Global Bulletin for 12.1
- Israel plans to build more settlements in West Bank after UN vote
- Susan Rice, Netanyahu dismiss vote
- Israeli FM says Abbas should be toppled if vote successful
- Internet returns to Syria
- Unlikely Syrian government reason for blackout true
- Envoy warns Syria could become failed state without political solution
- Ban Ki-moon condemns Syrian violence, human rights abuses
- Syrian rebels using child soldiers
- 60 countries meet for tougher sanctions on Syria
- NATO to take weeks to deliver Patriot Missiles to Turkish border
- Obama, Senate fight over NDAA 2013
- Text of Feinstein indefinite detention amendment
- NDAA 2013 makes it easier to indefinitely detain americans
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“I used to carry a Kalashnikov… I used to shoot checkpoints … to capture (them) and take the weapons,” he said, adding that his 2,000-strong battalion gave him combat training.
“They taught us how to shoot, how to dismantle and put together a weapon,” he told Human Rights Watch. He volunteered along with his older brother and other relatives.
Another boy, from Homs, said children took on various roles. “The job you have depends on you,” he said. “If you have a brave heart, they’ll send you to (attack) checkpoints.”
"— Syria Child Soldiers: Rebels Using Children In War - Human Rights Watch (via pieceinthepuzzlehumanity)
UK Prime Minister David Cameron says he would back offering President Bashar al-Assad safe passage out of Syria if it ended the bloodshed there.
A new video from the Syria conflict that circulated via the Internet on Thursday showed antigovernment fighters armed with rifles kicking and summarily executing a group of prisoners, apparently soldiers or militiamen, in what human rights activists called evidence of a war crime and another indication that both sides were increasingly committing atrocities.
The video, which could not be authenticated independently but still attracted the attention of Amnesty International and other rights groups, appeared to have been made in Saraqeb, a town in Idlib Province in northern Syria that has been the scene of particularly brutal fighting between rebels and loyalists in the 20-month-old conflict.
In the video, 10 prisoners are shown being forced by their captors to lie next to or atop one another in what remained of a largely destroyed structure that may have been a military checkpoint. The antigovernment fighters, whose precise identity or affiliation were not clear, yell “Allah Akhbar!” or “God is great!” as they kick and herd the prisoners into a pile. Then they open fire.
Global Bulletin for October 26
- African Union ends suspension of Mali
- France, US to send drones, international powers discuss intervention
- Bombings, clashes mark first day of ceasefire
- Jordanian soldier killed at Syrian border
- Boeing successfully tests electronics disabling missile
- Navy says laser arsenal 2 years away
- Iranian underground nuclear facility nearly complete
- Iran uncovers spy device disguised as rock at nuclear facility
- White House says attack in Benghazi terrorist attack
- UN Ambassador says attacks aren’t premeditated
- Libyan security officials say attack was premeditated
- Panel announced to investigate “terrorist attack”
- Libyan security officials say they warned American diplomats 3 days in advance
- Protests sparked by film continue to spread
- U.S. buys $70,000 in Pakistani airtime
- Cartoon in French magazine depicting Mohammad ignites further protests
- Tunisia bans protest over French cartoon
- Protests spread to Nigeria, Afghanistan, Iran
- Unprecedented war games in Strait of Hormuz
- Russian war games of simulation of invasion
- Surprise Israeli war games in Golan Heights
- Syria carries out chemical weapons drill
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