While trying to help lead the reform of Syria, President Assad says that they ‘are fighting terrorism’ at the same time.
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Syrian President Assad To Obama: ‘Listen to the common sense of your people’ [VIDEO]
Assad has a bit of advise for Obama: “Listen to the common sense of your people.’ (Be patient if that’s all you came for. It’s about 2/3’s of the way into this part of the interview.)
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Syrian President Assad: ‘We didn’t use any chemical weapons’ [VIDEO]
When pressed on whether Syria used chemical weapons or not, President Assad dismissed it saying: ‘We didn’t use any chemical weapons.’
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Syrian President Assad: We want to cooperate with weapons agreement [VIDEO]
Assad, President of Syria said in an interview with Dennis Kucinich and Greg Palkot that he wants to ‘fully’ cooperate with the proposed weapons agreement.
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Trophy Killings in Syria
WARNING – What you are about to see is disturbing and disgusting!
There is some controversy over images coming out of Syria that they have been photoshopped.
Here is one of the images:
This photo that was posted by Bare Naked Islam sparked some outrage. They had received messages that it was a fake. So, they contacted the source of the image. What did they get as a response?
They were sent the video as evidence that it is NOT fake!
Watch the video below:
Is Backpedaling the New Strategy with Syria for Obama?
Obama and his administration have taken a new approach to Syria! Backpedaling, and they are doing it in a hurry.
If you are among the majority of people that want the US to stay out of Syria, John Kerry might have just blundered his way to a resolution.
And if that’s not enough, Putin jumped all over it!
John Kerry said something to the effect that Assad could avoid American air strikes by giving up all his chemical weapons within a week.
Putin is calling on Syria to accept the offer, and they just might be warming up to the idea.
ABC News is reporting that Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem, who met earlier in the day with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, responded with:
“The Syrian Arab Republic welcomed the Russian initiative, based on the concerns of the Russian leadership for the lives of our citizens and the security of our country.”
If it isn’t enough for Kerry to have seemingly screwed this all up for Obama, Syria is viewing this whole thing as a Russian lead initiative.
And is seems that Obama is okay with the whole thing. He sees this as a ‘potentially positive development,’ which could be a ‘significant breakthrough.’
President Obama said today that if Assad gives up his chemical weapons, a military strike would “absolutely” be on pause.
Classic presidential backpedaling to save face!
Surge of Opposition to Syrian Airstrikes
There is no questioning the fact the the majority of the people are opposed to airstrikes against Syria.
Pew Research recently put out a report detailing this very topic. Take a look at how much opposition increased in just a week:
In just a week those who strongly oppose are almost equal to how many were opposed. And that’s just in the US. Would it not be interesting to take a global poll?
Now, dig a little deeper at those numbers and you will see in increase in opposition across the board. Take a real hard look at the Democrat column:
For so many people, it isn’t that hard to see what they want done. They want Obama to stay out of Syria. Plain and simple.
Are they saying to just let them handle it themselves? No. They want to see something done, just not military action.
View the report HERE
Russia to aid Syria over possible US strike
As he touched down in St. Petersburg on Thursday morning, President Obama greeted his host Vladimir Putin with a handshake and a smile.
But the cordial greeting belies the tinderbox the two leaders are sitting on, as they posture and deliberate over a potential U.S. strike on Syria — one of Russia’s closest Mideast allies.
Putin escalated concerns about the fallout from any strike when he indicated in an interview published Wednesday that his country could send Syria and its neighbors in the region the components of a missile shield if the U.S. attacks.
U.S. Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified this week that the Russians might even replace any military assets the U.S. destroys in a strike.
The warnings raise the possibility of a supposedly “limited” strike on Syria turning into a proxy tit-for-tat between Russia and the U.S.
Rep. George Holding, R-N.C., went further during a hearing on Syria on Wednesday, pressing military officials on what the U.S. would do “if Russia decided to strike at us in that theater.”
“We can certainly say that Russia would have options to strike us in that theater in retaliation for us striking their ally,” he warned.
Dempsey declined to engage in that discussion, saying only that “Russia has capabilities that range from the asymmetric, including cyber, all the way up through strategic nuclear weapons. And again, it wouldn’t be helpful in this setting to speculate about that.”
Read more at Fox News
Even Syrians say to stay away by forming human shields
Obama asked Congress to support using military action against Syria and after the hearings they agreed.
Washington’s phones were flooded with calls coming in from people wanting to stay out of Syria. Well, it seems they aren’t alone! Even the Syrians don’t want the US to attack.
They have begun to form human shields around suspected targets. Take a look at some of the pictures below:
If pictures just aren’t enough for you, watch the video:
Russia releases key findings on chemical attack in Syria
Russia has released a 100-page report that they have handed over to the UN detailing key findings on the chemical attack in Syria.
Their experts indicated that the attack did carry the deadly nerve agent known as sarin and that it was most likely fired by the rebels.
So, what are the key points to their findings? Take a look:
• the shell used in the incident “does not belong to the standard ammunition of the Syrian army and was crudely according to type and parameters of the rocket-propelled unguided missiles manufactured in the north of Syria by the so-called Bashair al-Nasr brigade”;
• RDX, which is also known as hexogen or cyclonite, was used as the bursting charge for the shell, and it is “not used in standard chemical munitions”;
• soil and shell samples contain “the non-industrially synthesized nerve agent sarin and diisopropylfluorophosphate,” which was “used by Western states for producing chemical weapons during World War II.” via RT News
But where, if in fact the rebels did this, did they get their weapons? Was it from Saddam all those years ago when Bush said Iraq had WMD’s? There were reports that he sent them to Syria before anyone got there to look. Or, were they given by the Obama administration in their alleged weapon running scheme that unraveled during Benghazi?