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US berates Russia for aiding Syrian

Published: 13 Oct 2012 at 10.49
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The United States has denounced Russia's policy of aiding the Syrian regime as "morally bankrupt," as tensions between Damascus and Ankara escalate over cargo seized from a Syrian passenger plane.

Syrian rebel fighters protest against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the northern city of Aleppo on October 12, 2012. The army took a pounding at the hands of rebels in northern Syria, a watchdog said, as tensions between Damascus and Ankara escalated over cargo seized from a Syrian passenger plane.

On the ground the Syrian army took a pounding at the hands of rebels in northern Syria on Friday, a monitoring group said.

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fineguy
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Discussion 4 : 13 Oct 2012 at 16.184
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Pot, calling kettle black.
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Discussion 3 : 13 Oct 2012 at 14.053
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Well, the USA's ally, Turkey are helping the armed insurgents, so why shouldn't Russia help the beleagured governmment in this civil war. Of course, it would be better if all outside parties kept out of it,, but the US is hardly in a position to cry foul.
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And AFP, along with all other Western media outlets, purposefully continues to reference the "Syrian Observatory for Human Rights," even when it's been exposed that it is not an "observatory" of any kind. It is a single man who lives in England, admits openly he is part of the opposition, and regularly collaborates with the British Foreign Ministry. His "evidence" comes from alleged phone calls, none of which are ever confirmed or verified, and could just as likely be coming from the next room over as they are from Syria.
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Discussion 1 : 13 Oct 2012 at 13.251
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In Seymour Hersh's 2007 New Yorker article titled, "The Redirection" US and Saudi officials are quoted as already arming and funding Al Qaeda linked terrorists to plunge Syria into violence and overthrow the government - not to defend "civilians" but part of a campaign to reassert Western hegemony over the region. For the US to then blame nations for assisting a government against such subversion is in fact, "morally bankrupt."
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