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Broad majorities of Democrats and Republicans alike disagree with  President Obama's decision to supply arms to rebels fighting to  overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, according to a Pew poll out Monday.
The survey reflected very little partisan divide in attitudes abo&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meloney]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Meloney]]></source><link>http://meloney.newsvine.com/_news/2013/06/17/19008183-most-americans-oppose-arming-syrian-rebels-poll-shows-cbs-news</link><guid>http://meloney.newsvine.com/_news/2013/06/17/19008183-most-americans-oppose-arming-syrian-rebels-poll-shows-cbs-news</guid><category>syria</category><category>rebels</category><category>world-news</category><category>assad</category><category>arming-syria</category><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:53:13 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=MeloneyF7BC30E0-C4F5-F750-8D9E-D38FF1D0031E.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="300" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=MeloneyF7BC30E0-C4F5-F750-8D9E-D38FF1D0031E.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Blood on your hands: Vladimir Putin's attack on Prime Minister David Cameron ahead of G8 talks on Syria </title>
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The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, rounded on Britain on Sunday, accusing David Cameron of betraying humanitarian values by supporting Syrian rebels with &ldquo;blood on their hands&rdquo;.
In harsh and undiplomatic language, Mr Putin accused the UK and other Western power&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></source><link>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2013/06/16/18990104-blood-on-your-hands-vladimir-putins-attack-on-prime-minister-david-cameron-ahead-of-g8-talks-on-syria</link><guid>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2013/06/16/18990104-blood-on-your-hands-vladimir-putins-attack-on-prime-minister-david-cameron-ahead-of-g8-talks-on-syria</guid><category>russia</category><category>britain</category><category>northern-ireland</category><category>syria</category><category>rebels</category><category>david-cameron</category><category>society</category><category>world-news</category><category>vladimir-putin</category><category>press-conference</category><category>foreign-affairs</category><category>g8-summit</category><category>western-powers</category><category>uk-news-channel</category><category>betraying-humanitarian-values</category><category>blood-on-their-hands</category><category>kill-enemies</category><category>eat-organs</category><category>legitimate-government</category><category>murderous-dictator</category><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:17:12 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mscyprah0F80D356-66FA-43AE-7D26-09FB83FC8080.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="300" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mscyprah0F80D356-66FA-43AE-7D26-09FB83FC8080.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Okay We Are Going To Arm The Syrian Rebels. Now What?</title>
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Any reading this who have been on Newsvine for the last 18+ months and who have been following my articles on Syria know my position of being pro Syrian intervention.&nbsp; I obviously then welcome this latest development of the Obama administration policy shift of deciding the &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Curtis Montgomery]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Alan Curtis Montgomery]]></source><link>http://progressiveperspective.newsvine.com/_news/2013/06/15/18974407-okay-we-are-going-to-arm-the-syrian-rebels-now-what</link><guid>http://progressiveperspective.newsvine.com/_news/2013/06/15/18974407-okay-we-are-going-to-arm-the-syrian-rebels-now-what</guid><category>us</category><category>aid</category><category>politics</category><category>syria</category><category>rebels</category><category>john-kerry</category><category>foreign-policy</category><category>washington-dc</category><category>chuck-hagel</category><category>no-fly-zones</category><category>susan-rice</category><category>president-obama</category><category>foreign-intervention</category><category>free-syria</category><category>arming-the-opposition</category><pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:48:10 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective1C103999-83E3-2078-AEB1-BE1BD2B9BF75.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="247" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective1C103999-83E3-2078-AEB1-BE1BD2B9BF75.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="74" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Members Of The Free Syrian Army.  The Ones Who Bashar al-Assad Insist Are Terrorist.  They don't look like terrorist do they?  That's because they are not.&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective1C1CEBE3-98E2-CC7D-1F8F-3A8295FEF1A3.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective1C1CEBE3-98E2-CC7D-1F8F-3A8295FEF1A3.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;More Free Syrian Army Members &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective49352016-B374-47E9-3A9E-621EE4FB2581.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="268" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective49352016-B374-47E9-3A9E-621EE4FB2581.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Free Syrian Soldiers Prepare For Battle&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective16C0B587-532D-4D9F-D47D-46B86D7E9C97.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="225" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective16C0B587-532D-4D9F-D47D-46B86D7E9C97.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Free Syrian Soldiers In Darkoush, Idlib Province, Syria&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective28BCF771-60F6-FA57-FDC2-AB889B69720D.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="225" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective28BCF771-60F6-FA57-FDC2-AB889B69720D.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Free Syrian Soldiers Prepare For A Firefight&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective28A355A3-FE55-4482-C1F9-ED0CAD82A7FD.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective28A355A3-FE55-4482-C1F9-ED0CAD82A7FD.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Assad's Military Forces&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective45ADE26B-E46B-7D87-9059-5845C0BC86B0.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="225" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective45ADE26B-E46B-7D87-9059-5845C0BC86B0.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;More Of Assad's Forces The Ones The Free Syrian Army And The Majority of Syria and The West Consider Enemies Because They Are Responsible For Mass Killings And Other Crimes Against Humanity Against Innocent Syrian Men, Women, And Children.&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective983C2958-4783-F63C-BEF7-0B8487708648.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="265" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective983C2958-4783-F63C-BEF7-0B8487708648.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Some of Those The Assad Regime Considers Enemies&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspectiveE2BF260A-265D-4D8C-2584-53EF926BA3AF.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="301" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspectiveE2BF260A-265D-4D8C-2584-53EF926BA3AF.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="91" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Why Does The Assad Regime Consider Them Enemies?  I Don't Know Ask The Assad Regime Why They Committed The Houla Massacre And Countless Others Targeting And Killing Even The Children. &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective7D8C8625-7A13-3CC8-697A-199A9DD6A6DA.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="300" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective7D8C8625-7A13-3CC8-697A-199A9DD6A6DA.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;One of The Assad Regime Latest Massacres.  145 civilians (34 children, 40 women, 71 men) killed in the Banias massacre.  Again Why Does The Assad Regime Consider Them Enemies?  Do These Look Like Terrorist?  How Can This Regime Be So Heartless To Intentionally Slaughter Unarmed Men and Women and Innocent Children? &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective3712DBB5-5223-DF9A-B860-EFF9000BF4B2.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="200" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective3712DBB5-5223-DF9A-B860-EFF9000BF4B2.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="60" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;This Is The Kind of Weaponry The Free Syrian Army Is Up Against&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspectiveF4DE3740-7EE1-5AF1-06E7-F010ACF2713B.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="298" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspectiveF4DE3740-7EE1-5AF1-06E7-F010ACF2713B.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;The Rebel Fighters Also Have A Sophisticated Syrian Air Force Capability They Have To Contend With&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspectiveEDA913AF-3010-4D02-7A94-086D7A08ACBD.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="238" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspectiveEDA913AF-3010-4D02-7A94-086D7A08ACBD.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="72" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Yet More Of Assad's Air Power Sophistication That The Rebels Have To Try To Defend Themselves And Their Fellow Syrians Against&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspectiveD4AF3397-6622-A235-4513-642BFD3AF3F5.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="269" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspectiveD4AF3397-6622-A235-4513-642BFD3AF3F5.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;When And If We Try To Set Up A No Fly Zone At A Future Date This Is What We Will Have To Contend With A Sophisticated Air Defense System Of The Assad Regime&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective46482F8A-2307-64CE-D227-A690BCC34127.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="225" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective46482F8A-2307-64CE-D227-A690BCC34127.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Syrian Anti-Ship Missiles &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective64493C47-0310-72C7-E856-680A58B7A18B.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="638" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective64493C47-0310-72C7-E856-680A58B7A18B.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="191" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Syrian Army Surface To Surface Missiles&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective8D10A7C6-2C28-910E-9025-BA23405D3471.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="270" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective8D10A7C6-2C28-910E-9025-BA23405D3471.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Syrian Army Scud-B Surface To Surface Missiles&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspectiveFDC9823F-BBFD-2AA2-40C7-16AFB7DFFD07.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="305" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspectiveFDC9823F-BBFD-2AA2-40C7-16AFB7DFFD07.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="92" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Syrian Zelzal or M-600 Rockets (Missiles)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Weapon Systems Like These Could Be Modified To Allow For Chemical Weapon Warfare On A Large Scale &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>As Rebels Lose Ground in Syria, U.S. Mulls Options - NYTimes.com</title>
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By   MICHAEL R. GORDON and  MARK LANDLER
Published: June 10, 2013
WASHINGTON &mdash; President Bashar al-Assad&rsquo;s gains on the battlefield have called the United States&rsquo; strategy on Syria into question, prompting the Obama administration to again consider  military&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Curtis Montgomery]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Alan Curtis Montgomery]]></source><link>http://progressiveperspective.newsvine.com/_news/2013/06/11/18905373-as-rebels-lose-ground-in-syria-us-mulls-options-nytimescom</link><guid>http://progressiveperspective.newsvine.com/_news/2013/06/11/18905373-as-rebels-lose-ground-in-syria-us-mulls-options-nytimescom</guid><category>us</category><category>aid</category><category>syria</category><category>rebels</category><category>john-kerry</category><category>world-news</category><category>foreign-policy</category><category>uk</category><category>no-fly-zones</category><category>president-obama</category><category>foreign-intervention</category><category>free-syria</category><category>arming-the-opposition</category><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:51:23 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective23FFBE15-CF67-3971-86ED-D404EF29074E.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="217" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective23FFBE15-CF67-3971-86ED-D404EF29074E.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="66" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Reports: Obama administration close to approving arms shipments to Syrian rebels - Middle East - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[IDFeb89]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[IDFeb89]]></source><link>http://idfeb89.newsvine.com/_news/2013/06/10/18877462-reports-obama-administration-close-to-approving-arms-shipments-to-syrian-rebels-middle-east-israel-news-haaretz-daily-newspaper</link><guid>http://idfeb89.newsvine.com/_news/2013/06/10/18877462-reports-obama-administration-close-to-approving-arms-shipments-to-syrian-rebels-middle-east-israel-news-haaretz-daily-newspaper</guid><category>us</category><category>middle-east</category><category>kerry</category><category>syria</category><category>rebels</category><category>obama</category><category>world-news</category><category>assad</category><category>syrian-civil-war</category><category>golan-high</category><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 09:15:59 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=IDFeb89AFE36AC8-6B3C-3BE3-C9E1-13458290F90B.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="300" width="300" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=IDFeb89AFE36AC8-6B3C-3BE3-C9E1-13458290F90B.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>In Syrian Victory, Hezbollah Risks Broader Fight - NYTimes.com</title>
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BEIRUT, Lebanon &mdash; In the final days the outgunned Syrian rebels,  deprived of reinforcements, ammunition and sleep, were surviving on  olives and canned beans. They were hiding in the concrete shells of  destroyed houses and underground tunnels near the besieged rebel  st&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Curtis Montgomery]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Alan Curtis Montgomery]]></source><link>http://progressiveperspective.newsvine.com/_news/2013/06/05/18786734-in-syrian-victory-hezbollah-risks-broader-fight-nytimescom</link><guid>http://progressiveperspective.newsvine.com/_news/2013/06/05/18786734-in-syrian-victory-hezbollah-risks-broader-fight-nytimescom</guid><category>lebanon</category><category>syria</category><category>rebels</category><category>world-news</category><category>assad</category><category>hezbollah</category><category>nasrallah</category><category>bashar</category><category>fire-fight</category><category>qusayr</category><category>free-syria</category><pubDate>Thu, 6 Jun 2013 03:24:26 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective605E639F-40C6-F0EB-915B-0DA7DCE0A0B1.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective605E639F-40C6-F0EB-915B-0DA7DCE0A0B1.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Syria and the Middle East: our greatest miscalculation since the rise of fascism </title>
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There could no more dreadful idea than to pour more armaments into the sectarian war now consuming Syria. Yet that is precisely what Britain's coalition government wants to do. The foreign secretary, William Hague, seemed on Monday to parody his hero Pitt the Younger by demandi&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></source><link>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/29/18581179-syria-and-the-middle-east-our-greatest-miscalculation-since-the-rise-of-fascism</link><guid>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/29/18581179-syria-and-the-middle-east-our-greatest-miscalculation-since-the-rise-of-fascism</guid><category>iraq</category><category>libya</category><category>egypt</category><category>syria</category><category>rebels</category><category>world-news</category><category>sadam</category><category>bashar-al-assad</category><category>fascism</category><category>simon-jenkins</category><category>gadaffi</category><category>sectarian-war</category><category>foreign-secretary-william-hague</category><category>arab-spring</category><category>western-sanctions</category><category>britains-coalition</category><category>media-choice</category><category>muslim-schism</category><category>seculrist-dictators</category><category>religious-discord</category><category>pitt-the-younger</category><pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 10:38:13 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mscyprah00A442D1-CB82-A016-DD14-5218781A901F.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="240" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mscyprah00A442D1-CB82-A016-DD14-5218781A901F.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="72" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Sen. McCain Slips Into Syria, Meets With Rebels - ABC News</title>
<description><![CDATA[wow i wasn't aware of any of this.&nbsp; pretty brave of him.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[maria  lyn]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[maria  lyn]]></source><link>http://maria--lyn.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/27/18542079-sen-mccain-slips-into-syria-meets-with-rebels-abc-news</link><guid>http://maria--lyn.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/27/18542079-sen-mccain-slips-into-syria-meets-with-rebels-abc-news</guid><category>war</category><category>syria</category><category>rebels</category><category>world-news</category><category>hatred</category><category>worldnews</category><category>civilwar</category><category>deathofcivilians</category><category>assadoutnow</category><pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 02:25:03 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=maria--lyn6E5CEB09-6862-3B02-021C-F28ABACF7698.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="226" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=maria--lyn6E5CEB09-6862-3B02-021C-F28ABACF7698.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Assad Your Finished! (HD Music Video)</title>
<description><![CDATA[Well I have managed to piss off some pro Assad people who are hackers my investigation leads me to believe they are the Syrian Electronic Army.  They are monitoring me here and all other sites I use my name on like You Tube.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Curtis Montgomery]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Alan Curtis Montgomery]]></source><link>http://progressiveperspective.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/25/18490058-assad-your-finished-hd-music-video</link><guid>http://progressiveperspective.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/25/18490058-assad-your-finished-hd-music-video</guid><category>politics</category><category>syria</category><category>justice</category><category>opposition</category><category>resistance</category><category>rebels</category><category>hackers</category><category>hd</category><category>assad</category><category>music-video</category><category>karma</category><category>fate</category><category>you-tube</category><category>bashar</category><category>free-syria</category><category>syrian-electronic-army</category><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 14:58:20 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content medium="video" url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFH2MpB456Y" ><media:thumbnail url="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/dFH2MpB456Y/default.jpg" /><media:description type="plain">Bashar al-Assad you will not escape your fate!</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Stand Up For Human Rights! Stand With The Syrian People! Stand Against Tyrants!</title>
<description><![CDATA[If you support the Syrian People, a free Syria, the mainstream Syrian opposition, and you think we should being doing more to end the crises in Syria please consider joining our Nation FREE SYRIA.  ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Curtis Montgomery]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Alan Curtis Montgomery]]></source><link>http://progressiveperspective.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/11/18193466-stand-up-for-human-rights-stand-with-the-syrian-people-stand-against-tyrants</link><guid>http://progressiveperspective.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/11/18193466-stand-up-for-human-rights-stand-with-the-syrian-people-stand-against-tyrants</guid><category>human-rights</category><category>politics</category><category>syria</category><category>genocide</category><category>rebels</category><category>activism</category><category>assad</category><category>crimes-against-humanity</category><category>bashar</category><category>al-assad</category><category>free-syria</category><pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 14:23:11 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective68F9F142-08E8-1B5D-47D5-605E0B715F56.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="225" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=progressiveperspective68F9F142-08E8-1B5D-47D5-605E0B715F56.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Stand Up For Human Rights!&lt;br /&gt;
Stand With The Syrian People!&lt;br /&gt;
Stand Against Tyrants!  &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Time for Obama to decide</title>
<description><![CDATA[Ian Bremmer essentially say's " Arm the Al Qaida Jihadists" and to hell with the consequnces. If you like tortured logic, this is a greast example of speaking out two sides of the same mouth.
Mr. Bremmer's opines that if we are the radiacals ansd establsih a no fly zone in Syria&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barretts'View]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Barretts'View]]></source><link>http://barrettsview.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/09/18153200-time-for-obama-to-decide</link><guid>http://barrettsview.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/09/18153200-time-for-obama-to-decide</guid><category>syria</category><category>rebels</category><category>obama</category><category>world-news</category><category>assad</category><pubDate>Thu, 9 May 2013 21:05:20 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=barrettsview7F725AD1-868C-D955-8D28-520B71381CFF.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="400" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=barrettsview7F725AD1-868C-D955-8D28-520B71381CFF.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>U.N. has testimony that Syrian rebels used sarin gas: investigator</title>
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The United Nations independent commission of inquiry on Syria has not yet seen evidence of government forces having used chemical weapons, which are banned under international law, said commission member Carla Del Ponte.
"Our investigators have been in neighboring countries in&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[jfxgillis]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[jfxgillis]]></source><link>http://jfxgillis.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/05/18072165-un-has-testimony-that-syrian-rebels-used-sarin-gas-investigator</link><guid>http://jfxgillis.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/05/18072165-un-has-testimony-that-syrian-rebels-used-sarin-gas-investigator</guid><category>syria</category><category>rebels</category><category>world-news</category><category>assad</category><category>sarin</category><category>poison-gas</category><pubDate>Mon, 6 May 2013 00:10:11 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=jfxgillis3AA7243F-1F22-B0A5-75E7-47A36563488D.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="300" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=jfxgillis3AA7243F-1F22-B0A5-75E7-47A36563488D.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Images of war: A child wanders amid the rubble and dust of a town he called home that now looks like the film set of an apocalyptic future  |</title>
<description><![CDATA[Standing amid the ruins, a child gazes at the devastation war has brought to his home in Syria.
Once&nbsp;Deir al-Zor&nbsp;was a busy town in the eastern part of the country, with a growing tourist industry, but when rebels&nbsp;moved in, it became a target for tyrant President &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[rescue dogs62]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[rescue dogs62]]></source><link>http://onesearch4-2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/06/17631906-images-of-war-a-child-wanders-amid-the-rubble-and-dust-of-a-town-he-called-home-that-now-looks-like-the-film-set-of-an-apocalyptic-future</link><guid>http://onesearch4-2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/06/17631906-images-of-war-a-child-wanders-amid-the-rubble-and-dust-of-a-town-he-called-home-that-now-looks-like-the-film-set-of-an-apocalyptic-future</guid><category>war</category><category>syria</category><category>rebels</category><category>torture</category><category>world-news</category><category>assad</category><category>tyrants</category><pubDate>Sat, 6 Apr 2013 19:11:41 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=onesearch4-2A28E8D80-2243-FFF3-5088-22103B6EE638.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="185" width="308" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=onesearch4-2A28E8D80-2243-FFF3-5088-22103B6EE638.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="73" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>USA funding Syrian terrorist rebels</title>
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President Barack Obama has signed a covert directive authorizing U.S. support for Syrian rebels battling President Bashar al-Assad's forces, U.S. officials told CNN on Wednesday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[TV-MISSILE]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[TV-MISSILE]]></source><link>http://tv-missile.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/17/17348129-usa-funding-syrian-terrorist-rebels</link><guid>http://tv-missile.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/17/17348129-usa-funding-syrian-terrorist-rebels</guid><category>usa</category><category>syria</category><category>rebels</category><category>world-news</category><pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:30:24 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=tv-missileA2E4A8F8-1FE1-69A8-0212-F002184022CA.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="225" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=tv-missileA2E4A8F8-1FE1-69A8-0212-F002184022CA.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Special Report: Syria Two Years On: The Failure of International Aid | Doctors Without Borders</title>
<description><![CDATA[Clip from Article:
Syria Two Years On: The Failure of International Aid
March 6, 2013
After two years of an extremely violent conflict that the UN estimates  has killed more than 70,000, the people of Syria are mired in a  humanitarian catastrophe.
Despite repeated requests, &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[WendyRuthWyatt]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[WendyRuthWyatt]]></source><link>http://wendywyatt.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/06/17215942-special-report-syria-two-years-on-the-failure-of-international-aid-doctors-without-borders</link><guid>http://wendywyatt.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/06/17215942-special-report-syria-two-years-on-the-failure-of-international-aid-doctors-without-borders</guid><category>women</category><category>human</category><category>children</category><category>international</category><category>court</category><category>syria</category><category>rights</category><category>babies</category><category>murder</category><category>democracy</category><category>genocide</category><category>rape</category><category>rebels</category><category>torture</category><category>against</category><category>freedom</category><category>world-news</category><category>crimes</category><category>civilians</category><category>criminal</category><category>mass</category><category>atrocities</category><category>assad</category><category>bashar</category><category>systematic</category><category>humaniity</category><category>viiolation</category><pubDate>Thu, 7 Mar 2013 03:52:15 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Just Received This Link From A Rebel Fighter Fighting On The Front Lines Against Bahasr al-Assad</title>
<description><![CDATA[Free Syria Now!  May Bashar al-Assad and his evil regime soon be cut down.  Best wishes to all the rebel fighters who have the Syrian people's best interest as their primary goal.  I don't speak Arabic so I don't know what it says, but the images speak for themselves.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Curtis Montgomery]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Alan Curtis Montgomery]]></source><link>http://progressiveperspective.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/21/17045711-just-received-this-link-from-a-rebel-fighter-fighting-on-the-front-lines-against-bahasr-al-assad</link><guid>http://progressiveperspective.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/21/17045711-just-received-this-link-from-a-rebel-fighter-fighting-on-the-front-lines-against-bahasr-al-assad</guid><category>syria</category><category>revolution</category><category>rebels</category><category>world-news</category><category>protesters</category><category>assad</category><category>arabic</category><category>bashar</category><category>free-syria</category><pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:04:03 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content medium="video" url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3F5VNBtb9U" ><media:thumbnail url="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/g3F5VNBtb9U/default.jpg" /><media:description type="plain">Syria3D
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962798707811+</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Al Qaeda Linked Rebels Capture Military Airport Near Aleppo, Syria</title>
<description><![CDATA[Mainstream media is reporting this as just 'rebels' without any other references to who they were. But the operation was conducted by two Islamist groups, one of which (al Nusrah front) was formed under the support of al Qaeda in Iraq, and has been described by some as 'al Qaeda'&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Contrarian]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[The Contrarian]]></source><link>http://the-contrarian.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/13/16946790-al-qaeda-linked-rebels-capture-military-airport-near-aleppo-syria</link><guid>http://the-contrarian.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/13/16946790-al-qaeda-linked-rebels-capture-military-airport-near-aleppo-syria</guid><category>middle-east</category><category>terrorism</category><category>war</category><category>syria</category><category>rebels</category><category>world-news</category><category>al-qaeda</category><pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:37:18 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=the-contrarianC9C09C63-D2B3-F8F5-93F9-0828293BEB88.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="222" width="300" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=the-contrarianC9C09C63-D2B3-F8F5-93F9-0828293BEB88.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="89" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Israel Fuels Syrian Fire, Risking Regional Outburst</title>
<description><![CDATA[
By Nicola Nasser**
&nbsp;
The timing of the Israeli air raid early on January 30 on a Syrian target, that has yet to be identified, coincided with a hard to refute indications that the &ldquo;regime change&rdquo; in Syria by force, both by foreign military intervention and by in&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicola Nasser]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Nicola Nasser]]></source><link>http://nicolanasser.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/06/16869704-israel-fuels-syrian-fire-risking-regional-outburst</link><guid>http://nicolanasser.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/06/16869704-israel-fuels-syrian-fire-risking-regional-outburst</guid><category>un</category><category>israel</category><category>syria</category><category>zone</category><category>rebels</category><category>u-s</category><category>world-news</category><category>buffer</category><pubDate>Wed, 6 Feb 2013 16:13:36 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=nicolanasser42E6A225-A79F-F249-8D34-3DE1ADFA4F71.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="232" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=nicolanasser42E6A225-A79F-F249-8D34-3DE1ADFA4F71.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="70" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Israeli &quot;security fence&quot; along the armistice line with Syria&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Missile hits Aleppo building, 13 killed: watchdog</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phyllis-3324111]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Phyllis-3324111]]></source><link>http://phyllis3324111.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/03/16826977-missile-hits-aleppo-building-13-killed-watchdog</link><guid>http://phyllis3324111.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/03/16826977-missile-hits-aleppo-building-13-killed-watchdog</guid><category>human-rights</category><category>military</category><category>rebels</category><category>civil-war</category><category>anti-war</category><category>uk-news</category><category>anti-discrimination</category><category>eurovine</category><category>hate-watch</category><category>us-news-and-views</category><category>syrian-observatory</category><category>syrian-world-news</category><pubDate>Sun, 3 Feb 2013 14:28:49 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=phyllis3324111A534E906-6A61-2A2B-FB53-243D2285CD65.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="225" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=phyllis3324111A534E906-6A61-2A2B-FB53-243D2285CD65.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Syria 6/1/2013</title>
<description><![CDATA[It seems to me, that the government of Syria might loose the war in there. It has been going on for a while now and there is over sixty thousand dead ones already by the war. Like happened in Libya it seems that in Syria also the rebels gain territory bit by bit from the governme&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matti Viikate]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Matti Viikate]]></source><link>http://mattiviikate.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/06/16377878-syria-612013</link><guid>http://mattiviikate.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/06/16377878-syria-612013</guid><category>government</category><category>rebels</category><category>world-news</category><category>syria-6-1-2013</category><pubDate>Sun, 6 Jan 2013 12:02:53 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Battles rage in Damascus refugee area - Middle East - Al Jazeera English</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Clashes between rebels and an armed Palestinian group loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have continued in a Damascus neighbourhood mostly inhabited by Palestinian refugees.
Residents in Yarmouk camp said several mortar rounds landed in the neighbourhood on Tuesday and &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[okiegirl-778011]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[okiegirl-778011]]></source><link>http://cantstandthesound.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/18/15996303-battles-rage-in-damascus-refugee-area-middle-east-al-jazeera-english</link><guid>http://cantstandthesound.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/18/15996303-battles-rage-in-damascus-refugee-area-middle-east-al-jazeera-english</guid><category>middle-east</category><category>syria</category><category>rebels</category><category>world-news</category><category>damascus</category><category>yarmouk</category><category>assad-forces</category><pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:03:16 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cantstandthesound2BD87BE1-A641-B910-3E17-4B09D5F2FC88.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="89" width="135" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cantstandthesound2BD87BE1-A641-B910-3E17-4B09D5F2FC88.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>In Syria, marriage as defiance - CNN.com</title>
<description><![CDATA[(CNN) -- Ayat Al-Qassab carefully slipped the beaded  satin wedding gown over her small frame. She peered at herself in the  rusted mirror and cautiously smiled. For a moment, her war-torn world  was transformed and she was a beautiful bride -- free, safe and happy.
Boom!
A mor&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[okiegirl-778011]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[okiegirl-778011]]></source><link>http://cantstandthesound.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/10/15821919-in-syria-marriage-as-defiance-cnncom</link><guid>http://cantstandthesound.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/10/15821919-in-syria-marriage-as-defiance-cnncom</guid><category>marriage</category><category>religion</category><category>syria</category><category>rebels</category><category>islam</category><category>al-assad</category><category>mohammad-jumbaz</category><category>ayat-al-qassab</category><pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:14:42 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cantstandthesound102FDF68-1FA5-78B9-C201-95871064F7D9.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="68" width="120" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cantstandthesound102FDF68-1FA5-78B9-C201-95871064F7D9.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Iran's people supporting their regime</title>
<description><![CDATA[Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is known as "God's deputy on earth." He is Iran's ultimate powerbroker. Understanding what makes him tick is crucial to understanding Iran. But it isn't enough. You also have to understand Iran.
The &ldquo;great man&rdquo; theory of history was appealing i&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian Stora]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Brian Stora]]></source><link>http://brian-stora.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/10/15805095-irans-people-supporting-their-regime</link><guid>http://brian-stora.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/10/15805095-irans-people-supporting-their-regime</guid><category>israel</category><category>iran</category><category>kings</category><category>rebels</category><category>world-news</category><category>scientists</category><category>warlords</category><category>generals</category><category>ayatollah-ali-khamenei</category><category>iranians</category><category>iran-s-people-supporting-their-regime</category><category>shiite-faith</category><category>is-it-irans-leader-or-iran</category><pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 04:48:05 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=brian-stora58C546A5-98F5-E2F1-5FA5-9D2F536CE0B7.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="253" width="380" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=brian-stora58C546A5-98F5-E2F1-5FA5-9D2F536CE0B7.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Sunday Times: Israel has waged 'secret war' to track Syria WMD - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Israeli sources quoted as saying WMD munitions cache has been moved  to new locations over past week; White House and its allies are weighing  military options to secure Syria's chemical and biological weapons,  U.S. officials said last week.
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[IDFeb89]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[IDFeb89]]></source><link>http://idfeb89.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/09/15789079-sunday-times-israel-has-waged-secret-war-to-track-syria-wmd-israel-news-haaretz-daily-newspaper</link><guid>http://idfeb89.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/09/15789079-sunday-times-israel-has-waged-secret-war-to-track-syria-wmd-israel-news-haaretz-daily-newspaper</guid><category>israel</category><category>middle-east</category><category>white-house</category><category>clinton</category><category>syria</category><category>rebels</category><category>obama</category><category>world-news</category><category>wmd</category><category>assad</category><category>netanyahu</category><category>idf</category><category>iaf</category><category>ehud-barak</category><category>syrian-civil-war</category><category>golan-hights</category><pubDate>Sun, 9 Dec 2012 08:24:57 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=IDFeb89440834A9-3F1F-203E-51C6-99C05C07653E.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="300" width="300" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=IDFeb89440834A9-3F1F-203E-51C6-99C05C07653E.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Syria mixing chemical warfare agents, U.S. official</title>
<description><![CDATA[By Barbara Starr - CNN
Syrian forces began combining chemicals that would be used to make deadly sarin gas for use in weapons to attack rebel and civilian populations, a U.S. official tells CNN.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jerry Verlinger]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jerry Verlinger]]></source><link>http://jerry611.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/03/15653478-syria-mixing-chemical-warfare-agents-us-official</link><guid>http://jerry611.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/03/15653478-syria-mixing-chemical-warfare-agents-us-official</guid><category>rebels</category><category>united-states</category><category>cnn</category><category>world-news</category><category>hillary-clinton</category><category>civilian-populations</category><category>syrian-forces-combining-chemicals</category><category>deadly-sarin-gas</category><category>weapons-to-attack</category><category>barbara-starr</category><pubDate>Tue, 4 Dec 2012 01:07:27 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=jerry611FFD0D289-6693-6823-CDAB-D79DEDB33A68.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="286" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=jerry611FFD0D289-6693-6823-CDAB-D79DEDB33A68.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="86" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item></channel></rss>