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News Release: US to Syria Peace and Fact-Finding DECEMBER 9, 2016
Delegation
August 9, 2016 — A Peace and Fact-Finding Delegation, organized by the
U.S. Peace Council (USPC) just returned from a week-long visit to Syria. The
delegation met with representatives of numerous NGOs, heads of industry,
religious leaders and civil society, high-level leaders of the Syrian
government, and it held an extended private meeting with President Bashar
al Assad.

The delegation’s findings could not be more timely as the world watched the
Obama administration escalating violence and bombing in Libya and threatening to escalate its
overt military role in Syria. These violent actions take place while the Syrian government and its
allies are closing in on the various foreign-funded terrorist groups that have plagued the people of
Syria for over 5 years.

Consisting of seven activists representing various peace organizations the Peace Delegation was TERRORISM & REGIME CHANGE IN SYRIA
led jointly by Henry Lowendorf from the executive committee of the USPC and Gerry Condon, Vice
President of Veterans for Peace.

“Almost everything we read about Syria in the media is wrong,” said Gerry Condon. “The
reality is that the U.S. government is supporting armed extremist groups who are terrorizing
the Syrian people and trying to destroy Syria’s secular state.”

“In order to hide that ugly reality and push violent regime change,” continued Condon, “the
U.S. is conducting a psychological warfare campaign to demonize Syria’s president, Bashar al
Assad. This is a classic tactic that veterans have seen over and over. It is shocking, however,
to realize how willingly the media repeat this propaganda, and how many people believe it to
be true.”

Donna Nassor pointed out,

“Contrary to media reports, in eastern Aleppo, as in Medaya earlier, we learned that it is the
terrorists who prevent supplies from getting in and civilians from leaving even while the YOU CAN ALSO VISIT OUR FACEBOOK PAGE

Syrian government creates channels for residents to leave that besieged part of Aleppo.”

“Furthermore, people in the US are unaware of the strangulating sanctions their government
is imposing on the Syrian people,” stated delegate Madelyn Hoffman.

“Similar to US sanctions on Iraq in the 1990s that killed over half a million children, this
illegal economic war is causing loss of life and unnecessary suffering of the Syrian people.
Universally, everyone the delegation talked with asked that these sanctions be lifted.”

The Peace delegation spent nearly two hours in dialogue with President Assad, a soft spoken man
with a wry sense of humor who thoughtfully answered questions about the current engagement in
COST OF US WARS
Aleppo, his perceptions of the bilateral negotiations between the US and Russia, and the
revolutionary policy of ending the war through grass roots reconciliation initiatives. Judith Bello Cost of U.S. Wars Since 2001
reflected, “Syria’s reconciliation plan is a powerful example of a restorative response to divisive $1,791,732,453,463
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forces spreading violence and chaos in a generally tolerant and peaceful country.”
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“All members of the Delegation returned convinced that Syria’s sovereignty must be
respected, that it up to Syrians to overcome whatever problems exist in their country without
interference from the US,” said Henry Lowendorf, co-leader of the delegation. “There exists in Greater New Haven Peace Council

Syria a strong nonviolent political opposition who are working both inside and outside the Madison Peace Council
government.”
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As delegate Vanessa Beeley stated,
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“Syria is being invaded by US-allied proxy forces that are torturing, abusing, kidnapping and Queens Peace Council
massacring the Syrian people. We urge that the world start listening to the Syrian people who
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demand their right to determine their own future and decide who should govern them.”

Joe Jamison concluded,

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“We call on the US, its allies in Europe, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan and Israel to stop
supporting the mercenaries no matter what they name themselves, end the war on Syria, end

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the sanctions and restore normal relations with the Syrian people and their government – WPC Web Site

immediately. If the US and its allies continue promoting the terrorists, as many inside Syria
told us, the fire they lit in Syria in 2011 will continue to engulf more of the world.”
ISSUES IN FOCUS
Members of the Peace Delegation:
NATO
— Henry Lowendorf (Co-Leader of the Delegation), Member of the Executive Board, US
Peace Council Syria

— Gerry Condon (Co-Leader of the Delegation), National Vice President, Veterans For Peace Iran

Palestine
— Joe Jamison, Member of the Executive Board, US Peace Council
Cuba / Free the Cuban Five!
— Madelyn Hoffman, Executive Director (not representing the organization), New Jersey
Peace Action Bradley Manning

— Judith Bello, Member of Administrative Committee, United National Antiwar Coalition Central and South America

(UNAC) Cut the Military Budget

— Vanessa Beeley, Independent Journalist, Member of Steering Committee, Syria Solidarity Fund Human Needs
Movement
Middle East Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone
— Donna Nassor, Attorney, College Professor, Palestinian Rights Activist Ukraine

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Thank you for all that you do. It is so difficult these days to get the truth … to disseminate truth 30 31
from fiction. One truly must learn to think from their gut. « Sep

I lived in Iran for 8 years, and I never met a more hospitable people than those that I met while
living there. I have never heard any stories of Assad abusing his own people, and as far as I knew
he and his family were very kind to their citizens. That’s why the stories of chemical weapons use
on his own people seemed odd to me.

Apparently I was right, and it is nice to know that organizations such as yourself are out there
setting the record straight.

Thank you <3

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