PUTIN & JUNGE WELT FRAKTION DER LINKSPARTEI & DEUTSCHES KAPITAL = ALLE WAFFEN FÜR ASSAD !
19.3.2014 – dpa / MESOP – 50 Deutsche Firmen beteiligt. – Für Aufbau des Giftgas-Programms – Deutsche Firmen lieferten Material für C-Waffen an Syrien
MESOP SYRIA INSIGHT : The Northern Storm Brigade: It’s History, Current Status & Why It Matters
By Chris Looney [clooney@colgate.edu] reporting from Turkey
For Syria Comment, March 18, 2014
The Northern Storm Brigade (NSB: Arabic – Liwa Asifat al-Shamal) has been called many things since it was first formed in the early days of the uprisings in Syria. For some, it is a part of a contingent of secular FSA groups that represent the best chance for the West to counter the Islamification of the revolution. For others, it is a brigade of opportunists – smugglers and kidnappers with an ill-defined agenda willing to revise their ideology in order to maintain their influence and power.
(MESOP) : ALL HOURS TWITTER SHORT CUTS FROM WEST KURDISTAN / SYRIA
A Dunon @ArjDnn 47 Min. – ANHA: Ahrar al-Sham kidnapped 18 Kurds in Dana (Idlib) who were returning home to Efrin from Tartus. Reason unknown. #TwitterKurds #Syria
Aymenn J Al-Tamimi @ajaltamimi – #Syria: The #Syriac Military Council, which as part of YPG failed to dislodge ISIS from Tel Hamees: pic.twitter.com/sjYDmA7erb
Unterstützung für Assad – Deutsche Firmen lieferten Material für Giftgasprogramm
MESOP ANALYSIS : Will Syria’s Chemical Weapons Arsenal Be Eliminated?
By Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Dany Shoham March 14, 2014 – BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 239
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Efforts to dismantle Syria’s chemical weapons capability are running months behind schedule because the Syrian president is playing games with international inspectors. Moreover, it is far from clear that the 1,300 tons of chemical warfare agents and precursor chemicals declared by Assad when he signed the Chemical Weapons Convention represent the full amount he possesses. Furthermore, even if Assad abides by the commitment to completely jettison his chemical weapons, Syria’s equally dangerous biological weapon stocks will remain.
MESOP SYRIA FLASH : US Closes Syrian Embassy & Consulates, Expels Diplomats / Read official Statement
Scott Lucas – 18-3-2014 – eaworldview – US orders suspension of operations of Syrian Embassy & consulates in Michigan and Texas – Diplomatic relations to be maintained for “long-standing ties with Syrian people”The US State Department has ordered the Syrian Embassy in Washington and consulates in Michigan and Texas to suspend operations immediately, expelling the country’s diplomats.
UN panel identifies war criminals in Syria
March 18, 2014 – Daily Star – Lebanon – Associated Press – GENEVA: A U.N. panel investigating human rights abuses in Syria has identified those responsible for crimes including hostage-taking, torture and executions and has put their names on a list of people who should eventually be held accountable for their actions, the head of the panel said Tuesday.
A MESOP SUMMARY DEBATE : 3rd Anniversary of Syrian Uprising – Joshua Landis et.al.
“Syria’s Fourth Year Of War Will Look A Lot Like Its Third,” by Max Rosenthal, Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/15/syria-war-anniversary_n_4964905.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
Reuters: Syrian Forces Fully Control Stronghold Near Lebanon
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/16/us-syria-crisis-town-idUSBREA2E06P20140316
“DEBATE – Syria Three Years On,” Christian Chesnot, Naïm KOSAYYER and Joshua Landis – France 24
http://www.france24.com/en/20140314-the-debate-syria-three-years-on/
Joshua Landis speaks with C-Span on Third Anniversary of the Syrian Uprising
http://www.c-span.org/video/?318287-4/washington-journal-syrian-conflict
Syria Plans Presidential Elections in Summer
Minister Says Assad Will Likely Be One of Several Candidates
By Sam Dagher, March 16, 2014
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303287804579443363020488196?mg=reno64-wsj
DAMASCUS, Syria—Syria plans to conduct presidential elections this summer in all areas under government control and President Bashar al-Assad will likely be one of several candidates to run, the minister of information said.
Omran al Zoubi, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Sunday, gave the first confirmation that Syria will definitely hold the vote and that it will be open to other candidates.
He dismissed all concerns about the wisdom and practicality of holding elections in a country mired in a civil war over the legitimacy of Mr. Assad’s rule.
“Presidential elections will occur on time in accordance with the constitution,” he said. “We will implement the Syrian constitution verbatim whether this pleases or angers certain people.”
Damascus ceasefires bring respite but no end to conflict.
“This is how the regime aims to destroy our community. They pressure and pressure until we turn on each other. Can you believe that now rebels are asking store owners for protection money?” said one resident. “We’ve turned into a cowboy movie.”
“Our leadership is a genius to come up with the ceasefire idea in Barzeh,” one intelligence officer boasted in an overheard conversation with a taxi driver in Damascus. “We turned the rebels from fighters into bunnies in our hands.”
That frustration is mixed with resignation that, after a long and costly struggle to end four decades of Assad family rule, some people just want the conflict to end.
Three years after the demands for reform erupted around Damascus and demonstrators chanted “Leave, Leave Bashar”, a new refrain is heard whenever people broach the issue of ceasefires.
“We want to live,” they say.
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSBREA2D0CX20140314?i=2&irpc=932
This Newruz is greatly important for Syria Kurds: Salih Muslim tells Kurdpress
17-3-2014 – Kurdpress – The co-leader of Syria pro-Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) Salih Muslim told Kurdpress that the New Year celebration and this Newruz is very important for Syrian Kurds as they have announced their autonomic administration and are running three cantons in their regions.
The Woman Who Saved Syria’s Jews / THE DAILY BEAST
17-3-2014 – Three decades ago, Judy Feld Carr started smuggling members of Syria’s minority Jewish community out of the country. She talks to The Daily Beast about her secret work saving people from slaughter under Assad.In Syria’s three-year war, which is becoming more sectarian by the day, much has been made of the fate of the country’s minorities. Christians, Druze and Kurds in the country have enjoyed more column inches dedicated to their plight over the last three years than ever before. But one Syrian minority is almost never spoken of—the Syrian Jews.
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