May 26, 2012 – SYRIA – A Russian cargo ship loaded with weapons is en route to Syria and due to arrive at a Syrian port this weekend, Al Arabiya television said in a report that Western diplomats in New York described on Friday as credible. Syria is one of Russia’s top weapons customers. The United States and European Union have suggested the U.N. Security Council should impose an arms embargo and other U.N. sanctions on Syria for its 14-month assault on a pro-democracy opposition determined to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. But Russia, with the support of fellow veto power China, has prevented the council from imposing any U.N. sanctions on Syria and has refused to halt arms sales to Damascus. “Al Arabiya have learned that a Russian cargo ship carrying a large amount of weapons plans to unload its cargo in the Syrian port of Tartus,” the broadcaster said on its website on Thursday. The report said the ship left a Russian port on May 6 and cited a “Western source” as saying that it will dock at Tartus on Saturday. “The ship is trying to conceal its final destination in a suspicious way,” Al Arabiya said. Western diplomats and officials said the report was credible. In a letter to the U.N. Security Council, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he had seen reports of countries supplying arms to the government and rebels. He urged states not to arm either side in the Syrian conflict. “Those who may contemplate supporting any side with weapons, military training or other military assistance, must reconsider such options to enable a sustained cessation of violence,” he said. Russia has defended its weapons deliveries to Syria in the face of Western criticism, saying government forces need to defend themselves against rebels receiving arms from abroad. Damascus says Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Libya are among the countries helping the rebels. –Reuters
Unending nightmare: Government troops shelled a string of villages in central Syria before pro-regime thugs swept through the area, shooting people in the streets and in their homes in attacks that killed more than 90 people, activists said Saturday. The assault on Houla, an area northwest of the central city of Homs, is one of the bloodiest single events in Syria’s 15-month-old uprising. Activists from the region said regime forces peppered Houla with mortars following a large anti-regime protest on Friday. After the bombardment, pro-government thugs known as shabiha raided the villages, killing men on the streets and stabbing women and children in their houses. Amateur videos posted online showed scores of dead covered in sheets and blankets, some covered with chunks of ice to preserve then until burial. One video showed 14 dead children lined up on the ground, shoulder to shoulder. Another had at least a dozen more, some with holes in their heads and faces, lying on what appears to be the floor of a mosque. The Syrian government blamed the massacre on “armed terrorist groups” but provided no details or death toll. The killings strike a stiff blow to an international peace plan brokered by envoy Kofi Annan meant to end the violence in Syria. The basis of the plan is a cease-fire between President Bashar Assad’s forces and rebels seeking to topple the Syrian regime. It was supposed to start on April 12 but has never really taken hold, with pockets of daily violence. The U.N. put the death toll weeks ago at more than 9,000. Hundreds have been killed since. –AP
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TThis is so so sad,,its like an extermination on these HUMAN BEINGS. Pray for peace .and pray for the innocent
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It’s a genocide.
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Yup.
This is genocide. So it’s not even a war anymore, it’s an open extermination.
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Looks like were going to witness another “Arab Spring”. Has there every been a time in history that man wasn’t warmongering?
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No, it is part of our sinfull nature.
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Was it here that I read the article about the US supplying Al Kayder, in Syria, with money & arms?
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This is what happens when they let THUGS LIKE RUSSIA AND CHINA IN and RUN THE UNITED NATIONS!!! EVIL IS WHAT EVIL DOES !!! WE OUGHT TO DISBAND THE UN BECAUSE they are of no use to the likes of innocent people being slaughtered in their own homes and towns and Countries in which they live!!! This is a form of population control and it makes me very angry that the US and other free nations aren’t stepping in !!! Are they waiting for a certain number of murders to take place before they will engage ??? PRAY THE ROSARY EVERY DAY! TO BRING GODS PEACE IN THE HEARTS OF MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN !!!
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Were with you praying the rosary, but we haven’t been free for a while. Communism has spread just like Our Lady of Fatima said it would if Russia wasn’t consecrated to The Sacred Heart of Jesus. Keep praying it will happen yet before all are lost.
in Christ, Caroline
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It seems there is so much hatred everywhere in the world and I do agree that because the Consecration of Russia to the Imaculated Heart Of Mary has not been done properly, we are now feeling the brunt of not doing so. Although POPE JOHN PAUL II tried to get it done in the proper way…. He ran into a few brick walls which prevented it from taken place!!! I think, the Blessed Mother is Praying for us all, and many graces come when we continue to perservere in our PRAYERS !!!
Betsy
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The UN has proved again to be completely ineffectual with its resolutions and peace brokering, is it not irony that while Russia is supporting Syria with arms shipments, they are ingadged in joint military exercises with the US.
It is genocide indeed, not only from the point of the Syrian government towards its own people but because of the climate of war within its borders, sectarian genocide is also taking place within the general population,
which fits neatly into the government’s plans.
All through this I keep being reminded of Kosovo Conflict/ War,
My heart breaks for all the pain, horror and sorrow all the innocents have endured and continuing to endure.
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There will be no peace. If this conflict is spilling over into Lebanon as reported, sooner or later and somehow, Israel will get involved. However, I am wondering why Russia needs to send weapons to Syria?
Surely it has a deeper stockpile than this? And these are just ill supplied/equipped rebels? On the other hand, this move seems to express their need for this regime to survive.
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War/arms=$$$$$$$$$$$, Russia arms Syria, U.S. arms Saudi Arabia, China arms N. Korea and every emerging African Nation incorporates an AK47 on their Flag! I wonder if the’re required to pay royalties for the image? Oh, and every 30 years or so they change sides just to break up the monotony
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According to prophecy, damascus, one of the worlds oldest cities will cease to exist. All buildings will be turned to grain of sand
Tomorrow or 2060?
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With the military buildup in the Middle East (surrounded on all sides) and the rhetoric comming from the powers in the North and East, looks sooner than later. Date and time TBA.
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It’s looking like a countdown to unmitigated mayhem more each day —- all this against a backdrop of a wave of banks crashing in the Eurozone and Greece running out on money in about 3 more weeks and is faced with default. There are worst scenarios the planet could be in…but right now, I can’t think of any.
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Legitimizing Global Tyranny: Moving Towards World Government
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=30961
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Lance, THANKYOU for the article on the NWO!!! I remember Bush making the statement “and, We will have a NWO” . It gave me the CHILLS !!! We all have to pray for these people who think they know what’ best for us !!! There will much to suffer if this comes to fruition!!!
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War….it worked in the last great depression. We were deep in a depression from 1929 – 1939 and there was no end in sight. Then the federal government imposed rationing, recruited 6 million defense workers (including women and African Americans), drafted 6 million soldiers, and ran massive deficits to fight World War II did the Great Depression finally end.
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