages the Arab countries to join the political and economic boycott against Syria which exceeds the limits of the AL Charter and the bases of the joint Arab action.
al-Muallim clarified in a message to Arab League (AL) Secretary General, Nabil al-Arabi, on Wednesday that the US provocation constitutes a justification for a foreign interference and for economic and political sanctions against Syria with the agreement of some Arab countries, expressing hope that the US call will not be heeded at.
al-Muallim pointed out to the danger of such statements on the future of the joint Arab action under the patronage of the Arab League.
Foreign and Expatriates Minister added in the message that Syria, which has declared its commitment to the work plan agreed upon with AL, underlines its fulfillment of most of the plan's items unlike what is being propagated by some misleading TV channels, pointing out that Syria's permanent representative at the Arab League will brief the AL Ministerial Council on the steps taken in this regard.
al-Muallim, at the conclusion of the message, expressed hope that the AL Secretary General will respond to the US statements in accordance with the AL Charter and the Arab agreements that maintain the sovereignty as well as relations among Arab countries.
إيران ستكشف عن وثائق سرية قريباً تتضمن مستندات خطيرة عن ضلوع أميركا باغتيال الحريري والجميل والتويني وآخرين
Iran will reveal the secret documents include documents soon, serious involvement of America, the assassination of Hariri and Gemayel and Tueni and others
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=d32545682fdc21179db29cea5ef32a49&ar=228863653
Thursday - November 10 - 2011 - 11:39:07
Forward the strategic expert said Iran's "Amir of al-Musawi," that Iran will soon unveil documents and documents of a very sensitive and confidential present possession of the Iranian intelligence has been able to disclose and collected for many years and especially in the last eight years doubled in these documents.
The al-Moussawi as reported on the magazine "al-Inqaad" of Lebanon that these documents are distributed on several types as follows:
1 posts written.
2 orders of the CIA.
3 minutes of meetings and documents registered in a video.
4 messages across the Internet and communications.
5 banking financial documents are very important and very dangerous, the names of individuals and institutions sensitive. "
Moussawi and revealed that these "documents related to three areas of operational and executive are:
1 Iran's Islamic Republic where include bombings, assassinations and sabotage of facilities, locations and facilities, including nuclear facilities, and inciting sectarian strife in Iran.
2 Arab region, especially Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and the Gulf region, Afghanistan, Pakistan and North Africa through assassinations, murder mastermind, which shows the target as if they died of cases of death natural, such as the assassination of the commander of the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, Ahmed Shah Masood, Pakistani President Muhammad Zia ul-Haq, as well as death surprise to the Prince of Bahrain, Shaikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Muhammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
In Lebanon, said Moussawi said, "There are documents serious about the assassination of former minister Pierre Gemayel and editor of" daylight "Gebran Tueni, and other personalities," and also stressed that "there are documents serious assassination of President Rafik Hariri, as well as the operations of a failed assassination against some names, were all of the intervention of U.S. or American orders, as well as the documents sought from the America in which the rhythm between Lebanon and Syria, and documents proving serious roles for institutions and personalities in this context. "
He pointed out that al-Moussawi Iran is also in possession of secret documents on the "assassinations took place in Sudan, Egypt, Algeria and Mauritania, as well as documents for specific U.S. operations in France and Europe."
More seriously, according to al-Moussawi that "there are assassinations of important and very serious for eminent persons in the area but failed and documents to be provided around Iran to America and if denied by the Islamic Republic, then you would expose them."
رئيس وزراء قطر : لا خلاف شخصي مع الرئيس الأسد والحديث عن استضافة قطر لحركة حماس غيرصحيح
Prime Minister of Qatar: no personal dispute with President Assad and Qatar to host talk about Hamas incorrect
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=1a2c2eca447d05f81ce5c4af6f09149c&ar=115896316
Thursday - November 10 - 2011 - 11:57:27
Hamad Bin Jassim, the Qatari Prime Minister said, "there is no personal dispute between him and President Bashar al-Assad," and added that the rumors about the transmission of the political bureau of Hamas from Damascus, was premature, and that talk about the host in Qatar is not true.
He said in a lengthy dialogue with the Egyptian newspaper Al-Akhbar published on Thursday: "We hope that Syria remains a strong coherent state is a central and important in the Arab and regional levels."
And Prime Minister and Qatar's foreign minister that he could not confirm that the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) immune hundred percent against the "Arab spring".
In response to a question about whether the Gulf states are immune to the spring of revolutions of the Arab, he said, "my testimony Mejrouhh because I am part of the system of the Gulf states, but I cannot say that the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council fortified hundred percent, and the fact that the Council is always flexible, and the relationship between the ruler and ruled in the region different from the others and there is keen on customs and traditions and to communicate more between the top of the pyramid of power and rule. "
Shaikh Hamad and attributed the cause of "Arab" revolutions to the spread of an intellectual movement in the Arab world rejected the phenomenon of political repression, adding that it was possible to address these "explosions" If the leaders and the Arab rulers began to deal with all the seriousness and speed of reform.
He said: "There is, in my opinion, is a need to hand over the baton on to younger generations. Unfortunately, there is an absence of such a culture in the Arab world .. Why the challenge and am sorry for this word / cursed Abu authority that allows the governor to kill people / Winkle him and destroy his country in order to stay in power ".
And the situation in his country, he said: "We have no political prisoners, and human rights organizations roam all prisons .. A significant progress in education, health, and how the development of society," adding that increasing the salaries of the state of the country "type of distribution of wealth," and not what is said for that decision proactive against any protests or social tensions.
And Al-Jazeera, said: ".. Some say that al-Jazeerah is a tool in the hands of national policy, this is not true .. the opinion of His Highness al-Amir (Emir) is that the freedom of the media is part of a road map on which we walk."
With regard to the financial support to Egypt, he said: "Qatar has promised to aid and provide economic and financial support to Egypt as we are assured that we are prepared to invest 10 billion dollars and we're still on our commitment to this has been provided the first tranche, which was ordered by the Emir of Qatar Shaikh Hamad and $ 500 million, and there are other amounts soft loans or bonds in progress on the arrangements. "
In response to accusations from several quarters, some official about the existence of money being pumped from the Qatar civil society organizations and personalities designed to influence the situation in Egypt, said Qatari Prime Minister: "Whether the statement formally or informally, we are dealing with evidence and facts .. and we, as not interfere in the internal affairs of any country and does not donate unless it was something, declaring, clear, and through legitimate channels, and to assure that there is no directed government to charity. I cannot deny that there are donors not only from the country, but some Egyptians working in Qatar, and we as a government do not We support anything like that. "
He denied that Qatar's preferred candidate for the presidency of Egypt, and said: "We do not have a favorite candidate at all the issue is related to the Egyptian people and it is subject to the choices do not interfere in this matter."
He believed that "the crisis of Libya, embodied the first positive cooperation between the West and the Arab countries may not agree with me some .. when I started the revolution in Libya and found a gun kills people .. and we went to the Arab League and the question is who will lead the process, it was assumed that Egypt is not for the circumstances in which pass them as a neighbor and the most capable and most powerful intervention .. and when we fail we asked to impose an air embargo, we just want to stop the bombing of the Libyan people by air and do not forget that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi threatened to remove the Benghazi from the map. What is the procedure required if: Would you say non-interference and wait until is the elimination of the Libyan people? ".
In the Yemeni affairs, said: "We have announced three months ago our withdrawal from the Gulf after the initiative and found that we may be taking the initiative as to no end and are caught up in delays."
And the relations with Iran, he said: "We have good relations with Iran and is always careful to maintain good relations with Iran, because Iran is a neighboring country directly to Qatar and the large .. do not agree in every policy with them, nor will they agree with us in every policy, but we are together agree that there should be a good relationship .. We always strive for calm as anything that may occur in the region Sadharna directly. "
On the Palestinian issue, Shaikh Hamad said that talk about the nomination of Qatar to host the political bureau of Hamas, an alternative to Damascus "premature was not looking and not true."
الجزائر ترفض استقبال "المجلس الوطني" المعارض
Algeria refused to receive the opposition "National Council" (SNC)
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Jabr al-office member of the Secretariat for the "Syrian National Council" revealed the Algeria's official refusal of receiving the oppositions delegation from the Executive Office of the Council for the time being, adding that the Council hopes a date of the visit to be set by the Algerian authorities at a later time.
al-Shoufi told the Algerian daily "al-Shurouq", National Council Syrian request for an official visit to the Algerian government and the latter reserved for the visit at the moment, however, pointed out that the Algerian "did not refuse to receive the delegation as permanent, but apologized for receiving us now," and why an apology Algiers contents of these bilateral contacts confirmed that the Algerian government did not provide a reason for that and only an apology.
Shoufi added that the Executive Office of the Council is still awaiting a date from the Algerian government to receive them, and "hopes to be close, especially with the continued killing in the Syrian street."
And concerning two states of Sudan and the Sultanate of Oman that the SNC announced for an expected visit, he explained that they had not received a response yet, and they are waiting for that.
Lebanon must protect against Syria evading sanctions: U.S. official
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2011/Nov-10/153637-us-official-says-lebanon-must-protect-itself-from-syrian-bids-to-evade-sanctions.ashx
November 10, 2011 01:43 PM (Last updated: November 10, 2011 04:57 PM)
BEIRUT: Lebanon must protect its financial sector from attempts to use it to avoid sanctions on Syria, U.S. Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing Daniel Glaser said Thursday.
Glaser "stressed the need for authorities to protect the Lebanese financial sector from potential Syrian attempts to evade U.S. and EU financial sanctions," said a statement issued by the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon.
It said Glaser, who is in Lebanon on his first visit as assistant secretary, also underscored the need for Lebanon to take the necessary steps to "ensure a transparent and well-regulated financial sector for Lebanon's continued prosperity."
Glaser's remarks were made during separate meetings with Prime Minister Najib Mikati, Lebanon's Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh, and a number of representatives from the Lebanese banking sector.
He reiterated the U.S. view that it is important to ensure that the current instability in Syria does not undermine the Lebanese financial sector.
There have been fears that sanctions imposed on Syria may impact Lebanon, due to the close relationship between the two countries, and Glaser is not the first official to warn about such dangers. Last week, U.K. ambassador to Lebanon Tom Fletcher said he hoped the Lebanese economy could distance itself from the Syrian sanctions.
Labor Minister Charbel Nahhas assured Lebanese Thursday that they need not worry over the possibility of sanctions hitting the banking sector.
"There are banking controls and regulations in place that must be adhered to by all banks including the Central Bank," Charbel told a local radio station.
"Lebanese bankers are aware of these rules and they cannot breach them," he said, adding that if "sanctions are imposed they would be political."
Regarding a U.N.-backed court probing the assassination of statesman Rafik Hariri, the U.S. official urged Lebanon to meet all of its international obligations, including cooperating with and funding the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, according to the embassy statement.
It said Glaser renewed Washington's commitment to a "stable, sovereign and independent Lebanon."
U.S. to question Lebanon over deposits
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Business/Lebanon/2011/Nov-10/153551-us-to-question-lebanon-over-deposits.ashx
November 10, 2011 01:06 AM
BEIRUT: Alleged reports of capital and deposits fleeing from Syria to Lebanon will be the key issue raised by a senior U.S. official during his talks with Lebanese officials Thursday.
The U.S. Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing Daniel Glaser, who is scheduled to meet with Central Bank governor Riad Salameh and Finance Minister Muhammad Safadi, will convey Washington's deep concern about reports that Syrian officials who are on the U.S. blacklist are trying to transfer their money to Lebanese banks and financial institutions.
Salameh told the Association of Banks in Lebanon that Glaser's visit had been scheduled previously.
The visit comes on the heels of news that Washington is determined to apply pressure on any country that facilitates the transfer of Syrian funds, especially if they belong to Syrian officials who may have played a role in the crackdown on Syrian protesters.
But Salameh and bankers insist that Lebanese banks have not received substantial deposits from Syria since the crisis broke out eight months ago.
Bankers argue that the deposit growth this year has dropped compared to last year, proving that no Syrian cash has entered Lebanon.
A leading banker told The Daily Star that it is nearly impossible for any cash to enter the banking and financial system in a haphazard manner.
"Any penny that enters our financial system in Lebanon will appear in the balance sheets of commercial banks. There is no way billons of U.S. dollars [are] entering the Lebanese financial market without raising the alert of the Central Bank," the banker stressed.
He added that banks have clear instructions to ask any person who deposits more than $10,000 where he got the money from.
But the banker suggested that money could be carried through the border illegally by smugglers, but they surely won't dare to deposit them in the banks since they realize that this cash will be frozen by monetary authorities.
Salameh made similar these remarks in an interview with a Russian TV station, saying that the growth in Lebanon's deposits dropped this year when compared to 2010.
The latest data supports his claim. Deposits grew 5.4 percent in the first eight months of 2011, compared to growth of 7.3 percent in the first eight months of 2010, according to numbers by data provider, Economena Analytics.
Salameh confirmed that no Syrian accounts have been frozen in Lebanon, saying that such a procedure is the prerogative of the Special Investigation Commission, a body affiliated with the Central Bank.
"The Commission has not taken any action against Syrian depositors," he said, adding, "generally, this requires a decision by the [U.N.] Security Council."
But a statement issued earlier by the U.S. Treasury Department said Glaser was expected to "highlight the need for authorities to remain vigilant against attempts by the Syrian regime to evade U.S. and EU sanctions through the Lebanese financial sector," the U.S. Treasury Department said.
The United States had informally inquired about Syrian deposits in Lebanese banks last September as part of Washington's efforts to tighten economic and financial sanctions on Damascus, media reports said.
Bankers confidentially say that Syrian deposits in Lebanese banks do not exceed $3 billion and that most of this money belongs to prominent Syrian businessmen and traders who have held deposits in Lebanon previously.
These bankers also claim that they will abide by any Security Council resolution in the future which may prohibit any banking and financial transactions between Lebanon and Syria.
"So far, the Security Council did not pass any resolution on this matter and for this reason Lebanon is officially not obliged to heed the pressure from any country," a banker told The Daily Star.
Salameh and President of the Association of Banks in Lebanon Joseph Torbey have aggressively campaigned in Washington and other European capitals to dispel all rumors that Lebanese banks are a haven for illegal activities.
Torbey made it abundantly clear that Lebanese banks are well regulated and always abide by all Security Council resolutions.
Exchange dealers in Lebanon also denied some media allegations that they are receiving large sums of cash from Syria, adding that they are also under the strict supervision of the Central Bank.
Some Arab leaders offered haven for Assad - U.S.
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November 10, 2011 10:52 AM
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WASHINGTON: Some Arab leaders have told the United States they are willing to provide safe haven to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to hasten his "inevitable" departure from power, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday.
Assistant Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman did not identify the countries that had offered a place for Assad to go after seven months of protests against his rule in Syria.
"Almost all the Arab leaders, foreign ministers who I talk to say the same thing: Assad's rule is coming to an end. It is inevitable," Feltman, who is in charge of near eastern affairs, told a Senate panel.
"Some of these Arabs have even begun to offer Assad safe haven to encourage him to leave quickly," Feltman said. He hoped Assad and his inner circle would "head for the exits voluntarily."
Assad has shown no sign of leaving. Syrian troops shot dead eight protesters and injured 25 in Damascus earlier Wednesday, activists said, in one of the bloodiest incidents in the capital since the upraising against Assad began.
More than 60 people have been killed by the army and security forces just since last week, when Assad's government signed a peace plan sponsored by the Arab League.
Western governments led by the United States have called on Assad to leave power. Feltman said the United States would continue to support the Syrian opposition while diplomatically and financially pressuring the regime, "until Assad is gone."
U.S. and European financial sanctions were "tightening the financial noose around the (Assad) regime," he added.
But the United States did not seek militarization of the conflict: "Syria is not Libya."
Washington favored multilateral sanctions on Syria at the United Nations, Feltman said, adding that if Russia and China continued to block a Security Council resolution condemning Syria, Washington would consider other steps.
The United States favored European-led efforts to introduce a resolution in the U.N. General Assembly's human rights committee that would insist on access to Syria for internationally recognized human rights monitors, Feltman said.
He feared the transition to democracy in Syria could be long and difficult, and had no answer when Senator Richard Lugar asked who might replace Assad once he is gone.
"That's one of the real challenges, because the opposition in Syria is still divided," Feltman said.
Assad to play 'Kurdish card against Turkey, report says
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011
PARIS - Hürriyet
(Note: This is the same report as this one. The headline of this article indicates how nervously the Turkish government is reacting to a tiny change on the Syrian side.)
Syria is looking to destabilize Turkey by providing greater autonomy to the Arab republic's Kurdish population in the wake of Ankara's demands that Damascus heed the demands of the country's opposition, French daily Le Figaro has reported.
The Bashar al-Assad government has begun to support the Kurdish people living in Syria's north, which is reportedly home to 1.9 million Kurds, in an attempt to pose a threat to Turkey in its fight against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), daily Hürriyet quoted the daily as saying yesterday.
Assad has taken advantage of the current crisis in the country to establish a "Kurdish autonomous region" in Syria in the event that he falls from power in a similar fashion to Col. Moammar Gadhafi in Libya.
The president has been preparing the ground for a Kurdish autonomous regional administration by opening Kurdish schools in the country's north, reported Le Figaro, adding that the language of instruction was Kurdish and that the Kurdish anthem was sung every day.
The daily also claimed that Assad permitted Kurdish politician Muhammad Salih Muslim, the head of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), which is seen as a PKK affiliate, to return to Syria as a message to Turkey. Muslim was in exile in Iraq until the protests against Assad began in Syria earlier this year.
The PYD is reportedly organizing local elections in the north, the daily said.
The newspaper said accepting the Kurdish politician into Syria must be seen as an action to "punish [Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan for harshly objecting to Syria's crackdown on its dissidents."
"It is no coincidence that Muslim has been elected as the deputy head of the Democratic Change Committee Coordination, which was founded by the Syrian regime, shortly after returning from exile," said the daily. "The PYD is staying away from the Syrian National Council [SNC] which was founded in Istanbul because it believes that the SNC is backed by Western powers and is against the PKK."
The assassination of Mashaal Tammo on Oct. 7, a Kurdish opposition leader in Syria, was also a message to Syrian Kurds that a "good Kurd" was one supported by the regime, according to Le Figaro.
Ankara will need to tread with care
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09 November 2011, Wednesday
SUAT KINIKLIOĞLU, Columnists
Turkey's neighborhood policy has been devised with a clear understanding of situating Turkey at the center of a number of intersecting regions. Indeed, at the time of its implementation we were not aware of the far-reaching consequences it could have in such a short time both for Turkey and our neighbors.
When Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu addressed the people at the opening dinner of the İstanbul Forum last week, it became apparent how much distance had been covered in comparison to the old days and how deeply involved we found ourselves in the intricacies of the Middle East.
This is what we asked for. Turkey wanted to be a player in the Middle East and now that is part of our reality. History will judge how the reintegration of Turkey into its immediate neighborhood has impacted it, the region and Turkey's traditional alliances. From an overall strategic perspective, what Turkey needs most urgently is to remind itself every morning that we have to tread extremely carefully in the coming weeks and months in the Middle East. The regional nuances and complexities are far beyond the ordinary understanding most of us have about the region. That said, there is no need for despair but we must not forget that we are walking into territory that is mined, and one of the most treacherous traps Turkey could fall into is the sectarian one. So far, Ankara has rightly articulated an "above-sectarian" approach to the region's issues. Yet, the more we become enmeshed into the regional imbroglio, the capability to remain above sectarian politics turns into an ever more challenging gamble.
The Iranian-Saudi confrontation, which is to be felt at every level in the region, is almost inescapable and we should not give up reiterating our nuanced position vis-à-vis these two antagonists. While we find ourselves on the same side of the Syrian equation with the US and Saudi Arabia, we may not have the same objectives there. Ankara does not operate on a Sunni-based leadership role there but rather seeks to pacify a problematic country whose leadership has become part of the problem and continues to breed instability.
One difficulty we face in Syria is to convince our own public and regional players that Turkey's opposition to the Baath regime's killings are genuinely Turkish concerns and have nothing to do with a neo-conservative democracy promotion agenda. However, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President Abdullah Gül and Foreign Minister Davutoğlu's messages have been clear and consistent from the very beginning.
Conventional wisdom speculates that the departure of the Baath regime will take place within two years. These are promising to be two tense years that will have to be managed with utmost care to avoid an all-out civil war there. In fact, the Assad regime's greatest asset is the fear of a sectarian earthquake that would shake the region. It does not necessarily have to be that way. If all interested in a smooth transition act responsibly, the transition may even be more orderly than the doomsday scenarios suggest. One prerequisite is the maturing of the Syrian opposition. We need a representative and articulate leadership that can demonstrate its capacity to lead the country through a difficult transition. There are already strong signs that the Assad regime understands the risks at hand. We hear of aggressive real estate purchases in İstanbul, Beirut and Dubai by pro-Assad circles who no longer see their rule in Syria as guaranteed.
We also need to monitor closely the situation in Lebanon and do our utmost to prevent a spillover of instability into the precarious balance of power there. The last thing anyone wants is Lebanon to become infected by the Syrian malaise. There are things in history one cannot stop. The Arab Awakening has set into motion dynamics which are difficult to stop. Ankara will need to tread with care.
The real question for the PKK: Listen to Barzani or follow Kalkan?
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09 November 2011, Wednesday
MARKAR ESAYAN, Columnists
The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) problem has now entered a completely new phase.
The parameters and conditions of the past will no longer apply. Actually, the conditions marking the advent of this new period began with the attacks on Reşadiye, Kastamonu and Silvan. With these attacks, the Turkish government -- and, for example, people like me -- felt tricked, and also realized that the authority emanating from İmralı is not as unquestionable as previously believed. Just as serious advances were being made in the government's talks with PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, all of a sudden the PKK was ramping up the violence. As for Öcalan, he was not using his authority over the PKK to urge it to abandon weapons, either, in order to not open up his own leadership to question, or to avoid hearing a clear rejection from the PKK. This standoff has finished Öcalan off as the unquestionable leader of the PKK.
Even though the Çukurca attack and the 24 martyrs lost in it have appeared to amount to a sort of breaking point, I believe the government has been devising a new strategy towards the PKK for a long time now. This strategy was not to send a sort of Afghanistan-style horde of soldiers into the mountains of northern Iraq. Rather, this new strategy is based on the idea of striking the PKK's camps in Hakkari and Zap using the air forces and professional soldiers supported by high-level intelligence and advanced technological aids. And the strategy does not only encompass the military arena: It also includes elements such as sending some of the state's most elite names – such as Tufan Ergüder -- to the region to establish state control in regions like Hakkari, which had previously been abandoned to PKK control. The state's intentions on this front are evidenced by the appointment of experienced diplomats, as opposed to local governors without much knowledge, such as Murat Özçelik to the position of public safety counselor. As a result of this new strategy, the PKK will be forced to engage in war and broker peace with a completely different Turkey.
I wish this violence had not happened and that we had no need for a new strategy. I wish the PKK, rather than acting like a spoiled child and playing into Assad's game, had taken advantage of the opportunity arranged for it to come down from the mountains in an honorable way. If it had, perhaps an agreement could have been signed last year, without so many more people having to die. But neither the PKK in the mountains nor the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) on the plains were able to show this kind of foresight and acumen.
Did the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) make mistakes as well? They did. They acted slowly and deficiently on the initiative front. They were unable to prevent the Habur disaster. They directed the whole initiative process with a lack of seriousness and experience. The name of a military barracks that had been named after Mustafa Muğlalı Pasha, who killed 33 Kurdish villagers, has only recently been changed. Even in taking this very simple step, the government behaved too calculatingly and cautiously.
There is no doubt that warlords such as Duran Kalkan, Fehman Hüseyin, Cemil Bayık and Murat Karasu believed they would be able to successfully bring Turkey to its knees with support from Syria. I really doubt, though, that either İmralı or Kandil has correctly assessed today's Turkey. It is clear that that they don't understand how Turkey has changed and that they are not dealing with the old Turkey. They are still formulating strategies according to the paradigm of the 1990s and calculating Turkey's response accordingly, when the truth is that Turkey has changed tremendously in the past nine years.
I do not know whether Turkey's response to the Çukurca attack forced the PKK to wake up. After all, the dead were not warlords, but rather Kurdish youths. At the same time, it did become clear that the PKK's purported strength had been exaggerated and its leaders lost prestige. But Syria is still providing serious support for the PKK. At the same time, a chain of talks continues in which the abandonment of violence remains on the table as a real option. In this new period, Turkey is not offering the PKK any option other than leaving off weapons. Barzani is now looking ahead to when America pulls out of Iraq and, knowing he will face real problems at that time, is expending serious energy to get the PKK to abandon its weapons, for which Turkey is offering real support.
In the wake of serious losses, the PKK is stuck in something of a corner. It must either trust in Syria's support and follow the orders of Duran Kalkan, or listen to Massoud Barzani and announce that it is laying down its weapons. As it is, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has already declared that only under such conditions can talks begin. If the PKK makes the wrong decision and chooses warfare, it will be suicide.
'Sacrifices' in Syria
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09 November 2011, Wednesday / CENGİZ ÇANDAR, RADİKAL
İstanbul hosted an important meeting, The İstanbul Forum, just before the Kurban Bayramı (Feast of the Sacrifice) holiday. During the two-day İstanbul Forum meeting, the state Syria is currently in was the most discussed topic since political developments in the neighboring country have great importance for Turkey.
Every foreign intellectual who comes to Turkey asks, "Why has Turkey adopted such a harsh attitude towards the regime considering its close relations with the leaders of the region?" The Foreign Ministry official replied to the question by saying that taking the values and ethics of Turkey into consideration, Turkey has chosen the Syrian people over the regime. What I personally think is that Turkey's stance towards Syria is risky. I am not saying it is right or wrong; my observation is that it is risky. The officials say that the regime will stay in power for another six months, two years at most. We cannot know if it will turn out to be true or not until the time comes. But what is certain for now is that the regime has the power to extend its hold on power, I am afraid.
Lebanese Military Investigating Judge Refers Two Arrested Syrians to Prison on Charge of Trafficking and Smuggling Weapons
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/11/10/380857.htm
Nov 10, 2011
BEIRUT, (SANA) – Lebanese military investigating judge on Thursday issued a prima facia arrest warrant against the Syrians Ammar al-Adib and Muhammad Bashlah on charges of weapon trafficking and smuggling.
General Directorate of General Security in Lebanon said in a statement issued today that the military investigating judge referred the arrested to Qubba prison in Tripoli, Lebanon.
Jumblatt may have overseen Aisamy's killing: Baath Party MP
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November 10, 2011 03:25 PM
BEIRUT: Baath Party MP Assem Qanso said there was no evidence that Syrian opposition members had been kidnapped in Lebanon, and accused Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt of having supervised the killing of missing Syrian dissident Shibli Aisamy.
"All that talk about kidnapping of Syrians in Lebanon is fabricated and lacks evidence," Qanso told el-Nashra website.
"Since when did Walid Jumblatt care about Syrian opposition [figures]?" asked Qanso, a Baalbek-Hermel MP and the former head of the Baath Party in Lebanon.
Three brothers, believed to be Syrian opposition members, as well Aisamy, a dissident and co-founder of Syria's ruling Baath Party have disappeared in recent months.
Qanso suggested that Aisamy may have been killed, and hinted that Jumblatt and Aley MP Akram Shehayeb may have supervised the murder.
"It is not unlikely that Jumblatt and Shehayeb oversaw the liquidation of Aisamy," he said.
Shehayeb swiftly hit back at Qanso.
"It seems that the 13 Syrian opposition [figures alleged to be missing] did not know that the Baath Party MP is too busy with his colleagues to be devoted to kidnappings so they hid themselves, unless a group from another planet abducted them with no trace," Shehayeb mocked.
Police chief Maj. Gen. Ashraf Rifi said last month that Internal Security Forces has collected "dangerous information" pointing to the Syrian Embassy's involvement in the May disappearance of Aisamy.
Aisamy, 86, was abducted in Aley, minutes after leaving his daughter's home for a walk.
Earlier this month, Prime Minister Najib Mikati acknowledged that members of the Syrian opposition had gone missing in Lebanon, but said it had happened before his government came to power.
"This happened several months ago, before the formation of the government" in mid-June, Mikati said of the kidnappings in an interview with BBC Arabic.
Qanso Thursday suggested that Aisamy's disappearance could not necessarily be traced to Lebanon.
"We didn't even know he was here [in Lebanon]. He [Aisamy] was living among them [the Druze community]. He may have been killed over a family or inter-Druze dispute," Qanso suggested.
In a statement issued Wednesday, Jumblatt questioned whether reports were true that the number of Syrian activists kidnapped in Lebanon has reached 13.
"Are we about to establish a return of the renowned era of security tutelage?" Jumblatt asked.
Qanso hit back Thursday, accusing Jumblatt of being paid for making such statements.
"We know that these statements are being paid in advance by the Future Movement, Israel and America," he said.
Regarding all-party talks, Qanso lamented there was no "basis for dialogue."
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has stepped up efforts to revive dialogue among the rival political leaders to discuss a defense strategy for Lebanon.
Number of members of the Syrian national opposition affirm their rejection of the Syrian foreign interference and their adherence to the Arab Action Plan
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http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/11/11/380905.htm
November 10, 2011
Cairo, (SANA) -
A number of opposition members of the Syrian national coordinating body of national and state-building and stream some independents after their meetings with the Secretary General of the League of Arab States in Cairo, Arab, Nabil today announced their rejection of external interference and internal affairs of Syria's adherence to the Arab Plan of Action.
Said Haytham mannaa, a member of the coordination of the forces of democratic change in Syria that the Arab initiative worth trying even if the total area of success only 5 percent because the other scenarios worse and worse and people are talking as if Cyprna the Arab initiative, even if that happens because we came and we met the Secretary General of the League of Arab States and endured what we took of some of the extremists, referring to beatings and humiliation in the Arab League headquarters by those who want to eliminate the Arab plan.
mannaa said to hold on to reject outside interference and the adoption of dialogue with all parties.
In turn, said Dr. Abdul-Aziz al-Khair official spokesman for the Authority that the way the democratic will sooner or later, to a pluralistic democracy in Syria, expressing his rejection of the approach is called the Syrian National Council exclusionary who works on the marginalization of others, pointing out that the Syrian people still had opportunities for the emergence of figures reflect the him.
al-Khair .. The meeting with the Secretary-General of the Arab League, addressed the possible operational procedures that we hope the Arab League to take the initiative without delay, stressing that Syria entered the change in the way of the National Democratic irreversible.
In turn, Louay Hussein from current state-building, said .. We applied to the League of Arab States to offer our report on the situation in Syria and we thought about the possibility of assistance and cooperation we can offer to the university.
On the request of some opposition parties to impose an air embargo on Syria, Hussein .. We do not accept this command because it will cause military intervention, and this would demolish the state and the rhythm of the Syrian society and more deaths.
For his part, called Samir Aita member of the national coordinating body to activate the Arab peace initiative.
Some opponents of the Council of Istanbul, who works on call outside interference in the internal affairs of Syria attacked the opposition delegation coordinating body to prevent him from entering the Arab League and a sign on a policy of exclusion Alaghae and they expressed Batdaúhm to the Delegation of the Coordination Body.
المعلم في رسالة إلى العربي: تصريح المصدر في الخارجية الأمريكية الذي يشجع الدول العربية إلى الانضمام إلى المقاطعة السياسية والاقتصادية ضد سورية قد يشكل مؤشرا لتبرير تدخل خارجي
al-Muallim: Statement of US Official Source Constitutes Justification for Foreign Interference against Syria
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http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/11/10/380816.htm
Nov 10, 2011
DAMASCUS, (SANA) - Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Muallim expressed the Syrian Arab Republic's wonder over the statement of a US State Department source that encourages the Arab countries to join the political and economic boycott against Syria which exceeds the limits of the AL Charter and the bases of the joint Arab action.
al-Muallim clarified in a message to Arab League (AL) Secretary General, Nabil al-Arabi, on Wednesday that the US provocation constitutes a justification for a foreign interference and for economic and political sanctions against Syria with the agreement of some Arab countries, expressing hope that the US call will not be heeded at.
al-Muallim pointed out to the danger of such statements on the future of the joint Arab action under the patronage of the Arab League.
Foreign and Expatriates Minister added in the message that Syria, which has declared its commitment to the work plan agreed upon with AL, underlines its fulfillment of most of the plan's items unlike what is being propagated by some misleading TV channels, pointing out that Syria's permanent representative at the Arab League will brief the AL Ministerial Council on the steps taken in this regard.
al-Muallim, at the conclusion of the message, expressed hope that the AL Secretary General will respond to the US statements in accordance with the AL Charter and the Arab agreements that maintain the sovereignty as well as relations among Arab countries.
إيران ستكشف عن وثائق سرية قريباً تتضمن مستندات خطيرة عن ضلوع أميركا باغتيال الحريري والجميل والتويني وآخرين
Iran will reveal the secret documents include documents soon, serious involvement of America, the assassination of Hariri and Gemayel and Tueni and others
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Thursday - November 10 - 2011 - 11:39:07
Forward the strategic expert said Iran's "Amir of al-Musawi," that Iran will soon unveil documents and documents of a very sensitive and confidential present possession of the Iranian intelligence has been able to disclose and collected for many years and especially in the last eight years doubled in these documents.
The al-Moussawi as reported on the magazine "al-Inqaad" of Lebanon that these documents are distributed on several types as follows:
1 posts written.
2 orders of the CIA.
3 minutes of meetings and documents registered in a video.
4 messages across the Internet and communications.
5 banking financial documents are very important and very dangerous, the names of individuals and institutions sensitive. "
Moussawi and revealed that these "documents related to three areas of operational and executive are:
1 Iran's Islamic Republic where include bombings, assassinations and sabotage of facilities, locations and facilities, including nuclear facilities, and inciting sectarian strife in Iran.
2 Arab region, especially Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and the Gulf region, Afghanistan, Pakistan and North Africa through assassinations, murder mastermind, which shows the target as if they died of cases of death natural, such as the assassination of the commander of the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, Ahmed Shah Masood, Pakistani President Muhammad Zia ul-Haq, as well as death surprise to the Prince of Bahrain, Shaikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Muhammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
In Lebanon, said Moussawi said, "There are documents serious about the assassination of former minister Pierre Gemayel and editor of" daylight "Gebran Tueni, and other personalities," and also stressed that "there are documents serious assassination of President Rafik Hariri, as well as the operations of a failed assassination against some names, were all of the intervention of U.S. or American orders, as well as the documents sought from the America in which the rhythm between Lebanon and Syria, and documents proving serious roles for institutions and personalities in this context. "
He pointed out that al-Moussawi Iran is also in possession of secret documents on the "assassinations took place in Sudan, Egypt, Algeria and Mauritania, as well as documents for specific U.S. operations in France and Europe."
More seriously, according to al-Moussawi that "there are assassinations of important and very serious for eminent persons in the area but failed and documents to be provided around Iran to America and if denied by the Islamic Republic, then you would expose them."
رئيس وزراء قطر : لا خلاف شخصي مع الرئيس الأسد والحديث عن استضافة قطر لحركة حماس غيرصحيح
Prime Minister of Qatar: no personal dispute with President Assad and Qatar to host talk about Hamas incorrect
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Thursday - November 10 - 2011 - 11:57:27
Hamad Bin Jassim, the Qatari Prime Minister said, "there is no personal dispute between him and President Bashar al-Assad," and added that the rumors about the transmission of the political bureau of Hamas from Damascus, was premature, and that talk about the host in Qatar is not true.
He said in a lengthy dialogue with the Egyptian newspaper Al-Akhbar published on Thursday: "We hope that Syria remains a strong coherent state is a central and important in the Arab and regional levels."
And Prime Minister and Qatar's foreign minister that he could not confirm that the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) immune hundred percent against the "Arab spring".
In response to a question about whether the Gulf states are immune to the spring of revolutions of the Arab, he said, "my testimony Mejrouhh because I am part of the system of the Gulf states, but I cannot say that the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council fortified hundred percent, and the fact that the Council is always flexible, and the relationship between the ruler and ruled in the region different from the others and there is keen on customs and traditions and to communicate more between the top of the pyramid of power and rule. "
Shaikh Hamad and attributed the cause of "Arab" revolutions to the spread of an intellectual movement in the Arab world rejected the phenomenon of political repression, adding that it was possible to address these "explosions" If the leaders and the Arab rulers began to deal with all the seriousness and speed of reform.
He said: "There is, in my opinion, is a need to hand over the baton on to younger generations. Unfortunately, there is an absence of such a culture in the Arab world .. Why the challenge and am sorry for this word / cursed Abu authority that allows the governor to kill people / Winkle him and destroy his country in order to stay in power ".
And the situation in his country, he said: "We have no political prisoners, and human rights organizations roam all prisons .. A significant progress in education, health, and how the development of society," adding that increasing the salaries of the state of the country "type of distribution of wealth," and not what is said for that decision proactive against any protests or social tensions.
And Al-Jazeera, said: ".. Some say that al-Jazeerah is a tool in the hands of national policy, this is not true .. the opinion of His Highness al-Amir (Emir) is that the freedom of the media is part of a road map on which we walk."
With regard to the financial support to Egypt, he said: "Qatar has promised to aid and provide economic and financial support to Egypt as we are assured that we are prepared to invest 10 billion dollars and we're still on our commitment to this has been provided the first tranche, which was ordered by the Emir of Qatar Shaikh Hamad and $ 500 million, and there are other amounts soft loans or bonds in progress on the arrangements. "
In response to accusations from several quarters, some official about the existence of money being pumped from the Qatar civil society organizations and personalities designed to influence the situation in Egypt, said Qatari Prime Minister: "Whether the statement formally or informally, we are dealing with evidence and facts .. and we, as not interfere in the internal affairs of any country and does not donate unless it was something, declaring, clear, and through legitimate channels, and to assure that there is no directed government to charity. I cannot deny that there are donors not only from the country, but some Egyptians working in Qatar, and we as a government do not We support anything like that. "
He denied that Qatar's preferred candidate for the presidency of Egypt, and said: "We do not have a favorite candidate at all the issue is related to the Egyptian people and it is subject to the choices do not interfere in this matter."
He believed that "the crisis of Libya, embodied the first positive cooperation between the West and the Arab countries may not agree with me some .. when I started the revolution in Libya and found a gun kills people .. and we went to the Arab League and the question is who will lead the process, it was assumed that Egypt is not for the circumstances in which pass them as a neighbor and the most capable and most powerful intervention .. and when we fail we asked to impose an air embargo, we just want to stop the bombing of the Libyan people by air and do not forget that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi threatened to remove the Benghazi from the map. What is the procedure required if: Would you say non-interference and wait until is the elimination of the Libyan people? ".
In the Yemeni affairs, said: "We have announced three months ago our withdrawal from the Gulf after the initiative and found that we may be taking the initiative as to no end and are caught up in delays."
And the relations with Iran, he said: "We have good relations with Iran and is always careful to maintain good relations with Iran, because Iran is a neighboring country directly to Qatar and the large .. do not agree in every policy with them, nor will they agree with us in every policy, but we are together agree that there should be a good relationship .. We always strive for calm as anything that may occur in the region Sadharna directly. "
On the Palestinian issue, Shaikh Hamad said that talk about the nomination of Qatar to host the political bureau of Hamas, an alternative to Damascus "premature was not looking and not true."
الجزائر ترفض استقبال "المجلس الوطني" المعارض
Algeria refused to receive the opposition "National Council" (SNC)
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Thursday - November 10 - 2011 - 14:43:55
Jabr al-office member of the Secretariat for the "Syrian National Council" revealed the Algeria's official refusal of receiving the oppositions delegation from the Executive Office of the Council for the time being, adding that the Council hopes a date of the visit to be set by the Algerian authorities at a later time.
al-Shoufi told the Algerian daily "al-Shurouq", National Council Syrian request for an official visit to the Algerian government and the latter reserved for the visit at the moment, however, pointed out that the Algerian "did not refuse to receive the delegation as permanent, but apologized for receiving us now," and why an apology Algiers contents of these bilateral contacts confirmed that the Algerian government did not provide a reason for that and only an apology.
Shoufi added that the Executive Office of the Council is still awaiting a date from the Algerian government to receive them, and "hopes to be close, especially with the continued killing in the Syrian street."
And concerning two states of Sudan and the Sultanate of Oman that the SNC announced for an expected visit, he explained that they had not received a response yet, and they are waiting for that.
Lebanon must protect against Syria evading sanctions: U.S. official
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November 10, 2011 01:43 PM (Last updated: November 10, 2011 04:57 PM)
BEIRUT: Lebanon must protect its financial sector from attempts to use it to avoid sanctions on Syria, U.S. Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing Daniel Glaser said Thursday.
Glaser "stressed the need for authorities to protect the Lebanese financial sector from potential Syrian attempts to evade U.S. and EU financial sanctions," said a statement issued by the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon.
It said Glaser, who is in Lebanon on his first visit as assistant secretary, also underscored the need for Lebanon to take the necessary steps to "ensure a transparent and well-regulated financial sector for Lebanon's continued prosperity."
Glaser's remarks were made during separate meetings with Prime Minister Najib Mikati, Lebanon's Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh, and a number of representatives from the Lebanese banking sector.
He reiterated the U.S. view that it is important to ensure that the current instability in Syria does not undermine the Lebanese financial sector.
There have been fears that sanctions imposed on Syria may impact Lebanon, due to the close relationship between the two countries, and Glaser is not the first official to warn about such dangers. Last week, U.K. ambassador to Lebanon Tom Fletcher said he hoped the Lebanese economy could distance itself from the Syrian sanctions.
Labor Minister Charbel Nahhas assured Lebanese Thursday that they need not worry over the possibility of sanctions hitting the banking sector.
"There are banking controls and regulations in place that must be adhered to by all banks including the Central Bank," Charbel told a local radio station.
"Lebanese bankers are aware of these rules and they cannot breach them," he said, adding that if "sanctions are imposed they would be political."
Regarding a U.N.-backed court probing the assassination of statesman Rafik Hariri, the U.S. official urged Lebanon to meet all of its international obligations, including cooperating with and funding the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, according to the embassy statement.
It said Glaser renewed Washington's commitment to a "stable, sovereign and independent Lebanon."
U.S. to question Lebanon over deposits
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November 10, 2011 01:06 AM
BEIRUT: Alleged reports of capital and deposits fleeing from Syria to Lebanon will be the key issue raised by a senior U.S. official during his talks with Lebanese officials Thursday.
The U.S. Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing Daniel Glaser, who is scheduled to meet with Central Bank governor Riad Salameh and Finance Minister Muhammad Safadi, will convey Washington's deep concern about reports that Syrian officials who are on the U.S. blacklist are trying to transfer their money to Lebanese banks and financial institutions.
Salameh told the Association of Banks in Lebanon that Glaser's visit had been scheduled previously.
The visit comes on the heels of news that Washington is determined to apply pressure on any country that facilitates the transfer of Syrian funds, especially if they belong to Syrian officials who may have played a role in the crackdown on Syrian protesters.
But Salameh and bankers insist that Lebanese banks have not received substantial deposits from Syria since the crisis broke out eight months ago.
Bankers argue that the deposit growth this year has dropped compared to last year, proving that no Syrian cash has entered Lebanon.
A leading banker told The Daily Star that it is nearly impossible for any cash to enter the banking and financial system in a haphazard manner.
"Any penny that enters our financial system in Lebanon will appear in the balance sheets of commercial banks. There is no way billons of U.S. dollars [are] entering the Lebanese financial market without raising the alert of the Central Bank," the banker stressed.
He added that banks have clear instructions to ask any person who deposits more than $10,000 where he got the money from.
But the banker suggested that money could be carried through the border illegally by smugglers, but they surely won't dare to deposit them in the banks since they realize that this cash will be frozen by monetary authorities.
Salameh made similar these remarks in an interview with a Russian TV station, saying that the growth in Lebanon's deposits dropped this year when compared to 2010.
The latest data supports his claim. Deposits grew 5.4 percent in the first eight months of 2011, compared to growth of 7.3 percent in the first eight months of 2010, according to numbers by data provider, Economena Analytics.
Salameh confirmed that no Syrian accounts have been frozen in Lebanon, saying that such a procedure is the prerogative of the Special Investigation Commission, a body affiliated with the Central Bank.
"The Commission has not taken any action against Syrian depositors," he said, adding, "generally, this requires a decision by the [U.N.] Security Council."
But a statement issued earlier by the U.S. Treasury Department said Glaser was expected to "highlight the need for authorities to remain vigilant against attempts by the Syrian regime to evade U.S. and EU sanctions through the Lebanese financial sector," the U.S. Treasury Department said.
The United States had informally inquired about Syrian deposits in Lebanese banks last September as part of Washington's efforts to tighten economic and financial sanctions on Damascus, media reports said.
Bankers confidentially say that Syrian deposits in Lebanese banks do not exceed $3 billion and that most of this money belongs to prominent Syrian businessmen and traders who have held deposits in Lebanon previously.
These bankers also claim that they will abide by any Security Council resolution in the future which may prohibit any banking and financial transactions between Lebanon and Syria.
"So far, the Security Council did not pass any resolution on this matter and for this reason Lebanon is officially not obliged to heed the pressure from any country," a banker told The Daily Star.
Salameh and President of the Association of Banks in Lebanon Joseph Torbey have aggressively campaigned in Washington and other European capitals to dispel all rumors that Lebanese banks are a haven for illegal activities.
Torbey made it abundantly clear that Lebanese banks are well regulated and always abide by all Security Council resolutions.
Exchange dealers in Lebanon also denied some media allegations that they are receiving large sums of cash from Syria, adding that they are also under the strict supervision of the Central Bank.
Some Arab leaders offered haven for Assad - U.S.
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November 10, 2011 10:52 AM
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WASHINGTON: Some Arab leaders have told the United States they are willing to provide safe haven to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to hasten his "inevitable" departure from power, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday.
Assistant Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman did not identify the countries that had offered a place for Assad to go after seven months of protests against his rule in Syria.
"Almost all the Arab leaders, foreign ministers who I talk to say the same thing: Assad's rule is coming to an end. It is inevitable," Feltman, who is in charge of near eastern affairs, told a Senate panel.
"Some of these Arabs have even begun to offer Assad safe haven to encourage him to leave quickly," Feltman said. He hoped Assad and his inner circle would "head for the exits voluntarily."
Assad has shown no sign of leaving. Syrian troops shot dead eight protesters and injured 25 in Damascus earlier Wednesday, activists said, in one of the bloodiest incidents in the capital since the upraising against Assad began.
More than 60 people have been killed by the army and security forces just since last week, when Assad's government signed a peace plan sponsored by the Arab League.
Western governments led by the United States have called on Assad to leave power. Feltman said the United States would continue to support the Syrian opposition while diplomatically and financially pressuring the regime, "until Assad is gone."
U.S. and European financial sanctions were "tightening the financial noose around the (Assad) regime," he added.
But the United States did not seek militarization of the conflict: "Syria is not Libya."
Washington favored multilateral sanctions on Syria at the United Nations, Feltman said, adding that if Russia and China continued to block a Security Council resolution condemning Syria, Washington would consider other steps.
The United States favored European-led efforts to introduce a resolution in the U.N. General Assembly's human rights committee that would insist on access to Syria for internationally recognized human rights monitors, Feltman said.
He feared the transition to democracy in Syria could be long and difficult, and had no answer when Senator Richard Lugar asked who might replace Assad once he is gone.
"That's one of the real challenges, because the opposition in Syria is still divided," Feltman said.
Assad to play 'Kurdish card against Turkey, report says
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011
PARIS - Hürriyet
(Note: This is the same report as this one. The headline of this article indicates how nervously the Turkish government is reacting to a tiny change on the Syrian side.)
Syria is looking to destabilize Turkey by providing greater autonomy to the Arab republic's Kurdish population in the wake of Ankara's demands that Damascus heed the demands of the country's opposition, French daily Le Figaro has reported.
The Bashar al-Assad government has begun to support the Kurdish people living in Syria's north, which is reportedly home to 1.9 million Kurds, in an attempt to pose a threat to Turkey in its fight against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), daily Hürriyet quoted the daily as saying yesterday.
Assad has taken advantage of the current crisis in the country to establish a "Kurdish autonomous region" in Syria in the event that he falls from power in a similar fashion to Col. Moammar Gadhafi in Libya.
The president has been preparing the ground for a Kurdish autonomous regional administration by opening Kurdish schools in the country's north, reported Le Figaro, adding that the language of instruction was Kurdish and that the Kurdish anthem was sung every day.
The daily also claimed that Assad permitted Kurdish politician Muhammad Salih Muslim, the head of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), which is seen as a PKK affiliate, to return to Syria as a message to Turkey. Muslim was in exile in Iraq until the protests against Assad began in Syria earlier this year.
The PYD is reportedly organizing local elections in the north, the daily said.
The newspaper said accepting the Kurdish politician into Syria must be seen as an action to "punish [Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan for harshly objecting to Syria's crackdown on its dissidents."
"It is no coincidence that Muslim has been elected as the deputy head of the Democratic Change Committee Coordination, which was founded by the Syrian regime, shortly after returning from exile," said the daily. "The PYD is staying away from the Syrian National Council [SNC] which was founded in Istanbul because it believes that the SNC is backed by Western powers and is against the PKK."
The assassination of Mashaal Tammo on Oct. 7, a Kurdish opposition leader in Syria, was also a message to Syrian Kurds that a "good Kurd" was one supported by the regime, according to Le Figaro.
Ankara will need to tread with care
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09 November 2011, Wednesday
SUAT KINIKLIOĞLU, Columnists
Turkey's neighborhood policy has been devised with a clear understanding of situating Turkey at the center of a number of intersecting regions. Indeed, at the time of its implementation we were not aware of the far-reaching consequences it could have in such a short time both for Turkey and our neighbors.
When Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu addressed the people at the opening dinner of the İstanbul Forum last week, it became apparent how much distance had been covered in comparison to the old days and how deeply involved we found ourselves in the intricacies of the Middle East.
This is what we asked for. Turkey wanted to be a player in the Middle East and now that is part of our reality. History will judge how the reintegration of Turkey into its immediate neighborhood has impacted it, the region and Turkey's traditional alliances. From an overall strategic perspective, what Turkey needs most urgently is to remind itself every morning that we have to tread extremely carefully in the coming weeks and months in the Middle East. The regional nuances and complexities are far beyond the ordinary understanding most of us have about the region. That said, there is no need for despair but we must not forget that we are walking into territory that is mined, and one of the most treacherous traps Turkey could fall into is the sectarian one. So far, Ankara has rightly articulated an "above-sectarian" approach to the region's issues. Yet, the more we become enmeshed into the regional imbroglio, the capability to remain above sectarian politics turns into an ever more challenging gamble.
The Iranian-Saudi confrontation, which is to be felt at every level in the region, is almost inescapable and we should not give up reiterating our nuanced position vis-à-vis these two antagonists. While we find ourselves on the same side of the Syrian equation with the US and Saudi Arabia, we may not have the same objectives there. Ankara does not operate on a Sunni-based leadership role there but rather seeks to pacify a problematic country whose leadership has become part of the problem and continues to breed instability.
One difficulty we face in Syria is to convince our own public and regional players that Turkey's opposition to the Baath regime's killings are genuinely Turkish concerns and have nothing to do with a neo-conservative democracy promotion agenda. However, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President Abdullah Gül and Foreign Minister Davutoğlu's messages have been clear and consistent from the very beginning.
Conventional wisdom speculates that the departure of the Baath regime will take place within two years. These are promising to be two tense years that will have to be managed with utmost care to avoid an all-out civil war there. In fact, the Assad regime's greatest asset is the fear of a sectarian earthquake that would shake the region. It does not necessarily have to be that way. If all interested in a smooth transition act responsibly, the transition may even be more orderly than the doomsday scenarios suggest. One prerequisite is the maturing of the Syrian opposition. We need a representative and articulate leadership that can demonstrate its capacity to lead the country through a difficult transition. There are already strong signs that the Assad regime understands the risks at hand. We hear of aggressive real estate purchases in İstanbul, Beirut and Dubai by pro-Assad circles who no longer see their rule in Syria as guaranteed.
We also need to monitor closely the situation in Lebanon and do our utmost to prevent a spillover of instability into the precarious balance of power there. The last thing anyone wants is Lebanon to become infected by the Syrian malaise. There are things in history one cannot stop. The Arab Awakening has set into motion dynamics which are difficult to stop. Ankara will need to tread with care.
The real question for the PKK: Listen to Barzani or follow Kalkan?
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09 November 2011, Wednesday
MARKAR ESAYAN, Columnists
The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) problem has now entered a completely new phase.
The parameters and conditions of the past will no longer apply. Actually, the conditions marking the advent of this new period began with the attacks on Reşadiye, Kastamonu and Silvan. With these attacks, the Turkish government -- and, for example, people like me -- felt tricked, and also realized that the authority emanating from İmralı is not as unquestionable as previously believed. Just as serious advances were being made in the government's talks with PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, all of a sudden the PKK was ramping up the violence. As for Öcalan, he was not using his authority over the PKK to urge it to abandon weapons, either, in order to not open up his own leadership to question, or to avoid hearing a clear rejection from the PKK. This standoff has finished Öcalan off as the unquestionable leader of the PKK.
Even though the Çukurca attack and the 24 martyrs lost in it have appeared to amount to a sort of breaking point, I believe the government has been devising a new strategy towards the PKK for a long time now. This strategy was not to send a sort of Afghanistan-style horde of soldiers into the mountains of northern Iraq. Rather, this new strategy is based on the idea of striking the PKK's camps in Hakkari and Zap using the air forces and professional soldiers supported by high-level intelligence and advanced technological aids. And the strategy does not only encompass the military arena: It also includes elements such as sending some of the state's most elite names – such as Tufan Ergüder -- to the region to establish state control in regions like Hakkari, which had previously been abandoned to PKK control. The state's intentions on this front are evidenced by the appointment of experienced diplomats, as opposed to local governors without much knowledge, such as Murat Özçelik to the position of public safety counselor. As a result of this new strategy, the PKK will be forced to engage in war and broker peace with a completely different Turkey.
I wish this violence had not happened and that we had no need for a new strategy. I wish the PKK, rather than acting like a spoiled child and playing into Assad's game, had taken advantage of the opportunity arranged for it to come down from the mountains in an honorable way. If it had, perhaps an agreement could have been signed last year, without so many more people having to die. But neither the PKK in the mountains nor the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) on the plains were able to show this kind of foresight and acumen.
Did the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) make mistakes as well? They did. They acted slowly and deficiently on the initiative front. They were unable to prevent the Habur disaster. They directed the whole initiative process with a lack of seriousness and experience. The name of a military barracks that had been named after Mustafa Muğlalı Pasha, who killed 33 Kurdish villagers, has only recently been changed. Even in taking this very simple step, the government behaved too calculatingly and cautiously.
There is no doubt that warlords such as Duran Kalkan, Fehman Hüseyin, Cemil Bayık and Murat Karasu believed they would be able to successfully bring Turkey to its knees with support from Syria. I really doubt, though, that either İmralı or Kandil has correctly assessed today's Turkey. It is clear that that they don't understand how Turkey has changed and that they are not dealing with the old Turkey. They are still formulating strategies according to the paradigm of the 1990s and calculating Turkey's response accordingly, when the truth is that Turkey has changed tremendously in the past nine years.
I do not know whether Turkey's response to the Çukurca attack forced the PKK to wake up. After all, the dead were not warlords, but rather Kurdish youths. At the same time, it did become clear that the PKK's purported strength had been exaggerated and its leaders lost prestige. But Syria is still providing serious support for the PKK. At the same time, a chain of talks continues in which the abandonment of violence remains on the table as a real option. In this new period, Turkey is not offering the PKK any option other than leaving off weapons. Barzani is now looking ahead to when America pulls out of Iraq and, knowing he will face real problems at that time, is expending serious energy to get the PKK to abandon its weapons, for which Turkey is offering real support.
In the wake of serious losses, the PKK is stuck in something of a corner. It must either trust in Syria's support and follow the orders of Duran Kalkan, or listen to Massoud Barzani and announce that it is laying down its weapons. As it is, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has already declared that only under such conditions can talks begin. If the PKK makes the wrong decision and chooses warfare, it will be suicide.
'Sacrifices' in Syria
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09 November 2011, Wednesday / CENGİZ ÇANDAR, RADİKAL
İstanbul hosted an important meeting, The İstanbul Forum, just before the Kurban Bayramı (Feast of the Sacrifice) holiday. During the two-day İstanbul Forum meeting, the state Syria is currently in was the most discussed topic since political developments in the neighboring country have great importance for Turkey.
Every foreign intellectual who comes to Turkey asks, "Why has Turkey adopted such a harsh attitude towards the regime considering its close relations with the leaders of the region?" The Foreign Ministry official replied to the question by saying that taking the values and ethics of Turkey into consideration, Turkey has chosen the Syrian people over the regime. What I personally think is that Turkey's stance towards Syria is risky. I am not saying it is right or wrong; my observation is that it is risky. The officials say that the regime will stay in power for another six months, two years at most. We cannot know if it will turn out to be true or not until the time comes. But what is certain for now is that the regime has the power to extend its hold on power, I am afraid.
Lebanese Military Investigating Judge Refers Two Arrested Syrians to Prison on Charge of Trafficking and Smuggling Weapons
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Nov 10, 2011
BEIRUT, (SANA) – Lebanese military investigating judge on Thursday issued a prima facia arrest warrant against the Syrians Ammar al-Adib and Muhammad Bashlah on charges of weapon trafficking and smuggling.
General Directorate of General Security in Lebanon said in a statement issued today that the military investigating judge referred the arrested to Qubba prison in Tripoli, Lebanon.
Jumblatt may have overseen Aisamy's killing: Baath Party MP
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November 10, 2011 03:25 PM
BEIRUT: Baath Party MP Assem Qanso said there was no evidence that Syrian opposition members had been kidnapped in Lebanon, and accused Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt of having supervised the killing of missing Syrian dissident Shibli Aisamy.
"All that talk about kidnapping of Syrians in Lebanon is fabricated and lacks evidence," Qanso told el-Nashra website.
"Since when did Walid Jumblatt care about Syrian opposition [figures]?" asked Qanso, a Baalbek-Hermel MP and the former head of the Baath Party in Lebanon.
Three brothers, believed to be Syrian opposition members, as well Aisamy, a dissident and co-founder of Syria's ruling Baath Party have disappeared in recent months.
Qanso suggested that Aisamy may have been killed, and hinted that Jumblatt and Aley MP Akram Shehayeb may have supervised the murder.
"It is not unlikely that Jumblatt and Shehayeb oversaw the liquidation of Aisamy," he said.
Shehayeb swiftly hit back at Qanso.
"It seems that the 13 Syrian opposition [figures alleged to be missing] did not know that the Baath Party MP is too busy with his colleagues to be devoted to kidnappings so they hid themselves, unless a group from another planet abducted them with no trace," Shehayeb mocked.
Police chief Maj. Gen. Ashraf Rifi said last month that Internal Security Forces has collected "dangerous information" pointing to the Syrian Embassy's involvement in the May disappearance of Aisamy.
Aisamy, 86, was abducted in Aley, minutes after leaving his daughter's home for a walk.
Earlier this month, Prime Minister Najib Mikati acknowledged that members of the Syrian opposition had gone missing in Lebanon, but said it had happened before his government came to power.
"This happened several months ago, before the formation of the government" in mid-June, Mikati said of the kidnappings in an interview with BBC Arabic.
Qanso Thursday suggested that Aisamy's disappearance could not necessarily be traced to Lebanon.
"We didn't even know he was here [in Lebanon]. He [Aisamy] was living among them [the Druze community]. He may have been killed over a family or inter-Druze dispute," Qanso suggested.
In a statement issued Wednesday, Jumblatt questioned whether reports were true that the number of Syrian activists kidnapped in Lebanon has reached 13.
"Are we about to establish a return of the renowned era of security tutelage?" Jumblatt asked.
Qanso hit back Thursday, accusing Jumblatt of being paid for making such statements.
"We know that these statements are being paid in advance by the Future Movement, Israel and America," he said.
Regarding all-party talks, Qanso lamented there was no "basis for dialogue."
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has stepped up efforts to revive dialogue among the rival political leaders to discuss a defense strategy for Lebanon.
Nov 10 International
الجعفري في بيان أمام مجلس الأمن: موضوع حماية المدنيين في النزاعات المسلحة لا يمكن أن يكون انتقائيا أو استنسابيا
Jaafari said in a statement to the Security Council: the protection of civilians in armed conflict cannot be selective or discretionary
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/11/10/380885.htm
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/11/11/380913.htm
November 10, 2011
New York - SANA
NEW YORK, (SANA) – Syria's Permanent Representative to the UN, Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari, on Wednesday said that the UN considers that the subject of protecting civilians in armed conflicts cannot be approached selectively.
In a statement before the UN Security Council, al-Jaafari added that this issue is related only to armed conflicts.
"That is why we consider that the protection of the Palestinian, Syrian and Lebanese civilians from the Israeli occupation is a basic part of this issue, especially that the Council has discussed this important matter for a long time in the light of the grave and continuous Israeli violations against the civilian population in the occupied Arab territories," al-Jaafari added.
He indicated that "A cause for concern is that some member states- which we listen to their statements concerning the protection of civilians in armed conflicts- sometimes set their own selective concept of protecting civilians in armed conflicts, a concept that is contrary to the International Human Law (IHL)."
"Jurisprudence considers that the international efforts which are aimed at protecting civilians in cases of armed conflicts should be exerted in the framework of respecting the principles of the UN Charter, which stress the importance of respecting the sovereignty and independence of the countries and not interfering in their internal affairs. These efforts should also be in compliance with the rules of Geneva Conventions and the IHL." al-Jaafari said.
He stressed the need for not confusing the issue of protecting civilians in armed conflicts with the threats to the international security and peace, adding that using expressions from outside the UN ethics –such as "the responsibility of interference" and "humanitarian interference"- should be avoided because it will harm the creditability and non-alignment of the UN and undermine the efforts exerted to protect civilians in armed conflicts.
"It is an odd paradox that with the development of the international law concepts, the suffering of civilians during conflicts increased as the number of these conflicts themselves increased. The phenomenon of forgiving foreign military occupation forces for violating the international law has aggravated." al-Jaafari pointed out.
"are occupying countries which are members in the UN outside the framework of the international legitimacy and killing millions of their civilian population aimed at protecting those civilians? Are the calls, which were made in this Council today and in previous occasions, to change regimes in some UN-member countries are within the framework of the noble purpose of protecting civilians in armed conflicts?" He asked.
He went on asking "How can we explain the killing of 130 thousand Libyans under the pretext of protecting Libya's civilians? How can we explain the statement of the US Department of State's spokeswoman which stipulated a clear call for the armed groups in Syria not to surrender their weapons in line with the Syrian government general amnesty granted to all persons who surrender their weapons? Doesn't this statement mean that there is a US involvement in the violence in Syria? Aren't the US policies, which are supported by some European countries, thwarting the work of the Arab League and its initiative?"
"Isn't avoiding the issue of the Israeli reckless settlement, which threatens the peace principle, contradicts the most important right of the Palestinian and Syrian civilians who are under the Israeli occupation?" he asked.
al-Jaafari said, "We don't know how long the continuous Israeli occupation of the Arab territories- including the occupied Syrian Golan, Jerusalem, Shebaa farms and al- Ghajar village- can be ignored. We don't know why we don't see the same enthusiasm in the countries whose representatives went too far today in expressing their keenness on protecting civilians in specific parts of the world and used the Security Council, whose main task is protecting the international peace and security, as a platform to pass curtailed explanation of the subject of protecting civilians in armed conflicts."
al-Jaafari concluded "Representatives of the colonial countries, especially France and Britain, make a mistake when they think that the human memory can't recall the crimes against humanity they have committed throughout decades of colonization."
المشاورات الروسية الامريكية.. موسكو تصر على حل سلمي دون تدخل خارجي في سورية
Russian-US consultations .. Moscow insists on a peaceful solution without external interference in Syria
http://arabic.rt.com/news_all_news/news/571295
10.11.2011 02:04
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry said Mikhail Bogdanov, deputy Russian Foreign Minister discussed with Wendy Sherman, Assistant Secretary of State in the framework of consultations Russian-American in Moscow on Wednesday, November 9 issues of the Middle East with a focus on the situation in Syria and the conduct of the settlement process Alcherqawstih.
A statement of Foreign Affairs, published in the official website of the Ministry on the Internet that the Russian side, "stressed the need to take advantage of all the possibilities available to resolve the situation in Syria exclusively by peaceful means and without any outside interference." It was suggested that it is required that "the international community to make concerted efforts collectively urge the Syrian authorities and the opposition forces to launch a comprehensive national dialogue on the basis of the Arab League initiative."
The sides also touched on the subject of the Middle East peace process. They expressed "growing concern of the dangerous deadlock in the negotiation process between the Palestinians and the Israelis." They agreed to "continue to make joint efforts to help out in the process of settlement of the impasse, including in the framework of the Quartet of international mediators."
The State indicated in its statement to the Russian that Russia and the United States intend to continue to coordinate positions of the most important issues of the regional agenda.
مسؤول روسي : ميدفيديف سيطرح الموقف الروسي حيال سوريا وايران خلال لقائه نظيره الامريكي
Russian official: Medvedev, the Russian position will be put on Syria and Iran during a meeting with his U.S. counterpart
http://www.aksalser.com/?page=view_news&id=061df1113a0152d6b4b83638a89756de&ar=773421512
Thursday - November 10 - 2011 - 14:06:41
Russian official said that President Dmitry Medvedev will present his country's position towards Syria and Iran during the upcoming meeting with his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama.
He said Russian presidential aide Sergei Brichiedko during a press conference today that the two sides will exchange views on various international and regional issues including developments in the Middle East and North Africa during their bilateral decision on the sidelines of the OECD countries of the Asia-Pacific (ASEAN) in Honolulu two days after .
He added that the two sides will continue to Brichiedko as well as talks on U.S. missile shield, insisting on the need for Russia to legal guarantees in writing not to target this armor.
The Russian summit meeting - the U.S. after a few days on a report issued by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has accused the Tehran working to produce nuclear weapons.
صحيفة روسية: الناتو لن يستطيع ضرب سوريا
Russian newspaper: NATO cannot attack Syria
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=33fca75a28d00109e7d476181dbcb6d5&ar=872620870
Thursday - November 10 - 2011 - 12:21:06
The Russian newspaper "Ergumenta Nedeli" ruled out expectations of many observers, NATO launched a military operation against Syria, stressing that NATO cannot attack Syria, under the current conditions.
The newspaper pointed out that the victory over Syria needs to process large and blatant war involving the United States and the European armies of NATO, considering that America is not ready for a war to be added to the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The newspaper added that Syria does not exist by the opposition can be supported by the airline alliance, at the time that remains when the Syrian army able to fight.
روسيا تنتقد موقف فرنسا من المبادرة العربية حول سوريا
Russia criticizes France's position on the Arab initiative on Syria
http://www.aksalser.com/?page=view_news&id=e452d375036ff04d99bbb05a56e522d4&ar=463338545
Thursday - November 10 - 2011 - 15:52:12
Alexander Ukashević spokesman Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday, November 10 that Moscow does not share France's position towards the Arab League initiative on the settlement of the situation in Syria is not effective.
Ukashević said that "it is difficult in light of the complex situation present a framework to help establish a dialogue be better than the Arab League. The Arab League will be able to realize all the circumstances relating to the dispute and propose better solutions."
It is worth mentioning that the French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe has said the Arab League initiative on Syria died.
He pointed to Ukashević that statements about the Arab League initiative is effective, "notes the position of those countries interested in moving the" Libyan scenario "in international relations."
وفد من " المجلس الوطني السوري" المعارض يزور روسيا بداية الأسبوع المقبل
Delegation of "the Syrian National Council" (SNC) opposition to visit Russia early next week
http://www.aksalser.com/?page=view_news&id=8d5869b3f767b438491b719507a176af&ar=477896580
Thursday - November 10 - 2011 - 15:33:42
Visiting delegation from the Syrian National Council opposition in the Russian capital Moscow early next week at the official invitation for talks with Russian officials, including Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
The news agency "Novosti" Russian sources and described as "informed" that a delegation of the Syrian National Council will visit Moscow early next week at the invitation of Russia.
The delegation includes a number of Syrian opposition figures, including President of the Council proof pipe and Radwan Ziadeh, Basmah al-Qudmana.
It is expected that the delegation will hold talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and officials in both the Senate and Russian Duma.
It is noteworthy that Moscow had already received two delegations from the Syrian opposition and played an important role to address the Syrian crisis after use "veto" in the Security Council against the draft EU resolution, backed by the U.S., to condemn the "violence" in Syria.
Russia has backed the Arab League initiative to resolve the crisis, while the Syrian foreign minister stressed that the initiative paves the way for the organization of the dialogue between Syrian authorities and the opposition and open the way to resolve the crisis peacefully and politically.
نائب وزير الخارجية الروسي يحذر من التدخل الخارجي في الشؤون الداخلية لسورية
Deputy Russian Foreign Minister warns against outside interference in the internal affairs of Syria
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/11/10/380748.htm
http://www.sana.sy/eng/22/2011/11/10/380755.htm
November 10, 2011
Moscow - SANA
Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov warned from any outside interference in the internal affairs of Syria.
The Russian Foreign Ministry .. The Bogdanov stressed during a meeting in Moscow Ondoy Sherman, Deputy U.S. Secretary of State on the urgent need to use all available means to resolve the situation in Syria exclusively peaceful political means, without any outside interference.
Bogdanov stressed the need for the international community is making concerted efforts for a dialogue between Syrian authorities and the opposition is based on the initiative of the League of Arab States.
The two sides expressed a common desire to continue the regular consultations between them on matters of fundamental issues on the regional agenda.
The two sides expressed their concern by the recession in the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations in this regard and agreed to continue to make joint efforts to contribute to overcoming the current impasse in the settlement of the Middle East, including within the framework of the Quartet.
To Ukashević: Russia refuses to permit the French Foreign Minister that the Arab League initiative died on Syria
The spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Ukashević said at a news conference in Moscow today that Russia is still considered the Arab League initiative on Syria is an urgent case in the past, expressing his country's refusal to permit the French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe about this initiative is dead.
Ukashević said that Russia rejects this assessment, this logic firmly pointing out that it is difficult to find another form of the Syrian contribution to the dialogue was more appropriate than this form of the Arab League.
He added that line to Ukashević States, working to establish the Libyan scenario in international relations, discretion is clearly behind the words of those who speak for the initiative of the League of Arab States on Syria lost its vitality.
The spokesman for the Russian Foreign hoped that the results of the ministerial session of the emergency Arab League to discuss the situation in Syria and contribute in a positive dialogue between the government and the opposition in Syria.
Ukashević said that Moscow is convinced that the League of Arab States will be able to address all the circumstances of the situation in Syria accuracy and suggests a comprehensive proposal to resolve this situation.
Russian-Syrian Friendship Association renewed to stand by Syria in the face of current conditions
To that, the Alexander Dzasokhov president of the Russian-Syrian friendship and pledged his country to the Syrian leadership and people, stressing that the public interest in the Russian position on the situation in Syria.
Dzasokhov stressed in a speech during the opening ceremony of a meeting of the Board of Directors in the presence of the Syrian ambassador in Moscow, Riad Haddad that he should not be just a word not for aggression against Syria, but we must take practical steps to support the Syrian people and make concrete proposals for Syria's help in overcoming the difficulties of the current conditions and maintenance of safety and territorial integrity.
For his part, Ambassador Smith to accept the Syrian Arab League initiative and the release of 553 prisoners and declare a general amnesty for those who laid down their arms had not committed murder.
The Ambassador Smith and presence of third parties working on the escalation of tension in the country and inciting the armed terrorist groups to continue its crimes, and to provide these groups with money and weapons smuggling.
In turn, participants in the meeting of political, parliamentary, academic and media solidarity with the Syrian people and denounce attempts to foment sectarian strife.
Participants also pointed out that the processes of political reform, economic and social began long ago in Syria, despite exposure to the U.S. practices against them.
فيلتمان: سفير أمريكا سيعود لسوريا خلال أيام
Feltman: U.S. ambassador to Syria will return within days
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=0c051dad957b102a7406c3dca8c4fe58&ar=284222210
Thursday - November 10 - 2011 - 9:02:42
Said Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman, told a session of the Subcommittee on Foreign Relations, the U.S. ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, who withdrew last month for security reasons, will return to the center of his work during days or weeks.
Radio "Sawa" U.S. Today "Thursday," Jeffrey said that U.S. support for the efforts of the Arab League, which seeks to stop the violence in Syria.
He added that Washington welcomes the formation of the so-called Pal Syrian National Council, but asked for opposition movements to make more of an effort to expand its popular base inside Syria.
The U.S. authorities have pulled the U.S. ambassador from Damascus last month for security reasons said she.
عماد مصطفى: عودة روبرت فورد إلى سورية شأن أمريكي
Imad Moustapha: the return of Robert Ford to Syria regarding U.S.
http://www.aksalser.com/?page=view_news&id=c5e4eda0bcf61982c109cd2c207c8cac&ar=680659382
Thursday - November 10 - 2011 - 15:27:05
Syrian ambassador in Washington Imad Moustapha, said that "the return of the U.S. ambassador to Syria, to Damascus, Robert Ford, a matter for the Washington, they wanted to return him or not, this is a matter for the Americans and we are not interested in that."
Mustafa said in response to a question on the channel "Al-Manar" Lebanese returning to Washington: "My government believes that in these times the job have a job I do not in Washington, but here (in Damascus), and in particular I am working with the Syrian government."
Mustafa pointed out that Syria was "aware since the beginning of the events inflammatory role played by Washington, the U.S. role from the outset it was clear, they insist that the peaceful protests in Syria and there is no terrorist groups."
And Jeffrey Feltman, Assistant Secretary of State for the Middle East, announced Wednesday that the U.S. ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, who withdrew last month for security reasons, will return to his post within days or weeks.
U.S., Portugal agree to continue cooperation on Syria, Iran
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-11/10/c_131238267.htm
English.news.cn 2011-11-10 08:08:40
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- The United States and Portugal agreed on Wednesday to continue their close cooperation at the UN Security Council over issues like Syria, Iran and the Middle East peace.
At their White House talks, U.S. President Barack Obama and his Portuguese counterpart Anibal Cavaco Silva reaffirmed the strength of the partnership between their countries, which they said is building on the "deep friendship and long-standing alliance" between the two NATO allies.
"We also agreed to continue our close cooperation within the UN Security Council, where Portugal currently serves as Council President, on issues of mutual concern, such as Syria, Libya, Middle East peace and Iran," the two leaders said in a joint statement.
"We emphasized the importance that both our countries attach to the role of the United Nations in the promotion of peace, democracy, good governance and human rights," they added.
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Jaafari said in a statement to the Security Council: the protection of civilians in armed conflict cannot be selective or discretionary
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/11/10/380885.htm
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/11/11/380913.htm
November 10, 2011
New York - SANA
NEW YORK, (SANA) – Syria's Permanent Representative to the UN, Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari, on Wednesday said that the UN considers that the subject of protecting civilians in armed conflicts cannot be approached selectively.
In a statement before the UN Security Council, al-Jaafari added that this issue is related only to armed conflicts.
"That is why we consider that the protection of the Palestinian, Syrian and Lebanese civilians from the Israeli occupation is a basic part of this issue, especially that the Council has discussed this important matter for a long time in the light of the grave and continuous Israeli violations against the civilian population in the occupied Arab territories," al-Jaafari added.
He indicated that "A cause for concern is that some member states- which we listen to their statements concerning the protection of civilians in armed conflicts- sometimes set their own selective concept of protecting civilians in armed conflicts, a concept that is contrary to the International Human Law (IHL)."
"Jurisprudence considers that the international efforts which are aimed at protecting civilians in cases of armed conflicts should be exerted in the framework of respecting the principles of the UN Charter, which stress the importance of respecting the sovereignty and independence of the countries and not interfering in their internal affairs. These efforts should also be in compliance with the rules of Geneva Conventions and the IHL." al-Jaafari said.
He stressed the need for not confusing the issue of protecting civilians in armed conflicts with the threats to the international security and peace, adding that using expressions from outside the UN ethics –such as "the responsibility of interference" and "humanitarian interference"- should be avoided because it will harm the creditability and non-alignment of the UN and undermine the efforts exerted to protect civilians in armed conflicts.
"It is an odd paradox that with the development of the international law concepts, the suffering of civilians during conflicts increased as the number of these conflicts themselves increased. The phenomenon of forgiving foreign military occupation forces for violating the international law has aggravated." al-Jaafari pointed out.
"are occupying countries which are members in the UN outside the framework of the international legitimacy and killing millions of their civilian population aimed at protecting those civilians? Are the calls, which were made in this Council today and in previous occasions, to change regimes in some UN-member countries are within the framework of the noble purpose of protecting civilians in armed conflicts?" He asked.
He went on asking "How can we explain the killing of 130 thousand Libyans under the pretext of protecting Libya's civilians? How can we explain the statement of the US Department of State's spokeswoman which stipulated a clear call for the armed groups in Syria not to surrender their weapons in line with the Syrian government general amnesty granted to all persons who surrender their weapons? Doesn't this statement mean that there is a US involvement in the violence in Syria? Aren't the US policies, which are supported by some European countries, thwarting the work of the Arab League and its initiative?"
"Isn't avoiding the issue of the Israeli reckless settlement, which threatens the peace principle, contradicts the most important right of the Palestinian and Syrian civilians who are under the Israeli occupation?" he asked.
al-Jaafari said, "We don't know how long the continuous Israeli occupation of the Arab territories- including the occupied Syrian Golan, Jerusalem, Shebaa farms and al- Ghajar village- can be ignored. We don't know why we don't see the same enthusiasm in the countries whose representatives went too far today in expressing their keenness on protecting civilians in specific parts of the world and used the Security Council, whose main task is protecting the international peace and security, as a platform to pass curtailed explanation of the subject of protecting civilians in armed conflicts."
al-Jaafari concluded "Representatives of the colonial countries, especially France and Britain, make a mistake when they think that the human memory can't recall the crimes against humanity they have committed throughout decades of colonization."
المشاورات الروسية الامريكية.. موسكو تصر على حل سلمي دون تدخل خارجي في سورية
Russian-US consultations .. Moscow insists on a peaceful solution without external interference in Syria
http://arabic.rt.com/news_all_news/news/571295
10.11.2011 02:04
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry said Mikhail Bogdanov, deputy Russian Foreign Minister discussed with Wendy Sherman, Assistant Secretary of State in the framework of consultations Russian-American in Moscow on Wednesday, November 9 issues of the Middle East with a focus on the situation in Syria and the conduct of the settlement process Alcherqawstih.
A statement of Foreign Affairs, published in the official website of the Ministry on the Internet that the Russian side, "stressed the need to take advantage of all the possibilities available to resolve the situation in Syria exclusively by peaceful means and without any outside interference." It was suggested that it is required that "the international community to make concerted efforts collectively urge the Syrian authorities and the opposition forces to launch a comprehensive national dialogue on the basis of the Arab League initiative."
The sides also touched on the subject of the Middle East peace process. They expressed "growing concern of the dangerous deadlock in the negotiation process between the Palestinians and the Israelis." They agreed to "continue to make joint efforts to help out in the process of settlement of the impasse, including in the framework of the Quartet of international mediators."
The State indicated in its statement to the Russian that Russia and the United States intend to continue to coordinate positions of the most important issues of the regional agenda.
مسؤول روسي : ميدفيديف سيطرح الموقف الروسي حيال سوريا وايران خلال لقائه نظيره الامريكي
Russian official: Medvedev, the Russian position will be put on Syria and Iran during a meeting with his U.S. counterpart
http://www.aksalser.com/?page=view_news&id=061df1113a0152d6b4b83638a89756de&ar=773421512
Thursday - November 10 - 2011 - 14:06:41
Russian official said that President Dmitry Medvedev will present his country's position towards Syria and Iran during the upcoming meeting with his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama.
He said Russian presidential aide Sergei Brichiedko during a press conference today that the two sides will exchange views on various international and regional issues including developments in the Middle East and North Africa during their bilateral decision on the sidelines of the OECD countries of the Asia-Pacific (ASEAN) in Honolulu two days after .
He added that the two sides will continue to Brichiedko as well as talks on U.S. missile shield, insisting on the need for Russia to legal guarantees in writing not to target this armor.
The Russian summit meeting - the U.S. after a few days on a report issued by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has accused the Tehran working to produce nuclear weapons.
صحيفة روسية: الناتو لن يستطيع ضرب سوريا
Russian newspaper: NATO cannot attack Syria
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=33fca75a28d00109e7d476181dbcb6d5&ar=872620870
Thursday - November 10 - 2011 - 12:21:06
The Russian newspaper "Ergumenta Nedeli" ruled out expectations of many observers, NATO launched a military operation against Syria, stressing that NATO cannot attack Syria, under the current conditions.
The newspaper pointed out that the victory over Syria needs to process large and blatant war involving the United States and the European armies of NATO, considering that America is not ready for a war to be added to the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The newspaper added that Syria does not exist by the opposition can be supported by the airline alliance, at the time that remains when the Syrian army able to fight.
روسيا تنتقد موقف فرنسا من المبادرة العربية حول سوريا
Russia criticizes France's position on the Arab initiative on Syria
http://www.aksalser.com/?page=view_news&id=e452d375036ff04d99bbb05a56e522d4&ar=463338545
Thursday - November 10 - 2011 - 15:52:12
Alexander Ukashević spokesman Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday, November 10 that Moscow does not share France's position towards the Arab League initiative on the settlement of the situation in Syria is not effective.
Ukashević said that "it is difficult in light of the complex situation present a framework to help establish a dialogue be better than the Arab League. The Arab League will be able to realize all the circumstances relating to the dispute and propose better solutions."
It is worth mentioning that the French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe has said the Arab League initiative on Syria died.
He pointed to Ukashević that statements about the Arab League initiative is effective, "notes the position of those countries interested in moving the" Libyan scenario "in international relations."
وفد من " المجلس الوطني السوري" المعارض يزور روسيا بداية الأسبوع المقبل
Delegation of "the Syrian National Council" (SNC) opposition to visit Russia early next week
http://www.aksalser.com/?page=view_news&id=8d5869b3f767b438491b719507a176af&ar=477896580
Thursday - November 10 - 2011 - 15:33:42
Visiting delegation from the Syrian National Council opposition in the Russian capital Moscow early next week at the official invitation for talks with Russian officials, including Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
The news agency "Novosti" Russian sources and described as "informed" that a delegation of the Syrian National Council will visit Moscow early next week at the invitation of Russia.
The delegation includes a number of Syrian opposition figures, including President of the Council proof pipe and Radwan Ziadeh, Basmah al-Qudmana.
It is expected that the delegation will hold talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and officials in both the Senate and Russian Duma.
It is noteworthy that Moscow had already received two delegations from the Syrian opposition and played an important role to address the Syrian crisis after use "veto" in the Security Council against the draft EU resolution, backed by the U.S., to condemn the "violence" in Syria.
Russia has backed the Arab League initiative to resolve the crisis, while the Syrian foreign minister stressed that the initiative paves the way for the organization of the dialogue between Syrian authorities and the opposition and open the way to resolve the crisis peacefully and politically.
نائب وزير الخارجية الروسي يحذر من التدخل الخارجي في الشؤون الداخلية لسورية
Deputy Russian Foreign Minister warns against outside interference in the internal affairs of Syria
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/11/10/380748.htm
http://www.sana.sy/eng/22/2011/11/10/380755.htm
November 10, 2011
Moscow - SANA
Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov warned from any outside interference in the internal affairs of Syria.
The Russian Foreign Ministry .. The Bogdanov stressed during a meeting in Moscow Ondoy Sherman, Deputy U.S. Secretary of State on the urgent need to use all available means to resolve the situation in Syria exclusively peaceful political means, without any outside interference.
Bogdanov stressed the need for the international community is making concerted efforts for a dialogue between Syrian authorities and the opposition is based on the initiative of the League of Arab States.
The two sides expressed a common desire to continue the regular consultations between them on matters of fundamental issues on the regional agenda.
The two sides expressed their concern by the recession in the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations in this regard and agreed to continue to make joint efforts to contribute to overcoming the current impasse in the settlement of the Middle East, including within the framework of the Quartet.
To Ukashević: Russia refuses to permit the French Foreign Minister that the Arab League initiative died on Syria
The spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Ukashević said at a news conference in Moscow today that Russia is still considered the Arab League initiative on Syria is an urgent case in the past, expressing his country's refusal to permit the French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe about this initiative is dead.
Ukashević said that Russia rejects this assessment, this logic firmly pointing out that it is difficult to find another form of the Syrian contribution to the dialogue was more appropriate than this form of the Arab League.
He added that line to Ukashević States, working to establish the Libyan scenario in international relations, discretion is clearly behind the words of those who speak for the initiative of the League of Arab States on Syria lost its vitality.
The spokesman for the Russian Foreign hoped that the results of the ministerial session of the emergency Arab League to discuss the situation in Syria and contribute in a positive dialogue between the government and the opposition in Syria.
Ukashević said that Moscow is convinced that the League of Arab States will be able to address all the circumstances of the situation in Syria accuracy and suggests a comprehensive proposal to resolve this situation.
Russian-Syrian Friendship Association renewed to stand by Syria in the face of current conditions
To that, the Alexander Dzasokhov president of the Russian-Syrian friendship and pledged his country to the Syrian leadership and people, stressing that the public interest in the Russian position on the situation in Syria.
Dzasokhov stressed in a speech during the opening ceremony of a meeting of the Board of Directors in the presence of the Syrian ambassador in Moscow, Riad Haddad that he should not be just a word not for aggression against Syria, but we must take practical steps to support the Syrian people and make concrete proposals for Syria's help in overcoming the difficulties of the current conditions and maintenance of safety and territorial integrity.
For his part, Ambassador Smith to accept the Syrian Arab League initiative and the release of 553 prisoners and declare a general amnesty for those who laid down their arms had not committed murder.
The Ambassador Smith and presence of third parties working on the escalation of tension in the country and inciting the armed terrorist groups to continue its crimes, and to provide these groups with money and weapons smuggling.
In turn, participants in the meeting of political, parliamentary, academic and media solidarity with the Syrian people and denounce attempts to foment sectarian strife.
Participants also pointed out that the processes of political reform, economic and social began long ago in Syria, despite exposure to the U.S. practices against them.
فيلتمان: سفير أمريكا سيعود لسوريا خلال أيام
Feltman: U.S. ambassador to Syria will return within days
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=0c051dad957b102a7406c3dca8c4fe58&ar=284222210
Thursday - November 10 - 2011 - 9:02:42
Said Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman, told a session of the Subcommittee on Foreign Relations, the U.S. ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, who withdrew last month for security reasons, will return to the center of his work during days or weeks.
Radio "Sawa" U.S. Today "Thursday," Jeffrey said that U.S. support for the efforts of the Arab League, which seeks to stop the violence in Syria.
He added that Washington welcomes the formation of the so-called Pal Syrian National Council, but asked for opposition movements to make more of an effort to expand its popular base inside Syria.
The U.S. authorities have pulled the U.S. ambassador from Damascus last month for security reasons said she.
عماد مصطفى: عودة روبرت فورد إلى سورية شأن أمريكي
Imad Moustapha: the return of Robert Ford to Syria regarding U.S.
http://www.aksalser.com/?page=view_news&id=c5e4eda0bcf61982c109cd2c207c8cac&ar=680659382
Thursday - November 10 - 2011 - 15:27:05
Syrian ambassador in Washington Imad Moustapha, said that "the return of the U.S. ambassador to Syria, to Damascus, Robert Ford, a matter for the Washington, they wanted to return him or not, this is a matter for the Americans and we are not interested in that."
Mustafa said in response to a question on the channel "Al-Manar" Lebanese returning to Washington: "My government believes that in these times the job have a job I do not in Washington, but here (in Damascus), and in particular I am working with the Syrian government."
Mustafa pointed out that Syria was "aware since the beginning of the events inflammatory role played by Washington, the U.S. role from the outset it was clear, they insist that the peaceful protests in Syria and there is no terrorist groups."
And Jeffrey Feltman, Assistant Secretary of State for the Middle East, announced Wednesday that the U.S. ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, who withdrew last month for security reasons, will return to his post within days or weeks.
U.S., Portugal agree to continue cooperation on Syria, Iran
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-11/10/c_131238267.htm
English.news.cn 2011-11-10 08:08:40
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- The United States and Portugal agreed on Wednesday to continue their close cooperation at the UN Security Council over issues like Syria, Iran and the Middle East peace.
At their White House talks, U.S. President Barack Obama and his Portuguese counterpart Anibal Cavaco Silva reaffirmed the strength of the partnership between their countries, which they said is building on the "deep friendship and long-standing alliance" between the two NATO allies.
"We also agreed to continue our close cooperation within the UN Security Council, where Portugal currently serves as Council President, on issues of mutual concern, such as Syria, Libya, Middle East peace and Iran," the two leaders said in a joint statement.
"We emphasized the importance that both our countries attach to the role of the United Nations in the promotion of peace, democracy, good governance and human rights," they added.
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Nov 10 Local government
إنفاق 1.3 مليار ليرة على مشروعات المياه في اللاذقية
Spend 1.3 billion pounds on water projects in Lattakia
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=39fa8eddf026cf79d58dd9e4acce0f7e&ar=953290381
Thursday - November 10 - 2011 - 15:23:54
Eng, "Essam Joni" Director General of Water in Latakia that the total investment spending since the beginning of the year until the end of last September reached 1.362 billion Syrian pounds by the implementation reached 83%, and that out of the total provision of $ 1.65 billion liras.
According to newspaper "al-Thawrah," said the engineer, "Essam Joni" Director General of the Corporation: "The investment spending in the enterprise distributed to the replacement and renovation projects where the expenditure was 789.203 million pounds, while the total expenditure in the projects completion of the treatment plants four new stations 81.353 million pounds, To support projects in the areas of quilts and Latakia 405 000 540 thousand pounds. "
"I spent an amount of 2,000,218 thousand pounds for the development of the institution's work by the implementation of 6 percent of the appropriation of $ 35 million lira and the rehabilitation and training of staff of 120 thousand pounds from the appropriation of a million pounds, and for investment spending on sanitation projects were at 83 million and 700 thousand pounds. "
The "Joni" to the most important work carried out during the current year Kalmpashrh rehabilitation work station in the liquidation of old age, and treatment plants for sewage in al-Jandiriyyah, al-Jauziyyah, al-Bahlouliyyah, 'Uwainah al-Rihan and Bkraamaa.
Spend 1.3 billion pounds on water projects in Lattakia
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=39fa8eddf026cf79d58dd9e4acce0f7e&ar=953290381
Thursday - November 10 - 2011 - 15:23:54
Eng, "Essam Joni" Director General of Water in Latakia that the total investment spending since the beginning of the year until the end of last September reached 1.362 billion Syrian pounds by the implementation reached 83%, and that out of the total provision of $ 1.65 billion liras.
According to newspaper "al-Thawrah," said the engineer, "Essam Joni" Director General of the Corporation: "The investment spending in the enterprise distributed to the replacement and renovation projects where the expenditure was 789.203 million pounds, while the total expenditure in the projects completion of the treatment plants four new stations 81.353 million pounds, To support projects in the areas of quilts and Latakia 405 000 540 thousand pounds. "
"I spent an amount of 2,000,218 thousand pounds for the development of the institution's work by the implementation of 6 percent of the appropriation of $ 35 million lira and the rehabilitation and training of staff of 120 thousand pounds from the appropriation of a million pounds, and for investment spending on sanitation projects were at 83 million and 700 thousand pounds. "
The "Joni" to the most important work carried out during the current year Kalmpashrh rehabilitation work station in the liquidation of old age, and treatment plants for sewage in al-Jandiriyyah, al-Jauziyyah, al-Bahlouliyyah, 'Uwainah al-Rihan and Bkraamaa.
Nov 10 Central government
وزير الأوقاف: المرحلة القادمة ستعتمد على الشباب
Minister of Awqaf, the next phase will depend on young people
http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2011/11/10/380877.htm
http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2011/11/10/380886.htm
November 10, 2011
Tartous - SANA
Dr. Muhammad Abdul Sattar al-Sayyid of the Minister of Awqaf that young people are the backbone of the nation and on them lies the greatest responsibility to defend him through the perception of the real risks it faces and young Syrians proved over many decades that they have the awareness of what is sufficient to cope with all that is being plotted against Syria from the plots targeting its unity and stability, security and role-resistant and defender of the Arab issues and rights.
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Minister of Awqaf, the next phase will depend on young people
http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2011/11/10/380877.htm
http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2011/11/10/380886.htm
November 10, 2011
Tartous - SANA
Dr. Muhammad Abdul Sattar al-Sayyid of the Minister of Awqaf that young people are the backbone of the nation and on them lies the greatest responsibility to defend him through the perception of the real risks it faces and young Syrians proved over many decades that they have the awareness of what is sufficient to cope with all that is being plotted against Syria from the plots targeting its unity and stability, security and role-resistant and defender of the Arab issues and rights.
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Nov 10 Anti-government
هيثم مناع: حادثة الاعتداء لا تستحق التوقف عندها
Haytham Mannaa: the assault incident is not worth pausing upon
http://arabic.rt.com/news_all_news/news/571316
10.11.2011 13:00
The head of the Arab Committee for Human Rights Haytham mannaa in a telephone interview with the channel "Russia Today" from Cairo delegation, "NCB" experienced by the Syrian citizens were not able to control their nerves and act wisely to abuse and insults, slander, eggs, adding that it is shameful to talk and speak with him .
mannaa also pointed out that the citizens wanted to deliver a message expressing their point of view, describing the incident dangerous precedent.
He explained that those affected by the Delegation of the Commission did not claim a right to prosecute, despite the fact that by Bassam King broke.
He said the opposition is fighting a battle for democracy and for the people and the revolution and this would much more important than what happened, and there is no time to give the incident more than it deserves.
He said that the Arab League initiative worth trying, even if its share of success 5%, stressing the need to be a peaceful revolution and anti-sectarian and against foreign intervention, because the people are unable to complete its revolution and its goals for himself.
He noted that members of the Syrian National Council denounced the attack on the Delegation of the Commission, stressing that he may not give up what he called "business strategy", coordination and dialogue because of this incident.
With regard to the future of the Arab initiative mannaa pointed out that the role of Qatar in the Darfur issue was very positive and helped in the convergence of views, saying, "If Hamad bin Jassem wanted to succeed, this initiative has to follow the policy again, especially in terms of media." He stressed that Qatar and the GCC is able to give force to this initiative both in terms of action or claim to hold an emergency Arab summit.
المعارض هيثم مناع : إذا أراد حمد بن جاسم أن تنجح المبادرة العربية عليه ان يتبع سياسة إعلامية أخرى
Opposition Haytham mannaa: If Hamad bin Jassem wants to suceed in the Arab initiative, then he has to follow a differnt media policy
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=b9a7152e76ee68cc1609b8720f0438ad&ar=232044892
Thursday - November 10 - 2011 - 13:35:17
The head of the Arab Committee for National Human Rights, opposition, Haytham Mannaa, "If Hamad bin Jassem wants to succeed in this initiative, he has to follow a different approach, especially in terms of media."
The mannaa said in a telephone interview with the channel "Russia today," said Qatar and the GCC is able to give force to this initiative both in terms of action or claim to hold an emergency Arab summit.
And about the attack on the delegation's opposition supporters of the "National Council" in Cairo, said "affected by the Delegation of the Commission did not claim a right to prosecute, despite the fact that by Bassam King broke."
He said that the Arab League initiative worth trying, even if its share of success 5%, stressing the need to be a peaceful revolution and anti-sectarian and against foreign intervention, because the people are unable to complete its revolution and its goals for himself.
The Haytham mannaa is a leading Syrian dissidents living abroad, which he refused to see him always outside interference in the internal affairs of Syria.
Assad to play 'Kurdish card against Turkey, report says
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=assad-to-play-8216kurdish-card-against-turkey-report-says-2011-11-09
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
PARIS - Hürriyet
(Note: This is the same report as this one. The headline of this article indicates how nervously the Turkish government is reacting to a tiny change on the Syrian side.)
Syria is looking to destabilize Turkey by providing greater autonomy to the Arab republic's Kurdish population in the wake of Ankara's demands that Damascus heed the demands of the country's opposition, French daily Le Figaro has reported.
The Bashar al-Assad government has begun to support the Kurdish people living in Syria's north, which is reportedly home to 1.9 million Kurds, in an attempt to pose a threat to Turkey in its fight against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), daily Hürriyet quoted the daily as saying yesterday.
Assad has taken advantage of the current crisis in the country to establish a "Kurdish autonomous region" in Syria in the event that he falls from power in a similar fashion to Col. Moammar Gadhafi in Libya.
The president has been preparing the ground for a Kurdish autonomous regional administration by opening Kurdish schools in the country's north, reported Le Figaro, adding that the language of instruction was Kurdish and that the Kurdish anthem was sung every day.
The daily also claimed that Assad permitted Kurdish politician Muhammad Salih Muslim, the head of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), which is seen as a PKK affiliate, to return to Syria as a message to Turkey. Muslim was in exile in Iraq until the protests against Assad began in Syria earlier this year.
The PYD is reportedly organizing local elections in the north, the daily said.
The newspaper said accepting the Kurdish politician into Syria must be seen as an action to "punish [Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan for harshly objecting to Syria's crackdown on its dissidents."
"It is no coincidence that Muslim has been elected as the deputy head of the Democratic Change Committee Coordination, which was founded by the Syrian regime, shortly after returning from exile," said the daily. "The PYD is staying away from the Syrian National Council [SNC] which was founded in Istanbul because it believes that the SNC is backed by Western powers and is against the PKK."
The assassination of Mashaal Tammo on Oct. 7, a Kurdish opposition leader in Syria, was also a message to Syrian Kurds that a "good Kurd" was one supported by the regime, according to Le Figaro.
Haytham Mannaa: the assault incident is not worth pausing upon
http://arabic.rt.com/news_all_news/news/571316
10.11.2011 13:00
The head of the Arab Committee for Human Rights Haytham mannaa in a telephone interview with the channel "Russia Today" from Cairo delegation, "NCB" experienced by the Syrian citizens were not able to control their nerves and act wisely to abuse and insults, slander, eggs, adding that it is shameful to talk and speak with him .
mannaa also pointed out that the citizens wanted to deliver a message expressing their point of view, describing the incident dangerous precedent.
He explained that those affected by the Delegation of the Commission did not claim a right to prosecute, despite the fact that by Bassam King broke.
He said the opposition is fighting a battle for democracy and for the people and the revolution and this would much more important than what happened, and there is no time to give the incident more than it deserves.
He said that the Arab League initiative worth trying, even if its share of success 5%, stressing the need to be a peaceful revolution and anti-sectarian and against foreign intervention, because the people are unable to complete its revolution and its goals for himself.
He noted that members of the Syrian National Council denounced the attack on the Delegation of the Commission, stressing that he may not give up what he called "business strategy", coordination and dialogue because of this incident.
With regard to the future of the Arab initiative mannaa pointed out that the role of Qatar in the Darfur issue was very positive and helped in the convergence of views, saying, "If Hamad bin Jassem wanted to succeed, this initiative has to follow the policy again, especially in terms of media." He stressed that Qatar and the GCC is able to give force to this initiative both in terms of action or claim to hold an emergency Arab summit.
المعارض هيثم مناع : إذا أراد حمد بن جاسم أن تنجح المبادرة العربية عليه ان يتبع سياسة إعلامية أخرى
Opposition Haytham mannaa: If Hamad bin Jassem wants to suceed in the Arab initiative, then he has to follow a differnt media policy
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=b9a7152e76ee68cc1609b8720f0438ad&ar=232044892
Thursday - November 10 - 2011 - 13:35:17
The head of the Arab Committee for National Human Rights, opposition, Haytham Mannaa, "If Hamad bin Jassem wants to succeed in this initiative, he has to follow a different approach, especially in terms of media."
The mannaa said in a telephone interview with the channel "Russia today," said Qatar and the GCC is able to give force to this initiative both in terms of action or claim to hold an emergency Arab summit.
And about the attack on the delegation's opposition supporters of the "National Council" in Cairo, said "affected by the Delegation of the Commission did not claim a right to prosecute, despite the fact that by Bassam King broke."
He said that the Arab League initiative worth trying, even if its share of success 5%, stressing the need to be a peaceful revolution and anti-sectarian and against foreign intervention, because the people are unable to complete its revolution and its goals for himself.
The Haytham mannaa is a leading Syrian dissidents living abroad, which he refused to see him always outside interference in the internal affairs of Syria.
Assad to play 'Kurdish card against Turkey, report says
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=assad-to-play-8216kurdish-card-against-turkey-report-says-2011-11-09
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
PARIS - Hürriyet
(Note: This is the same report as this one. The headline of this article indicates how nervously the Turkish government is reacting to a tiny change on the Syrian side.)
Syria is looking to destabilize Turkey by providing greater autonomy to the Arab republic's Kurdish population in the wake of Ankara's demands that Damascus heed the demands of the country's opposition, French daily Le Figaro has reported.
The Bashar al-Assad government has begun to support the Kurdish people living in Syria's north, which is reportedly home to 1.9 million Kurds, in an attempt to pose a threat to Turkey in its fight against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), daily Hürriyet quoted the daily as saying yesterday.
Assad has taken advantage of the current crisis in the country to establish a "Kurdish autonomous region" in Syria in the event that he falls from power in a similar fashion to Col. Moammar Gadhafi in Libya.
The president has been preparing the ground for a Kurdish autonomous regional administration by opening Kurdish schools in the country's north, reported Le Figaro, adding that the language of instruction was Kurdish and that the Kurdish anthem was sung every day.
The daily also claimed that Assad permitted Kurdish politician Muhammad Salih Muslim, the head of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), which is seen as a PKK affiliate, to return to Syria as a message to Turkey. Muslim was in exile in Iraq until the protests against Assad began in Syria earlier this year.
The PYD is reportedly organizing local elections in the north, the daily said.
The newspaper said accepting the Kurdish politician into Syria must be seen as an action to "punish [Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan for harshly objecting to Syria's crackdown on its dissidents."
"It is no coincidence that Muslim has been elected as the deputy head of the Democratic Change Committee Coordination, which was founded by the Syrian regime, shortly after returning from exile," said the daily. "The PYD is staying away from the Syrian National Council [SNC] which was founded in Istanbul because it believes that the SNC is backed by Western powers and is against the PKK."
The assassination of Mashaal Tammo on Oct. 7, a Kurdish opposition leader in Syria, was also a message to Syrian Kurds that a "good Kurd" was one supported by the regime, according to Le Figaro.
Nov 10 Incidents
استشهاد طفلين ومجند ومدني وجرح اثنين آخرين بإدلب..إصابة 3 من عناصر حفظ النظام باعتداء نفذه إرهابيون في دوما
Two Children, Two Guards Martyred, Explosive Device Blasts When Patrol Passes in Idlib
http://www.sana.sy/ara/336/2011/11/10/380836.htm
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/11/10/380856.htm
Nov 10, 2011
Idlib, (SANA) – Two children from al-Moallaqa village in the northern province of Idlib were martyred on Thursday after explosives hidden by a terrorist armed group in an abandoned house blasted in the village.
A source at Idlib Police Command told SANA correspondent that the two brothers Ahmad and Munir Olwan went accidentally to the house to set fire when the explosives blew up, killing them at once.
The source pointed out that the explosives were used by the terrorists to make mines and explosive devices in order to attack state centers and check points and to sabotage public properties.
The village residents rushed to the place only to find the dead bodies of the two brothers in the place, the source added.
"Even innocent children could not escape the heinous crimes of the terrorists," uncle of the two boys, Muhammad Olwan, told SANA correspondent, pointing out that his nephews are only eight and ten years old.
Meantime, Conscript Makhlad al-Awad and civil guard Muhammad Abdo al-Fattah al-Omar were martyred, as two other army members were injured by a terrorist armed group in al-Kfair village in Jisr al-Shughour.
A police source in the Province clarified that the armed gang attacked the guard members who belong to the popular army while they were guarding the railway in the area. The gunmen stole the members' weapons, the source added.
In a similar context, an explosive device, planted on Khan Shaikhoun- Maart al-Noman Main Street, blasted, injuring three law enforcement members.
The police source said that the explosive device was planted on the road, as the terrorists blew it when the patrol passed by trying to guarantee the safety of the road and prevent blocking the road.
Three Law-Enforcement Personnel Injured in Terrorist Attack in Douma
Three law enforcement personnel on Thursday were injured after their post was attacked by an armed terrorist group in Douma city in Damascus Countryside.
A police source said that the assault caused damages to the building, adding that authorities are in pursuit of the fleeing terrorists.
Policeman Muhammad Ghourra said that "At 1.00 am, more than four cars opened fire on the post, they had RPG launchers and machineguns, I was injured in the attack."
بعض المسروقين فوجئوا بسرقتهم .. القبض على سارق بالجرم المشهود واعترافه بسلسلة سرقات في حلب
Some were surprised robbed robbed .. The arrest of a thief red-handed and the recognition of a series of robberies in Aleppo
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_articles&id=f9cd54e04cde0a313486c7014741bf4a&h=%CD%E3%D5&ar=948957500
Thursday - November 10 - 2011 - 13:26:09
Aks al-Ser learned that the Police Department al-Jamiliyyah was able to arrest the thief red-handed while carrying out a theft of a car the morning of the fourth day of Eid al-Adha in the neighborhood of al-Jamiliyyah of Aleppo, and its recognition by a series of thefts in the past.
A source familiar with the leadership of the police that the thief tried to steal a vehicle to convey the stolen goods were stolen by a group in the same night, from different places.
The source added that "the thief while he was trying to open the car stolen items delivered al-Jamiliyyah Department arrested red-handed in possession of a large number of keys (private number) and the means to remove metal."
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دكتور في جامعة حلب يحاول الانتحار بثلاثة عيارات نارية
Doctor of the University of Aleppo, trying to commit suicide three shots
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_articles&id=7da4c55e4e1afd07f2f8d651474de84e&h=%CD%E1%C8&ar=831209522
Thursday - November 10 - 2011 - 20:31:29
Aks al-Ser learned that Dr. at the University of Aleppo, "Essam. T" tried to commit suicide by gun opened fire on him himself.
And the source familiar with the university disclosed that the professor fired three shots in the stomach, for reasons still "vague", and was taken to hospital, your peace, where he had a surgical quickly.
And is still lying in the hospital while an investigation was opened into the incident.
Two Children, Two Guards Martyred, Explosive Device Blasts When Patrol Passes in Idlib
http://www.sana.sy/ara/336/2011/11/10/380836.htm
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/11/10/380856.htm
Nov 10, 2011
Idlib, (SANA) – Two children from al-Moallaqa village in the northern province of Idlib were martyred on Thursday after explosives hidden by a terrorist armed group in an abandoned house blasted in the village.
A source at Idlib Police Command told SANA correspondent that the two brothers Ahmad and Munir Olwan went accidentally to the house to set fire when the explosives blew up, killing them at once.
The source pointed out that the explosives were used by the terrorists to make mines and explosive devices in order to attack state centers and check points and to sabotage public properties.
The village residents rushed to the place only to find the dead bodies of the two brothers in the place, the source added.
"Even innocent children could not escape the heinous crimes of the terrorists," uncle of the two boys, Muhammad Olwan, told SANA correspondent, pointing out that his nephews are only eight and ten years old.
Meantime, Conscript Makhlad al-Awad and civil guard Muhammad Abdo al-Fattah al-Omar were martyred, as two other army members were injured by a terrorist armed group in al-Kfair village in Jisr al-Shughour.
A police source in the Province clarified that the armed gang attacked the guard members who belong to the popular army while they were guarding the railway in the area. The gunmen stole the members' weapons, the source added.
In a similar context, an explosive device, planted on Khan Shaikhoun- Maart al-Noman Main Street, blasted, injuring three law enforcement members.
The police source said that the explosive device was planted on the road, as the terrorists blew it when the patrol passed by trying to guarantee the safety of the road and prevent blocking the road.
Three Law-Enforcement Personnel Injured in Terrorist Attack in Douma
Three law enforcement personnel on Thursday were injured after their post was attacked by an armed terrorist group in Douma city in Damascus Countryside.
A police source said that the assault caused damages to the building, adding that authorities are in pursuit of the fleeing terrorists.
Policeman Muhammad Ghourra said that "At 1.00 am, more than four cars opened fire on the post, they had RPG launchers and machineguns, I was injured in the attack."
بعض المسروقين فوجئوا بسرقتهم .. القبض على سارق بالجرم المشهود واعترافه بسلسلة سرقات في حلب
Some were surprised robbed robbed .. The arrest of a thief red-handed and the recognition of a series of robberies in Aleppo
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_articles&id=f9cd54e04cde0a313486c7014741bf4a&h=%CD%E3%D5&ar=948957500
Thursday - November 10 - 2011 - 13:26:09
Aks al-Ser learned that the Police Department al-Jamiliyyah was able to arrest the thief red-handed while carrying out a theft of a car the morning of the fourth day of Eid al-Adha in the neighborhood of al-Jamiliyyah of Aleppo, and its recognition by a series of thefts in the past.
A source familiar with the leadership of the police that the thief tried to steal a vehicle to convey the stolen goods were stolen by a group in the same night, from different places.
The source added that "the thief while he was trying to open the car stolen items delivered al-Jamiliyyah Department arrested red-handed in possession of a large number of keys (private number) and the means to remove metal."
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دكتور في جامعة حلب يحاول الانتحار بثلاثة عيارات نارية
Doctor of the University of Aleppo, trying to commit suicide three shots
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_articles&id=7da4c55e4e1afd07f2f8d651474de84e&h=%CD%E1%C8&ar=831209522
Thursday - November 10 - 2011 - 20:31:29
Aks al-Ser learned that Dr. at the University of Aleppo, "Essam. T" tried to commit suicide by gun opened fire on him himself.
And the source familiar with the university disclosed that the professor fired three shots in the stomach, for reasons still "vague", and was taken to hospital, your peace, where he had a surgical quickly.
And is still lying in the hospital while an investigation was opened into the incident.
2011/11/10
Syria declares the "irreversible" end of the crisis
Read 3 commentaries from today's Tishreen newspaper.
You will learn that Syrian perception of current situation is completely different from what you feel from US news.
You will learn that Syrian perception of current situation is completely different from what you feel from US news.
Nov 10 Pro-government
ما وراء الأخبار.. النزع الأخير
Behind the News .. the Gasping (final agony before death)
http://tishreen.info/_word.asp?FileName=42344895720111110032859
http://backupurl.com/liyinw
Opinion of Tishreen
Thursday November 10, 2011
Ezzeddine Darwish
Syrians know that the crisis of their country has finished or nearly finished at the very least, and they also know that what is broadcast is of the poisons on the crisis through the media, NATO, and especially al-Jazeerah and al-Arabiyyah TVs, not only the movements of agony before death of the crisis was separated specifically to Syria, and they spent about a hundred billion dollars, according to the lowest figures circulating among research centers, involving the Western powers and Arab, regional, and rented in which the largest centers and consulting firms in the world.
We say that what is broadcast currently, that is toxins, is gasping to this crisis, because this is evident in a malicious presentation of news and guidance, In pictures of demonstrations combined promoted by al-Jazeerah, and terminate telephone calls with the designated witnesses on the ground of these demonstrations, they actually make then say what to write to them, and get paid their labor in advance, and often speak from outside Syria or on its borders, and no one knows their phone numbers, only al-Jazeerah, which relate to them when you like, has been recognized one of them that al-Jazeerah had contacted him after just half an hour of receiving a Thuraya phone, what sparked outrage in the beginning.
And talk about al-Jazeerah, of course, means linked to the Atlantic (NATO), which means its system and management and those who are entrusted to them by the U.S. administration the task of managing the political and media war on Syria, and some Arabs who introduced them as the face of absurdity, and consent to do so, laughing, thinking them to win with them.
What these plotters didn't count was that the people of Syria politicized by nature and knows exactly what he wants and interests, and the ideological (beliefs) army of Syria cannot be broken or cannot be penetrated by the psychological war.
The Syrian Arab Army has already encountered (Zacha) of unprecedented disinformation and incitement, and the results were more coherence and strength of will, discipline and determination to deter any attempt to undermine the security of Syria and the Syrians.
Before and throughout this crisis, this army has remained a source of pride for all the Syrians that accept, with two hands (wide-open) and a smile, a soldier and a row of officers in the proud army, and they said that and they repeated it through the media.
Therefore, with the awareness of the people of Syria and the power of the will of the army, the crisis has ended irreversibly, and the conspirators who bet on a few thousand of the Syrians, only to concede defeat, and a few thousands remain zero before the twenty-three million people coming, and they are ready to take to the street at any moment to defend the security of Syria and its independence, and we will say to abroad and oppositions with links to them: Go away and disappear, this is Syria.
مختصر مفيد.. إرهاب الديمقراطية وديمقراطية الإرهاب
Succinct (useful summary) .. Democratic terrorism and democracy of terrorism
http://tishreen.info/_default.asp?FileName=42344895720111110032657
http://backupurl.com/ivne3u
Thursday November 10, 2011
Nasser Qindeel
In many parts of Syria, organized armed groups are conducting killings, kidnappings and intimidation against the right of Syrian citizens or the right of Syrian soldiers and policemen returning from service to their homes without a weapon, or by targeting scientific, cultural and social symbols whose roles are well-known in the fight against extremism and intolerance.
In the Arab League, its Secretary-General has disclosed intentions (to sanction) toward Syria and its leadership through acting promptly without any facts to hold them accountable for not implementing the initiative of the Arab League, and without making any effort to provide the consent of the opposition adopted by the calls for dialogue on which the Arab solution, without recalling what Washington said about expressing its support for armed groups and their refusal to lay down arms, and when the Secretary-General received opposition delegations, organized groups of oppositions adopted by the Secretary-General under the banner of the Council of Istanbul (SNC) beat (other) opponents with completely different opinion and insults them in front of the eyes of the Arab League and the Secretary-General.
This means that:
What happened with the oppositions in front of the Arab League, what if the same thing happened with the oppositions of the Council of Istanbul (SNC) in the Damascus International Airport, in the context of calls for dialogue for the Secretary-General declared ineligible for Damascus as a place for dialogue, how (can you say that) the Arab League is appropriate for the promised dialogue?
A group of the Council of Istanbul (SNC) who speak day and night about the need for the regime to accept a different opinion such as political programs that oppositions groups including the SNC themselves are presenting, then how (are they doing to treat) different opinion which is supportive to the regime?
Therefore, the Syrians are being given a choice between the democracy which terrorism roving in the Syrian society is offering, and the terrorism of the SNC impersonates themselves and which adopts murderous programs inside and outside of the country and which receives information, diplomatic and financial support (from abroad). (note: in short, a choice of domestic demonstrators or the SNC abroad, and both are terrorists.)
الافتتاحية.. مزيد من التحريض!
The opening .. More incitement!
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Word of editor
Thursday November 10, 2011
Ziad Ghosn
Many observers expected to witness a performance of some Arab satellite channels change remarkably with the announcement reached between Syria and the Arab Ministerial Committee of the Action Plan on the situation in Syria, in order to provide the appropriate environment for the implementation of the Action Plan by stopping daily incitement campaign and spreading lies ...
But what happened was quite the opposite, the channels leading slander campaign and spreading lies that have been exposed and always refuted the facts, the more the pace of work has been intensive during the past few days, do not even say they have opened a new front to try to create a disturbing atmosphere of the holidays in some provinces, and promote a pessimistic atmosphere for the potential success of the Arab efforts in helping Syria to solve the crisis. ...
The question is: how can the Arab Ministerial Committee take such steps about what these channels committed breaches of professional and most important contribution to obstruct efforts by the Commission and its efforts?! Are they going to turn the blind eye on their practices under the pretext of media independence and freedom of expression, even if what they say are lies and incitement about murder?! Or will they take an initiative to make a decision under the roof of the Arab League to prevent these channels and other lies at the very least, or in a language other compelling compliance with the Code of Media Ethics, which was declared many years ago by the Arab information ministers?!.
Some Arab actors hide behind the argument of the independence of the media to justify (their stances) not taking the positions of procedural and legal action against these channels, is loss of credibility and logic for two reasons:
- The first is that the media in their various forms and ownership of investigating and seeking to achieve the objectives of the taxpayer, whether filed by the owner as a business or as a cultural and intellectual, so the talk of independence is unfounded in the countries of the world, even in those that advocate of freedom of information, even more important here is in determining what the goals of the taxpayer and the legitimacy and consistency with applicable laws and regulations in each country.
- Second, the case of deviation, which encapsulate the performance of some of these means, opposing its work and its incompatibility with the Charter of the press work, professional and public traditions and ethics to prevent dangerous means to society and the receiver, which subjects them to the law, accountability, and there are examples of many global in this area .. How should it become a tool for incitement to murder, sabotage and secure communication channel to transmit orders to the gunmen and terrorists?!.
When the announcement of the agreement the Syrian - Arab League was made, we said that the responsibility of the Arab League is to get that achievement into balanced existence completely in terms of size and importance of the responsibility of the Syrian side, as we hope, for example, that the Arab Ministerial Committee take a practical step to stop the inflammatory campaign by Arab Satellite, particularly those that manufacture, rather than broadcast, lies and encourages sectarian strife ... But they have not done so yet!!.
Therefore, the continued abuse of some Arab media, with the events in Syria prevailing in the same way for several months and escalatory language, in spite of the agreement signed with the Arab League, can only be interpreted according to one of two options:
Either that there are Arab countries working on a hidden agenda against Syria at a time announcing the apparent support for the efforts of the Arab League, or that the Western countries eager to thwart the Arab effort by recruiting these means, which records of what they have done and their subordination to foreign intelligence services have proved to escalate and more lies and incitement. . Perhaps the answer is both.
توضيح لما جاء في مجلة دير شبيغل ( Der Spiegel ) في العدد 45 والذي أجراه الدكتور إيريك فولاذ
Clarify what was in the magazine Der Spiegel (Der Spiegel) in number 45, conducted by Dr. Eric Steel
12/12/1432 H | 2011/11/08 M.
http://www.drhassoun.com/news.aspx?id=557
http://backupurl.com/4nglvw
- In our conversation, conducted by Dr. Eric Steel, which lasted for two hours we were aiming for from the dialogue delivery of the floor clear of what is happening in Syria and in response to both attitudes and words that altered and falsified and Ojtzi them to serve specific purposes and gives the opposite of what we communicated about the situation in Syria and our religious of this events in the Arab world and the world, but we regret that the magazine Der Spiegel has registered Ajtzot talk for two hours and the duration of Achtsrth only fifteen minutes and even altered some answers from a positive to a negative answer.
* The first is to talk about, Mr. President and the opposition.
Where I said if the opposition presented their programs to persuade the Syrian street that has a better than what is found in Syria is not used murder and weapons and assassination of Mr. President the first to raise his hat to them and thank them and return to what he taught and loved in the prime of his youth, who started it is a doctor in ophthalmology .
How much is far from what Ojtzoth Der Spiegel, and Dr. Eric in the answer does not exceed ten words and according to which, I believe that the president is not about the presidency too, (thus NOT) as mentioned by some media channels ((that President Assad will step down from power after the reforms)).
Second:
In another answer we were talking about who bears responsibility for what is happening in the home and correct the errors in the delivery of Syria to the beach safe and out of the strife and bloodshed and the answer was that every citizen in Syria, an official in his position for saving the country and bear part of the responsibility for what happened from the excesses of government responsible The official Mufti, Mr. President, because Syria's official secretariat for all of us to bring her back to the oasis of peace.
Third:
In the case of martyrs, which aroused a sensation in the media sites has been made clear to Dr. Eric in the answer to this controversy but stressed that understands clearly through accurate translation and returned by him translated twice, and also after his call to consult with answers, and we corrected him saying that we are not and will not let the people to be suicide bombers did not welcome and do not want that people are turning to suicide bombers, and what was in my speech before the Lebanese delegation, and not, as stated Dr. Eric that she was in the word lament and I have a force intended to Europe if bombed Syria and Lebanon, people will react severely In each around the world, not in our region and not a particular religion or a particular group Injustice leads to turning people into suicide bombers or suicide bombers, as they call in some quarters, so I warn that does not transgress us, we're not used to you and let us solve our problems ourselves, Vhor this answer and even put in the forefront of article to be negative and the interface to the article.
- Have questioned some of the brothers in the channels of the media and the internet saying how long the remaining answers Mufti controversial and my answer until the carrier is honest with transmit and honest as he listens, committed to literature and ethics and the laws of truthful media in transport and validation, research, and this is what I knew and knew a lot of history is how poplars and forged many of the conversations spoken by the prophets, leaders and reformers who wanted to serve humanity and the preservation of God's holiness and human dignity, reducing one of these goals and these words when the owners of the passions, denominations and sects that have divided humanity and turned the heavenly messages, which calls for love and brotherhood to calls for division and strife between the sons of humanity and bring them to destruction each other. An example of this distortion of what aired on Al-Arabiya today, a comment on my talk with the magazine Der Spiegel - where she said that the Mufti of Syria, he says: If that Muhammad ordered me to disbelieve in Christianity and Judaism disbelieved Muhammad - God, You Will they say these words sane has been echoed by a number of times the media and I did not say this They insist on talking and see their lies God bless you.
I hope that everyone who hears and reads newly attributed to the leader or scholar or thinker, or any person to ascertain the validity of transfer and non-truncated words and not to distort the meaning, because God Almighty said: (O you who believe that there comes punk news, verify that harm people in ignorance and repent on What you have done)
I know that this hope will not find a place in many of the media, civil strife, which published much of what did not at least, and attributed to, and altered and falsified so we sent them a warning and a correction and clarification did not change nothing and did not correct anything wrong in it because it does not serve their own agendas and their destination.
As I also ask of the magazine Der Spiegel, and Dr. Eric to convey to talk, which lasted two hours and spoke it registered and has a documented and we have as well.
May God protect Syria and the Arab, Islamic and humanitarian anyone who wants to injustice and tyranny and war, and who wants the man to kill his fellow man and make him work a sacred, because we believe in Islam tolerant not to holiness in the killing of human beings whatever this killer only to the extent of God that set did not allow any one that carried out by the only clear evidence, not thinking, because the blood is protected legally and with reason and dignity.
May peace and God's mercy and blessings
Your brother Dr. Ahmad Badr Eddin Hassoun
Grand Mufti of the Syrian Arab Republic
Tuesday 12 / The argument / 1432
Corresponding to 8 / November / 2011
البطريرك لحام: التدخل الخارجي في سورية واضح المعالم ومن ينكره كمن يختبئ وراء إصبعه
Greek Catholic Patriarch Lahham: Foreign Interference in Syria is Clear
http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2011/11/10/380880.htm
http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2011/11/10/380887.htm
Nov 10, 2011
DAMASCUS, (SANA) – Patriarch Gregory III Lahham of Antioch and all the East stressed on Thursday that foreign interference in Syria is clear, adding, "what we see day after day proves the truth of what President Bashar al-Assad said about foreign interference."
In an interview with the Syrian TV, His Beatitude said, "This interference became so clear during the current events in Syria as we felt the US and other European countries' interference", stressing that the success of Syria and President al-Assad in challenging those who confront him is a success for the Arab and Islamic worlds.
Patriarch Lahham pointed out that when Syria accepted the Arab League's initiative, the US immediately called on gunmen in Syria not to surrender themselves to authorities in spite of the general amnesty issued recently.
Behind the News .. the Gasping (final agony before death)
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Opinion of Tishreen
Thursday November 10, 2011
Ezzeddine Darwish
Syrians know that the crisis of their country has finished or nearly finished at the very least, and they also know that what is broadcast is of the poisons on the crisis through the media, NATO, and especially al-Jazeerah and al-Arabiyyah TVs, not only the movements of agony before death of the crisis was separated specifically to Syria, and they spent about a hundred billion dollars, according to the lowest figures circulating among research centers, involving the Western powers and Arab, regional, and rented in which the largest centers and consulting firms in the world.
We say that what is broadcast currently, that is toxins, is gasping to this crisis, because this is evident in a malicious presentation of news and guidance, In pictures of demonstrations combined promoted by al-Jazeerah, and terminate telephone calls with the designated witnesses on the ground of these demonstrations, they actually make then say what to write to them, and get paid their labor in advance, and often speak from outside Syria or on its borders, and no one knows their phone numbers, only al-Jazeerah, which relate to them when you like, has been recognized one of them that al-Jazeerah had contacted him after just half an hour of receiving a Thuraya phone, what sparked outrage in the beginning.
And talk about al-Jazeerah, of course, means linked to the Atlantic (NATO), which means its system and management and those who are entrusted to them by the U.S. administration the task of managing the political and media war on Syria, and some Arabs who introduced them as the face of absurdity, and consent to do so, laughing, thinking them to win with them.
What these plotters didn't count was that the people of Syria politicized by nature and knows exactly what he wants and interests, and the ideological (beliefs) army of Syria cannot be broken or cannot be penetrated by the psychological war.
The Syrian Arab Army has already encountered (Zacha) of unprecedented disinformation and incitement, and the results were more coherence and strength of will, discipline and determination to deter any attempt to undermine the security of Syria and the Syrians.
Before and throughout this crisis, this army has remained a source of pride for all the Syrians that accept, with two hands (wide-open) and a smile, a soldier and a row of officers in the proud army, and they said that and they repeated it through the media.
Therefore, with the awareness of the people of Syria and the power of the will of the army, the crisis has ended irreversibly, and the conspirators who bet on a few thousand of the Syrians, only to concede defeat, and a few thousands remain zero before the twenty-three million people coming, and they are ready to take to the street at any moment to defend the security of Syria and its independence, and we will say to abroad and oppositions with links to them: Go away and disappear, this is Syria.
مختصر مفيد.. إرهاب الديمقراطية وديمقراطية الإرهاب
Succinct (useful summary) .. Democratic terrorism and democracy of terrorism
http://tishreen.info/_default.asp?FileName=42344895720111110032657
http://backupurl.com/ivne3u
Thursday November 10, 2011
Nasser Qindeel
In many parts of Syria, organized armed groups are conducting killings, kidnappings and intimidation against the right of Syrian citizens or the right of Syrian soldiers and policemen returning from service to their homes without a weapon, or by targeting scientific, cultural and social symbols whose roles are well-known in the fight against extremism and intolerance.
In the Arab League, its Secretary-General has disclosed intentions (to sanction) toward Syria and its leadership through acting promptly without any facts to hold them accountable for not implementing the initiative of the Arab League, and without making any effort to provide the consent of the opposition adopted by the calls for dialogue on which the Arab solution, without recalling what Washington said about expressing its support for armed groups and their refusal to lay down arms, and when the Secretary-General received opposition delegations, organized groups of oppositions adopted by the Secretary-General under the banner of the Council of Istanbul (SNC) beat (other) opponents with completely different opinion and insults them in front of the eyes of the Arab League and the Secretary-General.
This means that:
What happened with the oppositions in front of the Arab League, what if the same thing happened with the oppositions of the Council of Istanbul (SNC) in the Damascus International Airport, in the context of calls for dialogue for the Secretary-General declared ineligible for Damascus as a place for dialogue, how (can you say that) the Arab League is appropriate for the promised dialogue?
A group of the Council of Istanbul (SNC) who speak day and night about the need for the regime to accept a different opinion such as political programs that oppositions groups including the SNC themselves are presenting, then how (are they doing to treat) different opinion which is supportive to the regime?
Therefore, the Syrians are being given a choice between the democracy which terrorism roving in the Syrian society is offering, and the terrorism of the SNC impersonates themselves and which adopts murderous programs inside and outside of the country and which receives information, diplomatic and financial support (from abroad). (note: in short, a choice of domestic demonstrators or the SNC abroad, and both are terrorists.)
الافتتاحية.. مزيد من التحريض!
The opening .. More incitement!
http://tishreen.info/_ech.asp?FileName=42344895720111110032837
http://backupurl.com/g8jil7
Word of editor
Thursday November 10, 2011
Ziad Ghosn
Many observers expected to witness a performance of some Arab satellite channels change remarkably with the announcement reached between Syria and the Arab Ministerial Committee of the Action Plan on the situation in Syria, in order to provide the appropriate environment for the implementation of the Action Plan by stopping daily incitement campaign and spreading lies ...
But what happened was quite the opposite, the channels leading slander campaign and spreading lies that have been exposed and always refuted the facts, the more the pace of work has been intensive during the past few days, do not even say they have opened a new front to try to create a disturbing atmosphere of the holidays in some provinces, and promote a pessimistic atmosphere for the potential success of the Arab efforts in helping Syria to solve the crisis. ...
The question is: how can the Arab Ministerial Committee take such steps about what these channels committed breaches of professional and most important contribution to obstruct efforts by the Commission and its efforts?! Are they going to turn the blind eye on their practices under the pretext of media independence and freedom of expression, even if what they say are lies and incitement about murder?! Or will they take an initiative to make a decision under the roof of the Arab League to prevent these channels and other lies at the very least, or in a language other compelling compliance with the Code of Media Ethics, which was declared many years ago by the Arab information ministers?!.
Some Arab actors hide behind the argument of the independence of the media to justify (their stances) not taking the positions of procedural and legal action against these channels, is loss of credibility and logic for two reasons:
- The first is that the media in their various forms and ownership of investigating and seeking to achieve the objectives of the taxpayer, whether filed by the owner as a business or as a cultural and intellectual, so the talk of independence is unfounded in the countries of the world, even in those that advocate of freedom of information, even more important here is in determining what the goals of the taxpayer and the legitimacy and consistency with applicable laws and regulations in each country.
- Second, the case of deviation, which encapsulate the performance of some of these means, opposing its work and its incompatibility with the Charter of the press work, professional and public traditions and ethics to prevent dangerous means to society and the receiver, which subjects them to the law, accountability, and there are examples of many global in this area .. How should it become a tool for incitement to murder, sabotage and secure communication channel to transmit orders to the gunmen and terrorists?!.
When the announcement of the agreement the Syrian - Arab League was made, we said that the responsibility of the Arab League is to get that achievement into balanced existence completely in terms of size and importance of the responsibility of the Syrian side, as we hope, for example, that the Arab Ministerial Committee take a practical step to stop the inflammatory campaign by Arab Satellite, particularly those that manufacture, rather than broadcast, lies and encourages sectarian strife ... But they have not done so yet!!.
Therefore, the continued abuse of some Arab media, with the events in Syria prevailing in the same way for several months and escalatory language, in spite of the agreement signed with the Arab League, can only be interpreted according to one of two options:
Either that there are Arab countries working on a hidden agenda against Syria at a time announcing the apparent support for the efforts of the Arab League, or that the Western countries eager to thwart the Arab effort by recruiting these means, which records of what they have done and their subordination to foreign intelligence services have proved to escalate and more lies and incitement. . Perhaps the answer is both.
توضيح لما جاء في مجلة دير شبيغل ( Der Spiegel ) في العدد 45 والذي أجراه الدكتور إيريك فولاذ
Clarify what was in the magazine Der Spiegel (Der Spiegel) in number 45, conducted by Dr. Eric Steel
12/12/1432 H | 2011/11/08 M.
http://www.drhassoun.com/news.aspx?id=557
http://backupurl.com/4nglvw
- In our conversation, conducted by Dr. Eric Steel, which lasted for two hours we were aiming for from the dialogue delivery of the floor clear of what is happening in Syria and in response to both attitudes and words that altered and falsified and Ojtzi them to serve specific purposes and gives the opposite of what we communicated about the situation in Syria and our religious of this events in the Arab world and the world, but we regret that the magazine Der Spiegel has registered Ajtzot talk for two hours and the duration of Achtsrth only fifteen minutes and even altered some answers from a positive to a negative answer.
* The first is to talk about, Mr. President and the opposition.
Where I said if the opposition presented their programs to persuade the Syrian street that has a better than what is found in Syria is not used murder and weapons and assassination of Mr. President the first to raise his hat to them and thank them and return to what he taught and loved in the prime of his youth, who started it is a doctor in ophthalmology .
How much is far from what Ojtzoth Der Spiegel, and Dr. Eric in the answer does not exceed ten words and according to which, I believe that the president is not about the presidency too, (thus NOT) as mentioned by some media channels ((that President Assad will step down from power after the reforms)).
Second:
In another answer we were talking about who bears responsibility for what is happening in the home and correct the errors in the delivery of Syria to the beach safe and out of the strife and bloodshed and the answer was that every citizen in Syria, an official in his position for saving the country and bear part of the responsibility for what happened from the excesses of government responsible The official Mufti, Mr. President, because Syria's official secretariat for all of us to bring her back to the oasis of peace.
Third:
In the case of martyrs, which aroused a sensation in the media sites has been made clear to Dr. Eric in the answer to this controversy but stressed that understands clearly through accurate translation and returned by him translated twice, and also after his call to consult with answers, and we corrected him saying that we are not and will not let the people to be suicide bombers did not welcome and do not want that people are turning to suicide bombers, and what was in my speech before the Lebanese delegation, and not, as stated Dr. Eric that she was in the word lament and I have a force intended to Europe if bombed Syria and Lebanon, people will react severely In each around the world, not in our region and not a particular religion or a particular group Injustice leads to turning people into suicide bombers or suicide bombers, as they call in some quarters, so I warn that does not transgress us, we're not used to you and let us solve our problems ourselves, Vhor this answer and even put in the forefront of article to be negative and the interface to the article.
- Have questioned some of the brothers in the channels of the media and the internet saying how long the remaining answers Mufti controversial and my answer until the carrier is honest with transmit and honest as he listens, committed to literature and ethics and the laws of truthful media in transport and validation, research, and this is what I knew and knew a lot of history is how poplars and forged many of the conversations spoken by the prophets, leaders and reformers who wanted to serve humanity and the preservation of God's holiness and human dignity, reducing one of these goals and these words when the owners of the passions, denominations and sects that have divided humanity and turned the heavenly messages, which calls for love and brotherhood to calls for division and strife between the sons of humanity and bring them to destruction each other. An example of this distortion of what aired on Al-Arabiya today, a comment on my talk with the magazine Der Spiegel - where she said that the Mufti of Syria, he says: If that Muhammad ordered me to disbelieve in Christianity and Judaism disbelieved Muhammad - God, You Will they say these words sane has been echoed by a number of times the media and I did not say this They insist on talking and see their lies God bless you.
I hope that everyone who hears and reads newly attributed to the leader or scholar or thinker, or any person to ascertain the validity of transfer and non-truncated words and not to distort the meaning, because God Almighty said: (O you who believe that there comes punk news, verify that harm people in ignorance and repent on What you have done)
I know that this hope will not find a place in many of the media, civil strife, which published much of what did not at least, and attributed to, and altered and falsified so we sent them a warning and a correction and clarification did not change nothing and did not correct anything wrong in it because it does not serve their own agendas and their destination.
As I also ask of the magazine Der Spiegel, and Dr. Eric to convey to talk, which lasted two hours and spoke it registered and has a documented and we have as well.
May God protect Syria and the Arab, Islamic and humanitarian anyone who wants to injustice and tyranny and war, and who wants the man to kill his fellow man and make him work a sacred, because we believe in Islam tolerant not to holiness in the killing of human beings whatever this killer only to the extent of God that set did not allow any one that carried out by the only clear evidence, not thinking, because the blood is protected legally and with reason and dignity.
May peace and God's mercy and blessings
Your brother Dr. Ahmad Badr Eddin Hassoun
Grand Mufti of the Syrian Arab Republic
Tuesday 12 / The argument / 1432
Corresponding to 8 / November / 2011
البطريرك لحام: التدخل الخارجي في سورية واضح المعالم ومن ينكره كمن يختبئ وراء إصبعه
Greek Catholic Patriarch Lahham: Foreign Interference in Syria is Clear
http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2011/11/10/380880.htm
http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2011/11/10/380887.htm
Nov 10, 2011
DAMASCUS, (SANA) – Patriarch Gregory III Lahham of Antioch and all the East stressed on Thursday that foreign interference in Syria is clear, adding, "what we see day after day proves the truth of what President Bashar al-Assad said about foreign interference."
In an interview with the Syrian TV, His Beatitude said, "This interference became so clear during the current events in Syria as we felt the US and other European countries' interference", stressing that the success of Syria and President al-Assad in challenging those who confront him is a success for the Arab and Islamic worlds.
Patriarch Lahham pointed out that when Syria accepted the Arab League's initiative, the US immediately called on gunmen in Syria not to surrender themselves to authorities in spite of the general amnesty issued recently.
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