Protests in Syria

[mememe]

Syrian artists fight Assad regime with satire.

Yeah! Pussy Riot number two!

West is becoming pathetic in its desire to portray few misfits on US grants as "a voice of ... (insert the next target country)...

You are such a fucking hack, you must be recieving a paycheck from the Assad regime to come on here and post all this bullshit.

O, yeah! some journo found a handful of "dissident" useless wannabes who drew some graffiti on a wall and pulled sock-puppets on their hands for Western media in AMSTERDAM!

On seeing that "performance" journo wrote "Syrian artists fight Assad regime"!

And morons like you went "Awww..." without even asking the most obvious questions:
What "Syrian artists"?
Are they as much "Syrian" as the rest of the "Syrian fighters"?
How many of them were performing for the West?
How representative are they of the artists of Syria to deserve the title of that article?

 

[High_Gravity]

Syrian artists fight Assad regime with satire.

Yeah! Pussy Riot number two!

West is becoming pathetic in its desire to portray few misfits on US grants as "a voice of ... (insert the next target country)...

You are such a fucking hack, you must be recieving a paycheck from the Assad regime to come on here and post all this bullshit.

O, yeah! some journo found a handful of "dissident" useless wannabes who drew some graffiti on a wall and pulled sock-puppets on their hands for Western media in AMSTERDAM!

On seeing that "performance" journo wrote "Syrian artists fight Assad regime"!

And morons like you went "Awww..." without even asking the most obvious questions:
What "Syrian artists"?
Are they as much "Syrian" as the rest of the "Syrian fighters"?
How many of them were performing for the West?
How representative are they of the artists of Syria to deserve the title of that article?

 

[mememe]

Yet you continue reading my posts!

 

[High_Gravity]

Libya’s Fighters Export Their Revolution to Syria

When the revolution against longtime Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi erupted in Benghazi last year, Masoud Bwisir was quick to take up arms for the cause — and became a bit of a celebrity. A businessman, Bwisir was also a musician and eventually wrote one of the unofficial anthems of the revolution. A video filmed by the pan-Arab news channel al-Arabiya showed him playing his signature guitar at the front, with an RPG slung across his shoulder. Meanwhile, he fought regime forces across the country, learning to make and defuse bombs.

Today, the father of a 1-year-old infant is packing his bags for another fight: Syria. As rebels in the country struggle to bring down another strongman, hundreds of Libyans have flocked there to help. They have brought their fighting experience to the battle and may even be arranging weapon shipments to the underequipped Syrians.

“We came to help the Syrians in their fight,” explains a Libyan using the nickname Abu Yusuf, reached by phone in the Syrian province of Aleppo. “We just couldn’t stay home and watch the killings anymore. It was too much.” Yusuf belongs to Liwa al-Umma, a brigade established by Mahdi al-Harati, deputy commander of the Tripoli Military Council (TMC), an organization that sprouted during the Libyan revolution. Largely funded by Qatar, the TMC received first-rate weapons and training from the small Persian Gulf emirate. Liwa al-Umma officials refuse to say whether Qatar is funding their activities in Syria, but the brigade has deep pockets. Its financial outlays include the purchase of uniforms for Syrians who have joined the outfit.

Within weeks of the successful conclusion of their revolution, Libyan fighters began trickling into Syria. But in recent months, that trickle has allegedly become a torrent, as many more have traveled to the mountains straddling Syria and Turkey, where the rebels have established their bases. “There are some Libyans but not large numbers,” says Khaldun, a first lieutenant who defected from the Syrian army, downplaying reports of massive flows into the area. “Maybe up to 300, but not a thousand.”

The Free Syrian Army sent Khaldun to Libya to coordinate with the interim government there, known as the National Transitional Council. Though he is reluctant to discuss the precise details of his mission and whether the Libyans have sent his fighters weapons, he does admit the Syrians “asked the Libyans for ammunition.”

Some Syrians are more frank about the assistance the Libyans are providing. “They have heavier weapons than we do,” notes Firas Tamim, who has traveled in rebel-controlled areas to keep tabs on foreign fighters. “They brought these weapons to Syria, and they are being used on the front lines.” Among the arms Tamim has seen are Russian-made surface-to-air missiles, known as the SAM 7.

Libyan fighters largely brush off questions about weapon transfers, but in December they claimed they were doing just that. “We are in the process of collecting arms in Libya,” a Libyan fighter in Syria told the French daily Le Figaro. “Once this is done, we will have to find a way to bring them here.”

Today Libyans in Syria prefer to steer conversations to their didactic efforts. They note that their eight months of battlefield experience has provided them with valuable skills their Syrian comrades lack. “We know how to fight,” says Ahmad, a Libyan fighter near Aleppo who only gave his first name in a phone conversation. “And we came here to teach Syrians how to do that.”

Read more: Libya’s Militiamen Bring Their Revolution to Syria’s War Against Assad | World | TIME.com

 

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Around 200 British SAS + undetermined number of US SF + CIA operate in Aleppo and Damascus...

Additional number of British SF were sent to Syria in the last few days to "look for Syrian WMD".
Soon we will be treated to "Look! We found one! Let's invade!"

 

[High_Gravity]

Around 200 British SAS + undetermined number of US SF + CIA operate in Aleppo and Damascus...

Additional number of British SF were sent to Syria in the last few days to "look for Syrian WMD".
Soon we will be treated to "Look! We found one! Let's invade!"

 

[mememe]

Are you banned on Google, or are you reminding us what's in your head?


"On Sunday 26 August, The Daily Star reported that “nearly 200 elite SAS and SBS troops are in or around Syria” looking for weapons of mass destruction in the country."

And that's one of many results only for Western media search!

 

[High_Gravity]

Are you banned on Google, or are you reminding us what's in your head?


"On Sunday 26 August, The Daily Star reported that “nearly 200 elite SAS and SBS troops are in or around Syria” looking for weapons of mass destruction in the country."

And that's one of many results only for Western media search!

 

[mememe]

Are you banned on Google, or are you reminding us what's in your head?


"On Sunday 26 August, The Daily Star reported that “nearly 200 elite SAS and SBS troops are in or around Syria” looking for weapons of mass destruction in the country."

And that's one of many results only for Western media search!

No.

But at your level it may seem like...

 

[High_Gravity]

Are you banned on Google, or are you reminding us what's in your head?


"On Sunday 26 August, The Daily Star reported that “nearly 200 elite SAS and SBS troops are in or around Syria” looking for weapons of mass destruction in the country."

And that's one of many results only for Western media search!

No.

But at your level it may seem like...

 

[ekrem]

???

And Russia, and China are already in Syrian waters...

Strictly speaking, the Tartus station is not a naval base. We only have a floating repair dock there. (...)
Its personnel currently numbers 50 servicemen.

Voice of Russia

The site, at the port of Tartus, is little more than a pier, fuel tanks and some barracks.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/19/w...-said-to-be-going-to-naval-base-in-syria.html

In the media each week Russia is sending Warships.
If there are any Chinese ships in proximity to Syria they're most likely there to evacuate their citizens when the situation worsens. In Lybia it was the same and the Chinese launched a very prestigeous naval evacuation efforts - not only of their own citizens.

 

[High_Gravity]

Turkey to Press for Safe Zone in Syria

(ANKARA, Turkey) — Turkey’s foreign minister said Wednesday he would press the United Nations Security Council to set up a safe haven inside Syria to protect thousands of people fleeing the violence there as his country is straining to shelter an increasing flow of refugees.

Turkey has long been floating the idea of a no-fly zone, or buffer zone, to protect displaced Syrians from attacks by President Bashar Assad’s forces, but the issue has become more pressing now the number of refugees in Turkey has exceeded 80,000 — an amount it says approaches its limits.

The refugee agency has said up to 200,000 refugees could eventually flee to Turkey.

“We expect the U.N. to step in and protect the refugees inside Syria, and if possible, to shelter them in camps there,” Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told reporters before leaving for New York to attend Thursday’s high-level U.N. Security Council meeting on Syria.

“We shall be requesting that the U.N. take effective steps for the problems we are faced,” Davutoglu said. “When refugee numbers reach hundreds of thousands, this problem goes beyond being an internal issue and becomes an international one. No one has the right to expect Turkey to take on this international responsibility on its own.”

All nine camps along Turkey’s 911-kilometer (566-mile) long border with Syria used to shelter Syrians fleeing the conflict are full, and the country is building four new camps to accommodate new arrivals. One opened late Tuesday, allowing authorities to start letting in several thousand more displaced Syrians who were waiting on the Syrian side of the border, an official said.

Read more: Turkey to Press for Safe Zone in Syria | World | TIME.com

 

[mememe]

???

And Russia, and China are already in Syrian waters...

Strictly speaking, the Tartus station is not a naval base. We only have a floating repair dock there. (...)
Its personnel currently numbers 50 servicemen.

Voice of Russia

The site, at the port of Tartus, is little more than a pier, fuel tanks and some barracks.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/19/w...-said-to-be-going-to-naval-base-in-syria.html

In the media each week Russia is sending Warships.
If there are any Chinese ships in proximity to Syria they're most likely there to evacuate their citizens when the situation worsens. In Lybia it was the same and the Chinese launched a very prestigeous naval evacuation efforts - not only of their own citizens.

I was not saying that Tartus is a naval base, was I?

But a significant number of Russian and Chinese warships are near Syria.

 

[High_Gravity]

Syria Defectors Live In Secret Desert Camp In Jordan

MAFRAQ, Jordan — In an isolated stretch of Jordanian desert, a heavily guarded, secret compound houses 1,200 senior police and army officers who defected from nearby Syria.

The men live in trailers with fans but no air conditioning, surrounded by barbed wire, and they pass their days browsing the Internet and watching TV for news of Syria's civil war, longing to join the fight – but they are largely unable to leave.

The Jordanian military runs the camp near a site formerly used by the U.S. to train some its forces for the war in Iraq, and the defectors are debriefed by intelligence agents. Access to them is tightly restricted for their own protection. They are even separated from their families, who live outside the camp near the northern border city of Mafraq but can get special police permits to visit.

The defectors in the camp are allowed to communicate with the rebel Free Syrian Army in Jordan and abroad, both in person and through telephone and Internet communications, but do not have what is considered valuable intelligence, according to Jordanian security officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not allowed to make press statements.

The facility is a sign of Jordan's growing role as a quiet supporter of Syria's opposition. But at the same time, Jordan wants to avoid aggravating tensions with its more powerful northern neighbor, fearing that President Bashar Assad may remain in power.

There are more than 160,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan, and their number is increasing by the thousands every day. About 8,000 live in a newly set up camp on the border, while the rest are scattered across Jordan.

Maintaining control over the refugees poses a security threat to the small, tightly controlled kingdom. Jordanian security officials and refugees have said there were pro-Assad "sleeper cells" in Jordan that could act against the refugees.

Jordan has rejected several requests by the Assad government for the extradition of the defectors and has allowed entry to hundreds of Syrian rebels who move freely around the country. It also has helped the refugees by giving them medical treatment.

It is not clear if former Syrian Prime Minister Riad Hijab, the most prominent defector to flee to Jordan, is housed in the desert facility or one elsewhere. Hijab fled under a plan coordinated between the Amman government and the Free Syrian Army.

The Associated Press asked to visit the desert facility but was denied access. However, the AP spoke to two of the camp residents who described the conditions there.

Khaldoun, a 47-year-old former Syrian army brigadier, said there were dozens of trailers housing up to seven men each, with fans stirring the desert air. Armed Jordanian soldiers guard the compound around the clock, he said.

The men spend their days exercising and playing backgammon and chess, and the Jordanians provide them with access to the Internet, TVs, cellphones and computers, said Khaldoun, who insisted on being identified by his first name only, citing concern for the safety of relatives in Syria.

"It's good to be here, away from the tension and war, but this is not what I had hoped for," he told the AP.

Syria Defectors Live In Secret Desert Camp In Jordan

 

[mememe]

Turkey to Press for Safe Zone in Syria

Turkey has long been floating the idea of a no-fly zone, or buffer zone,

Journos are running out of ideas AND pictures? (your post 1160 on this thread )


As for Turkey, it looks like Erdogan has a death wish not only for his country, but also for himself...

 

[ekrem]

As for Turkey, it looks like Erdogan has a death wish not only for his country, but also for himself...

Free Syrian Army: Contact

 

[mememe]

And??????

 

[High_Gravity]

And??????

Email them and tell them how you feel you dumb spaghetti head bitch.

 

[ekrem]

And??????

By saying the Turkish PM has a death wish, you implied, that someone has the power to kill him.
My reply was simple: We'll fucking regime-change you.

 

[mememe]

And??????

Email them and tell them how you feel you dumb spaghetti head bitch.

... again you forgot to take your meds...