West’s And GCC’s Unsavory Proxies In Syrian Regime Change Campaign
PanArmenian.net
February 11, 2012
Weapons smuggled from Iraq to Syria for Assad opponents
Jihadists are moving from Iraq to Syria, as are weapons being sent to opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, Iraq’s deputy interior minister told AFP on Saturday, Feb 11.
“We have intelligence information that a number of Iraqi jihadists went to Syria,” Adnan al-Assadi said in an interview with AFP, adding that “weapons smuggling is still ongoing” from Iraq to Syria.
“The weapons are transported from Baghdad to Nineveh (province), and the prices of weapons in Mosul (the province’s capital) are higher now because they are being sent to the opposition in Syria,” Assadi said.
He said that the price of a Kalashnikov assault rifle has risen from between $100 and $200 to between $1000 and $1500.
“The weapons are being smuggled from Mosul through the Rabia crossing to Syria, as members of the same families live on both sides of the border,” he said.
And “there is some smuggling through a crossing near Abu Kamal,” he said, referring to a Syrian city.
There are large numbers of weapons in Iraq…
Assadi said some Arab jihadists have returned home to participate in revolutions there. “In the past, Syrians were fighting in Iraq, and now they are fighting in Syria, and also the Egyptians are fighting in Egypt, the Yemenis in Yemen, and the Libyans in Libya”…
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Interfax
February 12, 2012
Al Qaeda believed to be behind Syria attacks
Periodicals owned by the American McClatchy Newspapers holding have published reports quoting unnamed US officials as saying that the latest terror attacks in Damascus and Aleppo were the work of Al Qaeda, and that the orders to carry them out had come from bin Laden’s successor Ayman al-Zawahiri.
These reports appear to corroborate the claims made by Syrian President Bashar Assad that Syria’s armed opposition groups have close links with Al Qaeda.
Aleppo’s Friday bomb blasts are thought to have left 27 people dead and some 180 injured.
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Itar-Tass
February 11, 2012
Crimes in Syria committed by terrorists backed by Western and Arab countries
BEIRUT: The Syrian Foreign Ministry sent last night a message to the United Nations, the Islamic Cooperation Organisation and the Arab League, concerning the terror acts in Aleppo.
“The above terror acts are in line with the anti-Syrian campaign, backed and funded by some countries in the region and provoked by well-known mass media, nudging armed gangs to the murders of civilians,” says the statement of the Syrian Foreign Ministry as quoted by the SANA news agency.
“These crimes were committed by terrorists, backed by Western and Arab countries which do not fulfill their international obligations and seek to undermine the security of Syria and its citizens.”
The Foreign Ministry emphasized that Syria had the full right to protect its citizens from terror and violence and demands that the UN Security Council fulfill earlier resolutions on struggle against terrorism.
“We demand that countries, sheltering gunmen in their territories, should extradite them to Syrian authorities in compliance with international laws on the struggle against terrorism as well as to stop their support and funding in conformity with resolutions of the UN Security Council on the struggle against terrorism,” the document says.
As a result of several terror acts, 30 people were killed and 235 were wounded in the Syrian city of Aleppo last Friday. Responsibility for this was taken by the so-called Free Syrian Army.
Several blasts, including in the central areas of Marja and Sahhur, thundered in that city, located 340 kilometres from Damascus. Terrorists also attacked the headquarters of military intelligence and the barracks of interior troops in the district of Dummar-el-Basil wherefrom the greatest number of casualties were received.
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Xinhua News Agency
February 11, 2012
Senior military officer killed by gunmen in Damascus: state media
DAMASCUS: The head of a military hospital in Damascus was assassinated Saturday by gunmen in one of Damascus ‘ main neighborhood, the state-run SANA news agency reported.
Three gunmen opened fire at Brigadier Issa al-Khouli, an orthopedic physician and head of the Hamish military Hospital, in front of his house at the Ruken al-Deen neighborhood, killing him instantly.
Brigadier al-Khouli is the first senior officer to have been killed inside the capital Damascus since the eruption of anti-regime protests in March of 2011.
Clashes have intensified lately between armed militia and the government forces.
A day earlier, Syria’s Ministry of Interior pledged to “stamp out terrorism” and to “hunt down those who compromise the security of the homeland and citizens.”
In a statement carried by SANA, the ministry pledged to continue its duty in preserving the country’s security and order.
The Syrian government said more than 2,000 army and security personnel have been killed during the months-long unrest, while the United Nations put the death toll in the country at more than 5,400.
