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JohnnyAdam – Peristiwa cuaca yang pelik dan melampau yang telah berlaku sejak 2 minggu lepas. Terima kasih kerana menonton dan semoga selamat hendaknya! (Signs Of Change End Times the Past Week Or December 2013 Pt 1. Strange and extreme weather events that have taken place over the last 2 weeks. Thank you all for watching and stay safe! Happy Holidays)!

* Siri ini tidak bermakna DUNNIA ini berakhir! Ini adalah dokumentari daripada siri peristiwa cuaca yang melampau yang membawa kepada perubahan bumi lebih besar. Jika anda mengikuti siri ini, maka anda melihat tanda-tandanya. (This series does not mean the world is ending! These are documentaries of series of extreme weather events that are leading to bigger earth changes. If you are following the series, then you are seeing the signs).

*Soundtrack*

Zack Hemsey - Vengeance

Terima kasih kepada orang-orang yang filemkannya dan saluran berita yang meliputi peristiwa-peristiwa ini ! Saya tidak milik apa-apa video ini. (Thank you to the ones that film and the news channels that cover these events! I don't own any of these videos.).

NOTIS PENGGUNAAN SAKSAMA : Video ini mungkin mengandungi bahan hak cipta . Bahan tersebut disediakan untuk tujuan pendidikan sahaja . Ini merupakan ' penggunaan adil ' apa-apa bahan hak cipta seperti yang diperuntukkan dalam Tajuk 17 USC seksyen 107 Hak Cipta Amerika Syarikat (FAIR USE NOTICE: This video may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for educational purposes only. This constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in Title 17 U.S.C. section 107 of the US Copyright).

JohnnyAdam – Ketat peraturan EU baru ke atas produk tembakau sedang ditangguhkan oleh perdebatan mengenai bagaimana untuk mengawal selia rokok elektronik. Parlimen Eropah telah menolak untuk pendekatan cahaya sentuhan dengan apa yang disifatkannya sebagai alternatif yang kurang berbahaya kepada rokok tradisional.

Tetapi dengan kekurangan bukti mengenai kesan kesihatan jangka panjang e-rokok, banyak kerajaan EU telah dipanggil untuk peraturan yang lebih ketat. Salah satu mata melekat utama adalah perisa. Larangan menthol dijangka sebelum peraturan baru dimuktamadkan, serta orang-orang yang terutamanya menarik perahatian kepada kanak-kanak, seperti vanila

Satu lagi isu ialah permintaan parlimen bahawa e-rokok boleh dijual dengan katrij nikotin boleh diisi semula. Banyak negara-negara anggota mahu barangan pakai buang . Beberapa kerajaan, termasuk Britain dan Jerman, bimbang bahawa di peringkat kepekatan nikotin sebanyak 20 miligram per mililiter yang dibincangkan, satu 10 ml kartrij refill akan mengandungi nikotin lebih daripada satu karton 200 rokok.

Is the electronic cigarette market about 

to go up in smoke? . . .

Strict new EU rules on tobacco products are being delayed by a debate on how to regulate electronic cigarettes. The European parliament has pushed for a light-touch approach to what it regards as a less harmful alternative to smoking traditional cigarettes.

But with a lack of evidence on the long-term health impact of e-cigarettes, many EU governments have called for more restrictive rules. One of the main sticking points is flavours. A ban on menthol is expected before the new rules are finalised, as well as those particularly attractive to children, such as vanilla.

Another issue is parliament's demand that e-cigarettes can be sold with refillable nicotine cartridges. Many member states want single-use items. Some governments, including Britain and Germany, are concerned that at the nicotine concentration level of 20 milligrams per millilitre being discussed, one 10 ml refill cartridge would contain more nicotine than a carton of 200 cigarettes.

JohnnyAdam – Saya iri hati Obama kerana dia boleh mengintip sekutu-sekutunya tanpa apa-apa kesan, kata Putin semasa ditanya mengenai bagaimana hubungan beliau telah berubah dengan Amerika Syarikat berikutan pendedahan pengintipan Snowden ini.

Putin: I envy Obama, because he can spy 

and get away with it .  .  .

I envy Obama because he can spy on his allies without any consequences, said Putin when asked about how his relations had changed with the US following Snowden's espionage revelations.

READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/q66cm7

‘Dengan atau tanpa Barat’: ARAB SAUDI bersedia untuk tindakan unilateral ke atas SYRIA . . .

Duta Arab ke Britain, Putera Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz. (Saudi ambassador to Britain, Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz.(Reuters/Jamal Saidi – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

JohnnyAdam – Arab Saudi bercadang untuk meneruskan dasar bebas di DUNIA Arab sele-pas Amerika Syarikat terpaksa penyelesaian diplomatik kepada krisis Syria dan Iran. Duta Arab ke UK berkata kerajaan bersedia untuk memastikan “keamanan serantau” tanpa sokongan Barat.

Duta itu negara ke London, Putera Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz al -Saud, berkata pendekatan Barat ke rantau ini adalah “perjudian berbahaya” yang membahayakan kesta-bilan di Timur Tengah. Sebaliknya Riyadh, saingan geopolitik Iran dan Syria, mahu bebas tangan pemberontak Syria, berkata negara ini” tidak boleh berdiam diri , dan tidak akan berdiri oleh leka,” Abdulaziz menulis dalam ulasan New York Times (New York Times commentary).

Putera itu dituduh pakatan Amerka Syarikat membenarkan “satu rejim untuk terus hidup dan yang lain untuk meneruskan program untuk memperkaya uranium, dengan segala bahaya yang datang daripada weaponization.”

Dalam segi Syria, Abdulaziz berkata walaupun usaha antarabangsa untuk memusnahkan senjata pemusnah besar-besaran “Barat mesti melihat bahawa rejim itu sendiri masih senjata paling besar pemusnah semua besar-besaran.”

Mengatakan bahawa kerajaan telah “tanggungjawab global,” Abdulaziz mendakwa Riyadh “akan bertindak untuk memenuhi tanggungjawab ini, dengan atau tanpa sokongan rakan-rakan Barat kita.”

Walaupun berdiri “bahu” selama bertahun-tahun “tahun ini, untuk semua ceramah2 mere-ka ‘garisan merah,’ apabila ia dikira, rakan-rakan kami telah seolah-olah semua terlalu bersedia untuk mengalah keselamatan dan risiko kestabilan rantau kita.”

Abdulaziz comments mengikuti laporan bahawa diplomat Barat membayangkan semasa sidang kemuncak dari penyokong pembangkang di London minggu lepas bahawa mereka tidak begitu keberatan jika Presiden Syria Bashar Assad kekal berkuasa (stays in power), sekurang-kurangnya dalam tempoh peralihan.

“Rakan-rakan Barat kami menjelaskan di London yang Assad tidak boleh dibenarkan pergi sekarang kerana mereka fikir huru-hara dan pengambilalihan pengganas akan terjadi,” kata seorang anggota kanan yang tidak dinamakan Gabungan Kebangsaan Syria, berham-piran dengan pegawai-pegawai dari Arab Saudi, Reuters.

“Ada yang tidak kelihatan di fikiran jika ianya berjalan lagi tahun depan,” kata sumber kepada Reuters , tertanya-tanya sama ada Barat telah lupa bahawa Assad “ menyerang dgn gas beracun kaumnya sendiri.”

'With or without West': Saudi Arabia ready 

for unilateral action on Syria . . .

Saudi Arabia intends to pursue an independent policy in the Arab world after the US resorted to a diplomatic solution to the Syria and Iran crises. The Saudi envoy to UK says the kingdom is ready to ensure “regional peace” without Western support.

The kingdom’s ambassador to London, Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, said that the Western approach to the region is a “dangerous gamble” that jeopardizes stability in the Middle East. Instead Riyadh, a geopolitical rival of Iran and Syria, wants to independently arm the Syrian insurgents, saying the country “cannot remain silent, and will not stand idly by,” Abdulaziz wrote in a New York Times commentary.

The prince accused the US coalition of allowing “one regime to survive and the other to continue its program for uranium enrichment, with all the consequent dangers of weaponization."

In regards to Syria, Abdulaziz said that despite international effort to destroy the weapons of mass destruction the “West must see that the regime itself remains the greatest weapon of mass destruction of all.”

Saying that the kingdom has “global responsibilities,” Abdulaziz claimed that Riyadh “will act to fulfill these responsibilities, with or without the support of our Western partners.”

Despite standing “shoulder to shoulder” for years “this year, for all their talk of 'red lines,' when it counted, our partners have seemed all too ready to concede our safety and risk our region’s stability.”

Abdulaziz comments follow reports that Western diplomats hinted during a summit of opposition backers in London last week that they don’t really mind if Syrian President Bashar Assad stays in power, at least during a transition period.

“Our Western friends made it clear in London that Assad cannot be allowed to go now because they think chaos and an Islamist militant takeover would ensue,” an unnamed senior member of the Syrian National Coalition, close to officials from Saudi Arabia, told Reuters.

“Some do not even seem to mind if he runs again next year,” the source told Reuters, wondering whether the West has forgotten that Assad “gassed his own people.”

Reuters/Molhem Barakat (think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

Satu perselisihan di antara dasar luar negara-negara ‘adalah juga relevan pada hari Ahad, apabila bekas ketua perisikan Saudi, Putera Turki al-Faisal, menyuarakan kebimbangan bahawa Arab Saudi sedang diasingkan daripada rundingan diplomatik dengan Iran.

“Adalah penting bagi kita untuk duduk di meja yang sama,” katanya dalam temu bual (interview) dengan The Wall Street Journal. “Kami tidak hadir.” Bercakap pada Per-sidangan Dasar DUNIA di Monaco hari yang sama beliau berkata, “Apa yang mengejutkan adalah bahawa ceramah-ceramah yang akan ke hadapan telah disimpan dari kami. “Bagaimana anda boleh membina kepercayaan apabila anda menyimpan rahsia dari apakah sepatutnya menjadi sekutu terdekat?”

Sementara itu, pada hari Rabu, bekas Perdana Menteri Itali Massimo D' Alema mem-per-salahkan Arab Saudi dan Qatar untuk “membekalkan senjata dan peralatan” kepada pemberontak di Syria, seperti yang dipetik oleh Itar -Tass.

Pada bulan November, Washington Post memetik pegawai kanan Teluk, melaporkan baha-wa Arab Saudi telah berusaha untuk menyediakan sokongan bebas ketenteraan kepada pemberontak selepas sebelum ini menjajarkan dirinya dengan kepentingan Amerika Syarikat di rantau ini.

“Saudi merancang untuk mengembangkan kemudahan latihan mereka beroperasi di Jordan dan meningkatkan kuasa tembakan senjata dihantar kepada kumpulan pem-berontak yang berjuang elemen pelampau di antara mereka walaupun kerana mereka pertempuran kerajaan Syria,” dilaporkan (the paper reported).

‘The Post’ juga melaporkan bahawa rundingan sedang dilakukan antara Kerajaan menu-buhkan “operasi selari” bebas daripada Amerika Syarikat.

Laporan (report) oleh Pusat pada hari Selasa bagi Kajian Radikalisasi di Kolej King menganggarkan bahawa lebih 1,000 pejuang Arab berjuang dengan radikal di Syria dari seramai 11 ribu beberapa, termasuk banyak warga EU.

5 negara - penyumbang semua di Timur Tengah: sehingga dengan 2,089 dari Jordan, diikuti Arab Saudi (1,016), Tunisia (970 ), Lebanon (890), dan Libya (556).

A rift between the countries’ foreign policy was also relevant on Sunday, when a former head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Turki al-Faisal, voiced concern that Saudi Arabia is being isolated from the diplomatic negotiations with Iran.

“It is important for us to sit down at the same table,” he said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. “We have been absent.” Speaking at World Policy Conference in Monaco same day he said, "What was surprising was that the talks that were going forward were kept from us.” "How can you build trust when you keep secrets from what are supposed to be your closest allies?"

Meanwhile, on Wednesday, a former Italian prime minister Massimo D'Alema blamed Saudi Arabia and Qatar for “supplying weapons and equipment” to the rebels in Syria, as cited by Itar-Tass.

In November, The Washington Post citing senior Gulf officials, reported that Saudi Arabia was trying to independently provide military support to the rebels after previously aligning itself with US interests in the region.

“The Saudis plan to expand training facilities they operate in Jordan and increase the firepower of arms sent to rebel groups that are fighting extremist elements among them even as they battle the Syrian government,” the paper reported.

The Post also reported that negotiations were under way between governments of setting up a “parallel operation” independent of the US.

Tuesday’s report by International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King’s College estimated that over 1,000 Saudi fighters are fighting with the radicals in Syria from a total number of some 11 thousand, including many EU nationals.

The top five countries-contributors are all in the Middle East: with up to 2,089 from Jordan, followed by Saudi Arabia (1,016), Tunisia (970), Lebanon (890), and Libya (556).

Pejuang Free Syrian Army lari untuk mengelakkan penembak tepat setia kepada Presiden Syria Bashar al-Assad di Aleppo lama  (A Free Syrian Army fighter runs to avoid snipers loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in old Aleppo (Reuters/Mahmoud Hebbo – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

Sementara itu, Rusia dan Amerika Syarikat meneruskan usaha bersama mereka untuk mengadakan persidangan Geneva- 2 set 22 Januari 2014, yang bertujuan untuk membawa sisi konflik Syria ke meja rundingan dan mencari penyelesaian diplomatik.

Abu Mohammed al Joulani , pemimpin Barisan Al- Nusra sehingga 20,000 pejuang, dalam satu temu bual dengan Al Jazeera (an interview to Al Jazeera) berkata kumpulannya tidak akan menerima hasil persidangan Geneva. Pemimpin juga mengingatkan Arab Saudi baru-baru ini terhadap hubungan baik antara Amerika Syarikat dan Iran.

“Kami tidak akan mengiktiraf mana-mana keputusan yang keluar dari Persidangan Geneva- 2, dan bukan kanak-kanak atau wanita Syria. Mereka yang mengambil bahagian dalam persidangan itu tidak mewakili orang-orang yang dikorbankan dan menumpahkan darah. Selain itu, yang telah membenarkan mereka untuk mewakili rakyat?”

“Jika rejim Assad kekal berkuasa, yang demi kepentingan kuasa-kuasa besar dan Safavids, maka sasaran seterusnya akan Semenanjung Arab, kini dikenali sebagai Arab Saudi,” kata Joulani.

Kurang dari seminggu yang lalu, Golongan ini dari Al- Nusra Front menawan bandar Adra kira 20 kilometer ke utara Damsyik dan menjalankan pembunuhan kejam beramai-ramai orang2 awam. laporan RT (RT reported) dari laman pembunuhan beramai-ramai dengan akaun saksi yang memberitahu cerita-cerita ngeri orang yang dibakar hidup-hidup dan kanak-kanak yang disembelih.

Meanwhile, Russia and US continue their joint effort to stage the Geneva-2 conference set for 22 January 2014, which is aimed at bringing the sides of the Syrian conflict to the negotiations table and find a diplomatic solution.

Abu Mohammed al Joulani, the leader of the Al-Nusra Front of up to 20,000 fighters, in an interview to Al Jazeera said that his group would not accept the outcome of the Geneva conference. The leader also cautioned Saudi Arabia against recently improved relations between the US and Iran.

“We will not recognize any results that come out of the Geneva-2 Conference, nor will the children or women of Syria. Those taking part in the conference do not represent the people who sacrificed and shed blood. Besides, who has authorized them to represent the people?”

“If the Assad regime remained in power, which is in the interest of the super powers and the Safavids, then the next target will be the Arabian Peninsula, now known as Saudi Arabia,” Joulani said.

Less than a week ago, jihadists from the Al-Nusra Front captured the town of Adra some 20 kilometers north of Damascus and carried out a brutal massacre of civilians. RT reported from the massacre site with witness accounts which tell horrific stories of people being burned alive and children slaughtered.

READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/ateoc8

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‘Amerika Syarikat tidak keberatan jika Assad kekal’ - laporan

JohnnyAdam – Barat dilaporkan menghantar “Isyarat yang jelas” kepada pembangkang Syria bahawa Presiden Assad perlu kekal di tempatnya untuk mengelakkan radikal Islam Al-Qaeda dari mendapat kelebihan dalam konflik dan menjadikan Syria sebagai pusat global bagi jihad.

Dengan peringkat baru rundingan damai ditetapkan untuk memulakan Januari 22 di Geneva, pentadbiran Amerika Syarikat membuat perubahan penting dalam sikap mereka terhadap Bashar Assad dan pentadbiran Alawi beliau.

Dalam eksklusif, agensi berita Reuters melaporkan bahawa pemberontak Syria, yang sebelum ini mendakwa mereka hanya akan menghadiri rundingan damai jika Presiden Assad segera meletak jawatan, dipaksa untuk bersetuju dengan beliau yang tinggal di pejabat dan juga mungkin mengambil bahagian dalam pilihan raya presiden akan datang.

Washington yang diterajui pakatan anti-Assad telah dengan berat hati membuat kesim-pulan bahawa tanpa Assad Syria tidak lama lagi akan bertukar menjadi tumpuan utama bagi radikal Islam yang akan menggunakan negara itu, yang bersempadan dengan Israel, untuk menyebarkan pengaruh Al-Qaeda di seluruh seluruh Tengah Timur.

Pada sesuatu mesyuarat kumpulan teras ‘Friends Of Syria’ dan kepimpinan kanan di sempadan Syria Gabungan Kebangsaan yang berlaku 13 Disember di UK, pembangkang Syria berhadapan dengan keadaan yg dihadapi bahawa Barat memerlukan Assad.

“Rakan-rakan Barat kami menjelaskan di London yang Assad tidak boleh dibenarkan untuk pergi sekarang, kerana mereka fikir huru-hara dan pengambilalihan pengganas akan terjadi,” kata seorang anggota kanan yang tidak dinamakan Gabungan Kebangsaan Syria, berhampiran dengan pegawai-pegawai dari Arab Saudi, memberitahu Reuters.

Sumber yang sama juga mengesahkan bahawa penaja Barat pemberontak Syria tidak akan tidak keberatan jika Assad mengambil bahagian dalam pilihan raya akan datang presiden apabila jangka semasa tamat pada 2014.

‘US doesn’t mind if Assad stays’ - report

The West is reportedly sending “clear signals” to the Syrian opposition that President Assad should stay in place to prevent Al Qaeda-linked radical Islamists from gaining upper hand in the conflict and turning Syria into a global center for jihad.

With new stage of peace negotiations set to begin Jan. 22 in Geneva, the US administration is making a pivotal change in their attitude toward Bashar Assad and his Alawite administration.

In an exclusive, the Reuters news agency reports that Syrian rebels, who previously claimed they would only attend peace talks if President Assad immediately resigned, are being forced to agree on him remaining in office and even probably taking part in the next presidential elections.

The Washington-led anti-Assad coalition has reluctantly come to the conclusion that without Assad Syria would very soon turn into a focal point for Islamist radicals who would use the country, bordering Israel, to spread Al-Qaeda’s influence across the whole of the Middle East.

At a meeting of the core group of the Friends of Syria and the senior leadership of the Syrian National Coalition that took place December 13 in the UK, the Syrian opposition was confronted with a fait accompli that the West needs Assad.

“Our Western friends made it clear in London that Assad cannot be allowed to go now, because they think chaos and an Islamist militant takeover would ensue,” an unnamed senior member of the Syrian National Coalition, close to officials from Saudi Arabia, told Reuters.

The same source also confirmed that Western sponsors of the Syrian rebels would not even mind if Assad takes part in the next presidential elections when his current term expires in 2014.

Ahli-ahli kumpulan jihad Barisan Al-Nusra (Members of jihadist group Al-Nusra Front (AFP Photo – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

“Ada yang tidak kelihatan di fikiran jika dia berjalan lagi tahun depan,” kata sumber kepada Reuters, tertanya-tanya sama ada Barat telah lupa bahawa Assad “menyerang dgn gas beracun kaumnya sendiri.”

Negara-negara anggota 11 kawan2 pada kumpulan Syria dikeluarkan perisytiharan, sebagaimana sebelum menuduh Presiden Bashar Assad menjadi bertanggungjawab bagi keadaan semasa dengan jihad yang mengalir ke Syria. Walau bagaimanapun, dokumen itu juga perubahan retorik ke arah radikal Islam, dengan mendakwa bahawa mereka “melemahkan Geneva . . . memproses dan mengancam keutuhan wilayah Syria dan juga keselamatan antarabangsa dan serantau.”

Pusingan rundingan untuk menyelesaikan krisis Syria aman akan diadakan di Geneva pada 22 Januari, dan ternyata bahawa Washington menggesa pemberontak Syria untuk membuat konsesi yang amat menyakitkan.

Ketua pihak pembangkang harus “lebih kreatif” di Geneva dan menerima keperluan meninggalkan pegawai Alawi dalam rejim Assad dalam jawatan penting sebuah kerajaan peralihan masa depan, seorang diplomat Timur Tengah kepada Reuters.

“Bagi Geneva untuk menghasilkan perkiraan yang boleh diterima ke Amerika Syarikat dan Russia, pembangkang perlu menerima mengambil bahagian dalam pentadbiran peralihan dengan kehadiran Alawi yang kuat,” kata diplomat itu, melahirkan harapan bahawa sekurang-kurangnya Assad akan berkurangan kuasa, sama ada sebagai presiden atau tidak.

Diplomat itu juga memberi amaran kepada pemberontak bahawa “Jika pembangkang menolak apa-apa perjanjian, mereka akan kehilangan kebanyakan Barat dan hanya mempunyai Arab Saudi, Libya dan Turki ditinggalkan di pihak mereka.”

Seorang lagi anggota pembangkang Syria berkata bahawa Moscow dan Washington sebenarnya bekerja “seiring” sekarang, cuba untuk memastikan pihak berkuasa Syria semasa bertanggungjawab bagi tentera dan keselamatan perkhidmatan supaya mereka kemudian boleh menyatukan kuasa-kuasa dengan pembangkang sederhana untuk menangani kumpulan Al-Qaeda yang telah membanjiri Syria.

“Some do not even seem to mind if he runs again next year,” the source told Reuters, wondering whether the West has forgotten that Assad “gassed his own people.”

The 11 member countries in the Friends of Syria group issued a declaration, as before accusing President Bashar Assad of being responsible for the current situation with jihadists flowing into Syria. However, the document also changes its rhetoric towards radical Islamists, claiming that they “undermine the Geneva ... process and threaten Syria's territorial integrity as well as international and regional security.”

The next round of negotiations to solve the Syrian crisis peacefully will take place in Geneva on January 22, and it appears that Washington is urging the Syrian rebels to make extremely painful concessions.

The opposition leaders should be “more creative” in Geneva and accept the necessity of leaving Alawite officials in the Assad regime in key positions of a future transition government, a Middle East diplomat told Reuters.

“For Geneva to produce an arrangement acceptable to the United States and Russia, the opposition would have to accept taking part in a transitional administration with a strong Alawite presence,” the diplomat said, expressing the hope that at least Assad would have diminished powers, either as president or not.

The diplomat also warned the rebels that “If the opposition rejects such a deal, they will lose most of the West and only have Saudi Arabia, Libya and Turkey left on their side.”

Another member of the Syrian opposition said that Moscow and Washington are actually working “in tandem” now, trying to keep the current Syrian authorities in charge of the army and security services so that they could later unite forces with the moderate opposition to deal with the Al-Qaeda-linked groups that have flooded Syria.

Gambar edaran yang dikeluarkan oleh Arab Syria News Agency (SANA) mendakwa menunjukkan mayat pejuang pemberontak selepas diserang hendap oleh tentera kerajaan di bandar perindustrian Adra luar Damsyik, pada 21 Julai, 2013 (AFP Photo/SANA – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

Wakil pembangkang bercakap menentang anti-Assad Sunni menuju pihak berkuasa peralihan di Syria, kerana orang itu tidak akan mampu untuk mengetuai perjuangan menentang Al-Qaeda di Syria, sesuatu yang kedua-dua Rusia dan Amerika Syarikat yang tertarik.

"Walaupun Assad diketepikan dan ketua Sunni pihak berkuasa peralihan beliau akan mempunyai kuasa kerana bukan Washington ataupun Moscow kelihatan mahu menamat-kan kawalan Alawi lalui tentera dan peralatan keselamatan,” katanya.

Seorang pegawai kanan Barat kepada Reuters bahawa Rusia dan Amerika Syarikat telah membincangkan calon-calon untuk kerajaan peralihan Syria masa depan tetapi apa-apa yang konkrit telah dipersetujui setakat ini.

U-turn dalam persepsi Barat Assad telah didahului oleh Golongan ini Barisan Islam di Syria membuat percubaan yang tidak berjaya untuk mengambil di bawah kawalan saluran bantuan tidak membawa maut Amerika dan British diberikan kepada pemberontak Syria melalui Turki dikawal oleh pemberontak yang sederhana (moderate rebels).

Kurang dari seminggu yang lalu, Golongan ini dari Al-Nusra Front menawan bandar Adra kira 20 kilometer ke utara Damsyik dan menjalankan pembunuhan beramai-ramai kejam pada (brutal massacre) orang2 awam.

Lebih 80 orang di Adra, ada kalanya keluarga-keluarga, telah disembelih dengan kejam (brutally slaughtered).

Rusia-Amerika Syarikat dekat-mendekati mengenai isu Syria

Pada bulan Ogos, berikutan beberapa siri serangan kimia di Syria, Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama Washington mendapati dirinya dalam kedudukan yang janggal, kerana dia telah berjanji campur tangan ketenteraan terhadap rejim Syria jika kerajaan Assad telah terbukti telah menggunakan senjata itu.

Tetapi selepas pendirian yang kuat oleh Rusia pada sidang kemuncak G20 di St Petersburg, memenangi sokongan meluas di kalangan negara-negara lain untuk penyelesaian secara aman krisis Syria, pentadbiran Obama terpaksa memikirkan semula strateginya dalam konflik Syria.

Selepas Presiden Rusia Vladimir Putin dilabel serangan kimia sebagai “diadakan” oleh pembangkang Syria (Syrian opposition), pentadbiran Obama yang diterima banyak daripada pelucutan simpanan stok Syria (weapons stockpiles) senjata kimia yang dicadangkan oleh Moscow.

Selepas pentadbiran Obama ditarik balik (pulled back) daripada ancaman untuk mengebom rejim Assad untuk “pembunuhan rakyat sendiri,” perselisihan di antara Washington dan paling dekat Timur Tengah sekutunya, Arab Saudi dan Turki yang menyo-kong Sunni pemberontak anti-Assad, mula berkembang.

Pada bulan Oktober, ahli-ahli keluarga diraja Arab Saudi mengugut (threatened to rethink) untuk memikirkan semula perkongsian strategik mereka dengan Amerika Syarikat berikut keengganan Amerika untuk menyokong rancangan Riyadh kepada Syria dan Iran.

Kemudian ada laporan bahawa Arab Saudi dan Israel (cooperated) memberi kerjasama dalam persekutuan kemudahan terhadap Iran.

Menurut Reuters, Turki memutuskan untuk membekalkan militan depan Islam dengan senjata langsung.

Di tengah-tengah perselisihan semakin meningkat di antara Washington dan sekutu tradisional Timur Tengah, pembangkang Syria, yang disokong oleh Arab Saudi, Libya dan Turki, adalah tidak mungkin untuk melancarkan cabaran yang berjaya untuk rejim Syria yang disokong oleh Iran, Rusia dan China, pakar percaya.

The opposition representative spoke against an anti-Assad Sunni heading the transitional authorities in Syria, because such a person would be unable to head a battle against Al-Qaeda in Syria, something that both Russia and the US are interested in.

“Even if Assad is sidelined and a Sunni heads a transitional authority, he would have no power because neither Washington nor Moscow appears to want to end the Alawite control over the military and security apparatus,” he said.

A senior Western official told Reuters that Russia and the US are already discussing candidates for a future transitional Syrian government, but that nothing concrete has been agreed so far.

The U-turn in Western perception of Assad was preceded by jihadists of the Islamic Front in Syria making an unsuccessful attempt to take under control the channels of American and British non-lethal aid provided to the Syrian rebels via Turkey controlled by moderate rebels.

Less than a week ago, jihadists from the Al-Nusra Front captured the town of Adra some 20 kilometers north of Damascus and carried out a brutal massacre of civilians.

Over 80 people in Adra, sometimes whole families, were brutally slaughtered.

Russia-US rapprochement on Syria issue

In August, following a series of chemical attacks in Syria, US President Barack Obama Washington found himself in an awkward position, because he had promised a military intervention against the Syrian regime if Assad’s government was proved to have used such weapons.

But after a strong stand by Russia at the G20 summit in St. Petersburg, winning widespread support among other nations for a peaceful solution for the Syrian crisis, the Obama administration was forced to rethink its strategy in the Syrian conflict.

After Russia’s President Vladimir Putin labeled chemical attacks as “staged” by the Syrian opposition, the Obama administration accepted a deal of stripping Syria of its chemical weapons stockpiles proposed by Moscow.

After the Obama administration pulled back from its threat to bomb the Assad regime for “gassing his own people,” the rift between Washington and its closest Middle East allies, Saudi Arabia and Turkey supporting the Sunni anti-Assad rebels, began to grow.

In October, members of the Saudi Arabian royal family threatened to rethink their strategic partnership with the US following America’s reluctance to back up Riyadh’s plans for Syria and Iran.

Then there were reports that Saudi Arabia and Israel cooperated in an alliance of convenience against Iran.

According to Reuters, Turkey decided to supply the Islamic front militants with weapons directly.

Amid a growing rift between Washington and its traditional Middle East allies, the Syrian opposition, backed by Saudi Arabia, Libya and Turkey, is unlikely to mount a successful challenge to the Syrian regime backed by Iran, Russia and China, experts believe.

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