Iran recruiting Afghan refugees for Assad?

[Sally]

Sounds like a plan. Syria needs soldiers since many have been killed and many have deserted.


Iran recruiting Afghan refugees for Assad?
Aug 27, 2015 |

• AFP

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• Kabul

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Interviews with fighters, relatives point to a vigorous recruitment drive by Revolutionary Guards

The fate of two brothers from Kabul, one grievously wounded, the other killed fighting in Syria, spotlights Iran’s covert but active recruitment of Afghan refugees to buttress President Bashar al-Assad’s steadily depleting forces.

Shia Iran, Mr Assad’s key military and financial patron, denies enlisting Afghan mercenaries to fight alongside Syrian forces in the four-year conflict against Opposition Sunni rebels that has left more than 240,000 people dead and millions displaced. But interviews with Afghan fighters and relatives of combatants killed in Syria point to a vigorous — and sometimes coerced — recruitment drive of Shia Hazara refugees by Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Cor-ps propping up Mr Assad’s floundering regime.

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[aris2chat]

Iran, iran, iran, iran......................

 

[Mr. H.]

Sally, I find myself more and more often bypassing your myriad of threads to which few are replied upon.

Whereas I do find some informative and provocative, they are repetitive, banal, and lacking of introspective merit.

Perhaps you should douche.

It's refreshing, revitalizing, and rejuvenating.

 

[aris2chat]

Sally, I find myself more and more often bypassing your myriad of threads to which few are replied upon.

Whereas I do find some informative and provocative, they are repetitive, banal, and lacking of introspective merit.

Perhaps you should douche.

It's refreshing, revitalizing, and rejuvenating.

Informative topical news items that help educate and often opens discussion

 

[Sally]

Sally, I find myself more and more often bypassing your myriad of threads to which few are replied upon.

Whereas I do find some informative and provocative, they are repetitive, banal, and lacking of introspective merit.

Perhaps you should douche.

It's refreshing, revitalizing, and rejuvenating.

Informative topical news items that help educate and often opens discussion

Aris, I don't even bother reading the lonely Mr. H.'s posts. I gave up a long time ago so scroll right past them. As you can see, he seems ready to jump on my posts when I get on this forum as if he has nothing else to do in his life.

 

[aris2chat]

Sally, I find myself more and more often bypassing your myriad of threads to which few are replied upon.

Whereas I do find some informative and provocative, they are repetitive, banal, and lacking of introspective merit.

Perhaps you should douche.

It's refreshing, revitalizing, and rejuvenating.

Informative topical news items that help educate and often opens discussion

Aris, I don't even bother reading the lonely Mr. H.'s posts. I gave up a long time ago so scroll right past them. As you can see, he seems ready to jump on my posts when I get on this forum as if he has nothing else to do in his life.

that is how I feel about ironcross, not worth reading

 

[Sally]

Sally, I find myself more and more often bypassing your myriad of threads to which few are replied upon.

Whereas I do find some informative and provocative, they are repetitive, banal, and lacking of introspective merit.

Perhaps you should douche.

It's refreshing, revitalizing, and rejuvenating.

Informative topical news items that help educate and often opens discussion

Aris, I don't even bother reading the lonely Mr. H.'s posts. I gave up a long time ago so scroll right past them. As you can see, he seems ready to jump on my posts when I get on this forum as if he has nothing else to do in his life.

that is how I feel about ironcross, not worth reading

I can understand why you don't want to read him. You, no doubt, have bad memories and his idolizing Assad brings them back.

 

[Mr. H.]

Sally, I find myself more and more often bypassing your myriad of threads to which few are replied upon.

Whereas I do find some informative and provocative, they are repetitive, banal, and lacking of introspective merit.

Perhaps you should douche.

It's refreshing, revitalizing, and rejuvenating.

Informative topical news items that help educate and often opens discussion

Aris, I don't even bother reading the lonely Mr. H.'s posts. I gave up a long time ago so scroll right past them. As you can see, he seems ready to jump on my posts when I get on this forum as if he has nothing else to do in his life.

You indolent whore. Why I ever wasted my time on you and your sniveling banter, I'll never know.

 

[waltky]

Kerry caves to the Commies...

Assad can stay, for now: Kerry accepts Russian stance
Dec 15,`15 -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday accepted Russia's long-standing demand that President Bashar Assad's future be determined by his own people, as Washington and Moscow edged toward putting aside years of disagreement over how to end Syria's civil war.

"The United States and our partners are not seeking so-called regime change," Kerry told reporters in the Russian capital after meeting President Vladimir Putin. A major international conference on Syria would take place later this week in New York, Kerry announced. Kerry reiterated the U.S. position that Assad, accused by the West of massive human rights violations and chemical weapons attacks, won't be able to steer Syria out of more than four years of conflict. But after a day of discussions with Assad's key international backer, Kerry said the focus now is "not on our differences about what can or cannot be done immediately about Assad." Rather, it is on facilitating a peace process in which "Syrians will be making decisions for the future of Syria."

Kerry's declarations crystallized the evolution in U.S. policy on Assad over the last several months, as the Islamic State group's growing influence in the Middle East has taken priority. President Barack Obama first called on Assad to leave power in the summer of 2011, with "Assad must go" being a consistent rallying cry. Later, American officials allowed that he wouldn't have to resign on "Day One" of a transition. Now, no one can say when Assad might step down. Russia, by contrast, has remained consistent in its view that no foreign government could demand Assad's departure and that Syrians would have to negotiate matters of leadership among themselves. Since late September, it has been bombing terrorist and rebel targets in Syria as part of what the West says is an effort to prop up Assad's government. "No one should be forced to choose between a dictator and being plagued by terrorists," Kerry said. However, he described the Syrian opposition's demand that Assad must leave as soon as peace talks begin as a "nonstarting position, obviously."

Earlier Tuesday in the Kremlin, Putin noted several "outstanding issues" between Russia and its former Cold War foe. Beyond Assad, these include which rebel groups in Syria should be allowed to participate in the transition process and which should be deemed terrorists, and like the Islamic State group and al-Qaida, combatted by all. Jordan is working on finalizing the list of terrorist vs. legitimate opposition forces. Representatives of Syria's opposition themselves hope this week to finalize their negotiating team for talks with Assad's government. The U.S., Russia and others hope those talks will begin early next year.

Appearing beside Kerry, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov hailed what he described as a "big negotiating day," saying the sides advanced efforts to define what a Syrian transition process might look like. The two countries also have split on Ukraine since Russia's annexation of the Crimea region last year and its ongoing, though diminished, support for separatist rebels in the east of the country. The U.S. has pressed severe economic sanctions against Russia in response and has insisted that Moscow's actions have left it isolated.

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