Libya Done, Next Is Syria – Moon of Alabama

October 2, 2011

Libya Done, Next Is Syria

The military mission in Libya is largely complete, and NATO's involvement could begin to wrap up as soon as this coming week after allied leaders meet in Brussels, Belgium, the top U.S. commander for Africa said.

Well, well. Just in time:

Syrian activists formed a council to coordinate efforts to end President Bashar al-Assad’s rule and stop his deadly crackdown that has claimed more than 3,600 lives this year.
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Syria’s opposition is following the path taken by Libya’s rebels, who formed a National Transitional Council during that country’s uprising.
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While the council rejects any outside intervention in Syria’s internal affairs, it seeks United Nations protection for the Syrian people, Ghaliun said.

Does anyone believe that these news items appearing on the same day is just a random coincident?

Posted by b on October 2, 2011 at 17:52 UTC | Permalink

Comments

Intervention is what they are pining for I have no doubt. But unless the “Syrian council” can grab and hold a piece of Syria, there is nothing to support. Having a Syrian council holding on to territory in London or Ankara doesn’t help them much.
For the record, I am not a supporter of the Assad government, but I prefer it to anything the west or Saudi Arabia can come up with.

Posted by: Lysander | Oct 2 2011 20:06 utc | 1

Russia will VETO UN resolution because NATO broke the first one

Posted by: nikon | Oct 2 2011 22:04 utc | 2

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jnOHsAhVxsnDJ9jEIZD61VPys3nw?docId=ec1618918d8744d5aa3c247c0ba32580
Foreign government is carrying out assassination of Syrian nuclear engineers

Posted by: nikon | Oct 2 2011 22:16 utc | 3

Nah, they’re not going to invade Syria, under any pretext. It’s too much like Egypt in that regard, and they never would have invaded Egypt. They’ll try an Egypt-like scenario, but Syria’s demographic is not the same as Egypt’s, so it will fail. They will find other ways to try to destabilize and neutralize Syria, for sure, but invasion/occupation will not be one of them.

Posted by: Morocco Bama | Oct 3 2011 15:18 utc | 4

If there’s a plan to attack Syria, it is not very developed yet.
On the other hand Richard Silverstein is convinced that Leon Panetta’s trip to Israel is yet another attempt to dissuade Netanyahu from immediately attacking Iran. More of a risk, but who knows what might be being plotted?

Posted by: alexno | Oct 3 2011 17:40 utc | 5

Thing is, libya was so easy, ghaddafi must have been sold a pup

Posted by: Cloned Poster | Oct 3 2011 18:48 utc | 6

Libya is NOT done..when most of Libya is still in Libyan govt hands? and why dont the UN etc take action against NATO FOR its 60000 odd dead massacres? R2P this was not!

Posted by: brian | Oct 3 2011 20:47 utc | 7

Libya is still in the hands of the Libyan people who now demand the NATO invaders be brought to justice.

Posted by: brian | Oct 3 2011 20:48 utc | 8

Russia, China veto Syria resolution at the United Nations

UNITED NATIONS — Russia and China cast a rare double veto at the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to block a U.S.- and European-backed draft resolution condemning Syria for its brutal crackdown on protesters.
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France’s U.N. ambassador, Gerard Araud, vowed that this “veto will not stop us” from pressing for Syria to end a crackdown that has killed nearly 3,000 people.

Posted by: b | Oct 5 2011 5:59 utc | 9

Syrian woman reported dead by Amnesty is alive: TV

Syrian state television broadcast an interview on Tuesday with a young woman it said Amnesty International reported last month was dead, a possible victim of violence while in state custody.
Zainab al-Hosni, 18, from the city of Homs, where protests have been mounted against the continued rule of President Bashar al-Assad, was found in a morgue by her family, Amnesty said last month. She had been decapitated, her arms cut off and skin removed, the human rights group said.
Syrian television aired what it said was an interview with Hosni, showing she was still alive, and produced what it said was her identity card. It said her death had been fabricated to “serve foreign interests.”

Posted by: b | Oct 5 2011 6:13 utc | 10

‘It was impossible to independently verify the identity of the woman shown on television — Syrian authorities have banned most independent media from the country — and officials from Amnesty International were not immediately available for comment.’
What ‘independent’ media? Reuters has its nerve with that brazen lie….the media war on Libya showed us how very dependent the ‘independent’ media are…going so far as to call in NATO air strikes.
ALSO did they bother to independently verify her death before???
Amnesty is part of the Human Rights imperialism machinery. How can amnesty report as dead someone alive? The atrocity amnesty sites is a reminiscent of the baby incubators: designed to excite maximum indignation among the clueless public

Posted by: brian | Oct 5 2011 20:59 utc | 11

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