Syria barrel bomb raids

[Sally]

It's like a back and forth with who is killing whom at the moment, but more innocent people die.

Syria barrel bomb raids
on Aleppo kill 135

The opposition National Coalition has said the "systematic raids on Aleppo demonstrate the regime's rejection of a political solution."

BEIRUT - Regime warplanes pounded Syria's second city Aleppo for a fourth straight day Wednesday in air raids that have killed at least 135 people, many of them children, a monitor said.
The attacks focused on rebel-held areas of eastern and northern Aleppo, once the country's commercial hub, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Sunday's first day of the raids produced the highest daily toll with 76 dead in six neighborhoods, among them 28 children, the Britain-based watchdog said.

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[Hollie]

Western nations admit they CANNOT remove Assad from power in Syria... as it would lead to 'chaos and a takeover by Islamist militants'


Western nations admit they CANNOT remove Assad from power in Syria | Mail Online



Well, duh! As unsavory a dictator as Assad is, how is it possible that anyone thought islamist "militants", AKA pious holy warriors would be any better?

 

[Hossfly]

Western nations admit they CANNOT remove Assad from power in Syria... as it would lead to 'chaos and a takeover by Islamist militants'


Western nations admit they CANNOT remove Assad from power in Syria | Mail Online



Well, duh! As unsavory a dictator as Assad is, how is it possible that anyone thought islamist "militants", AKA pious holy warriors would be any better?

All this farce does is to reveal the impotence of the UN.

 

[Bleipriester]

Western nations admit they CANNOT remove Assad from power in Syria... as it would lead to 'chaos and a takeover by Islamist militants'


Western nations admit they CANNOT remove Assad from power in Syria | Mail Online



Well, duh! As unsavory a dictator as Assad is, how is it possible that anyone thought islamist "militants", AKA pious holy warriors would be any better?

So mendacious, dissembling democrats are better than Assad, a man of his word?

 

[Bleipriester]

It's like a back and forth with who is killing whom at the moment, but more innocent people die.

Syria barrel bomb raids
on Aleppo kill 135

The opposition National Coalition has said the "systematic raids on Aleppo demonstrate the regime's rejection of a political solution."

BEIRUT - Regime warplanes pounded Syria's second city Aleppo for a fourth straight day Wednesday in air raids that have killed at least 135 people, many of them children, a monitor said.
The attacks focused on rebel-held areas of eastern and northern Aleppo, once the country's commercial hub, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Sunday's first day of the raids produced the highest daily toll with 76 dead in six neighborhoods, among them 28 children, the Britain-based watchdog said.

To continue reading, go to:https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/nowsyri...el-bomb-raids-on-aleppo-kill-135-monitor-says

So the Syrians should ask the Islamists to go away?
Every day, western medias ride about Syrian air raids causing collateral damage. Where is their criticism when Nato air raids cost thousands of lifes?
If the Libyan war was about saving lives, it was a catastrophic failure | Seumas Milne | Comment is free | The Guardian

 

[aris2chat]

Foreign Islamist say they will not participate in ruling Syria, but where they dominated, their laws are imposed and those who to not follow are in danger or killed.
Syria opposition was a mixed bag, mostly secularist, pluralists that wanted the brutality and persecution of the regime to change. They wanted a free vote, not the farce of voting they usually goes on.
Assad/alwite/hezbollah are shiite, though alwites are often considered heretics by other shiites
Every one is fighting or being killed by the other two.
No one but Assad wins, assuming he stays alive.
If not there is always his brother, or actually his sister is a better choice for the party, not necessarily for the people.

China and Russia are involved in removing and destroying the chemical weapons and keep the Assad regime in place, the devil you know.
Hamas and Hezbollah are both back in graces with Iran. Iraq, Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon all dislike Assad, but the refugee situation and the fear of Islamist has them trying not to make too many waves with the regime.
The split in support within Lebanon is threatening to spark another war. The shooting in the south was probably intended as a trigger to Israel, the Lebanese army and Hezbollah. If Israel is drawn in to the north, Hamas and IJ are likely to take advantage. In turn Egypt and MB with support from hamas would clash............................., Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Sudan, Yemen

Oh what webs, spiders would be impressed.

 

[waltky]

Barrel bomb new weapon of choice for Mideast, African governments...

INCREASED USE OF BARREL BOMBS IN MIDEAST, AFRICA
Jun 7,`14 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Governments in the Mideast and Africa, in desperate efforts to gain battlefield ground, are using barrel bombs against their enemies, launching the cheap, quickly manufactured weapons as a crude counter to roadside blasts and suicide explosions that insurgents have deployed for years.

New evidence of their use in Iraq, after being dropped on civilians in Syria and Sudan, has raised concerns that governments in unstable nations will embrace them. Described as "flying IEDs," or improvised explosive devices, barrel bombs have the power to wipe out a row of buildings in a single blast. They can kill large numbers of people, including those not targeted. "It's fair to say that a lot of governments are losing control of the counterinsurgency," said Michael Knights, an analyst at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. "They're also watching what they see in Syria, and they feel like their air power is what is making the difference."

"Barrel bomb" is a broad term for a large container packed with fuel, chemicals or explosives and often scraps of metal that, in recent years, have most often been dropped on targets from helicopters or planes overhead. But they also have been found on Israeli beaches, where authorities believe they washed up after militants on the Gaza Strip released them. They are attractive to governments that have the aircraft to bombard targets from the sky but limited munitions or money to launch enough conventional weapons, such as missiles, to rival their enemies.

An anti-Bashar Assad activist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian citizens inspecting an unexploded barrel bomb filled with explosives, which was dropped from a Syrian forces helicopter on a street in Aleppo, Syria. The use of barrel bombs has spread this year from Syria to Iraq, raising concerns that desperate governments in a number of unstable nations from Europe to Africa to the Middle East will turn to weapons that the international community has condemned as a violation of human rights laws.

Sudan's army began dropping barrel bombs into rebel areas starting in late 2011, according to human rights watchdogs, as the south split off and created a new country. In December 2012, Susan Rice, then U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said she was "gravely concerned" about the reported attacks. In Syria, forces controlled by President Bashar Assad began in 2012 a barrel bomb campaign against areas controlled by rebels and insurgents, killing thousands in his effort to reclaim power in a civil war that has left more than 160,000 people dead.

As recently as Wednesday, the State Department reported evidence of barrel bomb strikes on three neighborhoods in the divided northern city of Aleppo. Last month, new evidence that Iraq's army dropped between four and 10 barrel bombs on insurgent strongholds in the country's Sunni-dominated Anbar province, which borders Syria, spurred U.S. officials to warn Baghdad to immediately desist or risk American support and aid.

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