http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Nationalist Sat, 25 May 2013 04:33:33 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Nationalist Wed, 22 May 2013 10:16:14 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5e1_1369231221 Zurm The economic recession in Europe has had wide-ranging effects, from tensions within the Eurozone to the rise of new political parties in across the continent. While rising right-wing parties has been cyclical in Europe-they tend to grow during economic downturns and fade during periods of growth-their current resurgence is nonetheless troubling. As the economic stagnation continues on the continent, it remains to be seen what will happen to these political groups. In France, the National Front has been a major third party since its inception in 1972, when it was created by Jean-Marie Le Pen to unite the country's various nationalist movements. Although the party's popularity has fluctuated, it has never received significant representation in the legislature due to the French electoral system. In 2011, leadership of the party was handed off to Jean-Marie's youngest daughter, Marine Le Pen, who has revitalized the group and significantly boosted its popularity. Like other far right parties in Europe, the National Front is eurosceptic, harsh on immigration, and traditional on social issues. Its economic policy is also highly conservative; it favors protectionism and a return to the gold standard. The Great Recession and resultant Euro Crisis seem to have strengthened the National Front, reinforcing euroscepticism and leading many frustrated by a stagnant economy to embrace xenophobia and social conservatism. In the 2012 French presidential election, many saw Sarkozy veer to the right in the second round of voting in an attempt to win Le Pen's votes. This strategy ultimately failed as it allowed Hollande, a left-wing candidate, to win the center. More recently, as Hollande's popularity has declined, one poll placed Marine Le Pen's popularity at an incredible 32 percent, over Hollande's dismal 24 percent. Frightening to many, the National Front has become a strong and persistent force in French political life. In Greece, the Golden Dawn has arisen as a political force because of anger over austerity measures, forced upon Greece as a condition of the numerous Eurozone bailouts, coupled with racial and ethnic prejudice, high unemployment and soaring poverty rates. In Greece's June 2012 election the party gained seats in the parliament. Since last June, the party's popular support has climbed to roughly 11.5%, and has stayed steady for the past few months. Golden Dawn draws its primary support from the rural poor and unskilled labor force, mixing violent rhetoric (and action) against Jews, Roma, and other minorities, while also promoting plans for support networks for the poor. The party promises a "social action program" for the economically disadvantaged, provided, of course, that they can prove Greek heritage. Golden Dawn has organized several Greek-only blood banks, food drives, and support services for the elderly. These programs are popular among Greeks with few social supports left, but within Golden Dawn they are part of a wider campaign which often includes activities like "protecting" neighborhoods from immigrants. Golden Dawn's "stormtroopers" patrol many urban centers, beating, and sometimes killing, foreigners and minorities. In March, the party's attention turned to Greece's youth, starting a campaign to attract future voters as young as six In Hungary, Jobbik, the far-right anti-Semitic party, won a staggering 17% of the vote in 2010's parliamentary elections. Unlike Golden Dawn, which targets the rural poor and unskilled labor force, Jobbik draws a large portion of its support from young, college-educated professionals. Supporters cite economic concerns as equal to issues of "national identity," expressing anti-Roma, anti-Semitic, and anti-immigrant sentiment and fears of other perceived threats to Hungarian culture. The government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban's increasingly autocratic Fidesz party has done little to stem the rise of Jobbik; instead, the Hungarian far-right and far-left are often seen joining forces in anti-Fidesz rallies. The supporters of Jobbik, however, are not fighting against autocracy; rather, they are fighting against the current government and its policies. Jobbik's agenda is simple; stronger laws against Roma "criminality," restoration of Hungarian culture through expulsion of "unwanted ethnic groups," and severing of ties to the European Union, which the party claims will both boost the economy as well as stem unwanted immigration. Germany too has seen the rise of right wing parties in recent years, most notably, the National Democratic Party of Germany. It is best described as racist, anti-Semitic and anti-foreigner, in addition to its desires to abolish the current German Constitution. The upper house of the German Parliament is seeking to ban the party from taking part in elections. This has become an issue in recent years after a report published by the Social Democratic Party found that anti-foreign sentiment, right-wing authoritarian dictatorship, chauvinism and social Darwinism is on the rise. Another report by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation found that nearly a third of respondents believed foreigners were in Germany to take advantage of the welfare state's benefits and that about 60 percent of respondents were in favor of restrictions on the practice of Islam. The prevalence is the highest it has been in East Germany since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Although not a political group, terrorist groups like the National Socialist Underground have drawn particular attention for their increased use of violence as a political tool. Law enforcement aims to combat right wing groups with tactics of prevention and repression. Repression includes traditional law enforcement methods while prevention aims to educate parents and teachers on the methods these groups use to recruit young people. Over in the United Kingdom, the rise of the Independent Party (UKIP) has garnered attention after they enjoyed surprising success in recent local elections, in which the party won 147 council seats. Led by Nigel Farage, a former commodities trader, the party promotes a platform of euroscepticism and xenophobia. Popular in response to the financial and eurozone crises, the party seeks a restricted immigration policy, and withdrawal of United Kingdom from the European Union. Although the party won local elections, it is unlikely that they will do well on the national stage, despite speculation that they may destabilize the essentially two-party system now in place. The party is not expected to gain more that 25 percent of the vote, which is a generous estimate. The UKIP has poached core Conservative voters from the Conservative Party, so the ruling party now has to focus on regaining its base rather than turning its efforts to expanding its appeal to solidify their governing majority. Despite the Independent Party's recent news coverage, the UK is hardly witnessing a similar emergence of far right parties like other European countries have seen. In Finland, the True Finns party became the third biggest party in the Parliament. An anti-immigrant party, the Sweden Democrats, has risen to third in polls ahead of a general election due next year, reflecting unease about immigrants among many voters. http://politicsandpolicy.org/article/right-wing-resurgence-haunts-europe http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5e1_1369231221 Zurm Right-wing Resurgence in Europe Right-wing,Resurgence,Europe Tue, 21 May 2013 14:13:01 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2e6_1369159642 olifaxe A far-right French historian shot himself in the head beside the altar of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris today apparently in protest against the legalisation of gay marriage in France. Dominique Venner, 78, a former member of the nationalist terrorist movement, OAS, placed a pistol in his mouth and shot himself dead in front of scores of tourists inside the most visited building in France.Mr Venner, a presenter on a Catholic-traditionalust radio station and controversial historian and essayist, posted an essay on his website earlier in the day calling for "new, spectacular and symbolic actions to shake us out of our sleep, to jolt anaesthetised minds and to reawaken memory of our origins".His long essay was a tirade against gay marriage but also a warning that the "population of France and Europe" was going to be "replaced" and brought under "Islamist control" and "sharia law".Mr Venner placed a sealed letter on the altar of the cathedral before shooting himself. His choice of the altar - associated with religious marriage ceremonies -appeared to be a symbolic gesture of protest against the law permitting civil gay marriages in France which took effect last weekend.The cathedral, which is celebrating its 850th anniversary this year, was immediately evacuated and closed to the public for four hours. Efforts were made by a cathedral security guard to revive Mr Venner as he lay beside the altar for almost 20 minutes.The rector of Notre Dame, Monsigneur Patrick Jacquin, said that, as far as he was aware, this was the first suicide within the cathedral since it was founded in the 12th century. "We will pray for this man as we pray for so many others who are at their wits' end," he said.Notre Dame is the most visited monument in France with over 13,000,000 visiors a year. The building was, as usual, packed with tourists at the time of Mr Venner's suicide.Legislation permitting same-sex couples to marry in French town halls was approved by the parliament last month and signed into law by President Francois(cedilla on c) Hollande last weekend after approval by France's constitutional watchdog. The "marriage for all" law has provoked a powerful movement of middle class, conservative, religious and right-wing protest in the last four months. Another large demonstration is planned in Paris on Sunday.The leaders of the protest movement, including most but not all leading centre-right politicians, have pilloried the law as politically-motivated attack on family and religious values and the imposition of a "new civilisation". Mr Venner, a prolific author of books and tracts on extreme nationalist themes, has been one of many vociferous critics of the law. Some of his work as a historian has been well-received, incuding a 1981 book on the Red Army which won a prize from the Academie(acute on first e) Francaise(cedilla on c). Much of his work has been steeped in the racist ideology of the far-right, apologising for the pro-Hitler regime in Vichy in the Second World war and warning of conspiracies to destroy European civilisation and to swamp the white race. Mr Venner was also an expert, and the author of several books, on hunting and fire-arms. In the 1960s, he was a member of the Organisation de l'Armee(acute on first e) Secrete(grave on second e) - the extreme nationalist terrorist movement which opposed the French withdrawal from Algeria and attempted several times to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/farright-french-historian-78yearold-dominique-venner-commits-suicide-in-notre-dame-in-protest-against-gay-marriage-8625877.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2e6_1369159642 olifaxe A writer and historian kills himself in Notre Dame to protest against &quot;the Great Remplacement&quot; of Islam Right Far Right Islam Islamist Terrorist Immigration Suicide Church Europe Tue, 21 May 2013 10:09:10 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=76e_1369144636 moosh Al Arabiya The rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) held Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah personally responsible for the situation in the Syrian border town of Qusayr, as sectarian tension was on the rise in neighboring Lebanon. "We announced that Hassan Nasrallah will be held personally responsible for the current situation because he in person is meeting with all of before they head to Qusayr," FSA spokesperson Louay Almokdad told Al Arabiya English. "We are today calling Nasrallah a killer of the Syrian people." Clashes between forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad - along with Lebanese ally Hezbollah - and the rebels raged into a second day Monday in the strategic town of Qusayr, which is between Damascus and the coast. "It has reached the audacity and extent of criminal behavior that Nasrallah met with 1,200 of his fighters in the southern suburbs before they headed to ," the FSA spokesperson said, adding the Hezbollah chief has distributed "tokens of motivation on which Shiite slogans - Yatharat al-Hussein - were written to each of his fighters." "We are certain these are fighters of Hassan Nasrallah. They are no longer Hezbollah, they are fighters of Hassan Nasrallah and Ali Khamanei." However, the FSA spokesperson also said that, along with Hezbollah, were fighters from other Lebanese groups, including the Syrian Social Nationalist Party and the Baath Party. The Syrian rebels have repeatedly warned that they will hit Hezbollah targets on Lebanese territory if the latter does not withdraw from Syria and have called on the Lebanese government to put a stop to Hezbollah intervention. The Lebanese government: a state of paralysisHowever, according to Imad Salamey - a professor of International Affairs at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, the Lebanese government cannot do anything to stop the powerful Party of God. "The Lebanese government has been and continues to be in a state of paralysis, which mostly works in Hezbollah's interest," Salamey told Al Arabiya English on Monday. "The government cannot stop Hezbollah, and the army stopping Hezbollah from intervening in Syria will definitely not be the case." "Hezbollah is being dragged further into the Syrian conflict, and it is not going to end in Qusayr," he said, adding that the movement "was dragging Lebanon into a civil war." " involvement in the Syrian issue, no matter what the pretext, will only drag Lebanon into the conflict because the Lebanese are divided ." At least three people were killed and 40 injured in two days of fighting in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli, where an Alawite minority lives. Lebanese Sunnis mostly sympathize with the revolt against the government of Bashar al-Assad, whose minority Alawite sect is an offshoot of Shiite Islam. Source - http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/05/20/Nasrallah-killer-of-Syrian-people-as-tensions-in-Lebanon-rise.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=76e_1369144636 moosh Hezbollah dragged Lebanon into another civil war because of Qusayr - Poll Hezbollah, Syria Wed, 15 May 2013 22:49:38 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=128_1368671343 caucasiannatio Mostly of this nazi scum was killed by caucasian (armenian,chechen...) or russian police force. Also the big skinhead Sergey Darichev at 1:30 was eliminated by an african. Thanks to russian MVD and Putin for getting ride of this shit. Body of skinhead Dmitri Borovikov who wanted to kill Putin "the jew" and get a visit of Spetsnaz. Here this video made by nazi so switch off the sound because of shitty music Other eliminated nationalist: Stupid russian nationalist/slavic paganist exterminated by caucasian Yuri Volkov nazi scum and football hooligan eliminated by chechen Bekhan Ibragimov. He was arrested and condamned to 5 years of jail while his friend get 16 years. But they were both liberated by chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov (source: http://lenta.ru/news/2013/05/15/ibragimov/ ) Here Bekhan in the center with Ramzan. Thank you very much Ramzan a true chechen patriot who will almost never let a chechen to be judged in Russia and liberats them always. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=128_1368671343 caucasiannatio Photo of some russian <span class="highlight">nationalist</span> and nazi killed by caucasian youth and russian police Russia,nationalist,nazi,skinhead,killed,caucasian,chechen,police Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:03:57 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c46_1367337240 DaRkSouL hahahaha funny shit http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c46_1367337240 DaRkSouL Turkish <span class="highlight">Nationalist</span> Party Leader Falls Infront Of Cameras nationalist party Turkey Thu, 16 May 2013 17:09:45 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=28a_1368738408 SunniLebanese Syria crisis threatens Palestinian refugeesPro- and anti-Assad factions seek support of Palestinians in Lebanon's refugee camps as tensions there rise over Syria. Zak Brophy Last Modified: 16 May 2013 10:49 The Palestinian community in Lebanon is socially vulnerable and politically divided Beirut, Lebanon - The Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila is perilously wedged along one of Lebanon's many sectarian fault lines. Black Islamic flags adorn the lampposts when approaching this small slum from Sunni strongholds to the north, while expansive Shia ghettoes border the camp immediately to the south. In recent months, an increasing number of clashes have erupted in and around Shatila, as rival Lebanese factions fight for the loyalty of the socially vulnerable and politically divided Palestinian camps. The Syrian civil war and rising Shia-Sunni discord in Lebanon are exacerbating the pressure. "These are concerted efforts to provoke a response," explained Fathi Abou al-Ardat, secretary for the Fatah movement and the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) in Lebanon. On May 12, clashes - described by local residents as the most intense fighting yet - erupted between groups inside Shatila and neighbouring Shia communities. Volleys of gunfire were exchanged for several hours, and the army encircled the camp with armoured personnel carriers. "We know the Palestinians are divided and some groups are exploiting that to stir things up here. We are not taking the bait, but these groups have to know that if they push too hard we will run all over them like we did in 2008," said Abu Ali, a resident of the Rihaab district, a predominantly Shia neighbourhood on the edge of Shatila. Palestinian refugees struggle in Lebanon Although Shatila was founded as a Palestinian refugee camp, many non-Palestinians now live there as well. Ahmad, a 20-year-old Shatila resident with little education and scant work prospects, reasoned: "Us Sunna reacted strongly and started to boil over when we saw the killing in Syria. This caused clashes with Shia because they are helping with the slaughter of our people there." Losing faith Syrian President Bashar al-Assad comes from the Alawite sect - an offshoot of Shia Islam - and the powerful Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah supports Assad. Like many of his peers, Ahmad has lost faith in the traditional Sunni leadership and places his trust instead with more religiously conservative and combative leaders such as Sheikh Ahmad Assir, who have been trying to garner support from predominantly Sunni Palestinians. "There are more and more of us prepared to follow Assir," said Ahmad. "More and more people are becoming increasingly religious. Everyone is preparing himself for what may come." The Palestinian camps in Lebanon consist of basic, overcrowded homes, their people victims of decades of war, neglect and abuse. In Shatila, the buildings are so cramped that sunlight is a rare commodity. The smells of garbage and sewage foul the air and unemployed youth fill the cramped alleys. "We are seeing increased efforts to recruit from our youth. There is desperation and anger here, so whatever they pay they will find people to say 'yes'. They think we are cheap," said Ayman Zaher, a youth worker in Shatila. All of the major Palestinian political parties have adopted, and until now managed to maintain, a policy of neutrality in Lebanon regardless of their stance on the conflict in Syria. However, in Ein el-Helweh, the largest and most populous camp in Lebanon, armed groups such as Jund al-Sham, Jabhat al-Nusra and Asbat al-Ansar have found a safe haven under the protective wing of powerful local families. Their number of followers may not be huge, but their hard-line ideology and links to like-minded movements in Lebanon and Syria make Ein el-Helweh a particularly worrying flashpoint for Palestinians and Lebanese alike. "There is so much pressure on the camps and they are ready to explode, especially Ein el-Helweh, which could go off before there is a wider conflict in Lebanon. There is so much provocation from the Islamist groups there and I'm not sure if the PLO can keep a lid on it," warned Mutuwalli Abu Naser, a Palestinian journalist and playwright from Yarmouk camp in Damascus, who now lives in Lebanon. SpotlightIn-depth coverage of escalating violence across Syria Syrian influence On the other side, Hezbollah and its allies have also been working to secure the allegiance of Palestinians in Lebanon. Until withdrawing its troops from Lebanon in 2005, the Syrian government was influential in many of the camps through various Palestinian allies. Since the Syrian withdrawal, Hezbollah has by-and-large maintained Syria's leverage in the camps, even though the stance of several Palestinian groups has shifted since the start of the Syrian uprising. "Hezbollah works by a very low profile without making noise, because they work with the Palestinians from a security background, not a political one," explained Edward Kattoura, a political analyst at Pursue, a Palestinian think-tank. Many of the Palestinian camps are located in Hezbollah-dominated areas, especially in Beirut, South Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley. Recently, Shaker Berjawi - a Sunni "strongman" in Beirut who earned his battlefield stripes in the Lebanese civil war - decided to move the headquarters of his pro-Syrian Arab Movement Party to the edge of Shatila, indicating the importance of the camp's support. While maintaining a local influence over the years, he has switched political allegiances numerous times, and he is now aligned with the Hezbollah-led camp. "It seems people use us as mercenaries, whether it be for one side or the other. When he opens up his office at the entrance to the camps, he is sending a message that the camps are part of his fight," said Kattoura. 'Sacrificial lamb' But many Palestinians in Lebanon are driven by nationalist rather than sectarian sensibilities, and the camps may be able to stay out of internal Lebanese conflict. "Most of Lebanese have a view of the camps as a source of militia fighters and criminals. There is destitution and desperation, it is true, but in fact they are much less sectarian than most of Lebanese society," said Moe Ali Nayel, a Lebanese writer and activist who regularly works in the camps. "The Palestinians are used like a sacrificial lamb in Lebanon. Lebanese groups like to have Palestinians up front and then the blame can be put on us. " - Marwan Abdulal, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine And the Palestinians' time in Lebanon has cruelly taught them while their loyalty is dear, their blood is cheap, whether it be the massacre at Sabra and Shatila at the hands of Christian militias in 1982, the "War of the Camps" from 1985-87 between the Shia Amal Movement and Palestinian refugees, or the bombardment of Nahr Bared camp by the Lebanese army in 2007. "The Palestinians are used like a sacrificial lamb in Lebanon. Lebanese groups like to have Palestinians up front and then the blame can be put on us," said Marwan Abdulal, member of the political bureau for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The Palestinian camps can hope to stay detached from the conflict in Lebanon as long as the fighting is constrained to the prevailing pattern of intermittent local clashes and firebrand speeches. However, should the situation escalate, residents will be hard pressed not to get dragged into the affray. "It will be very difficult for the camps to stay aside if this descends into a serious fitna ," warned the PLO's Fathi Abou al-Ardat. "The general atmosphere, the speeches, all of it is setting the stage for a fitna . In reality, it is already here." http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/05/20135791049958517.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=28a_1368738408 SunniLebanese Syria vis a vis the Palestinians in Lebanon in case you were wondering Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Palestinians, FSA, SAA, Hezbollah Wed, 15 May 2013 12:07:17 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1e5_1368633297 m16carbine Extract from Damascus Courts the West: Syrian Politics, 1989-1991 , pp. 3-6, by Daniel Pipes. Today, the author of the 1991 article currently prefers Assad Jr. to his alternative. Hafez al-Assad vs. Saddam Hussein (1991) Hafez al-Assad and Saddam Hussein have much in common. They are about the same age (Saddam was born in 1937, Assad in 1930) and come from minority backgrounds. Both grew up in an impoverished countryside with a twentieth century tradition of exporting people to the cities. Both experienced Egyptian prisons and have effectively ruled their countries since about the same year (1972 for Saddam, 1969 for Assad). Both imposed an extreme centralization, to create a stable order where turmoil had previously prevailed. Both are far more interested in building their militaries than their countries. Each of them looked to Moscow for primary support, but on occasion wooed the U.S. government. Both rely extensively on the terrorist instrument. They have claimed to represent the Palestinians and sought to control weak neighbors. In personality, they share vaulting ambitions, a passion for secrecy, and a Manichean outlook that divides the world into agents and enemies. Both tend toward brinkmanship and a readiness to sacrifice the interests of their countries for personal and ethnic interests. Their political systems rely to a strikingly parallel degree on Ba'ath Party control, the pervasive use of informants, and brutality. (Middle East Watch found torture in Iraq to be &quot;used routinely&quot;; Amnesty International has termed the Syrian jails &quot;almost a research center for torture.&quot;) Though life in Syria is an iota better,^ the two dictatorships in the Fertile Crescent are about as similar as any pair of governments on the planet. The two men also differ profoundly. Where Saddam revels in brutality for its own sake, Assad resorts to it as an instrument of power. The one kills with his own hands, the other keeps his distance from such unpleasantries. Saddam's ambitions know no limit: he seeks to become both the greatest leader in Iraqi history and a giant on the world stage; his dreams of glory distort practical decisionmaking. In contrast, Assad knows his limitations and acts within their parameters: the conquest of Lebanon and the perpetuation of Alawi rule are quite enough for him for now, thank you. Saddam's overt aggression makes him enemies everywhere; Assad's is cloaked in an ambiguity which allows hostile states the luxury of ignoring his trespasses. Both leaders follow policies which the outside world often finds difficult to understand, but while Saddam confuses observers through stupidity, Assad does so through subtlety. While Saddam and Assad both engage in international brinkmanship, only Assad can reliably locate the brink. Saddam displays an increasingly uncontrollable streak of impatience and has a terrible sense of timing (the invasion of Kuwait could not have occurred at a worse moment from the Iraqi point of view); Assad is infinitely deliberate and has a most refined timing (the seizure of Beirut in October 1990, fifteen years after Syrian military involvement in Lebanon began, was a political masterpiece). More broadly, Saddam Hussein showed in 1990-91 that he may be one of the worst strategists and tacticians of history; in contrast, Assad rightly prides himself on his skills as a military planner. Like his adopted namesake, the lion, Assad is a patient operator. He probes his opponents' weaknesses, waits for the right moment, chooses the most advantageous field of battle, and strikes. In this way, Assad has defeated one enemy after another-the Muslim Brethren, Lebanese militias, American troops in Beirut, Israelis in south Lebanon, and Iraqi armed forces. Observers are in agreement as to his impressive skills. Thus, Annie Laurent and Antoine Basbous see his main characteristics as &quot;patience and a taste for secrecy.&quot; Dov Tamari concludes that &quot;the Syrian regime has demonstrated patience and restraint on the one hand, persistence and stubbornness on the other.&quot; Imagine-to take this comparison one step further-that Assad ruled in Baghdad, and that he wanted to bring Kuwait, with all its wealth and coastline, under his control. What would he have done differently from Saddam? Everything. He would have prepared the way years ahead of time by hosting Kuwaiti dissident movements in Baghdad and laying repeated but elliptical claims to Kuwait. When the time was right, he would have solicited an invitation from bona fide Kuwaiti leaders to send Iraqi troops into Kuwait. Rather than seize the whole country, he would have taken only some slices of it (the Rumayla oil field, Bubiyan and Warba Islands) and worked to get his allies and agents into power. The outside world would surely have protested, but Assad's salami tactics would have allowed him to take Kuwait without sustained armed opposition. In the end, just as everyone acquiesced to his seizure of Lebanon, so they would have gone along with his control over Kuwait. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I also extracted an interesting 2005 interview with Der Spiegel where Bashar al-Assad discusses Saddam and the differences with his father. It's also interesting in showing the difficult situation Bashar inherited from his father, and his allusions to the Algerian Civil War (1991-2002) , which is similar to how he views his current crisis. SPIEGEL: Mr. President, there are tentative movements toward democracy here and there in the Arab world. But there is little evidence of that in Syria. Why not? Assad: Well, it just happens that the Arab states develop at different rates and under different historical conditions. Egypt, for example, has not experienced as many coups as Syria. Besides, Cairo signed a peace treaty with Israel, whereas we remain in neither a state of war nor a state of peace with Israel. Incidentally, our development only began a few years ago, so of course expectations will vary widely. But the main issue is that we in Syria have at least opened up a dialogue about it. SPIEGEL: But it's taking longer than many would like. Assad: The pace of our development depends upon the challenges that we must face, which we cannot always influence. For example, we have to deal with foreign powers meddling in our internal affairs. SPIEGEL: You mean the Americans' demands for more democracy and for putting an end to support for terrorists? Assad: The more meddling there is, the slower the pace of development in Syria. After all, the democratic process should pervade the entire country. Naturally, the unresolved Middle East conflict also slows down development. And then there is the question of what should be our greatest priority -- political development or economic growth. SPIEGEL: Are they mutually exclusive? Assad: There is a tremendous gulf between the two objectives. To promote growth, we urgently need help from the European Union. For many of the Syrians I meet, poverty is a far greater concern than the outlook for a democratic constitution. Besides, there is also terrorism, which stands in the way of democratic development. We simply have to act as quickly as possible to keep things moving forward. SPIEGEL: But you don't exactly make it easy for your fellow Syrians. Political parties are permitted, but they are immediately prohibited as soon as they form, while members of the opposition are arrested. Assad: But you've been talking to opposition leaders in our country. If we were to arrest them all, there wouldn't be enough space in our prisons. SPIEGEL: Most members of the opposition with whom we spoke have spent many years in prison. Assad: But now they're out again. You can't simply equate the situation in the West with the situation in our country. Take religion, for example. In Great Britain, an author published a book in which he claimed that Jesus Christ had children. Such statements don't trigger civil unrest and bloodshed in Europe. But write similar statements about Islam in Syria and you might see bloody uprisings. SPIEGEL: What does that have to do with real opposition in Syria? Assad: When we put someone on trial, we're not trying him as a person. Instead, what concerns us is that he does not attack the population's religious and ethnic structure. The umbrella of stability must not be damaged. We gave the go-ahead for the formation of parties two months ago, and we are currently taking a very close look at these parties. I certainly don't dispute the contention that we do not have a well-developed system of political parties yet. I simply wanted to show you where we have to be cautious. SPIEGEL: What exactly are you afraid of? Assad: Developments like those in Algeria since 1991. At that time, the government misjudged the people, and the Islamists threatened to assume power. To this day, the Algerians are paying the price for this miscalculation with their own blood. SPIEGEL: Look at the example of Riad Seif, a self-made businessman and member of the Syrian National Assembly. He criticized the omnipotence of the monopoly and was sentenced to five years in prison. Assad: He questioned the unity of the nation, and we happen to have a law that calls for penalties for those who assail the mosaic of the various ethnic and religious groups. SPIEGEL: Wasn't Seif merely questioning the distribution of power? Assad: No, no one is put on trial for attacking me personally. But assaulting the composition of Syrian society is simply too explosive. SPIEGEL: Journalists, too, are prevented from doing their work and sometimes even thrown in prison. When will you have true freedom of the press? Assad: We have never locked up anyone because of his personal opinion. SPIEGEL: A correspondent for a large Arab newspaper, Al-Hayat, was recently sent to prison for several months. Assad: That's a different issue. Under Syrian law, a journalist is not allowed to report on military matters. This may be wrong or right, but that's just the way it is. SPIEGEL: You said that fighting poverty is more important than democracy. Does this mean that you intend to emulate the Chinese model: economic liberalization without political reforms? Assad: When I say that the economy takes priority, it certainly doesn't mean that we relegate political reforms to the back seat. The economy may have taken priority in the last five years -- that's because it is important to improve the general standard of living. It's a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat. If I say to that person, &quot;I intend to allow you to have political parties,&quot; how will he responsd? We don't care if this is the Chinese model or something else. Our actions reflect the needs of our country. SPIEGEL: When will there be a recognizable democratic multiparty system in Syria? Assad: It took us five years to achieve a societal dialogue. Now we are in the second phase, in which we begin discussing parties. It won't happen that quickly. For example, the same process took three years in Morocco. SPIEGEL: Will it happen before the 2007 general election? Assad: It's very likely, but you just can't make long-term predictions in our corner of the world. I cannot afford to make mistakes. Instead of jumping forward too quickly and possibly falling on our faces, we prefer to divide our tasks into smaller steps. SPIEGEL: How do you propose to prevent the Algerian model -- the formation of religious parties that are democratically elected, but then act undemocratically? Assad: Once again, we cannot apply Western standards to development in the Orient. In Germany, you may have a religious Christian party, the CDU (Christian Democratic Union), but it has effectively assimilated itself into the fabric of the country. In return, your history prevents you from having any large nationalist parties. Our experience has shown us that the situation in Syria became stable because the entire society is secular. We must preserve that. SPIEGEL: In many of his speeches, United States President George W. Bush has complained that freedom must all too often take a back seat to stability. Do you feel he is addressing you with these comments? Assad: Freedom and democracy are nothing but instruments, just like stability. The goal is called progress and growth. Anyone who puts freedom ahead of stability is hurting growth. Besides, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and Iraq aren't exactly models of freedom. SPIEGEL: Washington sees you as a sort of &quot;Saddam-light.&quot; Assad: There were real hostilities between the regime of Saddam Hussein and that of my father. Fifteen thousand Syrians lost their lives in these conflicts. Whereas I involve people from outside the party in the decision-making process, Saddam only permitted his own opinion. If we had taken the approach Saddam took in Iraq, I wouldn't feel safe walking on the street with my wife and children. Saddam was constantly in hiding. The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn't mean that people hate me. SPIEGEL: Your father supported the first President Bush in the 1991 Gulf War. You, on the other hand, were a vocal critic of the war in 2003. Assad: The first war was about the liberation of an Arab people suffering under occupation. The more recent war led to the occupation of an Arab country. There's a huge difference. SPIEGEL: Do you sympathize with the insurgents who are fighting the occupation troops and the new government in Iraq? Assad: There are terrorist operations in Iraq that claim the lives of innocent people; those we reject categorically. But there is also a resistance movement, and that's a different issue altogether -- a completely normal issue. SPIEGEL: Are suicide attacks a legitimate weapon against the occupation forces? Assad: Even the religious scholars disagree on that question, but I have the impression that most are in favor of these attacks. But this is a hypothetical debate. A person who is absolutely determined to blow himself up isn't about to ask you or me for our opinion. This debate is a waste of time. SPIEGEL: The American government has accused you of facilitating access to Iraq through Syria for the insurgents. Assad: It also accused Saddam of having weapons of mass destruction. But seriously, if you ask Americans whether they've been successful at sealing the border with Mexico, they'll tell you that it's a very difficult proposition. We've made it very clear to the Americans that it's impossible to completely control our border with Iraq. But we also tell them that the war itself is what's causing the chaos. It's not exactly fair to make a mistake yourself and then start blaming others for it. SPIEGEL: The American government has classified Syria as a &quot;rogue nation.&quot; Are you concerned that Washington plans to remove you from office? Assad: Look at the results of regime change in Iraq. You can't possibly claim that it was successful. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1e5_1368633297 m16carbine Hafez al-Assad vs. Saddam Hussein (1991 article) Assad, Syria, Syrian Civil War, Islamism, Saddam Hussein, Bashar al-Assad, Hafez Wed, 15 May 2013 11:52:48 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=64d_1368633030 ConspiracyTardLL More great news! The now infamous cannibal Jihadist in Syria is funded with your taxdollars! TIME magazine has identified the cannibal Jihadist in Syria as Khalid al-Hamad. He also goes by the pseudo name Abu Sakkar. A translation of the man's words is "O heroes of Bab Amr, you slaughter the Alawites and take out their hearts to eat them!" The Alawites are a minority Shiite sect that the Jihadists are targeting for indiscriminate killings. Khalid al-Hamad told TIME magazine that he hopes to exterminate the Alawites. The Syrian government is supported by a coalition of Shiites, Christians, Druze, and moderate Sunni Muslims. The regime is a secular Arab nationalist regime, and not a religious one. The uprising is sponsored by Turkey, the Obama administration, and wealthy Sunni Gulf Arabs. Large numbers of the JIhadists are foreign fighters from places like Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Chechnya, and more. Khalid al-Hamad is a Brigade Commander in the Free Syrian Army. The Free Syrian Army has bee given over $300 million worth of aid by the Obama administration. Hillary Clinton has also provided diplomatic support for the organization and defended them before the United Nations. The $300 million is only what is published, and does not count money that came from classified budgets. Khalid al-Hamad is commander of The Farouk Brigade, which uses the same white banner used by the Taliban, has a history of genocidal violence against Alawaites and Christians. Fearful of losing western funding, other leaders of the Free Syrian Army declared today that the Farouk Brigade has gone rouge and is acting independently. SOURCE: http://topconservativenews.com/2013/05/confirmed-genocidal-cannibal-jihadist-received-money-from-obama/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=64d_1368633030 ConspiracyTardLL Confirmed: Genocidal Cannibal Jihadist funded by Obama &amp; Hillary Jihadist, Syria, FSA, Terrorism, Cannbal Tue, 14 May 2013 07:43:21 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4de_1368531320 aydeo Dozens of Arabs and left-wing Jewish students demonstrated at Tel Aviv University on Monday to mark the Nakba, or "the catastrophe" of Israel's inception in 1948. The students demanded that the "suffering" of the Arabs be recognized. Dozens of right-wing activists from the Im Tirzu movement held a counter rally nearby and chanted "We won't lend a hand to hypocrisy." "They are welcome to go to Syria." said one of them. In light of last year's clashes, police formed a human barrier between the protesters. Jihad Kial, one of the event's organizers, said the Arab student public "has an obligation to mark this day of mourning over the disaster we experienced in 1948. I wish to thank the university for cooperating and allowing us to hold the ceremony." "I live two kilometers (1.24 miles) from the village from which my family was expelled in 1948, and to this day it cannot return to it. Just as we recognize the Jewish tragedy in Europe, we expect the public to recognize our suffering as well." Dan Valfhish, a history student who also took part in the Nakba ceremony, said "you cannot exclude the term 'Nakba' from the Israeli discourse, particularly at the universities, because it is an inseparable part of the country's history and reality. If we want things to change here, we'll have to recognize the suffering of the other." Knesset Member Michael Ben-Ari participated in the rightist rally, during which one activist yelled out "Kahane was right" - referring to ultra-nationalist political figure Meir Kahane, who was assassinated by an Egyptian-born American citizen in November 1990 following a speech to an audience of Jews in Manhattan. Im Tirzu activist Lev Slodkin criticized Tel Aviv University for allowing the Nakba Day rally. "This institute receives funds from the State of Israel and pays salaries to anti-Zionist lecturers. "We are here to protest against the lie known as Nakba and against the attempt to tarnish Israel's name and claim we committed war crimes," he said. "This ceremony is a display of hypocrisy. They are welcome to go to Syria." Matan Peleg, another Im Tirtzu member, added that "the Arab students study in Tel Aviv, live in a democratic society and enjoy various rights - yet they incite against the State. The Nakba is a lie that is meant to hurt Israel, distort history and conceal the fact that the Arabs they are speaking of cooperated with the Nazis and waged a war against us - and lost." http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4379882,00.html Last photo shows the Rightists' counter rally http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4de_1368531320 aydeo Arabs, Leftists Jews mark Nakba Day at Tel Aviv University Arabs,Leftists,Nakba day,Tel Aviv University Tue, 14 May 2013 07:08:30 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=130_1368529409 Detroit Iron By MALCOLM FOSTER TOKYO - An outspoken nationalist mayor said the Japanese military's forced prostitution of Asian women before and during World War II was necessary to "maintain discipline" in the ranks and provide rest for soldiers who risked their lives in battle. The comments made Monday are already raising ire in neighboring countries that bore the brunt of Japan's wartime aggression and have long complained that Japan has failed to fully atone for wartime atrocities. Toru Hashimoto, the young, brash mayor of Osaka who is also co-leader of an emerging conservative political party, told reporters that there wasn't clear evidence that the Japanese military coerced women to become what are euphemistically called "comfort women." "To maintain discipline in the military, it must have been necessary at that time," Hashimoto said. "For soldiers who risked their lives in circumstances where bullets are flying around like rain and wind, if you want them to get some rest, a comfort women system was necessary. That's clear to anyone." Historians say up to 200,000 women, mainly from the Korean Peninsula and China, were forced to provide sex for Japanese soldiers in military brothels. China's Foreign Ministry criticized the mayor's comments and saw them as further evidence of a rightward drift in Japanese politics under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. "We are appalled and indignant about the Japanese politician's comments boldly challenging humanity and historical justice," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said at a daily media briefing. "The way they treat the past will determine the way Japan walks toward the future. On what choice Japan will make, the Asian neighbors and the international community will wait and see." Asked about a photo of Abe in a fighter jet with the number 731 - the number of a notorious, secret Japanese unit that performed chemical and biological experiments on Chinese in World War II - Hong again urged Japan not to whitewash history so as to improve relations with countries that suffered under Japanese occupation. "There is a mountain of definitive iron-hard evidence for the crimes they committed in the Second World War. We hope Japan will face and contemplate their history of aggression and treat it correctly," Hong said. Abe posed, thumbs up, in the aircraft during a weekend visit to northeastern Japan. South Korea's Foreign Ministry expressed disappointment over what it called a senior Japanese official's serious lack of historical understanding and respect for women's rights. It asked Japan's leaders to reflect on their country's imperial past, including grave human rights violations, and correct anachronistic historical views. Hashimoto's comments came amid criticism of Abe's earlier pledges to revise Japan's past apologies for wartime atrocities. Before he took office in December, Abe had advocated revising a 1993 statement by then Prime Minister Yohei Kono acknowledging and expressing remorse for the suffering caused to the sexual slaves of Japanese troops. Abe has acknowledged "comfort women" existed but has denied they were coerced into prostitution, citing a lack of official evidence. Recently, top officials in Abe's government have appeared to backpedal on suggestions the government might revise those apologies, apparently hoping to ease tensions with South Korea and China and address U.S. concerns about Abe's nationalist agenda. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga repeated the previous government position and said that those women went through unbearable pain. "The stance of the Japanese government on the comfort women issue is well known. They have suffered unspeakably painful experiences. The Abe Cabinet has the same sentiments as past Cabinets," he said. Education Minister Hakubun Shimomura said Hashimoto's remark was unhelpful given the criticism Japan faces from neighboring countries and the U.S. over its interpretation of history. "A series of remarks related to our interpretation of (wartime) history have been already misunderstood. In that sense, Mr. Hashimoto's remark came at a bad time," Shimomura told reporters. "I wonder if there is any positive meaning to intentionally make such remarks at this particular moment." Hashimoto, 43, is co-head of the newly formed Japan Restoration Party with former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara, who is a strident nationalist. Sakihito Ozawa, the party's parliamentary affairs chairman, said he believed Hashimoto's remarks reflected his personal view, but he expressed concerns about possible repercussions. "We should ask his real intentions and stop this at some point," he said. http://news.yahoo.com/japanese-mayor-wartime-sex-slaves-were-necessary-042050746.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=130_1368529409 Detroit Iron Japanese mayor: Wartime sex slaves were necessary Toru Hashimoto Mon, 13 May 2013 20:27:57 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0fe_1368490133 anglosaxonwarlord A prominent Japanese politician has described as "necessary" the system by which women were forced to become prostitutes for World War II troops.Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto said the "comfort women" gave soldiers putting their lives at risk a chance "to rest".He acknowledged that the women had been acting "against their will".Some 200,000 women in territories occupied by Japan during WWII are estimated to have been forced into becoming sex slaves for troops.Many of the women came from China and South Korea, but also from the Philippines, Indonesia and Taiwan.Japan's treatment of its wartime role has been a frequent source of tension with its neighbours.Mr Hashimoto, the co-founder of the nationalist Japanese Restoration Party, was the youngest governor in Japanese history before becoming mayor of Osaka. He said last year that Japan needed "a dictatorship". In his latest controversial comments, quoted by Japanese media, he said: "In the circumstances in which bullets are flying like rain and wind, the soldiers are running around at the risk of losing their lives," "If you want them to have a rest in such a situation, a comfort women system is necessary. Anyone can understand that." He also claimed that Japan was not the only country to use the system, though it was responsible for its actions.He said he backed a 1995 statement by Japan's then-PM Tomiichi Murayama, in which he apologised for its wartime actions in Asia. "It is a result of the tragedy of the war that they became comfort women against their will. The responsibility for the war also lies with Japan. We have to politely offer kind words to comfort women." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0fe_1368490133 anglosaxonwarlord Japan WWII 'comfort women' were 'necessary' - Hashimoto Australian comfort woman Jan Ruff-O'Herne japanese,comfort women,sexual,slavery,rape,ww2 Mon, 13 May 2013 15:01:35 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d27_1368471539 Mustafa JonTurk K Arikan Top government authorities on Monday reiterated accusations that the Syrian regime was responsible for twin car bombs that killed 49 people and wounded many more in Reyhanli, a district of the southern province of Hatay, and denied claims that Syrian opposition forces or refugees had a hand in the blasts. "The incident is certainly linked to the Syrian regime. It has nothing to do with the opposition," stated Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan when speaking to reporters. He also vowed "action" against Syria, but did not elaborate. "The Syrian regime and its extensions in Turkey have a hand in the bombings. We need to be careful ," the prime minister went on. On Saturday, one of the car bombs exploded outside the city hall while the other went off outside the post office in the town of Reyhanli, a main hub for Syrian refugees and opposition activity in Turkey's Hatay province. Forty-nine people were killed and as many as 100 injured in the bombings. The dead bodies of the 46 dead were retrieved from the sites of the bombings on Saturday while the bodies of three other victims were discovered on Monday. Nine people were immediately taken into custody for suspected links to the terrorist attack. All suspects are Turkish citizens. Five of the captured suspects are members of the terrorist Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C) while the remaining four are members of the Acilciler, a splinter faction of the Turkish Peoples Liberation Party/Front (THKP/C) operating in the border provinces of Turkey. The prime minister also said he will travel to Hatay after he returns to Turkey from his US visit. Erdogan is due to meet US President Barack Obama in Washington on May 16. He said last week Turkey would support a US-enforced no-fly zone in Syria and warned that Damascus had crossed Obama's "red line" on chemical weapons use a long ago. A no-fly zone to prohibit Syrian military aircraft from hitting rebel targets has been mentioned by American lawmakers as one option the United States could use to pressure Assad. Many Turkish government officials blamed the attack on a group linked to Syria. Justice and Development Party (AK Party) Deputy Chairman H"useyin Celik categorically denied claims circulating in the Turkish media that some Syrian refugees being hosted in Turkey were involved in the deadly bombings. "Neither the Free Syrian Army (FSA) nor Syrian refugees are responsible for the attack," he stated. The deputy chairman also warned the Turkish public against further acts of provocation aimed to disturb the peaceful atmosphere in the country. "Turkey has entered a process of settlement . There is an atmosphere of peace, but this has disturbed some people. We need to be on alert. They want to disturb this peaceful atmosphere," he told a group of reporters on Monday. In initial comments after the attack on Saturday, Interior Minister Muammer G"uler called the neighboring country's intelligence service and military the "usual suspects." "This incident was carried out by an organization that is in close contact with pro-regime groups in Syria and I say this very clearly -- with the Syrian Mukhabarat ," he said. Similarly, Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said initial findings suggest the attackers came from inside Turkey, but had links to Syria's intelligence service. "We have to a great extent completed our work toward identifying the assailants," he told reporters. "We have established that the assailants have links to the pro-regime al-Mukhabarat organization." Syria, however, denied that it had a hand in the bombings. Attackers planned to hit Ankara firstFootage retrieved from Mobile Electronic Systems Integration (MOBESE) cameras in Ankara suggest that the two bomb-laden vehicles that hit Reyhanli initially planned to strike the Turkish capital, with a much-frequented mosque being the planned target. Footage shows the vehicles patrolling areas close to the Kocatepe Mosque as well as a popular shopping center in Ankara. The nine suspects, who were captured soon after the deadly attack, reportedly confessed to having organized and carried out the attack for money. They told the police that they were ordered to explode the bombs in the vehicles near the mosque and the shopping center in Ankara, but they failed to do so due to the strict security measures in the surrounding areas. The suspects were later told to travel to Hatay, just across the border with Syria, and carry out the attack at the crowded city hall. Some Turkish newspapers reported, citing police sources, that the order for the deadly bombings in Reyhanli came from Mihrac Ural, who is from Turkey, but is living under asylum in Syria. Ural is a long-time fugitive wanted by Turkish law enforcement. He commanded a large-scale massacre committed by Syrian regime forces in Baniyas, a predominantly Sunni city on the Mediterranean coast of Syria. Being a leader of the THKP/C and its deadly splinter faction, Acilciler, which was established in the 1970s, Ural is also remembered as a figure who initiated anti-Turkey meetings in the southern province of Hatay last year. He is also reported to have led an armed group called "Resistance" inside Syria. He left Turkey for Syria after the 1980 coup d''etat and is reported to have close ties with the Syrian intelligence agency, Mukhabarat, which helped him obtain Syrian citizenship. In addition to his contribution to acts of violence in Syria, Ural spent 19 years having a close association with terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah "Ocalan in Syria. "Ocalan was captured and brought to Turkey in 1999. He is currently serving a life sentence. News sources claimed on Saturday that around 100 kilograms of TNT explosives were used in the attack. However, police sources said as many as one ton of explosives were used. Ankara police were alerted on May 10 to the possibility of a terror attack in the city. The Ankara Police Department sent urgent notices to all police departments across the province, asking authorities to step up security measures. The warning stated that the THKP/C and Acilciler were planning to carry out terrorist attacks in Ankara with two vehicles loaded with bombs. According to the notice, the explosives were smuggled into Turkey from Syria and they were planted in hidden sections of the vehicles. MOBESA cameras spotted the locations of the two vehicles, but the police were unable to capture them. Camera footage showed that the vehicles drove around the AK Party's headquarters in Ankara's S"og"ut"oz"u neighborhood several times. An investigation is ongoing to find out why the police failed to foil the attacks and capture the assailants before they carried out their plan, said Interior Minister G"uler. According to the minister, the attack and attackers have no links to Syrian refugees being accommodated in Turkey. Violence has spilled over the Turkish-Syrian border before. In February, a minibus blew up at a border crossing near Reyhanli, killing 14 people and wounding dozens more. In October, five Turkish civilians were killed in Akcakale when a mortar bomb fired from Syria landed on their house, prompting Turkey to fire back across the frontier. Opposition delegations inspect sites of explosionSeparate delegations from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) arrived in Reyhanli Monday afternoon to inspect the sites of the bomb blasts. The CHP delegation was headed by the party's Chairman Kemal Kilicdaroglu. Kilicdaroglu was accompanied by deputy chairpersons Nihat Matkap, Faruk Logoglu and Umut Oran and parliamentary group deputy chairwoman Emine "Ulker Tarhan. The delegation first inspected city hall, which was hit by the first explosion and later moved on to the post office, the target of the second explosion. Locals rushed to the area after hearing about the CHP delegation's arrival and met with the various party officials. Deputy Ertugrul K"urkc"u from the BDP delegation spoke to reporters about the bombings and said claims that the Acilciler groups carried out the attack are a mere "fantasy." "There is no concrete evidence to suggest which group is behind the attack," he added. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d27_1368471539 Mustafa JonTurk K Arikan Gov't says Syrian regime to blame for attack, denies opposition hand syria,bombing,turkish,village