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Syria arrests over 40 Germans for smuggling arms

published by Tom Sullivan on Sun, 2012-06-24 14:42

Syria has reportedly arrested more than 40 German nationals for attempting to smuggle arms into the country.

An alternative news weblog, the NSNBC, cited a German journalist as saying that the German nationals are the employees of a "security firm."

The weblog report further said that the Germans were detained while attempting to smuggle arms and ammunition from a cargo vessel in the international waters off the coast of Syria.

The source added that the Germans are reportedly jailed along with over 300 other foreigners, among them Portuguese paratroopers.

No German authority has commented on the matter, yet.

Since the start of the turmoil in Syria, the smuggling of arms into the country has been on the rise.

Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March 2011. The violence has claimed the lives of many people, including security forces.

Damascus blames ‘outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups’ for the unrest, asserting that it is being orchestrated from abroad.

The West and the Syrian opposition, however, accuse the government of killing protesters.

Source: Press TV, 24 June 2012

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Comments

Submitted by andie531 on Sun, 2012-06-24 17:04.

"It is clear that whatever happened in Houla is being used desperately as a point of leverage to advance the next leg of the West’s insidious agenda, described in great detail by Seymour Hersh in his 2007 New Yorker article titled, “The Redirection” where an American-Israeli-Saudi plot to arm vicious sectarian extremists and unleash them upon Syria was exposed. In fact, in Hersh’s article, he interviewed several sources that feared the inevitability of the very violence now seen and being disingenuously leveraged in Houla."

above from http://spyghana.com/world-news/natos-media-warfare-syrian-government-b...

Submitted by Heydrich on Sun, 2012-06-24 21:42.

Press TV is the only one making this claim about Germans being arrested. We don’t yet know if it is true, although it would surprise no one.  None of the Syrian government web sites have mentioned it.

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Hey kids! Do you want to help Western-backed terrorists continue to massacre women and children in Syria, while they (and you) falsely claim that the Syrian government did it?

You’re in luck!

For just a dollar a day, you can keep the massacres going.  CNN gives a web site for “Adopt-A-Rebel” where you can donate to the imperialist project, and thereby reinforce your slavery to the bankers.

The web site is supposedly run by a group of Syrian terrorists who call themselves the “Sham Falcons” and claim to have 20,000 members (which means 20 members in reality).

I checked the web site. It does not exist, or is not active, but there is a German web site where you can contribute money to the terrorists. https://www.adoptrevolution.org/en/  

Here is the CNN link…

http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/22/adopt-a-syrian-rebel-websites-raise-cash-for-opposition/

Submitted by Tom Sullivan on Sun, 2012-06-24 22:44.

http://haraldpflueger.com/de/blog/syrien/110553-deutsche-waffenschmuggler-in-syrien-verhaftet.html

Submitted by Heydrich on Mon, 2012-06-25 06:30.

Good catch Sullivan.

A different article in German says there are 40-60 Germans in Syrian custody. It says that Syrian authorities caught a private cargo ship smuggling arms to the Syrian coast as it passed north of the port of Tartus. The ship was to offload the weapons to terrorists in speedboats. The prisoners are said to be in an underground facility in Damascus. All are employed by a mercenary outfit in Stuttgart, and they previously spent five months in Libya during the NATO attack.

But if this is true, then why has Syria said nothing about it?

http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=17910

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