G-8 Summit Moved to Camp David

[LogikAndReazon]

The obama administration is trampling the first amendment rights of chicago "occupiers" and g-8 "protestors" ................poor mindless darlings

 

[waltky]

Syria crisis becomes G-8 focus...

G8 summit opens with focus on escalating civil war in Syria
Monday 17th June, 2013 - The escalating civil war in Syria and the deepening divisions between the western powers and Russian President Vladimir Putin over the war-torn country are to be the focus of the G8 summit that opened here Monday.

Putin is likely to attack US President Barack Obama over his move to arm the rebels fighting the Assad regime. "The EU is convinced that we are at a critical juncture, after tens of thousands of deaths, millions of displaced and refugees, we are in front of a fractured and radicalised Syria," European Council president Herman Van Rompuy said as he arrived at Lough Erne, the venue. UK Prime Minister David Cameron said he hoped the G8 nations would focus on "common ground" on the issue of bringing peace to Syria. But Russia, Syria's key ally, opposes US plans to arm the rebels - something leader Vladimir Putin made clear after talks with Cameron on Sunday. The two-day summit is also expected to focus on global economic issues.

Other leaders at the summit include Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin and president of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso. Obama and Cameron visited a school in Enniskillen together ahead of the summit. Vladimir Putin on Sunday made clear his continued opposition to Western countries arming rebels trying to oust Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. In a blunt warning after talks with Cameron at 10 Downing Street, Putin said the West should not arm insurgents who "eat the organs" of their enemies.

Russia has been highly critical of the U.S. move to give weapons and ammunition to the rebels. "One does not really need to support the people who not only kill their enemies, but open up their bodies, eat their intestines in front of the public and cameras," a Reuters report quoted Putin as saying. "Are these the people you want to support? Are they the ones you want to supply with weapons? Then this probably has little relation to the humanitarian values preached in Europe for hundreds of years." Putin was apparently referring to a Syrian rebel commander caught on tape last month cutting into a dead soldier and biting into one of his organs. Russia has steadfastly stuck with the Syrian regime even as the United States claims to have proof that forces loyal to Assad have used chemical weapons.

Russian officials have dismissed those claims, saying they're based on flimsy evidence. Cameron conceded that London and Moscow remained far apart over the civil war that has left 93,000 people dead. Russia does not accept the West's assertion that Assad's forces have used chemical weapons and crossed a red line in doing so, saying US military support for Syrian rebels would only escalate violence. Washington said on Saturday it would keep F-16 fighters and Patriot missiles in Jordan at Amman's request, angering Moscow at the possibility they could be used to enforce a no-fly zone inside Syria. Obama has indicated he is ready to send weapons to opposition fighters, after Assad crossed his "red line" by using chemical weapons on his own people.

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[whitehall]

Why didn't LBJ think of that?