Syrie, ce que les médias ne vous disent pas

Notes sur un gaullisme postmoderne 16 mars 2013 – Nous avouons avoir été épouvanté… Un excellent ami de dedefensa.org, fort bien au courant des choses de la politique européenne, rarement en désaccord avec ce que nous écrivons, nous disant soudain : “C’est affreux à dire mais, finalement, j’en arrive presque à regretter Sarkozy…” Dieu sait s’il avait furieusement jugé Sarko, comme un être bas, d’une pauvreté rare, absolument déstructurant et dissolvant, lui-même Sarko complètement démantibulé jusqu’à son agitation physique à force d’ignorer la force structurante des principes… Mais ce qui est le plus épouvantable, c’est ceci : nous avons dû convenir que, eh bien oui, après tout l’“excellent ami” n’avait peut-être pas tout à fait tort. En effet, il ajouta : “Au moins, avec lui, on ne s’ennuyait pas”. Cela dit, parlons d’autre chose. Mais quelle mouche les pique ? La théorie des trois souverainetés Tenons-nous en pour l’instant aux arguments officiels. Application opérationnelle de la théorie des trois souverainetés ...

Jabhat al-Nusra en Syrie : une menace “globale” Jabhat al-Nusra en Syrie : une menace “globale” On signale ici, avec un extrait conséquent, un texte de Bruce Riedel, dans Al Monitor du 8 avril 2013. Riedel est le directeur du programme Intelligence Project, de la Brookings Institution. En raison de la position de la Brookings à Washington, comme l’une des courroies de transmission institutionnalisée importante de la communication du Système dont dépend le système de l’américanisme, on peut considérer qu’il s’agit d’un texte exprimant d’une façon générale mais officieuse l’appréciation fondamentale de l'establishment washingtonien du sujet traité. Ce sujet est, d’une façon détaillée et précise, une sorte d’anatomie complète, dans sa dimension historique, structurelle, opérationnelle, et dans ses buts, de l’organisation islamiste principale opérant en Syrie. Bien entendu, surgit aussitôt la remarque que ce groupe s’est développé grâce à l’action générale, hystérique, sans la moindre nuance, des USA et du bloc BAO contre Assad.

PIPES: The argument for Assad Analysts agree that the erosion of the Syrian regime’s capabilities is accelerating, that it continues to retreat, making a rebel breakthrough and an Islamist victory increasingly likely. In response, I am changing my policy recommendation from neutrality to something that causes me, as a humanitarian and decades-long foe of the Assad dynasty, to pause before writing: Western governments should support the malign dictatorship of Bashar Assad. Here is my logic for this reluctant suggestion: Evil forces pose less danger to us when they make war on each other. This keeps them focused locally, and it prevents either one from emerging victorious and thereby posing a greater danger. Western powers should guide enemies to a stalemate by helping whichever side is losing, so as to prolong their conflict.This policy has precedent. The Iraq-Iran war of 1980-88 created a similar situation. Applying this same logic to Syria today finds notable parallels. Yes, Mr. On the happy day when Mr.

Obama Sends More Troops To Jordan, Preparing For "Stability Operations" In Syria Fresh from his humiliating defeat in the Senate to promote his pacifist gun-control agenda yesterday, in the name of the "90%" of course (who apparently need to pick their senatorial representative just a little more effectively), the Nobel Peace Prize winner has decided that guns just may be the right answer when it comes to promoting peace, or least his agenda abroad. WaPo reports that the Obama administration has ordered additional U.S. troops to Jordan for possible chemical weapons control, humanitarian response or “stability operations” in Syria. "The new troops, a headquarters element of the 1st Armored Division based at Fort Bliss, Tex., will not greatly increase the number of U.S. forces in Jordan. So just your ordinary garden variety, vanilla regiment of heavily-armed US troops making landfall in a foreign sovereign which would prefer to have no US presence at all, but who cares what they think. But in case we do, here is the WaPo: Translated: Russia continue to just say niet.

Robert Fisk et l’armée syrienne J’ignore si Robert Fisk est le seul journaliste occidental à avoir été autorisé à être au contact des troupes syriennes, mais ses articles nous donnent une bonne indication sur le moral de l’armée gouvernementale syrienne. Et le moral de l’armée syrienne est bon selon ce que rapporte un Robert Fisk qui n’en est pas pour autant tombé en amour avec le régime syrien. L’article est très parlant, alors je ne vais pas le commenter, sauf pour dire qu’il est aussi supposé illustrer le thèse selon laquelle la crise syrienne sonnerait le glas de l’omnipotence des services secrets au profit d’une armée en quelque sorte citoyenne, soucieuse d’assurer une transition ordonnée vers un système de gouvernement plus ouvert sous l’égide au moins provisoire de l’actuel chef de l’Etat. Ceci bien sûr dans l’hypothèse où le président Bachar al-Assad l’emporterait définitivement sur l’opposition armée. Il se pourrait qu’ils se battent pour la Syrie, pas pour Assad. Reportage de Robert Fisk en Syrie Char T 55

They may be fighting for Syria, not Assad. They may also be winning: Robert Fisk reports from inside Syria - Middle East - World Rain has only just replaced snow, turning this heavily protected fortress into a swamp of mud and stagnant ponds where soldiers man their lookout posts with the wind in their faces, their elderly T-55 tanks – the old Warsaw Pact battlehorses of the 1950s – dripping under the showers, their tracks in the mud, used now only as artillery pieces. They are “rubbish tanks” – debeba khurda – I say to Colonel Mohamed, commander of the Syrian army’s Special Forces unit across this bleak landscape, and he grins at me. “We use them for static defence,” he says frankly. ‘They do not move.’” Before the war – or “the crisis” as President Bashar al-Assad’s soldiers are constrained to call it – Jebel al-Kawaniah was a television transmission station. On their maps, the Syrian army codenamed “Kawaniah Mountain” according to their own military co-ordinates. It is always an eerie experience to sit among Bashar al-Assad’s soldiers. “I know, but we are fighting Israel. I doubt if they had the chance.

Syria and sarin gas: US claims have a very familiar ring - Middle East - World Then good ol' Chuck returns to Washington and tells the world that "this is serious business. We need all the facts." The White House tells Congress that US intelligence agencies, presumably the same as Israeli intelligence agencies since the two usually waffle in tandem, have "varying degrees of confidence" in the assessment. But Senator Dianne Feinstein, chairman of the Senate intelligence committee – she who managed to defend Israel's actions in 1996 after it massacred 105 civilians, mostly children, at Qana in Lebanon – announces of Syria that "it is clear that red lines have been crossed and action must be taken to prevent larger-scale use". And the oldest of current White House clichés – hitherto used exclusively on Iran's probable/possible development of nuclear weapons – is then deployed: "All options are on the table." In any normal society the red lights would now be flashing, especially in the world's newsrooms. CNN has no such inhibitions. But now for a few problems.

Syria: Israeli rockets pummel Damascus area In this photo provided by the anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center, Syrian men help survivors out of a building in Aleppo after it was bombed, allegedly by a Syrian regime warplane on Saturday, February 8. The United Nations estimates more than 100,000 people have been killed since the Syrian conflict began in March 2011. Click through to see the most compelling images taken during the conflict, which is now a civil war: Syrians gather at a site hit by barrel bombs, allegedly dropped by a regime helicopter on the opposition-controlled Mesekin Hananu district of Aleppo on February 8. Civilians wave national flags as they take part in a rally in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, in a handout photo released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency on February 8. A man stands next to debris in the road following a reported airstrike by Syrian government forces in the northern city of Aleppo on February 8. A man walks amid debris and dust on January 31.

Israël aurait bien mené un raid en Syrie contre des armes iraniennes Le Monde.fr avec AFP et Reuters | • Mis à jour le Selon un nouveau bilan de l'Observatoire syrien des droits de l'homme (OSDH), le raid israélien mené près de Damas a coûté la vie à 42 soldats et le sort d'une centaine d'autres reste inconnu. Les autorités syriennes n'ont pas encore donné de bilan officiel. Israël a ciblé des missiles iraniens destinés au Hezbollah dans des bâtiments au nord-ouest de la capitale syrienne – tout près du site où, fin janvier, l'aviation israélienne avait déjà frappé un convoi de camions transportant des armements entre la Syrie et le Liban. Selon un haut responsable israélien, un autre raid aérien a été mené vendredi matin près de l'aéroport de Damas, également contre des armes destinées au Hezbollah. L'attaque de vendredi aurait eu pour cible un entrepôt situé sur l'aéroport de Damas abritant des missiles sol-sol de fabrication iranienne Fateh-110 (dont la copie syrienne est le M-600). Lire : Gaz moutarde, sarin ou VX : des armes chimiques interdites

Mystery Sponsor Of Weapons And Money To Syrian Mercenary "Rebels" Revealed Previously, when looking at the real underlying national interests responsible for the deteriorating situation in Syria, which eventually may and/or will devolve into all out war with hundreds of thousands killed , we made it very clear that it was always and only about the gas, or gas pipelines to be exact, and specifically those involving the tiny but uber-wealthy state of Qatar. Needless to say, the official spin on events has no mention of this ulterior motive, and the popular, propaganda machine, especially from those powers supporting the Syrian "rebels" which include Israel, the US and the Arabian states tries to generate public and democratic support by portraying Assad as a brutal, chemical weapons-using dictator, in line with the tried and true script used once already in Iraq. From the FT : Just as Egypt and Libya had their CIA Western-funded mercenaries fighting the regime, so Qatar is paying for its own mercenary force. That, sadly, is not even close to half the story.

Syrian Rebels Tied to Al Qaeda Play Key Role in War Money flows to the group, the Nusra Front, from like-minded donors abroad. Its fighters, a small minority of the rebels, have the boldness and skill to storm fortified positions and lead other battalions to capture military bases and oil fields. As their successes mount, they gather more weapons and attract more fighters. The group is a direct offshoot of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Iraqi officials and former Iraqi insurgents say, which has contributed veteran fighters and weapons. “This is just a simple way of returning the favor to our Syrian brothers that fought with us on the lands of ,” said a veteran of Al Qaeda in Iraq, who said he helped lead the Nusra Front’s efforts in . The United States, sensing that time may be running out for Syria’s president, , hopes to isolate the group to prevent it from inheriting Syria or fighting on after Mr. But blacklisting the Nusra Front could backfire. He added, “America just wants a pretext to intervene in Syrian affairs after the revolution.”

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