White Helmets
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BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:00 A.M.) – The Jordanian Foreign Minister Aymen Safadi informed his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Sunday that the hundreds of White Helmets personnel that fled southwest Syria had arrived safely in Jordan from Israel.
“Safadi, in particular, reported the arrival of ‘The White Helmets’ to Jordan, who will be sent to some western countries after a short stay,” a statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry read on Sunday.
Some 800 members of the White Helmets were rescued by Israel on Saturday night after successful coordination between a number of parties, including the U.S. and Great Britain.
Furthermore, the two veteran diplomats discussed a number of topics, including the repatriation of the Syrian refugees in Jordan and their continued cooperation along the border.
“Discussed situation#Syria with #Russia FM Lavrov. We’ll maintain strong coordination to find peaceful solution to crisis that’ll preserve integrity of Syria & Its people accept. Discussed situation #South & Russian ideas for repatriation of refugees. Effective cooperation,” Safadi tweeted on Sunday evening.
“Safadi, in particular, reported the arrival of ‘The White Helmets’ to Jordan, who will be sent to some western countries after a short stay,” a statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry read on Sunday.
Some 800 members of the White Helmets were rescued by Israel on Saturday night after successful coordination between a number of parties, including the U.S. and Great Britain.
Furthermore, the two veteran diplomats discussed a number of topics, including the repatriation of the Syrian refugees in Jordan and their continued cooperation along the border.
“Discussed situation
There is a thread on White Helmets here: White Helmets and I guess this should be merged.
Done
Soo.... why do the White Helmets have to be RESCUED from Syria if they are the good guys helping Syrians???
They are obviously the paid terrorists and there must have been some deal made to let them go. Well, good luck to the "Western Countries" that receive them.
They are obviously the paid terrorists and there must have been some deal made to let them go. Well, good luck to the "Western Countries" that receive them.
And they probably weren’t all Syrian to begin with.And in countries like Canada, this is after reintegrating ISIS fighters.
angelburst29
The Living Force
Mon Jul 23, 2018 - Israel Evacuates 3,000 Foreign Intelligence Officers, Own Spies, White Helmets from Southern Syria
Farsnews
Israel has evacuated a sum of 2,200 foreign intelligence officers and spies along with 800 members of the pro-militant White Helmets Organization from Southern Syria, a media outlet disclosed on Monday.
The Arabic-language al-Mayadeen tv network quoted well-informed sources as disclosing that Israel has evacuated a sum of 2,200 Saudi, Qatari and Emirati intelligence officers and spies from Southern Syria via occupied Palestinian territories.
It further said that the total number of the spies and White Helmets who have been transferred from Southern Syria to the member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization via Jordan and via the occupied Palestinian territories stands at 3,000.
Al-Mayadeen went on to say that the evacuation operation has been carried out at Washington's order to Al-Mouk Operation Room in Jordan, adding that 800 of the evacuated people will be relocated to the US, Canada and Europe.
German tabloid Bild reported, citing its own correspondents in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, on Sunday that tens of the self-described aid workers, who operate exclusively in militant-held areas, crossed into Israel from Southwestern Syria overnight on Sunday.
The White Helmets' passage was facilitated by Israel, according to Bild, which reported they were transferred through an Israeli military base.
The evacuation kicked off at 9:30 pm local time on Saturday and was expected to continue into the night. Several roads were put on lockdown by the army and police as part of preparations for the exodus.
The Israeli army claimed that the move was carried out in line with humanitarian objectives on the request of the US and the European nations.
In the meantime, Spokesman for the Jordanian Foreign Ministry Mohammad al-Qayed was quoted by the Arabic-language website of the RT as saying that Amman has agreed the UN demand for temporary passage of 800 members of the White Helmets from Syria to settle them later in the Western nations.
He further pointed to a legal commitment promised by the UK, Germany and Canada to resettle the White Helmet members
as it is claimed by the western states that life of the Syrian members of White Helmets Organization that once were operating in militant-held region under National Defense title is now in danger as the Syrian Army is capturing the entire Southern Syria.
2018-07-23 - Israeli military evacuate White Helmets from Syria – IDF footage Video
Israeli military evacuate White Helmets from Syria - IDF footage
The Israeli military published footage on Sunday which they say shows their troops evacuating a contingent of White Helmets and their families from Syria overnight. The video was taken at an undisclosed location in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Israel helped evacuate several hundred members of the White Helmets and their families from Syria, according to the IDF.
23.07.2018 - Militant Commanders Flee With White Helmets During Syrian 'Evacuation' - Reports
Militant Commanders Flee With White Helmets During Syrian 'Evacuation' - Reports
Israeli forces have evacuated several hundred White Helmets and their family members from southern Syria to Jordan at the request of several Western countries. The move has been labeled a "criminal operation" by Damascus, who believes the NGO’s members have cooperated with extremists and plotted several false flag attacks.
At least four commanders from various Syrian militant groups were transferred to Jordan by Israeli forces during the so-called "rescue operation," which was organized in order to pull members of White Helmets and their families out of the southern Syrian provinces of Quneitra and Daara, online media outlet al-Masdar News reported.
The media named two commanders from Fursan al-Golan Brigade — Moaz Nassar and Abu Rateb, one from Saif al-Sham Brigade — Ahmad al-Nahs, and one from Jaish Ababeel — Alaa al-Halaki as those, who were evacuated during the operation. At least one of them, the Saif al-Sham Brigades (Sword of the Levant Brigades) was previously associated with the terrorist group Jabhat al-Nusra*.
Al-Masdar also reported, citing anonymous sources, that these commanders were allegedly recruited by Israeli intelligence a long time ago.
Tel Aviv hasn't commented yet on the information regarding the militants' extraction from Syria or their alleged work with Israeli intelligence agencies.
Mon Jul 23, 2018 - Terrorists Destroy Own Supply Line to Israel before Withdrawal from Southern Syria
Farsnews
The terrorist groups retreating from Quneitra in Southwestern Syria destroyed their main supply line to Israel on Monday before their mass exodus from the province under an agreement with the Syrian Army.
The terrorists of Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) set fire at a passageway through which they were receiving arms and ammunition from Israel.
The terrorists further burned one of their arms depots at a base which was once a center of International Peace Keepers in Quneitra.
In the meantime, local sources reported that a sum of 959 terrorists that had refused the Syrian army's peace offer left Quneitra for Northern Syria on 46 buses along with their family members.
On Sunday, four notorious field commanders of the terrorist groups fled the battlefield in the Southwestern province of Quneitra towards the Palestinian occupied territories as the Syrian Army sped up the momentum of its advances in Dara'a and Quneitra.
Ma'az Nasar, the commander of Liwa Farsan al-Joulan, Ahmad al-Nahas, the commander of Alawiya Seif al-Sham, Ala al-Halqi, the commander of Jeish al-Ababil and Abu Ratib Nasar, another commander of Liwa Farsan al-Joulan escaped in Quneitra towards positions of the Israeli army.
The Syrian Army soldiers arrived at the border with the Israeli-occupied Golan after seven years and after government troops imposed control over tens of villages and towns in Quneitra.
Israel has been providing financial and military supports for the terrorist groups in Quneitra province in the past recent years.
Mon Jul 23, 2018 - Russia: Evacuation of White Helmets from Syria Lowers Chances of False-Flag Chemical Attacks
Farsnews
Evacuation of the pro-militant White Helmets Organization from Syria has decreased the possibility of more false-flag chemical attacks in Southwestern Syria, Embassy of the Russian Federation in occupied Palestine said in an ironic statement carried in a tweet on Monday.
"At least there is one positive consequence. The chances that White Helmets will use chlorine in order to stage a chemical provocation in South-West Syria have decreased," the Embassy of the Russian Federation tweeted today.
Mon Jul 23, 2018 - Damascus: Any Meeting on White Helmets' Claims about Chemical Weapons Invalid
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A senior official at the Syrian foreign ministry said that any meeting or negotiations at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and other international bodies to study the White Helmet's lies about using chemical weapons in Syria is not acceptable, stressing that there is no chemical weapons in the country.
The Syrian official underlined on Monday that Israel and its allies' move to evacuate the White Helmets, whose threats against Syria's security and stability had several times been warned by Damascus, displayed their real face.
"While Israel claims that it has no relations with the war in Syria, its evacuation of hundreds of White Helmet terrorists and other commanders of terrorist organizations in collaboration with the US, Britain, Jordan, Germany and Canada displays its support for the terrorist groups in Syria," the official said.
He added that words cannot describe the Syrian nation's wrath at the West, Israel and Jordan's support for the White Helmets, the ISIL, al-Nusra Front (Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at or the Levant Liberation Board) and other terrorist groups which deviated Syria from the path of progress.
The official stressed that any meeting or negotiations at the OPCW and other international bodies to study the White Helmet's lies about alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria is not valid, calling on them to correct their positions by disclosing the realities about White Helmets.
A media outlet disclosed on Monday that Israel has evacuated a sum of 2,200 foreign intelligence officers and spies along with 800 members of the pro-militant White Helmets Organization from Southern Syria.
23.07.2018 - France to Accept Some of White Helmets' Members After Syria 'Evacuation'
France to Accept Some of White Helmets' Members After Syria 'Evacuation'
France will accept some of the activists of the White Helmets non-governmental organization (NGO) as well as their family members following their evacuation from Syria, the French Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
France actively participates in the operation, which has allowed the White Helmets and their relatives to leave Syria where they had been facing a big threat. This operation includes their relocation to the third countries. France will take part in the acceptance of White Helmets and their families," the Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson said at a briefing.
2018-07-23 - Breaking: Syria slams Israeli evacuation of White Helmets
Breaking: Syria slams Israeli evacuation of White Helmets
The Syrian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Monday that slammed Israel’s evacuation of the Syrian Civil Defense (var. White Helmets) personnel in southwest Syria on Saturday night.
The ministry called this evacuation of the White Helmets a “criminal operation” that was carried out by “Israel and its tools.”
The ministry added that the support of the evacuation by the US, the UK, Jordan, Germany and Canada attests to the fact that these countries “back terrorists in Syria.”
Speaking to Turkish state-owned Anadolu Agency, the head of the White Helmets, Riad Saleh, said that the evacuation was necessary because the Syrian government was blocking them from leaving southwest Syria.
In response to this threat, the U.S. reportedly worked with Israel and the United Nations (UN) to help evacuate the White Helmets.
The White Helmets were the evacuated through the occupied Golan Heights and eventually transported to Jordan.
2018-07-23 - Jordan confirms arrival of White Helmets from Israel
Jordan confirms arrival of White Helmets from Israel
The Jordanian Foreign Minister Aymen Safadi informed his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Sunday that the hundreds of White Helmets personnel that fled southwest Syria had arrived safely in Jordan from Israel. “
Safadi, in particular, reported the arrival of ‘The White Helmets’ to Jordan, who will be sent to some western countries after a short stay,” a statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry read on Sunday.
Some 800 members of the White Helmets were rescued by Israel on Saturday night after successful coordination between a number of parties, including the U.S. and Great Britain.
Furthermore, the two veteran diplomats discussed a number of topics, including the repatriation of the Syrian refugees in Jordan and their continued cooperation along the border.
“Discussed situation
The ISIS fighters were all Canadians who went abroad to fight for ISIS and then wanted back in the country. But Trudeau put them through a 'rehabilitation' program. Whether they were released or are still incarcerated is all up in the air. There's been no updates on that in the past 7 months, as far as I can see.
And then you get a random shooting in Toronto... the reason these folk are being “rescued” is because they retain their utility elsewhere.
Yes, under PM Harper then, and most seemed to vanish into the hole of Jordan's ratline into Syria, or so it was recalled. There were also a number of girls from Toronto (also if recalled) that got caught up in the Canadian intelligence recruiting apparatus via Jordan that was later silenced in Parliament.
As for the radical rehabilitation program of the current PM, Venessa Beeley has this to say:
Beeley - Trudeau asserted: "We also have methods of de-emphasizing or de-programming people who want to harm our society, and those are some things we have to move forward on."
Hearing the news, was not surprised, which does not say I was not a bit ticked off. The Canadian's take their orders and said orders emanate from the usual suspects.
Yeah, just getting caught up on this TO shooting, Alejo. Have not heard enough yet.
I'm sure that the "de-programming" of our soon to be new neighbors in Canada that Trudeau confidently tells us about, may have a few Dr's skilled in Greenbuam-like methods, yet maybe not.
Oh Canada indeed.
HCSW: “TRUDEAU GOVERNMENT ADMITS TERRORIST AUXILIARIES TO CANADA”
Hamilton, Monday, July 23, 2018 Links within Bold articles emphasis
Eva Bartlett
The Hamilton Coalition To Stop The War:
TRUDEAU GOVERNMENT ADMITS TERRORIST AUXILIARIES TO CANADA
The fact that Canada is admitting as refugees at least 250 White Helmets and their family members exposes the involvement of the Trudeau government, like the Harper government before it, in the illegal, US-led, regime-change operation in Syria.
These two federal governments are collectively responsible for setting up and continuing the international coalition that produced the proxy war against Syria, using terrorist mercenaries as its footsoldiers; leading the international regime of brutal economic sanctions against Syria which turned about four million Syrians into refugees – (the international sanctions regime was drawn up in a meeting in Ottawa in June 2013); demonizing the legitimate government of Syria, breaking off diplomatic relations with it, and trying to delegitimize it in international forums; supporting armed rebels against Syria, a member state of the United Nations, by bringing their leaders to Ottawa and giving them funds; overflying Syria on military missions without the express consent of its government; and supporting the propaganda arm of the regime change operation through the White Helmets.
Now that the Syrian government has liberated Deraa, where the western-sponsored regime-change operation began in 2011, the “rebels” and their auxiliaries have had to scramble to find places of refuge. Thus, the Trudeau government has felt obliged to admit as refugees to Canada some of their foreign policy assets, namely the White Helmets.
Who are the White Helmets? The White Helmets claim to be a “fiercely independent” organization of volunteer first responders in Syria helping Syrian civilians injured in the war.
In fact, the White Helmets are a fiercely partisan organization of relatively well-paid employees, set up by British and US intelligence services inside of Turkey (a belligerent in the war against Syria) in 2013. A Madison Avenue public relations firm was contracted to develop the concept of the White Helmets as a humanitarian agency for public consumption in the West – to provide a ‘suger-coating’ to an ugly and illegal imperial war. John Lemesurier, a former British military intelligence officer and later “military contractor”, was hired to front the organization, which has been funded to the tune of about 150 million dollars by the governments of the USA, UK, France, Holland, Denmark, Japan, New Zealand, and Canada, among others. In 2016, Canada donated $4.5 million dollars to the White Helmets. Currently, a Freedom of Information request is seeking to determine if the Canadian government has made repeated donations of $4.5 million in 2017 and 2018. On top of the donations, the Canadian government has organized two cross-Canada publicity tours of White Helmet personnel in recent years in various cities. This past March, a delegation of White Helmets was welcomed to speak to the Canadian parliament’s Human Rights Committee. In addition, the New Democratic Party endorsed the White Helmets for the Nobel Peace Prize, which it failed to win.
The White Helmets are embedded in the Al-Qaeda terrorist network and operate exclusively in terrorist-held areas of Syria. Though it also calls itself the Syrian Civil Defence, the government of Syria created the real Syrian Civil Defence in 1953 and was a founding member of the International Civil Defence Organization.
Once in place inside the terrorist-occupied enclaves inside of Syria, the true role of the White Helmets emerged. The group specialized in making videos of dramatically-staged rescues of children from among the rubble of part of cities which Al-Qaeda (and sometimes other terrorist groups) had managed to seize and occupy. Two notorious staged videos stand out: the staged rescues of Omran Daqneesh in Aleppo and Hassan Diab in Douma. Occasionally, however, the White Helmets joined in recreational video competitions, such as the Mannequin Challenge. The twofold principal purposes of the child-rescue videos was, first, to demonize the Syrian government as a brutal tyranny, even though it was lawfully defending its sovereign territory against foreign invasion, and, secondly, to promote the western regime change operation in Syria as a humanitarian intervention.
Specifically, the White Helmet videos were timed to promote calls by western governments for directly military intervention in Syria by such means as a no-fly zone (similar to the one imposed on Libya in 2011) or a “civilian corridor”. And, on at least two occasions, the tactic worked. In April 2017, the White Helmets staged a false flag chemical attack on Khan Sheikhoun which prompted a US missile attack on the Sharyat Air Base in Syria. A recent outstanding example of the propaganda use of such videos was the staging of a fake nerve agent attack in Douma, Syria, on April 7 of this year. The incident, later revealed as a hoax by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), nonetheless resulted in over one hundred missile strikes by the USA, UK, and France on Syria on April 13, 2018.
In addition, the White Helmets’ true role as an auxiliary to terrorism was captured on film on several occasions when they participated in Al-Qaeda summary executions and by Facebook postings by numerous White Helmets on their personal accounts showing themselves moonlighting as armed Al-Qaeda fighters and heaping praise on Al-Qaeda leaders. Contrarily, civilians inside the enclaves in Syrian cities liberated from Al-Qaeda and ISIS told many western reporters that the White Helmets provided no medical help or assistance to them, but rather only to the armed terrorists. Moreover, real Syrian Civil Defence workers testified that many of their comrades were killed by Al-Qaeda fighters and their equipment and vehicles given to the White Helmets.
The rescue of the White Helmet “rescuers” by Israel through the Golan Heights should not come as a surprize because Israel has been a major player in the illegal, failed, regime change operation in Syria. Israel has bombed Syria more than one hundred times during the war. Israel openly supported FSA fighters with arms, intelligence, and funding in southern Syria and routinely transferred wounded terrorists to hospitals inside Israel for medical treatment before returning them to the front. Israeli PM Netanyahu posed for photos in one of those hospitals at the bedside of wounded terrorists last year. Today (July 22, 2018), in a tweet, Netanyahu stated that both President Trump and Prime Minister Trudeau personally asked for his help in rescuing the White Helmets from Syria.
Syria is well rid of these White Helmets. But, if Canadians understood who these people really were, they would strongly object to the settling of terrorists in our midst. Last November in the House of Commons, Trudeau asserted that Canadians returning from terrorist activities in Syria and Iraq would not be charged with criminal offences. Rather, he asserted, “We also have methods of de-emphasizing or de-programming people who want to harm our society, and those are some things we have to move forward on.” At the end of the day, then, the Trudeau government in effect embraces terrorist fighters and their auxiliaries.
That the Canadian government is planning to admit White Helmets personnel to Canada as refugees should gravely concern Canadians. These civil defence poseurs are ideologically committed to terrorism, personally connected to Al Qaeda, and have the blood on their hands of many Syrians whose country they helped to invade and occupy. The potential for them to cause harm in Canada is high.
We urge Canadians immediately to contact their MP’s about this matter, to spread the alarm via social media, and to write letters to newspapers. We also urge the Canadian government to do the following:
hcsw.ca
hcsw@cogeco.ca
For further info, please contact Ken Stone at 289-382-9008 or at kenstone@cogeco.ca
Hamilton, Monday, July 23, 2018 Links within Bold articles emphasis
Eva Bartlett
The Hamilton Coalition To Stop The War:
TRUDEAU GOVERNMENT ADMITS TERRORIST AUXILIARIES TO CANADA
The fact that Canada is admitting as refugees at least 250 White Helmets and their family members exposes the involvement of the Trudeau government, like the Harper government before it, in the illegal, US-led, regime-change operation in Syria.
These two federal governments are collectively responsible for setting up and continuing the international coalition that produced the proxy war against Syria, using terrorist mercenaries as its footsoldiers; leading the international regime of brutal economic sanctions against Syria which turned about four million Syrians into refugees – (the international sanctions regime was drawn up in a meeting in Ottawa in June 2013); demonizing the legitimate government of Syria, breaking off diplomatic relations with it, and trying to delegitimize it in international forums; supporting armed rebels against Syria, a member state of the United Nations, by bringing their leaders to Ottawa and giving them funds; overflying Syria on military missions without the express consent of its government; and supporting the propaganda arm of the regime change operation through the White Helmets.
Now that the Syrian government has liberated Deraa, where the western-sponsored regime-change operation began in 2011, the “rebels” and their auxiliaries have had to scramble to find places of refuge. Thus, the Trudeau government has felt obliged to admit as refugees to Canada some of their foreign policy assets, namely the White Helmets.
Who are the White Helmets? The White Helmets claim to be a “fiercely independent” organization of volunteer first responders in Syria helping Syrian civilians injured in the war.
In fact, the White Helmets are a fiercely partisan organization of relatively well-paid employees, set up by British and US intelligence services inside of Turkey (a belligerent in the war against Syria) in 2013. A Madison Avenue public relations firm was contracted to develop the concept of the White Helmets as a humanitarian agency for public consumption in the West – to provide a ‘suger-coating’ to an ugly and illegal imperial war. John Lemesurier, a former British military intelligence officer and later “military contractor”, was hired to front the organization, which has been funded to the tune of about 150 million dollars by the governments of the USA, UK, France, Holland, Denmark, Japan, New Zealand, and Canada, among others. In 2016, Canada donated $4.5 million dollars to the White Helmets. Currently, a Freedom of Information request is seeking to determine if the Canadian government has made repeated donations of $4.5 million in 2017 and 2018. On top of the donations, the Canadian government has organized two cross-Canada publicity tours of White Helmet personnel in recent years in various cities. This past March, a delegation of White Helmets was welcomed to speak to the Canadian parliament’s Human Rights Committee. In addition, the New Democratic Party endorsed the White Helmets for the Nobel Peace Prize, which it failed to win.
The White Helmets are embedded in the Al-Qaeda terrorist network and operate exclusively in terrorist-held areas of Syria. Though it also calls itself the Syrian Civil Defence, the government of Syria created the real Syrian Civil Defence in 1953 and was a founding member of the International Civil Defence Organization.
Once in place inside the terrorist-occupied enclaves inside of Syria, the true role of the White Helmets emerged. The group specialized in making videos of dramatically-staged rescues of children from among the rubble of part of cities which Al-Qaeda (and sometimes other terrorist groups) had managed to seize and occupy. Two notorious staged videos stand out: the staged rescues of Omran Daqneesh in Aleppo and Hassan Diab in Douma. Occasionally, however, the White Helmets joined in recreational video competitions, such as the Mannequin Challenge. The twofold principal purposes of the child-rescue videos was, first, to demonize the Syrian government as a brutal tyranny, even though it was lawfully defending its sovereign territory against foreign invasion, and, secondly, to promote the western regime change operation in Syria as a humanitarian intervention.
Specifically, the White Helmet videos were timed to promote calls by western governments for directly military intervention in Syria by such means as a no-fly zone (similar to the one imposed on Libya in 2011) or a “civilian corridor”. And, on at least two occasions, the tactic worked. In April 2017, the White Helmets staged a false flag chemical attack on Khan Sheikhoun which prompted a US missile attack on the Sharyat Air Base in Syria. A recent outstanding example of the propaganda use of such videos was the staging of a fake nerve agent attack in Douma, Syria, on April 7 of this year. The incident, later revealed as a hoax by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), nonetheless resulted in over one hundred missile strikes by the USA, UK, and France on Syria on April 13, 2018.
In addition, the White Helmets’ true role as an auxiliary to terrorism was captured on film on several occasions when they participated in Al-Qaeda summary executions and by Facebook postings by numerous White Helmets on their personal accounts showing themselves moonlighting as armed Al-Qaeda fighters and heaping praise on Al-Qaeda leaders. Contrarily, civilians inside the enclaves in Syrian cities liberated from Al-Qaeda and ISIS told many western reporters that the White Helmets provided no medical help or assistance to them, but rather only to the armed terrorists. Moreover, real Syrian Civil Defence workers testified that many of their comrades were killed by Al-Qaeda fighters and their equipment and vehicles given to the White Helmets.
The rescue of the White Helmet “rescuers” by Israel through the Golan Heights should not come as a surprize because Israel has been a major player in the illegal, failed, regime change operation in Syria. Israel has bombed Syria more than one hundred times during the war. Israel openly supported FSA fighters with arms, intelligence, and funding in southern Syria and routinely transferred wounded terrorists to hospitals inside Israel for medical treatment before returning them to the front. Israeli PM Netanyahu posed for photos in one of those hospitals at the bedside of wounded terrorists last year. Today (July 22, 2018), in a tweet, Netanyahu stated that both President Trump and Prime Minister Trudeau personally asked for his help in rescuing the White Helmets from Syria.
Syria is well rid of these White Helmets. But, if Canadians understood who these people really were, they would strongly object to the settling of terrorists in our midst. Last November in the House of Commons, Trudeau asserted that Canadians returning from terrorist activities in Syria and Iraq would not be charged with criminal offences. Rather, he asserted, “We also have methods of de-emphasizing or de-programming people who want to harm our society, and those are some things we have to move forward on.” At the end of the day, then, the Trudeau government in effect embraces terrorist fighters and their auxiliaries.
That the Canadian government is planning to admit White Helmets personnel to Canada as refugees should gravely concern Canadians. These civil defence poseurs are ideologically committed to terrorism, personally connected to Al Qaeda, and have the blood on their hands of many Syrians whose country they helped to invade and occupy. The potential for them to cause harm in Canada is high.
We urge Canadians immediately to contact their MP’s about this matter, to spread the alarm via social media, and to write letters to newspapers. We also urge the Canadian government to do the following:
- withdraw from the US-led military coalition in Syria and Iraq;
- end Canada’s punishing economic sanctions against Syria;
- re-establish diplomatic ties with the Syrian government;
- participate in the reconstruction of Syria through payments of reparation.
hcsw.ca
hcsw@cogeco.ca
For further info, please contact Ken Stone at 289-382-9008 or at kenstone@cogeco.ca
angelburst29
The Living Force
Some conflicting reports this morning, as to the U.N.'s role in helping Israel extract the White Helmet's from Syria?
2018-07-24 - UN denies taking part in White Helmets evacuation through Israel
UN denies taking part in White Helmets evacuation through Israel
The United Nations has played no role in the evacuation of more than 420 White Helmet activists from Syria, official spokesman for the organization’s general secretary, Stefane Dujarrik, told reporters on Monday.
“We have nothing to do with this process of moving out [the White Helmets],” Dujarrik said.
“We are very grateful to the Jordanians, who with such generosity and hospitality accepted these 422 Syrians,” he added.
“When representatives of the UN High Commissioner did what they always do, in this case, the 422 refugees who were at risk, this is what should have been done and what has already been done for a million Syrians,”Dujarrik said when told that the White Helmets are accused of staging documented instances of the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
True Nature
The Syrian Foreign Ministry on Monday condemned what it called a “criminal operation” by Israel to evacuate hundreds of White Helmets civil “rescue” workers and their families from southern Syria and added that the operation had laid bare the true nature of the White Helmets’ activity which Damascus had always warned about.
The ministry also noted that by helping evacuate the White Helmets, the United States, Britain, Jordan, Germany and Canada were assisting terrorists.
Syria’s supreme mufti Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun, in turn, said that the White Helmets are “war criminals” and urged the Syrian and Russian government to prosecute them.
“These people are not refugees. They are war criminals. I would like to ask the governments of our countries to follow the members of the White Helmets group and find them wherever they are; they used chemical weapons in Douma (and other cities),” the Mufti said.
2018-07-24 - UN raises concern for 200,000 displaced civilians near Jordanian border (video)
UN raises concern for 200,000 displaced civilians near Jordanian border (video)
Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General Stephane Dujarric voiced concern regarding hundreds of thousands of civilians suffering as the result of continued hostilities in Syria, during a press briefing in New York City on Monday.
“An estimated 200,000 people reportedly remain displaced,” said Dujarric.
The UN spokesperson also spoke about citizens seeking refuge in neighbouring countries especially Jordan.
“UN has received 422 citizens from southern Syria who are at risk and are seeking asylum and solutions in Jordan,” Dujarric pointed out.
2018-07-24 - Russia says evacuation of White Helmets reveals ‘true nature’ of organization
Russia says evacuation of White Helmets reveals 'true nature' of organization
During the Syrian conflict, the activists of the White Helmets non-governmental organization have been involved in “the most odious provocations” and their evacuation from the Middle Eastern country has revealed their true nature and hypocrisy, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday.
“It is well known that the White Helmets has been involved in the most odious provocations during the Syrian conflict. It was carrying out activities only on the territories controlled by Islamic radicals. It was preparing blatant fakes, which were then used as a pretext for making accusations against the Syrian authorities,” the ministry said in a commentary.
“It is symbolic that the White Helmets activists have opted to flee Syria with foreign support thus revealing their true nature and exposing their hypocrisy to the whole world,” it added.
The foreign ministry also stressed that the United States had done nothing to separate Syria’s so-called moderate opposition forces from terrorist groups. “Presently, Syrian forces with support of Russia are restoring law and order in southwestern Syria creating conditions for restoring a peaceful life,” the ministry added.
Tue Jul 24, 2018 - Report: Women Returning from Fighting in Syria, Iraq Pose Specific Security Threat
Farsnews
Experts warned of the growing threat of women and minors linked to Daesh (ISIS or ISIL), suggesting that the number returning to Britain from Syria and Iraq has been significantly underestimated.
A new report published in Britain has indicated that the country faces a huge security threat from female and minor returnees of Daesh-led militancy in Iraq and Syria, The Guardian reported.
The findings of the repot by International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at King’s College London showed that women and minors accounted for 23 percent of Daesh recruits from Britain in Syria and Iraq, a figure that the report said had been significantly underestimated by the authorities.
We believe some women may now pose a particular security threat based on several factors. These include the physical security roles and related training,” the report noted, adding that authorities had only confirmed the return of two women and four minors from Daesh bastions to Britain.
It said the failure to report all 425 cases of return, of a total of 850 British citizens who became affiliated with Daesh in Iraq and Syria over the past years, was mainly due to lack of official government data.
The British citizens that have now been confirmed as returning to the UK have not been differentiated by gender, or age delineation...,” the report added.
It also warned that women and minors who have fought along the ranks of Daesh posed a much more serious security threat than men when they returned home.
“These include the physical security roles and related training ... and the potential to transfer or apply these skills in other locations, or to their children,” it stated.
The report cited several examples of women and children actively seeking to revive Daesh-related operations in Western countries, warning that Britain could also become a ripe ground for such activities in future.
“Women and minors are poised to play a significant role in the organization going forward – they may assist in keeping the ideology alive, passing it on to the next generation, continuing to recruit members, support Daesh in other ways such as fundraising, or perpetrating violence on behalf of the group,” the report noted.
Britain, like many Western countries, has seen terrorist attacks by Daesh returnees or home-grown recruits over the past years. Authorities have repeatedly warned that those retuning from Iraq and Syria, where Daesh has almost been obliterated now, could launch similar attacks in future.
The ICSR reported that a total of 41,490 foreign citizens had joined Daesh in Iraq and Syria between April 2013 and June 2018, putting the number of women and minor recruits at 4,761 and 4,640, respectively.
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(Comment: What's the sense in "securing Border's" and in some cases, denying VISA's for entry into a Country - when that same Government "willfully" excepts and accommodates known terrorist that have been extracted directly from a war-zone? And then these same Countries - that are excepting these terrorists - in turn, are complaining about unwanted refugees and asylum seekers?
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2018-07-24 - UN denies taking part in White Helmets evacuation through Israel
UN denies taking part in White Helmets evacuation through Israel
The United Nations has played no role in the evacuation of more than 420 White Helmet activists from Syria, official spokesman for the organization’s general secretary, Stefane Dujarrik, told reporters on Monday.
“We have nothing to do with this process of moving out [the White Helmets],” Dujarrik said.
“We are very grateful to the Jordanians, who with such generosity and hospitality accepted these 422 Syrians,” he added.
“When representatives of the UN High Commissioner did what they always do, in this case, the 422 refugees who were at risk, this is what should have been done and what has already been done for a million Syrians,”Dujarrik said when told that the White Helmets are accused of staging documented instances of the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
True Nature
The Syrian Foreign Ministry on Monday condemned what it called a “criminal operation” by Israel to evacuate hundreds of White Helmets civil “rescue” workers and their families from southern Syria and added that the operation had laid bare the true nature of the White Helmets’ activity which Damascus had always warned about.
The ministry also noted that by helping evacuate the White Helmets, the United States, Britain, Jordan, Germany and Canada were assisting terrorists.
Syria’s supreme mufti Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun, in turn, said that the White Helmets are “war criminals” and urged the Syrian and Russian government to prosecute them.
“These people are not refugees. They are war criminals. I would like to ask the governments of our countries to follow the members of the White Helmets group and find them wherever they are; they used chemical weapons in Douma (and other cities),” the Mufti said.
2018-07-24 - UN raises concern for 200,000 displaced civilians near Jordanian border (video)
UN raises concern for 200,000 displaced civilians near Jordanian border (video)
Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General Stephane Dujarric voiced concern regarding hundreds of thousands of civilians suffering as the result of continued hostilities in Syria, during a press briefing in New York City on Monday.
“An estimated 200,000 people reportedly remain displaced,” said Dujarric.
The UN spokesperson also spoke about citizens seeking refuge in neighbouring countries especially Jordan.
“UN has received 422 citizens from southern Syria who are at risk and are seeking asylum and solutions in Jordan,” Dujarric pointed out.
2018-07-24 - Russia says evacuation of White Helmets reveals ‘true nature’ of organization
Russia says evacuation of White Helmets reveals 'true nature' of organization
During the Syrian conflict, the activists of the White Helmets non-governmental organization have been involved in “the most odious provocations” and their evacuation from the Middle Eastern country has revealed their true nature and hypocrisy, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday.
“It is well known that the White Helmets has been involved in the most odious provocations during the Syrian conflict. It was carrying out activities only on the territories controlled by Islamic radicals. It was preparing blatant fakes, which were then used as a pretext for making accusations against the Syrian authorities,” the ministry said in a commentary.
“It is symbolic that the White Helmets activists have opted to flee Syria with foreign support thus revealing their true nature and exposing their hypocrisy to the whole world,” it added.
The foreign ministry also stressed that the United States had done nothing to separate Syria’s so-called moderate opposition forces from terrorist groups. “Presently, Syrian forces with support of Russia are restoring law and order in southwestern Syria creating conditions for restoring a peaceful life,” the ministry added.
Tue Jul 24, 2018 - Report: Women Returning from Fighting in Syria, Iraq Pose Specific Security Threat
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Experts warned of the growing threat of women and minors linked to Daesh (ISIS or ISIL), suggesting that the number returning to Britain from Syria and Iraq has been significantly underestimated.
A new report published in Britain has indicated that the country faces a huge security threat from female and minor returnees of Daesh-led militancy in Iraq and Syria, The Guardian reported.
The findings of the repot by International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at King’s College London showed that women and minors accounted for 23 percent of Daesh recruits from Britain in Syria and Iraq, a figure that the report said had been significantly underestimated by the authorities.
We believe some women may now pose a particular security threat based on several factors. These include the physical security roles and related training,” the report noted, adding that authorities had only confirmed the return of two women and four minors from Daesh bastions to Britain.
It said the failure to report all 425 cases of return, of a total of 850 British citizens who became affiliated with Daesh in Iraq and Syria over the past years, was mainly due to lack of official government data.
The British citizens that have now been confirmed as returning to the UK have not been differentiated by gender, or age delineation...,” the report added.
It also warned that women and minors who have fought along the ranks of Daesh posed a much more serious security threat than men when they returned home.
“These include the physical security roles and related training ... and the potential to transfer or apply these skills in other locations, or to their children,” it stated.
The report cited several examples of women and children actively seeking to revive Daesh-related operations in Western countries, warning that Britain could also become a ripe ground for such activities in future.
“Women and minors are poised to play a significant role in the organization going forward – they may assist in keeping the ideology alive, passing it on to the next generation, continuing to recruit members, support Daesh in other ways such as fundraising, or perpetrating violence on behalf of the group,” the report noted.
Britain, like many Western countries, has seen terrorist attacks by Daesh returnees or home-grown recruits over the past years. Authorities have repeatedly warned that those retuning from Iraq and Syria, where Daesh has almost been obliterated now, could launch similar attacks in future.
The ICSR reported that a total of 41,490 foreign citizens had joined Daesh in Iraq and Syria between April 2013 and June 2018, putting the number of women and minor recruits at 4,761 and 4,640, respectively.
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(Comment: What's the sense in "securing Border's" and in some cases, denying VISA's for entry into a Country - when that same Government "willfully" excepts and accommodates known terrorist that have been extracted directly from a war-zone? And then these same Countries - that are excepting these terrorists - in turn, are complaining about unwanted refugees and asylum seekers?
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The western countries and Israel had no option other than taking out the White Helmets from Southern Syria for the fear that they might expose sensitive intel after their capture by government troops, media outlets said Wednesday.
Wed Jul 25, 2018 - White Helmets Pulled Back from Syria to Avoid Intelligence Leak
Farsnews
The West and Tel Aviv had two options of either withdrawing the White Helmets from Southern Syria or killing them, the Arabic-language service of Russia Today cited a report by Expert Online.
It pointed to the failure of the White Helmets to create fake stories and a halt in financial aid to them, and said since the White Helmets had a lot of intel with them, Washington could not leave them to be given to Syrian President Bashar Assad.
The report said that killing the White Helmets was considered as one of the cheapest and most confident options which could later be blamed on the Syrian government.
"But the risks were high as few could have survived who would then run to the Syrian government to save their lives and they could have leaked vital intel during the process; hence, the western countries decided to pave the way for their escape in the shortest possible time," it added.
The terrorists' exit from Syria occurred at a time when the Syrian army took control of borders with Jordan; White Helmets had been besieged in a narrow strip in the Golan Heights.
In a relevant development on Monday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in an official commentary on Monday that flight of workers of the White Helmets nongovernmental organization from Syria with foreign assistance shows graphically whose orders they fulfilled and whose money they existed on.
"The information available to us suggests the Westerners evacuated a big group of those pseudo-aid workers to Jordan via the Israeli territory," the commentary noted, adding that "meanwhile, it is known perfectly well that the White Helmets have been involved in the most odious provocations during the conflict in Syria", TASS reported.
"The organization concentrated its operations exclusively in the areas controlled by Islamic radicals, forging overt fakes that would be used as pretexts for charges against the Syrian authorities," the Foreign Ministry added.
The Helmets had a particular fancy for shooting the propagandistic clips, which the Western media and social networks would circulate endlessly, it noted.
"It’s quite emblematic that the White Helmets preferred to flee Syria with foreign assistance, thus unmasking their essence and hypocrisy to the whole world," the commentary said, adding that "as if acting out the principle 'an uneasy conscience betrays itself', these people showed in a most graphic way whose orders they had been fulfilling and whose money they had existed on".
Moscow also called attention to the recent comments by the US Department of State official Spokesperson upon the results of a telephone conversation between Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo.
"These comments said in gushing terms, so typical of the Americans, Russia was failing to act properly on its obligations regarding southwestern Syria," the ministry said, adding that "we’d like to say in this connection the situation is entirely opposite in reality. It was Washington that did not do anything over several months in the Southwestern de-escalation zone to separate the so-called moderate opposition units from the terrorist of the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra".
"As a results of successful actions of the Syrian Armed Forces and with our assistance, law and order are returning to Southwestern Syria and conditions are arising for people’s return of peaceful life there," the ministry stressed.
Israel evacuated several hundred White Helmet staff and their families from the Golan Heights region in Southern Syria to Jordan overnight on Saturday. The initial plan reportedly involved the evacuation of 800 people.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu revealed that US President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked Tel Aviv to evacuate the members of the Western-backed White Helmets group from Syria.
Wed Jul 25, 2018 - White Helmets Pulled Back from Syria to Avoid Intelligence Leak
Farsnews
The West and Tel Aviv had two options of either withdrawing the White Helmets from Southern Syria or killing them, the Arabic-language service of Russia Today cited a report by Expert Online.
It pointed to the failure of the White Helmets to create fake stories and a halt in financial aid to them, and said since the White Helmets had a lot of intel with them, Washington could not leave them to be given to Syrian President Bashar Assad.
The report said that killing the White Helmets was considered as one of the cheapest and most confident options which could later be blamed on the Syrian government.
"But the risks were high as few could have survived who would then run to the Syrian government to save their lives and they could have leaked vital intel during the process; hence, the western countries decided to pave the way for their escape in the shortest possible time," it added.
The terrorists' exit from Syria occurred at a time when the Syrian army took control of borders with Jordan; White Helmets had been besieged in a narrow strip in the Golan Heights.
In a relevant development on Monday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in an official commentary on Monday that flight of workers of the White Helmets nongovernmental organization from Syria with foreign assistance shows graphically whose orders they fulfilled and whose money they existed on.
"The information available to us suggests the Westerners evacuated a big group of those pseudo-aid workers to Jordan via the Israeli territory," the commentary noted, adding that "meanwhile, it is known perfectly well that the White Helmets have been involved in the most odious provocations during the conflict in Syria", TASS reported.
"The organization concentrated its operations exclusively in the areas controlled by Islamic radicals, forging overt fakes that would be used as pretexts for charges against the Syrian authorities," the Foreign Ministry added.
The Helmets had a particular fancy for shooting the propagandistic clips, which the Western media and social networks would circulate endlessly, it noted.
"It’s quite emblematic that the White Helmets preferred to flee Syria with foreign assistance, thus unmasking their essence and hypocrisy to the whole world," the commentary said, adding that "as if acting out the principle 'an uneasy conscience betrays itself', these people showed in a most graphic way whose orders they had been fulfilling and whose money they had existed on".
Moscow also called attention to the recent comments by the US Department of State official Spokesperson upon the results of a telephone conversation between Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo.
"These comments said in gushing terms, so typical of the Americans, Russia was failing to act properly on its obligations regarding southwestern Syria," the ministry said, adding that "we’d like to say in this connection the situation is entirely opposite in reality. It was Washington that did not do anything over several months in the Southwestern de-escalation zone to separate the so-called moderate opposition units from the terrorist of the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra".
"As a results of successful actions of the Syrian Armed Forces and with our assistance, law and order are returning to Southwestern Syria and conditions are arising for people’s return of peaceful life there," the ministry stressed.
Israel evacuated several hundred White Helmet staff and their families from the Golan Heights region in Southern Syria to Jordan overnight on Saturday. The initial plan reportedly involved the evacuation of 800 people.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu revealed that US President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked Tel Aviv to evacuate the members of the Western-backed White Helmets group from Syria.
