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January 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Arab ministers were deeply divided over whether to extend their monitoring
mission, which the opposition say is being used as a cover for continued
violence against protesters but which is also one of the few practical
measures they have so far been able to agree.
“The Syrian people have lost confidence in the Arab League’s ability to
stop the regime’s ongoing bloodshed,” said a statement by the local
co-ordination committee, an umbrella group of protest organisers.
The Syrian National Council’s leader, Burhan Ghalioun, said he welcomed the
League’s position as confirming that “all Arab countries today consider
the tyrannical regime of Bashar al-Assad to be finished”.
Moscow has already demonstrated Syria’s strategic importance by sending an
aircraft carrier into port at Tartous, which is the Russian navy’s only base
on the Mediterranean.
The sale at such a sensitive time of the Yak-130s, a trainer aircraft that can
also carry a full arsenal of air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles, will
irk Washington and its western allies as they try to force Mr Assad’s hand.
The sale was reported by Moscow media, which quoted experts as saying it was
both a show of support for Mr Assad and a bid to restore Moscow’s image as a
reliable arms supplier in the Middle East after its refusal to sell Iran
surface-to-air missiles.
“With this contract, Russia is expressing confidence that President Assad
will manage to retain control of the situation, because such deals are not
signed with a government whose hold on power raises doubts,” Igor
Korotchenko, head of the Centre of Analysis of the Global Arms trade, told
the RIA Novosti news agency.
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