Syria
Tells UN of
146 Dead
"Terrorists"
from 19
Countries,
Amid Gaza
& DRC
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 21 --
During the
last of
Security
Council kabuki
theater about
Gaza and the
Congo, the
issue of Syria
has largely
fallen off the
UN's map.
On
Wednesday
alongside
statements on
Gaza and
ceasefires,
the Syrian
Mission to the
UN filed
another letter
with the
Council, this
time
naming 143
"Foreign and
Arab
individuals
who were
killed in
Syria while
carrying out
terrorist
activities."
Inner
City Press has
previously
obtained and
published
Syria letters,
for
example of 108
who'd been
killed.
But Syria's
November 21
list contains
more
nationalities,
including
"Qatari,
Saudi,
Tunisian,
Egyptians,
Sudanese,
Libyans,
Afghani,
Jordanians,
Turks,
Yememis,
Iraqi,
Azerbaijani,
Chechnya,
Kuwaitis,
Palestinians,
Lebanese,
Algerians,
Chadian and
Pakistani."
Chechnya, of
course, is not
a country.
Among the
names on
Syria's list
are Nihat
Sagdic, M.
Ollaz Kuvdish
and Kalbind
Dovca.
Meanwhile
some
point out that
the
French-requested
resolution on
the M23 rebels
in the
Democratic
Republic of
the Congo
casts an ever
stranger light
on that
country's and
others
approach to
Syria.
If it is wrong
for
other
countries in a
region to fund
or equip
rebels in
another -- as
Rwanda and
Uganda are
alleged to
have helped
the M23 --
what of the
assistance to
Syrian rebels?
The
answer might
well be a
comparison of
Syria's Bashar
al Assad and
DRC's Joseph
Kabila. But
this still
admits that
there is no
principle
at work: it is
simply a
political
decision, of
liking one
rebel group
and disliking
another. We'll
have more on
this.
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