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Documents show US funding Syrian opposition: Washington Post
2011-04-19
[Arab News] The State Department has been secretly financing opponents of Syrian President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad,
One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor...
The Washington Post reported, citing previously undisclosed diplomatic documents provided to the newspaper by the WikiLeaks website.
One wonders why WaPo chose to publicize this little tidbit, which plays right into Pencilneck's attempts to label all dissenters as enemies of the state in thrall to the Zionists and the Great Satan. It's almost as if WaPo has an agenda...
One of the outfits funded by the US is Barada TV, a London-based satellite channel that broadcasts anti-government news into Syria, the Post reported Sunday.

Barada's chief editor, Malik Al-Abdeh, is a cofounder of the Syrian exile group Movement for Justice and Development.

The leaked documents show that the US has provided at least $6 million to Barada TV and other opposition groups inside Syria, the newspaper said.

The B.O. regime has reached out to Assad's regime, hoping to persuade it to change its policies regarding Israel, Leb, Iraq and support for Islamic exemplar groups. In January, the US stationed an ambassador in Damascus,
...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti...
the capital, for the first time in five years.

The Post said it was not clear from the WikiLeaks documents whether the US was still financing Assad's opponents, though they showed funding had been set aside through September 2010.

Syrian activists have been staging protests against Assad's authoritarian regime for more than a month. More than 200 people have been killed as security forces tried to crush the protests.

On Sunday, gunnies opened fire during a funeral for a slain anti-government protester, killing at least three people, according to witnesses and activists. Tens of thousands of Syrians erupted into the streets nationwide despite Assad's promise to end nearly 50 years of emergency rule this week, a key demand of the protesters.

Last week, the State Department said Iran appeared to be helping Syria crack down on protesters, calling it a troubling example of Iranian meddling in the region.

"If Syria's turning to Iran for help, it can't be very serious about real reform," front man Mark Toner told news hounds.
Posted by:Fred

#3  IIUC, these various Perts are all but acknowledging that 2012-2020/2025 time period IS ONLY THE BEGINNING of serious geopol troubles for the US-West???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-04-19 01:54  

#2  ION WAFF > {ME Expert] ISRAEL WILL BE THE BIGGEST LOSER IN ME REGION AFTER CHANGES.

ARTIC "POINTS" SUMMARY:
> NEXT DECADE = 2012-2022 = "SHIITE DECADE".
Regional "Shiite Awakening" albeit its not clear iff Shia Iran will dominate.
> PALEO STATE successfully established.
> GREATEST RISK AGZ WORLD PEACE = CHAOS IN SAUDI ARABIA, espec as per DOMESTIC, REGIONAL SHIITE + ISLAMIST THREAT TO SUNNI, ROYAL RULE???
> RADICALISM IN ME HAS BEEN UNDERWAY ALREADY FOR TEN YEARS, as complemented by Arab-Muslim rants + anger at US, Israeli policies.
> POPULAR UPRISINGS ["Jasmine"-led] WILL ENGULF ALL OF THE COUNTRIES IN ME WIDOUT EXCEPTION, INCLUD ISRAEL.
> TURKEY WILL BECOME EITHER THE MOST INFLUENTIAL
STATE IN THE REGION, OR ELSE WILL REGRESS BACKWARDS UNTO PRO-EXTREMIST/RADICAL, STATE-LED REPRESSION + MILITARISM [anti-dmeocratic Islamist "Rogue State", prob Nuclear]???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-04-19 01:51  

#1  Big Zero's zeal for conquering third world despots and replacing them with "what?" is going to result in Americans being targeted for revenge murders around the world by loyalists to those Obama Hussien is messing with.

Yes, in other words, Obama is endangering the lives of the American people, and should and will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law when he himself is removed from his "throne".
Posted by: Jairong the Tiny1501   2011-04-19 00:18  

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