The Syrian Conflict Thread

Qusayr Wounded make gruelling Trek to Lebanon

Exhausted by a gruelling five-day trek to reach safety in Lebanon over rocky mountains and valleys, Mohammad from war-torn Syria had to walk despite injuries to his leg while hiding from regime troops.

Wounded in Qusayr, Mohammad, 35, is now being treated in a rudimentary hospital in Minieh, northern Lebanon, after Syrian troops and Hezbollah seized control of his town last Wednesday.

For fear of retribution, Mohammad refused to reveal his real name. He was injured in shelling on Qusayr in central Syria on June 5, just hours before the border town fell out of rebel control.

An AFP journalist was asked not to discuss the route taken by the refugees to reach Lebanon, or to ask whether the wounded men were rebels or civilians.

"People tried to evacuate me on a pick-up truck, but there was so much destruction the vehicle couldn't move," said Mohammad, his face bearded and extremely pale.

"We left the town on foot though I was losing a lot of blood," he added, as he lay in a dirty pair of jeans and a grey t-shirt -- the same clothes he used for the five days.

He arrived in a village near Qusayr whose name he refused to reveal. There, both he and several other wounded people were treated using a basic first-aid kit.

"There wasn't enough blood to give everybody transfusions. They treated my wound but couldn't give me blood," he told AFP.

Meanwhile, the army consolidated its grip over Qusayr, which had been under rebel control for a year. Mohammad and some 30 other wounded men decided to risk everything to flee Syria for Lebanon, on foot.

"We walked for five nights, to avoid the army patrols," Mohammad said.

"We rested during the day and whenever we saw the soldiers, we'd hide behind trees in the fields," he smiled.

The area separating Qusayr from Lebanon is rough terrain. Mountainous and dry, it is a hard walk even without the added danger of the army patrols.

"Some had wounds to their feet, others had shrapnel injuries in their backs and stomachs. We didn't even have painkillers," Mohammad said, his voice barely a whisper.

"One time, a man started bleeding... We bandaged his wound with our clothes," he added.

Their ordeal ended at dawn Sunday, when they reached the north Lebanese area of Akkar. They were then transferred to Minieh, near the Mediterranean coast.

Psychological fatigue

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Akram, a thin, 40-year-old man, made the journey alongside Mohammad.

Wearing a blue vest and shorts donated by the hospital, he had shrapnel wounds to both legs, his back, and the back of his head.

"I was in front of my home in Qusayr when a rocket landed right in front of me. I spent half an hour on the ground," Akram said.

He thinks back to the "terrible bombings" the day Qusayr was seized. He also remembers the "shortage of gauze for our wounds" in the town's makeshift field hospital.

Akram made the same journey as Mohammad.

"One time, we spent 24 hours without food or water," he said.

"They arrived at 6:00 am (0300 GMT) on Sunday, tired, psychologically exhausted," Minieh hospital director Amer Alameddine told AFP.

Two wounded men lay outstretched in each hospital ward, in sombre silence.

"Some of them couldn't answer the doctors' questions because they were so destroyed, they fell asleep right away," said Alameddine.

"Most of them just wanted to eat. We immediately disinfected the wounds that had caused swelling."

Abu Raed, a Syrian who assists refugees arriving in northern Lebanon, told AFP the hospital was "rented" by activists to treat the wounded.

Lebanese associations provide bread, food and mattresses.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has voiced concern for hundreds of wounded it says are still trapped in the Qusayr region, where the United Nations has demanded "immediate" humanitarian access.


Source : Sapa-AFP /mjs
Date : 10 Jun 2013 03:50
 
Really sad whats happening in Syria.

Worse part about it all is who do you support the dictator Assad or the rebels some of which seem extreme also.Lets just hope the people of syria can get peace and relief in their country once again.

Its easy to cry get rid of Assad but then the tribes in these regions are so polarized against each other that it may just end up being another Iraq or Afghanistan where today many are pointing out dictators resulted in less bloodshed.
 
Child Execution puts Rebel Justice in Spotlight

Photographs of the bloodied face of a 14-year-old boy executed in front of his parents by jihadist rebels in northern Syria have thrown into stark relief the sometimes extreme justice meted out in rebel-held areas.

Fighters of Al-Qaeda front group the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria accused Mohammad Qattaa of blasphemy but a human rights group said he had done nothing more than use a common Arabic phrase that makes reference to the Prophet Mohammed's name.

Pictures of Qattaa's face, bloodied by the three shots that cut short his life on Sunday, spread like wildfire on social media websites, prompting a strong condemnation of his killing from the mainstream opposition.

"If someone shot a dog in the street, people would act," cried the boy's grieving mother Umm Mohammed in amateur video footage distributed by activists.

"Where are his rights? He was a child! How could they kill him?

"They killed him right in front of my eyes... May God take revenge on them... I saw his blood streaming down," she wailed.

"We are with neither side (in Syria's raging conflict). We just look after ourselves... Why did you kill my son? Is he a terrorist?"

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the militants responsible for the boy's execution were foreign volunteers with the Al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

"A member of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria spoken to by an Observatory activist said the boy deserved to die," said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman.

"Those who executed the boy were not Syrian," he added.

Large swathes of northern Syria have fallen into the hands of various rebel groups, some of them Islamist, which have set up their own justice systems in areas they control.

Qattaa's killing was the latest in a series of abuses by rebel fighters that have discomfited the mainstream opposition and its Western backers.

Just last month, amateur video showed a rebel fighter in the devastated province of Homs eating the organs of a slain soldier.

Opposition National Coalition member Alia Mansour said: "This execution is a crime against humanity and a crime against Syria's revolution."

"As the conflict develops, it is logical that we will see more problems of criminality emerge," said Aron Lund, who has written extensively on the Syrian insurgency.

"The core problem in Syria, aside from the war, is the lack of law and order. Religious extremism is a response to the lack of law and order, as radicals see a chance to step in like a sheriff in the Wild West," Lund told AFP.

"On the regime side, power is concentrated in Assad's hands. But on the rebel side, it is more complicated because many insurgent groups are competing against each other for territory, and have many different ideas about how Syria should be ruled," he added.

Alia Mansour of the opposition National Coalition condemned Qattaa's killing.

"This execution is a crime against humanity and a crime against Syria's revolution," Mansour said. "We don't want to exchange one killer regime for another."

But Nadim Houry of Human Rights Watch said it was imperative that the opposition go beyond mere condemnation as allegations of abuses by rebel fighters were multiplying.

"Executions are on the increase, and a rising number of groups are taking the law into their own hands," Houry told AFP.

"The rule of the gun is what dominates in Syria now, whether in opposition or regime-held areas. What is essential is that there be space for Syrian non-combatants to be able to speak up and condemn such acts," he said.

"This kind of ability to mobilise and put pressure on the guys with the guns is essential for Syria's future."

Children have accounted for at least 5,030 children have been killed in Syria's raging war, which has left more than 94,000 people dead in 26 months. The majority were killed in regime shelling, the Observatory says.


Source : Sapa-AFP /mom
Date : 11 Jun 2013 04:29
 
Rebels converge on airbase as US Mulls support

Syrian rebels converged on a military airport in Aleppo, where troops massed for a threatened assault, as the United States said it was considering "all possible options" to help the opposition.

Buoyed by victory in the strategic town of Qusayr on the border with Lebanon, President Bashar al-Assad's troops have been readying to open a northern front in Aleppo province on the border with Turkey.

The 26-month conflict pitting mainly Sunni Muslim rebels against Assad's regime, dominated by his Alawite sect of Shiite Islam, has spilled over into Lebanon and Turkey, on occasion.

It has also threatened to draw in Israel, where a minister admitted on Monday that Assad could triumph in the war which has already killed more than 94,000 and forced millions to flee their homes.

After suffering a string of battlefield losses in and around Qusayr in the past week, rebel fighters advanced on the Minnigh airbase in Aleppo province on Monday, a monitoring group reported.

"Opposition fighters have seized the radar tower in the Minnigh airbase," Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.

"Fierce clashes have raged in the airbase since dawn Sunday," he added.

State media said the rebel assault had been repulsed.

"Troops from our heroic army stopped terrorist groups from assaulting the Minnigh army airbase," said the official SANA news agency.

The development came as US Secretary of State John Kerry postponed a visit to the Middle East in order to attend White House talks on Syria, US officials told AFP.

Kerry is struggling to put together a peace conference, in tandem with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, on Syria as Washington comes under increasing pressure to arm the opposition, although it has provided aid for things like night-vision goggles and body armour.

Amid wrangling between Syrian opposition leaders and a fierce debate over exactly who should attend, the date for such talks initially slated for May has now slipped into July at the earliest.

President Barack Obama has asked his national security team -- which includes Kerry -- "to consider all possible options that would accomplish our objectives of helping the Syrian opposition serve the essential needs of the Syrian people and hastening a political transition to a post-Assad Syria," National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan told AFP.

"We have prepared a wide range of options for the president's consideration, and internal meetings to discuss the situation in Syria are routine," she said.

But she said there were "no new announcements at this time."

Israel's intelligence minister, Yuval Steinitz, said Assad might succeed in crushing the armed uprising with the help of his main regional ally Iran and the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah.

"It might be the case that, at the end of the day, Assad .. might get the upper hand," he said.

"In such time of conflict, if the opposition is not making any progress, and the regime manages to survive and to get very strong support from other countries, namely Iran and Hezbollah, which is a proxy of Iran, in the end it might just survive," he said.

Syria was receiving "very significant militant support" from Iran and Hezbollah, with thousands of Shiite militants fighting alongside Assad's forces in "very clear formations and with very good equipment -- this might help," he said.

Israel has repeatedly shied away from involvement in Syria's civil war, insisting it is not backing one side or the other in the conflict.

Meanwhile Saudi Arabia, the Middle East's main Sunni powerhouse and regional rival of Shiite-ruled Iran, condemned Hezbollah's "flagrant" intervention in the conflict.

Damascus accuses the conservative Gulf kingdom and neighbouring Qatar of arming Syria's rebels.

The latest violence across Syria killed at least 119 people on Monday, said the Observatory, which relies on a network of activists, doctors and lawyers for its reports.

And in a new sign of the growing savagery of the conflict, an Al-Qaeda front group executed a 14-year-old boy it accused of blasphemy.

The execution of Mohammad Qattaa in Aleppo province on Sunday drew condemnation from the mainstream opposition.

"Anyone who breaches treaties and international conventions, and commits any war crimes will stand trial, regardless of who they are," the National Coalition said.

Meanwhile a young Belgian man has been killed in Syria while fighting for an Islamist group and his brother was arrested on his return home from the war-stricken country, newspapers in Belgium said Monday.

Tarik Taketloune, 20, a car mechanic from Vilvorde, a suburb of Brussels, was shot in the head and killed on Friday as he slept in a house near Aleppo, the Flemish newspaper Het Nieuwsbald said, quoting his father.


Source : Sapa-AFP /mom
Date : 11 Jun 2013 04:23
 
Austrian UN Troops Pull out of Golan Region

Austrian troops in the UN monitoring force on the Golan Heights began withdrawing on Wednesday, days after Vienna decided to quit the mission over security concerns, an AFP photographer said.

A group of 20 soldiers entered the Israeli side of the strategic plateau through the Quneitra Crossing, the only direct passage between Israel and Syria, the photographer said.

The troops arrived in jeeps accompanied by armoured vehicles before crossing through Syrian and Israeli controls. About 50 other soldiers of the 378-strong Austrian contingent were to be withdrawn during the day, sources on the ground said.


Source : Sapa-AFP /mom
Date : 12 Jun 2013 07:36
 
UN peacekeepers fulling their mandate. That is running away when the peace is disturbed.
 
Syrian Rebel Attack kills 60 Shiites

Syrian rebels have attacked a village in the country's east, killing dozens of Shiites, mostly pro-government fighters, activists said Wednesday. A Syrian government official denounced the attack, saying it was a "massacre" of civilians.

The killings, which took place Tuesday in the eastern Deir el-Zour province, highlight the sectarian nature of Syria's conflict that has killed more than 80,000 people, according to the U.N.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 60 people were killed in the village of Hatla in the oil-rich province that borders Iraq.

Thousands of rebels took part in the attack and at least 10 of them were killed in the fighting, said the Observatory.

In Damascus, a government official said the rebels "carried out a massacre against villagers in which older people and children were killed." The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

The fighting in Deir el-Zour came a week after Syrian troops, backed by Lebanon's militant Shiite Hezbollah group, captured the strategic town of Qusair near the Lebanese border after nearly three weeks of fierce battles that killed dozens of troops, rebels and Hezbollah members.

Hezbollah's involvement in the Qusair battle underlined the group's commitment in support of President Bashar Assad's regime and edged the civil war in Syria closer to a regional sectarian conflict pitting the Middle East's Iranian-backed Shiite axis against Sunnis.

Most of the armed rebels in Syria are from the country's Sunni majority, while Assad has retained core support among the minorities, including his own Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, along with Christians and Shiites.

An activist based in Deir el-Zour said the rebel attack was in retaliation for an attack Monday by Shiites from Hatla that killed four rebels. Thaer al-Deiry, who identified himself only by his nickname for fear of government retaliation, said via Skype that rebels gathered and launched a counter attack Tuesday.

He said some 150 Shiites from the village fled across the Euphrates River to the government-held village of Jafra.

"The situation in the village is quiet and the Free Syrian Army is in full control," al-Deiry said, referring to the rebels. He added that the village has been under opposition control for more than a year but some of its Shiite residents recently started collecting arms apparently to fight along government troops.

Also Wednesday, the Observatory reported heavy clashes in the central city of Homs, mostly in the neighborhood of Wadi Sayeh. The fighting appeared to be an attempt by government forces to separate two main rebel-held areas in the city, Khaldiyeh and the center of Homs.

Building on its victory in Qusair, the Syrian military has shifted its attention to try to clear rebel-held areas in Homs, a linchpin area linking Damascus with regime strongholds on the Mediterranean coast, and the northern city of Aleppo.

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Associated Press writer Albert Aji contributed to this report from Damascus, Syria.


Source : Sapa-AP /pk
Date : 12 Jun 2013 11:21
 
Syria Helicopter Raid sparks Lebanon Warning

Lebanon's army has warned it will hit back against any new attacks from Syria after a helicopter gunship struck an eastern town, ratcheting up tensions amid US-British talks on the conflict.

In Washington, Secretary of State John Kerry and his British counterpart William Hague met on Wednesday, a day after President Barack Obama asked his security team to "look at all options" to help the Syrian opposition.

A Syrian helicopter gunship fired two rockets at the centre of Arsal, a Lebanese town populated mostly by Sunni Muslims, wounding one person, Lebanon's army said.

In a rare warning against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, it said Lebanese troops "took the necessary defensive measures to respond immediately to any similar violations".

Hague told a joint news conference that Britain and its allies must be "prepared to do more" to save lives in Syria, calling the conflict "the most urgent crisis anywhere in the world today" and a grave regional threat.

Kerry insisted the goal of diplomatic efforts was to reach a political solution and transition of power that "gives the Syrian people the chance to have a new beginning where they choose their future leadership".

Later Wednesday the US State Department announced the easing of restrictions on trade with Syria's opposition, in a move aimed at helping supply the critical needs of Syrians in "liberated areas".

The new waivers allow companies to supply software, technology, reconstruction and power generation equipment, as well as farm and food production equipment, to opposition-controlled areas.

Private sales of arms to the rebels, however, were not included in the new policy.

Lebanon's President Michel Sleiman called the Arsal attack "a violation of Lebanon's sovereignty" and said Beirut has the right to take steps to defend itself.

Hours after the helicopter gunship strike Syria's army command insisted that it respected its neighbour's sovereignty but would continue to target rebels, state news agency SANA said.

Most residents of Arsal, in the hills just 12 kilometres (7.5 miles) from the border with Syria, support the Sunni-led uprising against the Assad regime.

The majority of Syria's population is Sunni but it has been ruled for more than 40 years by the Assad clan from the Alawite community, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.

The Syria conflict erupted in March 2011 following a bloody regime crackdown on Arab Spring-inspired democracy protests.

Since then, there have been several spillover attacks in Lebanon involving both sides in Syria, but Wednesday's army statement was the first of its kind in the nearly 27-month conflict.

Lebanon's poorly equipped army normally coordinates closely with the Syrian military.

Damascus dominated Lebanon politically and militarily for 30 years until 2005, and still exerts significant influence through its allies in the country.

Arsal has been used as a conduit for weapons and rebels to enter Syria, while also serving as a refuge for people fleeing the conflict.

Dozens of people wounded in fighting in Qusayr -- mostly rebels --flocked to Arsal last week as Syria's army and fighters from the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah overran the former insurgent bastion near the border.

In a new macabre episode, Sunni Islamist rebels celebrated the killing of some 60 Shiites, mostly pro-regime fighters, according to amateur video distributed by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

"Look Shiites, this is how you will end up, you dogs," cries one man shown in footage filmed in Hatlah village, in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor, as he points to a man's disfigured corpse.

Boosted by their victory in Qusayr, regime troops advanced on parts of the nearby city of Homs, as they prepared to assault Aleppo in the north, the Observatory said.

A US-Russian peace initiative appears to have stalled as Assad's forces make battlefield gains.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, meanwhile, called for better protection for peacekeepers in the Golan Heights against the growing threat from the fighting in Syria but said it was "essential" that the mission remain.

Ban made the call as the first Austrian troops withdrew from the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) following attacks and abductions of peacekeepers. Croatia and Japan have also withdrawn in recent months.

Fiji is sending 171 troops this month, who would replace the Croatian and Japanese contingents, according to the UN report. It has reportedly offered to send hundreds more soldiers.

The United Nations also said Wednesday that children are being used as sniper targets and human shields in the Syria war.

Ban said in the report the 26-month-old war in Syria is taking an "unacceptable and unbearable" toll on children with thousands among the death toll.


Source : Sapa-AFP /mom
Date : 13 Jun 2013 04:51
 
Syria Death Toll now more than 93,000

More than 93,000 people, including at least 6,500 children, have perished in Syria's brutal civil war, a new study from the United Nations human rights office showed Thursday.

"Unfortunately, as the study indicates, this is most likely a minimum casualty figure. The true number of those killed is potentially much higher," UN rights chief Navi Pillay said in a statement.


Source : Sapa-AFP /pk
Date : 13 Jun 2013 11:13
 
Well whenever a minority rule the majority there will be conflict maybe it is time the USA and the "Allies" put their money where their mouth is and invade Syria and help stage some sort of democratic elections.


Or is there not enough oil in Syria for them to pretend to be Saviours of humanity?
 
US Confirms that Assad has used Chemical Weapons

The United States working with European allies has concluded that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons against the rebels, killing up to 150 people, a top US official said Thursday.

The declaration means that Syria has crossed what President Barack Obama has called a "red line," prompting his administration to announce an increase in "non-lethal" support to those opposing the Damascus regime of Bashar al-Assad.

"Our intelligence community assesses that the Assad regime has used chemical weapons, including the nerve agent sarin, on a small scale against the opposition multiple times in the last year," deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said in a White House statement.

"The intelligence community estimates that 100 to 150 people have died from detected chemical weapons attacks in Syria to date," he said.

"The president has been clear that the use of chemical weapons -- or the transfer of chemical weapons to terrorist groups - is a red line for the United States," Rhodes noted.

"The president has said that the use of chemical weapons would change his calculus, and it has."

Rhodes did not say if the United States was moving towards directly arming the rebels battling Assad but said Obama "will be consulting with Congress on these matters in the coming weeks."

"The United States and the international community have a number of other legal, financial, diplomatic, and military responses available. We are prepared for all contingencies, and we will make decisions on our own timeline," he said.


Source : Sapa-AFP /mv
Date : 13 Jun 2013 23:36
 
Neo-con lies...

Who would have thought the obamasiah himself would arm rebels aligned with Al Qaeda.

Not even the nuts claiming he was a Kenyan Muslim saw this coming :erm:
 
As the Obama administration considers whether to arm Syrian rebels, former President Bill Clinton increased pressure for a stronger US role in Syria's civil war, short of sending in US troops, according to a report.

"Nobody is asking for American soldiers in Syria," Clinton said, according to the report from the newspaper Politico published late on Wednesday.

"The only question is: now that the Russians, the Iranians and the Hezbollah are in there head over heels... should we try to do something to try to slow their gains and rebalance the power so that these rebel groups have a decent chance, if they're supported by a majority of the people, to prevail?"

Clinton made the remarks at a closed-press event earlier this week with Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona, one of the fiercest critics of President Barack Obama's unwillingness so far to provide direct military support to the rebels opposing Syrian President Bashar Assad.

The conflict has left at least 93 000 dead in a two-year fight, the United Nations said on Thursday.

The situation on the ground has changed dramatically in recent weeks, with Assad winning the open support of fighters from Hezbollah, the Shi'ite militia from neighbouring Lebanon. Assad also is backed by regional Shi'ite power Iran and Russia, which has used its veto to block UN Security Council action against him.

The comments from fellow Democrat Clinton increases pressure on Obama as his administration considers options on Syria at White House talks this week, including whether to arm the rebels.

Clinton said he agreed with McCain that the United States needed to intervene, according to the report by Politico, which said it obtained an audio recording from an attendee at the event for the McCain Institute for International Leadership held on Tuesday in New York.

"Sometimes it's just best to get caught trying, as long as you don't over-commit - like, as long as you don't make an improvident commitment," Clinton said, according to the report.

He said several times it would be "lame" to point to opposition in polls or among US lawmakers as a reason not to intervene in a conflict, Politico said.

Obama has been reluctant to arm the rebels out of concern the weapons could fall into the wrong hands, and opinion polls back him, with some surveys showing as few as 10% of Americans in favour of intervention.

If the United States decides against arming the rebels, Arab and European states could step in.

Clinton's comments come just months after his wife Hillary left as US secretary of state. The White House had no immediate comment on the Politico report.
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http://www.news24.com/World/News/Bill-Clinton-urges-Syria-action-report-20130613
 
US Military Proposes 'No Fly Zone' over Syria

US military proposals for arming Syrian rebels include establishing a limited no-fly zone over rebel training camps and delivering small arms, US media reported Friday.

Up to now Washington has only provided -- at least officially -- non-lethal aid to the rebels.

The proposed no-fly zone would stretch up to 25 miles (40 kilometers) into Syria, and would be enforced by warplanes flying inside Jordan and armed with long-distance air-to-air missiles, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed US officials.

The Journal also reported that President Barack Obama has issued a classified order directing the Central Intelligence Agency to coordinate with US allies on arming the rebels.

Weapons for the Syrian rebels would include small arms and ammunition, including anti-tank weapons but not anti-aircraft weapons, The New York Times reported, citing unnamed American officials.

Military experts have long warned that a no-fly zone would require Western jets to destroy the regime's relatively good air defenses.

But US planners, according to the Journal, believe this no-fly zone could be imposed in about a month without having to destroy the Syrian anti-aircraft batteries.

It could also be imposed without a UN Security Council resolution because US warplanes would not regularly enter Syrian airspace, and the US military would not be holding Syrian territory.

A no-fly zone is necessary to set up a camp to train rebels, officials said.

"Unless you have a good buffer zone inside Syria, you risk too much," an unnamed US official briefed on the military proposal told the Journal.

This limited no-fly zone would cost about $50 million (37 million euros) a day, far less than a Syria-wide no-fly zone. US officials reportedly hope that Washington's allies could help cover the cost.

The US planes would fly from Jordan -- where US Patriot missiles and F-16 jet fighters have already been deployed -- and from navy ships in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, the Journal reported.

In Washington, Republican Senator John McCain has led the charge in Congress for a no-fly zone, saying Syria's rebels will never have a chance against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces unless his jets are neutralized.

"We can establish a no-fly zone without sending a single manned airplane over Syria... and we can change this equation on the battlefield," McCain said Thursday.


Source : Sapa-AFP /pd
Date : 14 Jun 2013 12:43
 
Alan said:
Neo-con lies...

Who would have thought the obamasiah himself would arm rebels aligned with Al Qaeda.

Not even the nuts claiming he was a Kenyan Muslim saw this coming :erm:
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Out of which orifice did you suck out the gem that the Supreme Military Council and the Syrian Opposition Coalition are aligned with Al Qaeda ?

Or have you still not got over the shock to your system that a non-white is President >
 
falcon786 said:
Well whenever a minority rule the majority there will be conflict maybe it is time the USA and the "Allies" put their money where their mouth is and invade Syria and help stage some sort of democratic elections.


Or is there not enough oil in Syria for them to pretend to be Saviours of humanity?
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Just how does oil come into the equation ?
 
zippy said:
Out of which orifice did you suck out the gem that the Supreme Military Council and the Syrian Opposition Coalition are aligned with Al Qaeda ?

Or have you still not got over the shock to your system that a non-white is President >
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race card lol. Desperate times call for desperate measures I suppose.

Thanks Gary for providing the links.
 
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