David Guyatt Wrote:Check. The Russians saw the next obvious board move and planned ahead.

Next move Uncle & Israel?

Quote:Gen Idriss made an emotional appeal to Western powers on the BBC World Service's Newshour programme, saying: "We are dying. Please come and help us."
He appealed for more weapons "to defend our citizens".


Gen Salim Idriss makes an appeal on the BBC's World Service: "We are dying, we are suffering, many, many people are now waiting to be killed"

Gen Idriss said the FSA was fielding fewer than 1,500 fighters in the fight for Qusair, armed only with light weapons.
More than 50,000 residents were trapped in the town and a "massacre" would occur if it fell, he added.

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Pentagon pushes back against Syria no-fly zone report

By Jeremy Herb - 05/28/13 05:09 PM ET


The Pentagon is pushing back against a report that the White House has asked the Pentagon this month to draw up plans for a no-fly zone inside Syria.
Pentagon press secretary George Little said in a statement there "is no new military planning effort underway with regard to Syria."
"The Joint Staff, along with the relevant combatant commanders, continue to conduct prudent planning for a range of possible military options," Little said.
The Pentagon statement came after The Daily Beast reportedTuesday that the White House had asked the military to plan for a no-fly zoneahead of Secretary of State John Kerry's trip last week to the Middle East.








"The White House is still in contemplation mode but theplanning is moving forward and it's more advanced than it's ever been," anunnamed administration official told The Daily Beast.Pentagon officials have said they are providing a range ofoptions to the White House on Syria that would be ready to be carried out ifPresident Obama decided to move forward with them.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has said the administration isre-considering whether to provide arms to the Syrian opposition, but thus farthe Obama administration has resisted calls for further steps, includingcreating a no-fly zone.


Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/operations/302219-pentagon-pushes-back-against-syria-no-fly-zone-report#ixzz2UmAlHUKY

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Were American Nicole Lynn Mansfield and a British Man Part of a "Gladio" Style Stay Behind Terrorist Force in Syria?

Posted on May 31, 2013 by willyloman
by Scott Creighton

"A car containing 3 members of Al-Nushra, a British citizen, an American woman and another foreign national of unknown origin was struck by a Syrian Rocket. Nicole Lynn Mansfield of Flint Michigan was killed. Also in the car was weapons, computers and maps of military positions." Gateway Pundit

Isn't that special. Americans and Brits are being called martyrs by al-Nusra when they die fighting alongside the terrorist organization. At least that's what an NBC News correspondent in England says. My, has the worm turned.

Keir Simmons @KeirSimmons

American woman and British man martyred in Syria' according to militant jihadist group Jabhat al-Nusra.
2:28 PM 30 May 2013

SANA news agency out of Syria was first to report that an American, Nicole Lynn Mansfield, has been killed in Idlib while fighting alongside our State Department's mercenary terrorists. According to reports, she was killed with a British national who was also apparently a merc as well.
Were they part of a new Gladio type operation in Syria? Were they "stay behind" terrorists, there conceal themselves in the general population in order to continue the terrorist destabilization campaign on a slightly smaller scale? Were they employed directly by the State Department to this end? And did she ultimately take this job because her employment options in Flint were next to none?

"The American government has not directly confirmed that Mansfield was killed in Syria, but her mother and cousin told the Detroit Free Press that the FBI did indeed confirm the news to them on Thursday afternoon.
Her cousin, David Speelman of Flint, told The Associated Press that FBI agents visited family members Thursday and informed them of Mansfield's death" JDLC

CBS News reports that the State Department is going to have to provide final confirmation of her death and that they are having to go through Czech Republic to get it.

"When last contacted by CBS News, Speelman said the FBI had reports that her niece was killed in Syria, but that official confirmation of her death would have to come from the State Department. The State Department has said it is aware of the reports and is working with the Czech Republic mission to obtain more information. With no diplomatic staff in Syria, the U.S. works through the Czech Republic on diplomatic matters." CBS News

The State Department is working through the Czech Republic mission in Syria? That's too bad. If the State Department still practiced diplomacy these days instead of just blackmail and terrorism, they wouldn't have to do that, would they?
The city she where she was killed used to be a stronghold of our mercenaries but recently it and several others were retaken by the Syrian army. A stay behind force, much like those created after WWII under the Gladio program, remained hiding in the shadows of the city, setting off car bombs and other terrorist attacks when they could.

"Idlib is a city in northwestern Syria. Idlib had been an opposition stronghold during the Syrian civil war against the government of Bashar al- Assad. The city and nearby town have been targeted for hosting large numbers of armed groups such as the Free Syrian Army and other opponents of the government. In March, Syria's armed forces began shelling parts of Idlib and on the 13th, the government captured the city following a three-day operation.Many security buildings in the center of Idlib have become targets of many car bombs placed by anti- government groups…
… SANA reported that the three were killed after they were found "snooping" around a military base. Field sources told Syrian TV news that the three foreigners were near a military base and that one of them "threw a grenade"which prompted protective sources to open fire.
… The soldiers reportedly found drawings of security installations in the area as well as firearms and a laptop" Heavy

It would certainly fit the pattern of these NATO imperialists. Rather than concede defeat they set up what basically amounts to terror cells in Syria striking at soft targets in order to maintain the effort and the body count until NATO can start the bombing campaign.
According to reports, Mansfield is yet another "Muslim convert". Go figure yet another convert ends up fighting alongside terrorists in a country we are trying to destabilize. Anyone else see a pattern developing here?
And there is another pattern.
It just so happens that Mansfield is from Flint, Michigan, one of the hardest hit cities in the engineered financial collapse of 2008. The crappy little apartment she had was just served an eviction notice. Apparently she had been subletting illegally while she was off on her new job.
Abject poverty breeds a very special kind of desperation. Whether or not she actually believed in her new religion or not is beside the point. Chicken hawks always flock to desperate people whether they are LEOs looking to cultivate a snitch in order to entrap dupes in honeypot schemes or whether they are looking to offer a few thousand bucks and a way out to hopelessly poor "converted Muslims", it's all pretty much the same. The economic crisis they created also creates other opportunities for the strong to feed on the weak.

"She had a heart of gold, but she was weak-minded," her grandmother said. "I think she could have been brainwashed." Foreign Policy

Another dupe like the half-wits the FBI seeks out for their annual "we saved you from the terrorists" show?
If this young woman, Nicole Lynn Mansfield, got tangled up with the wrong headhunters, you almost have to feel sorry for her. Almost. The fact is, she was willing to go abroad and wage terrorist attacks in a new Syrian Gladio operation. And poverty doesn't excuse that. Desperate people will do desperate things, but moral people will not.
Over at Foreign Policy, they just can't seem to wrap their heads around this one:

"…the central question being asked about her today: Why would she suddenly leave the United States to join the Syrian revolt? To solve that mystery, we're going to need more than a scattered set of photographs."Foreign Policy

It's only a big mystery if you avoid considering the obvious and our history since WWII. Otherwise, it's pretty obvious.

Quote:3 June 2013 Last updated at 22:27 ET

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Syria conflict: US may leave F-16s and missiles in Jordan

Nato states sent Patriot missile batteries to Turkey earlier this year
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The US says it will send a Patriot missile battery and F-16 fighters to Jordan for military exercises and might keep them there to help deal with the threat from the conflict in Syria.
A US official said the arms may be kept there in light of "escalating violence along Jordan's borders".
Secretary of State John Kerry said Syria was at risk of "total implosion".
Meanwhile, the UN is due to publish its latest report into human rights violations in Syria.
The report, the fifth of its kind, is widely expected to contain more evidence of atrocities amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
It comes amid diplomatic efforts, led by the US and Russia, to organise peace talks later this month. So far diplomats have been unable to set a date for the meeting.
'Late'US Department of State spokeswoman Jen Psaki said no decision had yet been made over whether to keep the missile launcher and F-16s in Jordan.
"Given our strong alliance with Jordan and in light of circumstances in the region and escalating violence along Jordan's borders, if requested some [weapons] may remain beyond the conclusion of the exercise to assist the Jordanian armed forces," she said.
It was not clear how many F-16s would be sent. Nato already positioned Patriot missile batteries near Turkey's border with Syria earlier this year.
The batteries are designed to intercept Scud missiles, but could also potentially be employed to enforce a no-fly zone.
US President Barack Obama's administration has been coming under pressure at home and abroad to take more forceful action over Syria.
Speaking of the attempt to organise a peace conference, Mr Kerry said: "This is a very difficult process, which we come to late.
"We are trying to prevent the sectarian violence from dragging Syria down into a complete and total implosion where it has broken up into enclaves and the institutions of the state have been destroyed," he said.
The conference aims to bring representatives of the government and rebel groups together to negotiate over a plan published last year that provides for a ceasefire and a transitional government.
Mr Kerry said the conference was dependent on "events on the ground and the participants themselves".
"The Unites States can push and cajole... but in the end, the people on the ground, are going to have to decide that that's something they are prepared to engage in," he said.
At least 80,000 people have been killed and 1.5 million have fled Syria since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's government began in 2011.

Quote:Speaking of the attempt to organise a peace conference, Mr Kerry said: "This is a very difficult process, which we come to late.
"We are trying to ensure the externally sponsored violence will drag Syria down into a complete and total implosion where it has broken up into enclaves and the institutions of the state have been destroyed," he said.
The conference aims to bring representatives of the government and rebel groups together to impose a plan published last year that provides for a ceasefire and a puppet government, similar to the KLA criminal regime in Kosovo.

Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Fixed the quote:

Quote:Speaking of the attempt to organise a peace conference, Mr Kerry said: "This is a very difficult process, which we come to late.
"We are trying to ensure the externally sponsored violence will drag Syria down into a complete and total implosion where it has broken up into enclaves and the institutions of the state have been destroyed," he said.
The conference aims to bring representatives of the government and rebel groups together to impose a plan published last year that provides for a ceasefire and a puppet government, similar to the KLA criminal regime in Kosovo.