1970-2011 Islamic Genocide: Iran, "palestine," Lebanon, Syria,Iraq, Algeria..

[2012]

Some of highlighted mass casualties by (radical) Islam in four decades - 1971-2011 (updated Feb. 2012)

• 2,000-25,000 between Jordanians and "Palestinians" 1970 ('Black September').
  [Yasir Arafat, Palestinian Leader and Mideast Provocateur, Is Dead at 75 - Obituary (Obit); Biography - NYTimes.com]
  
  
  
• 3,000,000 - Bangladesh, 1971 (by Yahya Khan).
  [BBC News - Bangladesh war: The article that changed history]
  
  
  
• 300,000 - Uganda (1971-1979 under Idi Amin).
  [BBC News - Venezuela's Hugo Chavez defends 'Carlos the Jackal']
  
  
  
• 20,000 - Syria (1982, Hama by H. al-Assad).
  [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/opinion/friedman-like-father-like-son.html]
  
  
  
• Between 500,000 and 1,500,000 - Iran-Iraq war. (1980-1988)
  [BBC NEWS | Middle East | The Iran-Iraq war: 25 years on]
  
  
  
• 10,000 - Iran (1988, massacre of political prisnoers).
  [Mir-Hossein Mousavi 'involved in massacre', says report - Telegraph]
  Or 14,000
  [What is There to Celebrate? - Iran Press Watch]
  Or 30,000
  [Mass Executions of 88 in Iran (Iran Press Service)
  http://news.google.com/newspapers?]
  
  
  
  [*] Over 100,000 - Algeria (between 1992 and 2002).
  [[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14118856]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14118856]
  
  
  
• Over 300,000 - Iraq (1979-2003) under Saddam Hussein.
  [BBC News - Iraq uncovers 'Saddam Hussein-era' grave of 800 bodies]
  
  
  
• 300,000 - Lebanon 1970s-2000 by Syria and 'Palestinians'.
  [archives2]
  
  
  
• 2,500,000 - Sudan, 1983-2005.
  [George Clooney and John Prendergast: We can prevent the next Darfur]
  
  
  
• 7,000 - Syria (2011-2012 by Syrian forces with Iranian and Hezbollah active participation).
  [UN Symbolically Censures Syria]

PS

Most Israeli casualties are innocent non-combatants. Most Arab "Palestinian" casualties are combatants and/or involved in violent attacks. Not to mention Arab-Islamic intentional routine in causing deaths on their side via human shields. Same goes to Hezbollah tactics.
In fact: IDF's unparalleled record of sparing civilians in counter-terrorism operations.



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Of course, that's besides the last bloody decade of over 18,000 Islamic terror attacks since 9/11/2001.



Note: Baathist racist Arab tyrants like Saddam Hussein, carried out masssacres in the name of Islam and 'anti-infidel' ideology [as well].

 

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Syrian airstrike into Lebanon...

Syrian helicopter fires rockets 'inside Lebanon'
3 April 2013 - A Syrian helicopter has crossed into Lebanon and fired two rockets near a town home to thousands of Syrian refugees, reports say.

No casualties or damage were reported after the incident on the outskirts of Arsal, which is close to Syria. Syrian forces have previously fired mortars across the border and crossed into Lebanon to attack rebels. Lebanon's president described an air attack last month as an unacceptable violation of Lebanese sovereignty. The latest incident has further raised tension in an area where the divisive effect of the Syrian conflict has already been deeply felt, the BBC's Jim Muir reports from Beirut. The UN estimates that at least 70,000 people have been killed in Syria since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began, just over two years ago. Opposition activists say more than 6,000 people died in March alone which, if confirmed, would make it the deadliest month of the conflict.

'Helicopter and jet'

"A helicopter fired two rockets on Jubaneh al-Shmis on the outskirts of Arsal," a Lebanese security official told AFP news agency on condition of anonymity. "The area lies several hundred metres [yards] away from a Lebanese army checkpoint." Ahmad Fliti, deputy mayor of Arsal, told AFP that two rockets had fallen in a residential area but nobody had been hurt. Witnesses quoted by Reuters news agency spoke of seeing both a helicopter and a jet, and said a rocket from the jet had hit a field. Arsal, situated in an area where cross-border smuggling has long been a way of life, is largely sympathetic to the rebel cause, our correspondent reports.

Much of the surrounding area of the Lebanese Bekaa valley is largely populated by Shia Muslims whose biggest organisation, Hezbollah, backs the Syrian government. Hezbollah fighters are also reported to have been active across the border, supporting Shia villages inside Syria against the mainly Sunni Muslim rebels, our correspondent adds. In the March incident condemned by Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, Syrian aircraft reportedly fired four missiles at Syrian rebels inside Lebanon but nobody was hurt.

BBC News - Syrian helicopter fires rockets 'inside Lebanon'

 

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Proxy war in Syria heats up as end comes near...

Syria: Proxy war heats up as endgame inches closer
12 April 2013 - As Syria's fragmentation gathers pace and the demise of the regime apparently inches ever closer, competition between outside powers backing one side or the other is heating up, and proxy wars over the country's future are intensifying.

The latest example is the attempt by al-Qaeda to put its stamp publicly on the Nusra Front in Syria and encourage it to push for an Islamic state there, while its more moderate or secular partners in the common drive to oust the regime are committed to democracy. It's a reminder that one aspect of the complex Syrian imbroglio is a proxy struggle between the US-led western world and al-Qaeda international. Its leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, the man who succeeded Osama Bin Laden, on Sunday urged jihadis in Syria to strive for an Islamic state that would be a foundation-stone for a wider regional caliphate.

Syria's rebel fighters have their backers, and the backers have their own interests

That was followed two days later by al-Qaeda in Iraq announcing that the Nusra Front was one of its branches, and that the two were merging into a single Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (the Levant). The Nusra Front, jockeying for position in the motley array of Syrian opposition forces and trying to win hearts and minds on the ground, clearly saw this as a potential kiss of death. It swiftly turned down the public merger - though it was obliged to acknowledge its origins by pledging allegiance to Zawahiri, while insisting that that would change nothing. Why this sudden flurry of public statements and display of disarray from the jihadis?

Western support

Over the past few months the Americans - without being obliged to announce any policy changes involving military commitments - have apparently tipped the wink to their regional allies, mainly Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, to step up the quantity and quality of arms supplies to the rebels. At the same time, the Americans are reported to be involved in helping train supposedly moderate Free Syrian Army (FSA) elements in Jordan and sending them across the border into southern Syria, where the rebels, enjoying better anti-air and anti-armour weapons than before, have begun to make gains that are being compared to their advances in the far north. With western support being made contingent on loyalty to the FSA and the opposition National Coalition, this has clearly put pressure on the Nusra Front and other jihadi groups. Many of their followers are believed to have joined up opportunistically because the front had more resources and experience than the other groups.

With that trend now apparently starting to reverse and more resources being routed through the "moderate" groups, al-Qaeda may have judged it timely to remind the jihadists where their loyalties and objectives lie, lest they be lured away. Knowing that the west is nervous about providing the Free Syrian Army and other "mainstream" rebel groups with serious, balance-tilting weaponry for fear that it may fall into the hands of the radicals, al-Qaeda may have decided deliberately to contaminate the entire opposition by association, and deter western arms to the moderates, in order to preserve the jihadis' ascendancy on the ground. The nascent struggle between radicals and others in the opposition is bound to become more acute as regime change moves closer to reality, and if unresolved, will intensify further after it happens, possibly for a long time.

Regional repercussions

 

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Syrian war spreading...

Rockets in Lebanon capital signal Syrian spillover
May 26,`13 -- Two rockets hit Hezbollah strongholds in Beirut on Sunday, tearing through an apartment and peppering cars with shrapnel, a day after the Lebanese group's leader pledged to lift President Bashar Assad to victory in Syria's civil war.

The strikes illustrated the potential backlash against Hezbollah at home for linking its fate to the survival of the Assad regime. It's a gambit that also threatens to pull fragile Lebanon deeper into Syria's bloody conflict. Despite such risks, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah made it clear there is no turning back. In a televised speech Saturday, he said Hezbollah will keep fighting alongside Assad's forces until victory, regardless of the costs. For Hezbollah, it may well be an existential battle. If Assad falls, Hezbollah's supply line of Iranian weapons through Syrian territory would dry up and it could become increasingly isolated in the region.

At the same time, Hezbollah, a Shiite Muslim group, is raising the sectarian stakes in Lebanon by declaring war on Syria's rebels, most of them Sunni Muslims. Lebanon and Syria share the same uneasy mix of Sunnis, Shiites, Christians and Alawites, or followers of an offshoot of Shiite Islam. In trying to defeat the rebels, Assad relies on support from minority Shiites, Christians and his fellow Alawites. On Beirut's beach promenade, opinions about Hezbollah's new strategy seemed to fall along religious lines. Mahmoud Masoud, a Sunni, said he fears Lebanon will become more unstable. "I don't want to see everything I've worked for and my country fall apart of because of a certain group's interests," he said of Hezbollah.

Tamam Alameh, a Shiite, sided with Hezbollah. "The Syrians helped Lebanon a lot. We should help them and rid them of the conflict in their country," he said. The rockets struck early Sunday in south Beirut, an unusual type of attack. In occasional sectarian flare-ups since the end of Lebanon's 15-year civil war in 1990, rival groups have mostly fought in the streets. One rocket hit a car dealership in the Mar Mikhael district, wounding four Syrian workers, badly damaging two cars, and spraying others with shrapnel. Part of the rocket's main body was embedded in the ground, where a Lebanese soldier measured its diameter.

The second rocket tore through a second-floor apartment in the Chiyah district, about two kilometers (one mile) away. It damaged a living room, but no one was hurt. Rocket launchers were later found in the woods in a predominantly Christian and Druse area southeast of Beirut, security officials said. There was no claim of responsibility, but the attack was widely portrayed as retaliation for Nasrallah's defiant speech and Hezbollah's participation in a regime offensive in the past week on the rebel-held Syrian town of Qusair, near Lebanon. The regime has pushed back the rebels in Qusair, but has so far failed to dislodge them.

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[irosie91]

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in Texas in the SAME PERIOD of time----you can figure out
that there is more BAR-ROOM violence in TEXAS---
than in most muslim countries of the world---by PERCENTAGE
thus PROVING that texans who are mostly protestants----
demonstrate the fact that protestants are more violent
than muslims------ask Saigon. You can even ask sherri---
she once said that she lived in Texas sometime in her life.

 

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Syrian civil war startin' to turn in Assad's favor...

Syria army deals severe blow to rebels in key town
Jun 5,`13 -- Syrian troops and their Lebanese Hezbollah allies captured a strategic border town Wednesday after a grueling three-week battle, dealing a severe blow to rebels and opening the door for President Bashar Assad's regime to seize back the country's central heartland.

The regime triumph in Qusair, which Assad's forces had bombarded for months without success, demonstrates the potentially game-changing role of Hezbollah in Syria's civil war. The gain could also embolden Assad to push for all-out military victory rather than participate in peace talks being promoted by the United States and Russia. The Shiite militant group lost dozens of fighters in the battle for Qusair, underlining its commitment in support of Assad's regime and edging the fight in Syria further into a regional sectarian conflict pitting the Middle East's Iranian-backed Shiite axis against Sunnis.

Most of the armed rebels in Syria are members of the country's Sunni Muslim majority, while Assad has retained core support among the country's minorities, including his own Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, along with Christians and Shiite Muslims. The overt involvement by Hezbollah, which is heavily invested in the survival of the Damascus regime, has raised tensions considerably in Lebanon, where the militants have come under harsh criticism. The group openly celebrated Qusair's fall on Wednesday.

The White House on Wednesday night condemned the town's capture and said Hezbollah's involvement threatens Lebanon's stability. Spokesman Jay Carney said in a statement that Assad's regime couldn't wrest control of the town alone and had to rely on help from Hezbollah. He said Syria's government must allow the U.N. and others to evacuate Qusair's wounded and provide medical treatment.

In the predominantly Shiite northeastern town of Bazzalieh, nsear the Lebanese city of Baalbek, Hezbollah supporters set up a check point, distributing sweets to people and firing in the air in celebration. "Today, we defeated the other Israel," declared Ali al-Bazzal, 23, waving a yellow Hezbollah flag. In Hezbollah strongholds in southern Beirut, sounds of celebratory gunfire and fireworks rang out for two hours. "Qusair has fallen," read banners hung in the streets. Both sides had dug in for an all-out battle for Qusair, a key crossroads town of supply lines between Damascus and western and northern Syria that had been under rebel control since early last year.

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Qusair capture changes Syria conflict dynamics
5 June 2013 > The defeat of Syrian rebel forces who have now withdrawn from their positions in the town of Qusair represents a significant victory for the government and its Hezbollah allies.

Potentially it changes the dynamics of the conflict - something that will have political and diplomatic ramifications. It also increases the likelihood of a more persistent spillover of the fighting into Lebanon. Many of the key battles in the Syrian civil war have focussed on supply routes and the key towns that sit astride these vital arteries. Qusair is a case in point - its location is crucial for both sides.

It is a focal point for arms supplies coming into Syria for the rebels from Lebanon via two main routes: the first coming up through Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, and the other coming from further west, from Tripoli and the coast. But the town is also close to important supply lines for the government forces. Qusair is important in terms of controlling the road to Homs to the north-east. The road from Damascus to Homs is a central armature for the Syrian regime. Homs is the crossroads that connects to the Alawite heartland on the the Syrian coast.

Hezbollah gamble

So the strategic importance of Qusair is not in doubt. What is unclear for now are the wider implications of its loss for the rebels. It adds to a growing sense over recent weeks that the government forces are gaining ground. The implication is not that they will win - but rebel forces as presently constituted cannot gain a victory either. So the prognosis is for a divided Syria to battle on with neither side able to force a decisive outcome. The longer the fighting continues so the greater the risk of regional contagion. The battle for Qusair has highlighted the importance of fighters from the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah, which has openly waded into the fray on the side of President Bashar al-Assad. This is a high-stakes gamble for Hezbollah, explicitly reinforcing its links to the Syria-Iran axis and - in the eyes of many Arab-watchers - linking it firmly to the Shia-cause in what is fast becoming a struggle with significant sectarian overtones pitting Sunni against Shia.

Hezbollah has in the past sought to present itself as a Lebanese national movement. Now it is engaged in an inter-Arab civil war. Hezbollah's image inside Lebanon has suffered. The fear now is that the violence in Syria will spill over into Lebanon. In a BBC interview, the military commander of the Free Syrian Army, Gen Selim Idriss, has spoken of his desire to confront Hezbollah fighters inside Lebanon. Up to now there have been sporadic gun battles and some rocket fire in Lebanon linked to the conflict over the border. But any attempt to open up a Lebanese "front" in the fighting risks the wider regional conflagration that so many Western diplomats fear. With Lebanon in turmoil again and Hezbollah potentially weakened, Israel, too, might be drawn into the fray - eager to settle scores with the Shia movement.

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