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Titolo: THE “SYRIAN SCENARIO”: What Is Really Going On In Syria: An Insider Report

Un efficace riepilogo delle vicende siriane.
 
Da notare questa dichiarazione: << As Iliah Saman, a member of the 
political bureau of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party said, the 
party’s program is more conservative in comparison with the Baath’s 
program. Nevertheless there are no differences of principle between the 
two parties. According to him, the policy of the US, France and England 
is the main destabilizing factor in Syria. He said that those countries 
were acting in the interests of Israel and had the goal to divide Syria 
into five state formations on the basis of religious and ethnical 
differences.>>
 
La cosa straordinaria è che questa tesi: che US, FR, UK, stiano 
perseguendo gli interessi dei "sionisti" cercando di sfasciare un paese 
"avversario" come quello libico, sui media occidentali non mi è mai 
capitato di leggerla, tanto meno mi è capitato di vederla valutata in 
un'analisi seria. Che i nostri media siano soggetti a divieti?
 
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THE “SYRIAN SCENARIO”: What Is Really Going On In Syria: An Insider Report
Post Categories: Society
by Ruby Zhang | Monday, March 26, 2012, 0:47 Beijing
 
The current situation in Syria remains one of the most important 
components of the Middle Eastern and international policies. Using 
Syria’s domestic crisis and pursuing their own goals NATO, Israel, 
Turkey and the monarchies of the Persian Gulf are trying to undermine 
the Syrian regime.
 
Since the beginning of the crisis in Syria I have made two trips to that 
country as a member of international delegations in August 2011 and in 
January 2012. If we watch the dynamics of situation’s development over 
that period on the one hand we can state intensification of terrorist 
groups in Syria and on the other hand we see a broader people’s support 
of President Bashar Assad and a clear demarcation of political forces’ 
positions.
 
Two car bombers blew themselves up outside the heavily guarded compounds 
of Syria’s intelligence agencies, killing at least 44 people and 
wounding dozens more in a brazen attack in December 23, 2011.
 
In the last two months Syria has seen a number of terrorist attacks. The 
terrorist attacked Syrian servicemen and military facilities, law 
enforcement agencies institutions, blasts on oil pipelines, railroads, 
murders and taking of hostage among peaceful citizens (In the city of 
Homs insurgents killed five well known scientists), arson of schools and 
killing of teachers (since March 2011, 900 schools have been set on fire 
and 30 teachers have been killed).
 
Terrorist attacks in Damascus became one of the bloodiest. Two of them 
were carried out on December 23, 2011 when cars loaded with explosives 
went off in front of the buildings of state security service killing 44 
and injured about 150 people. On January 6, 2012 on a busy street a 
suicide bomber attack killed 26 and wounded 60. There were officers of 
the law enforcement agencies among the victims but most of the victims 
were occasional by-passers.
 
In January 2012, Damascus has a more severe look in comparison with 
summer of 2011. Security officers check passports on the way to the 
airport, asking people what country they are from. Entrances of many 
state institutions are protected with concrete blocks. There are check 
points with sand bags near the police stations which are protected by 
soldiers in bullet proof vests. Lifting gates which close entrances to 
some of the streets are also by guarded by soldiers and young people 
with machine guns – these are volunteers from pro-governmental youth 
movements. But everyday life has not drastically changed. There are no 
servicemen, armed vehicles or document checks in the city. Damascus is 
still a busy city, with no vacant seats in internet cafes and on 
weekends streets are crowded with family couples and young people.
 
After terrorist attacks in Damascus demonstrations with slogans 
supporting Bashar Assad and condemning terrorists were held everyday. 
Similar demonstrations were organized in other large cities such as 
Aleppo, Homs, Hama, Daraa, Deir az Zor. These demonstrations were 
covered by the Syrian TV. During our stay in Syria we could move around 
the city freely and speak with people as we liked but we did not see any 
single anti-governmental rally. Most of the rallies’ participants were 
young people.
 
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad waves at supporters during a public 
appearance in Damascus on January 11, 2012 in which he vowed to defeat a 
“conspiracy” against Syria.
 
The most massive rally which gathered tens thousands of people was held 
on January 1 in the center of Damascus. At that rally Bashar Assad 
addressed to the nation starting his speech with the words: “Brothers 
and sisters!” He was speaking about a thousands year long history, the 
need to fight terrorism and the support terrorists receive from abroad. 
Assad’s speech was received with real enthusiasm and there were no signs 
that this reaction had been staged.
 
The whole square (tens thousands of people) shouted a popular slogan 
“Allah, Syria, Bashar!” (“Allah, Syria va Bashar bas!”). On January 8, 
in the memory of victims of terrorist attacks in Damascus a 
commemoration ceremony was held in St. Cross Cathedral in Damascus. The 
Mufti of Syria Ahmad Badr Al-Din Hassoun, the metropolitan of the Syrian 
Orthodox Church and the prior of the Catholic monastery spoke at the 
ceremony. In their speeches they condemned “the killers and those who 
put weapons in their hands and sent them to Syria”. The tragedy of the 
mufti of Syria, whose son was killed by the members of the Islamist 
terrorist group after the mufti had refused to act on the side of the 
foreign opposition, which goal was to overthrow Bashar Assad, is a 
telling example in itself.
 
After the adoption of a new law on political parties an active process 
of their creation has been underway in Syria. Although formally the 
constitution envisaged a multiparty system and seven parties were 
represented in the parliament, in compliance with clause 8 the leading 
role belonged to the ruling Baath party. Currently there is a wide 
discussion in Syria about this clause. An official with the Syrian 
Foreign Ministry told us that in the new constitution (on which the 
national referendum would be held in February), this clause would be 
abolished if most of the public and political forces spoke for it.
 
In his address to the nation Bashar Assad said that the new constitution 
would be approved in March 2012. The parliamentary elections are to be 
held in May-June 2012. Along with the law on political parties new laws 
on general elections, local administration and mass media were adopted. 
In compliance with the new law in December 2011 elections to the local 
governments were held. But because of the threat of terrorist attacks 
the turnout was only 42%, which was confirmed by the Baath officials. 
Nevertheless, the local administrations were elected and began to work. 
Under the recently adopted law new mass media are being formed in 
addition to the current 20 TV channels, 15 radio stations and 30 newspapers.
 
At present there are three main trends in the Syrian patriotic 
opposition – democratic, liberal and left, which is mainly a communist 
one. The Syrian Social Nationalist Party is the most influential party 
among the democratic forces. It is also the oldest party which was 
established in 1932. As Iliah Saman, a member of the political bureau of 
the Syrian Social Nationalist Party said, the party’s program is more 
conservative in comparison with the Baath’s program. Nevertheless there 
are no differences of principle between the two parties. According to 
him, the policy of the US, France and England is the main destabilizing 
factor in Syria. He said that those countries were acting in the 
interests of Israel and had the goal to divide Syria into five state 
formations on the basis of religious and ethnical differences.
 
The liberal trend of the opposition is represented by the recently 
registered secular democratic social movement led by Nabil Feysal, one 
of the Syrian intellectuals, a writer and a translator. He is an 
outright opponent of the Islamic fundamentalism, supporter of the 
liberal democracy. His goal is to turn Syria into “Middle Eastern Denmark”.
 
The National Committee for the Unity of Syrian Communists is the most 
influential component of the left (communist) trend of the opposition 
within the country. Recently it has changed its name for the Popular 
Will Party which is headed by Qadri Jamil, a prominent Syrian economist 
and the professor at the Damascus University. He is the only 
representative of the opposition who entered the committee on the design 
of the new constitution. Jamil believes that the national dialogue and 
creation of the government of the national unity (which would include 
representatives of the patriotic opposition) is the only way out of the 
crisis. At the same time he thinks that it is necessary to remove all 
the politicians who are not interested in conduction of reforms from the 
government, to clean up the opposition from destructive factors and to 
suppress its radical members who tend to use violence.
 
The coordination committees are also significant political force which 
has contacts with the Popular Will Party. These committees on the one 
hand organize demonstrations demanding concrete reforms and better 
living conditions on the other hand act as self-defense units which 
armed people protect their districts from attacks of terrorist groups in 
particular from a so called Liberal Syrian Army. It should be noted that 
although in the beginning of protests in Syria, part of the population, 
including intellectuals shared the opposition discontent with the regime 
and supported demands on democratization now, after intensification of 
terrorist groups, they tend to support the regime and the reforms 
proposed by the government.
 
A telling example of terrorist crimes was the shelling of a quarter in 
Homs on January 11 which killed eight local residents. Giles Jacquier, a 
reporter with France-2 TV, became one more victim of the attack. We 
spoke with Jacquier shortly before his tragic death and he was convinced 
that people’s protests were suppressed by the authoritarian regime in 
Syria. He was looking for the opposition everywhere trying to make a 
report. On failing to find it in Damascus he moved with a group of Dutch 
and Swiss colleagues to Homs. But in Homs he also met people who were 
supporting Bashar Assad and demanding to protect them from terrorists. A 
group of local residents and Giles Jacquier who happened to be near came 
under a grenade thrower fire, which was a common thing in that district. 
Commenting the tragic death of the French reporter Mother Agnes Mariam, 
who is the prior of the St James Catholic Cathedral in Damascus, said 
that there is no protesting opposition in Syria but only bandits who are 
killing people.
 
Many people we contacted in Syria including independent foreign 
reporters told us about the information war against Syria. According to 
them, Qatari channel Al Jazeera, for example, in order to broadcast a 
report on mass anti-governmental rallies in Syria made a fake footage 
with the help of computer editing using dozens of atmosphere players and 
decoration of Syrian streets, a kind of “Hollywood village”.
 
As for the Syrian opposition abroad, its political part is represented 
by the Syrian National council with the headquarters in Istanbul. It is 
headed by Burhan Ghalioun, a Syrian-French political scientist at the 
Sorbonne University in Paris. It is quite a heterogeneous formation 
which comprises groups with different goals. They represent the Muslim 
Brotherhood and other Sunnite organizations, Kurdish separatists, 
Liberal-Democratic dissidents who usually reside in Europe and in the US.
 
The armed opposition which conducted terrorist attacks in Syria is 
represented by a number of groups from a military wing of the Muslim 
Brotherhood to the Libyan radical Islamists and Al Qaeda. According to 
the information we receive from our Syrian colleagues there are training 
camps for insurgents in Lebanon and Turkey. The officers of security 
services of NATO, Turkey and some Arab states are in charge for the 
training and armament of the insurgents, while the monarchies of the 
Persian Gulf provide the financing.
 
The future development of the situation in Syria depends in many ways on 
the ability of the ruling regime to consolidate public forces and 
conduct the announced reforms. Other priorities are the liquidation of 
terrorist groups and stabilization of the domestic situation. In its 
turn this issue is directly linked to the development of the global 
policies and will depend on the activities of the leading countries of 
NATO, Turkey, the Arab League (which sent its monitors to Syria) Russia 
and China.
 
As for Russia, it firmly declares that repetition of the “Libyan 
scenario” in Syria is inadmissible.
 
Boris Dolgov is Ph.D. (History), Senior research fellow of the Centre 
for Arabic Studies of the Russian Institute of Oriental Studies.
 
Dr. Boris Dolgov, Global Research
 
http://www.4thmedia.org/2012/03/26/the-syrian-scenario-what-is-really-going-on-in-syria-an-insider-report/
 
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Cristo questo non ha gli occhi e nemmeno il cervello.
 
 
 

 * paranoica - dell'imperialismo russo.
 
Tu dici che i giornalisti occidentali, praticamente tutti, censurano 
quella tesi perché la considerano una stronzata.  Ho capito bene?



E' che non vede l'ora di veder decollare i potenti aerei di Sua Maestà.
 
In qualche nascosto rigagnolo della sua psiche deve esserci il profondo 
risentimento per i barbari che con le loro pretese di autonomia hanno 
dissolto l'Impero.


 dissolto l'Impero.
 
Contraddizioni interne al Cirque
 
 
-- 
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of  freedom, must, like men,
undergo the  fatigues of supporting it.”  - North Idaho 21st Batallion of
Light Foot

 quella tesi perché la considerano una stronzata.  
 
Non è vero che l censurano tutti. Sugli opuscoli nazi va fortissimo.


 E' che non vede l'ora di veder decollare i potenti aerei di Sua Maestà.
 
da quale portaerei?

 dissolto l'Impero.
 
prima o poi qualcuno raccogliera' gli scritti di Persio, scoprira' che
c'e' poco di orginale (che amalric si dia arie da nostalgico
dell'Impero lo ho sostenuto io per primo) ma che c'e' molto stile
pirlesco nel cucirli insieme senza capire un cazzo.