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Is Assad running largest death factories since Hitler? <http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2014/01/is-assad-running-largest-death.html> > *Evidence of 'industrial-scale killing' by Syria spurs call for war > crimes charges* > > Senior war crimes prosecutors say photographs and documents provide > 'clear evidence' of systematic killing of 11,000 detainees > > Ian Black, Middle East editor > Monday 20 January 2014 14.00 EST > Syrian government officials could face war crimes charges in the light > of a huge cache of evidence smuggled out of the country showing the > "systematic killing" of about 11,000 detainees, according to three > eminent international lawyers. > > The three, former prosecutors at the criminal tribunals for the former > Yugoslavia and Sierra Leone, examined thousands of Syrian government > photographs and files recording deaths in the custody of regime > security forces from March 2011 to last August. *More...* <http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2014/01/is-assad-running-largest-death.html> Bashar al-Jihad: How Assad finances terrorists with oil <http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2014/01/bashar-al-jihad-how-assad-finances.html> > Syria's Assad accused of boosting Al-Qaeda with secret oil deals > > > /Western intelligence suggests Bashar al-Assad collaborating with > jihadists to persuade West the uprising is terrorist-led > / > By Ruth Sherlock, in Istanbul and Richard Spencer > 7:53PM GMT 20 Jan 2014 > > The Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad has funded and > co-operated with al-Qaeda in a complex double game even as the > terrorists fight Damascus, according to new allegations by Western > intelligence agencies, rebels and al-Qaeda defectors. > > Jabhat al-Nusra, and the even more extreme Islamic State of Iraq and > al-Shams (ISIS), the two al-Qaeda affiliates operating in Syria, have > both been financed by selling oil and gas from wells under their > control to and through the regime, intelligence sources have told The > Daily Telegraph. > /"Assad's vow to strike terrorism with an iron fist is nothing > more than bare-faced hypocrisy."/ > > /"It happened once that a Syrian regime officer and 11 others > defected and drove their vehicle through Masila. We received > ordered to arrest them and hand them over back to the regime,"/ > --detained al-Qaeda member said. > *More...* <http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2014/01/bashar-al-jihad-how-assad-finances.html> ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com