U.S. Provides Communications Aid to Syrian Opposition
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
The United States on Thursday acknowledged providing communications equipment and other forms of assistance to members of the "peaceful opposition" in Syria.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the aid is part of "non-lethal" assistance to Syrians living under President Bashar Assad's regime, and part of a global effort to support Internet freedom.
Nuland declined to elaborate on the aid, but a source familiar with the effort said it includes things such as anonymizing software, and satellite phones with GPS capabilities "to document the location of atrocities."
Nuland said the Internet freedom initiatives are part of "programs that we do around the world that we've been doing with Syrians and many, many other countries for quite a long time."
These are programs "that help citizens in countries where the Internet is restricted or unavailable to find ways to have access to the Internet so that they can know their fundamental freedom to expression and access to information is respected," she told a press briefing.
The United States has spent $76 million since 2008 for these programs around the world and has another $25 million that will be allocated this year.
Nuland said that additional aid for Syria "is largely in the communications area" and is "designed to help those who are subjected to government intrusion, government interruption of their ability to communicate with each other, to do so to help support unity among the peaceful opposition."
Time magazine reported this week that the State Department has been providing media-technology training and support to Syrian dissidents by way of small nonprofits.
Asked about the report, Nuland said it was "greatly over-revved."
15 June 2012, 10:14
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@mowaten
I went through these articles as a courtesy, and would advise they have been rebucked way back, especially the one from Mère Agnès-Mariam de la Croix, and they were judged totally not credible. :) nice try.
anyway, according to an interesting analysis by Dorgham yesterday, which is undoubtedly in the right circles, this week is a crucial one for syria, as there will be a major meeting of the major powers plus Putin.
3 expected outcomes:
- an agreement is sturck, whereby a transitional regime comes in place.
- no agreement, and interventions the serbian way.
- or else, like afghanistan.
it is going to be interesting to see this develop...
15 June 2012, 11:33
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@mowaaten
your stupidity is not measurable these days :)
revert to articles of the press who explain this subject in detail: it is not me who judge them so :)
15 June 2012, 10:19
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@mowaten
you talk about fanatics: what is hizbushaitan?
you talk about far right: what are Ft, kaim and yourself?
you talk about paid propagandists: what are Ft, kaim and yourself?
you come to a website where moderate people try to discuss events, and you guys bring constant insults, nazist ideas of killing or manning everyone else with whom you disagree, tagging them with wahhabi lovers, israeli agents and so on...
honestly you make me laugh :)
15 June 2012, 11:55
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lol
"Agnès Mariam de la Croix est une proche de Thierry Meyssan, qui lui même est le “scénariste” de la désinformation d’al-Assad et ses alliés (Kadhafi en 2011… Hezbollah, Kremlin, mollarchie iranienne, Hamas…). La nature antisémite de cette désinformation n’est plus à démontrer, elle a gagné sa popularité dans les années précédant les révoltes arabes, sur fond de révisionnisme des attentats du 11 septembre 2001..."
http://contresubversion.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/mere-agnes-1-agnes-mariam-de-la-croix-et-le-reseau-de-propagande-francophone-dal-assad/
15 June 2012, 12:18
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"Mère Agnès Marie de la Croix reconnaît que ses informations proviennent des moukhabarat syriens"
http://syrie.blog.lemonde.fr/2011/11/20/mere-agnes-marie-de-la-croix-reconnait-que-ses-informations-proviennent-des-moukhabarat-syriens/
moreover, voltaire is a well known propagandist site with zero credibility affiliated to far right groups and that all european media know for its desinformation....
15 June 2012, 13:10
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yes voltaire is known for its zero credibility...and it was financed at the origin by a producer of porno movies...
it is not journalism by mere populism that work on gullible pepople like you. you d better check and inform yourself about this site, you ll be surprised! it isn t because the iranian regime invites meyssan that it is a honourable site....
15 June 2012, 14:12
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Peace...momo here is all about conspiracy theories...he's always digging to find some info that will reassure his convictions, and ends up digging trash from lunatics...bah...let him enjoy... ;)
15 June 2012, 13:38
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lalibre doesn t give any evidence or proof of what they write, just the relay testimonies of people but couldn t verify if true or not...they were invited by the syrian regime to do that report...
but when numerous sites say that your nun is a tool of the assad regime you do not believe it...
when proofs that voltaire is only a tabloid site created only to make money you do not believe it... (source: valeurs actuelles du 2 sept 2002 which is an economic magazine and has nothing to do with politics!!!)
we tell you that the sky is blue you won t believe it too...
useless to talk to you if you deny even facts...so you are just wasting my time, so long friend..
15 June 2012, 14:07
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what s your point? you want to make believe thatbashar s army and it s terrorist shabbiha are the victims? they don t do anything but are just the target of the syiran citizens?
you want to make us believe that after a year of shelling killing of its people nobody would react or that they do not have the right to react?
you want to make us believe that is is all a conspiracy against the gentle and democrat bashar?
you are so funny in your desperate attempt to protect your beloved regime...
just tell us that the syrian army is just reacting to the terrorists and they never started firng people like rabbits....
15 June 2012, 15:37
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"but rather that they are fighting organized groups who use citizen casualties at their advantage"
as the syrian official TV says....and bashar is the poor victim.
but not surprising from someone supporting those who thanked syria for all the good deeds they did in lebanon...
15 June 2012, 15:47
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you d rather ask yourself who is responsible for the chaos going on in syria? bashar and its shabbiha. the revolt was peaceful for months but citizens got shot and killed by the regime. mowaten and his friends believe that they would shut up and comply, as heroes they are!
people getting shot at what do you expect would happen? throw flowers at the syrian army for killing them? you are so funny and naive...
so the regime let the situation rot and of course chaos came. now, to justify what they willingly created they come with the terrorist conspiracy!
you believe as so called democrats that a regime should fire its citizens who are peacefully demonstrating?
you are just supporting a terrorist regime that claims to be victim but which has created every thing to make believe they are victims! but they are at the root of all those problems...
they provoke everything then act as the poor offensed virgin and of course M8 does everything they can to back that stupid scenario...
15 June 2012, 15:56
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and after all that the syrians did in lebanon, the killings, the tortures, the kidnappings, the destruction of entire villages, the installement of the corruption in lebanon, the theft of the lebanese treasury, the humiliations, the division of the country,...
you still support that regime??? you must have the stockholm syndrom!
you should on the contrary be happy to see the end of a regime which hurt so badly lebanon! they harmed lebanon as much as israel if not even worse! you would be happy to see israel disappear but not the syrian regime? they killed so many people in lebanese families!
or i guess you regret they left lebanon because ou are losing some privileges? or you fear your leaders who lick the feet of bashar would have some problems? that is rather it, as good faithful M8 you are with your double standards...afraid aoun doesn t get his pay check or hezb having trouble getting its arms and money...
