YAHO! USA lost war in Syria Embasador fled!

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US shuts Syria embassy, pulls out ambassador
AFP | Feb 7, 2012, 10.57AM IST
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WASHINGTON: The United States closed its embassy in Syria and pulled out all its staff on Monday, but President Barack Obama shied away from talk of military intervention and vowed to pursue diplomatic means.

The closure came amid deteriorating security as President Bashar al-Assad's government intensified its bloody crackdown, raining rockets and shells on protest hubs in a fresh onslaught that killed at least 66 civilians.

Britain and Belgium recalled their envoys as Western powers sought new ways to punish Damascus amid growing outrage after Russia and China on Saturday vetoed a UN resolution condemning Syria for its 11-month crackdown on dissent.

"The United States has suspended operations of our embassy in Damascus as of February 6. Ambassador (Robert) Ford and all American personnel have now departed the country," a State Department statement said.

"The recent surge in violence, including bombings in Damascus on December 23 and January 6, has raised serious concerns that our embassy is not sufficiently protected from armed attack," it said, referring to attacks linked to al-Qaida.

"We, along with several other diplomatic missions, conveyed our security concerns to the Syrian government but the regime failed to respond adequately."

Obama said a negotiated solution with Syria was still possible and defended his administration's handling of the crisis, saying the US had been "relentless" in demanding that Assad leave power.

"It is important to resolve this without recourse to outside military intervention and I think that's possible," he said in an NBC interview broadcast Monday.

"My sense is you are seeing more and more people inside of Syria recognizing that they need to turn a chapter and the Assad regime is feeling the noose tightening around them. This is not a matter of if but when."

His administration hit out angrily at Moscow and Beijing for blocking a UN Security Council resolution condemning Syria for a crackdown that has claimed the lives of more than 6,000 people, according to rights groups.

"Russia and China will, I think, come to regret this decision which has aligned them with a dying dictator, whose days are numbered, and put them at odds with the Syrian people and the entire region," Washington's UN ambassador Susan Rice said on Monday.

She added that the vote, which came just hours after Syrian forces bombed the city of Homs, killing hundreds of civilians, "put a stake in the heart of efforts to resolve this conflict peacefully."

The resolution on the table "would have given political backing to an Arab League plan to begin a negotiated transition," Rice told CNN.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had already called the double veto on the Syrian resolution a "travesty" and chastised those who opposed the vote for protecting Assad's regime.

White House spokesman Jay Carney followed up on Monday by warning Syria's allies that backing Assad was a "losing bet" because the Syrian leader's hold on power was "very limited at best."

"The deteriorating security situation that led to the suspension of our diplomatic operations makes clear once more the dangerous path Assad has chosen and the regime's inability to fully control Syria," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in a written statement.

"It also underscores the urgent need for the international community to act without delay to support the Arab League's transition plan before the regime's escalating violence puts a political solution out of reach and further jeopardizes regional peace and security."

Senior State Department officials told CNN that two embassy employees left by air last week and 15 others, including Ford, departed overland via Jordan on Monday morning.

The Polish government was to provide emergency consular services to any American citizens remaining in Syria, but the State Department stressed that Ford remained the ambassador.

He "will maintain contacts with the Syrian opposition and continue our efforts to support the peaceful political transition which the Syrian people have so bravely sought," a statement said.

 

[matamafia]

It will be a lost zone for the western powers, they might never be able to go back in safety.

 

[laksaboy]

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&s...code_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CDYQ8gEwAA

The port city of Tartus in Syria. Russian navy ships are parked there. Some Russian nuclear submarines are also in nearby waters.

America/Israel is going to receive an unforgettable ass whooping.

 

[matamafia]

It had been a Russian base for decades all along.

Moscow & Beijing just yesterday VETO the UN Security Resolution wanted by the western ang mohs.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/28/us-russia-syria-warships-idUSTRE7AR0S820111128

Russia sending warships to its base in Syria

By Thomas Grove

MOSCOW | Mon Nov 28, 2011 7:48am EST

(Reuters) - Russia is sending a flotilla of warships to its naval base in Syria in a show of force which suggests Moscow is willing to defend its interests in the strife-torn country as international pressure mounts on President Bashar al-Assad's government.

Arab League sanctions and French calls for the establishment of humanitarian zones in Syria have increased international pressure on Assad to end bloodshed that the United Nations says has killed 3,500 people during nine months of protests against his rule.

Russia, which has a naval maintenance base in Syria and whose weapons trade with Damascus is worth millions of dollars annually, joined China last month to veto a Western-backed U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Assad's government.

Izvestia newspaper reported on Monday, citing retired Russian Admiral Viktor Kravchenko, that Russia plans to send its flagship aircraft carrier the "Admiral Kuznetsov" along with a patrol ship, an anti-submarine craft and other vessels.

"Having any military force apart from NATO is very beneficial for the region as it prevents the outbreak of armed conflict," Kravchenko, who was navy chief of staff from 1998-2005, was quoted as saying by Izvestia.

A navy spokesman quoted by the newspaper confirmed that the Russian warships would head to the maintenance base Russia keeps on the Syrian coast near Tartus but said the trip had nothing to do with the uprising against Assad.

The paper said the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier would be armed with at least eight Sukhoi-33 fighters, several MiG-29K fighters and two helicopters.

It will also have cruise and surface to air missiles, the paper said.

A navy spokesman was not available to comment to Reuters.

Yegor Engelhart, an analyst with Moscow-based defense think-tank CAST, said Moscow did not want its position to be ignored while the Assad government was under pressure.

"At the very least Moscow wants to show that it is willing to defend its interests in Syria," he said

Russian officials say the naval base at Tartus is used for repairs to ships from its Black Sea fleet and Izvestia said about 600 Russian Defense Ministry employees worked there. There are currently no Russian ships there, the paper said.

Russia, a veto-wielding permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, abstained from voting on a resolution that paved the way for Western military intervention in Libya but later criticized the mission saying NATO overstepped its mandate and interfered in a civil war.

Russia said it lost of tens of billions of dollars in potential arms deals with Muammar Gaddafi's fall and is loathe to lose another customer in the region. Syria accounted for 7 percent of Russia's total of $10 billion in arms deliveries abroad in 2010, according to CAST.

Moscow has traditionally used what influence it still has in the Middle East as a lever in diplomatic maneuvering with Europe and in particular the United States, Moscow's Cold War foe.

(Reporting by Thomas Grove; Editing by Guy Faulconbridge)

 

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http://www.news24.com/World/News/China-no-rubber-stamp-on-Syria-paper-20120207

China no 'rubber stamp' on Syria - paper
2012-02-07 12:45
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Beijing - The world must get used to a rising China speaking hard truths about international disputes such as Syria, a top newspaper said on Tuesday, saying its veto of a UN resolution on the Syrian crisis showed China would be no "rubber stamp".

China said its blocking, along with Russia, of a draft UN resolution that backed an Arab plan urging President Bashar Assad to quit, did not amount to supporting the Syrian leader.

Activists accused Assad's forces of bombarding part of the city of Homs before the U.N. vote on the weekend, killing 200 people in the worst bloodshed of the 11-month uprising. The opposition said 50 people were killed in Homs on Monday.

The head of the Arab League, Nabil Elaraby, said Russia and China had lost diplomatic credit in the Arab world by vetoing the resolution.

But the overseas edition of the People's Daily, the mouthpiece of the ruling Communist Party, said in a front-page commentary China was right to stand up for what it believed was the correct course over Syria.

"The Syrian situation is worsening, and China and Russia's decision to veto created a 'window of opportunity' for a soft landing to the problem, which should not be wasted," wrote Ruan Zongze, who the paper identified as a foreign affairs expert.

China's new role

Ruan said China should tough out the international outcry over the veto.

"Today, China, because of its rapidly rising strength, sits at the main table on the global stage, and needs to get used to newly being in the limelight. The international community also needs to adjust to China's new role," Ruan said.

"Although this means that China will face even more difficult choices when it comes to handling complex international affairs, China must dare to speak its mind, and proactively create a just, rational global political process."

On Monday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Liu Weimin told reporters that Western powers that initiated the UN Security Council vote on their resolution were culpable for not going far enough in seeking compromise.

"China is not playing favourites and nor is it deliberately opposing anyone, but rather is upholding an objective and fair stance and a responsible position," Liu said.

"Our goal is for the Syrian people to escape violence, conflict and flames of war, and not to make the problem even more complicated," he said.

Political reconciliation

In the People's Daily, Ruan said the resolution had been aimed at "regime change", which ran contrary to the UN's charter, hence China could not support it.

China was leading the charge to prevent the Security Council from becoming "just a rubber stamp", Ruan said.

"The international community ought to create conditions for national political reconciliation in Syria and push for dialogue and the narrowing of differences," he wrote.

China's explanations are unlikely to mollify critics in Western capitals and the Middle East.

Dozens of Syrian and Libyan demonstrators on Monday threw rocks, eggs and tomatoes at the Chinese embassy in Tripoli, where they also broke windows and sprayed graffiti on walls in a show of disgust.

The conflicting Chinese and Western positions have exposed a wider rift about how China should use its growing influence and whether it should foresake its long-standing, albeit unevenly applied, principle of non-interference in other countries' domestic conflicts.

China's siding with Russia over Syria could also add to irritants with the United States. Vice President Xi Jinping is due to visit there next week, burnishing his credentials as the Communist Party's likely next top leader.

- Reuters

 

[matamafia]

USA down Russia up in Syria - Russian Foreign Minister arrived Damascus - US Fled

Russian Foreign Minister arrived Damascus : Putin gained votes Obama lost votes

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.as...L6E8C52E2_RTROPTT_0_UK-SYRIA&sec=Worldupdates

Russia's Lavrov seeks peace in Syria as forces bombard Homs
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis

AMMAN (Reuters) - Russia won a promise from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday to bring an end to bloodshed in Syria, but Western and Arab states acted to isolate Assad further after activists and rebels said his forces killed over 100 in the city of Homs.
Supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad gather on a Damascus street, to welcome Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, February 7, 2012, in this handout photograph released by Syria's national news agency SANA. REUTERS/SANA

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, representing a rare ally on a trip to the Syrian capital that other states are shunning, said both countries wanted revive a monitoring effort by the Arab League, whose plan to resolve Syria's crisis Moscow and Beijing vetoed in the U.N. Security Council.

There was no indication from Lavrov's comments that the issue of Assad eventually giving up power - a central element of the Arab proposal that failed in the Council - had been raised.

Assad said he would cooperate with any plan that stabilised Syria, but made clear that only included an earlier Arab League proposal that called for dialogue, release of prisoners and withdrawing the army from protest centres.

Walid al-Bunni, a senior member of the opposition Syrian National Council, said Lavrov brought no new initiative and that "so-called reforms" promised by Assad were not enough. "The crimes that have been committed have left no room for Bashar al-Assad to remain ruler of Syria," he told Reuters.

Russia's mediation also failed to slow a rush by countries that denounced the Russian-Chinese veto three days ago to corner Syria diplomatically and cripple Assad with sanctions in hopes of toppling him.

Opposition activists said government forces renewed shelling of the central city of Homs on Tuesday just before Lavrov's arrival, killing some 19 people in an onslaught that they say has claimed over 300 lives in the last five days.

There were also reports from residents of shelling and fighting on Tuesday between government and rebel forces in Hama, another urban stronghold of anti-Assad sentiment.

Syria says Homs - the heart of 11 months of protest against Assad's rule - is the site of a running battle with "terrorists" directed and funded from abroad. Parts of the city are held by insurgents that include army defectors.

Syria's references to foreign interference are widely read to include Gulf Arab states, which followed the lead of Washington and European Union countries on Tuesday in reducing their diplomatic presence in Damascus.

"The president of Syria assured us he was 'completely committed to the task of stopping violence, regardless of where it may come from'," Lavrov said after his meeting with Assad, accompanied by Russia's top spy.

Lavrov - whose government wields unique leverage as a major arms supplier with long-standing political ties to Damascus, and maintains a naval facility on its coast - told Assad peace was in Russia's interests.

Lavrov also affirmed Russia's "readiness to help foster the swiftest exit from the crisis on the basis of positions set out in the Arab League initiative".

Russia has supported an Arab League peace proposal for Syria floated last November envisaging a withdrawal of troops from cities and towns, the release of prisoners, and reforms.

Assad endorsed that plan, with no reference to a later version that formed the basis of the failed U.N. resolution. It called on Assad to empower a deputy to negotiate with his opponents as a step toward elections and political transition.

"Syria from the beginning has welcomed any efforts that back the Syrian solution to the crisis," the state news agency quoted Assad as saying.

"It has been committed to the Arab League plan approved last November, and cooperated fully with the mission of monitors, despite the obstruction of some Arab parties in their work."

He was referring to the Arab League mission whose collapse amid surging violence paved the way for the U.N. standoff.

Syrian state television said a committee charged with drawing up a new Syrian constitution - one of several political reforms promised by Assad - had completed its work on Tuesday.

Assad has said parliamentary elections would be held after approval of the constitution but has also pledged to eradicate "terrorists" he associates with the violence.

Lavrov said Assad, whose family has brooked no dissent in ruling Syria for 41 years, assured him he was committed to halting bloodshed by both sides and that he was ready to seek dialogue with all political groups in the country.

Russia's Foreign Ministry later said Assad confirmed his "readiness to send an official government delegation for an all-Syrian meeting in Moscow" - a proposal already rejected by members of the Syrian National Council.

BOMBARDMENT OF HOMS RESUMES

Opposition activists have dismissed Assad's reform pledges because he continued trying to crush protests with tanks and troops and branded his foes as "terrorists". The United Nations estimates over 5,000 have been killed in the crackdown.

Syrian state television showed hundreds of people gathering on a main Damascus highway to welcome Lavrov. They were waving Syrian, Russian and Hezbollah flags and held up two Russian flags made out of hundreds of red, white and blue balloons.

Opposition activists said the fresh assault on Homs came after 95 people were killed on Monday in the city of one million, Syria's third biggest. More than 200 were reported killed there by sustaining shelling on Friday night.

Syria maintains the military is fighting "terrorists" in Homs bent on dividing and sabotaging the country. State media said "tens" of terrorists and six members of the security forces were killed in clashes there on Monday.

A further 19 people were killed and at least 40 wounded in Tuesday's barrage, activists said. Some reported fighting between army defectors and government forces trying move into areas the rebels hold in Homs.

Residents of areas near the border town of Zabadani, where army defectors have a toehold after Assad's troops withdrew under a ceasefire, said government forces renewed shelling on Tuesday morning. At least nine people have been killed by heavy weapons fire into the town since Monday, activists said.

"HYSTERIA"

Moscow and Beijing were the only members of the 15-member U.N. Security Council to vote against the resolution backing an Arab League call for Assad to yield power and start a political transition. The double veto prompted unusually undiplomatic Western criticism, which Lavrov said verged on "hysteria".

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) said its members were recalling their ambassadors from Damascus and expelling Syrian envoys from their own capitals, in response to surging violence.

"It is necessary for the Arab states... to take every decisive measure faced with this dangerous escalation against the Syrian people," the Saudi-led bloc said in a statement.

"Nearly a year into the crisis, there is no glint of hope in a solution," it added.

Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter, was the first country to pull out of the Arab League monitoring party in Syria, followed by the other five GCC members. The League has suspended the mission but not yet formally declared it over.

European Union states followed up their denunciation of the veto by preparing a new round of sanctions on Syria, EU diplomats said on Tuesday, with the focus on central bank assets and trade in precious metals, gold and diamonds.

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, an ex-ally who has turned against Assad, described the U.N. vetoes as "a fiasco for the civilised world" and said Ankara was preparing a new initiative with those who oppose the Syrian government.

US EMBASSY SHUT, EUROPEAN ENVOYS RECALLED

The United States shut its embassy and said all staff had left Syria due to worsening security in the country, which has also been hit by suicide bombings in Damascus.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said the United States was "exploring the possibility of providing humanitarian aid to Syrians", but gave no details.

France, Italy, Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain recalled their ambassadors from Syria.

U.S. President Barack Obama said in comments broadcast on Monday that Western countries were ready to lean hard on Assad diplomatically but had no intention of using force to topple him, as they did against Muammar Gaddafi in Libya last year.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Sunday the United States would work with other nations to try to tighten sanctions against Assad's government and deny it arms in the absence of a U.N. resolution.

(Additional reporting by Joseph Logan in Beirut, Mitra Amiri in Tehran, Gleb Bryanski and Steve Gutterman in Moscow, Fiona Ortiz in Madrid and Jonathon Burch in Ankara; Writing by Dominic Evans; Editing by Jon Boyle)


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Copyright © 2012 Reuters

 

[matamafia]

USA motivated up-risers face death and arrest - BETRAYED by Washington as usual

DEAD-MEAT to be slaughtered! Used and abandoned and betrayed by the great Obama just the same as all other White House scums.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/us-not-considering-arming-syrian-opposition-1.3511681

US not considering arming Syrian opposition

Published: February 7, 2012 3:05 PM
By The Associated Press

WASHINGTON - (AP) -- The White House says the U.S. is not considering arming opposition groups in Syria amid calls from some lawmakers to consider such an option.

Spokesman Jay Carney says that at this point, U.S. efforts are focused on exploring the possibility of providing humanitarian aid to the Syrian people. And he says the U.S. continues to look for ways to ratchet up the pressure on the Syrian government.

Carney says pressure on President Bashar Assad's regime is having an impact. But he says that pressure must ultimately result in Assad stopping the violence in Syria and leaving power.

Earlier Tuesday, some lawmakers, including Arizona's Republican Sen. John McCain, called for the U.S. to considering arming the opposition in Syria.

Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

 

[chupacabra]

Re: USA motivated up-risers face death and arrest - BETRAYED by Washington as usual

Who gives a fuck about russia and syria.. fuck those cuntries to hell. Since when does these two cuntries ever was part in any ones life.

 

[matamafia]

Re: USA motivated up-risers face death and arrest - BETRAYED by Washington as usual

Who gives a fuck about russia and syria.. fuck those cuntries to hell. Since when does these two cuntries ever was part in any ones life.

This is the globally crucial time and matter that ANY power that can bring USA down to where it's supposed to be, will be the GREATLY APPRECIATED factor. That means longest term stability and New World Order. The USA fumbling and struggling it's own way down will cause too much flip-flops and get tiny little red dot and the likes caught and trapped for destruction.