Little baby girl Maria’s video gone viral on Liveleak! You gotta read the comments posted from all over the world!

Little baby Girl Mary Kidnapped by NATO’s Death Squads is Saved by SAA in Latakia Syria (video)

Last week a group of foreign mercenary terrorists, mostly Saudis and Libyans, raided three villages in Latakia, killing over 100 villagers and taking hostages. They were repulsed by the SAA and some of the hostages liberated.

NATO Death Squads propagandists called the failed murderous raids
“THE FRONT TO LIBERATE THE COAST”.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=256_1376116735

Bibi Netanyahu Admits his Country’s Alliance with Saudi Arabia

Muslim Brotherhood switches its focus from Egypt to Syria

CAIRO — Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, ousted from power by the
military, has intensified its participation in the Sunni revolt in Syria.

Islamist sources said the Brotherhood has been recruiting what could
result in thousands of new fighters to battle the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

The sources said the Brotherhood was receiving funds from Saudi Arabia to bolster the embattled rebel movement amid the offensive by the Assad regime.

“There are literally tens of thousands of trained Brotherhood fighters who might prefer to receive handsome salaries to fight Assad in Syria rather
than the military in Egypt,” a source said.

Under the year-long regime of Egypt’s first Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, most of the Brotherhood fighters stayed home in expectation of jobs in the government and security forces. But after Morsi was overthrown on July 3, many fighters traveled to the Sinai Peninsula and other locations for insurgency operations that included Al Qaida-aligned forces.

The Brotherhood already has been coordinating with units in Hama,
regarded as the main stronghold of the Islamist movement. The sources said
Hama was used to store weapons and equipment allocated to an
expected rebel offensive later in 2013.

http://www.worldtribune.com/2013/08/09/muslim-brotherhood-switches-its-focus-from-egypt-to-syria/

Aron Lund,

“That last part is interesting. The YPG has let it be known that they “captured” a group of fleeing SAA soldiers from Mennagh, and confiscated all their guns and tanks. But this version, which appears to be written by someone in direct contact with the defenders of the airport, says the Kurds saved them, provided hospital care to the wounded, and even ambushed and annihilated a rebel unit that was tailing them.”

This video should clear that up rather easily…

I would like to wish the courageous and beautiful Syrian First Lady Asma al-Assad a very happy birthday. May God protect you.

The rise of al-Qaeda proxies in Syria has weakened the FSA and opposition and now threatens Turkey.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/global-guerilla-war-can-infect-turkey.aspx?pageID=449&nID=52292&NewsCatID=409

Al-Nusra’s rise also brought a power struggle within al-Qaeda to the surface; between the headquarters and al-Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which was formed in 2009 with the merger of the Saudi Arabia and Yemen branches lead by Naser al-Wuhayshi. Serving as private secretary for bin Laden in earlier years, al-Wuhayshi had been arrested by Iran in 2001 and extradited to Yemen, where he was put in prison. He broke out of the prison in 2006 to lead the regional activities, including the piracy in the Indian Ocean and al-Shabbab in Somalia. (Perhaps it should be noted here that Turkish Embassy in Mogadishu was attacked by al-Shabbab on July 28, 2013, killing one police officer and wounding three.) The main discrepancy between the al-Qaeda HQ in Afghanistan and the AQAP is that the HQ insists on hitting global blows to the U.S. and its allies, whereas al-Wuhayshi and followers want to focus on their national problems such as overthrowing the regimes in Yemen and Saudi Arabia. No longer resisting to the popularity of al-Wuhayshi among the organization, al-Zawahiri reportedly appointed recently him as “general manager,” which practically means number two of al-Qaeda.

U.S. intelligence apparently intercepted the communications between them and deducted that al-Wuhayshi was going to do something big in order to prove himself as eligible for the important post. Another piece of intelligence, according to U.S. media are the reports on the possible use of a liquid explosive, developed by Ibrahim al-Asiri, the assumed bomber of al-Wuhayshi that could be soaked into clothes, like underwear, and not easy to detect. Plus, al-Qaeda raided prisons in Iraq, Pakistan and Libya in late July and let hundreds of militants free. All those things lead the U.S. government to put many embassies on alert on Aug. 5, evacuate some of them, including the one in Sanaa, Yemen, and then start launching pre-emptive strikes at al-Qaeda.

This is a new stage of the global guerilla war that started with the al-Qaeda hit of 9/11 in 2011. Turkey was hit by al-Qaeda twice in 2003 in bloody attacks. But because of the deteriorating situations in Syria and Iraq, Turkey can be further infected by this poisonous atmosphere, which means more problems for Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan in the near future.

Mr Lund good work about a topic many like not to speak about . Or actually they pretend that the sectarian attacks against Nubl and alZahra do not occur .

The Sunni Jihadists and those from the villages around the Shia villages been shelling for over a year so far . It is a sectarian war over there and the kooks here think it does not happen .

Few days ago one of them used the word “conquer” to speak about the Sunni intentions for these two villages who are left. How many Shia villages were there around alleppo who had been eradicated by the Sunnis. Aren’t they doing the same now? Some here on this board has to take their heads out of the sand ( notice I did not use the word they deserve ) and see how this violent Sunni attitude is a Continuation of what they have been doing for hundred of years.

Again mr Lund great work .

Observer:

After reading your long and boring outburst I have few simple points to dismantle your logic:

1- you told the Alawis in your posts to get out of ‘your’ towns and ‘villages’. Dude I thought it was your grand father who was speaking . Wasn’t he involved in sectarian cleansing of Alawites and other minorities ? Do you still think that the ottoman gifts are valid these days ?

2- you seem not seeing or bypassing the sectarian aspect of this war in Syria . You are like most of the Sunnis think things with the monitored are great . Dude wake up and read the books that explain the Sunni overall mode of thinking . I recommend reading Fatawa al Thawra al Suriyah it was published this year and not a thousand years ago.

4- mr observer : if you do not agree with me or my ideas sarcasm shows you have no solid response . Last time I checked you claimed that you are well read . What happened ?

5- the hidden text within your response, to apply an Alawi theory on you , shows the continuation of the disdain the Sunnis have for Alawis .

6- ethnically you are a Kurd : how come you consider Damascus as your home and deny it for the Alawis, who ethnically are Syrians . Don’t you see this attitude amongst you Sunnis up till today . Remember how many Alawis lived in and around Damascus till they were exterminated by your exact group? Is it a continuation for the ‘conquer them’ attitude ?

7- as for me and my ideas : it seems you want to forget that I am from day one , and from the day I was born do not like anything but democracy and freedom .

Sorry to post this reply in this thread, but it is a related matter.

Israeli commander: Hezbollah more ready than ever for any war

An Israeli commander has admitted that involvement of Lebanon’s Hezbollah in the fight against Takfiris in Syria has increased the defensive capabilities of the resistance movement for any future aggression by the Israeli regime.

“Hezbollah’s involvement in the war in Syria has not disrupted its preparedness for a war with Israel – the opposite is true,” said Colonel Yaron Formosa, a chief artillery officer of the Israeli regime, in an interview with Ynetnews on Wednesday.

He added that Hezbollah is closely monitoring the Israeli army’s activities along the border.

“We saw them marking the positions of our artillery guns so they can target them in a war,” Formosa said.

He added that Hezbollah fighters have become proficient in the use of advanced weapons due to the fighting against the militants in Syria.

“Hezbollah has tens of thousands of rockets that are aimed at Israel, and we will not be able to operate against them only with artillery fire or the air force.”

The Tel Aviv regime launched two wars on Lebanon in 2000 and 2006. About 1,200 Lebanese, most of them civilians, were killed in the 33-Day War of 2006.

On both occasions, however, Hezbollah fighters defeated the Israeli forces and Tel Aviv was forced to retreat without achieving any of its objectives.

In August 2012, Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah said that the resistance movement has both the capability and the courage to defend Lebanon and that the movement’s missiles are ready to strike back certain targets inside Israel in self-defense if Tel Aviv launches an attack on Lebanon.

“If we are forced to use them to protect our people and our country, we will not hesitate to do so… and that will turn the lives of hundreds of thousands of Zionists into a living hell,” Nasrallah said, adding that Hezbollah has fixed its targets.

He also said that a possible future war would be extremely costly for Israel and incomparable with its 2006 war on Lebanon.

DB/HSN/HMV
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/08/11/318192/hezbollah-ready-to-counter-israel/

Majed ! Are you happy ?

US remains ‘uninterested’ as Kurds massacred by Syria’s militant opposition
http://rt.com/op-edge/us-kurds-massacre-syria-289/

Deadly Onslaught: Kurds in firing line as Al-Qaeda carves out northern
http://youtu.be/APTzMdO9CoE?t=7s

Armed Rebels Hijack Passenger Bus Carrying Armenian Citizens in Northern Syria
The passenger bus was heading to Armenia before its driver and all passengers on board were kidnapped and taken to an unknown location by the terrorist groups.

287. Syrian said: Help wanted
Apple mini ”hardly a massacre” is looking for ”moderates Sunnis” to go do the fighting for the minorities rule.
Opposition moderates need not apply.

i am so stealing this format.

http://akhbar.alaan.tv/news/post/18349/kurd-nosra-front-fighters-sham-arms-iraq-qaeda-syria-kurdish
http://youtu.be/iUxFxeeLz9k?t=9s

7. Mjabali said: Few days ago one of them used the word “conquer” to speak about the Sunni intentions for these two villages who are left.

“assad or syria burns.”

How many Shia villages were there around alleppo who had been eradicated by the Sunnis. Aren’t they doing the same now? Some here on this board has to take their heads out of the sand (notice I did not use the word they deserve) and see how this violent Sunni attitude is a Continuation of what they have been doing for hundred of years.

you see what took place hundreds of years ago but not what the regime has been waging for the past two years.

Mjabali said:

it seems you want to forget that I am from day one , and from the day I was born do not like anything but democracy and freedom .

Mjabali,

The sad reality is that NO democracy or freedom would be possible without the foreign fighters, who are engaging other foreign fighters like Hezbollah and the IRG.

The opposition wants the same thing you do, and no one here supports the crimes committed by some of these fighters.

I am not sure what your beef is.

Jihadists – Mujahideen !
Take it as entitlement from this soldier!
http://theuglytruth.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/idf2.jpg?w=620
Israel to start building nearly 1,200 new units in West Bank and East Jerusalem

@miniestmini
Zionists are natural thieves, they’ve stolen Palestine, occupied parts of Lebanon & Syria but they’ve still got their eyes on more land.

Care to tell us more about who you’re calling TOWEL-HEADS?

15. Akbar Palace from Israel

Brutality Is “In My Veins,” Says Former Israeli Soldier

Chayut served five years in the Israeli army. He participated in the brutal military Operation Defensive Shield, an attack on the West Bank in 2002.

No longer part of the army, he joined the Israeli organization for military veterans Breaking the Silence in 2004. In his memoir, Chayut reflects on his role in the crimes committed by Israeli forces against Palestinians living under occupation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35810.htm

akbar, allow me to translate. loyalists suffer from the delusion that the goon was legitimately elected. they are for democracy as long as bashar is permanently installed as president.

Care to tell us more about who you’re calling TOWEL-HEADS?

Don,

Sure. Like I said before, any religious fundamdentalist that doesn’t support basic human rights and free elections, but instead supports thugs, criminals and endless war.

Omen,

I didn’t know Mjabali was a “loyalist”. Mjabali is that true?

Here’s the link to breaking the silence…

http://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/

Palestinian Killed By Army Fire In Gaza

Saturday August 10 2013, Israeli military sources have reported that a Palestinian youth was shot and killed by army fire, near the border fence, east of the Gaza Strip.

http://imemc.org/article/65938

Stop the Appointment of Death Squad Expert Robert Ford, Kerry’s Choice to Become Next US Ambassador to Egypt

http://tarpley.net/2013/08/10/stop-the-appointment-of-death-squad-expert-robert-ford/

Revenire
I too wish Asma Assad a happy last and final birthday,

Those who sell their homeland are not welcome, Palestinians say to Asala Nasri

Occupied Palestine, (SANA)-A security alert state was prevailed with a popular resentment in Bethlehem in the occupied Palestine as singer Asala Nasri visited the city to hold a concert there.

Political activists, members at the popular committee for defending Syria in the occupied Palestine raised placards condemning the singer’s suspicious visit, particularly as the Palestinian people reject normalization with the Israeli occupation and consider any Arab visitor as a traitor to Palestine as she enters Palestine with an Israeli visa.

“Those who sell their homeland are not welcome” one of the placards said… “It is not strange for those who normalize with the Israeli occupation to betray their land,” another placard said.

The most important attitude was occurred by members of the popular committee inside the hall when Nasri started to sing and the activists raised the Syrian flags and hailed Syria and its army.

This led to the embarrassment of Nasri who stopped singing and turned her back to her musical band in a sign for the security of Bethlehem to interfere as a number of men were arrested for several hours.

“We wanted to send a message to anyone who seeks normalization with Israel and to any traitor, not only to that singer which sold her homeland… we issued a statement condemning the visit of anyone who seeks normalization with Israel in general and to that singer in particular,” one Member of the popular committee for defending Syria said.

Mazen
http://sana.sy/eng/28/2013/08/11/496744.htm

Saudi Muslim Preacher Issues Fatwa Allowing Jihadis to Rape Syrian Women

ANNA News

SALIM IDRIS visit reef Latakia is a good sign,

Don(Ann) Rape in Islam is punishable by death, no Sheikh can issue a fatwa contrary to Quraan, for a woman to be forced to mary her rapist is double crime in Islam, so please spare us your nonsense

Report Sinai militias have SAM-7 closes Israeli tourist airport

TEL AVIV — Israel’s military has closed an international airport
amid fear of a major rocket strike from Egypt.

Officials said Sinai militias have acquired shoulder-fired air defense missiles, including the SAM-7. Eilat has been struck several times by surface-to-surface rocket fire, the last time on July 4.

Eilat airport was deemed a likely target of Al Qaida in Sinai.

http://www.worldtribune.com/2013/08/09/report-sinai-militias-have-sams-closes-israeli-tourist-airport/

Majed we know our women are being raped by the cannibals. They’re not real Muslims. They are apostates. God knows too.

THIRD POST – AUGUST 11, 2013 – LATAKIA SCENE OF “BIN LADEN’S” DEATH; SAUDI RODENT LEADER KILLED HIDING BESIDE CIVILIANS; ____* ADMIT DEFEAT IN LATAKIA

And just when you thought you could stop guffawing over the silly operation that killed King Kong Ape Usaamaa Bin Laaden, you get to see what his clone looks like with 40 bullets in his simian abdomen. According to Wael, the scene is pretty ugly. This Saudi Scarabian, who fought in Afghanistan, training against Americans, got full support from his quondam adversaries when he switched to Syria. He then became in American parlance, a freedom-fighter. His name?

ABU MAALEK AL-SHAHRI (real name pending)

Oh, he was a right-hand man for the illustrious son of Hashemite Jordan, Abu Mus’ab Al-Zarqawi whose exploits inspired him with scenes of video-taped beheadings, serious looking, bearded men in masks posing like something in a Salafist GQ monthly, and blowing up buildings, well, just for the heck of it. He was called the “Bin Laden of Syria” and, apparently, knew Bin Laden personally. Wow! That must have been inspiring!

Known as a mass murderer and sociopath by everyone who met him (other than fellow sociopaths of whom there are many in Syria), he carved out a niche in the pornographic world of “snuff films”. He particularly liked to kill everyone who was not a Wahhabist/Salafist/Takfiri moron like himself and his child-molesting father.

He was shot by SAA sharpshooters with the same 23mm machine gun cannons our army keeps confiscating from the rats. Good show. Keep up the good work!!

** http://syrianperspective.blogspot.com/2013/08/third-post-august-11-2013-latakia-scene.html

* censored

**please go to the link because I had to censor this one pretty badly to appease the terrorist supporters on staff.

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اليوم، يقول المسؤولون الأميركيون إن «الموازين تنقلب» لمصلحة الثوار، «لكن ذلك لا يعني أن موعد الحسم قارب بالضرورة».

إذا، مع تقدم الثوار في سورية، وفتحهم «معركة الساحل» التي صارت تضعهم على بعد عشرات الكيلومترات من مدينة اللاذقية، معقل مؤيدي الأسد، تراجعت إمكانية التدخل الأميركي جوا بشكل كبير.

وفي هذا السياق، قدم ضابط البحرية السابق والخبير في «معهد دراسة الحرب» كريستوفر هارمر دراسة أظهرت أن «سلاح الجو السوري ضعيف جدا أمام ضربة محدودة من قوات البحرية والجو الأميركية تستخدم فيها أسلحة موجهة عن بعد».
والمطلوب حسب “هارمر”، توجيه ضربة صاروخية أولية تعطل قدرة الملاحة استخدامها، أو حسبما تظهر الصور الجوية لهذه المطارات.

ويعتقد “هارمر” أن الضربة الأولية تتطلب استهداف كل واحد من المطارات الستة بـ 12 صاروخا، يبلغ ثمن كل واحد منها قرابة 600 ألف دولار. بعد ذلك، تشن 12 مقاتلة «اف 15 اي» و12 مقاتلة «اف 18 اي» غارة واحدة بمثابة الضربة الثانية.

ويحصي هارمر 109 أهداف في مطارات الأسد الستة، ويعتبر أن عدد مقاتلات الأسد لا يتجاوز المائة، وأن معظم التي يستخدمها في غاراته ضد الثوار والمدنيين معدة للتدريب أصلا بسبب سهولة استخدامها وصيانتها.

ويتابع أن حاملة طائرات «يو اس اس نيميتز» موجودة حاليا «شمال بحر العرب، ويمكنها الانتقال إلى المتوسط في أقل من أسبوع»، وأن على متنها 48 مقاتلة «اف 18»، ويمكنها «شن غاراتها على مطارات الأسد من عرض البحر الأبيض المتوسط من دون الحاجة إلى إذن مرور في مجال الجوي لأي دولة أو مطالبتها فتح قواعدها لاستضافة القوات المهاجمة».

أما مقاتلات «اف 15»، فهي موجودة «في تركيا والكويت والسعودية والبحرين وقطر واليونان وايطاليا»، وأن انطلاقها من هذه القواعد وتحليقها في أجواء هذه الدول متفق عليه مسبقا.

Syrians Sunnis are to blame for the death and distraction of Syria- They sheltered and protected foreign jihadists- In mater fact, hey let them sleep with their wives and kids in the name of Allah- Sunnis who live in relatively safe areas must be treated as suspects until they prove themselves otherwise- No free lunch for you!

Informed analysis showing Assad has won nothing, isn’t winning and lacks the capacity to conclusively win.

“Opposition advances in Damascus”

http://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/opposition-advances-damascus

My mistake majedkhaldoun(Ann)

I meant to say Saudi Christian Sheikh Muhammed al-Arifi Issues Fatwa Allowing Christian Jihadis to Rape Syrian Women

Again, that’s Christian Sheikh Muhammed al-Arifi not Muslim Sheikh Muhammed al-Arifi

My apologies to the board

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qvo4_hMrF4

28. majedkhaldoun(Ann) said: .. Rape in Islam is punishable by death, no Sheikh can issue a fatwa contrary to Quraan

Gee, what a surprise from ISW.

Yawn.

On a recent article on Guardian, Joshua Landis made a comment,”Sectarian identity is a large part of Syrians, and it gets imported to America,” he said. “Anti-Assad is just a code word for Sunni, for people who don’t like to speak about it.”

I’m sure Joshua was not referring to those democracy and freedom loving Syrian expats on his site like he really cares.

Since day one when we heard those people hailing military and money support from democracy and freedom loving Qatar and Saudi, we started taking notes for what was really going on.

The situation has reached to the point some of those Sunni have to make a choice. Are they willing to see Syria to disintegrate and part of her being taken over by a bunch of vicious medieval barbarians? Or they will finally have to forsake their narrow-minded and backward religious crap for a while not for the sake of the minorities or humanity but for the sake of themselves?

Those barbarians are truly scum of human race. A religion which can nurture and feed those waste is fundamentally flawed.

Rumors out there that glamor defector Manaf Tlass may head the new Syrian army, accepted by the West and Saudi Arabia and approved by Russia.

And why not. He’d be a ballistic psychological weapon against his former friends the Assad brothers and their sinister Iranian advisers.

Give him plenty of cigars and hair products, a mirror to check how he looks, and don’t require him to do much thinking – it could work.

This might be hard for many in the Syrian opposition to swallow, but much, much harder for the Assad regime.

[Putin’s behind the scenes face saver is that he has no personal allegiance to Assad and just wants to avoid a power vacuum in Syria.]

REVENIRE

Let’s have your intelligible sources to counteract what I’ve posted in #34.

There aren’t any, are there.

To the hypocrites who keep raving on about an “Israeli/Assad alliance”:

Since the FSA and other Jihadis are so close to the Israeli border (even inside Golan), why haven’t they attacked Israel, even once?

And don’t give me “they are focusing on the regime” crap, because then they wouldn’t be fighting the Kurds now, would they

More defeat for the Syrian army. The Syrian army is only heroic from a distance. Cowardice prevails when they come close.

http://www.aljazeera.net/mob/f6451603-4dff-4ca1-9c10-122741d17432/c274ed91-6eb0-4537-91ea-72f74d49c441

أعلنت قوات المعارضة السورية أنها تمكنت من السيطرة على مستودعات صواريخ في الغوطة الغربية لدمشق، في حين استهدفت تجمعا للشبيحة في العاصمة، على وقع اشتداد المعارك في ريف اللاذقية.

وقال اتحاد تنسيقيات الثورة إن المعارضة اقتحمت كتيبة التسليح والنقل التابعة للفرقة السابعة في غوطة دمشق الغربية، وسيطرت على مستودعات الصواريخ في الكتيبة، التي تحوي عشرات الصواريخ المضادة للدروع من نوع ‘فاغوت’ الروسية الصنع.

وكانت قوات المعارضة قد استولت الشهر الماضي على مستودعات أخرى للصواريخ في منطقة القلمون بريف دمشق.

وفي السياق ذاته أكد ناشطون مقتل أكثر من 40 من عناصر حزب الله اللبناني والشبيحة في تفجير سيارة ملغومة مساء السبت أمام مبنى أمني قرب مكتب الإعلامي المؤيد للنظام السوري ‘رفيق لطف’ في شارع الأمين بحي الشاغور في دمشق.

معارك شرسة
وفي ريف اللاذقية على الساحل السوري، اندلعت معارك وصفت بأنها شرسة بين المعارضة المسلحة وقوات النظام التي شنت هجوما بالطائرات والمدفعية في محاولة لاستعادة بعض المناطق التي سيطرت عليها المعارضة.

من جهته, ذكر المرصد السوري أن اشتباكات جرت أمس في محيط قرية استربة التي يسيطر عليها مقاتلو المعارضة, مشيرا إلى أنباء عن خسائر في صفوف القوات النظامية.

وقال الجيش الحر إنه تصدى في محافظتي إدلب وريف دمشق لرتلين كانا في طريقهما إلى ريف اللاذقية, ودمر دبابات وقتل جنودا نظاميين.

Syrialover,

I don’t care about the ISW. It is a Western neocon rumor mill. Elizabeth O’Bagy looks like she is about 17. She writes propaganda pieces.

http://www.understandingwar.org/press-media/staff-bios/elizabeth-obagy

If this ISW report helps you then please, by all means, enjoy it.

The war will be won, or lost. After it is over ISW can write more reports like this.

The trouble you have, if I might be so bold, is after years of this everyone had heard these things 1000 times. I imagine you were one of the experts who said Assad would be defeated in a few weeks, or months.

For our edification:

http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/institute_for_the_study_of_war

Founded in 2007, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) is a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that has supported long-term U.S. military intervention abroad, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan. Although closely connected to neoconservative advocacy circles, ISW claims to be “a non-partisan, non-profit, public policy research organization” devoted to advancing “an informed understanding of military affairs through reliable research, trusted analysis, and innovative education.”[1]

As of early 2013, ISW did not publicize on its website the members of its board of directors. However, according to 2011 tax documents, directors included: ISW founder and president Kim Kagan; Elizabeth Cheney, daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney and founder of the right-wing advocacy group Keep America Safe; William Kristol, editor of the neoconservative flagship magazine the Weekly Standard; Jack Keane, a retired four-star general who coauthored with Kim Kagan’s spouse Frederick Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute “Choosing Victory,” a 2007 study that served as a blueprint for the “surge” in Iraq; Dennis Showalter, a military historian; Hal Hirsch; and Bill Roberti.

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This means ISW is “no good”, lol. I say that so even opposition supporters can understand it.

It is like reading a child’s comic book. If you get all worked up over this stuff that’s nice. I will see you in Damascus.

Same with the Tlass rumor. Boring and ridiculous.

Why not make up really crazy garbage SL?. It would sound more realistic than coming here to tell us you know what Russia etc. has agreed to because some Twitter clown told you so.

Why not tell me there is a popular revolution of secular forces in Syria? I’d even laugh at that one.

LOL

Reve,

Ah.. You Have very high standards. Only news reported by Wael and Ziad live up to your media expectations.

How old is Asma now?

Don (Ann)
If Arifi said that then he is Kafir, and should be punished,by exposing him,I did not hear it directly from him

Also the word
نكح تعني تزوج في العربي

RE: Recent pictures of Asma helping prepare food packs.

*THINKS* Look at her…enthusiastically playing along with the propaganda.

A lot of serious weaponry is reportedly falling into rebel hands recently with the capture of weapon depots & warehouses.

Perhaps this explains why the US and Russia appear worried and formed an understanding on the urgency in avoiding ‘institutional collapse’ and getting Geneva II done.

Uzair was that on YouTube or Twitter?

Typical Arab Despot “Do as I say, not as I do” NewZ

From the SANA news network:

“We wanted to send a message to anyone who seeks normalization with Israel* and to any traitor, not only to that singer which sold her homeland… 

*of course Sheppardstown negotiations with Baathist/Assad Syria doesn’t count.

REVENIRE, ouch! did you get stung by that analysis on why Assad can’t win (#34)!

We’re still waiting for an equivalent standard of analysis that supports your jokester assertions.

Likewise the reports about Tlass (#38) have really agitated you. “Boring” eh? Let’s see.

Keep up the clown act. When it’s all over for your “team” we know you’ll just slither back into the cyber shadows, hanging out for another online hoax assignment.

Syrialover keep waiting.

Are you talking about your Arab TOWEL-HEADS again?!

49. Akbar Palace from apartheid Israel

48. Revenire

‘Uzair was that on YouTube or Twitter?’

Granted the source may not reach their standard but still is of acceptable level:

AJE Syria blog from 9th August:

Kerry and Lavrov press ahead with Geneva 2 peace talk plan despite strained relations.

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has said that he and US Secretary of State John Kerry have agreed to convene the Geneva 2 international conference on Syria as soon as possible.

Kerry and Lavrov held a five-hour meeting in Washington on Friday for so-called “2+2” strategic and security talks on Friday.

“One thing I would emphasise is that while Sergey and I do not always agree completely on responsibility for the bloodshed or on some of the ways forward both of us in our countries agree that to avoid institutional collapse and dissent into chaos the ultimate answer is a negotiated political solution and Geneva 2 conference is a step toward that solution,” Kerry said.

American and Russian ties have been deeply strained over Moscow’s decision to grant asylum to former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden.

Lavrov described the overall mood of the talks as very positive.

Uzair Al Jazeera – very good. They’re not biased at all. Of course, that one didn’t say anything did it? A meeting.

Both sides will get weapons to kill each other with. The West will continue to arm the rebels.

1000s more civilians will die in the crossfire.

A wonderful singer

The resentment against damascene people among rebels is growing , there is hardly a day now without mortars fired randomly at parts of Damascus that are under regime control, most of the victims are civilians. Read this fatwa and you will understand why those sheikhs deserve long prison sentences:
( a copy of the fatwa with names and signatures of the thugs behind it is online)
 أصدر  34 عالماً من “علماء دوما” فتوى أباحوا فيها لأهالي دوما وريف دمشق  في سوريا السطو على ممتلكات المسيحيين والعلويين والدروز وغيرهم من بقية الأقليات، إضافة إلى دعوتهم لمقاطعة أهالي دمشق  لأنهم – وحسب العلماء – قد خذلوا “الثوار” وتخلوا عنهم.
وجاء في الفتوى:
أهلنا في دوما وريف دمشق..  عملاً بتعاليم القرآن الكريم وسنة نبينا نعلن لكم القرارات التالي:
–    مصادرة جميع ما تبقى من أملاك النصارى ووضع اليد على مابقي من أملاك العلويين والدروز وغيرهم ممن لا يتبعون سنة نبينا الأكرم، واستخدام جزء منها في شراء السلاح والجزء الآخر يتم توزيعه على الفقراء والأيتام وعوائل الشهداء والآرامل.
–    مقاطعة الدمشقيين من أبناء جلدتنا لأنهم خذلونا وتخلفوا عن نصرتنا فأخذهم الجبن والخوف على حين غرة.

Dear Don

I don’t believe you even introduced yourself to the SC community. 🙂
You went straight into posting articles*. A tad rude?

* spamming

cowardice? or lack of loyalty to the regime?

are they running away but regrouping elsewhere?

weren’t deserters threatened with execution if they attempted to escape before? where are the enforcers?

what are the number soldiers fleeing? hundreds?

I believe all the fatwas posted on SC are regime fabricated to make it sound like it is a religious war.

The regime and its dupporters are only fooling themselves . The “moderate” opposition ain’t buying it.

The media dept of the opposition should respond in the same fashion and fabricate statement from the regime and its sheiks.

#54 Revenire

Were you asking about the claims about weapons. I thought you may have asked about the US/Russia ‘institutional collapse’ point.

About the capture of weapons. In recent days there was a video of rebels showing off piles of what was described as significant weaponry. The video was shared on here by someone and also made it on AJE blog.

A few comments ago Tara also shared an AJE arabic piece about presumably another capture of weapon warehouse(s) which I checked on google translate.

Thus my comment about rebels capturing important weaponry and worry in Washington and Moscow.

This is from Douma revolution page تنسيقية دوما

العدالة قادمة هااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااام :: العميد الركن أحمد رحال

أخبار ذات رائحة كريهة تخرج من بعض الجهات وتخص الوضع العسكري بالساحل …. قرارات ذات صبغة خيانية تتخذ عبر قادة لم ولن نعترف بهم ولكن سكتنا حفاظاً على وحدة الصف ولكن ان تمادت فتقارير ادانتهم بحوزتنا والشعب هو من سيحكم عليهم …. إجبار الكتائب على الانسحاب من معركة الساحل هي خيانة وكل من يطلبها خائن وكل من يضغط لسحبهم خائن والاطلالات التلفزيونية والتصاريح الاعلامية لن تمحي خيانتكم وكذبكم على الشعب ولن تمحوا تآمركم على الثورة …. تفريغ الساحل من الذخيرة يعني عودة النظام ليس للمناطق التي تم تحريرها مؤخراً انما هي تسليم لجبلي الأكراد والتركمان والاستهتار بمنجزات الثوار على مدى عامين ونصف وعملية بيع بأثمان بخسة لدماء الشهداء الذين ضحوا بدمائهم لتحرير تلك الأراضي …. تذكروا جيداً أن الثورة قد أزالت الغشاوة عن عيون الأحرار وهي ترقبكم وإن حميتم نفسكم اليوم فمحكمة الثورة ستفتح ملفاتكم وكل تحركاتكم واجتماعاتكم السرية والعلنية لدينا محاضرها ونعلم ما تسرون وتعلنون وستكون بانتظاركم …. اتقوا الله في هذا الشعب ولا تظنوا ان الحق يموت وإن ربح الباطل وجعلكم في مصدر القرار فهذا ليس بضعف منا ولكن لحكمة يعلمها الله وهي كشفكم على حقيقتكم وتعريتكم حتى من ورقة التوت التي تتسترون خلفها …. اللعب بالساحل وإعادته للنظام ستكسر ظهوركم وتحرق كل من تسول له نفسه المس بمقدسات الأحرار …. الكلام واضح وجلي وأُعذر من أنذر .

VOTE here: http://t.co/22ZQY0xGVw

Regimists don’t seem so keen on elections or voting however they seem ever keen to participate in polls on SC and elsewhere.

You only have to look at previous SC polls (eg about predictions of regime collapse) to see almost always the regimists option is leading in the polls.

Rev

There was a video in recent days showing rebels showing off piles of what was described as significant weaponry captured in warehouse (in Damascus countryside I think). The video link was shared on here by someone and even made it on AJE blog.

Tara shared an arabic AJE article a few comments ago about presumably another weapon warehouse(s) capture.

NATOs Death Squads holding women and children hostage and human shields

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=420_1376256912

The collusion between the FSA and the Jihadists against the Kurds is exposed.

Syrian rebels pass on abducted Kurds to jihadists: NGO

http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/middle-east/248542-syrian-rebels-pass-on-abducted-kurds-to-jihadists-ngo.html

BEIRUT: Syrian rebel fighters kidnapped 13 Kurds in the northern province of Aleppo on Sunday, turning them over to jihadist fighters already holding 250 abducted Kurds, an NGO said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the 13 were snatched at a roadblock in the Sfeira region of Aleppo and passed them on to Al Nusra Front, a jihadist group affiliated with Al Qaeda.

Al Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), another Al Qaeda-linked group operating in Syria, have abducted more than 250 Syrian Kurds since the end of July.
..
Syria’s Kurds have been battling jihadist fighters for months in northern and northeastern Syria, where the minority hopes to establish an autonomous zone.

The clashes have intensified since mid-July, when Kurdish fighters pushed jihadists out of the village of Ras Al Ain and its adjacent border crossing with Turkey.
..
Rebel groups largely welcomed the arrival of jihadist organisations like Nusra, which includes foreign fighters among its ranks, in the early days of their armed uprising against the regime that has cost more than 100,000 lives since March 2011.

But initial enthusiasm for the supplies and fighting skills of the groups has waned amid accusations of abuses by members of Nusra and ISIS.

Majed

“SALIM IDRIS visit reef Latakia is a good sign”

Poor guy, all he whined and he begged from the US and he got a tap on the back and the task of building a clean “National” army composed exclusively of Arab Sunnis and paid by Saudi Arabia.
I really feel sorry for him.
Like the others, Ryad al Assad and Cie, he will soon fall on his nose and next into oblivion.

ALEPPO MAJOR TERRORIST LEADER CAPTURED! ALI BILLU SPILLS HIS GUTS ON TELEVISION; WHAT A SCANDAL!

REMEMBER HIM? HE’S THE ONE WHO GOT ON AL-JAZEERA AND WELCOMED “ISRAELI INTERVENTION” AND VOWED THAT “AMERICA WOULD JOIN IN AND DESTROY HIZBULLAH”!!!

HOW THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN. HE HAS BEEN CAPTURED BY THE SYRIAN ARMY
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE BRANCH IN ALEPPO AND HE’S SINGING A DIFFERENT TUNE TODAY.

He is the virulent bigot, ALI BILLU, who made a name for himself
by operating a criminal racket in Aleppo in which he worked primarily as a shake-down artist for a billionaire mafia boss whose days are numbered.

Billu took protection money in much the same way the Mafia did in Old New York during the early 20th Century. He claimed to have 2,000 fighters in an organization called: “Ahraar Sooriyya” (Free Citizens of Syria). They were not around to help him apparently.

He was uncovered while sleeping during the hottest time of the day in an area just north of ‘Anadaan in Aleppo. The big hero of the “Revolution” was discovered with psychedelic drugs and codeine pills which he told our MI people were for a “serious back problem”. That will be the least of his concerns as MI goes about the business of asking the “questions both ordinary and
extraordinary”. Good show, Military Intel!!

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f52_1376255531

Syrian

” help wanted” post.

Loved it. Smart and funny!

A rare combo among loyalists.

I think it is remarkable that the Ghazal family and alawites in general have abstained from responding to the kidnapping and beating of one of their sheikhs in the manner desired by takfiris. The anger should be directed at the kidnappers and nusra terrorists not against innocent Sunnis in Latakia who are in a very difficult situation now and they deserve support and help like most Syrians who are victims of this unjust war. There will be a day when most Syrians realize that they were used by both the regime and takkfiris.

تنسيقية مدينة دوما – الثورة السورية في ريف دمسق
1 hour ago ·
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
لا يفاجئنا النظام الأسدي الباغي كعادته في تزوير الحقائق والتبجح الشديد, حيث قام مؤخراً بتزوير بيان وقع عليه علماء مدينة دوما في بداية الثورة يدينون فيه قتل المدنيين والاعتداء عليهم واعتقالهم والاعتداء على المساجد والحرمات من قبل النظام الظالم, ليقوم النظام باستخدام نفس هذه التواقيع ووضعها على بيان مزور يقصد فيه بث الفتنة بين أهالي الريف وأهالي دمشق وتخويف الطوائف الأخرى, وهذا التصرف الأحمق إنما يدل على افلاس النظام وقرب نهايته بعون الله تعالى.
وإليكم نص البيان الأصلي والبيان المزور:
………

https://m.facebook.com/Douma.Revolution/about?__user=100003131418721

Tara
Thanks,
You can add desperate to their resume,now making up fatwas from DON/ANN to Ghuffran.

Omen: it’s all yours, thanks for your great support.

Mjabali

I loved your comment.

I am always pleased to hear from you a few others on this post.

Let me explain:

1. There is no such thing as a Syrian National Identity. It was gutted after at least forty years of one clan rule.

2. The legitimacy of this and other regimes based on force and in the absence of the rule of law and the will of the people is non existent. Was non existent and is ever more non existent today.

3. I am an atheist, and I have zero Kurdish identity. I grew up breathing and eating and drinking Arab Nationalism. I am not Sunni or anything else for that matter.

4. I would love for the oppressed to be free of oppression. If as it is being proved in front of our eyes and you certainly agree fully with me, that we cannot live together in this illusion of a mosaic of cultures and ethnicities and religious groups under one umbrella of a national identity, then let us spit PEACEFULLY. There is no need for fighting. After two years of pure losers on both sides I would agree fully with you that the realistic thing to have is an Alawi homeland where freedom and security reign.

5. If the remaining Syrians want to be Sunnis and Turkmen and Druze and Shia each in his homeland/canton/province/village so be it. There are many examples of countries that spilt into city states and some are prosperous: Monaco, Singapoor, Macau, Hong Kong, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and I would argue Beirut attached to a rump Lebanon.

6. I want the principality of Damascus for example. I want peace and freedom and prosperity and human efforts directed at commerce, science, health, education, entertainment, etc….

7. I agree with you fully that there are extreme ideology on ALL sides of exclusion of the other to justify slaughter, slavery, destruction, etc….

8. The reality is we are going into a fifty year religious war.

You and I are actually in agreement on most anything.

As for my ancestors, I dare say some were great fathers and grand fathers; others were great womanizers, others still were incurable gamblers, some were outright nearly mad with their eccentricities from having eagles and chimpanzees as pets to living nearly in wild conditions most of the year. One even used to go hunting in Africa every other year. Being most likely gay, that was great excuse for him to live nearly 20 years away from his home. Many were alcoholics, but benign ones that never harmed but themselves. Last but not least only my great aunt was religious in a very deep and nearly messianic sense. All the others never prayed or went to the mosque. As a matter of fact I was never taught how to pray at home. The school religious class under the Baath taught me how. To this day, I never understood what that means.

So, I do know that you and I can join hands above and beyond religious bigotry. I am just amazed how an intelligent, erudite, and deep historian like you can get caught in the trap of sectarianism that the fanatics keeping springing in front of us.

There was, is, will never be anything called Syria. There is a medieval clannish country besieged by dark and violent ideologies that are on the wrong side of history.

So join me in a glass of wine in about five years from now to celebrate freedom and prosperity. I say five years being an optimist. More like 10 in reality.

Go forth and prosper as the Vulcan would say in Star Trek.

Joshua is right, the FSA is now able to pose for pictures after terrorists do the dirty work. Rebel supporters were lobbying for an invasion similar to that of Iraq and when Obama refused they cried foul, they said it is unfair that the USA invaded Iraq and removed a Sunni dictator but did notbdi the same when the dictator was an alawite.
This is not a revolution, it is an insurgency fueled by terrorists and their financiers in the GCC.
On the subject of Douma :
Notice how the ” real statement” by Douma sheikhs dodged the issue of property confiscation and how Syrian forgot to include the comment by Sandra Soso about the subject. I do not know of any other religious group that calls religious clerks ” Ulamaa”.
Douma today has no presence of anybody who did not submit to the takfiris, people who did not like the new Talibans were either killed or ran away and left their homes and possessions after that was considered غنائم by the same sheikhs some of you are defending. Sheikhs from the same pool of ibn taymia fans club gave a green light for rebels to bomb Salamiyyah , again. 11 innocent Syrians lost their lives when those animals shelled a busy street in town, I guess this piece of news is ” irrelevant”.

Syrian
Anything that Ghufran says is fabrication and lies, thank you for correcting his fabrications

According to SOHR , an anti regime source, revels arrested Kurds and gave them to nusra:
19:56 المرصد السوري : معارضون سوريون يحتجزون 13 كرديا ويسلمونهم لمقاتلي النصرة
You have to be blind for you not to see that rebels are now a branch of nusra.
Majed and Syrian:
وافق شن طبقه

I guess the wrong link I put was the the reasons Guffran is still arguing about the fake edict.
I don’t know who is Sandro also he is talking about.
My post in Arabic was very clear that the regime took a 2 years old signed statement and changed it.
Here is the right link
https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=516549295092657&id=111632495584341&set=a.112197655527825.19958.111632495584341&__user=10000313141872
The most supporting page for the regime has retracted its earlier claim about the facke edict
مساكن الحرس الجمهوري
2 hours ago ·
تنــويــه || تم حذف الصورة السابقة والتي مصدرها شبكة عاجل التي تظهر وثيقة يوقع عليها علماء بمصادرة أملاك مواطنين من طوائف أخرى.

السبب : قيام مواطن من أهل دوما بإرسال نسخة أخرى عن نفس الوثيقة تظهر أنه حدث تلاعب بها وبذلك الوثيقة غير صحيحة أو مشكك بها لذلك تم الحذف .

ادارة مساكن الحرس الجمهوري

Salamiah like every other Syrian city being sheled daily was shelled by the regime.

Majed
You’re welcome, it is becoming a full time job.someone has to do it.!

Seriously?
” like every other Syrian city being sheled daily was shelled by the regime”
اذا لم تستح فافعل ما شءت

Ghufran

Salamieh is shelled by the regime. An apology is due.

—–

Isn’t Salamieh mostly Ismaelis? Please correct me if I am wrong. Aren’t Ismaelis considered a shiaa sect too. Where are the Malalis? Where is Monsieur Hassan?

This one time ,doing a Ghuffran i.e. copying a comment from some face book page
Here is an eye witness that says it was the regime who shelled Salamieh today
Anas M. Ebaji
انقل شهادة هذا الشاب … دون اﻻشارة ﻷي طرف:
أبو الفاروق الحموي
شباب في موضوع مهم جدا النظام اليوم كان عم يقصف للمرة الاولى من سفح التلة اللي متمركز عليها اللواء 47 ومن رحبة الدبابات اللي بسريحين وانا شفت بعيني الغبرة اثناء خروج القذائف وهذا الشيء للمرة الاولى يعني المؤكد أن النظام هو من اطلق القذائف التي سقطت في سلمية …القصف بدأ بحدود الساعة 2 ولم يتوقف حتى السابعة والنصف
لو كانت كمرتي معي لكنت صورتلكون القذائف وهي عم تطلع
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Ghufran said
اذا لم تستح فافعل ما شءت

That applies to you ghufran

Riyad al-Asaad attacks the FSA and the NC:
بعد فترة من غيابه عن وسائل الإعلام إثر إصابته نتيجة انفجار عبوة ناسفة أطاحت بقدمه، عاد مؤسس”الجيش الحر” رياض الأسعد إلى الدائرة الإعلامية من جديد، ليفتح النار على جميع تنظيمات وتشكيلات المعارضة، مقراً بتقدم الجيش السوري.
وقال “الأسعد”، الذي يتنازع مع سليم دريس على قيادة “الجيش الحر” من المخيمات التركية، ” فشل المسلحون في الجيش الحر بكسب الشعبية ..(..) لقد خسرنا الكثير خلال السنة الماضية وشهدنا تقدما ملحوظا للجيش السوري في العديد من المناطق والسبب في ذلك هو ضعف المعارضة وتفشي الفوضى في صفوفها الأمر الذي أدى ببعض ضباط المعارضة إلى الانشقاق”.
وتابع   ” صار هناك فوضى بالداخل وانتقائية بتوزيع السلاح والمال وصار لدينا أمراء حرب وبدأت قوى تقوى على حساب قوى أخرى”.
وعلى الرغم من عدم معرفة هيكلية ومدى انتشار “الجيش الحر” في الداخل السوري، اتهم “الأسعد” الكثير من قوى المعارضة بالخارج بسرقة اسم “الجيش الحر” والاستفاده منه بما يخدم مصالحها.
وقال” إن المعارضة السورية كانت دون المستوى المطلوب تماما وخذلت الشعب السوري وليس لها وجود في الداخل السوري .. وحقيقة هم أسوأ معارضة شهدها التاريخ”.
وأشار الأسعد الى أن ذهاب الكثير من أطراف المعارضة لتلقي الأموال والمساعدات من الدول العربية والغربية كان له بالغ الأثر في تكوين ولاءات وانتماءات لهذه الدول.
وقال ” بمجرد أن بدأ الاعتماد على الخارج، بدأت تأخذ منحى آخر، منحى الولاءات والتبعية واظهرت للناس وجود فوضى وانقسام في الداخل السوري”.
Tara,
Do you think hizbullah should defend Salamiyyah ?
Shelling civilian areas does not help the rebels, I am not sure what the rebels are trying to do, they are acting like the Talibans .
Pro rebels media policy of blaming every terrorist act on the regime may have worked in the past but it is getting old now, I happen to have two friends who live there, most of us know who bombed that town, some are unable to face the truth.

Keep lying and hope that people may believe you. The SOHR effectively ended the rebels fabrications that the army shelled Salamiyyah ( a pro regime town):
‫محافظة حماة – المرصد السوري لحقوق الانسان ::استشهد ليل أمس عشرة مواطنين على الاقل اثر القصف بصواريخ محلية الصنع الذي تعرض له وسط مدينة سلمية بريف حماة الشرقي وفجر رجل نفسه بعربة مفخخة قرب كتيبة للقوات النظامية غرب سلمية مما اسفر عن مقتل اربعة عناصر على الاقل من القوات النظامية كما تدور اشتباكات بين القوات النظامية ومقاتلين من الكتائب المقاتلة في محيط بلدة مورك وذلك بعد تفجير سيارة مفخخة في حاجز عطشان للقوات النظامية مما ادى الى مقتل وجرحى عناصر الحاجز كما قصفت الكتائب المقاتلة حاجز الجسر في مورك مما ادى الى اشتعال النيران فيه‬
Those of you who still have an ounce of credibility left should try to tell us why the rebels killed civilians in that town.

Abu Ayoub al-Tunsi gone to Paradise

Top Salafist Terrorist Killer Killed by SAA in Lattakia Countryside 08 11 2013

Abu Ayoub al-Tunsi, a Tunisian Salafist sheikh, has joined the radicalized battalion, al-Muhajereen which fight in Syrian, has been shot dead by Syrian Army during battles in Lattakia countryside.

Date of kill : 08 11 2013
Headshot by a SAA sniper unit

Well, the great offensive by the so called fsa terrorist does not look so good at all after such great success killing and kidnapping civilian right now the SAA and NFD and the new militia have killed over 1000 terrorists

you terrorists can call yourself whatever you want now you will meet the militia 2000 troops that have joined the fight against NATO’s international terrorism

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=10c_1376254131

#Exclusive from @THE_47th: #Italy Foreign Ministry was informed about death of Father Paolo in #Syria

This time I am praying that the news about father Paolo’s execution are not true and are just one more “fabrication” by me. The man did nothing wrong and does not deserve to die.
Syrians may argue all day about who is at fault in this war but the reputation of Syrians as tolerant people has been ruined, foreigners think that we are a group of savage people who hate Christians and hate each other and that we do not value life.

This is a piece from an interview he gave a year ago:
FP: Many people thought that Mr. Bashar al-Assad, with the help of his wife, a very well-educated person, would be able to be the protagonist of the democratic mutation, translation into full democracy for Syria. In fact, the regime was already ideologically empty. The Ba’ath ideology came to the end of its motivations and values. [It] was a clear failure as a project. So far the Syrian regime was more and more just an association of family interests.
And the liberalization of the country from the previous socialist structure, without democratization, facilitated the mafia trend. And so, in spite [of having] more democracy, we have had less state, less consistency, less respect of the law altogether. So the change didn’t come. And the growing of tension: people asking for rights, people asking for the change. The tension was very high in the last years already. The repression on human rights activists, on politicians asking for freedom, was already very strong. So the Arab Spring has been the occasion for the explosion of the situation and also to show this new protagonist, the youth, the Arab youth, an incredible, marvelous protagonist that is the fruit of the big values rooted in families if the society that has been coming up with this astonishing, great expression of political awareness.

Again, Let us hope that the news about his execution are not true.

Talk about credibility.
When the regime most violent militia page took a stand and corrected itself in what should have been so obvious fake edict to anyone with half brain, and still not admitting that you made a mistake,it speaks volumes not about only your credibility but also about an out of control ego that is after it bad mouth men of God just to make a fake point it still not willing to admit it made a mistake

Syrian Girl: Fatwa Permitting Rape of Syrian Women

Another Islamic cleric has gone public to announce a fatwa that permits US-backed FSA rebels to rape non-Sunni women in Syria as part of a “sexual jihad” that has seen girls as young as 14 transported into the country to service the needs of anti-Assad militants.

“Salafi Sheikh Yasir al-‘Ajlawni, a Jordanian of origin who lived in Damascus, Syria for 17 years, posted a YouTube video last week where he said he was preparing to issue a “legitimate fatwa” making it legal (in the eyes of Islam) for those Muslims fighting to topple secular president Bashar Assad and install Sharia law to “capture and have sex with” all non-Sunni women, specifically naming Assad’s own sect, the Alawites, as well as the Druze and several others, basically, all non-Sunnis and non-Muslims,” reports Human Events.

I can not be nice to anybody who took part in destroying Syria and is calling for “Jihad” and supporting a terrorist group (Nusra), it is the rebel’s behavior not regime propaganda that earned them so many enemies and made it possible for the regime to survive, at the end of the day Syrians will reject extremism in all shapes and forms and live where they feel that their families, especially girls and women, are (relatively) safe.
I would rather see Syria gets divided (at least for now) instead of allowing the animals of Nusra to rule the country of first alphabet. Whether Assad survives this war or not is the least of my concerns, I made that very clear from day one. I do not trust the rebels or anybody who supports them, those rebels stabbed the real revolutionaries in the back and decided to act as slaves to Turkey and the GCC, they filled Syria with violent Bedouins who kill and torture to please Allah (their allah)and I do not consider them Muslims. unlike some of you I do not care about people’s beliefs but I do care about what they do,if you guys love Nusra’s ideology and work this much why do not you go and fight with them or send your kids to help their evil Jihad instead of spreading hatred on this blog ?

UZAIR8 and SYRIALOVER. Long response to ISW article. Apologies in advance but after I started writing, I couldn’t stop…

I started reading the ISW article hoping for some insight and new information. I have never heard of ISW or Elizabeth O’Gady but it sounded like a thinktank type of an outfit and I’ve always found such articles to be illuminating and often well-informed. The article itself is full of holes and completely inaccurate. As I read it, I kept wondering if it was written by a college freshman? It was that bad. Then I read the conclusion and it started to make sense why they put out such an article. If you disagree, please take a look at the citations, most of them are youtube videos and unverifiable (possibly bogus?) interviews. I can tell you the situation in Damascus is a complete stalemate, no one is making any progress but you may dismiss it as just an opinion. The basis of her thesis is completely wrong, but I thought the readers of this forum deserve a better response than a simple reader opinion. Bear with me as I go through some of her claims.

First her map:

1. #1, she says rebels have Jobar and began drive into government neighborhoods. That’s completely false, there’s a stalemate in Jobar, regime forces were the ones trying to push into Jobar and have been stopped. There is no “drive” into government neighborhoods.

2. #2, and #3, she claims Qaboun and Barzeh are contested areas as they were previously under government control 2012, that’s inaccurate as well. Regime forces has been trying to enter Qaboun and Barzeh for months and been repelled every time.

3. #4, she claims the electrical station is in Abbasyeen garages, the station is in Jobar and it is back in regime hands.

4. #6, she claims Salhiya is contested??? Either she’s confused about Damascus districts or she doesn’t know where Salhiya is! Salhiya is firmly in government hands.

5. #7, she claims Bab Touma is contested, completely false. Bab Touma, a mostly a Christian neighborhood, had few mortars fall but it has no fighting whatsoever.

6. #8, she claims that “rebels have made significant progress in putting pressure on regime forces in the vicinity of Mezze airbase..” I don’t know what that means, what’s significant progress in putting pressure??? Mezzeh remains the lifeline of the regime and operations at the airport have increased many folds as more air traffic from Russia and Iran are diverted to Mezzeh, what kind of pressure is she talking about?

Now, let’s examine her citations:

1. Citation #1, al-Qaboun, from the heart of the battle at the doors of eastern Damascus,” youtube video. The citation was made about how the rebels are advancing, while the video talks about the onslaught that Qbaoun is under every day. Completely the opposite of what she was trying to convey, I was now wondering if she understands Arabic (her resume says she studied Arabic).

2. Citation #2 has this sentence to support it: “After major clashes between government and rebel forces, the opposition took control of the Abbassiyeen garages, an important government-controlled facility.” Abbasyeen garages are just that, garages and the fighting is happening around the garages because they’re at the edge of Jobar and straddle major highways, the rebels do not control them (nor does the regime, see my earlier statement about the stalemate). The youtube video shows rebels filming from inside the electrical facility, that was taken back few days later. I don’t know how she can deduce that Abbasyeen garages are under control of opposition from a video about an electrical company?

3. I’m copying and pasting this entire paragraph so I apologize for the length, but please read it carefully:

“On August 7, government forces ambushed an opposition convoy in Adra, a main supply route between Damascus and the eastern Ghouta neighborhood, killing over 60 rebel fighters. Although the government reported that the Jabhat al-Nusra led opposition fighters were on their way to attack a key checkpoint in Damascus, both activists and fighters have denied the claim, arguing that the convoy was carrying humanitarian aid to besieged eastern Ghouta.[12] The government’s targeting of humanitarian aid channels has had near catastrophic consequences in areas that rely heavily on aid as food and medical supplies are increasingly rare in certain districts of the capital. Such actions represent similar government strategies employed in northern Syria, where the government has targeted civilians and activists in response to major rebel victories. Regime retaliation against civilians has been an effective part of the government’s attempts to undermine the opposition’s support base. However, in Damascus, such strategies seem to have an inverse effect so far, and they have caused tension and infighting between government troops forced to carry out such measures.[13]”

She basically claims that the 60 rebels ambushed in Adra were carrying humanitarian aid to besieged Eastern Ghouta and then she makes the connection to how the government blocks humanitarian aid and how this is having adverse effect on government troops??? There are many examples of government forces blocking aid and she decided to choose the ambush killings of the rebels as an example of blocking humanitarian aid? This is very laughable assertion, she can’t possibly expect readers to take her seriously!

4. She writes “In a video posted online, opposition forces from Liwa Islam and the First Brigades destroy a column of tanks along the road to the hospital in Barzeh.[15]” Very impressive at face value, except the video’s title is the destruction of a single tank and it’s not even clear as it’s shot at night and no one can tell what’s going on. Now how can she expect to get away with such a statement “destroy a column of tanks” unless she believes the people this article is targeted at will not bother checking the links and jump to the conclusion, after all, she knows Arabic, right?

5. In the next statement, she writes: “In another video, a unit associated with Ansar al-Islam is seen effectively using an SA-16 in the Ghouta region.[16]”. Here again, her citation #16 is the video from the electrical company not the use of the SA-16. By now, I’m thinking she really believes her readers are just stupid.

6. Again, the following statement goes: “Advanced weapons also helped rebel forces take control of the fifth bridge along the road to Damascus International Airport, and were instrumental in rebel operations against the Abu Zidan checkpoint along the International Damascus Road in Harasta.[17]” Here I was expecting her citation to show one of the many firefights with these advanced weapons (and there are many videos available) but she chose to show a video of 4 rebels in a pickup truck, that’s it. A pickup truck next to the highway!!!

7. She makes several incoherent statements and cites the Liwa Al Islam seizing Surface to Air missiles and then provides inaccurate and unverifiable citations (#18-#22). This is when I thought, a freshman in college would have received a failing grade if they were to rely on such citations to make their assertions. She basically claims that rebels now control the airspace over Damascus because they have seized SA missiles, but she must have forgotten that there are still people that still live in Damascus. If you live in Damascus, you’d know that air raids have significantly intensified in the last few weeks.

8. She makes several statements that sound more like an opinion , she cites #23 “an interview via skype” Wow! Now I’m wondering if she even had someone above her at ISW review this article before it was allowed to be published? This is typically what occurs in reputable organizations, now I’m wondering if ISW is a legitimate outfit…

9. She makes a statement about infighting among government officials, her citation #25 is “Interview with regime source on July 28, 2013.” That’s it!!!

Finally her conclusions are completely baseless though she makes a couple of astute observations about the plight of refugees and the problems encountered in Jordan mainly. She does make wild leaps between some of her false assertions and what she believes should be done in Syria. I’m amazed ISW allowed this essay to be published but then I thought, maybe it was intentional. It is obviously motivated to influence some U.S. policy makers, either in the government or the U.S. Congress, but who and why, and would they buy it? Then I started reading about the makeup of ISW and things have started to make sense. Anyway, there are several more reliable information outlets, this is obviously an uninformed (or disingenuous) writer, I wouldn’t put much into the article.

I repeat, the situation is Damascus is a complete stalemate, no side is able to make any advances and the fighting is getting more ferocious with every passing day. The suggestion in the article that just a little is needed to tip the balance in favor of the rebels is completely false. Unless there’s a revolt in the Army leadership against Assad or an outside intervention (with boots on the ground) to force a political solution, the war will continue for years and even decades. There’s no victory for either side no matter how much more weapons they get, the situation is so much more complicated now.

New York Times Fuels Anti-Iranian Sentiment

Times editors, columnists and contributors support the worst of US policies. They regurgitate official lies.

They abhor truth and full disclosure. They substitute managed news misinformation. They do so consistently.

They advocate business as usual. They betray their readers in the process. They do it unapologetically.

They march in lockstep with imperial lawlessness. They call aggressive wars liberating ones.They’re in bed with corporate America.

So is Iran bashing. Times editors endorse decades of ruthless US policies. They want Iranian sovereignty destroyed.

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2013/08/11/new-york-times-fuels-anti-iranian-sentim

Ghufran, spreading hatred is what those terrorist sympathizers and supporters do. If a person has decent compassion for human lives, that person will definitely reject armed terrorists massacring defenseless villagers or recruiting child soldiers who will be instructed to behead a human being.

Those people are filled with undeniable hatred or vendettas. The most troubling problem with those people is that they are cowards even by the terrorist book. Not only they are feared of their lives, but also they do not even want to give up their favorite drinks, their comfortable lives in a country which is tolerable to any religions and sects.

It has been clear now they are willing to see Syria gets burnt down and Syrians get slaughtered, especially Syrians who are considered to be second class by them.

Those people might be called Syrian expats, but they are Not Syrian. We reject them for their role of destructing Syria.

Syrian rebels destroy Orthodox church in Al-Thawrah

The Antiochian Orthodox church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus was a landmark of al-Thawrah (also known as al-Tabqah).

According to a story by the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA), it was an impressive, modern structure with a large yard, surrounded by a high wall and well-situated on a main street near the corniche — a well landscaped area hugging the southern bank of Lake Assad which was popular with locals going on an evening stroll.

Its elegant dome, surmounted by a cross, could be seen from all parts of the Third Quarter (also known as Hayy al-Ishtirakiyah), where it was located.

Spiritually, AINA said, this church was under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Aleppo, the metropolitan of which, Boulos al-Yazigi, was kidnapped (and allegedly murdered) on April 22 of this year, along with the Syriac Orthodox metropolitan of the same city, Mor Gregorios Youhanna Ibrahim.

AINA said Christian eyewitnesses who fled al-Thawrah, now displaced in other parts of Syria, as well as in Lebanon and Turkey, tell of religious discrimination by the rebels, as well as forced confiscation of Christian possessions and properties, with many items being sold on the black market in order to purchase weapons and ammunition. Even the churches weren’t spared.

“The ‘Free Syrian Army’ demolished the (Sts. Sergius and Bacchus) church,” one refugee said sadly. “They tore up the sanctuary curtains, Bibles and other holy books, and broke all the crosses, chairs and icons of Jesus and the saints. They stole ele ctrical appliances like fans, chandeliers and lights. They took whatever was in the church, and sold it all. There is nothing there now.”

However, AINA said, there is no hope, for the Christians to return and rebuild even if the conflict subsides.

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/syrian.rebels.destroy.orthodox.church.in.al.thawrah/33567.htm

33. SF94123 said:
Syrians Sunnis are to blame for the death and distraction…….

Are you under the influence of Bernard Lewis Levy?

Turkey has called on its citizens to leave Lebanon following abduction of two Turkish Airlines pilots by armed men in Beirut.
Separately, it has decided to remove its troops from the UNIFIL peacekeeping forces operating in southern Lebanon, according to Lebanese media.

An influx of armed Israeli tourists taking up the slack! 🙂

Life goes on in Syria! Against the evil itself reviled on earth under the name of USA
https://twitter.com/confusion8888/status/366615267280838656/photo/1

Do they look like syrians to you Mr Obama?
https://twitter.com/confusion8888/status/364861237923831808/photo/1

Revealed: What the West has given Syria’s rebels
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/revealed-what-the-west-has-given-syrias-rebels-8756447.html

What’s this about?

I suppose it’s possible for Assad agents disguised as Islamists/rebels to have been responsible or even to have infiltrated Jihadist groups.

I hope the news isn’t true as the father was a friend of the revolution. A friend of truth and justice. I’m upset, sickened and write with a heavy heart.

Posted on Yalla Souriya :<a href="http://yallasouriya.wordpress.com/2013/08/12/pro-assad-group-kills-rev-paolo-dalloglio-in/">about 7 hours ago:

Pro-Assad group kills Rev. Paolo Dall’Oglio in North east Syria, Atassi says

Senior Official in the Free Syrian Army have confirmed the execution of Rev. Paolo Dall’Oglio, Jesuit Priest in Ar Raqqa, North east Syria.

Lma al-Attasi, Secretary General of the Syrian national Front affirmed to Zaman Alwasl that the prominent Italian Jesuit, Dall’Oglio, who has been kidnapped by an Islamist group on July 29, was killed in Ar Raqqa, North east Syria.

Attasi has accused the Assad Intelligence by penetrating the ranks of the Islamic groups and contributing in the murder. ”The Assad regime should carry the full responsibility.” Some western governments of hiding the news of Dall’Oglio’s killing, she added.

Dall’Oglio was an outspoken supporter of the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

[…]

Zaman Alwasl-Exclusive

Posted on Yalla Souriya about 7 hours ago. Also happens to be the last update on YS:

‘#Syria, I am deeply sorry to inform you that I got from a reliable source father Paulo has been executed.. the mercy of Allah on his soul

اعلمكم ببالغ الاسى ما وردني اليوم من مصدر موثوق انه تم اعدام الاب باولو .. رحمة الله على روحه @lamaatassi’

this from an activist on the ground in raqqa.

Those who promote the death of FatherPaolo have no morality neither responsibility and are seeking attention only.

even absent this activist refutation, story comes from an outfit nobody has ever heard of, citing a rebel front that doesn’t exist (i don’t think.)

no, uzair, that’s being contested.

this from an activist on the ground in raqqa.

Those who promote the death of FatherPaolo have no morality neither responsibility and are seeking attention only.

even absent this activist’s refutation, story comes from an outfit nobody has ever heard of, citing a rebel front that doesn’t exist (i don’t think.)

need confirmation either way.

Damascus Rose

Thanks for the response. I’ve tried to contact Elizabeth O’Bagy through ISW (as I couldn’t find her email address). I’ve sent her the link to your comment.

Moving on.

A couple of Elizabeth tweets:

Elizabeth O’Bagy @lizobagy 31 Jul
Why Dempsey’s letter wasnt entirely accurate:there are scale-able options with limited duration/costs http://goo.gl/BCftaz

Required Sorties and Weapons to Degrade Syrian Air Force
Jul 31, 2013 – Christopher Harmer

[…]

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Elizabeth O’Bagy @lizobagy 29 Jul
@joaska_EA I’m still contributing to ISW. In fact, I’m working on a big report on Damascus and preparing for a long research trip.

[I hope the regime allows her in or the rebels provide her the required protection to carry out her work. Can’t wait for the report – unless it was the ISW piece on Damascus shared on here the last couple of days (?).]

253. majedkhaldoun said:

Revenir is back to call the rebels rodent, I guess he is ratvenir.

Real facts of execution and torture in Syria http://youtu.be/-4dsISP8yPg

Omen

You’re right we should wait for confirmation. I hope it turns out false and the father is safe and well.

No revolutionary would ever even consider harming the father. It can only be either the regime (openly or disguised as rebels) or the Al-Qaedists.

If the news is true and it turns out to be the al-Qaedists then it only shows their ignorance of and/or indifference to the revolution. They have nothing to do with the revolution and the syrian people’s cause. Father Paolo had more concern for the revolution than they could ever have. The idiots can go to hell. They’re harming innocents and giving the revolution a bad name. We wouldn’t care about any usefulness to the fight against Assad they may provide.

What those chortling/trolling SC over the ISW report failed to notice, or didn’t care, is that that Institute for the Study of War is a neocon think tank. It is sloppy research to post its “study” without knowing who, and what, ISW is. I think Rose shot plenty of holes in details of O’Bagy’s scribbling (why email O’Bagy? she gets paid to do this and won’t budge). Maybe O’Bagy can sell this to those who *want* to believe it and in right wing circles in the US but that’s about it.

Just Google ISW and read about them. This isn’t secret information. ISW is open about their politics.

Institute for the Study of War
Founded in 2007, the Institute for the Study of War is a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that has supported long-term U.S. military intervention abroad, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan. Led by Kimberly Kagan, the group has increasingly attracted the support of military contractors with active stakes in the wars the group supports prolonging.

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/institute_for_the_study_of_war

Uzair this priest is no hero. He’s been abducted by the “revolution generation” and more than likely they’ve cut his head off because he’s a nominal Christian.

What game are the Saudis playing in Syria with their proteges, the SNC and the FSA?
Selim Idriss’s visit to Latakia is clearly part of a campaign to boost the FSA image by attributing the offensive in Latakia to the FSA and minimizing Al Nusra’s role.
As there is a new offensive in the East, has the Saudis offered the East of Syria to the Islamists in exchange for their help in invading the West Alawite stronghold, or is it a bargaining chip the Saudis are preparing to press the USA to remove Bashar al Assad by force ahead of the conference?

Russia and the US are determined to have the conference in September. The West and the USA are exerting huge pressure on the opposition( SNC and FSA) to accept to participate without pre-conditions.
They have been asked to unite politically, claim military gains and get rid of the Al Nusra fighters to be able to be in strong posstion during negotiation. They have one month to do that.

In response the opposition has promised they will form a “transitional ‘ government and “National army”.
They have escalated the offensive as well as the propaganda to show how ‘strong’ the military rebels have become and that they are a force to reckon with. The problem is that they made these ‘victories’ thanks to Al Nusra fighters.

Therefore their close association with Al Qaeda is under scrutinity. It is of public domain that the latest incursions in Latakia are the work of the Al Nusra fighters under the cover of the FSA.
The appearance of Selim Idriss in Latakia is part of the propaganda to fool the public opinion. Al Nusra seems to have allowed that, with probably an agreement with the FSA that the Al Nusra and the Islamists will be given exclusive control of the area of Raqqa and the border with Iraq.

Will the West and Ira agrees that the East, close to Iraq become a Islamists-al Qaeda area? I doubt it. This is why Saudi Arabia wants to use it as pressure on the West to get rid of Bashar al Assad ahead of the conference or at least use it as a bargaining chips to be in a strong position during the Geneva conference where they will actively support the SNC.
Time is short so fights will intensify and more Syrians will die. Does any of the USA, the EU, Turkey or Saudi Arabia care anymore?

The execution of Father Paolo is so embarrassing and shameful. So the first thing the opposition did was to find a scapegoat and here it is: the regime.

But their fabrication of lie is so weak that even the rebels would think it is laughable.

If the regime had the capacity to send agents to infiltrate the Islamists ranks, would the regime have planned more important figure to assassin other than Father Paolo who had no value for the regime.

The death of Father Paolo is truly a symbol of the death of the “revolution”. Father Paolo had been a beacon for the opposition because he was a Christian and he was harsh on the regime. The irony is for the same reason that Father Paolo being a Christian got him killed by the Islamists.

And the opposition is still trying to lie to the world that they are fighting for democracy and rights to against tyranny and oppression.

Just save it.

“Zionist” Researchers with Arabic Names NewZ

Reverse,

Thanks for the ISW link. The researchers there seem to have a good bit of valuable experience. Many of them arabic speakers.
Certainly a more professional outfit than the unresearched opinions of “Global Research”:

http://www.understandingwar.org/press-media/staff-bios/ahmed-ali

http://www.understandingwar.org/press-media/staff-bios/isabel-nassief

http://www.understandingwar.org/press-media/staff-bios/elizabeth-obagy

http://www.understandingwar.org/press-media/staff-bios/valerie-szybala

http://www.understandingwar.org/press-media/staff-bios/joseph-holliday

http://www.understandingwar.org/publications

…

Kou Kou!
Saudi Arabian Prince Defected – Saudi torturing and Major Human Rights Violations – Killing Dissidents – U.S. Ignoring

A Saudi Prince has defected. He exposed the Human Rights Violations, Torturing and Killing the Saudi Government is doing against the people of there, who don’t agree with the government.

He says the U.S. is ignoring the abuses.

Isn’t this the exact reason why the U.S. is saying Syria has to be taken over? For human rights abuses? The U.S. ignores Saudi Arabia abuses….. Oh… right – it is due to Saudi Arabia that the dollar is still the Petrol dollar… I guess they can kill their people all they want and it will never be mentioned. Obama will continue to bow down to the Saudi King and Bush will continue to do business and allow the Bin Laden’s to fly when no one else can (after 9/11).

We are at a point and time that Truth is being revealed and can no longer be hidden.

Here is the Saudi Prince on Russia Today about everything going on in Saudi Arabia.
http://youtu.be/g-DsLo3Dwcw?t=9s

One can’t help having a very heavy heart today with the news about father Paolo. Good people die, evil people live forever. It is a sad sad day.

الأمير خالد بن فرحان آل سعود: هناك استفحال للظلم والفساد في المملكة

Of course the regime is responsible for what ever happens to Father Paolo, because it the regime who kicked him out of his dear monastery to begin with just because he spoke the truth about them.

113. syrian

By expelling Paolo Della’ Oglio, the Syrian government actually protected him. But the Jesuit priest who seems to believe he can ‘unite’ the opposed wings of Islam in Syria, came back illegally at his own risk and in an area where the Syrian government could not protect him anymore.
His fate is exclusively in the hand of the rebels who rule Al Raqqa and their political supporters, Turkey, Qatar and KSA.
They’ll bear the full responsibility of his execution.

أخبار طيبة في طريقها للثورة قريباً

Lavrov, Ibrahimi send a clear message to the opposition: There will be no pre-conditions to Geneva II

Lavrov, Brahimi agree peace in Syria achievable only through dialogue
Aug 12,2013

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=159616

MOSCOW, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) — The only way to end the ongoing violence in Syria lies in dialogue, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the UN-Arab League joint envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi agreed in a phone conservation that “only an equal dialogue without any preconditions between Syrian sides would stop violence and launch a substantive discussion about the country’s future.”

On Friday, during a “2+2” meeting in Washington, the U.S. and Russian foreign and defense ministers agreed to host a peace conference on Syria in Geneva as soon as possible.

They also agreed on follow-up discussions over ways to help reduce the growing humanitarian crisis ensuing from Syria’s conflict.

Last week, in the wake of renewed deadly terror attacks in Syria, Moscow accused the rebels of “taking out on vulnerable civilians” for their inferior military position.

According to local experts, the main obstacle for the conference to be convened soon is the constantly shifting military balance in the conflict-torn country.

“Geneva conference is a sort of labor sharing between Moscow and Washington in their joint efforts to coerce the sides in the Syrian conflict to start the peace talks, which can only be achieved by restoring military balance” Alexander Shumilin, an expert with the Russian Academy of Science, said at a recent round table discussion in Russia.

“Otherwise, each side will press forward anticipating military defeat of the other.”

Russia and the United States may take a pause in their relations but not in the case of Syria because people die there in thousands, director of the Public Policy Research Center Vladimir Yevseev said.

Last Wednesday, Lavrov said the priority of the proposed conference on Syria must be re-targeting military efforts toward fighting terrorists.

Turkey scrambles to deny accusation of complicity in the abduction of the two patriarchs. It will also be pointed at for the murder of Paolo Della’ Oglio.
It appears clearly that arrogant Turkey has zero control on the rebels they allow to cross through their countries and that they support militarily

Turkish Foreign Ministry denies Syrian bishops kidnapped in Aleppo are held in Turkey
http://www.aa.com.tr/en/rss/214500–turkish-foreign-ministry-denies-syrian-bishops-kidnapped-in-aleppo-are-held-in-turkey

12 August 2013

Turkish Foreign Ministry denied Monday allegations that two Christian Orthodox bishops, who were kidnapped last April in Syria, are held in Turkey.

“The allegations are bare of truth. It is of great importance to remind once again that Turkey bristles with indignation the abduction of 2 clerics, and wishes for their safe return in the shortest possible time. We are ready to do our best to secure their release,” the ministry said.

The bishops, Yohanna Ibrahim and Boulos Yazigi, were abducted gunmen in the northern city of Aleppo on 22 April. Their whose whereabouts are still unknown.

They were kidnapped as they were on their way back to Aleppo from Turkey. Their driver was shot and killed in the attack.

أخبار طيبة!كواك كواك!
The Kurdish minority in Syria has reportedly been the target of heavy attacks by radicalists, for over three weeks now, with stories of killings and kidnappings increasing almost daily. 450 civilians were allegedly slaughtered in one incident alone. Although that information is hard to verify due to the chaos and violence engulfing the region. Kurdish journalist Barzan Iso has helped us put together a timeline of what’s been happening.
http://youtu.be/e6y-x_YTZyM?t=3m45s

When will the USA face the reality instead of repeating these wishful thinking? .

“but jihadi supremacy in the event of an opposition victory is not inevitable. The US and its allies should conduct a robust policy, make a more significant investment in the secular opposition, and articulate clear goals.”

Defusing the Syrian Time Bomb

By Itamar Rabinovich, a former ambassador of Israel to the USA
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/syria-and-the-threat-to-us-national-security-by-itamar-rabinovich

One school regards Syria primarily as a theater of battle against Al Qaeda and other extremists. Its adherents, preoccupied with the prospect of a jihadi takeover in Syria, argue (sometimes implicitly and sometimes explicitly) that the US and its allies must not support or intervene on the side of the rebels and, in fact, should view Bashar al-Assad’s regime as the lesser evil.

Those who fear a jihadi takeover cite recent events in Sinai. Just a few days ago, Israel closed its airport in Eilat after receiving a warning that jihadis in Sinai planned to attack it with rockets. This, it is argued, is only a dress rehearsal for what can be expected in a post-Assad Syria.

The other school of thought does not take this scenario lightly. Nonetheless, it argues that a victory in Syria by a coalition of Russia, Iran, Hezbollah, and Assad’s regime would pose an even greater danger. Moreover, in the event of the Assad regime’s fall, there would be plenty of ways to deal with the jihadi groups in Syria.

But the most appropriate response to Morell’s statement is that the US does not necessarily have to choose between two sharply defined options. Yes, Syria’s secular opposition is weak and divided, while the jihadis are more dynamic; but jihadi supremacy in the event of an opposition victory is not inevitable. The US and its allies should conduct a robust policy, make a more significant investment in the secular opposition, and articulate clear goals.

Read more at http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/syria-and-the-threat-to-us-national-security-by-itamar-rabinovich#8BSixWZOuoyXPU3O.99

Letta, reports of Father Dall’Oglio’s death unconfirmed

(AGI) Rome, Aug 12 – Prime Minister Enrico Letta has told the press that reports on an Arab website about Father Dall’Oglio’s death in Syria remain unconfirmed. “We are waiting anxiously,” said Letta, “but there is no news and we are seeking information and trying to make contact.” . .

Zarqawism Lives: Iraq’s al Qaeda Nightmare Is Back
by Bruce Riedel Aug 12, 2013 4:45 AM EDT

The misguided war in Iraq may have finished for Americans, but its violent backlash is far from over. Bruce Riedel on how decapitation just can’t kill al Qaeda

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/12/zarqawism-lives-iraq-s-al-qaeda-nightmare-is-back.html

A rising wave of extreme anti-Shia sectarian violence is sweeping Iraq. Hundreds have died in terror attacks this summer. The mass slaughter of Shia at the hands of al Qaeda threatens to drag the country back to civil war. Worse, al Qaeda in Iraq has now exported its violence to Syria, and Lebanon is not far behind. Not since the Saudi and Wahhabi sack of Najaf and Kerbala in 1806 has sectarian violence in the Middle East been this extreme.

Revenire

I know what your saying about ISW and the neocon thing, however a lot of (or some of) what O’Bagy wrote seemed to correspond with what we (or I) was reading on revolutionary update blogs (like Yalla Souriya). It felt to me she was also a follower of such blogs and was basing her analysis on such reports. The clashes, locations and outcomes seemed to correspond.

So it’s not as if she was making up anything out of thin air in an attempt to push a neocon agenda. Yes you could argue about the reliability of those blogs (from a regimist point of view).

Whatever you may think, people like Professor Landis will not dismiss such (ISW) articles out of hand. They’d give them serious and careful/cautious consideration.

The last ISW article I shared some weeks ago (on Homs/Aleppo) I hoped would make the next News round up. If I’m correct it was some time before the next round up and by then the article may have been forgotten or dropped down the pecking order so not included.

Israeli Democracy: A Convenient Illusion

America’s the same. So is Israel. They’re pariah states. They’re rogue states. They abhor fundamental freedoms. They prioritize war and instability. They deplore peaceful conflict resolution.

Israel’s an ethnocracy. It’s polar opposite democracy. Israeli leaders refer to “Jewish democracy.” It’s Orwellian. Structural inequalities explain.

Israeli Arabs are citizens. They compromise 20% of the population. They can vote. They can sit in parliament. They’re little more than potted plants.

Jews alone have power. Arabs have no say. The Law of Return affords it to solely to Jews. Arabs are unwanted. They’re persecuted. Institutionalized racism denies them equal rights.

Citizenship and Entry in Israel legislation prohibits Israeli Arab spouses in Palestine or abroad from entering Israel. Residency rights are forbidden. Families are divided. They’re denied fundamental rights.

Israel builds walls, not peace. Fortress Israel is policy. It assures permanent conflict. It justifies occupation harshness. It assures continued repression.

It mocks resolving the longstanding Israeli/Palestinian conflict equitably. It’s a distant dream.

Throughout its history, Israel spurned peace. It’s done it repeatedly. In 1949, it rejected Arab states’ territorial concessions. They were offered in return for letting 100,000 displaced Palestinians come home.

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2013/08/12/israeli-democracy-a-convenient-illusion#more26000

“By expelling Paolo Della’ Oglio, the Syrian government actually protected him.”

This is a wise observation. I agree 100%.

If this priest had listened to the government and kept his nose out of the den of snakes he’d be alive today.

15 Syrian soldiers and their brides during a group wedding in Latakia

12 Aug 2013 06:39

http://blogs.aljazeera.com/topic/syria/photo-syrian-soldiers-and-their-brides-during-group-wedding-latakia

http://sana.sy/ara/348/2013/08/10/496642.htm

Uzair yes, I believe I understand but how much of this ISW thing is influenced by what you want to believe rather than facts? O’Bagy’s sources are not so good are they? YouTube videos showing not much and then saying they were proof of this or that? I think you realize that is not proof of anything. I know the ISW has contacts in US intelligence agencies and in government and has a lot of information I don’t but even a layman like me can shoot holes in their report. Damascusrose did a good job of doing just that. In the end, it doesn’t matter. We are on opposite sides and we will not tend to believe anything the other says without corroborating proof and a neocon report doesn’t prove a thing.

Frankly, I don’t put a lot into what Prof. Landis, or his sidekick Dr. Barber, write. They’re both biased. Mr. Landis wrote about Assad living on a Russian ship. He claims this is all sectarian. In 2006 he said there was a US conspiracy against Syria. He was right then. I don’t know what happened to him now. Dr. Barber was talking about if he lived in Syria he’d do this, and do that, because Syria was a dictatorial regime, and he doesn’t sit well with dictatorships, but last time I checked the esteemed Barber lives in the USA and that means he lives under a dictatorial regime. My free advice to out gracious hosts is to clean up their own backyard and leave Syria to Syrians.

Thanks.

Idriss touring “Latakia” in tee-shirt, baseball cap and sun glasses: A charismatic military leader at his best.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/images/news/201308/n_52398_4.jpg

The Latakia weddings look very joyous indeed. They don’t look too concerned about the Nusra cannibal-terrorists tossing grenades instead of rice. 🙂

I wish the newlyweds happy and healthy lives.

Does anyone have the new interview with the disgraced Riad al-Asaad handy? I understand he has said some horrible, if truthful, this about Idriss and the “FSA” mercenaries.

Marrying today. Slaughtering children tomorrow.

#126 Revenire

Saudi Arabia is using its money to push its propaganda in the news as part of its role of supporting the Syrian opposition after Qatar withdrew. As KSA does not have an international outlet like al Jazeera, they are feeding the US media with vague and fabricated news.
The aim is to restore the image of the opposition, i.e present the FSA as “clean” and “successful”, the SNC as “united” and “inclusive” and the Syrian Government as civilian murderers.
While the North is under the control of Kurds and Turks sympathizers and hammered by the SAA, Saudi Arabia is now pushing its Islamists allies to move further toward the Syria-Iraq borders. By doing so, they could then threaten Iraq and the USA to allow the creation an area exclusively under the control of Al Qaeda unless the USA acts to precipitate the fall of Bashar al Assad ahead of the Geneva conference.

The Saudis know that the USA and Russia will ultimately make the Geneva conference happen in September, it is for them a matter of credibility. Therefore the Saudis want to prepare as many bargaining cards as they can for their proteges, the SNC and the FSA to have any significance during negotiations.

Propaganda, counter-propaganda, attacks, counter-attacks etc.. will increase until September.

Happy post-revolution in Tunisia continues: now the Army bombs Sunni Islamist militants

Tunisian armed forces launch air strikes on Islamist militants

Tunisian forces launched air strikes against Islamist militants in the Mount Chaambi area near the Algerian border on Monday, an army source said.

The source also said several militants had been killed and four were arrested in the same region on Sunday. He gave no death toll.

Pathetic Selim Idriss tries to boast the “victory” in Latakia as his FSA militia’s success. Who is he fooling?.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-sees-new-syrian-influx-with-3000-arrivals.aspx?pageID=238&nID=52398&NewsCatID=352

In the video, Idriss said he was in Latakia to “look into the reality of the important successes and victories that our revolutionary brothers have achieved on the coastal front.”

“We are here today to reassure everybody that the … [FSA] General Command is coordinating completely and continuously with the leaders of the coastal front,” said Idriss. “We will continue to work intensively on the coastal front.”

Underfunded and fragmented, Idriss’ men have been overshadowed by hard-line groups, and some more moderate rebel leaders have been killed in power struggles with al-Qaeda affiliates that include foreign fighters.

115.
Are you going to bring joy to God by attacking the graves?

126. Revenire said:

‘…but how much of this ISW thing is influenced by what you want to believe rather than facts?’

Yes there is a bit of that. While pushing a narrative sometimes one ends up using (even borderline) useful articles (which otherwise one would be reluctant to do so) to support ones case. Both sides do that. Not saying the ISW piece was such a case or reached any such significant level.

Frankly, I don’t put a lot into what Prof. Landis, or his sidekick Dr. Barber, write.

It doesn’t matter what you think. Regimist spammers have long tried to influence both Prof. Landis and the next SC main post by dumping favourable articles on here. Now both sides are trying to do this.

A lot of people visit this blog and look out for what Prof Landis has to say on SC or elsewhere. Certainly media folk included. If Prof Landis/Matthew Barber or the news round ups can be influenced then by extention there is possibility to influence the media.

Before and during Ramadan I was trying to describe the growing rebel momentum and hoping it gains traction. I was pleased to see the main post the other day, I’m sure entirely independantly, make the observation (rebel momentum):

Syria Consolidates into Three Cantons as the Opposition Pushes Back, Taking Mengh Airbase and other Strategic Points
Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, August 6th, 2013

The Syrian Arab Army is on the retreat in the North, Aleppo, Idlib and now some high points East of Latakia as well. The Free Syrian Army is making progress in Damascus countryside as well. These important advances seem to have reversed the momentum that the Syrian regime captured following its successful campaign at Qusair. Many have begun to speculate that roles have been reversed and that the Syrian Arab Army is now in retreat in contrast to few months ago.

Up until then the media was just lazily talking about Assad having the momentum and were repeating Assad’s confident claims of victory. Hopefully now the media will also change it’s tune and talk about the the diminishing regime momentum and the growing opposition momentum.

So it doesn’t matter whether you don’t give importance to what Prof Landis has to say or highlights on his blog (eg ISW article). The blog is very influential.

‘Follow the Islamic way to save the world,’ Prince Charles urges environmentalists

10 June 2010

Prince Charles yesterday urged the world to follow Islamic ‘spiritual principles’ in order to protect the environment.

In an hour-long speech, the heir to the throne argued that man’s destruction of the world was contrary to the scriptures of all religions – but particularly those of Islam.

He said the current ‘division’ between man and nature had been caused not just by industrialisation, but also by our attitude to the environment – which goes against the grain of ‘sacred traditions’.

[…]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1285332/Follow-Islamic-way-save-world-Charles-urges-environmentalists.html

Time for a break and to become a silent reader again.

In the meantime keep up the good work revolutionaries.

PS If Elizabeth O’Bagy (ISW) responds to my message I’ll share her response on here (with her permission). Better still I hope she responds on SC in person. Actually I should have invited her over. Nevermind.

Salam

If Elizabeth O’Bagy (ISW) responds to my message I’ll share her response on here (with her permission).

USAIR8,

Yes, please also ask her if she is a supporter of President Bashar Assad of Syria.

And now, a serious example of Zionist Apartheid…

http://www.israellycool.com/2013/08/11/only-in-israel-10/

“The blog is very influential.”

With who?

I don’t know how anyone could say it is influential. It is a collection of stories and editorial comment.

Has it influenced the Syrian government to change policy? The US government? Russia? Iran? The UK? France? Writing that has influence changes minds and policies. I see no policies changed because of what is posted at SC. I think Dr. Landis could have effected change but he would have had to go back to his original 2006 TIME magazine view (http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1571751,00.html) that Syria is the victim of a conspiracy. I think it is too late for that and that by posting that Assad was living on a Russian ship, saying everything about this war is sectarian and retailing the shameful nonsense of a proposed Alawite rump state on the coast, calling for the US to supply the rebels with anti-aircraft missiles and calling for supra-national (know what that means Uzair) control of Syria Landis has utterly discredited himself.

I seriously doubt that by flooding the comment section with posts it influences what is posted on the main section. The owners have bias toward the war and post accordingly. We all have bias. No one here is neutral.

As far as the media saying Assad is winning my feeling is for years now the Western governments have said it was “five minutes for midnight” for Assad’s government. They had to start posting a more realistic view of it considering the Syrian government is strong and has had very, very few defections. The media, driven by Western governments, was wrong. I think what you refer to just reflects that. They fall back into error with the so-called attack to liberate the coast. I think that was just a propaganda run at it. Send in a few hundred Nusra thugs to murder civilians and claim there is a new front etc. It wasn’t really a new front at all.

لوية أحفاد الرسول أكدت أن عناصر من القاعدة ينتمون إلى النظام السوري

#90 Damascus Rose

Just one thing. Something occurred to me.

In length you dismissed the idea of rebels advancing in Damascus (countryside) and you argued against O’Bagy’s claims regarding several districts. You insisted there was a stalemate.

It’s not just O’Bagy or the opposition blogs ‘reporting’ such rebel advances. The section from the SC main post (from 6th August) I quoted in #135 above you can see that even Prof Landis believes rebels were advancing in Damascus countryside.

The Syrian Arab Army is on the retreat in the North, Aleppo, Idlib and now some high points East of Latakia as well. The Free Syrian Army is making progress in Damascus countryside as well.

Dempsey: The fall of Bashar al Assad’s government will not solve the regional conflict

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/08/12/dempsey-israel-white/2644031/

“This is a regional conflict that stretches from Beirut to Damascus to Baghdad,” Dempsey said. “It’s the unleashing of historic ethnic, religious and tribal animosities.

“Even if the Assad regime were to fail tomorrow, the issues that fueled it will persist for some time,” Dempsey said.

“It will take a great deal of work and a great deal of time to resolve,” he said. “We really do have to take a longer view than perhaps sometimes are discussed in certain circles.”

#139 Revenire

Remember a few weeks ago Uzair’s excitment about the renewal of the Daraa’s front after an attack on a outpost in the suburb. It was then followed by the visit of Jarba. Since then total silence.
The West propaganda in favor of the opposition is in full swing again, this time financed by Saudi money.

Zoo #143

Mr Jarba’s visit was just a few days ago on Eid. It was safe for him to visit and pray and speak at a mosque.

Revenire

If Syria Comment isn’t influential what are you doing here wasting your considerable talents on this uninfluential blog? LOL.

Erdoğan’s troubled days in the Middle East

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/erdogans-troubled-days-in-the-middle-east.aspx?pageID=238&nid=52422&NewsCatID=409
….
Perhaps there is no need to repeat that Turkey still has no relations with Israel and Syria, and only minimal relations with Egypt following the July 3 coup. Syria is becoming a bigger pain in Ankara’s neck every other day.
…
The PKK wants Turkey to intervene in the fight to stop al-Nusra from killing Kurds in Syria. It is a very hard decision for the government. At first it would be hard to explain to the Turkish public that they have to help the PKK
…
It is true that photos of Gen. Selim Idriss, the head of the FSA, were released, reportedly showing him near al-Assad’s hometown and stronghold of Latakia. But the FSA and the Syrian National Coalition in general is not as strong as before since the coup in Egypt, which toppled Muslim Brotherhood-backed President Mohamad Morsi; the brotherhood is in decline across the Middle East, in contrast to the rise of al-Qaeda.

Al-Qaeda is stepping up its presence in Iraq, Yemen, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Arabic-speaking Africa, too.
,,,

#145 Uzair8

The Syrian government will gain nothing of making a martyr out of a Saudi puppet. He is serving Bashar al Assad much better alive.
The same applies to Selim Idriss.

US sees Syrian violence spill over into Iraq
13/08/2013

WASHINGTON, Aug 12 (KUNA) — Violence in Syria is having a “very negative effect” on Iraq, the State department said Monday, as suicide bombers and arms flow into and out of the porous Iraq-Syrian border.
“The situation in Syria has clearly fueled tensions in the region and foreign fighters, many of whom become suicide bombers, like some of the attacks we’ve seen in Iraq, are flowing into Syria and then many more of them are making their way into Iraq,” State department spokeswoman Marie Harf explained to reporters.
Iraq’s Al Qaeda branch has reportedly merged with one of the most powerful Islamist rebel groups in Syria to form The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. The group now controls towns and villages in both countries, with access to funds, weapons and recruits.
Al Qaeda claimed responsibility last month for simultaneous raids on two Iraqi prisons and said more than 500 inmates had escaped in the brazen operation.
During recent bilateral meetings in Washington, Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov agreed to hold, “as quickly as possible,” the Geneva II conference to find a solution the Syrian crisis. Both officials agreed to look into furthering humanitarian assistance inside Syria, according to Harf.
“But our goal is to move as quickly as possible when we can have a conference that has the best chance to succeed. We’re not just having a conference to have a conference,” she said.
Meanwhile, Harf responded on recent commends by Kurdistan Regional President Massoud Barzani to defend Syrian Kurds under threat by Al-Qaeda, by urging Barzani and all groups to avoid “any actions that would exacerbate tensions and increase the risk of violence inside Syria and beyond its borders.

97. Uzair8

Lol. Denial of opposition crimes worked in the beginning, but you can only cry wolf so many times.

PM Erdogan’s big booming voice and rhetoric was reassuring and a great support for the revolution in the early days but went quiet ever since.

Bye for real now.

Uzair8 said Revenir has intelectual talent
Being Rafidi
Zoo said since then(two days) it was total silence, I guess two days is a very long time to him

Uzair if O’Bagy replies ask her if she’s old enough to order a beer.

Thx.

LOL

Just a clarification as the reliability of Yalla Souriya (YS) is involved.

Omen

Earlier the YS updates I shared apparently confirming Father Paolo’s fate seemed unconfirmed and premature.

It’s important to point out the user posting under the name Yallasouriya is sitting in for the usual person who happens to be resting:

Posted by user Yallasouriya over 7 hours ago:

Blog is updated for the last 7 hours. We will be back to post if any emergency and to look for Father Paolo’s news. Yalla is still resting. We will let you know when she will be back. Thank you for those who have mistaken me for her. I will tell her

PS: Btw, there seems to be lack of activity on SC. Are people having trouble with posting comments. It takes me several attempts and refreshes to post.

The US Dempsey acknowledges that battlefield necessity may require cooperation between the FSA and the “radicals”… and therefore I add if the coast/Damascus are liberated with the “radicals” help, that doesn’t mean necessarily that the moderate FSA wants an Islamic Qaeda rule.  I think it is great for the US to reach this understanding.  

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/world/middleeast/syria-risks-shape-mideast-visit-by-chairman-of-joint-chiefs-of-staff.html?_r=0

He acknowledged that radical militias, which assumed an ascendant role in the civil war about six months ago, remained a powerful force with some of the best fighters on the rebel side. But in the last six months, he said, the United States has increased its ability to identify moderate opposition leaders, and to begin communicating with them in substantive ways.

Even so, he acknowledged that battlefield necessity may require radical and moderate militias to cooperate for tactical gains against the Assad regime — a convergence that would complicate American and allied policy making.

“It doesn’t surprise me that from time to time they collaborate with each other,” he said. “What we have to be alert for are opportunities to convince the more moderate aspects of the opposition that Syria will be a far better place if the moderate opposition dominates in the end game.”

Uzair

Can you link the recent Asma picture you mentioned earlier.

Russia expects int’l conference on Syria to start after September

[ 13 August 2013 02:13 ]

Baku-APA. Moscow foresees the international conference on Syria could start after September only, a high- ranking Russian diplomat said Monday, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

“It would hardly happen in September, because there will be other events, for instance, the UN General Assembly’s ministerial week,” the Interfax news agency reported, quoting Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov as saying.

The Russian diplomat said his country did want to convene the conference as soon as possible.

“But we have to take into account the real circumstances which could affect that forum,” the diplomat said, who disclosed that Russia and U.S. representatives would meet late August to discuss details of preparation for the conference.

74. Ghufran said: Rebel supporters were lobbying for an invasion similar to that of Iraq.

absolutely not true. indication of weakness of argument when you have to resort to building strawmen to knock over.

“PS: Btw, there seems to be lack of activity on SC. Are people having trouble with posting comments. It takes me several attempts and refreshes to post.”

Yeah, it is all messed up for me too. I thought it was Idriss working his mojo on us Assad supporters? 😉 Is this the Front to Liberate SC? Please, if you behead me send the rest of the body to my wife. She has grown fond of me.

Capt. Omen I can kick in a few bucks if you want to go help the FSA in Homs in person. I even have an old water pistol I am not using at the moment. You could fill it with bleach and claim it is a regime chemical weapon.

Just Google ISW and read about them. This isn’t secret information. ISW is open about their politics.

while it’s good to be cognizant of their sponsors, this doesn’t refute their credibility.

in order to do that you’d have to go into their research & demonstrate how their analysis wrong.

you don’t because that would take work.

the group has increasingly attracted the support of military contractors with active stakes in the wars the group supports prolonging.

right, like we’re dumping boatloads of weapons on desperately undergunned rebels. or are on the verge of invading syria. not.

nobody profits from the war more than russia & iran.

Omen no, I don’t have to do anything at all. You believe ISW because you want to and I know that for an absolute fact. You’re no expert on war Omen. Politics is a bit more complex than “ASSAD BAD REBELS GOOD”. If this was Iraq and Bush you’d be on my side and we both know it. ISW is a propaganda mill and has a dog in the fight.

As far as who profits from the war… the same people who drew the maps for the region back when the Ottoman Empire fell. The same people that invaded Iraq and murdered 500,000 Iraqis. Those guys Omen. Listen to me and learn a little. Get off Twitter.

Some of you guys are wound up tighter than a cheap Timex. Just act normal and talk.

Uzair send O’Bagy this one and tell her to disprove it using what I am going to start calling “The Omen Test” okay? Get back to me. Thx.

THIRD POST – AUGUST 12, 2013 – ___* TERRORISTS TAKE SATAN’S SCOOTER TO HELL IN HOMS; COMPLETE ANARCHY AMONG TERRORISTS AS ARMY TAKES THEM DOWN ONE BY ONE.

Baab Hood: The Syrian Army has now advanced into 80% of Baab Hood and there is no realistic way for the ___* terrorists to stop the complete annihilation of their positions. Yesterday, Wael reports that 44 of their rodents jumped ship and demanded implementation of the amnesty program. According to their statements, the remaining vermin terrorists are all foreigners, many from Lebanon with some Tunisians and Scarabians.

Their deaths will be appropriate.

An infiltration out of Baab Hood and into Al-Waleediyya School and the Personal Records Building was foiled 2 days ago by alert NDF who opened a volley of intense fire forcing the escaping rodents to return to hopeless positions. NDF claims confirmed 3 dead rodents. Nobody wants to pick up their carcasses.

*censored to not offend the cannibal supporters

More Shiaa terror organization.  The Badr organization.  Is Aaron Lund taking notes? 

http://jihadology.net/2013/08/12/hizballah-cavalcade-breaking-badr-the-new-season-confirmation-of-the-badr-organizations-involvement-in-syria/  
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On another note, how is Harasta doing? I can’t get over how Harasta suddenly became famous. Never paid attention to it as a little girl. Now I think about Harasta often… I want to understand the revelation of the Mahdi showing in Harasta. How did the singer even knew about the existence of Harasta? Was it marIjuana, cocaine or another hallucinogen? I’ll sure walk Harasta next time i am in Damascus. It is replacing my Hamidieh itinerary..

uzair, i wasn’t questioning YS reliability. i follow them on twitter, not the blog. he put out the story with repeated caveats it wasn’t confirmed yet.

i can be calm & objective about it now but initially this news threw us for a loop.

i never claimed to be an expert on war.

The same people that invaded Iraq and murdered 500,000 Iraqis.

neocons are split on this issue. half support intervention, other half, opposed. lunatic daniel pipes is for arming the regime for pete’s sake.

get off your high horse. assad sent fighters into iraq who killed not only american gis but civilians as well.

Omen go downtown to Gene Scott’s old church tonight and pray God forgives you.

🙂

161. revenire said: I don’t have to do anything at all.

we all know that’s your motto you live by.

OMEN

Your responses are good. REVENIRE is playing standard lazy distraction games with you.

He’s got no alternative credible analysis or information to offer, just the classic weak tactic of attacking the source and making smartass ugly comments.

He also resorts to template anti-American stuff imagining that automatically helps his game.

somebody pls contact barber. page is so hard to pull up nevermind post.

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from the activist on the ground in raqqa:

Amazing! Seems FSA were investgating too link between Assad and Al-Qaida/ISIS as we were, and they have now arrested few ISIS people.

UPDATE [17:12 GMT]:

Syrian opposition activist Salam Kawakibi, deputy director at Arab Reform Initiative, told Italian news agency ANSA that, according to a “reliable source” from a “revolutionary group” in ar-Raqqah, Father Dall’Oglio is still alive and is still held as a “guest” by ISIS fighters.

Jad Bantha is the tweep who said he was sitting with the dead ‘priest’ (except he wasn’t).

Now Assad is the one behind Nusra? And the FSA is arresting some ISIS guys? LOL

Omen you fall for anything.

I posted a tweet yesterday from a source claiming that father Paolo was killed by his captors, Amal Hanano said he is alive, the Vatican is not sure, we just do not know:

Vatican City, August 12, 2013 (Zenit.org) Junno Arocho Esteves
The Holy See Press Office stated that they are still looking into reports that Jesuit Father Paolo Dall’Oglio, who was kidnapped in Syria several weeks ago, was killed by his captors.
“Nothing is confirmed. We are still evaluating the information,” Fr. Ciro Benedettini, vice director of the Holy See Press Office told Vatican Radio. The unconfirmed reports first appeared on Arabic news site “Zaman Alwasi” regarding the Jesuit priest who disappeared two weeks ago in Northern Syria.
Vatican Radio also reported that the citizens of Raqqa, the village where Fr. Dall’Oglio was last seen, took to the streets calling for the release of the Jesuit missionary as well as for those who have kidnapped in the ongoing conflict in Syria.
Killing father paolo would be a huge mistake but Nusra has its own agenda.

The Islamic State fighters decapitate opponents and distribute toys

Al-Qaeda expands in Syria via Islamic State

=http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/al-qaeda-expands-in-syria-via-islamic-state/2013/08/12/3ef71a26-036a-11e3-9259-e2aafe5a5f84_story_1.html=

“There are a lot of reasons to worry that Syria will emerge as an even more powerful variant of what Afghanistan was more than 30 years ago,” he said.
…
areas, such as Raqqah, most Jabhat al-Nusra followers readily acceded to the announced merger, facilitating the Islamic State’s rapid ascendancy. In Hama province, a Jabhat al-Nusra leader who criticized the extremism of the Islamic State was detained by that group’s fighters until he recanted his comments.

In one town close to the Turkish border, al-Dana, Islamic State fighters consolidated their authority by shooting people who demonstrated against them, confiscating the weapons of the local unit of the Free Syrian Army and beheading its commander.
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The Islamic State also has sought to win hearts and minds. A video posted over the weekend showed them distributing toys, including Teletubbies, at a gathering held in Aleppo to mark the Eid al-Fitr religious holiday.
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Charles Lister of the defense consultancy IHS Jane’s. “They’re highly organized, and that allows them to present themselves as an organization capable of running a town,” he said.

And unlike in Iraq during the insurgency, Islamic State fighters don’t have to contend with U.S. forces hunting them down, said Brian Fishman, a former director of research at West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center who is now with the New America Foundation. “They can plan better and discipline better, and that is dangerous.” he said.

السعوديـة و مخططاتها الجديدة في سوريـة و لبنـان

هل وصل الغباء بالإدارة الأمريكية حد الإعتقاد، أن المملكة الوهابية الرجعية، قادرة من خلال “الإرهاب” على خلق حروب أهلية في سورية ولبنان من شأنها إضعاف محور الممانعة والمقاومة، ومحاصرة النفوذ الإيراني في المنطقة، تمهيدا لإقامة مشروع الشرق الأوسط الكبير..؟

لقد ارتكبت إدارة ‘أوباما’ خطئا استراتيجيا قاتلا عندما أقدمت على خلع ‘الحمدين’ في قطر، اللذان كانا يعملان بخبث وذكاء، ويملكان على الأقل، رؤية حيوستراتيجية ومشروع سياسي طموح لإخضاع كامل المنطقة العربية من المحيط إلى الخليج للهيمنة الصهيوأمريكية، من خلال دعم وصول “الإسلامويين” إلى الحكم بالمال (200 مليار دولار)، والإعلام (الجزيرة)، من بوابة الحرية والديمقراطية، وقبلت بإستبدالهما بصقور السعودية، فسلمتهم إدارة الملف السوري واللبناني، علما أن المشيخة الوهابية لا تمتلك رؤية استراتيجية جذابة ولا مشروعا سياسيا قابلا للحياة في المنطقة، وتمثل الأنموذج التيوقراطي الإستبدادي الفاسد الأسوء في العالم، خصوصا في مجال الحريات والديمقراطية.

ومرد ذلك بالنسبة لسورية، أن طول الأزمة (28 شهرا).. وضعف جماعة “الإخوان” في بلاد الشام.. وتراجع نفوذ “المعارضة العلمانية” على الأرض والذي تجلى في عجزها المطلق عن الحسم في الميدان، سواء من خلال إسقاط النظام في دمشق أو تفتيت الجيش العربي السوري، وفق الأهداف التي وضعت لها.. و بروز نجم العديد من التنظيمات الإرهابية المنضوية تحت لواء “جبهة النصرة” و “القاعدة” بتلاوينها المختلفة.. جعل الإدارة الأمريكية تشعر بالقلق العميق على مصالحها في المنطقة، وتتخوف من إمتداد الصراع السوري ليشمل كافة دول الجوار، وأن تتحول سورية إلى أكبر معقل للإرهابيين في العالم (وفق تصريح نائب مدير وكالة الإستخبارات الأمريكية متم الأسبوع المنصرم)، الأمر الذي سيهدد حتما أمن إسرائيل وأوروبا وأمريكا نفسها، وفق ما تروج له دوائر الإستخبارات الأمريكية والغربية لنية في نفس يعقوب.

من هنا يفهم قرار إغلاق الإدارة الأمريكية لـ 20 من مؤسساتها الدبلوماسية في المنطقة منذ الأحد الماضي، ثم إعادة فتحها، باستثناء سفارة اليمن، مخافة هجمات إرهابية محتملة، بعد اعتراض مكالمة بين الظواهري وزعيم تنظيم القاعدة في اليمن، حيث يعتبر هذا القرار مؤشر قوي على فشل الولايات المتحدة في الحرب التي تدعي أنها تخوضها ضد الإرهاب العالمي، لأنها هي من تتحكم بمخططات الظواهري بعد مقتل بن لادن، وفي ذات الوقت جاء هذا القرار لتغطية دعمها للإرهاب في سورية من باب تضليل الرأي العالم الأمريكي بعد تصاعد الإنتقادات لدورها الغامض والمشبوه في هذا البلد العربي بالتحالف مع قطر والسعودية وتركيا والأردن.

فشل إستراتيجية الفوضى الخلاقة في مرحلتها الأولى بسورية، عُلق إذن على شماعة قطر التي لم تنجح في تحقيق الأهداف التي حددت لها، وأبرزها إسقاط النظام في دمشق من خلال الإرهاب، وتفكيك الجيش العربي السوري من خلال إغراء ضباطه الكبار بالمال والمزايا والوعود المعسولة للإنشقاق أو الإطاحة بالرئيس بشار الأسد، ليتداعى بعد ذلك كل الجسم العسكري والأمني السوري. وهو ما لم يحصل كما كان متوقعا، فتجرعت قطر ومعها الإدارة الأمريكية وحلفائها مرارة الفشل الذريع، بعد أن إكتشفوا أن عقيدة الجيش السوري الراسخة لا تباع ولا تشترى، لأنها متشبعة بماء الشام الذي يجري في جينات الجندي السوري البطل، فيلهبها عشقا للموت في سبيل أن يبقى الوطن.

لم يكن أمام إدارة ‘أوباما’ بعد فشل المرحلة الأولى من خيار سوى تكليف “أمير الجهاد” و “عراب الإرهاب العالمي” المدعو بندر بمعية جناح الصقور في الرياض وبعض أمراء الجيل الثاني المرتبطين بالمخابرات الأمريكية، بتولي مهمة المرحلة الثانية من الحرب في سورية، نظرا لأن المملكة الوهابية وبخلاف قطر، تعتبر نفسها زعيمة التيار “التكفيري” في العالم الإسلامي، وأنها تملك مفتاح الحل السحري لمعظلة الشرق الأوسط، وأن بإمكانها تغيير معادلات القوة على الأرض من خلال خلق ظروف حروب أهلية، مذهبية وطائفية، تحرق سورية ولبنان، وتنهي دور إيران في المنطقة العربية بالكامل، ليتسنى لأدارة أوباما بعد ذلك، التحكم في سياسات ومقدرات الشرق الأوسط من دون منازع أو منافس، من خلال دخولها سورية ولبنان عبر بوابة محاربة الإرهاب، كما تفعل اليوم في باكستان واليمن وليبيا.

وهذا هو المشروع الوحيد الذي يعمل اليوم صقور مملكة آل سعود بكل الوسائل والسبل لتحقيقه في مهلة أقصاها 6 أشهر، حسب ما حدده لهم وزير الخارجية الأمريكية ‘جون كيري’، وفق تقارير إستخباراتية، تنتهي بمتم السنة الجارية، ما استدعى تعليق مؤتمر “جنيف 2″ إلى أجل غير مسمى، بذرائع واهية من قبيل “إعادة التوازن المستحيل على الأرض بين الجيش العربي السوري وقوى المعارضة” و “رفض النظام في دمشق القبول بوزراء من ‘إئتلاف المعارضة’ الجديدة التي شكلتها السعودية برئاسة ‘جربا’، ليعملوا كطابور خامس في الحكومة الحالية من دون إنتظار الإنتخابات المقبلة”.

part (1/2)

http://www.mepanorama.com/327151/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%80%D8%A9-%D9%88-%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%B7%D8%B7%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%A7-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%80/

part (2/2)

http://www.mepanorama.com/327962/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%80%D8%A9-%D9%88-%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%B7%D8%B7%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%A7-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%80-2/

“In one town close to the Turkish border, al-Dana, Islamic State fighters consolidated their authority by shooting people who demonstrated against them, confiscating the weapons of the local unit of the Free Syrian Army and beheading its commander.”

The FSA’s allies. LOL too much.

Christian Syrian soldier dies defending a Mosque from AlQaeda, refused to leave comrades behind even when wounded

Defending Mosque Barefoot out of Respect

#172 Ghufran

If Paolo della’s Oglio is a ‘guest’ to the Islamic State fighters in Al Raqqa, how happen he has not been allowed to call on phone or be videotaped to prove he is alive.
In the absence of any sign of life, I think the chances are high that he has been executed by his captors.

yoohoo ♪

mjabali,

rebels deliver an alawite baby!

https://twitter.com/troublejee/status/367024450501226497

so much for wahhabi ethnic cleansing.

zoo, the father sent out an sms to another priest right after his capture.

https://twitter.com/daverck/status/367073067484196864

is the group angling for a prisoner exchange deal?

While Idriss plays the smart tourist in Alawite land…

Al-Qaeda seeks to export the Iraqi chaos in Syria

http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2013/08/12/al-qaida-cherche-a-exporter-le-chaos-irakien-en-syrie_3460325_3218.html

… The strategy of the Islamic State ( ISIS)
لدولة الاسلامية في العراق والشام is to drag the country into a vicious cycle of sectarian and ethnic violence, which is the breeding ground for his anti-Shia propaganda, anti-Christian propaganda.

Omen

Della Oglio is not a “guest” of the ISIS, he is a hostage or he is dead.

Zionist/Nazi filth murdering a Palestinian woman carrying a white flag & then laughing about it

Israel’s Collateral Murder?

After Libyan weapons and Croatian weapons , Qatar is buying Sudan weapons to be delivered to the Islamists terrorists with the ‘friendly’ help of hypocrite Turkey

Sudan reported to sell arms to rebels in Syria
August 13, 2013 12:12 am

By C.J. Chivers and Eric Schmitt / The New York Times

Syrian rebels, frustrated by the West’s reluctance to provide arms, have found a supplier in an unlikely source: Sudan, a country that has been under international arms embargoes and maintains close ties with a stalwart backer of the Syrian government, Iran.

In deals that have not been publicly acknowledged, Western officials and Syrian rebels say, Sudan’s government sold Sudanese- and Chinese-made arms to Qatar, which arranged delivery through Turkey to the rebels.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/news/world/sudan-reported-to-sell-arms-to-rebels-in-syria-699128/#ixzz2bouWEN4I
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Like the Egyptians rejected the Moslem Brotherhood just after tasting them for a year, the Syrians in ‘liberated areas’ are rejecting their ‘liberators’ Al Nusra and their affiliates.
Who will help them to get rid of them for good? The FSA , the SAA?

Syria jihadists lose support as abuses mount
Al-Qaeda linked factions: Al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, are not welcome and rejected by civilians and residents
AFP , Thursday 11 Jul 2013
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/0/76269/World/0/Syria-jihadists-lose-support-as-abuses-mount.aspx

In the early days of the Syrian uprising, when opponents of the regime were desperate for assistance from any quarter, jihadist fighters were welcomed but a spate of abuses is fuelling a backlash.

Things have changed.

“Out, out, out, the (Islamic) State (of Iraq and Syria) must get out,” protesters shouted at a rally in the northern town of Manbij this week, referring to an Al-Qaeda front group.

The video of the demonstration is one of many showing how civilians and mainstream rebel fighters alike are turning against the more hardline Islamist factions.

The rebel forces seeking to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad are disparate but many espouse political Islam of one form or another.

There are two main Al-Qaeda linked factions, both with Iraqi origins, according to Washington — the Al-Nusra Front, which has operational independence, and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a front for Al-Qaeda in Iraq.

Numerous other smaller groups, many of them composed almost exclusively of foreign fighters, are also operating on the ground.

Unlike the mainstream rebel Free Syrian Army, which has received weapons from several Gulf Arab governments as well as promises of US arms, the jihadist groups rely on private donations.

But there are enough wealthy benefactors attracted to their fundamentalist vision to ensure a steady stream of weapons, as well as volunteer fighters from around the world, many of them seasoned in other conflicts.

That has helped them become a fighting force out of proportion to their numbers, and they have captured several population centres.

But their imposition of their extreme form of Islam has increasingly alienated civilians.

In Raqa, the only provincial capital in rebel hands, the Al-Nusra Front is accused of detaining dozens of men.

“My father has been held for a month by the Front. They think they’re Islamic… I want my father to be free,” weeps a little girl in one Raqa protest, footage of which was posted online.

“We reject this oppressive brand of Islam… We are Muslims. You’re just fakes,” a woman protester cried in another video from Raqa, demanding the release of the men held by Nusra.

Activists in the city also point to the disappearance of Abdallah al-Khalil, a veteran dissident and human rights activist.

“Khalil was about to open up council elections to the whole of Raqa. Al-Nusra was against the idea. He disappeared the next day,” an activist from Raqa told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.
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Nizar, an activist from the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, said: “Time is running out for all these (jihadist) groups.

“They use violence and religion to try control us and, although people are afraid to openly express their dissent, no one wants them.”

zoo, where did i say guest????????????

i’ve been saying he’s been kidnapped on twitter.

Omen

Not you but others on this blog have said he was a guest.. Now they say nothing, they are embarrassed that their ‘noble’ rebels could detain and maybe execute an anti-regime activist just because he is a ‘heretic’ christian.

Syria and Kurdish massacres: US backed FSA fighting side by side with Al-Qaeda affiliates

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and al-Nusra are both affiliated to al-Qaeda. Yet despite this President Obama continues to support the Free Syrian Army (FSA) which openly fights alongside both terrorist factions. Currently, the FSA is also assisting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and al-Nusra in their ethnic cleansing of Kurds. Recently, hundreds of Kurds have been brutally killed by forces being supported by major NATO and Gulf powers. This includes the slaughter of vast numbers of Kurdish children. Therefore, not only is Obama tainting America with its alignment with terrorist and sectarian forces which are cleansing religious minorities like the Alawites, Christians, and the Shia; but now the Obama administration is tainting itself just like the Erdogan government in Turkey with the ethnic cleansing of Kurds in the north of Syria.

It doesn’t take a genius to realize that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and al-Nusra are not fully focused on Damascus; on the contrary, they are cleansing religious and ethnic groups in order to install a Sharia Islamic state based on draconian Gulf Islam emanating from Saudi Arabia. This reality means that al-Qaeda, which was behind September 11 and killing thousands of American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, is now an open ally with America in Syria. Of course, Obama and other politicians like John McCain and Lindsey Graham in America can manipulate language openly in order to cover up their deceit. However, video footage and photos clearly show the FSA working side-by-side with al-Qaeda affiliated groups.

Not surprisingly, the recent massacres against Kurdish civilians is being met by denial, silence and trying to cover-up the sectarian and terrorist ratlines. Yet for the Kurds it is clear that certain NATO and Gulf powers are arming their adversaries, while the Kurds in Iraq and the PKK are involved in deals with Prime Minister Erdogan of Turkey. However, how much longer can Kurdish political leaders in Iraq and the PKK deal with Erdogan given the mass slaughter of Kurds in northern Syria? After all, modern day Turkey is a conduit for military arms and boosting terrorist numbers in Syria which are now slaughtering Kurdish women and children with open glee.

Returning back to the duplicity of the Obama administration and political elites in France and the United Kingdom – then how much longer can these nations get away with supporting al-Qaeda affiliates by stealth? Gulf petrodollars, Jordan and Turkey are regionally supporting terrorist and sectarian forces. While powerful Western states are involved in the arming, logistics, training, planning and other areas of the conflict to various degrees.

The Long War Journal states that “We have reported numerous times that the Free Syrian Army actively colludes with al Qaeda’s branches, the ISIL and the Al Nusrah Front for the People in the Levant. The report of the joint celebration in Aleppo is just further evidence that the Free Syrian Army conducts activities with al Qaeda in Syria. Inexplicably, the US is continuing with a plan to arm the FSA.”

In a recent military battle Col. Abdul Jabbar al-Okaidi, who is supported by America and other outside nations, gave gratitude to “our brothers al-Muhajireen wal Ansar and others….We’re here to kiss every hand pressed on the trigger.”

http://moderntokyotimes.com/2013/08/12/syria-and-kurdish-massacres-us-backed-fsa-fighting-side-by-side-with-al-qaeda-affiliates/

France’s New Anti-capitalist Party seeks to cover up its support for Middle East wars

In an attempt to salvage what little remains of his “socialist” credentials, Professor Gilbert Achcar, a longtime associate of France’s New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA), has written an essay entitled “Inventive Illiteracy Amidst Petty Sectarianism.”

Working at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies and within the NPA-linked Socialist Resistance group in Britain, Achcar has been a leading propagandist for the wars in Syria and in Libya, which he claimed were waged in defense of human rights. Despite the fact that pro-war propaganda has enveloped his political persona with an ineradicable stench.

Though Mr. Achcar does not care to review the record of his political support for the neo-colonial enterprises in Libya and Syria, he cannot be allowed to rewrite his own history. The record is clear: Achcar publicly supported imperialist wars and discussed their prosecution with US and French intelligence assets. He bears political responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.

From the outset of the Libyan operation, Achcar played a key role in promoting the propaganda required by imperialism to build a pro-war constituency within the milieu of the “leftish” affluent middle class. In March 2011, two days after the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1973 authorizing war in Libya, Achcar published an interview praising the war as a humanitarian operation to keep Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s regime from attacking opposition groups in Benghazi.

Two years later, it is clear that the war Achcar embraced was an act of imperialist plunder. The NATO powers seized Libya’s oil revenues and oil fields, carpet-bombed cities, including Tripoli and Sirte, and killed and wounded tens of thousands of people. It brought to power a NATO stooge regime based on a patchwork of Islamist militias that were NATO’s main proxy force to topple and murder Gaddafi.

In his latest piece, Achcar seeks to distort the facts surrounding his October 2011 meeting in Sweden with Burhan Ghalioun, the president of the opposition Syrian National Council (SNC). During this meeting, he advised Ghalioun not to call for a NATO invasion of Syria—which would risk provoking mass popular opposition—but for “indirect” intervention to arm opposition forces.

In the event, this is the policy NATO ultimately pursued, arming the SNC and other Islamist opposition forces, including some tied to Al Qaeda. It led to a devastating proxy war in Syria that, in two years, has claimed over 100,000 lives and forced millions to flee their homes.

In his current article, Achcar denounces as a “canard” claims that “I took part in a meeting of the Syrian National Council (whereas it was actually a meeting of the left-wing National Coordination Council) in order to urge them to call for an imperialist intervention in Syria (whereas my contribution to the meeting was dedicated to exactly the opposite).”

Achcar’s denial is simply rubbish. He himself publicly announced that he had met with Ghalioun and described his advice to the SNC in an article published in November 2011 in the Lebanese daily Al Akhbar. The NPA reposted the article, including on its English language web site, International Viewpoint .

In this article, he wrote: “I was able to attend the meeting of the Syrian opposition that was held on October 8-9 in Sweden, near the capital, Stockholm. A number of male and female activists operating in Syria and abroad joined with prominent figures from the Syrian Coordination Committee (SNC—who had come from Syria for the event) in the presence of the most prominent member of the Syrian National Council—its president, Burhan Ghalioun.”

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/08/13/achc-a13.html

Israel’s Erin Boy

Dempsey in Israel, Jordan, to tie last ends before Obama decides finally on US military action in Syria

DEBKA Weekly 598 on Aug. 1:

1. US, British, French, Saudi and United Arab Emirates will establish a no-fly zone over central and southern Syria, stretching from the Jordanian-Israeli borders up to and including Damascus.

2. The Israeli Air Force will provide these forces with air cover from Syrian air space.

3. A 40-kilometer deep military buffer zone will be drawn from the Jordanian-Israeli borders up to the southern and western outskirts of Damascus. The military units controlling this zone will hold the entire area of the capital within artillery range.

4. The southern Syrian town of Deraa, where the Syrian uprising sprang up, will be declared capital of Liberated Syria.

5. President Obama has determined that there will no American troops in the buffer zone or anywhere else on Syrian soil, only special Syrian rebel forces.

6. Those forces will consist of 3,000 fighters trained in Jordan by US military instructors. They will be headed by Jordanian special forces and operate under US officers based in Jordan.

7. To host them, the US Army has just finished building in the Hashemite Kingdom a huge training camp and logistical system, debkafile’s military sources report. All the weapons and equipment required to train and arm the rebel force are already stacked there.

8. The American operational command center for the Syrian operation is already in place in Amman led by US Brig. Gen. John Wright, who at 57 is a veteran of the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.

9. The US air force units for imposing the no-fly zone over Syria are already in position at Middle East locations and ready to go at 36 hours’ notice.

10. A Druze unit trained by US military instructors will be a key component of the special rebel force. It was put up by the million-strong community which populates 120 villages and towns in the Jabal al-Druze area of southern Syria. They are situated in a commanding position overlooking the Syrian-Jordanian-Iraqi border triangle.

11. US forces deployed in the Middle East, especially in Jordan and Israel, will stand ready for possible reprisals against American, Israeli, Jordanian or Turkish targets, if ordered by Syrian President Bashar Assad in retaliation for the no-fly and buffer zones.

http://www.debka.com/article/23191/Dempsey-in-Israel-Jordan-to-tie-last-ends-before-Obama-decides-finally-on-US-military-action-in-Syria

Syrian War Shapes Trip by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

TEL AVIV — The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff opened a weeklong visit to the Middle East on Monday for discussions on potential additions of American support to Israel and Jordan, which are both facing border-security challenges from the conflict in neighboring Syria.

The chairman, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, said his talks in Jordan would include an assessment of whether American surveillance aircraft or collaboration on other border-control techniques could help the Jordanians, whose country is the emergency home to tens of thousands of Syrian refugees — and, increasingly, a route for black-market weapons transported both ways across the Syrian frontier.

Syria has accused Jordan of acting as a transit point for weapons supplied to Syrian rebels, an accusation Jordan has denied. In recent days, the Jordanian authorities have detained suspected smugglers, including Syrians, accused of attempting to bring antitank missiles, surface-to-air missiles, assault rifles and other arms from Syria into Jordan — possibly part of an attempt by jihadists in Syria to foment unrest in Jordan as well.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/world/middleeast/syria-risks-shape-mideast-visit-by-chairman-of-joint-chiefs-of-staff.html?_r=0

Salafistes are now surrounding Israel from Sinai and the Golan, no one is hindering them from attacking Israel

So what are they waiting for? Do what you critisise Assad for not doing! It is the only way they can gain a little respect from me.

Damn hypocrites. If they can attack the Kurds, they sure as hell could attack the Israelis too. But they don’t want to upset their masters in the Gulf, who are direct allies wit the Zionists.

After watching with anxiety what is happening in Iraq and Turkey’s border towns with Syria, Jordan probably prefer to have the SAA instead of the Islamists in control of Deraa.

http://www.aawsat.net/2013/08/article55313396

Fragments of the Syrian conflict hit Jordan yesterday with missiles landing near intelligence headquarters in the border town of Ramtha, reportedly as a result of clashes between government forces and militias affiliated with the Free Syrian Army (FSA).

Clashes have increased since the leader of the National Coalition for the Syrian Opposition forces, Ahmad Jarba, entered the town of Dera’a and visited areas controlled by the opposition forces, where he carried out Eid prayers.

Sources pointed out that the FSA has been trying to take control of Dera’a—close to the border with Jordan—for almost a year. Two shells landed near a military intelligence building yesterday, without any causalities, while a third landed near a populated area.

The SNC “roadmap”: Disarm the armed forces and build a political system based on the 1950 Constitution.
It sounds more like a goal than a roadmap.
Is this is a gimmick to try to counter the “bone in the throat” imposed by the US and Russia, called the Geneva conference, or in the contrary is it an attempt by these pompous announcements to hide the humiliation of having to swallow the bone ?

Syria opposition proposes transition roadmap

Armed groups would be disarmed, demobilised and reintegrated into Syrian society under plan

http://gulfnews.com/in-focus/syria/syria-opposition-proposes-transition-roadmap-1.1219832

#191 Habib

Sunni Wahabbis hate more Shias, Hezbollah and the Moslem Brotherhood than they hate Israel.

By doing nothing on the borders, they try to reassure the West that Sunni Islamists are less of a threat to Israel than Hezbollah or the Syrian government are.

The SNC “roadmap”: Disarm the armed forces and build a political system based on the 1950 Constitution.
It sounds more like a goal than a roadmap.
If this is a gimmick to try to counter the “bone in the throat” imposed by the US and Russia, called the Geneva conference, or in the contrary is it an attempt by these pompous announcements to hide the humiliation of having to swallow the bone ?

Syria opposition proposes transition roadmap

Armed groups would be disarmed, demobilised and reintegrated into Syrian society under plan

http://gulfnews.com/in-focus/syria/syria-opposition-proposes-transition-roadmap-1.1219832

Syria power vacuum could pave way for al Qaeda leadership

(Charlie Rose on video)
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57598252/syria-power-vacuum-could-pave-way-for-al-qaeda-leadership/

(CBS News) Senior U.S. intelligence officials are concerned about the growing presence of al Qaeda terrorists in civil war-torn Syria. In a statement released over the weekend, the State Department said the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) has moved himself and the group’s operations to Syria. A State Department spokesperson also noted that the deadly suicide attacks and car bombings carried out in Iraq in recent days can be attributed to AQI.

CIA Deputy Director Michael Morrell warned of the risk of the collapse of the Syrian government — which possesses a considerable stockpile of chemical and advanced weapons — namely, a power vacuum which would leave room for al Qaeda to take hold and take advantage of their weapons cache and technical capabilities.

Zoo
Who does not hate Shiaa?everybody hates them

Are the accumulation of upsetting events in Turkey affecting Erdogan’s health? If he does not succeed in becoming am all-power president in 2014 will he withdraw from public life

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-pm-to-travel-abroad-amid-speculation-over-his-health.aspx?pageID=238&nID=52430&NewsCatID=338

Speculation about Erdoğan’s health has been rife since he had surgery to remove polyps from his intestines in late 2011.

Polyps are abnormal growths of tissue that can be cancerous. However, following the surgery, Turkish media cited Erdoğan’s doctor as saying the polyps had been harmless.

Reports published in Yurt newspaper and other Turkish dailies on Aug. 12 said Erdoğan had spent five days in hospital with an upset stomach. The papers provided no source for the reports.

In a statement, Erdoğan’s office called the reports “baseless allegations” and said the prime minister, in power since 2003, would begin his usual schedule this weekend after several days of holiday marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Erdoğan, who normally speaks daily on live television and travels frequently around the country, has not appeared in public over the holiday period.

Power in Turkey has become highly centralized around Erdoğan, who has made little secret about his desire to become president, and rifts have emerged within his party during previous absences.

Two consecutive Cabinet meetings were canceled following Erdoğan’s surgery, fueling speculation about what would happen if the man who has towered over Turkish politics for the last decade were to withdraw from public life.

197. majedkhaldoun

Could you answer the question instead of derailing the issue? Why are our brave Mujahids even more passive towards Israel than the Assads ever were?

Are they waiting for the right time and place? LOOOL!

#197 Majed

Yawn…. Your expression of hatred is becoming so repetitive and boring

#197 Majed

Yawn…. Your expression of hatred is becoming so repetitive and boring.
Take a laxative.

Zoo
Why are you hungry?

“197. MAJEDKHALDOUN said:
Zoo
Who does not hate Shiaa?everybody hates them”

Majed I’ve never seen a more hateful person. I feel sorry for you.

Habib,

Is it the rebels with all te heavy weapons, Air Force, Scuds, tank brigades or is it Jaysh Abu Shahata?

Please do explain where was yor heroic Jaysh Abu Shahata when Israel keeps flying sorties in and out of Syian airspace while bombing Abu Shahata targets?

What is the rethithtanth waiting for?

Syrian Kurds are on the verge of genocide 13.8.2013
Shakhawan Shorsh — Special to Ekurd.net

http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2013/8/syriakurd849.htm

…
The main Kurdish political parties had refused to join the FSA because the FSA had denied the recognition of Kurdish political and cultural rights in a post-Assad regime. However, the Kurds have managed to secure their territory and protect the area form the internal war. Kurdish control over the Kurdish territory disturbs both Turkey and the FSA
…
But what does this genocidal intention by the Al-Qaida-linked Islamists against the Syrian Kurds tell us? The extreme Islamists not only believe in the rule of Sharia and the creation of an Islamic state, which is comparable with the early Caliphate period, they also believe in the fundamental ideas of the jihad used in the early Islamic expansion period against non-Islam ethnic groups in the Middle East and North Africa in the seventh century. Mohammad the prophet of Islam and his successors regarded the other ethnic groups who refused Islam as Kufar (unbelievers) [i] . A successful strategy that was widely used against the enemies of Islam was to defeat the enemy, take their women, and loot their properties. Women were regarded as war profit, and the Islamic fighters could take them after the defeat of the enemy. The very killing was justified by a suar al-Anfal Quran [ii]. In fact, Arab Islamic forces have totally destroyed the enemy and their religion in some cases, for instance, in the destruction of the followers of Zoroastrian and the religion after the defeat of the Sasanian
…
Not surprisingly, there is not any condemnation of the crime from Turkey or other Muslim countries. This is not the first time the Kurds have experienced the silence of the other Muslim countries. When the Anfal genocide happened in 1988, not a single Arab or non-Arab Muslim country condemned the genocide, not even for the Kurdish Muslim victims. This tacit support repeated in 2004 when the Janjaweeds, supported by the Sudan government, killed hundreds of thousands of innocent Africans in Darfur. They were Muslims too but not Arabs. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) did not condemn the genocide of the Muslim people of Darfur in 2004 [vi].

Sami the SAA has a right to defend itself with any weapons in its arsenal. If you don’t like the results of the war stop demanding violent overthrow of the government. If you okay with the war then stop complaining about SAA weapons being used. You didn’t expect them to shoot flowers at the enemy did you?

Alan Duncan despairs that Syria is ‘insoluble and intractable’
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/1b37ecb8-0424-11e3-a8d6-00144feab7de.html#axzz2brWq3DrJ

The conflict in Syria is the most serious and intractable problem in the Middle East, Alan Duncan has said.

In comments that give a rare glimpse into UK government despair over what is happening in the war-torn country, the aid minister said the situation in Syria has now eclipsed that in Israel as the most difficult of the region’s clashes.
…
His views give a clear sign that the British government is cooling on the idea of arming Syrian rebels, despite having successfully campaigned to lift an EU embargo on doing so.

Ministers increasingly believe giving weapons to anti-Assad forces would not bring a resolution to the crisis and could result in them falling into the hands of extremists.
…

Majed

Your vulgarity goes well with your hatred. It stinks.

Revenir
I hate the barbaric Prsians, as they support the criminal Assad, and as they always fought against Arab since thousands of years, and as they distorted the very idea and essence of Islam and they are well known to be liers and back stabers

Zoo #208
المعطه

Iraqi forces repel terrorists’ infiltration attempt to Syria

Baghdad, (SANA) – Iraqi forces continued operations against terrorists’ cells affiliated to al-Qaeda in Jazeret al-Anbar area and on Iraqi-Syrian borders and repelled an armed terrorist group’s attempt to infiltrate from Syria to Iraq at Rabia’a border area, killing a large number of its members, while the others escaped.

Iraqi official sources said that the Iraqi forces arrested 800 terrorists, destroyed 22 terrorists’ dens, discovering 41 caches full of weapons and explosive materials and destroying 21 boat used by terrorists to transport weapons and suicidal.

The sources pointed out that the so-called ” Free Army” and the terrorist gangs in Syria provided their counterparts in Iraq with advanced weapons, including anti-aircraft rockets to attack the helicopters of the Iraqi army.

B. Mousa/ Mazen
http://sana.sy/eng/22/2013/08/13/496928.htm

Syrian Rebels Destroy Orthodox Church in Al-Thawrah
http://www.aina.org/news/2013089111228.htm

Christian eyewitnesses who fled al-Thawrah, now displaced in other parts of Syria, as well as in Lebanon and Turkey, tell of religious discrimination by the rebels, as well as forced confiscation of Christian possessions and properties, with many items being sold on the black market in order to purchase weapons and ammunition. Even the churches weren’t spared.

“The ‘Free Syrian Army’ demolished the [Sts. Sergius and Bacchus] church,” lamented one refugee, “They tore up the sanctuary curtains, Bibles and other holy books, and broke all the crosses, chairs and icons of Jesus and the saints. They stole electrical appliances like fans, chandeliers and lights. They took whatever was in the church, and sold it all. There is nothing there now.”

There is no hope, however, for the Christians to return and rebuild after the conflict subsides — that’s if it indeed subsides. They were once considered better off than their relatives and friends who still lived in the villages they had migrated from, but are now destitute, having lost everything — their homes, businesses, and even personal belongings.

“Even though I have left,” recounted another Assyrian refugee, “the terrorists still call and text me from there, on my cell phone, to bother me. They recently called and told me: ‘If you attempt to return to al-Tabqah we will cut off your head and display it on the mosque so that all the Muslims there can see it and be proud of it.’ They say other things too, but what they say is so disturbing, that I keep my phone switched off unless I really need to use it.”

The FSA “ally”, ISIS, continue kidnapping pro-rebels activists while hundreds already held
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In northern Syria, news broke of the disappearance of an anti-Assad activist known for his chants at weekly protests in the city of Aleppo.

“It is likely he is being held by ISIS,” Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.

Amateur video distributed by the Observatory showed friends of Abu Maryam protesting at the gates of ISIS’ headquarters.

ISIS is believed to be holding hundreds of activists in areas where they operate.

Among the missing is Father Paolo Dall’Oglio, a charismatic Italian Jesuit priest who went to meet with ISIS’ commanders earlier this month to try to negotiate the release of activists, and has yet to return.

Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2013/Aug-13/227233-fighting-kills-18-syria-rebels-in-hama-activists.ashx#ixzz2brmeCd2M

After Lebanon and Iraq, the threats of the Islamists seem about to spread to Jordan. All US options in Syria are the bad ones.

General Dempsey Again Warns on Syria War

August 13, 2013 – 11:08 AM ET
http://www.thenation.com/blog/175729/general-dempsey-again-warns-syria-war#

General Martin Dempsey is at it again. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is traveling in the Middle East, seemingly making it clear that he doesn’t want any part of the war in Syria. As I reported a while back, in a letter to members of Congress Dempsey had earlier warned that all of the options open to the United States in the Syrian civil war are bad ones. At that time, Dempsey drew fire from hawks and from advocates who want more and stronger direct U.S. involvement in the Syrian war.

Now, it appears that both Dempsey and the Obama administration are concerned about the Syrian war spreading into Jordan. In the past, the United States has used Jordan as a launching pad for CIA-trained rebels fighting the government of President Bashar al-Assad. But the rebellion in Syria is boomeranging, or “blowing back,” as these things usually do.

Following reports that Syrian rebels, especially the radical Islamists, are trying to spread the conflict into Jordan —particularly ironic, since Jordan is funneling weapons to the anti-Assad fighters—The New York Times reports that Dempsey is concerned over the threat to Jordan:

USAF Chief of Staff’s “Secret” Visit to Israel?

At least two Israeli news sources reported on Thursday that Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, chief of staff of the US Air Force, recently wrapped up a one week visit to Israel where he was hosted by the chief of the Israel Air Force, Major General Amir Eshel. The visit was supposed to have been secret, according to Walla, the Hebrew language news site that first broke the news of Welsh’s visit. The Jerusalem Post, after independently verifying the story, published a summary of the Walla account in English, with very few details.

Walla claimed the US had asked that Welsh’s visit remain confidential, in light of Israeli threats to strike Iran, noting that the Israeli Air Force has been training for an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities for at least ten years. Algemeiner, a hawkish American Jewish news site, inferred from the Walla report that the purpose of Welsh’s clandestine visit was to coordinate an attack on Iran by Israel and the US and headlined its story ”Head of U.S. Air Force Secretly Visited Israel to Discuss Iran Strike”. The revelation of Welsh’s stealthy Israel trip was also picked up by Press TV, a state-run Iranian news site.

Both Walla and the Jerusalem Post noted that Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, will be arriving in Israel on Monday as the guest of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of General Staff, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz. The two are “expected to discuss developments in Iran, Syria and Egypt with Israeli leaders.” The JP suggested that Dempsey might use his visit as an opportunity to discern “Israeli intentions”, convince Israel to “refrain from dramatic decisions” and accord diplomacy a chance to succeed with Iran’s newly inaugurated President Hassan Rouhani.

http://www.lobelog.com/usaf-chief-of-staffs-secret-visit-to-israel/

Glad to see some sanity in Washington. Dempsey has long been against intervening in Syria.

A dying Syrian soldier says farewell to his family

من رجال الله .. يودع أهله قبل الشهادة

Siniora’s National Defense Strategy for Lebanon: Give the Enemy a Warning

On the eve of Eid al-Fitr at the end of Ramadan, an Israeli commando force walked into a trap set for it by the Islamic Resistance near the Lebanese village of Alma al-Shaab. Israel swallowed its tongue, while Hezbollah has chosen to remain silent for its own reasons.

As for the official Lebanese reaction, it was limited to contacting the UN forces stationed in southern Lebanon. Political opponents of the Resistance, like Future Party leader Fouad Siniora, however, decided to chime in to denounce the Israeli violation in the strongest of terms, calling it “a dangerous aggression.”

He demanded that “the relevant Lebanese authorities notify the Arab League of this aggression,” asking the UN “to move quickly to deter Israel and give it a warning.” Siniora’s statement is but a reflection of March 14’s understanding of a national defense strategy, which comes down to notifying the Arab League and asking the UN to issue Israel a warning.

Siniora did not even bother to mention the role of the Lebanese army in preventing the breach, because that would raise the issue of equipping the military to sufficiently deter a powerful enemy like Israel – something that is completely outside the vocabulary of March 14, who wants the army to disarm Hezbollah but not take its place in defending the country.

As for notifying the Arab League, one has to ask whether the regional organization is even prepared to receive a complaint against Israel, much less do anything about it.

http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/siniora%E2%80%99s-national-defense-strategy-lebanon-give-enemy-warning

Dear Omen

I didn’t mean to suggest you were questioning Yalla Souriya’s reliability..LOL. 🙂 Not that there would be a problem if you did so. Although I addressed yourself, as we exchanged comments on the reports previously, my comment was actually for the benefit of regimists. Just to cover my back as I will likely cite Yalla Souriya in the future and the regimists will pounce on anything to question the reliability of a source they disagree with.

I hadn’t seen Yalla post for a few days, instead it was a couple of other users. Eventually when she appeared to have resumed posting it turned out it was someone sitting in for her. The real Yalla is very experienced and careful/cautious in her posting.

I just wanted to point it out so people don’t make a judgement on the source based on what a caretaker (substitute) author posted.

Take care.

Tara

There was the story of Assad’s Instagram a few weeks ago. At the time it was mentioned there was a photo(s) of Asma on there. I didn’t visit the Instagram so I don’t know if the (same) photos have been around since then.

I actually saw the image I was referring to on AJE blog posted on 4th August.

http://blogs.aljazeera.com/topic/syria/syrian-first-lady-volunteers-damascus

Omen said:

‘Where’s Matthew?’

I presume he’s having trouble logging in.

Moving on.

I’m in a rush so I’ll post the following and read it later.

Sheikh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi on Jihad and Syria

Tuesday, 13 Aug, 2013

A leading Islamic scholar speaks on the uses and abuses of the concept of jihad

Often heard but widely misunderstood, the use of the term “jihad” in regards to Syria poses questions that trouble policymakers, scholars and fighters alike

[…]

Was at a Sunni professor’s house and he showed me a video clip showing several rebels fighters pouring gasoline over three Kurds then setting them on fire. Those victims were engulfing in flame screaming and jumping disorientedly. A very horrific and disturbing scene to watch.

No one deserves a death like that. Those rebels are just animals and that is what the SAA is fighting against.

We heard a rumor that there will be an airstrike in Der’aa within 36 hours then US will send in 3000 rebels to attack Damascus. Several weeks ago the spokesperson for FSA made a video claiming the rebels wouod attack Lattakia, Tartous, Homs and Damascus within 72 hours since they had acquired many advanced weapons from backers. Then that person disappeared along with his promise. During Ramadan, the rebels claimed the landscape of the battlefield would completely change and they would deliver victory to “Syrians”.

They did deliver death and destruction to many poor rural Alawite villagers. The despicable thing is that the massacre is described as military advance by the western media. They not only completely lost their journalist professionism and ethic, but also put themselves among those barbaric militants in every moral codes.

Uzair (Moving on):

I wasted few minutes to read the link you posted to the interview with Sheikh al-Ya’qubi, and it confirmed my ideas: al-Ya’qubi is lost and does not know what year he lives in. We live in the 21st Century in case you, or al-Ya’qubi forgot.

What did he mean by forming a “registry” for the international Jihadists?

I know he wants to conquer the world and make them all Muslims according to his own vision as you could tell. Let us not forget about this expansionist policy.

I know that al-Ya’qubi is not kidding and see the flock of international Jihadists in Syria as the spearhead to conquer the world.

The funniest (actually it could be seen as tragic) part was when he spoke about the rules and regulation of Jihad. I asked you, Uzair, is the tweet by Dr. Shafi al-Ajami of Kuwait abiding the rules and regulations of Jihad? Of course you danced around the topic and never answered. I am not surprised because, although you speak with the Ummah logic, you have no real knowledge of Islam.

When Shafi al-Ajami discussed in his infamous tweets the rules how to rape the Alawite women and how to clean their vaginas: he was truly reflecting what are these rules and regulations are.

“Hardly a massacre”Another bankrupted soul spewing his venom, claiming that massacres that happened to Sunnis by Iraqi Shia in 2008 to massacres happens by The FSA against Kurds in Syria 2013
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نشرت قناة العالم الايرانية مقطع فيديو قديم تظهر المليشيات الشيعية وهي تحرق شباب سنة في محافظة ديالى سنة 2006 … المقطع وضعتة على يوتوب على انه “جبهة النصرة تحرق الاكراد” بهدف التحريض وخلق الفتنة بين الثوار… المقطع ماخوذ من فلم 60 دقيقة تظهر جرائم المليشيات الشيعية في المحافظات السنية العراقية ويظهر في الفلم مليشيات شيعية تدعتي انها متطرفين سنة تقتل مرتدين سنة ولكن الفلم كان واضح فيه فبركة وتمثيل واللهجة مثل لهجة اهل جنوب العراق

وهذه هو نفس الفيديو نشرتة قناة العالم الايرانية سنة 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVEYuWZjtxw

هذه هو الفيديو منشور على منتدى البراق من سنة 2008
http://www.alboraq.info/showthread.php?t=41024

The Syria government invites the refugees to come back to “decent” accomodations and re-iterate that any “viable agreement to settle the crisis” in Geneva must be signed by Bashar Al Assad, while the fight against terrorists will continue

Syria PM calls on refugees to return home
13/08/2013

DAMASCUS, Aug 13 (KUNA) — Syrian Prime Minister Wael Al-Halqi on Tuesday called on the Syrians displaced by the ongoing conflict to come back home.
“Syria can accommodate all her sons and will emerge stronger from the crisis,” he said during a cabinet meeting chaired by him.
“The government is ready to welcome with open arms all refugees and provide them with decent accommodation,” Al-Halaqi said, citing the legal and security guarantees recently adopted by his government for the displaced people.
…
“The government is ready also to go to the Geneva II Conference provided that the planned dialogue be among the Syrians themselves,” the state-run SANA news agency quoted Al-Za’bi as saying during a meeting in the western city of Tartus.
The minister affirmed that any viable agreement to settle the crisis must be signed by President Bashar Al-Assad.
He added that the quest for political solution must go in parallel with the combat against terrorism, noting that dialogue is possible only with those who lay down their arms.

‘Syria PM calls on refugees to return home’

Why doesn’t he call on them and tell them in person and also check up on their situation while he’s there? Surely the decent thing to do? He knows they’ll beat the living day lights out of him.

222. apple_mini

Selim Idriss, by appearing in the Latakia area just after the massacre of 60 women and children occurred, has totally discredited himself. In addition by claiming that this was a “victory” he was proud of, he admitted to be a direct accomplice to the crime. He is burnt and will soon join the scories of the ‘revolution’ Ghaliun, Khatib, Saida and the clique of greedy expats that thought they could fool the Syrians with their claim for ‘democracy’ a la GCC.

Uzair the dancer:

You are dancing around my question and sticking your nose in internal Syrian affairs.

The question I asked you is related to your Ummah and Jihad since you posted a link discussing Jihad.

keep on dancing around the real issues.

Mr. سنطيحة

Here is a link to al-Jazeera video in which we find the following:

A Libyan is holding Alawite women and children as hostages in their own villages and invoking Allah.

Also: notice the videographer al-Jazeera hired in Syria….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhYf4rYPJdw

If holding these children is not a war crime what is, oh I forgot, Allah told these Jihadis to do this.

Did Salim Edris visit these hostages?

Where is Obama: playing basketball?

ماجدخلدون

كبر عقلك يازلمة

Uzair@226

Thanks for the link. I am sure you made the day for some on SC.

I regard to # 226, had the first lady from Hell ever thought of visiting Zaatari refugee camp and cooking for the refugees or her humanity is a limited one?

Why don’t the Sunnis refugees go back to the liberated Syria under the control of Taliban/FSA so they can live in peace and dignity? Islamists/throat cutters claim that they liberated 70% of Syria – What is the problem! DO NOT take them back to any other parts of Syria, no one wants them there- They will bring back, hide and support islamists and mercenaries in few months- can not be trusted!

Mjabali

I don’t know what you’re asking of me. I’ve already said I condemn any outrageous stuff. If what you say is true about what’s-his-name then I don’t hesitate in rejecting it and condemning it outright. I find those words you claimed that he said repulsive and nauseating. No surprise I don’t want to delve on them.

‘…sticking your nose in internal Syrian affairs.’

It seems this is the crux of the matter. You’ve abstained from going down this line since moderation resumed. I’ve sensed you’ve been holding back. Now you’ve sensed the absence of the moderator you can’t help it. I’ve been expecting this and a few times recently as I ratcheted up my narrative I was anticipating something from yourself and was ready to give you a piece of my mind as I wasn’t putting up with anymore of it.

Be honest, You can’t and won’t pin anything on me no matter how you try? My conscience is clear. What’s riling you is my undoing of regime propaganda and portraying a picture of growing rebel momentum. You’re feeling insecure particularly with the move on Latakia. That’s understandable. I had to do what I had to do to counter the regime line and for the sake of the syrian people. If you found fault you would have showed me or better still brought it to the attention of the moderator.

In the absence of anything substantial you have only the

‘..sticking your nose in internal Syrian affairs.’

card.

I didn’t want to sound harsh but I don’t know what I’ve done wrong.

As for your question or the Jihad related link, well the link speaks for itself. I’m not a scholar and I rely on Shaykh Yaqoubi. If you find fault with the Shaykh then refute his statements.

I don’t get it. The Shaykh’s views are moderate and balanced. You reject the extremists and you also reject the moderates? What do you disagree with the Shaykh on? All you say is he is lost.

Any way. It’s a good time to stop for now as I intended last night.

I’ll be back if I feel the lies and falsehood or the regime are gaining the upperhand. In Sha Allah. Not that the revolution needs me.

“The Shaykh’s views are moderate and balanced.”

Calling for NATO to attack Syria, potentially murder millions of innocent Syrians in the process, and perhaps start World War III can hardly be described as “moderate and balanced”. I’d call Yaqoubi’s views extreme and unbalanced.

You’re too kind Revenire

235. revenire said: .. I’d call Yaqoubi’s views extreme and unbalanced.

Read FSA activities and enjoy!

Local Coordination Committees in Syria
By the end of Tuesday, the coordination committees were able to document 99 martyrs, among them 9 children, 4 women, and 2 martyrs under torture: 28 martyrs were reported in Hama; 18 in Damascus and its suburbs; 13 in Deir Ezzor; 12 in Idlib; 11 in Daraa; 11 in Aleppo; 4 in Homs; 1 in Lattakia; and 1 in Raqqa

Moreover, the committees have documented 423 points of shelling in Syria: Air strikes by warplanes were recorded in 44 points, explosive barrels were dropped in Al-Bab in Aleppo and Esterbe and Dourin in Lattakia, 4 surface-to-surface missiles were documented, 3 have targeted Jard Talfita in Damascus Suburbs and 1 in Lajah in Daraa, phosphoric bombs have targeted Shehil in Deir Ezzor, and cluster bombs were also documented in Houla in Homs, rocket shelling was recorded in 142 points, followed by artillery shelling in 127 points, and mortar shelling was recorded in 102 points across Syria.

The FSA has clashed with regime forces in 157 points through which in Damascus and its suburbs, it targeted the tank park nearby Abbasiyeen Garage in Qaboun neighborhood, and targeted a regime forces’ site with mortar shells in Jobar neighborhood, the FSA has also targeted the Vehicles’ Management in Harasta in Damascus Suburbs, and targeted regime forces’ sites in Bilalieh in Damascus Suburbs, as well as targeted regime forces’ sites in Ahmadieh in Damascus Suburbs. In Deir Ezzor, the FSA was able to liberate Moumayazoun School’s checkpoint, which is the last regime forces’ center in Hweiqa neighborhood and killed a number of its soldiers and declared the full liberation of the neighborhood, as well as targeted ammunition depots and the Military Petrol Station in Deir Ezzor Military Airport and scored direct assaults, and targeted Tahtouh neighborhood which is considered as a regime forces’ site with dozens of shells. In Hama, the FSA has targeted a military convoy at Harir road between Khanaser and Athariya and killed a number of regime forces as well as destroyed a number of vehicles and a cannon 23 and disabled a T-72 tank, the FSA has also targeted a regime forces’ checkpoint at Salamiyeh-Raqqa highway. In Lattakia, the FSA has targeted Nabi Younis summit. In Aleppo, the FSA has targeted regime’s snipers in the Scientific Researches’ Building and targeted regime forces’ sites in the Civil Defense and Mahlab Barrack. In Idlib, the FSA has targeted Qermid Camp and targeted regime forces’ sites at Ariha Bridge. In Daraa, the FSA has targeted Nusaib’s Bordering Center and liberated 5 bordering points. In addition, the FSA was able to destroy a number of machineries and armored vehicles in different areas of Syria.

Uzair:

I do not know if you are following what is going on in Syria:

Foreigners messed up Syria…they always do …You can go through history and learn.

You speak of the Ummah here and there….I know for a fact that this means that Syria has no place in your Ummah map, so whom are you fooling here?

I do not buy your logic because there are enough Syrians doing what you claim you are trying to do.

seriously: how are you helping the Syrian crisis? By quoting Yalla Syria or al-Jazeera live…please respect our minds…

If you want to help Syria wish peace and no blood shed and not be happy and having orgasms with your momentum.

As for my hometown of Lattakia: You as a foreigner who has no clue about the fabric of the city: leave us alone.

I know you would have an orgasm if the International Sunni Jihadis bombed Lattakia. You think it is all Alawis…..

The Islamists of ISIS have used this strategy to invade Menegh airport: They send a suicide bomber with a huge charge of explosive in a truck and once it explodes they launch their attacks. Then their slaves, the FSA claimed victory.
This time this strategy used in Salamiya failed and the ISIS Chief commander as well as 30 rebels fighters were killed. A great victory of the SAA against Al Qaeda.

Syria: chief of Al-Qaeda-linked group reported killed
Head of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria group alleged killed in fighting near Hama on Sunday

http://www.aawsat.net/2013/08/article55313503

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—The commander of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a major Islamist opposition group fighting the government of Bashar Al-Assad, was killed in the city of Salamiyah near Hama during a failed attack the rebel group launched against government forces on Sunday, Asharq Al-Awsat has learnt.

A member of the Syrian opposition, speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat on condition of anonymity, said: “Imad Ahmad, a Palestinian national, the commander-in-chief of the ISIS, was killed last Sunday in the eastern suburbs of Hama.”

Although the source did not know “exactly the injury that caused his death,” he said Ahmad “was certainly killed in an attack against a regime battalion in a village near the city of Salamiyah.”

An activist from the city of Salamiyah told Asharq Al-Awsat that if the source is correct, Ahmad was probably killed in a “major attack the ISIS carried out on Sunday against a military point near Salamiyah called Zor Al-Sos on the day the city was bombarded [by the regime.]”

“[ISIS] carried out a suicide attack against a regime checkpoint but the operation failed because the car bomb went off in the wrong place,” he said.

“After the suicide explosion immediately ISIS elements rushed thinking the explosion was successful but the operation completely failed and we were assured that more than 30 elements from the ISIS were killed due to the mistake,” he added.

The FSA fighters are in the back line. All the assaults are done by Al Nusra and ISIS fighters. Then the FSA fighters come after to claim victory, loot and for the photo-op.

With its collusion with the Islamists, the massacres and the war crimes they are committing regularly, the FSA has become a liability for the opposition.
This is why Jarba has announced the formation of 6000 National Army to replace it ahead of the imminent SNC acceptance to participate in the Geneva conference .

Israel seizes Syrian shepherd in Lebanon: source

A Lebanese security source said that Israel had crossed the Blue Line into Lebanese territory on Tuesday and seized a displaced Syrian shepherd.

The source told Xinhua that the 30-year-old Syrian shepherd was herding his cattle, when an Israeli commando unit advanced about 100 meters inside Lebanese territory and “kidnapped” him.

The shepherd, identified as Mohammed Badawi, was from Syria’s Beit Jen region. After fleeing from his war-torn country, Badawi took shelter in Shebaa Farms about a year ago and worked as shepherd ever since.

His relatives called on the United Nations Disengagement Force (UNFOD) observing the ceasefire between Israel and Syria in the Golan Heights to secure his release, as the kidnapping occurred in the UNDOF area of operations.

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/803746.shtml

Syrian forces kill 18 rebels in clash over highway

President Bashar Assad’s forces killed at least 18 rebels in central Syria in clashes near the country’s main north-south highway, activists said Tuesday.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in Britain said the fighting took place overnight in Hama province near the town of Morek, which straddles the major road that links the capital, Damascus, with the largely rebel-held northern provinces.

http://www.sfgate.com/world/article/Syrian-forces-kill-18-rebels-in-clash-over-highway-4730247.php

FSA is a joke of an army. Always was.

JARAMANA

“They came to Syria to do jihad,” said one distraught resident, whose in-law was among 10 killed in the July 25 blast. “Pardon me, but why don’t they go to Israel to do their jihad?”

A black-and-white funeral poster announced the death of a Christian woman, Helweh Hanna, mother of three. She happened to be passing by when the bomb went off July 25, residents said.

The prevalent view among many interviewed here is that the various rebel brigades are working in concert with the West, Turkey and Persian Gulf nations to destroy what little peace remains in this traumatized nation.

“May God destroy their hands,” one disgusted woman said of the anonymous bombers, as she and a friend surveyed a devastated row of shops — including a tire repair spot, a butcher and a vegetable stand — across the street from Alaa’s falafel place. “How can we feel safe anymore?” asked the woman, who, like others interviewed, declined to give her name for security reasons.

“Jaramana will never be a hospitable atmosphere for the armed groups,” said Father Gabriel Daoud, a Syriac Orthodox Christian priest in the area. “They know that if they come here they will perish.”

“How can we provide 100% security, with so many new people fleeing the war coming to live here?” asked Sheik Abul-Latif Kurbaj, a Druze elder in Jaramana, interviewed in his second-floor office above a vegetable shop. “The armed groups have sentenced the people of Jaramana to death.”

“Our young men are ready to defend our homes, in concert with our Christian brothers,” said Kurbaj, a short, stout man wearing traditional baggy trousers and given to lengthy digressions on Druze history and culture. “We want change and democracy and an end to corruption. We have called for these changes for a long time. But we don’t agree with destroying the country.”

Some residents cannot hold back their fury at the U.S. government, which many in Jaramana see as backing groups targeting civilians. Some stressed that the violence only bolstered their support for Assad, a sentiment commonly expressed in pro-government districts.

“I pray a hundred times a day that America will experience the terror that we are experiencing!” shouted an enraged owner of a women’s clothing boutique, situated across the street from the site where a mortar shell, presumably fired by rebels, struck July 25, the same day as the car bombing, killing three passersby. “We are in great pain. We are dying 100 deaths a day in Syria now.”

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/middleeast/la-fg-syria-violence-jaramana-20130814,0,5386291.story?page=2

Always will be

243. revenire said: .. FSA is a joke of an army. Always was.

الساحل هي المعركه الافضل سنقضي على الاسد فيها ولن يبقى له مطار هناك

Turkey Reconsiders Support For Jabhat Al-Nusra

Turkey had cricized as “premature” the US designation of al-Nusra as a terrorist organization in December 2012, given the advances the group appeared to be securing for the Syrian opposition at the time. During a visit to Washington in January, Turkish Foreign Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioglu reportedly told his American interlocutors that “it was more important to focus on the ‘chaos’ that Assad has created instead of groups such as al-Nusra.”

Asked about alleged Turkish support for radical Islamist groups, including al-Nusra, Davutoglu angrily denied it, saying that such groups were doing “as much harm to the just cause of the Syrian opposition as the regime was.” He said he considered this to be a “betrayal of the Syrian revolution.”

Other developments — such as the July 27 car bomb attack against a Turkish diplomatic post in Mogadishu, the Somali capital — are also making more people question Turkey’s flirtation with radical Islamist groups and its involvement in seemingly intractable disputes in the Islamic world. That al-Shabab, the militant Islamist group with connections to al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the Mogadishu attack has left Islamist supporters of the Erdogan government in Turkey in a quandary. Unable to cope with this fact, some pro-Erdogan papers have gone so far as to claim that the United States was behind the attack, in which six people were killed.

Meanwhile the kidnapping of two Turkish Airlines pilots in Lebanon on Aug. 9, by a group demanding that Turkey secure the release of Lebanese Shiite pilgrims abducted in 2012 by radical elements in the Syrian opposition, is also feeding into Turks’ growing impatience with Ankara’s involvement in Syria.

Whatever the delicate balancing act Erdogan is struggling to maintain in relation to groups like al-Nusra, there is increasing evidence to suggest that the coming period could see more coordination between Turkey and its Western allies, led by the United States, against radical Islamist groups in Syria that have begun to make Ankara’s Syrian headache worse.

http://www.aina.org/news/20130813194543.htm

Ghufran, please don’t stop writing! The kids have been bullying you but pay no attention.
You are the voice of reason here and many people have no time to follow FB and Twitter the whole day, so I really appreciate that you give us what you think is worth reading, even if we all know that about Syria one should wait a few days before knowing the reality of an event.

As for Egypt, here are the MB methods, very easy to understand:
The MB textbook: be very clear when you spread sectarianism and rumours
http://arabist.net/blog/2013/8/12/the-brothers-and-the-copts
but elusive when you “agree” on anything
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/78944/Egypt/Politics-/Egypts-Muslim-Brotherhood-says-open-to-talks-on-cr.aspx

On the one hand DON is posting a story about the people of Jaramana wishing terror on the US for the insecurity that they are suffering.

On the second hand we have Mjabali lamenting the fate of poor villagers in Latakia province while complaining about foreigners being responsible for messing up Syria all the time. Then he asks and I quote
“Where is Obama: playing basketball?”

So this is exactly why Obama does not want to be involved in Syria and with him the vast majority of the US population. The US does not have a bone in this fight. It has left the area to be filled by Turkey, Iran, KSA, and all the other small players.

Mjabali what do you want Obama to do? Do you want him to intervene to help the Alawi population? Do you want him to stop the so called support of the rebels? A support that is absent so far and as a matter of fact the support was denied for Obama knows that he has no way of controlling what and who gets support on the ground. The US can try to build an army after the collapse of a regime but not try to control an insurgency. It got badly burned by its experience in Afghanistan.

The US is vilified no matter what it does for it is the excuse of the day. As a matter of fact my cousin’s divorce is attributed to the CIA or so she says.

Last but not least, foreigners always mess up the region. But the reason why foreigners can intervene in the region is because it was divided by Sykes and Picot specifically to keep it unstable and to permit endless interventions and internal civil wars.

But then again, the people of the region as long as they have accepted to live like they are living and to refuse to either come together or to part their own ways will continue to suffer endlessly.

Some sources tell me that there are 90 000 members of Nusra now. The vast majority are Syrians not foreigners.

Idriss apparently came to try to halt their offensive to no avail. ZOO is right, there is no such thing as FSA there will be the mirror image of the sectarian barbaric regime fighting it to the death and eventually leading to wholesale massacres of various minorities.

40 year war for for 40 year of dictatorship.

The traditional roadmap by the opposition is out. I have no idea where those people are living.

In a country where violence and terrorism are raging and escalating, isn’t the priority stopping the violence?

That is simply an impossible mission for the opposition because Islamic militants are the ones who are calling the shots.

The opposition are simply trying to come up some “plans” and “blueprints” in order to make themselves look legitimate. Here is something considered legitimate to all Syrians: whoever can stop the violence now will be the legitimate leader of the country.

The opposition is truly a self-absorbed phantom who is no more than a paper weight on negotiation table.

We are expecting more dramas from the opposition.

For all the suffering and fears which are gripping people in Jaramana, they vent their anger against the parties and countries who are backing those terrorist attackers and wish them would suffer the same what people in Jaramana are experiencing.

Our opposition member on SC ignores the agony and loss of residences in Jaramana and picks up their complaints as veiled terrorist threats.

How could Syrians not adore those revolutionists?

Nowadays you need about an hour and half to get through the check points in Jaramana if you are driving. We just hope residents in Jaramana can have a little more peace and safety.

PS Jaramana has been becoming more mixed with diversified population.

Apple,

Any new lie today?

Yesterday was the opposition burning Kurds, the day before was something else, the day before that was the economic boom in Syria and the people pouring on Zara to buy designer cloths waiting in line 20 min to be rung, and many more…

We got used to one lie a day. Please don’t deprive us.

I fail to understand how the people who kill civilians on a daily basis in Iraq manage to get more recruits through their posts of “heroic deeds” on FB. Just reading the litany of bombings in Iraq every day, and see the same plan being applied in Syria, make me really wonder how it can be so attractive for some people that they travel from far away countries to get blown up somewhere in a crowd of civilians.

Observer:

Obama met with Idris recently, so what did they discuss? Attacking the Alwite civilians and taking the kids hostages?

Did Idris tell Obama about this plan to attack?

Or did he tell Obama about the Sunni al-Qaeda members participating in the attack?

Did you see the Libyan speaking with all of these hostages behind him? did Obama’s planners see this?

This is a fiasco however you turn it.

The video that shows all of these children as hostages: what do you really think of this. Having 50 children or more under the age of ten as hostages is really a bad look for the US and what it is trying to spread all over the world.

When Obama and his planners support Idris and Mustafa al-Sabagh, who attack civilians here we have a classic case of a war crime supported by none other than the Obama administration.

These children hostages, and their mothers as well as the old men taking hostages should be let go, that is what Obama could do.

Obama could pressure his bodies to release these hostages. This is the least he could do.

I hope you were not happy like Tara and Majed with all of this ….

Happy Hump Day!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RZ3v9s1P0w0
Iraqi Abu Fadhl Brigade Training & Song Against FSA Rebels

I’m glad my post of the rebels burning Kurds alive generating outcry from the opposition posters here.

On the propaganda front, the opposition and its mouthpieces have never ceased to fabricate lies from the very beginning: Gay girl in Damascus, massacre pictures from Iraq, flower bouquet in rebels’ gun barrel. Let alone those brazen accusations. I remembered after the very first twin explosion in Damascus, the opposition speaker was on PBS accusing the regime had plotted it, the anchor did not even bother to ask why the regime would have killed its own people on its own turf.

Right here on SC, the opposition mouthpieces accused the regime being responsible for shelling town Salamia. Utter shamefully, they even demanded an apology from the poster who only stated the truth.

I think we should use every means to expose the malicious and hypocritical nature of the opposition. Let’s spice up the counter punch.

Apple,

It is not outcry. It is disgust.

Liars have no shame. A decent person would have retracted and apologized when shown their fabrication. You did not. I am not surprised.

Obama met with Idris recently, so what did they discuss?

Mjabali,

– When did Obama meet with Gen. Idris? Wasn’t it McCain?
– What do you have against Gen. Idris?
– Do you prefer Obama meet with Assad?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salim_Idris

Mjabali
Obama did not meet Idris
Holding women and children hostage is less evil than killing them as your Assad idol has done and you never condemned ,

Apple
you are denying the truth as usual and you have no credibility and what you say is not only nonsense, it is pure lies

Another ‘victory’ over the heretics for the Islamist allies to the FSA. Selim Idriss and Jarba and the whole SNC mafia must be really proud and grateful to their helpful friends

Al Qaeda-linked Syrian rebels kill Italian priest, says rights group
By: Reuters Published on Wed Aug 14 2013

BEIRUT- Al-Qaeda-linked rebels in Syria have killed an Italian Jesuit priest who disappeared in the east of the country late last month, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Paolo Dall’Oglio, a vocal supporter of the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and some Islamist rebel groups, disappeared in the rebel-held city of Raqqa on July 29.

#260 Majed

“Holding women and children hostage is less evil than killing them”

Raping, torturing women and children is a lesser evil. Brilliant as usual.

“Torture in the name of Shari’a” on Kuwait TV.
Good news: they have banned the show

http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/kuwaiti-sheikhs-show-banned-after-calling-torture-pro-assad-fighters

The FSA’s weapons: Rumors, car bombs and random mortars on Damascus
Syrian President’s house not attacked

Published August 14th, 2013 – 13:26 GMT via SyndiGate.infoNA
http://www.albawaba.com/news/syrian-presidents-house-not-attacked-513587

BEIRUT: President Bashar Assad’s office denied Wednesday reports that the Syrian leader’s residence in Damascus had been the target of an attack, SANA reported.

SANA quoted the media office of the Syrian presidency as saying “all reports on some media outlets on the targeting of the house of President Bashar Assad in Damascus are completely false.”

Several media outlets earlier reported that Assad’s house in the neighborhood of al-Maliki had been targeted.

The reports also said the Iranian and Russian embassies in Damascus had also been targeted.

The “revolution generation” murdered one of their own. Assad tried to save this priest’s life.

Syrian rights group says al-Qaeda-linked rebels killed Italian priest
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/08/14/Syrian-rights-group-says-rebels-killed-Italian-Jesuit-priest.html

Reuters, Beirut

Al-Qaeda-linked rebels in Syria have killed an Italian Jesuit priest who disappeared in the east of the country late last month, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Wednesday.

The Observatory urged all Syrian opposition forces to pressure the ISIL fighters to reveal exactly what happened to Dall’Oglio “so his killers can be held to account, and to hand over his body for burial.”

Has Assad been overthrown yet?

Maybe they attacked Assad’s house with FSA Air Force planes? Where is Capt. Omen?

Reports that Batta’s house being targeted? Great!

Time for “balance of terror” being inflicted on them as they have shot down all their senses for too long. If they are concerned about the children, will be happy to host them.

There doesn’t seem to be a any road or any map to in the SNC’s “road map” to get out the stalemate. It is only a post-Assad political plan, under the wishful assumption that the opposition will take over the power in a post-Assad era.

Syrian opposition to release plan for post-Assad Syria
Istanbul meeting expected to see release of “Plan for Democratic Change in Syria”
http://www.aawsat.net/2013/08/article55313559
…
The director of the Syrian Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Radwan Ziadeh, told Asharq Al-Awsat that “after repeated accusations that the Syrian opposition does not have a vision for the phase after the downfall of [Syrian president] Bashar Al-Assad, we are offering today, for the first time, an integrated vision for a democratic future after the revolution.”

Apple “I just witnessed Hardly a Massacre” Mini,

“I’m glad my post of the rebels burning Kurds alive generating outcry from the opposition posters here’

Written like a true Assadists, even after being caught in the lie he continues with it hoping somehow his lie would stick…

“On the propaganda front, the opposition and its mouthpieces have never ceased to fabricate lies from the very beginning”

Kind of ironic lambasting propaganda when you just got caught with your pants down regurgitating propaganda…

“I think we should use every means to expose the malicious and hypocritical nature of the opposition. Let’s spice up the counter punch.”

First of who is we? Is it you and your filthy pal’s at the Jawiyeh taking names? Have you added my name to your pathetic list yet? Need my Jadeh number? hate to have the wrong Sami arrested…

As for the exposing part, I for one rather enjoy your foolish posts that expose you for the cheap propogandist that you are. It really takes no effort for anyone rejecting the barbarianism known as Assad to deduce that your nothing but a mouth piece, and a horribly and hopelessly bad one at that.

I await your next economics lesson, I rather enjoyed the new measuring unit that has replaced GDP and GNP as a means to judge the standard of living, the ZCL (Zara Checkout Line), I am sure economists worldwide have been floored by this wonderful breakthrough…

Sami it’s war – war with guns and war with words.

I am seeing rumors that Father Paolo was beheaded. I have no proof.

Revenire

Now that his house is ‘attacked’ maybe Bashar al Assad should follow Joshua Landis’s advice and move to a Russian ship.

The deadline of Geneva of October is getting closer and the opposition and their main ally Saudi Arabia are getting fidgety as the SNC will be forced to participate while Bashar Al Assad is still in power. That would be a huge humiliation after they have hammered for 2 years they won’t attend unless he resigns.
They have tried all they could but they have not been able to force the president to resign. In order to avoid a humiliating defeat, the aim of the furious Saudis is to use all its means to kill Bashar Al Assad before the conference.
They do not care if the country will fall into a worse chaos, they want their Arab “bedouin” pride to be saved and win.

Lawyer fears 400 surface-to-air missiles from Libya may be used to attack

Joe DiGenova, a lawyer representing Benghazi whistle-blowers, said Monday that 400 surface-to-air missiles were taken from Libya during the 2012 terror attack, and the American intelligence community is terrified…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4LKoZmMfZE

A former U.S. attorney, Joe DiGenova, who is representing a Benghazi whistleblower, told a Washington, D.C., radio station on Monday that 400 surface-to-air missiles were “stolen” in Libya and given to some “very ugly people,” aka al-Qaeda, and that the biggest fear in the U.S. intelligence community is that one of these missiles will be used to shoot down an airliner.”

The CIA had sent the missiles to Syrian “rebels” who are supported by the CIA and funded by the governments of Saudi Arabia and Qatar in an effort to overthrow the al-Assad government. Turkey has permitted the mercenaries to establish bases in its country on the border with Syria.

“It turns out that when you dig deep enough through all of the mainstream media mud, you can start to make sense of things.”

“Even with extremely complex shadow operations like the one we see going on with the Syrian rebels, who are being backed by the Obama administration in what the media pretends is a completely acceptable act of support. In fact, the story now coming from intelligence insiders is that Benghazi was a smokescreen event in order to shuffle in thousands of missiles to the Syrian rebels.”

The Benghazi story was pushed to the forefront of the establishment media spotlight on August 1 when CNN reported that “dozens of people working for the CIA were on the ground that night, and that the agency is going to great lengths to make sure whatever it was doing, remains a secret. CNN has learned the CIA is involved in what one source calls an unprecedented attempt to keep the spy agency’s Benghazi secrets from ever leaking out.”

CNN continued:

Speculation on Capitol Hill has included the possibility the U.S. agencies operating in Benghazi were secretly helping to move surface-to-air missiles out of Libya, through Turkey, and into the hands of Syrian rebels.

It is clear that two U.S. agencies were operating in Benghazi, one was the State Department, and the other was the CIA.

Ali Kayyali is the most criminal shabbih, he will be killed

Revenir, Bashar is injured , what would you do when Your idol joins the rodents underground? soon in shaa allah

Majedkhaldoun:

If al-Assad killed women and children then it is a war crime, there no question about that.

I never stood for anything but peace from day one of this bloody fiasco. You seem to forget this, on the other hand, you call for death for Alawites and Shia across the board, almost everyday.

If you think like me Syria would have been saved. Plain and simple.

I have been saying this from day one: Peaceful political solutions are the way to go. Revenge and bringing foreigners to fight your war is not the answer.

I know that you are happy to see that Libyan holding these Alawites Syrian women and children in Syria and invoking Allah. Dude, leave Allah alone out of this bloody fight, you are tarnishing his name with your bloody revenge.

Paolo Della’ Oglio was executed in prison by the FSA’s and Turkey’s friends and allies. It is a devastating warning to the opposition that its close association with Islamists is now a liability and must end now at any cost.
It also served as an example of the price to pay for a member of a minority to attempt to befriend Islamists. >

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/499085/20130814/jesuit-father-paolo-dall-oglio-death-confirmed.htm

“Activists in the city, and who are close to Father Paolo, have confirmed to the SOHR that Italian Jesuit priest and the messenger of peace Father Paolo Dall’Oglio has been killed while in the prisons of the ISIS [Islamic State of Iraq and Levante], where he has been held for over two weeks,” the SOHR said.

“The Syrian Observatory strongly urges all sides of the Syrian opposition to put pressure on the ISIS to uncover the fate of Father Paolo Dall’Oglio, and if it is the case to give his body so that he can be buried in the traditions of his church and family.

Mina:

Shafi al-Ajami has the title of a Doctor. hahaaaaahaaa comparing him to the doctors on this board like Majed and Tara is necessary.

Shafi al-Ajami has a quarter million followers on Tweeter. He has been spewing his venom for a long time. AS a matter of fact he has been bragging about financing attacks against Alawites and Shia in Syria.

There is a picture of his cousin holding a Shia child that he later put the knife to his neck in Hatla, near Deir al-Zur.

Shafi al-Ajami is a war criminal and the Kuwaiti government banned him after his rotten smell started coming out. Before that he was saying the same things. Probably the Kuwaiti rulers were having an orgasm with his speeches. How can a government like the Kuwaiti government let a criminal like this speak, and not only that, have a TV show.

This SOB should stand in front of an international court along with anyone who committed any crime in Syria.

As you can see, Sunni Islam is in big trouble. If you ask, our resident doctors on this board, they would say that Islam is going to CONQUER the world.

Russia Putin was quoted that he will accept Bashar to leave if Manaf Tlass is replacing him

Tara:

You supported an attack on the Syrian Alawite civilians. The same way your grandfather was issuing Fatwas for his relatives the Turks to attack and loot the Alawi land.

How many Fatwas did your grandfather issue against the Alawis?

The great thing is that the break in order in Syria is bringing out all of these books that detail how you Sunnis behaved. Care to read one of them or you busy searching for pictures of Asma al-Assad?

You are happy that these Alawite children are being held against their will. You live in America or Afghanistan?

You are happy that these Alawite women are held hostages, and most likely raped, or about to be raped. What year do you live in, 610 AD?

I asked you before about Shafi al-Ajami tween in which he is discussing the rape of these women and you went silent and asked your boy Uzair for a picture of Asma al-Assad’s birthday party.

What balance of terror are you talking about? You seem not to know Syria and al-Assad. Today, yesterday and the day before al-Assad forces torched Salma and Doreen, two Sunni villages in Jabal al-Akrad in retaliation for that attack.

Do you really care about these Sunni Civilians? I guess not. You are deep into your hatred and jealousy from Asma al-Assad.

By the way, I expect this from you. Deep imbedded hatred towards the Alawites for the mere fact that you came from a Sunni Sheikhs family, that came to Syria with the Ottoman invasion. They gave you this with your milk as a child.

Nope. Morssi the islamist monster was.

265. revenire said: .. Has Assad been overthrown yet?

According to SOHR, father Paolo is dead and the killers are the ISIS animals, which some of you overtly or covertly support, I can not wait for the terrorists apologists to start applying makeup on this pig, Nusra and ISIS.
Most of what I see on this blog now especially from the anti regime camp, as noble as opposing this regime is, is kids play and material not worth reading, and that is a reflection of how rage and desire for revenge dominate the minds of many Syrians today, this mentality will make it harder for the war to stop.

Mjabali
Why don’t you study about Zahiri Mazhab, Zahiri does not accept fatwa by anyone, it follows Quraan and VERIFIED Hadith only
So please spare us the nonsense about fatwas

“277. MAJEDKHALDOUN said:
Russia Putin was quoted that he will accept Bashar to leave if Manaf Tlass is replacing him”

LOL

majedkhaldoun always on the money

115. majedkhaldoun said: .. أخبار طيبة في طريقها للثورة قريباً

Egypt bloodshed: At least 95 killed as troops clear pro-Morsi camps

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/14/20016550-egypt-bloodshed-at-least-149-killed-as-troops-clear-pro-morsi-camps?lite

“Now that his house is ‘attacked’ maybe Bashar al Assad should follow Joshua Landis’s advice and move to a Russian ship.”

Ha ha. With the FSA AIR FORCE hot on the trail.

Don – lol – Majed said about two months ago that soon MILLIONS of Egyptians would be heading to Syria, sent by Morsi. He’s a funny guy!

Revenir
You are lier ,unashamed lier, as lier as devil, I never said soon million of Egyptian will join the rebels in Syria I said there is POTENTIAL for Egypt to send up to a million,
If you don’t understand the difference then you are stupid

OH NO! hahahahahaha!

Turkey Says UN, Arab League Must Quickly Stop Egypt ‘Massacre’

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-14/turkey-says-un-arab-league-must-quickly-stop-egypt-massacre-.html

More from “liberated” Raqqa:
محافظة الرقة – المرصد السوري لحقوق الإنسان:: سيطر مقاتلو “الدولة الإسلامية في العراق والشام “على مقرات ألوية وكتائب أحفاد الرسول في مدينة الرقة، وذلك جراء هجوم عنيف شنه مقاتلو الدولة الإسلامية، حيث بدأت العملية مساء امس بتفجير سيارة مفخخة كانت قد دخلت إلى مقر لأحفاد الرسول في حي محطة القطار شرقي مدينة الرقة، حيث انفجرت بعد وقوفها بدقائق، ومن ثم نفذ مقاتلو الدولة الإسلامية في العراق والشام هجوماً عنيفاً على مقرات أحفاد الرسول في مدينة الرقة، وسيطروا عليها بشكل كامل، بعد قتل وجرح وأسر العشرات من مقاتلي أحفاد الرسول،
Both factions suffered heavy losses lately in their war with the Syrian army and now they are fighting each other. There are reports from non government sources that ISIS military leader in Syria (Imad Ahmad) was killed in Hama (by the SA)and that Ahfad Arrasoul ( a funny claim) top militia leader was killed in Raqqa (by ISIS.
From what I heard and read, a larger military assault in Latakia Reef is underway, rebels lost most of the villages they took and are on the run now but I think the army wants to control the whole area and not just take back what was lost, that means trying to take Salma, Kinsabbah and Rabee’aa.
The support the terrorist attacks on poor villagers in reef Latakia received from some of you on this blog make you a sunni copy of your stated alawite enemy, regime shabeehas and sectarian militias, all of the talk about Fadeelah and Assunah al-sharifah from those of you who pretend to be religious proved to be as valuable as claims of virtue by terorirts who cut heads and loot private properties in the name of Allah, I would not spend a minute from now on inhaling the hot air coming from balloons like majed who want to “liberate” Syria from their comfortable homes in the US, however there is still a way for redemption:
stop inciting hatred, send money to the poor and make peace with your fellow Syrian friends in your community, you can still do all of that while opposing the regime and working to change it but not through the terrorists on Nusra and ISIS.

In my book you are a terrorist, criminal and evil Authority should investigate you and revoke your license. You shouldn’t be allowed to practice medicine in the US.

to our fellow thawrajyyeh:
please do not send money to terrorists, the FBI is watching, send it to family members, if you still have any in Syria, to help feed the hungry instead of sending money to kill other Sytians:

(Reuters) – A U.S. citizen and a foreign national were charged in federal court in Miami on Tuesday with providing financing and recruits to al Qaeda and other foreign terrorist organizations fighting in Syria and other places.

the men sent close to $ 100,000 to terrorist organizations including Nusra using western union.

Majed you said it. Doesn’t matter. It went into the same file as your predictions of a No-Fly Zone and Assad being overthrown.

Egypt isn’t going to send a million to fight in Syria. There never was a potential for it. Egyptians have risen up and overthrown the Muslim Brotherhood filth.

Al-Baradei resigns:
أعلن نائب الرئيس المصري محمد البرادعي استقالته من الحكومة، وعزا هذه الاستقالة إلى أنه كان ولا يزال يرى أن هناك بدائل سلمية لفضّ الاشتباك المجتمعي، وأنه “كانت هناك حلول مطروحة ومقبولة لبدايات تقودنا إلى التوافق الوطني”.
وقال البرادعي في رسالته إلى رئيس الجمهورية المصرية: “لقد أصبح من الصعب عليّ أن أستمر في حمل مسؤولية قرارات لا أتفق معها وأخشى عواقبها ولا أستطيع تحمل مسؤولية قطرة واحدة من الدماء أمام الله ثم أمام ضميري ومواطني، خاصة مع إيماني بأنه كان يمكن تجنب إراقتها”.
وأشار البرادعي إلى أن المستفيدين مما حدث اليوم هم دعاة العنف والإرهاب والجماعات الأشد تطرفاً.
The new leadership in Egypt appointed 18 new governors, half of them are retired generals.

WWW

Mjabali,

In regard to your accusation of whether or not I support killing civilians , I don’t. I have already stated this and I refer you back to my reply. Read it again.

I wish I saw you as much inflamed as you are now after the Houla or Banias massacre or even after you saw the headless little girl with white pull ups and blue skirt. You weren’t. I therefore, despite my disapproval, can’t get myself to show you any sorrow or any sympathetic gesture regardless whether or not I feel them.

And please, leave the backward sexist mentality behind, I dislike Asma because of her support of killing 10,000 and displacing millions.

“Several media outlets earlier reported that Assad’s house in the neighborhood of al-Maliki had been targeted.”

I have not seen a single report to that effect. Albawaba seems to be the only “media outlet” to report that. I believe I have wad a bogus news from Albawaba before. It is a waste of time.

According to multiple news sources, the two main squares where MB supporters are stationed are being emptied and a state of emergency has been declared in 13 Egyptian provinces.
notice the hypocrisy of al-Arabiya, a mouth piece for KSA royal family, when it sides with the Egyptian army and throws mud at the MB in Egypt while it spent more than 2 years in a propaganda campaign against the Syrian army and aired many fabricated stories and videos and never cared to make a correction:

Egyptian security forces moved in about 6am local time to clear supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi from two areas of Cairo where they have been camped for weeks, demanding his reinstatement. The Muslim Brotherhood claims hundreds have been killed.

(I guess killing supporters of an elected president is justified in alarabiya’s book of ethics, and bombing Sinai is also justified since it is not the Syrian army who is doing the bombing and the killing).
I am not by any means pleased by the bloodshed and the violent response by any side to this dispute but I find it very disturbing that human lives in the arab world is not worth much nowadays and that GCC in both countries , Syria and Egypt, is playing a dirty role and getting away with it.

I think I waited long enough to give Mr Jarba the benefit of the doubt but it seems to me that he is just another idiot, Moaz was much better in my judgment:
أشار الجربا إلى “انتصارات الجيش الحر وضرورة مواكبة العمل السياسي للعمل العسكري والتنسيق بينهما، وقد بدا ذلك واضحا في التوسعة الأخيرة للائتلاف عندما ضم أعضاء من الجيش الحر إلى داخله”.
وطالب الجربا “بالابتعاد عن التجاذبات السياسية لمصلحة الثورة، و انه لابد أن يتم تقليل الخلافات باتجاه التركيز على المزيد من العمل لان نظام بشار الأسد في سورية يلفظ أنفاسه الأخيرة وهو في غرفة الإنعاش التي لن يخرج منها سالما بهمة السوريين الأحرار والثوار الأبطال الذين يسطرون في الميدان اعظم الملاحم و الانتصارات”.
وعبر الجربا عن اعتقاده “اننا امام فرصة ذهبية فالمعارضة اليوم موحدة تحت مظلة الائتلاف والجيش السوري الحر يتقدم في اكثر من جبهة وهذا افقد نظام الأسد صوابه فلجأ إلى التشويش وبث الإشاعات والفتن في محاولات يائسة منه لخلق الشقاق والفرقة التي لن ينجح فيها ، فالشعب السوري يعرف نفاقه ودجله وزيف ألاعيبه”.
By misrepresenting the facts on the ground, Mr Jarba can not be an effective or trusted leader, I am particularly amazed by his claim that the opposition is united and that the FSA is in the lead !!

Tara when Assad gets hit you can come here and check with me to see if the news is real. These rebels you’re in love with – the head cutters – lie about everything. I am a man you can trust.

Assad walks around Damascus with few bodyguards. He drives his own car. He is loved by the people. When that changes you will know the Syria we both love is forever gone. Assad is the symbol of the living, beating heart of Syria. Whomever kills Assad kills Syria.

Ghufran
So what bothers you is the fact that Bashar is close to die, it bothers you that the FSA is gaining grounds, it bothers you that your informations are fake and false, what bothers you is the coastal battle where FSA gained more towns today.
Sorry Ghufran you will spend the rest of your life crying, you will not be alone Revenir, Don Zoo sf94123 will be with you, as you will not be able to get back to free Syria, WWW

Thank God the Egyptian army has moved on the terrorists. If the terrorists could have they’d have destroyed Egypt like they’ve tried to destroy Syria. I hope they arrest every Muslim Brotherhood leader they can. They should outlaw Brothers but that might be hoping for too much.

Gen. Abdel Fattah Al Sisi is Man of the Year in my book. He should get a Nobel prize for this.

Majed it’s time for your nap. If we believed you the war would be over and the Brothers would be in charge from Morocco to Pakistan.

The only thing your Nusra friends have “won” on the coast is a one way ticket to Hell at the hands of our army.

You’re ridiculous.

فجع السوريون والعالم أجمع بنبأ اغتيال الأب باولو داليليو، الذي نذر نفسه للخدمة الانسانية في سورية، قبل أن يتحول إلى رسول ثورة الحرية والكرامة في بلدان العالم ومنظماته الانسانية المختلفة. منذ طرده من مار موسى من قبل النظام الفاشي في شهر مارس ٢٠١١، لم يكف الراهب اليسوعي الذي قدم نفسه دائما، وفي جميع المحافل الدولية كسوري، عن الدفاع عن حرية الشعب السوري وحقوقه.

لم يقتل الاب باولو بأيد سورية، مهما كانت جنسية صاحب اليد التي اغتالته، والى أي مذهب ديني أو فكر سياسي انتمى. ولا يمكن لاغتياله أن يخدم أي طرف من الأطراف المناهضة لحكم الأسد وزبانيته. وإنما يشكل أثمن هدية قدمت للنظام الذي يصر على اتهام ثورة شعبه بالارهاب، في الوقت الذي تحول إرهاب الدولة على يديه إلى برنامج عمل رسمي لا يوفر وسيلة عنف، من القتل اليومي إلى الخطف والاغتيال والتعذيب والتجويع والتدمير المنظم للأحياء والقرى والمدن ومحوها من الوجود.

الأب باولو، لم يقتل بيد السوريين، الذين احبوه وتبنوه بمقدار ما أحبهم وتبناهم وأصبح سوري الولاء والانتماء. لقد ذهب ضحية الحبائل الأمنية التي برع في التخطيط لها وتنفيذها، في لبنان والعراق وبلدان عربية وأجنبية عديدة، واليوم في سورية نفسها، نظام الجريمة المنظمة والقتل المتعمد والإبادة والدمار.

إن اغتيال باولو واختطاف المطرانين والاعتداء على العديد من رجال الدين المسيحي، ينبع من الهدف نفسه الذي أوحى بالتخطيط لتفجير كنائس في لبنان، والذي انكشف أمره في السنة الأولى للثورة، أي الدس على ثورة الحرية السورية، وتصويرها للرأي العام على أنها تمرد متطرفين طائفيين ضد الأقليات السورية. وهو يطمح من خلال تكريس هذه الصورة البشعة إلى كسب العطف وتعميق الهوة بين ثورة الشعب السوري على الفاشية والرأي العام العالمي.

وقوف باولو داليليو مع الثورة السورية هو أكبر دليل على طابعها الانساني والسياسي وبعدها عن الطائفية والارهاب. وبسعيه إلى القضاء على باولو، أراد القاتل أن يخفي شاهدا على الحقيقة لينفي الحقيقة ذاتها. لكن مقتل باولو، رمز الشجاعة والأخوة الانسانية والصدق والوفاء، والدليل الحي على الطبيعة الأخلاقية والسياسية لثورة الحرية والكرامة السورية. بدل أن يقضي، كما كان ينتظر، على الشاهد الملك، قدم لثورة السوريين المجيدة شهيدا كبيرا، بحجم الحرية التي ينشدها شعبها العظيم.

باولو شهيد الحرية هو أيضا شهيد السوريين، وكاشف حقيقة القتلة والمجرمين.

Salafis celebrate the slaughter of a five year old Syrian child.

Kuwaiti Sheikh, al-Ajmi boasts about his cousin slaughtering a Shiite village in Hatla, Syria, including a five year old child.

MAJEDKHALDOUN, Every one including your close friends knows that you sold your soul to the devil and can’t be trusted anymore. On the other hand, It doesn’t matter if Assad was dead or alive- Just an excuse for you and your Nusra friends to spread hate chaos, death and destruction in Syria – Job well-done Dr. Death.

Dr. Death

Tara:

Sexist talk? why because I said that you are obsessed with Asma al-Assad? Do I care about Asma al-Assad: No. I care about how my country Syria is going to hell. I care about how my countrymen are killing each other with ease. I care about the thousand of criminal foreign Jihadis coming to my country fighting in the name of Allah (that goes to all sides).

If you care about women you would have said just ONE nice word regarding these women who are held hostages and most likely raped.

If you care about women you would cared when these foreigners are holding them hostages.

If you cared about women you would spoke one word against the Tweet of Shafi al-Ajami, one of the perpetrators of this ugly attack.

By the way here is another copy of Shafi al-Ajami Tweet and let me see what do you have to say:

Shafi al-Ajami said:

تم الاتفاق على قتل ابناء تلك القرى وسبي نسائهم حسب احكام الجهاد وسبي الكافرات مع الالتزام بعدم نكاحهن حتى استبراء ارحامهن

So Tara, as a woman, what do you think of this? do you have the courage to answer this?

The FSA fighters say goodbye to Raqa

Jihadists push Syria rebels out of Raqa

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/jihadists-push-syria-rebels-raqa-173154952.html#0RFIT9Q
A jihadist group has expelled rebel Free Syrian Army fighters from their positions in the northern city of Raqa, a watchdog reported on Wednesday.

“Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) have taken control of the positions of the Ahfad al-Rasul brigade in Raqa,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

For more than a week, clashes have pitted jihadists against the Ahfad al-Rasul brigade, a part of the mainstream Free Syrian Army, which has the backing of many Western and Arab countries.

The fighting between the two rebel groups erupted when ISIS attacked Ahfad al-Rasul positions in the city, according to the Observatory and brigade officials.

“They wanted to take our munitions and weapons,” an official from Ahfad al-Rasul told AFP on condition of anonymity.

Majed

Thanks for reporting the joke of the day. It is a change from your daily hateful posts or you dumb predictions.

“Russia Putin was quoted that he will accept Bashar to leave if Manaf Tlass is replacing him”

SF94123 #304
People like you are evil and criminal, that is what you deserve,

for Your vulgar language I am sure you are one of them, the criminal shabbiha here on SC, join Revenir

LOL join me where? Majed please, if you get too excited your heart… calm yourself brother.

300 Majed

Predictions or suggestions? Potential or real?

Please clarify…

#301 Revenire

I agree. Al Sissi is a great Egyptian who cares about Egypt, who understand the Egyptians rejection of the authoritarian, intolerant and cruel Islam the tiny Qatar and the West have tried to impose on them.
He maybe the new Nasser that Egyptians have been longing for to restore Egypt’s dignity and role in the Middle East.
No bargain with the Islamists terrorists, they must be all exterminated.

The West’s paralyzing dilemma: Either they accept to keep Bashar al Assad in power with his conditions or their allies in the region ( Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq) will have to deal with a failed state ruled by dangerously armed extremists and terrorists that may destabilize them.

Jordan seeking U.S. help on border with Syria
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/08/14/jordan-us-help-syria-border/2655237/

Leaders in the region remain concerned about the chaos that would likely follow Assad’s ouster.

Analysts say opposition groups are too fragmented now to be able to assume control of the country if Assad is ousted.

“After Assad is going to be a lot worse than what’s happening now,” said Ramzy Mardini, an independent analyst based in Jordan.

Syria already resembles a failed state in the grips of competing warlords, said a senior Israeli defense official who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak publicly. The official voiced skepticism that any direct military intervention would be helpful.

“You always have to ask yourself … then what?” he said. “Does it create a better reality?”

Dempsey said those viewing the Syrian conflict in the region see a more complex problem than those who view it from a great distance.

“The people who live in the region very clearly see … this is not about choosing one side or the other,” Dempsey said. “It’s about choosing potentially one side among several others.”

“The complexity becomes clearer the closer you get to it,” he said.

I do not know why you guys bother responding to airheads on this blog who are now totally exposed for their support of terrorists and their inability to understand that their violent methods put them in the same camp as almukhabarat and shabeeha, these are the people who have nothing to offer and are unwilling to admit that there are no good players in Syria, there are only victims and a group of war lords. I do not put the army in the same category as mukhabarat because Syria ,regardless whether the regime survives or not, will still need a national body to protect civilians, many Syrians do not trust the army now but most do not trust almukhabarat and the Assad/ Makhloufs clan, Syrians today have to live under the rule of two untrustworthy regimes and since rebels have chosen terrorism as a tool to bring change they will be rejected by most Syrians, however, I do not believe Syrians in areas under regime control will give the regime a blank check, after all this is a regime that looted Syria and imprisoned Syrians for no crime other than refusing to worship القائد الملهم. When this war is over there will be another struggle to end Assad/ Makhlouf dynasty, 43 years is enough, those who rejected the regime but ended up with nusra and Isis have a bigger job to do, Syria will be fractured for the foreseeable future, those who pledged loyalty to Assad or nusra have no vision for the future, the two dominating forces in Syria today are unreformable and should be rejected by all Syrians.

Erdogan can’t use force to dismiss the protest but Sisi can? And he is hailed as a hero?

What a hypocrisy and what a loss of moral compass.

Where are the thawrajiyyeh ” analysts” to explain this:

Security officials said senior Brotherhood figures Mohamed El-Beltagi and Essam El-Erian were arrested, joining Mursi himself and other Brotherhood leaders in jail. Beltagi’s 17-year-old daughter was among the dead.
Before he was arrested, Beltagi warned of wider conflict, and singled out the head of the armed forces who deposed Mursi on July 3 following mass protests.
“I swear by God that if you stay in your homes, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will embroil this country so that it becomes Syria. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will push this nation to a civil war so that he escapes the gallows.”

The truth is that the slogan of a Sunni- Shia war was just a tool to recruit foot soldiers who died and are still dying for nothing.

Dr. Death, You are a supporter of Nusra and a die- hard advocate for bombing Syria since day one -Can’t fool people anymore- You are a disgrace to your family and to the Muslim community in the U.S.

Hard to believe such a hateful man is a doctor.

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Rep. Eliot Engel insists on his less expensive pound of Syrian flesh

Congressional Democrats challenge Pentagon Syria assessment

Leading members of the House and Senate have dismissed the assessment by the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the cost of any U.S. military intervention in Syria.

The lawmakers, ranking members of major committees, asserted that the assessment by Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey ignored U.S. military power.

http://www.worldtribune.com/2013/08/12/congressional-democrats-challenge-pentagon-syria-assessment/

اليوم مبسوطة وطاير عقلي بشوفت الحرب الاهلية بمصر يلا يلي من ايدو الله يزيدوا و عقبال منشوف الحرب بلبنان و الاردن و تركيا و كل دول كلاب الخليج و كل دولة ما اعطت فيزا للمعترين السوريين

The Belarusian and Moldavian girls captured in a north of Latakia by bandits!
forced to read the written text of the paper! ridiculous and idiotic!

http://youtu.be/hGWpRiF69iw?t=34s

I am sorry about this disturbing video..my friend just sent this link to me while saying look at what we reached in Syria….

In this video and under the name of Allah these Sunni fighters execute two teen age boys…because they are Shia…..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hgmnUpFJO-s

this is how some on this board want to take care of the Alwite kidnapped children….

Of course Obama is watching some TV or at a JAY Z and Beyonce concert

321. AMEERA
تمنوا الخير للآخرين ، تجدونه في دياركم !

ازا ممكن في مجال حدا يترجم للانكليزي

الى ضابط الاف بي ايه و كل محللين اجهزة المخابرات الموجودين في هذا المنتدى

يرجى التحقق من شخصية و ارتباطات المدعو ماجد خلدون و الذي بيشتغل دكتور في كولورادو

هذا الشخص يرتبط فكريا مع فكر المنظمات الارهابية و عباد الفرج متل جماعة النصرة المصنفة منظمة ارهابية في امريكا كما يقوم بالدعم المالي لتسليح الارهابيين عن طريق حولات ويسترن يونين و حولات بنكية نظامية الى شركاء في الاردن و تركيا و لبنان تحت غطاء معونات اغاثية علما انه يجمع تبرعات نقدية من المراكز الاسلامية و المساجد في مدينته

يرجى الانتباه انو ما في دليل ملموس على ادعائي بس الافضل اتخاذ اجراءات احترازية مثل التحقيق معو و مراقبة ايميلو و حسابو البنكي للتحسب و من اجل مصلحة البلد الامنية

ايه ها يا هيك كتابة التقارير يا بلا

من زمان نفسس اكتب تقرير كيدي بس ما بطلع بايدي بس كتابة تقرير بشخصية افتراضية غير موجودة شعور حلو كتير

#319

It is terrifying that a doctor supposedly educated to save life has only in mind killing anyone who doesn’t follow his Islamist ideology.
If he keeps threatening of death the ‘barbaric persians’ and the Shias, he is a public danger.

Egypt is entering in a confrontation between the National army and the Islamists and their sympathizer calling for an Islamic ‘democracy’.
“Peaceful” protesters use deadly weapons against the police. Turkey have declared the new interim government illegitimate and are encouraging the confrontation as they did in Syria. Sounds familiar?

The minorities in Egypt who have unanimously sided with the army are been threatened of genocide. Turkey ( and probably Qatar) may send weapons to the Islamists to ‘defend’ themselves from the ‘brutal’ Egyptian army. Sounds familiar?

Live updates: Egyptian president declares state of emergency, curfew amid deadly violence
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/1/79000/Egypt/Live-updates-Egyptian-president-declares-state-of-.aspx
Ahram Online, Wednesday 14 Aug 2013

…

“Armed men in both camps fired at police forces once they started dispersing the sit-ins … police were able to control Nahda and are still combing the surrounding area,” the interior ministry said in another statement on its official Facebook page.

“The police forces only used tear gas despite being attacked by live ammunition [from protesters].”

أهلين أميره
للأسف في كتير من السوريين ما في براسن الا القتل و الدبح

In this you tube video, Alawait army officers and soldiers while wearing the “heroic” Syrian army uniform, beatto death 10 members of the Alhamar family including teen agers.
While they were armed and could have killed them instantly ,they opted to use their boots and hitting their heads to the wall.
One of teen agers got an extra beating because he had blond hair,
http://youtu.be/NVfwUxJX8Ik
Where is Mari Gold Run to see his 2 famous prediction comes true.
What goes around comes around
And the war continue

WWW
We Will Win

God bless America.

I call on Matt Barber to warn/ ban SF Number for his attempt to bully Majedkhaldoun while calling for Sunni ethnic cleansing, displacing them and stealing their properties. Syria comment should not be a free place for criminal.

Mjabali

What you fail to grab is the Kuwaiti sheik only represents himself. Anyone can anytime anywhere YouTube himself and release a fatwa. Although I acknowledge the “freddom of fatwa” is a big problem in sunni islam that needs to be handled and restricted, I argue that the issuance of sectarian fatwas is an individuals act and not the revolution policy as opposed to Assad and his Alawi sect institutionalized policy of ethnic cleansing.

What you also fail to understand is that your failure to show similar outrage when Sunnis women were raped and Sunni children were tortured makes you unqualified partner for a discussion in this matter.

Tara الدجّال No one is calling for Sunni cleansing- You and your kind are experts in doing just that throughout history since Islam was introduced some 1400 years ago– your grandfathers should remember the Armenian ethnic cleansing – ask them why Sunni Turks kill 3 million Armenians?? … You built your mosques over churches and force Christians and Jews out of their land and stole their properties- You are the thief and the biggest fraud in the history of mankind-

Oh geez, not the banning talk again. How pedestrian of you Tara.

Syrian that video is probably a year old. I’ve seen it dozens of times and each time it has a new description. We’re tired of these stupid videos that are supposed to show “regime” crimes.

During a war people get hurt. If you don’t like war put down the guns. If you hang onto the guns and get shot don’t come to SC to cry about it.

“Sunnis women were raped and Sunni children were tortured”

Yes, yes they were. They were raped and tortured by other Sunnis. By Nursa, by every sort of animal that you “revolution generation” fools accepted in your fight against Assad.

What goes around comes around.

The war continues.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

الرأي الآخر
التلفزيون السوري
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tylVfA6bxw
Let us hope that the guy does not spend the rest of his life in assad’s prisons

315. Tara

Lol, say that to the West.

Syria can’t protect itself from armed terrorists, but Egypt can attack unarmed mobs?

Syria has the right to kill every single person shooting a gun at its soldiers. It always had that right.

Egypt is doing the right thing.

You built your mosques over churches and force Christians and Jews out of their land and stole their properties- You are the thief and the biggest fraud in the history of mankind

sf,

And Assad? How many mosques has he destroyed? What has he stolen? What cities has he destroyed? How many homeless has he created?

The issue isn’t religion. The issue is freedom and equal rights. Something Assad and most of the ME have yet to discover.

Reve

“I am a man you can trust”

Trust in what? getting me jailed in Assad’s dungeon? Nevertheless, it was funny. You made me smile. Thanks.

May be it is me but it is getting dull in here and funny comments are always welcome.

Ha ha Tara you know I am always at your service. I think after the revolution you and I will be great friends.

AKBAR PALACE, you know better and you are smarter than that!
Assad was naïve- Ordogan and HBJ were his closest advisors. There was a “mosque boom” during his watch.
By the way, there is no “freedom and equal right” in Islam even among themselves- let’s don’t fool anyone!

Tara:

I said this many times. If al-Assad and his forces killed any civilian it is a war crime. No question about this. They should stand court.

My “outrage” for the Alawites stems from the fact that the Alawites do not have anyone to speak for them. al-Assad do not represent all of the Alawites. The Alawites are getting massacred by all parties. Do you understand this? It is very simple.

I stated this many times: I am for the minorities of Syria because they have no one to stand up for them. Let me be the first. This point is very easy to understand.

The killing is from both parties, make no mistake.

As for the Fatwas: I disagree with you for the simple fact the the Sunni Fatwa history with the minorities is nothing but shameful and was done not for personal reasons but for the benefit of a huge class of Sunnis. That is why you have a Fatwa against the Alawites, and other minorities from the days of Ibn Taymiyah till now. Ibn Taymiyah did not issue his Fatwas for himself, but for his master the ruler. Islam was manipulated to rule and take the land of minorities, who in the case of Syria are the original inhabitants of the land. The Fatwas were done for material gain, for taking land and for sectarian cleansing to bring the same ethnicity of the ruler. Salh al-Din is an example for this.

The Sunnis of Syria made sure that the stream of Fatwas keeps on going.

From Ibn Taymiyah to al-Eiji to al-Imadi to al-Qari to al-Haskafi to al-Muradi to Ibn Abdeen (father and son) to al-Hamzawi…

The stream of Fatwas kept on coming to rape the properties of the minorities and enslave them. Yes enslave them: they even have Fatwas how to buy and sell those captured from these minorities. This is what we have today: a continuation of the same policy: issue a Fatwa against those minorities and let us take their land and woman and kids, of course kill their men. Do you want the text of these Fatwas.

The Sunnis of Syria made sure to ratify these Fatwas. These Fatwas became the policy and the mode of thinking of the Sunnis.

If anyone needs to make the Middle East a place for HUMANS to live in: they should lock up around 1000 Sunni Sheikhs today.

Look at Sudia Arabia and their formal Dar al-Ifat’ (the place that issue Fatwas) don’t you think that according to modern laws these animals should be locked up or what?

The Muslims did not do well in the Middle East in the land they invaded. This is a scientific fact. The incidents of today (Syria, Egypt, Iraq) proves beyond doubt that this place needs therapy for some and jail for many.

Mjabali
let me tell you, Sunni are different mazhabs Zahiri Mazhab believes in Quraan and VERIFIED hadith, and does not believe in any fatwa,

Rev.
Exactly, that is a one year old video, that video was for Jabali, who posted a video of “Sunnis” killing 2 guys,the reason I posted this one year old video is to tell him that his people have been doing worse for over a year,so you better tell him what you told me

“During a war people get hurt. If you don’t like war put down the guns. If you hang onto the guns and get shot don’t come to SC to cry about it.”

I assure you we don’t cry anymore,our tears have dried up loooong time ago,

Also my comment on 332 was in response to Ameera’s request on MK which I don’t expect you to get it since you need to be a Syrian to know what is it about.

The Muslims came to Syria 1400 years ago and destroyed the place for its original inhabitants.

The stream of Muslim invaders kept this aggressive destructive legacy alive.

What happens today is a proof of this.

The way most of the Sunni Muslims of Syria view those who are not Sunni Muslims shows that what had developed from Sunni Islam is not compatible with this day and age.

“The Muslims came to Syria 1400 years ago and destroyed the place for its original inhabitants.
Look at what your people did to Syria In just 2 years, after they got hold of it for only 40 years,
If one really reflect on your way of ruling a country,one must really come to the conclusion that the people of the past,knew more than us of what you are capable of. And they were right all along.

This is from the comment section at aksalser in response to the murder of father Paolo:

الاسم : ابو مصطفى .
العنوان : الله يرحمك يابطل (6) (2)
ياحرام … من اول المعارضين .. اصطف الى جانب المظلومين .. لطيف ومحب للناس .. هيك تكون نهايته .. ياحرام .. والله .. واللله يا اخ باولو دمك برقبتنا كلنا … كل السوريين سينتقمون لروحك الطاهرة من هؤلاء الكفرة المجرمين … وعد … وعد وعهد … الله يرحمك كنت مسلم حقيقي … انت المسلم ونحن الكفرة .. نم قرير العين يابطل …

So called “Syrian”:

It is not a competition here….you and I will lose in this game….most importantly Syria has lost…

Just go to you tube and…search using the words : إعدلم علوي

you will see wonders….good luck…

The hopeless and aimless wanderings of the SNC under Saudi Arabia influence continues…

“Wasn’t it Einstein who said that it would be insanity to do the same thing over and over, expecting different results?” asked Aron Lund, an expert on the Syrian uprising and Islamist movements.”

Plan to overhaul Syria rebel forces risks stirring dissent

http://www.thecitizen.co.tz/News/Plan+to+overhaul+Syria+rebel+forces+risks+stirring+dissent/-/1840392/1948626/-/item/1/-/hqe5dg/-/index.html

Posted Wednesday, August 14 2013 at 22:13

A call by Syria’s opposition chief Ahmed Jarba to restructure rebel forces into a National Army has stirred rage among jihadists, and even criticism among his ranks.

The plan will reportedly retain General Selim Idriss, the current head of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), a force made up of army defectors and civilians who took up arms against President Bashar al-Assad.

In an interview on Monday, Jarba said the new force was needed to combat elite fighters loyal to Assad’s regime and to form the backbone of a future army.

“We need this army so that it becomes the foundation of a new army, that has air defence capabilities… tanks, logistical support, medical units,” said the head of the National Coalition.
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He also acknowledged the need to combat “extremist thinking,” an apparent reference to jihadists who want to create an Islamic caliphate.

“There needs to be a clear and total rejection of any extremist thinking, and of any action that harms civilians, and any targeting of civilians on the basis of religious or ethnic affiliation,” Bahra said.

Lashing out against the ineffectiveness of the foreign-based National Coalition, many dismiss the proposed new force as an irrelevant project unlikely to bear fruit.

Others see the National Army plan as a bid to convince the West to funnel weapons directly to the rebels, by building a more coherent force clearly separate from the jihadists.

But it remains unclear how successful any reorganisation would be, with analysts pointing out the effort would be the latest in a string of bids to unify and streamline the rebels.

“Wasn’t it Einstein who said that it would be insanity to do the same thing over and over, expecting different results?” asked Aron Lund, an expert on the Syrian uprising and Islamist movements.

The conflict has become so localised that it will be difficult to reorganise the rebels, dividing moderates from extremists, he said.

“Many of the biggest groups aligned with Selim Idriss, groups like Liwa al-Tawhid, have said they may not share the ideology of the (Al-Qaeda affiliate) Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, but that they are also not interested in fighting them,” Lund told AFP.

Mjabali

I am surprised you did not comment on my response to your comment. I loved yours and your points you make.

Now you seem to be disappointed with Obama as you both accuse him of colluding with Idris and of not coming to the rescue of the minorities.

I am not sure that Obama cares one bit. He said that he did not feel that there should be an intervention in the Congo or in Liberia for that matter.

He rightly understands that the US can help build an army and a police force within the structure of a viable state but that the US has learned its lessons hard in Afghanistan trying to control an insurgency with AL Qaeda and the Talibans.

The US has no bone in this fight, has no strategic interest, no freedom agenda, no superpower prerogative, no interest in the outcome, no faith in the protagonists be they regime or rebels, after all the regime sent Jihadists to Iraq to thwart the US, so it is payback time big time for the Americans.

The powers have no friends they have interests. The US sees none in Syria, Russia is just a wannabe superpower that wants to score points and no one gives a hoot about it scoring points in Syria of all places.

In this, the fate of the minorities will be inconsequential to the interests of the US.

I admire your belief in a Syrian identity yet I am puzzled at your selective indignation but understand that you feel for your community. This is actually a good proof of my contention that there is no such thing as a true national Syrian identity as the veneer of that disappears quickly when it comes to clan, ethnic group, of sect.

I guess if one sees the satellite photos of the destroyed cities of Syria one has to unfortunately expect the worst. Nowadays we have none but counter fanatics that have the ascendency. The regime fanatics that imprisoned the moderates and stifled any talk of freedom and democracy especially from people like you are now finding a mirror image in the fanatics of the other side. Well, if HA comes and raises a flag of Ali, even if not true but perceived as true, then it is only natural that that the other side raises a flag of Omar or Yazid for that matter in response. The regime wanted it that way thinking that it could repeat the 80’s narrative and bring to its side the urbanites and the minorities but it did backfire.

I am sorry to tell you that a US retreat from the region is exactly what needs to happen. Damn if we do and damn if we do not. The travails of the Arab Islamic world are not to end soon and we will have 80 years of war for 80 years of dictatorial regimes which have governed the region since the 1918 armistice day.

No one is able to fill the void and in the meantime I have to confess that with the conflict contained within the borders of Syria there is every indication that keeping the fanatics fighting each other for another 15 years is actually desirable.

Here in the US no one is talking about the ME, very few people care what happens, there is an Iraq syndrome and the few McCain nuts are of no influence.

So a genocide here or there is not going to stir anybody to the rescue. It is sad and abhorrent but it is the truth.

I deeply regret that any child is sleeping hungry and is afraid exploited and that any person is humiliated or tortured or killed or deprived of liberty and freedom and the rule of law. Alas we have to go through our Medieval times, very dark and very destructive but I do not see any hope anytime soon.

As for my and TARA ancestors’ shortcomings and inequity, we are not responsible surely an erudite and sophisticated person such as you understands that simple concept.

In the final analysis, the only way to avert massacres now is for the community to bring to the table the head of the regime on a platter ( figuratively speaking of course ) without which the entire community I am afraid will suffer its fate.

Good night and good luck

Decentralization or partitioning?

Syria’s future may impose more decentralization
August 15, 2013 12:21 AM
By David Ignatius

Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Opinion/Columnist/2013/Aug-15/227402-syrias-future-may-impose-more-decentralization.ashx#ixzz2c0J0veX8

What this means, says Taqi, is that any attempt to broker a diplomatic solution must begin with a cease-fire, and with combatants holding different slices of territory. The future Syria that emerges will have to be a more decentralized state, reflecting the intense feelings of communal separation and rage that have emerged over the past two years of war.
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“It may not be possible to re-establish a national convention based on a central state,” warned Taqi in a recent research paper. “We need … a state where all regions have a high percentage of decentralization.”

Taqi argues that as the Alawite-led regime and the Sunni opposition hunker down in the regions they control, they are turning to external powers for political and economic lifelines.

The Assad regime depends on its patrons in Iran and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in neighboring Lebanon.
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The Sunni-led opposition is similarly turning to its regional patrons. Taqi notes that Syrian olive-oil producers moved their presses to Turkey. Likewise, the wheat harvest in northern Syria has gone to Turkey, while petroleum is being shipped to either Turkey or Iraqi Kurdistan. Economic activity in the liberated Sunni regions of southern Syria around Deraa is now linked to Jordan. Damascus isn’t the country’s economic hub any longer.

These regional players, with their own agendas, will keep pulling Syria apart until a functioning national government can be re-established. Taqi’s point is that these regional players shouldn’t be allowed to make the situation even worse for their own selfish reasons.

Jabali
If this was a competition you will lose big time, your tube video did not load so I did not watch it, while I’m sure if is horrible video you will have to understand that after we posted 100s of horrible videos we became numbs to them , I hope this thing finishs before you get tired of posting videos like we did.

Syria’s war has exposed the hypocrisy of western powers

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/14/syria-australia-battle

The conflict has become an ugly proxy battle between innumerable outside forces. If the Australian government is so worried about terrorism, it should stop backing it in Syria
….
Carr was rightly condemned for his comments, yet he ignored another harsh reality: when it comes to Syria, the US and its Saudi Arabian and Qatari allies are backing Islamic fundamentalism under the guise of defeating the west’s key Middle East villain, Iran. Al-Qaida is now thriving, and the number of beheadings and other assorted acts of extreme sectarian violence have been steadily rising. It’s like the funding of the Mujahideen in Afghanistan never happened, or that the lessons learned after the west armed what became al-Qaida under Osama Bin Laden were wiped from the record.

By June this year, Carr accepted the necessary presence of Assad in any successful peace negotiations. Opposition foreign affairs spokeswoman Julie Bishop urged for a “negotiated settlement” in February, but refused to condemn the role of western-backed jihadis.

Meanwhile, foreign fighters are flooding into Syria – and they’ve become some of the fiercest and most successful insurgents against the Assad regime. US officials talk of the country becoming an extremist haven. Blue-eyed jihadists from Europe recently told Foreign Policy that they were committed to establishing an Islamic state inside the nation

Something is going on in Damascus

Here’s what’s going on in Damascus

Syrian PM says countdown of rebels’ collapse started

DAMASCUS, Aug. 14 — Syrian Prime Minister Wael al- Halqi said Wednesday the countdown of the rebels’ collapse has started.

“Syria is facing a military, economic, media and political war that tries to target its structure as a state and the unity of its people,” al-Halqi said during a cabinet meeting.

Slamming the West’s biased stance in favor of the Syrian opposition, al-Halqi said the pro-Syrian opposition countries “have opted to target the economy of Syria after the failure of their tools on ground to achieve any victory.”

The prime minister’s remarks coincided with a report by the state media that declared the victory of the Syrian army in al- Khmais Mountain in the northern countryside of the coastal province of Latakia on Wednesday.

Checking on military outposts in Latakia Wednesday, Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi said “the victories achieved by the Syrian army will bring the ultimate victory against the armed terrorist groups in all Syrian provinces,” hailing the “heroism and bravery” of the army, according to the state media report.

The SNC’s old-new demand was always met with a rejection from the Syrian government which repeatedly said any political solution should start with unconditional dialogue. Yet, the opposition seems determined to stick to its adamant stance, which, according to observers, would not be conducive to establishing a common ground for negotiation with the Assad administration.

While stressing Syria’s readiness to resolve the crisis politically to preserve its sovereignty and independence, al-Zoubi said “the opposition has one aim represented by toppling the state without any political project, while the Syrian state works to defeat the armed opposition linked to the United States and Israel, with commitment to finding a national opposition which has productive presence as it is a mirror to the government.”

He said the Syrians would not accept any political solution if it was not approved by Assad, considering that the political solution has to go in parallel with confronting terrorism.

http://english.eastday.com/e/130815/u1a7594587.html

342. Akbar Palace said:

The issue isn’t religion. The issue is freedom and equal rights. Something Assad and most of the ME have yet to discover.

Wow an Israeli Jewish right-wing extremist lecturing. Again.

One thing is Akbar since 1948 Israeli Jewish leaders have destroyed and stolen more mosques than Assads ever. How many homeless have those Polish, Ukrainian, German etc invaders who robbed Palestine created. Certainly more than Assads.

Saying that it is not about religion is naive, when religious groups are managed to start to fight against each other. Israel’s nationalism is and has been driven purely with religion, because the religion is the only what unites Jews. Palestinians use religion in such form as all nations/tribes do when being attacked. But Pals would do it if even they were Hindus. For them the resistance is not motivated by their religion. The motivation is the bad treatment Jews offer them.

Sure in the beginning Syria’s problems were not the religious differences, but now they are thanks to those who did throw petrol in the fight, the religious/ethnic differences matter. One thing is certain Israeli Jews are certainly not annoyed of that.

When a hard-core Zionist says “The issue isn’t religion. The issue is freedom and equal rights.” and goes back to his post guarding a settlement, shooting schoolgirls and arresting 5 year old children, the rest of the world can’t keep politely their poker-face – they laugh loudly.

http://pointdebasculecanada.ca/articles/10003069-national-council-of-canadian-muslims-the-new-name-chosen-by-cair-can-helps-cover-its-links-with-washington-based-hamas-linked-cair.html

Israeli Defense Minister called for the U.S. war in Syria, announced a new “axis of evil”
http://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fcas1961.livejournal.com%2F2072356.html&sandbox=1

More than 500 people died in one day in Egypt, a country where Sunnis are killing Sunnis and Christians are getting attacked by Islamist thugs and a national army that is now being accused of treason, shiaism is not a factor in this fight, indeed Iran is more upset with the army than the MB, only erdugang seems to have enough testosterone to scream but not enough testicles to do anything else. Egyptian tv channels, official and private, are talking and acting like SANA ,and their analysts are the Egyptian version of Sh’hadeh and Aboud in Syria.
Syria is not unique ,and militant Islamists are not going to stop after Syria or Egypt, they are a disease that keeps spreading aided by the GCC , Turkey, and evil sheikhs. Keep in mind that corruption and oppression are essential factors in feeding this monster,

Will the new “transitional” government promised by Jarba move to Raqqa, the “only provincial capital in rebel hands”?

Syria: Islamist infighting sweeps Raqqa

http://www.aawsat.net/2013/08/article55313705

After two years of fighting, the city of Raqqa, located in the eastern Jazira region of Syria on the banks of the Euphrates, is the only provincial capital currently in rebel hands.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory of Human Rights announced that elements linked to ISIS seized the Ahfad Al-Rasul Brigade’s headquarters in Raqqa after a suicide car bomb went off near the building, causing dozens of casualties. The SOHR added that at least “18 elements from Ahfad Al-Rasul were executed after their headquarters were stormed.”

An opposition activist from Raqqa, Ibrahim Msallam, told Asharq Al-Awsat that the dispute between the two Islamist groups began as ISIS demanded that all rebels pay homage to its leader, as the group intends to declare Raqqa an Islamic emirate by the end of the month.

” A major diplomatic effort is needed

The changing war

http://www.opendemocracy.net/paul-rogers/syria-long-war-0

The central role of jihadist paramilitaries in the operation is a notable part of the capture of Minnagh. In fact, these groups are coming to dominate the civil war as a whole. The same Jane’s Defence Weekly article says: “Every major offensive in the region has been announced, led and coordinated by Islamists. This is also increasingly the case elsewhere in the country.”

Alongside the expanding role of Islamist paramilitaries in the war, are three further trends. The first is the increasing supply of modern weapons, anti-armour missiles, to these paramilitaries. The weapons now include supplies from Sudan, paid for by Qatar, and reportedly moved by Ukrainian transport-aircraft to an airfield in Turkey and thence into northern Syria (see C J Chivers & Eric Schmitt, “Arms Shipments Seen from Sudan to Syria Rebels”, New York Times, 12 August 2013).

The second is the rapid rise in the number of foreign fighters joining the Islamist groups among the rebels. Total numbers are uncertain and range from United States estimates of 6,000 (see Anne Barnaed & Eric Schmitt, “Syria risks being extremist haven as fighters flow in”, International Herald Tribune, 10 August 2013) http://iht.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx through to a Lebanese government source that gives a figure of 17,000 (see Liz Sly, “Al-Qaeda expands in Syria via Islamic State”, Washington Post, 13 August 2013) Both calculations indicate a foreign involvement at least as large as that which joined the war against the Americans in Iraq in 2004-07.
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The dangerous future

All this means that the Syrian civil war has entered a new phase which essentially pitches the Alawi regime of Bashar al-Assad against Islamist paramilitaries, with the more secular elements of the rebellion becoming far less important. This in no ways diminishes the proxy nature of the war but it is likely substantially to diminish support offered by western countries to the rebels, meaning that the role of Qatar and (especially) Saudi Arabia is becoming central to the war.

This argument was made in an earlier column in this series (see “Syria’s war, a new phase”, 13 June 2013). Since then, more effective weapons have been arrived in the hands of the Islamist groups and the ISIL connection has been revealed. These developments are still in their early stages, and their full impact yet to be known. But they imply that the war will have many months if not years to run, and that its most likely outcome is a divided Syria in which significant territory and centres of population will come under Islamist governance. The only way to avoid this would be to involve the centres of power in Riyadh and Doha, as well as Tehran, in a major diplomatic effort.

#364 Gufran

The West has pampered the Moslem Brotherhood under the illusion encouraged by Turkey and Qatar that they were the ‘moderate democratic’ future of the Arab world and that they can be easily controlled.
Qatar’s main manipulator HBJ is now out in the wild and Erdogan is struggling for his shaky future political career.
Without these two, the MB has no chance to survive. Now that it is weak, it is time to crush it totally. Nobody will come to their rescue.
The Islamists in Egypt need a significant defeat that will paralyze them for the next decades.
There is no bargain possible with a virus. It needs to be eradicated ruthlessly even if it implies weakening the patient.

One of the last images I remeber from Syria, with the revolution already ongoing by august 2011 was the picture of Basshar Al Ass…ad wearing army clothes fixed on the rear window of a Service with the words:

Ouyoun Assad

Pff aleikum. The militar dictatorships are showing their real nature in Syria as in Egypt. They are the criminal, absolutists, they destroyed the economics via clientelism and corruption. Fxxx all the militar regimes.

Here we come Habibi la tkhaaf. Yalla ‘al Malki.

Severe battle in Zainab .
FSA attacked Assad criminals thugs in reef Latakia.

WWW,we will defeat Assad and his thugs and break their heads, Syria will be free,will be democracy, and those thugs that defend Assad here on SC will be humilliated,they are supportive of criminal Assad so they are criminals and thugs the same for supporters of HA and the rest of barbaric persians like the criminbal SF94123

Ameera
You obviously worship Ass.ad, and your language is not fit for a woman from Damascus, they are polite and they don’t say bad words like you, Damascus will reject you,you are not damascene

Observer:

I am sorry that I did not continue and answer your post. I like the part in which you talk about your family. It reminded me with some novels I have read.

I will read it again after work and respond to both of your posts. It is good at this time to have a dialogue.

Have a good day

So called Syrian:

The video I linked to shows how the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham killed with cold blood two teen age Shia boys.

AS for Islam in the middle East and comparing it to al-Assads 42 years rule: I will answer this later tonight because you insisted to linking me to al-Assads, just because you think I am an Alawite.

One thing before I go: Even my dog knows that al-Assads do not represent the Alawis and they just use them as a tool for their own personal agendas.

Even my dog knows that al-Assads NEVER worked for any Alawite “agenda,” like your Sunni world domination ideas floating around since the days of your prophet till now.

If you, the Sunnis, understood this, this Syrian crisis had been over a long time ago.

#369 Majed

“those thugs that defend Assad here on SC will be humilliated’

Suggestion or prediction?

#Majabali

This is the report behind the video. These people are vicious and sick. They have no place in Syria

Islamist rebels execute two Shi’ite youths in Syria: monitoring group
Thu Aug 15, 2013 10:22am EDT

http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCABRE97E0PB20130815?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=401

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Two youths from Shi’ite villages in northern Syria have been executed by members of an al Qaeda-linked Islamist rebel group, according to a video uploaded to the Internet on Wednesday by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The British-based monitoring group, which is opposed to President Bashar Al-Assad, said the execution took place on Tuesday or Wednesday in Aleppo province.

The executions are the latest incident of sectarian violence in Syria’s nearly two and a half year civil war, which began with peaceful protests but has descended into sectarian hatred, pitting Sunni majority rebels against Assad’s Alawite sect and Shi’ite Hezbollah.

In the video, two blindfolded youths kneel before a masked man who reads a statement in the name of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, one of the strongest rebel groups in Syria.

The man identifies the youths as coming from Nubul and al-Zahra, predominantly Shi’ite villages in the mostly rebel-held countryside northwest of Aleppo city. He says the group kidnapped them to exchange them for prisoners but was now executing them in response to the failure of that exchange.

The man exits from view after finishing his statement and voices off camera shout “God is great” before the youths appear to be struck by more than twenty rounds of gunfire and fall to the ground motionless.

A face with a knife, cutting the throat is a mechanism for victims of intimidation and boasting .. ..
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#370 Majed

Ha ha ha! You better go to Raqqa to stay among you criminal buddies. They are very polite, they invoke Allah after every of their murder. They’ll love you.

New Saudi-supplied missiles boost rebels in south Syria

Suleiman Al-Khalidi Reuters

10:44 a.m. EDT, August 15, 2013

AMMAN (Reuters) – Rebels in southern Syria have fired newly acquired anti-tank guided missiles supplied by Saudi Arabia in a significant boost to their battle against President Bashar al-Assad, rebel, intelligence and diplomatic sources say.

Several Russian-designed Konkurs anti-tank weapons were used in a rebel attack this week on an army position in Deraa city near the Jordanian border, said a source in a rebel brigade linked to the Western-backed Supreme Military Council.

After Syria, now the twin Moslem Brotherhood supporters, Qatar and Turkey, call to refer Egypt to the UNSC

Turkey’s ‘unfortunate UN attempts’ unlikely to succeed: Egypt

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkeys-unfortunate-un-attempts-unlikely-to-succeed-egypt.aspx?pageID=238&nID=52586&NewsCatID=352

Egypt has expressed “dismay” at what they said were “unfortunate” attempts by Turkey and Qatar to refer developments in Egypt to the U.N. Security Council.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called today for an urgent U.N. Security Council meeting over Egypt’s bloody crackdown on supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi, which has left hundreds dead.

Erdoğan’s office said Aug. 14 he had spoken to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and separately to all permanent members of the Security Council this week about the crisis.

According to a report from Egypt’s al-Ahram, Egyptian diplomats expressed “dismay” at what they said were “unfortunate” attempts by Ankara and Doha to refer developments in Egypt to the U.N. Security Council, adding that this effort was unlikely to succeed.

Turkey’s stance has infuriated Egypt’s interim government, which last month voiced “strong resentment” at Erdoğan’s comments backing the ousted Morsi.

Zoo
Good news from you about Deraa, hopefully we can smash Ass.ad forces there,,we will invite you to our victory celebration, and feed you Pepper and bitter

The Sisi are criminal group, why don’t you go there?

A huge explosion in southern Beirut, next to hozboola head quarter.
Someone. somewhere from Qusir and Set Zineb is handing out sweets in the street.

The death toll seems high in Egypt, but considered the number of hell bent Islamists and MB members it is not off the chart.

When NYPD went in Zuccotti park, those OWS activists were not determined to be martyrs. Those cops were not shot at either. Otherwise, there would have been bloodshed as well.

No government would allow defiant anti-government protesters sit in and grow their numbers and influence.

For strategic reasons, Egyptian army will not be ditched by the west. The army just needs to play their PR campaign subtly. The most important thing is to clear up the mess ASAP.

There will be no civil war simply because the Islamists and MB do not have access to weapons to chanllenge the army. Unlike Syria, no players in the neighboring countries dares to send in weapons to arm the opposition.

Yes…go and join your criminal buddies in al Raqqa and have a Throat- Cutter/ Cannibalism Party (eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings- you will be useful in identifying organs) or better yet have a church burning party (so far you and your people have burned 52 Churches in Syria) – Yahoo—We are very close to liberate Syria, restore our dignity and enjoy equal rights…. Job well done Dr. Death

Syrian

HA and its base had it coming. What goes around comes around.

The only way I see to stop the violence is for Lebanese Shiaa to lay down their arms, denounce terrorism, exile Narallah, and come to the negotiation table with the rest of the Lebsnese. HA is a terrorist organization and should be exterminated.

Dempsey ! You are commander of nothing until Congress passes a declaration of war. If you insist Americans will arrest you and try you for treason !” The result…no Vietnam or Korea or Desert Storm ect. No murder of the President with the military complicit in that! It would have been a lot different country if the military had really defended America instead of attacking it! 🙂

Why is it so hard for intelligent and honorable people to resolve their differences without murdering each other?

The only poeple that as far as any intelligent person can determine that benefit from the destruction of Syria are non-syrians.

It also should be quite evident after over 100,000 dead that its time to stop and talk it out.

Don’t continue to benefit others such as…..

http://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-the-killers-of-peace/5345805

The Turkish military crossed into Syria
http://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2F3mv.ru%2Fpubl%2Ftureckie_voennye_pereshli_na_territoriju_sirii%2F1-1-0-18402&sandbox=1

SF94123
said Job well done
It is not well done till you face court at the hands of rebels

Tara.
That what should really happens, but they(same as BAtta) are addicted to power.and will not give up untill they go through the same pains they inflctud on others.

About the video so called” Jabali” have mentioned, the word on the net is , there were an agreement of prisoners exchange between ISIS and the people of Nabel, twice the deal did not go through and in 2nd attempt the people of Nable ambushed the ISIS and killed few fighters, So the ISIS killed the 2 hostages in retaliation

There are insider news from Sweida officials in the ASSAD’S SYRIA ARMY that predicts the end of the army in less than one year. The state of desperation, lack of morals, deficit of recruitments as well as lack of legitimacy and popularity makes of ASSAD’S SYRIA ARMY is near to collapse, maybe real collapse this time. This is according to some officials in Sweida serving to ASA.

Hezballah the great rebel party of poor and miserable shiites of Lebanon created by Khomeini and Hafez Al Assad in the early 80’s is receiveing the same drug they used to administrate in the past. Massive car bombs at their’s homes doors.

When all sons of most HA leaders are rich boys with last model Porsches, etc. then it came the time to get back the results of what their parents planted. And the worst thing is that these stupid rich boys will not be able to defend anything and fight like their fathers did. They will get swallowed by flames of hate.

MAJEDKHALDOUN post 386 on August 15th, 2013, 2:59 pm said ”
SF94123
said Job well done
It is not well done till you face court at the hands of rebels”
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Simply you want to kill me!I’ll take your direct THREAT seriously- Dr. Landis and his people should take a note of your threat- I shall report your threat to authorities in your jurisdiction.

Considering the rebels behead people it comes off like a death threat. This Majed character is out of control.

Sharmine Narwani ‏@snarwani 4m
Listen up, you monumentally stupid western journalists: Dahiyeh is a #Beirut suburb with mostly Shia CIVILIANS – not “Hezbollah stronghold.”

Sf94123
Please make complaint in Denver Colorado,I am waiting for that,

So called “Syrian:”

عذر اقبح من ذنب

What a justification for the killing of those two children under the name of Islam. This is your true colors. Islam as I said brought nothing to Syria but death. Wait till I finish work to show you the history of your religion in my country Syria. What a shameful history! keep on hiding it.

Oh now Sharmine talks about civilian casualties while she tried miserably to write off Syrian civilian deaths.

What a pathetic excuse of a journalist. She is nothing but a failed hack that will only be relevant to those stupid enough to digest her backwards and simplistic narratives.

Please someone remind me where does this “Journalist” live again? Kind of ironic to lambast western journalist while she her self is a wanna be western journalist. I would say it is an extreme case of jealousy only I don’t think this dimwit has the proper brain capacity for that…

The FSA is advancing in Qaboun district in Damascus.

So called “Jabali”
obviously you have a problem reading, I never said it was justified, I said before it must be a horrible video.
I’m all for the regime who supported the same group 10 years ago in Iraq to go fight them to death.
As for teaching me about the history of Islam, you can save your time, I’m not waiting on a hater to teach me anything,
Your inner hate and the obvious miserable state you are in is a reminder to me to thank God on the gift of peace of mind I have,
Good luck to you

Martians have landed in New York.

Handing out sweets in Syria’s streets

http://youtu.be/6L5emcPt4NI

Dr Death and his friends on SC must rejoice, 20+ “heretics” less on earth

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/08/15/199501/blast-hits-hezbollah-area-in-beirut.html#.Ug1mRzdk34s

Blast hits Hezbollah area in Beirut, showing spread of Syria conflict

BEIRUT — A large suspected car bomb exploded Thursday in the southern part of this city in a neighborhood controlled by the militant group Hezbollah, signaling another encroachment of the Syrian civil war into Lebanon.

The blast killed more than 20 people and wounded scores of others in streets crammed with offices and military posts for the Shiite Muslim group. Several 10-story apartment buildings burned for more than an hour.

Thursday’s explosion was notable because it struck the busy residential Rweiss neighborhood. That’s well within what Hezbollah considers its “security zone,” an area where it maintains an overt and aggressive buffer around the homes and offices of its leadership.

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/08/15/199501/blast-hits-hezbollah-area-in-beirut.html#storylink=cpy

Israel sounds exactly like our SC Shia-haters

Nasrallah not looking quite so smart now

http://www.timesofisrael.com/bombed-nasrallah-not-looking-quite-so-smart-now/

The purported Hezbollah strategic genius has got himself into a war with al-Qaeda-linked extremists who might just be even more evil than he is

Syrian

Notice in your link the hustle and bustle of Raqqa city life?. I wish I can visit. It appears very warm environment. Would be nice to stroll down and take in the happy atmosphere of the Raqqans. .

Isn’t Raqqa where they murdered Father Paolo?

Isn’t Raqqa where the ISIS tossed out the FSA?

Tara.
I noticed it too, but little late.I posted the clip after I only watched the first few seconds then watched the rest of it. I was thinking I should have watched it all 1st.
Thanks for bringing attention to it.i’m sure regime supporters will be very disappointed to find out that it not what they were claiming it to be!

Syria and Egypt are fighting the same enemy: the Muslim Brotherhood. The Western media has already started talking about massacres in Egypt.

It’s a great tourist destination!

“Jad Bantha ‏@JadBantha 10h
Intense clashes between #ISIS and #FSA after #ISIS had assassinated a religious scholar Mohammad Deibo in #Raqqa #Syria”

🙂

It says a lot about Syrian expats who celebrate or justify the murder of civilians in Beirut when hizbullah’s political enemies in Lebanon condemned the bombing and called it terrorism. The attack came after hizbullah commemorated istael’s failure in 2006 and days after 4 Israeli soldiers were ambushed while trying to sneak inside Lebanon. Today a senior Israeli official declared that Israel will not allow the new ” axis of evil” to win in Syria amid attempts by Israeli generals to convince the USA to bomb Syria. Rebels received treatment in Israeli hospitals while Syrian military targets were bombed three times by Israel. Whether it was the Mossad or their Takfiri agents in Lebanon who detonated the car bomb, the truth is that takfiris ,who are the backbone of Syrian rebel force today, and Israel are and have been on the same page, this is why those terrorists have not fired a bullet against Israeli targets in the last twenty years but have been busy killing Iraqi and Syrian civilians. The response of hizbullah to Israeli attacks in the past was not by throwing press conferences or making empty threats, it was by directing all efforts to fighting Lebanon’s natural enemy: Israel , the comments on the terrorist attack in Beirut by some of you is both predictable and pathetic.
Israel and its Takfiri friends are inseparable, wake up and do not act surprised when these two terrorist forces act in harmony.

They attack us we fight back, this is self defence,

Death to the crimnials,WWW

This is the kind of thinking Assad is fighting:

“Amr Tarik ‏@UtterMarooner 29m
MB official page says that the Pope participated in #Morsi overthrown and wonders how people still ask why do they burn the churches. #egypt”

The Muslim Brotherhood is pure evil. Hafez Assad and Nasser knew how to deal with them.

It seems that the southern rebels in Deraa have acquired some weapons, Prince Salman Ibn Sultan is in Amman worked on this deal.
General Dempsey was in the ME.
WWW, We will win

يا عيني شو كان حلو منظر الاخونجية و هني غرقانيين بدمن و عقبال منشوف الجهاديين و عباد الفرج متخوزقين بالمرجة على عامود فيصل

شوفو مين عم يحكي شوفو
والله صار للشوحة مرجوحة و لابو بريص قباب و انت يا ماجد ابو بريص
قبل ما تعد تنظر علينا و تحلل دم هاد و قتل هديك روح انكب و اتضبضب و استحي على شيبتك لك يا حوينة الدكترة فيك لك انك بدك شهادة تور مو دكتور

و بعدين تشكل آسي مين انت لتوزع شهادات شامي و شامية كلك شئفة جربوع من ريف حلب يعني بدك مية سنة لتعرف شو هي الشام و مين هني الشوام لك تفو على هيك ناس و يا ضيعان ترباية امك فيك

Revenir

As the pro-rebels expats have realized that Damascus will never be ‘liberated’ and Aleppo is still contested, they now accept that Raqqa will the capital of their future mini-Syria.

Ameera

Bravo!

A video showing women and children who were taken as Sabaya by the terrorists in Reef Latakia, the intention was to beautify the ugly face of those animals:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=XPwPzNOpNv8

The photographer with the beard is a known terrorist who worked for Aljazeera which seems to be using his “services” again.
أُلقي القبض عليه في أندونيسيا قبيل تفجيرات “بالي” التي راح ضحيتها المئات بين قتيل وجريح وفي حوزته أموال وخطط وصور تشير إلى تحضيرات لعملية إرهابية.
حينها قال رضا صيام في التحقيقات إنه يعمل مصور “فري لانس” لصالح قناة “الجزيرة” الفضائية
(The name is Rida Siyam)

This is one response the video received:
ahmnader 4 hours ago
ولك يا طايح الحظ والشرف …..النساء وألأطفال مقابل ((( رجال)) …….عجزتم عن مواجهة الرجال فأسرتم النساء..ولك انتة مسلم أنتة ..اين في تاريخ ألأسلام المحمدي ان قام رسول الله بأسر النساء بدل الرجال …يا احمق ..يا سفلة ..انتم وجزيرتكم الخنزيرة اللعينة …لعنة الله عليكم وعلى ابن تيمية الذي علمكم كل فعل خسيس ونذل انكم على شاكلة هذا اليهودي النجس ..الله ورسولة براء منكم ومن افعالكم يا أبناء الحيظات ….
This is what is left of the “revolution”

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6 March 2011 / Syrian opposition members agree on a road map

1 April 2012 / The opposition agrees on a roadmap

Syrian opposition members said they have agreed on a roadmap on how to proceed with a transitional government for the post-Assad era in their İstanbul meeting ahead of a key gathering of Friends of Syria planned for April 1 in the city.

15 Aout 2013 / The opposition to agree on ( the same) roadmap in a meeting planned in Istanbul on 15 August

….. 2014 /the opposition agrees on a road map? Where?

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/default.aspx?pageid=438&n=syrian-opposition-agree-on-a-road-map-2011-06-03
http://www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=275969
http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/153964/syria-opposition-draws-up-transition-road-map.html

This “revolution” is dirty, all its supporters are dirty.

The meeting of the opposition in Istanbul to present the ‘roadmap’ planned on the 15 August seems to have been missed by the press, postponed or cancelled.
I have not seen any reporting that it took place…

The roadmap ‘agreed’ by the opposition will celebrate its third birthday but it seems in arrested development.

This is the response from sheikh Ghazal’s family to his kidnapping and beating by the terrorists in Reef Latakia:
(by sheikh Zulfiqar Ghazal)
أكد الشيخ ذو الفقار غزال أن لا انزلاق إلى فخ الفتنة، حيث أن المطلوب هو الوقوع في الفخ وتفجير الموقف في البلاد من بوابة اللاذقية.
أكد الشيخ غزال أن الميليشيات المسلحة اختارت افتعال المجازر في ريف اللاذقية، لأن مقتل سوريا من اللاذقية، منوها «لقد حذرنا من اليوم الأول لبدء الأحداث في سوريا، أنه من أخطر الأمور هو نقل أحداث الأزمة إلى اللاذقية بعد أن بدأت في درعا، وذلك لمحاولة جعل حييّن متجاورين يقتتلون فيما بينهما،أشار الشيخ غزال إلى أن «المجموعات المسلحة هي شريرة ولا تعرف دينا تنتمي إليه، ونحن نريد إخراج الشر من قلوب الناسن اللاذقية تمثل ألوان سوريا جميعها».
عمي الشيخ بدر هو شخص طيب وهلول، وليس له مواقف سياسية على الإطلاق، كما أننا لا نعتبره أهم من باقي المخطوفين، والمعلومات التي لدينا هي أنه بخير برفقة المخطوفين الآخرين، وعملية عودته برفقة البقية هي مسألة وقت بإذن الله».
The hostages taken by the terrorists are being used as human shields to stop the army from advancing to certain areas and as a bargaining chip to win the release of some rebel prisoners. There are attempts to end this tragedy peacefully but I think the fight in north latakia will not stop until the area is free from all foreign fighters.
Syrians who carried arms may eventually find a way out and go back to their villages and cities but non Syrian jihadists will not have the luxury of staying, nobody wants them in the area including the sunnis in al-haffeh.

Road-map to nowhere.

AMEERA

و بعدين تشكل آسي مين انت لتوزع شهادات شامي و شامية كلك شئفة جربوع من ريف حلب يعني بدك مية سنة لتعرف شو هي الشام و مين هني الشوام لك تفو على هيك ناس و يا ضيعان ترباية امك فيك

And you wonder why Aleppo country side is up in arms and so hateful of “urbanites”.

I can understand zouzou chearing such a racist comment, but i am beyond disappointed it came from you. If you come to the States, somehow i have a feeling that you will be one of those “Airabs” who call blacks “slaves”.

Have a good life.

I was disgusted at nus-lira and dog-poop athad sniffers for handing out sweets in celebration of death, and I am disgusted at anyone who does that. So in that regard, i will reiterate what I wrote on QN’s site, anyone bringing baqlawa around me in celebration of death will leave my side wearing “صينيه” as a hat and will have its face indistinguishable from the baqlawa it is trying to serve.

Now the real issue is that one never heard a protest from the dog-poop sniffers when nus-lira thugs were handing out sweets in celebration of death. Thus, one has to be disgusted with sniffers like zouozou, and the troll pretender for their fake, disgusting, and pathetic indignation.

Humanistic values are absolute and make no distinction between lobbing scuds at Syrian cities and exploding a car in al-dahya in Beirut. Tell that to dimwit narwani before she chokes on her own hyperbole.

And the above goes for those who are happy about seeing others soaked in their blood. How disgusting.

اميرة كلامك البذيء هو كلام شاضومه و ليس كلام شامية المعروف عنها الادب و الاخلاق الحميده

It’s “Friday Of Rage” in Egypt hehehehe!

Happy Friday, and many returns.

Freedom for Me, not for You Alert

This “revolution” is dirty, all its supporters are dirty.

As he said from his comfy home in California…

Hamster Ameera seems quite reasonable to me.

7000 refugees flee the unsafe ‘liberated areas’ where FSA-Al Nusra-Kurds are fighting into Iraq Kurdistan

Syrian refugees pour into Iraq at new crossing: UN

http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/2013/08/16/syrian-refugees-pour-into-iraq-at-new-crossing-un
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Most were families with women, children and the elderly, mainly from Aleppo, Hassakeh and other embattled areas of Syria where fighting has intensified in the civil war, now in its third year, that has driven nearly two million refugees

The Thumbs hacker is back

Suddenly the spamming of the thumbs up and down has restarted again. Is the chief spammer Visitor back?

>Turkey “spiritual leader” Gulen tells the AKP that it has failed to establish harmonious relation with the region and that it should return its attention to the EU.

Turkey needs to cooperate with EU, Islamic scholar Gülen says

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-needs-to-cooperate-with-eu-islamic-scholar-gulen-says.aspx?pageID=238&nID=52631&NewsCatID=341

Gülen, a self-exiled theologian living in the United States’ Pennsylvania and the leader of the “Hizmet” (Service) Islamist religious movement, was defined as a “Turkish religious spiritual leader.”
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Good relationships and influence depend on love, respect, and good will, and collaborating around mutually agreeable goals. Is Turkey doing these fully today or not? This is a question that deserves discussion. If Turkey is indeed able to develop good diplomatic relations in the region, I believe it will be in the interest of Europe, the United States and the world.

But I don’t think Turkey is doing what it can toward this end at the moment,” he said.

Revenire said
“Hamster Ameera seems quite reasonable to me.”
Reasonable To YOU,so ,you yourself insulted yourself
اميرة لازم تغسل فمها بنهر اليط

Damascus will eventually be liberated. It will never be part of Alawistan. It will always be a the Umayad capital,

Jerusalem and Tel Aviv will be liberated.

With the rebels fight in around Qurdaha, I doubt there will be Alawistan

Sean Connery will always be the best James Bond.

It is Nusrah, it is all Nusrah, it is just Nusrah
Groupies of the Syrian “revolution” in the West have a cute tactic: they are willing to admit that war crimes and sectarian thuggeries are being committed in Syria but they blame all such crimes on the Nusrah Front. In reality, most of the rebel thuggery in Syria is being committed by the US-backed (and “moderate”) variants of the Fee Syrian Army.

http://angryarab.blogspot.com/

When Putin said No, Bandar reverted to his fallback position; the only way out in Syria is war – and Moscow should forget about the perennially postponed Geneva II peace conference because the “rebels” will be a no show.

Bandar Bush’s visit to Moscow simply could not have happened without a green light from Washington. So what’s the (muddled) master plan?

http://www.veteransnewsnow.com/2013/08/15/bandar-bush-weaponizer-in-chief-liberator-in-chief-of-syria/

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The Egyptian army is just an army, a militia in fact, and VERY well regulated. It has no political power but it has economical power. And the generals are kept in check by their underlings; the army itself isn’t planning on shooting or killing their own people. The army as a whole would absolutely refuse such an order.

Is the US government targeting Egypt for destabilization – and eventual destruction?
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/08/14/rford/

Someone get Asa’ad Abu Khara some Imodium he is spewing Khara again!

http://youtu.be/moz82ID-Aao

Ameera said
و بعدين تشكل آسي

In Shaa Allah

McCain and Graham’s Strange Egyptian Adventure
What was President Obama thinking? Last week’s trip to Egypt by the neoconservative dynamic duo, Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, seemed like an improbably bad idea from the start.

In the highly delicate situation inside Egypt, where the military is expected at any moment to initiate another bloody crackdown against supporters of the ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, Graham and McCain would not be most people’s choice to smooth tensions.

Nevertheless it was reported that they traveled at the request of the US President in attempt to diffuse the increasing anti-American sentiment in all sectors of the Egyptian political universe. Indeed, the one position unifying nearly all political factions in Egypt is a deep disgust with the current US administration. Perhaps it is that commonality that the two senators hoped to build on. If that was the case, they certainly did not dissapoint.

The strangeness began immediately, as these envoys of the president proceeded to contradict Obama and his State Department’s position on Egypt.

According to US law, financial aid to Egypt must cease should the country undergo a military coup. Avoiding that term has led the administration to savagely torture the English language. It was no coup, the Egyptian military was actually “restoring democracy” by overthrowing an elected president, said Secretary of State John Kerry.

State Department spokesman Jen Psaki explained how the administration decided to avoid making a determination of what is obvious to everyone: “we have determined that we do not have to make a determination” as to whether or not a coup took place in Egypt, she said last week. It is an imperial voice.

Nevertheless, speaking in Cairo on Tuesday, McCain utterred the “C” word: “[T]he circumstances of (Morsy’s) removal was a coup,” he said.

Then later in the day, the Egyptian Cabinet responded by Tweet (in Twitter language) that: “McCain remarks from inside the Egy territory to the W.Post insults the Egy sovereignty.we consider him persona non grata.an unwelcome person.”

McCain and Graham further alienated the Obama Administration from the current ruling regime by demanding that they begin to release from prison the members of the Muslim Brotherhood who had been detained as the Muslim Brotherhood-led government was overthrown by military action.

Lest the two be accused of traveling to Egypt to side with the ousted Morsi government, the senators also identified with those who overthrew the Morsi government. Senator McCain said in Cairo that, “[W]e share the democratic aspirations and criticism of the Morsi government that led millions of Egyptians into the streets.” In other words, it was a coup, the winners are behaving badly, but we support it anyway because its genesis was people in the street.”

The US Administration then proceeded to publicly dissociate itself from the statements made by the President’s own envoys to Egypt, with Psaki stating,

“Senators McCain and Graham are certainty entitled to their opinions, just as any member of Congress is…the US government has stated what our opinion is.”

No wonder the Egyptians are confused.

Upon their return, the two senators penned an op-ed in the Washington Post in which they systematically identified themselves with each and every coup in Egypt since the “Arab Spring”:

We are longtime friends of Egypt and its armed forces. We have fought as hard as anyone over many years to maintain our vital foreign assistance to Egypt.

Translation: We were pro-Mubarak and supported his repressive regime.

We were early supporters of the 2011 revolution and have consistently spoken up for the democratic aspirations of the Egyptian people.

Translation: We then supported those who, trained by the US, undertook to overthrow Mubarak.

We were among the strongest critics of former president Mohamed Morsi’s undemocratic actions, and we sympathized with the millions of Egyptians who took to the streets last month to protest Morsi’s abuses of power.

Translation: Then we supported those who undertook to overthrow the democratically-elected president who succeeded Mubarak, whose political orientation was very different from the US-supported Egyptian youth protestors in the “Arab Spring.”

But as we said again this week in Cairo, we find it difficult to describe the circumstances of Morsi’s removal from office as anything other than a coup.

Translation: But now we are supporting those who seek to undermine those we recently supported who came to power in a coup that we also supported……….

http://iranian.com/posts/view/post/19027

Grand Mufti of Syria Hassoun champion of tolerance invites PopeFrancis to make a pilgrimage of peace to Damascus
http://www.effedieffe.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=262759:il-gran-mufti-al-papa-qvieni-in-siria-a-portare-la-paceq&catid=35:worldwide&Itemid=152

Is Turkey elegantly calling ‘smugglers’ the thousands of armed Islamists who are trying to flee the fights and return Turkey where they came from?

Turkish troops fired at after stopping smugglers

ANKARA, Turkey, Aug. 16 (UPI) — Turkish troops came under fire near the Syrian border after confronting a group of 750 to 1,000 smugglers, officials said.

The troops stopped the smugglers Thursday morning near the village of Kusakli in the Reyhanli district of Hatay province, Today’s Zaman reported.

It was unclear whether the smugglers were on the Syrian or Turkish side of the border.

After stopping the smugglers, the troops then came under rifle fire from the village, the Turkish military said in a statement.

The smugglers, which included up to 1,000 people on foot, 150 on horses and 40 vehicles, fled the scene, leaving behind 35 diesel drums.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2013/08/16/Turkish-troops-fired-at-after-stopping-smugglers/UPI-17011376671787/#ixzz2c9j6N7XE

اعتبر عضو الكنيست الإسرائيلي عفو اغبارية في حديث لـ”روسيا اليوم” من ام الفحم ان “كل امكانية لضرب قوة حزب الله او الجيش العربي السوري او الجيش المصري او اي جيش عربي، وتفكيك الدول العربية واشعال الفتنة والتناحر الطائفي فيها، وبالذات في سورية ولبنان، يصب في مصلحة اسرائيل بالطبع ونهجها العدواني”.

http://arabic.rt.com/news/624326/ :روسيا اليوم

Jordan is hosting a Saudi war operation room against Syria and is clearly an accomplice in the smuggling of heavy weapons bought by the Saudi money for the Islamists rebels on the Syria-Jordan borders. The squeezed little king is playing with fire

http://www.abna.co/data.asp?lang=3&id=452274

Experts also noted there are signs that recent deliveries may be the start of a major supply line to southern Syria led by Saudi Arabia, a key U.S. ally and foremost of several regional countries supporting the militants in Syria.

The report posted on The Daily Star stated also that “Middle Eastern security, rebel and diplomatic sources cite the hands-on role of Prince Salman bin Sultan, a nephew of Saudi King Abdullah and senior security official. Salman heads an operations room in Amman with allies, regularly meeting and instructing top Syrian operatives.”

“Even before the first shipment of Konkurs, Salman’s pressure on Amman secured the supply of rocket launchers and other lethal equipment, they said, a step up from previous supplies from Jordan which rebels complained consisted mainly of surplus ammunition and rudimentary AK-47 rifles,” it added.

It follows close Saudi-American-Jordanian intelligence coordination to vet and track weapons to keep them out of “the wrong hands” of “Islamist fighters,” a regional diplomatic source and an Arab security source told Reuters.

The double language of the Saudis: While actively backing ‘terrorisms’ against Syria’s rulers, Saudi king backs Egypt’s rulers against ‘terrorism’

Saudi King Badullah says the Arab Gulf country stands by Egypt ‘against terrorism’

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/79223/Egypt/Politics-/Saudi-king-backs-Egypts-rulers-against-terrorism.aspx

Saudi King Abdullah called on Arabs on Friday to stand together against “attempts to destabilize” Egypt, in a message of support for the military leadership and an attack on the Muslim Brotherhood.

“The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, its people and government, stood and stands today with its brothers in Egypt against terrorism,” he said in a message read out on Saudi television, in an apparent reference to continuing clashes between the Muslim Brotherhood and police.

“I call on the honest men of Egypt and the Arab and Muslim nations … to stand as one man and with one heart in the face of attempts to destabilize a country that is at the forefront of Arab and Muslim history,” he added.

The USA and EU are a bind: their Arab oil-rich allies (except Qatar) are totally supportive of the crackdown on the Moslem Brotherhood and are 100% behind the Egyptian military despite the death toll.
The UNSC will be paralyzed and the USA amd EU will have just to watch the civil war danger growing in Egypt without being able to do much.
As for Syria, there are no neutral outsider who could bring the crisis to its end. We will see the threat of the usual western tools: sanctions and the poisonous interference of all neighbors.
Israel is in a state of intense anxiety, as if the West turns its back to Egypt’s new rulers and impose sanctions, the Egypt-Israel will be threatened of cancellation.
Syria is becoming a lower priority…

Hezbollah Leader Nasrallah accuses and warn the Takfirists about the terror acts on civilians in Lebanon

According to Nasrallah, the members of these groups are of Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian origin. “All the evidence shows that these groups have committed the attack on Roueiss Thursday, he added. It is certain that these groups are paid by Israel and its allies.”
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The Shiite leader also called on his supporters to exercise restraint. “Criminals want you to believe that Sunnis are responsible, he said. These Takfirist criminals want to provoke a sectarian conflict. Do not fall into the trap, do not attack innocent people who have nothing to do (with the bombing). Syrian and Palestinian refugees are not responsible, your fellow Sunnis are not responsible for these crimes, “he stressed. “The attacks and killings will not lead us to the dissent,” he further said.

Shiite leader nevertheless launched a serious warning to the perpetrators.

“We will win the battle against the Takfirists, he promised. If you work for Israel, there is no problem, we’ll find you one day or another. But if you claim to defend the Syrian people and we are punished for our involvement in Syria I would say two things: you are the most violent groups against the Syrian people, you kill the religious Christian opposition, you execute the children, you attack the mosques and secondly you do not defend the Syrian people, “he said.

http://www.lorientlejour.com/article/828198/attentat-de-roueiss-nasrallah-accuse-des-takfiristes-a-la-solde-disrael.html

An intelligent political and cultural conversation with Yassin al-Haj Saleh

alraimedia.com
بيروت – من ريتا فرج

Here is my translation of a few ideas expressed by him:

I’d rather talk about a cultural revolution, i.e. a revolution at the level of conscience and morality, and at the level of sensitivity and imagination, as well as the grade of knowledge and thinking, and as a result, it will be possible to make the necessary break with the past, and to demote the cultural heritage to a lower rank.

If it is meant for Syria to be formed as a national state, the first thing needed is a separation of the state from the clan, or liberating the state from the clan. This is the essence of the Syrian revolution.

The mafia regime in one of his daily massacres hit one of Aleppo residential areas today, killing at least 40 civilains.So far it didn’t make any of the major news outlets, and don’t expect those “Syrians’wailing about the 20 Lebanese to even mention it.
( lots of pictures included in the link)

http://www.aksalser.com/?page=view_articles&id=e612c8ae6e07d66d2a9ada7ad610268d&ar=44628039”

قال مراسل عكس السير في مدينة حلب ان طيران النظام قصف حي بستان القصر بالبراميل المتفجرة بعد صلاة الظهر مخلفا عشرات الضحايا .

واكد المراسل ان الحصيلة الاولية لعدد الضحايا ٤٠ شهيدا واكثر من مئة جريح وما تزال فرق الانقاذ رغم قلتها بالتعاون مع اهالي الحي بانتشال الشهداء والجرحى من تحت الانقاض .

وعُرف من أسماء الشهداء الذين قضوا نحبهم في مجزرة بستان القصر بحلب :
1_مصطفى كروك
2_ يحيى حسون
3_ أحمد أزرق
4_ إبراهيم دباس
5_ محمد أسعد جال

Regimists and friends on SC must rejoice, 40+ all civilians”Sunnis terrorists” less on earth….

A step closer to complete extermination of civilan “Sunni terrorists”

Nasrallah blames Takfiri groups for deadly Beirut car bomb attack

Hezbollah Secretary-General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah has blamed Takfiri groups for a car bomb attack which left 24 people dead in southern Beirut.

Addressing thousands of Hezbollah supporters on the occasion of the end of the group’s 33-day 2006 war with Israel in the southern village of Aita al-Shaab, Nasrallah said on Friday that according to investigations carried out by the resistance movement, Takfiri groups are behind the recent deadly attacks in Lebanon.

He added that those carrying out the attacks were not Israeli spies, but stressed that it is clear that US and Israeli intelligence agencies have infiltrated into these Takfiri groups and are using them to achieve their own goals.

He also told the Lebanese that anyone who thinks that the Takfiri groups only target Shias is wrong, adding that they kill Sunnis, Shias and Christians the same because they “are killers who do not belong to any religion or sect.”

Nasrallah also rejected allegations that the Thursday attack was a punishment and a response to Hezbollah’s support for the Syrian government, adding that Takfiri groups are trying to destroy Lebanon and push the country into a civil war.

He addressed those behind recent wave of attacks in Lebanon, saying that nothing can change Hezbollah’s path and the resistance group will continue its support for the Syrian government. He said such attacks would only reinforce Hezbollah’s determination to fight Takfiri groups in Syria.

“Our response to any such bombing is that we will double our fighters in Syria. If before the attacks we had 100 fighters in Syria after these attacks we will make it 200 ….,” Nasrallah said.

Nasrallah added that if necessary he and all the group’s members are ready to go to Syria to fight against Takfiri groups.

“I will go myself to Syria if it is so necessary in the battle against the Takfiris,” Hezbollah leader noted.

He told Takfiri groups that “if you want to start a war with us, we are ready, and as we achieved victory in all our wars with Israel, we will defeat you, we have the final say.”

Sisi is criminal and should be executed for killing civilians.

Badr,

Thanks for sharing Yassin Hajj Saleh’s latest, he’s as usual very informative and runs counter to all the rather pathetic rhetoric regimists try to paint all those that oppose Assad and the barbarianism that grew as a byproduct if this heinous regime.

There is no difference between Sisi and Assad, both are criminals.

Zoo is rejoicing the death of Sunnis at the hands of the Barbaric persian regime of Assad

Now you ask those criminal supporters for response they will say IF and if, if this is true, they cry for detention of few Alawis and rejoice for killing Sunnis, stupid double standard

While making funny comments,2 guys in the Latakia mountains filming Assad’s militias running away from the important town of Biet Shakohi using buses, taxis,ambulances buses and on foot.
http://youtu.be/oo7iOBSjsY0

So where are the calls for arming the pro-democracy Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt?

Or is it not a problem when the government killing them are Sunnis too?

Why are we not seeing Zionist and western Salafist clowns flooding Egyptian Internet fora yapping about democracy?

WWW, thank you syrian

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You forgot to finish with 3 claps then shouting عروبه

I bet that Assad in Sep 2014 wil no longer be the president of Syria.

You’re welcome Majed.

BTW 462 was for Habib.

There is no doubt that the regime committed and continue to commit atrocities and a lot of civilians are getting killed for nothing. Only naive people believed that a war can be clean and glamorous, this is why this war should not have started in the first place. It is true that the regime is the top culprit when it comes to civilian casualties but that is half of the story, the other half that many of you CHOSE to ignore is the fact that inviting foreign jihadists was a choice and invading Aleppo and hiding in civilian areas was a choice too. The unforgivable strategic mistakes made by Syrian rebels in these two areas, among others, are now openly being discussed in western media but they are rarely discussed in Arab media because denial and pride are two loved qualities of the Arab psyche, these qualities are not limited to the rebels, you can easily see that in much of the pro Assad media discussions. I think ,especially after Egypt, it is abundantly clear that this disease is not limited to Syria, Sunni or Shia. Enjoy the wreckage and keep pretending that your misery is somebody’s else fault, ignore Libya ( the liberated) and Israel’s gradual but steady domination of the Middle East and give yourself a dose of tranquility by talking about Hizb al- shi’a tan, those evil Shia then come back and try to explain the position of his majesty the king of ksa ( and most gcc rulers) about egypt, then come back and make threats and predictions that will only certify your status as a helpless and confused soul, this is not a good time to be an Arab or a Muslim, we are now the butts of jokes of every nation.
يا أمة ضحكت من جهلها الامم

Tara,

Only in the crosseyed view of minhebaks Assad is president, to the rest he is nothing but a thug wearing raybans in a fancy suit.

How did today’s “Friday Of Rage” go?

What’s next Friday’s slogan?

Battles across Egypt, and alarmed comparisons to Syria and Iraq

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2013/0816/Battles-across-Egypt-and-alarmed-comparisons-to-Syria-and-Iraq

Is Egypt the New Syria?

Is Egypt the new Syria? Will it become a country not only at war with itself, but a battlefield attracting combatants from all over the Muslim World?

It has that sad potential.

We wanted elections and the Egyptian people elected a party that promised moderation and inclusiveness and instead arrested dissenters, purged military leaders, marginalized other parties and supported further persecution of Coptic Christians.

Democracy is not about destroying the losing party and jailing its supporters. Democracy is the peaceful transfer of power from one party to the next. After two or three times, you may have a democracy. Morsi’s election was not proof of democracy but a first (and likely last) step in that direction.

In Egypt, Mubarak was replaced by the military. Then Morsi declared a quiet war on the military — the only fully functioning institution in Egypt. So, the generals overthrew him, both to protect themselves and to keep Egypt from drifting rapidly toward hard-line Islamist policies. The Brotherhood was better in opposition and not in power. Outside they could be idealistic and inclusive. Their promises could be grand and proposed solutions attractive. But once in power, they chose not to govern but to rule. They utterly failed and alienated many former supporters.

http://www.dailynews.com/opinion/20130816/is-egypt-the-new-syria-jonathan-dobrer

داهمت القوى الأمنية فجر الخميس فندق “SunSet” في المعاملتين الذي لم يكتف أصحابه بوجهته السياحية، بل فضلوا استخدامه مركزاً للدعارة، وأقفلته بالشمع الأحمر.
وعملت عناصر الأمن خلال شهر على رصد شبكة الدعارة، ودهمت الفندق وألقت القبض على 43 شاباً و28 أمرأة .
22/ 28 women and 12/43 were Syrian. MTV was quick to point out that most of the accused prostitutes were Syrian women because that fits in the popular theme of ” those evil Syrians”, the fact that Beirut has been a haven for pervert khaliji sheikhs and the capital of prostitution in the Arab world since the 1960s seems irrelevant to the “sexful” tv station.
Public resentment against Syrian refugees is not limited to Lebanon, it is now strong in Egypt and Jordan.

The hypocrite snake Erdogan is cornered and must decrease his support for the Islamist terrorists, while Jordan is taking over that vicious role

Ankara Reconsiders Backing for Islamist Syrian Rebels

http://www.voanews.com/content/turkey-reconsiders-backing-for-islamist-syrian-rebels/1731395.html

Crisis spurs Islamist call to arms across region

Article by: ERNESTO LONDONO , Washington Post
Updated: August 16, 2013 – 9:48 PM
http://www.startribune.com/world/220007351.html

Jihadists in the Middle East and beyond are moving to capitalize on the political crisis in Egypt, arguing that the crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood vindicates their long-espoused view that democracy is a dangerous proposition.

As blood has poured down Egyptian streets and civilians have clashed with security forces, a chorus of Islamists have urged Egyptians to embrace violence to further their political goals.

The call to arms has the potential to fuel hard-line military movements that have taken root in Egypt’s Sinai region and could prompt rank-and-file Muslim Brotherhood members to break with their group’s pledge of nonviolence. The prospect of further radicalization, analysts warn, threatens to undermine a key U.S. goal in the region: drowning out extremist voices by boosting moderate, democratic ones.

Extremists “couldn’t have wished for a better example of how democracy doesn’t work,” said Rita Katz, the director of SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks jihadi groups. “Muslim Brotherhood members feel especially vulnerable now. They feel that they have been cheated. Radical rhetoric will likely be more acceptable to them now than before.”

Aren’t the Egyptian army soldiers Sunnis and aren’t they killing others Sunnis?
Strange, according to our specialists on SC, they claimed that that only “wicked Alawites”, “heretics Shias” and ‘barbaric Persian” would kill Sunnis.

Exactly. And, it isn’t because this Syrian war is a sectarian war. The Takfiris kill more Sunni than anyone.

Sayyed Nasrallah to Takfiris: We will Capture You, We will Put an End to Terror

“If you claim you are defending the Syrian people and punishing Hezbollah over its intervention in Syria, I tell you two things: You, the Takfiri groups are the harshest killers of the Syrian people. You even kidnapped and killed Christian priests who supported the opposition. You kill children and explode mosques.”

“As for us, we fight with our values. We have never killed a captive, while you prosecute captives in daylight. We have never killed citizens, and in some of our battles, a larger number of martyrs fell in order to protect citizens, and all what is said about massacres committed by us are lies and fabrications.”

Criticizing the fabrications of some Arab media stations, he assured that “the world will witness that we have only fought Takfiri groups in Syria.”

Finally, Sayyed Nasrallah said: “One of our responses to such explosions is: If we had 1000 fighters in Syria, they will become 2000, and if we had 5000, they will become 10 000, and if the battle with those terrorists required that I go with all Hezbollah to Syria, we will all go for the sake of Syria and its people, Lebanon and its people, Palestine and Al-Quds, and the central cause.”

“We put an end to the battle, and we set a time for this battle to end, and as we triumphed in all our wars with Israel, if you wanted us to enter a fierce battle with you, I assure to everyone that we will triumph against Takfiri terror. The cost of the battle will be high, but the least cost is being slaughtered like ewes and waiting for the murderers to come into our house.”

“My greatest fear seems to have come true,” the activist says. “The Egyptians no longer see the authorities as their opponents. The enemy is now those Egyptians with other views.”

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/egyptian-elite-succumb-to-hate-virus-a-916921.html

Revenire

An extraordinary powerful speech from Seyyed Nasrallah. Just compare it to the hysteric nonsense of pathetic Erdogan.

Egypt is in turmoil, the only solution is that all sides accept the return to voting booths,this could bring back the MB back, but all sides must respect democracy, otherwise Egypt will fail and radicals from all sides will flock to Egypt,Sisi must resign, and leave Egypt, a military coup is expected,to oust him.free election, and true democracy is the solution.

US can not deal with turmoil in several countries, a quick solution to Syria is needed.

KSA made mistake

Zoo
in a country that is 85 millions with a fully secular army you will find enough Sunnis to kill Sunnis, but even at that as your friend apple mini said the numbers are not off the charts so far .because if you take the ratio of the Egypt population to that of Syria. You will have to wait until half a million to 600 thousands Egyptians get killed to start taking the blame off your supporters.

What is missing in Ghffran long story @462، is the huge role Iran have in the misery of the Syrians.
By accident or by design he never mentions the billions Iran has spent to support Assad. If it was not for Iran,the Assad regime would have collapsed way before the Islamist came in to Syria.
When it come to why Saudi support Syria revolution while it support the army in Egypt, this is just their own interest and not out of their hate to Assad himself, they worked with his father and had an alliance with him, but the idiot son who did not know how to play the game decided to sell Syria in full to Iran.even going as far as supporting Alqaeda to fight the Americans in Iraq which his father would have never done. on the contrary the father joined the American in 1992 got $3 billion in cash and a whole country to play with called Lebanon while still getting oil from Iran at half price.
so the Saudis are not helping because they love the Syrians but because they hate the idiocy of Bashaer who let Iran and HA controls him like an idiot that he is.

Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the most criminal organization in the middle East said he wants to send more troops to fight Syrians.
He is shouting and yelling as a very crazy terrorist, He would not do that except that he has lost several members, they fell non martyrs, can he send 20,000,leave him unprotected in his Beirut suburb, Syria will be the cemetry for those HA terrorist.
Listen to him he talks nonsense,one day blame Israel for the terrorist attack, next day he blames Sunni,I don’t think he reads Quraan,God in Souret Zumer called his people infidels liers, and now he is mad man,he needs to be put in mental institution.

Syrian

“so the Saudis are not helping because they love the Syrians but because they hate the idiocy of Bashaer who let Iran and HA controls him like an idiot that he is.”

The Saudis are helping because they are panicking as the days of the Saud ruling family seem counted and Iran’s Shias and Turkey moderate sunnis are becoming more threatening to KSA’s monopoly on Islam.

Their efforts both in Syria to encourage terrorists and in Egypt to fight terrorists are doomed. They are like someone drowning, hitting in the air many direction in total incoherence and indifference toward human casualties.

Zoo
That might be on long term, but will the regime last till then ?
The price of Syria for the big powers to let it go to Iran is its nuclear program,
Is Iran willing to pay that price for Syria While Salafi Pakistan already have it?
That is what is it all boiled down to,

Me personally I think the Iranian the ever merchants will try to get both. With the nuclear program as their # 1 goal and Syria their 2nd.
Ask for us your friends how long are they from their#1 goal?

Zero-problem policy of Erdogan: add a few zeros and a unit number.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/syria-rebels-move-hq-from-egypt-to-turkey.aspx?pageID=238&nID=52699&NewsCatID=352
“The headquarters of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC) is being transferred from Egypt to Turkey, as the new administration that toppled President Mohamed Morsi has limited the movements of the Syrian opposition, according to the coalition’s Turkey representative. (…)”

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/egypts-envoy-to-turkey-warns-of-economic-impacts-of-ankaras-posture.aspx?pageID=238&nID=52710&NewsCatID=352
“Salahaddin stressed that the statements made by Turkish officials were not “making a good impression” in Cairo, adding that this posture could well disrupt not only Turkey’s economic ties with Egypt, but also its relations with the Gulf countries.”

The Syrian Army has made more gains against foreign-backed militants during operations in the west of the country, killing a top militant commander Walid Oweissi of Libyan nationality
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/08/16/319092/syrian-army-says-has-made-more-gains/

Wow Mina! Eye opening explosive material! Thank you

/Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the most criminal organization in the middle East/.
Are you a spokesman for Israel?

The US battles “Islamists” in Afghanistan while arming and funding them in Syria. They are pawns in the Illuminati’s Great Game
http://henrymakow.com/2013/08/Bin-Laden-Hamas-Islamists-CIA-Mossad-Tools%20.html

CNN call it “Friday Of Rage”, and BBC call it “Friday Of Anger”. Which one is right? What’s next Friday theme in Egypt please?
Thank you

Israel considers the Lebanese resistance as the strongest enemy near borders. Moreover, military viz-a-viz war was not effective to destroy Lebanese resistance since 1982. Meanwhile, regional sectarian conflict is the most effective method for the US administration, Israel as well as Saudi royal family to weaken and even destroy their enemies, including Lebanese resistance. From military and political views, US-Israel-GCC axis believes that internal chaos in Lebanon will scatter Hezbollah’s military capabilities and the resistance will no longer able to resist Israel as well as to support Syrian regime and so the party will be local Shiite militia versus Sunni militia leaded by Lebanese Sunni Hariri dynasty.
Hezbollah alongside Syrian regime defeated Syrian rebels in al-Qusayr battle, months ago to likely outweigh Syrian Army against anti-government rebels in Syria’s battle, so the US-GCC axis seeks to stop Hezbollah and subsequently defeat Syrian regime.
Saudi dynasty excluded Qatari-backed Syrian opponents of what-so-called ‘Syrian Coalition for opposition’ to appoint Ahmad al-Jarba, who is affiliated to Saudi dynasty. As political indicator for rising Saudi influence over Syrian opposition on the expense of Qatari influence. Furthermore, Saudi dynasty supports Michel Kilou, Syrian opponent who is introduced as secular democratic personnel heading one of opposition bloc in Syrian Coalition for opposition. Bandar Ben Sultan, former Saudi Ambassador in Washington, DC and one of close George W. Bush friends and previously served Saudi intelligence has come back years later to head Saudi intelligence. Many reliable articles exposed his role in Iraq. He supported al-Qaeda-affiliated groups to fight shiite militias and subsequently to face the Iranian influence. Moreover, He has experience in Lebanon through political and sectarian assassinations. In addition, Saudi dynasty lost one of its strongest security men, Wisam Al-Hassan, the head of Lebanese information branch and he was responsible for sending foreign fighters to Syria as well as offering logistic facilities side-by-side with Oqab Saqr, one of Hariri-affiliated Al-Mustakbal parliamentary bloc.
Unknown Salafist group claimed responsibility for Bombing .
Conclusion:

Israel as well as Saudi dynasty have the strongest reason to attack Hezbollah popular base via Salafist (Wahhabi) group. Saudi prince, Bandar Ben Sultan the head of Saudi intelligence has previous experience in Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://arabworld360.com/2013/08/16/analysis-beiruts-bombing

Al-Qaeda loyalist rebels! Hmmm Looks like AFP is changing it’s tune!

17 dead as Qaeda attacks Syria Kurd town: watchdog

BEIRUT (AFP) – Al-Qaeda loyalists attacked a mainly Kurdish town in northeastern Syria sparking fighting in which 17 people were killed, two of them ambulance crew, a watchdog said on Saturday.

The assault on the strategic border town of Ras al-Ain, from which the jihadists were expelled by Kurdish militia last month, sparked an exodus of civilians into neighbouring Turkey, an activist said.

The attack on the town was part of a wider offensive by Al-Qaeda against several Kurdish majority areas of northern and northeastern Syria that began on Friday and was continuing on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Four Kurdish militiamen and 11 jihadists made up the rest of the dead, the watchdog said.

Syrian Kurd activist Havidar said civilians had fled “in waves into villages in Turkey.”

“Intermittent clashes are continuing to take place till now, in the Asfar Najjar area and the outskirts of Tal Halaf,” Havidar told AFP via the Internet.

Elsewhere in Syria, rebels attacked a pro-regime militia checkpoint in a majority Christian area of Homs province, killing six civilians and five militiamen, the Observatory said.

State news agency SANA said all those killed were civilians, and described the attackers as “terrorists”.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/08/17/17-dead-as-qaeda-attacks-syria-kurd-town-watchdog/

It sure looks like Egypt has come back to Syria.

If the US attacks Syria I expect Egypt to send support to Syria.

If I were a Syrian, and a traitor, and I was in Egypt right now I’d be very, very careful. You could end up arrested, or worse.

#484 Syrian

Iran will never renounce to developing nuclear technology for civil usage even it frightens the West. This policy is supported by all the Iranians.
The USA is worried about the nuclear in Iran exclusively because they think it will weaken Israel’s deterrence capabilities against its regional enemies. The West has applied no sanctions on Pakistan and India because these two countries are no threat to Israel.
Iran has been under heavy sanctions for more than 25 years, a few more years won’t make a difference especially that the USA is now hated by most Arab countries after their messy foreign policy in the region and their blind support for a rogue state, Israel.
You are right, I don’t see why Iran will not pursue their nuclear and energetic goals while remaining loyal to their long time friends, Syria and Hezbollah. After boosting and then swiftly dumping their friendly dictators in the region, the USA has shown that they are no loyal friends to count on in time of trouble, their only loyalty is to Israel, for the rest, especially the Middle East, they are just opportunists.

Alan

I agree. Saudi are so terrified and humiliated by the growing power of Iran and the Shias that they will use even Satan himself to stop that.
Their support for Al Qaeeda is obvious. They have done that in Afghanistan to get rid of the atheist Soviets and replace them by ‘friendly’ sunni Talibans.
They don’t care if people die, they want to stop the Shias wave at any cost. They share that goal with the USA and Israel. This is why they are cooperating with them on weakening Syria, Iran and the Hezbollah.
Only time will tell if they are not underestimating Iran’s capabilities to retaliate by creating trouble for the Saudi and its allies in the region.

Shooting unsuspecting unarmed civilians after midnight a trademark of the lowest form of religious hate

Attacks on Syria Christian towns ‘kill 11’

GUNMEN have shot dead 11 people, mostly Christians, in central Syria, the state-run news agency and opposition activists say.

The opposition Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said nine of those killed were Christians.

SANA said the attack occurred after midnight on Saturday on a road linking the Christian villages of Ein al-Ajouz and Nasrah in the central province of Homs.

Christians, who make up about 10 per cent of Syria’s population, say they are particularly vulnerable to the violence sweeping the country of 22 million people.

A resident in the area told the Associated Press that the gunmen randomly opened fire on a street as Christians were celebrating a feast day.

He spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.

The witness said many of the dead were refugees from the central city of Homs, which witnessed heavy clashes between rebels and troops over the past two years.

Tens of thousands of Christians left downtown districts in Syria’s third largest city because of the fighting.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/attacks-on-syria-christian-towns-kill-11/story-fn3dxix6-1226699051931

Norway: Man detained for raising Syria money

Oslo: A man has been detained in Oslo on suspicion of raising money for Syria which could have gone to a terrorist group, Norway’s domestic intelligence service said on Saturday.

Martin Bernsen, a spokesman for the police security service, said the man was detained yesterday and released, though he remains a suspect and faces a preliminary charge of financially supporting a terror organisation. Preliminary charges are a step short of formal charges and a conviction on that charge carries a maximum prison sentence of six years.

“We are worried that the money that is gathered and send to Syria could end in the hands of al Qaeda or al Qaeda- related persons,” Bernsen said. “Every year, large sums leave the country. We are talking about millions.”

Police did not identify the suspect, but Norwegian broadcaster TV2 said he was Farid Bendriss of the Al Furqan Relief group.

The organisation said on Facebook that police seized 300,000.00 kroner (USD 50,730.00) yesterday. Bernsen declined to comment.

http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/norway-man-detained-for-raising-syria-money_869743.html

I am sorry to hear Father Paolos fate is still unclear, the worst has to be expected.

Syria: Hopes for Jesuit Priest Paolo Dall’Oglio Fade as Death Reported by Human Rights Activists

“Hopes for the safe return of a Jesuit missionary abducted in Syria last month have dramatically receded, after his killing was reported by a prominent activist group.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims Father Paolo Dall’Oglio has been executed by jihadist rebels in the city of ar-Raqqah, although the Italian foreign ministry has still not confirmed the report.”

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/499085/20130814/jesuit-father-paolo-dall-oglio-death-confirmed.htm

Juergen when you lie down with snakes don’t be surprised if you’re bitten.

Your friends murdered this deranged priest. No getting around that.

491. ZOO
Al-Saud, descendants of Mordechai Ben Avraham Ben Moshe Eldonma?

Isn’t it funny how the terrorists barricade themselves in mosques and when the army (be it Egypt or Syria) clears the mosque we hear cries of massacre?

The Brothers in Egypt are not true Muslims.

Persia HA and .Assad regime are the Barbaric persian alliance, anyone that supports them is criminal terrorist.

Juergen
If Paolo is dead the ISIS must be fought with all possible force, they are terrorist organization,just like HA

Revenir is calling for Egypt to send troops to fight along Assad forces, there is nothing sillier than this idea

Americans will soon be locked into an unaccountable police state unless US Representatives and Senators find the courage to ask questions and to sanction the executive branch officials who break the law, violate the Constitution, withhold information from Congress, and give false information about their crimes against law, the Constitution, the American people and those in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Guantanamo, and elsewhere. Congress needs to use the impeachment power that the Constitution provides and cease being subservient to the lawless executive branch. The US faces no threat that justifies the lawlessness and abuse of police powers that characterize the executive branch in the 21st century./../…
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/14-08-2013/125382-humanity_drowning_washington_criminality-0/

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri’s younger brother arrested in Egypt, sources say

CAIRO – The brother of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has been arrested by police in Egypt, security sources said Saturday.

Mohammed al-Zawahri, the younger brother of the terror network leader, was detained at a checkpoint in the Cairo suburb of Giza, the sources said.He has been a vocal supporter of ousted President Mohammed Morsi,

Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood movement and the more extreme group to which he belongs, Al Gama’a Al Islamiya.

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/17/20064539-al-qaeda-leader-ayman-al-zawahris-younger-brother-arrested-in-egypt-sources-say?lite

Al-Zawahiri’s brother arrested by Egyptian authorities

CAIRO: Egyptian authorities have arrested the brother of al-Qaeda chief Aymanal-Zawahiri for backing ousted President Mohammed Morsi, an official said today.

Mohamed al-Zawahiri, leader of the ultraconservative Jihadi Salafist group, was arrested in a sweep in Cairo, a high-level security source at the Interior Ministry was quoted as saying by state-run MENA news agency.

His group was allied with ousted President Morsi, whose supporters are protesting the removal of the elected government by the army on July 3.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/al-zawahiris-brother-arrested-by-egyptian-authorities/articleshow/21882293.cms

Majed Syria and Egypt fought together several times against the Zionists.

Today the Zionists are attacking Syria, using Takfiris. The same Takfiris are attacking Egypt. Why wouldn’t Egypt come to the aid of Syria if Washington intervened to aid their Takfiri allies? That is far more plausible than your fevered dream of a million Egyptians coming to help your Takfiri friends.

The SNC is leaving Egypt – they are no longer welcome. Its Egyptian allies are being arrested by the patriotic Egyptian military. The Egyptian people support the Egyptian army.

The attack and killing of 11 people in Wadi Al-Nasara in rural Talkalah are pushing more support to the regime.

There were some Christian militias among the dead, but they were never engaged in any active fighting with the rebels. They were there simply guarding their neighborhood.

Do the opposition and the rebels always claim they started to pick up weapons and fight in the first place was because the regime and SAA attacked their neighborhood?

Several weeks ago, it was Alawite villages under attack by the rebels. And now a Christian neighborhood which used to be relatively quiet and free from any violence.

Peace through negotiation is one thing. Under current situation, a real peace can only be achieved by eliminating those insurgents and cutting off their backing.

How can one talk about peace only to end his sentence with eliminate?

You have to be some really sick minded person to intertwine peace with genocidial rhetoric.

Can this wretched person that denies massacres get any worse!

Sami peace will come when all the Takfiris are neutralized.