U.N. says Somalia arms embargo violated (Hezbollah's dirty hands in Somalia and Iran's Mahdi army) Yahoo News ^ Nov, 15, 2006 U.N. says Somalia arms embargo violated NAIROBI, Kenya - Ten nations and Lebanon's Hezbollah have been supplying weapons to an Islamic militia that controls much of Somalia, violating an international arms embargo, according to a U.N. commission report obtained Wednesday. But experts and diplomats expressed deep skepticism about an allegation in the report that 720 Somali mercenaries fought alongside Hezbollah in its battle with Israel... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061115/ap_on_re_af/un_somalia NPR : U.N. Report Ties Somali Islamists to Hezbollah- The report also ties Somalia's Islamists to the Lebanese militant group ... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6493083&ft=1&f=1001

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AS PUPPETS OF IRAN AND AND SYRIA

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw116412714049B241 Hariri's son blames Syria for assassination

http://ararat.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=international%20news&subclass=political&story_id=534334&category=politicalMore blood on Syrian hands

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20061122.LEBANON22/TPStory/TPInternational/Africa/ ANTI-SYRIAN MINISTER ASSASSINATED IN LEBANON Mr. Gemayel, 34, was among those who accused Hezbollah of recklessly ... The opposition blames the Syrian and Lebanese governments

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4519346.stm BBC NEWS Middle East New Hariri report 'blames Syria'

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PUSHING THE BLOODSHED IN IRAQ

�U.S. Officials: Hezbollah Training Iraqi Shiite Militia Group� Tuesday, November 28, 2006 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,232262,00.html Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed group in Lebanon that warred with Israel this summer, has been training militant Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's militia both inside Iraq and in Lebanon, senior White House and intelligence officials confirmed Tuesday. The confirmation came after the New York Times reported that a senior intelligence official said that some 1,000 to 2,000 Shiite fighters had been trained in Lebanon by Hezbollah, which also is backed by Syria. Click here to view the New York Times article. President Bush, who is in Europe to attend a NATO summit, expressed concern Tuesday that Iran and Syria are both attempting to destabilize Iraq. "The Iranians and the Syrians should help � not destabilize � this young democracy," Bush said. Bush continued to express his administration's reluctance to talk with Iran and Syria on the grounds that the two nations have been unhelpful in efforts to achieve Middle East peace. (Story continues below)(Excerpt) Read more at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,232262,00.html ...

So it is not just the bloodshed in Somalia but in Iraq too, all thoe that were cheering to Hezbollah's cruel tactics in Lebanon (to cause their brothers and sisters' deaths) out of Anti Israel feelings, should know something about the global militant Islamic Mahdi army headed by Iran.

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Syria, Iran harboring terrorists - Jul. 21, 2003
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/07/21/bush.terror

A NATION AT WAR: INTELLIGENCE REPORTS; Syria Harbors Iraqis and Grants Transit to Hezbollah, U.S. Asserts... a major terrorist threat to American and Israeli interests around the world. ... [Published: April 15, 2003]
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02EEDD113BF936A25757C0A9659C8B63

Syria: A 101 Course in Mideast Dictatorships - SPIEGEL ONLINE ...When his powerful father died in 2000, Bashar al-Assad promised the end of political repression in Syria. But ... [2005]
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,343242,00.html

Cleric's Slaying a Rallying Cry for Kurds in Syria - Los Angeles Times The death of the mild-mannered sheik robbed Syria�s Kurds of a ... He called for rights; he spoke out against the imprisonment and torture of Kurds. ...
http://articles.latimes.com/2005/aug/14/world/fg-kurds14

The ascent of radical Islam is, perhaps, the natural culmination of a century's worth of failed political systems in Muslim countries that were driven by morally bankrupt ideologies, led by cruel dictators, or both.
<b>In the 1930s, German-style fascism appealed to Arabs in Palestine and Egypt. Soviet-style communism had sympathetic governments in Afghanistan, Algeria and Yemen. Baathism took hold in Syria and Iraq</b>. The secular Egyptian dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser promised a new pan-Arabism that would do away with colonial borders that divided the "the Arab nation." Then there is the more pragmatic authoritarianism that survives in Muammar el-Qaddafi's Libya or in the petrol-monarchies in the Gulf.
Radical Islam may be as totalitarian and as morally bankrupt as any of these past or mostly defunct "isms," but its current appeal isn't hard to figure out. Unlike fascism or communism, radical Islam is locally grown, and not plagued by charges of foreign contamination. Indeed, Islamists claim to wage jihad against the modernism and globlization of the outside, mostly Westernized world. Such a message resonates in stagnant, impoverished Muslim countries....
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/12/why_radical_islam_and_why_now.html

Nuclear Weapons Programs - Syria It appears that the Syrian nuclear program came as a surprise to both the ... The United States was concerned about Syria's nuclear R&D [research and ...
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/syria/nuke.htm

'USAF struck Syrian nuclear site' | Middle East | Jerusalem Post Nov 2, 2007 ... By JPOST.COM STAFF ... The September 6 raid over Syria was carried out by the US Air Force, ...
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1192380718519

Report: IDF raid seized nuclear material before Syria air strike
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/906334.html

BBC NEWS | Americas | Bush expands sanctions on Syria Feb 14, 2008 ... Syria continues to undermine Lebanon's sovereignty and democracy... and sponsor and harbour terrorists...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7244088.stm

Source: Intel shows N. Korea-Syria nuclear link - CNN.com US intelligence officials will tell members of Congress on Thursday that North Korea was helping Syria build a nuclear facility
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/23/syria.nuclear/index.html

Reports: CIA to brief Congress on nuke ties between Syria, North ...Apr 23, 2008 ... [they] also will say that though U.S. officials have had concerns for years about ties between North Korea and Syria...
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/04/reports-cia-to.html

U.S. offers evidence of North Korea-Syria nuclear plant - Los ...US intelligence officials showed satellite images, classified photos and other evidence ...
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/apr/25/world/fg-ussyria25

Syria planned to supply Iran with nuclear fuel, Israel says ...Jun 25, 2008 ... Strategic expert says idea was to share plutonium from site bombed by Israel last September.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/25/syria.iran

Barbara Walters: Syrian Dictator 'Charming,' 'Intelligent ...Jul 7, 2008
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/justin-mccarthy/2008/07/07/barbara-walters-syrian-dicator-charming-intelligent

As the president of Kurdistan National Assembly of Syria, an umbrella organization of Syrian Kurds, I admire your efforts on behalf of human rights globally.  I must however express my concerns with your views on having dialogues with Syria's dictator Bashar Assad.  

Dear Senator, the Middle East Conflict extends beyond the Arab-Israeli conflict.  I would like to bring to your attention the Plight of Kurds in Syria.  Senator, we seek your support in resolving the Kurdish question in Syria peacefully and through dialogue.  You should know however that President Assad or Assad Regime has consistently and gravely violated the human and the national rights of the Kurdish people of Syria for the last five decades.  

The Assad regimes of Hafez and Bashar deliberately Arabized the Kurdish region of Syria as a national policy.  The result of Arabization rendered 300,000 Kurds "stateless foreigners" (ajanibin Arabic) and subject to oppression...
http://www.kurdishaspect.com/doc042508SA.html

September 28, 2008 No. 466
Mass Killings and Human Rights Violations in Syria... policy of oppression, physical aggression, and killing. ...
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA46608

Officials try to deport man with link to Syrian terror group
National Post, Canada - Sep 30, 2008
... officials are trying to deport a London, Ont., adult education teacher because he was once a member of a Syrian political party involved in terrorism. ...
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=851308

Mass Killings and Human Rights Violations in Syria: Report By O ...Sep 29, 2008 ... Syrian human rights activist George Salim recounts the torture he endured ... Kurds in Syria often speak Kurdish in public, unless all those ...
http://ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2008/9/syriakurdistan151.htm

OPEC Regimes: The "Change They Need" in US Foreign Policy
Human Events, DC - [Oct 26, 2008]
In the ranking of Human Rights abuses around the world, Angola�s MPLA-controlled government ranks only 157 ahead of Syria, Venezuela, Iran, Libya and Cuba...
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29192

Lebanese prime minister alerts US to Syrian terror plot as pretext ...
DEBKA file, Israel - Oct 6, 2008
The prime minister said the tip-off he received uncovered a Syrian conspiracy to stage a major terrorist operation or assassinate a Lebanese figure...
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5633

Syria Created It's Own Terror Problem CBS News [0ct 17, 2008]
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/17/opinion/main4528930.shtml

Creating a Desert and Calling it "Peace"
http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=6C692DC0-613B-4069-A3A8-456E795029F1

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US officials say Syria raid killed terrorist leader
The Miami Herald, FL - Oct 27, 2008
WASHINGTON -- A U.S. raid on a farm in eastern Syria is thought to have killed an Iraqi smuggler who oversaw the infiltration of foreign fighters into Iraq for the al-Qaida in Iraq terrorist group, a U.S. official said Monday.

The smuggler, whom the official identified as Abu Ghadiya, was "one of the most prominent, if not the most prominent, foreign fighter facilitator" operating across the Iraq-Syrian border, said the official, who asked not to be further identified because Sunday's operation was classified.

"It was a successful operation," the U.S. official told McClatchy Newspapers. "Abu Ghadiya is believed to have been killed. He was in the compound. The bottom line: this was a significant blow to the foreign fighter pipeline between Syria and Iraq."

The official declined to give details of the operation. A second U.S. official, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity, confirmed that Abu Ghadiya was the target of the raid, but couldn't confirm that he was killed.

Abu Ghadiya is the nom de guerre of Badran Turki Hishan al-Mazidih, a Sunni Muslim who was born in the late 1970s in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and was a lieutenant of al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed in 2006. He was believed to be living in the Syrian town of Zabadani.

On Feb. 28, the Treasury Department charged that Abu Ghadiya and three members of his network were smuggling "money, weapons, terrorists, and other resources through Syria to al Qaida in Iraq, including to (al Qaida) commanders."

"Abu Ghadiya and his network go to great lengths to facilitate the flow through Syria of money, weapons, and terrorists intent on killing U.S. and Coalition forces and innocent Iraqis," said Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Stuart Levey.

"Former al Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi appointed Badran as the group's Syrian commander for logistics in 2004," the Treasury said. "After Zarqawi's death, Badran began working for the new AQI leader, Abu Ayyub al Masri. As of late-September 2006, Badran took orders directly from Masri, or through a deputy.

"Badran obtained false passports for foreign terrorists, provided passports, weapons, guides, safe houses, and allowances to foreign terrorists in Syria and those preparing to cross the border into Iraq. Badran received several hundred thousand dollars from his cousin Saddah ... and used these funds to support anti-U.S. military elements and the travel of AQI foreign fighters. Badran has also been using AQI funds for his personal use.

"As of the spring of 2007, Badran facilitated the movement of AQI operatives into Iraq via the Syrian border. Badran also directed another Syria-based AQI facilitator to provide safe haven and supplies to foreign fighters. This AQI facilitator, working directly for Badran, facilitated the movement of foreign fighters primarily from Gulf countries, through Syria into Iraq."

The Bush administration, which for years has expressed frustration over what it charges have been Syria's lackluster efforts to stop foreign Islamic fighters from crossing into Iraq, refused comment on the operation amid a major diplomatic storm ignited by the cross-border raid. Iran Monday joined in Syria's condemnation of the operation.

The Syrian government accused the U.S. of killing eight civilians in what it charged was a daylight raid on an al-Sukkari farm in eastern Syria by U.S. forces flown across the border from Iraq in four helicopters.

"The Americans do it in the daylight. This means it was not a mistake. It is by blunt determination," Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem charged Monday at a news conference in London. "For that, we consider this criminal and terrorist aggression."
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/743633.html

US raid in Syria said to hit top Qaeda smuggler Reuters India
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-36177220081027

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Reports: Syria behind Fatah al-Islam activities Al-Bawaba, Jordan - Nov 15, 2008 In response to confessions aired by Syria's state television, the Beirut-based al-Mustaqbal newspaper on Saturday carried testimonies made by Fatah al-Islam ...
http://www.albawaba.com/en/countries/Lebanon/237746

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