The War Against Syria

Before that, he [General Hassan Shateri] had served in Afghanistan and Iraq. As commander of the Iranian Committee for the Reconstruction of Lebanon, [so we see evidence of Iran trying to be a positive influence in the region by offering assistance while the entire region is being reorganized and decorated with NATO and American military installations and weaponry] he ran a yearly budget of $200 million, which was used for reconstruction of homes and civil and military infrastructures. In that function, he moved in Lebanon and Syria using a pseudonym "Hussam Hush Nevis" (Roman spelling may vary); at the moment of his assassination, he was in Syria to study reconstruction plans for the northern city of Aleppo.

In late December 1999, in an interview with The Observer in London, Carla Del Ponte was asked if she was prepared to press criminal charges against NATO personnel for alleged war crimes in Kosovo by NATO pilots and their commanders. She replied "If I am not willing to do that, I am not in the right place. I must give up my mission".



This was followed by various negative official responses, military and civilian, from the US and Canada. Del Ponte's office subsequently issued a statement, dated four days later: "NATO is not under investigation by the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICTY. There is no formal inquiry into the actions of NATO during the conflict in Kosovo".

Ancient Roman-era Odyssey mosaics in northern Syria have been stolen, reminding the world about the increasing pillage of historic Syrian artifacts. The ongoing conflict in the war-torn country has prevented authorities from preserving the treasures.

Ancient mosaics depicting scenes from Homer's ‘Odyssey’ have been illegally excavated at an archeological site and smuggled to Lebanon, Syrian Minister of Culture Lubana Mushaweh said in an interview with government daily Tishreen on Sunday. "We have been informed that these mosaics are now on the Syrian-Lebanese border," she said. Mushaweh also recalled an 8th-century-BC Aramaic gold-plated bronze statue stolen from a museum in Hama, which has become a battlefield in the conflict between the Syrian army and rebel forces. In December 2012, the statue was put on Interpol’s ‘Most Wanted Works of Art’ poster.



Mushaweh said that the Culture Ministry is unable to protect some “10,000 historical sites scattered around Syria,” and warned that illegal excavations would “damage some sites and buried cities." However, she stressed that Syria’s museums are "well-guarded," and that the most valuable artifacts “have been archived and placed in very secure locations."

Slimane Hadj Abderrahmane: From Guantanamo to Syria
February 20, 2013 By Al Hittin
Danish jihadist reported dead (The Copenhagen Post)
- By The Copenhagen Post

Reports suggest that 39-year-old Slimane Hadj Abderrahmane has been killed in Syria (Photo: Scanpix)

Media reports suggest that 39-year-old Danish citizen Slimane Hadj Abderrahmane has been killed in combat in Syria. Abderrahmane, born to a Danish mother and Algerian father, is known for the two years he spent in American custody at the Guantanamo military base after being captured in Afghanistan in 2001.



“Slimane was a man who could not stand to see Muslims suppressed, so a few months ago he travelled to Syria to once again perform Jihad and do his duty to fight Allah’s enemies,” the Facebook group Islamisk Budskab wrote on Sunday. “He packed his rucksack, said goodbye to his wife and children, headed to Copenhagen Airport and flew onward toward the war in Syria.”