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“Let the Headlines Speak”
by From the Internet
August 29th, 2013

Partial Israeli reserves call-up. US beefs up Qatar air base. Syria moves units into sheltered sites
Ahead of the US strike on Syria, the Israeli security cabinet in special session Wednesday, Aug. 28, ordered the partial mobilization of select, qualitative IDF reserve forces: Rocket, Air Force, missile interception, Home Defense command and intelligence units. Anti-missile Arrow, Patriot and Iron Dome systems were spread out more widely than ever before across the country. US and Syria wound up last military preparations for the US strike. Barring last-minute hold-ups, debkafile’s military sources report the American operation is scheduled to start Friday night, early Saturday Aug. 30-31.

France: political solution the ultimate goal for Syria
French President Francois Hollande said on Thursday that Syria needed a political solution, but that could only happen if the international community could halt killings like last week's chemical attack and better support the opposition.

Another bird flu outbreak reported in Italy
A chicken farm located between the Italian cities of Bologna and Ravenna is the site of a new outbreak of bird flu, authorities in central Italy said Wednesday. As a result of the discovery some 150,000 chickens will have to be destroyed, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.

Europe warns Assad against attacking Israel
According to the officials, Assad realizes that a potential Western assault would be a response to his army's use of chemical weapons and not as a means to affect the current balance of power in Syria.

Report: Russia to send two ships to east Mediterranean
Russia's Interfax news agency says anti-submarine vessel, missile cruiser will be sent in coming days because of 'well-known situation'; UN inspectors to leave Syria Saturday

'A coward, a traitor, and a murderer': Fort Hood gunman sentenced to death
A court-martial jury of 13 retired military officers deliberated for just under two hours before they unanimously agreed on the maximum penalty of lethal injection. The sentence also included dismissing Hasan from the Army and stripping him of his military pay.

Putin Orders Massive Strike Against Saudi Arabia if syria attacked Russian Government outraged by Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultans terrorist threats
According to leaked information Putin became “enraged” after his early August meeting with Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan who warned that if Russia did not accept the defeat of Syria, Saudi Arabia would unleash Chechen terrorists under their control to cause mass death and chaos during the Winter Olympics scheduled to be held 7-23 February 2014 in Sochi, Russia. Putin was quoted as saying to officials afterwards WHO THE HELL DO THESE PEOPLE THINK THEY ARE DEALING WITH.

RF, China walk out of UN SC meeting after US call for immediate action in Syria
The Russian and Chinese officials walked out of the U.N. Security Council meeting in New York on Wednesday, August 28, after U.S. Permanent Representative Samantha Power had called for an immediate action in Syria. The permanent members of the U.N. Security Council - Russia, Britain, China, the U.S. and France - had been invited to the closed meeting. An hour later the Russian and Chinese diplomats left the meeting and headed to the Security Council’s main conference room where debates on Haiti was taking place.

Peres: We will respond with 'full force' to any Syrian attack
Israel will respond with "full force" to any Syrian counter-attack, President Shimon Peres warned Thursday morning, commenting on reports emerging from radical corners of the Arab world that have threatened Israel in retaliation if the West attacks Syria.

Archbishop: Christians must repent for homophobia
Christian malice toward homosexuals and homosexuality is "totally wrong" and "demands repentance," Britain's archbishop of Canterbury told evangelical leaders.

Obama should be stripped of his Nobel Peace prize if he starts Syria war
Papadopoulos added that the US and the West have no right to intervene in the affairs of another foreign state. “America and its allies are not the policemen of the world. America has no moral or legal right to attack an independent sovereign country,”

IRAN: 'Thousands of missiles' to rain on Israel
Iran is threatening to launch a massive missile strike against Israel if the United States attacks Syria for using chemical weapons against its own people, which could touch off a full-blown war in the region. “The day of reckoning is near,” according to Hossein Shariatmadari, the chief editor of Keyhan newspaper, an outlet controlled by Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Iran has boosted nuclear capabilities, says IAEA
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says Tehran has now installed more than 1,000 advanced centrifuges at its Natanz enrichment plant. It comes as the IAEA says it will resume talks with Iran on 27 September - the first such negotiations since President Hassan Rouhani was elected.

House speaker presses Obama for answers on Syria
House Speaker John Boehner called on President Barack Obama on Wednesday to deliver a specific rationale for using U.S. military force against Syria as a growing number of congressional Republicans and Democrats expressed concerns about war with a Mideast nation roiled by civil conflict.

Ethiopia's Falash Mura repatriated to Israel
About 450 Ethiopians of Jewish descent have been repatriated to Israel, concluding an Israeli government-backed scheme to relocate the community. Their migration was "historic", Israel's Minister of Absorption Sofa Landver is quoted as saying. Many members of the Falash Mura community lived in poor conditions in northern Ethiopia.

Iranian officials rush to Syria as drums of war beat louder
An Iranian delegation of senior parliamentarians is to visit Syria on Saturday in an effort to "study Syria's conditions" as Western powers rush to debate their next move to deter the use of chemical weapons, Fars News Agency, which claims to be independent but which is widely known to have close ties to Iran's Revolutionary Guards reported.

As Syria strike looms, Israeli gas mask centers get extended opening hours
The Israel Defense Forces Home Front Command has extended the opening hours for gas mask distribution centers to cope with the massive demand of recent days, Army Radio reported Thursday. Anxious Israelis have flooded the centers, anticipating an attack on Israel in response to any strike by the US and its allies on Syria over the regime’s probable use of chemical weapons.

Amid Syria tensions, Russia sends more warships to Mediterranean
Russia will send two ships to the east Mediterranean to strengthen its naval presence because of the "well-known situation" there, Interfax news agency said on Thursday referring to the Syria crisis. The agency quoted a source in the armed forces' general staff as saying an anti-submarine vessel and a missile cruiser would be sent in the coming days because the situation "required us to make some adjustments" in the naval force.

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