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BREAKING INTEL: Most of Damascus in FSA Hands! Ecuador Considering Assad Asylum. Rebel Leader Meets with EU Ministers. Kurds Join Up.

The Kurdish National Council KNC has announced that it will join the Syrian National Coalition.

https://twitter.com/NMSyria

Leader of Syria’s new opposition meets with EU ministers

http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/12/10/254343.html

EXTRA: EU releases 30 million euros in extra aid for Syria refugees

http://www.news-republic.com/Web/ArticleWeb.aspx?regionid=3&articleid=5518592

Germany expels four Syria embassy staff to curb ties to Bashar al-Assad regime

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2012/Dec-10/197935-germany-expels-four-syrian-embassy-staff-ministry.ashx#axzz2Ee3ZG4wF

Ecuador says asylum for Assad not ruled out

AFP – Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa, in an interview published Monday, said his country would consider granting asylum [...]

Leaders of Kansas City Muslim group petition Obama to limit free speech of American citizens

The leadership of the Islamic Society of Greater Kansas City have launched an online petition campaign for President Obama to back a bill to limit the free speech of American citizens they deem offensive.

The petition states:

The undersigned Board Of Directors and members of the Islamic Society of Greater Kansas City (ISGKC) urges you to sponsor a bill that outlaws any action that may insult one’s religion. We utterly disagree with [...]

Militia Bases Stormed in Libya

RIA Novosti
Saturday, September 22, 2012

At least one person has been killed and 20 others injured in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi after police and demonstrators stormed militia bases, al Jazeera television reported.

The violence comes after some 30,000 people marched through the city on Friday demanding an end to armed groups.

Libya’s interim authorities have been attempting to rein in the numerous groups, which are said to have played a key [...]

White House preparing for long siege of Arab unrest…Orders embassy staff to leave Tunis, Khartoum…

WASHINGTON — After days of anti-American violence across the Muslim world, the White House is girding itself for an extended period of turmoil that will test the security of American diplomatic missions and President Obama’s ability to shape the forces of change in the Middle East.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/world/middleeast/us-is-preparing-for-a-long-siege-of-arab-unrest.html?_r=0

CAIRO –Central Cairo had been cleared Saturday of stone-throwing protesters after several days of clashes with police over a video that insulted the Muslim prophet Mohammed and [...]

‘Death to America’: Four people killed in Yemen street clashes… as protestors storm U.S. Embassy in Sana’a – smashing windows and pelting offices with stones

Four killed as protesters march on U.S. Embassy compound in Sana’a, Yemen

Hundreds of protesters angered by an anti-Islam film stormed the U.S. Embassy compound in Yemen’s capital and burned the American flag
Smashed windows of the security offices outside the embassy with stones and burned cars before breaking through the main gate of the heavily fortified compound in eastern Sana’a

Rising anger provoked by an anti-Islam film has seen protestors storm U.S. [...]

REPORTS: US Ambassador To Libya Has Been Killed In Consulate Attack

FLASH: — REU: US AMBASSADOR TO LIBYA AND THREE OTHER EMBASSY STAFF KILLED IN TUESDAY ROCKET ATTACK IN BENGHAZI-LIBYAN OFFICIAL

http://www.twitter.com/mpoppel

There are three reports that the US Ambassador to Libya has been killed in an attack on the US consulate in Benghazi.

Bloomberg is citing reports from both Xinhua and Sky Arabia.

And it is also being reported by Al-Arabiya.

More to come…

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/reports-us-ambassador-to-libya-has-been-killed-in-consulate-attack-2012-9#ixzz26FEK71oj

Benghazi’s US consulate ablaze after armed assault – video: The US consulate in the [...]

Daring raid by British special forces’ frees aid worker kidnapped in Afghanistan

David Cameron authorised dramatic early morning cave rescue
Troops took part in ‘long march’ to cave where hostages were held, without being spotted

SAS officers then arrived by helicopter stormed the cave in the dead of night

All four hostages rescued safe, no troops injured and a five Taliban and hostage-takers killed
Parents of aid worker Helen Johnston, 27, are ‘delighted and hugely relieved’
Johnston ‘thanked’ Mr Cameron over the phone after her rescue

A British [...]

U.S. marines thrown from official U.S. Embassy car; broken collarbone; Embassy quietly paid hooker’s medical bills

Pic: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/04/25/article-2134838-12C3157A000005DC-765_468x488.jpg

Probe found four Obama officials hired prostitutes in Brasilia nightclub

It comes a week after scandal over the President’s Security Staff using prostitutes in Colombia

American marines injured a Brazilian prostitute after throwing her out of an official Embassy car, it was reported today.

Romilda Ferreira was left with a broken collar bone, two broken ribs and a punctured lung after the incident in Brazil’s capital Brasilia.

The three marines on a U.S. Embassy [...]

PANETTA: Marines punished for prostitute attack.

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Tuesday three Marines on a U.S. Embassy security team and one embassy staff member were punished for allegedly pushing a prostitute out of a car in Brasilia late last year after a dispute over payment.

The incident is similar, but unrelated, to the scandal involving Secret Service agents at the Summit of Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, before President Barack Obama arrived for [...]

RESET: Russia Back to Using ‘Dirty Tricks’ Against US

“We are concerned about the acts of intimidation as well as their record on previous agreements and other activities. It’s a real concern, I’ve raised it. It’s not the intelligence committee that fails to understand the problem. It’s the Obama administration.” -Former Sen. Christopher S. Bond, (right) who served as the vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence between 2007 and 2010

In the [...]

UK to expel all Libyan embassy staff, Sky News reports

London mayor Boris Johnson says he plans to confront Barack Obama during president’s visit over unpaid congestion charge by US embassy staff – BBC News

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