WAYNE MADSEN : One Saudi "Al Qaeda" Support Prince Takes Over from Another

Bloated, rotting, tottering "royals" circling the drain, ripe for revolution, invasion for meddling in, selling out other Arab nations; coffers being emptied paying for drugs, alcohol, prostitutes for apostate "princes"

Wayne Madsen Report
By Wayne Madsen
06/20/2012

It is little wonder that, considering the amount of influence the Saudi regime has over Saudi domestic media and, through its investments, in international media conglomerates like News Corporation, that the new Saudi Crown Prince, Defense Minister and Riyadh Governor, Salman bin Abdulaziz, who succeeded his half-brother, the late Interior Minister Crown Prince Nayef, is being hailed as an anti-terror stalwart. Nayef is also being lauded in the media for his anti-terrorism policies when, in fact, he was better known for sending the Saudi military into Bahrain to put down the democracy movement there and into Yemen to fight against Shi'a Houthi rebels in the north of the country.

Bush aided and abetted massive Saudi rip-off of Americans

What is being missed in the media reports on Nayef and Salman is the fact both were leading covert supporters of "Al Qaeda" units in Pakistan and Afghanistan that were commanded by Osama Bin Laden.

On September 21, 2005, WMR reported on French intelligence documents and a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) investigation that pointed to Saudi involvement in cocaine smuggling to support various covert activities by the House of Saud, including funding "Al Qaeda" in Afghanistan.

The report is as follows:

In 1999, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) broke open a major conspiracy involving a Saudi prince’s Colombian cocaine smuggling from Venezuela to support some “future intention” involving Koranic prophecy. The DEA operations were contained in a “Declassification of a Secret DEA 6 Paris Country Office” memorandum dated June 26, 2000, a date which coincided with the height of Israeli art student and 911 hijacker activity in the United States. In June 1999, 808 kilograms of cocaine were seized in Paris. At the same time, the DEA was conducting a major investigation of the Medellin drug cartel called Operation Millennium.

Saudi "royals" have long history of drug running, prostitution rackets

Through an intercepted fax, the Bogota Country Office of the DEA learned of the Paris cocaine seizure and linked the drug smuggling operation to the Saudis. The DEA investigation centered around Saudi Prince Nayef al Saud [not to be confused with the late Crown Prince Nayef], whose alias was El Principe (the Prince). Nayif's full name is Nayef (or Nayif) bin Fawwaz al-Shaalan al-Saud. In pursuit of his international drug deals, Nayef traveled in his own Boeing 727 and used his diplomatic status to avoid customs checks. The DEA report stated Nayef studied at the University of Miami, Florida, owned a bank in Switzerland, speaks eight languages, was heavily invested in Venezuela’s petroleum industry, regularly visited the United States, and traveled with millions of dollars of U.S. currency. Nayef is also invested in Colombia's petroleum industry.

Nayef was also reported to have met with drug cartel members in Marbella, Spain, where the late Saudi King Fahd and the Saudi royal family maintained a huge palatial residence. The report states that when a group of cartel members traveled to Riyadh to meet Nayef, “they were picked up in a Rolls Royce automobile belonging to Nayef, and driven to the Riyadh Holiday Inn hotel. The next day they were met by Nayif and his brother [believed to be named Saul [sic] [His twin brother is Prince Saud. Nayef's older brother, Prince Nawaf, is married to King Abdullah's daughter].)… The second day they all traveled to the desert in terrain vehicles [hummers]. During this desert trip they discussed narcotics trafficking. UN [The DEA informant] and Nayef agreed to conduct the 2,000 kilogram cocaine shipment, which would be delivered to Caracas, VZ, by UN’s people, where Nayef would facilitate the cocaine’s transport to Paris, France. Nayef explained he would utilize his 727 jet airliner, under Diplomatic cover, to transport the cocaine. The Boeing 727 was operated by Skyways International,a Saudi-owned airline with past connections to the mysterious James Bath, George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard friend and later Arbusto and Harken Energy investment pass-through between the Saudis and Bush. These investors included Salem Bin Laden, Osama Bin Laden's late older brother who was killed in a 1988 plane crash in Texas. Bath was the registered agent for Salem Bin Laden.

Saudi "royals" have used thier planes to move drugs, prostitutes

Nayef told "UN" that he could transport up to 20,000 kilograms of cocaine in his jet airliner, and propositioned "UN" “to conduct 10-20,000 kilogram shipments in the future.” "UN" wondered why Nayef, supposedly a devout Muslim, would be involved with drugs. Nayef’s response in light of what is now known about Saudi funding of terrorism, is worth a close perusal. During the Riyadh meeting, Nayef responded to "UN’s" question by stating that “he is a strict advocate of the Muslim Corran [sic].” "UN" stated, “Nayef does not drink, smoke, or violate any of the Corran’s [sic] teachings. "UN" asked Nayif why he [Nayef] wanted to sell cocaine and Nayef stated that the world is already doomed and that he has been authorized by God to sell drugs. Nayif stated that "UN" would later learn of Nayef’s true intentions for trafficking narcotics although Nayef would not comment further.” The Saudi prince’s drug smuggling operation was smashed by the DEA and French police in October 1999.[1]

On May 16, 1999, Prince Nayef's Skyways Boeing 727 touched down at LeBourget Airport outside of Paris (this is the same airport that received the Bin Laden family flight from the United States following the 9/11 attacks). Also on board the plane were a number of Saudi princes and princesses. Two tons of cocaine, smuggled on to the aircraft in Caracas, were transported as one large diplomatic pouch by two waiting Saudi vans. The cocaine was transported to Noissy-le-Sec, a Paris suburb. A French-US law enforcement case against Nayef and his entourage, complete with evidence and confidential informants soon collapsed.

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Wayne Madsen Report.com has come into possession of a "Confidential Diplomatic" cable from the French embassy in Saudi Arabia to Paris warning that Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef had warned that if France pursued the case against the Saudi prince, a lucrative Î7 billion radar defense contract, Project SBGDP (Garde Frontiere), with the French firm Thales would be canceled. The embassy cable sought pressure against the French Interior Ministry to drop its investigation of Nayef. The cable also indicated that Saudi Interior Minister Nayef's irritation at the French investigation was shared by his brothers Abdullah (then-Crown Prince) and Sultan (Defense Minister) as well as the Governor of Riyadh Province Prince Salman. Saudi informers have revealed that Al Qaeda members routinely traveled through Riyadh on their way to Pakistan and then to Taliban Afghanistan. These insiders report that Salman's office arranged for cash payments, hotels, and air fares for the Al Qaeda members.


The French cable also states that the Saudis reiterated that it was merciless to drug traffickers for which Saudi youth were often the victims. The Saudis also told the French that unlike Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon, Saudi Arabia was not a base for drug trafficking. The reaction by the Saudi government's key principals to the French drug investigation indicates they had something to hide.

Perhaps similar to the Bush family, they had an off-the-books operation to generate hundreds of millions of dollars for their Wahhabi compatriots in Afghanistan and Pakistan, including the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

The French cable draws attention to intelligence rumors that the cocaine transported by Nayef from Venezuela originated in Colombia -- the same country where George H. W. Bush and his Iran-contra co-conspirators arranged for cocaine-for-cash-for-weapons transfers involving Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega as a middleman. CIA sources have recently reported that lead hijacker Mohammed Atta was known to U.S., British, and Saudi intelligence as a heroin courier from Mujaheddin-controlled Afghanistan as early as 1991. Atta was also identified as a cocaine user. Hence, what the French and U.S. law enforcement investigators discovered in 1999 may have been a major financial source for Al Qaeda's terrorist attacks. Recent revelations that a Top Secret U.S. Special Operations Command/Defense Intelligence Agency unit code named Able Danger was shadowing Al Qaeda operatives in 1999, the same year that Nayef and his courier activities were discovered, indicates high level collusion inside the United States Defense and Justice Departments with elements that did not want to embarrass the Saudis. As with the DEA investigation of Nayef, Able Danger was shut down on orders by Pentagon lawyers.

It is quite possible that the massive amounts of Able Danger data reported to have been destroyed on the Atta team may have included gigabytes of financial data on Prince Nayef's drug money laundering activities. Wayne Madsen Report.com has obtained a European intelligence agency flow chart titled "Operation Palme," illustrating the connections of Nayef's brother Nawwaf's financial operations to a myriad of other entities, a large number of them based in Geneva, a city where Wayne Madsen Report.com has previously reported the presence of a number of Bush-connected entities tied to the 9/11 attacks, including a money transfer to at least one of the hijackers.

According to the Operation Palme chart, Nawwaf bin Fawwaz al-Shaalan is Vice President of Kanz Bank located at 65 rue du Rhone in Geneva. This bank is linked to Bammer Financial Trade Organization at 7 rue Versonnex in Geneva, Virgin Corporation LLC in Vessy (Geneva Canton), Maison Virgin Corporation also in Vessy, Degroof Luxembourg SA of Genf, Geneva Canton, and Capital Trust SA, 640 Avenida Diagonal, Barcelona, Spain.

There has never been any explanation by the Saudis of what Prince Nayef’s ultimate intentions were and what he was planning to do with the cash from the illegal cocaine shipments. In light of the funding for 911 and other terrorist incidents, the DEA report on Operation Millenium takes on greater significance. Did Saudi drug smuggling proceeds help pay for the 9/11 attack? Why was this possible connection overlooked by the 9/11 Commission? What did the Able Danger team stumble across while Nayef was smuggling drugs? Was Atta a part of this Saudi drug network? If so, why was Atta, a drug courier, permitted to enter the United States on numerous occasions?

It would appear that the Saudis, in connection with people closely associated with George W. Bush (perhaps including Bush himself as well as his father), have been giving a "wink and a nod" to illicit airline smuggling businesses involving drugs and money laundering for a number of years. There are American citizens currently sitting in prisons under mandatory harsh drug-related sentences for doing much less than what the Bush crime family, their Saudi partners, and their network of drug mules and couriers (including Mohammed Atta and Saudi Prince Nayef) have been getting away with for decades. The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) statutes cry out for an accounting by these individuals before a court of law.

[1] Drug Enforcement Administration, Memorandum, Declassification of Secret DEA 6 for Paris Country Office, June 26, 2000.

The eulogies and obituaries for Crown Prince Nayef and the news stories on his replacement, Crown Prince Salman, are omitting some important details of their past.



Wayne Madsen (USA)

Investigative journalist, author and syndicated columnist, Madsen has over twenty years experience in security issues. As a U.S. Naval Officer, he managed one of the first computer security programs for the U.S. Navy. 

Wyane Madsen

 Madsen has been a frequent political and national security commentator on Fox News and has also appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, and MS-NBC. He has been invited to testify as a witness before the US House of Representatives, the UN Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and an terrorism investigation panel of the French government. A member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and the National Press Club, Madsen is based and reports from Washington, D.C. 

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History is the Enemy as ‘Brilliant’ Psy-Ops Become the News: "Come, Let Us Go Down and There Confuse Their Language, So That They Will Not Understand One Another's Speech" - Satan

Bogus, CIA owned "mainstream media" organizations like Al Jazeera, Fox News a prime example of continuing U.S. psyops in media, as were fraud, loser "citizen journalists" that they helped to promote in order to discredit real journalists like Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik  and as the now defunct Al Jazeera propaganda spewing "The Stream" circus was attempting, now totally discredited and relegated to re-runs to cover ratings collapse, show pulled and good riddance:  There is no such thing as a "citizen journalist"

Global Research
By John Pilger
06/21/2012

Arriving in a village in southern Vietnam, I caught sight of two children who bore witness to the longest war of the 20th century. Their terrible deformities were familiar. All along the Mekong River, where the forests were petrified and silent, small human mutations lived as best they could.

Al Jazeera was once viable before being co-opted by CIA

Today, at the Tu Du paediatrics hospital in Saigon, a former operating theatre is known as the "collection room" and, unofficially, as the "room of horrors". It has shelves of large bottles containing grotesque foetuses. During its invasion of Vietnam, the United States sprayed a defoliant herbicide on vegetation and villages to deny "cover to the enemy". This was Agent Orange, which contained dioxin, poisons of such power that they cause foetal death, miscarriage, chromosomal damage and cancer.

In 1970, a US Senate report revealed that "the US has dumped [on South Vietnam] a quantity of toxic chemical amounting to six pounds per head of population, including woman and children". The code-name for this weapon of mass destruction, Operation Hades, was changed to the friendlier Operation Ranch Hand. Today, an estimated 4.8 million victims of Agent Orange are children.

"Mainstream media" now completely compromised by U.S., CIA

Len Aldis, secretary of the Britain-Vietnam Friendship Society, recently returned from Vietnam with a letter for the International Olympic Committee from the Vietnam Women’s Union. The union’s president, Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa, described "the severe congenital deformities [caused by Agent Orange] from generation to generation". She asked the IOC to reconsider its decision to accept sponsorship of the London Olympics from the Dow Chemical Corporation, which was one of the companies that manufactured the poison and has refused to compensate its victims.

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Aldis hand-delivered the letter to the office of Lord Coe, chairman of the London Organising Committee. He has had no reply. When Amnesty International pointed out that in 2001 Dow Chemical acquired "the company responsible for the Bhopal gas leak [in India in 1984] which killed 7,000 to 10,000 people immediately and 15,000 in the following twenty years", David Cameron described Dow as a "reputable company". Cheers, then, as the TV cameras pan across the £7 million decorative wrap that sheathes the Olympic stadium: the product of a 10-year "deal" between the IOC and such a reputable destroyer.

History is buried with the dead and deformed of Vietnam and Bhopal. And history is the new enemy. On 28 May, President Obama launched a campaign to falsify the history of the war in Vietnam. To Obama, there was no Agent Orange, no free fire zones, no turkey shoots, no cover-ups of massacres, no rampant racism, no suicides (as many Americans took their own lives as died in the war), no defeat by a resistance army drawn from an impoverished society. It was, said Mr. Hopey Changey, "one of the most extraordinary stories of bravery and integrity in the annals of [US] military history".

The following day, the New York Times published a long article documenting how Obama personally selects the victims of his drone attacks across the world. He does this on "terror Tuesdays" when he browses through mug shots on a "kill list", some of them teenagers, including "a girl who looked even younger than her 17 years". Many are unknown or simply of military age. Guided by "pilots" sitting in front of computer screens in Las Vegas, the drones fire Hellfire missiles that suck the air out of lungs and blow people to bits. Last September, Obama killed a US citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, purely on the basis of hearsay that he was inciting terrorism. "This one is easy," he is quoted by aides as saying as he signed the man’s death warrant. On 6 June, a drone killed 18 people in a village in Afghanistan, including women, children and the elderly who were celebrating a wedding.

The New York Times article was not a leak or an exposé. It was a piece of PR designed by the Obama administration to show what a tough guy the ‘commander-in-chief’ can be in an election year. If re-elected, Brand Obama will continue serving the wealthy, pursuing truth-tellers, threatening countries, spreading computer viruses and murdering people every Tuesday.

The threats against Syria, co-ordinated in Washington and London, scale new peaks of hypocrisy. Contrary to the raw propaganda presented as news, the investigative journalism of the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung identifies those responsible for the massacre in Houla as the ‘rebels’ backed by Obama and Cameron. The paper’s sources include the rebels themselves. This has not been completely ignored in Britain. Writing in his personal blog, ever so quietly, Jon Williams, the BBC world news editor, effectively dishes his own ‘coverage’, citing western officials who describe the ‘psy-ops’ operation against Syria as ‘brilliant’. As brilliant as the destruction of Libya, and Iraq, and Afghanistan.

And as brilliant as the psy-ops of the Guardian’s latest promotion of Alastair Campbell, the chief collaborator of Tony Blair in the criminal invasion of Iraq. In his "diaries", Campbell tries to splash Iraqi blood on the demon Murdoch. There is plenty to drench them all. But recognition that the respectable, liberal, Blair-fawning media was a vital accessory to such an epic crime is omitted and remains a singular test of intellectual and moral honesty in Britain.

How much longer must we subject ourselves to such an "invisible government"? This term for insidious propaganda, first used by Edward Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud and inventor of modern public relations, has never been more apt. "False reality" requires historical amnesia, lying by omission and the transfer of significance to the insignificant. In this way, political systems promising security and social justice have been replaced by piracy, "austerity" and "perpetual war": an extremism dedicated to the overthrow of democracy. Applied to an individual, this would identify a psychopath. Why do we accept it?

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'Iran Army, IRGC Will Crush Threats in Unison' - Iranian Army

These people are not fucking around:  If Iran is attacked by Obama/Netanyahu/NATO they will retaliate massively as they have repeatedly warned and rightfully so - NO COUNTRY has the right to attack another "pre-emptively" 

PRESS TV
06/21/2012

The Iranian Army says it is fully cooperating with the Islamic Republic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) to deliver a crushing response to any potential threat against the country.

No slouches:  Iranian Army personnel well trained, equipped

In a statement issued on Thursday, the Iranian Army said it is at the peak of its readiness thanks to its indigenous capabilities.

The statement said the unison between the Army and the IRGC has sustained and safeguarded the achievements of the Islamic Revolution and thwarted the sanctions and an array of complex threats against the Islamic Republic.
The daily progress of the IRGC in various scientific sectors has brought about the self-reliance and self-sufficiency of the Islamic Republic, particularly in the defense industries, the Army’s statement further read.

In recent years, Iran has made great achievements in the defense sector and gained self-sufficiency in essential military hardware and defense systems.

The country has repeatedly made clear that its military might is merely based on the state's defense doctrine of deterrence, and that it poses no threat to other countries.

Iranian Army, Navy have more than enough Silkworm and Sunburn missiles to initially blow the hell out of U.S. Navy ships in the Persian Gulf before being taken out themselves

Washington and Tel Aviv have, however, time and again threatened Tehran with a military strike under the pretext that the country may be pursuing military objectives in its nuclear energy program.

Combined with mobile missile launchers on land, Iranian subs will cause major damage to U.S. fleet before being destroyed, and they are willing to take on the resulting casualties if their country is attacked; just as the U.S. and Israel would

 
Iran rejects the allegation, arguing that as a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), it has the right to develop and acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

HMV/HJL/IS

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Satanic Alliance Forms Against Syria : Analyst

These countries and their leaders will eventually be held responsible for all deaths in Syria

PRESS TV
06/21/2012

A group of CIA agents are helping anti-government armed gangs in Syria in their fight against the Damascus government, a report says.

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According to a New York Times report published on Thursday, some US and Arab intelligence officials say a group of “CIA officers are operating secretly in southern Turkey” and that the agents are helping the anti-Syria governments decide which gangs inside the Arab country will “receive arms to fight the Syrian government.”

Press TV has conducted an interview with Mohsen Saleh, a professor at the Lebanese University in Beirut, to further shed light on the issue. What follows is an approximate transcript of the interview.

Press TV: There are reports of CIA involvement in the unrest in Syria. Just how evident is this involvement?

Saleh: It has been said by some officials in the American administration; [they] said it clearly and obviously that they will help the Syrian opposition and the gangs with some military simple, or let’s say, soft arms, will help them in their operations against the regime and the Syrian army.

Dictator Assad may need to be and is ripe for deposing, but not by Obama, Petraeus and their CIA murderers

And I guess there is a kind of alliance between Saudi Arabia, Qatar. Saudi Arabia and Qatar pay and the Americans really give the arms and the Turks facilitate the way for their intervention inside Syria, inside the Syrian territories.

We see this kind of satanic alliance between the US, Saudi Arabia and Turkey and of course Qatar in order to create this instability inside Syria and of course the Saudis and the Qataris always call for foreign intervention, direct intervention and these latest statements from CIA are not something new.

If Assad manages to survive he will surely be gunning for Arab "brothers" that betrayed him:  See ya, Saudi Arabia "royals"

 
Press TV: How do you assess the role of Syria’s neighbors, especially Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia which, according to these reports, they are buying the weapons and paying for it?

Saleh: They said it clearly; also [King] Hamad [of Bahrain] and the Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Faisal said that we are going to help the Syrian gangs in order to topple the regime and I guess by that they are trying to press not only the regime, [but] the whole region into a kind of what the Americans call ‘destructive instability’ to create this kind… either to pressure the regime politically, to come to the table with the Israelis, especially with the Israelis, and to create a kind of new Camp David [Accord] or to surrender to the other dictations regarding Iraq, regarding Lebanon and all these. That is what they want from the regime.

Marie Colvin (left) and Remi Ochlik were murdered in Syria Obama's CIA scum for their reporting

 The other thing is to create this kind of fuss and instability and massacre and all these divisions and strife inside Syria. That is what the Saudis, the Wahabis actually, are doing because they think that they are avenging from Syria regarding Lebanon and regarding Iraq and I guess they are wrong.

The regime is still strong; the army is united around the regime and they are really losing the battle on the ground and that is why the Americans are going to talk with the Russians.

Ghastly:  Hundreds of innocent Syrian civilians continue to be murdered by the CIA and it's lackeys as UN "officials" and world governments flap their gums

[Hillary] Clinton will meet [Sergey] Lavrov next week in order to facilitate a political solution and this news, I guess, is to say to the international community that we are there. So we want more demands from the regime in order to negotiate. That is what they want.

The so-called National Council is really not reliable for them and now the so-called Syrian Free Army and the gangs are losing the battle on the ground. So, they are trying to say something overtly about these weapons or money from Turkey, Saudi Arabia and others.

But I guess, at the end, they will come to the table because the Russians and of course Chinese and Iran will not accept any military solution.

Press TV: Indeed and of course, Mr. Saleh, many are asking this time that who benefits from the unrest in Syria?

Saleh: Of course the Israelis and the Americans are the two beneficiaries from this battle inside Syria and the Saudis are paying and the Qataris are paying the money for the sake and on behalf of the Israelis and the Americans.

And of course the Americans and the Israelis want to avenge from the Syrian regime because of its backing of the Islamic resistance and the Palestinian resistance in Lebanon and in Palestine.

That is what they want and they are foolish enough and stupid to go in this conspiracy against Syria and against the resistance in Lebanon and Palestine. They are really trying to sell Palestine to the Israelis and to the Americans.

And that is the most, probably, stupidest historical mistake for the Saudis and the Qataris. I do not know if they are not agents and I guess the last statement is the most sufficient for them or suffix for them.

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Report : CIA Aids in Funneling Arms to Syrian Rebels

Another illegal Obama war, courtesy of a CIA-bred and inserted president

Christian Science Monitor
By Ariel Zirulnick
06/21/2012

The Syrian conflict is becoming more intractable as rebels, bolstered by weapons from Turkey, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, are turning into a more effective adversary against President Bashar al-Assad's regime.

Obama, Petraeus' CIA busy as bees killing innocents in Syria

According to a report today by The New York Times, the CIA is helping to funnel the arms to rebel groups, vetting potential recipients to avoid arming Al Qaeda-affiliated groups. The weapons include automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, ammunition, and some antitank weapons, according to the report, which cited unnamed American officials and Arab intelligence officials.

Meanwhile, Russia has been accused of arming Syria, heightening concerns that the conflict could become a proxy war with each side armed by outside powers.


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Nearly 100 people were killed across Syria yesterday alone – 35 of them Syrian Army soldiers, showing that rebel forces are becoming a fighting force to rival the actual military, according to data from the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights cited by Agence France-Presse.

Obama's murderers posing as "Syrian rebels," armed with the most sophisticated U.S. weapons killing innocent civilians in Syria in attempt to start sectarian/civil war

The Army has staged an assault on Qusayr, a town outside Homs, after being dealt losses by rebel fighters. Heavy fighting also erupted in Arman Az in Idlib Province after rebels attacked Army barracks. The town of Inkhel in Deraa Province was also shelled.

Murdering doofus, CIA director David Petraeus lost the war in Afghanistan, was promoted for efforts

The International Committee of the Red Cross and its partner Syria Red Crescent are on standby outside Homs today, waiting for a temporary truce so that they can evacuate the wounded from the beleaguered city.

Homs has been under siege for two weeks, but government and rebel forces agreed yesterday to a two-hour pause in fighting to allow the humanitarian groups access to hundreds of civilians who have been caught in the crossfire. The shelling has continued, however, according to several news reports.

Made in USA CIA explosives now cratering Homs, killing hundreds of innocent children

The BBC reports that logistics such as how many aid vehicles will be allowed into the city and where the wounded will be taken could also hold up the evacuation process and could take days or weeks to resolve. Hundreds of civilians are believed to have died during the assault on the city.

The Guardian reports that Christians trapped in the city – of which there are about 90 – are particularly vulnerable and they are concerned about being caught between rival Muslim groups, as Christians were in Iraq. There were three separate attempts to evacuate them from Homs, all of which failed. A local priest told the Guardian that he believes they are being kept in the city to use as a bargaining chip.

Yap yap yap:  Useless Obama poodle Ban Ki-moon barks about nothing

Syrian Ambassador to the UN Bashar Jaafari said that the government has tried unilateral cease-fires, but that the rebels used the lulls in fighting to gather more arms. He also accused Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey of intentionally undermining the observer mission.

"They are providing weapons, sending in al-Qaeda, giving them haven, allowing them to cross the border with Syria and then run back to neighboring countries, " Mr. Jaafari said, according to The Wall Street Journal. "This is becoming so blatant and flagrant, it is too much."

Indeed, violence appears to be continuing unrestrained since the UN observer mission was suspended last week. WSJ reports that a UN diplomat said that the observers had taken "direct fire" at least 10 times and were caught in the crossfire of fighting many more times.

And while the useless Ki-moon and worse than useless General Mood pontificate for the mainstream media, who breathlessly broadcast and print their equally useless platitudes and threats instead of the truth, innocent Syrian children and civilians continue to be massacred

The head of UN peacekeeping, Hervé Ladsous, delivered a sobering assessment of the Syrian conflict yesterday, telling the UN Security Council that "there were no good options" for the UN to bring an end to the fighting, WSJ reports. Deploying peacekeepers was not possible because such a mission needs the Syrian governments' approval, requires more troops, and risks upsetting the opposition for seeming to protect the "status quo," Mr. Ladsous said.

Maj. Gen. Robert Mood, the head of the observer mission, said that his campaign could only be restarted if there was a "significant reduction in violence."

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