memeorandum: ‘Peaceful solution’: Syria accepts Russia deal to hand over chemical weapons (NBCNews)

12:30 PM ET, September 10, 2013

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SYRIA SAYS IT ACCEPTED RUSSIAN WEAPONS PROPOSAL — MOSCOW (AP) — Syria said Tuesday it has accepted Russia's proposal to place its chemical weapons under international control for subsequent dismantling. — Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said Tuesday after meeting …

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Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post:

Syria accepts Russian proposal on weapons; France to bring resolution to Security Council — BERLIN — An unexpected Russian proposal for Syria to avert a U.S. military strike by transferring control of its chemical weapons appeared to be gaining traction on Tuesday, as Syria embraced it …

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Manu Raju / Politico:

Senators working on new Syria plan — A powerful group of senators is quietly drafting a new proposal that could forestall military action in Syria if the country relinquishes its chemical weapon stockpile, according to a source familiar with the deliberations.

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Politico:

The United States of weakness — Red lines that may or may not be real, retaliatory strikes that may or may not be hours from launch, congressional debates that may or may not be necessary for the president to do what he wants—whatever that happens to be this hour.

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NBCNews:

‘Peaceful solution’: Syria accepts Russia deal to hand over chemical weapons — Syria confirmed it would accept a Russian-brokered proposal to place its chemical weapons under international control Tuesday, hours after France announced it would seek a U.N. Security Council resolution seeking a similar plan.

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New York Times:

A Diplomatic Proposal for Syria — Secretary of State John Kerry may not have expected his casual suggestion that Syria avert American military action by giving up its chemical weapons to be taken seriously. But it may have created a diplomatic way out for President Obama …

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New York Times:

White House Backs Global Push to Secure Syria's Arsenal — WASHINGTON — The White House and a bipartisan group of senators joined the international diplomatic momentum on Tuesday to avert an American military attack on Syria over its use of chemical munitions in that country's civil war …

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hrw.org/rss/news:

Syria: Government Likely Culprit in Chemical Attack — New Evidence based on Rocket Analysis, Witness Accounts — (New York) - Available evidence strongly suggests that Syrian government forces were responsible for chemical weapons attacks on two Damascus suburbs on August 21, 2013.

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New York Times:

Obama Backs Idea for Syria to Cede Control of Arms — WASHINGTON — President Obama on Monday tentatively embraced a Russian diplomatic proposal to avert a United States military strike on Syria by having international monitors take control of the Syrian government's chemical weapons.

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Abby D. Phillip / ABC News:

Syria Could Avoid Attack, Obama Says … If Syrian President Bashar al-Assad gives up his chemical weapons, a military strike would “absolutely” be on pause, President Obama said today. — “I consider this a modestly positive development,” Obama told ABC News' Diane Sawyer in an interview …

Josh Gerstein / Politico:

Obama's accidental diplomacy — President Barack Obama has stumbled into a possible resolution of the Syria showdown, after an act of apparently accidental U.S. diplomacy seemed to deliver a potential way to wriggle out of his political predicament. — Secretary of State John Kerry suggested …

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Wall Street Journal:
Syria Backs Russian Plan for Weapons

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Tal Kopan / Politico:
Jay Carney: U.S. threat pushed Syrians

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Mark Murray / NBCNews:
Nearly sixty percent of Americans want Congress to vote no on Syria

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Wall Street Journal:
Obama Push to Hit Syria Takes Detour

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Ashley Killough / CNN:
Obama: ‘Breakthrough’ is possible on Syria

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Steve Clemons / Reuters:
Manchin-Heitkamp: The Senate's Compelling Alternative Syria Resolution

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Josh Levs / CNN: Report: Syria accepts chemical weapons proposal

Ben Shapiro / BREITBART.COM:
PEACE IN OUR TIME: OBAMA CAVES TO PUTIN, ASSAD, IRAN

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Fox News:
Obama backs off ‘red line,’ opens door to ‘diplomatic track’ on Syria

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New York Times:
Libya Thwarts Arrests in Benghazi Attack

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Scott Pelley / CBS News:
Obama: “I understand” American people aren't with me on Syria strike

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Los Angeles Times:
White House takes ‘hard look’ at Russian proposal on Syria

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Associated Press:
Talking Diplomacy in Syria, Obama Goes to Congress

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David Rothkopf / CNN:
Kerry, Clinton and a glimmer of hope on Syria

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Neil King Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Poll Finds Support Fading for Syria Attack

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CBS News:
Syria says it “welcomes” Russian proposal to place chemical weapons under international control

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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:

Kerry's claim that he opposed Bush's invasion of Iraq — “You know, Senator Chuck Hagel, when he was senator, Senator Chuck Hagel, now secretary of defense, and when I was a senator, we opposed the president's decision to go into Iraq, but we know full well how that evidence was used to persuade …

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House v. Napolitano — In May 2011, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Massachusetts filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts challenging the suspicionless search and seizure of electronics and personal data belonging to David House …

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Susan Stellin / New York Times: The Border Is a Back Door for U.S. Device Searches

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:

Seeking votes, Reid compares Syria to Hitler's gas chambers — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) faces a daunting test of his relationships with Republicans, as Democratic defections could require 16 or more GOP votes to pass a Syria resolution in the chamber.

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Roll Call:
Obama Expects Syria Vote Delays

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Robert Costa / National Review:

McConnell to Vote ‘No’ — In remarks this morning on the floor, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) will announce that he's voting against on the Syria resolution. National Review has obtained the text of his remarks (see below). In the speech, McConnell says that even though he's voting “no,” he's not an isolationist.

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Cathryn Kulat / The Hill:

Conservatives skeptical of GOP ObamaCare defunding move — House Republican leaders will have to overcome a skeptical conservative bloc to pass a plan that would force the Senate to vote on defunding ObamaCare before enacting a critical spending measure. — Lawmakers on Tuesday offered …

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John B. Taylor / Wall Street Journal:

The Weak Recovery Explains Rising Inequality, Not Vice Versa — Obama blames tax cuts that began under Reagan for today's slow growth. The data don't back him up. — Last year at this time a debate raged about whether economic growth and job creation has been abnormally slow compared …

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Colin Barr / Wall Street Journal:

Alcoa, Hewlett-Packard and Bank of America to Be Dropped from Dow Industrials — Goldman Sachs, Nike and Visa to Be Added to Benchmark Index — Alcoa Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Bank of America Corp. will be dropped from the Dow Jones Industrial Average next week, in the biggest shake-up of the 30-stock index in almost a decade.

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