Saiid is aware of the difficulties that could hamper political efforts given the conflicting interests of key regional players: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Iran. However, he says, the US and the UK will not want the regional situation to get out of hand. “If Syria is attacked, Russia and Iran would be more upfront in their support of Assad. This means more weaponry and more havoc at a time when many countries in the region are faced with internal challenges.” He adds that it is too much to argue that more turmoil is in the interests of Israel.

„The outcome of this meeting on developments in Syria is not expected to be announced to the media because of the nature of the meeting,“ the official said, without elaborating.

„Egypt rejects military intervention in Syria, as we believe a political solution is the only way out for the crisis there. Egypt supports the Geneva Two talks,“ said FM Fahmy in a press conference held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Cairo Tuesday.

In an interview with Izvestia, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad discussed who is actually using chemical weapons, commented on the statements of Western politicians about a possible military strike, and talked about why Moscow is helping the Syrian people.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday told British Prime Minister David Cameron that there was no evidence yet that the Syrian regime had used chemical weapons against rebels, Cameron‘s office said.

However, a spokesman for the Republican speaker of the House Of Representatives John Boehner said those conversations had not yet begun.

House Speaker John Boehner told the White House that it must consult with Congress before any response to the Syrian government‘s apparent use of chemical weapons.

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What ho, this we call „diplomacy,“ right? Flatten a few buildings, blow some children sideways out of their kitchens during breakfast, take a victory lap on the Sunday morning talk shows…what could possibly go wrong?

Quite a bit, as it turns out.

Schauen wir uns an wer „Ärzte ohne Grenzen“ hauptsächlich finanziert. Es sind die Finanzverbrecher der Wall Street und City of London, welche die Aussenpolitik des Westens steuern und von Kriegen profitieren. Laut ihrem eigenen Jahresbericht von 2010 besteht die Liste der Spender aus den üblichen Verdächtigen, wie Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, Google, Microsoft, Bloomberg und eine ganze Reihe von anderen Mitgliedern des Militärisch-Industriellen-Finanz-Komplex. Auch im Vorstand von MSF sitzen Bankster, wie Elizabeth Beshel Robinson von Goldman Sachs.

The U.S. Embassy in Beirut on Friday reminded U.S. citizens to “avoid all travel to Lebanon due to safety and security concerns,” urging those in the country to “exercise security awareness,“ after at least 45 people were martyred and more than 500 wounded in twin bombings that rocked mosques in Tripoli.

Yaakov Amidror meets with Susan Rice Tuesday at White House. Obama discusses possible international responses to Syrian crisis with Australia PM

The WikiLeaks Party has not forgotten the decision, based on false reportage about chemical weapons, for Australia to participate in the disastrous US-led Iraq war. The Wikileaks Party recognises the previous abuses of the Syrian state towards its dissidents, while similarly recognising the abuses committed by US-backed governments in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain–which the Australian Labor government disgracefully ignores.

A poll on Tuesday showed 69 percent of Germans were against a military strike in Syria and only 23 percent backed it.

President Barack Obama and Canada‘s Prime Minister Stephen Harper spoke by phone on Tuesday..

Their older sister, Nosayba Halawa, remains uncertain but harbours some hopes they might be released as early as this weekend.

When Egypt‘s security forces stormed the besieged al-Fath mosque in central Cairo almost two weeks ago among those arrested were four siblings with joint Irish-Egyptian nationality – three women aged 21 to 28, and their brother, 17.

The siblings are still in detention without access to a lawyer but have become the focus of an intense diplomatic tussle as the Irish government seeks their release.

Vor dem Hintergrund der Spekulationen über ein militärisches Eingreifen in Syrien kritisiert der russische Vizepremier Dmitri Rogosin die Politik des Westens gegenüber der islamischen Welt.

Even without the evidence that the inspectors are collecting, the United States and other Western powers have concluded that the attack last week, which killed hundreds of people, was caused by banned chemical munitions and that Mr. Assad’s forces were responsible, crossing a threshold that required a forceful response.

Wenn die westlichen Staaten Beweise haben, sollten sie diese vorlegen, forderte Außenminister Walid Muallem am Dienstag in Damaskus. Die Beschuldigung, die syrische Regierung habe chemische Waffen eingesetzt, sei haltlos und nichts weiter als Vorwand für ein militärisches Eingreifen in Syrien.

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Derzeit überlagert die offene Kriegsdrohung gegen Syrien seitens der U.S.A. und Großbritannien deren weltweite Spionage. Dabei stellt am Mittwoch in Berlin eine Regierungskommission ihren Abschlussbericht zur ersten Überprüfung der “Anti-Terror-Gesetze” seit 2001 vor, auf deren Grundlage auch die Spionage durch N.S.A. und G.C.H.Q. gegen die Deutschen erfolgte.

Thirty years down the road from a Senate select committee investigation into the NSA and what‘s changed for the intelligence agency? Based on this 1983 New York Times article (via Bruce Sterling), it appears the only difference is computing power and storage capacity.

„The rejection of the Syrian regime of all serious and earnest Arab efforts …. requires a decisive and serious stand by the international community to stop the humanitarian tragedy of the Syrian people,“ Prince Saud was quoted as saying by the state news agency SPA.

Some military figures balk at thought of attacks, while others including Tony Blair favour action

Caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour noted on Tuesday that a war against Syria will have negative repercussions on the entire region, reported the National News Agency.

He said: “Lebanon will not remain silent if Israel exploited a strike against Syria to attack Hizbullah in the South.”

Bei Kerry reicht es nicht ganz zur Sportpalast-Rede.

Units of the Syrian Arab Army demolished a missile launcher and heavy machineguns used by terrorists in Talbiseh district and eliminated several terrorists in Homs city and countryside.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea criticized in an open letter to U.S. President Barack Obama his inaction in Syria, urging him to intervene directly in the country.

„The United States has fulfilled its promise and stood against all forms of dictatorship in this region and defeat them. However, some tyrannies are still exist,“ Geagea said in his letter to Obama.

Araqchi said there are documents indicating that the Takfiri militants in Syria had carried out the recent chemical attacks in the country.

The Russian government has presented the documents to the United Nations Security Council, he said.

Der britische Premier Cameron macht Druck im Syrien-Konflikt: Schon am Donnerstag sollen die Abgeordneten in einer Sondersitzung über einen Militärschlag gegen das Assad-Regime abstimmen. Das US-Militär sei schon jetzt bereit zum Einsatz, verkündet Verteidigungsminister Hagel.

For more than 15 years we‘ve known that surveillance leads to heightened levels of stress, fatigue and anxiety.

„We have moved assets in place to be able to fulfill and comply with whatever option the president wishes to take,“ Hagel said during a trip to Brunei, according to a partial transcript provided by the BBC.

Asked if the U.S. military was ready to respond just „like that,“ Hagel said: „We are ready to go, like that.“

Prime Minister David Cameron is recalling members of Britain‘s lower house of parliament from their summer break to give them a chance to discuss how best to respond to a suspected chemical attack in Syria, a spokesman from his office said on Tuesday.

In the US, we‘ve had one of the key authors of the Patriot Act, Jim Sensenbrenner, speak out strongly, saying that the NSA interpretation of the law appears to be completely different than what was meant when the bill was written. It looks like something similar may be happening in the UK. Charles Falconer, who helped craft the UK‘s Terrorism Act, which was used to detain David Miranda and swipe all of his electronics, has now spoken out, saying that it was an illegal use of the Act he wrote.

Although Russia sent a small naval task force to the eastern Mediterranean this year and maintains a refitting station in the Syrian port of Tartus, Moscow would appear to have little recourse — beyond verbal denunciations — in the event of a Western attack.

Lavrov said Russia would not be going to war with anybody.

(23.August) The exercise, dubbed Vigilant Eagle, started as an attempt to train to respond to a hijacked airliner that required both Russian and North American intervention. It will pair troops and technology from the joint U.S.-Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command and Russian Federation Air Force and will last from Aug. 26-30.

Hinter dem Einsatz chemischer Waffen stünden ausländische Söldner, sagte der syrische Außenminister Walid Muallem am Dienstag in Damaskus. „In Syrien kämpfen Söldner aus 83 Staaten, darunter aus allen arabischen Ländern mit Ausnahme von Dschibuti.“

„Syria immediately agreed to the UN requests and there is no delay, and I say to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that we are not obstructing UN inspectors‘ work,“ Minister al-Moallem, added at a press conference in Damascus.

Syrian forces cannot remove the effects of the chemical weapons, because the areas are under the control of the armed groups,“ al-Moallem said.

The Minister stressed that British Foreign Minister, William Hague, talked illogically to mislead the public opinion of his country, asserting that no country in the world uses weapons of mass destruction against its own people.

Deutschland hat in Syrien selbst zur Eskalation des Konfliktes beigetragen. Gemeinsam mit den ‚Freunden Syriens‘ hat man die bewaffnete Opposition unterstützt und aufgerüstet, wie auch Pläne für den ‚Tag danach‘ ausgearbeitet. All das hat zur Eskalation beigetragen, die man nun als Vorwand für eine Intervention nutzen will. Nun sitzt der deutsche Generalstabschef der Bundeswehr Volker Wieker mit seinen Kollegen aus den USA, Frankreich, Großbritannien, Katar und Saudi Arabien in Jordanien zusammen und plant Militärschläge. Außenminister Westerwelle nennt das ‚Abstimmung mit Verbündeten‘. In Wahrheit geht es wieder einmal um die Vorbereitung eines völkerrechtswidrigen Angriffskrieges.

US-Generalstabschef Martin Dempsey flog am Sonntag nach Jordanien. In der Hauptstadt Amman kommt er mit seinen Kollegen aus Frankreich und Großbritannien zusammen, um über die Auswirkungen des syrischen Bürgerkriegs zu beraten. Mit dabei sind Vertreter der Regionalmächte Saudi-Arabien, Türkei und Katar, ebenso wie die Nato-Staaten Kanada und Italien und auch der Generalinspekteur der Bundeswehr, Volker Wieker.