http://www.infowars.com/video-syrian-rebels-burn-american-flag/
NATO initially claimed that they “positively identified hostile intent” from the unarmed women before the attack, and labeled them all “insurgents.” They later expressed “regret” and claimed the deaths were “unintentional.”
Whether Turkey is deliberately doing this or not, there seems to be solid evidence that it is happening, as the Syrian Civil War is seeing a rebel faction increasingly split between Syrian military defectors and international jihadists with an eye on creating a theocracy.
Video: Syrian Rebels Burn American Flag
While Obama sends them millions in taxpayer dollars
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Monday, September 17, 2012
Infowars.com
Monday, September 17, 2012
While President Barack Obama sends millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to help Syrian opposition forces who have aligned themselves with Al-Qaeda overthrow President Bashar Al-Assad, a video shows some of those very same Syrian rebels burning an American flag.
The clip shows Syrian rebels and activists at a protest in Aleppo demonstrating against the Innocence of Muslimsfilm that has bee blamed for widespread unrest across the Middle East as well as last week’s attack on a U.S. Consulate in Benghazi that led to the death of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.
The footage shows Syrian opposition members reciting Islamic chants for the prophet Muhammad as they burn a U.S. flag and subsequently throw it to the ground and stamp on it. The tri-star French Mandate flag which has become the emblem of Syrian rebels can clearly be seen in the background.
Similar to how last week’s attack in Benghazi led to questions about the Obama administration’s foreign policy of arming some of the very same militants now killing U.S. Ambassadors in Libya, this clip will stoke fresh controversy about why the White House is backing extremists in Syria who are now openly displaying their contempt for the United States in line with other anti-American protests occurring across the region.
Last month, President Barack Obama signed a secret order confirming that he would use taxpayer money to support Syrian rebels with “non-lethal aid”. However, the New York Times admits that the CIA is helping steer heavy weaponry to the rebels on the Turkish border paid for by Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
The U.S. government has also provided a separate figure of over $76 million dollars to Syrian opposition forces as part of what the White House claims is “humanitarian aid”.
Al-Qaeda terrorists are also flooding into Syria from numerous countries, most recently Yemen, in order to train and command the U.S.-backed rebel army. In a July 30 report, the London Guardian admitted that Al-Qaeda fighters met regularly with Syrian rebels and taught them how to build bombs.
As we have previously highlighted, Syrian rebel fighters are routinely photographed wearing the Al-Qaeda motif. There are also innumerable You Tube videos that show opposition forces flying the Al-Qaeda flag - the same distinctive black flag with white Arabic lettering that has been flown by rioters during anti-U.S. demonstrations in numerous countries over the last week.
The Al-Qaeda flag was also flown by Libyan militants over courthouses in Benghazi and other centers of power following the NATO-backed overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi last year.
The question is simple but it remains unanswered – given last week’s events in Benghazi, why is the Obama administration continuing to fund and arm radical extremist Muslims in Syria who have aligned themselves with terrorists and who are now publicly burning American flags and denouncing the United States as the Great Satan?
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http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/afghan-soldiers-pay-the-price-as-us-forces-told-not-to-interact-with-them-8143134.html
The line of American soldiers stood facing a jumble of Afghan soldiers. They were trying to get ready to practice some basic drills; clearing rifles and machine guns, applying tourniquets, carrying stretchers and marksmanship. Then the improvised explosive device went off and everyone went running in different directions.
The thump and boom of the IED rolled over the defensive wall of the base. The gathered Afghan soldiers peered over at the dark brown cloud billowing up from a village just 300 metres outside the wire. Reports started crackling in over the Afghan lieutenant's radio from the engaged unit. Then the bursts of an Afghan army heavy machine gun kicked in along with the rolling cracks of small arms fire.
Since a wave of violence has been unleashed across Muslim countries in recent days over the US-made anti-Islam video posted on YouTube, Nato's International Security and Assistance Force (ISAF) has denied some American units permission to patrol - effectively locking them down on their bases. For days now US soldiers here at Combat Outpost Garda, in Wardak Province, have spent their time sleeping, working out, eating, playing video games, talking on Skype, watching YouTube videos and starting the tiresome process of breaking down their base - anything but patrolling with their Afghan counterparts.
The Afghan soldiers have paid the price. Nearly every day that they've gone out in the past week into the narrow strip of orchards and houses that lie at the bottom of this wide mountain valley, they've been hit with IEDs or ambushed by small arms fire. Though they have not suffered any losses of soldiers or equipment, their relationship with the men who are supposed to be their mentors until the withdrawal of US forces in 2014 has been strained.
Early on Sunday morning, American troops had to tell Afghan Captain Sayed Abdullah they could not accompany his men on a planned mission. His reaction was one of resignation and anger. "This is dangerous for us," he told the American soldier bearing the news. "We have no mine detectors."
Now, with four American soldiers killed by Afghan forces or men dressed in Afghan uniforms on Sunday, and eight killings in total in three incidents over three days, the restrictions have increased. Now the American commander at COP Garda cannot even go to the Afghan Army compound down the hill from the US compound. All interaction between US and Afghan forces has been be suspended for the next 24 hours.
The decision to order US forces to not conduct patrols and to not interact with Afghan forces is adding yet more strain to a relationship that has become more and more fraught as the US prepares the Afghan Army and Police for the day when they will not be able to turn to the US and Nato for assistance in 2014, or to "pull the rug out from under the Afghan forces feet" in the words of one US commander.
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http://news.antiwar.com/2012/09/16/karzai-slams-nato-after-air-strike-kills-eight-women/
Karzai Slams NATO After Airstrike Kills Eight Women
'Strongly Condemns' Strike and Promises Investigation
by Jason Ditz, September 16, 2012
Afghan President Hamid Karzai issued a statement “strongly condemning” the overnight air strike in Laghman Province, in which NATO warplanes attacked a group of women gathering firewood on the outskirts of a village, killing eight and wounding several others.
NATO initially claimed that they “positively identified hostile intent” from the unarmed women before the attack, and labeled them all “insurgents.” They later expressed “regret” and claimed the deaths were “unintentional.”
Provincial officials had already condemned NATO for the attack,saying that it was done without the requisite coordination from local and provincial officials for such an operation. Karzai alsopromised to deploy a team to investigate the incident.
Incredibly, the early speculation from analysts is that Western officials are going to be angry with Karzai for criticizing the killings publicly at a time when the two sides are already spatting about Bagram Prison. The ceremony for the transfer of the prison was held last week, but the transfer is on indefinite hold after the US demanded that Karzai promise never to give the detainees within anything resembling a trial, and Karzai insisted that was up to the Afghan judiciary to decide.
It is just the latest in seemingly countless incidents of NATO killing Afghan civilians, Karzai criticizing those killings, and NATO officials then publicly wondering whether they need to “replace” him.
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http://news.antiwar.com/2012/09/16/syria-accuses-turkey-of-giving-al-qaeda-access/
Syria Accuses Turkey of Giving al-Qaeda Access
FM Complains to UN That Turkey Is Allowing Thousands of Terrorists In
by Jason Ditz, September 16, 2012
Syrian Foreign Ministry officials have issued a formal complaint to the United Nations Security Council, accusing neighboring Turkey of giving access to “thousands of al-Qaeda, Takfiri and Wahhabi terrorists” who are using the country to enter Syria.
Whether Turkey is deliberately doing this or not, there seems to be solid evidence that it is happening, as the Syrian Civil War is seeing a rebel faction increasingly split between Syrian military defectors and international jihadists with an eye on creating a theocracy.
Such fighters may be coming from any direction, and some are undoubtedly trickling in from Jordan and Iraq. But Turkey is the go-to location for rebel factions, and many are openly setting up shop in Ankara and Istanbul with the government’s blessing.
Turkey has made no real secret of its desire for regime change in Syria, backing some rebel blocs openly even though the war increasingly looks to be a worst-case result for not just Syria but Turkey as well. With several NATO members on the UN Security Council, it is a given that the Syrian complaint will be ignored, but it sets the stage for yet more bickering about Western meddling, and the route through which it is arriving in Syria’s major cities.
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http://www.libyaherald.com/?p=14555
Wanis Al-Sharif sacked as Deputy Interior Minister for Eastern region
Benghazi, 17 September:
Wanis Al-Sharif has been sacked as deputy interior minister responsible for eastern Libya. The post is not being filled for the moment because the government itself will be replaced within the next three weeks, but Colonel Salah al-Din Awad Doghman has been appointed by the Interior Ministry to take over Sharif’s work.
Even before Tuesday’s attack on the US diplomatic mission in the city and the killing of US Ambassador and three of his staff, there had been growing criticism of Sharif’s handling of security in Benghazi. The city has seen a spate of assassinations of former regime military figures in recent weeks as well as attempted assassinations, kidnappings, bombings and attacks on security and other government buildings.
Sharif’s explanation of Tuesday’s events was seen as the last straw by officials as well as members of the General National Congress and the Libyan media.
He first announced that no one was in the mission at the time of the attack and then, after the news of the deaths was announced, he tried to put the blame equally on the Americans and pro-Qaddafi sympathisers. He said the demonstration outside the mission over the video film in the US attacking the Prophet Mohamed had been peaceful until US security guards started firing but also claimed that those resposnsible for the attack were Qaddafi elements.
The explanation was derided as “ridiculous” by influential Congressman Salah Ajouda Jawdah while Congress leader Mohamed Magarief refuted it, saying that the attack was premeditated.
Questions are also being asked why it took so long for security forces, fro which Sharif was reposnsible, to get to the US mission after the attack began.
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http://www.libyaherald.com/?p=14569
Weapons collection initiative postponed
Hundreds of thousands of small arms and heavier-type weapons are still in the hands of militias and private citizens.
Tripoli, 17 September:
A planned initiative to collect weapons still in the hands of militias and private citizens has been postponed, according to the army chief of staff, Yousef Mangoush.
Last week, it was announced that the armed forces, together with the government and various civil society organisations, were planning a festival-like event, to take place on Sunday 16 September, during which it was hoped that large numbers of arms, including medium to heavy weapons, would be handed over.
According to flyers being circulated, there was to have been live entertainment and prize giveaways during the event, which was to begin in Tripoli and Benghazi, before being rolled out nationwide.
Days later, however, the government announced that Sunday was to be a new annual national holiday, Martyr’s Day, to commemorate all those who had fallen fighting to liberate Libya during last year’s revolution.
Mangoush said that it had then been decided to postpone the weapons handover in order not to divert attention from this latter occassion.
Even before the chief of staff’s announcement, however, that had been speculation as to the viability of the planned scheme, not least owing to concerns that those in possession of arms would wish to receive payment for handing them over, an incentive not built in to the current initiative.
Hopes of such an incentive have been raised by Prime Minister-elect Mustafa Abushagur, who proposed a cash-for-weapons scheme prior to his nomination last Wednesday.
Recent outbreaks of violence in Benghazi and the southern town of Sebha have once again highlighted the need for the government to gain control of the hundreds of thousands of arms still in the hands of militias and private citizens.
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