Showing posts with label Syria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Syria. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
CIA ramps up role in Iraq to 'help' government defend against al-Qaeda elements the CIA actively supports in Syria & Libya
Any takers for "Ambassador to Syria"?
(The West Point report on the Libyan CIA mercenaries who constitute "al-Qaeda in Iraq", and now AQ Syria, here.
Washington: The Central Intelligence Agency is ramping up support to elite Iraqi anti-terrorism units (ie. Death Squads -AI) to better fight Al Qaida affiliates, amid alarm in Washington about spillover from the civil war in neighbouring Syria, according to US officials.
The stepped-up mission expands a covert US presence on the edges of the two-year-old Syrian conflict, at a time of American concerns about the growing power of extremists in the Syrian rebellion.
Al Qaida in Iraq, the terrorist network’s affiliate in the country, has close ties to Syria-based Jabhat Al Nusra, also known as the Al Nusra Front, an opposition militant group that has attacked government installations and controls territory in northern Syria. The US State Department placed Al Nusra on its list of foreign terror organisations in December, calling the group an alias for Al Qaida in Iraq. [In Full]
Tags:
Al Nusra,
al-Qaeda,
CIA,
CIA Mercenaries,
Death Squads,
Destabilization,
Foreign Fighters,
Iraq,
Libya,
LIFG,
Mujahideen,
Syria,
Terrorism,
War On Iraq
Sunday, February 3, 2013
The 'Syrian National Council' Is Desperate... News Flurry follows:
Syrian National Council chief Moaz al-Khatib declares the Syrian revolution has failed (wayback machine)
Syria top opposition leader says willing to negotiate with Assad
Syria opposition chief al-Khatib appeals in Munich for action
Syria Opposition Leader Meets with Russian FM in Munich
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Our 'War On Terror' Allies - The World According To Bill Fisher
OUR ‘WAR ON TERROR’ ALLIES
By William Fisher
One of the Arab world’s most widely respected non-governmental organizations is charging that at least fourteen Middle East and North African governments are systematically violating the civil liberties of their citizens – and most of them are close U.S. allies in the war on terror.
In a report to the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) said that there have been “huge harassments of human rights organizations and defenders have been increasingly subject to abusive and suppressive actions by government actors in democratic rights and freedoms in the majority of Arab countries, particularly Egypt, Syria, Bahrain and Tunisia.” In Full
Tags:
Bahrain,
Egypt,
Human RIghts Abuse,
Syria,
Tunisia
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