Konflikten i Syrien

Chinese envoy: Foreign powers have no right to intervene in Syria’s domestic affairs

He renewed his country’s commitment to the principle of non-intervention in the Syrian domestic affairs, saying that the Syrian people are the only ones that have the right to discuss, determine any affair and the track of the political process in their country.

“Foreign powers have no right to intervene or impose their projects on the Syrian people,” the Chinese envoy said.

He affirmed that China always calls for the respect of Syria sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity, adding his country rejects any attempt of division.

Xiaoyan expressed his country’s rejection of the unilateral, coercive economic measures imposed on the Syrian people by some countries, among them the US procedures against Syria to achieve political targets.

He hoped the political process in Syria would have progress and refugees would return Home, calling on the international community to offer more humanitarian aid to the Syrian people.

I traced missile casings in Syria back to their original sellers, so it’s time for the west to reveal who they sell arms to

Readers, a small detective story. Note down this number: MFG BGM-71E-1B. And this number: STOCK NO 1410-01-300-0254. And this code: DAA A01 C-0292. I found all these numerals printed on the side of a spent missile casing lying in the basement of a bombed-out Islamist base in eastern Aleppo last year. At the top were the words “Hughes Aircraft Co”, founded in California back in the 1930s by the infamous Howard Hughes and sold in 1997 to Raytheon, the massive US defence contractor whose profits last year came to $23.35bn (£18bn). Shareholders include the Bank of America and Deutsche Bank. Raytheon’s Middle East offices can be found in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Israel, Egypt, Turkey and Kuwait.

There were dozens of other used-up identical missile casings in the same underground room in the ruins of eastern Aleppo, with sequential codings; in other words, these anti-armour missiles – known in the trade as Tows, “Tube-launched, optically tracked and wire-guided missiles” – were not individual items smuggled into Syria through the old and much reported CIA smugglers’ trail from Libya. These were shipments, whole batches of weapons that left their point of origin on military aircraft pallets.

BBC producer observed that Syria army refused request of ISIS trapped in Suweida pocket for "safe exit towards #Tanf". He failed to mention that Tanf is US/UK-controlled area. BBC (and US media) should be asking why ISIS asking to go to US-UK areas?