Libya's embattled leader Muammar Gaddafi is "gravely ill" according to unnamed Libyan and foreign sources cited by pan-Arab daily 'Asharq al-Awasat'. The sources did not provide further details of his medical condition.
Pray for sepsis...
The rebel Transitional National Council said medical reports had confirmed Gaddafi had a serious illness. The TNC said on Tuesday it would achieve victory against Gaddafi within a month.
According to Asharq al-Awsat, Gaddafi's worsening health prompted him to send the head of his office to Mali and to the Tunisian island of Djerba to meet French and British representatives in a bid to secure his and his family's safety.
Rebels claim to be advancing on Gaddafi's stronghold, the Libyan capital Tripoli as the bloody civil war against forces loyal to Gaddafi enters its six month and the Nato-led mission to protect civilians and enforce a no-fly zone over the country continues.
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The WH says Uncle Muammar will be out of power by this EOM August 2011???
Ala TOPIX + NEWS KERALA > The Brits have already said or inferred it - iff the Libyuhn Rebels fail to dislodge Uncle Muammar from ruling power, he will likely stay in same unless his INNER CIRCLE abandons = kills? him.
IMO the Muslim Brotherhood + aligned in EGYPT are deliberat refraining from more active roles in post-Mubarak, Constitutionally-mandated Egyptian elex because they want to see iff Uncle Muammar + Regime will survive or fall.
DITTO as per the AQIM - the fall or collapse of the Gaddafi Govt essentially means RADICAL ISLAM WILL LIKELY COME TO DOMINATE ALL OF MUSLIM NORTH AFRICA, + PERHAPS BULK OF CONTESTED CENTRAL AFRICA [Somalia/East Africa => Westward].
MORE IMPORTANTLY, RADICAL ISLAMIST DOMINATION IFF NOT PER SE SOVEREIGN POLITICAL CONTROL OF MOST OR ALL REGIONAL CIVILIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAMS [Energy] FOR LT CONVERSION INTO MILITARY-ORIENTED NUCLEAR PROGRAMS [Strategic Nuclear Arsenals, Asymmetric = Proxy Nuclear Militancy-Terror].
[Emirates 24/7] The launch of a Scud missile on rebel positions in Libya by forces loyal to Moamer Qadaffy ...Proof that a madman with money will be politely received... represents a "desperate gesture" by the regime in the face of territorial gains by the opposition, a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... front man said on Tuesday.
The unguided short-range, surface-to-surface weapon "of Scud type" was fired from some 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of the Qadaffy -loyal stronghold of Syrte, Canadian colonel Roland Lavoie told a news conference relayed by video from campaign headquarters in Naples, southern Italia.
It landed about five kilometres east of rebel-held territory near Brega, in "an area currently under the control of anti-Qadaffy forces," but did not leave any victims, Lavoie spelled out.
"The use of such missiles presents a direct threat to innocent people," Lavoie said.
He labelled the missile "a weapon of terror," and said its use "against an urban or industrial area is utterly irresponsible."
Questioned further, he said that such firing amounted to little more than "desperate gestures" comparable to "throwing dishes against a wall: it makes a lot of noise, but that's all."
While Lavoie said forces loyal to Qadaffy were retreating "often hurriedly," he also admitted that NATO's Libya mission eremains "far from over."
UN Security Council Resolution 1973 authorised NATO in March to defend Libya's civilian population from attacks by Qadaffy's regime, which faces a popular revolt after 42 years in power.
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Someone tell Uncle Muammar the launch per se IMO wasn't very impressive [wobbly].
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"Desperate gesture" or deliberate attempt to keep the damn things from falling into radical Islamic hands. Either way, a win. I beleive the Palindaba Nuclear Facility was shut down prior to a radical transitional government arrived as well. All things considered, a very wise move.
[Emirates 24/7] Libya's rebels said on Tuesday their war against Moamer Qadaffy's ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland... regime had entered a "decisive phase" and that victory was possible by the end of the month.
That confident claim was echoed by the country's exiled crown prince, and came after Washington said the "days are numbered" for veteran strongman Moamer Qadaffy's regime.
As the chorus grew, fighting raged across Libya, with the rebels denying they were in talks with a defiant Qadaffy, who predicted a swift victory against both the rebels and NATO. ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization....
Mansur Saif Al Nasr, the rebel National Transitional Council's envoy to Gay Paree, said "our forces totally control Zawiyah (to the west of the capital), which will open the way to Tripoli. This will allow the population there to revolt,"
"We are entering a decisive phase. Soon we will liberate all of southern Libya. We hope to celebrate the final victory at the same time as the end of Ramadan" on or around August 31, he told RFI radio.
Zawiyah is a vital oil port on Libya's Mediterranean coast, 40 kilometres (25 miles) west of Tripoli. Rebels claimed Monday to control "most" of the town, but Qadaffy's loyalist forces continued to bombard the area with Grad rockets. ...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km....
Six Grad missiles hit Zawiyah, sparking a fierce heavy artillery exchange that caused an unknown number of casualties.
In a report Tuesday on its operations a day earlier, NATO said it had hit tanks and an armed vehicle near Zawiyah.
In western Libya, Qadaffy forces shelled the centre of Zawiyah on Monday hours after rebels claimed they had seized most of the strategic port, an AFP news hound said.
Abdulsalam Othman, front man for the rebel western military council, said on Monday that both towns were in rebel hands, as well as the 15-kilometre stretch of road linking Sorman to Zawiyah, which he said meant that Tripoli's supply lines from Tunisia were severed.
Qadaffy front man Mussa Ibrahim denied the rebel claims, saying regime forces were in "total control" of Zawiyah, and that the bad turban presence was "very weak."
And he said it was actually government troops that had cut the highway leading to Tunisia to "protect people."
The rebels also claimed to have wrested control of the town of Sorman, 60 kilometres west of Tripoli, and Garyan, 50 kilometres to the south.
Ibrahim said government forces had already retaken Sorman and would "soon retake Garyan."
He also said government forces had repulsed a major rebel attack coordinated with NATO on Tiji, in the Nafusa Mountains south of Tripoli, and that 40 prisoners had been taken.
On the eastern front, rebels battled loyalist forces around oil installations on Monday in the town of Brega, where the rebels have seized rows of seaside apartment blocks that once housed oil workers.
After a week of street-by-street combat, Brega was like a ghost town.
Under the shade of trees lay the bombed out carcass of a rocket-launching battery, its tubes still aimed at the old rebel lines.
In an alleyway were the remains of a destroyed loyalist vehicle. Nearby, young fighters with long beards and wearing keffiyehs took a few minutes rest on the veranda of a house, greeting visitors with Allah Akbar (God is greatest.)
Four-by-four vehicles full of rebels could be seen heading to the fighting in an industrial area to the west, from which heavy smoke rose, meeting ambulances, sirens screaming, heading for a first-aid station.
NATO said it had hit four multiple rocket launchers in the vicinity of Brega.
On Monday, sources close to the Tunisian security services reported talks had taken place on the island of Djerba, near the Libyan border.
The reports of rebel-regime negotiations sparked a swift denial from Benghazi, the insurgency's stronghold in eastern Libya.
"There are no negotiations or talks between the Qadaffy regime and the NTC in Tunisia or anywhere else," NTC Vice Chairman Abdel Hafiz Ghoga said.
The United States expressed optimism that the rebels were closing in on Qadaffy, who has ruled for more than 40 years, with White House front man Jay Carney saying the increasingly isolated strongman's "days are numbered."
And Prince Mohammed el-Senussi said in a message to Libyans marking six months since the uprising began, that if his country's rebels keep their unity and resolve, Qadaffy will be toppled from power "sooner rather than later."
A defiant Qadaffy denied widespread rumours he had decamped the country and predicted victory.
"The end of the coloniser (NATO) is close and the end of the rats is close. They (the rebels) flee from one house to another before the masses who are chasing them," Qadaffy declared in an audio message on Libyan television.
He called on his supporters to "prepare for the battle to liberate" the rest of the country.
The Libyan regime has denied it is in danger, insisting that its forces can retake towns and districts captured by the rebels in recent days.
"Our mujahedeen forces are capable of exterminating these gangs," Ibrahim said in Tripoli.
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Nearby, young fighters with long beards and wearing keffiyehs took a few minutes rest on the veranda of a house, greeting visitors with Allah Akbar.
[An Nahar] South Korea and the United States launched a massive joint military exercise on Tuesday, prompting the North to condemn the maneuvers as provocative and warn that "all-out war" could erupt.
The two allies have described the 10-day Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercise as defensive and routine but the North habitually terms such joint drills a rehearsal for invasion and launches its own counter-exercises.
"The exercise started this morning," a front man of the U.S.-South Korea Combined Forces Command (CFC) told Agence La Belle France Presse, referring to the annual computer-assisted simulation command-post exercise.
All of CFC's major units are taking part, involving more than 530,000 troops, including some 3,000 military personnel from the United States and other bases around the Pacific region, CFC said.
U.S. General James D. Thurman, Combined Forces Command Commander, said the drill was focused on "preparing, preventing and prevailing against the full range of current and future external threats" to South Korea and the region.
"We are applying lessons learned out of Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as those garnered by the Alliance's recent experiences with North Korean provocations on the peninsula and past exercises," he said.
Pyongyang condemned the exercise as "extremely provocative", calling it a preparation for an "all-out war" against the North and the "largest-ever nuclear war exercise".
"The Korean peninsula is faced with the worst crisis ever. An all-out war can be triggered by any accidents," the North's ruling communist party newspaper Rodong Sinmun said in a commentary.
Seoul and Washington wanted to use the latest exercises to build up their capability to mount surprise attacks on the North's nuclear and missile facilities, it said.
"The U.S. war-mongers are planning to carry out a realistic war drill to remove our nuclear facilities with a mobile unit led by the U.S. 20th Support Command which was sent to Iraq to find and disable weapons of mass destruction," it said.
"Our military and the people will not sit idle as U.S. imperialists mobilize massive military forces and threaten our sovereign rights."
It accused the United States of seeking to bring war to the Korean peninsula after Afghanistan and Iraq as a way to "extricate itself from its worsening economic crisis".
The CFC front man said that during the exercise, troops would train for a "wide variety of missions including those involving the location and security of chemical, biological, nuclear and radiological threats".
Professor Yang Moo-Jin, of the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul, said the North was unlikely to escalate tensions despite its criticism of the exercise, one of two annual Korean peninsula-wide drills by the CFC.
"The North is unlikely to raise tension at a time when diplomatic efforts are underway to resume dialogue" even though the North's Tuesday statement is strongly-worded, Yang told AFP.
The North's military urged Seoul and Washington last week to show their willingness to work towards denuclearization by scrapping the exercise.
In an open letter published by its official news media, Pyongyang also called for a peace-keeping mechanism to replace the current armistice that ended the 1950-1953 war.
A flurry of diplomatic efforts have been under way to resume stalled six-party disarmament talks involving the two Koreas, Russia, China, Japan and the United States.
Senior Pyongyang officials met their counterparts in Seoul and Washington last month, raising hopes that the talks -- last held in December 2008 -- could resume.
The North has repeatedly expressed a desire to return to the forum, but the United States has urged it to show more sincerity and mend ties with the South first.
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kimmy smoking too much of one of the products his ambassadors sell?
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fu8k u mister kim. War will b bad 4 u. In a big way. u wud die. So I'll be biting the wax tadpole while u starve in the dark.
ION SIASAT DAILY > ZAWAHIRI URGES MUSLIM BORTHERS ["everywhere"] TO "HUNT DOWN" US, i.e. to continue targeting the now "staggering" USoA + get revenge for Osama.
* PEOPLES DAILY FORUM > OBAMA WARNS OF THREAT OF "LONE WOLF" [terror = e.g. Norway] ATTACKS, agz the USA as per upcoming 10th anniversary of 9-11.
versus
* DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > EX-YELTSIN AIDE [Gennady Burbulis] SAYS RUSSIA RISKS COLLAPSE, due to poor economy, declining freedoms, + lack of "universal" national/state modernization.
* SAME > IRAN LINKED TO 9-11 ATTACKS IN NEW US FEDERAL LAWSUIT [Manhattan, NYC].
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Oh really Kimmie? You think you would last more than a week against the South and the US? Meh, go ahead and try. We are tired of your temper tantrums. Put up or shut up kid.
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if the balloon ever goes up I hope the first missile takes out The Pueblo
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"We are applying lessons learned out of Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as those garnered by the Alliance's recent experiences with North Korean provocations on the peninsula and past exercises," he said.
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if the balloon ever goes up I hope the first missile takes out The Pueblo
I wouldn't risk much on the mission, but it would be sweet to liberate it on D +29.
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Then delouse it and make a BBQ joint out of it.
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I see, those lessons learned and apply them elsewhere, ok, carry on. A modified plan B, very good, it's hanging after the curve, surely no place for blame given the soft ROE's/political interference against a cult of depraved mesrismistatic aliens. Just bomb Mecca, and take the myth away, others will sit up and notice.
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TELEGRAPH.UK > NORTH KOREA SAYS KOREAN PENINSULA FACES "WORST CRISIS" [E-v-a-r!].
* WORLD NEWS > VARIOUS = [US-ROK]WAR GAMES PROMPTS NORTH KOREAN THREAT TO BEEF UP NUCLEAR ARSENAL, in terms of both Quality + Quantity.
Perhaps as indic by ...
* THAILAND > denotes INCREASING NUMBERS OF NORTH KOREAN REFUGEES = ILLEGALS FLEEING OER THE THAI BORDER TO ESCAPE WORSENING DPRK ECON CONDITIONS, ESPEC HUNGER.
Whetehr Kimmie + Regime admit it or not, the DPRK is at a DECISIVE EXISTENTIAL CROSSROADS as per IDEOLOGY [DPRK-specific brand of Communism-Socialism = "North Korea for North Koreans/
Koreans"], ECONOMY [Food, Jobs], + even SOVEREIGNTY.
Firearms illegally trafficked under the ATF's Fast and Furious program turned up at the scenes of at least 11 "violent crimes" in this country in addition to being involved in the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in southern Arizona last year, the Justice Department has acknowledged to Congress.
Although Justice did not provide any details about those crime scenes, it has been learned that the additional violent crimes occurred in cities such as Phoenix, where Operation Fast and Furious was managed, and as far away as El Paso, Texas, where a total of 42 Fast and Furious weapons were seized in two separate crimes.
The new numbers, which vastly broaden the scope of the danger the program posed to U.S. citizens over a 14-month period, are contained in a letter Justice Department officials turned over last month to Senate Judiciary Committee members. Money quote coming up
In the letter, obtained Tuesday by The Times, Justice officials also reported that ATF Acting Director Kenneth Melson "likely became aware" of Fast and Furious as early as December 2009, a month after the program began, and not after January of this year, as he had said. The July 22 letter was signed by Assistant Atty. Gen. Ronald Weich and sent to Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the top members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. It was in response to questions posed to the Justice Department about Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder and Fast and Furious.
Justice officials were asked how many "violent crime" scenes turned up more Fast and Furious weapons besides the two semiautomatics found after Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry's slaying last December.
They responded that while the "ATF does not have complete information" on the whereabouts of all the lost guns, "it is our understanding that ATF is aware of 11 instances" where a Fast and Furious firearm "was recovered in connection with a crime of violence in the United States."
A senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday described as "inconceivable" a Justice Department decision to promote key Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) personnel who oversaw the controversial "Fast and Furious" weapons investigation that allowed hundreds of guns to be walked into Mexico to new positions in Washington.
Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, who last week demanded that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. immediately brief his office regarding the "scope and details of any past or present ATF gun-walking programs" in his state, said until Mr. Holder and the department "come clean" on the gun-walking investigation, "it is inconceivable to reward those who spearheaded this disastrous operation with cushy desks in Washington."
The ATF has promoted three key supervisors of a controversial sting operation that allowed firearms to be illegally trafficked across the U.S. border into Mexico.
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OPERATION FAST-N-FURIOUS > IMO should be held up as a good example of how an original well-intentioned schema could go horribly wrong due to poor oversight, nepotism, + politicization, + end up EMPOWERING THE BAD GUYS TO ONE'S OWN DETRIMENT, TO THE POINT OF SERIOUSLY THREATENING OR COMPROMISING BOTH INTEGRITY + CREDIBILITY.
GOOD GUYS = CRIMINALS + ABUSERS, BAD GUYS = VICTIMS + HEROES???
The threat comes from Umar al-Basrawi, a frequent contributor to a major Islamic jihadist forum, whose most recent online post asks American Muslims to “cut the tongue of this lowly Jew and shut it forever," according to the SITE Intelligence Group, a private company that monitors online jihadist traffic.
Apparently, Basrawi didn't appreciate a joke that Letterman, who is not Jewish, made about late al-Qaida bigwig Ilyas Kashmiri, a senior al-Qaida leader reportedly killed in an airstrike, and his former boss, Osama bin Laden.
"He said that Kashmiri was killed in an airstrike in Pakistan (the news was not yet reported about the leading mujahideen, and Allah knows best)," the message said. "Then, he showed his evil nature and deep hatred for Islam and Muslims, and said that Ilyas Kashmiri was killed and he joined bin Laden. Then the despicable one put his hand on his neck and demonstrated the way of slaughter!! Meaning that the Americans slaughtered Mullah Ilyas Kashmiri (we ask Allah to protect him), just as they slaughtered before him Sheikh Usama bin Laden (may Allah have mercy on him).
"We ask Allah to paralyze his tongue and grant the sincere monotheists his neck. O Allah, amen."
A spokesman for Letterman declined to respond to the jihadist's threat.
[An Nahar] Hizbullah and the Progressive Socialist Party denied on Tuesday local and Arab media reports that the latter had deployed security and military units in some areas of Mount Leb aimed at destabilizing the ties between the two parties.
They said in a statement: "The relations between the two sides are well and they are seeking to bolster them through constant consultation and coordination."
"They are also seeking to tackle political issues responsibly out of their keenness on Leb's stability," it added.
Media reports stated on Tuesday that festivities broke out between the PSP and Hizbullah in the Choueifat, Deir Qoubel, and Aramoun areas.
The festivities were provoked by Hizbullah after it allegedly deployed rocket launchers in the predominantly Druze area of Aley, said the Kuwaiti al-Anbaa newspaper on Tuesday.
It was later revealed that the launchers belonged to Paleostinian factions affiliated with Syria.
These alleged festivities were brought up during a meeting between Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Transportation and Public Works Minister Ghazi Aridi over the weekend, it reported.
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"They iz just up there on vacation, don't you see. Mount Leb has some wonnerful areas were they can play kickball, roast goats and beat their wimmin folk."
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[An Nahar] Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's liquidation. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. condemned on Tuesday Iran's position on the Special Tribunal for Leb, noting that it is "exactly" like Hizbullah's.
He said in a statement: "The Iranian position is an integral part of a policy aimed at limiting the STL's work and preventing justice from being achieved."
"Iran's position falls in line with political and media accusations directed against it that it is covering up liquidations," he stressed.
"Everyone in the world knows that there are no limits to the cooperation between Hizbullah and Iran and the latter's position on the STL presents a new example of the complete integration between the two sides," Hariri remarked.
"Despite all this, we hope that Iran would not go so far as to harbor suspects wanted by international justice," he added.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Iranian foreign ministry slammed as "illegitimate" allegations about Tehran's involvement in former Premier Rafik Hariri's liquidation.
The STL that functions based on political objectives has no legal value, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said.
The tribunal is investigating Iran's possible involvement in the Feb. 2005 bombing that killed Hariri and 22 others, the German Der Spiegel magazine reported on Monday.
The report said there is evidence that links Iran with the murder of Hariri.
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[An Nahar] The Iranian foreign ministry slammed on Tuesday as "illegitimate" allegations about Tehran's involvement in former Premier Rafik Hariri's liquidation.
"We believe that reports on Rafik Hariri and his tribunal are in line with the international smear campaign and seek particular political goals," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said.
He accused the West of seeking to "show Iran had been involved in the issue."
The Special Tribunal for Leb is investigating Iran's possible involvement in the Feb. 2005 bombing that killed Hariri and 22 others, the German Der Spiegel magazine reported on Monday.
The report said there is evidence that links Iran with the murder of Hariri.
The STL that functions based on political objectives has no legal value, Mehmanparast said.
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[An Nahar] Iran sees no justification for any Western intervention in the "internal affair" of its regional Arab ally Syria, foreign ministry front man Ramin Mehmanparast said on Tuesday.
"The events in Syria are its internal affair and there is no justification for any foreign intervention as it can only create many problems," Mehmanparast said during his weekly press briefing.
"Western leaders, especially Americans, are used to interfering in the internal affairs of countries and using any pretext to march with their military forces and occupy the country," he added.
Mehmanparast also warned that any intervention by Washington, Tehran's archfoe, will only stoke "public hatred" of the United States in the region.
Syria has repeatedly said it is battling "armed terrorist gangs" -- a claim denied by rights groups who say a crackdown by the regime on a popular revolt has killed 1,827 civilians since mid-March, while 416 security forces also died.
The United States is leading Western nations in mounting pressure on Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... , saying that President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... has lost his legitimacy and that his people "would be better off without him."
Several regional countries, including Turkey, Soddy Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan, have also denounced the crackdown on Syrian protesters.
Mehmanparast called on neighboring countries to assist in "bringing stability to the region and resolving, through appropriate channels, the problems between the Syrian government and people who have claims."
Iran has been cautious in its stance on the anti-regime protests in Syria, in contrast to its vocal support for uprisings that have swept the Arab world. In July, President Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad condemned the United States for "meddling" in Syria.
Tehran has said the foreign media publishes exaggerated reports on events in Syria.
Washington, the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and Syrian opposition groups have accused Tehran of helping Syrian security forces put down the uprising, a claim vehemently denied by Iran.
For its part, Iran has accused Israel and the United States of trying to undermine Syria.
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* TOPIX > IRAN: ISRAEL TO DEPLOY DRONES IN NORTH IRAG [Kurdish Autonomous Region], wid the alleged consent + approval of the Kurds but not the main IGA???
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