BREAKING : Saudis Forces Mass on Jordanian, Iraqi Borders; Turkey, Syria Reinforce Strength - CIA Agents in Turkey Secretly Helping Terrorists to Destablise Syria

Looks like Obama gets his war after all, U.S. can look forward to Martial Law, walking when gas hits $50.00 U.S. a gallon:  Saudis throw in with Obama, CIA in last ditch effort to save "royals" from being deposed

DEBKA File
06/29/2012

SPECIAL REPORT

Friday, June 29, on a knife edge between a Western-Arab-Turkish military offensive in the next 48 hours and a big power accord to ward it off.

Bloated, apostate Saudi "king" will have his alcoholic ass handed to him

Debkafile’s military sources report heavy Saudi troop movements toward the Jordanian and Iraqi borders Thursday overnight and up until Friday morning, June 29, after King Abdullah put the Saudi military on high alert for joining an anti-Assad offensive in Syria. The Saudi units are poised with tanks, missiles, special forces and anti-air batteries to enter Jordan in two heads:

One will safeguard Jordan's King Abdullah against potential Syrian or Iranian reprisals from Syria or Iraq.

The second will cut north through Jordan to enter southeastern Syriam, where a security zone will be established around the towns of Deraa, Deir al-Zour and Abu Kemal – all centers of the anti-Assad rebellion. The region is also the home terrain of the Shammar tribe, brethren of the Shammars of the Saudi Nejd province.

Snivelling, bedwetting British SAS "commander" leads his mercs in a cheer for the good old "Mum" on Syrian border, will most likely be going home in a box:  British terrs have it coming

The Saudi units deployed on the Iraqi border are there to defend the kingdom against potential incursions by Iraqi Shiite militias crossing into the kingdom for reprisals. The Iraqi militias are well trained and armed and serve under officers of the Iranian Al-Qods Brigades, the Revolutionary Guards’ external arm.
Western Gulf sources report that Jordan too is on war alert.

Following the downing of a Turkish plane by Syria a week ago, Turkey continues to build up its Syrian border units with anti-aircraft guns, tanks and missiles towed by long convoys of trucks.

CIA terrorists paying out millions of taxpayer dollars to hire merks in Turkey, Jordan

A Free Syria Army officer, Gen. Mustafa al-Sheikh, reported Friday that 170 Syrian army tanks of the 17th Mechanized Division were massed near the village of Musalmieh northeast of Aleppo, 30 km from the Turkish border. He said they stood ready to attack any Turkish forces crossing into Syria.

It's war for the Hag:  Clinton, Obama, Panetta responsible all deaths

As these war preparations advanced, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in St. Petersburg Friday for crucial talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. They meet the day before the new UN-sponsored Action Group convenes in Geneva to discuss UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan’s latest transition proposal for Syria. He hopes for a political settlement that will ward off military intervention.
Invited to the meeting are the five veto-wielding UN Security Council members plus Turkey and Arab League envoys from Qatar, Kuwait and Iraq.

Annan proposes forming a transitional national unity government in Damascus that includes the opposition and excludes unacceptable regime members.

It was widely reported Thursday that Russia had agreed to this formula, even though it entailed evicting Bashar Assad from power. However, Lavrov stepped in to correct the record, stressing in reference to the Annan proposal that Moscow would not lend its support to “any outside interference or imposition of recipes in Syria.”

This position is doubly aimed at the intensive military movements afoot around Syria.
Clinton and Lavrov are therefore expected to go at the Syrian issue hammer and tongs. The outcome of their meeting will not only determine the course of the Action Group’s discussions but, more importantly, whether the Western-Arab-Turkish alliance goes forward with its military operation against Syria.

As always, American military personnel will get the booby-prize:  Cheap metal coffins - hundreds if not thousands of them, American electorate cowards ultimately responsible for war and all military deaths, they could have stopped madman Obama

US-Russian concurrence on a plan for Assad’s removal could avert the operation. The failure of their talks would spell a worsening of the Syrian crisis and precipitate Western-Arab military intervention, which according to military sources in the Gulf is scheduled for launch Saturday, June 30.

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U.S. Attorney General Found in Criminal Contempt of Congress : What Happened to the Karl Rove Subpoenas

Holder has blood on his hands, but WHAT ABOUT ROVE

PRESS TV
06/29/2012

US Attorney General (AG) Eric Holder has been found in criminal contempt of Congress for withholding documents related to a botched gun-tracking operation along the country’s border with Mexico.

Holder to investigate himself

In a 255-67 vote, the head of the country’s Department of Justice was cited for contempt by the Republican-led House of Representatives, The Associated Press reported on Thursday.

The vote set a precedent, with Holder becoming the first sitting Attorney General and presidential Cabinet member to be held in contempt. The citation was applied without a Senate vote being a requirement.

Seventeen Democrats joined the House's Republican majority to pass the vote.

However, many Democratic lawmakers refused to cast votes. A dozen Democratic lawmakers, including leader Nancy Pelosi, walked out of the chamber in protest.

"We don't want to play a part in this political game," Democratic Representative Gregory Meeks said.

The vote marked triumph for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's push to blame the government for the failure of “Fast and Furious,” an operation aimed at tracing guns purchased in Arizona to determine whether they would flow into Mexico for use by drug cartels.

No big surprise here, Bohner still a boner, needs to go to alcohol rehab

Fast and Furious was terminated in early 2011 after disclosures that federal agents had lost track of many of the high-powered arms, which were subsequently traced to crimes, including the murder of US Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.

In the meantime between rounds of golf, drinks and the best of everything stolen taxpayer money can provide these two war criminals are laughing their asses off, spitting in the face of the U.S. "justice" system; Rove still has to answer to telling congress to stuff their subpoenas

"Today's vote is the regrettable culmination of what became a misguided -- and politically-motivated-- investigation during an election year," Holder said.

Rove telling congress, American People to shove it

"By advancing it over the past year and a half, Congressman Issa and others have focused on politics over public safety. Instead of trying to correct the problems that led to a series of flawed law enforcement operations, and instead of helping us find ways to better protect the brave law enforcement officers, like Agent Brian Terry, who keep us safe, they have led us to this unnecessary and unwarranted outcome.”

On Wednesday, US Republican Senator Scott Brown had called on Holder to resign, accusing him of misleading Congress, saying “he can’t effectively serve the president.”

“For the best interest of the country, I think he should step down and resign. He’s lost the confidence of the American people. Certainly, he’s lost the confidence of Congress. He misled Congress. They have a right to know,” Brown added.

Democrats accused Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa and other Republican lawmakers of taking political advantage out of targeting Holder.

The National Rifle Association -- a lobby group of generous contributions to US electoral campaigns -- had told House members that anyone withholding his or her contempt vote would be “held to account” during upcoming congressional and presidential elections in November.

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"Disable the Purveyors" - Is U.S. Secretly Liquidating Dissidents?

As may be imagined by readers, The 5th Estate has been bombarded by death threats from U.S. and Israeli sources, and we do not take them seriously - it is those that do not threaten that should be guarded against, the rest is just hot air:  Unfortunately, Americans are now so conditioned to cowardice that they take them as genuine threats, the reality being that if someone wants to kill you there is simply nothing you can do about it except spit in their faces; Dr. Barrett sets a shining example of courage that Americans would do well to emulate


PRESS TV
By Dr. Kevin Barrett
06/28/2012

A government that extra-judicially murders, disappears, and tortures its own citizens should clean up its own act before it criticizes other nations. The US should heed former President Carter and start obeying its own Constitution if it wants to have any credibility on human rights

Will writing this article put me on a US government hit list? Twenty years ago, such a question would have sounded absurd. Today, with the USA becoming more of a banana republic every day, it sounds increasingly realistic.

Like Bush, Obama will some fine day be held accountable for murders

In many countries, people who cross the line in opposing the government risk incarceration, torture, or murder.

Until recently, it was hard for American dissidents to cross that line. If they wanted to get arrested for saying something subversive, mere ideas weren't enough; they would have to actually threaten to physically harm the President or another high official.

But the post-9/11 USA is no longer a beacon of human rights. As former President Jimmy Carter recently wrote in the New York Times, “The United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights.” In his article, Carter points out that top US officials are now openly targeting US citizens for political assassination, “disappearance,” unlimited surveillance, and other forms of gross human rights abuse.

Since we now know that a secret National Security committee is ordering the murder of American citizens, and since we know the CIA has the power to easily simulate deaths from illness and accident, we might as well assume that every time a dissident dies unexpectedly, he or she has been murdered by the US government.

Consider the chilling words of Obama's information czar Cass Sunstein, who openly advocates that the US government should “disable the purveyors of conspiracy theories.” Sunstein's article “Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures” argues that “conspiracy theories” (by which he means the 9/11 truth movement) are so dangerous that the government should “cognitively infiltrate” 9/11 truth groups, “disable” those who spread these ideas, and possibly even make the ideas illegal. 

This psychotic, murdering piece of shit set the stage and began by assassinating journalists, an example that Obama has followed and expanded upon to include anyone that criticizes his criminal regime

One way to “disable the purveyors of conspiracy theories” is to terrorize them with death threats. This is precisely what happened recently in Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia. 

Murderer, pedophile, American traitor: Obama's lickspittle information czar Cass Sunstein, who openly advocates that the U.S. government should “disable the purveyors of conspiracy theories” - Only problem is that THERE ARE NO SUCH THINGS AS CONSPIRACY THRORIES; this is just a cute little propaganda term created by Bush/Rove to discredit journalists, and now Obama is having a field day with it while his lapdog Sunstein will face the death penalty when he is connected to the murders of journalists and patriots

On June 13, Dr. James Fetzer, the founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, was scheduled to speak at the University Heights Community Center in Seattle. Shortly before the event, the Community Center received a letter that read:

“Community Center, the 9/11 truth event on June 13th is going to be attacked to Kill Jim Fetzer because he says 'Space Beams' brought down the Twin Towers. The attack may be a bomb or fire bomb or maybe just gun fire. The Bombing may come at a future date to pay you back for supporting the 9/11 truth movement. Kill Jim Fetzer and the 9/11 truth movement. Kill Jim Fetzer (repeated 6 times). Kill University Heights Community Center (repeated twice) Kill you now.”

Detective Kerry Hays of the Seattle Police Department is currently investigating the case.

The Community Center hastily canceled Dr. Fetzer's talk. Fortunately, an alternate venue was found at the last minute.

Then a few days later, a similar death threat was emailed to the owner of the Denman Theater in Vancouver, British Columbia, where Dr. Fetzer was organizing the Vancouver 9/11 Hearings. This time, the threat named me and Press TV Canadian correspondent Joshua Blakeney as well as Dr. Fetzer. Fortunately, the theater owner was too busy hosting the event to read his email, so he did not become aware of the threat until the Hearings were over.

Death threats are one way to “disable the purveyors of conspiracy theories.” Actual assassinations are another.

A long list of people who were trying to expose the truth of 9/11 have met with untimely, suspicious deaths. Barry Jennings, the deputy director of Emergency Services Department for the New York City Housing Authority on 9/11, appears to have been murdered after speaking publicly about explosions he witnessed that partly demolished World Trade Center Building 7 on the morning of 9/11. (The demolition of WTC-7, begun in the morning, was completed shortly after 5:20 that afternoon, after WTC owner Larry Silverstein and colleagues “made the decision to pull” the building according to Silverstein's own statement.)

Another 9/11 truth advocate and eyewitness, Dr. David Graham of Shreveport, Louisiana, was murdered - apparently by the FBI - for writing a book about two of the alleged 9/11 hijackers, who were obvious intelligence assets controlled by people at Barksdale Air Force Base. Graham was poisoned with ethelene glycol (antifreeze). The case is discussed in Sander Hicks' new book Slingshot to the Juggernaut.

It might be objected that Jennings and Graham were murdered because they were eyewitnesses to a State Crime Against Democracy, or SCAD, not because they were dissidents. Is there any evidence that the US government (or a rogue network infiltrating it) is “disabling the purveyors” of dangerous ideas by killing or otherwise physically harming them, even if they are not eyewitnesses?

Mike Ruppert, the original leader of the 9/11 truth movement, writes that his office was attacked by microwave and/or EMF weapons after he began publishing critiques of the official story of 9/11. The attacks may have contributed to Ruppert's poor health and distraught frame of mind, which led him to quit the 9/11 truth movement and temporarily flee the USA in 2006.

Another early 9/11 truth advocate, publisher Byron Belitsos, told me that he and many other 9/11 truth organizers in California were targeted by EMF or microwave weapons during the first years after 9/11. Belitsos says the weapons were wielded by men in plain white vans that would park in front of the victim's house, and that victims suffered immediate and sometimes extreme health effects including headaches, ringing in the ears, nausea, vomiting, severe depression, dizziness, and loss of consciousness.

It does seem that bad things have happened to far too many of the most trail-blazing, prestigious, and/or effective 9/11 truth leaders. Justin Raimondo, the pioneer investigator of Israeli complicity in 9/11, was warned away from the subject - and after he disregarded the warning, he suffered a severe heart attack, despite his relative youth and excellent physical condition. Since his mysterious heart attack, Raimondo has stayed away from the subject of 9/11, and has remained in good health.

David Ray Griffin, the world's leading voice of 9/11 truth, suffered a partially-disabling stroke in the summer of 2010. While he has recovered sufficiently to continue to write and research, the stroke left him with a slight aphasia that has ended his career as a prolific public speaker.

Dr. Bob Bowman, the former head of Star Wars under two US presidents, has had his 9/11 truth efforts slowed by his struggle with cancer.

Even more tragically, the most prestigious scientist ever to take up the cause of 9/11 truth, Lynn Margulis, died of a stroke November 22, 2011. When I last spoke to Lynn, less than a year before her death, she told me she did not want to speak publicly about 9/11 any more, because “politics is too dangerous.” She sounded scared - like someone had warned or threatened her.

Steven Jones, the physics professor who was forced out of Brigham Young University for researching the demolition of the World Trade Center, was warned to stop by a “connected” colleague. Jones did the right thing: he immediately went public about the apparent threat.

Richard Gage, the founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, may have been attacked by the type of EMF or microwave weapon described by Ruppert and Belitsos. In the summer of 2009, in Washington, DC, Gage suddenly suffered vertigo and hearing loss. Activist colleagues who were present suspect some kind of covert attack. Today, Gage still suffers from the after-effects: partial loss of hearing in one ear.

Though some consider microwave and EMF weapons the stuff of science fiction, Maj. Doug Rokke, Ph.D., the former head of the US Army's depleted uranium cleanup project after Gulf War I, says these weapons are very real, and commonly used in military circles. He described to me how he personally used such weapons on a regular basis while training with Special Forces at US Army facilities: “We had them van-mounted, truck-mounted, plane-mounted, and hand-carried. We would go around zapping each other for fun. This was during exercises, or sometimes just as a practical joke.” Rokke assured me that, based on his firsthand knowledge of US military mind-set and capabilities, 9/11 truth activists have undoubtedly been targeted by exotic non-lethal (and lethal) weapons.

Will writing this article put me on a US government hit list? Twenty years ago, such a question would have sounded absurd. Today, with the USA becoming more of a banana republic every day, it sounds increasingly realistic.

A government that extra-judicially murders, disappears, and tortures its own citizens should clean up its own act before it criticizes other nations. The US should heed former President Carter and start obeying its own Constitution if it wants to have any credibility on human rights.

Dr. Kevin Barrett, a Ph.D. Arabist-Islamologist, is one of America's best-known critics of the War on Terror. 

Dr. Kevin Barrett

Dr. Barrett has appeared many times on Fox, CNN, PBS and other broadcast outlets, and has inspired feature stories and op-eds in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Tribune, and other leading publications. Dr. Barrett has taught at colleges and universities in San Francisco, Paris, and Wisconsin, where he ran for Congress in 2008. He currently works as a nonprofit organizer, author, and talk radio host. He is the co-founder of the Muslim-Christian-Jewish Alliance, and author of the books Truth Jihad: My Epic Struggle Against the 9/11 Big Lie (2007) and Questioning the War on Terror: A Primer for Obama Voters (2009). His website is www.truthjihad.com. More articles by Dr. Kevin Barrett 

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Turkey Sends Missile Batteries to Volitile Syria Border

Erogdan must be smoking too much of that great Turkish hash; has bought off on Obama's fantasy bullshit and may just now pay the price as Iran and Syria have been itching for an excuse to get rid of both him and his NATO-sucking dictatorship along with the apostate Saudi regime, who have now insanely, self-destructively gone on full military alert

Agence France-Presse
By Ceren Kumova
06/29/2012

Turkey has sent missile batteries, tanks and troops to the border with Syria as a "security corridor", almost a week after the Syrian downing of a Turkish military jet, media reports said on Thursday.

Erogdan has just stepped into a huge pile of "Obamacrap"

There was no official confirmation of the military moves, which came after Turkey branded its former ally a "clear and imminent threat" following Friday's attack over the Mediterranean.

About 30 military vehicles accompanied by a truck towing missile batteries left a base in the southeastern province of Hatay for the border, about 50 kilometres (30 miles) away, the Milliyet newspaper reported.

Footage aired on state-run TRT showed dozens of military vehicles loaded with army personnel, reportedly on the move for the volatile border, in a convoy that included low altitude air defence systems and anti-aircraft guns.

Taraf newspaper, citing unnamed sources, said the deployments represented the establishment of a "de facto security corridor" on Turkish soil.

Nutcase Erogdan actually believes NATO, Obama will come to the rescue when Syria, Iran attack in unison and as allies

The moves follow the downing of a Turkish Phantom F-4 jet by Syrian fire over the eastern Mediterranean on Friday in what Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said was a "heinous attack" in international waters.

Erdogan vowed Tuesday that any hostile Syrian movement towards the border would be "treated as a military target," hinting at a harsher retaliation for any future border violations.

Laughing stock of the real world and now best known as NATO, Obama mouthpiece Kofi Annan fighting to save any residual credibility left, does not realize there are no reserves now to draw on

Turkey has described Syria as "a clear and imminent threat" but Erdogan said Wednesday that Ankara had no intention of attacking its neighbour.

Relations between the two countries have been left in tatters over the Damascus regime's brutal crackdown on an uprising that has now left about 15,800 people dead since March last year, according to activists.

SCREWED by Obama:  NATO puppet Erogdan

In a separate deployment, several trucks loaded with tanks were sent to the frontier in the province of Sanliurfa after a Kurdish rebel flag was hoisted in a Syrian village just across the border, provincial media said.

The flag, which reportedly belonged to a Syrian wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) was taken down early Thursday, the Anatolia news agency said, citing local witnesses.

Turkish officials have frequently accused Syria of aiding the PKK after Ankara's ties with Damascus broke down, saying many recent attacks targeting Turkish security forces were carried out by rebels infiltrating from Syria.

Turkey's powerful army has not confirmed the deployments, but earlier it dismissed reports that it was "on alert" after the downing of the jet, whose two crew members are still missing.

Turkish media have interpreted the mass deployments both as a means to intimidate Kurdish rebels, whose activities have increased in recent months, and as a challenge to Syria, which shares a 910-kilometre border with Turkey.

"Wouldn't such moves inevitably cause Syria to put its own forces on alert and shift troops to the border while at the same time it has to deal with clashes inside?" Taraf columnist Almet Altan said in an article on Tuesday.

Erdogan was once a friend and ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad but relations have broken down since the revolt erupted in Syria last year, sending more than 33,000 refugees across the border into Turkey.

Turkey closed its embassy in Damascus earlier this year after kicking out the Syrian ambassador to Ankara.

Meanwhile, the Turkish military said it had found some materials from the downed jet and some of the crew's belongings but has not found the wreckage nor the two missing men.

The search involves five military boats and four helicopters and the army said it has also mobilised a hydrographic survey ship and will be using another vessel to search at a depth of about 1,260 metres (over 4,000 feet).

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Turkey Reinforces Border as Syria Violence Rages

Turkey, Saudi Arabia, U.S. supporting Persian Gulf nations may just find out exactly what it means to dance to Obama's, Netanyahu's tune

Agence France Presse
06/29/2012

Twin bombs exploded outside the Palace of Justice in Damascus on Thursday as deadly violence raged across the country and Turkey deployed missile batteries along its volatile border with Syria.

This is not the work of "rebels" as it is much too sophisticated, they simply do not possess the expertise to engineer these bombings; this is the work of experts

On the political front, world powers were preparing for a crucial meeting on ways to end the conflict and to discuss a plan by peace envoy Kofi Annan for an interim government.

The meeting in Geneva, agreed only after wrangling between Moscow and Washington over the agenda and the guest list, will be attended by some regional governments but not by rival Middle East heavyweights Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Mighty white:  U.S./Saudi backed mercenaries on Syrian border, looking pretty damned white judging by hands, modified, flash-supressed shotgun; perhaps they are dove hunting with plugs removed:  Syrian Fish and Wildlife agents must be on vacation, and only COWARDS HIDE THEIR FACES ON THE BATTLEFIELD

Annan spokesman Ahmad Fawzi said delegates of countries attending the talks would gather in Geneva on Friday for a "preparatory meeting."

Russia has already poured cold water on Saturday's meeting, with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov saying Moscow rejects Western pressure for the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad.

White boy mercenaries gone wild:  Nobody ever accused Obama's CIA mercs of being intelligent, as this lily-white caucasian hand demonstrates along with it's cute little inscription “Free Syria” in a field in the western town of Al-Qaim close to Iraq’s border with Syria  (AFP Photo / Azhar Shallal)

In central Damascus, three people were wounded when bombs blasted a car park outside the court complex, state media reported.

A police source told AFP that two magnetic bombs exploded in judges' cars and that a third was being defused.

Anyone up for WWIII?  Obama's Christers in the USAF - the owners of the U.S. long range nuclear arsenal - believe that they need to give "God" a helping hand in the Middle East by starting WWIII and bringing about Armageddon so they can get a jump on being vacuumed up and magically transported to "Heaven," leaving us sinners behind to deal with the radioactive parking lot that was the Middle East

Elsewhere, violence killed at least 69 people, including 38 civilians, after one of the bloodiest days of the 15-month revolt left at least 149 dead on Wednesday, a watchdog said.

Thursday's heaviest toll was in the northern Damascus suburb of Douma where 18 civilians, 12 from one family, were killed when troops clashed with rebel fighters, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The day's death toll also included 23 soldiers and eight rebels, said the watchdog, adding that that regime forces backed by helicopters pounded several areas of the eastern city of Deir Ezzor.

More than 15,800 people have been killed since the uprising broke out in March 2011, including nearly 4,700 since April 12, when a UN-backed ceasefire was supposed to have taken effect, the Observatory says.

Turkey has sent missile batteries, tanks and troops to the border as a "security corridor" after Syria shot down a Turkish warplane last Friday, media reports said.

There was no official confirmation, but state-run TRT television showed dozens of military vehicles reportedly heading for the border, in a convoy that included air defence systems.

About 30 military vehicles accompanied by a truck towing missile batteries left a base in the southeastern province of Hatay for the border, about 50 kilometres (30 miles) away, Milliyet newspaper reported.

The Turkish Phantom F-4 jet was downed by Syrian fire over the eastern Mediterranean in what Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said was a "heinous attack" over international waters.

Diplomats at the United Nations revealed on Wednesday that Annan is proposing setting up a transitional government to include representatives of both sides in the Syria conflict.

The proposed interim authority would exclude officials whose presence might jeopardise the transition "or undermine efforts to bring reconciliation," according to a summary given by one UN diplomat.

"The language of Annan's plan suggests that Assad could be excluded but also that certain opposition figures could be ruled out," said another UN diplomat.

The Geneva meeting was agreed only after protracted wrangling between Moscow and Washington.

US officials had warned that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton could stay away from the conference if transition from Assad's rule was not on the agenda.

Russia also insists Iran should be part of the solution to Syria's conflict.

"Iran is an influential player in this situation and to leave it out of the Geneva meeting, I believe, is a mistake," Lavrov said on Thursday.

And Assad's fate "must be decided within the framework of a Syrian dialogue by the Syrian people themselves" without foreign interference, he insisted.

Clinton, who will meet Lavrov in Saint Petersburg on Friday, rejected any idea that Annan was proposing a transition imposed from outside.

"In his transition document it is a Syrian-led transition, but you have to have a transition that complies with international standards on human rights, accountable governance, the rule of law," she said.

The opposition Syrian National Council, meanwhile, said it would boycott any government if Assad stays.

SNC spokesman George Sabra told AFP the group's position "remains that the opposition would not participate in any political project unless Bashar al-Assad is removed from power."

Syria's Muslim Brotherhood, an SNC member, criticised Annan's plan in a statement saying forming a national unity government as violence continues "would be to delude ourselves and play the regime's game."

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UPDATED : SAUDI MILITARY GOES ON HIGH ALERT - ABDULLAH CLAIMS “FOREIGN OR TERRORIST ATTACKS" - EROGDAN REPORTEDLY SENDS ABDULLAH MESSAGE TURKS WILL LAUNCH AIRSTRIKE ON SYRIAN TROOPS

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PRESS TV
06/28/2012

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud has ordered the country’s security forces to go on a state of high alert due to what he calls a 'turbulent situation' in the region. 

King Abdullah issued the order in a "top secret" letter addressed to the kingdom’s security and intelligence chiefs as well as the ministers of defense and interior.

A copy of the letter, dated June 27, 2012, has been obtained by Press TV.

The decree, calling for preparation against “foreign or terrorist attacks,” warns the Saudi security forces against any negligence in following the order.

The Saudi Defense Ministry consequently put all armed forces on high alert, saying all the forces inside and outside of the kingdom were ready to take part in an operation dubbed as “al-Farouq.”

Reports say King Abdullah has issued the order over what he claims to be “foreign or terrorist attacks.”

The decree also warns Saudi security forces against any negligence in following the order.

Saudi Arabia is one of the authoritarian states in the Middle East.

The country has witnessed anti-regime demonstrations over the past months.

Since February 2011, Saudi protesters have held demonstrations on an almost regular basis in the oil-rich Eastern Province, mainly in the Qatif region and the town of Awamiyah, calling for the release of all political prisoners, freedom of expression and assembly, and an end to widespread discrimination.

However, the demonstrations have turned into protests against the Al Saud regime, especially since November 2011, when Saudi security forces killed five protesters and injured many others in the Eastern Province.

According to Human Rights Watch, the Saudi regime “routinely represses expression critical of the government.”

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BREAKING AND CONFIRMED:

SAUDI TROOPS ON HIGH ALERT (#1 WHICH IS DESIGNATED FOR IMMINENT WAR )

1. National guard, army brigades, and air forces troops were ordered to be on highest alert ( #1, never seen before) starting late today June 28th.

2. Ministry of the Interior ordered all of their sectors to be on high alert starting 7 a.m. tomorrow morning [28th].

Erdogan has reportedly sent the Saudi king a message saying that Turkey will launch an air strike on Syrian troops very soon (maybe near Geneva summit this Saturday).

Saudis are preparing for any reaction from Syria or Iran.

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