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Syria says ready to consider Russian air defense deal - paper20/08/2008 11:27 MOSCOW, August 20 (RIA Novosti) - Syria is ready to discuss deploying Iskander missile-defense systems on its territory, but it has not received any proposals from Russia, the country's president told a Russian business daily.President Bashar Assad, who arrived in Russia on a two-day working on Wednesday, said in an interview...
Via ID , it appears that the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov is deploying from Murmansk to the Mediterranean. The expectation seems to be that she will operate (at least for a short period) out of the Syrian port of Tartus, which has been the focal point of negotiations between Russia and Syria for quite some time . Ironically enough, Admiral Kuznetsov was originally named Tblisi .... A...
MINA The Russian aircraft carrier “Admiral Kuznetsov” is ready to head from Murmansk towards the Mediterranean and the Syrian port of Tartus. The mission comes after Syrian President Bashar Assad said he is open for a Russian base in the area. The “Admiral Kuznetsov”, part of the Northern Fleet and Russia’s only aircraft carrier, will head a Navy mission to the area. The mission will also include the...
Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad backed Russia's military action against Georgia at talks with President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday that were expected to cover purchases of Russian arms....
(CNN) — On his first campaign conference call as a surrogate for John McCain, Rudy Giuliani accused an unpaid advisor for Barack Obama’s presidential effort of engaging in a freelance diplomatic “mission” when he met with a Syrian official last month in Damascus. Giuliani said Daniel Kurtzer, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel who also served [...]
At first blush, this report in the New York Sun seems to have very little relevance to the presidential campaign. Republican or Democrat, will make a Syrian-Israeli peace agreement a priority only if the two sides, meeting now in Turkey, make substantial progress before the inauguration. That is what a foreign policy adviser to Senator Obama told [...]
By Amanda Carpenter Barack Obama’s Middle East Policy Adviser recently discussed presidential politics with high-level Syrian officials during a conference underwritten Syrian business interests and a Canadian oil company. Adviser Daniel Kurtzer told the New York Sun the trip was not related to his campaign work, but that he did discuss the next president’s role in Syria’s relationship with Israel...
It's like pregnancy. You either are or you are not. There is no middle ground. Obama has previously said he would unconditionally meet with the presidents of Syria and Iran. Now one of his advisors has gone to Syria to offer some advice to Syria's leaders. Daniel Kurtzer, one of Obama's many, many foreign policy advisers, went to Syria and met with Syria's Foreign Minister, Walid al-Moallem. Kurtzer...
Syrian deputy prime minister for economic affairs Abdullah Dardari has said that his country is luring record foreign investment, mostly from Gulf states, and that U.S. sanctions have had a limited impact. "I don't think the U.S. has managed ... August 20, 2008, 10:43 am
The Lebanese daily Al-Safir reports that recently there have been contacts "far from the spotlights" between Syria and envoys close to U.S. presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama. Source: Al-Safir, Lebanon, August 19, ... August 19, 2008, 10:17 am
And the Republican response to this news ? McCain campaign deputy communications director Michael Goldfarb said: "If one of Senator Obama's advisers has been to Damascus, we just wonder how many have been to Tehran." The point of this quote is to put a false, negative, misleading question into voters' heads. It suggests that multiple people from the Obama campaign have been secretly negotiating with...
Foreign Confidential. ... Israeli analysts say Russia is striking back at the US in the Middle East. DEBKAfile reports: a powerful Russian naval contingent, led by the aircraft carrier , left Murmansk on the Barents Sea Aug. 18 to dock at the Syrian Mediterranean port of Tartus Saturday, Aug. 23. It includes the Russian Navy’s biggest missile cruiser and at least four nuclear missile submarines. At...
Bashar says "Israel always invades, and cannot be trusted, and we are working daily to strengthen our defenses, but we do not know whether Israel is planning a war, and we cannot ignore this possibility... We have seen nothing from Israel but harm... Evil." Working Group on the Middle EastPeace Process: Israel to attack Syria?
yeah maybe its true that its help him i mean cuz hes black but also u cant say its the only reason that he is there right now is his skin color dont u think so?
The City of Ugarit was a well-known city and kingdom which flourished during the second millennium BCE, located on the coast of the Mediterranean in today's northern Syria. The location of the city was unknown until 1928, when a grave discovered by accident in the village of Ras Shamra turned out to be part of the Ugarit necropolis.
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