martytheman Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 why does this dude keep posting every twitter update and article he can find daily? probably 76 of the 77 pages in this thread look like this one. *eta I was wrong.. I picked about 8 pages at random and they all look like this... so it's probably all 77 pages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Actually I spend a lot of time going through everything and posting a few things that I think best inform and give an idea of what is going on. But I do apologize if it upsets you. I'd suggest not reading past this point then. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19273284 Houla massacre: UN blames Syria troops and militiaSyrian troops and militia were behind the Houla massacre of 108 people in May, UN investigators have concluded. Meanwhile, at least 30 people were killed when warplanes attacked the town of Azaz near Aleppo, activists say.In Azaz, rescuers tried to pull survivors out of the rubble of collapsed houses and casualties were rushed to a nearby field hospital. A large number of people were wounded and the number of dead was expected to rise. Among those killed in the raid on Azaz were four Lebanese Shia Muslims taken hostage by rebel forces in May, according to unconfirmed reports. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/15/cnn-poll-syria-situation-concerns-americans-who-are-split-on-u-s-action/ CNN Poll: Syria situation concerns Americans, who are split on U.S. actionThe increasingly bloody civil war in Syria concerns Americans, a CNN/ORC poll released Wednesday showed, though the prospect of sending military assistance from the U.S. and other countries or using air power to assist rebels has Americans divided. The poll showed 29% of Americans saying they're very concerned, and 43% saying they're somewhat concerned, about the situation in Syria. Twenty-six percent said the situation in Syria did not concern them. In Wednesday's poll, Americans were largely split on whether or not the U.S. should partner with other countries to send military assistance to Syrian rebels. Forty-six percent favored the U.S. and other countries using air power to establish safe zones in Syria, compared to 49% who opposed taking that measure. Sixty-four percent of Americans said they opposed sending U.S. and other countries' troops into Syria to establish safe zones for rebels. Thirty-two supported sending ground troops into the country.Arming the Syrian opposition, a move the Obama administration has resisted in part because U.S. officials don't know enough about the rebels, also splits Americans. Forty-eight percent said in Wednesday's poll they favored sending weapons and other supplies to Syrian opposition forces, while 47% were opposed to taking that step. https://twitter.com/WashingtonPoint 2 weeks ago walked 2gether into Syria from d Turkish city, Kilis.Brigade com Yusuf killed 2day in Selahaddine http://instagram.com/p/OWrUQWG6zU/ 12:10 PM The war planes actually targeted the hospital: ~15 killed in Azez, ~300 injured 12:11 PM The Syrian airforce by targeting hospital near Turkish border also signals Turkey about its safe-zone plans http://www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=289416 … 12:13 PM https://twitter.com/Reuters SAUDI ARABIA ORDERS CITIZENS TO LEAVE LEBANON "IMMEDIATELY" - SAUDI STATE NEWS AGENCY12:19 PM https://twitter.com/MahirZeynalov 5 colonels, 3 lt. colonels, 4 majors, 3 captains, 2 lieutenants and 39 soldiers were among 1,199 Syrians who crossed into Turkey today.10:27 AM At least 100 Syrians were brought to Turkey's Hatay wounded in an air strike in a neighboring Syrian town. 12:33 PM https://twitter.com/hadeelalsh In Azaz, witnessed the damage to homes of civilians. The town is heart broken. 12:53 PM Saw 3 babies being carried out, and half a man's body out of the rubble. 12:56 PM At least 20-23 homes now leveled to the ground. Men falling to the ground crying, women wailing. 1:01 PM Met one woman who went from hospital to hospital looking for her brother. found out he was being buried after dying in air strike 1:09 PM https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1999085&l=d6a683dd6b&id=217848338242310 Local Coordination Committees in SyriaThe number of martyrs has risen to 178 thus far today, among them children and women. Of the martyrs, 90 were reported in Aleppo (most of them in Izzaz), 32 in Damascus and its Suburbs (including 6 who were field-executed in Douma, 11 who were also field- executed in the orchards of Razi and 6 in Qaboun), 26 in Idlib, 21 in Homs (including 6 members of the same family in Deir Baalba), 5 in Daraa, 2 in Hama, 1 in Deir Ezzor and 1 in Quneitra 12:44 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koala Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 why does this dude keep posting every twitter update and article he can find daily? probably 76 of the 77 pages in this thread look like this one.*eta I was wrong.. I picked about 8 pages at random and they all look like this... so it's probably all 77 pages. Cause unlike 99.9% of the population, he gives a **** that people are dying there EVERY DAY, for the crime of wanting democracy. This is his way of keeping attention to this human catastrophe. If you wanna ignore it, then go back to watching tv or whatever, but dont discourage people who realize there's more important **** going on in the world than the number of times RGIII farted today. Also, for all the Orwellian revisionists who wanna claim the Syrian opposition are terrorists, going back through this thread is a nice reminder of what actually happened As a quick timeline: some high school kids spray-painted a wall, Assad tortured and killed them, there was a peaceful revolt in solidarity for the murdered children, Assad's thugs murdered the protesters in cold blood, shot up their funerals, and tortured anybody related to the protesters. The protestors began demanding Assad step down and there be real elections, he obviously had forfeited his right to lead anybody, by murdering children. This continued for months without the peaceful protests turning violent in any way, hardly a shot fired in self defense. They begged the UN for help, and the UN proved just how worthless it is. After a while, they realized nonviolent protest doesnt work with people like Assad. And it doesnt work when you're muslim country without major oil resources, and too many in the international community dont care, because you're muslim. So they picked up guns and began to defend themselves. Against all odds, they gave the syrian military all it could handle, but then the syrian military got really scared and started using artillery and tanks to level entire cities. Realizing that Assad wasnt gonna stop till they were all dead, the Syrian rebels again begged anybody and everybody for help. Noone responed, except jihadists from the gulf with Al-Qaeda links. The fact that the rebels were forced to accept help from the jihadists, because noone else offered help, should shame the rest of the world more than it does the rebels. And yet, here we are, with many people gearing up to re-paint this conflict as Al-Qaeda v. Bashar Al Assad, and attack Obama for the limited aid that he is giving this "terrorist-loving" Syrian opposition. And some idiot will buy it. Thank God for the "visionaries" of the world have taken the time to document this tragedy or else more people would be fooled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade7 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Keep doing your thing, Visionary. Half the battle is knowing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 SYRIA http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/inside-aleppo-with-syrian-rebel-fighters-a-850002.html Inside the Syrian Rebels' Fight For AleppoThe black pickup truck races through the narrow streets of Aleppo's historic center. Old men are sitting in the shade in front of their houses as if it were peacetime. Yassin skillfully maneuvers the truck around them. The young fighter with the Free Syrian Army (FSA) is wiry, tall and has his head almost completely shaved. He speeds through the Bab al-Nasr, a gate that was once part of the city wall of ancient Aleppo. "We just captured this area today," he shouts over the engine noise. "The government troops had to retreat toward the center of the city." Yassin comes to an abrupt stop in an arcade. Driving any farther would be deadly. "Snipers can see into this arcade. They're just around the corner on the right, very close by," he says. A grenade coming from the Citadel, an imposing medieval fortress on a hill, hisses through the air above the neighborhood and lands farther back. "The soldiers up there won't be able to hold out much longer," Yassin says. "They're not getting any supplies. We have them surrounded." Yassin is a member of the Liwa al-Tawhid, or Brigade of Unity, part of the FSA. The brigade operates primarily in the eastern and central sections of Aleppo. Like most of the fighters with Liwa al-Tawhid, Yassin is from the surrounding area and didn't know his way around the city when the FSA advanced into Syria's economic capital about three weeks ago. The battle for Aleppo, Syria's largest city, is of critical importance for the Syrian rebellion -- as well as for the future of the country and possibly the region, as well. President Bashar Assad has declared the struggle for Aleppo the "mother of all battles," and his troops are fighting with everything they have. The military controls the center of the city, the north and the far western section, while the rebels have taken hold of the other half. If Assad's troops do not drive them out, they could turn Aleppo into the seat of a rebel government. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/08/2012815173313836461.html Syrian warplanes hammer rebel border townSyrian fighter jets have conducted two devastating bombing runs on the rebel-held town of Azaz, flattening a string of houses and killing at least 20 people including children, activists said. "Bashar did this. God help us, these animals will kill us all," said one man, hoisting a bloodied arm that had been piled up on the pavement outside the hospital in Azaz after the bombardment. A correspondent with the AFP news agency said at least 10 houses had been flattened in the bombardment. Azaz, which lies just to the north of the main battleground city of Aleppo, is often used as a rear base by rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters. "This was a civilian area. All these houses were packed with women and children sleeping during the fast," said witness Abu Omar, a civil engineer in his 50s, referring to the dawn-to-dusk fast Muslims observe during Ramadan. Hundreds of people, most of them women and children, fled across the border to Turkey after the air strike, with families carrying bags of clothes and boxes of food on their heads, an AFP correspondent said."It was a massacre, an entire family like mine was exterminated," said one woman who refused to give her name. In Aleppo itself, a new front had reportedly opened in the northeastern district of Baaideen, forcing residents to flee as regime forces pounded the area using tanks and warplanes. Abu Ubayda, a local rebel commander, said regime forces were trying to encircle the FSA between Baaideen and southwestern district of Salaheddin which the government retook last week. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/rss/eo20120816a1.html?utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+japantimes_news+%28The+Japan+Times+Headline+News+-+News+%26+Business%29&utm_source=buffer&buffer_share=1e075 Spillover could force Washington to consider how to end Syria's war https://twitter.com/malonebarry Pics hitting Reuters wire from Syria Air force air strike in Azaz horrific - just awful. You can feel them in the pit of your stomach2:03 PM Reuters' @hadeelalsh tweeting from Azaz now. 2:04 PM https://twitter.com/HalaGorani (French) An AFP report published Sunday described Azaz as a rebel held town where daily life was returning to normal. http://www.lepoint.fr/t/1-14953563:04 PM https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1999302&l=55239774e3&id=217848338242310 Local Coordination Committees in SyriaThe number of martyrs has risen to 193 thus far today, among them children and women. Of the martyrs, 90 were reported in Aleppo (most of them in Izzaz), 41 in Damascus and its Suburbs (including 6 who were field-executed in Douma, 11 who were also field- executed in the orchards of Razi and 6 in Qaboun), 26 in Idlib, 24 in Homs (including 6 members of the same family in Deir Baalba), 7 in Daraa, 2 in Hama, 2 in Deir Ezzor and 1 in Quneitra 2:37 PM LEBANON https://twitter.com/dalalmawad Reporting live from the Mokdad residence in Dahya lebanon1:06 PM I asked a masked armed man leaving the building where he was going he said "I'm going hunting" 1:42 PM Hatem al Mokdad tells me they will kidnap Lebanese officials funding and protecting the Fsa 1:43 PM Almokdad family claims it has now more than 33 Fsa hostages 1:44 PM So everyone knows where these guys' residence is, but no one is stopping them? Is the government supporting them? https://twitter.com/rmslim A plea to Lebanese media: Stop giving airtime to the thugs called a'l al Miqdad. They must be enjoying the visibility. Do not give it 2them2:24 PM https://twitter.com/hhassan140 UAE asks its nationals to refrain from traveling to Lebanon and those in Lebanon to leave "immediately", via @ABZayed. 2:31 PM https://twitter.com/oh_bergine BREAKING: Aljadeed: Lebanese prisoners in Roumieh prison are holding Syrian prisoners as hostages2:36 PM Just when you thought things in Lebanon couldn't get any crazier.... https://twitter.com/LeShaque AlJadeed: Lebanese inmates in Roumieh prison (re-)imprison Syrian inmates. 2:35 PM 40 Syrians were kidnapped in Lebanon. KSA and UAE have alerted their citizens to leave promptly. No word from Syria embassy. 2:38 PM Remember when esteemed diplomats argued that military intervention may cause the Syrian conflict to spill over? 3:25 PM When will the conflict in Syria become such a bother to neighboring countries that they feel compelled to find solutions? 3:27 PM https://twitter.com/BahjatNassif Beirut Airport road now pic.twitter.com/OGBwVxWS2:51 PM The Lebanese kidnapping family and friends have blocked the airport road and threatened to kidnap any gulf nationals or syrians they see. https://twitter.com/SultanAlQassemi CNN: Qatar asks its citizens leave Lebanon immediately for their safety3:15 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 SYRIA http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/15/us-syria-crisis-islamic-summit-head-idUSBRE87E1B920120815 OIC head did not see support for military intervention in SyriaThe secretary general of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, said early on Thursday he "did not see much support for external military intervention" in Syria during a summit of Muslim nations in Mecca. Ihsanoglu, who is Turkish, was speaking in Arabic at a press conference at the end of a two-day summit called by Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah to discuss the crisis in Syria. a popular activist from Aleppo returns to twitter after a few days missing. https://twitter.com/AnonymousSyria Thank you my friends for being worried about me. I'm OK & not in Aleppo since Sunday & no internet either where I'm until today.4:22 PM @the_47th Hi Man, I'm safe and my family too. 5:54 PM https://twitter.com/THE_47th For 6 months, I kep telling ppl Abdelrazzak Tlass is no Islamists, he has a drinking problem, and is always seriously horny..no 1 believed.5:34 PM But now I video surfaced of Abdelrazzak Tlass in the heat, cybersexing w/ a chic online…Not saying he is a bad man..just saying he's human. 5:35 PM God bless Abdelrazzak Tlass…you represent every man in the world…u get horny..even in the battle field. 5:36 PM Now, I will not post that widely shared youtube, due to international man-code. But it is there. FSA are humans..they get horny..and drink 5:36 PM https://twitter.com/HamaEcho FSA capture a MANPAD, 4 anti-aircraft guns and hundreds of boxes of ammunition in Dumair, Damascus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADBqZbNjU8I5:38 PM @THE_47th He's [Abdul Razzak Tlas head of Forouk Brigade in Rastan, Homs] just an ordinary young guy, deserves an award for good multi-tasking Being a man and a great commander at the same time. 5:51 PM https://twitter.com/LizSly This is Azaz, blitzed tdy by the Syrian air force. A tiny town, right on the Turkish border. It made no difference. http://bit.ly/QDcpSl 6:57 PM https://twitter.com/abuhatem Fox News is actually in Syria they had crazy coverage of bombing of a bunch of little kids today in Azzaz. This regime is criminal!!!7:06 PM Steve Harrigan of Fox News (formerly CNN) says that he has NEVER seen any attack like Syrian regime today not even when he was in Chechnya. 7:07 PM Steve Harrigan: Usually in war you can figure out the front line and where they will attack but its not safe in Syria. 7:09 PM Steve Harrigan: I am never going back into Syria until Bashar al-Assad is out of power. 7:09 PM Steve Harrigan: This was deliberate, calculated, daytime strike by a government to try to incite terror by its own people. Over 40 killed. 7:10 PM https://twitter.com/NMSyria An infant killed, trapped under the rubble caused by bombardment of Ezzaz, Aleppo. Men stand by helpless.6:48 PM Goran Tomasevic is an international war photographer now in Syria. Will be tweeting some of his photos. 7:10 PM A FSA fighter reacts after hearing news that his commander had been killed by a tank shell in Aleppo pic.twitter.com/Z2ljTngv 7:12 PM FSA sniper looks down his scope, holding his rifle in one hand, smoking a cigarette in his other hand. Aleppo pic.twitter.com/RE3T0Roy 7:19 PM https://twitter.com/Moe__AB I personally lost 4 of my relatives in Aleppo in the past 3 days!\7:31 PM One of them was sniped while trying to get his pregnant wife (diabetic) some insulin! 7:34 PM I really dunno what to say anymore! There is just no humanity left I guess. 7:36 PM https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1999777&l=89ccd7fb69&id=217848338242310 Local Coordination Committees in SyriaThe Local Coordination Committees in Syria were able to document 205 martyrs today, among them children and women. 90 martyrs were reported in Aleppo (most in Izzaz), 42 in Damascus and its Suburbs (including 6 who were executed in Douma, 6 in Qaboun neighborhood and 11 who were executed in Razi Orchids), 26 martyrs in Idlib, 29 in Homs (among them 6 martyrs from one family in Deir Baalbeh neighborhood), 7 in Daraa, 8 in Deir Ezzor, 2 in Hama and 1 in Quneitra 5:59 PM LEBANON https://twitter.com/Repent11 KUNA: Saudi, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain urge their citizens to leave Lebanon immediately. "Syria spill over tension."5:46 PM https://twitter.com/WilliamsJon Whoops: Security fears in Lebanon force Air France Paris-Beirut flight to divert to... Damascus!! Refueled in Syria, now landed in Cyprus.7:16 PM https://twitter.com/NMSyria Many calling for Syrians in Beirut to leave and go to Tripoli or Akkar and Saida after kidnappings continue.6:54 PM Another young Syrian man kidnapped in Beirut - his name has not yet been released. 6:56 PM Saudi Embassy in Beirut has confirmed a Saudi national has been kidnapped. 7:35 PM http://www.extremeskins.com/showthread.php?357480-Yahoo-Assad-predicts-disaster-if-West-meddles-in-Syria&p=9046975#post9046975 23,684 people killed so far in Syria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/syrian-rebels-dispute-reports-about-al-qaida-fighters-in-their-ranks-a-849983.html Are Reports of al-Qaida in Syria Exaggerated? http://blogs.aljazeera.com/liveblog/topic/syria-153 about 2 hours agoAt least 25 people have been killed in government shelling of Qadi Askar district in aleppo. [source: Shaam news agency] about 2 hours agoAl Jazeera's Stefanie Dekker, reporting from Antakya, a Turkish town near the Syria border, said: "We know that it started around 3 o'clock in the afternoon when the jets came and started bombing an area of the town, their target we were told was a former Baath headquarters which is now where the Free Syria Army have their base. about 2 hours agoSyria TV says troops have freed journalists held by rebels in Damascus suburb.[supposedly Al Tal] [source: AP] https://twitter.com/Skytwitius Just asked UNs Amos why Gov wont let big aid agencies in. She said they concerned aid will fall into rebel hands.1:18 AM Oh, of course! Because they might actually get it to people who need it. :mad: Personaly I'd be more worried about aid workers being kidnapped or blown up by shelling, air raids. https://twitter.com/jenanmoussa People Scared. Women, children screaming, hiding in Garage/ basement.3:21 AM My god, there was intense shelling in the town where I am in Idleb 2 hrs ago. Death, injuries, horror. Helicopters, jets came out of nowhere above twn. Started to drop bombs followed by huge explosions. We stay with a local family. Family began screaming. Children crying. Simply terrible. When we ran outside to get to shelter, I saw column of smoke from nearby hit house. Shelter was full with screaming families. Bombs hit close to shelter which led to absolute panic. It was just terrifying. When planes left, we visited destroyed houses. All civilian houses. Wounded pple taken from rubble. People in absolute shock. From destroyed houses we visited victims. I saw 2 dead, 3 wounded children and a wounded man. Shocking is that they don't bring wounded to hospitals but to private houses, clinics. They r scared hospital gets bombed 2. In little clinic I saw young girl badly wounded. Legs, back, head injured. Bleeding like crazy. Her name is Sulaf. Terrible. 4:17 AM https://twitter.com/BSyria The regime is obviously resorting to more and more catastrophic air raids.3:49 AM https://twitter.com/BreakingNews As many as 2.5 million people are in need of aid in Syria, UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos says - @Reuters4:01 AM https://twitter.com/ZeinakhodrAljaz Moqdad family: if Syria rebels kill their relative Hasan Moqdad, they will kill their Turkish hostage6:01 AM I'm seeing reports now from the AP that 20 Shiites were taken off buses in Pakistan and killed. Not sure if it's related to the kidnapping in Lebanon and war in Syria, but it could be. If it is, things are going to get much much worse...everywhere. https://twitter.com/LccSy Residents of Dumair in Damascus Suburbs Migrating to Escape Shellinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Oc2JvT_edM&feature=player_embedded 10:49 PM https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2000227&l=7d2d3fae73&id=217848338242310 Damascus Suburbs: Dumair: 10 armored vehicles carrying cannons, departed from Brigade 81 in Rahiba and are going toward Dumair10:55 PM https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2000335&l=7f7ef558f0&id=217848338242310 Damascus Suburbs: Dumair: Regime forces are using mortars and BMP vehicles to shell the city 11:29 PM https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2001074&l=bd9886563a&id=217848338242310 Local Coordination Committees in SyriaToday started with the fall of 62 martyrs: 39 martyrs were reported in Aleppo (most of them were killed in the massacre of Qadi Askar neighborhood), 10 in Damascus and its Suburbs, 5 in Idlib, 5 in Deir Ezzor, 2 in Hama and 1 in Homs 5:38 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444508504577591591327012890.html?mod=wsj_share_tweet#articleTabs%3Dcomments Assad Rejected Iran Entreaty, U.S. Officials SaySyrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime rejected Tehran's request to conduct or allow a raid to rescue Iranians captured by Syrian rebels, U.S. officials said. Syrian rebels waylaid a bus carrying 48 Iranians as it traveled to Damascus this month. U.S. officials said at least some of those were operatives from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps sent to Syria to train government forces and potentially conduct covert missions to aid the... http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/world/middleeast/iran-warns-united-states-on-fate-of-hostages-in-syria.html?smid=tw-share Iran Warns U.S. on Fate of Hostages in SyriaIran said Tuesday that it was holding the United States responsible for the fate of a group of Iranians held by Syrian rebels, as the highest-ranking Iranian official to visit Syria since the antigovernment uprising began there arrived in Damascus to show support for President Bashar al-Assad and attempt to secure the release of the hostages. https://twitter.com/SyrianSmurf Many of the FSA battalions in DeirEzzor unite under one brigade. 6:37 AM https://twitter.com/THE_47th Vid of simple, bloodless ambush by FSA capturing a few Assad Air Force officers based on Intel http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D142ld3n9VhM&v=142ld3n9VhM&gl=AE 6:40 AM https://twitter.com/MahirZeynalov Incompetent Turkish government should do smth good and immediately demand that warplanes in Azaz is a threat to Turkey, shoot down some.8:03 PM August 15 I have always said any Syrian military deployment beyond Aleppo is a threat to Turkey. 8:06 PM August 15 The rogue regime's warplanes are killing children 4 km away from border of a country claiming to be moral police yet silent. 8:08 PM August 15 Lebanese al Maqdad clan says they would kill a Turkish hostage first if their kinsman captured by rebels in Syria was hurt. 6:44 AM Al Maqdad spokesman: We are only targeting the FSA and Turks.. The number of Turkish captives "is likely to rise". 6:47 AM https://twitter.com/RulaAmin Mikdad family says they have over 20 hostages now &Red Cross trying to mediate between them and syrian kidnappers of Hasan6:52 AM Maher Mikdad also told me they have no problem with the Saudis and Qataris in Lebanon and did not threaten to kidnap any of them 6:54 AM Maher AlMikdad also told me that if their son Hassan is not released the syrian and turkish hostages will b killed 7:01 AM Maher Mikdad says Hassan Mikdad,kidnapped in syria last week had been living there since before the syrian uprising started 7:09 AM https://twitter.com/MahirZeynalov Two Syrian colonels, two majors, two captains and eight soldiers are among 727 Syrians who crossed into Turkey this morning. 6:57 AM In the past ten days, 8,872 Syrians including 232 defected army officers and 156 wounded crossed into Turkey. 14 injured Syrians died. 7:00 AM is now hosting 62,300 Syrian refugees in nine tent camps, one container city and several dorms. 7:04 AM https://twitter.com/THE_47th Local Coordinations Committee Syria: 72 killed around Syria today.7:29 AM Reports of a heavy air bombardment of Al Bab in Aleppo. 7:32 AM Official Syr Revo page: 5 killed in shelling & air assault on the town of Al Bab, in the suburbs of Aleppo. 7:33 AM http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=wo_c1#/video/bestoftv/2012/08/15/pkg-wedeman-aleppo-hospital.cnn Syrian regime attacks hospitalAdded on August 15, 2012 CNN's Ben Wedeman was in Aleppo as the Syrian regime attacks a rebel-controlled hospital from the air. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/16/cnn-inside-syria-nobody-imagined-it-would-turn-into-this/ CNN inside Syria: Nobody imagined it would turn into thisWhat we saw during our trips in Aleppo were not images of the city I knew: The shelling, the snipers, the destruction. I never imagined this city would be standing in the middle of warfare. Nobody imagined it would turn into this. Some parts of Aleppo are complete battle zones. Shells and rubble litter the streets. Cars are blown to pieces. This beautiful city is where we raised my daughter for her first years from 1990 to 1993. When I was at work my wife went everywhere shopping with my daughter and going to markets. As we drove quite close to the neighborhood where I used to live, one in government control, I took a quick look and noticed it looked mostly the same. I quickly refocused, concerned for our safety. A government checkpoint was coming up on the right. The shelling here is constant and random and government forces seemingly go from neighborhood to neighborhood each day. On our first night in Aleppo, I didn't sleep more than 15 minutes because of the constant bombardment. In Al-Sha'ar we saw open air markets where people were selling vegetables. You wouldn’t know by being there that there's a war going on. Then about 500 meters off the street an air force jet begins bombing and strafing.Some people stopped and stared, others went into doorways and took cover, but for the most part traffic went on and people were buying and selling vegetables. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/15/despite-pledge-syrian-rebels-continue-to-torture.html Despite Pledge, Syrian Rebels Continue to Torture http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/16/arts/design/syrian-conflict-imperils-historical-treasures.html?_r=1&smid=tw-share Syrian Conflict Imperils Historical TreasuresPreservationists and archaeologists are warning that fighting in Syria’s commercial capital, Aleppo — considered the world’s oldest continuously inhabited human settlement — threatens to damage irreparably the stunning architectural and cultural legacy left by 5,000 years of civilizations. The walled Old City overlooks Aleppo, a Syrian city where recent fighting has been fierce. Within the Old City is the Citadel, a structure that stands atop an ancient temple, the site of an excavation. The 5,000-year-old temple, discovered in 1996 by German and Syrian archaeologists, honors a storm god. The site has friezes and sculpture. Already the massive iron doors to the city’s immense medieval Citadel have been blown up in a missile attack, said Bonnie Burnham, president of the World Monuments Fund, an organization that works to preserve cultural heritage sites. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9480363/Syria-Bashar-al-Assads-brother-Maher-loses-leg.html Syria: Bashar al-Assad's brother Maher 'loses leg'A diplomat told the Reuters news agency that Maher lost a leg during an explosion when the regime's security cabinet was attacked in July. A Gulf source confirmed the report to Reuters saying: "He lost one of his legs. The news is true." Reports at the time suggested Maher had been injured in the suicide attack which killed Gen Daoud Rajha, the defence minister, Assef Shawkat, Bashar's brother-in-law and Gen Hassan Turkmani, head of government's crisis operations. Maher al-Assad, the younger brother of the president, has been referred to as the "most feared man in the country", "the Butcher of Dera'a" or "the enforcer". He has not been seen in public since the attack. As the commander of the elite Fourth Division and Republican guard, he took an active part in supressing the protests in Dera'a last year. There were also reports that Farouq al-Shara, the vice-president of the regime, had defected, but this was later clarified - it was actually a cousin of Mr al-Shara - Yarab al-Shara. http://www.npr.org/2012/08/16/158891571/asked-to-spy-on-rebels-syrian-soldier-becomes-one?sc=tw&cc=share Asked To Spy On Rebels, Syrian Soldier Becomes OneBut, while he was waiting for his military discharge papers, he says, military intelligence contacted him. They asked him to pose as a defector in order to get information on the rebels' troop strength and weapons. He pretended to comply. "I would give them outdated information, or just tell them obvious things," Ra'ed says. "Or, I gave them information that would help the rebels. For example, if the rebels planned to liberate a certain checkpoint, I would tell my handlers that the rebels would hit a different checkpoint." Ra'ed was sure one side or the other would find out he was a traitor and kill him. So he got rid of his cellphone, moved his family to a safe place, and defected to the Free Syrian Army. Earlier this year, Ra'ed fought with the rebels in the battle of Baba Amr, a neighborhood in the central city of Homs. The rebels held out for nearly a month against better equipped government troops.On the day government troops finally broke through rebel lines, Ra'ed was firing down on Syrian army troops from a rooftop when he was hit by a government sniper. "The wound felt like an electric shock to my head," he says. "I held the wound and walked to a field hospital. At the hospital, the doctor asked my name and blood type. I handed him a piece of paper that I was given when I gave blood a week before. Then I lost consciousness." Ra'ed was carried out of Baba Amr through underground drainpipes. He says two of his comrades were shot and killed by government troops in the process. He was then smuggled out of Syria and taken to a hospital in Lebanon for treatment. https://twitter.com/AAzizAlSibaai Tawheed Brigade destroys the biggest checkpoint in the city of Idlib. 9:54 AM https://twitter.com/SyrianSmurf 5 martyrs in Maarat Misreen Idlib after a military aircraft began shelling the city today.8:24 AM 21 defected soldiers were martyred in Hama today when their vehicles were shot up by regime soldiers. 8:36 AM The pieces of the bodies of the 5 martyrs in Maarat Misreen Idlib being collected into cartons 8:48 AM Ya Allah! 60 were found in Qatana, Damascus suburbs. They were executed and dumped. 11:08 AM https://twitter.com/ZeinakhodrAljaz France says Security Council will not renew mandate of UN observer mission in Syria12:07 PM Russia regrets UN decision to withdraw observer mission from Syria 12:09 PM Russia says permanent members of UN Security Council, key regional players to meet in New York Friday to discuss 12:11 PM Awww. And it was going so well. 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visionary Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 http://www.enduringamerica.com/home/2012/8/16/syria-and-beyond-live-coverage-bombings-kidnappings-iranian.html#1910 1910 GMT: Contrary to popular opinion, there is still plenty of fighting in the Salleh el Dine district of Aleppo: The battle lines have not changed very much in recent days. In places like Saleh el Dine, the FSA is not making an effort to establish permanent control, as they were last week, but because of this they are still able to enter the district, conduct ambush or "hit and run" style attacks, and prevent further Assad military incursions. Also, despite all the violence in the city, primarily characterized by intense bombing and shelling campaigns, the majority of the city is still in partial or total FSA control, and there are almost no areas where the regime has been able to effectively send in tanks. http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/syrian-fm-claims-rebels-1500794.html Syrian FM claims rebels no match for militarySyria's foreign minister defiantly dismissed rebel forces and their international backers on Thursday as incapable of toppling the military defending Bashar Assad's regime, even as condemnation grew over expanded offensives that activists say have claimed dozens of civilian lives in recent days. Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem's confident tone contrasted sharply with a series of recent blows to Assad, including high-level military and political defections and the ability of rebel guerrillas to stage bombings and abductions in the heart of the capital, Damascus. http://www.buzzfeed.com/donnad/meet-ridiculously-photogenic-syrian-rebel Meet Ridiculously Photogenic Syrian Rebel https://twitter.com/HamaEcho Daring protest in Medhat Basha souk in the heart of Damascus 1:45 PM https://twitter.com/DanielSerwer Syria Rebels Put Captured Iran Drones on Youtube http://bit.ly/Q3UX98 1:47 PM https://twitter.com/BreakingNews UN sources: Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi will replace Kofi Annan as international Syria mediator, will have altered mandate - @Reuters2:34 PM https://twitter.com/jenanmoussa This morning village where I was near Hama got attacked by Assad airforce. TERRIFYING! Watch my TVreport http://bit.ly/N2RJIA http://akhbar.alaan.tv/video/alaan-reports/Real-panic-while-aircraf-al-Assad-bombed-near-us/11:56 AM From house we run to nearby shelter. But bombs keep on falling. Here a video of moment we enter shelter. 3:08 PM https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2002512&l=f5fa07e84c&id=217848338242310 The Local Coordination Committees in Syria:The number of martyrs in Syria has reached 238 thus far today: 123 were reported in Damascus and its suburbs (including 60 unidentified martyrs from the Qatana massacre,10 in Jdaidet Artouz and 8 in Hajar Aswad); 75 in Aleppo (inluding 40 in Qadi Askar and 8 in Shaar); 16 in Idlib; 10 in Daraa; 6 in Deir Ezzor; 5 in Homs; and 3 in Hama 4:11 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/16/us-syria-crisis-rebels-idUSBRE87F0I620120816 Syria rebels organize towns without AssadIn the Syrian town of Darat Azzah, a secondary school has turned into a police station, a courthouse and a temporary town hall run by the rebels who are seeking to end President Bashar al-Assad's rule. It is part of a nascent rebel administration that is taking shape in areas of the country where Assad's authority has disappeared as his security forces try to secure control of Syria's main cities: Aleppo, Damascus, Homs and others. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/16/us-syria-crisis-idUSBRE8610SH20120816 U.N. monitors quit, saying Syrians choose "path of war"Syria's government and rebels have "chosen the path of war", a U.N. peacekeeping chief said as the world body ended its doomed monitoring mission to Damascus and deadlock persists among world powers over how to contain the spreading conflict. Two weeks after former U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan quit as mediator in frustration with the failure of a four-month-old truce, military observers have no peace on the ground to monitor and U.N. officials said on Thursday the last of the few dozen remaining team members would quit Damascus by August 24. "It is clear that both sides have chosen the path of war, open conflict, and the space for political dialogue and cessation of hostilities and mediation is very, very reduced at this point," said deputy U.N. peacekeeping chief Edmond Mulet. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/opinion/what-syrias-rebels-need.html?_r=2&smid=tw-share What Syria’s Rebels NeedSYRIA in early 2011, on the cusp of revolution, was the most sophisticated and secular country in the Arab world. There was no oil curse. The state worked. Tourists from around the world visited the ruins of Palmyra and drank French wine in the boutique hotels of Aleppo and Damascus. It was not tribal like Yemen or Libya. Nor was it Iraq; the sanctions that criminalized and impoverished Iraqis never plagued Syrians. And any sectarian wounds that may need to heal in Syria are not as profound. There is no question that President Bashar al-Assad’s rule is nearing its end. Tyrannical minority regimes that shell their own people will eventually fall. Mr. Assad controls only a small portion of Syria’s territory, and defections continue daily. But Syria is not awash with weapons allowing its opposition to arm itself as rebels did in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. Without far more significant outside help for the rebels, Mr. Assad’s supporters, even if already defeated as a government, could continue indefinitely as a potent, organized fighting force thanks to the backing of Russia and Iran. And this is the outcome more or less guaranteed by current American policy. Merely legalizing private financial assistance to the rebels, while providing no weapons and limited nonlethal support such as intelligence and communications, is not enough. American inaction, seen by most people here as the abetting of their tormentors, is turning the generally pro-American sentiment of this important country to distrust. https://twitter.com/THE_47th 2 refugee Syrian toddlers die of suffocation from the miserable Zaitar desert Syrian refugee camp in Jordan 5:28 PM https://twitter.com/edwardedark guys....I'm alive ....for now. we had all communication cut off for 5 days....and right now I'm on a very limited mobile connection6:38 PM https://twitter.com/MajdArar Tanks occupied main highway in Damascus & now firing toward Kafarsouseh9:44 PM Heavy clashes in south of Damascus. Raids taking place now in central Damascus 9:46 PM soldiers sighted in Damascus today with tents, it seems army is deploying troops to the city. 9:47 PM Damascus is a war zone, I've seen helicopter firing four groups of missiles into Kafarsouseh 11:01 PM Same scenario always repeated, FSA destroy tanks, ground forces unable to enter the place, helicopter gunships eradicate the area. 11:32 PM http://www.extremeskins.com/showthread.php?357480-Yahoo-Assad-predicts-disaster-if-West-meddles-in-Syria&p=9046975#post9046975 23,922 people killed so far in Syria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2012/Aug-17/184914-washington-backs-away-from-supporting-snc.ashx#axzz23iqmcQLp Washington backs away from supporting SNCThe United States is backing away from the Syrian National Council and reaching out to opposition groups inside Syria in hastened attempts to foster a democratic political transition in the event of President Bashar Assad’s fall. In a revealing move, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton snubbed the exiled umbrella opposition group during talks in Istanbul Saturday on the sidelines of a meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmad Davutoglu. Clinton and Davutoglu announced after the meetings that the United States and Turkey are considering the possibility of a ‘no-fly’ zone in Syria – the clearest sign yet that the U.S. is open to some kind of military intervention in the conflict. While mostly Gulf-funded weapons are acknowledged to be reaching rebel forces in Syria, the U.S. has been reluctant to send arms. Clinton also met with a number of Syrian opposition, civil society and youth leadership figures, according to a State Department official, but declined to meet the SNC, prompting consternation from at least one senior SNC figure who complained the group was being “sidelined.” http://blogs.aljazeera.com/liveblog/topic/syria-153 about 4 hours agoThe crew of an Air France plane that was re-routed via Damascus on Wednesday asked passengers how much cash they could stump up after Syrian authorities refused credit card payment to refuel the aircraft, the French airline said on Thursday. Ultimately it found an alternative arrangement, it said. The plane that was headed for Beirut on Wednesday night was diverted due to civil unrest in the Lebanese capital and sought to go to Amman, but it was forced to land in Syria due to lack of fuel. Air France stopped its flights to Damascus in March as fighting in the country escalated, and relations between France and Syria have collapsed since Paris demanded that President Bashar al-Assad step down. On landing the local airport authorities said they could not accept a credit card payment and would only take cash, an Air France spokeswoman said. "As a precaution and in anticipation, the crew asked how much money the passengers had in cash to pay to fill up with fuel," the airline spokeswoman said. She said the airline was eventually able to pay the bill without taking money from passengers, but she declined to say how it had paid or how much the fuel stop cost. about 3 hours agoThe Syrian army clashed with rebels near the main military airport in Damascus and shelled the northern hub of Aleppo, a watchdog said, as the country braced for protests after Friday Muslim prayers. about an hour agoSyria's former prime minister Riad Hijab, who fled to Jordan after defecting almost two weeks ago, is now in Qatar, his spokesman said on Friday. "Mr Hijab went to Qatar on Thursday for a three-day visit during which he will address the media to spell out his plans and his programme," spokesman Mohammed Otri told AFP news agency. He added that the former premier, who defected on August 5 after just two months in the post, would return to Jordan at the end of his Qatar visit. https://twitter.com/jenanmoussa More shelling. Planes are hitting again. Pray for us. Absolute terror. I heard 10 explosions. Panic. Chaos. People crying running. We too.3:11 AM Came back from shelter after another day of bombing raids. Started at 0830 am same time as yesterday. 4:48 AM We were still asleep this morning at 0830 when bombing started. Panic. We hid first under stairs then ran to shelter. 5:16 AM Shelter was less full than yesterday. After bombardments of yesterday, many families have fled to safer areas or towards Turkey. Bombs hit so nearby that clouds of dust entered shelter. People screaming and loudly praying in shelter. People here dont have weapons against planes/ helicopters. Many begging international community for No Fly Zone. A man in our shelter was already refugee from Aleppo. Came here 4 safety. Said: "Anyway I'll die, I decided today to pick up gun." 5:21 AM When helicopters left, we crawled out of shelter. At 60 meters a house was destroyed. I saw a man heavily wounded in face. We ran from one destroyed house to another. Blood covered people walking in shock in streets. I also saw three wounded sheep. 5:27 AM https://twitter.com/SyrianSmurf Aljazeera reporting 30 homes destroyed on top of their occupants in Jarjanaz Idlib.5:35 AM Video showing the INTENSE shelling on Jarjanaz with MiG jets. …5:57 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/08/20128172314099474.html New Syria envoy voices hope for diplomacyThe United Nations has confirmed that veteran Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi will become the new international mediator on Syria. Talking to Al Jazeera, Brahimi said he was convinced that diplomacy could still play a real role in solving the Syrian conflict, which the opposition says has claimed more than 20,000 lives since the anti-government uprising began in March last year. "I don't know if there's any conflict that hasn't ended with some kind of negotiation, with some kind of diplomatic phase," he said. Brahimi, who hesitated for days to accept a job that France's UN envoy Gerard Araud called an "impossible mission", will replace former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who is stepping down at the end of the month. The new envoy said the international community cannot afford to turn its back on the war-torn country. "The UN, and I suppose the Arab League as well, simply cannot just say 'this is a difficult job, let's look away'," Brahimi said. "I suppose I'm vain enough to think that with the little experience I have, if I'm asked to try and do something in a situation like this, I cannot say no, even if I'm deeply, deeply aware of the difficulty I am facing. "We will go into this with a lot of good will, a lot of determination, but a lot of humility as well." http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/08/2012817112413251884.html Battles rage in key Syrian citiesJets and helicopters have continued to strike the northern suburbs of Aleppo as Syrian forces reportedly battle rebels near the airport in the war-battered city. A constant flow of casualties were rushed to a local hospital that had been allegedly targeted on Friday. Syria's official SANA news agency said that "armed terrorist groups" - the regime's phrase for rebels - had been pushed out from areas on both sides of the airport, which is located about 15km southeast of Aleppo's historical centre. The report on Friday was the first official acknowledgement that fighting has reached the doorstep of the strategic site in the country's largest city. It did not make it clear whether the fighting was closer to the international airport or the adjacent military airfield, a hub for air strike missions on rebel sites in the north. Rebel footholds in Aleppo have been the target of weeks of shelling and air attacks as part of wider offensives by President Bashar al-Assad's forces. In Damascus, the capital, activists said the army clashed with rebels near the main military airport and shelled southern parts of the city http://blogs.aljazeera.com/liveblog/topic/syria-153 about 12 hours agoThe AFP reports: Russia called off a meeting planned for Friday of an international action group on the Syria conflict after western nations told them they would not attend, diplomats said. Russia said the meeting at the UN headquarters, called by its UN envoy Vitaly Churkin, had been "postponed". Diplomats said, however, that the United States, France and Britain had told the Russians they would not attend. Only China and a UN representative had confirmed they would go to the talks said one diplomat. about 11 hours agoThe Free Syrian Army says it has a plan to break a two-month long siege in the city of Homs. Al Jazeera's Imran Khan has this report: Interesting report from Kafrenbel as well. 40 minutes agoThe Local Coordination Committees are reporting shelling of the Damascus neighbourhoods of Nahr Aisha, Dahaleel and Hajar al-Aswad. https://twitter.com/THE_47th BREAKING | 3 TOP SYRIAN OFFICIALS DEFECT..NAMES WILL NOT BE SHARED UNTIL THEY MAKE IT OUT OF SYRIA.12:15 PM Names of 3 defected individuals known by every single Syrian. A HUGE BLOW to the Syrian Gov. 12:18 PM Some defections r so high, the Gov will not even disclose that it is looking for them to public, they just assign a team (to save morale) 12:20 PM I can guarentee you, Bashar Assad is now losing his ****. this is huge. These defections will not necessary push Bashar 2 get on a plane & escape 2 Tehran..but they will categorically show that he's lost control. 12:39 PM Expecting the one of them to make it out later on tonight, will keep you posted. 12:23 PM There's been all sorts of reports tonight that the Vice President of Syria defected, but none of the reports are by reliable news sources. So far they have varied from, 'he's in Beirut Lebanon', 'he's in Jordan', 'he's in Syria and his life is in danger because of leaking his defection too early', and 'he hasn't defected at all' (according to a relative). (that's pretty much the chronological order of the reports too.) http://www.lccsyria.org/9915 The Local Coordination Committees in Syria:Friday came to an end with 168 martyrs in Syria, including 45 in Aleppo (among them an entire family); 40 martyrs in Damascus and its suburbs, including 16 martyrs who were slaughtered in Douma; 36 in Daraa, including 8 in Nawa whose corpses were burned; 30 in Homs, including 10 in Deir Baalba and a family from Qosair; 12 in Idlib; 7 in Deir Ezzor; and 4 in Hama, including a mother and her child http://www.extremeskins.com/showthread.php?357480-Yahoo-Assad-predicts-disaster-if-West-meddles-in-Syria&p=9046975#post9046975 24,090 people killed so far in Syria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=429015 Faruq al-Shara: Veteran hardliner of Syria's old guardSyrian Vice President Faruq al-Shara is one of the last vestiges of the regime's old guard and the most powerful Sunni Muslim figure in Bashar al-Assad's inner circle. Syrian state television quoted a statement from Shara's office on Saturday after Arab media reports that he had defected to neighboring Jordan, saying: "Mr Shara has never thought about leaving the country or going anywhere." Shara, 73, who has served for decades under both Assad and his father and predecessor Hafez al-Assad, has only been seen in public a few times since the uprising against Assad's autocratic rule erupted in March last year. One draft international resolution had proposed that Assad hand over to his deputy as part of a political transition aimed at ending the conflict that is now in its 18th month. Rumors that he had abandoned the regime mounted this week after one of his cousins announced his own defection on an Arab television station. Shara himself was last seen on television at the funeral of four top security chiefs who were killed in a bomb attack in Damascus that dealt a major blow to the regime. Shara, along with several other top regime figures, was slapped with sanctions by the United States and the European Union in May last year. "He has no charisma but lots of authority," said a European diplomat who has met Shara several times. After reading through the article, he's probably not a very nice person. Then again there probably aren't many (or any?) at the top of the regime who are. He does seem to be an anti-west, hardline Baathist though. It is somewhat interesting that the US has been pushing for him to take over. http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/18/world/meast/syria-unrest/index.html Rebel spokesman: Syrian vice president defects; regime doesn't confirmA spokesman for the rebel Free Syrian Army said Saturday that Syrian Vice President Farouq al-Sharaa has fled the regime. Syrian state-run TV did not explicitly say whether al-Sharaa had defected, but reported that the vice president's office issued a statement saying al-Sharaa "didn't think for one second to leave the homeland." "Farouq al-Sharaa did defect, but we were trying to get him through to Jordan," FSA spokesman Louai Miqdad told CNN Saturday. He said al-Sharaa left Damascus more than a week ago and fled to Daraa to try to secure the safety of relatives, close proteges and other officials working with him. The rebel spokesman said he thinks the Syrian regime intensified attacks in Daraa province recently in an attempt to assassinate al-Sharaa before he left the country. "We lost communications with our commanders in Daraa who were trying to get him to cross the borders to Jordan. We are extremely worried that the regime managed to detain some of his family members forcing al-Sharaa to surrender," Miqdad said. "We are trying to get him to a safe house with his family, and we will issue a press release once we get hold of our commanders on the ground who are handling this operation." http://blogs.aljazeera.com/liveblog/topic/syria-153 about 3 hours agoWarplanes continued to bomb the town of Aazaz in Aleppo province while fighting was reported in in several districts of northern city. about 3 hours agoA United Nations spokeswoman says the last UN observers still in Syria have started to leave the country as their mission officially ends at midnight Sunday about 2 hours agoSyria's Vice-President Farouq al-Sharaa has never considered leaving the country, state media said on Saturday, after reports that Sharaa had tried to defect to neighbouring Jordan. A cousin of Sharaa's announced his defection on Thursday, calling on the army to join the "revolution" against Assad. about 2 hours agoArmed men kidnapped three Syrians on the road to Beirut airport on Saturday, Lebanon's state NNA news agency reported. The abductions came after a Shiite Muslim clan kidnapped dozens of Syrians in Lebanon, after a relative was reportedly abducted by a Syrian rebel group near Damascus last week. I wonder if Shara could announce his defection and demand the UN give him an escort out of Syria, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/18/syrian-rebels-outgunned-but-unbroken-in-fight-for-aleppo.html Syrian Rebels Outgunned but Unbroken in Fight for AleppoAbu Fahdel squats down and rearranges his rockets, neatly pushing them up against the wall, his hands stained with melted lead. There are dozens of weapons stored in the bombed-out building on the outskirts of Al Bab and he had made all of them by hand. Almost all of the materials used to produce the rockets are singlehandedly funded by the Al Baker FSA battalion based in Al Bab, a city that lies northeast of Aleppo. One of the rebels says the bags of ammonium nitrate are smuggled in over the Turkish border and brought directly to Fahdel, who stores them in his lab. With 150 members, the Al Baker battalion is considered the largest and most active rebel group in the city of Al Bab. It works with four other battalions in the area, and sends close to 80 percent of its group into active combat. The other 20 percent stay in the city to work on administrative matters, such as checking in with Fahdel and the production of new weapons. The rockets seem to be helping in the streets of Aleppo, but they cannot stop the Assad’s forces from dropping bombs on their city. Sheikh Mohammed Zaher Shurkat, the leader of the battalion, says they have been waiting for outside investors to send weapons that will help them shoot down aircrafts, but they have yet to arrive. “I don’t think they will ever come,” he says. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444233104577593432792462056.html?mod=wsj_share_tweet Kidnapping, Spats on Docket of Syria Rebel BossQOBTAN JEBEL, Syria—One morning this week, Sheik Tawfeeq Shehab Eddin replaced his AK-47 with a Bic pen and took up his post behind a metal desk. Mr. Shehab Eddin is one of the four rural commanders of the Tawheed Division, an Islamist-dominated umbrella force that is leading Syrian rebels' fight around the country's largest city, Aleppo, against forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. Their division has driven pro-Assad forces from much of the Aleppan countryside and some of Aleppo. On Friday, division fighters fought regime tanks near the city's airport. The regime's pullout from much of the countryside last month has left the Tawheed Division as the area's army, government and police. That is why on Wednesday, Mr. Shehab Eddin and his aides spent some 14 hours hashing out questions about their next deployment to the front line in Aleppo, scrambling to defuse a flare-up with a neighboring Kurdish village and mediating petty disputes between villagers. "We commanders have been forced to take on all the problems confronting our villages," he said, adding that elected leaders should eventually take that over. "The role I am playing now is bigger than myself." https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss 30 seconds of protest in a church gets you two years. Killing 20,000+ and destroying a country gets you Putin's unwavering support.10:03 AM Oh, now this is interesting. I missed this earlier. https://twitter.com/THE_47th FYI: I have no info on Farouk Al Sharaa.. I just heard it like you on TV. He is NOT one of the 3 I was talking about.3:12 AM As I said before, I am not aware of Alsharaa's defection news & he wasn't 1 of the 3 I mentioned last night. 5:13 AM https://twitter.com/rmslim Beginning of the deal making process in Syria! http://www.annahar.com/article.php?t=arab&p=4&d=24823 …9:19 AM per Morsy proposal, 4 countries to co-lead mediation effort on Syria: Egypt, Turkey, KSA & Iran 9:27 AM Morsi's proposal re. a new regional contact straddles the old regional political divides [Partitioning?] 9:40 AM Accdg to Michel Kilo, Hafez Al Assad threatened in 1980 to partition #Syria in case his hold on power was in danger. 9:43 AM 3 of the 4 countries in group share at least 1 thing: their dislike for #Qatar's regional aspirations 9:45 AM I read an article the other day though saying Morsi is having a major change of mind of getting more involved on Syria, after a visit from Qatari officials. https://twitter.com/ZeinakhodrAljaz Departing UN mission chief: By mid June it was clear, Parties were no longer committed to cease fire, resulted an escalation in violence 9:33 AM Departing UN mission chief in Syria says army and rebels failed to protect civilians 9:34 AM https://twitter.com/Avend93 BREAKING: thick smoke is rising from a place seemed to be near the intelligence center in Qamişlo.. more details to come soon.8:48 AM Confirmed by TCK: the blast targeted Assad's intelligence center. 9:06 AM true, it was also heard in the west of the city (about 4 KM away from the center) 9:23 AM the first video of Qamislo blast [aftermath, results?] 9:44 AM the video is not very clear and was recorded far from the center because of regime's surrounding of the place. 9:45 AM https://twitter.com/ZeinakhodrAljaz veteran Syria opposition Haytham Maleh announces new opposition alliance "Council of Syrian revolution" aims to form transitional govt10:00 AM Maleh said the Council for the Syrian revolution would act as alternative to SNC in latest sign of deepening divisions in opposition 10:00 AM Al-Maleh said he would begin a dialogue with all members of the opposition, including FSA, about the formation of a transitional government 10:01 AM SNC head said the process of forming transitional govt needs consultations with all members of the opposition, rebels and FSA. SNC head: if each group announces a new govt, this would end up in having a series of weak govt that don't represent anyone 10:02 AM FSA head Riad Asaad attacked Maleh announcement. Riad Asaad called leaders of new alliance opportunists who seek to divide the opposition and benefit from rebels' gains 10:04 AM https://twitter.com/Avend93 Hamza battalion (FSA) takes responsibility of Qamişlo blast. -UPDATE.10:30 AM https://twitter.com/Skytwitius Heard 7 explosions in last 30 mins. two plumes of white smoke now coming from Midaan/Qadoon district.10:32 AM https://twitter.com/MahirZeynalov 4 Syrian colonels, 3 lt. colonels, 2 majors, 5 lieutenants, 1 sergeant, 35 soldiers are among 760 Syrians who crossed into Turkey today.10:45 AM Turkey hosts 32 Syrian generals, hundreds of army officers, 68,558 refugees. 492 Syrian refugees are being treated in Turkish hospitals. 10:49 AM Its hard to believe that there's any officers left in the Syrian army at this point. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2006941&l=c3052653d4&id=217848338242310 Local Coordination Committees in SyriaThe number of martyrs in Syria has risen to 125 thus far. 54 martyrs were reported in Damascus and its Suburbs; including 40 who were discovered in Tal area, 20 in Deir Ezzor, 20 in Aleppo, 20 in Daraa; most of them in Hirak town, 6 in Homs, 3 in Idlib, 1 in Lattakia, and 1 in Hassakeh 10:46 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 http://www.aljazeera.com/video/middleeast/2012/08/201281711234988655.html Q&A: Free Syrian Army deputy leaderColonel Malik al-Kurdi says opposition fighters only need another two months to take the Assad regime down. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/08/201281810328278638.html Syria intensifies air attacks on AleppoSyrian forces have launched new air strikes and shelled rebel strongholds in several key cities, particularly in and around the key northern commercial city of Aleppo. Warplanes on Saturday bombed the town of Azaz in the suburbs of Aleppo and shelling continued in city's neighbouroods of al-Fardos, al-Sukkari, Bustan al-Zahra and Kallasa. Fighting between government forces and rebels was also reported near Saad al-Allah al-Jabri's Square in Aleppo's centre and in the southern Salaheddin district of the city. Aleppo has become a main focus of the conflict since late July. State television said that soldiers "cleared terrorists and mercenaries" from the western district of Saif al-Sawla on Saturday. In Damascus, fighting broke out in the heavily populated southern district of Tadamun, showing that the rebels still have pockets of resistance in the capital despite government forces last month claiming they had retaken it. Meanwhile, in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, activists said that shelling by government forces continued on the city of Abu Kamal and the towns of Abou Hamman and al-Kashkiyya, and that armoured vehicles were seen moving into the eastern town of Mayadeen. Government forces also pounded rebel-held areas of the central city of Homs and the southern city of Herak, activists said. http://blogs.aljazeera.com/liveblog/topic/syria-153 about 5 hours agoA former Syrian minister who defected this year said Saturday that it was "well-known" that Vice President Faruq al-Shara had tried to leave and was under house arrest. The comments by former deputy oil minister Abdo Hussameddin came after the governmet in Damascus denied opposition claims that Shara, the most senior Sunni Muslim official in President Bashar al-Assad's government had defected. "Shara's position is well known. He has been trying to leave Syria," he told media. "But there are a series of circumstances that prevent him from leaving, especially the fact that he has been under house arrest for some time," he said, adding that top level officials in Syria were being kept under surveillance. about 4 hours agoThe three Syrians who were kidnapped earlier today in Beirut have been released, the Lebanese NNA news agency reports. The three men, who had been seized by a gang of at least five men from a banana storehouse on the road to Beirut international airport on Friday, were freed after their money was stolen, NNA said. about 2 hours agoA building in the Damascus suburb of Saqba was ablaze last night - members of the Free Syrian Army say it was due to shelling by government forces. https://twitter.com/AlexanderPageSY Large anti government demonstration in Quds palestinians in solidarity with the Syria'n people 3:02 PM https://twitter.com/AmalHanano Syrian Eid Tale: There is a young man from Homs. He loves to take pictures. Photography is his hobby. He used to go to university. But the revolution came & the people of Homs were attacked by the regime for protesting oppression & calling for freedom. The young man, Abu al-Izz, watched his uncle, Lawrence al-Naimi, join the revolutionaries. Lawrence became head of SNN's live broadcasts in Homs. But he was killed. Abu al-Izz secretly joined the revolutionaries. The older men told Abu al-Izz to leave Homs, invited him to be an activist in a safe house far from danger. He refused. He said: I want to continue my uncle's path and be martyred in #Homs. Abu al-Izz was killed by shelling yesterday. He was killed leaving the mosque after prayers. He left his family & borrowed money to photograph the revolution. He was 19. The mourning friends of his uncle, who had taken the young man in, say: Abu al-Izz went to celebrate Eid in paradise. Abu al-Izz's body was blown up into so many pieces they couldn't bury him. His flesh & blood are forever embedded in Homs. Another beautiful boy from Homs is gone. RIP Abu al-Izz. pic.twitter.com/SsBm3pAR 3:46 PM https://twitter.com/jenanmoussa In last couple of days, I was in Syria(n) village Jarjanaz, 45 km north of Hama. Also in Maarat Al Noman. Now back in Turkey.3:52 PM In Jarjanaz, regime didnt bomb places of FSA. They intentionally bombed houses around it. Strategy to make civilians kick FSA out. 4:00 PM In some cases tactics seemed to work. Some civilians begged FSA 2 leave. Not cz they didnt like FSA but bcz Assad revenge out of proportion. 4:05 PM Because we feared attacks at sunrise, we escaped Jarjanaz at 0400 am & w/ civilians left 4 fields. Pic: http://twitpic.com/al229d 4:20 PM https://twitter.com/THE_47th Just got word that Farouk Alsharaa had indeed defected, still in Syria, and is safe With the FSA. Confirmed.4:24 PM Remember, Shara the VP's defection is in addition to the 3 well known Syrians that The_47th predicted/mentioned the other day and who have yet to be named. As he puts it: With Farouk Alsharaa, that makes it 4 huge defections this week. All four are still in Syria. Farouk is safe & sound, with the FSA.4:48 PM Wait till you hear who the other 3 are. ****ING HUGE! The masba7a has far6et 4:50 PM https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2007648&l=f7e06f6446&id=217848338242310 Local Coordination Committees in Syria The number of martyrs in Syria has risen to 172 thus far. 70 martyrs were reported in Damascus and its Suburbs; including 40 who were discovered in Tal area, 30 in Deir Ezzor, 27 in Daraa; most of them in Hirak town; 26 in Aleppo; 11 in Homs, 5 in Idlib, 2 in Lattakia, and 1 in Hassake 4:09 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 http://news.sky.com/story/974300/syria-rebels-aided-by-british-intelligence Syria Rebels 'Aided By British Intelligence'According to an opposition official, information on Syrian troop movements is helping rebels launch successful attacks on regime forces in the second city, where both sides have been locked in fierce fighting for weeks. "British intelligence is observing things closely from Cyprus," the official told The Sunday Times. "It's very useful because they find out a great deal. "The British are giving the information to the Turks and the Americans and we are getting it from the Turks." The newspaper quoted the official as saying British authorities "know about and approve 100%" intelligence from their Cyprus military bases being passed through Turkey to the rebel troops of the Free Syrian Army (FSA). http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/middle-east/rebel-bikers-a-key-weapon-in-war-on-assad Rebel bikers a key weapon in war on AssadOn the battlefield, too, these farmers-turned-rebels consider their motorcycles essential. From these villages last month, they invaded Aleppo, about 40 kilometres south. The success of that assault was in part based on the superior motorbiking skills of countryside residents, according to Abdelrahman Najjar, 26, a farmhand from Mari' who joined rebels on their initial assault into Aleppo. "The city people can't drive these things like we can," he said. "They're too used to cars." He and other rebels said their umbrella brigade of fighters, the Tawhid, began confiscating scores of motorcycles used by government forces in Aleppo after the invasion. The rebels transformed them into urban-warfare machines, Mr Najjar said, recounting several guerrilla attacks on shabbiha, or government thugs, using AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades that were fired from the saddles of motorcycles. "They'd be waiting in the cars and we'd turn the corner and fire on them and then speed off," he said. He also told how he dodged a warplane-missile attack two weeks ago by turning a quick corner and driving his motorbike into a mini-market. "You can't do that in a car," Mr Najjar said. Abu Ahmed Saqer, 27, surveyed government positions in Aleppo by posing as a civilian motorcyclist. If he encountered snipers or shabbiha, he would discreetly call in their positions to rebel fighters. "That would be the end of them," he said. https://twitter.com/THE_47th One thing: That FSA "spokesman" Louay Moqdad is a son of a *****.. Putting lives of good people who make defections happen at risk. The situ on the ground is v. dangerous, regime combing and putting rediculous amounts of money to retrieve.. dnt expect them 2 get out soon. Louay Moqdad announced Farouk Al Sharaa's defection early today and almost had a dozen ppl killed. If you see him somewhere, let me know.5:17 PM People have to understand: when large defections occur, the regime does NOT announce it across all it's security forces. Many times, counterintelligence has succeeded in capturing defectors.. And they also worry about supporters & gov morale. 5:25 PM Just in: one of the 3 defectors I talked about yesterday is missing. 5:31 PM But rest assured: Farouk Al Sharaa is in safe hands, with FSA's finest. Probably won't cross border soon..but he is safe. 5:39 PM https://twitter.com/MouhanadSYR Basahr Assad minutes ago at Eid Prayers Damascus. He hasn't been sleeping!! pic.twitter.com/Ecebm90y12:53 AM http://www.extremeskins.com/showthread.php?357480-Yahoo-Assad-predicts-disaster-if-West-meddles-in-Syria&p=9046975&viewfull=1#post9046975 24,262 people killed so far in Syria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9484479/Syria-Face-to-face-with-the-spy-who-nearly-killed-me.html Syria: Face to face with the spy who nearly killed meIn the flesh, the spies that cause so much trepidation are usually more wretched than their reputation. So it was for Malik Saidi, no James Bond but a nervous, shaven-headed young man of 27 who spoke with head bowed and an apologetic look in his eye. Contrary to Lt Yassin’s expectations, the rebels are promising that none of the men will be executed. FSA leaders are aware that a recent spate of killings by rebels across northern Syria - most spectacularly, the shooting 20 days ago of four members of a Shabiha family in the playground of the same Aleppo school-cum-FSA base - has alarmed human rights groups and the wider western world.At a time when they are more hopeful that some sort of western intervention, perhaps a no-fly zone, could be brought into play, they are suddenly keen to demonstrate that they are not a bunch of rogue guerrillas. In Aleppo, a crude judicial system is being set up. Those arrested in the city, like the three Shabiha, are brought before the FSA’s senior civilian leader, a black-turbaned former businessman who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Suleiman and spent 15 years in Dubai before returning to Syria. After a preliminary investigation of any accusations, Abu Suleiman decides whether to release them or hold them. Petty criminals are often banged up in the makeshift jail at the base for a brief period - accompanied, in the case of three teenage shoplifters whose arrest was witnessed by The Sunday Telegraph, by a quick whipping with knotted rope. More serious offenders - mainly Shabiha - are transferred to Mari to await trial. In a rebel prison in a neighbouring town, Tal Rifaat, the local sharia council has confirmed to journalists and to a Human Rights Watch team that light beating with hands on the back is an accepted form of punishment, and beating of the feet to extract information.On the other hand, an unannounced evening visit to Mari found prisoners in nothing worse than a prayer session. Abu Hatem said that in Mari, at least, the court system he was setting up would follow a form of civil law, not Sharia. Keen to promote his humanitarian credentials further, he also refused permission for photographs to be taken that showed any of the prisoners’ faces, citing the Geneva Convention. Saidi said he had been told by his bosses that if he was caught by the FSA he would be killed. “But the FSA didn’t kill me, though those neighbours wanted to,” he said. “They have given me medical treatment.” http://blogs.aljazeera.com/liveblog/topic/syria-153 about 2 hours agoIn an interview with Al Jazeera on Sunday, Veteran Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi, said that for him, it was "too early to have a say" on whether Assad should step down. "I could not talk about such a matter or any other matters unless I arrive in New York or Cairo to see what is the plan to be carried out," said Brahimi. Brahimi had been quoted by news agencies on Saturday as saying that it was too soon for Assad to step down, something he denies saying. But reports of the alleged comments caused fury among Syrian dissidents and the opposition Syrian National Council (SNC) described the comments as "unacceptable". "The revolutionary Syrian people were shocked and dismayed by Mr Lakhdar Brahimi's statements," the SNC said in a statement. "We call on the international envoy - who has not yet consulted with any Syrians on his appointment or his mission - to apologise to our people for taking this unacceptable position," it added. Brahimi told Al Jazeera that he's asked the SNC for an apology. "The should call and ask me to make sure if I said so," he said. Great.... about 2 hours agoThe AFP reports: Syrian helicopters have dropped leaflets over the northern city of Aleppo urging residents not to shelter rebels and warning the Free Syrian Army it had one last chance to surrender. Some of the leaflets dropped late Saturday, in what rebels and residents said was a first, were designed as official-looking checkpoints passes for supporters of the rebels wishing to surrender. "The holder of this pass is allowed to cross security forces checkpoints to surrender. The holder of this pass will be well treated and reunited with his family after verifications are conducted," the leaflet read. Other more basic leaflets printed on pink or white paper urged the rebels to put down their weapons. about an hour agoStreet battles are raging in the Syrian city of Aleppo, as rebels fight to take control of the airport. It would be a huge trophy if opposition forces manage to capture it . James Bays reports on the fight for Syria. 5 minutes agoReuters reports: Germany is helping Syrian rebels by providing them with information gathered by a German navy vessel off the coast of Syria, a newspaper said on Sunday, without citing sources. Germany's Bild am Sonntag said the boat had spying equipment from the German intelligence service on board, enabling it to observe Syrian troop movements up to 600 km inland. Information on the military operations of President Bashar al-Assad's troops that is collected by the ship is passed on to US and British secret services, who then give it to the Free Syrian Army, Bild said. A spokesman for the German Defence Ministry said a German navy ship equipped with telecommunications and reconnaissance technology that normally patrols the international waters of the eastern Mediterranean was in a harbour in Sardinia. 3 minutes agoBrigadier General Mark Kimmitt, a former US state department military advisor, talks to Al Jazeera about how Syrian rebels are managing to fight the far better equipped and trained Syrian military. https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss Michel Kilo on the West's three big lies about Syria: http://arabsaga.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-wests-three-big-lies-about-syria.html?spref=tw&m=1 1:12 PM Kilo piece is rather extraordinary. He claims to be against intervention, but these arguments are objectively pro. 1:14 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 http://blogs.aljazeera.com/liveblog/topic/syria-153 about 4 hours agoOpposition fighters say the next step ub the fight for Aleppo is to take out two remaining airforce bases, a radar station, and the new army headquarters in the province of Aleppo. But there are struggles going on within the rebel fighter and Free Syrian Army over funds, arms, ideology and influence. Al Jazeera's Anita McNaught has this report. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CqkCyj742Q&feature=player_embedded about 2 hours agoThe AFP reports: Jordan said on Sunday four rockets fired from neighbouring Syria fell inside its northern border area, wounding a young girl and sparking a letter of protest. "A young girl was injured on Sunday after four rockets fell on an area near the border with Syria as a result of clashes inside Syria," Information Minister and government spokesman Samih Maaytah told AFP without elaborating. "We are in touch with the Syrian sides to determine what happened," he said without indicating the source of the fire. "The Jordanian government summoned the Syrian ambassador in Amman and gave him a letter of protest. Jordan rejects what happened and will make sure it does not occur in the future," Maaytah said. https://twitter.com/MahirZeynalov 3 Syrian colonels, 4 lt. colonels, 8 captains were among 955 Syrians who crossed into Turkey today.4:29 PM https://twitter.com/KareemLailah FSA is growing so fast in the north part of Syria, where Assad has almost lost control especially in Idleb6:06 PM The real FSA is being targeted by the regime from one side & by extremist armed groups from another. 6:08 PM Extremists groups can be eliminated only if we are united around one goal which is free Syria, and point out to their crimes everywhere. 6:39 PM Always remember that our revolution started against a dictator. Don’t help them to create new ones. 6:42 PM https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2011166&l=961f9b9bc4&id=217848338242310 Local Coordination Committees in SyriaBy the end of the first day of Eid Al Fitr in Syria, we could documented 170 martyrs. 51 of them were in Daraa including 20 charred bodies in Herak, 51 martyrs in Damascus and suburbs, 22 in Aleppo, 15 in Idlib, 13 in Homs, 7 in Deir Ezzor including 6 of FSA in Kharita village, 4 in Latakia, 3 in Hama and 2 martyrs in Hassaka 6:10 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/intense-fighting-rages-in-1502017.html Intense fighting rages in Syria's southern citySyrian activist groups say fighting between rebels and regime forces has killed six people, including two children and two women, in the southern city of Daraa, birthplace of the country's 18-month-old uprising. Monday's violence in Daraa was reported by the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination committees. The fighting comes on the second day of Eid al-Fitr, a major Muslim holiday that marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/jordans-government-sternly-criticizes-syria-for-border-shelling-that-wounded-jordanian-girl/2012/08/20/5830e0e4-eaa2-11e1-866f-60a00f604425_story.html Jordan’s government sternly criticizes Syria for border shelling that wounded Jordanian girlAMMAN, Jordan — Jordan’s government spokesman has sternly criticized Syria for artillery shelling on its northern border that wounded a Jordanian girl and panicked other civilians. Sameeh Maaytah says the government summoned the Syrian ambassador in Amman to hand him a letter of protest late Sunday. Amman is awaiting a formal response from Syria, which has yet to comment. Four shells landed in Jordan on Sunday during clashes between the Syrian military and rebel forces on the Syrian side of the border. Maaytah said Jordan protests what took place and “will ensure this does not happen again.” The shelling sent four other Jordanians to hospital suffering from panic attacks. They were later discharged. The wounded girl was in fair condition on Monday. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/in-syria-group-suspected-of-al-qaeda-links-gaining-prominence-in-war-to-topple-assad/2012/08/19/c7cffd66-ea22-11e1-9ddc-340d5efb1e9c_story.html In Syria, group suspected of al-Qaeda links gaining prominence in war to topple Assad http://blogs.aljazeera.com/liveblog/topic/syria-153 39 minutes agoTurkey may soon run out space to house refugees fleeing violence in Syria, meaning the United Nations may need to establish camps in a safe zone within the war-torn country, Turkey's foreign minister was quoted as saying on Monday. The number of Syrians fleeing the 17-month-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad has risen sharply as fighting escalates, taking the total in Turkey to nearly 70,000 and challenging its ability to cope. "If the number of refugees in Turkey surpasses 100,000, we will run out of space to accommodate them. We should be able to accommodate them in Syria. The United Nations may build camps in a safe zone within Syria's borders," Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was quoted as telling the Hurriyet newspaper. [Reuters] https://twitter.com/KareemLailah FSA in Damascus has just hit the military airport in Mezzeh neighborhood. It’s on fire now.7:19 PM FSA seizes two tanks in Mayadeen city in Deirezzor. One more month & they will capture a MIG fighter. 8:05 PM https://twitter.com/KetyDC Syrian ppl didn't decide to "weaponize the revolution". They are being ****ing exterminated daily, for God's sake. 9:59 PM https://twitter.com/British_Syrian Eid in Homs, immobilized regime tanks have been converted to swing sets http://fb.me/1ORvou7fN 10:17 PM https://twitter.com/LizSly How kind. A break for the holidays: Al-Meqdad Clan Hints to Resume Kidnappings after Eid — Naharnet http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/50595 …1:56 AM https://twitter.com/THE_47th where is @Austin_Tice?3:54 AM Deraa needs a team of elite commandos to fix the situation right now. 4:39 AM it seems all defectors are facing a difficulty getting out at the moment. Rel war going on in bordertowns. 4:43 AM https://twitter.com/LBCI_News_EN Davutoglu: Turkey cannot absorb more than 100,000 Syrian refuges, stresses that a buffer zone must be established inside4:59 AM https://twitter.com/MahirZeynalov 494 Syrians, including two lieutenants, crossed into Turkey this morning.5:28 AM http://www.extremeskins.com/showthread.php?357480-Yahoo-Assad-predicts-disaster-if-West-meddles-in-Syria&p=9046975&viewfull=1#post9046975 24,432 people killed so far in Syria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443855804577601021698252322.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Syria's Leader Low on Cash—French MinisterPARIS—Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad's regime is running out of cash to face the insurgency in the country and France plans to discuss with Russia ways to reduce Syrian government funding, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Monday. The Syrian government has enough money to hold out for only a few months without the support of Russia and Iran as the repression costs about €1 billion ($1.23 billion) a month, Mr. Fabius said in an ... We've been told that for months and months now. I'm still waiting for the government to collapse. And anyway, Russia and Iran can and will just find other loopholes to go through. http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/08/20/syria-crisis-idINL6E8JKB2F20120820 WRAPUP 4-U.N. monitors leave Syria, battles hit Damascus suburbBEIRUT, Aug 20 (Reuters) - U.N. military observers departed Damascus on Monday after a four-month mission in which they became helpless spectators of Syria's conflict, and activists said government forces launched air strikes near the capital that killed two dozen people. Helicopter gunships attacked Mouadamiya and Daraya, suburbs south of Damascus, activists and residents said, giving casualty tolls that could not be independently verified. "It seems they suspected that there were rebels in the area," said an activist in Daraya, speaking on condition of anonymity. Gunships also appeared to hit targets in the western Damascus district of Kfar Souseh, a housewife said by phone. Control of Mouadamiya has changed hands several times, as have many other places in a war with no clear front lines. France, which like the United States and Britain, says it is supplying only non-lethal assistance to the Syrian opposition, ruled out providing arms in case they fell into the wrong hands.Qatar and Saudi Arabia are among countries arming the rebels, French Foreign minister Laurent Fabius said, whereas European countries had imposed an arms embargo on Syria. "As for heavy weapons, especially to destroy planes, there is a huge problem. We cannot deliver weapons in conditions where the people we deliver to later use them against us," said Fabius, who will host a foreign ministers meeting on Syria at the United Nations on Aug. 30. http://blogs.aljazeera.com/liveblog/topic/syria-153 about 2 hours agoThere are reports that a Japanese journalist was killed in the Suleimaniyah neighbourhood on Aleppo, which has been the scene of fighting throughout the day. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the journalist was injured and taken to a hospital; activists on the ground have told Al Jazeera that he or she died after arriving there. No more details at this point. https://twitter.com/DamascusSYR BREAKING: FSA in Mezzeh area of Damascus downs a regime army helicopter, it was shelling the area. No further information.6:47 AM https://twitter.com/THE_47th Sky News Ar quoting Mhd Hamza of the Syrian National Council saying body transferred to Damas from Moscow is of Maher. Who is Mhd. Hamza?10:26 AM Sad confirmed news: Abdallah Al Ahmar, 2nd most imp. Baathist & lifelong comrade of Hafez Assad was arrested while attempting to defect. 11:02 AM Abdallah Al Ahmar was one of the 3 defectors I talked about earlier this week. 11:03 AM Every single long-time believer in Baath has just received a proverbial kick in the balls. Regardless if Abdullah made it out or not. 11:16 AM https://twitter.com/THE_47th My source just told me that the body recieved from Moscow was of Air Force Intelligence Chief Jamil Hassan, not of Maher Assad.12:06 PM BREAKING | The high ranking military person who died in a Moscow hospital is of Jamil Hassan, Head of Air Force Intelligence Directorate. 12:07 PM Directorate of Air Force Intelligence, Syria's most notorious mukhabarat agency, headed by Jamil Hassan, now KIA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Intelligence_Directorate … 12:08 PM This death IS HUGE >>>>>>> Jamil Hassan 12:14 PM https://twitter.com/MajdArar If Jamil Hasan death is true & he was in problem cell meeting, then those who's done it should be awarded the highest honer12:41 PM Jamil Hasan is ruthless killer, his Air Force Intelligence is the brutal branch that tortured to death Hamza Khatib & Ghiath Matar 12:44 PM https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2013800&l=5a00b9962f&id=217848338242310 Aleppo: ten martyrs and tens wounded as a result of a shell landing on a residential building in Meissar neighborhood opposite to the market2:01 PM https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2013802&l=abee032ca6&id=217848338242310 Daraa: Ilma: Heavy shelling of the town from the military compound to the east of the town2:03 PM https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2013803&l=9b314723ab&id=217848338242310 Daraa: Khirbet Ghazaleh: Shelling by mortars from the military compound to the east of the town2:04 PM https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2013809&l=a96242dc92&id=217848338242310 Idlib: Binnish: The town is subject to heavy air bombardment by helicopters2:05 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/world/middleeast/syria-violence.html?_r=1&smid=tw-share Obama Warns of Military Action on Syria Over Chemical WeaponsPresident Obama on Monday threatened military action against Syria if there was evidence that the government of President Bashar al-Assad was moving its stocks of chemical or biological weapons. It was Mr. Obama’s most direct warning of American intervention in Syria, where Mr. Assad’s military is fighting an 18-month-old rebellion. We cannot have a situation in which chemical or biological weapons are falling into the hands of the wrong people,” Mr. Obama said in an impromptu appearance in the White House briefing room. “We have put together a range of contingency plans. We have communicated in no uncertain terms with every player in the region that that’s a red line for us.” The president said he was deeply troubled by the possibility that the safekeeping of such weapons was now at risk in the Assad government’s increasingly harsh effort to crush the uprising. “That’s an issue that doesn’t just concern Syria,” Mr. Obama declared. “It concerns our close allies in the region, including Israel. It concerns us.” http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2012/08/2012820182839406841.html?utm_content=automate&utm_campaign=Trial6&utm_source=NewSocialFlow&utm_term=plustweets&utm_medium=MasterAccount Deadly bombing strikes Turkey's southeastAt least eight people were killed and dozens wounded, including police officers, after a car bomb believed to have been planted by Kurdish fighters exploded close to a police station in the southeastern Turkish city of Gaziantep, a senior Turkish polician and security sources say. "Unfortunately we lost eight citizens and nearly 60 people are getting treated at several hospitals according to our initial information," Erdal Ata, Gaziantep's governor, told reporters. The powerful blast went off close to a police station, setting fire to several vehicles including a city bus carrying three of the victims, the mayor told local NTV news channel. Al Jazeera's Stefanie Dekker, reporting from Antakya in Turkey's southeast, said the casualty toll was likely to rise. "We are hearing of eight people dead and 50 injured. Most people who were hurt were in their cars or getting on buses near the scene of the explosion," Dekker said. http://blogs.aljazeera.com/liveblog/topic/syria-153 about 3 hours agoThis video was reportedly shot just after a rocket or shell landed in the al-Mayassar district of Aleppo. You can see smoke and dust billowing in the street; about halfway through, a man with what looks like a bloodied shirt drives out on a motorcycle. https://twitter.com/jfoleyjourno activists saying more might been wounded, captured or killed, all rumors right now- Japanese rumored journalist killed http://blogs.aljazeera.com/topic/syria/reports-japanese-journalist-killed-aleppo2:21 PM https://twitter.com/MajdArar My father was just informed; a worker in his factory with his son were killed in Daraya shelling. Damascus2:29 PM The father & son were rushing injured to field hospital, a shell landed & killed them instantly. RIP Abo Ahmad. 2:31 PM https://twitter.com/WashingtonPoint If any link established btw G.Antep bombings and d Syrian regime, this will only intensify Ankara's support to topple the Assad regime. 3:09 PM It is the point of no return for Ankara re its Syria policies..There is no deterrence can be employed by Assad.He is accelerating his end 3:12 PM Two well connected Syrian opposition figures told me today that there is a lot happening re NFZ/Safe Zone inside Syria last days.. 3:24 PM https://twitter.com/anitamcnaught FSA is an umbrella term. Most opposition fighters have nothing to do with the HQ in Turkey - They're just local boys. 8:25 AM And surprisingly few army defectors join the FSA.. Officers come to Turkey, but rank & file don't want to fight - they go home. 8:27 AM It may have been a bad night for journalists in Syria Aleppo tonight. Reports starting to filter out are worrying us. 3:45 PM We too are hearing that other journalists were killed tonight in Aleppo. 3:57 PM https://twitter.com/Turk4Syria At least 1 Japanese & 1 Turkish journalist have reportedly been killed in Aleppo.3:52 PM https://twitter.com/NuffSilence @evanchill also, the FSA commander says, Al Hurra correspondent along with turkish cameraman were captured by regime.4:15 PM https://twitter.com/jfoleyjourno tragic videos out there confirming death Japanese journalist #aleppo and body being moved over border 4:36 PM https://twitter.com/HalaGorani French FM slams Air France for diverting plane to Damascus wed. Says some passengers were "wanted by Syrian regime": http://bit.ly/MHtTk9 4:38 PM https://twitter.com/oh_bergine BREAKING LBC: A Lebanese female journalist among 3 journos lost in Aleppo5:09 PM Not sure if the Turkish and Lebanese journalists deaths have been confirmed. The japanese journalist has been, and I've seen the video of her. I've seen at least one report saying that all Lebanese journos in Syria are safe. And it's possible that the killed Turkish journo was only one of the missing/captured group. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2014177&l=8d835f21c1&id=217848338242310 Local Coordination Committees in Syria The number of martyrs has risen to 140, the number includes 15 children and 5 women. There was 54 Martyrs in Damascus and its Suburbs most of whom are in Mouadamiyeh, Darya and Qaboun,25 in Aleppo most of whom died as a result of building collapsing in Meisser neighborhood, 20 in Daraa they include 4 from one family, 18 in Idlib including 4 died in Mouadamiyeh Al-Sham, 10 in Homs, 5 in Latakkia, 5 in Deir Ezzor and 3 in Hama 4:47 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/syrian-activists-say-pledges-of-us-communications-aid-are-largely-unfulfilled/2012/08/20/14dff95a-eaf8-11e1-9ddc-340d5efb1e9c_story.html Syrian activists say pledges of U.S. communications aid are largely unfulfilled“Our groups have not received anything from the U.S. side,” said Imad Eddin al-Rachid, a former assistant dean at the Islamic Law College in Damascus, who has met with Clinton and other high-level U.S. officials in Turkey in recent months. More than a dozen Syrians directly involved in smuggling equipment said they have delivered hundreds of devices to groups in Aleppo, Damascus and other beleaguered cities but were unaware of any gear that had been provided by the United States. Seeking to bolster its support to opposition groups, the State Department recently established a program to provide equipment and instruction to anti-Assad activists. But the program requires participants to travel to Istanbul for training before they are given any gear. U.S. officials and Syrian nationals involved in the program said that it is slated to expand in the coming months but that fewer than two dozen laptop computers and satellite modem kits had been distributed so far. U.S. officials acknowledged that the program, known as the Office of Syrian Opposition Support, only started work two months ago and had been hampered by bureaucratic and diplomatic delays. Among them, officials said, was concern by the Turkish government that OSOS could emerge as a rival to other Syrian groups or secretly be used to ship weapons into Syria. U.S. officials said Syrian opposition groups may be unaware of how much gear came from the United States because it was largely distributed through nongovernmental organizations. The officials also suggested that activists may be unhappy with the amount they have gotten or convinced that rivals have gotten more.Edgar Vasquez, a State Department spokesman, said the department had “provided more than 900 pieces of nonlethal equipment, mostly communications gear, to civilian activists and opposition groups.” http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/world/middleeast/syrian-rebels-coalesce-into-a-fighting-force.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&seid=auto&smid=tw-nytimesworld Life With Syria’s Rebels in a Cold and Cunning WarMr. Yasin, 37, was a clean-shaven accountant before the war. He lived a quiet life with his wife and two young sons. Now thickly bearded and projecting a stoic calm under fire, he has been hardened by his war in ways he could not have foreseen. He roams the Aleppo region with dozens of armed men in camouflage, plotting attacks with other commanders, evading airstrikes, meeting with smugglers and bombmakers to gather more weapons, and rotating through front-line duties in a gritty street-by-street urban campaign. He prefers to sleep by day, and fight by night. His fighters are a cross section of a nation at war with itself. They include a real estate agent, several farmers, construction workers and a nurse who owned a short-order restaurant. These men fight side by side with a cadre of army defectors, who say the government they once served must fall. The civilians started with stones and firearms bought for hunting. Their first more powerful weapon was a huge slingshot for hurling Molotov ****tails and small homemade bombs. As professional soldiers have joined them, they have gradually acquired assault rifles, machine guns and rocket-propelled and hand grenades. They now control a captured armored vehicle and two tanks. http://cjchivers.com/post/29652847620/mgexting-machine-gun-in-right-hand-cell-phone Machine gun in right hand. Cell phone in left. On duty on the gun-truck’s machine gun, at 80 miles an hour into Aleppo, checking messages along the way.Even as the war in Syria rages, large areas of the countryside have cellular phone coverage, and the fighters are constantly checking their phones. When they stop, many of them immediately look for ways to recharge their phone batteries. And, often as they move and enter an area with a strong signal, they commence texting back and forth. (Bryan and I are back from Aleppo and will be holed up tomorrow writing and editing. There is much to tell of this trip. But first we have to empty the notebooks and get the main story, slide show and video wrapped up. Then we will spend time here.) http://blogs.aljazeera.com/liveblog/topic/syria-153 about 3 hours agoThe government says a Japanese journalist has been killed covering fighting in Syria. Masaru Sato, a spokesman with the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo, says Mika Yamamoto was killed in Syria while reporting on the civil war there. Yamamoto was a journalist with Japan Press, an independent TV news service. Sato said on Tuesday that Yamamoto's body has been transferred to Turkey, where Japanese consular officials were providing assistance. He said Yamamoto was with a colleague from Japan Press when she was killed. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2014284&l=48063a3341&id=217848338242310 Local Coordination Committees in SyriaLCC managed to document by the end of Monday 150 martyrs, the number includes 15 children and 5 women. There was 54 Martyrs in Damascus and its Suburbs most of whom are in Mouadamiyeh, Darya and Qaboun,35 in Aleppo most of whom died as a result of building collapsing in Meisser neighborhood, 20 in Daraa they include 4 from one family, 18 in Idlib including 4 died in Mouadamiyeh Al-Sham, 10 in Homs, 5 in Latakkia, 5 in Deir Ezzor and 3 in Hama6:38 PM http://www.extremeskins.com/showthread.php?357480-Yahoo-Assad-predicts-disaster-if-West-meddles-in-Syria&p=9046975&viewfull=1#post9046975 24,582 people killed so far in Syria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/21/us-turkey-bomb-pkk-idUSBRE87K09020120821 Kurdish militant group says not behind Turkey bombKurdish separatists said on Tuesday they were not responsible for a car bomb that killed nine people in the southeastern town of Gaziantep near Turkey's border with Syria late on Monday. "Our fighters have nothing to do with this explosion," Firat News, a website close to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, cited the PKK as saying in a statement. http://blogs.aljazeera.com/liveblog/topic/syria-153 about 4 hours agoA Japanese woman journalist died of wounds sustained in a gunfight between Syrian forces and rebels in Aleppo on Tuesday, becoming the first Japanese national killed in the 17-month-old conflict. Mika Yamamoto, a 45-year-old award-winning journalist working for Tokyo-based independent news wire Japan Press, was fatally wounded while travelling with the Free Syrian Army, a Japanese foreign ministry official said. In a telephone interview with a Japanese TV news programme, fellow Japan Press reporter Kazutaka Sato, who was travelling with Yamamoto, said it appeared she was shot by government forces. "We saw a group of people in camouflage fatigues coming toward us. They appeared to be government soldiers. They started random shooting. They were just 20, 30 metres away or even closer," said Sato. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the clash occurred in the Suleimaniya district of Aleppo, the scene of heavy fighting between government and rebel forces. about 2 hours agoAt least 23 people were wounded in running clashes between pro- and anti-Assadregime supporters in Lebanon's second largest city of Tripoli, a security official said Tuesday. Exchanges of gunfire erupted on Monday and continued through the night between the mainly Sunni district of Bab el-Tebbaneh and the largely Alawite area of Jabal Mohsen. Several houses caught fire and cars were damaged in the fighting, which has added to fears that the conflict in Syria is increasingly spilling over into Lebanon, destablising the already fragile security situation. The army, which responded Monday to the source of the gunfire, withdrew Tuesday from the aptly-named Syria Street, the symbolic "dividing line" between the rival Tripoli districts https://twitter.com/martinchulov Saw foreign jihadists at frontline in Aleppo. Fighters from Senegal, Saudi, Algeria & Pakistan. Others deep inside Salahedin. small numbers so far. Around 30 at frontline. Scores more have def crossed from Turkey. Not sure whre they are.3:20 AM Haven't had web access for 5 days. Tanks rounds crashring into suburbs near Salahedin. Scores/hundreds of residents fleeing 2:46 AM Aleppo more foreboding than a week ago. Everything closed in east of city. Besieged & deserted. 2:51 AM Jets taking heavy toll on FSA bases. As soon as they set up (in empty buildings) they get bombed from above 2:52 AM Regime troops yet to enter rebel-held east Aleppo. They are in Salahedin tho where fighting close range & both sides trade insults 2:56 AM https://twitter.com/DavidKenner Amazing photos from Aleppo by @bdentonphoto. http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/08/20/world/middleeast/20120821-REBELS.html?ref=middleeast#11 …4:54 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/08/2012821133924677120.html Heavy fighting as rebels claim Aleppo gainsHeavy shelling and clashes rage on across swathes of Syria's second city of Aleppo, as both the regime and rebels claim they are gaining ground in the key northern battleground. At least 24 people are reported to have been killed nationwide, among them women and children in Aleppo, as the Syrian government presses its onslaught on rebel areas. The rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) claimed on Tuesday that it controlled almost two-thirds of Aleppo, which has been battered by a month of air strikes, shelling and fighting. "We now control more than 60 per cent of the city of Aleppo, and each day we take control of new districts," said Abdel Jabbar al-Okaidi, a colonel with the FSA. He went on to list some 30 districts which he claimed were under FSA control, including about half of the embattled neighbourhood of Salaheddin. But a security source in Damascus rejected the claims, according to the AFP news agency, calling them "completely false". "The terrorists are not advancing," the source said. "It is the army that is making slow progress. Terrorist groups occasionally come out of districts under their control and attack other districts to be able to then claim they have this or that street under their control." Activists also reported that troops had stormed a town near Damascus, torching homes and shops, while helicopters and war planes strafed several suburbs of the capital, which the regime claimed to have largely recaptured last month. The violence in Syria also continues to spill across the border into neighbouring Lebanon, where two people were killed and more than 60 wounded in clashes between Sunni Muslims and Alawites in the northern city of Tripoli. http://blogs.aljazeera.com/liveblog/topic/syria-153 about 3 hours agoThe conflict in Syria has been dealing severe blows to the country's economy. The government and the banks are running out of money, and a lack of fuel means everything else is grinding to a halt. Al Jazeera's Anita McNaught reports on the economic crisis from northern city of Aleppo. https://twitter.com/alihashem_tv 5 people were killed and 75 injured in the ongoing clashes in TripoliLB north Lebanon, 20 lebanese soldiers were also injured12:13 PM https://twitter.com/arwaCNN spent the am in tripoli lebanon - intense gunfire around syria st that divides sunni & allawite areas 12:18 PM gunfire still on going in tripoli - spoke to contact in sunni area says 2 more just died lebanon could hear heavy shooting in background 12:24 PM https://twitter.com/AmalHanano 69 names of martyrs of Mouadmiyeh today: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=343101112445626&set=a.122898181132588.33874.122821647806908&type=1&theater … …. Damascus1:25 PM https://twitter.com/AnonymousSyria I am alive and OK 1:11 PM No 3G or ADSL connections in Aleppo, but we have got a very slow GPRS connection today. 1:20 PM https://twitter.com/DavidKenner Alawite leader in Tripoli --> RT @Naharnet MTV: The army has encircled Rifaat Ali Eid's residence in Jabal Mohsen. http://www.naharnet.com/1:30 PM https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2016143&l=a747b2967a&id=217848338242310 Local Coordination Committees in SyriaNumber of martyrs in Syria has risen to 152 thus far; including women and children. 93 martyrs were reported in Damascus and it's suburbs; most of them in Moaudameyh, 19 in Daraa; most of them in Hrak, 19 in Aleppo, 12 in Deir Ezzor; including an entire family from Mohemdieh, 5 in Homs, 2 in Lattakia, 1 in Idlib, and 1 in Hama 12:05 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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