BREAKING NOW!!: US orders all Diplomats and Americans out of Lebanon and parts of Turkey!! | |
Gypsy Priest (OP) User ID: 45960123 United States 09/06/2013 09:56 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | U.S. Embassies In Lebanon And Turkey Tell Some Staff To Leave Citing "threats to U.S. Mission facilities and personnel," the State Department has told "non-emergency personnel and family members" at its embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, to leave the country. Also, State "urges U.S. citizens to avoid all travel to Lebanon because of current safety and security concerns." The news comes, of course, as the Obama administration tries to build support for its plan to strike neighboring Syria in response to evidence that President Bashar Assad used chemical weapons against his own people last month. [link to www.npr.org] ********Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please******* |
Gypsy Priest (OP) User ID: 45960123 United States 09/06/2013 09:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Syria offers bounty for foreign 'terrorists' BEIRUT: For the first time in Syria's 2-1/2 year conflict, the government is offering a bounty to anyone who captures a foreign "terrorist" - the word authorities use for rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad. In a brief statement on Syrian television, authorities said they would give 500,000 Syrian pounds to anyone who brought in a "non-Syrian terrorist" and 200,000 pounds to anyone who gave information on their whereabouts or helped apprehend them. [link to www.dailystar.com.lb] ********Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please******* |
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Gypsy Priest (OP) User ID: 45960123 United States 09/06/2013 10:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | World leaders at the G20 summit in Russia are split on the issue of military strikes on Syria. According to British Prime Minster David Cameron, the issue had "flared up" over a dinner hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin Thursday night. U.S. President Barack Obama has support from Britain, France, Canada, and Turkey while China and Russia oppose military strikes. Germany and Italy are insisting action be taken through the U.N. Security Council. Meeting separately with Obama, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a political solution on Syria saying, "a military strike cannot solve the problem from the root." The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said on Thursday that the United States had given up trying to work through the Security Council, accusing Russia of holding it hostage. Russia has reportedly sent another ship to the eastern Mediterranean reinforcing its presence off the coast of Syria. According to Interfax, the ship departed from the Black Sea port of Sevastopol Friday morning with "special cargo." Meanwhile, for the first time since the beginning of the conflict in March 2011, the Syrian government is offering a bounty for anyone who brings in a foreign "terrorist," the term the regime uses for all rebel fighters. In a televised statement, authorities offered 500,000 Syrian pounds to anyone who captures a "non-Syrian terrorist" and 200,000 pounds for information that could facilitate their capture. Headlines U.S. officials reported they have intercepted an order from Iran to Shiite militia groups in Iraq to attack the U.S. Embassy and other U.S. interests in Baghdad in the event of a U.S. military strike on Syria. [link to mideast.foreignpolicy.com] ********Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please******* |
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Gypsy Priest (OP) User ID: 45960123 United States 09/06/2013 10:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | U.S. orders partial evacuation of embassy in Beirut as tensions rise over Syria strike Quoting: Isis7 [link to www.washingtonpost.com] ********Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please******* |
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Gypsy Priest (OP) User ID: 45960123 United States 09/06/2013 10:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | (CBS News) The Pentagon has expanded the list of potential targets for a U.S. military strike on Syria, based on intelligence indicating that the Assad regime has moved around equipment used to deploy chemical weapons in anticipation of a potential attack. A Pentagon official insisted to CBS News correspondent David Martin that the scope of the operation has not changed, which President Obama has described as limited and tailored. The military began adding new targets to the list as Syrian troops started moving equipment "they think might be targeted and hiding some of it so the U.S. cannot find it again," Martin reports. The widening list of targets is part of an effort to guarantee that the U.S. can do enough damage to make this strike worthwhile and to truly disincentivize the Syrian regime from using chemical weapons in the future. [link to www.cbsnews.com] ********Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please******* |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 45185506 Germany 09/06/2013 10:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | U.S. broadens target list for Syria strike Quoting: Gypsy Priest (CBS News) The Pentagon has expanded the list of potential targets for a U.S. military strike on Syria, based on intelligence indicating that the Assad regime has moved around equipment used to deploy chemical weapons in anticipation of a potential attack. A Pentagon official insisted to CBS News correspondent David Martin that the scope of the operation has not changed, which President Obama has described as limited and tailored. The military began adding new targets to the list as Syrian troops started moving equipment "they think might be targeted and hiding some of it so the U.S. cannot find it again," Martin reports. The widening list of targets is part of an effort to guarantee that the U.S. can do enough damage to make this strike worthwhile and to truly disincentivize the Syrian regime from using chemical weapons in the future. [link to www.cbsnews.com] Obama just denied this in his current press conference |
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Gypsy Priest (OP) User ID: 45960123 United States 09/06/2013 10:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | U.S. broadens target list for Syria strike Quoting: Gypsy Priest (CBS News) The Pentagon has expanded the list of potential targets for a U.S. military strike on Syria, based on intelligence indicating that the Assad regime has moved around equipment used to deploy chemical weapons in anticipation of a potential attack. A Pentagon official insisted to CBS News correspondent David Martin that the scope of the operation has not changed, which President Obama has described as limited and tailored. The military began adding new targets to the list as Syrian troops started moving equipment "they think might be targeted and hiding some of it so the U.S. cannot find it again," Martin reports. The widening list of targets is part of an effort to guarantee that the U.S. can do enough damage to make this strike worthwhile and to truly disincentivize the Syrian regime from using chemical weapons in the future. [link to www.cbsnews.com] Obama just denied this in his current press conference ********Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please******* |
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littlemiracles User ID: 32798472 United States 09/06/2013 10:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.france24.com] Quoting: Uncle Fuck Stick I wonder what he's going to say...hmmm [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] U.S. broadens target list for Syria strike Quoting: Gypsy Priest (CBS News) The Pentagon has expanded the list of potential targets for a U.S. military strike on Syria, based on intelligence indicating that the Assad regime has moved around equipment used to deploy chemical weapons in anticipation of a potential attack. A Pentagon official insisted to CBS News correspondent David Martin that the scope of the operation has not changed, which President Obama has described as limited and tailored. The military began adding new targets to the list as Syrian troops started moving equipment "they think might be targeted and hiding some of it so the U.S. cannot find it again," Martin reports. The widening list of targets is part of an effort to guarantee that the U.S. can do enough damage to make this strike worthwhile and to truly disincentivize the Syrian regime from using chemical weapons in the future. [link to www.cbsnews.com] Obama just denied this in his current press conference |
Gypsy Priest (OP) User ID: 45960123 United States 09/06/2013 10:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This conflict is getting way out of hand. Obama needs to wake the hell up and listen to the majority. Listen to his fellow Americans and the world. This is a pointless conflict that can spiral out of control and cause more death and destruction than what the supposed chemical caused. ********Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please******* |
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Gypsy Priest (OP) User ID: 45960123 United States 09/06/2013 11:13 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is ordering nonessential U.S. diplomats to leave Lebanon Quoting: Gypsy Priest Why do we have nonessential people there anyway? They are non diplomatic staff. Office personal. ********Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please******* |