Why Seymour Hersh has it wrong this time / SEYMOUR HERSH’S FAIRY TALES
The chemical strike on East Ghouta is not as mysterious as Seymour Hersh suggests
Nowmedia – 12-12-2013 – The noted author and journalist Seymour Hersh has recently published a lengthy article in the London Review of Books on the subject of the August 21st chemical attacks in Syria. This article raises a number of issues that are at variance with much of the widely-accepted narrative surrounding the use of sarin in Syria.
Syria Special: Chemical Weapons Conspiracy That Wasn’t — Hersh’s “Exclusive” Dissected
EAworldview – 12-12-2013 – This week Seymour Hersh — the investigative reporter who broke the My Lai story and reported on Watergate before Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein picked up the trail — splashed a dramatic exclusive in the London Review of Books, “Whose Sarin?“
Hersh effectively claims that the Obama Administration lied when it said it had intelligence about the Assad regime’s responsibility for the August 21 chemical weapons attacks near Damascus. He then implies that the insurgents are really the culprits, as the Islamist faction Jabhat al-Nusra and possibly the Islamic State of Iraq and as-Sham had “worked with” the nerve agent. It’s a dramatic and important story, if it was well-researched, well-supported, and well-developed. – It’s not!
The Qamishli Front in Syria
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi – 11.12.2013 – The northeastern corner of Syria- with the city of Qamishli and its surrounding area- has attracted some media attention as a scene of what is known as the wider “Kurdish-Jihadi” conflict that erupted since the expulsion of jihadis from the Hasakah northern border town of Ras al-Ayn by the YPG in July. So which factions are fighting on the Qamishli front on both sides?
Mr. Salih MUSLIM ‘s speech / 10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON “THE EUROPEAN UNION, TURKEY & THE KURDS”
Brussels, European Parliament, 4th & 5th of December 2013 – Mr. Salih MUSLIM ‘s speech – Co-President of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), Syria-Kurdistan
Brussels, 5th December, 2013 – On behalf of the Kurdish people in Rojava, I would like to thank the President of the European Parliament and all those who have granted us the opportunity to address the European Parliament and through them the peoples of Europe.
Kurdish jihadists fighting in Syria are on the rise
Mewan Dolamari – BasNews (Suliaymania): 10-12-2013 – A Kurdish Security official has revealed that more than two hundred young Kurdish men have travelled to Syria to take part in the civil war and wage Jihad.
TODAY’S MESOP LATEST : FIRST UNHCR AID TO WEST KURDISTAN
The United Nations is planning its first aid airlift into Syria from Iraq this week. According to the refugee agency, UNHCR, it will begin delivering food and winter supplies to the mainly Kurdish northeastern cities of Hassakeh and Qamishli, with up to 12 flights scheduled between Thursday and Sunday.
Syrian Kurds Discuss Differences Over Geneva II
Brussels – 10.12.2013 – Al Monitir – Wladimir van Wilgenburg – – The Kurdish parties in Syria are discussing how to participate in the Jan. 22 Geneva II conference after heavy tensions erupted between the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) along with its affiliate, the Democratic Union Party (PYD). The Syrian Kurds now have one month to solve their differences or face a disunited voice at Geneva II with the risk of being ignored.
Iran’s Shadow Warriors: Iraqi Shiʿi Militias Defending the Faithful in Syria & Iraq / Greatest Proxy war since Vietnam
Carl Yonker – Researcher – Center for Middle Eastern & African Studies.
Rami G. Khouri, the Beirut-based internationally syndicated columnist, recently noted that “the Syrian conflict has become the world’s greatest proxy war since Vietnam…and has drawn in local, regional and global actors, many of whom see this as an existential fight that they cannot afford to lose.”[1]
“Al-Qaeda’s Governance Strategy in Raqqa,” by Chris Looney
Posted by Joshua on Sunday, December 8th, 2013 – For Syria Comment – December 8,2013 – Joshua Landis
- “Every 15 minutes someone poured water on me, electrocuted me, kicked me, and then walked out,” says one activist in an interview with CNN.
- “They beat me with a rifle and with their hands when they arrested me,” says another in a conversation with BBC. “And they threw a wheel on my back so I couldn’t move.
Such is the situation in Raqqa, a city in northeastern Syria with approximately one million inhabitants now under control of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), the most powerful Al Qaeda (AQ) affiliate currently operating in Syria.
ROJAVA REVOLUTION IN THE HAND OF A STRONG MUSLIMIST
TARAF INTERVIEW : Muslim talked about his personal life, stating that he is a strong believer in Islam.
Salih Muslim: I have performed Hajj twice & Umrah 50 times (!)
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