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July 4th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
On Saturday, world powers agreed a plan for a transition in Syria that did not
make an explicit call for President Bashar al-Assad to quit power, but the
West swiftly made clear it saw no role for Assad in a unity government.
Meanwhile, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Russia will not attend
a “Friends of Syria” meeting in Paris on Friday aimed at
coordinating Western and Arab efforts to stop the violence in the country.
“Russia was invited. They made it known that they did not want to
participate, which is not a surprise,” he told reporters. Russia, a
traditional ally of Syria, and China did not attend any previous meetings of
the group.
In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the Russians
were free to decide whether to attend the Paris talks or not.
“It’s their choice. We think this is a very valuable forum that brings
together a much larger group of countries. The door is open to them if they
want to join. It’s up to them if they don’t,” Nuland told reporters.
“From our perspective, (this) meeting is important and will add energy
and lift to this effort to come to a post-transition strategy” in
Syria.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will lead the US delegation, an official
said, with Nuland saying more than 100 countries would attend the talks “to
support change and democracy and pluralism” in Syria.
The Paris meeting will be the third such gathering after one in Tunis in
February and another in April in Istanbul called for tougher action against
the Assad regime.
Annan said a real ceasefire was imperative in Syria, as the death toll mounted
to 77 on Tuesday, according to monitors, nearly three months after a truce
he brokered failed to take effect.
UN human rights chief Navi Pillay warned that foreign arms deliveries to both
government and opposition are fuelling a conflict that rights monitors say
has killed more than 16,500 people since March last year.
Pillay said both sides were guilty of “serious” rights violations,
adding that “any further militarisation of the conflict must be avoided
at all costs.”
But a pro-Damascus Palestinian militant leader said the Lebanese Shiite
militia Hizbollah and Iran would fight alongside the Syrian regime if it is
attacked by foreign forces.
In the event of “a foreign attack, we discussed with our brothers (in the
Syrian regime), with (Hizbollah chief) Hassan Nasrallah and our brothers in
Iran, we will be part of this battle,” said Ahmed Jibril of the Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command.
Human Rights Watch documented 27 detention facilities across Syria it said
were used to hold people swept up in the government’s crackdown on an
uprising now in its 16th month.
The group said it had carried out more than 200 interviews with former
detainees, and military and intelligence defectors, “almost all”
of whom described experiencing or witnessing torture, including “prolonged
beatings, often with objects such as batons and wires.”
Other methods included “holding the detainees in painful stress positions
for prolonged periods of time, often with the use of specially devised
equipment, the use of electricity, burning with car battery acid, sexual
assault and humiliation, the pulling of fingernails and mock execution.”
Meanwhile, as Turkey reported a new defection of Syrian troops across the
tense border, Assad said he regretted “100 per cent” that his
country’s defence forces shot down a Turkish fighter jet on June 22, but
still insisted the plane was in Syrian airspace.
He rejected Turkey’s accusations that the Syrian defence forces intentionally
shot down the aircraft, which was on a training mission over the
Mediterranean.
“A country at war always acts like this. This plane was flying at a very
low altitude and was shot down by anti-aircraft defences which mistook it
for an Israeli plane, which attacked Syria in 2007,” Assad said in an
interview with Turkey’s Cumhuriyet newspaper”
Assad said Syria had no plans to send troops to the border with Turkey, even
after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan sent reinforcements to the
frontier.
In Cairo, meanwhile, MENA reported that participants in the opposition
conference “were unanimous that a political solution in Syria must
begin with the departure of the regime of Bashar al-Assad.”
They called for an end to the killing by the Syrian army and gave their
support to the Free Syrian Army made up of deserters from the Assad regime
force.
They also called on the Syrian army to lift its siege of Syrian towns and for
the release of all detainees.
Source: agencies
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