Al-Qaeda is responsible for the Syrian revolution

Al-Qaeda has the support of the West, and it has the main power over the rebellion control. 

The Al-Qaeda is responsible for the Syrian revolt - said Tony Cartalucci from Blacklistednews. He bases his opinion on many reports and information coming from Syria. 

Information that points out this fact concerns an article published in the Wall Street Journal. It’s about rebels who receive help from many subjects form Near East and North Africa. There is a statement that members of Al-Qaeda have limited influence among the opponents of the president Bashar Al-Assad. However, as Cartalucci states, these influences are bigger than it seems. 

Another evidence in this case is the Christians’ relation to the authorities in Damascus. For fear of religious persecution by fundamentalist "rebels" they supported the Assad’s government. 

WSJ (Wall Street Journal) reports that most of the trails serving for arm transport start from southern Turkey and they are supported by CIA. However, as mentioned by the New York Times: 

According to reports given by the U.S. representatives and Arab secret service, a small group of CIA officers secretly operates on the territory of southern Turkey. Their task is to indicate which group of Syrian militants will receive arms. Weapons, including automatic rifles, grenades, ammunition and anti-tank arms are smuggled across the border by using a network of agents, among whom we can find the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood. All this is financed by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. 

Funnily enough, these countries are the closest U.S. allies in the region and the overthrow of the existing government in Damascus perfectly harmonizes with the doctrine of constructing the great Near East and expanding the U.S. influences. 

Let us remind that Muammar Gaddafi, in an interview in March 2011, claimed that it is Al-Qaeda that is responsible for the protests against the Libyan government and, what is more, the eastern part of Libya (Cyrenaica) is also a region in which this organization recruits most of its members. 

Given these facts, does anyone else claims that Al-Qaeda is an independent organization?

Zhirinovsky: third world war will begin on summer 2012

This year there will be four years since the beginning of russian-georgian war. Since that time there are still tensions between both states, nevertheless the puzzle is much more complicated. 

There is probability, that the conflict which can start between Iran and Israel can easily spread across neighbouring countries. The first, which will be endangered at the first time is surely Syria. Its president who still remains in power, Bashar Al-Assad had noticed that: 

"Syria is the hub now in this region. It is the fault line, and if you play with the ground you will cause an earthquake."

One look at the map will prove that Assad can be right. Syria can be considered as the gate into the Middle East. 

Vladimir Zhirinovsky/
fot. A. Sdobnikov 

But north to Syria there is also another important and dangerous region - Southern Caucasus, where local states are not only bordering but they are also closely connected with the states which will most probably engage in the coming conflict (Russia, Turkey, Israel, Iran). They have their own interests as well.

Let's call up here the words of famous controversial Russian politician, Vladimir Zhirinovsky. He claims that The Third World War will break this summer:

“Azerbaijan might take advantage of that state to re-seize Nagorno Karabakh. TheRepublic of Armenia will act in opposition to it, while Turkey will support Azerbaijan. That’s how we’ll (Russia - VO) in summer be caught in a war” 

Not very optimistic perspective, but is it possible to come true? What would Georgia do?

Russians are arming Syria

According to the anonymous military sources published by Interfax agency, Russia has delivered anti-cruise S-300 missiles to Syria.

Russian ships which have arrived to Syria had on their board missiles which, as the agency sources claim, "allow coverage of entire Syrian coastline". 

Russia didn't accept the UN, Arab League and Western Europe states calling for an arms embargo on Syria. During the UN Security Council summit in October Russia together with China didn't agree on Council's resolution to condemn Assad's government. According to Moscow officials resolution could open the door for Western intervention like it hapenned in Libya.

Sergei Lavrov
fot. Mikhail Ewstafiew

During the press conference on Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has stated that a similar move against Libya had proved one-sided: ""We know how that worked in Libya when the arms embargo only applied to the Libyan army. The opposition received weapons, and countries like France and Qatar publicly spoke about it without shame."

"Israel National News" informed that Moscow is considering potential Western attack on Syria as a "red line" which will not be tolerated. 

Earlier that week the media informed about the visit of Russian aircraft-carrying missile cruiser "Admiral Kuznecov" which will soon arrive to the port in the city of Tartus.

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