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Putin: Syria chemical attack is 'rebels' provocation in hope of intervention'


RT
Fri, 06 Sep 2013 11:43 UTC
Vladimir Putin
© AFP PhotoRussia’s President Vladimir Putin gestures during a press conference at the end of the G20 summit on September 6, 2013 in Saint Petersburg
The alleged chemical weapons use in Syria is a provocation carried out by the rebels to attract a foreign-led strike, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the G20 summit.

There was no 50/50 split of opinion on the notion of a military strike against the Syrian President Bashar Assad, Putin stressed refuting earlier assumptions.

Only Turkey, Canada, Saudi Arabia and France joined the US push for intervention, he said, adding that the UK Prime Minister's position was not supported by his citizens.

Russia, China, India, Indonesia, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa and Italy were among the major world's economies clearly opposed to military intervention.

President Putin said the G20 nations spent the "entire" Thursday evening discussing the Syrian crisis, which was followed by Putin's bilateral meeting with UK Prime Minister David Cameron that lasted till 3am Moscow time.

Russia "will help Syria" in the event of a military strike, Putin stressed as he responded to a reporter's question at the summit.

"Will we help Syria? We will. And we are already helping, we send arms, we cooperate in the economics sphere, we hope to expand our cooperation in the humanitarian sphere, which includes sending humanitarian aid to support those people - the civilians - who have found themselves in a very dire situation in this country," Putin said.

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Putin accused Kerry of lying about al-Qaida's involvement in Syria at the G-20 summit

Major Garretthor
CBS News
Thu, 05 Sep 2013 11:33 UTC
Hours before President Obama arrived here to lobby world leaders to support a planned military strike against Syria, the Pentagon had to clarify Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel's assertion that Russia provided chemical weapons to Syria and Russia President Vladimir Putin accused Secretary of State John Kerry of lying about al Qaeda's links to Syrian rebels.

Obama will seek more certain footing in the city that Peter the Great founded in 1703 and that is hosting its second global economic summit in seven years.

All five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council -- the U.S., Great Britain, France, China and Russia -- are attending the summit. Upon Putin's arrival Thursday, he and Obama shared a brief handshake and exchanged smiles during their only scheduled meeting during the summit. After Russia granted NSA leaker Edward Snowden asylum in July, Obama canceled a planned bilateral meeting with Putin that was to take place during Obama's visit to Russia.

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CBS laments Pope's 'religious street protest' is anti-Obama, pro-Putin

Matthew Balan
NewsBusters
Fri, 06 Sep 2013 10:20 UTC
On Friday's CBS This Morning, Mark Phillips all but hinted that Pope Francis had "taken sides" with Russia's Vladimir Putin and against President Obama in the international debate over military strikes in Syria. Phillips proposed that the Pope's letter to Putin "must have been music to the Russian president's ears."

The journalist also turned to a "Vatican historian" who once publicly attacked Francis' predecessor, Benedict XVI, as a "dictator", and likened him to Islamists. He also labeled the Pope's upcoming prayer and fasting vigil for peace in Syria a "religious street protest." [audio available here;]


Phillips led his report by noting that "popes have urged peace before. Remember, John Paul II was firmly against the Gulf War. This pope, Francis, is now actively arguing against military action against Syria. And the question is, does it matter?"
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Pope Tweets against Syria strike, writes Putin, plans Saturday vigil

Elizabeth Dias
TIME
Thu, 05 Sep 2013 10:14 UTC
Pope Francis
© Stefano Rellandini / ReutersPope Francis greets Catholic faithful during his arrival at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, July 25, 2013.
Pope Francis has written a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, host of the G-20 summit that President Obama is attending, urging world leaders to oppose a military intervention in Syria.

"To the leaders present, to each and every one, I make a heartfelt appeal for them to help find ways to overcome the conflicting positions and to lay aside the futile pursuit of a military solution," the Pope urged. "Rather, let there be a renewed commitment to seek, with courage and determination, a peaceful solution through dialogue and negotiation of the parties, unanimously supported by the international community."

The move is the latest in a series of efforts by the Holy See to prevent military action in the already civil-war torn region. On Sunday, the Pope declared in his Angelus teaching that Saturday Sept. 7 would be an day of fasting and prayer for peace in Syria. The prayer rally will take place in St. Peter's Square from 7 p.m. to midnight, on the vigil of the birth of Mary, the Queen of Peace. "Let us ask Mary to help us to respond to violence, to conflict and to war, with the power of dialogue, reconciliation and love," the Pope asked people around the world. "She is our mother: may she help us to find peace; all of us are her children!"
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Obama may abandon Syria strike if Congress rejects authorization request

Neil Munro
The Daily Caller
Fri, 06 Sep 2013 10:09 UTC
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President Barack Obama hinted Friday that he might not strike Syria if Congress rejects his authorization request.

"I'm not itching for military action... and if there are good ideas that are worth pursuing, then I'm going to be open to them," he told one reporter who asked if he was seeking alternatives to a missile strike.

"Are we on a fast track to military action as soon as Congress renders its judgment one way or the other?" the reporter asked Obama, during his morning press conference in St. Petersburg, Russia.

"Some in Congress have suggested giving the Syrian regime 45 days to sign the Chemical Weapons Convention, get rid of its chemical stockpiles, do something that would enhance the international sense of accountability for Syria, but delay military action," the reporter asked.
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House could delay vote on Syria intervention by a week

Russell Berman
The Hill
Fri, 06 Sep 2013 09:58 UTC
The House could push back a vote on a resolution authorizing military strikes on Syria by as long as a week, according to a memo Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) sent to Republican lawmakers Friday.

"Understanding that there are differing opinions on both sides of the aisle, it is up to President Obama to make the case to Congress and to the American people that this is the right course of action," Cantor wrote in a memo outlining the House GOP's fall agenda. "Members should expect a robust debate and vote on an authorization of use of military force pertaining to Syria in the next two weeks."

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New report reveals how the NSA has been able to crack online encryption

Denver Nicks
TIME/New York Times
Sat, 07 Sep 2013 09:47 UTC
National Security Agency
© NSA / ReutersThe National Security Agency headquarters building in Fort Meade, Md.
A new round of disclosures from the former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has revealed the intelligence agency's ultimate goal: undo Internet privacy as we know it. According to some 50,000 leaked documents provided to the Guardian, ProPublica, and The New York Times, the NSA has circumvented or cracked some of the most widely used encryption software in its effort to monitor global communications. Still, documents reveal, some encryption systems continue to stymie the agency, and the NSA, according to the Times, is working toward a future in which it can "decode, in real time, all of the information flying over the world's fiber optic cables and through its Internet hubs."

The document dump unveils some of the U.S. and its allies' most closely guarded state secrets - whereas highly classified information is often disseminated on a "need to know" basis, "there will be NO 'need to know,'" with respect to the highly-classied program known as Bullrun, according to one document quoted by the Times.

"This is the golden age of spying," one former NSA analyst told the Times. Here are five things you need to know about Snowden's latest leak.
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The US-Al Qaeda Alliance in Syria and the Fraud of the War on Terror

Bill Van Auken
WSWS
Sat, 07 Sep 2013 04:04 UTC
Al Ciada
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Twice during testimony this week before congressional committees on the Obama administration's request for an Authorization for the Use of Military Force resolution backing US aggression against Syria, Secretary of State John Kerry brushed aside questions about the predominant role played by Al Qaeda and its affiliates in the US-instigated civil war in Syria, insisting that the "opposition has increasingly become more defined by its moderation."

For the second time in a decade, US imperialism is preparing to launch a war based on lies about weapons of mass destruction and Al Qaeda. In 2003, Washington invaded Iraq to topple the regime of Saddam Hussein based on the claim that it possessed weapons of mass destruction and was prepared to turn them over to Al Qaeda. No such weapons existed and the Iraqi regime was an enemy of Al Qaeda.
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U.S. Military and Intelligence Officials to Obama: "Assad NOT Responsible for Chemical Attack"


Global Research/Consortium News
Sat, 07 Sep 2013 03:31 UTC
CIA
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Despite the Obama administration's supposedly "high confidence" regarding Syrian government guilt over the Aug. 21 chemical attack near Damascus, a dozen former U.S. military and intelligence officials are telling President Obama that they are picking up information that undercuts the Official Story.

MEMORANDUM FOR: The President

FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)

SUBJECT: Is Syria a Trap?

Precedence: IMMEDIATE

We regret to inform you that some of our former co-workers are telling us, categorically, that contrary to the claims of your administration, the most reliable intelligence shows that Bashar al-Assad was NOT responsible for the chemical incident that killed and injured Syrian civilians on August 21, and that British intelligence officials also know this. In writing this brief report, we choose to assume that you have not been fully informed because your advisers decided to afford you the opportunity for what is commonly known as "plausible denial."

We have been down this road before - with President George W. Bush, to whom we addressed our first VIPS memorandumimmediately after Colin Powell's Feb. 5, 2003 U.N. speech, in which he peddled fraudulent "intelligence" to support attacking Iraq. Then, also, we chose to give President Bush the benefit of the doubt, thinking he was being misled - or, at the least, very poorly advised.
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Senator John McCain, Foreign Relations "Adviser" to Al Qaeda Death Squads in Syria

Julie Lévesque
Global Research
Sat, 07 Sep 2013 02:36 UTC
John McCain
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While the mainstream media admonishes John McCain for playing a poker game on his iPhone during the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearings on Syria last Wednesday, no one seems to have noticed that the Republican Senator has, for several years, been supporting and mingling with Al Qaeda commanders in the field in blatant violation of international law as well as in breach of US anti-terrorism legislation.

In April 2011, Senator John McCain described the Al Qaeda affiliated rebels in Libya as follows:

"I have met with these brave fighters, and they are not Al-Qaeda. To the contrary: They are Libyan patriots who want to liberate their nation. We should help them do it." - Senator John McCain in Benghazi, Libya April 22, 2011.
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