| Submit your comments on this article |
| Europe |
| Nato 'to back Turkey' over Syria |
| 2012-12-04 |
| Nato is set to approve the deployment of Patriot missile interceptors to defend Turkey's border with Syria. A meeting of the 28-member alliance's foreign ministers in Brussels follows a request from Turkey to boost its defences along the border. Nato officials have made clear such a move would be purely defensive. Earlier, US President Barack Obama warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad he would face "consequences" if he uses chemical weapons against his people. "The world is watching. The use of chemical weapons is and would be totally unacceptable," said Mr Obama in a speech at the National Defense University in Washington. "If you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons there will be consequences and you will be held accountable." A Syrian official has insisted it would "never, under any circumstances" use such weapons, "if such weapons exist". |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #6 The Turks are a bunch of sooks. A few mortars lob over their border and they run to NATO including the US. Not a word about Turkey running weapons and rebels into Syria. When the shoe is on the other foot, and they are being targeted from the Kurdish region of Iraq, they go in with all guns blazing. Over 300 Kurds killed in the last few years from incursions but mainly from the air. |
| Posted by: tipper 2012-12-04 11:17 |
| #5 Beats Turks being behind one. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-12-04 09:04 |
| #4 I don't think Ambassor Stevens has seen chemical weapons or was giving them to Syria "rebels". All those plots just to get NATO on board to attack Assad? Assad doesn't need help to look bad in the eyes of NATO. He won't even speak to the west, so all this conspiracy about Assad is a nice guy who's being frame, mostly preach by the Russians, is just too obvious. |
| Posted by: Large Darling of the Antelope3345 2012-12-04 07:44 |
| #3 Don't feed the trolls, phil_b. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-12-04 04:41 |
| #2 Assad goes down and the Iranians who are the best organized for the aftermath inside Syria are the best prepared to scoop up the country Nope. You need to sort your Sunni from your Shiia. What will happen when Assad goes is the battlefront will shift to the Sunni to Shiia and Kurd fronts. Which means major conflict in Iraq. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2012-12-04 04:39 |
| #1 Didn't Ambassador Stevens in Libya ship Chemical gas to the "rebels" ( he never did that? Guess again.) who are part Iranian Shias and alQaeda who will kill anybody for a whole spectrum of amusement and gain? What would stop these Shias from gassing some Sunni suburb in Damascus ( killing their own people in effect ) to get NATO to wade into Assad when the rebels blame the Regime for the gas ( and who is to know it was Ambassador Stevens gift to the "resistance ?) Assad goes down and the Iranians who are the best organized for the aftermath inside Syria are the best prepared to scoop up the country and show NATO the ass. The Russians get blamed for supporting a guy who used gas on his own people and Ambassador Stevens shipped a boatload of stuff from Libya. That's why he was stripped to his shorts and duct taped and taken down the alley to have a bullet put in his head. The gas was on the way and NATO is conned so the Iranians can eat Lunch at the Damascus statehouse and Assad never makes it to the airport. ( the resistance does have the airport now, don't they?) Go look out the window. |
| Posted by: Threater Flusoper9823 2012-12-04 03:36 |