Now, as they did in Yugoslavia, NATO/US wants to get involved directly into Syria

Remember that we had warned you years ago about the "Yugoslavia" doctrine -- to break up large Muslim countries by supporting proxy armies? Now, as they did in Yugoslavia, NATO/US wants to get involved directly into Syria -- The Crusaders are back and we have NO Salahuddin !!! Innalillahe Inna Ilehe rajeoon..

I have personalty no doubt that this Chemical gas attacks has been done by Israeli Mossad. The Saudi backed Khawarij do not have chemical weapons and Iran backed Syrian Baathist government is not stupid to use Chemical attack when UN Chemical weapons inspectors are present just a few kilometers away. Israelis have taken advantage of this sectarian war and have slaughtered Muslim children, women and elderly to create an excuse for NATO's direct involvement. Now they have an excuse.....

There is a Hadees of Rasul Allah (sm) also, narrated in Saheeh Muslim, which had warned of chaos in 3 large Muslim countries at the same time -- Iraq, Syria and Egypt ! It seems that now we have entered that time. In the last 1400 years, this is the first time that such a slaughter is going on all these 3 countries.... Ya Allah !!

Only 4 countries are left on the hit list -- Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan -- with Pakistan already under 4th generation war and a most devilish leadership. Pakistan must rise, else the entire Ummah is now defenseless....

Air War in Kosovo Seen as Precedent in Possible Response to Syria Chemical Attack

By MARK LANDLER and MICHAEL R. GORDON

Published: August 23, 2013

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WASHINGTON — As President Obama weighs options for responding to a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria, his national security aides are studying the NATO air war in Kosovo as a possible blueprint for acting without a mandate from the United Nations.

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With Russia still likely to veto any military action in the Security Council, the president appears to be wrestling with whether to bypass the United Nations, although he warned that doing so would require a robust international coalition and legal justification.

“If the U.S. goes in and attacks another country without a U.N. mandate and without clear evidence that can be presented, then there are questions in terms of whether international law supports it, do we have the coalition to make it work?” Mr. Obama said on Friday to CNN, in his first public comments after the deadly attack on Wednesday.

Mr. Obama described the attack as “clearly a big event of grave concern” and acknowledged that the United States had limited time to respond. But he said United Nations investigators needed to determine whether chemical weapons had been used.

Kosovo is an obvious precedent for Mr. Obama because, as in Syria, civilians were killed and Russia had longstanding ties to the government authorities accused of the abuses. In 1999, President Bill Clinton used the endorsement of NATO and the rationale of protecting a vulnerable population to justify 78 days of airstrikes.

A senior administration official said the Kosovo precedent was one of many subjects discussed in continuing White House meetings on the crisis in Syria. Officials are also debating whether a military strike would have unintended consequences, destabilize neighbors like Lebanon, or lead to even greater flows of refugees into Jordan, Turkey and Egypt.

“It’s a step too far to say we’re drawing up legal justifications for an action, given that the president hasn’t made a decision,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the deliberations. “But Kosovo, of course, is a precedent of something that is perhaps similar.”

In the Mediterranean, the Navy’s regional commander postponed a scheduled port call in Naples, Italy, for a destroyer so that the ship would remain with a second destroyer in striking distance of Syria during the crisis. Pentagon officials said the decision did not reflect any specific orders from Washington, but both destroyers had on board Tomahawk cruise missiles, long-range weapons that probably would be among the first launched against targets in Syria should the president decide to take military action.

On Friday, the Russian government called on President Bashar al-Assad of Syria to allow United Nations investigators into the areas east of Damascus where the attack occurred. But American and foreign diplomats said Russia’s move did not reflect any shift in its backing of Mr. Assad or its resistance to punitive measures in the Security Council.

In a statement, Russia’s foreign ministry put the onus on Syria’s opposition forces to provide secure access to the site of the “reported incident.” A second statement suggested that the Russians believed the attack was actually a provocation by the rebels. It cited reports criticizing government troops that were posted on the Internet hours before the attack.

“More and more evidence emerges indicating that this criminal act had an openly provocative character,” Aleksandr K. Lukashevich, a spokesman for Russia’s foreign ministry, said in the statement. “The talk here is about a previously planned action.”

However, Mr. Lukashevich may have been confused by YouTube’s practice of time-stamping uploaded videos based on the time in its California headquarters, no matter the originating time zone. The attacks occurred early Wednesday in Syria, when it would still have been Tuesday in California for about eight more hours.

Mr. Lukashevich praised the Assad government for welcoming Carla del Ponte, a member of a United Nations commission on Syria who suggested in May that the rebels had used chemical weapons, and he accused the Syrian opposition of not cooperating with the investigation by United Nations experts.

The Syrian government did not comment on Friday.

On Friday CBS News, citing administration officials, reported that American intelligence agencies detected activity at locations known to be chemical weapons sites before Wednesday’s attack. The activity, these officials believe, may have been preparations for the assault.