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Jordan Warplanes Destroy Cars Along Syrian Border

Apr 16, 2014, Antiwar.com Jordanian warplanes attacked a destroyed an unspecified number of cars this morning along the border with Syria. The cars were camouflaged, though officials confirmed none of them were even suspected of affiliation to the Syrian military. The official statement didn’t make any specific allegations of whose …

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US Guantanamo detainee killed in Syria while leading NATO-backed death squad

Apr 17, 2014, New Eastern Outlook The Long War Journal reported in its post, “Former Guantanamo detainee killed while leading jihadist group in Syria,” that: Ibrahim Bin Shakaran, a Moroccan who spent more than three years at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility before being released to Moroccan custody, has been …

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Assad There to Stay?

Apr 9, 2014, CounterPunch How the US Campaign for “Regime Change” in Syria Became a Magnet for International Terrorism Long gone the days when the U.S.-led so-called “Friends of Syria” could plausibly claim that two thirds of Syria was controlled by rebel forces, that Syrian capital Damascus was under siege …

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Media Blackout over Syria

Apr 6, 2014, Global Research On April 6, The London Review of Books published in its online journal Seymour Hersh’s “The Red Line and the Rat Line.” Hersh continues to expose details surrounding the staged August 21 chemical attack incident in Syria, which apparently pretty much everyone in Washington’s intelligence bureaucracy suspected …

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The Red Line and the Rat Line: Seymour M. Hersh on Obama, Erdoğan and the Syrian rebels

Apr 6, 2014, LRB In 2011 Barack Obama led an allied military intervention in Libya without consulting the US Congress. Last August, after the sarin attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, he was ready to launch an allied air strike, this time to punish the Syrian government for allegedly …

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Saudi regime goes berserk over reform calls

Zafar Bangash, Apr 2014 Calling for reforms is “terrorism,” withdrawing your allegiance to the monarchy is “treason” and contacting international news organizations about human rights violations in the kingdom will land you in prison. Welcome to the Saudi kingdom! Has the Saudi regime shot itself in the foot over its …

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