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drum beats and Rumours of war middle east escalation continues Turkey returns fire after shots fired from Syria-no casualties Israel could swoop on S-300 missiles in Syria, but with risks

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ANKARA,  (AP) — Turkey’s military on Thursday returned fire after shots were fired at an armored personnel carrier from across the border with .

A military statement said a group of around three to five people from across the border fired up to 15 shots toward the vehicle that was patrolling an area near the , on the frontier. Turkish state-run TRT television said no one was wounded and the military said the group escaped and “disappeared from view” when it fired back.

Turkey has repeatedly struck back at the Syrian military in response to shelling and mortar rounds that landed on its territory since shells from Syria struck a Turkish village in October, killing five people. The incident prompted NATO to send anti-aircraft batteries to the area to protect Turkey.

Thursday’s incident was the first time the military has responded to shots fired from across the border and comes at a time of increased fears that Turkey and other neighbors of Syria are being drawn into the country’s civil war.

Turkey was once a close ally of Syria, but has now turned into one of Syrian President Bashar Assad regime’s harshest critics. It is a key supporter of the Syrian rebels, offering shelter for many senior and lower-ranking defected Syrian soldiers.

Turkey has blamed Syria for a pair of car bombings at the border town of on May 11, which killed 52 people. Syria has denied any involvement.

Israel could swoop on S-300 missiles in Syria, but with risks

Reuters) – Israel could overcome advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missiles if they were deployed in Syria but any strikes on the system would be difficult and risk alienating its supplier, .

Israel has pledged to take preventive action, seeing a future Syrian S-300 as a “game-changing” threat to its own airspace as well as to the relative free rein with which it now overflies its northern foe and neighbouring Lebanon.

Experts agree that sabotage or open force to disrupt delivery by Russia is extremely unlikely – a view seemingly shored up by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad‘s announcement on Thursday that the first missiles had arrived.

That leaves Israel lobbying Moscow to slow down the shipment in hopes it would be overtaken and scrapped if Assad fell to a more than two-year-old rebellion, and in parallel preparing counter-measures to neutralise the S-300 on the ground in Syria.

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Breaking Assad says Syria received Russian missile shipment: Lebanese media

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(Reuters) – has received the first shipment of an air defense system from Russia, President Bashar al-Assad was quoted as saying, sending a signal of military strength days before an EU arms embargo on the war-torn country lapses.

“Syria has received the first shipment of Russian anti-aircraft S-300 rockets,” Lebanese newspaper al-Akhbar newspaper quoted Assad as saying in an interview due to be broadcast later on Thursday.

More of the missiles would arrive soon, he was quoted as saying.

Russia has said it would deliver the missile system to the Syrian government over Western objections, saying the move would help stabilize the regional balance.

A staunch ally of the Assad government, has appeared to grow more defiant since the European Union let its arms embargo on Syria expire, opening up the possibility of the West arming the rebels battling to topple the president. The embargo lapses on June 1.

The , France and Israel have all called on Russia to stop the missile delivery.

An interview with Assad will be released on Thursday on Al Manar, a television station linked to Assad’s ally, the Shi’ite Muslim militant group Hezbollah

.A Shi'ite anti-government protester holds up a poster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a demonstration against Israeli air strikes in Syria, in Sanaa May 10, 2013. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

A Shi’ite anti-government protester holds up a poster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a demonstration against Israeli air strikes in Syria, in Sanaa May 10, 2013.

Credit: Reuters/Khaled Abdullah

More than 80,000 people have died in Syria since peaceful protests against four decades of Assad family rule led to a civil war that has pitted the president’s forces and his ally, Hezbollah, against Syrian rebels and a flow of Sunni Islamist militants who have come to help them from abroad.

Moscow says the lapsing of the EU embargo complicates U.S. and Russian-led efforts to set up a peace conference between the Syrian government and its opponents, who want an immediate end to four decades of Assad family rule.

The Syrian leader said he planned to go to the “Geneva 2” conference, al-Akhbar reported, though he was unconvinced of a fruitful outcome and said he would continue to fight the militants.

THREATS AGAINST ISRAEL

 

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WW3 game on:Russia says it will go ahead with deliveries of S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to Syria,and that the arms will help deter foreign intervention.THE GREAT GAME continues

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Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said the missiles were a “stabilising factor” that could dissuade “some hotheads” from entering the conflict.  also criticised an EU decision not to renew an arms embargo on .Meanwhile, the BBC has heard evidence that 200 people were killed in a massacre in western Syria this month.Opposition activists said they had documented the civilian deaths in al- and after government troops and militias entered the towns.

While the lifting of the EU arms embargo is theoretically good news for the fractious Syrian opposition, it is clearly going to be some time before it has any effect on the battlefield balance. Its authors hope the decision itself will send a strong enough signal to the Assad regime that it is time to hand over power.

That is extremely unlikely. It is hard facts on the ground that count, for a regime that has shown every sign of determination to fight to the end to stay in power. While European arms supplies remain for the moment theoretical, the step has stirred an angry reaction – possibly even an escalation – from the Russians. They’ve said the move has jeopardised efforts to convene a peace conference, and that they plan to honour a prior contract to supply Syria with advanced S-300 air defence missiles. Israel sees that as a threat to its own security, and has warned that it “would know what to do.”

As the Syrian conflict deepens, the stakes are clearly getting higher by the day. But for the rebels at least the eventual possibility of carefully-controlled arms deliveries is there, in what looks like being a bloody, long-haul struggle.’We know what to do’ Mr Ryabkov said the contract for the S-300 missile systems had been signed several years ago. “We consider these supplies a stabilising factor and believe such steps will deter some hotheads from considering scenarios that would turn the conflict international with the involvement of outside forces,” he was quoted as telling journalists.Russia’s envoy to Nato, Aleksandr Grushko, said Moscow was acting “fully within the framework of international law”, in delivering the arms.”We are not doing anything that could change the situation in Syria,” he said. “The arms that we supply are defensive weapons.”The BBC’s Jim Muir in Beirut says the Russian statement could be seen as an escalation. He says there had been reports that Moscow was holding back on delivering the arms, in exchange for an Israeli commitment not to carry out further air raids over Syria.Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon said the Russian missile systems had not yet left Russia.

“I hope they will not leave, and if, God forbid, they reach Syria, we will know what to do,” he said.Russia has repeatedly blocked efforts to put more pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.Along with the US, it has been leading efforts to organise an international peace conference on Syria next month.The Syrian opposition has not said whether to attend the conference, and was locked in talks in Istanbul, Turkey, as an unofficial deadline to decide on its attendance passed.’Clear signal’On Monday, the EU said member states would be able to decide their own policy on sending arms to Syria, after foreign ministers were unable to reach the unanimous decision required to extend the current arms embargo past Saturday. more

 

BREAKING: Iran gives Syria GREEN LIGHT with $3 Billion Oil Credit
Iran Extends $4-Bln Credit to Syria

Israel has a blank check from the US right? We shall see…

Considering the EU ended arms embargo against Syrian rebels
“Iran continues to support Syria, by opening one line of credit worth $1 billion to finance the import of consumer goods and another line of credit worth $3 billion to finance the purchase of oil and oil products”

BEIRUT, May 28 (RIA Novosti) – Iran has opened two lines of credit totaling $4 billion to help Syria counter the economic impact of a civil war and international sanctions, Syria’s government daily Tishreen reported, citing the country’s Central Bank.

Iran’s support is one of the key elements safeguarding the survival of Syria’s embattled regime of President Bashar Assa

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McCain meets with rebel”alqaeda” leaders in Syria:Under the black flag of al-Qaeda, the Syrian city ruled by gangs of extremists

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Sen. John McCain (R) traveled to war-torn Syria on Monday to meet with rebel leaders, a spokesman for the senator confirmed to The Hill.

McCain’s visit makes him the highest-ranking U.S. official to enter the country since its civil war began two years ago.

According to the Daily Beast, which first reported the visit, McCain met with Gen. Salem Idris, the leader of the Supreme Military Council of the Free Syrian Army, and spent a few hours in the country after entering through Turkey. NOTICE THIS MURDEROUS SCUM BAG IS MAKING A MASONIC V WITH HIS HAND’S

McCain, a leading critic of the Obama administration’s policy towards Syria, has been calling for the U.S. to provide lethal aid to opposition forces seeking the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The administration has resisted calls from lawmakers to arm the rebels over fears those weapons could fall into the hands of Islamist or anti-U.S. elements. Many Syrian rebel groups have been linked to al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. Last week, however, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a bill to arm the Syrian opposition, a bipartisan rebuke to the . Supporters of the measure say it is necessary to help end a conflict which has already claimed 80,000 lives, according to some estimates. The White House, though, has continued to focus on a diplomatic solution to ease Assad from power. Read more:

Under the black flag of al-Qaeda, the Syrian city ruled by gangs of extremists

The black flag of al-Qaeda flies high over Raqqa’s main square in front of the smart new governor’s palace, its former occupant last seen in their prison. Their fighters, clad also in black, patrol the streets, or set up positions behind sandbags.

The Islamists smashed up one of the two shops that sold alcohol. That much was pretty inevitable, the locals agreed. The other off-licence had already closed, as had the casino on the outskirts of town.

They brought in a radical cleric from Egypt to preach Friday prayers, and set up a sharia court in the city’s new sports centre with the support of other brigades. They had their fiefdom — an entire city to run only 60 miles from Nato’S border.

Then, one night, 10 men came for Nagham and Nour al-Rifaie, two teenage sisters from a well-known liberal family. They were at home with a family friend, Yusra Omran, 30, and their male cousin, 32.

Nagham, centre, with her father Hassan al-Rifaie and family friend Yusra Omran (David Rose for the Telegraph)

“All these guys came in with guns and wearing masks and with handcuffs,” said Nagham, 19, a civil engineering student. “They started searching everything, and shouting.

They were saying, ‘Put on more clothes than you are wearing, put on a headscarf.’ I just said I’m wearing clothes and I’m not putting on a headscarf’.”

The men took them to the sports centre. There the girls were charged with being alone with a man and interrogated.

“The guy with us was so mean,” Miss Rifaie said. “He was speaking in a horrible way, as if he was disgusted to be with us.”

In Raqqa, a once conservative but by all accounts not religious city, the triumph of al-Qaeda’s Syrian arm, Jabhat al-Nusra, would seem to be complete

Mr Cameron’s officials now feel Jabhat al-Nusra has to be defeated by actively supporting the less militant rebels PULL THE OTHER ONE DAVE , including with arms. Many of Jabhat’s rival militias are being marginalised in cities like Raqqa across the north. On Tuesday, Britain will seek to have Jabhat al-Nusra added to an official list of sanctions at the United Nations.

Destroyed buildings near the Ahrar al-Sham Brigade Headquarters in the centre of Al Raqqa. The base was targeted by a regime airstrike last week (David Rose for the Telegraph)

In taking Raqqa two months ago al-Qaeda achieved its greatest coup in the war to date: it was the first provincial capital to fall outright to the rebels, and allowed Jabhat to assume a leadership role over a large swathe of north-eastern Syria, to the Iraqi border.

To many in it is a welcome development. “Jabhat are excellent for us,” said Abdullah Mohammed, a man from the nearby village of Mansoura. “They deal with us according to Islamic rules, so there are no problems. They are honest and they run everything pretty well.”

As a police officer, Mr Mohammed said he was in a position to know the difference between life under al-Qaeda and the Assad regime. He was in prison when the revolution broke out – he had stopped a car for jumping a red light and found to his cost it was being driven by a regime official.

He said he was in a cell with four members of President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite minority sect, and when the protests MORE

US military fears taking on Assad’s troops in drawn-out Syrian war, says Bob Carr Syria: Assad regime is making gains and ‘planning a major push’

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Carr spoke with the refugees during a visit to their camp in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, on the border with .

The refugees urged Senator Carr to back military intervention to bring the civil war in Syria to an end.

“Why doesn’t the outside world intervene to put an end to the killing in Syria?” one woman asked.

Senator Carr replied: “I think the big powers are afraid of getting involved in another war in an Islamic country. They’re afraid of that.

“They think it’ll be a drawn-out war of attrition, and I hear that not even the American armed forces want to take those risks with the strength of the Assad army.” what he didnt mention is that the powers at B being the source of her misery have no intention of helping alleviate her suffering their god Lucifer feeds on death and destruction so therefore like any junkie wishes the conflict and pain to increase.

The women responded that even a world war would be better than what they have been living through. The Senator another puppet of the new world order couldnt care less of course because this is all in the plan for a NWO, He cant wait to get back to washington away from the stink of these poor people.

“But isn’t what’s happening in Syria a war in itself?” one asked.

“The amputated children, the raped women – where is the humanitarian consideration?” the senator looked at her and secretly smiled. Thank God (lucifer) its not me he thought.

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Syria: Assad regime is making gains and ‘planning a major push’

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Recent military victories have severed rebel supply and retreat routes, allowing the regime to plan a major push to to crush divided opposition forces, a senior British security source told The Daily Telegraph.

“The Syrian opposition funded by the west  is doing badly and there is a risk of [further] defeats, although Assad cannot ultimately win,” the useless source said.

The Syrian National Coalition met in on Thursday in a further attempt to create a unified opposition. But it is badly split over a choice of leader, a choice of interim prime minister, and whether or not to take part in a peace conference planned for Geneva some time next month. The conference would take place a year after a transition plan was first agreed by international powers in the Swiss capital, only to be ignored as civil war spread. The SNC acknowledged but showed no signs of accepting a proposal by the outgoing leader, Moaz al-Khatib, for Mr Assad to hand over power to his vice-president, who would oversee a 100-day transition.

The regime would also be unlikely to accept this deal at present, partly because it feels it has the diplomatic as well as military impetus. It retains the support of Russia at the UN, while Iran and Hizbollah are providing substantial armed assistance. The west is panicking since russia sent new missiles to the Syrians is planning its next move of destabilizing the region and the assassination of Assad if it can get anyone close enough to him.

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Disgusting excuse for a human being Abu Sakkar Syrian ‘cannibal’ rebel explains his actions

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In a propaganda piece from the uk’s Daily Telegraph today Rebel commander Abu Sakkar, who was filmed cutting out and eating the organs of a pro-regime fighter, warns that if the bloodshed continues “all Syrian people” will be like him.(what is he talking about is he saying they will all become cannibalistic demon possessed devils)

Rebel commander Abu Sakkar gained instant notoriety after footage emerged of him appearing(he has admitted he did it ) to remove the organs of a pro-regime fighter and then eating them.

In a short video uploaded to , he says that he found the fighter had mobile phone footage showing the killing of children, rapes, dismemberment and torture.

“Every free Syrian who sees this; you don’t know what they can do,” he said.

He also warned that if the bloodshed in Syria continues “all Syrian people will be like me.”(murderous cannibals)

comment- Pro-uk government propaganda broadsheet  the telegraph allows disgusting murderous Alqida member Abu Sakkar a man who may or may not even be from Syria who probably has links to the and is Probably a mercenary who will kill anyone for 100,000$ a year(the going rate for murder) tells his side of this disgusting story to get symapthy for the rebels.

Abu Sakkar killed this man and ate his internal organs because he  Abu Sakkar is one of the good guys, well pardon me if i dont vomit on your explanation Mr Abu Sakkar but none of what you say makes sense. Was the Assad Regime at war with its own people before you and your murderous cronies invaded the country with money and weapons you received from the GREAT SATAN OF THE WEST AND BRITAIN.

Cannibalism shows no mater what you say you have  a deranged mind  it is a  murderous mental imbalance. What the telegraph has done is to try and justify your actions with no actual comments from them when in fact cannibalism is always unjustifiable. You have degenerated to the most base state a human can go to, slime rates slightly higher. I pity the next  woman you meet or anyone  you think is pro-Assad (i wonder if you only kill the fat ones) psychopathic people like yourself will use any excuse to murder kill and rape. As for your allegations we have no idea if the Syrian soldier did it or indeed anything, judging by your actions Abu Sakkar and clearly insane behavior it looks like you are a lying sociopath who got caught on camera and the world saw what you really are. Praying and pretending to be a good Muslim wont sway anyone   as for a  representative of Islam this  sends shivers down everyone who is non Muslims I and the people of Syria can only hope you meet an untimely death and go to your God sooner rather than later. As for the telegraph  SHAME ON YOU this paper has sunken to a new low if this had been a Syrian soldier you would rightly have condemned him. The fact  Abu Sakkar is one of the commanders shows us  the evil and wickedness  of the so called Syrian freedom fighters who are terrorist plain and simple.  Assad and his troops and the real free people of Syria  have my sympathy dealing  with scum of the earth like Abu Sakkar.

The original video was premeditated it was made as propaganda which back fired spectacularly nothing these terrorists say can be taken as truth.

Here he is Abu Sakkar the public face of  the Rebels explaining how all of Syria will be like him soon(deranged and reduced to cannibalism after he and his men destroy whats left of the country

He said he is part of the Syrian people and that the Syrian people are part of the world(new world order) He  says that you dont know what a free Syria person will do(psychotic rebel soldiers are unpredictable and insane). 

The picture below show’s exactly what Commander  Abu Sakkar means when he says He also warned that if the bloodshed in Syria continues “all Syrian people will be like me  notice the murdered man in the pictures head is on a what looks like a barbecue grill. does Abu Sakkar have picture like this on his own mobile phone .

link U.S. Backed Syrian Rebels Behead 20 Shia Muslims
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This woman is about to be beheaded by hypocrite murdering raping scum bags