The Syrian Conflict Thread

Xarog said:
I just see the image, not its name. And I wouldn't put any stock in the name anyway since you'd have to name it something... I mean, what in your opinion should he rather have called it?
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in my opinion he should have left the name as it originally was
 
grantza said:
in my opinion he should have left the name as it originally was
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grantza said:
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when i clicked "reply with quote" (& open in new tab) my browser hung for a bit.
had to close the tab, refresh the original page - and then i noticed the post missing
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Yes, everything from today right up to 5 minutes ago was take off.
 
AntiGanda said:
Yes, everything from today right up to 5 minutes ago was take off.
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As all trolling should be. Thats the problem if you report posts, all off topic trollings including yours and mine is deleted!
 
Seriously said:
As all trolling should be. Thats the problem if you report posts, all off topic trollings including yours and mine is deleted!
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No, these were quite ordinary and very plain and across threads (all in news section).
 
https://www.rt.com/news/324919-assad-raf-airstrikes-failure/

London's air operation against Islamic State in Syria is illegal and therefore will not be successful, like the bombing of the US-led coalition in the country over the last year, Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview with The Sunday Times newspaper.

The support of the British parliament for the air operation in Syria advocated by Prime Minister David Cameron cannot change the fact that the presence of the Royal Air Force in Syrian airspace is unlawful since neither Damascus, nor the United Nations have given London the green light to bomb Syrian territory, Assad said.

“It will be harmful and illegal and it will support terrorism, as happened after the coalition started its operation a year or so [ago] because this is like a cancer,” Assad said, accusing British PM David Cameron of a farcical description of the so-called “moderate Syrian opposition” that is supposed to push Islamic State (former ISIS/ISIL) out from the territories it occupies in Syria.

“This is a new episode in a long series of David Cameron’s classical farce… Where are they? Where are the 70,000 moderates he is talking about?”

“Let me be frank and blunt about this,” Assad said. “There is no 70,000. There is no 7,000.”

Britain’s airstrikes cannot harm ISIS and only help to spread the cancer of terrorism further, because the West refused to combine its air power with Syrian forces to defeat ISIS, President Assad told the Sunday Times. “We know that they are not going to do so,” he said.
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http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/focus/article1641838.ece

In an interview with The Sunday Times, Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, warns that bombing will increase the risk of terrorist attacks by sleeper cells in Europe unless there is a concerted effort to destroy Isis on the ground


FTER nearly five years of civil war that have resulted in an estimated 250,000 deaths, an exodus of millions of refugees, the burgeoning of Isis into an international terrorist threat and the bombing of his country by the West and Russia alike, President Bashar al-Assad wasted no time in attacking the British airstrikes that began last week.

In an interview with The Sunday Times in the tranquil surroundings of his palace in Damascus, he said Britain’s “illegal” actions would serve only to spread the “cancer” of
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That's as far as you get on the Sunday Times website without getting past the paywall.

So laugh all you want, but I don't see what the point is. Unless you think for some reason that the article is lying about what Assad told the Sunday times, of course. But you don't think that, do you?
 
I wonder who at the end of the day is going to have the most Syrian blood on their hands. Putin or Assad?
 
AntiGanda said:
I'm beginning to think that the UK wants to provide air cover for their own forces and these 'moderate opposition' groups whom even the US could not identify.
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How, though? That would mean bombing Assad's forces and his supporters directly.
 
Xarog said:
How, though? That would mean bombing Assad's forces and his supporters directly.
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They haven't reached that stage but I was thinking more of intelligence. They probably tip them off where Russia will strike and have the locations of all of Assad's forces. What are they doing with that info?
 
AntiGanda said:
They haven't reached that stage but I was thinking more of intelligence. They probably tip them off where Russia will strike and have the locations of all of Assad's forces. What are they doing with that info?
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I'm pretty sure the UK will be bombing places inside Syria though. As for undermining the Assad regime, that's been a given all along, but I dunno what the UK would bring to the table in that regard. So far they've relied on US intelligence for all their operations in the region.

Curiously though, France has shifted its position on Assad; makes one curious about the closed-door conversations France had with Russia. And Germany has vowed not to share any of its intelligence data with Turkey as well as restricting the areas they operate away from the areas Russia is operating in.
 
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