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June 19th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The MV Alaed picked up its cargo of Mi25 helicopters – known as “flying
tanks” – from the Russian port of Kaliningrad, where they had been sent
to the state-owned manufacturer Mil’s “Factory 150” for servicing
and repairs.
They were originally sold to the Syrian government by Moscow, its major arms
supplier, at the end of the Soviet era.
The ship headed south through the North Sea towards the English Channel on its
way to the Mediterranean and, most likely, the Syrian port of Tartous, also
home to a Russian naval base.
But under sanctions announced last year, the EU has banned not only exporting
arms to Syria but also providing related services such as insurance.
As
first revealed by The Sunday Telegraph at the weekend, the US
notified the UK government that the insurance was British last week.
As it neared the Dutch coast, the authorities there also hailed the ship, the
security sources said, and it made an abrupt turn, heading towards Scotland.
It was last night now off the coast of the Hebrides but with no insurance
covering the ship security sources say it may now have to return to port.
In their attempts to bombard rebel towns into submission, Assad regime forces
have increasingly brought up helicopters, strafing the towns of Haffa and
Rastan last week.
Their use, condemned by Kofi Annan, the UN peace envoy, has not stopped
Russia’s continued insistence on providing arms to the Syrians. Moscow is
continuing with a 2007 contract to provide more than 20 MiG-29 M2 fighter
aircraft, according to the Americans.
Russia also
announced it was preparing to send an elite unit of marines to Tartous,
a move which a Western defence source said was intended as a powerful signal
that Russia would not tolerate foreign military intervention.
Classified US satellite images last week indicated that loading work had begun
on two amphibious landing vessels, the Nikolai Filchenkov and the Caesar
Kunikov, at the Crimean naval base of Sebastopol.
A Russian officer quoted by the Interfax news agency said they would carry
marines charged with protecting the security of Russian citizens and
evacuating a part of the base, marking the first time Moscow has sent troops
to Syria since the uprising against Mr Assad began more than 15 months ago.
If fully loaded, the two vessels could carry as many as 600 troops and 24
tanks.
Russia’s Nezavisimaya Gazeta, citing anonymous military sources, suggested
that the soldiers would be drawn from the elite Pskov airborne brigades and
special forces units stationed in Chechnya.
Russia was particularly unnerved after William Hague, the Foreign Secretary,
and other Western officials compared the slaughter in Syria to the civil war
in Bosnia in the 1990s, the Western defence source said.
They believed the comparisons amounted to a coded signal that the West was
preparing to authorise a Nato mission to Syria similar to the peacekeeping
operation mounted in Bosnia and later in Kosovo.
But the deployment also signalled that Russia was hedging its bets, according
to the source.
“The purpose is threefold,” he said. “First, they want to send
a signal to the West about military intervention. Second, they want to
demonstrate support for Assad.
“But they are also preparing for the worst and realise that the worsening
situation may leave them no choice but to evacuate their nationals as a last
resort. If that happens, it is game over for the Russians.
“They project strength, but know their position in Syria is actually a
weak one. It may be this is a last throw of the dice.”
At a meeting on the sides of the G20 summit in Mexico, Barack Obama and
Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, agreed a political process was needed
to “stop the bloodshed in Syria”, according to a joint statement.
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