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American, British Citizens Killed In Syria

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First a big caveat: the following comes from CNN, the world's farce leader, so take it with a quarry of salt.

That said, CNN's household access is pervasive and when it comes to setting the social mood based on a news report, be it completely fabricated or not, the news organization is second to none. Which may be precisely why it is CNN that is reporting that in Syria - a place just itching for the proverbial match to be struck on a mountain of geopolitical gunpowder involving all the key actors: from the US, to Russia, Europe, China, and of course Israel, said match may have just been lit.

To wit: "Syrian state-run television reported Thursday that forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad killed three Westerners, including an American woman and a British national, who they claim were fighting with the rebels and were found with weapons and maps of government military facilities."

More:

Syrian TV identified the woman, releasing what it claimed were her Michigan driver's license and U.S. passport. It also released what is said was the name and passport of a British citizen. It did not identify the third Westerner.

 

The TV report claimed the three were also found with a flag of the al-Nusra Front, an al Qaeda-linked group.

 

The United States is aware of the claim that an American was killed and is working through the Czech Republic mission in Syria to obtain more information, a State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told CNN.

 

Citing privacy considerations, "we are unable to comment further," the official said."

Why westerners were fighting the Syrian government alongside Al Qaeda "rebels" is not known. What is known is that tomorrow front pages across the nation will be blasting "American woman killed in Syria" and the ensuing thirst for revenge will be just the missing link needed by the administration, in lieu of having found no weapons of mass destruction, to escalate the conflict even further. Especially when the media helpfully reminds that as we reported earlier, Russia has already delivered at least one of the promised S-300 missile shipments to Assad. All the other details: those involving the true nature of the Qatari mercenaries posing as "rebels", the Al Qaeda links, the source of rebel armaments, the UN refutation of the WMD storyine, and most importantly, any mention of the Qatari gas pipeline access to Turkey which this is all about, will be ignored.

 

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Thu, 05/30/2013 - 20:18 | 3612145 lolmao500
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Do the same with statist neo-cons trash like you and we have a deal.

Thu, 05/30/2013 - 19:36 | 3612000 haskelslocal
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Here comes Chris Hansen and another lame episode of Dateline NBC.

To catch a predator... Drone...

Thu, 05/30/2013 - 19:37 | 3612006 virgilcaine
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They were hiking, enjoying the outdoors.

Thu, 05/30/2013 - 19:55 | 3612063 SILVERGEDDON
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Turn the bastards into soap and green crackers.

Oh.

Wait.

Done already in fact, and in Hollywood. 

But, coming to a FEMA camp near you soon !

Goooood Mooorning, 'Murican Happy Campers !  

Thu, 05/30/2013 - 20:05 | 3612094 IridiumRebel
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I hope it'll be like a modern Hogans Heroes. I bet they actually make a sitcom when the camps happen. It'll be all cute and shit with dorky camp guards that treat everybody all leniently. They'll make potato vodka and play softball....it'll be great! Starring Ray Romano as the kooky warden!

Thu, 05/30/2013 - 20:44 | 3612206 otto skorzeny
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if the guards are crazy-assed psychotic pin-dicked US LE it will resemble Midnight Express

Thu, 05/30/2013 - 19:54 | 3612064 Money 4 Nothing
Thu, 05/30/2013 - 19:58 | 3612076 Monedas
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James Garner .... "Maverick" "Rockford Files" .... got two purple hearts in Korea .... and not a grain of rice in the butt .... like Kerry .... one shrapnel wound .... one gunshot wound, phosphorous burns and dislocated shoulder .... yeah, just got my VFW magazine.... 60th Korean War Anniversary edition !

Thu, 05/30/2013 - 20:07 | 3612113 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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And they will conveniently ignore this at the same time.

http://www.zaman.com.tr/gundem_adanada-el-kaide-operasyonu-12-gozalti_20...

translated

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=tr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=...

Adana al-Qaeda operation: 12 detention

Security General Directorate (EGM), terrorist organizations in Turkey not do any extensive security measures in a bomb and so is the action.

Some suspicious vehicles and people arriving and departing to cities being reviews. In this context, the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda and Al Nusra Front militants connected with the organization of security units in preparation for some action, had pursued the fugitives. EGM Intelligence and Terrorism Department teams with whom they are connected by a recording of the suspects were followed step by step. Also possible action plans of the organization has been reached. After reaching this information, the addresses of 12 people were identified as being connected in Adana organization. In this context, the dawn of yesterday morning with the operation of the suspects were taken into custody and brought to Adana Security Directorate.

If staying in a large number of calls made from the suspects residence information, documents and digital data were seized. Also belonging to the suspects were taken to secure the weapons and bullets for review. In addition, the addresses of the suspects were seized two kilograms in the Sarin gas. As is known, Sarin gas, known as a kind of nerve gas. Is a colorless and odorless gas that is extremely difficult for the diagnosis of, a feature that is effective and lethal. In 1991, the United Nations (UN), the sarin gas in the category of weapons of mass stored by storing banned in 1993 by the Convention on Chemical Weapons. Anti-Terror Branch of Istanbul Police Department suspects the other hand, the Directorate continues to queries. Police accused, how to obtain Gaz?'n? Sarin led to the question that they will use and for what purpose. The suspects, they'll take their supplies to areas of conflict in Syria as a priority information they put forward. The police suspects that how they reached Gaz?'na work deepens Sarin. Also on the subject of chemical immediate seizure of the property of a gas with the Interior Ministry and the Prime Minister's Office also reported.

 

These are the same rebels Congress wants to arm caught red handed with Sarin gas and the same rebel al Qaeda group these 3 are alleged to have been fighting with.

 

Thu, 05/30/2013 - 21:08 | 3612183 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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And to tie the CNN story to this and the above post.

http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/01/30/286331/ukqatari-plot-against-sy...

The document, which was allegedly hacked from the UK-based company Britam Defence’s website, disclosed Qatar’s proposal to the contractor in return for a large sum of money, Lebanese Al-Manar TV reported on Tuesday.

An email exchange between two senior officials at Britam suggested that the scheme was approved by Washington, explaining that Qatar would fund the militants in Syria to use chemical weapons.

 

“We've got a new offer. It's about Syria again. Qataris propose an attractive deal and swear that the idea is approved by Washington,” a part of the leaked email read.

According to the documents, Qatar also suggested smuggling chemical warheads and rockets from Libya to the Syrian city of Homs.

Qatar apparently asked the British company to employ and film a Ukrainian person speaking and pretending to be Russian as part of “evidence” against Syria.

 

Connect the dots la la la la la. As Ricky Ricardo used to say, Lucy you got some splainin to do. We shall see how pissed the MSM is at the Oreo by how hard they press on this story using all the pieces of information out there. We are going to find out just how in the tank they are for the war machine and Obama and if they have any integrity and journalism left in them or they are totally co-opted at this point. Ball is in your court Fox and Associated Press.

I wouldn't be surprised if the press grows a pair and starts doing their job again for once they might find out old GET OFF MY LAWN! McCain thinks he is Charlie Wilson and up to his eyeballs in this false flag fuck up.

Thu, 05/30/2013 - 20:20 | 3612141 lolmao500
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That much war over a shitty pipeline... it's gonna be hilarious when the fight is over water or food.

In the same kind of news... that ``hero`` John McCain posed with kidnappers of innocent people in Syria...

http://syriareport.net/mccain-visited-kidnappers-in-syria/

A shocking report from pan-Arab TV station Al-Jadeed reveals America’s Republican Senator, John McCain, visited kidnappers of Lebanese pilgrims.

Thu, 05/30/2013 - 20:28 | 3612170 IridiumRebel
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There ya are! No pressure, but we've been waiting.....

Thu, 05/30/2013 - 20:19 | 3612150 robertocarlos
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In the words of Louis Farakan, 'Fuck 'em".

Thu, 05/30/2013 - 20:36 | 3612187 blindman
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dumb fucers in charge must end. it is bad

Thu, 05/30/2013 - 20:53 | 3612209 newengland
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McCain incited this war for his puppeteers,  the Nazionists who inflamed discontent in the former Soviet Union, funded the Red Terror of the Bolsheviks.

O'bomba is also to blame.

Arrest McCain and O'bomba for aiding al-CIAda in Syria, and dragging the U.S. people into more expensive war for the Nazionists, and international financiers who care nothing about ordinary jews as evidenced by them financing Hitler.

The Republic of the USA ended with the founding of the un-Federal no-Reserve Board in 1913, the AshkeNAZI.

My country, my people. End the Fed. End the Monarchy. End the Vatican. End the Nazionists.

Fri, 05/31/2013 - 06:41 | 3612890 therearetoomany...
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Providing aid and comfort to the enemy.  Hmm, we are at war with al qaida in our neverending war on terror.  McCain met with them and Obama gave them weapons (well, for the bama ass sniffers, obama didn't actually hand arms to them but the CIA gave them weapons, but alas, his reign, his responsibility)  sounds like aid and comfort to me.  Which I think is trrrrrrreason...

Thu, 05/30/2013 - 20:59 | 3612251 Moe Howard
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Time to send in the illegal alien mexicans! They will do the dirty jobs the Syrians don't want to do!!

 

Thu, 05/30/2013 - 21:09 | 3612293 f16hoser
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False Flag. And in other news, Obummer asks for no fly zone over Syria.

Thu, 05/30/2013 - 21:32 | 3612347 Schmuck Raker
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False flag? Maybe.

But more important: IT'S A FUCKING WAR ZONE!

Is anybody shocked to find Brits and Yanks are not bulletproof?

Thu, 05/30/2013 - 21:41 | 3612363 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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Let us not forget even the EU is in on the Syria war racket.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/european-union-directly-funds-al-qaeda-loot...

According to a report yesterday in Britain’s Guardian newspaper, the European Union (EU) is directly funding US-backed Sunni Islamist terrorist groups fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. These groups are looting oil in parts of eastern Syria that they control and then re-selling it to EU countries at rock-bottom prices.

The Guardian writes:

“The EU decision to lift Syrian oil sanctions to aid the opposition has accelerated a scramble for control over wells and pipelines in rebel-held areas and helped consolidate the grip of jihadist groups over the country’s key resources.”

According to the Guardian, the main beneficiaries of the EU’s lifting of sanctions are the Al Nusra Front and similar Islamist terrorist groups. “Jabhat al-Nusra, affiliated with Al Qaeda and other extreme Islamist groups, control the majority of the oil wells in Deir Ezzor province, displacing local Sunni tribes, sometimes by force. They have also seized control of other fields from Kurdish groups further to the north-east, in al-Hasakah governorate.”

The EU’s decision to resume trade with oil fields held by Al Nusra explodes the lie that the imperialist powers are waging war in Syria to change the repressive character of the Syrian regime. In fact, they are building up and backing deeply reactionary and oppressive forces.

These events also expose the so-called “war on terror”—the claim that Washington and the EU are fighting Al Qaeda, which served as the justification for US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—as a lie. Imperialism is arming and financing Al Qaeda-linked terrorist groups that commit terrible crimes against the Syrian population, handing over its wealth to the EU and Washington.

Germany’s Spiegel Online magazine recently reported how the Islamists dump Syrian oil on world markets at ultra-low prices: “Since February the Islamist rebel group Liwa al-Islam has controlled the al-Thaura oil-field in the ar-Raqqah governorate… The rebels in al-Thaura sell ten fuel truck cargos each day. They make good money and charge around $13 US for a barrel. On the world market, however, a barrel is traded for $100 US, but this is not of particular interest here.”

Abu Saif, an Islamist fighter of the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Ahrar Brigade, gives another account of how Islamists militias loot Syria: “Jabhat al-Nusra is investing in the Syrian economy to reinforce its position in Syria and Iraq. Al-Nusra fighters are selling everything that falls into their hands from wheat, archaeological relics, factory eq uipment, oil drilling and imaging machines, cars, spare parts and crude oil.”

To secure the oil, the terrorists murder everyone who gets in their way. In one widely reported case, Al Nusra fighters levelled the village of al-Musareb near Deir Ezzor, murdering 50 of its residents after a conflict with local tribesmen over an oil tanker. The mass killings through which terrorist groups control the territory needed to supply oil to European imperialism are documented in videos posted on YouTube.

Thu, 05/30/2013 - 21:58 | 3612402 Totentänzerlied
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Nope. Just freedumb fighters(tm) bringing dumbocracy. Nothing to see here.

Thu, 05/30/2013 - 22:07 | 3612423 MaxThrust
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I think it's time we had the REAL cold woar for REAL. The Ruskys on the north coast, the US arm in arm with their muslim brothers in the south, the Yids to the west and Iranian phsycos in the east...........  5,4,3,2,1 begin!

 

The rest of us can sit back in our armchairs and watch the world destroy itself. Once over and all the worlds arms are used up, the bankster will have nothing to defend themselves and we (The People ) can begin culling the elite.

Thu, 05/30/2013 - 22:18 | 3612452 hyperbole2000
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What I don't understand is why Isreal hasn't already started carpet bombing the concentrated Hezbollah formations outside Qysar with fuel-air bonbs

Thu, 05/30/2013 - 22:19 | 3612459 MachineMan
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Why westerners were fighting the Syrian government alongside Al Qaeda "rebels" is not known.

 

Didn't you know, Al Qaeda is a front operation for the CIA.

Fri, 05/31/2013 - 03:57 | 3612838 johngerard
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No it isn't. You're talking total shit.

Thu, 05/30/2013 - 23:28 | 3612636 Cardinal Fang
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OK, let's go over the basics here. The only reason you are told anything, is because they want you to be told it. Got it?

Thu, 05/30/2013 - 23:45 | 3612664 dark pools of soros
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They hate us for our Freedums!!

Fri, 05/31/2013 - 00:00 | 3612686 ciao
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Did they find that Michael Lee White there on the spot again?  Putin ain't going to be happy...

Fri, 05/31/2013 - 00:54 | 3612761 PennilessPauper
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Good!! I hope those fucking idiots cashed their FBI blackmail checks first.  What did they do download some mp3's with child porn embedded in the hash tags.  Then they were threatened with death if they did not spy for alCIAda/FBI?

Remember you deal with the devil "USA GOBERMINT" you get fucked!  One way or another!

Anonymous threatens to expose the FBI and other government agencies for their alleged set-ups

http://www.federaljack.com/2013/05/

 

 

 

Fri, 05/31/2013 - 09:03 | 3612826 johngerard
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There are at least more than a thousand Muslim citizens of western countries fighting the jihad in Syria against the Assad government. This woman is a convert from Michigan, ground zero for Islam in the US. Somehow, she got the idea that Islam isn't a religion of peace, but it is a religion of war and conquest. I can't imagine why she came to think that.

Sorry to disappoint you 'false flag', tin foil hat wearing, conspiracy nuts, but they're not CIA agents. They're just pious Muslims doin' what they do.

Like most westerners, you presume muslims have no thoughts or ideas of their own, and can only react to what westerners do, or allow themselves to be used because they're dumb ragheads.

They have their own idea of how to run things, and it's called Islam. The trouble is, they want it to be our way of running things as well...

Fri, 05/31/2013 - 09:03 | 3613152 el Gallinazo
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"Sorry to disappoint you 'false flag', tin foil hat wearing, conspiracy nuts, but they're not CIA agents."

 

Well, thanks John Gerard.  My first impression was that they were CIA operatives, but since you have assured us that they are not, and with your stirling track record for veracity, guess I'll have to toss that idea.

Fri, 05/31/2013 - 03:42 | 3612827 Karl von Bahnhof
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Turkey finds sarin gas in the hands of Syrian Rebels
Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9ba_1369971995#QxC8wc3EWgQk1f2o.99
Fri, 05/31/2013 - 03:43 | 3612828 Kiwi Pete
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If things don't kick off till next year they can just transfer some of the 68,000 troops in afghanistan over to syria and save money on flying them back to the states. Less the ones that will be staying on to man the 9 bases that will remain after the "pull-out".

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/09/karzai-says-afghanistan-ready-to-let-us-have-bases/

 

win/win

Fri, 05/31/2013 - 05:07 | 3612862 SmittyinLA
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Probably Muslim convert former Guantanamo guards.

Fri, 05/31/2013 - 07:39 | 3612947 supermaxedout
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Turkish security forces found a 2-Kg cylinder with sarin gas

after searching the homes of jihadist militants from al-Qaeda's Jabhat al-Nusra (Nusra Front) who were previously detained, Turkish media reports. The gas was reportedly going to be used in a bomb.

The sarin gas was found in the homes of suspected Syrian Islamists detained in the southern provinces of Adana and Mersia following a search by Turkish police on Wednesday, reports say. The gas was allegedly going to be used to carry out an attack in the southern Turkish city of Adana.

On Monday, Turkish special anti-terror forces arrested 12 suspected members of the Jabhat al-Nusra, the al-Qaeda affiliated group which has been dubbed "the most aggressive and successful arm" of the "Syrian rebels". The group was designated a terrorist organization by the United States in December 2012.

Police also reportedly found a cache of weapons, documents and digital data which will be reviewed by police.

Following the searches, five of those detained were released following medical examinations at the Forensic Medicine Institution Adana. Seven suspects remain in custody. Turkish authorities are yet to comment on the arrests.

Source: Russia Today (RT)

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