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Topic Started: Dec 22 12, 1:10 (60,243 Views)
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Syria peace conference on January 22: UN
UNITED NATIONS, United States - Agence France-Presse


Syrian government and opposition negotiators will meet for the first time since start of the country's 32 month-old war in Geneva from January 22, the UN announced Monday.

UN leader Ban Ki-moon called the landmark conference "a mission of hope" to end the civil war.

But he stressed to both sides that the aiming of the meeting will be to carry out a declaration adopted by the major powers in June 2012 calling for a transitional government.

"The secretary general expects that the Syrian representatives will come to Geneva with a clear understanding that this is the objective, and with a serious intention to end a war that has already left well over 100,000 dead, driven almost nine million from their homes, left countless missing and detained, sent tremors through the region and forced unacceptable burdens on Syria's neighbors," said the UN spokesman Martin Nesirky.

"The conflict in Syria has raged for too long. It would be unforgivable not to seize this opportunity to bring an end to the suffering and destruction it has caused," Ban said through his spokesman.

Ban praised the efforts of Russia, the United States and UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi in pressing for the conference which has been delayed several times.

Divisions in the Syrian opposition, doubts about the government's commitment to the conference and deciding whether key countries such as Iran and Saudi Arabia should take part have all clouded efforts to bring the two sides together.

The conference will be a followup to a meeting held in Geneva in June 2012 when the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France -- the permanent UN Security Council members -- and other key states agreed a call for a transitional government.

"We will go to Geneva with a mission of hope. The Geneva conference is the vehicle for a peaceful transition that fulfills the legitimate aspirations of all the Syrian people for freedom and dignity, and which guarantees safety and protection to all communities in Syria," said Ban.

"Its goal is the full implementation of the Geneva communiqu of June 30, 2012, including the establishment, based on mutual consent, of a transitional governing body with full executive powers, including over military and security entities," he added.

The Security Council has backed the declaration in a resolution, making it legally binding.

Ban said he "will expect all regional and international partners to demonstrate their meaningful support for constructive negotiations.

"All must show vision and leadership. All can begin working now to take steps to help the Geneva conference succeed, including toward the cessation of violence, humanitarian access, release of detainees and return of Syrian refugees and internally displaced to their homes," Ban said.

November/25/2013

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/syria-peace-conference-on-january-22-un.aspx?pageID=238&nID=58483&NewsCatID=359
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FSA will not attend Geneva II Conference

Free Syrian Army will not participate in the so called "Geneva II Conference", the international peace talks on the Syria conflict, stated FSA General Salim İdris who spoke to Al Jazeera news channel on Tuesday. İdris remarked that the groups affiliated to FSA will not attend the Geneva II peace conference either.

Defending that “conditions are not suitable for running the Geneva 2 talks at the given date", İdris added that they will not stop combat during the Geneva conference or after it.

Among a number of groups affiliated to the western backed FSA, Islamist groups dissociated themselves from the army and formed their own front last Friday.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon announced in a written statement on Monday that the international Geneva Conference on the Syria conflict will take place on 22 January 2014.

"We will go to Geneva with a mission of hope," said the statement which however didn't disclose any details as to who would attend the conference, and whether Iran would be invited or not.

http://en.firatajans.com/news/news/fsa-will-not-attend-geneva-ii-conference.htm
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New rebel alliance wants Syria as 'Islamic state'
BEIRUT - Agence France-Presse

A newly formed rebel alliance said Nov. 26 it wants to replace Syria's regime with an "Islamic state," but insisted it would protect minorities and not create an "oppressive, authoritarian system."

The covenant of the Islamic Front, Syria's largest armed opposition grouping with tens of thousands of fighters battling to oust President Bashar al-Assad, spells out its intention to play a role in politics and society as well as on the battlefield.

But the authors of the document did not provide a clear vision of a post-Assad Syria, perhaps fearing that delving into details would splinter the alliance of seven key Islamist groups announced on Friday, which hopes to unify the fractured opposition.

Syria's uprising began as a series of peaceful pro-democracy protests in March 2011, but a brutal regime crackdown ignited a full-blown civil war in which hardline Islamist groups have taken on an increasingly prominent role.

Under the subheading "democracies and parliaments," the Islamic Front says representative government "is based on the notion that the people have the right through institutions to (determine) legislation, whereas in Islam God is the sovereign." But it adds: "This does not mean that we want an oppressive, authoritarian system," saying Syria should be ruled through a Shura, or Islamic consultative council.

While hardline jihadists such as Al-Qaeda reject democracy outright, moderate Islamists have long argued that democracy and religion are compatible so long as Islamic law is respected.

Extremist groups across the Muslim world have tried to impose an extreme form of Islamic law, including the maiming and killing of those convicted by self-styled Islamic courts, but such interpretations have been rejected by mainstream Muslim authorities.

The Islamic Front rejects secularism, which it defines as "dividing religion from life and society, and reducing it exclusively to rituals, customs and traditions.

"This is contradictory with Islam." But on the question of minorities, the document says Syria is "home to a varied patchwork of ethnic and religious minorities," adding that such communities were protected "for hundreds of years" under sharia law.

However, the covenant describes foreign jihadists who have travelled to Syria to fight alongside the rebels -- and who often espouse the most radical forms of Islam -- as "brothers who came to help us," saying "we must protect them".

The Islamic Front, which includes a Kurdish Islamic faction, also says it rejects "any project to partition" Syria.

The document adds that "the only way to bring about its objectives, in light of Assad's force and oppressiveness and the world's betrayal of the Syrian people's just cause is through... military rebellion."

November/27/2013


http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/new-rebel-alliance-wants-syria-as-islamic-state.aspx?pageID=238&nID=58597&NewsCatID=352
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Daash kills islamic group not sure if they are sunni or shia

http://nrttv.com/video-dreje.aspx?jimare=1351
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Nov 30 13, 2:48
Daash kills islamic group not sire if they are sunni or shia

http://nrttv.com/video-dreje.aspx?jimare=1351
Wow those guys are pigs, the way they execute them like they are killing cattle.
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‘The near future of Iraq is dark’: Warning from Muqtada al-Sadr - the Shia cleric whose word is law to millions of his countrymen

Friday 29 November 2013

In a rare interview at his headquarters in Najaf, he tells Patrick Cockburn of his fears for a nation growing ever more divided on sectarian lines

The future of Iraq as a united and independent country is endangered by sectarian Shia-Sunni hostility says Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia religious leader whose Mehdi Army militia fought the US and British armies and who remains a powerful figure in Iraqi politics. He warns of the danger that “the Iraqi people will disintegrate, its government will disintegrate, and it will be easy for external powers to control the country”.

In an interview with The Independent in the holy city of Najaf, 100 miles south-west of Baghdad – the first interview Mr Sadr has given face-to-face with a Western journalist for almost 10 years – he expressed pessimism about the immediate prospects for Iraq, saying: “The near future is dark.”

Mr Sadr said he is most worried about sectarianism affecting Iraqis at street level, believing that “if it spreads among the people it will be difficult to fight”. He says he believes that standing against sectarianism has made him lose support among his followers.

Mr Sadr’s moderate stance is key at a moment when sectarian strife has been increasing in Iraq – some 200 Shia were killed in the past week alone. For 40 years, Mr Sadr and religious leaders from his family have set the political trend within the Shia community in Iraq. Their long-term resistance to Saddam Hussein and, later, their opposition to the US-led occupation had a crucial impact.

Mr Sadr has remained a leading influence in Iraq after an extraordinary career in which he has often come close to being killed. Several times, it appeared that the political movement he leads, the Sadrist Movement, would be crushed.

He was 25 in 1999 when his father, Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr, a revered Shia leader, and Mr Sadr’s two brothers were assassinated by Saddam Hussein’s gunmen in Najaf. He just survived sharing a similar fate, remaining under house arrest in Najaf until 2003 when Saddam was overthrown by the US invasion. He and his followers became the most powerful force in many Shia parts of Iraq as enemies of the old regime, but also opposing the occupation. In 2004, his Mehdi Army fought two savage battles against American troops in Najaf, and in Basra it engaged in a prolonged guerrilla war against the British Army which saw the Mehdi Army take control of the city.

The Mehdi Army was seen by the Sunni community as playing a central role in the sectarian murder campaign that reached its height in 2006-7. Mr Sadr says that “people infiltrated the Mehdi Army and carried out these killings”, adding that if his militiamen were involved in the murder of Sunnis he would be the first person to denounce them.

For much of this period, Mr Sadr did not appear to have had full control of forces acting in his name; ultimately he stood them down. At the same time, the Mehdi Army was being driven from its old strongholds in Basra and Sadr City by the US Army and resurgent Iraqi government armed forces. Asked about the status of the Mehdi Army today, Mr Sadr says: “It is still there but it is frozen because the occupation is apparently over. If it comes back, they [the Mehdi Army militiamen] will come back.”

In the past five years, Mr Sadr has rebuilt his movement as one of the main players in Iraqi politics with a programme that is a mixture of Shia religion, populism and Iraqi nationalism. After a strong showing in the general election in 2010, it became part of the present government, with six seats in the cabinet. But Mr Sadr is highly critical of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s performance during his two terms in office, accusing his administration of being sectarian, corrupt and incompetent.

Speaking of Mr Maliki, with whom his relations are increasingly sour, Mr Sadr said that “maybe he is not the only person responsible for what is happening in Iraq, but he is the person in charge”. Asked if he expected Mr Maliki to continue as Prime Minister, he said: “I expect he is going to run for a third term, but I don’t want him to.”

Mr Sadr said he and other Iraqi leaders had tried to replace him in the past, but Mr Maliki had survived in office because of his support from foreign powers, notably the US and Iran. “What is really surprising is that America and Iran should decide on one person,” he said. “Maliki is strong because he is supported by the United States, Britain and Iran.”

Mr Sadr is particularly critical of the government’s handling of the Sunni minority, which lost power in 2003, implying they had been marginalised and their demands ignored. He thinks that the Iraqi government lost its chance to conciliate Sunni protesters in Iraq who started demonstrating last December, asking for greater civil rights and an end to persecution.

“My personal opinion is that it is too late now to address these [Sunni] demands when the government, which is seen as a Shia government by the demonstrators, failed to meet their demands,” he said. Asked how ordinary Shia, who make up the great majority of the thousand people a month being killed by al-Qa’ida bombs, should react, Mr Sadr said: “They should understand that they are not being attacked by Sunnis. They are being attacked by extremists, they are being attacked by external powers.”

As Mr Sadr sees it, the problem in Iraq is that Iraqis as a whole are traumatised by almost half a century in which there has been a “constant cycle of violence: Saddam, occupation, war after war, first Gulf war, then second Gulf war, then the occupation war, then the resistance – this would lead to a change in the psychology of Iraqis”. He explained that Iraqis make the mistake of trying to solve one problem by creating a worse one, such as getting the Americans to topple Saddam Hussein but then having the problem of the US occupation. He compared Iraqis to “somebody who found a mouse in his house, then he kept a cat, then he wanted to get the cat out of the house so he kept a dog, then to get the dog out of his house he bought an elephant, so he bought a mouse again”.

Asked about the best way for Iraqis to deal with the mouse, Mr Sadr said: “By using neither the cat nor the dog, but instead national unity, rejection of sectarianism, open-mindedness, having open ideas, rejection of extremism.”

A main theme of Mr Sadr’s approach is to bolster Iraq as an independent nation state, able to make decisions in its own interests. Hence his abiding hostility to the American and British occupation, holding this responsible for many of Iraq’s present ills. To this day, neither he nor anybody from his movement will meet American or British officials. But he is equally hostile to intervention by Iran in Iraqi affairs saying: “We refuse all kinds of interventions from external forces, whether such an intervention was in the interests of Iraqis or against their interests. The destiny of Iraqis should be decided by Iraqis themselves.”

This is a change of stance for a man who was once demonised by the US and Britain as a pawn of Iran. The strength of the Sadrist movement under Mr Sadr and his father – and its ability to withstand powerful enemies and shattering defeats – owes much to the fact it that it blends Shia revivalism with social activism and Iraqi nationalism.

Why are Iraqi government members so ineffective and corrupt? Mr Sadr believes that “they compete to take a share of the cake, rather than competing to serve their people”

Asked why the Kurdistan Regional Government had been more successful in terms of security and economic development than the rest of Iraq, Mr Sadr thought there was less stealing and corruption among the Kurds and maybe because “they love their ethnicity and their region”. If the government tried to marginalise them, they might ask for independence: “Mr Massoud Barzani [the KRG President] told me that ‘if Maliki pushes on me harder, we are going to ask for independence’.” vic

At the end of the interview Mr Sadr asked me if I was not frightened of interviewing him and would not this make the British Government consider me a terrorist? Secondly, he wondered if the British Government still considered that it had liberated the Iraqi people, and wondered if he should sue the Government on behalf of the casualties caused by the British occupation.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-near-future-of-iraq-is-dark-warning-from-muqtada-alsadr--the-shia-cleric-whose-word-is-law-to-millions-of-his-countrymen-8970909.html
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Viagra, car bomb and explosives in “Daash “cache south of Mosul

Saturday, 30 November 2013 12:42

Shafaq News / An Iraqi security source revealed on Saturday the seizure of sexual stimulant pills , a car bomb and explosives with leaflets enticing in one of the caches of " Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham” organization as the joint forces of the Iraqi army and police forces raided Jazerra desert south of Mosul.

“The joint force of the Iraqi army and federal police raided one of the caches to organize the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham” known as “Daash” in Jazerra desert south of Mosul,” The source told “Shafaq News”.

“No one has been arrested in the cache as a car bomb , explosives and enticing publications , as well as quantities of sexual stimulant pills called Viagra have been seized ."

According to the source " the car bomb has been defused with the reservation of the rest of what has been caught from a variety of materials”.

http://www.shafaaq.com/en/security/8067-viagra-car-bomb-and-explosives-in-daash-cache-south-of-mosul.html

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Not trying to protect the Islamist, but the Viagras are probably used for 2 thing. One of them is to make a bomb of the substances in the pills, the other thing is obvious
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Dec 1 13, 2:46
Not trying to protect the Islamist, but the Viagras are probably used for 2 thing. One of them is to make a bomb of the substances in the pills, the other thing is obvious
I've never heard of Viagra bomb. But everything is possible.
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Not Viagra bomb, there is a substance in the pill which can be used to make bombs...they separate it from the pill etc
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Dec 1 13, 3:01
Not Viagra bomb, there is a substance in the pill which can be used to make bombs...they separate it from the pill etc
Really? You know a lot about bombs and pills. ISIS motto: Make bomb not love.
Edited by Zagros, Dec 1 13, 3:13.
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Dec 1 13, 2:40
Viagra, car bomb and explosives in “Daash “cache south of Mosul

Saturday, 30 November 2013 12:42

Shafaq News / An Iraqi security source revealed on Saturday the seizure of sexual stimulant pills , a car bomb and explosives with leaflets enticing in one of the caches of " Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham” organization as the joint forces of the Iraqi army and police forces raided Jazerra desert south of Mosul.

“The joint force of the Iraqi army and federal police raided one of the caches to organize the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham” known as “Daash” in Jazerra desert south of Mosul,” The source told “Shafaq News”.

“No one has been arrested in the cache as a car bomb , explosives and enticing publications , as well as quantities of sexual stimulant pills called Viagra have been seized ."

According to the source " the car bomb has been defused with the reservation of the rest of what has been caught from a variety of materials”.

http://www.shafaaq.com/en/security/8067-viagra-car-bomb-and-explosives-in-daash-cache-south-of-mosul.html

haha
Caught. :D
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The arrival of non combat supplies from the United States to Syrian rebels as part of a larger 250 million dollar plan to support the rebels with food and communication equipments and other non combat supplies they need
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_mfCtupxH8
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Translation needed
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For the video?
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The opposition fighters enter the Christian town of Maloula again
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According to Skurd the iraqi f16 will be delayed till 2016 (KRG 1 million bpd completes in 2015 ;) )

http://skurd.net/Dreje.aspx?B=1&id=7877
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Damn it....

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Leader of Turkmen Front escapes assassination attempt

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The leader of the Turkmen Front, Arshad Salhi has escaped an assassination attempt when a planted bomb exploded near the convoy of his vehicles, leaving one of his bodyguards injured.
Local police told Xendan Press “A bomb exploded by the convoy of Arshad Salhi, leader of the Turkmen Front, in the late afternoon of Sunday, December 1, near the industrial zone of Kirkuk.”
According to the source, one of Salhi’s bodyguards was injured in the attack but Salhi himself escaped without harm.

Read more: http://kirkuknow.com/english/index.php/2013/12/leader-of-turkmen-front-escapes-assassination-attempt/#ixzz2mKCMSu9u
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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At least he wills hut his mouth now for a while
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WARNING SOME GRAPHIC STUFF:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LemaBmRGlw
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We know by now that rebel troops aren't angels but they certainly are less criminal than that giraffe neck
a man responsible for the blood of +200,000 of his people and keep killing more in order to stay in power should get an ending similar to that Mussolini gotten
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Dec 3 13, 5:41
We know by now that rebel troops aren't angels but they certainly are less criminal than that giraffe neck
a man responsible for the blood of +200,000 of his people and keep killing more in order to stay in power should get an ending similar to that Mussolini gotten
Assad has a disposition for killing more people, but the FSA thugs have disposition for killing in especially brutal ways and doing sick shizz in general.

Remember this guy?

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Must be the frustration of losing so many battles.
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all this civil war and the reason for the displacement of more than 3 million Syrian out of Syria is Assad he could've stepped down and prevented his country from this bloody mess
If this dictator stay in power that will be the most disgusting thing and a big crime the world also take responsibility for his Hulagu of the 21st century
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These Iraqi mercenaries captured yesterday fighting for the dictator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZO78Mw1Lsw
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