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**Baldrick**

Shakey1 Wrote:

Russian arms ship turned away from Syria. President Putin’s first misstep

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report May 29, 2012

Incoming Russian President Vladimir Putin, after taking stock of his first days of his third presidency, concluded that Moscow’s handling of the al-Houla massacre and Syria’s ongoing collapse into civil war will go down as a Russian foreign policy failure. He personally comes out of the policy as the patron of a bloodthirsty tyrant.
The Kremlin first tried presenting the slaughter of 108 people Friday and Saturday, among them 49 children and 34 women, as the work of unknown non-military bands, partly corroborating the Assad regime’s claim of terrorism.
This line was quickly abandoned and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was told Monday, May 28, to assign responsibility to “two sides” at his joint news conference in Moscow with British Foreign Secretary William Hague...

http://www.debka.com/article/22038/Russi...t-misstep-

PROFESSOR KATSMAN
Position Recorded on:
2012-05-30T10:59:00 (UTC)

Lat/Lon: 36.634319 / 24.01935
Speed/Course: 84 kn / 22°

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/default...lastknown#

WTF???

What cargo ship steams at 84kn????

Now I'm gonna have to track this f*cker again....

**Shakey1**

Baldrick Wrote:

Shakey1 Wrote:
Russian arms ship turned away from Syria. President Putin’s first misstep

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report May 29, 2012

Incoming Russian President Vladimir Putin, after taking stock of his first days of his third presidency, concluded that Moscow’s handling of the al-Houla massacre and Syria’s ongoing collapse into civil war will go down as a Russian foreign policy failure. He personally comes out of the policy as the patron of a bloodthirsty tyrant.
The Kremlin first tried presenting the slaughter of 108 people Friday and Saturday, among them 49 children and 34 women, as the work of unknown non-military bands, partly corroborating the Assad regime’s claim of terrorism.
This line was quickly abandoned and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was told Monday, May 28, to assign responsibility to “two sides” at his joint news conference in Moscow with British Foreign Secretary William Hague...

http://www.debka.com/article/22038/Russi...t-misstep-

PROFESSOR KATSMAN
Position Recorded on:
2012-05-30T10:59:00 (UTC)

Lat/Lon: 36.634319 / 24.01935
Speed/Course: 84 kn / 22°

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/default...lastknown#

WTF???

What cargo ship steams at 84kn????

Now I'm gonna have to track this f*cker again....

Too drunk to care Lmao

**Baldrick**

Shakey1 Wrote:

Baldrick Wrote:
Shakey1 Wrote:
Russian arms ship turned away from Syria. President Putin’s first misstep

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report May 29, 2012

Incoming Russian President Vladimir Putin, after taking stock of his first days of his third presidency, concluded that Moscow’s handling of the al-Houla massacre and Syria’s ongoing collapse into civil war will go down as a Russian foreign policy failure. He personally comes out of the policy as the patron of a bloodthirsty tyrant.
The Kremlin first tried presenting the slaughter of 108 people Friday and Saturday, among them 49 children and 34 women, as the work of unknown non-military bands, partly corroborating the Assad regime’s claim of terrorism.
This line was quickly abandoned and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was told Monday, May 28, to assign responsibility to “two sides” at his joint news conference in Moscow with British Foreign Secretary William Hague...

http://www.debka.com/article/22038/Russi...t-misstep-

PROFESSOR KATSMAN
Position Recorded on:
2012-05-30T10:59:00 (UTC)

Lat/Lon: 36.634319 / 24.01935
Speed/Course: 84 kn / 22°

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/default...lastknown#

WTF???

What cargo ship steams at 84kn????

Now I'm gonna have to track this f*cker again....

Too drunk to care

Yeah, 5 beers down and my steam has run out. Night Shakey.

I'm 39 today....

chuckle

**Shakey1**

Baldrick Wrote:

Shakey1 Wrote:
Baldrick Wrote:
PROFESSOR KATSMAN
Position Recorded on:
2012-05-30T10:59:00 (UTC)

Lat/Lon: 36.634319 / 24.01935
Speed/Course: 84 kn / 22°

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/default...lastknown#

WTF???

What cargo ship steams at 84kn????

Now I'm gonna have to track this f*cker again....

Too drunk to care

Yeah, 5 beers down and my steam has run out. Night Shakey.

I'm 39 today....

I should start a birthday thread for you! chuckle

**Baldrick**

Shakey1 Wrote:

Baldrick Wrote:
Shakey1 Wrote:

Too drunk to care

Yeah, 5 beers down and my steam has run out. Night Shakey.

I'm 39 today....

I should start a birthday thread for you!

Nah, I'm good. chuckle

**Shakey1**

Exclusive: Obama weighs action to prevent Al Qaeda grabbing Syrian WMD

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report May 31, 2012, 11:08 AM (GMT+02:00)

US President Barack Obama, though widely expected to pursue direct action against Syrian ruler Bashar following the Houla atrocity, is preoccupied with what he regards as a greater threat to the world: a potential grab for the huge Syrian stock of chemical and biological weapons by Al Qaeda’s or other terrorist organizations. This is reported exclusively by debkafile’s Washington and intelligence sources.
The US president is trying to persuade Russian President Vladimir Putin to accept his new plan for the immediate assignment by the UN Security Council of 3,000 armed monitors to Syria to take charge of the six chemical and biological stores. Another 2,000 will join the team later.
To allay Putin’s suspicions of a trick to insert Western armed forces into Syria against Moscow’s will, Obama suggested that most of the monitors would be Russian or nationals of governments lining up with its support of the Assad regime....

http://debka.com/article/22043/Exclusive...yrian-WMD-

**Shakey1**

Syrian president: 'We are facing a war from abroad'
By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 5:57 AM EDT, Sun June 3, 2012

CNN) -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad addressed his country and the newly-elected People's Assembly on Sunday, decrying what he called the "terrorists" and "conspiracy" against Syria.
"At this time, we are facing a war from abroad," al-Assad said in his first public speech since January. "Dealing with it is different from dealing with people from inside."
His remarks stand in stark contrast to what the opposition and many world leaders have said for more than a year -- that al-Assad's forces, not external "terrorists," are behind a sustained slaughter stemming from the regime's crackdown on dissidents.
As the president spoke, heavy shelling rained on the anti-government bastion of Homs, the opposition Local Coordination Committees of Syria said. Simultaneously, at least five people were killed in Homs, Aleppo and Hama, the group said....

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/03/world/meas...?hpt=hp_t1

**Shakey1** · (This post was last modified: 06-05-2012 02:23 PM by Shakey1.)

http://twitter.com/#!/ZeinakhodrAljaz

Syria is ditching Western nations diplomats/ambassadors in reciprocal tit-for-tat.

"Syria declares Western ambassadors unwelcome

Syria has declared as unwelcome the ambassadors of several Western states, a week after governments around the world expelled its top diplomats.

The US, UK, French and Turkish envoys were among those designated "personae non gratae". Many have already left.

President Bashar al-Assad has blamed outside powers for Syria's divisions.

Meanwhile, the UN has said the Syrian government has agreed to allow aid agencies to enter the four provinces that have seen the most violence.

"This agreement was secured in Damascus with the government there, in writing," John Ging, the director of operations for UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) told reporters in Geneva after a meeting of the Syrian Humanitarian Forum...."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18330403

Srjceahd

**Shakey1**

"Remember Qubair ? It has vanished... all of its residents (150 total) have been slaughtered by Assad's knives #SYRIA Entire village GONE"

"#News New Syria massacre includes 40 women and children: reports - Brisbane Times Sorry, no url shorteners/LBMgmn #Syria #Damascus"

Recent (a few hours ago) posts on Twitter.

http://twitter.com/#!/DamascusSYR

"(Reuters) - Syrian troops and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad stood accused by opponents on Thursday of a new massacre of scores of villagers hours before a divided U.N. Security Council convenes to review the crisis.

If confirmed, the killings of at least 78 people at Mazraat al-Qabeer, near Hama, will pile on pressure for world powers to act, but there is little sign they can overcome a paralysis born of sharp divisions between Western and Arab states on the one hand and Assad's defenders in Russia, China and Iran.

Several activists who monitor the 15-month-old revolt gave accounts to Reuters that women and children were among the dead when the village in central Syria came under artillery bombardment before fighters moved in on the ground and shot and stabbed dozens of people to death.

Echoing descriptions of a massacre of 108 civilians at Houla on May 25, which U.N. observers attributed to Assad's troops and loyalist "shabbiha" militia, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, "Shabbiha headed into the area after the shelling and killed dozens of citizens, among them women and children."

Some activists said at least 40 of the dead were women and children. At Houla, near Homs, nearly half had been children..."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/0...P020120607

**Shakey1**

Report: Syrian rebels seize control of air force base in Homs

Published: 06.10.12, 17:40 / Israel News

Al-Arabiya network reported Sunday afternoon that Syrian rebels have seized control of the presidential air force base in the Homs district.

According to the report, most of the soldiers at the scene fled after the rebels took over the base. However, army forces later shelled a nearby village. (Roi Kais)

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,...01,00.html

Reuters in Amman
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 10 June 2012 13.55 EDT

"Syrian forces bombard opposition strongholds in Homs

At least 35 killed as army uses artillery, mortars and rockets to hit city and nearby towns, activists say

Shelling in Rastan
An image from amateur video purportedly showing shelling in Rastan, in Homs province. Photograph: AP

Syrian government forces have renewed their efforts to impose control in Homs province, killing at least 35 people in one of the biggest bombardments since a failed UN-mandated ceasefire in April, opposition activists said.

The army used artillery, mortars and rockets to hit opposition strongholds in the city of Homs and the towns of Qusair, Talbiseh and Rastan, the activists said.

Free Syrian Army rebels had been intensifying attacks in the area, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights and other opposition campaigners..."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun...sfeed=true

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