http://www.jpost.com…
Dec 26, 2008 13:43 | Updated Dec 27, 2008 0:23
Russia plans to supply air-defense missile systems valued at $250 million to seven countries including Syria, Libya and Venezuela, Vedomosti reported, citing an unidentified Russian Technologies Corp official.

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Paul Joseph Watson
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Former Congresswoman and presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney has been prevented from leaving the country after she planned to give a speech in Damascus Syria at a Conference being held to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

from Cernig at At Largely:
International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed El-Baradei confirmed that the radioactive material was found at the site but said the source was inconclusive.

http://www.bloomberg.com…
By Massoud A. Derhally
Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) — Israeli missiles are the source of traces of uranium that diplomats at the International Atomic Energy Agency say were found at a suspected nuclear site in Syria, according to Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem.

How Did McCain Escape Expulsion from the Senate?…
John McCain, according to a revelatory article in The New Republic, was almost certainly the source for illegal leaks during the Keating Five investigation — leaks that, if proven, would have been cause for his expulsion from the United States Senate for perjury. Additionally, according to [...]

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Noah Shachtman

Erin Simpson is a civilian academic working for the U.S. Marine Corps. She blogs on all things counterinsurgency at Abu Muqawama.
I’ve been trying to wrap my brain around the Syria raid earlier this week. But two articles are sticking in my craw.

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By Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation
Posted on October 30, 2008, Printed on October 31, 2008

A parallel new Bush doctrine is emerging, in the last days of the soon-to-be-ancient regime, and it needs to be strangled in its crib. Like the original Bush doctrine — the one that Sarah Palin couldn’t name, which called for preventive military [...]

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Claims attack killed civilians, not senior Al Qaeda in Iraq operative
By Thomas Omestad
>Posted October 29, 2008
On Wednesday, Syria’s ambassador to the United States, Imad Moustapha, fired back against the reported U.S. commando raid into Syria on Sunday that is said to have left eight dead, calling it a “criminal, terrorist attack.” He said the attack [...]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com…
Everyone’s still scratching their heads about Sunday’s dramatic U.S. attack on a Syrian village five miles from the Iraqi border.
Plenty of unanswered questions remain, like why didn’t the Syrians do anything to thwart the Americans, such as launching anti-aircraft batteries deployed along their border?
Ronen Bergman, an Israeli intelligence expert and author of the recent “The [...]

Syria to close US embassy to the public?
“Syria’s government ordered the closure of an American school and a U.S. cultural center in Damascus on Tuesday in apparent retaliation for the helicopter assault.”
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