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Syrian civil war thread

alasdairm said:
^ no more or less than your bluelight posts are slanted (and perhaps infested with lies) to suit your agenda.

single-sourcing news, regardless of that source, is a bad idea.

alasdair
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True. Which is why I'll accept stuff from any news agency and reject them all at the same time. You can't trust any of them.
 
Man it's just insane. The Syrian rebels like literally are Al-Qaida and the same Sunni groups who have been killing Americans in Iraq for a decade. Yet now the media slant has cast them as heroes lol. And we're going to go support them to win and take over the government of Syria??!?! The lunatics are running the asylum.
 
or not, Al nusra is not one of the groups supported by the US.

Also, the rebels look set to lose the war at this point anyway, isn't Aleppo all the rebels have left now?
 
I sure would like to see a secular government arise from all this. We currently have Assad's army backed by Iran, Hezbollah, etc, fighting a coalition of mainly Islamist rebel groups. I guess a secular government is probably wishful thinking.
 
You're using Press TV, a network owned by the Iranian government, as proof? I'm not saying that this is completely improbable-- I'm just pointing out how ridiculous your source is. If you're at all familiar with the IRIB then you know that they are an absolute joke when it comes to providing accurate information.
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No more ridiculous than trusting the BBC which is a UK gov source. Or CNN. Or any other big news agency. Makes little difference.. every single news outlet is controlled by someone and being slanted and infested with lies to suit someones agenda.
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Lol. You expect Iranian TV to give you an objective insight into Syria? Are you an RT fan as well?

I sure would like to see a secular government arise from all this. We currently have Assad's army backed by Iran, Hezbollah, etc, fighting a coalition of mainly Islamist rebel groups. I guess a secular government is probably wishful thinking.
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I don't see any reason why that shouldn't happen, if Western governments started getting their act together. The only reason Islamic groups are as prominent as they are is that there has been a power vacuum for them to exploit. If the right people had been armed from the beginning, along with tactical support and a no-fly zone, this wouldn't have happened. Now we have a situation where people won't arm the rebels because there are extremists among them, yet the lack of support moderate rebels are receiving is the very reason for the jihadists' growing influence. Either a ridiculous Catch-22, or a sly but dishonest way of abnegating any moral responsibility.

Also, where are you getting your info that the Syrian opposition is 'mainly' Islamist groups? I'd be interested to know, because every figure I've seen is in the region of 10% or so, the rest ordinary Syrians with no religious agenda. I think people see Muslim guys with guns and think 'terrorist' - somehow conveniently overlooking Hezbollah, not to mention the uniquely horrifying version of state terrorism that Assad is perpetrating every day.
 
This is an interesting turn of events, I think this was bound to happen eventually.

As Syria’s civil war shows no signs of abating, a source within the Free Syrian Army says that Al-Qaeda-linked militants have killed one of the FSA’s senior figures.

Supreme Military Council member Kamal Hamami, also known as Abu Bassel al-Ladkani, was meeting with members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in the Syrian port city of Latakia when he was killed, FSA spokesman Qassem Saadeddine told Reuters.

"The Islamic State phoned me saying that they killed Abu Bassel and that they will kill all of the Supreme Military Council," Saadeddine said. "He met them to discuss battle plans."

Though Syria’s opposition forces have incorporated groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda, news of the killing of a senior FSA member could signal a serious conflict emerging between radical Islamists and more moderate members of the opposition.
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http://rt.com/news/qaeda-militants-kill-fsa-commander-979/
 
us assistance to syria is slowed and halted at the moment over legal issues. meanwhile egypt and saudi arabia are being supplied with F-16s.
 
I honestly hope Russia just curb stomps Israel. Not because I think the Israeli's need to die, but because it seems that is the only thing those people understand clear enough to send a message. The Israeli's would never attack Russia directly outside of something like this, because Russia even now would just stomp them like insects. Fucking Israeli's living that privileged life of never having to answer for their deprivations.
 
23536 said:
MASSIVE chemical attack in Syria today.)
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Unverified at this point. And it makes no god damn sense. Why would Assads military do that when UN weapons inspectors are 15 minutes drive away! Someone is obviously desperate to start another war in the Middle East.. and William Hagues (and French FM) eagerness is all too obvious on the news yesterday. Makes me fucking sick.
 
The Syrian army are winning the war with conventional weapons anyway, so I have no idea why they would use chemical weapons, I don't know for sure, but it smacks of a false flag operation to me. :\

Assad is a cunt though, then again WTF are pricks like Hauge cheering on AQ and the other lot(Al-Nusra-brigade?) whose name I think I have forgot ?

Problem, reaction solution.
 
These guys never stop making me proud.

from Syria emergency meeting

Aug. 6, 2013: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power addresses the United Nations Security Council.AP

Samantha Power, America's new ambassador to the United Nations, skipped a major Security Council meeting Wednesday on the alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria, a move that drew sharp criticism considering her past comments denouncing the council's inaction on the violence.

The strike early Wednesday could stand as the deadliest such incident since the country's civil war began, with reports of hundreds dying. The U.N. Security Council called an emergency meeting Wednesday afternoon to debate the allegations, but ended up issuing a statement that fell far short of what the U.S. and its allies wanted.

Yet Power herself did not attend the emergency meeting. She was instead represented by career diplomat Ambassador Rosemary DiCarlo.
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...bassador-absent-from-syria-emergency-meeting/
 
There are chemical weapons in Syria. And the Army could be firing gas just to use it without consent. The military doesn't strike me as professional if they are bombing civilian targets - supported by the fact that soldiers simply abandoned the army and joined the rebels. Its not strategy, its simple genocide.

This isn't fake. I don't know what drugs you guys are taking but I'd like to have some...

NSFW:
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