Syria

Syria defends itself against NATO sponsored terrorism

Originally published: 15 Aug 2012, Publication date changed to 24 Aug 2013 and page made "non-sticky" on 27 Aug 2013.

Some Important developments from 8 August 2012

14 Aug 2012

Aug 17, 2012

HOMS, (SANA)- The authorities on Thursday night foiled attempts at infiltration by armed terrorist groups which tried to cross the border from Lebanon in Talkalakh, Homs countryside.

SANA reporter cited a source in the province as saying that the authorities clashed with the terrorist in the countryside of groups at the sites of al-Gheideh and al-Arideh in the countryside of Talkalakh and inflicted heavy losses upon the terrorists.

Authorities Repel Terrorist Groups Attacking Law Enforcement Personnel in Talkalakh

The source added that the authorities also repelled armed terrorist groups which attacked law enforcement personnel in al-Hosn town in the countryside of Talkalakh.

The source said that the authorities killed and injured the members of the armed groups.

Booby-trapped Car Explosion in Hama Countryside Causes Material Damage Only

In Hama, a booby-trapped car on Friday exploded near a building affiliated with the Orontes Basin Directorate in al-Ghab area.

A source in the province told SANA reporter that the blast of the car, which was placed by terrorists and detonated by remote control, caused material damage to the building's façade but no human casualties.

H. Said

14 Aug 2012

DAMASCUS, (SANA)- The Syrian Journalists' Union and workers in the private and public media institutions staged on Tuesday a solidarity stand outside the building of the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) in honor of the Martyr Journalist Ali Abbas and in solidarity with the kidnapped Syrian journalists.

Martyr Abbas, who was the head of the Internal News Department at SANA, was assassinated by an armed terrorist group in his home in Jdeidet Artouz in Damascus Countryside.

H.Vain/ Al-Ibrahim

14 Aug 2012

MOSCOW, TEHRAN, (SANA)- Russia on Tuesday condemned the terrorist acts committed against the journalists in Syria, urging the concerned international organizations to exert pressures to put an end to these acts.

Russia Today website quoted Maria Zakharova, Deputy Director of the Information and Press Department at the Russian Foreign Ministry, as saying in a statement "We vehemently condemn the terrorist acts against journalists. Countries with influence on the Syrian opposition in addition to the regional and international organizations should not be neutral in not responding to these facts."

She added that Moscow receives, with great concern, the news on the escalation of the attacks committed by the illegal armed groups against journalist in Syria.

Iran Condemns Terrorist Groups' Killing and Kidnapping Acts against Innocents in Syria

The Iranian Foreign Ministry also condemned the terrorist acts of killings and kidnapping perpetrated by the armed terrorist groups against the innocent civilians and the journalists in Syria.

Speaking at his weekly press conference, Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast offered condolences over the martyrdom of the journalist Ali Abbas, the head of Internal News Department at the Syrian Arab News Agency.

He underlined Iran's continuous efforts with other influential countries to solve the crisis in Syria through peaceful means to ward off its repercussions on the region.

Mehmanparast said that his country has devoted all its efforts to achieve security and stability in Syria and create the appropriate atmosphere to hold dialogue between the government and the opposition.

He added that there is a US-Zionist scheme to sow sedition and undermine stability in Syria in service of the US and Zionist interests, regretting the US role along with its allies to destabilize the region, describing it as "destructive".

The Iranian Spokesman pointed out that after the massacres committed against the people of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, the US wants to carry out such plot in Syria to ensure its interests through increasing losses of the Syrian people.

Mehmanparast said that Iran opposes suspending Syria's membership at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, calling for taking the Islamic world's higher interests into consideration instead of such proposals.

Regarding the kidnapped Iranians in Syria, he stressed that Tehran is working in coordination with other countries to get them released as soon as possible.

English Bulletin

H.Vain/ Al-Ibrahim

14 Aug 2012

DAMASCUS, (SANA) - Terrorist Ahmad Ali Gharibo, one of the armed terrorist groups' Muftis in al-Maliha, Damascus countryside, admitted that he has issued several fatwas to the armed groups that permit killing upon which terrorists have depended to perpetrate a number of crimes against civilians.

"I was born in Aleppo countryside in 1964 and live in al-Maliha, East Ghouta.. I work as the Imam and preacher of Khadija mosque," Terrorist Gharibo said in confessions to the Syrian TV broadcast Monday.

"One day, a car came to my house at 12 midnight.. four armed men came down and asked me to go with them for one hour.. they threatened me of my son if I rejected to go with them.. they took me to Dir al-Asafeer town.. when we arrived in there, we entered a tent where a group of people were inside with drugs in front of them," the terrorist added.

He said "After interrogating me by the armed group, I pleaded to them to inform me about the person which threatened me.. they answered that his name was Mazen Zamzamm, a leader of an armed terrorist group in al-Maliha."

Terrorist Gharibo added that those evil persons were drug addicts, and one of them has raped a married woman.

"Later, they introduced me to a man called Abu Adi from Homs who has escaped from the army in Saqba.. they told me that they will give him the leadership of the group and they will name themselves as the free army, I told them you are free, it is up to you," terrorist Gharibo said.

He added that a fatwa has been issued on a website, known as the fatwa No. 107, because it was issued by 107 Sheikhs inside and outside Syria.. it permits to kill anyone who deals with the State if he was proven a killer, they asked me about my opinion, I answered yes, it is true.

"It was my first fault to give a fatwa to kill.. they were killing in a unnatural way.. they were mutilating the bodies.. I remember that they have killed five persons and threw their bodies in the sewage and rubbish containers," he said.

Terrorist Gharibo went on to say that al-Qaeda and Jabhat al-Nasra in Syria are takfiris, they believe in sectarianism, they regard bloodshed as lawful and they have no problem to kill civilians during their evil acts.

Mazen

Martyr Abbas, who was the head of the Internal News Department at SANA, was assassinated by an armed terrorist group in his home in Jdeidet Artouz in Damascus Countryside.

H.Zain/ Al-Ibrahim


- by Felicity Arbuthnot - 2012-08-08

"The atrocities in Syria are mounting already," according to Amnesty International USA, without acknowledging that the killings of civilians are committed by the US-NATO Free Syrian Army (FSA) rather than the government.

 


- by John Cherian - 2012-08-14

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Istanbul university students foil attempt to hold activity in support of terrorists

Adapted from Syrian Arab News Agency () story of 4 April 2013. See also:

ISTANBUL, (SANA) - Istanbul university students foiled on Thursday efforts of the and the jurists youth club to establish an activity under the pretext of "collecting humanitarian aids to the Syrian people" which really aims to support the armed terrorist groups in Syria.

Turkish site Sol said that Istanbul university students protested the so- called "charity bazaar" which supports the terrorist groups in Syria who are perpetrating acts of terrorism against Syrian people, especially children, raising placards in both Arabic and Turkish which call for people not to participate in this event, forcing the organizers to cancel it under the students' pressure.

Al-Jazeera anti-Syria propagandists expelled by Palestinians

See . OCCUPIED JERUSALEM , (SANA), 31 March 2013 - Dozens of Palestinians participating in a march marking the occasion of Land Day on Saturday expelled the Qatari Channel's staff from Sakhnin City in the occupied Palestinian territories of 1948 in protest against its deceitful reporting of the Syrian conflict.

Adapted from article originally published as . See also: (on candobetter, republished from SANA), 31 Mar 2013, href="http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/warning-final-psy-op-vs-syria-begins.html">WARNING: "Final" Psy-Op Vs. Syria Begins of 29 March 2013 by Tony Cartalucci, of 28 Mar 2013 by Tony Cartalucci (also ), of 28 March 2012 by Shamus Cooke. Follow on Twitter

The Palestinians expressed rejection of al-Jazeera covering Land Day, annually celebrated by Palestinians to emphasize their full right in the occupied Palestinian territories, objecting to the channel's lack of integrity and objectivity in its coverage of the Syrian crisis.

Addressing the al-Jazeera staff, they chanted "Out …Out the Syrian Land is Free," the thing which forced them to leave the march at once.

Hoisting the Syrian and Palestinian flags, the participants expressed their full support to Syria, stressing that the Palestinian-Syrian cohesion and rejection of Israeli-international imperialistic conspiracy against Syria should be the title of Land Day.

This is not the first time that al-Jazeera staff have been expelled by angered protestors, as Tunisians repelled al-Jazeera Mubashar (Live) staff two weeks ago during an attempt to cover a protest held on the occasion of marking 40 day after the assassination of the opposition struggler, Shukri Baleid.

R. Milhem / H. Said

">Editorial comment: Read, on , Georgetown first year postgraduate student Sarah Harvey's protestations of 31 March 2001 that . It is of little surprise to me that examples of the claimed mainstream media's conflation of the current proxy terrorist war against Syria with the invasion of Iraq were not provided. Contrary to Sarah Harvey's claim, it seems to me that the mainstream newsmedia has gone out of its way to omit mention of the obvious similarities between the current war against Syria, including the terrorists' massacres of Syrian christians, and the communal strife that the US invaders deliberately fomented in Iraq after the 2003 invasion.

">Update, 28 September 2013

On Twitter, it was :

"Al Jazeera journalist Abdullah Elshamy was arrested on August 14. His detention has been extended another 45 days."

Whilst a number Al-Jazeera journalists should indeed be imprisoned for their deceitful reporting about the Syrian conflict, it seems far more likely that Abdullah Elshamy was imprisoned to prevent the truth about the Egyptian regime's brutal repression of protesters from being reported.

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Syrian People's Assembly Speaker: Time for international community to listen to the truth, not mainstream media lies

, 22March 2013, - The People's Assembly Speaker, Mohammad Jihad al-Laham, said it was time that the international community, after having been listening to the tools of media misleading for two years now, listen to the voice of right.

Al-Laham was speaking during a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) on the sidelines of preparations to open the 128th session of the Union's General Assembly in the capital of Ecuador, Quito.

Al-Laham stressed that the international community should support the efforts to halt the violence and bloodshed and the political program to solve the crisis in Syria so as to preserve its territorial integrity and the unity of its people as well as the international peace and security.

The People's Assembly Speaker reviewed during the meeting the reality of what is taking place in Syria and the role of Arab, regional and international parties that are targeting Syria.

He cited the ongoing destruction of infrastructure and private and public properties at the hands of the terrorist groups which are supplied with money, arms and fighters.

Al-Laham also briefed IPU Secretary General, Anders Johnson, and the IPU Head Abdul-Wahid al-Radi on the efforts exerted by the People's Assembly to ensure the success of the political program to solve the crisis in Syria. He voiced the hopes he attaches on the outcomes of the 128th meeting of the IPU in terms of supporting Syria's efforts in combating terrorism and halting the violence.

H. Said

Editorial comment: for truthful reporting, read the (SANA), , , , , ...

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Miscellaneous comments from 18 March 2013

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