!!!! Breaking News Update Included !!!!
叙利亚—阿萨德计划国外杀害
News fom Al-Jazeera, Arabic service, on August 10, 2012:
Regarding the current situation in Syria, no independent source is able to confirm or exclude all claims of the fighting parties. However, there are hints from activists of the Free Army, based on intercepted radio traffic and saying that some government units are holding their position even though being urged by their superiors to advance.
معارك مستمرة و تظاهرات في حلب و دمشق في جمعة سلحونا بمضادات الطائرات
Continued battles and demonstrations in Aleppo and Damascus as well as anti-aircraft [fire] [were reported] on Friday.
[Editor's note: The Arabic text includes a vulgar expression for the aircraft related shootings.]
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Al-Jazeera evening news on August 11, 2012:
Hadi Al-Abdallah, spokesman for the People's Committee of the Syrian Revolution, reporting from Homs (above).
ناشطون: الجيش النظامي السوري يقتحم حي الشماس في حمص بعد قصفه بالمدفعية
[Activists] say that Syrian government troops are forcing their way into the Al-Shamaas quarter of Homs after its shelling with artillery.
[Editor's note: According to its name which means "diacon's quarter", that neighbourhood of Homs might possibly host a Christian community.]
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Al-Jazeera evening news on August 12, 2012:
The local committees of coordination say that 110 died in Syria today, most of them in Homs, Idlib and Daraa.
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Syria related news from Lebanon by Al-Jazeera, August 10:
As to the arrest of Lebanon's former minister Michel Samaha by Lebanese security the day before, there is a comment available from the pro-Iranian pro-Assad party Hezbollah that makes part of the "March 8 coalition" including Samaha who is known as a decided pro-Assad politician in Lebanon.
Michel Samaha:
النائب عن حزب الله اللبناني محمد رعد يصف توقيف ميشال سماحة بأنه مجرد فبركات أمنية
The [second man] in Lebanon's Hezbolla, Mohammad Raad, classifies the arrest of Michel Samaha as an abstract fabrication of [state] security.
MP Mohammad Raad, leader of the Hezbollah Loyalty to the Resistance bloc in Lebanon's parliament (above).
Breaking News from August 11 / 12
quoting "The Daily Star, Lebanon"
BEIRUT: Judge Sami Sader indicted former Information Minister Michel Samaha and Syrian National Security Bureau head Ali Mamlouk Saturday for plotting to assassinate political and religious figures in Lebanon and carry out terrorist attacks.
The indictment also included a Syrian army officer identified as Brig. Gen. Adnan.
Sader, the government’s deputy commissioner at the Military Tribunal, also charged the three men with creating an armed group aimed at undermining the authority and prestige of the state.
Additionally, he accused them of planning to incite sectarian clashes through terrorist attacks with explosives that Samaha transported to Lebanon and stored after taking possession of them from Mamlouk and Adnan.
The indictment also charged the three men with working with Syria’s intelligence to carry out aggression against Lebanon. Samaha was also accused of possessing weapons without a license.
A judicial source told The Daily Star that the charges, if proven, could lead to the defendants being sentenced to hard labor or death.
Sader referred the case to Military Judge Riad Abu Ghida, who will pursue the investigation and question Samaha.
Earlier in the day, Acting State Prosecutor Samir Hammoud referred Samaha's case to the Military Tribunal following a preliminary investigation by the Internal Security Forces' Information Branch.
Meanwhile, a senior security official told The Daily Star Friday that the evidence against Samaha is compelling and includes incriminating video footage.
“The case against Samaha constitutes a clear and irrefutable condemnation, following his confessions of involvement in the transportation of explosives from Syria to Lebanon for use in terrorist attacks in areas in the north,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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"Al-Bawaba" added on August 12:
Former Lebanese information minister Michel Samaha was not aware that the plotting of attacks against Christians with orders from the Syrian regime was being recorded by a spy pen camera carried by a Lebanese security agent who was in regular contact with Samaha, the Lebanese daily Assafir reported on Saturday.
العدل اساس الملك
Justice - The Foundation of Power
[Inscription in a building hosting the Military Court in Beirut]
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Additional news on Syria from People's Network, Beijing, August 5:
Syria's store of chemical weapons
includes the "Three Great Killers".
美国中央情报局认为，叙利亚化学武器中数量最大的当属神经性毒气——沙林。
America's CIA considers Syria to keep great amounts of the nerve gas Sarin among its chemical weapons.
The Chinese article essentially describes the special character of Sarin and the damage it inflicts on the human body. Furthermore, its application in grenades and missile warheads is mentioned.
Another blogspot on Japan's Territorial Claims has been updated today. To learn more about actual development of that matter, please click to the above link !
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