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France, Syria

France ready for Syrian intervention without UN

NOVANEWS smh.com.au INTERNATIONAL momentum for limited military intervention in Syria gathered pace yesterday amid opposition reports that 4000 people have been killed this month, the deadliest since the uprising began. France signalled it would be willing to participate in a limited no-fly zone and suggested for the first time that such an operation could be mounted without reference to the UN Security Council, where Russia and China wield a veto. The United States and Turkey have already discussed the possibility although Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, has said ”greater in-depth analysis” was needed. Mr Le Drian ruled out a no-fly zone over the whole of the country, saying such a step would be tantamount to war. Instead, a coalition of Western states, Turkey and Arab power...
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France: Pig heads placed at entrance to mosques

 NOVANEWS Worshipers find two pig heads at entrance to mosques in French town of Montauban where Islamist gunman killed two paratroopers in March ynet Muslims attending morning prayers Wednesday were confronted by two pigs’ heads in the entrance to their mosque in a French town where an Islamist gunman killed two paratroopers in March. The incident in Montauban was described as a “racist provocation” by a watchdog which monitors anti-Islamic actions in France and as an “odious and blasphemous act” by the Montauban mayor, Brigitte Bareges. It was the first of its kind in the southern Tarn-et-Garonne region but officials refused to speculate on a possible link to the March tragedy. The paratroopers killed in March were two of the seven victims of Mohamed Merah, who also shot dead three Jew...
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French Foreign Minister Accused of Falsifying Reports on Syria “To Provoke a War”

NOVANEWS Global Research, July 14, 2012 On 19 March 2012, a high French official invited Arab journalists based in Paris to inform them of the internal battle being waged within the French government and, in particular, the Quai d’Orsay [the French Foreign Ministry] regarding Syria. According to this person, the French Ambassador in Damascus, Eric Chevallier, whose embassy had just been shut down and who had returned to Paris, challenged Minister Juppé in front of his colleagues. He accused Alain Juppé of having ignored his embassy reports and of having falsified summaries of them to provoke a war against Syria. In March 2011, at the beginning of the events currently besetting Syria, the Foreign Ministry hurriedly dispatched fact finders to Deraa to appraise what was happening. Their rep...
France, Literature

Book reveals: Mossad manipulates, recruits French Jews

NOVANEWS All this pushed me to write two books [on] how the Mossad manipulates a lot of Jews, who live in France, in the United States, in everywhere to help them in their propaganda.” French writer Jacob Cohen French writer Jacob Cohen has released a new book that reveals how the Israeli spy agency, Mossad manipulates ordinary Jews in France and recruits them as undercover agents. The book, titled Dieu ne repasse pas à Bethléem (God won’t return to Bethlehem), deeply investigates Israel’s foothold in France, and is the first such publication in the country to reveal Mossad’s influence and activities inside France. The book makes mention of Sayanims or undercover agents working for Mossad, a Hebrew word not widely known in France. “…what are their connections I take as an example. Re...
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Zionist France says Geneva Syria plans implies Assad must go

NOVANEWS French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Sunday that a text agreed by members of the U.N. Security Council in Geneva on a political transition for Syria implied thatPresident Bashar al-Assad would have to step down. World powers agreed in Geneva on Saturday that a transitional government should be set up in Syria to end the conflict there, but they appeared at odds over what part Assad might play in the process. When asked why it appeared Russia and China had a different perspective on the future of Assad, Fabius said: “Even if they say the opposite, the fact that the text says specifically that there will be a transitional government with all powers means it won’t be Bashar al-Assad … because it will be people that are agreed to by mutual consent. “The opposition wi...
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‘Al-Qaeda’ Terrorist Takes Hostages In Toulouse Bank

NOVANEWS The Huffington Post UK Four people have reportedly been taken hostage by a man claiming to be linked to Al-Qaeda in a bank in Toulouse. The BBC reports the director of the bank is among those taken hostage. AFP reported than one of the hostages - a woman in her 20s -had been freed on Wednesday lunchtime. Elite French police officers are on the scene  It is believed that one of the hostages, a woman, was allowed to leave for food and water. The man demanded to speak to the elite RAID national police force that shot Islamist terrorist Mohammed Merah, who went on a shooting spree in the city earlier this year, killing seven people. There were reports that two shots have been heard, one this morning and another this afternoon - but the origin of the gunfire has not...
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Telling the Truth About Israel in France

NOVANEWS                   Yesterday, Ynet reported that a recent exam question at the Bichat Hospital Faculty of Medicine in Paris' Diderot University has caused quite a controversy. The question asked student to determine whether operation Cast Lead was a genocide. According to the Zionist umbrella organization of French Jewry, CRIF, the question, drafted by Diderot’s Professor Christophe Oberlin wondered "To what extent does it constitute a perpetual crime (war crime, crime against humanity, genocide crime)?" – The question specifically referred to the cold blooded murder, during Operation Cast Lead, of 48 members of the Samouni family. The notorious French Jewish Lobby is already poised to round on this academic institution and...
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Video proves Merah was encouraged by French agent: Father

NOVANEWS Press TV The father of France’s suspected killer, Mohammed Merah, says he is in possession of videos which prove his son travelled to Pakistan, Iraq and Syria encouraged by a French security services agent. French prosecutors on Tuesday made a formal request to the father’s lawyers to have access to the videos showing Mohammed Merah shortly before he was shot by police, AFP reported.  According to prosecutors, they are seeking the videos as part of an investigation into the murder suit filed by Merah’s father, Mohammed Benalal Merah over his son’s death.  On March 22, the 23-year-old Mohammed, was killed after the French security forces laid a 30-hour-plus-long siege on the place where he had been holed up. Authorities claim he had admitted to having links to al-Qaeda before ...
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New French president Francois Hollande, who claims to ‘dislike the rich’, has THREE homes on French Riviera

NOVANEWS By PETER ALLEN France's new Socialist president owns three holiday homes in the glamorous Riviera resort of Cannes, it emerged today. The 57-year-old who 'dislikes the rich' and wants to revolutionise his country with high taxes and an onslaught against bankers is in fact hugely wealthy himself.  His assets were published today in the Official Journal, the gazette which contains verified information about France's government.  Mixed messages: Socialist president Francois Hollande portrays himself as an enemy of the rich - and yet he holds assets worth almost £1million To the undoubted embarrassment to the most left-wing leader in Europe and a man who styles himself as 'Mr Normal', they are valued at almost £1million.  It will also reinforce accusations that Hollande is a 'G...
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Hollande likely to stick with Sarkozy policies on Iran, Syria, but 2012 Afghan withdrawal expected

NOVANEWS miamiherald.com French President-elect Francois Hollande is likely to speed up the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan and won’t support U.S. efforts to deploy a missile-defense system in Europe, policy changes that would affect France’s position on key international security issues. But the new French government, headed by a member of the Socialist Party for the first time in 17 years, is unlikely to stray far from the policies of defeated conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy in areas such as Iran’s nuclear program and the conflict in Syria. Bassma Kodmani, a leading figure in the opposition Syrian National Council, the internationally recognized umbrella group for opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad, said in an interview in Paris that he expected no chan...