MESOP Syria Daily: Insurgents Close on Air Force HQ Near Aleppo

By Scott Lucas – eaworldview – 11-4-2014 – UPDATE 1225 GMT: Insurgents claim they control the highway near the Ramouseh industrial area, south of Aleppo, cutting off the only route to the city for the Syrian army and militias.If insurgents maintain control, they will also cut the main route from the airport to supply regime bases east of Aleppo.Insurgents are pursuing a notable victory — the capture of an Air Force intelligence headquarters near Aleppo.

MESOP Syria Feature: Is US Blocking Military Aid to Insurgents in South?

PUTINS ACTS – OBAMA NOT !

By Scott Lucas April 11, 2014 – eaworldviewBen Hubbard of The New York Times writes about the international “operations center” in Jordan which is supposed to coordinate assistance to insurgents in southern Syria, but which has been beset by claims that the US is hindering the aid:

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Chemical Assad : New claims of poison-gas attacks by the Damascus regime are falling on deaf ears.

MESOP : Western basically principle – listen away ! (IF NOT SEYMOUR HERSH SPEAKS)

By Daniel Nisman – April 10, 2014 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL – Nearly eight months after the Assad regime gassed more than 1,400 people to death in Eastern Ghouta near Damascus, claims of chemical attacks in Syria’s capital are once again falling on deaf ears in the international community.

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GEMEINSAME AKTION : HILFE FÜR ALLE SYRISCHEN BEVÖLKERUNGSGRUPPEN OHNE AUSSCHLUSS DER VEREINIGTEN DEUTSCHEN HILFSWERKE

Syrien-Krise: Humanitäre Hilfe trotz Bomben / Bündnispartner von Aktion Deutschland Hilft leisten dringende Nothilfe unter schwersten Bedingungen

SPENDENHOTLINE

11-4-2014 Bonn (ots) – In der Bundestagsdebatte um den Haushalt des Auswärtigen Amts für das Jahr 2014 appellierte Außenminister und Kuratoriumsvorsitzender von Aktion Deutschland Hilft, Frank-Walter-Steinmeier an den Bundestag, die humanitäre Krise in Syrien nicht aus dem Blick zu verlieren:

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THE PYD’S CENTRAL DILEMMA

Moreover, the party’s political project is based on superior standards, options and acts, which do not stem from the will, desire or choice of those who are to be subjected to this political bureaucracy program. It is rather based on language, tools and standards that are unfamiliar to them. This programming is theoretical and ambiguous. It lures people into believing that it will realize many wishes, while it lacks the necessary conditions or tools. Rustom Mahmoud – Al Monitor – http://www.mesop.de/?p=45751

Syrian Kurdish Groups Offer Best Path for Future / ÖCALAN’S IDEAS – THE PYD DILEMMA

By Rustom Mahmoud – AL Monitor – 2014-04-11 –  The current Syrian scene involves two Kurdish movements that seem to summarize the developments of the Syrian Kurdish political movement. The first is the Democratic Union Party (PYD), which is close to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The PYD’s military and security formations are widespread in Kurdish regions in Syria and it has been engaged in violent confrontations for months now against armed terrorist groups aiming to control the Kurdish areas. This party has a societal project to symbolically and effectively control the Syrian Kurdish community. Its political platform — represented by the autonomy project — is based on a form of local governance in these areas with ideas similar to those of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan.

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TODAY’S MESOP SYRIA INSIGHT

11-4-2014 – The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said time is running out for Syria to delivery its chemical weapons stockpile for destruction. The Syrian government has committed to transfer almost all of its remaining chemical weapons and precursors to the port of Latakia by April 13, and to make its final delivery by April 27. Only about 54 percent of the full chemical stockpile has been loaded onto the two Scandinavian freighters docked at the Syrian port. The U.S. ship, the Cape Ray, is awaiting its mission to neutralize 560 tons of Syria’s most dangerous chemical substances by a June 30 deadline. Meanwhile, Syrian opposition sources have reported a number of chemical attacks since January, however the OPCW said it has not been requested to investigate these new claims.

MESOP SYRIA : Security Tension in Druze stronghold may erupt new uprising south Syria

2014-04-11 – Zamanawlsl – Sweida city, which was the cradle of the Syrian revolution against the French mandate led by Sultan al Atrash between1925–1927, still fights despotism and refuses to be part of regime’s current plan to broaden its bower base depending on minorities’ support.In a latest development, some of the city religious men cut off the main road of the city after security forces arrested one of the Sheikhs because he prevented regime’s forces and Shabihha from completing Bashar al-Assad’s re-election ceremonies in the city.

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TODAY’S MESOP MOTTO : If We Can Let Syria Burn, Have We Learned Anything at All from Rwanda?

HARRASSMENT OF CIVILANS BY PYD IN WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)

Speaking to ARA News, Jawad Obed, a resident of Tirbespiye, said: “The PYD ‘gangs’ (in reference to Assayish and YPG forces) arbitrarily arrest civilians and put an ‘X’ on houses to confiscate or demolish them.”

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