Sunday, November 4, 2012
Syrian rebels launch attack on air force base
by AlJazeeraEnglish
OOpposition fighters in Syria are using tanks, rockets and mortars to try to capture an air force base. The government uses the Taftanaz base to deploy helicopter gunships against opposition towns and villages. The assault comes a day before a crucial opposition meeting in Qatar where the US is expected to push for an overhaul of the Syrian National Council which is considered ineffective. The Free Syrian army is using tanks captured from government forces to attack Taftanaz airbase. From the Syrian-Turkish border, Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons has the latest.
Netanyahu: Attack on Iran 'Good' for Arabs
by TheYoungTurks
"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought on Tuesday to convince Arab states that an Israeli military strike on Iran would benefit them, removing a potential threat and easing tensions across the Middle East.
Netanyahu has made a number of veiled threats to attack Iran's nuclear program and has appealed to the United States and the United Nations to set a limit for Tehran on its further development.
In an interview published on Tuesday with French magazine Paris Match, Netanyahu said such a strike would not worsen regional tensions, as many critics have warned.
"Five minutes after, contrary to what the skeptics say, I think a feeling of relief would spread across the region," he said.
"Iran is not popular in the Arab world, far from it, and some governments in the region, as well as their citizens, have understood that a nuclear armed Iran would be dangerous for them, not just for Israel," he said."* Cenk Uygur breaks down Netanyahu's comments and how vastly he clashes with the majority of people in the Middle East, not to mention, how his idea would likely cause all-out war in the region.
*Read more from Reuters:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/30/us-israel-iran-idUSBRE89T19120121030
UK on standby to send jets to Gulf, closer to Iran - report
by RussiaToday
Report in the British media say the UK is on standby to send war planes to the Persian Gulf. The jets would be stationed in the United Arab Emirates, just a couple of hundred km. from Iran. Britain's Ministry of Defence says any such deployment won't be over concerns about Iran's nuclear programme.
Anti-war activist John Rees believes it's bound to destabilize the situation in the region.
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