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Syria: War in Qalamoun Didn’t Begin Because It Never Stopped

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الجيش السوري يسيطر على مدينة السفيرة بحلب بشكل كاملBy: Firas Choufi, Marah Mashi Published Thursday, October 31, 2013   It appears that the much-hyped “Great Battle of Qalamoun” will only take place in the media. While the Syrian army does not deny that it has been mobilizing troops in the vicinity of the Qalamoun district, a Qusayr-like battle is not inevitable. Instead, gradual advances are taking place to spare Qalamoun large-scale devastation.
There are daily battles in Qalamoun, the western Syrian mountain range that extends from the Dreij area in the south to Homs. The mountain range may be seen as part of the Eastern Lebanon Mountains, which link Mount Hermon in the south to the plains of Homs. In truth, this could be a time when Damascus is most reassured to the movements on the battlefield ever since the Syrian army began its counterattack in November 2012. The plan to establish a safe zone around Damascus by securing eastern and western Ghouta is making headway, and also in Homs…

SAA Besieging Terrorists in Ar-Rastan

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Posted by: Arabi Souri

In our report dated 24 October 2013, we shed some light about our Syrian Arab Army troops in and around Ar-Rastan city, the strategic town north of Homs and south of Hamah in central Syria. Today, there’s another video report from the second largest dam in Syria, Ar-Rastan Dam. One of the main goals the Obama regime and its stooges in their ‘humanitarian intervention’ in Syria and elsewhere is to destroy targeted countries, savage their infrastructure, kill as much people as they can, intimidate to enslave the others under their hegemony, or say under the hegemony of those the Obama regime and stooges are under. Targeting the infrastructure is a paramount goal of the mercenary death squads trained especially for wreaking havoc.
Ar-Rastan city in Homs countryside
The Syrian opposition created by the Obama regime and its puppets abroad to serve as one of their puppets if they ever win the war of terror against Syria, and they will never, this opposition claim the…

White House Expected to Ease Sanctions Targeting Syria …Iran to Follow?

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Franklin LambBeirut
A-Manar

Additional easing of Syrian sanctions is expected by mid-November according to staff at the US Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Asset Control.

Pressure on Obama from Putin as part of the ‘price tag’ for Russia’s role  with bailing out the American president with the chemical weapons ‘redline’ which became a canard is one reason.  Another reason is that the White House believes that it needs to communicate to Damascus that prospects for better relations and even some cooperation are not completely destroyed as a result of the 32 month crisis still raging in the Syrian Arab Republic.
There are currently three types of sanctions that the U.S. government has imposed against Syria. 

The most comprehensive sanction, called the Syria Accountability Act (SAA) of 2004, prohibits the export of most goods containing more than 10% U.S.-manufactured component parts to Syria. 

Another sanction, resulting from the USA Patriot Act, was levied specifically against the C…

Hezbollah Is Over … Over

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Yehya Dbouk

What is in the possession of the media outlets opposing Hezbollah, internally and externally, is incalculable, but it lacks media professionalism.

Reporting news “as they are”, or the media psychological warfare, or the policy of causing psychological damage or blabbering in the ranks of the party, its allies, and its supporters, all those fell and are falling on daily bases. All what happened and is still happening indicates that those are not qualified for this profession.

A few days ago, the Syrian militants’ media broadcast a part of a video over the internet, and it was circulated in no time in anti-Hezbollah media inside and outside Lebanon. The video shows an explosion of a building in Syria, it was said to be in Sayyeda Zainab region in Damascus Countryside, while stressing that it is “the most important building for Hezbollah, and the rallying point of its elements, killing dozens and wounding hundreds.”

It is true that Hezbollah elements in Syria and in Sayyeda Z…

Egyptian presidential adviser: Qaradawi advocates killing .. called America to strike Syria ..

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مستشار الرئيس المصري : القرضاوي داعية للقتل..دعا امريكا لضرب سورية..

المسلماني واقوي هجوم علي الإخوان ويشبهم بالفرق المنحرفة الضالة وهؤلاء شيوخ الفتنة

Qaradawi instigates the violence in Syria


القرضاوى يتهم المسيحيين و يتطاول على السيسى و شيخ الأزهر و يطالب بالتدخال الأجنبى فى مصر
 شن أحمد المسلماني، المستشار الإعلامي للرئيس المصري المؤقت عدلي منصورا، هجوما قاسيا على الداعية الشيخ يوسف القرضاوي، متهما إياه بأنه بات "داعية للقتل وسفك الدماء،" ودعاه إلى أن "يثوب إلى رشده"، منتقدا فتاويه حيال مصر وسوريا، وقال المسلماني، في مقال له نشرته وكالة أنباء الشرق الأوسط المصرية الرسمية الأربعاء، تحت عنوان "خريف داعية .. الشيخ القرضاوي ضد الشيخ القرضاوي" إن السنوات الأخيرة من حياة الداعية: "تنسف تماماً العقود السابقة من حياته.. كأَنَّ الشيخ يمضي وراء سيرته بماسِحةٍ تُزيل ما سبق له من علمٍ وفَضْل."

وذكر المستشار الإعلامي لمنصور أن القرضاوي، المرجع الروحي لجماعة الإخوان المسلمين، "كان ثابتاً صامداً ضد الغلّو والتطرف، واشتبك مع كتابات أبو الأع…

Spying on Everyone: US Lacks Trust of Major World Leaders

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By Prof. James Petras Global Research, October 30, 2013

The White House is at a loss as it not only dependent on espionage in formulating its policies, but also nobody can trust its word anymore, former US Senate foreign policy analyst James Petras told RT.
The latest news on monitoring of phone calls in France, and probably German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s own cellphone, brought anger from the French and German governments this week. Top European politicians voiced a ‘lack of trust’ towards US on the summit in Brussels on Friday. Watch the video to learn more.
Transcript: RT: Does this come as a surprise to you that such a large number of world leaders were allegedly being monitored by the US?
James Petras: No, it doesn’t surprise me. I think the US has been doing this for quite a while and we’ve been hearing stories about it, the testimony. What I think is very revealing is the fact that the NSA got many of these phone calls, phone numbers and fax numbers and other confidential mate…

Egypt Forces Detain Senior Brotherhood Leader in Cairo

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Local Editor

Egyptian authorities on Wednesday detained senior Muslim Brotherhood figure Essam al-Erian, one of the last few leaders of the Islamist movement to have escaped a security crackdown, the interior ministry said.

Security forces arrested Erian, deputy leader of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, at dawn in east Cairo where he had been in hiding.

Pictures of Erian circulating on social media, apparently taken during his arrest, showed him smiling and making a gesture symbolizing the rejection of the military's ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Mursi in July.

More than 1,000 people have been killed since Mursi's ouster, and the authorities have detained some 2,000 Islamists, including most of the Muslim Brotherhood's leadership.

Mursi himself has been held incommunicado in military custody since his ouster and is due to go on trial on November 4.

Mursi's detractors accused him of poor governance and charged the Muslim Brotherhood with trying t…

On the changed rules of engagement on the walls of Damascus

محمد صادق الحسيني و فريدة الشوباشي _ تغير قواعد الاشتباك على اسوار دمشق / الاخبارية

Assad Tells Brahimi Syrians Will Decide on Peace Talks

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Assad: peace talks only possible if foreign states stop funding rebel fighters
Local Editor

President Bashar Assad insisted in a meeting Wednesday with visiting UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi that Syrians alone will decide on the fate of an initiative for Geneva peace talks.

Brahimi has been travelling the Middle East to muster support for proposed peace talks dubbed Geneva II.

"The Syrian people are the only ones who have the right to decide on Syria's future," state media quoted Assad as telling Brahimi.

"Putting an end to support for the terrorists and pressuring the states that support them is the most important step to prepare... for dialogue," Assad stressed.

"The success of any political solution is linked to putting an end to support funneled to terrorist groups."

State television reported that Brahimi agreed with Assad that Syrians themselves need to find a solution to the conflict that has been ravaging the country since March 2011.

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Region Slowly Turns to Diplomacy in Syria Crisis

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In short, the winds of change, particularly regarding the Syrian crisis, are making themselves felt throughout the region, rattling the likes of Saudi Arabia who seek to resist the shift taking place at all costs. (Photo: AP - Hassan Ammar) By: Ibrahim al-Amin Published Wednesday, October 30, 2013 The Middle East has retreated from the brink of a regional war over Syria to a sudden flurry of diplomacy to resolve the crisis, forcing old rivals to reconsider their high-stakes positions. Many countries in the region who staked so much on toppling the Damascus regime now seem to be in a rush to change their ways, after Washington’s recent climbdown and push to find a diplomatic solution for the nearly three-year crisis.
Undoubtedly, the overall environment in the region – with the exception of Saudi Arabia – has begun to change, particularly given the recent opening of diplomatic channels between Iran and the United States. But it will take time for the rosy scenarios that some are drawing…

Zionist Radio: 1500 New Settlements to Be Built in Occupied al-Quds

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Local Editor

The Zionist enemy plans to build another 1,500 settlement units in the Arab eastern sector of Jerusalem almost immediately after it began freeing 21 prisoners to the West Bank and another five to the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.

"The prime minister (Benjamin Netanyahu) and the interior minister (Gideon Saar) agreed on four building plans in Jerusalem," a senior Zionist source told Agence France Presse, confirming details initially reported on military radio.

The announcement was timed to trump headlines focusing on the celebrations in the West Bank and Gaza after the 21 prisoners walked free into their respective home territories shortly after 1:00 am local time.

In the West Bank, thousands of people turned out to welcome home the 21 prisoners at a formal ceremony at Mahmoud Abbas's presidential compound in Ramallah.

The prisoners had left Ofer prison in two minibuses with blacked-out windows and were driven to Beitunia crossing where fireworks split the night sky a…

FSA Terrorists Kidnap Syrian MP Mhanna Al-Fayyadh Al-Nasser

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Arabi Souri October 29, 2013 Thugs from the Obama regime-backed anti-Islamic FSA groups fighting in Syria attacked a remote village in Der Ezzor and kidnapped a number of civilians among them is member of the Syrian parliament Mr. Mhanna Al-Fayyadh Al-Nasser.
In a video clip released by the terrorist group calling themselves ‘Islamist Ahrar Cham Movement‘ bragging about their heinous crime, the kidnapped MP appears surrounded by Al Qaeda folklore of two masked men armed with Kalashnikov rifles pointed at the hostage.  We added subtitles to the video released by them, as we think western taxpayers should see where their money goes especially setting such acts as a priority before their own governments ‘shutdown’ (Watch on YouTube):

The fate of the villagers and their village is yet to be known, what we know is there were 25 houses in the village burned down by these cavemen. In June 2013 at least 60 all civilians were slaughtered by a Kuwaiti group from the FSA attacking their village H…

Press TV – The Debate (Topic Syria) Ken O’Keefe vs. Lee Kaplan – October 23, 2013 – YouTube.

Lee Kaplan provides a classic example of the propagandists methods, divert, make personal attacks, revert to tired historical myths like America liberated Europe in World War II so as to imply the massive crimes during WWII and since do not matter.

I hope to be in a debate with Lee many more times as he provides one gift after another in terms of providing material that exposes the shallow, baseless foundation of lies that our global system of tyranny is built upon. Enjoy these dinosaurs while they are still around because their days of utility in a world waking up are clearly numbered.


Western Diplomats: Tripoli Clashes Do Not Undermine Lebanon’s Stability

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A Lebanese army soldier stands near a tank in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on October 29, 2013 as army deployed following a week of clashes between supporters and opponents of Syria's regime. (Photo: AFP - Ibrahim Chalhoub) By: Nicolas Nassif Published Tuesday, October 29, 2013 In a recent meeting between Western ambassadors and Lebanese officials, the latter sensed a varying degree of concern on the diplomats’ part over the recent clashes in Tripoli. The diplomats see such events as inconsequential, with little risk to stability. Overall, the diplomats did not give their Lebanese interlocutors the impression that Tripoli was a priority or a source of much concern for them.

Some of the diplomats linked the incidents in Tripoli to multiple reports about an imminent Syrian army offensive in the mountains of Qalamoun, which could have reverberations in Lebanon, especially along its eastern border.

The diplomats’ questions centered mostly on exploring official Lebanese attitud…

نصرالله يرسم المعادلة ونقطة على الفاصلة

د خالد المطرود _ حوار ساعة و عشرون / الاخبارية 28 10 2013


وءام وهاب _ قراءة في خطاب السيد وفي تطزرات المشهد السوري / الميادين 28 10 2013

خالد العبود و حميدي العبد الله _ حوار ساعة وعشرون / الاخبارية 28 10 2013

خطاب التحولات العشرةناصر قنديل: من يذهب في حربه حتى النهاية سيدفع ثمنها ولن يكون هناك عفونصر الله يضع النقاط على الحروب 28 10 2013

ORIENT TENDENCIES: SAUDI ARABIA, LIES AND CONFUSION

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Posted on October 28, 2013 by

Monday October 28, 2013 no155
Weekly information and analysis bulletin specialized in Arab Middle Eastern affairs prepared by neworientnews.com
Editor in chief Wassim Raad
wassimraad73@gmail.com
New Orient Center for Strategic policies Saudi Arabia: Lies and confusion By Ghaleb Kandil
Journalists and analysts associated with Saudi money and working for years to spread propaganda and to defend the interests of the kingdom, put forward three reasons for the Saudi anger. Two of these reasons seem sincere, while the third, as old as the US-Saudi relationship, intended to throw dust in the eyes.
First: U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, said in London that the anger of the kingdom is due to the decision of the United States not to attack Syria. This means that Saudi Arabia advocated a global war which could have led, according to experts, to the destruction of the main Syrian infrastructure and killed tens of thousands of people, plus …