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Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/21/obama-administration-opens-door-to-aid-for-syrian-rebels/#ixzz1n4A7PiIs



.... The Equinoctial hexagram for the Sun sign of Pisces.

I was just thinking about this and will make a prediction. If Obama wins, we will not have a war with Iran in the next for years ... if a republican wins, we will. Oh, and Iran will not test a nuke either.
Want to make a bet?

Several senators are raising concerns that unrest in Syria could allow that nation's chemical and other weapons to be used against U.S. forces and allies in the region.
"The growing breakdown of order and security in Syria could place its significant stockpiles of poison gases and operational chemical weapons at risk," Maine Republican Susan Collins, New York Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand, and New Hampshire Democrat Jeanne Shaheen wrote in a February 17 letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. DOTMIL obtained a copy of the letter.


AlQueda in Syria? The DOD chief thinks so: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/panetta-there-al-qaeda-presence-syria_644450.html


The United States says it is tracking a Russian military cargo ship as it makes its way to Syria carrying weapons, ammunition and a small number of Russian troops.
U.S. intelligence believes the Russians are sending the ship to help fortify its naval base in Syria as the situation in country continues to spiral out of control, Pentagon officials told CNN Friday.
The presence of the ship was first reporting by NBC News.
Classified U.S. imagery shows the ship, called the Nikolay Filchenkov, began loading in the port of Sevastapol on the Black Sea on June 7 and is headed for the Syrian port of Tartus, where the Russians have a naval facility. The port is vital for Russian naval access to the entire Middle East.


“The Mediterranean Sea is a zone of the Black Sea Fleet responsibility. Hence, warships may go there in the case it is necessary to protect the Russian logistics base in Tartous, Syria,” it said.
“Several warships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, including large landing ships with marines aboard, are fully prepared to go on the voyage,” he said.
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http://www.timesofisrael.com/iranian-news-agency-reports-joint-syria-iran-russia-and-china-wargames/
The IDF spokesman’s office called the report a “political matter” and declined to comment.
Iran is currently holding talks with six Western powers over the fate of its nuclear program. The talks, said to be held in a tense atmosphere in Moscow, seek to alleviate world concerns that the Islamic Republic is developing nuclear weapons.
Syria meanwhile faces international pressure to end a 15-month crackdown on local rebels trying to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad.
China and Russia have come to the aid of both countries in recent months at the UN Security Council, vetoing military intervention in Syria and expanded sanctions on Iran.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2173148/Syria-begun-moving-chemical-weapons-stockpile-storage-U-S-warns.html#ixzz20WjIzAFx

Online Video Footage Claims to Show Overnight Rocket Strike...
Obama Aide: 'If Assad Drops Sarin On Own People, What's That Got To Do With Us?'
SYRIA WARNS: 'Opens door to all possibilities'...
Stations Missile Batteries Aimed at Israel...
Israel Deploys Iron Dome...


my bet is that Hezbollah is behind the gassing. they are the ones who would profit by a bigger conflagration in Syria.
Some perhaps credible intercept here ...
Last Wednesday, in the hours after a horrific chemical attack east of Damascus, an official at the Syrian Ministry of Defense exchanged panicked phone calls with a leader of a chemical weapons unit, demanding answers for a nerve agent strike that killed more than 1,000 people. Those conversations were overheard by U.S. intelligence services, The Cable has learned. And that is the major reason why American officials now say they're certain that the attacks were the work of the Bashar al-Assad regime -- and why the U.S. military is likely to attack that regime in a matter of days.
But the intercept raises questions about culpability for the chemical massacre, even as it answers others: Was the attack on Aug. 21 the work of a Syrian officer overstepping his bounds? Or was the strike explicitly directed by senior members of the Assad regime? "It's unclear where control lies," one U.S. intelligence official told The Cable. "Is there just some sort of general blessing to use these things? Or are there explicit orders for each attack?"
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-palin-doctrine/


for the timeline (FoxNews):
US Warships Head Toward Syria
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In wake of the Syrian government's alleged use of chemical weapons, US sends a fourth warship armed with ballistic missiles into the eastern Mediterranean Sea, as Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says positioning forces allows the president more options.
- Sources: Samantha Power in Ireland During Urgent Syria Meeting
- Could Power Have Caught a Flight to UN Meeting?
- VIDEO: Is the White House Blurring Its 'Red line' on Syria?
DECLARES WMD
KERRY: Chemical weapons 'undeniable'...
Press corps blurs Obama's 'red line' on Syria...
POLL: 9% support military action...
BOMBING 'IN DAYS'...
Israel distributes gas masks...
Russia: No Proof Syrian Gov't Behind Chemical Weapons Attack...
Force without UN 'blatant violation of int'l law'...
ASSAD: American military will 'fail' like in Vietnam...
Damascus, Tehran issue stark warning to Jerusalem...
Strikes would trigger 'chaos,' threaten world security...
Chemical attack evidence 'may have been destroyed'...


Apparently it is all about integrity, doing what you say you will do.
This dilema would not have arisen, had Obama not drawn his red line. But he did draw it, so here we are.


Not raised anywhere else is the fact that Clinton bemoaned that he was not a war-time president & Bush was. Has Obama's ego gone so far that he is trying to start a war & torch off the ME for agenda purposes? Chemical weapons cause death - a bit slower than terrorist bombs & drones & modern war armament.




some additional background to justify the "underestimate" ...
sorry Seth there was loss in the electricity network here in Damascus
i think yes Assad and his commanders underestimated not only Obama but also the whole international community
and that was due to the late response of the UN , EU and US to the Syrian crisis
Sometimes we ourselves underestimate just how very different things can look from within another country.
some additional background to justify the "underestimate" ...
sorry Seth there was loss in the electricity network here in Damascus
i think yes Assad and his commanders underestimated not only Obama but also the whole international community
and that was due to the late response of the UN , EU and US to the Syrian crisis
Sometimes we ourselves underestimate just how very different things can look from within another country.


some additional background to justify the "underestimate" ...
sorry Seth there was loss in the electricity network here in Damascus
i think yes Assad and his commanders underestimated not only Obama but also the whole international community
and that was due to the late response of the UN , EU and US to the Syrian crisis
Sometimes we ourselves underestimate just how very different things can look from within another country.

Well, like i said, he underestimated Obama's response. In other words he actually believed that Obama would not impose consequences. Apparently his thinking does not extend to appreciate forces outside his narrow domain. That is the only thing that can explain this. Saddam did the same thing.
The only other explanation is that the commanders, inside the Assad military, who actually authorized the gassing have a different agenda than Aasad. If they declassify the intercepted phone conversation, that may (or may not) shed some light on that. But does it really matter at this point?

But then it's not really about Obama anymore ... and that is what Obama is saying here. This thing has escalated, as things do, now it bears on whether the old USA can say to Iran, don't enrich Uranium past this point and be doing more that flapping lips. Obama haters, of course, will use this crisis to damage him ... who knows, they might even go so far as to damage American credibility in the process ... and then snigger about it. We will see how the story plays out ... some of us with our lives.


(Drudge headlines this AM:) .... think Libya, Egypt, Iraq, Somalia .....

BRUTALITY OF SYRIAN REBELS REVEALED....
EXECUTING MEN ON KNEES...
'We swear to the Lord of the Throne, we will take revenge'...
Kerry claim rebels are 'moderate' belied by violence...
AL QAEDA ATTACKS CHRISTIAN VILLAGE...
some additional background to justify the "underestimate" ...
sorry Seth there was loss in the electricity network here in Damascus
i think yes Assad and his commanders underestimated not only Obama but also the whole international community
and that was due to the late response of the UN , EU and US to the Syrian crisis
Sometimes we ourselves underestimate just how very different things can look from within another country.

Well, like i said, he underestimated Obama's response. In other words he actually believed that Obama would not impose consequences. Apparently his thinking does not extend to appreciate forces outside his narrow domain. That is the only thing that can explain this. Saddam did the same thing.
The only other explanation is that the commanders, inside the Assad military, who actually authorized the gassing have a different agenda than Aasad. If they declassify the intercepted phone conversation, that may (or may not) shed some light on that. But does it really matter at this point?

Well, yes, certainly i agree, whoever commanded the gassing should be brought up on war crimes. But those names are not public ... and almost impossible to ferret out with any degree of legal proof.
In any case, I did not point to "rebel AlQueda infiltrators" here. Rather i pointed only to "commanders, inside the Assad military who have a differet agenda". There are other actors, not just AlQueda ... there is Hezbohla, and people backed by Iran who might want to see a giant conflagration. Hell, even Obama haters could have an agenda here. In fact the simplest motive is most likely what happened. They just didn't think Obama would strike, and by us not striking they would win a big propaganda victory. But, it really does not matter in the least now who instigated it, or even why ... it was Assad's gas and Assad's missiles and Assad's military commanding the murder.
Deja Vu!



Eleven Syrian rebel groups, including a powerful al Qaeda affiliate, have rejected the Western-backed opposition coalition, calling for a new Syria under Islamic law and dealing a severe blow to U.S.-led efforts to support a democratic alternative to embattled President Bashar Assad.
In a statement read out in an online video late Tuesday night, the rebel alliance called on other militants fighting to topple the Assad regime to unite under a “clear Islamic framework.”
SEE ALSO: On second thought…Assad can stay
“The prospect that the Islamists are going to be able to set up some sort of overarching political and military coordination and organizational structure should be troubling not only to the Syrian secular opposition, but also for Washington,” said David Schenker, director of the program on Arab politics at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

U.N. Security Council votes unanimously to secure and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons
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in other news Hezbolla is reported to have chemical wepons


up to you ... just delete hackfuck. me, i didn't seen any evidence of the possiblity of infection other than just the propoganda. knowledge of the actual document itself outweighed any fear of what might have been there. but that is just me, your domain, your responsibility.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/10/01/cia-backed-rebels-civilians-reportedly-targeted-by-russian-airstrikes-in-syria/?intcmp=hpbt1
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Putin signs decree drafting 150,000 conscripts into the Russian military... as his jets launch new wave of air strikes in Syria
- Russia launches second day of bombing runs on rebel groups in Syria
- Putin's Chechen ally calls on Moscow to deploy Muslim troops against ISIS
- Kremlin accused of targeting moderate rebels backed by U.S and not ISIS
- Moscow foreign minister Lavrov rejected the 'rumours' as 'unfounded'
- Hundreds of Iranian and Hezbollah troops 'set to launch ground offensive'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3255876/Russia-pouring-gasoline-fire-Syria-s-civil-war-says-America-Putin-defies-West-drops-bombs-non-ISIS-forces-fighting-Assad.html#ixzz3nKYGc9HU
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Meanwhile HIPO-POTUS apparently drew a red line in the sand for Assad & he took it! 

More gas? Still going on: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/04/04/at-least-100-dead-in-suspected-chemical-attack-in-syria-hospital-reportedly-hit.html
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