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• North Korea raises tensions with US • Says planning to test long range ballistic missiles carrying atomic warheads • New threat comes in defiance of a UN resolution SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea Thursday warned that it was planning a third nuclear test with an aim to target its “sworn enemy”, the United States, with long range ballistic missiles carrying atomic warheads. The country’s top military body, headed by the North Korean [...] REPORT: Dozens of hostages held in Algeria killed A Mauritanian news agency that has been in constant contact with kidnappers holding dozens of Western hostages in Algeria reported on Thursday that 34 of the captives had been killed in air strikes. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/17/us-sahara-crisi…
Private Algerian TV station Ennahar reports 15 foreign hostages have escaped Algerian hostage takers demand safe passage out of besieged base with captives https://twitter.com/SkyNewsBreak 30 Algerians held hostage by ‘Mali Islamists’ escape Sahara gas [...] Tony Cartalucci Bloomberg, Guardian, Ynet, and others are all posting in their headlines an identical unconfirmed report that Turkey and Syria have “agreed” to establish a 6 mile wide “buffer zone” running the length of the Turkish-Syrian border. The report states specifically (emphasis added): The Syrian government has told its military to keep aircraft at least six miles (10 kilometers) from Turkey’s borders after a deadly shelling incident left five Turks dead, [...] Russia and China on Thursday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on Syria for the third time, sparking outrage by the Western nations which demanded sanctions against President Bashar al-Assad. The US presidency called the third veto in nine months “highly regrettable”. Britain said it was “appalled”. France said Russia and China had given the Syrian government time to “crush the opposition.” Eleven of the 15 nations on the council voted for [...] UNITED NATIONS — The major powers started talks Thursday on a UN Security Council resolution on Syria with Russia declaring a “red line” against sanctions. Russia and the Western nations on the 15-member council have drafted rival resolutions on Syria. Britain, the United States, France and Germany have demanded sanctions against President Bashar al-Assad under Chapter VII of the UN Charter. Russia is firmly against. “Anything can be negotiated but we do not [...] China likely provided the mobile long-range missile launcher that North Korea displayed in a military parade over the weekend, which would put Beijing in violation of U.N. sanctions, analysts say. The 16-wheeled vehicle, known as a transporter-erector-launcher (TEL), is apparently based on a Chinese design, said Ted Parsons of IHS Jane’s Defense Weekly. The Chinese and North Korean versions of the TEL “have the same windscreen design, the same four windscreen wiper configuration, the same door and handle design, a [...] N. Korea prepping for nuclear test: intelligence official SEOUL, April 8 (Yonhap) — North Korea is believed to be gearing up for a nuclear test, an intelligence official said Sunday, a move certain to fuel the already high tensions over its planned long-range rocket launch. Satellite images show the communist nation digging a new tunnel underground in the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in the country’s northeast, where it conducted two previous nuclear [...] Al Pessin U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lashed out at Russia and China over their Syria policy Friday, at the conclusion of a meeting in Tunis designed to increase pressure on the Syrian regime and its supporters to allow democratic change. Secretary Clinton said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will have even more blood on his hands if he does not stop the violence and allow humanitarian aid to reach [...] The Washington Post The Obama administration says it’s pleased that Russia has decided to support U.N. Security Council action aimed at halting violence in Syria, but it won’t support Russia’s proposed resolution unless changes are made. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Friday that Russia’s surprise introduction of a Security Council resolution on Syria was an “important step” and a sign of growing unity on the importance of opposing Syrian [...] Kurt Nimmo France’s foreign minister, Alain Juppé, has raised the prospect of Syrian intervention. After a meeting in Paris with Burhan Ghalioun of the Syrian national council, Juppé said “humanitarian corridors or humanitarian zones” should be established to protect civilians from the alleged abuses of the al-Assad regime. French foreign minister Alain Juppé. The effort mirrors an earlier one in Libya. In February, the Libyan League, the National Endowment for Democracy (established [...] Press TV Waving Syrian flags and pictures of Assad, hundreds of thousands of government supporters converged in a main square in the capital on Wednesday to show the level of support that the Syrian president enjoys. ”The army and people with you, Bashar al-Assad” and “Syria is our country and Assad our president,” read some banners held by demonstrators. Demonstrators also condemned foreign interference in their county’s [...] Press TV Waving Syrian flags and pictures of Assad, hundreds of thousands of government supporters converged in a main square in the capital on Wednesday to show the level of support that the Syrian president enjoys. ”The army and people with you, Bashar al-Assad” and “Syria is our country and Assad our president,” read some banners held by demonstrators. Demonstrators also condemned foreign interference in their [...] (Reuters) – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini backs offering $5.8 billion in aid to Syria to bolster its economy, a French newspaper said Friday, citing a report by a Tehran think-tank linked to Iran’s leadership. Damascus has long been Tehran’s main ally among otherwise mainly hostile Arab states. After four months of popular unrest, Syria’s economy is reeling under the weight of strikes, reduced oil exports, scaled-back trade [...] From AP: TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — NATO warplanes bombarded targets in Tripoli with more than 20 airstrikes early Tuesday, striking around Moammar Gadhafi’s residential compound in what appeared to be the heaviest night of bombing of the Libyan capital since the Western alliance launched its air campaign against his forces. The rapid string of strikes, all within less than half an hour, [...] (CNN) — NATO’s leader confidently proclaimed on Sunday that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s days are numbered, but he couldn’t foresee how long the alliance’s grinding mission to protect besieged civilians will last. “The game is over for Gadhafi,” NATO’s Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told CNN’s “State of the Union.” “He should realize sooner rather than later that there’s no future for him or his regime.” Rasmussen, [...] In a tirade against the West, Putin said the coalition had gone beyond the bounds of U.N. Security Council resolution and taken sides against Gaddafi, whose actions he suggested did not justify foreign interference. “They said they didn’t want to kill Gaddafi. Now some officials say, yes, we are trying to kill Gaddafi,” Putin said during a visit to Denmark. “Who permitted this, was there any trial? Who took on the [...]
Barack Obama has aligned himself with David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy by committing to support military action in Libya until Colonel Gaddafi is gone, in an unprecedented joint article published today in The Times. The leaders write that the world will be guilty of an “unconscionable… http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/middleeast/article2987120.ece WASHINGTON – The United States, Britain and France are pledging to keep up the military campaign in Libya until leader Moammar [...] by ZH The EU will, if requested by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), conduct a military operation in…order to support humanitarian assistance in the region,” the council statement read.” Of course, humantiarian assistance only works best with silver tipped warheads and laser scopes. And honestly who didn’ expect that the goal for Triopli’s oil would mean a land invasion any [...] April is the unforgiving month that will make or break the Obama presidency. It will be a fitting climacteric for a half-term in power that has been an unremitting succession of crises. This month, from Moammar Gadhafi to the U.S. Capitol, Barack Obama will have to master events or see his credibility — and America’s — degraded and his political future — and his party’s [...] via breitbart: Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi could stage a Lockerbie-style attack in revenge for coalition air strikes if he is left in power, Justice Secretary Ken Clarke said in an interview Friday. Clarke, who is also Lord Chancellor, told the Guardian newspaper that there was still uncertainty in the government about the direction of the Libyan campaign. “We do have one particular interest in the Maghreb (North Africa), which is Lockerbie,” Clarke said, [...] WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama Wednesday categorically ruled out a land invasion to oust Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi as coalition forces launched a fifth day of air strikes against government military targets in the North African nation. And Obama said the U.S. this week will be pulling back from its dominant role in the international campaign aimed at preventing Gadhafi from attacking civilians. In international attacks early [...] VOTKINSK, Russia (Reuters) – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Monday likened the U.N. Security Council resolution supporting military action in Libya to medieval calls for crusades. Putin, in the first major remarks from a Russian leader since a coalition of Western countries began air strikes in Libya, said that Muammar Gaddafi’s government fell short of democracy but added that did not justify military intervention. “The resolution is defective and [...] Calling Barack Obama as “our son”, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi sent a message to the US President defending his decision to attack the rebels fighting to overthrow him. Gaddafi(68) also wrote a letter to the French and British leaders, and the UN Secretary General, saying the Security Council resolution was “void” and violated the UN charter, warning them that they would “regret” any intervention. “Libya is not for you, Libya is for [...] A molotov cocktail was launched in front of the US consulate in Rio de Janeiro late Friday in protest of the arrival of President Barack Obama, the O Globo newspaper in Rio reported. Military police reacted by firing rubber bullets into the gathering of 200 at around 18:30 local time. A CBN news reporter suffered a minor injury from the shots and traffic was blocked. “They [...]
More than 112 Tomahawk cruise missiles struck over 20 targets inside Libya today in the opening phase of an international military operation the Pentagon said aimed to stop attacks by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and enforce a U.N.-backed no-fly zone. WATCH: U.S. and Allies Promise Action on Libya WATCH: America’s Military Spread too Thin?
President Obama spoke from Brazil shortly after he authorized the missile attacks, launched from a mix of U.S. [...] By Josh Rogin
Several administration officials held a classified briefing for all senators on Thursday afternoon in the bowels of the Capitol building, leaving lawmakers convinced President Barack Obama is ready to attack Libya but wondering if it isn’t too late to help the rebels there. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Bill Burns led the briefing and was accompanied by Alan Pino, National Intelligence Officer for the Near East, Gen. John [...] TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa says Libya is declaring an immediate cease-fire and stopping all military operations. Friday’s decision comes after the U.N. voted to authorized a no-fly zone and “all necessary measures” to protect the Libyan people, including airstrikes. Koussa says the cease-fire “will take the country back to safety” and ensure security for all Libyans. But he also criticized [...] |
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