Desmond Shephard Bikya Masr November 16, 2011 The head ofIsrael’s defense ministry’s diplomatic-security bureau warned of a possible “Islamic empire” ifSyria’s President Bashar al-Assad were to be ousted. Amos Gilad said that the removal of the Syrian leader would lead to a “devastating crisis forIsrael.” His comments come as violence inSyriareached new [...]
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Robert Fisk: Assad will only go if his own tanks turn against him
Predictions of Syrian leader’s imminent demise are hopelessly optimistic The Independent Wednesday 16 November 2011 InDamascusearlier this month, Syrian state television asked me for an interview on events inSyria. With much trepidation, I accepted, promising the presenter he would not like all I said, but warning – a bit of Fisk blackmail, this [...]
Robert Fisk: Arab League’s ‘roar’ at Syria shows how tiny Qatar is starting to flex its muscle
The once pathetic group has now got the clout to stand up to Damascus The Independent Monday 14 November 2011 So did the “Arab Spring” infect the Arab League this weekend – or was it leaned on by the British Empire-style ambitions of tiny, richQatar? The League – one of the silliest, [...]
Washington’s Enemy ‘Doesn’t Exist’
By Michael Scheuer RT November 11, 2011 Americans are in the crosshairs of terrorists worldwide purely due toWashington’s policy in the Muslim world, not because there is an Islamic enemy whose only aim is to kill Americans for their freedoms and lifestyle, insists a former CIA officer. Historian Michael Scheuer, an author [...]
Colonialism in weapons inspectors clothing
Patrick Hayes Patrick Hayes is a reporter for spiked. spiked Wednesday 9 November 2011 Far from being politically neutral, nuke-hunting weapons inspectors are thoroughly in hock to Western interests. Following a flurry of reports from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over the past week, alarms have been raised thatSyria andIran may be developing [...]
Robert Fisk: What the killing of Gaddafi means to Syria
Independent Saturday 29 October 2011 Two days before Gaddafi was murdered, I was reading the morning newspapers inBeirutand discovered a remarkable story on most front pages. At the time, the mad ex-emperor ofLibya was still hiding in Sirte, but there was this quotation by theUS Secretary of State, La Clinton, speaking inTripoli itself. “We [...]
Robert Fisk: Assad’s army remains defiant as it buries its dead
Syrian officers told me 1,150 soldiers have been killed in Syria in the past seven months – an extraordinary death toll Independent Wednesday, 26 October 2011 Sergeant Jassem Abdul-Raheem Shehadi and Private Ahmed Khalaf Adalli of the Syrian Army were sent to their graves yesterday with the send-off their families would have wished [...]
Tracing the Middle East weapons flow
The United States, Europe and Russia sold regimes tanks, guns and tear gas in the five years preceding the Arab Spring Gregg Carlstrom and Evan Hill Al Jazeera Last Modified: 20 Oct 2011 08:37 Earlier this year, as mass popular uprisings spread through the Middle East and audiences across the world sat transfixed [...]
