Those wonderful people who brought you The Big Mac, Mom's apple Pie, Burger King and Kentucky Fried People are at it again. And all because Binyamin Netanyahu was able to tell his partner in war crimes, just what he needed to hear: The absolutely, without question, no doubt at all genuine, 100% verifiably true information, obtained by the Israeli Mossad (Motto: By Way Of Deception, Thou Shalt Do War) that Bashar al Assad was guilty of gassing his own people, in a situation where the Syrian leader knew that the United States navy was poised on his own doorstep to take action if he did anything so stupid as to gas his own people while the United States navy was poised on his own doorstep.

Also, compelling circumstantial evidence that Israel may well have been complicit in the 9/11 attacks on the United States and that seven Middle Eastern countries were on America's hit list long before 9/11.

Washington Post: U.S. weapons reaching Syrian rebels
Jason Ditz: CIA Begins Delivering Arms to Syrian Rebels
Antiwar.com: Al-Qaeda Seizes Syria Village, Kills 12 Alawite Civilians
Gilad Atzmon: Getting Off The Tree

It is alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts has become commonplace for the US, President Vladimir Putin said in an editorial for The New York Times. Putin however has welcomed Barack Obama’s decision to develop a compromise on Syria. ■ In a lengthy piece titled A Plea for Caution from Russia, the President reminded that the United Nations was created as a universal instrument of preventing devastating wars. "No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage,” Putin wrote. “This is possible if influential countries bypass the United Nations and take military action without Security Council authorization.” Putin said that while no one doubts that poison gas was indeed used in Syria, there is “every reason to believe it was used not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces, to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons.” “Reports that militants are preparing another attack — this time against Israel — cannot be ignored,” he added.

The Guardian: Vladimir Putin warns US not to launch attack in Syria
Voice of Russia: Moscow is not defending Assad but int'l law - Putin
The Telegraph: Vladimir Putin writes opinion piece in The New York Times on Syria

NSA 'routinely' shares Americans' data with Israel - Snowden leak ■ The NSA regularly shares raw US intelligence data with Israel without even removing information about American citizens, according to the latest revelation published by the Guardian. The report is based on a document leaked by Edward Snowden. On Tuesday, September 11, the Guardian published a previously undisclosed document which revealed top-secret policies in place since 2009 that are used to share personal phone and Internet data pertaining to United States citizens with American ally Israel. The document, a five-page memorandum authorized by the National Security Agency near the beginning of US President Barack Obama’s first administration, outlines a deal between the NSA and Israel’s SIGINT National Unit, or ISNU.

Glenn Greenwald: NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel
Sherrie Questioning All: U.S. government is committing Treason against All it's citizens

Israel may have struck it rich twice – once with indications of oil off the southern coast and twice with the prospect of Hamas and Abbas fighting it out over probably claims to the Israeli discovery. ● A new oil discovery in southern Israel might turn out to be the catalyst for an internal and self-destructive war in the Palestinian Authority, with Hamas in Gaza and chairman Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah likely to claim ownership of a new Israeli offshore oil discovery near Ashdod. When the Tamar and Leviathan gas and oil fields off the Haifa and Hadera coast, in northern Israel, were discovered, Lebanon and Hezbollah quickly claimed that energy reserves were in their territorial waters. The oil and gas reserves are clearly within Israel’s territorial waters, but the fields could extend as far as the waters off the Lebanese coast. Lebanon warned the American Noble Energy company not to approach its territory, and Hezbollah it would go to war over the oil and gas fields. Since then, Israel has brought gas into production, and Lebanon and Hezbollah have kept quiet, partly because the United States has mediated by proposing a boundary between Lebanon and Israel’s maritime economic zones. Now comes the Israeli Shemen Oil and Gas Company which reported on Saturday indications of “high quality of oil” following offfshore drilling at its Yam-3 well, 10 miles from the southern port city of Ashdod, located only a few miles north of Gaza. The drilling reached a depth of 19,000 feet undersea, but the possibility of commercial production awaits further tests.

A former CIA station chief in Italy has written to the country's president, pleading to be pardoned and absolved for his role in the kidnapping of a Muslim cleric under the United States' controversial "extraordinary rendition" policy. ● Robert Seldon Lady said in the letter that the US and Italian governments knew full well about the abduction of the Egyptian terror suspect and that his life had been ruined after being sentenced in absentia to prison for his role in the operation. Lady was CIA station chief in Milan when the cleric, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, was snatched from a street in the northern Italian city and flown to Egypt. The imam claimed that during seven months of interrogation, he was tortured by the Egyptians. Lady was among 23 Americans sentenced in absentia at a trial in Italy in 2009, but escaped jail because he had already fled the country. He received the heaviest sentence – nine years. The letter to Giorgio Napolitano, Italy's president, is remarkably candid and heartfelt for a former spy, and was obtained by the Corriere della Sera newspaper.

AWIP: Ex-CIA Milan chief detained in Panama
John Goetz and Matthias Gebauer: CIA Rendition Case: US Pressured Italy to Influence Judiciary

A US-led airstrike has killed a young girl and injured three other civilians in Afghanistan, which has been occupied by foreign forces since 2001. ● The attack took place on Wednesday in Nejrab district in the northeastern province of Kapisa, reports said. According to local sources, the injured are all in critical condition. The US military confirmed the attack, claiming that it targeted Taliban "militants". The attack came just a day after a US airstrike left six people dead in Ghazni province. Civilian casualties from US and NATO operations have been a serious bone of contention between Kabul and Washington.

Russian prosecutors said Tuesday that they found a young man who was raised in a southern Siberian forest by reclusive parents and still lives in a dugout – all alone. ● The 20-year-old told prosecutors in the Altai region that his parents unexpectedly abandoned him in May, a local prosecutor told RIA Novosti. The young man has no papers, but said he was born in 1993 near the village of Kaitanak in southwestern Altai, the prosecutor said. “He has no education, no social skills and no ideas about the world beyond the forest,” the prosecutor said, adding that the young man’s parents had lived in the forest since 1997. “The young man is now still there, in his dugout, getting ready for winter, collecting firewood.” He said that the local prosecutor’s office will “definitely help” the young man once a local court issues an ID for him. The young man is, unfortunately, not the only Russian child raised without social and even communicative skills. In Russia, they are dubbed “Mowgli children” after a character in Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book” who was raised by wild wolves.

ClickOrlando: 'Forest boy' found after 16 years in wilderness
IBT: Siberian ‘Forest Boy’ Found After 16 Years, Altai Krai Man ‘Looked Normal And Healthy’

Members of the European Parliament have officially nominated whistleblower and former CIA employee Edward Snowden for the prestigious prize, which celebrates freedom of thought. ● Edward Snowden "deserves to be honored for shedding light on the systematic infringements of civil liberties by US and European secret services," leaders of the parliament's Greens group Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Rebecca Harms said in a statement. "Snowden has risked his freedom to help us protect ours." Snowden, a computer specialist and former contractor for the US National Security Agency (NSA), was the focus of an international manhunt during the summer after he leaked classified files of US government and UK surveillance programs, including spying on their closest allies, to the media.