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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Mon May 2, 2016, 04:54 PM May 2016

Syria Conflict 'Out Of Control' Warns Kerry Amid Push To Save Truce

Source: BBC

US Secretary of State John Kerry has said the Syrian conflict is "in many ways out of control", as he made a fresh push to salvage a fragile truce.

1 hour ago

After talks with UN and Arab diplomats in Geneva, he said progress had been made on a plan to reduce violence in the second city of Aleppo.
However, he said more work was needed and there was no guarantee of success.

--CLIP
About 250 people have reportedly been killed in Aleppo in the past nine days.

On Monday, fresh government air strikes and artillery attacks on rebel-held districts and suburbs of Aleppo left at least three dead, according to activists.

Mr Kerry, speaking alongside UN special envoy Staffan de Mistura after a morning of talks in Geneva, said the conflict was "in many ways out of control and deeply disturbing".

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36183569

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Syria Conflict 'Out Of Control' Warns Kerry Amid Push To Save Truce (Original Post) Purveyor May 2016 OP
Frightening, especially in the light of Van Jones saying that Trumpzilla can win the election, Jackie Wilson Said May 2016 #1
Hillary's bad judgment is part of the reason for the Syria mess. JDPriestly May 2016 #2
This Tragic Disaster is Hillary's McKim May 2016 #3

Jackie Wilson Said

(4,176 posts)
1. Frightening, especially in the light of Van Jones saying that Trumpzilla can win the election,
Mon May 2, 2016, 04:56 PM
May 2016

especially if people stay home.

If you have FB please find Van Jones page and get his trumpzilla video and post it.

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
2. Hillary's bad judgment is part of the reason for the Syria mess.
Mon May 2, 2016, 05:08 PM
May 2016

Seynour Hersh:

KK: You write that Obama authorized a ratline wherein CIA funneled arms from Libya into Syria and they ended up in jihadi hands. [According to Hersh, this operation was coordinated via the Benghazi consulate where U.S. ambassador Stevens was killed.] What was Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s role in this given her significant role in Libya?


SH: The only thing we know is that she was very close to Petraeus who was the CIA director at the time ... she’s not out of the loop, she knows when there’s covert ops. ... That ambassador who was killed, he was known as a guy, from what I understand, as somebody who would not get in the way of the CIA. As I wrote, on the day of the mission he was meeting with the CIA base chief and the shipping company. He was certainly involved, aware and witting of everything that was going on. And there’s no way somebody in that sensitive of a position is not talking to the boss, by some channel.

http://www.alternet.org/world/exclusive-interview-seymour-hersh-dishes-saudi-oil-money-bribes-and-killing-osama-bin-laden

Hillary is knee-deep in the Syria fiasco. Knee-deep.

McKim

(2,412 posts)
3. This Tragic Disaster is Hillary's
Mon May 2, 2016, 06:04 PM
May 2016

This tragic disaster is Hillary's problem. She made it happen. This is a portend of what is to come in the Middle East if she should be
selected into office. So much blood and so much death and a beautiful country ruined. She makes me sick.

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