A new letter from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that the recent major bombing attacks inside Syria are pointing to “established terrorist groups” have set up shop in Syria. The letter also warned members of the UN Security Council not to supply arms to either side in the conflict.
“There is a continuing crisis on the ground, characterized by regular violence, deteriorating humanitarian conditions, human rights violations and continued political confrontation,” the letter added.
The UN is expected to discuss the worsening situation in Syria next Wednesday with Ban and Kofi Annan. Western officials have been pressing for the UN to abandon the ceasefire efforts as a failure, and to endorse NATO plans to attack Syria and install the rebels as the new government.
This is almost certain to fail, of course, as Russia is a close ally of the Assad regime and will veto any resolutions which might conceivably be used to start a war. Given how broadly NATO interpreted a resolution for a “no-fly zone” in Libya as an authorization for regime change, this means any resolutions will be under a microscope for loopholes.
I will be surprised to see any resolutions on Syria. But on the other hand, NATO may act on its own based on the presumed duty to protect innocents. This was rationalized in the case of attack on Serbia, to justify Kosovo NATO mission. The situation in Syria follows earily Kosovo's pattern. Syria's terrorists have been taken to Kosovo for fine tuning their strategy — the one that once upon a time, another terrorist group, KLA — used to provoke police and military, bring about large scale bloodshed, and ultimately staging so called Racak "massacre", to invite NATO bombing. There was no UN approval. Resolution 1244 that was set up to govern Kosovo called for the return of Serbian police and border guards, and that NATO never allowed. Some time was allowed to be spent in chaos, before unilateral declaration of independence. But Syria is much bigger problem then Kosovo, but it will not surprise me that the current aggressive leadership in State Department will not actually take such high risks. Let us hope that US military has more sense then that.
Why antiwar never shows who has sent; and armed and financed the terrorists in Syria? Even the well known plan of the US to attack and/or control all former soviet client states (Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Jemen, Lebanon, Somalia, Iran) is know everywhere on the Internet, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-TZxI8m8ss but it always was censored here. As many or actually any important information. Only irrelevant and misleading news from mainstream media is shown.
By the Saudis Kingdom the most brutal and the true tyrants regimes, the Jordanian servant to English monarchism, the feudalist Wahabis, the Jihadis, the Turkish sectarian government and in general the non democratic and dictatorial regimes whom supporting these imbeciles, off course there is not going to be a peace and no matter the kind of social political reforms or constitutional changes that are made by the Syrian government.
Look, US and EU are still at war in Kongo and other part of Africa arming the kind of “rebel” groups that they prefer to arm, where do you think these groups get their weapons from…? Its shipped to them by US and EU and now all the above governments and groups are involved in Syria so they need to continue one way or other. The Syrian turmoil is not about Bashir Al Assad or his government, is about grabbing more territory and its geopolitical importance for the EU and US present militarism regimes. As Bill Clinton the Servant to AIPAC, Madeline Albright the mother of all Zionism in US politics, Tony Blair the father of betrayal from English “Labor” party with his faked socialist identity and rest of the non democratic EU governments did to Yugoslavia. There, Saudis as well as other alike government were involved, here they repeat the history with a twist of otherwise a colored one.
Syrian government was the one that brought peace to Lebanon and left the country when there was a peace stablished, for these terrorists sponsored governments and there thugs is other way around situation, they are not about peace nor they understand the basics in democracy. Syrian war is a personal war between Hillary Clinton, the Saudis and rest of the sectarians in the region, if they win then they are grabbing more land connecting the area with Central Asia and Persian Gulf natural resources. Here in Syria, they are not shy in creating another Kongo where 6 million people thus far have been killed by US and EU giving these fractions weapons needed to fight each other while they steal peoples wealth as they have in other part of Africa, the Central Asia and now Syria. This is what NEO FASCISM hand in hand with vulture capitalism is about.
We been saying this (Above) for years not getting paid for our saying, this is nothing new is an old story told by a US army general whom is getting paid to tell the story like his telling a story to his grand children. Weak UP America you don't need to be told after hand by those whom are involved and ordered the killings of innocent people and now getting paid to repeat the story as if it was a story from a book. There is no FUNCTIONING DEMOCRACY either in US, EU or in Saudi Arabia or UAE and Israel, US and EU governments are at war for last 60 years, creating wars for last 60 years, as long as US and EU cooperate with Tyrants and dictatorial regimes for their own benefits, you will see more of these generals to tell you a bed time story.
Reply to 0800……..
AW.C has Angela Keaton as censor to deep six submissions SHE finds unacceptable….
with able assistance (apparently) from AW.C's in-house self described Zionist Thomas Knap……….
Here is an e-mail I "attempted" to send to Mr. Raimondo:
[[ " Mr. Raimondo, Did you see the comment that Angela Keaton posted about Sibel Edmonds in the comments under your article "The Big One Cometh"?
Sibel had posted a comment:
I have been a fan of yours for many years. I respect you, and love your fiery, straight-forward and no-nonsense analyses/commentaries. I was also a loyal follower of AW.Com …until two years ago when things began to change significantly. Your news gatherers have been promoting all the known culprits who have by now zero credibility. At any given day at least 45% of news provided come from: Wash Post, BBC, NYT, Al Jazeera. Believe me a few of us have been compiling statistics (have documentation). Not only that, without citing any reasons, your new woman Angela Keaton has decided ban all my articles/analyses (you guys used to publish my pieces regularly in the past). Your moderators have been censoring not only my comments but dozens of other previously loyal AW followers. Many have received labeling response 'Anti-Semite' from Keaton…Exactly the kind of thing you and many of us have been fighting against.
Fair enough right…?? But here is AK's (now deleted) reply:
"I am the Director of Operations at Antiwar.com. I make decisions everyday before anything is foisted upon the editors (who have very exacting standards) at Antiwar.com.
Your pieces were rejected because they are simply not good. Often the articles on your site are substandard and in one case, sub-literate.
Your reputation is also that of a highly difficult contentious prima donna who loathes women and Jews. Over the past years, I have had concluded that is an accurate assessment.
Angela Keaton
323-512-7095
When I read this ad hominem blast by AK, I thought it must have been some hacker into her account posing as her……..
and I posted a reply blaming hackers adding that AK would never be so crude, stupid and tone deaf to post such slanders..
Maidhc responds to my comment with: (AK) "Keaton's Facebook account must have been hacked too:"
“One of the joys of working at Antiwar.com is knowing that 98% of your critics are racist garbage cans.”
I don't want to go on and on!! But AK's intemperance in word during a fund drive seems like a sort of mutiny…..
Do you find Sibel such a person as AK portrays…?? In any case Sybel has done far more that 99.9% of any Americans, in the cause of exposing their dirty BIG secrets, and unless i can be taught otherwise, more than AK ….
The reason that I am sending this to you is because AK's rant was deleted when i woke up, so I am under the impression you may have never seen the actual post AK put up… I think she owes Sibel an apology…… and should be TOLD to be civil to all here that are civil to her….. Ron Paul mentions the Golden Rule and gets boos…. That's America today…
Stuff like this makes it look as if you are a bit out of the loop these days Mr. Raimondo…. I wish you and antiwar.com Gods speed and all the best…."]]