Gigantic EXPLOSION at SYRIA Checkpoint ‘LIBERATED’ by REBELS

May 7 2014

With our attentions diverted to the Ukraine and Russia, let’s not forget volitile Syria!  Astoning numbers of people are killed every single day and not a word is being said about it.

Amateur video appears to show a massive explosion launched by the Free Syrian Army in Idlib province, with some 200 people killed daily in the conflict. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.

A massive explosion in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province killed more than 30 government troops on Tuesday, in an operation rebels staged to “liberate” a checkpoint on a strategic highway.

Rebels set off tons of explosives in a tunnel running beneath the checkpoint in Maarat al-Numan, just a few miles east of Talmenes, a town that was allegedly the target of chlorine gas attacks in recent weeks.

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The video below, shared by a local activist, shows the huge blast, reportedly coordinated by several rebel groups.

The videos below, shared by rebel groups and activists, also show the explosion and the immediate aftermath of the blast.

Rebels talk about the successful “liberation” of the checkpoint in the footage below.

Syria accused of swapping chemical weapons for barrel bombs. The first footage shows pieces of the bomb and lifeless animals that show no clear signs of injury. The next videos show victims coughing and receiving treatment for respiratory problems, reportedly as a consequence of the bombing. Intensifying fighting in the strategic region has displaced tens of thousands of people over the last days, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group. New Video Alleges Evidence of Rebel Chemical Weapons Attack in Syria. 

Earlier this year, the United States and the Gulf monarchies initiated a propaganda effort designed to sanitize the image of the mercenaries fighting to topple the Syrian government. According to The Telegraph, mercenary groups “best equipped to take on the extremists” were given millions of dollars to go up against al-Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shams (ISIS), which was said to have “hijacked” the foreign effort to overthrow the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

In Ukraine, US-backed rebels seize weapons from a military depot and begin firing on police — killing at least ten. The rebel groups occupy and torch government buildings, trade union headquarters, the central post office, and political party headquarters. They occupy local government facilities in other cities and physically attack local authorities. Their goal is to overthrow the elected government. 

Reports of rebel reinforcements arriving, with “bulky backpacks near the scene of the latest protests,” are suspiciously reminiscent of the “Internet in a Suitcase” project funded by the US government to provide tools for “activists” in regime-change candidate countries. The US has similarly trained and equipped the Syrian rebels.

US-backed rebels are photographed all over Ukraine with weapons, sometimes photographed shooting at police. In Syria, the US covertly provided the weapons and approved Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and other “friends of Syria” to provide even more. A Russian official has accused the US of arming the Ukrainian opposition.  The Syrian rebels are presented as a moderate group of would-be democrats seeking political reform; Ukrainian rebels are presented as a bunch of pro-Western, pro-EU “peaceful demonstrators.” In both cases the real power on the streets has been radical extremists with whom US officials have had considerable contact.

In Syria, President Assad responded early on to the unrest with offers of compromise, including agreeing to hold a constitutional referendum which put an end to generations of one-party rule. In Ukraine, President Yanukovich granted amnesty to violent protesters, rescinded legislation seen as inhibiting protest, fired his government at the request of the opposition and even offered to name opposition leaders to a new interim government. Each move toward compromise and appeasement of the opposition was met with increased violence and escalating demands on the part of the rebels, most recently in Ukraine after opposition leaders met with US and EU officials at a security conference in Munich. blackwater security.

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