“[Americans] will not tolerate military strikes against a regime that, however deplorable in other respects, is defending one of the Arab world’s surviving Christian communities against terrorists allied with the same group that killed almost 3,000 Americans on 9/11. Nor should they.”

Barack Obama-backed Syrian rebel terrorists this week have dismembered a girl while she was alive along with other similar atrocities in a Christian village in Syria, according to Russia Today. Hit-and-run attacks on the ancient village of Maaloula, one of the few places in the world where residents still speak “the original language of Christ,” Aramaic, has intensified fears among Syria’s religious minorities about the growing role of U.S.-backed rebel extremists among those fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad’s regime..

President Barack Obama has aimed to topple Assad with support from Congress and the public, first using US-backed rebels to create atrocities and chaos, blame Assad, and then target assassinate Assad with air strikes, according to news reports. [See West committing terrorist atrocities, not Syria, says Chossudovsky]

[Note: this is a collection of articles complied at PopularResistance.org but it's not clear to me the source of the "12 former miltary...revealed on Saturday" below...who are they? original release, where? -ED]

Obama has used the CIA to kickstart atrocities in Syria, as 12 former military and intelligence officers revealed on Saturday. This is how Obama wormed his way into Libya and started an illegal war of aggression there, without Congressional approval or even debate. In the latest widely circulated news, Obama-backed rebels decapitated and committed other atrocities on Christians in hit and run attacks in Maaloula. A video widely published has depicted Syrians injured and killed by chemicals that Obama unjustifiably claims was the work of Assad and his army. Over 100,000 people have been killed, with nearly 7 million uprooted from their homes …Mother Agnes, a catholic nun living in Syria 20 years and reporting on the war-ravaged country, has carefully studied the video featuring alleged victims of chemical weapons attack in the Syrian village of Guta in August. She questions its authenticity. Rather than blaming Syrian’s government for terrorist atrocities across Syria, Mother Agnes blames the United States and Obama-backed Syrian Rebels. Atrocities and other human rights violations being carried out by the rebels, including dismembering a live young Syrian girl, far outweight any type of actions by Assad-backed Syrian government forces, according to Mother Agnes. This reflects exactly what happened in Libya where US abuses were far worse than what Gadhafi allegedly did.

In terms of casting the war in a regime-sympathetic light,  Assad himself couldn’t have written the script any better.

“They [destroyed] a statue of the Virgin Mary,” according to a resident who spoke to the Daily Telegraph. “They shelled us from the nearby mountain. Two shells hit the St. Thecla convent … Some of the rebels entered a home near the checkpoint belonging to Yousef Haddad, a Christian. They tried to force him to convert to Islam.” Eventually, the rebels were driven off.

Like it or not,  Assad’s forces — murderous thugs though they may be — are protecting this Christian village from suicide bombers and other killers. Given this — as well asadditional horror stories about the rebels’ barbaric behaviour — why on earth would the average citizen of the United States, one of the most devoutly Christian nation on the planet, want to see Assad’s regime bombed?

Yes, I know: Barack Obama isn’t seeking Congressional approval to execute regime change in Syria. He says any strikes in Syria would be limited, and motivated only by a desire to punish the regime for its use of chemical weapons. But such explanations sound legalistic to most Americans.

Here is video of the attack on the Christian village.

More from fuller report this is excepted from, at:

http://www.popularresistance.org/syrian-christians-fear-extremist-rebels/

Friends Committee on National Legislation has a toll free phone number to the Capitol switchboard for calls against the war in Syria, which we’ll keep open through the votes. It’s: 1-855-68 NO WAR or 1-855-686-6927.

The advantage of this number is that we can volume of calls, by day & time (and city—though not by district)

We also have a shareable image on the right for calls, on our FB page, and also have instructions about posting the image on other websites.

I’m also attaching our flyer of faith statements against military intervention, our memo to Congress on 4 Non-Military Options for the US to Pursue in Syria to Help De-escalate the Violence in Syria, and an updated/revised copy of our “5 Reasons to Oppose U.S. Strikes Against Syria.”

All these resources & others are posted at www.fcnl.org/syria