The requested article has expired, and is no longer available. Any related articles, and user comments are shown below.
© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2012.Syrian army pounds Damascus suburbs
BEIRUT©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
The requested article has expired, and is no longer available. Any related articles, and user comments are shown below.
© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2012.
20 Comments
Login to comment
Tamarama
Assad needs to do the honourable thing and stop the killing. The killing he started when people started protesting at the start of last year. Now he kills them in their current incarnation as rebels.
What kind of statesman kills his own people?
nath
It's a moot point anyways since the Islamic rebels aren't Syrian. They're hardcore Islamists, often trained terrorist from all over the Middle East.
A list of nationalities for those interested.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9706777/Syria-names-142-foreign-jihadists-who-fought-with-rebels.html
nath
Just goes to show what type of people these rebels are, anybody in uniform who represents law and order is a target.
Just more proof that these guys are hardcore Al Qaeda militants with no respect for civil society, law and order or human rights, or even human life for that matter.
slumdog
So, in your mind, 142 foreign people fighting with rebels means all the rebels? Anyway, you claimed all the rebels were foreign and all the rebels were member of al-Qaeda. My question to you is how 142 can equal all when all the rebels number so many more than 142?
slumdog
No thank you.
nath
Unholy mess. Arab Spring has well and truly ended in tears.
SuperLib
Assad has a history of car bombing. Just ask Lebanon.
Can you imagine Cameron ordering the bombing of London? Who would be blamed for the casualties if he did?
See? Everyone is on the same page now. It just took a little while for the Russian memo to get circulated.
Do the rockets know who are rebels and who are Assad supporters? Or are we at the "kill them all" stage?
ubikwit
I was wondering when the MRL's were going to be brought into action.
Looks like with the rebels and militants sequestering civilian areas--against the Geneva convention, I believe it has been pointed out-- Assad has little choice but to reduce those areas to uninhabitable rubble to clear them of armed aggressors.
Tamarama
NverSubmit
Are any of the rebels Syrian?
nath
No doubt a few are, every society has its extremists elements.
Syria has always had a few fundamentalist Islamic sects that spouted hatred towards Christians, Jews and secular Muslims. Now the rebels have given those zealous and jihadis muslims an outlet and an opportunity to rule the country and impose Sharia law on an unwilling populace.
The rebels have no support among the people and that why despite massive weapons flows from Turkey and Qatar and almost limitless funding from Saudi Arabia the rebel army simply can't hold any ground and keeps getting ousted out of every town and city they try to occupy. They're only good for hit and run tactics.
SuperLib
Assad probably regrets firing on peaceful protesters now. I'm guessing he didn't see where it would end up. His choice, he should be responsible for the consequences of it.
Madverts
"Assad probably regrets firing on peaceful protesters now. "
Maybe. I'm not sure with these dictator types, they always think they can murder their way out of everything, as if it were some divine right. Especially when some nutcases will actually support and even totally misrepresent al the facts to give said dictators support.
nath
Can you provide any credible evidence that this happened?
Konsta
Assad clearly regrets that the situation had turned the way it turned. He already lost the country. There are others, however, who should regret now, but will probably do it later.
Tamarama
For some reason, and I really don't know why, you are living in a completely parallel universe of reality in relation to the facts on this situation.
EVERY single report you read about this uprising tells you - states very clearly and unambiguously, that the majority of the rebels are Syrian. They also say quite clearly, that these Syrian rebels have been joined by a variety of foreigners of varying persuasion, and of fairly indeterminable number. Most articles imply, or state they make up a distinct minority proportion. But clearly these foreigners are getting a lot of airtime because some of them are extremists with an aggressive agenda and therefore make people like you particularly twitchy, which makes good news stories. They get a lot of coverage. But you seem to have confused this for meaning they are ALL foreigners/Al Qaida.
A couple of things are crystal clear. The rebels are not Al Qaida. Almost all of them are Syrian. Any amount of reading will clearly explain this. It's not even slightly difficult to discern that, or even remotely confusing.
Konsta
No, they are not. Source - BND, Germany: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbmczLdvZVY
slumdog
Russia Today (RT) is not a German source.
Konsta
Russia Today never made such a statement. RT is simply a mass media. Why don't you watch the YouTube clip, I linked.
SuperLib
Foreigners obviously didn't start the peaceful protests. Assad opened the door to them when he decided to start killing a lot of people. The chaos that followed was a nice invitation.
Konsta
Yes, it is clear. Foreign combatants or not, the main responsibility for the disaster in Syria lies on Assad and his family's greed of power. He fu***d a perfect secular Middle Eastern country. The country is destroyed. Thousands are dead. Everyone else is using the situation to their advantage. Putin and Erdogan are hugging each other and smiling, regardless you know what. Islamists, it seems, will rule yet another country in the Middle East, as if Egypt, Lybia and the others are not enough. I don't know...