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11-14-2011, 07:16 PM
THE Arab League has suspended Syria until President Bashar al-Assad implements an Arab deal to end violence against protesters, and has called for sanctions and transition talks with the opposition.
Syria angrily denounced today's suspension as illegal, saying it has implemented the agreement and claiming the move due to take effect next Wednesday was ordered by the United States.
A statement, read by Qatari Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassem Al-Thani, said the League decided "to suspend Syrian delegations' activities in Arab League meetings" as long as it stalls on the plan and to implement "economic and political sanctions against the Syrian government".
Syrian Ambassador Yussef Ahmad, quoted by Syria's official media, said the decision is "illegal and contrary to the treaty" that set up the pan-Arab organisation.
Damascus has "implemented all the articles of the agreement", he told reporters in Cairo, although at least 125 people have been killed in the flashpoint city of Homs since the deal was reached on November 2.
"It was clear (the decision) was decided through a US order," he said, accusing the League of working for an "American agenda".
Ahmad also said the moves "put an end to joint Arab action and show that the (League's) administration is subjected to US and Western agendas".
Apart from the suspension, which had been sought by the Syrian opposition, the League called for the withdrawal of Arab ambassadors from Damascus but left the decision to each member state.
Sheikh Hamad said the measures would take effect on November 16 and Arab ministers would meet again to decide on specific sanctions.
The statement also called for the protection of civilians and said Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi would contact international organisations concerned with human rights, "including the United Nations", if the bloodshed continued.
It called for a meeting in Cairo with Syrian opposition groups in three days to "agree a unified vision for the coming transitional period in Syria". The opposition would later meet with Arab foreign ministers.
A week of deadly violence in the central city of Homs overshadowed the meeting, in which ministers had appeared divided on what measure to take but eventually voted by majority on the final statement.
Assad's regime agreed on November 2 to the Arab roadmap, which called for the release of detainees, the withdrawal of the army from urban areas, free movement for observers and media and negotiations with the opposition.
Instead, human rights groups say, the regime has intensified its crackdown, especially in Homs.
"Homs is a microcosm of the Syrian government's brutality," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director of Human Rights Watch, which accused the regime of crimes against humanity based on its systematic abuses against civilians.
Human Rights Watch, like protesters and Syrian opposition leaders, urged the Arab League to suspend Syria's membership as punishment for its brutal eight-month crackdown on dissent.
At least 23 people were killed in violence in Syria on Friday alone, most of them civilians in Homs, which an opposition group declared a "humanitarian disaster area" earlier this week.
On Saturday, three people were killed in clashes in the northwestern region of Idlib, near Turkey, after between 50 and 60 soldiers defected to the opposition, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
And in Homs, security forces carried out raids and arrests in the Bab Sebaa and Bab Dreib districts, it said, adding that "heavy gunfire was heard in the neighbourhood of Baba Amro".
With NATO ruling out operations and UN Security Council sanctions unlikely because veto-wielding permanent members Russia and China are allies of Assad's regime, regional actors have come to represent the best avenue to pressure Damascus.
Damascus argues it has moved forward on the deal by releasing 500 prisoners, and its envoy to the Arab League expressed on Friday his government's willingness to receive a pan-Arab delegation.
"This will help assess Damascus's commitment to the (Arab) plan and to unveil motives behind certain external and internal parties working for the failure of the Arab blueprint," the official SANA news agency quoted Ahmed as saying.
Despite the Assad regime's prevarication, the United States insists its days are numbered and says that even Arab leaders are encouraging him to step down quickly.
"Some Arab leaders already have begun to offer Assad safe haven in an effort to encourage him to leave peaceably and quickly," Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman said.
"Almost all the Arab leaders say the same thing - Assad's rule is coming to an end. Change in Syria is now inevitable," Feltman told members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in a hearing.
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/arab-league-suspends-syria/story-e6frfku0-1226193701739#ixzz1dd9hcPsX
JP Blabs Truth About Western Stance Toward Syria: To Weaken Iran
Humanitarian issues merely rhetorical cover for regional gambit to dismantle Iranian influence.
by Tony Cartalucci
November 14, 2011 - As stated in February 2011's "The Middle East & then the World," the US-funded, armed, and backed "Arab Spring" was far from "spontaneous" or "indigenous" but rather a premeditated region-wide destabilization to solidify Wall Street-London hegemony throughout the Middle East in an effort to cut-off and isolate both Moscow and Beijing in a gambit designed to establish an uncontested, corporate-fascist "international order."
US Senator John McCain, chairmen of the International Republican Institute, an organization dedicated to fomenting extraterritorial seditious unrest and revolution throughout the world, openly said of the unrest his IRI had helped fund starting in Egypt, ravaging Libya, and now consuming Syria, "I would be a little less cocky in the Kremlin with my KGB cronies today if I were Vladimir Putin. I would be a little less secure in the seaside resort [of] President Hu and a few men who govern and decide the fate of 1.3 billion people." McCain who has openly consorted with Al Qaeda in Libya and led corporate-fascist delegations touring the now hopelessly destabilized Cairo as they prepare to reap the benefits of their foreign-funded sedition, let slip the true nature of the global gambit playing out via US-fueled color revolutions and that indeed, their final destination is in the capital cities of Moscow and Beijing.
Now the Jerusalem Post has reported that a "strike on Syria could be less costly way of weakening Tehran," revealing that power mongering, not humanitarian concerns, lie at the heart of the "West's" designs toward Syria and that the clearly foreign-funded, and now armed, sedition unfolding in Syria's border cities aims at weakening the Iranian sphere of influence, with concerns of "democracy" only rhetorical fodder scattered on the ground for anyone ignorant enough to gobble it up. The Post reported that Gabriel Ben-Dor, director of national security studies at the University of Haifa, hailed the recent decision by the Arab League to suspend Syria but stated that further action would be necessary to "back it up," revealing indeed that the League is acting as a proxy for Wall Street, London, and Israeli interests.
Ben-Dor would confirm that, "they’re hoping to dismantle the axis of Iran, Syria and Hezbollah, and to somehow weaken this entire coalition, which is a common interest of all major powers of the Arab world," revealing with absolute certainty that the last half year of corporate media reports citing the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Soros-funded Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International (page 10) have been nothing more than crass propaganda in a bid to justify what is essentially a proxy war being fought not with US troops but with US-trained youth groups in Egypt, Al Qaeda thugs in Libya, and Muslim Brotherhood militants in Syria.
The report titled "Syria urges Arab League to reconsider suspension," and written by Oren Kessler of Jerusalem Post and Reuters - in itself illustrating the incestuous, completely compromised nature of the mainstream corporate-fascist serving media- even degenerates into wailing and chest beating over humanitarian concerns, citing the now entirely discredited UN and "activists." This breathtaking display of corporate-funded agenda-driven propaganda irrefutably lays to rest the illegitimacy of the foreign-funded protests/unrest in Syria, the legitimacy of mirroring foreign-funded "activism" throughout the world, and the paid liars throughout the mainstream media.
With this confirmation in hand - it may be worth re-reading "The Middle East and Then the World," as the megalomania of Wall Street-London and its legion of treasonous helpers consume the world and edges us all closer to World War III under the guise of humanitarian concerns, "democracy," human rights, and "freedom."
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/11/jp-blabs-truth-about-western-stance.html
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Syria angrily denounced today's suspension as illegal, saying it has implemented the agreement and claiming the move due to take effect next Wednesday was ordered by the United States.
A statement, read by Qatari Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassem Al-Thani, said the League decided "to suspend Syrian delegations' activities in Arab League meetings" as long as it stalls on the plan and to implement "economic and political sanctions against the Syrian government".
Syrian Ambassador Yussef Ahmad, quoted by Syria's official media, said the decision is "illegal and contrary to the treaty" that set up the pan-Arab organisation.
Damascus has "implemented all the articles of the agreement", he told reporters in Cairo, although at least 125 people have been killed in the flashpoint city of Homs since the deal was reached on November 2.
"It was clear (the decision) was decided through a US order," he said, accusing the League of working for an "American agenda".
Ahmad also said the moves "put an end to joint Arab action and show that the (League's) administration is subjected to US and Western agendas".
Apart from the suspension, which had been sought by the Syrian opposition, the League called for the withdrawal of Arab ambassadors from Damascus but left the decision to each member state.
Sheikh Hamad said the measures would take effect on November 16 and Arab ministers would meet again to decide on specific sanctions.
The statement also called for the protection of civilians and said Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi would contact international organisations concerned with human rights, "including the United Nations", if the bloodshed continued.
It called for a meeting in Cairo with Syrian opposition groups in three days to "agree a unified vision for the coming transitional period in Syria". The opposition would later meet with Arab foreign ministers.
A week of deadly violence in the central city of Homs overshadowed the meeting, in which ministers had appeared divided on what measure to take but eventually voted by majority on the final statement.
Assad's regime agreed on November 2 to the Arab roadmap, which called for the release of detainees, the withdrawal of the army from urban areas, free movement for observers and media and negotiations with the opposition.
Instead, human rights groups say, the regime has intensified its crackdown, especially in Homs.
"Homs is a microcosm of the Syrian government's brutality," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director of Human Rights Watch, which accused the regime of crimes against humanity based on its systematic abuses against civilians.
Human Rights Watch, like protesters and Syrian opposition leaders, urged the Arab League to suspend Syria's membership as punishment for its brutal eight-month crackdown on dissent.
At least 23 people were killed in violence in Syria on Friday alone, most of them civilians in Homs, which an opposition group declared a "humanitarian disaster area" earlier this week.
On Saturday, three people were killed in clashes in the northwestern region of Idlib, near Turkey, after between 50 and 60 soldiers defected to the opposition, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
And in Homs, security forces carried out raids and arrests in the Bab Sebaa and Bab Dreib districts, it said, adding that "heavy gunfire was heard in the neighbourhood of Baba Amro".
With NATO ruling out operations and UN Security Council sanctions unlikely because veto-wielding permanent members Russia and China are allies of Assad's regime, regional actors have come to represent the best avenue to pressure Damascus.
Damascus argues it has moved forward on the deal by releasing 500 prisoners, and its envoy to the Arab League expressed on Friday his government's willingness to receive a pan-Arab delegation.
"This will help assess Damascus's commitment to the (Arab) plan and to unveil motives behind certain external and internal parties working for the failure of the Arab blueprint," the official SANA news agency quoted Ahmed as saying.
Despite the Assad regime's prevarication, the United States insists its days are numbered and says that even Arab leaders are encouraging him to step down quickly.
"Some Arab leaders already have begun to offer Assad safe haven in an effort to encourage him to leave peaceably and quickly," Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman said.
"Almost all the Arab leaders say the same thing - Assad's rule is coming to an end. Change in Syria is now inevitable," Feltman told members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in a hearing.
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/arab-league-suspends-syria/story-e6frfku0-1226193701739#ixzz1dd9hcPsX
JP Blabs Truth About Western Stance Toward Syria: To Weaken Iran
Humanitarian issues merely rhetorical cover for regional gambit to dismantle Iranian influence.
by Tony Cartalucci
November 14, 2011 - As stated in February 2011's "The Middle East & then the World," the US-funded, armed, and backed "Arab Spring" was far from "spontaneous" or "indigenous" but rather a premeditated region-wide destabilization to solidify Wall Street-London hegemony throughout the Middle East in an effort to cut-off and isolate both Moscow and Beijing in a gambit designed to establish an uncontested, corporate-fascist "international order."
US Senator John McCain, chairmen of the International Republican Institute, an organization dedicated to fomenting extraterritorial seditious unrest and revolution throughout the world, openly said of the unrest his IRI had helped fund starting in Egypt, ravaging Libya, and now consuming Syria, "I would be a little less cocky in the Kremlin with my KGB cronies today if I were Vladimir Putin. I would be a little less secure in the seaside resort [of] President Hu and a few men who govern and decide the fate of 1.3 billion people." McCain who has openly consorted with Al Qaeda in Libya and led corporate-fascist delegations touring the now hopelessly destabilized Cairo as they prepare to reap the benefits of their foreign-funded sedition, let slip the true nature of the global gambit playing out via US-fueled color revolutions and that indeed, their final destination is in the capital cities of Moscow and Beijing.
Now the Jerusalem Post has reported that a "strike on Syria could be less costly way of weakening Tehran," revealing that power mongering, not humanitarian concerns, lie at the heart of the "West's" designs toward Syria and that the clearly foreign-funded, and now armed, sedition unfolding in Syria's border cities aims at weakening the Iranian sphere of influence, with concerns of "democracy" only rhetorical fodder scattered on the ground for anyone ignorant enough to gobble it up. The Post reported that Gabriel Ben-Dor, director of national security studies at the University of Haifa, hailed the recent decision by the Arab League to suspend Syria but stated that further action would be necessary to "back it up," revealing indeed that the League is acting as a proxy for Wall Street, London, and Israeli interests.
Ben-Dor would confirm that, "they’re hoping to dismantle the axis of Iran, Syria and Hezbollah, and to somehow weaken this entire coalition, which is a common interest of all major powers of the Arab world," revealing with absolute certainty that the last half year of corporate media reports citing the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Soros-funded Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International (page 10) have been nothing more than crass propaganda in a bid to justify what is essentially a proxy war being fought not with US troops but with US-trained youth groups in Egypt, Al Qaeda thugs in Libya, and Muslim Brotherhood militants in Syria.
The report titled "Syria urges Arab League to reconsider suspension," and written by Oren Kessler of Jerusalem Post and Reuters - in itself illustrating the incestuous, completely compromised nature of the mainstream corporate-fascist serving media- even degenerates into wailing and chest beating over humanitarian concerns, citing the now entirely discredited UN and "activists." This breathtaking display of corporate-funded agenda-driven propaganda irrefutably lays to rest the illegitimacy of the foreign-funded protests/unrest in Syria, the legitimacy of mirroring foreign-funded "activism" throughout the world, and the paid liars throughout the mainstream media.
With this confirmation in hand - it may be worth re-reading "The Middle East and Then the World," as the megalomania of Wall Street-London and its legion of treasonous helpers consume the world and edges us all closer to World War III under the guise of humanitarian concerns, "democracy," human rights, and "freedom."
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/11/jp-blabs-truth-about-western-stance.html
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