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Apr 17, 2014, the Telegraph It was a simple three-hour trip from Beirut to Damascus. The border crossing caused no problems, and thereafter the journey was interrupted by only a handful of checkpoints. My first impression of the Syrian capital, too, was that it is surprisingly safe. I saw no …

Apr 16, 2014, Washington Post  

Apr 16, 2014, Global Research The pro-Israeli government of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is making diplomatic and military preparations for military intervention in Syria, leaked documents show. Canada’s National Defense has drawn up at least five scenarios for the country’s military mission in Syria, according to documents obtained by …

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 …

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 …

Apr 8, 2014  

Apr 7, 2014, the Guardian A masked gunman shot dead a Dutch priest in the garden of a monastery in the Syrian city of Homs on Monday. Father Francis van der Lugt, 75, a Jesuit – the same order as Pope Francis – had lived in Syria for decades and …

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 …

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 …

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 …