{"id":17576,"date":"2013-01-30T07:48:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T12:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/?p=17576"},"modified":"2013-01-30T07:52:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T12:52:14","slug":"news-round-up-30-january-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/news-round-up-30-january-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"News Round Up (30 January 2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/01\/29\/president-obama-announces-additional-humanitarian-aid-syrian-people?utm_source=wh.gov&amp;utm_medium=shorturl&amp;utm_campaign=shorturl\">President Obama announced a new round of humanitarian assistance, an additional $155 million<\/a> to provide for the urgent and pressing needs of civilians in Syria and refugees forced to flee the violence of the Assad regime. This brings America\u2019s contribution to date to $365 million, making the United States the largest single donor of humanitarian assistance to the Syrian people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/peace-envoy-syria-destroyed-18348879\">Lakhdar Brahim of UN<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Syria is being destroyed,&#8221; Lakhdar Brahimi, the joint U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria, said after closed-door consultations with the Security Council.<\/p>\n<p>Brahimi blamed both Syrian President Bashar Assad&#8217;s government and the Western-backed opposition forces.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Objectively, they are cooperating to destroy Syria. Syria is being destroyed bit by bit. And in destroying Syria, the region is being pushed into a situation that is extremely bad, and extremely important for the entire world,&#8221; Brahimi said&#8230;.&#8221;You may have seen that the two parties are maybe a little more embarrassed to say that &#8216;We&#8217;re going to achieve victory next week.&#8217; And both sides have started to say, &#8216;If there is a political solution, perhaps we are willing to listen, provided that political solution will give us 100 percent of what we want.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"More articles about the United Nations.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/u\/united_nations\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">United Nations<\/a> reported a sharp increase in the number of refugees known officially to have fled Syria, increasing the total in neighboring countries to more than 700,000 from 500,000 in December.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/30\/world\/middleeast\/syria-crisis.html?hp#h[]\">Both Sides in Syria Trade Blame for Scores of Killings in Aleppo<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2013\/01\/29\/world\/middleeast\/29syria_cnd\/29syria_cnd-articleLarge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>People gathered at the banks of a small canal coming from a government-controlled suburb of Aleppo, Syria, to view dozens of bodies on Tuesday.<br \/>\nBy HANIA MOURTADA and ALAN COWELL, Published: January 29, 2013<\/p>\n<p>BEIRUT, Lebanon \u2014 An activist group with opposition contacts in Syria said on Tuesday that the muddied bodies of scores of people, most of them men in their 20s and 30s, had been found in a suburb of the northern city of Aleppo.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Geneva, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said on Tuesday that there had been an \u201cunrelenting flow of refugees\u201d across Syria\u2019s borders, principally into Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>The highest numbers were in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon but smaller numbers had been registered in Egypt and North Africa, said Sybella Wilkes, a spokeswoman for the refugee agency.<\/p>\n<p>The total now exceeds 700,000, made up of around 580,000 registered and the rest waiting to be registered as refugees. The spurt in refugees meant that 200,000 have fled in less than two months since early December when the total was around 500,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are trying to clear a backlog of people because the numbers have gone up so dramatically,\u201d in Jordan and Lebanon particularly, Ms. Wilkes said.<\/p>\n<p>The fighting has long ceased to be a straight contest between government and rebel forces. In the northern town of Ras al-Ain on the border with Turkey, rebels have fought Kurds. and in Deir al-Zour, rivalries among the groups claiming to have overrun the security office showed the contest between them to attract arms and recruits.<\/p>\n<p>Omar Abu Layla, an activist documenting the fighting, said local and Al Nusra groups had joined in the fighting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAl Nusra are good in suicide attacks, but our battalions are better than them at storming,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In the central city of Homs, meanwhile, the toll of the fighting among the dwindling number of inhabitants seemed evident on Tuesday as government forces launched a rocket attack on the Jouret al-Shiyah neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMercy, dear God, Mercy. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on. I feel that they\u2019re shelling right above us,\u201d said Um Abdo, a resident in her fifties. \u201cI feel that the whole world is shaking. The shelling\u00a0is so heavy and so close. Pray for us please. I swear we are drained and exhausted.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>World Bank<\/strong>, UN Provide Bleak Estimate of 2012 Economic Performance (Syria Report)<br \/>\nThe World Bank and ESCWA have estimated <strong>Syria\u2019s GDP to have plunged by 20 to 30 percent last year<\/strong> as the war engulfing the country continues to take its toll on the economy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediapart.fr\/article\/offert\/4d3901da22231b97a413eedfa532e2aa\">En Syrie, une \u00ab\u00e9conomie sous perfusion des pays amis\u00bb<\/a> (This is an excellent run down by Jihad Yazigi and Caroline Donati of the many economic problems Syrians now face. Read all]<br \/>\n27 janvier 2013 | Par <a title=\"Tous les articles de Caroline Donati\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mediapart.fr\/biographie\/184805\">Caroline Donati<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Comment tient la Syrie apr\u00e8s presque deux ann\u00e9es de r\u00e9volution et de guerre\u00a0? Jihad Yazigi, r\u00e9dacteur en chef du Syria Report, site d\u2019information et d\u2019analyse \u00e9conomique (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.syria-report.com\/help\" rel=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.syria-report.com<\/a>), \u00e9value les moyens de subsistance de la population et les ressources d\u2019un r\u00e9gime sous perfusion de ses derniers alli\u00e9s\u00a0:\u00a0<em>\u00ab\u00a0Il faudra vingt ans pour revenir au niveau d\u2019avant-guerre\u00a0\u00bb<\/em>, selon lui. Entretien.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selon le Programme alimentaire mondial (PAM), pr\u00e8s d\u2019un million de Syriens seraient menac\u00e9s de famine, cet hiver. Que pensez-vous de cette estimation\u00a0?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Il est aujourd\u2019hui tr\u00e8s difficile d\u2019avoir des chiffres sur la situation mais le PAM a raison de tirer la sonnette d\u2019alarme. Ce que l\u2019on peut dire, c\u2019est que la d\u00e9t\u00e9rioration de la situation, qui s\u2019est consid\u00e9rablement acc\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e9e depuis l\u2019\u00e9t\u00e9 dernier et les combats \u00e0 Alep, a aggrav\u00e9 une tr\u00e8s profonde crise \u00e9conomique et sociale. Il y a une forte d\u00e9croissance, le ch\u00f4mage est tr\u00e8s \u00e9lev\u00e9, le taux d\u2019inflation officiel est de 50\u00a0% mais il est bien plus \u00e9lev\u00e9\u00a0car l\u2019indice est mesur\u00e9 par rapport aux prix officiels\u00a0: par exemple, le mazout est calcul\u00e9 au prix de 27 livres syriennes le litre, alors qu\u2019en r\u00e9alit\u00e9 il est de 100 livres et bien plus.<\/p>\n<p>Le grand probl\u00e8me qui se pose est un probl\u00e8me d\u2019acheminement des biens, des produits agricoles. Il est tr\u00e8s difficile de circuler d\u2019une r\u00e9gion \u00e0 une autre, les routes sont tr\u00e8s dangereuses, les attaques y sont permanentes de la part de bandes arm\u00e9es qui profitent du chaos.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c0\u00a0ce probl\u00e8me d\u2019acheminement s\u2019ajoute celui de la pauvret\u00e9. Beaucoup de gens ont perdu leur travail depuis longtemps et leurs \u00e9conomies fondent ou ont d\u00e9j\u00e0 fondu\u00a0; l\u2019inflation atteint des niveaux records en particulier pour le pain, \u00e9l\u00e9ment de base de l\u2019alimentation des familles\u00a0: dans certains quartiers touch\u00e9s par la violence, elle atteint parfois 500\u00a0%. Il faut aussi savoir que les r\u00e9gions et les quartiers qui sont les plus touch\u00e9s par la violence sont des zones pauvres. Cette combinaison de facteurs laisse pr\u00e9voir ce type de situation\u00a0: l\u2019appauvrissement et le risque de famine&#8230;..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bayoubuzz.com\/component\/k2\/item\/281313-france-frets-over-islamist-takeover-in-syria\">France Worried Syria will Fall into Hands of Islamist Militant Groups<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PARIS (Reuters) &#8211; France&#8217;s foreign minister said on Monday Syria risks falling into the hands of Islamist militant groups if supporters of the Syrian opposition do not do more to help it in a 22-month-old revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the opening of a conference in Paris with senior members of the Syrian National Coalition, Laurent Fabius said the meeting must focus on making the opposition politically and militarily cohesive to encourage international assistance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Facing the collapse of a state and society, it is Islamist groups that risk gaining ground if we do not act as we should,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We cannot let a revolution that started as a peaceful and democratic protest degenerate into a conflict of militias.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Western concern over the growing strength of jihadist militants fighting autonomously in the disorganized ranks of anti-Assad rebel forces is rising. This has hindered international aid to the moderate Syrian<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Daniel Lippman<\/strong>, who has just returned from Turkey, wrote these two articles about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/01\/29\/syria-war-turkey_n_2573897.html\">Turkey and Syria <\/a>and about<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/01\/25\/world\/meast\/syria-refugees-turkey\/index.html\"> Syrian refugees<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NGO<\/strong> &#8211; &#8216;Initiative for a New Syria&#8217; and its objectives. Financial report of donations inside Syria: The report can also be found online at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/exchange.ou.edu\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=v0CyuqHA4UaKMYlrjoSt310zs7m80c8ITNHIirR0S2MGjWs1h2mnaYPQ2pzB7IHZWR6TS6mexFs.&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2finsyria.org%2fen%2foperations%2freports.php\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/insyria.org\/en\/operations\/reports.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.migrationinformation.org\/Profiles\/display.cfm?ID=929\">Migration Policy Institute\u2019s online journa<\/a>l, the Migration Information Source, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.migrationinformation.org\/Profiles\/display.cfm?ID=929\">Hospitals and Doctors under Attack in Syria<\/a>: Q&amp;A with the Chair of the Humanitarian Aid Committee for the Syrian Expatriates Organization. Dr. Fadi Al Khankan of the Syrian Expatriates Organization, a nonprofit organization of Syrian Americans and Syrian Canadians that is providing medical care and humanitarian relief among other initiatives to establish a democratic Syria, recently sat for a Q&amp;A with the Source.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2013\/01\/28\/al-qaeda-syria-bombing\/1869959\/\"><br \/>\nAl-Nusra- Front claims Credit for Blast in Ismaili town in Syria<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1187TRB\">Syria&#8217;s Bashar Al-Assad Says His Wife Is Pregnant<\/a><br \/>\n2013-01-28 20:00:12.707 GMT<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By Max Fisher<br \/>\nJan. 28 (Washington Post) &#8212; Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whose regime is embroiled in a now two-year civil war that has killed tens of thousands, gave a cheery interview to unnamed &#8220;visitors,&#8221; as reported by a sympathetic newspaper, in which he offhandedly revealed that his wife is pregnant. Asma al-Assad, the 37-year-old, British-born young mother of three (now four?),<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2013\/01\/28\/170454835\/feeling-all-cooped-up-in-the-syrian-capital\">Feeling All Cooped Up In The Syrian Capital<\/a><br \/>\nJanuary 28, 2013 &#8211; NPR<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Watching television is probably the most common pastime these days. The most popular shows are Turkish soap operas, but every household also seems addicted to coverage of the war in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The average middle-class Damascene home has satellite TV complete with international news channels. Staunch pro-regime supporters shy away from watching the likes of BBC Arabic, CNN International and Al Jazeera, and instead watch Syrian state TV or Russia Today.<\/p>\n<p>These choices can create tensions inside households, as individuals disagree on the politics.<\/p>\n<p>To placate everyone, one couple hosting five relatives decided to purchase a second TV.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We eat our meals together, and we don&#8217;t talk politics,&#8221; said the wife. &#8220;But come news time? We split up into two rooms, pro-regime and anti.&#8221;&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama announced a new round of humanitarian assistance, an additional $155 million to provide for the urgent and pressing needs of civilians in Syria and refugees forced to flee the violence of the Assad regime. 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