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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Talks Ongoing to Free 49 Turkish Officers Held in Syria
2012-02-08
[An Nahar] Syria and Turkey are negotiating the conditions for the release of 49 jugged Turkish intelligence officers, a radio station close to the government in 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...
said on Tuesday.

Sham FM said the officers had been jugged while operating undercover, although there has been no word from Ankara on any such arrests.

The radio said Syria had laid down three conditions for any release: an exchange of the Turkish officers for rebel Free Syrian Army members in Turkish territory, for Turkey to halt infiltrations by the FSA, and for Turkey to stop training its members.
Erdogan is really mad at his old vacation buddy.
The radio said Damascus wanted its ally Tehran to be the witness of any accord with Ankara.

Turkey, which once had close ties with its neighbor Syria, has called for Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
to step down and condemned his crackdown on dissent that opposition activists say has cost at least 6,000 lives since March.

Leadership of the FSA, made up mostly of Syrian army deserters, has been based in Turkey across the border from northwestern Syria.
Posted by:Fred

#2  sounds like a nice development. Turkish honor demands a smashing attack on Syria. If they ask us to use Incirlik to help out, we should remind them of their refusal in our Iraq II push. "Sorry, we're washing our hair"
Posted by: Frank G   2012-02-08 22:10  

#1  Sounds like these 49 fouled up royally to get caught.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2012-02-08 14:38  

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