WORLD News ‘Tens of thousands flee Syria's largest city’

WORLD News ‘Berpuluh ribu melarikan diri 
dari bandar terbesar di Syria
By Mardiana hamden | earthWatch REVIEW2012: Wednesday 1, August, 2012

BUKULMEZ, Turki (AP) – Merokok-rokok di luar sebuah hospital Turki berhampiran sempadan Syria, seorang lelaki dalam gaun kelabu dan flip-flop dipegang tidur anak perempuan yang berusia 2 tahun, Aya. Pada mata kanan Aya adalah pembalut. Di tangan kirinya adalah bar coklat.

Aya kehilangan mata apabila dia telah dilanggar oleh serpihan dari shell yang juga membunuh saudaranya berusia 8-bulan, Mohammad, dan ibu mereka. Bapa dan anak perempuan adalah antara kira-kira 200,000 orang PBB berkata lewat kelmarin telah melarikan diri dari bandar terbesar di Syria, Aleppo, semasa hari pertempuran antara pemberontak dan tentera.

Penduduk Aleppo, ada yang cedera teruk, pembungkusan barangan dan memuatkan mereka ke dalam kereta, lori dan motosikal untuk mencari perlindungan sementara di kampung-kampung dan sekolah-sekolah luar bandar di luar khemah bandar dan berdebu merentasi sempadan di Turki.

Dalam temu bual dengan The Associated Press, pelarian menyifatkan sebuah bandar yang dikepung oleh tentera kerajaan dan dibelenggu oleh serangan yang tidak berhenti-henti. Bekalan makanan dan petrol menjalankan harga pasaran yang rendah dan hitam untuk stapler harian yang melambung tinggi.

Sebagai keganasan yang dipergiatkan, diplomat paling kanan negara di London berpaling tadah. Caj kuasa usaha Khaled al-Ayoubi adalah yang terbaru dalam rentetan diplomat berprofil tinggi untuk meninggalkan rejim Presiden Bashar Assad, lebih tindakan keras itu, menurut aktivis hak asasi, telah terbunuh lebih daripada 19,000 orang sejak Mac 2011.

Pertempuran bagi Aleppo, sebuah bandar sebanyak 3 juta yang pernah menjadi kubu sokongan untuk Assad, adalah penting bagi kedua-dua rejim dan pembangkang. Kejatuhannya akan memberikan pembangkang utama kemenangan strategik dengan kubu kuat di utara. Kekalahan pemberontak, sekurang-kurangnya, akan membeli Assad lebih banyak masa.

Aktivis berkata pasukan rejim serangan pemberontak telah dipegang daerah Bandar-bandar  dan kelompok persekitaran kampong-kampung lumus pada hari Isnin, menghantar seluruh keluarga dan penduduk yang panik melarikan diri. Banyak pergi ke Turki, kira-kira 30 batu (50 kilometer) dari, di mana berpuluh-puluh ribu daripada Syria telah didapati berlindung semasa pemberontakan.

Reem, seorang wanita dalam usia 30-an itu yang melarikan diri dari daerah Aleppo pemberontak dipegang oleh Saif al-Dawleh, adalah antara orang-orang yang muncul di Turki pada hari Isnin. "Keadaan di Aleppo adalah mengerikan," katanya kepada AP tidak lama lagi selepas tiba di lintasan sempadan Bukulmez haram, di mana beliau telah disambut oleh tentera Turki.

"Jika Al-Quran semata-mata menjadi agenda utama saya tidak akan meninggalkan rumah saya," katanya. Memakai tudung kepala hitam dan jubah hitam dan sandal, Reem menyifatkan bersembunyi selama 3 hari di dalam bilik berhampiran pintu masuk bangunan di mana dia dapat lagi hidup. Dia kemudian melarikan diri ke sebuah kampung berhampiran sempadan Turki sebelum menyeberangi pada hari Isnin.

"Saya menyalahkan rejim untuk semua. Orang di bandar yang digunakan untuk keluar dan protes secara aman, tetapi mereka hanya menembak ke arah mereka," kata Reem, yang tidak akan memberikan nama terakhir. Tentera Turki mengarahkan satu pasukan AP meninggalkan sejurus selepas wartawan mula menemuduga pelarian di sempadan lintasan, Isnin.

Di luar hospital negeri dikendalikan, bapa Aya menceritakan bagaimana tragedi keluarga beliau mula terserlah. "Saya berada di tempat kerja apabila saya menerima panggilan bahawa kelompang yang telah melanda rumah saya," katanya. "Sebaik sahaja saya pulang, saya dapati isteri saya dan anak mati di atas lantai. Sebahagian tengkorak anak saya telah ditiup, dan Aya cedera."

"Seluruh bandar telah dimusnahkan," kata bapa Aya, yang tidak akan memberikan nama tetapi berkata bahawa dia adalah dari daerah pemberontak dipegang Bustan al-Qasr. PBB berkata, 200,000 Syria telah meninggalkan Aleppo dalam tempoh 10 hari yang lalu sebagai kerajaan melatih mortar, kereta kebal dan gunships helikopter di kawasan kejiranan yang disita oleh pemberontak.

"Saya amat bimbang dengan kesan serangan dan penggunaan kereta kebal dan lain-lain senjata berat ke atas orang-orang di Aleppo," Valerie Amos, pegawai kanan PBB bagi hal ehwal kemanusiaan, berkata dalam satu kenyataan lewat kelmarin. "Ramai orang telah mencari perlindungan sementara di sekolah-sekolah dan lain-lain bangunan awam di kawasan yang lebih selamat," tambah beliau. "Mereka memerlukan dengan segera makanan, tilam dan selimut, bekalan kebersihan dan air minuman."

"Ia tidak diketahui berapa ramai orang yang masih terperangkap di tempat-tempat di mana pertempuran masih diteruskan sehingga ke hari ini," katanya memberi amaran. Dalam video dalam talian, orang ramai boleh dilihat berlari melalui jalan-jalan terhadap latar belakang tembakan dan memanjat ke atas apa-apa bentuk pengangkutan yang sedia ada untuk melarikan diri, termasuk trak, kereta dan motosikal walaupun sarat.

Kesahihan video tidak boleh secara bebas disahkan. "Puluhan keluarga membungkus barang-barang mereka, dan meninggalkan dalam kereta dan trak," kata seorang aktivis di sebuah kampung berhampiran Aleppo, yang enggan memberi namanya atas sebab-sebab keselamatan. "Mereka mengambil hanya harta benda cahaya yang mereka boleh membawa, seperti pakaian sahaja, beberapa barang berharga dan itu sahaja."

"Saya melihat kereta dengan 8, dan 9 orang yang dibungkus dalam mereka yang melarikan diri dari pengeboman itu," katanya. Beliau berkata pemberontak telah merampas sebuah pusat pemeriksaan berdekatan awal Isnin dan menawan beberapa kereta kebal. Rejim bertindak balas dengan serangan kawasan luar bandar di barat laut bandar. "Seluruh keluarga meninggalkan."

Video serangan ke atas pusat pemeriksaan di Andan yang disiarkan di Internet menunjukkan pertukaran sengit api pada awal pagi dan kemudian, pemberontak menang pengangkutan keluar kotak peluru dan mengambil mesingan berat untuk perjuangan di Aleppo.

Antara yang cedera wilayah di Aleppo pada hari Isnin adalah Al-Jazeera koresponden Omar Khashram, yang telah dicederakan oleh serpihan bom selepas satu pusingan mortar jatuh berhampiran keretanya, kata seorang rakan sekerja. Kementerian Luar Syria mempertahankan serangan di wilayah Aleppo, berkata ia bertujuan untuk melindungi orang yang tidak bersalah.

Dalam 2 surat yang dialamatkan kepada ketua Majlis Keselamatan PBB dan Setiausaha Agung PBB, Syria berkata bahawa "kumpulan pengganas bersenjata" disokong secara terbuka dengan dana dan senjata oleh Arab Saudi, Qatar dan Turki telah melakukan "jenayah yang menakutkan" terhadap orang awam yang tidak berdosa. Ia telah menuduh pemberontak menggunakan penduduk sebagai perisai manusia.

Media negeri Syria melaporkan tentera telah "dibersihkan" kejiranan Aleppo barat daya daripada Salaheddine dan dikenakan "kerugian besar" apabila pemberontak di salah satu daerah pertama mereka mengambil alih dalam usaha mereka untuk merebut kota.

Walau bagaimanapun, aktivis mempertikaikan dakwaan ini. Serangan tersebut telah dirobohkan talian kuasa, dan kejiranan telah terputus bekalan elektrik sejak pagi. Presiden Barack Obama dan Perdana Menteri Turki Recep Tayyip Erdogan bercakap melalui telefon pada hari Isnin dan bersetuju untuk "menyelaraskan usaha-usaha untuk membantu semakin ramai orang pelarian Syria, bukan sahaja di dalam Syria, tetapi di Turki dan rantau yang lebih luas," menurut kenyataan White House.

Dikendalikan oleh kerajaan Turki Anadolu agensi melaporkan Isnin bahawa Turki akan menggerakkan lebih banyak tentera ke sempadan, menghantar kereta kebal, kenderaan tempur perisai, lebih banyak pelancar peluru berpandu dan tentera infantri. Selain ke Turki, keganasan di Syria telah menghantar pelarian banjir ke Jordan, Iraq dan Lebanon. Greece telah bertindak balas dengan 4  kali ganda bilangan pengawal sempadan dengan Turki daripada takut potensi kemasukan pelarian Syria.

Al-Ayoubi, diplomat Syria di London, adalah utusan ke-4 yang tinggi kepada kecacatan. Beliau telah didahului oleh caj kuasa usaha di Cyprus, suaminya, seorang diplomat di UAE, dan oleh duta ke Iraq.

Seorang jurucakap Pejabat Asing berkata al-Ayoubi telah tinggal di lokasi yang selamat di United Kingdom dan hubungan dengan pegawai British. Pemergiannya meninggalkan 5 kakitangan di kedutaan dan terdapat sebarang petunjuk bahawa mereka akan meninggalkan jawatan mereka juga.

Turki juga melaporkan bahawa timbalan ketua keselamatan bagi rantau Latakia Syria, sebuah kubu kuat rejim, telah serta berpaling tadah. Umum brigadier adalah antara sekumpulan 12 pegawai Syria yang menyeberang ke Turki lewat kelmarin, kata pegawai itu, bercakap mengenai da tidak mahu dikenali kerana beliau tidak dibenarkan untuk bercakap kepada pemberita. Pembelotan beliau dinaikkan kepada 28 bilangan jeneral yang telah meninggalkan Turki sejak permulaan pemberontakan yang berusia 17 bulan.

Karam melaporkan dari Beirut. Associated Press penulis Suzan Fraser di Ankara, Turki, dan Dodds Paisley di London menyumbang kepada laporan ini.

WORLD News  ‘Tens of thousands flee Syria's largest city’

BUKULMEZ, Turkey (AP) - Smoking a cigarette outside a Turkish hospital near the Syrian border, a man in a gray gown and flip-flops held his sleeping 2-year-old daughter, Aya. On Aya's right eye was a bandage. In her left hand was a chocolate bar.

Aya lost her eye when she was struck by shrapnel from a shell that also killed her 8-month-old brother, Mohammad, and their mother. The father and daughter were among some 200,000 people who the U.N. said late Sunday have fled Syria's largest city, Aleppo, during days of clashes between rebels and the military.

Aleppo residents, some severely wounded, are packing up belongings and loading them onto cars, trucks and even motorcycles to seek temporary shelter in rural villages and schools outside the city and dusty tents across the border in Turkey.

In interviews with The Associated Press, refugees described a city besieged by government troops and beset by incessant shelling. Food supplies and gasoline are running low and black market prices for everyday staples are soaring.

As the violence intensified, the country's most senior diplomat in London defected. Charge d'affaires Khaled al-Ayoubi is the latest in a string of high-profile diplomats to abandon President Bashar Assad's regime over a crackdown that, according to rights activists, has killed more than 19,000 people since March 2011.

The battle for Aleppo, a city of 3 million that was once a bastion of support for Assad, is critical for both the regime and the opposition. Its fall would give the opposition a major strategic victory with a stronghold in the north. A rebel defeat, at the very least, would buy Assad more time.

Activists said regime forces were shelling rebel-held districts of the city and a cluster of surrounding villages relentlessly on Monday, sending entire families and panicked residents fleeing. Many went to Turkey, some 30 miles (50 kilometers) away, where tens of thousands of Syrians have already found refuge during the uprising.

Reem, a woman in her 30s who fled Aleppo's rebel-held district of Saif al-Dawleh, was among those who showed up in Turkey on Monday. "The situation in Aleppo is dreadful," she told the AP soon after arriving at the Bukulmez illegal border crossing, where she was greeted by Turkish soldiers.

"Had it been merely bearable I wouldn't have left my home," she said. Wearing a black head scarf and black robe and sandals, Reem described hiding for three days in a room near the entrance of the building in which she lived. She then fled to a village near the Turkish border before crossing over on Monday.

"I blame the regime for everything. People in the city used to go out and protest peacefully, but they just shot at them," said Reem, who would not give her last name. Turkish troops ordered an AP team to leave shortly after journalists began interviewing refugees at the border crossing Monday.

Outside the state-run hospital, Aya's father recounted how his family's tragedy unfolded. "I was at work when I received the call that a shell had hit my house," he said. "As soon as I returned, I found my wife and son dead on the floor. Part of my son's skull was blown off, and Aya was wounded."

"The whole city is destroyed," said Aya's father, who would not give his name but said that he was from the rebel-held district of Bustan al-Qasr. The U.N. said 200,000 Syrians have left Aleppo over the past 10 days as the government trains its mortars, tanks and helicopter gunships on the neighborhoods seized by the rebels.

"I am extremely concerned by the impact of shelling and use of tanks and other heavy weapons on people in Aleppo," Valerie Amos, the top U.N. official for humanitarian affairs, said in a statement late Sunday. "Many people have sought temporary shelter in schools and other public buildings in safer areas," she added. "They urgently need food, mattresses and blankets, hygiene supplies and drinking water."

"It is not known how many people remain trapped in places where fighting continues today," she warned. In online videos, people can be seen scurrying through streets against a backdrop of gunfire and climbing onto any form of transportation available to escape, including trucks, cars and even heavily laden motorcycles.

The authenticity of the videos could not be independently verified. "Dozens of families are packing their belongings and leaving in cars and trucks," said an activist in a village near Aleppo, who declined to give his name for security reasons. "They are taking only light possessions that they can carry, like a few clothes, some valuables and that's it."

"I saw cars with eight, nine people packed in them fleeing the bombing," he added. He said rebels had seized a nearby checkpoint early Monday and captured several tanks. The regime responded by shelling the rural area just northwest of the city. "Entire families are leaving."

Videos of the attack on the checkpoint in Andan posted on the Internet show fierce exchanges of fire in the early morning and then later, victorious rebels hauling out boxes of ammunition and taking heavy machine guns for the fight in Aleppo.

Among those wounded in Aleppo province on Monday was Al-Jazeera correspondent Omar Khashram, who was hurt by shrapnel after a mortar round fell near his car, a colleague said. The Syrian Foreign Ministry defended its offensive in Aleppo province, saying it was meant to protect innocent people.

In two letters addressed to the head of the U.N. Security Council and the U.N. Secretary General, Syria said that "armed terrorist groups" backed openly with funds and weapons by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey have committed "horrifying crimes" against innocent civilians. It accused the rebels of using residents as human shields.

Syrian state media reported the army had "purged" Aleppo's southwestern neighborhood of Salaheddine and inflicted "great losses" upon the rebels in one of the first districts they took control of in their bid to seize the city.

Activists, however, disputed these claims. The assault has knocked down power lines, and the neighborhood has been without electricity since the morning. President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke by telephone on Monday and agreed to "coordinate efforts to assist the growing numbers of displaced Syrians, not only within Syria, but in Turkey and the broader region," according to a White House statement.

The Turkish state-run Anadolu agency reported Monday that Turkey is deploying more troops to the border, sending tanks, armored combat vehicles, more missile launchers and infantry troops. In addition to Turkey, the violence in Syria has sent refugees flooding into Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon. Greece has responded by quadrupling the number of guards on its borders with Turkey out of fear of a potential influx of Syrian refugees.

Al-Ayoubi, the Syrian diplomat in London, is the fourth high-ranking envoy to defect. He was preceded by the charge d'affaires in Cyprus, her husband, a diplomat in the UAE, and by the ambassador to Iraq.

A Foreign Office spokesman said al-Ayoubi was staying in a safe location in the United Kingdom and was in contact with British officials. His departure leaves five staff at the embassy and there has been no indication that they would be leaving their posts as well.

Turkey also reported that the deputy head of security for Syria's Latakia region, a regime stronghold, had defected as well. The brigadier general was among a group of 12 Syrian officers who crossed into Turkey late Sunday, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters. His defection raised to 28 the number of generals who have left for Turkey since the start of the 17-month-old uprising.

Karam reported from Beirut. Associated Press writers Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey, and Paisley Dodds in London contributed to this report.

Pertempuran berat berterusan di antara tentera, pemberontak di Syria . . .

Tinjauan 1Wc'Channel 2012: Berat pertempuran berterusan antara tentera, pemberontak di Syria. http://timesofearth.com/Worldnews/?NT=0&nid=55860. BEIRUT - pertempuran sengit telah meletus pada pemberontak dipegang daerah Aleppo, sehari selepas pasukan pembangkang ditangkis serangan oleh tentera kerajaan di bandar ke-2 terbesar di Syria, seorang kumpulan hak asasi manusia berkata. "Pertempuran Intense berlaku di daerah Bab al-Hadid, Zahraa, Arkub dan Al-Hindrat Kem sebagai letupan telah didengar dan pesawat telah dilihat overhed," Balai Cerap Syria bagi Hak Asasi Manusia berkata pada hari Ahad.

Gunships helikopter terbang lebih Saif al-Dawla daerah serta Salaheddin, di mana pemberontak diadakan dari serangan oleh tentera darat yang disokong oleh kereta kebal dan helikopter pada hari Sabtu, kumpulan hak asasi yang berpangkalan di Britain. Di pusat bandar Homs, pertempuran meletus berhampiran ibu pejabat polis di antara tentera dan pejuang pemberontak, di mana sekurang-kurangnya seorang terbunuh.

Berhampiran ibu negeri, api penembak hendap membunuh seorang awam di bandar Irbin, Balai Cerap tersebut. 2lagi terbunuh dalam serangan di wilayah Idlib di barat laut. Pada hari Sabtu, keganasan membunuh 168 orang, 94 orang awam, 33 pemberontak dan 41 askar, Balai Cerap tersebut.

Media pro-kerajaan di Syria telah memberi amaran bahawa apa yang mereka sifatkan sebagai "ibu segala peperangan" tenun di bandar hampir 3 juta penduduk. Amerika Syarikat, Britain dan Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu telah menyuarakan penggera yang semakin meningkat tentang potensi untuk pembunuhan beramai-ramai akan berlaku di sana.

Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu utusan khas Kofi Annan pada hari Sabtu berkata beliau bimbang "pertempuran akan berlaku" untuk Aleppo. Presiden Perancis Francois Hollande memperbaharui panggilan bagi PBB untuk memberi pertolongan, berkata peranan negara anggota Majlis Keselamatan PBB untuk campur tangan "secepat mungkin."

Terdahulu, Rusia memberi amaran "tragedi" akan berlaku di Aleppo, tetapi berkata sokongan asing pemberontak akan membawa kepada "lebih banyak darah." Menteri Luar Negeri Sergei Lavrov juga berkata kerajaan Syria tidak boleh dijangka rela memberikan kepada pembangkang.

Sementara itu, di Lubnan media tempatan melaporkan bahawa tentera meletakkan pertempuran di bandar utara Tripoli semalaman antara saingan Alawite dan Sunni kawasan kejiranan di mana beberapa orang cedera, menambah kepada kebimbangan bahawa konflik Syria boleh melimpah sempadannya.

Pertempuran terbaru datang selepas 2 minggu di mana pemberontak telah membuat keuntungan yang ketara. Serangan di ibu pejabat keselamatan Syria di Damsyik pada 18 Julai membunuh 4 pegawai kanan, termasuk Menteri Pertahanan, dan Presiden Assad abang iparnya dalam undang-undang.

Kemudian Tentera Syria Percuma (FSA) mengambil alih beberapa bahagian Damsyik sebelum dihalau keluar oleh kerajaan balas menyinggung. Pemberontak juga merampas beberapa lintasan sempadan dengan Turki dan Iraq. Sementara itu, jiran Jordan membuka kem pelarian rasmi yang pertama untuk Syria yang melarikan diri dari keganasan. Agensi pelarian PBB (UNHCR) berkata kem baru di Za'atari mulanya akan menempatkan 10,000 orang tetapi akhirnya boleh memberi perlindungan kepada lebih daripada 100,000. PBB berkata 150,00 Syria telah memasukkan Jordan.

Heavy fighting continues between troops, rebels in Syria

1Wc'Channel Review 2012: http://timesofearth.com/Worldnews/?NT=0&nid=55860. BEIRUT - Fierce fighting has erupted in rebel-held districts of Aleppo, a day after opposition forces repulsed an offensive by government troops in Syria's second-largest city, a human rights group said. "Intense clashes took place in the districts of Bab al-Hadid, Zahraa, Arkub and Al-Hindrat Camp as explosions were heard and aircraft were sighted overhead," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday.

Helicopter gunships flew over the Saif al-Dawla district as well as Salaheddin, where rebels held off an offensive by ground troops backed by tanks and helicopters on Saturday, the Britain-based rights group said. In the central city of Homs, a battle broke out near the police headquarters between troops and rebel fighters, of whom at least one was killed.

Near the capital, sniper fire killed a civilian in the town of Irbin, the Observatory said. Two more were killed in shelling in Idlib province in the northwest. On Saturday, violence killed 168 people, 94 civilians, 33 rebels and 41 soldiers, the Observatory said.

Pro-government media in Syria have warned that what they describe as the "mother of all battles" looms in the city of nearly three million residents. The United States, Britain and the United Nations have voiced growing alarm about the potential for an imminent massacre there.

United Nations special envoy Kofi Annan on Saturday said he feared an "imminent battle" for Aleppo. French President Francois Hollande renewed a call for U.N. to intercede, saying the role of U.N. Security Council member states is to intervene "as quickly as possible."

Earlier, Russia warned a "tragedy" was imminent in Aleppo, but said foreign support of rebels would lead to "more blood." Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also said the Syrian government could not be expected to willingly give in to the opposition.

Meanwhile, in Lebanon local media reported that the army put down clashes in the northern city of Tripoli overnight between rival Alawite and Sunni neighborhoods in which several people were injured, adding to fears that Syria's conflict could spill over its borders.

The latest fighting comes after two weeks in which rebels have made significant gains. An attack at Syrian security headquarters in Damascus on 18 July killed four senior officials, including the defence minister and President Assad's brother-in-law.

Then the Free Syrian Army (FSA) took control of several parts of Damascus before being driven out by a government counter-offensive. The rebels also seized several border crossings with Turkey and Iraq. Meanwhile, neighbouring Jordan is opening its first official refugee camp for Syrians fleeing the violence. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) says the new camp at Za'atari will initially house 10,000 people but could eventually give refuge to more than 100,000. The UN says 150,00 Syrians have already entered Jordan.

Pemberontak Syria merebut asas ketenteraan 

di luar Aleppo . . .

Tinjauan 1Wc'Channel 2012: Pemberontak Syria merebut asas ketenteraan di luar Aleppo. Pemberontak menawan pengkalan kerajaan tentera Isnin di pinggir bandar Aleppo, metropolis yang hangat dipertandingkan Syria yang telah dilihat lebih daripada seminggu pertempuran berdarah.

Pengkalan yang mempunyai kira-kira 200 tentera Syria dan kelihatan berada di bawah serangan oleh pemberontak dari 3 sisi semalaman. Selepas waktu pertempuran, pejuang pembangkang telah mengambil kawalan barat laut asas Aleppo pada pagi Isnin.

Walaupun rangsangan untuk pemberontak, pertempuran tidak henti-henti untuk bandar terbesar di Syria berlarutan Isnin. Pasukan rejim melancarkan peluru berpandu dan mengebom dari serangan helikopter, aktivis pembangkang. Aleppo, hab komersial dan kebudayaan di Syria, telah menyaksikan penghijrahan beramai-ramai di tengah-tengah keganasan. Kira-kira 200,000 orang dan di sekeliling Aleppo telah melarikan diri dari serangan dan api senjata berat dalam tempoh 2 hari lepas, kata Valerie Amos, Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu di bawah setiausaha agung bagi hal ehwal kemanusiaan, Ahad.

Dengan tiada akhir kepada krisis negara 16-bulan di sisi, Menteri Luar Perancis Laurent Fabius berkata negara beliau akan mengambil tindakan yang lebih untuk cuba untuk menghentikan pertumpahan darah. "Sebagai Perancis mengambil alih jawatan presiden Majlis Keselamatan PBB pada 1 Ogos, kami akan minta sebelum akhir minggu - untuk mesyuarat Majlis Keselamatan, mungkin di peringkat menteri . . . cuba dan menghentikan pembunuhan beramai-ramai dan bersedia untuk peralihan politik, "Fabius kepada radio RTL Perancis pada hari Isnin.

Sementara itu, perkataan berjuang terus antara rejim dan Presiden Syria Bashar al-Assad penentang jauh dan dekat. Menteri Luar Syria Walid Moallem memberi kata-kata yang tidak menyenangkan Ahad mengenai pertempuran untuk Aleppo, vowing bahawa pemberontak tidak akan mendapat kawalan bandar.

"Sejak minggu lepas, (pejuang pembangkang) dirancang untuk apa sahaja yang mereka dipanggil 'Damsyik pertarungan hebat, tetapi mereka telah gagal selepas satu minggu," Moallem Saidin merujuk kepada serangan pemberontak yang dibalas balik awal bulan ini. "Itulah mengapa mereka berpindah ke Aleppo, dan saya boleh memberi jaminan bahawa mereka akan gagal."

Beliau membuat komen semasa lawatan ke Iran, salah satu sekutu baki beberapa negara. Tetapi Setiausaha Pertahanan Amerika Syarikat Leon Panetta meramalkan Ahad bahawa tindakan keras ganas rejim Syria di Aleppo akan membuktikan "paku dalam keranda Assad," dengan mengubah lebih ramai orang terhadap al-Assad dan kerajaan.

Nabil Elaraby, ketua Liga Arab berkata Ahad bahawa liga percaya jenayah perang sedang dilakukan di bandar. Blog: mes berdarah boleh mendapatkan messier. Sekurang-kurangnya 114 orang terbunuh di seluruh Syria pada hari Ahad, mengikut Jawatankuasa pembangkang Penyelarasan Tempatan Syria; 11 orang mati adalah dari Aleppo.

Di tempat lain, 41 orang terbunuh di Damsyik dan pinggir bandar, termasuk 18 orang yang mayat ditemui hangus di ladang di Moadamiyeh, berkata LCC. TV Syria melaporkan bahawa "pengganas" menanggung kerugian besar selepas pertempuran dalam tiga Aleppo kejiranan. Dengan laporan serangan tidak berhenti-henti goyangkan Aleppo, ketua kumpulan pembangkang terkemuka Syria mengaku sekutu DUNIA untuk membantu lengan pemberontak.

"Rakan-rakan dan sekutu kami akan memikul tanggungjawab untuk pembunuhan beramai-ramai yang menakutkan yang akan berlaku di Aleppo jika mereka tidak bergerak tidak lama lagi," Abdulbaset Sieda, ketua Majlis Negara Syria, berkata Sabtu.

Syrian rebels seize military base outside Aleppo . . .

1Wc'Channel Review 2012: Syrian rebels seize military base outside Aleppo. Rebels captured a government military base Monday on the outskirts of Aleppo, the hotly contested Syrian metropolis that has seen more than a week of bloody battles.

The base had about 200 Syrian troops and appeared to be under attack by rebels from three sides overnight. After hours of clashes, opposition fighters took control of the base northwest of Aleppo on Monday morning.

Despite the boost for rebels, the relentless battle for Syria's largest city raged on Monday. Regime forces launched missiles and shelled from attack helicopters, opposition activists said. Aleppo, Syria's commercial and cultural hub, has seen a mass exodus amid the violence. About 200,000 people in and around Aleppo have fled shelling and heavy weapon fire in the past two days, Valerie Amos, the U.N.'s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, said Sunday.

With no end to the country's 16-month crisis in sight, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said his country will take more action to try to stop the bloodshed. "As France is taking over the presidency of the U.N. Security Council on August 1, we are going to ask -- before the end of the week -- for a meeting of the Security Council, probably at a ministerial level . . . to try and stop the massacres and prepare for the political transition," Fabius told French RTL radio on Monday.

Meanwhile, fighting words continued between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime and opponents near and far. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem gave ominous words Sunday about the battle for Aleppo, vowing that rebels would not gain control of the city.

"Since last week, (opposition fighters) planned for whatever they called the 'great Damascus battle,' but they have failed after one week," Moallem saidin referring to a rebel offensive beaten back earlier this month. "That's why they moved to Aleppo, and I can assure you that they will fail."

He made his comments during a trip to Iran, one of his nation's few remaining allies. But U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta predicted Sunday that the Syrian regime's violent crackdown in Aleppo will prove "a nail in Assad's coffin" by turning even more people against al-Assad and his government.

Nabil Elaraby, the head of the Arab League said Sunday that the league believes war crimes are being committed in the city. Blog: A bloody mess could get messier.  At least 114 people were killed across Syria on Sunday, according to the opposition Local Coordination Committees of Syria; 11 of the dead were from Aleppo.

Elsewhere, 41 people were killed in Damascus and its suburbs, including 18 people whose bodies found charred on farms in Moadamiyeh, the LCC said. Syrian TV reported that "terrorists" suffered heavy losses after clashes in three Aleppo neighborhoods. With reports of incessant attacks rocking Aleppo, the head of a prominent Syrian opposition group pleaded for world allies to help arm rebels.

"Our friends and allies will bear responsibility for the terrifying massacres that will happen in Aleppo if they don't move soon," Abdulbaset Sieda, head of the Syrian National Council, said Saturday.

Tens of Thousands Flee Syria's Largest City

1WC'sChannel REVIEW/TINJAUAN 2012: The U.N. estimates that 200,000 Syrians have left Aleppo over the past 10 days as the government trains its mortars, tanks and helicopter gunships on the neighborhoods seized by the rebels. (Anggaran PBB bahawa 200,000 orang Syria telah meninggalkan Aleppo lebih 10 hari yang lalu sebagai kerajaan melatih mortar, kereta kebal dan gunships helikopter di kawasan kejiranan yang disita oleh pemberontak) (July 30)

Syrian Struggles: Life on edge amid security nightmare

Syrian Struggles: Life on edge amid security nightmare

TINJAUAN 1WC'sChannel 2012:  (4 jam lalu) US Negeri Jabatan jurucakap berkata, Washington sedang merancang untuk menambah bantuan di atas pakej US $ 15 juta yang telah diperuntukkan bagi pembangkang. Kuasa-kuasa anti-Assad telah juga menggesa penyokong asing mereka untuk membekalkan mereka dengan senjata canggih digunakan terhadap kereta kebal dan pesawat kerajaan. Bahawa di tengah-tengah pertempuran yang berterusan di bandar utara negara Aleppo - di mana kedua-dua angkatan tentera dan pemberontak tuntutan kemajuan. Fokus peperangan telah dipindahkan ke pusat komersial Syria selepas tentera rejim yang mengalir keluar pemberontak dari Damsyik lebih seminggu lalu. Tetapi penduduk modal di pinggir dan bajet yang ketat, menuntut kembali asas-asas yang digunakan untuk mengambil yang baik.

1WC'sChannel REVIEW 2012: (4 hours ago) US State Department spokesperson said Washington is planning to increase aid on top of a $15 million package already allocated for the opposition. Anti-Assad forces have also called on their foreign supporters to supply them with sophisticated weapons to use against government tanks and aircraft. That's amid continuing clashes in the country's northern city of Aleppo - where both the army and rebel forces claim progress. The focus of the battles have shifted to the Syrian commercial hub after regime troops flushed out rebels from Damascus over a week ago. But residents of the capital are on edge and on a very tight budget, reclaiming the basics they used to take for granted.

Awake Yourself 2012: Wake Up! Why WORLD police!? . . .

Awake Yourself 2012:  Wake Up! Why WORLD police!? . . .

US wants WORLD police after blowing millions on MidEast 'occupation'

TINJAUAN 1WC'sChannel 2012:  (7 jam lalu) Laporan Segar mengatakan bahawa lebih daripada $ 200 juta yang dibelanjakan oleh Washington untuk melatih polis Iraq telah pergi ke pembaziran. Amerika Syarikat kini bersedia untuk menghantar beratus-ratus polis sendiri di seluruh DUNIA untuk membantu penduduk tempatan mengendalikan keselamatan. John Glaser dari antiwar.com percaya rancangan itu adalah lebih lanjut mengenai kawalan dan pengayaan, daripada kestabilan serantau. Afghanistan adalah satu lagi parit untuk wang pembayar cukai Amerika. Amerika Syarikat melatih pasukan tempatan - tetapi desertions beramai-ramai dari kalangan mencederakan usaha untuk mengekalkan kestabilan. Penganalisis Jason Ditz menyifatkan ini kepada pihak berkuasa rasuah dan perbelanjaan yang buruk-dirancang.

1WC'sChannel REVIEW 2012: (7 hours ago) Fresh report says that over $200 million spent by Washington to train Iraqi police have gone to waste. The US is now preparing to send hundreds of its own police across the WORLD to help locals handle security. John Glaser from antiwar.com believes the plan is more about control and enrichment, than regional stability. Afghanistan is another drain for American taxpayers' money. The US is training local forces - but mass desertions from the ranks are hurting efforts to maintain stability. Analyst Jason Ditz attributes this to corrupt authorities and poorly-planned spending.

UK News ‘Romney membangkitkan kontroversi baru dalam perjalanan asing cara berpasuk’

Gdansk, Poland (AP) - calon presiden Republikan, Mitt Romney marah rakyat Palestin pada hari Isnin, kacau kontroversi segar dalam lawatan ke Israel hanya beberapa hari selepas menghina British pada apa yang dimaksudkan sebagai lawatan rasa baik untuk Sukan Olimpik di London.

Ia tidak jelas sama ada kenyataan Romney di negara sama ada akan menjejaskan prospek untuk mengalahkan Presiden Barack Obama dalam pilihan raya presiden Amerika Syarikat November. Ekonomi, bukan hal ehwal luar negeri, telah menjadi isu yang dominan dalam pemilihan menunjukkan untuk menjadi satu  bangsa yang ketat.

Tetapi kemarahan yang dihasilkan oleh kenyataan Romney telah melemahkan usaha untuk mengelakkan risiko politik kerana dia telah membuat langkah pertama ke pentas DUNIA sebagai penama andaian Republikan. Romney telah melawat negara-negara yang sekutu setia Amerika Syarikat, soalan terhad dari media dan mengatur penampilan dibuat untuk TV di tempat yang simbolik di London dan Yerusalem. Ia bertujuan untuk menunjukkan beliau bersedia untuk mengendalikan hal ehwal luar negeri dengan lancar dan membawa semasa berbahaya.

Sebaliknya, sebagai beliau yang membuat di perhentian akhir beliau pelancongan 1 3-negara di Poland lewat Isnin, Republikan dan Demokrat sama telah menggelengkan kepala mereka di Amerika Syarikat Walaupun Republikan berkata mereka nampak tiada kemudaratan yang berpanjangan, Demokrat membangkitkan soalan mengenai kebolehan Romney, untuk mengendalikan topik halus dengan sensitiviti di tanah asing, walaupun di bawah syarat-syarat yang ramah.

Masalah Romney terbaru berpunca daripada ucapan yang dia telah berikan kepada penderma Yahudi di Jerusalem awal Isnin di mana beliau mencadangkan bahawa budaya mereka adalah sebahagian daripada apa yang telah dibenarkan mereka untuk menjadi lebih berjaya daripada ekonomi rakyat Palestin. Perkataan yang baik bagi Israel adalah standard untuk ahli-ahli politik Amerika yang banyak, tetapi pemimpin Palestin mencadangkan komen khusus adalah perkauman dan sentuhan dengan realiti Timur Tengah.

Kempen Romney kemudian berkata ucapannya mischaracterized. Yang dijangkakan, kempen Obama adalah kritikal, dengan strategis senior David Axelrod berkata di Twitter: "Adakah terdapat apa-apa mengenai Ruckus Rolling Romney yang akan membangkitkan keyakinan dalam keupayaan untuk menerajui dasar luar Amerika Syarikat?"

Tidak jelas sama ada pengundi di Amerika Syarikat memberi perhatian kepada Romney, tersandung, terutamanya sebagai kebimbangan tentang ekonomi mendominasi kebimbangan kebanyakan rakyat Amerika. Debra Hayes, bebas Republikan-berhaluan dari Denver, berkata Romney komen luar negara tidak mempunyai kesan ke atas bagaimana dia akan mengundi.

"Saya hanya berminat dalam ekonomi - pekerjaan, dan harga barang," kata Hayes, yang belum membuat keputusan. "Kita perlu berdiri dengan Israel. Dan presiden kami perlu untuk menunjukkan kepimpinan di luar negara. Tetapi keadaan akan menuruni bukit di rumah, dan itulah apa yang penting."

Dan Romney menarik bahagian liputan media yang baik pulang. Ucapan pada Israel dasar, diserahkan pada waktu senja terhadap latar belakang yang indah Old City Baitulmaqdis, menarik memuji untuk penetapan dan penyampaian. Beliau dan isterinya, Ann, kelihatan tenang dan terlibat dalam satu temu bual di CNN, di mana Ann Romney menyifatkan suaminya sebagai mencintai dan emosi terlibat.

Masih, missteps pada minggu lalu telah disemarakkan pendirian lawan bahawa bekas ahli perniagaan dan Gabenor Massachusetts berhubung dengan negara dan DUNIA yang beliau berharap untuk memimpin. Sebagai perjalanan mendapat di bawah cara - Romney menyebabkan kekecohan di Britain dengan mempersoalkan sama ada pegawai-pegawai di sana telah bersedia sepenuhnya untuk menjadi tuan rumah Sukan Olimpik. Pertikaian itu dibayangi usaha untuk menyerlahkan pengalaman peribadi beliau memimpin Salt Lake City Musim Sejuk Permainan sedekad lalu. Sebaliknya, Romney secara meluas diserang oleh media London dan dikritik oleh pemimpin-pemimpin British.

Kemudian pada hari pertama di Israel, Romney menjauhkan dirinya daripada cadangan bahawa beliau akan "menghormati" keputusan oleh Israel untuk melancarkan tindakan ketenteraan untuk menghalang Iran daripada mencapai keupayaan senjata nuklear.

Pada hari Isnin di Pendana, dibuka kepada media selepas kempen pertama berkata ia akan ditutup, Romney berkongsi sentimen beliau kadang-kadang bercerita tentang jejak kempen di Amerika Syarikat dan mengulangi di dalam bukunya, "No Apology." Tetapi keputusan untuk menyerlahkan perbezaan budaya di rantau di mana perbezaan itu telah membantu keganasan bahan api untuk generasi mendorong soalan baru tentang kemahiran diplomatik dan marah pemimpin Palestin.

Membandingkan output ekonomi per kapita di Israel dan "di seluruh kawasan yang diuruskan oleh Pihak Berkuasa Palestin," beliau mengisytiharkan bahawa "anda perhatikan perbezaan dramatik telanjang tenaga, ekonomi." Beliau berkata demikian kepada kira-kira 40 penderma kaya Yahudi Amerika di Hotel King David, yang adalah dalam penglihatan wilayah Palestin di Tebing Barat.

Beliau berkata beberapa sejarah teori ekonomi telah bahawa "budaya membuat semua perbezaan." "Dan apabila saya datang ke sini dan saya melihat keluar ke bandar ini dan mempertimbangkan pencapaian rakyat negara ini, saya menyedari kuasa budaya sekurang-kurangnya dan beberapa perkara lain," kata Romney memetik iklim perniagaan yang inovatif, sejarah Yahudi yang subur di dalam keadaan sukar dan "hand of providence." Beliau berkata jurang yang sama wujud di antara negara-negara jiran yang lain, termasuk Mexico dan Amerika Syarikat.

Pemimpin Palestin dengan pantas membantah. "Ia seolah-olah saya manusia ini kekurangan maklumat, pengetahuan, wawasan dan pemahaman rantau ini dan rakyatnya," kata Saeb Erekat, pembantu kanan kepada Presiden Palestin, Mahmoud Abbas. "Ia adalah satu kenyataan yang bersifat perkauman, dan orang ini tidak sedar bahawa ekonomi Palestin tidak dapat mencapai potensi kerana terdapat pendudukan Israel."

"Ini akan menyebabkan banyak kerosakan kepada kepentingan Amerika," katanya. Romney jurucakap kempen Andrea Saul berkata dengan komen "terlampau mischaracterized." Kempen menambah bahawa perbandingan Romney negara-negara yang rapat antara satu sama lain dan mempunyai jurang pendapatan yang luas - Amerika Syarikat (US) dan Mexico, Chile dan Ecuador - menunjukkan komen beliau adalah lebih luas daripada sekadar perbandingan antara Israel dan Palestin.

Di White House, Earnest Josh jurucakap berkata, "Salah satu cabaran menjadi seorang pelakon di pentas antarabangsa, terutamanya apabila anda hendak pergi berjalan, bahagian yang sensitif DUNIA, bahawa komen anda sangat rapat diteliti untuk makna, nuansa, untuk motivasi. "

Bersungguh-sungguh sidestepped soalan mengenai sama ada Obama bersetuju dengan komen Romney tentang budaya, hanya berkata bahawa Obama percaya isu-isu ekonomi adalah antara perkara-perkara yang perlu ditangani oleh Israel dan Palestin dalam mana-mana rundingan damai.

Romney terbang ke Poland selama 2 hari lawatan dengan pemimpin-pemimpin. Beliau bertemu dengan bekas Presiden Lech Walesa, yang mengetuai kesatuan sekerja Perpaduan percuma yang membantu pemerintahan akhir komunis pada tahun 1980-an, di Gdansk, mendapat pengendorsan beliau: "Saya ingin anda berjaya kerana kejayaan diperlukan ke Amerika Syarikat, sudah tentu, tetapi ke Eropah dan seluruh DUNIA, juga. Jadi, Gabenor Romney, mendapat kejayaan anda, berjaya, "kata Walesa melalui penterjemah.

Walesa mencadangkan kepimpinan Romney yang diperlukan untuk memulihkan kedudukan Amerika di DUNIA. Romney adalah untuk bertemu dengan Menteri Luar Poland Radoslaw Sikorski pada hari Selasa sebelum menyampaikan ucapan dasar akhir asing perjalanan.

Kempen Romney berharap sokongan Walesa akan mempengaruhi Katolik dan ahli-ahli kesatuan buruh di Amerika Syarikat Tetapi Rep Marcy Kaptur, Ohio Demokrat, kepada pemberita hari Isnin bahawa lawatan Poland "adalah tidak lebih daripada lencongan dangkal dan percubaan terdesak untuk memenuhi kehendak Poland Amerika dan Katolik di seluruh negara kami "

Lawatan Romney ke Poland tidak tanpa kontroversi. Pegawai kempen berkata lawatan dengan Walesa datang atas jemputan beliau, tetapi kepimpinan semasa daripada Perpaduan menjauhkan diri daripada peristiwa itu dan mengeluarkan satu kenyataan Romney yang kritikal. Perpaduan dicirikan Romney sebagai musuh kepada kesatuan dan terhadap hak asasi buruh. Ia menekankan bahawa ia tidak mempunyai peranan dalam penganjuran lawatan Romney dan menyatakan sokongan untuk organisasi buruh Amerika.

Associated Press penulis Kasie Hunt di Gdansk, Poland; Steve Rakyat di Washington; Monika Scislowska di Warsaw, Poland, Karin Laub di Yerusalem, Thomas Beaumont di Iowa, Beth Fouhy di New York dan Julie Pace di Washington menyumbang kepada laporan ini.

UK News ‘Romney stirs new controversy on 

bumpy foreign trip’

GDANSK, Poland (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney outraged Palestinians on Monday, stirring fresh controversy on his visit to Israel just days after insulting the British on what was intended as a feel-good visit to the Olympics in London.

It's not clear whether Romney's remarks in either country will affect his prospects for defeating President Barack Obama in the November U.S. presidential election. The economy, not foreign affairs, has been the dominant issue in what polls show to be a tight race.

But the outrage generated by Romney's remarks has undermined his attempt to avoid political risk as he made his first steps onto the world stage as the presumptive Republican nominee. Romney has been visiting countries that are staunch U.S. allies, limited questions from the media and arranged made-for-TV appearances at symbolic venues in London and Jerusalem. It was all intended to demonstrate he was ready to handle foreign affairs smoothly and lead during dangerous times.

Instead, as he made his final stop of a three-nation tour in Poland late Monday, Republicans and Democrats alike were shaking their heads in the U.S. Though Republicans said they saw no lasting harm, Democrats raised questions about Romney's ability to handle delicate topics with sensitivity on foreign soil, even under the friendliest conditions.

Romney's latest trouble stemmed from a speech he gave to Jewish donors in Jerusalem earlier Monday in which he suggested that their culture was part of what has allowed them to be more economically successful than the Palestinians. Kind words for Israel are standard for many American politicians, but Palestinian leaders suggested his specific comments were racist and out of touch with the realities of the Middle East.

Romney's campaign later said his remarks were mischaracterized. Predictably, Obama's campaign was critical, with senior strategist David Axelrod saying on Twitter: "Is there anything about Romney's Rolling Ruckus that would inspire confidence in his ability to lead US foreign policy?"

It's unclear whether voters in the U.S. are paying attention to Romney's stumbles, especially as worries about the economy dominate most Americans' concerns. Debra Hayes, a Republican-leaning independent from Denver, said Romney's overseas comments have no impact on how she'll vote.

"I'm interested only in the economy - jobs, and the prices of things," said Hayes, who is undecided. "We need to stand with Israel. And our president needs to show leadership overseas. But things are going downhill at home, and that's what matters."

And Romney drew his share of favorable media coverage back home. A speech on Israel policy, delivered at dusk against the scenic backdrop of Jerusalem's Old City, drew praise for its setting and delivery. He and his wife, Ann, appeared relaxed and engaged in an interview on CNN, where Ann Romney described her husband as loving and emotionally engaged.

Still, missteps in the past week have fueled opponents' contentions that the former businessman and Massachusetts governor is out of touch with the nation and the world he hopes to lead. As the trip got under way, Romney caused a stir in Britain by questioning whether officials there were fully prepared to host the Olympic Games. The dispute overshadowed his efforts to highlight his personal experience leading the Salt Lake City Winter Games a decade ago. Instead, Romney was widely assailed by the London media and criticized by British leaders.

Then on his first day in Israel, Romney distanced himself from an adviser's suggestion that he would "respect" a decision by Israel to launch military action to prevent Iran from achieving nuclear weapons capability.

On Monday at a fundraiser, opened to the media after the campaign first said it would be closed, Romney shared a sentiment he sometimes talks about on the campaign trail in the United States and repeats in his book, "No Apology." But his decision to highlight cultural differences in a region where such differences have helped fuel violence for generations prompted new questions about his diplomatic skills - and enraged Palestinian leaders.

Comparing economic output per capita in Israel and "across the areas managed by the Palestinian Authority," he declared that "you notice such a dramatically stark difference in economic vitality." He was speaking to about 40 wealthy Jewish American donors at the King David Hotel, which is within sight of the Palestinian territory on the West Bank.

He said some economic histories have theorized that "culture makes all the difference." "And as I come here and I look out over this city and consider the accomplishments of the people of this nation, I recognize the power of at least culture and a few other things," Romney said, citing an innovative business climate, the Jewish history of thriving in difficult circumstances and the "hand of providence." He said similar disparity exists between other neighboring countries, including Mexico and the United States.

Palestinian leaders quickly objected. "It seems to me this man lacks information, knowledge, vision and understanding of this region and its people," said Saeb Erekat, a senior aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. "It is a racist statement, and this man doesn't realize that the Palestinian economy cannot reach its potential because there is an Israeli occupation."

"This will cause a lot of damage to American interests," he said. Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul said the comments "were grossly mischaracterized." The campaign added that Romney's comparison of countries that are close to each other and have wide income disparities - the U.S. and Mexico, Chile and Ecuador - shows his comments were broader than just the comparison between Israel and the Palestinians.

At the White House, spokesman Josh Earnest said, "One of the challenges of being an actor on the international stage, particularly when you're traveling to such a sensitive part of the world, is that your comments are very closely scrutinized for meaning, for nuance, for motivation."

Earnest sidestepped questions about whether Obama agreed with Romney's comments about culture, saying only that Obama believed economic issues are among the matters that would need to be addressed by the Israelis and Palestinians during any peace talks.

Romney flew on to Poland for two days of visits with leaders. He met with former President Lech Walesa, who led the Solidarity free trade union that helped end communist rule in the 1980s, in Gdansk, earning his endorsement: "I wish you to be successful because the success is needed to the United States, of course, but to Europe as well and to the rest of the world, too. So, Governor Romney, get your success, be successful," Walesa said through a translator.

Walesa suggested Romney's leadership was needed to restore America's position in the world. Romney is to meet with Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski on Tuesday before delivering his final foreign policy speech of the trip.

The Romney campaign hopes Walesa's backing will influence Catholics and labor union members in the U.S. But Rep. Marcy Kaptur, an Ohio Democrat, told reporters Monday that the Polish visit "is nothing more than a superficial diversion and a desperate attempt to pander to Polish Americans and Catholics across our country."

Romney's visit to Poland was not without controversy. Campaign officials said the visit with Walesa came at his invitation, but the current leadership of Solidarity distanced itself from the event and issued a statement critical of Romney. Solidarity characterized Romney as being hostile to unions and against labor rights. It emphasized that it had no role in organizing Romney's visit and expressed support for American labor organizations.

Associated Press writers Kasie Hunt in Gdansk, Poland; Steve Peoples in Washington; Monika Scislowska in Warsaw, Poland, Karin Laub in Jerusalem, Thomas Beaumont in Iowa, Beth Fouhy in New York and Julie Pace in Washington contributed to this report.

Awake Yourself 2012: 'West armies not going to intervene Syria, proxy war more likely'

RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 500 million YouTube views benchmark. (RT (Rusia Hari ini) adalah satu rangkaian penyiaran berita global dari Moscow dan Washington studio. RT adalah saluran berita pertama untuk memecahkan 500 juta YouTube pandangan penanda aras).

Awake Yourself 2012: 'West armies not going to intervene Syria, proxy war more likely'

1WC'sChannel REVIEW 2012: (3 hours ago) In Syria, the unfolding battle for the commercial capital - Aleppo - has turned into the focal point of the 16-month long conflict. Government forces are pushing to reclaim the country's largest city from the rebels - who control nearly half of its neighbourhoods. Three million people live in Aleppo and many are now fleeing, amid international fears of a looming massacre. Russia's accused foreign powers of fueling the bloodshed, by urging the rebels to fight on against Assad.

The political leaders of the insurgency are calling for intervention, and shipments of heavy weapons from abroad. And revelations in the media this week claim that's already happening, via a secret base in Turkey. Author and journalist Afshin Rattansi says the flow of weapons into the hands of rebels will have dire consequences.

TINJAUAN 1WC'sChannel 2012: (3 jam yang lalu) Di Syria, pertempuran berlaku untuk ibu negeri komersial - Aleppo - telah bertukar menjadi titik fokus konflik lama 16 bulan. Pasukan Kerajaan menolak untuk menuntut bandar terbesar di negara ini daripada pemberontak yang mengawal hampir separuh kawasan kejiranan. 3 juta penduduk yang tinggal di Aleppo dan ramai yang kini melarikan diri, di tengah-tengah kebimbangan antarabangsa pembunuhan beramai-ramai yang menjulang-julang. Rusia tuduh kuasa-kuasa asing mengisi pertumpahan darah, dengan menggesa pemberontak berjuang menentang Assad.

Pemimpin-pemimpin politik pemberontakan memanggil untuk campur tangan, dan penghantaran senjata berat dari luar negara. Dan ayat-ayat dalam media ini tuntutan minggu yang sudah berlaku, melalui pangkalan rahsia di Turki. Pengarang dan wartawan Afshin Rattansi berkata aliran senjata ke tangan pemberontak akan mempunyai akibat buruk.

Wartawan Rusia mendedahkan Propaganda pembohongan tentang Pembunuhan Houla . . .

TINJAUAN 1WC'sChannel 2012: oleh Stephen Lendman Melangkah berperang bergantung pertama kepada penjualan. Meraih sokongan awam adalah penting. Artikel sebelumnya dibincangkan. Walter Lippmann dicipta frasa "pengilangan persetujuan." Edward Herman dan Noam Chomsky telah membincangkan "model propaganda" dalam buku bertajuk "Pengilangan Persetujuan: Ekonomi Politik Media Massa"

Yang lemah media gunakan untuk memanipulasi dan mengawal pemikiran dan persepsi awam. Berita dan maklumat ditapis. Diterima hanya "sisa" dilaporkan. Sebarang perbezaan pendapat terpinggir. Kerajaan dan kepentingan peribadi yang dominan diutamakan. Michael Parenti menjelaskan: "jurang yang besar antara apa yang pemimpin Amerika Syarikat  lakukan . . . dan apa yang Amerika berfikir pemimpin mereka lakukan adalah salah satu pencapaian propaganda yang hebat . . ."

Dalam buku mereka yang bertajuk "Propaganda dan Kewangan & Perbankan,", Garth Jowett dan Victoria O'Donnell ditakrifkan topik mereka sebagai "percubaan yang sengaja, sistematik untuk membentuk persepsi, manipulate suasana, dan tingkah laku langsung untuk mencapai 1 respons yang lanjut tujuan yang dikehendaki daripada propagandis. "

Richard Alan Nelson menyifatkan teknik seperti berikut: "Propaganda berkecuali ditakrifkan sebagai 1 bentuk sistematik bertujuan pujukan yang cuba untuk mempengaruhi emosi, sikap, pendapat, dan tindakan khalayak sasaran yang ditentukan untuk tujuan ideologi, politik atau komersial melalui penghantaran terkawal mesej berat sebelah (yang boleh atau boleh tidak menjadi fakta) melalui saluran media massa dan secara langsung."

"Sesuatu organisasi propaganda menggunakan propaganda yang terlibat dalam propagandism - penciptaan yang dipohon dan pengedaran borang itu pujukan"

Propaganda mempunyai bentuk yang berbeza. Pengiklan menggunakannya untuk menjana jualan. Begitu juga dengan ahli-ahli politik untuk mendapatkan undi. Pemimpin agama menggunakan untuk mengindoktrinasikan setia. Begitu juga dengan negara-negara untuk mempromosikan agenda mereka. Apabila perang telah dirancang, ia digunakan untuk mencipta ketakutan, demonize musuh, merendahkan mereka, palsu menuduh mereka kekejaman dan jenayah lain, dan mendapatkan sokongan orang ramai untuk campur tangan atas sebab-sebab yang dikatakan kemanusiaan.

Pada tahun 1917, George kepis pertama kali mengunakan propaganda berjaya untuk menjadikan Amerika sukakan dama , mengamuk, Jerman-membencinya. Dalam bukunya 1928 bertajuk "Propaganda," Edward Bernays berkata ia mungkin untuk "rejim  minda awam setiap sedikit sebanyak 1 rejim tentera badan mereka."

"Jika kita memahami mekanisme dan motif minda kumpulan, adalah tidak mungkin untuk mengawal rejimen dan orang ramai mengikut kehendak kita tanpa mereka mengetahui tentang hal itu?"

Dalam buku bertajuk "Mengambil Risiko Demokrasi: Propaganda Korporat berbanding Kebebasan dan Liberty," Alex Carey berkata: "Abad ke-20 telah dicorakkan oleh 3 perkembangan penting dari segi politik yang hebat: pertumbuhan demokrasi, pertumbuhan kuasa korporat, dan pertumbuhan propaganda korporat sebagai 1 cara untuk melindungi kuasa korporat terhadap demokrasi."

Ia juga digunakan untuk melancarkan peperangan, musuh helah bagi tujuan strategik, dan menipu orang ramai semasa melancarkannya. Media memainkan peranan yang penting. Orang dimanipulasikan untuk berfikir peperangan hanya yang agresif. Besar terletak melancarkannya. Tiada mencapai keamanan, keselamatan dan kestabilan. Lain beranak konflik. Kitaran pemusnah yang tidak berkesudahan mengikuti.

Berjuta-juta tidak terkira yang mati. Kebinasaan kemusnahan negara yang luas. Kesengsaraan manusia, bukan pembebasan, keputusan. Keperluan manusia pergi tidak dipenuhi. Kekayaan, kuasa, dan kepentingan empayar hanya yang penting. Propaganda berjaya meyakinkan rakyat bahawa apa yang sebenarnya memudaratkan kesejahteraan mereka membantu mereka.

Post-9/11, Amerika telah melancarkan pelbagai peperangan langsung dan proksi. Mereka terus tanpa akhir. Obama gatal-gatal selama-lama lebih. Syria adalah satu sasaran, maka Iran, maka negara-negara lain untuk dominasi Amerika Syarikat (US) tidak dicabar. Yang menjadi isu kemanusiaan boleh bertahan? Pada 11 Jun, Global Research diterbitkan pencerapan wartawan Rusia Marat Musin apa yang sebenarnya berlaku di Houla. Dia didedahkan media maklumat yang salah bangsat dan terletak. Berbuat demikian dengan syarat perkhidmatan yang penting.

Skuad pembunuh Barat-tamtama menanggung tanggungjawab penuh. Kuasa kerajaan dan/atau apa yang dipanggil pro-Assad shabbiha tidak mempunyai penglibatan. Media bangsat dan pegawai-pegawai Barat yang disediakan palsu akaun hal yang berlaku. Ia adalah klasik, duplicitous propaganda. Ia rages untuk mendapat sokongan orang ramai untuk berperang.

Artikel musin membaca berkuasa. Pengedarannya secara meluas adalah penting. Hanya kemarahan awam boleh menghentikan peperangan. Kerja-kerja apa-apa lagi. Mengetahui kebenaran dan menyebarkan ia mempunyai kesan. Imperial Amerika dan untung perang takut bahawa kebanyakan. Sudah tiba masanya rakyat biasa mendapat radikal untuk kesejahteraan keadaan mereka sendiri.

Fokus 1 pada berakhir peperangan imperialis. Bayangkan apa ada kemungkinan aman. Bayangkan keperluan awam yang diutamakan lebih penaklukan dan penguasaan. Jika itu tidak pertempuran bernilai bagi apa?

Berikut adalah gambaran apa yang Musin menulis. Baca artikel untuk akaun penuh. Pada Mei 25, Houla telah diserang oleh beratus-ratus "penjahat dan tentera upahan."

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Russian Journalist Exposes Propaganda Lies

about Houla Massacre . . .

1WC'sChannel REVIEW 2012: by Stephen Lendman Going to war depends first on selling it. Gaining public support is vital. Previous articles discussed it. Walter Lippmann coined the phrase "manufacture of consent." Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky discussed the "propaganda model" in their book titled

"Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media." Media scoundrels use it to manipulate and control public thinking and perceptions. News and information are filtered. Acceptable "residue" only is reported. Dissent is marginalized. Government and dominant private interests are prioritized. Michael Parenti explained: "The enormous gap between what US leader do . . . and what American's think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments . . ."

In their book titled "Propaganda and Persuasion," Garth Jowett and Victoria O'Donnell defined their topic as "the deliberate, systematic attempt to shape perceptions, manipulate cognitions, and direct behavior to achieve a response that furthers the desired intent of the propagandist."
Richard Alan Nelson described the technique as follows:

"Propaganda is neutrally defined as a systematic form of purposeful persuasion that attempts to influence the emotions, attitudes, opinions, and actions of specified target audiences for ideological, political or commercial purposes through the controlled transmission of one-sided messages (which may or may not be factual) via mass and direct media channels."

"A propaganda organization employs propagandists who engage in propagandism - the applied creation and distribution of such forms of persuasion."

Propaganda has different forms. Advertisers use it to generate sales. So do politicians to get elected. Religious leaders use it to indoctrinate the faithful. So do nations to promote their agendas. When war is planned, it's used to create fear, demonize enemies, dehumanize them, falsely accuse them of atrocities and other crimes, and enlist public support for intervention for alleged humanitarian reasons.

In 1917, George Creel first used propaganda successfully to turn pacifist Americans into raging German-haters. In his 1928 book titled "Propaganda," Edward Bernays said it's possible to "regiment the public mind every bit as much as an army regiments their bodies." "If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it not possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing about it?"

In his book titled "Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty," Alex Carey said: "The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy."
It's also used to launch wars, trick enemies for strategic purposes, and deceive the public while waging them. Media scoundrels play a crucial role. People are manipulated to think aggressive wars are just ones. Big lies launch them. None achieve peace, security and stability. One conflict begets others. Endless destructive cycles follow.

Countless millions die. Vast destruction ravages countries. Human misery, not liberation, results. Human needs go unmet. Wealth, power, and imperial interests only matter. Successful propaganda convinces people that what harms their well-being actually helps them.

Post-9/11, America waged multiple direct and proxy wars. They continue without end. Obama itches for more. Syria is target one, then Iran, then other nations for unchallenged US dominance. At issue is can humanity survive? On June 11, Global Research published Russian journalist Marat Musin's firsthand observations of what really happened at Houla. He exposed media scoundrel misinformation and lies. Doing so provided a vital service.

Western-enlisted death squads bear full responsibility. Government forces and/or so-called pro-Assad shabbiha had no involvement. Scoundrel media and Western officials provided fabricated accounts of what went on. It was classic, duplicitous propaganda. It rages to enlist public support for war.

Musin's article is powerful reading. Circulating it widely is important. Only public rage can stop wars. Nothing else works. Knowing the truth and spreading it has impact. Imperial America and war profiteers fear that most. It's time ordinary people got radicalized for their own well-being.

Focus first on ending imperial wars. Imagine what's possible at peace. Imagine public needs prioritized over conquests and domination. If that's not worth fighting for, what is?

Below is a snapshot of what Musin wrote. Read his article for the full account. On May 25, Houla was attacked by hundreds of "bandits and mercenaries."

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