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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Qaida Linked to Syrian Intelligence: Dissident Army Chief
2012-05-14
[An Nahar] The head of the dissident Free Syrian Army charged in remarks published Sunday that al-Qaeda has links with the powerful airforce intelligence of the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor...
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"If al-Qaeda beturbanned goons have indeed entered the country, it happened with the cooperation of that agency," FSA chief, Colonel Riyadh al-Asaad, told Kuwait's Al-Rai newspaper.

He also held the Syrian regime responsible for Thursday's twin suicide kabooms in Damascus
...The place where Pencilneck hangs his brass hat...
that killed 55 people and maimed 372 and called for an international investigation.

"If the (U.S.) information that al-Qaeda had entered Syria is accurate, the regime alone is responsible for their entry. We know that the al-Qaeda beturbanned goons are linked to the Syrian airforce intelligence," Asaad said.

Asaad also denied claims by Damascus that jihadist and Salafi groups were active in Syria.

Al-Nusra Front, an Islamist group unknown before the Syrian revolt, released a video on Saturday claiming responsibility for the attacks as Dire Revenge™ for regime bombing of residential areas in several parts of the country.

But claims by the group, including for past bombings, have been hard to verify.

The main opposition coalition, the Syrian National Council, has accused the authorities of resorting to "terrorism" itself in a bid to torpedo a peace plan drafted by U.N. and Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
envoy Kofi Annan
...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo...
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Asaad stressed that the FSA has so far complied with the plan whereas the regime has committed scores of violations. He said he believes the plan has failed and called for not taking a long time to announce its failure.
Posted by:Fred

#1  See also DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > ISRAEL FEARS ASSAD FALL MAY BRING AL-QAEDA TO GOLAN, i.e. the strategic Golan Heights which will only add to Israel's growing headaches vee the post-Mubarak SINAI [Egypt] - JORDAN???

Israel's biggest single fear ala Syria Crisis is the security of its northern borders.

* TOPIX, WORLD NEWS > IRAN: US IS READY/
PREPARING TO ABANDON ISRAEL, despite POTUS Bammer's + Admin's rhetoric to the contrary???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-05-14 22:49  

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