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The West to Pay a High Price for Targeting the Syrian Government, Security Experts Claim

“... suicide carried out by Western governments. These sanctions can only be categorized under stupidity..." - Walid Zeitouni, a former Lebanese Army General

(BEIRUT) - A number of analysts and security experts who specialize in intelligence and security subjects in Lebanon and France have expressed this week shock at the way many Western authorities are avoiding engagement with the Syrian authorities.


They are missing important avenues to help end the crisis in Syria.

Return Palestine... US and Israel Lobby Reel from Hezbollah al-Qusayr Victory

Perhaps less appreciated here in Beirut are al-Qusayr’s effects on the Zionist occupiers of Palestine and their currently traumatized US lobby.

(BEIRUT) - Although al-Qusayr may not be the decisive battle for Syria, it is irrefutably an important turning point in the crisis which has given the regime much sought military momentum.

Plenty of adjectives and some clichés are being bandied about from Washington to Beirut to describe the al-Qusayr battle results and significance.

U.S. Backed Syrian Rebels Massacre Christian Village

Government forces had launched an offensive against the city in April this year, in an attempt to hit the main supply lines of the insurgents.

(DAMASCUS (Free Syrian Press) - On Monday (27 May 2013) Free Syrian Army commandos affiliate, the largest armed force of the Syrian resistance against Assad, massacred the entire population of al-Duvair, a Christian village on the outskirts of Homs, not far from the border with Lebanon.

The news was the Syrian news agency Ahlul Bayt, who stressed that the killings did not spare women and children, until the intervention of the Syrian army.

U.S. Policy in Syria is a Disaster for Christians

Backing jihadist radicals in Syria contradicts the American efforts to supposedly rid the world of terrorism.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Originally from Damascus, Syria, Fadida, a California business owner, offers a startling look at how Syrian Christians view the unrelenting U.S. effort to disrupt another secular, Middle East govt.

She says the people of Damascus deserve to live in peace. Instead, the U.S. backed Free Syrian Army mercenary jihadists and their daily heinous crimes against civilians are a constant threat to their safety, and their future.

The Syrian Conflict: Qaradawi`s Incitement to Violence

It is Qaradawi’s legitimisation of Western hegemony by invoking religious authority that makes his role so perfidious.

(KUALA LAMPUR) - Any human being who abhors violence and bloodshed would be shocked by remarks made by a leading religious personality, Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi, on the 1^st of June 2013.

At a rally in Doha, he urged Sunni Muslims in the region to go to Syria and fight the Bashar al-Assad government and its supporters, the Hezbollah and Iran. He regarded it as a “jihad.”

Muslims Killing Muslims: How the West has Benefited from Bloodshed

More repugnant has been the “secular” West’s manipulation of the different schools of theology within Islam, pitting Muslim against Muslim for their own self-centered purposes and profit.

(DENVER) - “Muslims should be at the forefront of Islamic unity, saying enough with Muslims massacring Muslims...

When the ‘kuffar’ kill Muslims, they do not ask them if they’re Sunni, Shi’ah or Sufi,” writes professor, author and research scholar Dr. John Andrew Morrow.

McCain`s Visit to Syria is `High Treason`

Last month, Republican senators pressed the U.S. president for a military attack against Syria. Obama said using chemical weapons by Syria would be a red line that, if crossed, would prompt the U.S. into direct action.

(TEHRAN Press TV) - Former U.S. Intelligence Linguist Scott Rickard says Senator John McCain’s visit to Syria is “high treason” as Washington does not have relations with Damascus more than a year.

“John McCain’s visit to Syria is another clear indication of U.S. military and intelligence involvement in Syria”, he said in a phone interview with Press TV.

John McCain`s Continuing Disservice to America

First a friend to communist captors, now he's kissing cheeks with the terrorists, McCain must be stopped.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Has John McCain lost his mind? His illegal meeting with Sunni terrorists in Syria is the latest stain on this warmonger's record. He's a morally repugnant low life rich guy who does nothing to this country but a disservice.

I have written before that McCain is the Manchurian Candidate, the one who was programmed long ago to destroy this nation from within.

Petition: Arrest John McCain & Investigate US State Department & Clandestine Activity in Syria

I am sending this letter as official notice of a citizens request for the arrest of John McCain and investigation of these criminal activities in Syria.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The Federal Bureau of investigations suggested I contact your office regarding Senator John McCain's illegally entry into Syria yesterday, Monday, May 27, 2013.

It is my understanding that US state department and other clandestine activity has been facilitating intelligence, logistics and weapons to militants and criminal mercenaries operating in and around Syria for over two years.

UK Trying to `Nobble` Nasrallah
...and Banish Hezbollah to Outer Darkness

The MP did at least declare an interest: "I am one of the vice-chairs of Labour Friends of Israel." Well, there's a surprise.

(LONDON) - Earlier this month an MP got up in the House of Commons and proposed that the UK government outlaw, or "proscribe", the whole Hezbollah organisation, not just its military wing.

"I accept that a full ban on Hezbollah may be difficult to achieve," he said, "but even an EU ban on the military wing of Hezbollah would send a powerful message that we do not tolerate Hezbollah’s and Iran’s terrorism...."