Syria

[Trout]

I was searching for a topic about the uprising in Syria and the butchery of the regime. Couldn't find one. Allegedly more than a thousand people have died at the hands of the government.

[beer baron]

Perish the thought,surely the great Brits and Americans would be saving the day if there was any trouble at all sure they're always looking out for every nations best interests 

[Tony Baloney]

I was searching for a topic about the uprising in Syria and the butchery of the regime. Couldn't find one. Allegedly more than a thousand people have died at the hands of the government.

The boys are too busy preparing a flotilla to be on here...

[Denn Forever]

Syria was a valued asset in the war against terror. I seem to remember that Syria was where people underwent Extraordinary Rendition to allegedly.

http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/site/c.goJTI0OvElH/b.1387629/k.F4A8/Extraordinary_Renditions__US_outsourcing_Torture.htm

Syrian diplomat was invited to royal wedding but thankfully Syrian Diplomat Pulled Off Guest List
.
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/europe/Britains-Royal-Wedding-Program-Released-120854424.html

[Capt Pat]

I was searching for a topic about the uprising in Syria and the butchery of the regime. Couldn't find one. Allegedly more than a thousand people have died at the hands of the government.

There is a topic about the upheaval in the middle east.

[Denn Forever]

I know there is a topic about the Middle East but is the use of chemical weapons in Syria are proven, Obama has said that this will signify that a line has been crossed and America would take action.

Images of Death in Syria, but No Proof of Chemical Attack

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/world/middleeast/syria.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

But not only America.
France Urges 'Force' in Syria if Chemical Attacks Are Confirmed
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/23/world/middleeast/france-urges-force-in-syria-if-chemical-attacks-confirmed.html

On the other hand,

http://www.infowars.com/experts-syria-chemical-weapons-attack-suspicious/

[southdown]

This deserves a topic of its own.  Just saw pictures of dead children lined up after a chemical weapons attacks.

FFS something needs to be done here.  Something should have been done a long, long time ago.  Sickening stuff.

[Shamrock Shore]

Is there oil?

No

Will anything be done?

No

Will there be lots of hot air spouted by William Hague, John Kerry et al.

Yes

Will anything be done

No

[Abble]

Just saw pictures of dead children lined up after a chemical weapons attacks.

you should see the pictures of the living children after the latest chemical attack, so many young lives ruined. truly sickening stuff.

[give her dixie]

I was searching for a topic about the uprising in Syria and the butchery of the regime. Couldn't find one. Allegedly more than a thousand people have died at the hands of the government.

The boys are too busy preparing a flotilla to be on here...

You will see I posted about it yesterday Tony. People are too busy talking about a girl in Peru and one at Slane to notice......

[Tony Baloney]

I was searching for a topic about the uprising in Syria and the butchery of the regime. Couldn't find one. Allegedly more than a thousand people have died at the hands of the government.

The boys are too busy preparing a flotilla to be on here...

You will see I posted about it yesterday Tony. People are too busy talking about a girl in Peru and one at Slane to notice......

Two years ago.

[give her dixie]

I was searching for a topic about the uprising in Syria and the butchery of the regime. Couldn't find one. Allegedly more than a thousand people have died at the hands of the government.

The boys are too busy preparing a flotilla to be on here...

You will see I posted about it yesterday Tony. People are too busy talking about a girl in Peru and one at Slane to notice......

Two years ago.

[seafoid]

I was searching for a topic about the uprising in Syria and the butchery of the regime. Couldn't find one. Allegedly more than a thousand people have died at the hands of the government.

sounds like egypt .

Israel wants the americans to get rid of assad so chemical weapons are in the news today.

[seafoid]

Israel wants a big showdown with  Iran and needs to get Assad out of the way first.

The price of Israel is chaos all over the Middle East.
Thank f**k norn Irn isn't south of Turkey.  Israel would have shunted all the catholics into refugee camps a long time ago.


http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.542975

Yuval Steinitz, the minister for intelligence and strategic affairs, told Israel Radio that it is Israel's intelligence assessment that President Bashar Assad used chemical weapons against Syrian civilians on Wednesday.



http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.542873


By implicating Assad on chemical weapons, Israel hopes to prod Obama to act
Israel views Syria conflict through prism of a nuclear Iran while U.S. is influenced by trauma of September 11; Jerusalem dreads an Assad victory, Washington fears his jihadist rivals.

The extent of the American hesitancy was made crystal clear, by coincidence, with the publication a few hours earlier of Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey's letter to Congressman Eliot Engel, in which the army general – for the second time this month – ruled out significant military action against the Assad regime. Any current opposition that would take Assad's place, Dempsey wrote in essence, would be just as bad or even worse, as far as the U.S. is concerned.
This apparent reversal of the hitherto unequivocal U.S. position, by which Assad's removal from power is a sine qua non for resolving the Syria crisis, is exactly what has been worrying senior military and diplomatic figures in Israel in recent weeks.

West Jerusalem, along with other Arab capitals, view Assad's survival as the worst-case scenario, a disastrous triumph for Iran and the Shiite crescent that it wishes to establish, from Tehran to Beirut. This growing gap between the sides reflects the divergence between the nuclear Iran obsession of Israel and other players in the region and the September 11 trauma that colors the U.S. approach. The American nightmare is a replay of Afghanistan, in which support for Islamist mujahideen against Soviet invaders was the breeding ground for Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaida. Israel views the rise of Islamic jihadists as a lesser evil, and was therefore quick to pounce on the gruesome videos coming out of Damascus in order to declare Assad guilty and possibly nudge Obama to finally act against him.

[Nally Stand]

Will this thread be used for discussion, or like the other middle east related threads on gaaboard, will it be a place solely for posting endlessss articles from elsewhere online?