Syria air defense head killed by US-backed jihadist rebels

“‘We announce good news to the Islamic nation, of the killing of one of the leaders of unbelief, General Hussein Yaqoub Ishaq, head of the Air Defense Administration in Mleiha,’ the Islamic Front said in a statement.  Assad’s family is from Syria’s Alawite minority, who mostly support the president, and many Christians also back him, fearing the increasingly radicalized Sunni Muslim rebels. The rebels who took over Tel Malah included fighters from the Nusra Front – al Qaeda’s official branch in Syria – the Islamic Front.  Assad is now preparing for a presidential election which is widely expected to extend his 14-year rule for another seven-year term.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/18/us-syria-crisis-general-idUSBREA4H05F20140518

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In Syria, US sides with local jihadists to defeat global ones

“The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) is the victim of a US-Saudi decision to get rid of the ISIS burden and rehabilitate the Islamic Front as a final substitute for the Free Syrian Army (FSA).  The US-Saudi plan aimed at replacing the FSA with the Islamic Front started a few weeks ago with attempts by US Ambassador Robert Ford in Antakya, through meetings with Ahrar al-Sham, Suqour al-Sham and Liwa’ al-Tawhid Brigades, and the most prominent leaders of the Islamic Front, to persuade them to return to the FSA General Staff, whose headquarters and weapons stores near Bab al-Hawa they seized, and to join the political process in Geneva.”

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/security/2014/01/us-fight-jihadists-syria-isis-islamic-front.html

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Mandela ‘received weapons training from Mossad agents in 1962’

Nelson Mandela apparently underwent weapons training by Mossad agents in Ethiopia in 1962 without the Israeli secret service knowing his true identity, according to an intriguing secret letter lodged in the Israeli state archives.  The missive, revealed by the Israeli paper Haaretz two weeks after the death of the iconic South African leader, said Mandela was instructed in the use of weapons and sabotage techniques, and was encouraged to develop Zionist sympathies.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/20/nelson-mandela-weapons-training-mossad-agents

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‘Anarchy at door, West starts to rebuild Libyan army’

“Two years after NATO missiles helped rebels drive out Muammar Gaddafi, Libya is under siege from former rebel fighters who now flex their military muscle to make demands on the state, seize oilfields and squabble over post-war spoils.  With Libya’s army still in the making, Western powers are keen to halt chaos in the key European oil supplier and stop illicit arms spilling across North Africa.  The army struggles even to pin down how many troops it has.  Disputes run deep through the interior and defense ministries, where former rebels, including hardline Islamists, have been reintegrated and put on the state payroll in an attempt to control their fighters.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/05/us-libya-crisis-idUSBRE9B406B20131205

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Behind the Saudi crack-up

“Bandar bin Sultan is right about one thing: though the US has bankrolled the insurgents in Syria for more than two years and though it claims to be able to distinguish a democratic freedom fighter from a radical jihadist, it has little or no influence over any of its beneficiaries in Syria. One by one, the ‘moderate’ insurgents pledge loyalty to Al-Qaeda and one by one they scoff at the pleas of their benefactor to come to the negotiating table. The US has no influence over these fighters, but still claims to be able to pick a good rebel over a bad one.”

http://rt.com/op-edge/russia-saudi-sultan-putin-755/

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Sophisticated U.S. Arms Flowing to Jihadists

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“Fox News is reporting a stunning theft of U.S. arms by jihadist salafists in Libya. This news item will be made much of by critics of Obama on the right. However, military and government blunders, cost overruns, unneeded weapons systems, and general mis-management are par for the course. Of more relevance is the light this sheds on the U.S. arms being shipped into Syria. There are no significant controls that prevent these arms from reaching the most terror-prone and jihadist elements among the Syrian rebels, whose numbers are large in proportion to all the rebels. This decision to ship arms was foolhardy from the get-go, and now it looks even more ill-conceived.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/sophisticated-u-s-arms-flowing-to-jihadists/

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McCain’s Moderates Join Al-Qaeda

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“Now this week the final strategic pillar of McCain and the neocons has come crashing to the ground. Critical elements of the ever-shrinking ‘moderate’ Free Syrian Army have this week pledged their loyalty to the local al-Qaeda franchise in Syria, which happens to be on the US terror list.  How can President Obama, McCain, Lindsay Graham, Samantha Power, John Kerry, and the rest of the neoconservatives and humanitarian interventionists continue to justify sending weapons of war to such people? How is it possible that a ‘global war on terror’ has morphed into a ‘global effort to arm terrorists’? Does it not seem rather insane?”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/mccains-moderates-join-al-qaeda/

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Syria Claims Proof Rebels Used Chemical Weapons

“Syria has given Russia ‘material evidence’ that rebels carried out a chemical attack on 21 August, Russia’s deputy foreign minister has said.”

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Syria rebels fracturing as the Free Syrian Army condemns jihadists

“On Friday, after ISIS seized the northern border town of Azaz, the opposition National Coalition for the first time publicly condemned attacks by jihadists. ‘The Coalition condemns the aggressions against the forces of the Syrian revolution and the repeated disregard for the lives of Syrians, and considers that this behaviour runs contrary to the Syrian revolution and the principles it is striving to achieve,’ it said, after ISIS seized Azaz on the border with Turkey from FSA hands. Problems between the FSA and ISIS are not only over control, but also about vision.  While the FSA is fighting to establish a democratic state in Syria, the aim of ISIS is to create and rule over an Islamic state.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/20/syria-rebels-fracturing-as-the-free-syrian-army-condemns-jihadists/

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Cop who allegedly torched captain’s home faces 17 new charges

“Already facing charges of attempted murder for allegedly torching his supervisor’s home in May, an Edison police officer was arrested again today on a host of unrelated counts that portray him as a public menace with a badge.  Patrolman Michael Dotro, 36, allegedly bought marijuana while in uniform, conspired to sell the drug, slashed a woman’s tires and illegally accessed the police department’s records database for personal use. In a statement, Middlesex County acting Prosecutor Andrew Carey said Dotro also carried two prohibited weapons — a set of brass knuckles and a small club known as a blackjack — in his police duty bag while at work.”

http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2013/09/edison_cop_who_allegedly_torched_captains_home_faces_new_charges.html

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