{"id":36268,"date":"2013-06-16T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36268"},"modified":"2013-06-16T09:00:33","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T13:00:33","slug":"stria-the-next-big-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36268","title":{"rendered":"Syria, the next Big Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Syria has become the new focus of the West and things are changing there. As we discussed the other day, the Obama Administration has come to the conclusion that Syria’s government crossed the “red line” by using sarin gas on their rebels. The Russians dispute<\/a> that conclusion;<\/p>\n

\u201cI will say frankly that what was presented to us by the Americans does not look convincing,\u201d Mr. Ushakov told reporters in Moscow Friday, just a day after the White House said it had confirmed the regime\u2019s use of sarin gas.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be hard even to call them facts.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But, according to the Washington Post<\/a>, the US is preparing to deliver weapons to the rebels through Turkey and Jordan;<\/p>\n

Syria experts cautioned that the opposition to Assad remains a chaotic mix of secular and Islamist elements, highlighting the risk that some American-provided munitions may be diverted from their intended recipients.<\/p>\n

But U.S. officials involved in the planning of the new policy of increased military support announced by the Obama administration Thursday said that the CIA has developed a clearer understanding of the composition of rebel forces, which have begun to coalesce in recent months. Within the past year, the CIA also created a new office at its headquarters in Langley to oversee its expanding operational role in Syria.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, Egypt’s president Morsi is closing Egypt’s embassy<\/a> in Syria and withdrawing their diplomatic mission. Iran has elected a new president<\/a>, said to be more moderate than Ahmadinejad, but since the mullahs still run Iran, we probably won’t see much change. But before the elections, Iran had decided that they’ll increase<\/a> their support for the Assad regime in Syria by sending 4000 of their Revolutionary Guards to bolster the government.<\/p>\n

Iran is now fully committed to preserving Assad\u2019s regime, according to pro-Iranian sources which have been deeply involved in the Islamic Republic\u2019s security, even to the extent of proposing to open up a new \u2018Syrian\u2019 front on the Golan Heights against Israel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Iranians have also, apparently rocketed a refugee camp in Iraq<\/a> to take out a couple of dissidents, I guess to punctuate their election results. Typically, the UN & US are blaming the Iraqis for the attack instead of the Iranians;<\/p>\n

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon\u2019s Special Representative for Iraq, Martin Kobler and the country representative for the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Claire Bourgeois, said they are \u201cdeeply concerned that today\u2019s tragic violence has occurred despite their repeated requests to the government of Iraq to provide Camp Liberty and its residents with protective measures, including T-Walls.\u201d<\/p>\n

The camp has been attacked with missiles twice before \u2014 on Feb. 9 and April 29.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Stars & Stripes<\/a> reports that some Patriot missile batteries and some F16 fighters will remain in Jordan after deploying their for a joint exercise.<\/p>\n

Throughout the past week U.S. military officials remained tight lipped about that possibility. It was unclear how many troops would be required to stay behind with the Patriots and F-16s, but Little\u2019s statement said: \u201cAll other U.S. personnel assigned to Jordan for Eager Lion will depart at the conclusion of the exercise.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tar baby time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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