President says Shanghai Co-operation Organisation can play bigger role in troubled Afghanistan after US pullout.
The Shanghai Co-operation Organisation, or SCO, wants to play a bigger role in troubled Afghanistan, Hu Jintao, the Chinese president, has said on the first day of a two-day summit of the regional grouping in Beijing.
The bloc, consisting of China, Russia and Central Asian states - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan - is set to discuss the future of neighbour Afghanistan after NATO-led forces pull out in 2014.
"We will continue to manage regional affairs by ourselves, guarding against shocks from turbulence outside the region," Hu was quoted as saying in an interview with China's official People's Daily newspaper on Wednesday.
"We will play a bigger role in Afghanistan's peaceful reconstruction.
"We'll strengthen communication, co-ordination and co-operation in dealing with major international and regional issues."
However, Hu did not give details of how the SCO security grouping could play a bigger role in Afghanistan.
Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has been invited to attend the summit as a guest, and his country is due to be granted "observer" status, meaning it can attend meetings but not vote.
Karzai said in Beijing on Wednesday the two governments are preparing to sign a preliminary agreement about the "creation of a strategic partnership" between them.
Afghan officials earlier told Reuters news agency that China and Afghanistan will soon announce a plan to deepen ties, indicating China's desire to play a role beyond their economic partnership.
US officials have indicated China could play a bigger reconstruction role through aid and investment, but Beijing's trade with Afghanistan has remained scant.
In 2011, two-way trade was worth $234m, while Chinese imports from Afghanistan were worth just $4.4m, according to Chinese customs data.
Afghanistan's neighbours - Iran, Pakistan and India, who are also attending the summit as observers, have jostled for influence in the country.
BEIJING Central Asian states meeting in Beijing this week say they want a role in stabilizing Afghanistan after most U.S. combat troops leave at the end of 2014, with China's economic juggernaut leading the charge.
You don't have to wait for 2014. Come on in now and help us out. What? What's that? You're busy? Thought so...
The war-torn nation's future is expected to feature prominently in discussions by leaders of the six nations that make up the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The bloc, which includes China, Russia, and four Central Asian states, seeks closer security and economic ties among its members, most prominently through regular meetings and joint military exercises targeting separatists, religious extremists and drug traffickers.
In comments published Wednesday in the ruling Communist Party's flagship newspaper, the People's Daily, Chinese President Hu Jintao outlined a broad plan for the SCO's future role as the region's pre-eminent grouping, while firmly rejecting outside meddling.
"We will continue to follow the concept that regional affairs should be managed by countries in the region, that we should guard against shocks from turbulence outside the region, and should play a bigger role in Afghanistan's peaceful reconstruction," Hu said.
How they plan to do so remains a question. The SCO has yet to declare a unified strategy on Afghanistan and shows little sign of filling the void left by the withdrawal of U.S. and other foreign forces.
Couple hundred thousand PLA troops and PLA engagement rules would certainly 'pacify' the Pashtuns...
Member nations Russia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan are doing their part to ensure an orderly withdrawal, having agreed to allow the reverse transport of alliance equipment after Pakistan shut down southern supply routes six months ago.
The pullout will also prompt the end of military operations out of Kyrgyzstan's Manas air base, meeting China and Russia's oft-stated objections to a permanent U.S. presence in Central Asia.
While the SCO's security plans in Afghanistan remain unclear, economic outreach looks set to lead the way.
China which shares a small stretch of border with Afghanistan is the most dynamic economy in the region and its firms have already moved into Afghanistan. Kabul is hoping exploitation of its vast untapped mineral deposits will help offset the loss of revenue when foreign aid and spending drops with the withdrawal of international combat troops.
Don't worry, Karzai, the heroin trade is always there...
The U.S. Defense Department has put a $1 trillion price tag on Afghanistan's mineral reserves. Other estimates have pegged it at $3 trillion or more.
In December, China's state-owned National Petroleum Corp. signed a deal allowing it to become the first foreign company to exploit Afghanistan's oil and natural gas reserves. That comes three years after the China Metallurgical Construction Co. signed a contract to develop the Aynak copper mine in Logar province. Beijing's $3.5 billion stake in the mine is the largest foreign investment in Afghanistan.
China's government has also contributed substantial aid to Afghanistan over the past decade in the form training and equipment for some security units and government offices, infrastructure investment, and scholarships for Afghan students.
Russia, which lost nearly 15,000 troops in its disastrous 1979-1989 invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, appears keen to recover some of its lost influence there. Stemming the flow of heroin into Russia is a key concern to be met by increased intelligence work in the country and bolstered border security in surrounding states. Moscow also has offered generous assistance to rehabilitate Soviet-era dams and power stations and is exploring natural gas exploitation and infrastructure contracts putting it on a potential collision course with China.
Joint participation in the SCO might help paper over some of those differences, but practical cooperation remains elusive.
"China and Russia have no joint approach to Afghanistan. Cooperation is basically limited to a common political stance," said Zhao Huasheng, director of the Center for Russia and Central Asia Studies of Fudan University in Shanghai.
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[Tolo News] Security officials in Afghanistan's southern Uruzgan province say the Afghan forces are ready for the security transition from foreign troops, but have raised concerns over the lack of capable police in some parts of the province.
Provincial police chief Matiullah said that while the overall situation in the province has improved, he stressed that he may face major problems during the transition if there is not a substantial increase in the number of police across the mountainous regions of the province.
He also added that because Uruzgan is a big province, turban activity has more scope compared to other provinces in region.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... Matiullah said the Afghan and Isaf forces are launching regular operations to upset turban activity in the area and it does seem to be effective.
He noted that the Taliban appeared to be losing their ability to fight face to face with the Afghan cops, resorting to planting more bombs instead.
Uruzgan borders Zabul and Kandahar province, which also have high rates of turban activity.
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[Tolo News] NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... has signed a deal with Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan to remove evacuating vehicles and military equipment from Afghanistan.
The agreement will allow the military alliance to bypass Pakistain, which had blocked its supply routes from NATO entering Afghanistan after 24 Pak soldiers were killed last year in a NATO Arclight airstrike.
"We reached an agreement on reverse transit from Afghanistan with three Central Asian partners: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan,"
the NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said at a presser Monday.
"These agreements will give us a range of new options and the robust and flexible transport network we need," he said.
The NATO will begin troops withdrawal and equipment from Afghanistan later this year.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... the Washington continues talks to Pakistain to reopen routes blocked six months ago.
This deal means it can return equipment to Europe overland via Russia.
There are around 130,000 foreign forces in Afghanistan, 90,000 of which are US forces.
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Short of de facto Romney-led electoral defeat this coming November, everything right now is holding steady + good, NOT necessarily great, for the Bammer + Re-election Campaign going into Summer 2012.
Iff thingys or trends hold, the only Probs I can see to screw up the Bammer this Summer + November
is ...
* US BUDGET COLLAPSE ANDOR NEW US, GLOBAL RECESSION OR DEPRESSION.
* FAILURE OF IRAN NUCLEAR TALKS, i.e. as per the Maxima, Minima limits of uranium enrichment by Iran for purposes of NucEnergy only.
* UN, US-LED MIL INTERVENTION IN ASSADIAN SYRIA, as Iran desires to protect both its Ally + its strategic access to the Med widout need of Suez Canal [KSA side].
IRAN FEAR OF KSA SIDE OF SUEZ CANAL + RED SEA CHANNEL = SHIA IRAN DOESN'T FORESEE ANY IMMEDIATE OR NEAR-TERM TO ITS REGIONAL, OWG CALIPHATE RIVALRY WID HOUSE OF SAUD = SUNNI ISLAM???
* PAK GOVT. COLLAPSE, as a consequence of severe US $$$ cutback due to failure in US/NATO-PAK negotiations to reopen the closed NATO Supply Routes, leading to possible Indo-Pak War = ultimately devols into Indo-China War???
(Sh. M. Network) Somalia's Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... administration said on Tuesday that it will prevent any attacks from self-declared Somaliland forces on Puntland territory.
Speaking in a presser held in Bossaso, the commercial an coastal town in northeast of Somalia, Mohamed Sa'id Dabeyl the governor of Sanag province for Puntland said Somaliland navy forces still continue their aggressive attacks against the coastal region of Sanag.
Mr. Dabeyl also said they are ready (Putland) to take any necessary action to defend their soil from Somaliland troops and he urged to stop attacks against three dispute regions, Sool, Sanag and Cayn( SSC).
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George Galloway's Viva Palestina suffers setback after Egyptian authorities refuse to allow its aid convoy to enter Gaza. The British pro-Hamas Viva Palestina organization suffered a setback recently, when Egyptian authorities refused to allow the organization's aid convoy to enter Gaza. According to a report by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC), it was the sixth time that Viva Palestina failed to deliver aid to Gaza via Egypt.
Viva Palestina is headed by former British MP George Galloway, who was thrown out of the British caucus in 2003 after vocally opposing Britain's involvement in the war in Iraq.
Galloway, who openly supports the Hamas terrorist group, tried to lead a convoy of some 150 trucks with aid to Gaza through Egypt for the first time in 2010.
Egypt blocked the effort, insisting instead that aid to Gaza should be sent through recognized international channels. The group has tried several times since, the last time being in August of 2011.
ITIC said that Egypt's decision to prevent Viva Palestina's members from bringing the aid into Gaza is related to the bullying behavior of the convoy members during the first incident in January of 2010. During that attempt, Galloway and the others violently confronted the Egyptian security forces. He has since been declared persona non grata in Egypt.
According to ITIC, Galloway ultimately decided to move the aid through Syria. The report noted that Bashar Assad's regime allowed the convoy to move through, hoping to use it as a means of proving that the Syrian regime is a humanitarian one.
ITIC noted that Viva Palestina "works closely with the Muslim Brotherhood in Britain and with Hamas activists who live in Britain, as part of what is termed 'the red-green coalition' by the media."
Galloway was declared a security risk and was barred from entering Canada in 2009 for a speaking tour that was organized by the Toronto Coalition to Stop the War. He was later allowed entry to Canada and began a speaking tour across the country.
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ITIC said that Egypt's decision to prevent Viva Palestina's members from bringing the aid into Gaza is related to the bullying behavior of the convoy members during the first incident in January of 2010. During that attempt, Galloway and the others violently confronted the Egyptian security forces. He has since been declared persona non grata in Egypt.
Dear Mr Galloway was PNG-ed by Egypt for being rude and violent... and for all their talk of Arab brotherhood, the Egyotians loathe and despise the Gazans as lying little thieves.
[Yemen Post] The military committee on Monday started discussing a comprehensive strategy to restructure the Yemeni armed and security forces, which divided during the 2011 popular uprising, Saba reported.
The strategy, suggested by the higher military academy, calls for putting an immediate end to the division of the armed and security systems, armed conflicts and rebellion movements as well as imposing the rule of law across the country, according to Saba.
When the uprising escalated in early 2011, key military units defected to the mass anti-regime protests including the first armored division and since then they have been divided.
At a meeting, the committee, formed under a power-transfer deal reached in November on military affairs and maintaining security and stability, discussed visions to restructure and modernize the armed and security systems including those for re-stationing units according to a national, integrated strategy in line with the defense policy of the republic of Yemen, Saba said.
The discussion coincided with efforts by President Abdrabu Mansour Hadi to put an end to the rebellion of the third elite republican guard brigade. The commander of this brigade, Tariq Saleh, a nephew of ex-leader, has refused to give up his post under a presidential decree.
The international community, especially the ten countries sponsoring the transition deal, has expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... s about this brigade, which ex-president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... wants to guard him.
Saleh signed the deal, which saw him relinquish power after 33 years in office, in return for immunity from prosecution and half representation in the current power-sharing government.
The UN envoy to Yemen Jamal Benomar has led mediations to convince the commander to give up, but his attempts went in vein.
In the meantime, the committee plans to remove all security and armed disorders including roaming with guns in the country, especially in main cities, in five months, as the armed forces is continuing intensified battles against Al-Qaeda gunnies in the south.
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New Delhi -- Visiting US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta will on Wednesday hold a meeting with Defence Minister A K Antony where the two sides are expected to discuss the entire gamut of their strategic and military relationship and the situation in the Af-Pak region.
"During the meeting, the ongoing defence cooperation and regional security situation will figure prominently," the Defence Ministry said in a release.
China is also expected to figure in the discussions between the two countries, which have been increasing their military cooperation in the recent past. The Indian side is also expected to take up the issue of denial of dual-use items by the US to the laboratories under the DRDO. The issue has been discussed earlier at the meetings of the Defence Policy Group also where India has demanded that the definition of dual-use items should be reviewed by the US authorities.
To bolster bilateral defence ties and step up cooperation on Afghanistan, US defence secretary Leon Panetta arrived in India Tuesday on a two-day visit. What adds significance to Panetta visit is the United States eagerness to conclude two major military deals, and his own recent overtures about Chinas growing military assertiveness.
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DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > INDIA TURNS DOWN US PLANS TO COUNTER CHINA.
Shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, given Indjuh's Cold War history of being independent-minded vee US-USSR-China.
Speaking at Tel Aviv University, man whose lab discovered "Flame" virus says it is "just the beginning of the game."
Eugene Kaspersky, whose lab discovered the Flame virus that has attacked computers in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East, said on Wednesday only a global effort could stop a new era of "cyber terrorism".
"It's not cyber war, it's cyber terrorism and I'm afraid it's just the beginning of the game ... I'm afraid it will be the end of the world as we know it," Kaspersky told reporters at a Tel Aviv University cyber security conference.
"I'm scared, believe me," he said.
News of the Flame virus surfaced last week. Researchers said technical evidence suggests it was built for the same nation or nations that commissioned the Stuxnet worm that attacked Iran's nuclear program in 2010.
In recent months US officials have become more open about the work of the United States and Israel on Stuxnet, which targeted Iran's Natanz nuclear enrichment facility.
The West suspects Iran is developing atomic weapons. Tehran denies this, says it is enriching uranium only for civilian use.
Security experts say Flame is one of the most sophisticated pieces of malicious software so far discovered. They are still investigating the virus, which they believe was released specifically to infect computers in Iran and across the Middle East.
Kaspersky named the United States, Britain, Israel, China, Russia and possibly India, Japan and Romania as countries with the ability to develop such software, but stopped short of saying which nation he thought was behind Flame.
When asked whether Israel was part of the solution or part of the problem regarding cyber war, Kaspersky said: "Both."
"Flame is extremely complicated but I think many countries can do the same or very similar, even countries that don't have enough of the expertise at the moment. They can employ engineers or kidnap them, or employ 'hacktivists'," he said.
Kaspersky said governments must cooperate to stop such attacks, as they have done with nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. Operating systems must be redesigned, he added.
"Software that manages industrial systems or transportation or power grids or air traffic, they must be based on secure operating systems. Forget about Microsoft, Linux, Unix."
Kaspersky said malware like Flame and Stuxnet have a limited lifetime and said undiscovered viruses could be out there.
"It's quite logical that there are new cyber weapons designed and maybe there are computers which are infected."
Iran official to agree to resume stalled investigation of nuke program; Ahmadinejad to China: beware US "wolf" interference.
A senior Iranian official expressed hope on Wednesday that his country and the UN nuclear watchdog would soon be able to seal a framework agreement to resume a stalled investigation into Tehran's disputed atomic activities.
Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh spoke two days before he is due to meet senior UN nuclear agency officials in Vienna in an attempt to finalize the accord aimed at unblocking the agency's probe into suspected atomic bomb research in the Islamic state.
Western diplomats say they doubt that Iran, which they often accuse of seeking to buy time for its nuclear program, will implement any accord that it signs with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Vienna-based UN watchdog.
Iran denies Western allegations that its nuclear programme is a covert bid to develop the capability to make nuclear arms.
"We have decided to work with the agency ... to prove that those allegations ... are forged and fabricated. That is exactly what we are going to do," Soltanieh told reporters on the sidelines of a meeting of the IAEA's 35-nation board.
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The IAEA is going to let Iran go nuclear as long as they(the Iranians) promise to only make small ones and only fission weapons no fusion weapons, no no, nothing over 250 KT (sarcasism intended).
That's about all we can hope for. The IAEA has pissed away years diddling with Iran. They've written enough reports on Iran to fill Oyster Bay and they still haven't done anything.
The Iranians have no delivery system that can get the weapon far enough to do any damage without rendering huge areas of their own country uninhabitable. So tell me, what on earth do they want with a weapon of mass destruction that they cannot effectively deliver?
If they go nuclear, the first package will be in a lead lined ISO container headed straight for the US. They can't use it on Israel, the fallout would get the Iranians also and piss off every neighboring Arab ally they have.
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FYI DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US CIA'S ASSESSMENT OF PAKISTAN NUCLEAR PROGRAMME WERE TEN YEARS BEHIND ACTUAL STATUS.
Iran's???
versus
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS, DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > [NDTV] BOOK: US THOUGHT TALIBAN HAD NUCLEAR BOMB BACK IN 2009, as derived from knowingly "ambiguous" or subjective INTEL collected by the US from various sources. POTUS BAMMER WAS WORRIED ENOUGH TO SEND IN COVERT SEARCH-N-RECOVERY TEAMS TO VERIFY + LOCATE.
Iff correct, it shows that the US does recognize the threat of advanced Nuke-WMDS techs proliferating to the MilTerrs, A THREAT WHICH THE US = POTUS BAMMER MUST AGAIN CONSIDER AS PER TRUSTING IRAN TO NOT WEAPONIZE ITS NUCPROGS OR PROLIFERATE TO MILTERR GROUPS, ITS OWN PROXIES OR OTHER.
[An Nahar] The wives and daughters of Lebanese Shiite pilgrims kidnapped in northern Syria identified two of the kidnappers on Tuesday after seeing them in a report about the Free Syrian Army on television.
LBCI reported that several women, part of a group of pilgrims kidnapped in Syria and released without their male relatives, contacted it after seeing their kidnappers' faces on a Monday broadcast.
The report featured men who identified themselves as members of the FSA.
LBC said the women had claimed that "the men on the broadcast were the ones who kidnapped their men."
The women appeared on the channel Tuesday evening to confirm what they had said.
One of them identified the gunnies from the previous night's report, saying "this man went with us to the bus," and pointing out another man who was "carrying rocket launchers on his shoulder and blocked the road" for the bus.
"They told us when we boarded the bus: 'We are the Free (Syrian) Army. We do not want to hurt anyone. Some of our men are being held by the Syrian army and we want to exchange them for your men.'"
The kidnappers released the women and elderly men and kept 11 men in their custody.
The whereabouts and fate of those kidnapped is still unclear.
"When we said that the Free Syrian Army carried out the kidnapping it was denied. They cannot deny anymore. This video broadcast is the proof," the woman said.
"We hold the Free Syrian Army in Turkey and Syria responsible for the security of young people," she added.
"May God Almighty expose them (...) They have to release them immediately." The FSA has denied any involvement in the kidnapping that took place shortly after the pilgrims' bus cross the Turkish border into Syrian territory in the northern province of Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... "How could the kidnappers appear to the public and reveal themselves? Was it an intentional error," the woman asked.
Referring to the presence of the FSA members on Turkish soil, she demanded: "What is the responsibility of the Turkish state in this matter?"
A previously unknown gang calling itself the "Syrian Revolutionaries -- Aleppo Countryside" said last week it was holding a group of Lebanese Shiite pilgrims who went missing.
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[Iran Press TV] Press TV has conducted an interview with author and historian Webster Dr. Griffin Tarpley from Washington about the increase in terrorist numbers along Syria's border with Turkey and about the link the armed opposition of the Syrian National transitional Council has to the Bilderberg Group. The following is an approximate transcription of the interview.
Press TV: First of all, what do you make of this new front that has been launched in Turkey? It says it's recruited around 12,000 armed rebels to fight Damascus ...The place where Pencilneck hangs his brass hat... . That's quite precise wouldn't you say?
Tarpley: I think we are dealing with a proliferation of terrorist sects and it's the practice that we've seen. The Syrian National Council, made up of ex-patriots primarily, people who have their roots in the western world.
This is unstable and the fact that (Burhan) Ghalioun has not been able to hold on to power despite the advantages that would have given the Syrian National Council with their western owners and backers. I think that's very significant.
So here we have another group, maybe more bad turban, more terrorist-ic.
Let me point to one of the developments in the last couple of days though. We just had the Bilderberg-er meeting here at Chantilly, Virginia and I was on the scene to report this and one of the people we saw going out and one of the people whose name is on the official Bilderberg participant's list is a representative of the Syrian National Council.
Her name is Basma Kodmani; Basma Kodmani of the Syrian National Council or actually national block, is her most immediate address, was there. And that means she was hob-nobbing, according to most reports with Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, David Rockefeller, top European bankers like Ackerman of Deutsche Bank and representatives of the crown heads of Europe. I think this gives you a very good idea of what the nature of the Syrian National Council is.
This woman Basma Kodmani is a professor of international relations at the University of Gay Paree; she is also a prominent official of the Ford Foundation and the French National Research Council, the CNRS. So this kind of a person is the sort of individual that would be planning color revolutions, coups, destabilizations and so forth and you see her then coming with her black limousine along with these bankers, the Queen of the Netherlands was there, my heavens, the prince of Belgium was there - and she's rubbing noses with them.
So that shows you the top down support for the Syrian national council, but why some of these fighters, some of these for example veterans of Libyan civil war are not going to be too happy with them.
Press TV: Speaking of the Syrian National Council, it has been working behind the scenes disregarding the peace plan presented by Annan and its new head is a Kurd, which again raises the question of an autonomous Kurdish region in the Middle East spanning over Iraq, Turkey and Syria bowing to the will of the US.
Tarpley: Yes, of course. It underlines the utter folly, the incalculable irresponsibility and lack of insight of some of the Turkish leaders who have come so far down this road. It must be obvious to them that if they attacked Syria, there will be a general Kurdish uprising with the goal of creating a Kurdish an independent Kurdish state that will impinge not just on Turkey and Syria and Iraq and Iran, but may be even farther a field.
This would be an absolute disaster. The general impression I get is that the presence of this Basma Kodmani at the Bilderberg-er Group may indeed signal that some kind of a decision has been made, this coming after the Houla massacre of about a week ago that the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... block really is interested in starting some kind of a war.
Notice also that Susan Rice of the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... , the US representative to the UN, Susan Rice who was one of the most vicious of all the warmongers has now said if Russia and China maintain there current attitude and veto a war that it would be time to look for alternatives outside the UN Security Council.
That's 'Bush Speak' isn't it? That's the 'Coalition of the Willing' - that's illegal, aggression, violation of international law - except that this time given the sensitivity of Syria, the implications for this are incalculable, they're just frightening.
Press TV: It has been revealed that British SAS forces have been deployed on Syrian soil. Syria is no Libya though, so could Western aspirations play out the way that they have planned?
Tarpley: No I do not think so. In other words, they will not get this simple reduction of Syria to chaos in the way that has now been accomplished in Libya. The word from Libya today is that there is basically civil war fighting going on around Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of thich is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... international airport where I was about a year ago.
I don't think Syria is susceptible to that, but this could be as the Russian Foreign Ministry has been threatening for weeks it could be the beginning of a regional war, which as Medvedev said in St. Petersburg three weeks ago, could turn into a nuclear war.
So this is what the NATO madmen are playing with this weekend and that Bilderberg (group meeting) I think may emerge as a turning point.
Press TV: There have also been warnings of a full scale civil war erupting in Syria by the UN as well as China. With the way things are headed, how likely is that scenario?
Tarpley: Well, up until now there simply has not been a mass base for this and I am still very skeptical that there is a mass base for a civil war. If they want to claim civil war, let them show us the territory that the (NATO) death squads and their allies and fellow travelers control.
What do they control? Do they control Homs or do they control Daraa, do they control Idlib? I don't think they control any of those. So unless and until we see some territory under their control and the emergence of a kind of a fighting front, this is not a civil war. This remains what it was from the beginning... a cynical destabilization planned by people in the US State Department going back to the Salvadoran solution that the US began implementing in Iraq in 2006, 2007.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Yemen Post] The military committee on Monday started discussing a comprehensive strategy to restructure the Yemeni armed and security forces, which divided during the 2011 popular uprising, Saba reported. 
Press TV has conducted an interview with author and historian Webster Dr. 
