An as-yet-unconfirmed report has emerged today claiming that 13 French soldiers have been captured in the Syrian city of Homs. If confirmed this would be the first conclusive proof of direct Western intervention in Syria’s civil war.
The report comes from the Lebanese newspaper the Daily Star. It says there are discussions between the Syrian and French governments already regarding what to do with the captured “officers.”
The French Foreign Ministry was quick to deny the reports, saying there were no ground troops in Syria to begin with. The French Defense Ministry stopped well short of denial, however, saying it would “neither confirm nor deny” the claim.
Speculation is that the troops could have been involved in the rescue of Western journalists from Homs, though one of the journalists adamantly denied having seen any French troops during their time in the city, saying “we owe our escape” to the rebel army.
This report is bull****. Sounds like a false report designed to drum up support for outside military intervention or a no fly zone. All the parties must do a 180 degree u-turn and reject violence as a tool to achieve their ends. The GDP of Syria can grow by more than 5% p.a. from 2013 onwards if stability prevails.
Prayers for Syria.
If true, then by U.S./NATO standards they're merely captured terrorists and they have no "rights". I hope we can see video or al least some photos of the terrorists as they undergo "enhanced interrogation", accordingly.
From your mouth to the door of the sky. We then can have a great laugh at the MSM and bastards running the world as they squirm.
French Foreigh Ministry: no foreign troops, correct they were desk jockies like the heroic officers killed in Afghanistan. No Napoleons here
Were they captured in France while they sat in quaint little sidewalk cafes, drinking lattes and eating croissants?
From what I remember the cost of engaging in espionage and armed struggle while not displaying a uniform is the price of death by firing squad. Considering what France did to Libya I don't think Assad has that difficult of a decision to make. Additionally, if the French claim these individuals are not Frenchmen, they must be stateless terrorists that are ideologically driven, much like al Qaeda. We all know what the US did to Osama. So what is the issue?
I love the way that journalists from the Rupert Murdoch's Times are immediately believed and journalists from Syria and Lebanon are immediately dismissed. It's hiliarious that an organisation, News Corp which instituted systemic hacking of phones and the internet buying off the police and the politicians across the globe, that runs a clearly zionist militiaristic propoganda message is considered more believable than local Arab sources. Wait till they parade them on TV and watch Jason Ditz whine on about how suprising it is.
Kind of makes you wonder how "alternative" Scott Horton, Jason Ditz and John Glasser really are doesn't it.
I can't believe anyone still believes this.
If it were true, Syrian media would be showing them 24/7. Two days since the report…nothing.
My experience of such states always was that they do not know how to make propaganda at all. Same with Libya and Yugoslavia. Daily fighting for majority in public opinion is only present in capitalist so-called democracies.
From the beginning of Libyan war and then Syria it was NATO countries such as USA, Franc, England, Italy, German, Denmark and Sweden whom wanted to start a regime change at all costs, if we look at their participation in all this knowing and their motives they were involved militarily in Libya and in Syria just for that, and there are footage showing CIA, and British and others on the ground in Libya, then it wont be “Speculation” if French or even Swedish or Danish citizens would be among those whom are captured in Syria. These bandits and feudalist who are feed by Saudi Arabia and UAE in all over the Europe are nothing but bunch of thieves and hired mercenaries given ammunitions to start a war, they need a military education and they get it from those who wants to have a regime change rather then a democracy, so it is not surprising to know when people, Media or government propaganda agencies as CIA or the British or even Swedish or Danish propaganda machinery Speculates this or that. The main matter here is this: they war in Syria is lost because NATO and rest of the "democratic world" of Europe and USA were wrong to begin with, so now the blaming game starts, now senators flying around like a pigs here and there demanding for entire Syria to be bombed, now they blaming on Iran having a hand here and there wanting to start a war there, now they blaming Russia and China and everyone in between for their lost.
Another sure thing here is this: these bandits, terrorists and mercenaries never had a backing of Syrian people, but they cannot blame the majority of Syrian people for not supporting these bandits, terrorists and mercenaries , so these senators and regimes as France, Sweden, Denmark, German USA want to bomb Syrian people to kill them all implementing yet another feudalist regime in the region.
this is exactly right. This is censored in all mainstreammedia including antiwar. Only here in the discussion section you can find such information, never in the main articles.
Same as in Libya and planned long before:
Ex-CIA officer: Braindead West wants Jihadists to rule Libya:
French defense expert
At 3:50: USA they "have a secret agreement with the Jihadists: YOU GET THE SHARIA AND WE GET THE OIL"
globalresearch.ca reporter from Libya
13:20 NTC people: it was the USA who brought in Al Qaida. Libyans do not want the islamists, but the US wants them and is controlling them.
MOSCOW, (SANA) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday said that Russia sees the news coming from **many sources on arming the Syrian opposition** and the **presence of foreign fighters** among the opposition as not encouraging. "
http://www.sana.sy/eng/22/2012/03/05/404350.htm
Also the discussion below the telegraph article supports this. It is not new since the beginning – it is only censored in mainstream press and was also censored here.
French people should think twice before they reelect a child of an illegal immigrant from Roumania.
Nikolai sarkozi
Only now this makes the news ! Voltairenet.org had this story out last week.
NATO special troops has been operating in Syria for months:
http://www.truth-out.org/nato-and-cia-covertly-arming-syrian-rebels-order-weaken-iran/1327685522
http://tarpley.net/2012/01/12/free-syrian-army-unleashes-suicide-bombing-in-damascus/
http://www.voltairenet.org/France-opens-negotiations-with
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/turkey-and-israel-united-against-syria/
I heard the news about the Frenchmen acting as Syrian opposition and blowing things up in Syria about a week or so ago. Their number in that report was, however, a lot larger than the present report. The report said that upon hearing the news, Tsar-kozi got in touch with Assad and man-to-man asked him not to go public on that because it would spoil his (Tsar-kozi’s) chances of re-election.