Protests in Syria

[MHunterB]

Golly, Mimi - arent' you going to post the pics of what Daddy Assad did in Homs?

Why just the ones showing what Baby Assad has done to his own people?


Poor sad stinking slinking soviet shill that you are : ((

 

[mememe]

Golly, Mimi - arent' you going to post the pics of what Daddy Assad did in Homs?

Hi, M-hooter!

I know you find it difficult to read, but I did not suspect your reading skills are so poor!

It says above the first picture: BEFORE US, UK, etc. start funding, arming and directing terrorists.

And the second picture shows the results of US, UK, etc. interference in Syria.

In other words, when Assad was not targeted by US, UK, etc. Syria was peaceful and relatively prosperous; while the US, UK, etc. are responsible for the CURRENT state of Homs (and Syria).

Do you get it now?

 

[MHunterB]

No, bupkes-for-brains, I don't get why you are still shilling for the Russki scum - or why you lie about who blew up half of Homs.

It's Baby Assad who's ordered his Air Force to strafe people lined up to buy food, and told his artillery to shell civilian neighborhoods.

I don't 'get' why you stupidly try to blame nations half a world away for Baby Assad's genocidal choices - but then fathoming the depths of your delusions is IMO a waste of time.

 

[mememe]

14 Islamic groups of "Syrian freedom fighters" declared they do not recognise the National Coalition of the Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, and will create an Islamic state once Syria will fall...

With US elections over, and Clinton about to leave the office, "civilised" simply must conclude the destruction of Syria. And most likely, they will do it before the New Year.

 

[Trajan]

so, if I recall the world was all alblaze whenever an Israel bulldozer took down the house of a suspected bomb-maker, hamas guerrilla etc.

so, wheres the outrage?



Updated November 27, 2012, 6:15 a.m. ET

Fighting to Hold Damascus, Syria Flattens Rebel 'Slums'

DAMASCUS—All that remains of Abu Mohammed's ancestral home here in Syria's capital are two small adobe brick rooms and a few fig, loquat and mulberry trees.

It was bulldozed as part of a government slum-clearance program that appears to have a political motive: isolate neighborhoods sympathetic to Syria's armed insurrection, and then obliterate them, according to critics, human-rights groups and even some officials within the government itself. "We are like gypsies now," says Mr. Mohammed, who took his wife and five children to another part of the city after sections of his neighborhood, Qaboun—one of the first to rise up against Syria's regime—were flattened and ringed by military posts.

Fighting to Hold Damascus, Syria Flattens Rebel 'Slums' - WSJ.com

 

[mememe]

so, if I recall the world was all alblaze whenever an Israel bulldozer took down the house of a suspected bomb-maker, hamas guerrilla etc.

so, wheres the outrage?



Updated November 27, 2012, 6:15 a.m. ET

Fighting to Hold Damascus, Syria Flattens Rebel 'Slums'

DAMASCUS—All that remains of Abu Mohammed's ancestral home here in Syria's capital are two small adobe brick rooms and a few fig, loquat and mulberry trees.

It was bulldozed as part of a government slum-clearance program that appears to have a political motive: isolate neighborhoods sympathetic to Syria's armed insurrection, and then obliterate them, according to critics, human-rights groups and even some officials within the government itself. "We are like gypsies now," says Mr. Mohammed, who took his wife and five children to another part of the city after sections of his neighborhood, Qaboun—one of the first to rise up against Syria's regime—were flattened and ringed by military posts.

Fighting to Hold Damascus, Syria Flattens Rebel 'Slums' - WSJ.com

Outrage about what?

About US, UK, France, SA, Qatar and Turkey setting Syria alight, or about Syrian government clearing up rabble in an attempt to restore the life in the neighbourhoods cleared from West supported terrorists and international gangs of Islamic militants?

 

[mememe]

US is now openly relying on gangs of terrorists, militants and chances to fight wars for America.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=tf1Rs4Ongxs]Force Outsource: Pentagon favors spec ops, proxy armies - YouTube[/ame]

 

[High_Gravity]

Conflict has left Syria a shell of its former self

BEIRUT — First his parents' home in eastern Syria was reduced to rubble, followed by his father's pharmacy. Then Melad received a call last month informing him that his own apartment in a Damascus suburb had been obliterated by a bomb unleashed by a MiG jet.

By then, he had become inured to the sense of loss.

"I got to the point that when I would hear of another of our properties destroyed, I started laughing," said Melad, a computer engineer who now helps with the humanitarian effort in Syria. "Just as we have gotten accustomed to the amount of blood over these last two years, we have grown accustomed to the destruction."

Much of Syria has become a disaster zone: In September, the opposition group Syrian Network for Human Rights estimated that more than 2.9 million homes, schools, mosques, churches and hospitals had been damaged or destroyed since the uprising began in March 2011. More than half a million are a complete loss, it said.

Weeks later, the group's founder, Sami Ibrahim, estimated that 600,000 more buildings had been shelled or bombed, as the government of President Bashar Assad escalated its campaign with daily airstrikes by helicopter and warplane. The rebels are fighting back, claiming to have captured half a dozen military bases in recent weeks in eastern and northwestern Syria and around Damascus. On Monday, they said they captured a hydroelectric dam in northern Syria.

Although the toll on structures is impossible to verify, the weapons the government is turning against civilian populations have become increasingly destructive, activists say, with TNT barrel bombs and vacuum bombs wiping out entire buildings in one blow.

On streets once lined with multistory buildings and mosques, ceilings lie pancaked atop smashed and dusty home furnishings and appliances. Electrical wires hang like carelessly strung streamers across concrete columns strewn with antigovernment graffiti.

Roads in front of gutted shops have become impassable for the sheer amount of rubble.

The buildings and infrastructure, though of lesser importance compared with the more than 30,000 people reportedly killed and at least an equal number detained or missing, are part of the larger fraying social fabric of the country. Any post-Assad period is likely to be marked by sectarian violence, vendetta killings and hostile ideological wrangling over the future of Syria, all set against an already devastated landscape.

Conflict's destruction has left Syria a shell of its former self - latimes.com

 

[mememe]

Conflict has left Syria a shell of its former self


That's an illustration to what happens to countries targeted by the "civilised" West.

 

[High_Gravity]

Conflict has left Syria a shell of its former self


That's an illustration to what happens to countries targeted by the "civilised" West.

More civilized than your third world shit hole country.

 

[High_Gravity]

Downing of Copter May Show a New Syrian Rebel Capability

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syrian rebels downed a military helicopter with a surface-to-air missile outside Aleppo on Tuesday, video uploaded by antigovernment activists appeared to show, marking what is potentially a major battlefield advance: confirmation that rebels have put their growing stock of heat-seeking missiles to effective use.

In one video, a utility helicopter that appeared to be a Russian-built Mi-8 can be seen banking in a slow left turn and then being hit squarely near its engine by a fast-moving projectile rising at a sharp angle from below. Another video showed what appeared to be the same helicopter moments after the strike. The crippled aircraft manages a partly controlled descent in spreading flames, as a voice off-camera shouts, “sarook,” or rocket, before it strikes the ground and explodes.

In recent months, rebels have used mainly machine guns to shoot down several Syrian Air Force helicopters and fixed-wing attack jets. In this case the thick smoke trailing the projectile, combined with the elevation of the aircraft, strongly suggested that the helicopter was hit by a missile.

Rebels hailed the event as the culmination of their long pursuit of effective antiaircraft weapons, though it was not clear if the downing was an isolated tactical success or heralded a new phase in the war that would present a meaningful challenge to the Syrian government’s air supremacy.

Debate has raged since the start of the insurgency over whether Western and Arab nations should provide Syria’s rebels with portable antiaircraft missiles, often called Manpads. Some fear that such weapons could be smuggled away from the conflict and later used by terrorists against civilian airliners.

Manpads funneled by the United States to Pakistan helped Afghan rebels turn the tide against the Soviet Union in the Afghan war of 1980s. But that example is full of ambivalence — often cited in the Syria debate — because it led to an extended buyback program and decades of worry after Islamist militias, which eventually collaborated with Al Qaeda, prevailed over the Soviet-backed government in Kabul.

“Once these weapons are outside of government control, it is often extremely difficult to track their movement and control who has access to them,” said Matthew Schroeder, an analyst who studies missile proliferation at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/w...how-new-syria-rebel-capability.html?ref=world

 

[mememe]

Conflict has left Syria a shell of its former self


That's an illustration to what happens to countries targeted by the "civilised" West.

More civilized than your third world shit hole country.

Since when UK became a "third world shit hole country"?!

Speaking of "third world" -- that was USA prior to WW2. Thanks to US selling its "help" to both Allies and Axis, and thanks to the conditions of the Marshal Plan US became a superstate. But measly 60 years later is gloriously sliding into its proper place -- third world shit hole.

 

[High_Gravity]

Conflict has left Syria a shell of its former self


That's an illustration to what happens to countries targeted by the "civilised" West.

More civilized than your third world shit hole country.

Since when UK became a "third world shit hole country"?!

Speaking of "third world" -- that was USA prior to WW2. Thanks to US selling its "help" to both Allies and Axis, and thanks to the conditions of the Marshal Plan US became a superstate. But measly 60 years later is gloriously sliding into its proper place -- third world shit hole.

Ah your from the UK, about time you admit where you are from.

 

[mememe]

Ah your from the UK, about time you admit where you are from.

"Admit"???!!!
1. Wtf are you to question me?
2. I mentioned about five times what country I live in. If only you learn to read and retain information.
3.

 

[High_Gravity]

Ah your from the UK, about time you admit where you are from.

"Admit"???!!!
1. Wtf are you to question me?
2. I mentioned about five times what country I live in. If only you learn to read and retain information.
3.

I can question whoever I damn well please you miserable ****.

 

[mememe]

I can question ... you miserable ****.

So, question your miserable ****.

As for you questioning me,

 

[High_Gravity]

Syria cut off from the Internet, activists and monitors report

The Internet has been shut off across Syria, monitors and opposition activists reported Thursday as fighting raged between government troops and rebels on the main road between Damascus and its international airport.

Smaller outages have occurred in the past, but this time all of Syria in effect has been removed from the Internet, U.S.-based monitoring firm Renesys said. The blockage began shortly after noon Thursday.

“We are investigating the dynamics of the outage and will post updates as they become available,” Renesys wrote on its website.

In Dara, the Internet had been cut since Wednesday, but people were close enough to the Jordanian border to pick up coverage from there, opposition activist Thaer Abdullah said. Cellphone service was also blocked for MTN carriers, one of two companies in Syria, he said.

"This is the first time in the history of the revolution the Internet gets cut like this," he said.

In Homs and its suburbs, there was "no Internet and no electricity," said activist Mohamad Homsi. "Just satellite and generators."

Dissidents feared the Internet blackout foreshadowed a new wave of attacks by government forces. The Local Coordination Committees opposition activist network declared it would “hold the regime responsible for any massacres that would be committed in any Syrian cities after such a move was made.”

The network urged Syrians to try connecting to the Internet through dial-up service, offering several numbers, a user number and passwords. In the central city of Hama, Local Coordination Committee activist Mousab Alhamadee wasn't affected because he uses a satellite phone to connect, like most of the opposition activists across the country.

"Assad killed 48,000 people, so he's not going to stop at cutting the Internet," he said.

Syria cut off from the Internet, activists and monitors report - latimes.com

 

[High_Gravity]

The Confessions of a Sniper: A Rebel Gunman in Aleppo and His Conscience

To the other men in his Free Syrian Army unit, he’s simply known as the Sniper, a 21-year-old army-trained sharpshooter who defected on Feb. 21 and joined their ranks. Few of his colleagues know his first name let alone his surname — and that’s the way he wants to keep it.

He hails from a Sunni military family in a town on the outskirts of the capital Damascus. His uncle is a serving general in President Bashar Assad’s army, several of his other relatives are also high-ranking military officers. Apart from his parents and siblings, his relatives all think he’s dead — and that’s the way he wants to keep it.

A trim young man with closely cropped black hair and beard, he looks intense but calm as he sits in complete silence for hours, finger on the trigger, peering through the telescopic sight of his Dragunov sniper rifle. He’s careful not to let its barrel protrude through the double-fist-size peephole he has punched through an apartment wall lest it give away his location to the regime’s sharpshooters, some of whom are only about 50 m away.

He may look calm, but he’s deeply troubled. After some nine months of fighting with several Free Syrian Army units, first on the outskirts of Aleppo and then in the city itself after the rebel push into it in late July, he has grown disillusioned with the fight, and angry with its conduct. “I did this when it was clean,” he says. “Now it’s dirty. Many aren’t fighting just to get rid of Bashar, they’re fighting to gain a reputation, to build up their name. I want it to go back to the way it was, when we were fighting for God and the people, not for some commander’s reputation.”

He refused an order in November to fight a pro-regime,ethnic Kurdish militia in a Kurdish neighborhood of Aleppo that the rebels had entered. “Why should I fight the Kurds?” he says. “It’s a distraction. This isn’t our fight.”

Syrians in the opposition, whether armed or not, have often said that there may be a revolution after the revolution to unseat Assad. The fault lines differ, depending on who you talk to. Some envision a fight between Islamist and secular rebels; others between defectors and armed civilians; some say it will be ethnic, between Kurds and Arabs; others simply territorial, between rebel commanders in a particular area, irrespective of their ideology. Others say it won’t happen. The Sniper, like many fighting men, thinks it will, and that it will be ugly: “We will not become Somalia after Bashar falls,” he says. “We will have many Somalias in every province.”

Read more: The Confessions of a Sniper: A Rebel Gunman in Aleppo and His Conscience | TIME.com

 

[High_Gravity]

U.S. warns Syria regime against using chemical weapons

BEIRUT — The United States bluntly warned Syrian President Bashar Assad against using chemical weapons as his forces lose ground to rebel fighters, and the United Nations said it was pulling nonessential foreign staff from Syria because of deteriorating security.

Warnings from President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other officials Monday reflected U.S. concerns over new intelligence indicating that Syria might be preparing to unleash some of its chemical agent stockpiles.

"The world is watching," Obama said, addressing Assad in remarks at the National War College in Washington. "The use of chemical weapons is, and would be, totally unacceptable. And if you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons, there will be consequences, and you will be held accountable."

The comments came amid indications that after more than 20 months, the tide of battle could be turning against Assad. In recent weeks, rebels have seized large swaths of territory, especially in the east and northwest. They also have overrun a number of military bases and key strategic installations, including oil wells and a hydroelectric dam.

Battles have been raging for days in rebellious suburbs of Damascus, and last week rebels managed to shut down the road to the international airport southeast of the capital, forcing flight cancellations. The government brought in reinforcements to secure the airport road, but reports Monday indicated that battles continued just outside the capital.

Rebels say the capture of a facility near Aleppo known as Base 46 last month after a lengthy siege yielded a stash of shoulder-fired missile launchers. The development could help neutralize the government's overwhelming advantage in air power. Assad's forces have increasingly turned to aerial attacks as its ground troops have been stretched thin and depleted through desertion and casualties. Rebels say one of the missiles has already been used to down a government attack helicopter.

Reports surfaced from multiple sources Monday that top Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi, the public face of the Syrian government, had defected. Makdissi is an English-speaking Christian who publicly defended the regime with passion for months, although he appeared to have been sidelined in recent weeks.

If his defection is confirmed, he would join high-ranking generals, a former prime minister and an air force colonel who fled with his MiG fighter jet to neighboring Jordan.

In another development, Nabil Elaraby, chief of the Arab League, told the French news service Agence France-Presse that Assad's regime risked collapse "any time," citing recent opposition military and political gains.

The United Nations said it was withdrawing nonessential international staff from Syria because of security concerns and suspending movement within the country until further notice. The U.N. has about 1,000 foreign and local staff members in Syria.

U.S. warns Syria regime against using chemical weapons - latimes.com

 

[Katzndogz]

The latest is that Syria has already started mixing the chemicals.

What's obama gonna DO? Syria obviously doesn't take this blow hard seriously. No one in the world would take this joker seriously. obama has put the nation in the position of yelling then running under a rock to hide, or confronting Russia. He's going to choose hiding under a rock and everyone knows it.