TODAY’S MESOP COMMENTARY : HILLARY’S MEMOIRS & SYRIA
Clinton wanted to arm Syria’s rebels
6.6.2014 – (Al Jazeera)- Hillary Clinton favoured arming Syria’s rebels early in that country’s civil war but was overruled by President Barack Obama, the former secretary of state said in her new memoir. Clinton’s long-awaited book “Hard Choices” – seen as an unofficial start to her expected presidential run – is set for a June 10 release.
MESOP : BARACK BALD GANZ ALLEIN ZU HAUS ?
Hillary Clinton geht auf Distanz zu Barack Obama
MESOP – 6.6.2014 – Washington. Die frühere US-Außenministerin Hillary Clinton ist in ihren Memoiren auf Distanz zu Präsident Barack Obama gegangen. Unter dem Titel “Hard Choices” (deutsche Fassung: “Entscheidungen”) legt sie einen besonderen Akzent auf unterschiedliche Ansichten zum Syrien-Konflikt, wie der Sender CBS berichtete.
MESOP : PYD GIVES ROOM FOR ASSAD FORCES
Kurdish forces withdraw from locations in Syria’s Hasakah
ARA News – 6.6.62014 – Hasakah, Syria ــ The Kurdish forces of the Popular Protection Units (YPG) and the Assayish (military and security arm of the Democratic Union Party PYD) withdrew on Tuesday midnight from their headquarter of the Fire Station in the city of Hasakah in northeastern Syria. The YPG and Assayish were replaced by pro-Assad militants of the National Defence in the Station after their withdrawal.
MESOP REPORT : Aleppo Between Blood and Water / SYRIA UNTOLD – (Click for pictures)
6.6. 2014 – Aleppo, the city that has survived two years of Assad’s barrel bombs, is now being brought to its knees by thirst. But this time, the direct culprit is not the regime.
Activists have pointed the finger at radical Islamist opposition militias, specifically al-Nusra Front—an al-Qaeda-linked group that has attempted to impose its own Islamic interpretation on Syrians under the guise of the revolution— that are in control of Aleppo’s main water pumping station. They are accused of refusing to allow water to be pumped to the city as a way of putting pressure on regime-controlled areas with utter disregard to the unfolding humanitarian disaster in the town.
Russia to send first batch of Yak-130 jets to Syria
MESOP : PUTIN – THE BULWARK OF PEACE & DIALOGUE
Iran TV – Russia plans to deliver the first batch of subsonic two-seat advanced Yakovlev Yak-130 jet trainer/light attack aircraft to Syria by the end of this year in a show of support for President Bashar Assad’s government. Citing an unnamed source close to Russian arms exporter Rosoboronexport, Russian daily newspaper Kommersant, wrote on Monday that Damascus will receive nine aircraft until the end of 2014, and in the next two years,12 and 15 respectively.
MESOP : DRUZE LEADER JUMBLAT / „SHAKING WALID“
Walid Jumblat : Syrian Elections Demonstrated the ‘Art of Democracy’ to the World
Naharnet Newsdesk – 5.6.2014 – Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat criticized on Thursday the Syrian presidential elections with a caustic and sarcastic statement, noting the regime’s bloody crackdown against the people and the international community’s disappointing stances towards the Syrian people.
He said sarcastically: “The regime could have achieved better results in the glittering, diverse, transparent, and democratic elections, had the dead, which exceeded 200,000, and displaced, who exceed eight million, been able to cast their votes.”
MESOP REPORT : Amnesty International on ISIS massacre in village of Ras al-Ain
5 June 2014 Children among 15 civilians summarily killed in northern Syria
Amnesty International has obtained details of a horrific raid in which 15 civilians, including seven children, were summarily killed on 29 May in a village in northern Syria raising fears of further attacks against residents in the area.The killings in the village of al-Tleiliye in al Hassake governorate are believed to have been carried out by members of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). Arab farming families were targeted, apparently for their perceived support of a Kurdish armed group, the YPG (People’s Protection Unit) or because they were mistaken for Yezidi Kurds.
MESOP Syria Daily: Assad “Wins” Re-Election — Now What?
TODAY’S MESOP INVESTIGATION : “REFORMER” AL ASSAD MEETS “REVOLUTIONARIES” OF NORTH KOREA – “SIMILARITIES!”
Loved-up? North Korea, Syria swap praise & adulation
By Mohanad Hage Ali | Special to Al Arabiya News – Wednesday, 4 June 2014 – A North Korean delegation met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to improve relations recently, just days before the presidential elections. Assad stressed that the relations between the two countries “stem from the common destiny of their peoples.” The Official North Korean and Syrian news agencies, KCNA and SANA respectively, signed a cooperation agreement; both sides pledged “quality control” to match each other’s professional standards.
MESOP LATEST : Kurdish PYD official assassinated in Qamishlo
05.06.2014 – BasNews, Syria – A Kornish Council member was killed by a car bomb on Thursday morning in Qamishlo. The reason for the assassination is unclear.
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