TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: SYRIA WAR: Kerry Accused Assad of Funding Hardline Fighters

Saturday, January 18, 2014

SYRIA WAR: Kerry Accused Assad of Funding Hardline Fighters

From Recent Syria News:

Speaking on Friday, Kerry accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of funding and ceding territory to hardline fighters in order to increase fears surrounding rebel groups.

"Nobody is going to be fooled," Kerry said. "They can bluster, they can protest, they can put out distortions, the bottom line is we are going to Geneva to implement Geneva I, and if Assad doesn't do that he will invite greater response". ~ from Aljazeera, Arabnews, rappler, and many other sources

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tags: Syria, Syrian, war, revolution, Middle East, Geneva, Aleppo, Homs, Damascus, Assad, Al'Qaeda

I am praying for peace in Syria and where there is unrest!
All for now,
Cecilia

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.