This may tell you why Strauss Kahn (former president of IMF) was in trouble. His party leads over Sarcozy in coming president election. Sarcozy supports US' war in Mid-east. That's why Kahn is tarnished. A tactic to help Sarcozy to stay in his president seat.

Strauss-Kahn questioned in prostitution ring inquiry ..

02-21-2012
Strauss-Kahn back in the news another a sex scandal. This one appears to have less wiggle room than the last.

Video & article at link......

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17110618

40 Turkish intelligence agents captured in Syria
Sunday, February 19, 2012

Western officials fear that Iranian military presence along with Russian aid could turn Syria into a center of international friction much worse than the struggle inside Syria. They fear that the control over actions in Syria will be taken over by a Russian-Iranian "partnership" which would exclude the European Union and Turkey and that U.S. involvement could be too late and inefficient.

Turkey fears this development after a diplomatic crisis erupted with Syria when more than 40 Turkish intelligence officers were captured by the Syrian army. Over the past week, Turkey has been conducting intensive negotiations with Syria in order to secure their freedom, and Syria insists that their release will be conditioned on the extradition of Syrian officers and soldiers that defected and are currently in Turkey.

http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2012/0 … tured.html

30 March 2012 Last updated at 00:47 ET
UK doubles aid to Syria opposition groups

By James Robbins Diplomatic correspondent
The UK is to double its non-military aid to opponents of President Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria, Foreign Secretary William Hague has said.

He said the extra £500,000 will help groups both inside and outside Syria.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17558417

Quite different from what US government told us.

Syria: anti-government groups committed Houla massacre

http://www.reuters.com/Reuters – 1 hr 6 mins ago

•    BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria said on Thursday a preliminary investigation showed that anti-government armed groups committed a massacre last week in Houla, in which 108 people were killed, with the aim of encouraging foreign military intervention against the Syrian government.

•    Brigadier General Qassem Jamal Suleiman, head of the investigation committee formed by the government, said the victims were families "who refused to oppose the government and were at odds with the armed groups".

•    He said many of the victims were relatives of a member of the Syrian parliament.
(Reporting by Mariam Karouny; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

http://news.yahoo.com/syria-anti-govern … 38724.html

British forces in Syria, Assad presidential compound said under attack
DEBKAfile   June 26, 2012,

Unconfirmed first reports from British, French and Turkish sources say British special operations forces crossed from Turkey into northern Syria Tuesday, May 26, and advanced up to 10 kilometers inside the country. The same sources report heavy fighting around the Presidential Guards compound on the outskirts of Damascus.
debkafile’s military sources note that this compound exists to defend Bashar Assad’s presidential palace on Mount Qaisoun overlooking Damascus.

http://www.debka.com/article/22133/Brit … der-attack

Robert Fisk on Syria

Then there's that neighbouring country which owes us so much gratitude: Iraq. Last week, it suffered in one day 29 bombing attacks in 19 cities, killing 111 civilian and wounding another 235. The same day, Syria's bloodbath consumed about the same number of innocents. But Iraq was "down the page" from Syria, buried "below the fold", as we journalists say; because, of course, we gave freedom to Iraq, Jeffersonian democracy, etc, etc, didn't we? So this slaughter to the east of Syria didn't have quite the same impact, did it? Nothing we did in 2003 led to Iraq's suffering today. Right?

http://russianfreedomforum.lefora.com/2 … -on-syria/

US, Israel behind terrorism and social unrest in Syria’
Apr 29, 2012

Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March 2011 and many people, including members of the security forces, have been killed in the turmoil.

Damascus blames armed terrorist groups for the country’s year-long unrest, asserting that violent acts are being orchestrated from abroad.

Press TV has conducted an interview with Paul Sheldon Foote, professor at the California State University, Irvine, to further discuss the issue. The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: Professor, how would you explain Russia’s stance and position towards Syria?

Foote: I think it’s time that someone started telling the truth about it. It’s very obvious that America, Israel and some Arab countries are behind this terrorism in Syria.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/238688.html

US Treasury Confirms that Al Qaeda Runs Syrian "Rebellion"

by Tony Cartalucci
Global Research, July 27, 2012

US fails to sell militants in Syria as "freedom fighters," tells truth for pretext to liquidate monsters of their own creation.

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) in its article, "Al Qaeda's War for Syria," cited officials from the US Treasury Department stating, "Al Qaeda in Syria (often operating as the "Al Nusra Front for the People of the Levant") is using traffickers—some ideologically aligned, some motivated by money—to secure routes through Turkey and Iraq for foreign fighters, most of whom are from the Middle East and North Africa. A growing number of donors from the Persian Gulf and Levant appear to be sending financial support."

This undercuts the West's year and a half-long narrative that Syria's violence was the result of a so-called "uprising" by the people of Syria. While the WJS attempts to downplay this admission by claiming, "al Qaeda makes up a small part of the resistance movement," it concedes that, "its strength appears to be rising." In reality, it was Al Qaeda militants from the very beginning, and the only aspect of the conflict "rising" is public awareness of this fact.

Since 2007, US Aided and Abetted Al Qaeda Affiliates Against Syria 
A Foreign Invasion, not a Rebellion

The WSJ's article begins with the sentence, "the United States and its allies should consider opening a second front in the Syrian war. In addition to helping end Bashar Assad's rule, there is a growing need to conduct a covert campaign against al Qaeda and other extremist groups gaining a presence in the country."

West Used Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Libya, Is Using Al Qaeda Now in Syria

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? … &aid=32083

katsung47 wrote:

US said Saddam was a dictator and activated a war on Iraq. As a result, Islamic extremists control Iraq and Iraq Christian suffered severe persecution. They escaped to Syria. Now US says Assad is a dictator and ..... Poor Christians, where will they go this time?
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The price of regime change
  By David Warren, Ottawa Citizen

There are millions of Christians in Syria, who probably have the Russians and Chinese to thank that they may live there a little longer. The Security Council vetoes, a fortnight ago, on a resolution calling upon Syria's dictator to step down, and supporting an Arab-sponsored plan to "end the violence," put paid to any immediate prospect of western intervention.

The outrage expressed by Hillary Clinton, William Hague, and other western foreign ministers, probably concealed a little relief, for the vetoes provided the excuse they needed to avoid the issue, while continuing to posture about "humanitarianism" and "democracy."
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Christians were as common in Syria as in Egypt, before their numbers were immensely swelled by refugees from Iraq - well over a million fleeing up the Euphrates River valley, from anti-Christian persecution by Iraq's Islamists. By now, there could be more than four million Christians within Syria's borders.

When the Assad regime falls, it will be open season on them, on the Alawites, and all the other minorities. Granted, Assad is a monster who has earned an ugly fate. But at what expense should we indulge the fleeting satisfaction of deposing him?


Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/price … story.html

Frankly, who cares. Kill a Christian, kill a Moslem, kill a Jew - it's a dirty chore but it needs to be done. Let the religious have their funny little massacres; I'll be laughing from the sidelines.

Emmeran wrote:

This one's easy Kathy, everyone knows that the French are pussies and don't have an army.

Not that I wish to be perceived as a frawg's pawn, but that's not exactly true. The French, the Franks, the Gauls, have been waging war, much of it glorious, all of it vainglorious, some of it executed as if by a team of 10-year-old cretins, for 1600 years (if you'll only grant me 'til Clovis, over 2,000 if we can go back to Caesar - more if beyond).

Of course, you're probably still bitching about Iraq, but in retrospect, they were right, and I very much doubt they ever cared what you called your fried potatoes.

According to The Telegraph: "There have been 53 major wars in Europe, France had been a belligerent in 49 of them; UK 43. In 185 battles that France had fought over the past 800 years, their armies had won 132 times, lost 43 times and drawn only 10, giving the French military the best record of any country in Europe."

To quote Kipling, from France at War (1915): "Their business is war, and they do their business."

GooberMcNutly wrote:

WilberCuntLicker wrote:

According to The Telegraph: "There have been 53 major wars in Europe, France had been a belligerent in 49 of them; UK 43. In 185 battles that France had fought over the past 800 years, their armies had won 132 times, lost 43 times and drawn only 10, giving the French military the best record of any country in Europe."

Anything from this century? And don't forget all of their disastrous wars that weren't in Europe.

This century is only 12 years old - give them a few years. Without recourse to research (because I have a Hallowe'en party happening in one hour and I'm already PISHED on cheap tallboys of 7% German beer), I believe, but am open to correction on the possible facts that they have the largest standing army in Europe and the world's third largest nuclear arsenal (the so-called force-de-frappe). Listen - I am not a huge fan of Frenchmen, but for reasons that are a bit much to go into at the moment. Let's just say that the French brain is riddled with centuries-old Platonism that makes it distinctly child-like tending towards unwarranted arrogance. But don't make the mistake of thinking that they're not warlike and brave, because history tells us otherwise.

WilberCuntLicker wrote:

katsung47 wrote:

Frankly, who cares. Kill a Christian, kill a Moslem, kill a Jew - it's a dirty chore but it needs to be done. Let the religious have their funny little massacres; I'll be laughing from the sidelines.

Of course, you are the Feds. You kill people to loot their wealth in US dispite he is a Moslim, a Christian or a Jew.

If I were the Feds I wouldn't be here. I wouldn't be talking to you. I'd be waiting behind a bush with a shiv, waiting to gank you in the liver, or lurking in your bathroom - switching your Clozapine for LSD.

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Here is what a Feds agent doing. He disguised as a whistleblower, (behind a bush?) baited some dissenter to the hook.(gank you in the liver or lurking in your bathroom?) supplied the victim a bomb then arrested him. Said a terror case had been broken up. then said there had never been any actual threat.

17 October 2012

US Federal Reserve 'bomb plot' foiled by FBI

US officials have arrested a man for plotting to detonate what he thought was a massive bomb in front of the Federal Reserve building in New York.

Mr Nafis was placed under surveillance, and the undercover FBI agent sold him 20 bags of what he said were 50lb of explosives. The suspect then bought and assembled detonators and timing devices.

Officials said there had never been any actual threat.

Mr Nafis had been closely watched by the FBI
The arrest is the latest in a series of so-called "sting" operations run by the FBI and anti-terror authorities in the US.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19985987

Turkish people oppose Erdogan Syria policy: Analyst

Submitted by Tom Sullivan   Oct/13/2012


A political analyst says the majority of Turkish people are against NATO intervention in the Syria-Turkey conflict and their government’s policies towards the Arab country, Press TV reports.

http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/news/t … cy-analyst

Syria rebels 'beheaded a Christian and fed him to the dogs' as fears grow over Islamist atrocities

Christian Andrei Arbashe, 38, was kidnapped and beheaded by rebel fighters in northern town of Ras Al-Ayn on the Turkish border

News came as pro-government forces celebrated their victory against rebels near Aleppo Airport



By Nick Fagge

PUBLISHED:19:41 EST, 30 December 2012


Syrian rebels beheaded a Christian man and fed his body to dogs, according to a nun who says the West is ignoring atrocities committed by Islamic extremists.

The nun said taxi driver Andrei Arbashe, 38, was kidnapped after his brother was heard complaining that fighters against the ruling regime behaved like bandits.

She said his headless corpse was found by the side of the road, surrounded by hungry dogs. He had recently married and was soon to be a father.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article … z2GlWA9zsp

Syrian rebels burn and plunder religious sites – Human Rights Watch.

RT.com
23 January, 2013, 19:49

Syrian rebels have looted and burned minority religious sites in Northern Syria, US-based Human Rights Watch says. The attacks highlight the increasingly sectarian nature of the conflict as the bloodshed continues unabated.

The three incidents took place in November and December of last year in religiously mixed areas.

Rebels looted two Christian churches in separate villages in the relatively peaceful western governorate of Latakia, local witnesses told the rights watchdog.