Peter Ford
21st Century Wire
Every day that passes seems to bring fresh evidence that Trump’s decision is being walked back. But appearances can be misleading.
Headline in today’s Sunday Times attacking clerics and peers who have had the “temerity to visit Syria and not join in the usual Assad-bashing”
Peter Ford
21st Century Wire
Peter Ford, former British Ambassador to Syria, with a rather useful media guide, aptly described as, “The Dirty Dozen: 12 lies they tell you to anaesthetise you for the upcoming bombing of Syria.”
Peter Ford, former British Ambassador to Syria 2003 – 2006
With military operations in the South virtually over, attention inevitably turns to the North and specifically to Idlib province, the last major redoubt of the armed opposition to the Syrian government. A number of other challenges, however, lie ahead besides Idlib before the Syrian government can rest easy.
Islamic State
Former Ambassador to Syria 2003 – 2006, Peter Ford responded to a UK Government statement by Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt on the “exceptional” Israeli evacuation of the UK/US Coalition intelligence construct, the White Helmets:
LONDON – The Global Network for Syria, which includes a bipartisan group of several British policymakers and former British ambassadors to Syria, has slammed the U.K. government’s current foreign policy on Syria, Saying that current efforts of “prolong suffering” in the country by funding “so-called moderate armed opposition forces” that are “dominated by Jihadist militants.”
Peter Ford
21st Century Wire
Syria in Perspective: 38th Human Rights Council : side event organised by the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, Geneva 27 June 2018
Peter Ford
21st Century Wire
The Media are on trial. But what are they on trial for exactly? Not long ago the media were on trial in the form of the Leveson enquiry, for being too tabloidish. Poking in people’s dustbins, that sort of thing.
