Today Foreign Secretary William Hague will be travelling with his advisor’s to Tunis, to attend the first ‘Friends of Syria’ meeting, the outcome of which will see British troops being called upon again.
Acting outside of the UN, this group is getting together to discuss military action in Syria in the same way that they did in Libya. Consisting of a group of 80 world nations, the ‘Friends of Syria’ are expected to hammer out practical steps for terminating the bloodbath pursued by the Assad regime, free of the veto that Russia and China have exercised in the UN.
Also present at this meeting will be US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has been tasked with preparing a report for Obama, as he needs to know whether Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar and the UAR will support US-led Western intervention in Syria, both politically and financially.
Despite public denials, military preparations for intervention in the horrendous Syrian crisis are quietly afoot in Washington, Paris, Rome, London and Ankara. On Wednesday Hague said:
Governments around the world have the responsibility to act…and to redouble our efforts to stop the Assad regime’s despicable campaign of terror.”
The Sunday Times correspondent Marie Colvin and the French Figaro video-photographer Remi Ochik died Wednesday in the heavy shelling of a fortified building which housed Western journalists making their way into Homs under the protection of Syrian rebels. Three other Western journalists were injured. Some are asking whether this building was also housing British and Qatari special forces, whose presence in Syria was reported last week.Western military sources reported Thursday that this undercover Western press center was maintained by the rebels in tight secrecy. The building was practically gutted by a direct hit, suggesting that Syrian forces located it with the help of advanced electronic measures.
Another Western source noted that the journalists covering the atrocities in Homs from this hideout used coded channels of communications protected by anti-jamming and anti-tracking devices. The Syrians must therefore have called on Russian satellites or advanced Iranian electronic systems to locate it. The authorities in Damascus decided to treat the press hideout as the first step in overt Western intervention in the Syrian conflict. It was accordingly razed totally with its occupants.
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