This video footage that recently surfaced shows jihadi militants from the Islam Battalion that operates in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta and led by Zahran Alloush launching an operation called "al-Reeh al-Sarsar" (Almighty Wind) on the Damascus suburb of al-Qaboun at the early morning of Wednesday, August 21, 2013.

The video shows men wearing gas masks and firing an artillery shell while shouting Allahu Akbar! The name of 'al-Reeh al-Sarsar' is coincidentally the name of the "chemical brigade" that posted videos threatening the use of chemicals on Syrian government supporters, especially Alawites, while testing the chemicals on rabbits.

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Investigative journalist Pepe Escobar says Syria’s enemies will not stop pushing for a war, warning that the CIA-trained militants have already entered into the country. ● Escobar, who works with the Hong Kong-based Asia Times Online newspaper, made the remarks during an interview with Press TV on Tuesday. On Monday, the United Nations issued a report by UN investigators, which said sarin nerve agent was used in an attack that allegedly killed hundreds of people in the suburbs of Damascus last month. The UN team's mandate did not include assigning blame for the attack. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned the use of chemical weapons in Syria as "a war crime" and demanded that the perpetrators of the deadly attack be brought to justice. Escobar said that the United States, France and Britain “want a Chapter 7 UN Security Council resolution which has the inbuilt possibility of launching a war against Syria in case of noncompliance, and they do not specify what kind of noncompliance would that be.”

Umberto Pascali: The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff announces publicly the creation of a world internet system INDEPENDENT from US and Britain ( the “US-centric internet”). ■ Not many understand that, while the immediate trigger for the decision (coupled with the cancellation of a summit with the US president) was the revelations on NSA spying, the reason why Rousseff can take such a historic step is that the alternative infrastructure: The BRICS cable from Vladivostock, Russia to Shantou, China to Chennai, India to Cape Town, South Africa to Fortaleza, Brazil, is being built and it’s, actually, in its final phase of implementation. No amount of provocation and attempted “Springs” destabilizations and Color Revolution in the Middle East, Russia or Brazil can stop this process. The huge submerged part of the BRICS plan is not yet known by the broader public. Nonetheless it is very real and extremely effective. So real that international investors are now jumping with both feet on this unprecedented real economy opportunity. The change… has already happened.

JaxRevenge ■ On September 11, 1988, 40 years after the murder of Bernadotte, the Israeli daily newspaper "Yediot Ahronot" came out with an article written by the paper’s political reporter, Ronni Shaked. For the first time since the murder, the men who did the killing came forward and told in detail how the murder took place. Yehoshua Zetler, the commander of the Jerusalem unit of the Stern Gang in 1948 proudly told how he plotted and had Bernadotte killed. When he was asked, "If you could relive your life, would you still have murdered the UN diplomat?" He stated, "There would be no hesitation; the UN diplomat had to be killed in order to safeguard the nation of Israel." What is important for the reader in 2003 to know is that this murder was well thought out and that it was approved by two well known Jewish leaders, each of whom held the post of prime minister of Israel, Menachem Begin (1983-1984) and Yizhak Shamir (1986-1990). At the time of the murder, Begin was the commander of the Irgun and Shamir the head of the Stern Gang.

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