AIPAC PUSHES CONGRESS TO AUTHORIZE US STRIKES AGAINST SYRIA

        Washington DC, 3 Dzuqa’dah 1434/8 September 2013 (MINA) – A new report says the pro-Israel lobby group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), is planning to launch a major campaign to push US lawmakers into backing White House plans for a strike against Syria.

        Some 250 AIPAC leaders and activists will storm the halls on Capitol Hill during the next week to persuade the US lawmakers to vote for a draft resolution authorizing strikes on Syria, the report quoted an AIPAC source who asked not to be named, according to PressTV report monitored by Mi’raj News Agency (MINA).

         The group plans to lobby every member of Congress on the premise that Washington’s failure to act against the government of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria would risk emboldening Washington’s opponents in other countries, including Iran.

         US war threats against Syria have intensified since late August, when the militants operating inside Syria and the country’s foreign-sponsored opposition claimed that over a thousand people had been killed in a government chemical attack on the outskirts of the capital, Damascus.

         The Syrian government categorically rejected the accusation and said the militants had carried out the false-flag operation to prompt a foreign military intervention in the country.

          Nevertheless, a number of Western countries, including the United States, France, and Britain, quickly started campaigning for war.

         On Wednesday, the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations approved a draft resolution backing the use of force against Syria. The document requires the approval of both chambers of Congress before it can be interpreted as any form of congressional authorization for the US administration to strike Syria. (T/P01/E1).

Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)