'US, some allies blamed for Syria crisis'
Delegates at an international peace conference in Turkey have blamed the United States and some of its allies in the Middle East for creating the crisis in Syria, Press TV reports. - The participants from twenty-three different nationalities at the conference in Istanbul said on Sunday that the imperialistic designs of the US, certain Western states, Qatar and Saudi Arabia are to blame for the crisis, Press TV's Istanbul correspondent Serena Shim reported. Cathy Goodman came all the way from the United States to show her discontent in what she calls her country is doing in the region, especially in the Syrian conflict. Cathy told Press TV that the United States, with the help of its regional allies, was invading and destroying certain countries in the region because it wants to establish its hegemony over the oil rich Middle East. "All of the American imperialist adventures have to be funded by American tax dollars... it comes directly out of our paychecks. Unfortunately, under [US President Barack] Obama we had the largest military budget in our history. We are trying to stop imperialist aggression -- in all of its different manifestations." The representative of the US peace council said ordinary Americans don't know what's going on in the Middle East because of what she called a sanitized biased media propaganda campaign.
Anhar Kocheneva is a Ukrainian journalist, who was captured and held captive by the foreign-backed militates in Syria for 25 days. "I was not scared, and I am still not scared. They are terrorists. And I had to tell the story. They claim they are Islamists, but they are not Islamists. They say it is a revolution, but it is not. It is terrorism," Kocheneva said.