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Barack Obama is reopening the US’s diplomatic mission in Damascus: U.S. to Return Ambassador to Syria After 4-Year Absence. President Obama has decided to return a U.S. ambassador to Syria after an absence of more than four years, marking a significant step toward engaging an influential Arab nation long ...
Syria, Iran, Terrorism, Nuclear Proliferation, Bashar Assad, Barack Obama
Here’s a our soft, fuzzy nuclear news of the day, as the UN’s blind, toothless watchdog leaps into action again: New uranium traces found in Syria. VIENNA – The U.N nuclear agency on Friday reported its second unexplained find of uranium particles at a Syrian nuclear site, in a ...
Spiegel Online has an article with detailed information on the investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri — imagine my surprise to learn that New Evidence Points to Hezbollah in Hariri Murder. SPIEGEL has learned from sources close to the tribunal and verified by examining ...
Hillary Clinton has assured Lebanese President Michael Suleiman that the US will never sell out Lebanon. BEIRUT (AP) — Ahead of an election that could oust the U.S.-backed Beirut government, America’s top diplomat said Sunday that Washington supports “voices of moderation” and never will make a deal [with] Syria ...
Lebanon, Syria, Bashar Assad, Baathism, Hezbollah, Hillary Clinton, Michael Suleiman
You mean there are people who actually believe that chinless Syrian dictator Bashar Assad has suddenly become a “peacemaker?” Bashar Assad the peacemaker? Think again. In the last two or three years, a number of old arguments regarding Syria have again become fashionable. One of them is that peace ...
Christopher Hitchens finally files a report on his run-in with fascist thugs in Beirut, as part of a longer essay on The Swastika and the Cedar. As Arab thoroughfares go, Hamra Street in the center of Beirut is probably the most chic of them all. International in flavor, cosmopolitan ...
Hamas leader Moussa Abu Marzouk, deported from the US in 1997, suddenly feels comfy enough to “secretly” visit Gaza, instead of spewing his bloodthirsty eliminationism from a safe haven in Syria: Top Syria-based Hamas leader secretly visits Gaza. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – A top Syria-based Hamas leader secretly ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Moussa Abu Marzook, Syria
Here’s Michael Totten’s account of Christopher Hitchens and the Battle of Beirut. Christopher was encircled by four or five of them. They were geared up to smash him, and I reached for his hand to pull him away. One of the toughs clawed at my arm and left me ...
Christopher Hitchens, Lebanon, Syria, SSNP, Michael J. Totten
More evidence was announced Friday that Syria is running a clandestine nuclear program: Syria samples reveal more uranium. The UN nuclear agency says it has found additional particles of uranium in samples taken from the site of an alleged nuclear facility in Syria. Syria denied the site was a ...
Syria, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Weapons, IAEA
Lurch says: “We want Syria to help with the disarmament of Hezbollah.” BEIRUT (AFP) – Senator John Kerry said on Wednesday that the new US administration will press Syria to help disarm Lebanese militant group Hezbollah as it forges ahead with a fresh diplomatic approach in the region. “We ...
Christopher Hitchens is visiting Lebanon, and apparently was attacked and beaten by pro-Syrian neo-Nazis after he wrote some ... unflattering graffiti on an SSNP poster: Hot Air: Report: Hitchens beaten by Syrian thugs in Beirut? Some Hot Air commenters are applauding the SSNP thugs. UPDATE at 2/18/09 2:55:38 pm: Looks ...
Jimmy Carter has finally found some terrorists who won’t hug him—because despite his long history of anti-Israel statements and actions, he’s just not antisemitic enough for them. BEIRUT (AFP) – Lebanon’s militant group Hezbollah has refused to meet visiting former US president Jimmy Carter to discuss legislative elections set ...
Jimmy Carter, Bashar Assad, Syria, Samir Kuntar, Terrorism, Hezbollah, Hizballah
Apparently not satisfied with meeting only with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, America’s most disgraceful former president Jimmy Carter is now looking for an opportunity to hug the murderous thugs of Hezbollah: Carter, in Lebanon, says ready to meet with Hezbollah officials. Carter made the comments upon arrival in Lebanon ...
Jimmy Carter, Bashar Assad, Syria, Samir Kuntar, Terrorism, Hezbollah, Hizballah
Jimmy Carter is doing his weird pseudo-diplomacy thing again, traveling to Syria to meet with chinless ophthalmologist/dictator Bashar Assad—just days after Assad gave Syria’s highest award to a terrorist monster: Of Course: Carter To Hold Tete-A-Tete With Assad In Damascus. Here’s Assad with the child-killer Samir Kuntar. (Courtesy of MEMRI ...
The UN’s blind watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei is pushing hard to continue helping the Syrians build a nuclear reactor, despite new evidence that they were conducting a clandestine nuclear project. ElBaradei says that just like individuals, countries should be considered innocent until proven guilty: ‘Don’t prejudge Syrian nuclear program.’ “There ...
United Nations, IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei, Nuclear Proliferation, Syria, Israel
In a slice of rancid Syrian antisemitism that aired on October 10, 2008, economist Muhammad Sharif Mazloum calmly explains that the Jews are responsible for the economic crisis. And the Zionist lobby killed JFK, to protect the shekel. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video]
More than a year after an Israeli air strike took care of it, the United Nations’ blind, toothless nuclear watchdog thinks there might have been an illicit nuclear reactor in Syria. VIENNA (Reuters) – A Syrian complex bombed by Israel bore features that would resemble those of an undeclared ...
United Nations, IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei, Nuclear Proliferation, Syria, Israel
In May of this year, Barack Obama fired Middle East adviser Robert Malley when it was revealed that Malley had been holding secret talks with Hamas. One of Barack Obama’s Middle East policy advisers disclosed yesterday that he had held meetings with the militant Palestinian group Hamas – prompting ...
Barack Obama, Israel, Robert Malley, Hamas, Syria, Egypt, lies
Bill Roggio has the story behind yesterday’s US attack on Syria: Syrian strike aimed at al Qaeda’s coordinator in Syria. The US military incursion into Syria was aimed at the senior leader of al Qaeda’s extensive network that funnels foreign fighters, weapons, and cash from Syria into Iraq, a ...
The US military is fed up with Syria’s open support of Iraqi jihadis, and today they sent helicopters into Syrian territory in a strike targeting a family that has been helping the jihadis get across the border: Syria: US choppers attack village near Iraq border. DAMASCUS, Syria – U.S. ...
A taxi packed with explosives blew up on a crowded residential street in Damascus today, killing at least 17 people. Syrian television said a car packed with 440 pounds (200 kilograms) of explosives blew up on Mahlak Street, in a southern district of the Syrian capital close to the ...
That top Syrian general who was assassinated last week was in charge of procuring anti-aircraft missiles for Hizballah. The senior aide to Syrian President Bashar Assad who was assassinated last weekend had been in charge of supplying Hizbullah with advanced anti-aircraft weaponry, the Sunday Times reported. According to the ...
LGF, Syria, Lebanon, Bashar Assad, Assassination, Lebanon, Hizballah
A report is circulating through Arab media that the “right hand man” of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad has been assassinated. BEIRUT (AFP) - Arab media reported on Sunday that a brigadier general thought to be the Syrian regime’s liaison with Hezbollah in Lebanon has been assassinated. ... The Saudi-owned ...
Bashar Assad must really love mush-headed Western mediabots like Barbara Walters: Barbara Walters: Syrian Dictator ‘Charming,’ ‘Intelligent’. While most Americans celebrated Independence Day with fireworks and barbeques, Barbara Walters spent the occasion dining with Syrian leader Bashir al-Assad, whom Walters described as “intelligent” and “charming” who wants “very much ...
LGF, Syria, Bashar Assad, Propaganda, Barbara Walters, Media Blindness
Is Ehud Olmert getting ready to hand over the Golan Heights to Syria? Israel says it is holding peace talks with Syria. JERUSALEM - Israel and Syria on Wednesday said they were holding indirect peace talks through Turkish mediators — the first official confirmation of contacts between the longtime ...