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A former official from within the ranks of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is reporting that US and NATO forces have landed outside of Syria and are training militants to overthrow the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, formerly a translator with the FBI, wrote over the weekend that American soldiers are among the NATO troops that have mysteriously and suddenly landed on the Jordanian and Syrian border. According to her, several sources internationally have confirmed the news, although the US media has been instructed to temporarily censor itself from reporting the news.
Additionally, Edmonds says that American and NATO forces are training Turkish troops as well, to possibly launch a strike from the north of Syria.
Edmonds writes that an Iraqi journalist based out of London has confirmed that US forces that vacated the Ain al-Assad Air Base in Iraq last week did in fact leave the country as part of President Obamas drawdown of troops, but rather than return home, the soldiers were transferred into Jordan during the late hours of Thursday evening. Another source, writes Edmonds, informs her that soldiers who speak languages other than Arabic have been moving through Jordan mere miles from the countrys border with Syria. Troops believed to be NATO/American-affiliated have been spotted between the King Hussein Air Base in al-Mafraq and the Jordanian village of Albaej and its vicinity.
http://rt.com/usa/news/us-nato-syria-edmonds-709/
U.S. to aid Lebanese border defense
Published: Dec. 7, 2011 at 1:32 PM
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Washington is willing to help the Lebanese military secure its borders, a U.S. diplomat said during a visit with Lebanon's prime minister.
Jeffrey Feltman, U.S. assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs, arrived Wednesday in Beirut to discuss regional affairs. His visit follows a rare public appearance by Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, who told supporters that while he saw the need for some reforms, he stood by his allies in Syria.
With concerns growing over the possible regional fallout from the potential for civil war in Syria, Feltman said Washington was committed to helping the Lebanese military secure its borders, The Daily Star newspaper in Lebanon reports.
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RC
(25,592 posts)How long before the rest of the world decides enough is enough and force feeds us our own medicine?
greytdemocrat
(3,299 posts)And we'll be invading Iran the day after...
Christ.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)Unsettling times for Syria's rich
By SAMMY KETZ
December 6, 2011, 11:09pm
DAMASCUS, Syria (AFP) These are unsettling times for Syria, even for the very rich: sanctions punish you today but if the regime falls, you are sure to be punished tomorrow.
''The sanctions today are like leaks on a boat,'' said a Damascus entrepreneur who did not want to be named. ''You plug one and then it leaks somewhere else. Just as we learned to live with US sanctions, then the European ones, which were a brutal blow, now the Arabs jump in,'' he said.
Europe and the United States tightened economic sanctions again on Thursday in an effort to ramp up international pressure as the UN said more than 4,000 people have died in a crackdown on dissidents across Syria.
These new sanctions are about ''choking the regime,'' a Western diplomat in Damascus said. ''Economic warfare is replacing a military intervention as in Libya. ''It's a war on the move. The sanctions are never fixed, they multiply and come from all directions,'' the diplomat explained.
http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/343903/unsettling-times-syrias-rich
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)But we'll be (sort of) out of Iraq, so chalk up another one for The List.
Swede
(33,310 posts)Vlad is just yanking your chain.
Hell Hath No Fury
(16,327 posts)I am always interested in hearing what she has to say.
Bucky
(54,094 posts)If there's no profit in it, we won't go there.