Speaking of Yemen, look at the hypocrisy in Yemen, Saleh and his cronies were given immunity for crimes against humanity in exchange for transferring power to an un-contested 'democratic' government while the powerful military remains in his family`s hands, so what really has this false 'Arab Spring' accomplished, nothing its just s whitewash and sands over your eyes.
Showing posts with label French officers captured in Syria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label French officers captured in Syria. Show all posts
Monday, March 5, 2012
Current news on the Syrian Front and Middle East
Whats new? Well reports of more foreign weapons seizures along with actual admissions from the Free Syrian Army and rebels to receiving U.S. and Israeli weapons. Syrian border agents are apprehending fighters and weapons along the border used to create causalities and instability. Note that the most areas of fighting against the Syrian regime are all along the border of Syria, it doesn`t take a rocket scientist to note that weapons and fighter flowing in are used to set up base at the border towns. Just try to think of Libya and where the 'so-called revolution' took place - the east in Benghazi along the coast and accessible by nearby border crossings and water.
Now echoing the mantra of 'protecting civilians' like in Libya `s case, our senator - John McCain publicly called for airstrikes without UN approval. He really must have spent a lot of time in the bog when we was a POW in Vietnam. Really airstrikes in Syria, then what? Leave it to the wolves and NATO to turn it into another Libya? If he cares so much for protecting civilians, then why doesn`t he voice concern for the the people of Bahrain who are getting massacred with no media coverage or the protesters in eastern Saudi Arabia and Yemen?
Speaking of Yemen, look at the hypocrisy in Yemen, Saleh and his cronies were given immunity for crimes against humanity in exchange for transferring power to an un-contested 'democratic' government while the powerful military remains in his family`s hands, so what really has this false 'Arab Spring' accomplished, nothing its just s whitewash and sands over your eyes.
--RSA
Speaking of Yemen, look at the hypocrisy in Yemen, Saleh and his cronies were given immunity for crimes against humanity in exchange for transferring power to an un-contested 'democratic' government while the powerful military remains in his family`s hands, so what really has this false 'Arab Spring' accomplished, nothing its just s whitewash and sands over your eyes.
Report of French officers captured in Syria
13 undercover French army officers seized in Syria – report
RT News
Published: 05 March, 2012, 19:59
Thirteen French officers have been captured by the Syrian Army, according to Lebanon’s Daily Star newspaper. It claims it received the information from a pro-Syrian Palestinian in Damascus.
According to the source, the officers were taken captive in the city of Homs – the heart of the internal conflict between forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, and insurrectionists – and are being held in a field hospital there. The source claims the French and Syrian governments are locked in negotiations over the fate of the men.
If confirmed, it would be an embarrassment to France. However the French Foreign Ministry has categorically stated that there are no French soldiers in Syria. Perhaps more intriguingly, the Ministry of Defense has not issued an outright denial, saying instead that it has no knowledge of the situation.
Official Damascus has similarly refused to comment.
Despite imposing ever-tougher sanctions on Syria, the West has consistently denied that it has troops on the ground, although there have been occasional rumors. There have also been several reports of NATO powers supplying arms to the rebels.
If the information is proven to be correct, however, it will give rise to speculation over what exactly the French officers were doing in the war-torn country.
The most obvious assumption is their involvement in the rescue of French journalists last week. Reporter Edith Bouvier and three other Westerners were holed up in a journalists’ compound in Homs which came under heavy fire before a special operation rescued them. But in an interview earlier today, one of the journalists, photographer William Daniels, denied this: “I never saw any French troops during this operation. We were only with Syrians from the rebel army. We owe our escape to them.”
More speculatively, the French troops could have been giving military guidance to the rebels, who floundered when fighting the better-organized army forces. While this is not unprecedented, the French officers have no international mandate to participate in this internal conflict.
Although at the moment none of this can be independently verified, any potential negotiations will be made more difficult by the fact that France said last week that it is closing its embassy in Damascus, symbolically severing diplomatic relations with the al-Assad regime.
Additional Readings:
France, US arming Syrian rebels with anti-aircraft missiles – report
British, Qatari troops already waging secret war in Syria?
RT News
Published: 05 March, 2012, 19:59
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Security forces and firefighters take position as supporters of the
Syrian regime demonstrate in Homs (AFP Photo / Gianluigi Guercia)
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According to the source, the officers were taken captive in the city of Homs – the heart of the internal conflict between forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, and insurrectionists – and are being held in a field hospital there. The source claims the French and Syrian governments are locked in negotiations over the fate of the men.
If confirmed, it would be an embarrassment to France. However the French Foreign Ministry has categorically stated that there are no French soldiers in Syria. Perhaps more intriguingly, the Ministry of Defense has not issued an outright denial, saying instead that it has no knowledge of the situation.
Official Damascus has similarly refused to comment.
Despite imposing ever-tougher sanctions on Syria, the West has consistently denied that it has troops on the ground, although there have been occasional rumors. There have also been several reports of NATO powers supplying arms to the rebels.
If the information is proven to be correct, however, it will give rise to speculation over what exactly the French officers were doing in the war-torn country.
The most obvious assumption is their involvement in the rescue of French journalists last week. Reporter Edith Bouvier and three other Westerners were holed up in a journalists’ compound in Homs which came under heavy fire before a special operation rescued them. But in an interview earlier today, one of the journalists, photographer William Daniels, denied this: “I never saw any French troops during this operation. We were only with Syrians from the rebel army. We owe our escape to them.”
More speculatively, the French troops could have been giving military guidance to the rebels, who floundered when fighting the better-organized army forces. While this is not unprecedented, the French officers have no international mandate to participate in this internal conflict.
Although at the moment none of this can be independently verified, any potential negotiations will be made more difficult by the fact that France said last week that it is closing its embassy in Damascus, symbolically severing diplomatic relations with the al-Assad regime.
Additional Readings:
France, US arming Syrian rebels with anti-aircraft missiles – report
British, Qatari troops already waging secret war in Syria?
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