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Propaganda Alert! 320 corpses found in Syrian mass grave


Reuters
Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:52 UTC
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© Shaam News Network/AP
This citizen journalism photograph provided by Shaam News Network SNN purports to show people killed by pro-government militiamen in Daraya, Syria. Reports of the death toll range from 300 to as many as 600.
Syrian opposition activists accused President Bashar al-Assad's army on Sunday of massacring hundreds of people in a town close to the capital that government forces recaptured from rebels.

In the town of Daraya, southwest of Damascus, some 320 bodies, including women and children, were found in houses and basements, according to activists who said most had been killed "execution-style" by troops in house-to-house raids.

Activists uploaded several videos to the Internet showing rows of bloodied bodies wrapped in sheets. Most of the dead appeared to be young men of fighting age, but at least one video showed several children who appeared to have been shot in the head. The body of one toddler was soaked in blood.

Due to restrictions on non-state media in Syria, it was impossible to independently verify the accounts.

Clashes are raging across Syria as the 17-month-old rebellion grows increasingly bloody, particularly in the northern city of Aleppo, where the army and rebels appear stuck in a war of attrition.

Comment: To understand what is really going on behind this propaganda war campaign, check out the following:

'Free Syrian Army' aka 'al-Qaeda' aka US, Israel and British Mercenaries, Use Syrian Man as 'Suicide Bomber'

State-Sponsored Terrorism - Western Journalists Embedded With 'al-Qaeda' in Syria

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Vader

Egypt Rejects US Demand for Attacking Iranian Vessel in Suez Canal


Fars News Agency
Sun, 26 Aug 2012 10:22 UTC
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Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority said that Egypt's Navy has rejected a US demand to attack an Iranian vessel in the strategic waterway.

Speaking to Al Arabiya and Al-Hayat TV networks, Vice Admiral Mohab Mamish, also a former commander of the Egyptian Navy, said the US had requested the Egyptian Navy to attack an Iranian vessel passing through the Suez Canal, but his country's naval force rejected the request.

He said the US had claimed that the vessel was carrying arms and heading to Syria, but it presented no proof to substantiate its allegations.

The Admiral ruled out the possibility of military operations in the Suez Canal, to guarantee the security of the international waterway.

In February 2012, Iranian warships made their second ever journey through the Suez Canal following Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution in line with the orders of the Supreme Leader for having a stronger presence in the high seas.

While Egypt has so far allowed two Iranian flotillas to sail through the Canal, the Admiral said his country has refrained from giving permission to US warships to go on a voyage through the waterway.
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Megaphone

Turkish People Condemn Ankara's Hostile Policies against Syria


Fars News Agency
Sun, 26 Aug 2012 06:38 UTC
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© Fars News Agency
Thousands of Turkish people staged rallies in Antakya province at the country's border with Syria to voice their protest against Ankara's hostility towards the Syrian government and nation.

The Saturday rallies were organized by Turkey's Labor Party, one of the main opposition parties in the country.

During the rallies, people shouted slogans in support of the Syrian nation and leaders and lauded their resistance against the plots hatched by the West and its regional proxies.

They also condemned the setting up of bases on Turkey's soil to train terrorists under the direct supervision of the US in order to support the so-called Free Syrian Army.

The development came after revelations about the smuggling of arms to anti-government terrorist groups in Syria via the US Air Base in Incirlik in Southern Turkey sparked popular protests in the country.

Comment: For an in depth perspective of the reality on the ground in Syria, please read the following:
'Free Syrian Army' aka 'al-Qaeda' aka US, Israel and British Mercenaries, Use Syrian Man as 'Suicide Bomber'
State-Sponsored Terrorism - Western Journalists Embedded With 'al-Qaeda' in Syria
NATO's 'Civil War' Machine Rolls Into Syria

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USA

Obama's World War: US drone strike in southern Somalia kills 37 civilians, injures dozens more


Press TV
Sun, 26 Aug 2012 05:38 UTC
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Brave American drones rain hellfire down on starving black people
Dozens of people have been killed in an attack carried out by a US assassination drone in southern Somalia, Press TV reports.

The attack, which took place in the strategically important port city of Kismayo on Friday, claimed over 37 lives and injured dozens.

Further details regarding the incident have not yet been released.

The US military uses remote-controlled drones in Somalia for reconnaissance operations and targeted killings.

Washington has been carrying out assassination attacks using the unmanned aircraft in other countries including Afghanistan, Libya, Pakistan, and Yemen.
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USA

Libyan Islamists unleashed by West destroy Sufi shrines, libraries

Ayman al-Sahli
Reuters
Sun, 26 Aug 2012 05:35 UTC
Ultra-conservative Islamists used bombs and a bulldozer to destroy the tomb of a 15th century Sufi scholar in the Libyan city of Zlitan, witnesses said on Saturday, the latest attack in the region on sites branded idolatrous by some sects.

The attackers reduced the revered last resting place of Abdel Salam al-Asmar to rubble on Friday and also set fire to a historic library in a nearby mosque, ruining thousands of books, witnesses and a military official added.

A Reuters journalist in Zlitan, about 160 km (90 miles) west of the Libyan capital, said the mosque's dome had collapsed and a minaret was pockmarked with holes.

The attackers appeared to have removed the last signs of the shrine with a bulldozer, which was abandoned nearby.
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Pistol

Destabilizing Libya: 12 killed in Libya tribal feud


Gulf Times
Sun, 26 Aug 2012 05:31 UTC
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'al Qaeda-in-Libya', aka CIA assets, continue terrorising ordinary Libyans
At least 12 people have been killed in tribal clashes in the western Libyan town of Zlitan, local media reported yesterday, the latest in a growing number of violent incidents that have gripped the North African country since an armed revolt deposed Muammar Gaddafi's regime.

The fighting erupted late Thursday after a tribesman was killed by a rival tribe in the town, which is located some 120km south-east of the capital Tripoli, said the independent news agency Solidarity Press.

The two tribes are also at odds over whether to keep or remove a shrine in the town, added the report, citing a local source.
Around 40 people were also injured in the clashes.

Libya has seen a series of deadly clashes between rival tribes and militias since last year's ouster of Gaddafi.

In other developments, Libyan government forces confiscated rocket launchers and other weapons from a militia loyal to Gaddafi, the BBC reported, citing a government spokesman.
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Light Sabers

Lebanon death toll at 15 as manufactured Syrian crisis spills across border


Bangkok Post
Sat, 25 Aug 2012 05:27 UTC
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Smoke rises during sectarian clashes between Sunni Muslims and Alawites in Tripoli, northern Lebanon August 24, 2012.
The number of people killed in fighting between pro- and anti-Syrian factions in the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli this week has risen to 15, a security official said Saturday.

A 16-year-old boy died of wounds suffered during clashes on Friday night, the official told AFP, adding that a total of 112 had also been wounded since street battles first erupted in the city on Monday.

The fighting has pitted residents of the Sunni-dominated Bab el-Tebbaneh district and those of adjoining Jabal Mohsen, who mainly adhere to the Alawite offshoot of Shiite Islam _ the sect of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

A ceasefire brokered by local officials was supposed to take effect Wednesday, but violence was reignited when a sniper killed a Sunni cleric on Friday.
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War Whore

France defies Russia and China: calls for Syrian intervention without UN - WW III?

Adrian Blomfield
Sydney Morning Herald
Sun, 26 Aug 2012 05:21 UTC
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Western terrorists celebrate killing civilians in Syria
International momentum for limited military intervention in Syria gathered pace yesterday amid opposition reports that 4000 people have been killed this month, the deadliest since the uprising began.

France signalled it would be willing to participate in a limited no-fly zone and suggested for the first time that such an operation could be mounted without reference to the UN Security Council, where Russia and China wield a veto.

The United States and Turkey have already discussed the possibility although Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, has said ''greater in-depth analysis'' was needed.

But Jean-Yves Le Drian, the French Defence Minister called for the establishment of an ''international coalition'' to implement a no-fly zone - a choice of wording that suggests action outside the United Nations is being considered for the first time.

Mr Le Drian ruled out a no-fly zone over the whole of the country, saying such a step would be tantamount to war.

Comment: Sarkozy would be proud of Hollande leading France into illegal wars of aggression.

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Light Sabers

2012 US Elections: Obamney vs. Rombama

Tony Cartalucci
Land Destroyer
Sat, 25 Aug 2012 05:04 UTC
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Professional spokesmen, representative not of the American people but of Fortune 500 multinational corporations and banks. Since the time of JP Morgan 100 years ago, the corporate-financier elite saw themselves as being above government, and national sovereignty as merely a regulatory obstacle they could lobby, bribe, and manipulate out of existence. In the past 100 years, the monied elite have gone from manipulating the presidency to now reducing the office to a public relations functionary of their collective interests.
A vote for Obama will bring war with Syria, Iran, and eventually Russia and China. The economy will continue to suffer in order to bolster the interests of off-shore corporate-financier interests, while the collective prospects of Americans continue to whither and blow away. A vote for Romney, however, will also bring war with Syria, Iran, and eventually Russia and China. The economy will also continue to suffer in order to bolster the interests of off-shore corporate-financier interests, while the collective prospects of Americans continue to whither and blow away. Why?

Because the White House is but a public relations front for the corporate-financier interests of Wall Street and London. A change of residence at the White House is no different than say, British Petroleum replacing its spokesman to superficially placate public opinion when in reality the exact same board of directors, overall agenda, and objectives remain firmly in place. Public perception then is managed by, not the primary motivation of, corporate-financier interests.

It is the absolute folly to believe that multi-billion dollar corporate-financier interests would subject their collective fate to the whims of the ignorant, uninformed, and essentially powerless voting masses every four years. Instead, what plays out every four years is theater designed to give the general public the illusion that they have some means of addressing their grievances without actually ever changing the prevailing balance of power in any meaningful way.
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Star of David

'Made in Palestine' market choked by Fascist Israel

Paula Slier
Russia Today
Sat, 25 Aug 2012 04:24 UTC
Israel's seizure of Palestinian land brings with it the added extra of a harsh economic blockade. Any products made there - are not only prevented from making their way to the outside world - but they're kept from the Israeli market as well. RT's Paula Slier takes a closer look at the hardships of Palestinian farmers and producers.

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