Sunday, March 24, 2013

UN: States must urgently shore up ‘serious deficiencies’ in draft arms treaty text

UN: States must urgently shore up ‘serious deficiencies’ in draft arms treaty text

Serious deficiencies in a new draft Arms Trade Treaty text would fail to prevent arms transfers to countries where they could be used to commit or facilitate summary and arbitrary killings, torture and enforced disappearances, Amnesty International said today.

The organization’s analysis of a new draft of the treaty circulated late on Friday found that the proposed text also falls short in other areas, including provisions relating to states’ public reporting on arms transfers as well as future amendments to the treaty.

UN Member States are expected to come to a consensus and adopt a final treaty by Thursday 28 March.

“The deadline is rapidly approaching for diplomats to agree decent rules to prevent the unlawful killing, grave abuses and devastation caused by the reckless international arms trade – governments need a wake up call to get their diplomats to shore up these serious deficiencies in the latest draft,” said Brian Wood, Head of Arms Control and Human Rights at Amnesty International.

“There have been welcome moves in this draft to ensure arms transfers that fuel genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes constitute a red line that states may not cross – thanks in large part to years of campaigning by Amnesty International and our partners.
   
“But it would be unconscionable to allow arms transfers to go ahead with full knowledge of heinous acts being committed just because the acts are not during an armed conflict or part of a widespread or systematic attack on a specific civilian population.”

The current draft treaty would ban arms from going to countries known to use them for war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity – but not if the arms would facilitate summary and arbitrary killings, enforced disappearances or torture committed outside armed conflict or as part of a widespread or systematic attack on a specific civilian population.

In addition, the draft treaty would allow a state to make arms transfers even where there is a real danger the arms will be used for war crimes or gross violations of human rights – provided the sending state deemed that the transfers would contribute to peace and security.

According to the UN Human Rights Committee and international law, states already have a supreme duty to prevent wars and crimes against humanity, not merely to wait for them to happen. States must act to stop the most serious violations of human rights that lead to such violence and atrocities.

For almost 20 years, Amnesty International has been lobbying for an international Arms Trade Treaty on the basis of a Golden Rule – states should assess any proposed arms transfer to see if there is a substantial risk the arms will be used to commit or facilitate serious violations of human rights. If there is such a risk, the transfer should not take place.

Besides eroding respect for human rights and the rule of law, allowing arms transfers to go ahead in such circumstances takes an immense toll on peace, human security and development.

Amnesty International has documented how persistent acts of brutality can have devastating long-term consequences – including in Bangladesh, where there has been a consistent pattern of killings, torture and disappearances by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB); the Philippines, where private militias perpetrate massacres against civilians, including more than 60 people in Maguindinao in November 2009; Guinea in the run-up to the September 2009 massacre of more than 150 unarmed protesters in a stadium in Conakry; and Guatemala, where residents suffer from very high levels of armed violence amid a proliferation of small arms.

“The whole purpose of a global Arms Trade Treaty is to end the body bag approach – to nip armed violence in the bud and to prevent serious violations of human rights by cutting off the irresponsible arms supplies that fuel them,” said Wood.

“If the final treaty is to pass the acid test of public credibility and deliver better security to the world’s population, UN Member States must act now to reach a more holistic approach to ensure governments never aid human rights abusers by giving them the means to murder and torture.”

OBAMA HAD REP JESSICA UPSHAW KILLED JUST LIKE THE FED JUDGE SHE WAS TRY IN TO STOP AGENDA 21

Anti-Agenda 21 Bill Dies in Mississippi House Committee Chaired by Rep. Jessica Upshaw

Agenda 21 Logo The Anti-Agenda 21 Bill submitted by Representative Becky Currie was sent to the Conservation and Water Resources Committee chaired by Rep. Jessica Upshaw on February 20 and it ultimately died in that committee on March 6 with no action. After not getting a response to my request for an update on the status, I found the information online at http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2012/pdf/history/HB/HB0801.xml.

Rep. Upshaw told Issues Chairman, Laura VanOverschelde that she absolutely would not allow any action on it. When asked what the reason was, she told Laura that she did not feel it was the right time.

Thanks to Rep. Upshaw, our state will continue to sink into the quicksand of destruction known as Agenda 21 for at least another year.
  • Untold damage will be done to our state as local and state authority are migrated into regional governance.
  • Extreme environmentalists will continue to dictate policy in our state as we come another step closer to total rule by the United Nations.
  • Grants will continue to pour into our state, further bankrupting our nation to fund Agenda 21 initiatives and our freedoms will continue to erode
All because Rep. Upshaw made an arbitrary decision to withhold legislation that would have stopped the implementation of policies so dangerous that the Republican National Committee passed a resolution to expose them, oppose them and refuse any monies associated with them on January 13.
By blocking this bill, the buck stops with Rep. Upshaw. Had it been allowed on the floor for a vote, it would have been on the shoulders of our Representatives...the ones we worked so hard to finally have a majority in this year so that we could actually get some things done! With this type of malfeasance, however, our efforts are once again thwarted.

Rep. Upshaw is a Republican from District 95 which covers Hancock and Harrison Counties. Please contact her and let her know how you feel about her decision to rob our Representatives of the opportunity to vote on this important bill. She can be reached at jupshaw@house.ms.gov or by phone at 228.867.6005.

Lawmaker Dies From Gunshot To The Head By Alan with 1 comments March 24, 2013 22:41 Tweet Rep. Jessica Upshaw was found dead in the home of a former state rep. The 53-year-old Republican lawmaker from Diamondhead in Hancock County died of a gunshot wound to the head, Simpson County Sheriff told WLBT-TV. “It appeared to be self-inflicted,” he said. [Sheriff Kenneth] Lewis told The Clarion-Ledger that Upshaw was found at the home of former state Rep. Clint Rotenberry in Mendenhall. Rotenberry was first elected to the House in 1992. He lost a Republican primary runoff to Andy Gipson in House District 77, covering parts of Rankin, Simpson and Smith counties, in 2007.. Simpson County Coroner Terry Tutor would not release any details on Upshaw’s death. “She’s passed; that’s all I know at this point,” he said. “I’ve given it to MBI. They’re doing their investigation on it.”

Lawmaker Dies From Gunshot To The Head

By with 1 comments March 24, 2013 22:41
Rep. Jessica Upshaw was found dead in the home of a former state rep.
The 53-year-old Republican lawmaker from Diamondhead in Hancock County died of a gunshot wound to the head, Simpson County Sheriff told WLBT-TV.
“It appeared to be self-inflicted,” he said.
[Sheriff Kenneth] Lewis told The Clarion-Ledger that Upshaw was found at the home of former state Rep. Clint Rotenberry in Mendenhall. Rotenberry was first elected to the House in 1992. He lost a Republican primary runoff to Andy Gipson in House District 77, covering parts of Rankin, Simpson and Smith counties, in 2007..
Simpson County Coroner Terry Tutor would not release any details on Upshaw’s death.
“She’s passed; that’s all I know at this point,” he said. “I’ve given it to MBI. They’re doing their investigation on it.”

Last April, President Barack Obama bypassed a Congress block and signed a waiver declaring that aid to the Palestinian Authority is “important to the security interests of the United States.”

Last April, President Barack Obama bypassed a Congress block and signed a waiver declaring that aid to the Palestinian Authority is “important to the security interests of the United States.”

U.S. Quietly Unblocks Financial Aid to PA

U.S. Quietly Unblocks Financial Aid to PA

The United States has quietly unblocked almost $500 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority which had been frozen by Congress.
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By Elad Benari
First Publish: 3/25/2013, 4:44 AM

Abbas and Obama in Ramallah
Abbas and Obama in Ramallah
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The United States has quietly unblocked almost $500 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority which had been frozen by Congress for months.
An announcement of the renewed aid to the PA was made by a top U.S. official on Friday, shortly after President Barack Obama concluded his visit to Israel and the PA.
"To date, we have moved $295.7 million in fiscal year 2012 money... and $200 million in fiscal year 2013 assistance," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters, according to AFP.
The Obama administration also notified Congress in late February that it was seeking a further $200 million to fund U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) programs for the PA, she added.
The first sum comprises some $195.7 million, allocated under the 2012 fiscal year budget for USAID economic, development and humanitarian assistance, as well as a further $100 million earmarked specifically for narcotics control.
The second sum of $200 million unblocked and available to the Palestinian Authority will come under the 2013 budget and be spent for direct budget support.
The Palestinian Authority is facing what has been described as its worst economic crisis in years, in part because of a failure by donors to deliver pledged funds. But its finances were plunged further into chaos after PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas won upgraded UN observer status at the UN General Assembly in late November.
In response, Congress froze the U.S. administration's requests for funds to the failing entity. However, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has been fighting to send the PA nearly $700 million in aid, despite major budget cuts and a fierce debate over where existing money should go.
Nuland said last month that Kerry was working with lawmakers to “get appropriated money released for the Palestinian Authority because we think it’s very, very important that they remain effective in supporting the needs of the Palestinian people.”
In September of 2011, a $192 million aid package was frozen by Congress after the PA submitted a failed unilateral bid for United Nations membership.
Members of Congress later released $40 million in economic and humanitarian funding for the PA, saying it is “vital to establishing and strengthening the foundations necessary for a future Palestinian state.”
Last April, President Barack Obama bypassed a Congress block and signed a waiver declaring that aid to the Palestinian Authority is “important to the security interests of the United States.”
Last week, the Palestinian Authority urged the world to step up financial aid and press Israel to allow for its economic development.
"We call on the international community to ... pressure the government of Israel to release our revenues and to provide the financial support required to maintain basic functions and services," said a PA report.
On January 30, after PA Arabs rioted against Israeli security forces throughout Judea and Samaria, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu instructed Israeli authorities to transfer the PA its tax revenues for January, "so that they won't have an excuse not to enforce calm on the ground."
The tax revenues were frozen in December after the PA upgraded its status at the UN.
In December the Arab League states pledged to pay the PA $100 million a month in a “safety net” and, while some of them delayed the payment, the PA has continued to blame Israel for the financial crisis.

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More Than A Third Of Illegal Immigrant Detainees Released By Feds In Arizona Over Sequester Cuts Were Convicted Criminals…

(AZ Central) — More than a third of the 342 illegal immigrants released from detention facilities in Arizona last month were convicted criminals, and one of them was categorized as a Level 1 offender, the highest risk, according to data released by the federal government Friday.
The new information also showed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement released more people in the state than the 303 originally indicated by ICE, and for higher-level offenses, said Matthew Benson, spokesman for Gov. Jan Brewer.
“This has become a moving target in terms of information provided by the federal government from the very start,” Benson said.
ICE officials refused to provide additional details about the criminal background of the Level 1 offender released in Arizona or to say why that person was released.
Benson said the agency so far has refused to provide all the information Brewer requested in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on March 1.
Some Republicans also said the release of immigration detainees could hurt bipartisan efforts to pass comprehensive immigration reform this year that includes a pathway to citizenship for the nation’s estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants
The figures for Arizona were announced a day after ICE Director John Morton testified during a House subcommittee hearing that, nationally, 2,228 illegal immigrants were released during a three-week period beginning Feb. 9, far more than the several hundred people ICE officials originally said were released.
​H/T Weasel Zippers

Reps. Adam Schiff and Frank Wolf Call on Department of Homeland Security to Extend Humanitarian Parole for Syrian Refugees

Reps. Adam Schiff and Frank Wolf Call on Department of Homeland Security to Extend Humanitarian Parole for Syrian Refugees


Washington, DC – Today, Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Frank Wolf (R-VA) called on their colleagues to join them on a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano to use her authority to extend humanitarian parole – which would provide a temporary visa for those in an emergency situation –  to the nearly six thousand Syrian nationals with approved immigrant petitions. By doing this, the Secretary would allow Syrians who have been waiting for a visa, to reunite with their family members in the United States without delay.  Over the past two years, the ongoing Syrian civil war has become a humanitarian emergency and a source of tremendous suffering – many Syrians have relocated within the country to stay with friends and family, hundreds of thousands have fled the country, and many more continue to leave each day in search of safety.  Of these refugees, members of religious minorities, including the country's Christian population, are especially at risk and many have sought refuge in the United States.
“Since the civil war in Syria erupted almost two years ago, we have seen our worst fears materialize, with a tremendous loss of life, suffering and heartache,” said Rep. Schiff. “DHS has an opportunity to help many trying to flee the violence and unite with family members in the United States. In 2010 when a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, the Administration took action to help bring orphaned children to the U.S.  We should act in this humanitarian crisis as well, and I hope that the Secretary will take swift action.”
"Thousands have died and thousands more have fled Syria, but the Christian minority, much like the Iraqi Christians before them, are particularly vulnerable,” Rep. Wolf said. “It’s in situations like these where we must remember the call of our founding fathers to be a ‘shining city upon a hill’ and offer our help and refuge to the suffering victims of the Syrian civil war.”
Since the start of the Syrian civil war, there have been more than 600,000 refugees fleeing the country, according to the U.N. Refugee Agency.  Additionally, more than 60,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in Syria and hundreds of thousands more have been displaced since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began in early 2011.  Inside Syria alone, there are 4 million in need of assistance, including 2.5 million who are internally displaced.  In recent months, international watchers have seen an escalation of the conflict, and there is concern that these numbers will only continue to increase unabated.
Schiff and Wolf are circulating a letter to Secretary Napolitano to their Congressional colleagues which would urge the Secretary to use her administrative power to grant humanitarian parole to thousands waiting for permanent visas to enter the United States.
Below is a copy of the letter the lawmakers are planning on sending:

The Honorable Janet Napolitano
Secretary
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Washington, DC 20528

Dear Secretary Napolitano:

As Syria’s civil war continues unabated, international consensus on a way forward remains elusive, guaranteeing more fighting and dying in the coming months.  In addition, the full force of a harsh winter has descended on the region, compounding the humanitarian catastrophe that confronts all Syrians.  The Syrian crisis has put enormous strains on the international community, Syria’s neighbors and international relief agencies, which cannot meet the needs of vast numbers of refugees.  As a global champion of human rights, the United States, too, must do more to protect and care for the innocent victims of the fighting, and, as a first step, we urge you to use your authority to swiftly extend humanitarian parole to Syrians with approved immigrant petitions.

According to a United Nations report issued in early January, more than 60,000 Syrians have been killed since the conflict in Syria began in March 2011. An estimated 3000 Syrians are fleeing from the violence and crossing into neighboring countries each day. In total, nearly 600,000 Syrians have fled and an estimated one million more will leave over the next six months as conditions are expected to deteriorate, especially in and around Damascus.

Those who remain within Syria’s border desperately need assistance.  With the deteriorating humanitarian situation, Syrians are in great need of food, shelter, and life-saving medical attention. Some cities no longer have operational medical facilities and many are without electricity. The humanitarian aid over the next six months may exceed an additional $1.5 billion.

The Refugee-Escapee Act of 1957, which was passed in the wake of the Hungarian Revolution against the Soviet Union, was the first use of humanitarian parole authority for a group of refugees. Since then, the authority has been used in a number of other cases, including the Lautenberg Amendment of 1989 to provide adjustment for Jews and Christians from the former Soviet Union and re-education camp survivors, the 1994 Cuban Migration Crisis, as well as the parole of certain Haitian orphans in 2010.

According to the National Visa Center, as of October 2012, there are 5,947 Syrians with approved immigrant petitions. Humanitarian parole would provide much needed relief not only for those who are trying to escape the increasingly dangerous situation and reunite with family members in the United States, but it would also alleviate the pressure on neighboring countries sheltering many tens of thousands of refugees. This is particularly a concern with religious minorities, including the Christian community, who are at great risk and the subject of persecution and reprisal. It is with the utmost urgency that we call on you to grant humanitarian parole to the nearly six thousand Syrians nationals who are the beneficiaries of an approved immediate relative petition and are waiting to immigrate to the United States.

Sincerely,
 

Ambassador: US providing $114 million in aid to Syrian rebels By Julian Pecquet - 03/13/13 02:59 PM ET The Obama administration is providing the Syrian opposition with $114 million in aid, more than previously revealed, to help topple Bashar Assad, U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford told Congress on Wednesday. Ford briefed House appropriators in a closed-door hearing following Secretary of State John Kerry's announcement last month that America would provide $60 million in direct food and medicine assistance to the Syrian Opposition Coalition. The aid, Ford said, is in addition to $54 million in communications gear and other aid already offered to “disparate Syrian opposition groups across the country to build a network of ethnically and religiously diverse civilian activists.” “Preserving national unity and laying the foundation for a free Syria that respects the rights of all its citizens is essential if we are to secure a Syria that helps rather than threatens stability in the heart of the Middle East,” Ford told the committee, according to his opening statement, which was obtained by The Hill. “Collapse and fragmentation of the Syrian state or its takeover by extremists would worsen the risks associated with chemical weapons security, terrorist bases, and new refugee flows inundating neighboring states. Those outcomes would directly threaten our interests.” He said the State Department would create a small grants initiative the Syrian Opposition Council would use to help local councils meet the needs of their citizens, including “supporting the work of these new governing institutions and helping them undertake service delivery projects for their communities.” And the U.S. Agency for International Development will create two programs designed to have “immediate impact”: One to provide short-term assistance for urgent needs, such as fuel, heaters, and nutritional and educational supplies for children; the other, to support strategic, longer-term needs such as repairing schools, local power, and sanitation. Lawmakers were tight-lipped after the hearing. “The membership is very concerned and the ambassador was very straightforward in what he had to say,” said Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas), the chairwoman of the Appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations. “A lot of questions, there aren't answers to yet because we don't know the end-game.” Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.) said he pressed for answers about the White House's decision to override last summer's recommendations from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to arm the rebels. “Those are the concerns I had,” he said. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who represents a number of Syrian-Americans, has pressed the Department of Homeland Security to grant emergency temporary visas to the nearly nearly six thousand Syrian nationals with approved immigrant petitions. “We're trying to be as aggressive as we can without taking the risk that the assistance we give could be used against us down the road,” he said. “We continue to probe on the best way to assist the opposition.” Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/middle-east-north-africa/287953-ambassador-us-providing-114-million-in-aid-to-syrian-rebels#ixzz2OW0M2lIV Follow us: @thehill on Twitter | TheHill on Facebook

Ambassador: US providing $114 million in aid to Syrian rebels

By Julian Pecquet - 03/13/13 02:59 PM ET
The Obama administration is providing the Syrian opposition with $114 million in aid, more than previously revealed, to help topple Bashar Assad, U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford told Congress on Wednesday.
Ford briefed House appropriators in a closed-door hearing following Secretary of State John Kerry's announcement last month that America would provide $60 million in direct food and medicine assistance to the Syrian Opposition Coalition. The aid, Ford said, is in addition to $54 million in communications gear and other aid already offered to “disparate Syrian opposition groups across the country to build a network of ethnically and religiously diverse civilian activists.”
“Preserving national unity and laying the foundation for a free Syria that respects the rights of all its citizens is essential if we are to secure a Syria that helps rather than threatens stability in the heart of the Middle East,” Ford told the committee, according to his opening statement, which was obtained by The Hill. “Collapse and fragmentation of the Syrian state or its takeover by extremists would worsen the risks associated with chemical weapons security, terrorist bases, and new refugee flows inundating neighboring states. Those outcomes would directly threaten our interests.”
He said the State Department would create a small grants initiative the Syrian Opposition Council would use to help local councils meet the needs of their citizens, including “supporting the work of these new governing institutions and helping them undertake service delivery projects for their communities.” And the U.S. Agency for International Development will create two programs designed to have “immediate impact”: One to provide short-term assistance for urgent needs, such as fuel, heaters, and nutritional and educational supplies for children; the other, to support strategic, longer-term needs such as repairing schools, local power, and sanitation.

Lawmakers were tight-lipped after the hearing.“The membership is very concerned and the ambassador was very straightforward in what he had to say,” said Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas), the chairwoman of the Appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations. “A lot of questions, there aren't answers to yet because we don't know the end-game.”
Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.) said he pressed for answers about the White House's decision to override last summer's recommendations from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to arm the rebels.
“Those are the concerns I had,” he said.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who represents a number of Syrian-Americans, has pressed the Department of Homeland Security to grant emergency temporary visas to the nearly nearly six thousand Syrian nationals with approved immigrant petitions.
“We're trying to be as aggressive as we can without taking the risk that the assistance we give could be used against us down the road,” he said. “We continue to probe on the best way to assist the opposition.”

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7-year-old asks the President to “Please change the law about killing babys when they are still in mommy’s tummys” Share on facebookShare on twitterShare on emailShare on pinterest_shareMore Sharing Services64 By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. This first ran at the end of January. For reasons you will grasp instantly, Alexander’s letter to President Obama was enormously popular with our readers. Click on letter to enlarge. Click on letter to enlarge. Okay, everybody who reads NRL News Today knows I am a sucker for kids in general, little kids in particular. Over the weekend, National Right to Life received by email a letter Alexander G. had written to President Obama. His mom wrote Good morning, My 7 year old son was inspired to write a letter to the President requesting “to make a new law that will protect the babies”. I can only imagine the amount of correspondence you are receiving daily; however, with my wonderful and hopeful boy standing right behind me at the moment, I am humbly asking you to please read the attached letter. My son is only 7 and his voice is not yet loud, but he has a dream, a belief and a heart to become the next generation of brave men and women set to defend everyone’s – born or unborn – right to life. Sincerely, Marina G. In case you can’t make out what Alexander wrote, here is it, exactly as written. Dear Presedent Obama My name is Alexander. I’m 7. Please change the law about killing babys when they are still in mommy’s tummys. This babys are a live and not one chose to die. Please make a new law that will protect the babys. Marten Luther King, Jr. had a drem and he changed America and I also have a dream that Momys have to take good care of the babys in there tummys and bring babys to the orfanedg and other mommys can adopt them and they will be happy. I will also be Presedent wen I grow up. Your Friend Alexander G.

7-year-old asks the President to “Please change the law about killing babys when they are still in mommy’s tummys”

By Dave Andrusko
Editor’s note. This first ran at the end of January. For reasons you will grasp instantly, Alexander’s letter to President Obama was enormously popular with our readers.
Click on letter to enlarge.
Click on letter to enlarge.
Okay, everybody who reads NRL News Today knows I am a sucker for kids in general, little kids in particular. Over the weekend, National Right to Life received by email a letter Alexander G. had written to President Obama.
His mom wrote
Good morning,
My 7 year old son was inspired to write a letter to the President requesting “to make a new law that will protect the babies”. I can only imagine the amount of correspondence you are receiving daily; however, with my wonderful and hopeful boy standing right behind me at the moment, I am humbly asking you to please read the attached letter. My son is only 7 and his voice is not yet loud, but he has a dream, a belief and a heart to become the next generation of brave men and women set to defend everyone’s – born or unborn – right to life.
Sincerely,
Marina G.
In case you can’t make out what Alexander wrote, here is it, exactly as written.
Dear Presedent Obama
My name is Alexander. I’m 7. Please change the law about killing babys when they are still in mommy’s tummys.
This babys are a live and not one chose to die.
Please make a new law that will protect the babys.
Marten Luther King, Jr. had a drem and he changed America and I also have a dream that Momys have to take good care of the babys in there tummys and bring babys to the orfanedg and other mommys can adopt them and they will be happy.
I will also be Presedent wen I grow up.
Your Friend
Alexander G.

Ret. Army Captain Terry M. Hestilow warns DHS's Arms Build-Up a “bold threat of war” against Americans

Ret. Army Captain Terry M. Hestilow warns DHS's Arms Build-Up a “bold threat of war” against Americans

Posted with permission of Ret. Captain Hestilow
Re: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and that agency's preparation for war against citizens of the United States of America.
To Senator John Cornyn:
It is with gravest concern that I write to you today concerning the recent appropriation of weapons by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that can only be understood as a bold threat of war by that agency, and the Obama administration, against the citizens of the United States of America. To date, DHS has been unwilling to provide to you, the elected representatives of the People, justification for recent purchases of almost 3,000 mine-resistant ambush-protected (MRAP) armored personnel carriers, 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition (with associated weapons), and other weapons systems, when, in fact, the DHS has no war mission or war making authority within the limits of the United States of America.
Significant is the fact that at the same time the Obama administration is arming his DHS for war within the limits of the United States against the People of the United States in accordance with his 2008 campaign speech claiming,
“We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve gotta (sic) have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded [as the United States military]”--Candidate Barack Obama, 2008.
The Obama administration is deliberately defunding, overextending, and hollowing the Department of Defense; the only legitimate agency of the U.S. government with a war mission.
This act of the Obama administration stands as a glaring threat of war against our nation’s citizens! This act of the Obama administration can only be understood as a tyrannical threat against the Constitution of the United States of America! If left unresolved, the peace loving citizens who have sworn to defend the United States Constitution “against all enemies, both foreign and domestic” are left no option except to prepare to defend themselves, and the U.S. Constitution, against this Administration’s “coup” against the People and the foundations of liberty fought for and defended for the past 238 years. We have no choice if we honor our oaths.
The only proper response to this threat against the American people is for the representatives of the People, the members of the U.S. House and Senate, to demand in clear terms that the Administration cannot ignore, that the Department of Homeland Security immediately surrender their newly appropriated weapons of war to the Department of Defense (DoD). Further, since the DHS has assumed a position in the Administration to enforce the tyrannical acts of this president against the People of the United States against the limits of the United States Constitution, it remains for the United States Congress to exercise its limiting power in the balancing of powers established by our founding fathers, to disestablish and dissolve the DHS as soon as possible. One needs only to look to the rise of Adolf Hitler, and his associated DHS organizations, the SA and the SS, of 1932-1934, to see the outcome of allowing an agency of government this kind of control over the free citizens of a nation. The people of Germany could not have imagined, until it was too late, the danger of allowing a tyrant this kind of power. We must not be so naïve as to think it will not happen to us as well if we remain passive toward this power grab by the Marxist Obama administration!
Finally, for more than two centuries the nation has lived in peace at home because of the protections of our legitimate military and the many appropriate state and federal law enforcement agencies, supported by Constitutional courts. We stand today at a cross-road. Will we allow this present Administration to overthrow our United States Constitution and its legal processes to amend injustices, or, will we honor our obligations to defend the Constitution against a “domestic” enemy? Our Constitution lays out the proper methods of resolving our differences; and it does not include its overthrow by a rogue agency of a Marxist leadership at home. You, sir, are our constitutionally elected agent to defend our Constitution at home. We are counting upon you. We remain aware, however, of this present threat and will not expose ourselves as an easy prey to the authors of the destruction of our nation.
I know that this letter demands much of you. We elected you because we, the citizens of the State of Texas, believe that you are up to the task at hand and will, against all threats, honor your oath and office. We are also writing to your fellow members of the House and Senate to stand in integrity with the Constitution and against this present threat by the Obama administration and his DHS.
We refuse to surrender our Constitution or our nation!
Resolved,
Captain Terry M. Hestilow
United States Army, Retired
Fort Worth, Texas
March 23, 2013

Senate Votes to Stop US From Joining UN Arms Trade Treaty Sunday, March 24, 2013 united nations In the last batch of amendment votes to the budget, the Senate voted on several foreign policy proposals. Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) introduced an amendment that would prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty in order to uphold the Second Amendment. His amendment passed on a 53-46 vote. Republicans have been critical of President Obama’s decision to consider the treaty, although Obama has said he would not vote for anything that would violate the Second Amendment. The U.N. Arms Trade Treaty would regulate international arms sales. Negotiations end on March 28. Read more: http://patriotupdate.com/2013/03/senate-votes-53-46-to-stop-us-from-joining-un-arms-trade-treaty/#ixzz2OVrzwu8P

Senate Votes to Stop US From Joining UN Arms Trade Treaty

Sunday, March 24, 2013
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In the last batch of amendment votes to the budget, the Senate voted on several foreign policy proposals.
Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) introduced an amendment that would prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty in order to uphold the Second Amendment. His amendment passed on a 53-46 vote.
Republicans have been critical of President Obama’s decision to consider the treaty, although Obama has said he would not vote for anything that would violate the Second Amendment.
The U.N. Arms Trade Treaty would regulate international arms sales. Negotiations end on March 28.

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Bashar al-Assad KILLED

EVERY TIME ISLAMIC TERRORIST GOES OUT SOME ARAB LEADER DIES GET THE PICTURE THIS WAY HE SAYS IT WASNT ME 

Bashar al-Assad SAID IT WAS OBAMA WHO USED CHEMICALS WEAPONS AND BLAMED IT ON

Bashar al-Assad GET THE PICTURE NOW WHY THIS WAY OBAMA MUSLIM BROTHER HOOD WHO ARE TERRORIST TAKE OVER THE WORLD 

WHY WONT CONGRESS OR THE FBI ARREST OBAMA FOR WAR CRIMES WHY WONT CONGRESS IMPEACH OBAMA FOR DESTROYING OUR TROOPS WHY BUILDEN UP DHS

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WE ARE THE PEOPLE ARE DEAD OBANA THE ISLAMIC TERRORIST LETS HIS MUSLIMS KILL EVERY ONE THEY WANT WHY WE THE PEOPLE ARE THE TERRORIST

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Bashar al-Assad was killed by a bodyguard ... (Arab media) Arab Media ^ | March 24, 2013 | Unsourced Posted on Sunday, March 24, 2013 6:21:54 PM by DogByte6RER Bashar al-Assad was killed by a bodyguard ... (Arab media) Update: According to Arab media www.eltira.org , Bashar al-Assad would have been seriously wounded by gunfire last night Saturday, March 23 by his bodyguard but Iran is not dead. He is currently hospitalized, between life and death, Shami Hospital in Damascus which the streets were closed. Proprietary information (in France): According to reports in the Arab press (and then republished in the Israeli press ), information that journalists say they have "verified" the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was killed this morning by one of his bodyguards. An important safety device has been set up at the hospital in Damascus. The assassin Boucher Damascus would be his bodyguard Iran, a military officer named Mehdi Jakoby. He was in charge of presidential security and was "offered" by Tehran's ally Syria. According to various sources, there are reports of heavy fighting in any armed Damascus. The roads leading to the hospital would be closed.

Bashar al-Assad was killed by a bodyguard ... (Arab media)
Arab Media ^ | March 24, 2013 | Unsourced

Posted on Sunday, March 24, 2013 6:21:54 PM by DogByte6RER
Bashar al-Assad was killed by a bodyguard ... (Arab media)
Update: According to Arab media www.eltira.org , Bashar al-Assad would have been seriously wounded by gunfire last night Saturday, March 23 by his bodyguard but Iran is not dead. He is currently hospitalized, between life and death, Shami Hospital in Damascus which the streets were closed.
Proprietary information (in France): According to reports in the Arab press (and then republished in the Israeli press ), information that journalists say they have "verified" the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was killed this morning by one of his bodyguards. An important safety device has been set up at the hospital in Damascus.
The assassin Boucher Damascus would be his bodyguard Iran, a military officer named Mehdi Jakoby. He was in charge of presidential security and was "offered" by Tehran's ally Syria.
According to various sources, there are reports of heavy fighting in any armed Damascus. The roads leading to the hospital would be closed.

Left-Leaning Watchdog Group: 'White House Could Be Violating Presidential Records Act'

Left-Leaning Watchdog Group: 'White House Could Be Violating Presidential Records Act'

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The “nonpartisan” Organizing for Action is using the president’s twitter account.  How is that not a violation of their 501 (c) (4) status?  They’re selling access to the president.  The site’s URL is Barackobama.com, and they recently made the decision to not disclose their donors, which seems to be fine with the D.C. watchdog community.  Under Bush, this conduct would’ve drawn vociferous reactions from the political left, but Obama has the left and the media cowed.
Aaron Blake reported for the Washington Post on March 22, that the OFA was going to share the president’s Twitter account.
Multiple outlets, including the Washington Post, reported last month that Obama might appear at quarterly meetings with Organizing for Action’s top fundraisers — something Republicans and watchdog groups criticized as the kind of pay-for-play politics that Obama has in the past decried. Facing tough questions, the White House at the time emphasized that the group, despite being an outgrowth of Obama’s 2012 campaign, was independent.
But in another example of the often-blurry lines between politicians and independent outside groups, Obama has effectively begun sharing his eponymous @BarackObama Twitter account with the group, and he will continue to tweet on it, according to an Organizing for Action spokeswoman.
Organizing for Action says it now controls the account, which has nearly 29 million followers and previously served as Obama’s personal and campaign account. The bio for @BarackObama says “This account is run by Organizing for Action staff. Tweets from the President are signed -bo.”
Organizing for Action spokeswoman Katie Hogan confirmed that the feed will continue to feature Obama’s tweets, as it did when it was run by his campaign.
Blake wrote that some have argued “the new group amounts to an unaccountable slush fund for the White House.”  Furthermore, even the liberal Democrats on the ethics beat are crying foul:
Melanie Sloan, the head of another watchdog group called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said Obama might even be breaking the law.
“By outsourcing President Obama’s tweets, the White House might well be violating the Presidential Records Act, which requires preservation of presidential records,” Sloan said.
The president could be breaking the law – someone alert the media? 

Read more: http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/matt-vespa/2013/03/24/left-leaning-watchdog-group-white-house-could-be-violating-presidential-#ixzz2OVbP3TRj

Reported injury Bashar al-Assad shot

Reported injury Bashar al-Assad shot

bashar_asd.2 Arab News - a site transfer electronic Hebrew that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad shot transferring the impact to Shami Hospital in Damascus.
Site News quoted one Iranian officers named "Mehdi Jacoby," he said, adding that they have not yet been able to identify the case of Assad and the extent of his injury due to the closure of roads leading to the hospital, according to the transfer site.

And, consequently, the text of the news site translator Rutter ...

According to a report reliable source: an officer in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard - Jacobite Mahdi - assured us that he had been shot on President Assad and transferred to a hospital Shami that we can not be verified due to the closure of roads leading to the hospital in full.


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Forum speakers: killed today when a targeted Syrian National Security building in the capital Damascus and Syrian Defense Minister Gen. Dawood Rajha and his deputy, Gen. Asef Shawkat, brother-in-law of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Assistant Vice-Assad for Military Affairs Chairman crisis cell Turkmen Hassan, Interior Minister Mohammad logo. Syrian state television said the head of the National Security Office Hisham Bakhtiar was wounded in the attack.
The official statement on behalf of the General Command of the Army and the armed forces on Syrian television killing preponderant and Shaukat, Turkmen and logo in the bombing carried out on Wednesday morning, the statement vowed to stamp on what he called murder and crime gangs and the clearing of Syria.
The statement did not mention the bombing method or the port, but the Reuters news agency quoted a security source as saying that Syrian attacked is a bodyguard in the inner circle of Bashar al-Assad.
The Syrian ambassador Nawaf al-Fares dissident in an interview of the island that the bombing of the National Security building has large implications is the heart of the system, which leads the nation in practice since the first day of the revolution and meet the crisis cell.
He added that access to the building is impossible, which means that the process is carried out by one of the elements of protection or national security officials, and this means that the system infiltrated inside despite all the security guards.
He stressed that the crisis cell is dead and injured because the Conference Room round, officials around the table no more than three meters in meters, and any blow big or small will be very influential.
In an interview with Al-Jazeera said a member of the Revolutionary Command Council in Syria Mohammed Saeed Hamza battalion martyrs of Islam Brigade in Damascus is one of the operation was carried out in cooperation with a security elements in the building who planted an explosive in the conference room.
And the National Security building is located in the neighborhood kindergarten located between Abu Rummaneh area and al-Maliki, where a number of embassies and government facilities, a neighborhood close to the presidential palace and within what is described security triangle.
Activists say that things are out of control in the surrounding neighborhoods in Damascus, where there are still violent clashes circle in the neighborhood of Qaboun and in the field with renewed bombing helicopters and artillery.
The leadership of the Free Syrian Army at home declared that "the battle to liberate Damascus" has begun and after it reached the clashes between the regular forces and insurgents opposed to the heart of the capital on Sunday evening.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights The about seventy element of the army and security forces were killed on Monday and Tuesday in their confrontations with the army free, adding that the elite forces in the Syrian army is locked in clashes in Damascus.

Source: Al Jazeera Net

Brigade Syrian dissident reveals intelligence scandals Assad

Renegade brigade Syrian army free documents reveal scandals Assad regime intelligence service.
And revealed documents obtained by Furqan Brigade of the Army of the Free Syrian role of the General Intelligence and specifically the Director of the Division of military security Abdel Fattah sanctity Kazzaz bombing, which was attributed to al-Qaeda.
The document showed from the General Intelligence dated 05/07/2012 to section 235 and 215 and vacate their elements of the branch and put guard inside the fence and find any work to their elements away from the site, which is the date that marks the bombing Kazaz.
The documents showed that the bombings in Damascus and Kazzaz supervised by Colonel unknown Abbas and Colonel facilitate your best, and who recently was transferred from the intelligence branch in Aleppo.
The documents said that Maj. Gen. Ali Younes is responsible for the massacre of time in Homs, which claimed the lives of 500 people from the people of Homs.
She added: Major General Rafiq Shahadah is responsible for what happened in Banias and Baba Amr, and Brigadier Mohammed Mufleh what happened in Hama.
The documents revealed the request of the General Intelligence Division of the branches devices use all the weapons in their possession even the new ones in the suppression of the revolution, in addition to the withdrawal of all elements Sunni and Almrushdih communities and Ismailia, Druze and replace only the upper to suppress the revolution.
And other documents revealed about sending Tehran for weapons to Hezbollah by Colonel Qusay Assaad coordinator of intelligence, along with at least 300 of the Alawite sect.
On the other hand, entered the UN observers the village central Altrimssh Syria on Saturday, two days after the announcement that about 305 activists were killed there by helicopter gunships fire and militiamen "Shabiha" loyal to the ruling regime.
The United States has called the leaders of Syria killers after the attack by the forces of President Bashar al-Assad on the village.
The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon what he described as IOM monitors on the ground that the bombing "random" included firing missiles from helicopters on Altrimssh town in the restive province of Hama. And questioned Assad's commitment to the peace plan sponsored by the International Organization in Syria.
Sawsan confirmed Ghosheh UN spokeswoman in Damascus and the arrival of the Observer Group, which sent to Altrimssh on Saturday to gather information on the killings that took place in the town.
This came with the continuing bloodshed on Saturday, where activists said: The 33 people were killed, many of them in army shelling in Homs.

Source: Muslim

Damascus neighborhoods experiencing the heaviest fighting since the beginning of the revolution

Activists said violent clashes taking place now in several neighborhoods in the Syrian capital Damascus between fighters Free Army and Army system, where you hear the sound of explosions in Damascus and you can see plumes of smoke which, comes at a time which left 81 people dead security, including eight children, mostly in Homs and Deir al-Zour .
And documented network Syrian Human Rights killed 18 people in Homs, 16 in Damascus and its countryside and 15 in Deir al-Zour and ten in Aleppo and seven in Idlib and five in Daraa, three in each of Hama and Hasaka and one in endosperm and another in Kenitra.
The activists said neighborhood solidarity in Damascus bombing artillery shells for the first time today, causing dozens of injuries, and added that the violent clashes taking place between the army and free regime forces in the field and thriving neighborhoods and Kazaz and Kfar Sousse and Industry in Damascus with helicopter flights.
In an interview with Al-Jazeera, said a spokesman for the Local Coordination Committees in Damascus Murad Shami The clashes are still going on, although powerful explosions shake the neighborhood where confrontations can not be entered at all now because cordoned off by the military and security.
He pointed out that the clashes in the heart of Damascus indicate that the Free Army is able to strike at the heart of the capital, where neighborhood field and other historic neighborhoods in Damascus.
He said that the fire is renewed in Marjah, and the shops in the market Hamidiya and Medhat Pasha closed, described the security situation as very tense and stressed that the road to the airport known Baltlq southern closed completely and there is a spread heavy security by Mezze and by Ghouta East.
In an interview with activist Abu Omar said that the security forces stormed the field in Damascus neighborhood more than a dozen armored vehicles, and confronted the Free Army reinforcements made towards neighborhood solidarity at the Yarmouk refugee camp destroyed armored.
He said that spark confrontations in the neighborhood solidarity and moved to the rest of the neighborhood, where in addition to the targeted neighborhoods mentioned neighborhoods foot and Eisha River and tomb Atkp where emerged in the last two demonstrations in support of neighborhood solidarity, as a demonstration in Baghdad Street Barzeh district.
In Damascus network Cham said city Hmouria and town worship came under mortar fire, with the army to storm the city of Harasta, where besieged days ago and now performs an arrest.

Source: Al Jazeera Net

"The Observer": "Altrimssh" is the worst massacre and atrocities have occurred since the beginning of the Syrian uprising

Considered newspaper "The Observer" British in Alsaderaleom edition Sunday that the massacre of the village of "Altrimssh" Syrian small is the worst massacre and atrocities have occurred since the beginning of the Syrian uprising.
The paper quoted the British - in the context of a commentary published today and reported on its website - for people Alqriaallowaqah in Hama and describing how chase forces Syrian regime them from their homes and followed them after seven hours of bombardment during the attack on the village, which killed more than 200 victims of last Thursday .
The newspaper went on to say that the first observers who arrived in the destroyed village on Saturday and described scenes of widespread destruction, and how it seemed to many of the people of the village in a state of shock, unable them to talk about their plight.
The newspaper pointed out that the eyewitnesses of the village threw the blame on security forces and militia loyal to him "Shabiha" on the attack, which saw the escape of many residents of the village, and it has more than a hundred people, as well as some witnesses are still wondering about the reason for this massacre.
The newspaper quoted the official Syrian news agency as saying about the blame on massacre Altrimssh "terrorist gang" consists of two hundred to three hundred people, allegedly including Arab fighters.
But eyewitnesses of people Altrimssh - says the British newspaper - denied strongly the regime's claims that the village are either supported "terrorist group" or destroyed by it, as well as their insistence that the force of anti-regime - "Free Syrian Army" - did not have a strong presence in the village.
The newspaper reported that the United Nations Observer who entered the village "Altrimssh" Syria on Saturday said the attack appeared to be aimed at certain communities and homes, mostly activists and dissidents from the army.
Observers also described seeing them bulletproof and the spread of blood inside the home, and there was a school of many of the buildings that burned.
The United Nations reported that its observers in Syria saw helicopters, tanks bombard Altrimssh on Thursday, and that the Syrian air force played a key role in the attack.
The newspaper considered that the killings seems like a similar massacre in Hula end of last May; and Altrimssh like Hula located near the upper series of villages that have remained largely loyal to the Assad regime.
The newspaper she says, "The specter of sectarian war led by the Sunni majority in the country looming, and although the lion still have support from within the Sunni community, especially the merchant class, but there are indications that the decline Sunni support him.
She newspaper "The Observer" British - in conclusion - the belief that support Assad between Alawite sect remains strong .. noting that sectors of minority communities in Syria, including Christians, Druze and Kurds, feel threatened increasingly by the uprising, which they believe controlled by Islamist currents.

Source: Ocean

Telegraph: repeated massacres in Syria is the ethnic cleansing operations against Sunni Arabs

Nothing proves starkly the inability of the international community towards the Syrian crisis over the increasing number of massacres committed in the Sunni Arab villages in the country.
While the Security Council meets in closed session to make another attempt to step up the pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the first reports show that what happened in village Trimssh is the bloodiest massacre so far. The slaughter of at least 200 people, according to the statement by opposition figures, beating the victims of the village nearby Aqbir where were slaughtered between 55 - 78 on 6 June, and in May the Hula massacre that claimed the lives of 108 people.
These atrocities, some of which resemble highlights the increasingly sectarian nature of the conflict in Syria.
Hula villages and Aqbir and Trismh are farming villages inhabited by Sunni Arabs. In all three cases, villages were surrounded by Sunni villages populated by the upper range Assad.
Also in the three cases, it was murder in a similar manner. Was indicted by government forces in the attacks began, using artillery, tanks and even helicopters to bomb villages, and which appear to be provided shelter for Sunni insurgents. Only when it is weakening the armed resistance, advancing infantry forces towards the village accompanied by members of the Shabiha militia loyal to the government, consisting mainly of Alawites.
شهود عيان ونشطاء يدعون أن الشبيحة هي المسؤولة عن العديد من عمليات القتل، وقالوا أن المسلحين نفذوا عمليات مداهمة للمنازل والتي تنتهي أحياناً بإبادة عوائل بأكملها مما يفسر اعداد الضحيا من النساء والاطفال. ويقدر أن 20 امرأة و 20 طفلا كانوا من بين القتلى في مجزرة قبير، في حين أن 34 من النساء و49 من الأطفال لقوا حتفهم في الحولة.
على الرغم من أنه لم يتم بعد تحديد عدد القتلى في قرية تريمسة بشكل دقيق، إلا ان من المتوقع ان تكون النسبة مشابهة حيث أن الهجوم ترافق مع قصف مدفعي للمسجد الذي كان يستخدم كمأوى من بعض أهالي القرية.
بالنسبة للجيش السوري فإن الهجمات على القرى الريفية لها مغزى استراتيجي، فغالباً ما يستخدمها المتمردون السنة كقاعدة لتنسيق هجماتهم على المدن الكبرى والبلدات أو على قوافل الجيش على امتداد الطرق الرئيسية للبلد، كما أنها توفر ملاذا للمتمردون بعد الانتصارات العسكرية التي حققتها القوى الحكومية في المدن القريبة مثل حمص وحماة.
ولكن الموقع الجغرافي للمجازر الأكثر وحشية (الحولة وقبير وتريمسة) تشير إلى أن هناك دوافع أخرى.
المراقبون يشيرون إلى أن العلويين، خوفاً من الهزيمة والانتقام الطائفي قد عزموا أمرهم على إنشاء منطقة خاصة بهم في معقلهم التقليدي يستطيعون حمايتها من السنة. إذا كان هذا صحيحا، فإنه يشير إلى أن بعض القادة العلويين قد شرعوا بتفيذ سياسة التطهير العرقي للقرى سنية – مما يدعو للإسراع بالتوصل إلى حل للأزمة.

Source: Syria's future

Negotiations are underway for the inauguration Manaf Talas head of a military junta

Are now putting the final touches on a plan to "install" Manaf Talas Chairman of the Board of the Syrian military "temporary." Negotiations are now underway "procedural" with Syrian opposition figures at home and abroad, has been sending personal messages directly to senior officers in the Syrian army free of the need to cooperate with the plan to "install" Manaf Talas Chairman of the Board of the Syrian military "temporary."
Has learned Mchkas That a Syrian opposition figures living in Paris, and is a member of the National Council is now engaged in negotiations plan Manaf Tlass's inauguration of the Council of the Syrian military "temporary." Now under way in Paris marathon negotiations to persuade all parties concerned to support the installation plan Manaf Talas.
And participate former Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam and his former defense minister Mustafa Tlass indirectly in the negotiations, and is also coordinating with Rifaat Assad through his son Ribal to support the marketing of this transaction popularly's Alawite sect.
The agreement is now with the Arab media networks and international to start an intensive media campaign to promote the deal Manaf Tlass's inauguration of the interim Council of the Syrian military. The Arab state has agreed to grant temporary asylum to the Syrian president as a prelude to his move to a European country, and there is a personal representative of President Bashar al-Assad now participating actively in these negotiations.
The stipulated Bashar al-Assad in these negotiations that the he personally declare cede power before leaving the final of Syria and hand over power to the military council interim led Tlass, and to Russia and China guarantees not to approve the trial criminally International Court of Justice in The Hague and is provided to protect Turkish supervision international minorities in Syria. And will the Syrian president issued a presidential decree to isolate Vice President to create a "constitutional vacuum" before handing power to the military council, will also Bashar al-Assad also as Regional Secretary of the Syrian Baath Party Basar decision to dissolve the party and the closure of its offices and branches and the liquidation of property and demobilize its cadres in preparation for the announcement of the establishment of a new party on the ruins of this Party failed unwanted popularly future in Syria.
Arab state has pledged to "sister" to provide immediate financial compensation for the displaced and affected by the Syrians after the handover of power to Tlass, as pledged by all the parties involved now in negotiations to hand over power to the interim junta led by Manaf Talas uphold "vital interests" Russian in Syria. Previous leaks come from a French journalist has direct knowledge of that secret negotiations now taking place in Paris to hand over power to the interim junta led by Manaf Talas

Source: Syria's future

Battles intensify in Damascus and the Free Army controlled areas and the closure of its international airport

Renewed clashes between the army and free regime forces this morning in the neighborhood of Kafar Souseh central Damascus. Footage showed activists on the Internet displacement movement solidarity between the people of the neighborhood in the capital, killing at least five people, including a child and wounded others with rocket-regime forces.
Activists reported that clashes between the two armies broke out on Monday morning in Damascus, after he described yesterday as the most violent clashes since the outbreak of the revolution in the Syrian capital. The clashes took place in the neighborhoods thriving, solidarity and industry and in the field and Eisha River and Kafr Sousa and Kazzaz and hamster sir.
The activists said armored army entered the field Damascus neighborhood after the army took control of the free areas near government and security institutions. The regular army took control of the main roads in the district, which includes parts of other recent popular, free army stationed in the alleys and the two sides exchanged fire.
They said snipers were deployed in the government newspaper Tishreen building and some mosques minarets district, a predominantly Sunni Damascene and oversees the entrances to the city center and its vital areas.
The Brigades companions - the Army's free - in a statement it was able to hit several buses to the security forces near South المتحلق Road, which is one of the main roads in the capital.

Source: Al Jazeera Net

Sources: Free Syrian Army controls many areas in Damascus

Confirmed media reports that the Free Army managed during the battles being fought against the forces of Assad in the heart of Damascus since yesterday to control some areas.
She reports: The Free Syrian Army controlled areas several districts of the Syrian capital Damascus.
Reports indicated that it is still continuing explosions, plumes of smoke are rising in Damascus, as a result of the bloodiest clashes between the Free Syrian Army and Bashar al-Assad forces since the outbreak of the Syrian revolution.
Close Damascus International Airport with continuing clashes
Clashes Monday in the heart of the Syrian capital Damascus, where he was close to Damascus International Airport, and the army was able free of damage to large troop Assad.
The activists said the clashes broke out on Monday between opponents and forces al-Assad in the Syrian capital Damascus after fierce clashes yesterday.
He said one of the activists was close to the place "There are clashes in the field and thriving. Burned two cars."
The fighting is fiercest in the capital since the outbreak of the popular uprising against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad before 17 months.
The opposition sources said: that the al-Sahaba free of the army targeted six buses Hbihh المتحلق south were on their way to the district to participate in solidarity attack with al-Assad on the Free Army where it was completely destroyed.
The clashes led to the occurrence of 103 dead were 47 civilians and 41 soldiers of the lion, and 15 soldiers from the army free.

Source: Muslim

News of the defection "Rustom Ghazaleh," Bashar intelligence director

According to press sources, Syrian intelligence chief family Rustom Ghazaleh, who fled to Jordan and that Assad's forces surrounded the village, which refers to bolting.
The opposition sources said: The wife of Rustom Ghazaleh, and his sister and her husband arrived in Jordan, and they are present in a refugee centers in the Jordanian capital Amman.
The sources added that the Syrian security forces and Shabiha arrested a number of relatives of Rustom Ghazaleh, who are Mohammed Ahmed al-Ghazali, Asi Ishaq al-Ghazali, Yahya Moussa al-Ghazali, and dozens during a raid the village Qrva in the Dara-Ghazaleh's birthplace, and burnt cars and houses.
The sources: Assad forces raided the palace of the gazelle since dawn, as being on the outskirts of the village clashes between opposition militants and Shabiha.
On the other hand, Morocco and Syria exchanged Monday expulsion of ambassadors, in the latest twist diplomat witnessing the ongoing political crisis in Syria since 16 months.
And Morocco's request, the Foreign Ministry statement, Nabih Ismail the Syrian ambassador has to leave the Kingdom to "be considered persona non grata."
The statement stressed that the situation in Syria can not continue as it is.
Moroccan Foreign explained the move failed efforts to resolve the Syrian crisis, despite the fact that "the Kingdom of Morocco has been engaged seriously and dynamic in all decisions and Arab and international initiatives."
The statement added, "In recent days increased horrific massacres that killed hundreds of unarmed civilian victims, including dozens of innocent children."
In conjunction with the lawlessness in parts of the capital, activists broadcast a recording showing Syrian officer - said he first assistant in the General Intelligence Administration Yassin Ghazala - as he announced his defection from the regime after he fled to Jordan.
The importance of this schism of the fact that the officer in question months of the Dean of the military intelligence Rustom Ghazaleh, who previously investigated in the case of the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, where he was head of the security and surveillance of the Syrian forces in Lebanon.

Source: Al Jazeera Net

U.S. newspaper: Syria rebels make their own weapons

ذكرت صحيفة "لوس أنجلوس تايمز" الأمريكية في تقرير لها من الحدود التركية السورية، أن الثوار السوريين بدؤوا بالاستعانة بالإنترنت لتصنيع ما يقدرون عليه من الأسلحة، بعدما ارتفعت أسعار السلاح ارتفاعاً صاروخياً في الفترة الأخيرة.
وقام مراسل الصحيفة بزيارة إحدى ورش صناعة السلاح، حيث عرض أحد العاملين مدفع هاون تم تصنيعه من أنبوب حديدي وبعض قطع المعادن، وقال العامل "نبحث في الإنترنت على ما نريد تصنيعه بواسطة محرك البحث جوجل".
ويسرد التقرير الأوضاع الصعبة التي يقاسيها الثوار السوريون، حيث ينقل العامل الأسلحة التي يصنعها إلى منزله المستأجر الذي يسكن فيه مع زوجته وأطفاله الخمسة، إضافة إلى صبيين التحقا بصفوف الثوار مؤخرا.
وعلى بعد أميال من المنزل، زار المراسل المواطن عبد الكافي أبو زيد (32 عاما) المسجى مشلولا على فراش من المطاط المنفوخ نتيجة إصابته برصاصة استقرت قرب العمود الفقري.
وقال أبو زيد ذو الوجه الشاحب كالشبح وهو مستسلم لقدره "لقد نسيَنا العالم".
وأوضح التقرير أن منطقة مقاطعة هاتاي التركية الحدودية أصبحت قاعدة لوجستية للثوار والمعارضين السوريين، حيث يوجد فيها سوق للأسلحة ومركزًا للاستشفاء.
لكن التقرير أشار إلى وجود مجموعات إسلامية لا تتفق مع الفصائل المعارضة الأخرى إلا فيما يخص ضرورة الإطاحة بالرئيس السوري بشار الأسد، لكنها تختلف مع الجميع في باقي التفاصيل.
الثوار السوريون لا يحملون السلاح في المنطقة التركية، إلا أن هناك مخابئ محددة في المنطقة التي تكسوها غابات شجر الصنوبر والزيتون والرمان. وقد أصبحت هذه المنطقة أيضا قبلة لكل من ينشق من العسكريين السوريين.
وينقسم تواجد اللاجئين السوريين بوجه عام إلى قسمين: قسم في مخيمات منظمة ولكنها بسيطة التجهيز، وقسم في منازل مستأجرة حيث يرقد الجرحى على مراتب على الأرض، بينما ينكب الآخرون على الإنترنت ومحاورات بواسطة سكايب مع رفاقهم في الداخل السوري.
ويتحدث المراسل إلى ثائر سوري كان مقيما في الولايات المتحدة ويعمل في تجارة المعدات الثقيلة وترك عمله ليلتحق بصفوف الثوار. يقول محمود شيخ الزور (52 عاما) إن "الوضع ضبابي للغاية"، وأوضح أنه اتصل بعدة جهات في تركيا والولايات المتحدة ومن بينها النائب الجمهوري جون ماكين الذي يؤيد بشدة، من أجل تسليح الثوار السوريين، لكن لا يوجد هناك أي وعد حقيقي.
ووصف التقرير الحرب في سوريا بأنها "حرب أغنياء"، وأن الفقير لن يستطيع خوضها، حيث يبلغ سعر القنابل المستخدمة في الأسلحة الخفيفة أكثر من ألف دولار. ويتذكر شيخ الزور إحدى المواجهات حيث أخفقت 15 قذيفة أر.بي.جي مقاومة للدبابات في تدمير دبابة روسية من طراز تي-72، وقال: في تلك اللحظات فقط، أهدرت 15 ألف دولار.
لكن الصحيفة أشارت كذلك إلى نجاح كبير تحققه الأسلحة والذخائر التي يصنعها الناشطون في منازلهم، وشبهتها بالنجاح الكبير الذي كانت المقاومة العراقية تحققه في استهداف الآليات الأمريكية بواسطة قنابل تزرع على جانب الطريق مصنوعة محليا.

المصدر:التغيير

أحد «الشبيحة»: ندمن السلطة ونغتصب النساء بقوة و10 الاف ليرة لكل رقبة

كشف أحد «الشبيحة» كيف تحول إلى قاتل مأجور لحساب نظام بشار الأسد، وكان يقتل ويغتصب مقابل ما يعادل 450 دولارا شهريا، قبل وقوعه بيد الثوار الذين يحتجزونه في كهف بمحافظة إدلب في شمال سوريا يستخدمونه سجنا مؤقتا لمعتقليهم.
يقر محمد، وهذا ليس اسمه الحقيقي، لصحيفة «صنداي تلغراف» اللندنية، التي التقته مراسلتها، بأنه يعلم أنه ميت لا محالة. وحسب الصحيفة، تحول محمد، مقابل ما يعادل 450 دولار إضافة إلى 150دولارا عن كل ضحية، إلى قاتل مأجور. والأدهى من ذلك أن محمد قال للصحيفة: «استمتعت بكل دقيقة فيها». وقال: «نحن نحب الأسد لأن الحكومة كانت تطلق أيدينا إذا أردنا الحصول على شيء، أو قتل شخص أو اغتصاب فتاة.. كانت الحكومة تدفع لنا 30000 ليرة سورية شهريا (ما يعادل 450 دولارا شهريا)، إضافة إلى 10000 ليرة (150 دولارا) مقابل كل شخص أقتله أو آخذه أسيرا، وقد اغتصبت فتاة واغتصب قائدي كثيرات، فقد كان أمرا معتادا».
أسر محمد قبل بضعة أسابيع خلال تبادل لإطلاق النار مع وحدات الجيش السوري الحر، وحبس محمد في كهوف بالمرتفعات التي كانت تستخدم في السابق من قبل وحدات للثوار للاختباء من قوات الأسد، وإخفاء أسلحتهم، لكن هذه الكهوف تحولت الآن، بعد 16 شهرا من الثورة، إلى سجون لأسراهم من الجيش النظامي.
محمد، حسب الصحيفة، مفتول العضلات، وبنيته الجسدية القوية كانت تدل على أنه أحد أفراد جماعة الشبيحة عندما تم الإمساك به، وهي الآن قد حددت مصيره. ففي الوقت الذي يعامل فيه جنود الجيش النظام العاديون كأسرى حرب، يتم إعدام الشبيحة مثل محمد، الذين انتشرت سمعتهم السيئة كسفاحين في أنحاء المحافظة. لذلك، ولأنه لا يتوقع العفو، تحدث محمد للصحيفة بصراحة عن جرائمه.
يقول محمد: «انضم أصدقائي إلى الشبيحة وشجعوني على الذهاب معهم. ترددت، وقام الرجال في القاعدة الجوية المحلية بضربي حتى وافقت.. كنت أبلغ عن الأفراد المعارضين للأسد، كنت أقوم بأسرهم وأضعهم في السجن، وقد أعطتني الحكومة سلاحا».
يصف محمد عملية اغتصابا قام به، ويقول: «كانت طالبة في جامعة حلب، كان الوقت صباحا وكنت أقود في أنحاء المدينة مع قائدي. وكانت مارة بالشارع، قلت لرئيسي: ما رأيك في هذه الفتاة؟ أليست جميلة؟. اختطفناها ووضعناها في السيارة، وانطلقنا بها إلى مكان مهجور واغتصبناها هناك. وبعد أن انتهينا قتلناها. كانت تعرف وجوهنا والأحياء التي نقطن بها، ولذا لم نكن نستطيع أن نتركها تعيش». واعترف أيضا بأنه قتل رجلا أثناء مظاهرة مناوئة للأسد في المدينة. وحسب الصحيفة، لم يبدُ على محمد أي نوع من القلق الذي أظهره أي من السجناء الآخرين في سجون الثوار في ليبيا «حيث كان من الواضح أن البعض كانوا يتبعون نصا اعترافيا». غير أن مشاعره ظهرت عندما سألته عن السبب في لامبالاته، إذ قال: «لقد نشأت في عائلة طبيعية.. وتعلمت احترام النساء، لكن الشيطان سيطر على تفكيري في تلك الأيام».

المصدر: الشرق الاوسط

الجيش الحر يكشف تفاصيل أكبر عملياته في تصفية رجال الأسد

كشف الجيش السوري الحر عن تفاصيل أكبر عملياته التي نفذها في العاصمة دمشق اليوم الاربعاء وتمكن فيها من قتل وإصابة عدد من أكبر رجال النظام.
وقال الجيش الحر إن العملية تمت أولا بتسميم المجتمعين في مبنى الامن القومي وحين خرجوا على الحمالات إلى المشفى كانت العبوات الناسفة تنتظرهم بالخارج التي فجرها الجيش الحر فقتل من قتل وجرح من جرح .
وقال ناشطون أن الإجراءات الأمنية تعززت حول المشفى القريب من التفجير مما يزيد من الشكوك عن وقوع إصابات في صفوف شخصيات كبيرة.
وقال التلفزيون السوري إن وزير الدفاع داود راجحة قتل خلال الهجوم الذي استهدف اليوم مبنى الأمن القومي في حي الروضة .
وقالت قناة الميادين المقربة من النظام السوري إن عددا من قادة الأجهزة الأمنية السورية قتلوا خلال تفجير اليوم.
وكان التلفزيون السوري قال إن تفجيرا استهدف مبنى الأمن القومي الذي يرأسه اللواء هشام بختيار في حي الروضة أثناء اجتماع للوزراء ولقادة الأجهزة الأمنية المختصة.
وأعلن التليفزيون منذ قليل مقتل آصف شوكت صهر الرئيس بشار الاسد ونائب رئيس الاركان وإصابة وزير الداخلية أيضا في الانفجار بعد أن أعلن مقتل وزير الدفاع.

المصدر: المسلم
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