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**If the House voted today on a resolution to attack ], President ] would lose — and lose big. **If the House voted today on a resolution to attack ], President ] would lose — and lose big.
**President ] is facing growing international opposition to military intervention in ] as ], the ] and the ] all warned against attacks on the Assad regime. **President ] is facing growing international opposition to military intervention in ] as ], the ] and the ] all warned against attacks on the Assad regime.
**Vice President ] hosted a late-afternoon briefing on ] with a small set of House and Senate members in the White House Situation Room Thursday, according to a White House official. **Vice President ] hosted a late-afternoon briefing on ] with a small set of House and Senate members in the White House Situation Room on Thursday, according to a White House official.
** ] says a deadly March sarin attack in an ] suburb was carried out by Syrian rebels, not forces loyal to President Bashar Assad, and it has delivered a 100-page report laying out its evidence to the United Nations. ** ] says that a deadly March sarin attack in an ] suburb was carried out by Syrian rebels, not forces loyal to President Bashar Assad, and it has delivered a 100-page report laying out its evidence to the United Nations.
**Syrian Rebels Execute 7 Soldiers **Syrian Rebels execute 7 Syrian Army soldiers
**A branch of ] fighting in the ] has seized one of the few remaining villages where the original language of Christ is still spoken, residents say. **A branch of ] fighting in the ] has seized one of the few remaining villages where Western Aramaic is still spoken, residents say.
**While President ] is now asking ] to authorize him to use military force against the Syrian regime of ] because that regime used chemical weapons on its own people, the State Department is maintaining a travel warning advising Americans not to travel to Syria because the al-Nusrah Front, the al Qaeda affiliate in Syria--which is participating in the rebellion seeking to overthrow Assad--has carried out about 600 attacks in the country since November 2011. **The US State Department is maintaining a travel warning advising Americans not to travel to Syria because the ] has carried out about 600 attacks in the country since November 2011.
**Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.), who on Saturday said he supported President Obama’s decision to launch military action in Syria, has changed his mind. **Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.), who on Saturday said he supported President Obama’s decision to launch military action in Syria, has changed his mind.
**Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., who is aggressively lobbying against a military strike on Syria, says the Obama administration has manipulated intelligence to push its case for U.S. involvement in the country's two-year civil war. **Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., who is aggressively lobbying against a military strike on Syria, says the Obama administration has manipulated intelligence to push its case for U.S. involvement in the country's two-year civil war.

Revision as of 02:14, 6 September 2013

Current events of September 5, 2013 (2013-09-05) (Thursday) edit history watch
Armed conflicts and attacks
Business and economy
  • Microsoft wins a much-watched lawsuit, with a federal judge finding that Motorola had breached agreements about the licensing of its patents. (BBC)
Disasters and accidents
Deaths
  • Bengali writer Sushmita Banerjee whose book about her escape from Taliban-ruled Afghanistan was made into a Bollywood movie, Escape from Taliban, shot by suspected Taliban militants.
Sport
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