Damascus gave Paul his life changing epiphany – could it do the same for Obama?
Today’s Death toll: 82. The Breakdown: According to the LCCs, the toll includes 11 members of the FSA, 3 children and 2 women. 37 were killed in Damascus (24 in the City, and 13 in the Suburbs), 13 in Homs, 11 in Aleppo, 9 in Idlib, 6 in Deir Ezzor, 2 in Lattakia, 2 in Hama, 1 in Suweida and 1 in Daraa.
Russia and the West lock horns over Syria President Putin offered no indication that Russia will support a UN Security Council resolution backed by the US, Britain, and France that would open the door for military intervention.
Syria’s al Qaeda boomerang … for Syria’s leadership, al Qaeda’s work against the Bashar al-Assad regime is a boomerang. In an interview with CNN’s Ivan Watson, the highest level government official to defect described further how Damascus has collaborated with al Qaeda since the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Blanket Thinkers To call the Free Syrian Army a sectarian gang is tantamount to calling the Syrian people a sectarian gang. It betrays a willed ignorance of reality. The FSA was formed in response to the sickening violence perpetrated by the Syrian regime, which at this stage is certainly a sectarian gang. Its Alawi military units work with armed Alawi civilians to slaughter Sunnis. This is a disaster for the Alawis and everyone else; it sows the seeds of a potential war which would destroy the country for generations, and it’s one of the first reasons why the regime must go as soon as possible.
Syria’s Plan B: An Allawite state? … in interviews with GlobalPost, regime supporters, insiders and experts say the Tremseh killings — in which regime forces used overwhelming firepower to destroy much of the village and eyewitnesses described Allawite militiamen executing dozens — fit a geographic pattern of attacks by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad that are attempting to carve out a breakaway Allawite state.
For those claiming that somehow the FSA is receiving sophisticated weaponry, this fighter from Homs sets the core straight: you don’t have to speak Arabic to understand http://youtu.be/6ZORhR160Yg
All those experts busy telling President Obama that his decision not to intervene in Syria is a wise one were the same ones who advised him to engage Assad saying Assad was a reformer. First, they said we are not ready for revolution, now they say we are not ready for democracy. They were wrong then, they are wrong now. But policymaking circles in U.S. are notabout right and wrong, they are more often about people making careers for themselves as experts, pundits or politicians. That’s what it boils down to.
Barack Obama’s US government has warned its western allies and Syria’s opposition groups that it can do nothing to intervene in the country’s crisis until after November’s presidential election, The Daily Telegraph has learned.
At an average of 100 deaths daily, Obama’s electoral priorities will cost us 15,000 more lives at least, a figure that is bound to include hundreds of children.
President Obama is in good company when it come moral irresponsibility, for Jordan’s King too is waryof “Military Intervention In Syria,” so are the recently elected Presidents of Egypt and Tunisia.
But, as they say, those receiving the blows might have a slightly more nuanced perspective than those who are counting them. I wonder what the positions of these fine Arab leaders would have been had their former dictators opted to bomb the hell out of their people, instead of bowing out relatively gracefully?
Not intervening in Syria might earn you a career or win you an election, but it will not earn you any respect, or safeguard the national interest.
This doctor at a field hospital, for instance, suggested some months ago that some kind of neurological agent may have have featured in the siege of Baba Amr last February. Patients, he said, suffered from abnormal symptoms such as alopecia, cutaneous rash, muscle pain and memory loss, though of course there was no diagnostic equipment on hand to determine etiology.
For months, activists and opposition figures have been saying that Assad’s endgame is to retreat, once Damascus falls to the rebels, to an Alawite rump state along the Mediterranean where sectarian loyalists can protect their patrimonial and commercial interests. (The Assads come from the province of Latakia.) According to independent opposition figure Ammar Abdulhamid, the Kremlin is at least willing to entertain this doomsday scenario because it believes it will then retain control of its port at Tartus and its “secular” ally in the Levant (albeit one that partners with Hezbollah, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and, according to Ambassador Fares, al-Qaeda).
Now Alawites themselves are confirming that this does indeed seem to be the regime’s plan. The GlobalPost interviewedHaidar, a 30 year-old Alawite whose father is active in the Syrian security services: “The massacres in the Sunni villages are to clean the west bank of the Orontes from Sunnis and the military operations in the area are to drive Sunnis eastward.” Haidar adds that his sect is being told that there are vast oil and gas deposits along the coast that will enrich the inhabitants.
Meanwhile, while no one was looking, another autonomous region was being born in the north-east of Syria – not out of psychopathic malice but out of sheer pragmatism and geopolitical cunning. Rival Kurdish factions have tactically reconciled to form their own de facto regional government, which comes complete with its own military apparatus.
The images below might help clarify the situation even further.
Bear in mind below that hundreds of rallies continue to take place every day in Damascus and across Syria. This is still one of the main features of the Revolution.
In Al-Hajar Al-Aswad, locals take control of official buildings and raise the revolution’s flag over some schools http://youtu.be/EWbzeJSogVI
Still, the way to Damascus City was not all fun and games for pro-Assad militias and troops, as some local resistance groups managed to attack and destroy some of their more vulnerable convoys http://youtu.be/IAHYbbx8cMo
The pounding of the town of Yabroud on the road between Homs and Damascus leaves many members of the local resistance dead when a missile hit their headquarters http://youtu.be/s–qndHYOhcThe city has been quite for weeks, and local fighters felt free to gather in certain places, which exposed them to this attack.
To the west, the town of Zabadani is pounded http://youtu.be/twuRqiq2PJc , http://youtu.be/udqtr-Y1nZk , http://youtu.be/WmU-OTbkaZg , http://youtu.be/GmdiGZNBdSQ , http://youtu.be/a0Dqnb3Mg0A , http://youtu.be/koDxC4teTt0 , http://youtu.be/fHtwosFW1wY One of the tanks pounding the town http://youtu.be/OTtdDIQLThg, http://youtu.be/MdDwM9tjubY the pounding lasts into the night http://youtu.be/3p74pU071Ng, http://youtu.be/3p74pU071Ng , http://youtu.be/j54OZ7j7WKA
In Al-Qusayr, local resistance take control of a tank and begin firing at pro-Assad’s checkpoints at the city’s outskirts http://youtu.be/4RVWZDB7jAE
The pounding of Daraa City intensifies: Al-Balad http://youtu.be/UY-_Y3NneiU , http://youtu.be/cn1uxFg2Py8 , http://youtu.be/ZYuc4_ds1bQ , http://youtu.be/rjMnk-UKWKE , http://youtu.be/gC2l1kDac80 , http://youtu.be/lYsb8KcpYlo , http://youtu.be/n16SkO0cl98 , http://youtu.be/lrTNA9a6NCs , http://youtu.be/Xa-EdsIO-XA , http://youtu.be/t6MAC5B-D5g , http://youtu.be/gnklvsVsxmI During the day, tanks took part in the pounding http://youtu.be/hk_K7suA20g
Read more at Syrian Revolution Digest
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