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Baldrick Wrote:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18598533

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said his country is in "a state of war", more than a year after the uprising against his rule began.

Addressing his new cabinet, Mr Assad said that all efforts had to be directed towards winning the war.

**Shakey1** · **Shakey1** Subscriber User ID: 78542 06-27-2012 12:52 AM **Posts: 11,979**

"Assad says Syria at war as battle reaches capital

Tue Jun 26, 2012 5:15pm EDT

BEIRUT, June 26 (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad declared on Tuesday that his country was at war and ordered his new government to spare no effort to achieve victory, as the worst fighting of the 16-month conflict reached the outskirts of the capital.

Video published by activists recorded heavy gunfire and explosions in suburbs of Damascus. A trail of fresh blood on a sidewalk in the suburb of Qudsiya led into a building where one casualty was taken. A naked man writhed in pain, his body pierced by shrapnel..."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/2...BR20120626

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Baldrick Wrote:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18598533

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said his country is in "a state of war", more than a year after the uprising against his rule began.

Addressing his new cabinet, Mr Assad said that all efforts had to be directed towards winning the war.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 104854 06-27-2012 01:05 AM

He's right, Syria is in a state of war. Has been for months, so far it's been been largely 'civil' but could go international with a slight nudge.

**Baldrick**

UN mission in Syria to stay suspended
June 26, 2012

The United Nations monitoring mission in Syria will remain suspended because of the mounting conflict, a top UN official told the UN Security Council on Tuesday.

Diplomats at a closed Security Council meeting quoted Herve Ladsous, UN peacekeeping chief, as saying civilians were in "increasing danger" in Syria and "conditions are not conducive to resume operations."

To read more: http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDet...z1yxM0xZzj

Watch closely the developments from the UN in relation to this.

If Rices call for binding sanctions under Chapter VII and by natural progression Article 42 gain traction, we are looking at another Joint UN-Nato action.

**Baldrick**

Russia agrees to Syria summit in Geneva
June 26, 2012

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has agreed to attend an international meeting on the Syria conflict in Geneva on Saturday,

Kofi Annan wants to hold the meeting of the major powers in Geneva in a final bid to get agreement on a political transition plan for Syria.

Annan has not yet officially announced the meeting, however, and the comments by Russia's UN envoy Vitaly Churkin are the first sign that it will go ahead.

To read more: http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDet...z1yxMnDJFa

**Baldrick**

http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDet...?ID=413297
US moves closer to joining Syria talks
Nuland rejected Iran's participation, saying: "Given its support for the regime and its continued behavior vis-a-vis Syria, we just don't see it as able to make a helpful contribution right now."

The United States wants to ensure that "all the countries and organizations around the table are committed to the Annan plan [and] are committed to a peaceful, positive transition, and so participation does matter," she said.

To read more: http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDet...z1yxQ7mSS5

Can anyone say "conflicting statement"?

**NormalIsSubjective** · (This post was last modified: 06-27-2012 06:59 AM by NormalIsSubjective.)

Baldrick Wrote:

http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDet...?ID=413297
US moves closer to joining Syria talks
Nuland rejected Iran's participation, saying: "Given its support for the regime and its continued behavior vis-a-vis Syria, we just don't see it as able to make a helpful contribution right now."

The United States wants to ensure that "all the countries and organizations around the table are committed to the Annan plan [and] are committed to a peaceful, positive transition, and so participation does matter," she said.

To read more: http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDet...z1yxQ7mSS5

Can anyone say "conflicting statement"?

"Conflicting statement"? You're being much too kind.

Maybe that lying sack-of-shit State Dept. mouthpiece Nuland can tell us exactly how "helpful" the U.S. has been throughout this shitshow.

**Baldrick**

NormalIsSubjective Wrote:

Baldrick Wrote:
http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDet...?ID=413297
US moves closer to joining Syria talks
Nuland rejected Iran's participation, saying: "Given its support for the regime and its continued behavior vis-a-vis Syria, we just don't see it as able to make a helpful contribution right now."

The United States wants to ensure that "all the countries and organizations around the table are committed to the Annan plan [and] are committed to a peaceful, positive transition, and so participation does matter," she said.

To read more: http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDet...z1yxQ7mSS5

Can anyone say "conflicting statement"?

"Conflicting statement"? You're being much too kind.

Maybe that lying sack-of-shit State Dept. mouthpiece Nuland can tell us exactly how "helpful" the U.S. has been throughout this shitshow.

US agrees with Assad that Syria situation is “dire”
June 27, 2012 share

"Assad's comments, his observation about the situation in Syria is all the more profound because he created it, he caused it," said White House spokesperson Jay Carney.

"The brutality that is being leveled against the Syrian people is his own doing.”

To read more: http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDet...z1z3ECUx1K

Birds of a feather methinks..

**Baldrick**

Syria’s Propaganda Cloud: How the West Is Falling for Misinformation

Some of those inflows, for instance, are funding propaganda, which serves to exaggerate Syria’s genuine problems—economic and otherwise—as part of a great spectacle to sway world opinion. This includes Saudi money coming into Syria via Lebanon to fund demonstrations, with people getting $30 a day to protest—in front of cameras and microphones, of course. That isn’t to say that there aren’t many genuine demonstrators with real grievances; at the same time, the government habitually stages its own propaganda shows, also inducing people to whoop it up for the media. Such stage-management, along with fake torture videos and a host of other propaganda stunts, provide false justification for or against outside meddling, with some Europeans and certain people in Washington pushing for various military options, and a broad group led by Russia and China, but also including many in the region, calling for diplomatic solutions to the crisis.
Riad al Khouri, a Jordanian political economist who lives and works in the Middle East, is a strategic adviser to the

William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

To read more: http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDet...z1z5AnQ96f

**Baldrick**

Hamas member killed in Syria, Mossad accused
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-...z1z591mTKo

Dunno about this one....

**Baldrick**

13:09 An explosion hit the car park of the Justice Palace in Al-Marja in central Damascus, AFP reported.

To read more: http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDet...z1z5BXtH1c

**Baldrick**

Clinton to attend emergency Syria meeting amid fresh killing
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/28/world/...?hpt=hp_t1

**Baldrick**

The Syrian opposition said it will not join the interim government before President Bashar al-Assad quitted, AFP reported.

To read more: http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDet...z1z5CdV4Jy

**Baldrick** · (This post was last modified: 06-28-2012 11:26 PM by Baldrick.)

Syria The Real Story

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla...fcGnaseE#!

Watch this.......

Does anyone know how to post an embedded vid?