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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Fri Aug 9, 2013, 11:56 AM Aug 2013

US Remains 'Uninterested' As Kurds Massacred By Syria’s Militant Opposition

Reports this week of the radical Islamist opposition in Syria massacring Kurds in the northern Syria is a disturbing development, but not nearly as disturbing as the strategic silence on the issue by the US and European government-media complex.

According to reports from the village of Tal Abyad near the Turkish border on Monday, jihadist terror brigades massacred some 450 residents, including 330 women and elderly, along with 120 youths and elderly near the Turkish border.

For nearly a year now, this Saudi and Qatari-financed armed opposition, known as Al-Nusra Front, or Jabhat Al-Nusra, has been enabled by its benefactors to run ramped in and around Syria. Because of the US and Britain’s cozy relationship with both their gulf allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar, very little, if any, condemnation has come from the political ring leaders of the Syrian reformation project based in Washington and London. The same goes for the Western media, who do not want to run any news that might further expose their political leaders’ own shaky history with Syria since the conflict began.

Any US congressional hearings or British parliamentary inquiries into the matter might just reveal too much information about the illegal flow of arms, or the presence of CIA, MI6, Mossad agents, along with any other undeclared special forces currently involved in operations around the conflict zone there. Given the current political climate, any such revelations would be a political disaster, especially for Washington.

Arab-Kurdish war in Syria?

Other disturbing reports of targeted violence in the region include Kurds being targeted by both Al-Nusra Front and the Free Syrian Army in northern Syria. Recently, in Tall Hassel and Tall Aren near Aleppo, 200 Kurds were said to have been taken hostage. There are also fears of the possibly that dozens of other civilians, including women and children, may have been brutally massacred there.

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http://rt.com/op-edge/us-kurds-massacre-syria-289/

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US Remains 'Uninterested' As Kurds Massacred By Syria’s Militant Opposition (Original Post) Purveyor Aug 2013 OP
Lavrov: UNSC Must Condemn Terrorist Acts in Syria without Reservations Purveyor Aug 2013 #1
So... devils chaplain Aug 2013 #2
A tragic inevitable result of events there dipsydoodle Aug 2013 #3
 

Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
1. Lavrov: UNSC Must Condemn Terrorist Acts in Syria without Reservations
Fri Aug 9, 2013, 11:57 AM
Aug 2013

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday that he was shocked when learned of the death of about 450 Kurds in northern Syria, including a hundred children.

The minister called on the United Nations Security Council to "condemn this terrorist act and all acts of terrorism in Syria without reservations or additional conditions."

During a joint news conference with his Ghanaian counterpart, Hannah Tetteh, in Moscow, Lavrov recalled that another terrorist attack took place in Damascus countryside, hours after the massacre against Kurdish civilians at the hands of al-Nusra Front guerrillas because of the participation of some men of their tribe in battles against the terrorist group.

Lavrov underlined the need to put an end to these acts immediately.

"The recent developments in Syria make more urgent the G8 summit call on the Syrian government and the opposition to unite in order to fight terrorists and expel them from the country," he stated.

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