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Iraqi leaders in Baghdad to sign peace charter (Video)

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Leaders of Iraq’s political groups have gathered in the capital Baghdad to sign an agreement aiming at stopping the bloodshed in the country.
Leaders of IraqiThursday’s meeting was called by Iraq’s Vice President Khodair al-Khozaei to sign the Charter of Honor and Social Peace.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Parliament Speaker Osama al-Nujaifi and leader of Supreme Islamic Council Seyyed Ammar al-Hakim attended the meeting at the presidential palace.

The charter was introduced by the vice president back in May in an effort to maintain national unity and protect the country from sectarian violence.

According to the United Nations, 1,057 Iraqis, including 928 civilians, were killed and another 2,326 were wounded in terrorist attacks throughout the country in July — the deadliest month since 2008.

And 804 Iraqis lost their lives in August in the deadly attacks, a third of which took place in Baghdad.

In an interview with Press TV in July, an international human rights lawyer said that foreign powers are attempting to fabricate and benefit from Shia-Sunni discord in Iraq and elsewhere, seeking to see the Muslim world weakened in the wake of such rifts.

“Who benefits is of course the key issue. It’s really not the people of Iraq, it’s not the Sunnis, it’s not the Shias. It is external powers that want to exploit and create division. Those are the parties that benefit,” said Canada-based attorney Edward Corrigan.

Iraq’s Interior Ministry has said that militants have launched an open war in Iraq and they want to push the Middle Eastern country into chaos.

RAGE RIOTS: Turkish Police CLASH with PROTESTERS ANGRY at Ankara Supporting TERRORISTS in Syria! (Video)

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Journalist Manuel Ochsenreiter

Journalist Manuel Ochsenreiter

Turkish riot police have clashed with hundreds of students protesting against a municipal project to build a road across part of their university campus in Ankara.

On Thursday, police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse hundreds of students at the entrance of Ankara’s Middle East Technical University.

The students have been protesting against the project for weeks, saying the reconstruction plans would lead to the destruction of a large number of trees both inside and outside the campus.

On September 6, more than a dozen people were arrested during a similar demonstration in the campus, one of the largest green spaces in Ankara.

In June, a peaceful sit-in to save Gezi Park in central Istanbul from being razed prompted a violent police response.

Several people were killed and thousands injured after the protests spiraled into nationwide demos against the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Turkey indicts 11 linked with Syria militants caught with sarin gas (Video)

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The Turkish public prosecutor has issued an indictment for eleven suspects caught with sarin gas in the Turkish province of Hatay, Press TV reports.

Syria militants caught with sarin gas 1The public prosecutor claimed on Friday that the detainees had relations with the al-Qaeda-linked groups of al-Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham Brigades and were in Turkey to produce chemical weapons for them.

The prosecutor completed his indictment as part of the probe into the chemicals seized in the southern city of Adana, located some 150 kilometers (93 miles) from the border with Syria, in late May.

Citing transcripts of several phone conversations between the suspects, the indictment said that a 35-year-old Syrian citizen, identified as Hytham Qassap, established a connection with a network in Turkey in order to procure chemical materials for the terrorist groups fighting in Syria.

The indictment rejected the suspects’ claims about their unawareness of the chemical materials they tried to obtain.

“The suspects have pleaded not guilty saying that they had not been aware the materials they had tried to obtain could have been used to make sarin gas. Suspects have been consistently providing conflicting and incoherent facts on this matter,” the indictment said.

According to the prosecutors, Turkish chemical dealers told the prime suspect Qassap that two of the eight chemicals he was trying to acquire were subject to state approval.

The indictment says Qassap confessed that he moved to the city of Antakya following the instructions of the leader of al-Qaeda-linked Ahrar al-Sham Brigades, Abu Walid.

“After I arrived in Antakya, other rebel groups had come into contact with me. While some had asked me for medicine and other humanitarian aid supplies, others wanted to obtain military equipment,” he told prosecutors.

The investigation was launched after security forces received a tip suggesting that some anti-Syria militants were looking to procure materials that could be used to produce chemical weapons.

Qassap and five Turkish suspects are under arrest while five others have been released.  Sarin has been classified as a weapon of mass destruction in UN Resolution 687.

Dramatic report: Inside the battle for Syria ancient Christian village (Video)

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Anti-Assad rebels have been forced out of many parts of Syria’s ancient Christian village of Maaloula, but the fighting there remains heavy, RT correspondent Maria MaaloulaFinoshina reports from the scene.

After arriving in the center of the village Wednesday, Maria Finoshina and the RT camera crew saw signs of a recent battle and heard shelling. Syrian Army soldiers said the village was freed from jihadists. The claim would later in the day turn out to be premature.

Al-Nusra Front fighters first attacked the village last Wednesday. The following seven days saw Maaloula torn between the rebels and government forces, with both occasionally gaining control over the village.

Some residents, who claim rebels have resorted to looting, executions and forcing residents to convert to Islam, chose to join the Army to defend their village. Among them, Saba Ubeid, a store owner, said when filmed by RT in 2012 that he was sure the rebels would never come to the village. This time he was armed with a gun and fought alongside Syrian soldiers.

“They sent terrorists here from all corners of the world to kill Syrian people and each other. Why? I ask the world, why?” he cried out. “While in Europe if a citizen is simply slapped in his face, there’ll be a scandal. While Syrians — how many victims, how many hundreds of thousands have been slaughtered? When it will stop?”

CrossTalk: Disarming Obama (Video)

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The president’s position on Syria has turned into one of the biggest American foreign policy blunders in decades. Is the fiasco with Iraq still Disarming Obamaaffecting present decisions? What role do Israel and Saudi Arabia play in Obama’s calculations? And, what could potentially stop a strike on Syria? CrossTalking with Flynt Leverett, Meir Javedanfar and Ivan Eland

Senate shelves resolution on miltary strike against Syria, deferring to diplomacy (Video)

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By Karen DeYoung, Ed O’Keefe and Colum Lynch, Washington Post,

Obama_US_Syria-0c7daThe Senate is shelving for now a resolution to authorize the use of force against Syria, deferring to diplomatic efforts as Secretary of State John F. Kerry prepares for a potentially crucial meeting Thursday with his Russian counterpart in Geneva on a proposal to disarm Syria’s chemical weapons.

Announcing the move on the Senate floor Wednesday afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) said, “We’ve agreed on a way forward based on the president’s speech last night.” He referred to President Obama’s nationally televised address in which he said he would seize the diplomatic opening offered by the Russians, while also arguing that the United States must retaliate for a Syrian chemical weapons attack last month if the

Barack Obama Address To The Nation On Syria – FULL – 9/10/13

Reid said the Senate would move on so as “not to tread water” on the Syrian issue. But talks on the wording of a new use-of-force resolution against Syria will continue among members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and other senior senators who are often involved in foreign affairs and military policy.

Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will try to forge agreement on how to launch — and enforce — an international effort to transfer and destroy Syria’s arsenal of chemical weapons, which the government of President Bashar al-Assad allegedly used on Aug. 21 to kill more than 1,400 civilians in rebel-held or contested areas outside Damascus.

Although Russia proposed the international effort Monday — and quickly elicited backing from Syria — Lavrov and President Vladi­mir Putin just as quickly rejected a French proposal for a U.N. Security Council resolution to establish a legally binding chemical inspection regime, backed by the authorization to use force if Syria did not comply.

Putin called the threat of military action “unacceptable” and said a weapons deal would work only if the United States and its allies renounced using force against Syria.

In his speech Tuesday night, Obama told Americans that he would try one last time to eliminate the outlawed weapons through diplomacy. But if that effort fails, he said, the United States must be willing to launch military strikes that would degrade Assad’s ability to use such weapons.

“Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security, are at stake in Syria, along with our leadership of a world where we seek to ensure that the worst weapons will never be used.” Obama said.

Obama’s much-anticipated speech drew little reaction from world leaders overnight and mixed responses at home.

James Corbett Talks 9/11 Truth on The Power Hour (Video) (Audeo)

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James joins Joyce Riley of The Power Hour to discuss the 9/11 anniversary, the ridiculous nature of the official 9/11 conspiracy theory, and what James-Corbett-125-x-125--2we really do know about what happened that day. We also take calls and answer listener questions about 9/11 truth.
 

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‘Help Obama start WWIII’: Mock kickstarter campaign wants your $1.6trn (Video)

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A mock ad in the style of a saccharine political campaign commercial has brought together the smiling faces of Obama’s America to declare: “Yes, we can start World War Three!”

kickstarter-campaign-war-obama_siWith crowd funding all the rage and America “dead-ass broke,” “The Americans for Whatever Barack Obama Wants, did you know he’s friends with Jay-Z?” have launched an ambitious Kickstarter campaign to fund World War III… sort of.

The parody video, replete with the soothing voices, faces and xylophone-centric background music which form the staple of so much political advertising in the States, calls on donors to help raise $1.6 trillion on behalf of the US government.

“The $1.6 trillion that we raise will help create a war that truly puts the liberal in neo-liberal. There will be millions of troops, thousands of organic grass-fed bombs, hybrid Prius tanks, rockets controlled by iPads and drones that play The Lumineers while they attack.”

In a nod to the Occupy movement’s “We are the 99 percent” slogan, the campaign promises to fight a war that engulfs the entire globe, not like “those other Republican wars fought on just 1 percent of the world.”

For those willing to pony up cash in the hopes of kickstarting World War III, IV, “and any moon war the president might want to start,” the rewards are certainly befitting of the iHipster generation.

$10 will get donors a shout-out on social media, letting the whole world know #yousupportObamaandWorldWarIII. Cough up $25 and a piece of rubble from a war-torn Middle Eastern country personally kissed by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham is yours. A hundred bucks gets you a day pass out of the Wi-Fi-equipped refugee camp we’ll probably all be living in, while a $10 million donation rents you your own senator for a year.

The video has already gone viral, collecting 550,000 YouTube hits in two days. And if would be donors have any doubts on why they should cough up the cash, the message is crystal clear: because of Obama.