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Who is Washington's protégé for Syria?

Ahmad al-Jarba
© UnknownDrug dealer Ahmad al-Jarba
Despite the breakthrough agreement on the Syrian peace process reached in Geneva between Russian and American Foreign Ministers, the US administration did not give up its plans to oust President Assad and is still supporting the militants in Syria. Speaking in Paris today after the talks with French, British, Turkish and Saudi counterparts, SS John Kerry has repeated that the Syrian leader "lost all legitimacy" and "will have to leave even if Syria will fully cooperate with the UN on its Chemical Weapons program". Sounds like Washington's claims are based on a realistic roadmap for transition of power in Damascus to some new secular political leaders. Problem is that after the dismissal of Ms. O'Bagy White House seemingly doesn't have any.

During Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Syria on September 3, John Kerry dropped only one name of a person he could wholeheartedly trust in Syrian chaos. He presented to the US Senators an opposition leader Ahmad al-Jarba without providing too much detail. Perhaps senators do not care much about State Department's protégé. But we do. So who is Mr. al-Jabra?
"Records reveal that official Riyadh handed over "the suspect Ahmad al-Jarba" to Damascus in 2008, on charges of drug trafficking, in accordance with an extradition agreement between Saudi and Syrian security services",
writes journalist Nasser Charara in the influential Lebanese newspaper Al Akhbar.

Heart - Black

Upping the ante: Turkey downs Syrian helicopter, claims it violated airspace

Syrian Army helicopter
© Reuters/Mahmoud HassanoA destroyed Russian-made helicopter that belonged to the Syrian Army is seen at the Minnig Military Airport, after it was seized by rebels, August 11, 2013.
A Turkish F-16 jet has shot down a Syrian MI-17 attack helicopter, saying it made a 2 km incursion into its airspace and ignored warnings.

The Turkish military has released a statement saying that it first identified the Russian-built helicopter 26 nautical miles (48 km) away from its airspace, and radioed the pilots until it was within 5 nautical miles (9 km) of it.

Reacting to the incident, Syria has accused its neighbor of trying to escalate tensions along the border.

"The hasty response from the Turkish side, especially as the aircraft was on its way back and was not charged with any combat missions, is proof of the true intentions of Erdogan's government toward Syria, to increase tensions and escalate the situation on the border between the two countries," Syria's armed forces said in a statement reported by the state news agency SANA.

Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said the helicopter was shot down after it ventured up to 2 km into Turkey near the border town of Yayladagi.

"It was continuously warned by our air defence but as the violation continued, it fell on Syrian soil at 2:25 pm (1125 GMT), having been hit by missiles from our planes," Bulent Arinc said to reporters in Ankara.

The helicopter was shot down by a patrol of two US-made F-16s launched from the Kurecik Air Force Base, on the eastern side of Turkey, which shares a 900 km border with Syria.

Comment: Turkey is doing its best to destroy the diplomatic approach to resolving the crisis. They want war and it is not a coincidence that Davutoglu is in Paris, where the other war mongers have been meeting.

Update: One pilot who parachuted out of the helicopter was captured and executed by the US armed and supported mercenaries as the following Youtube video shows:




Handcuffs

Not one top Wall Street executive has been convicted of criminal charges related to 2008 crisis

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James 'Jamie' Dimon, chairman, president and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co, and Lloyd C. Blankfein, chairman and chief executive officer of the Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

Will top bankers' behaviour ever land them in jail? Or are bad business decisions even a crime at all?

Five years on from the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the debate over how to hold senior bank bosses to account for failures is far from over, but legal sanctions for top executives remain a largely remote threat.

Even as laws evolve - in Britain, the government wants to criminalise recklessness in banking - a repeat of the global financial crisis and near-collapses of 2008 would not necessarily result in many more prosecutions today, lawyers say.

At issue is the difficulty in pinning the blame on any one person for risks and decisions taken throughout a firm - one of the main obstacles to building such cases so far.

"It's a case of the confused lines of responsibility and accountability," said Judith Seddon, director in law firm Clifford Chance's business crime and regulatory enforcement unit in London. "When you're pursuing an individual, if they've delegated responsibilities ... it's much more difficult in a big organisation."

Regulators the world over stepped up their scrutiny of banks and cracked down on financial crime in the wake of public anger over costly bailouts and subsequent scandals. But that has so far translated into relatively few attempts to bring charges against those in the highest echelons of banking.

Chess

Psychopathic U.S. politicians wonder if Obama was outfoxed on Syria chemical weapons

putin obama syria gassing
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There is no shortage of skeptics among the American political class regarding the tentative agreement between the United States and Russia to secure and destroy Syria's chemical weapons that was announced on Saturday.

While Obama has publicly defended the deal, some worry that the deal exposes American weakness while strengthening the hand of the Russians and Syrian President Bashar Assad in the middle of his country's raging civil war. Others warned that the agreement's success depends largely on the cooperation of Russian and Syrian authorities who have proven themselves anything but trustworthy.

Comment: The war whores were apparently looking forward to WW3 and are disappointed that their "fun and games" have been thwarted. Fortunately there are a few politicians with some common sense, or they are just trying to please their constituents who have been flooding their offices with calls to back off on attacking Syria.
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USA

Iran's Rouhani may meet Obama at UN, would be first meeting of two countries' leaders since 1979

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© Sasha Mordovets/GettyIran's President Hassan Rouhani, left, meeting Russia's President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, last week.
First meeting of US and Iranian leaders since 1979 revolution could open way to diplomatic end to Iranian nuclear standoff

An exchange of letters between Barack Obama and the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, has set the stage for a possible meeting between the two men at the UN next week in what would be the first face-to-face encounter between a US and Iranian leader since Iran's 1979 revolution.

Britain's foreign secretary, William Hague, is also due to meet his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, at the UN general assembly meeting in New York, adding to guarded optimism that the June election of Rouhani, a Glasgow-educated moderate, and his appointment of a largely pragmatic cabinet, has opened the door to a diplomatic solution to the 11-year international standoff over Iran's nuclear programme.

Tehran took the Foreign Office by surprise, tweeting on Rouhani's English-language feed that the president would also be prepared to meet Hague, something the UK had not even requested.

MIB

Best of the Web: Team of three gunmen shoots up navy yard in Washington DC, 13 people dead

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© Tim Hogan/@timjhoganA Twitter user tweeted this photo showing an injured person in the area of the Washington Navy Yard.
A naval base in the heart of Washington DC was rocked by a mass shooting on Monday after at least one gunman opened fire and left 13 people dead, in the worst attack on a military base in the US since the Fort Hood killings in 2009.

As authorities struggled to piece together the details of what happened at the Washington navy yard, Barack Obama said the victims had faced "unimaginable violence".

Washington's police chief, Cathy Lanier, said one attacker died at the scene, and issued descriptions of two other gunmen suspected of being involved. But she was unable to say definitively whether anyone was responsible for the shooting beyond the gunman who had died.

It was unclear whether reports of further assailants came from early confusion at the scene or pointed to evidence of a planned and co-ordinated attack. Minutes after she spoke, police said one of the two remaining suspects had been ruled out of the investigation.

Vincent Gray, the Democratic mayor of Washington, said the motive for the shootings was unknown, but that he had no information to indicate that it was an act of terrorism.

Comment: Is the U.S. shadow government behind this one too?

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Chess

Obama downplaying fears that Putin is 'playing America' on Syria

Obama
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President Obama lent ample credence to skeptics who worry that Russia won't deal squarely in negotiations over Syrian chemical weapons during an interview that aired Sunday on ABC's "This Week," but he downplayed the fear that Russian President Vladimir Putin is "playing" America, insisting Russia has a vested interest in a stable Syria.

"I don't think that Mr. Putin has the same values that we do, and I think, obviously, by protecting Mr. Assad, he has a different attitude about the Assad regime," Mr. Obama said in the interview, which was conducted on Friday, before Washington and Moscow reached a tentative agreement to secure and destroy Syria's chemical stockpile..

"But what I've also said to him directly is that we both have an interest in preventing chaos, we both have an interest in preventing terrorism. The situation in Syria right now is untenable, as long as Mr. Assad's in power, there is gonna be some sort of conflict there," the president explained. "And I think there's a way for-- Mr. Putin, despite me and him having a whole lot of differences, to play an important role in that. And so I welcome him being involved. I welcome him saying, 'I will take responsibility for pushing my client, the Assad regime-- to deal with these chemical weapons.'"


Comment: More of the same tired narrative and hypocrisy. Claiming to be interested in "preventing terrorism", while funding and supporting the rebels that are bringing terror to the Syrian population. Claiming a wish to prevent chaos, while calling for a direct U.S. military strike the results of which are completely unpredictable.


Stormtrooper

Former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden says terrorists love using Gmail

Michael Hayden
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Former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden stood on the pulpit of a church across from the White House on Sunday and declared Gmail the preferred online service of terrorists. As part of an adult education forum at St. John's Episcopal Church, Hayden gave a wide ranging speech on "the tension between security and liberty."

During the speech, he specifically defended Section 702 of the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act (FISA), which provides the legal basis for the PRISM program. In doing so, Hayden claimed "Gmail is the preferred Internet service provider of terrorists worldwide," presumably meaning online service rather than the actual provider of Internet service. He added: "I don't think you're going to see that in a Google commercial, but it's free, it's ubiquitous, so of course it is."


Comment: Given the broad definitions used to define "terrorists" and suspicious "terror related" keywords monitored by the NSA, it is increasingly difficult not to fall under suspicion. Naturally under those terms, the largest services providers will yield the most "terrorists"!


Stormtrooper

Russian Navy is back 'forever' to the Arctic waters off Siberia

Permanent patrols commence led by the heavy nuclear-powered guided-missile cruiser Pyotr Velikiy.
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© 'Pyotr Velikiy' cruiser, courtesy Western Military District Northern Fleet press serviceAn all-year military airfield on the Novosibirsk Islands is also planned, according to RIA Novosti.
The Arctic is seen by all Northern countries as strategically important with vast untapped oil and gas wealth. Recently, a naval task forces began exercises around the Novosibirsk Islands.

'We arrived there or, more accurately, we have returned there forever,' announced Deputy Defence Minister Arkady Bakhin after a teleconference chaired by Defenсe Minister Sergei Shoigu. As well as the Pyotr Velikiy, the task force comprises the large amphibious assault ships Olenegorsky Gornyak and Kondopoga plus support vessels.

USA

Syria 'rebels' threaten to murder UN inspectors with weapons U.S. gave to them

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© UnknownSyrian rebel fighters look at a multi-rocket launcher in Tal Abyadh, a Syrian town close to the Turkish border.
Terrorists operating in Syria have threatened to "block" UN inspectors, any bloodshed will be on the hands of the US who is now openly arming them.

In Reuters' "Syrian Rebels Slam U.S.-Russia Deal, Say Assad Is Moving Chemical Weapons To Lebanon And Iraq," Qassim Saadeddine of the so-called "Free Syrian Army" rejected the recent Syrian-Russian proposal to turn over Syria's chemical weapons for independent verification and destruction, vowing to block UN inspectors should they enter Syria to carry out the task.

Reuters reported:
Qassim Saadeddine, said: "Let the Kerry-Lavrov plan go to hell. We reject it and we will not protect the inspectors or let them enter Syria."
In carrying out these overt threats, the terrorist front will be using US-provided arms, equipment and vehicles, as admitted by US officials in recent weeks. The Washington Post's article, "U.S. weapons reaching Syrian rebels," reported:
The CIA has begun delivering weapons to rebels in Syria, ending months of delay in lethal aid that had been promised by the Obama administration, according to U.S. officials and Syrian figures. The shipments began streaming into the country over the past two weeks, along with separate deliveries by the State Department of vehicles and other gear - a flow of material that marks a major escalation of the U.S. role in Syria's civil war.