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Xandu posted:Are you referring to the Southern Movement in Yemen? Not exactly communist these days, though they lean left. That may be it? It's been quite some time and I don't remember the details, just more or less something along the lines of "Radical remnants from the YSP and a new generation of leftists" responding to the government crackdown and Al Qaida activity. I would assume your answer is also mine. If there's no obvious/big news about it, then whatever I read either wasn't true or petered out.
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Zuhzuhzombie!! posted:Can I get a link to some more reading material? 3 large explosions have been reported in Damascus within the last hour, apparently targeting the Central Bank building, the Baath regional HQ and a third in the Barzeh area, targeting branch 211. Images of the Baath HQ bombing:   Note that the big white building to the left of the center in the first image is the central bank, so I doubt reports of it being targeted are accurate.
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According to @NMSyria at least one detonated at a commuter minibus station near a major bridge, meaning essentially targeting civilians.
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Rip Testes posted:Is this true or BS? It might be BS. I've followed the conflict in the North Caucasus for years and this man doesn't ring a bell. It could quite easily be an Arab who fought in the North Caucasus and then returned. Or if it's indeed an ethnic Chechen / other ethnic Caucasian commander it could still be a Syrian since Caucasians have lived there since the 19th century. See this article for more information http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no...be527d55c5cc89a Also the Caucasus Emirate isn't really 'al Qaeda-linked', but it does share the same ideology since Umarov became its leader. Pieter Pan fucked around with this message at 13:47 on Feb 21, 2013 |
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MothraAttack posted:According to @NMSyria at least one detonated at a commuter minibus station near a major bridge, meaning essentially targeting civilians. http://goo.gl/maps/zhPxB This is the exact location of the explosion. It is at a main bus stop, known as the Hayat stop due to the Hayat hospital which is across the street. the street to the west of the trees is the Harasta Garage, which is the bus stop for most of the bus lines going to the Harasta/Douma suburbs. This place, along with the Thawra Street bus stop are the most important bus stops in Damascus, as all the major lines feed through them. For the car carrying the explosives to get there, it would have had to come from deep within Damascus. The most probable goal behind the attack was terror, as there are a berth of easily accessible targets along any of the routes it could have took to get to the detonation point. A lot of LCCs and activist are claiming that the guards who usually man checkpoints around the area of the explosion were absent a few minutes before the blast, especially in the area east of the explosion. There are also people reporting that communications were cut before and after the explosion. I am not sure about before, but after the explosion land lines and mobile networks were cut off in the surrounding areas.
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The organization Syrians in the UK sent a letter to the United States thanking them for imposing more sanctions on two Belarusian state-run weapons manufacturers that provide equipment to Iran and Syria. http://www.sacbee.com/2013/02/19/v-print/5201746/syrian-organization-sanctions.html Sacramento Bee posted:LONDON, Feb. 19, 2013 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Syrians in the UK, a human rights group that unites British citizens who were born in Syria, sent a letter to the U.S. Senate praising the fact that the U.S. government announced economic sanctions against two Belarusian companies that sold weapons to Syria and Iran. The president of Belarus is a pariah to the world so the Kremlin is rumored to funnel military support through Belarus so they can insist their hands are clean.
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Finally I've made it, my name and work is mentioned on Globalresearch.ca.
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Brown Moses posted:Finally I've made it, my name and work is mentioned on Globalresearch.ca. Congratulations, one who blogs obsessively. Nice couple of citations there too.
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What's the next steps for the rebels with Damascus essentially surrounded? Once Damascus falls, wouldn't the war be essentially over?
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Tab8715 posted:What's the next steps for the rebels with Damascus essentially surrounded? Once Damascus falls, wouldn't the war be essentially over? It really depends on if Assad flees the country or relocates to the Alawite-majority areas on the coast. Even if Damascus falls, he can drag the war out for some time.
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Tab8715 posted:What's the next steps for the rebels with Damascus essentially surrounded? Once Damascus falls, wouldn't the war be essentially over? Are you saying that Damascus is essentially surrounded right now? Because I'm not so sure that is the case...
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Tab8715 posted:What's the next steps for the rebels with Damascus essentially surrounded? Once Damascus falls, wouldn't the war be essentially over? A large part of the suburbs have been out of government control for a long, long time. things in Damascus have been relatively static ever since July-August last year, with Rebels controlling many suburbs and some parts of south Damascus but unable to move on the capital, and the regime focusing it's attacks on specific places (Darayya comes to mind) to cut off any supply lines the rebels might get into the heart of the city.
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Tab8715 posted:What's the next steps for the rebels with Damascus essentially surrounded? Once Damascus falls, wouldn't the war be essentially over? Infighting to control the country between various opposition groups. I don't think Jabhat al-Nusra are going to pack their bags on leave once the fighting is over.
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Brown Moses posted:Infighting to control the country between various opposition groups. I don't think Jabhat al-Nusra are going to pack their bags on leave once the fighting is over. I'm not sure if the fall of Damascus would mean the end of the conflict as it is now? Liberating Sunni Arab regions in Syria is easier for the rebels than conquering the coastal region.
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Pieter posted:I'm not sure if the fall of Damascus would mean the end of the conflict as it is now? Liberating Sunni Arab regions in Syria is easier for the rebels than conquering the coastal region. There's still a long way to go until Damascus will fall, I don't the real fighting has even started yet, although we're on the way there. What's going to be interesting is the effect of these new weapons in Daraa, and how that will change things south of Damascus, because it already looks like they are capturing tanks and other heavy equipment they didn't have access to before. The Syrian army is already stretched, and having Aleppo number 2 appearing just south of Damascus will cause them serious problems. There should be a lot more in the press about these foreign weapons soon judging by the number of journalists contacting me about them at the moment.
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Someone I care deeply for was captured by the syrian mukhabarat a month ago and I just got word that he's been executed. Good bye my friend. Mentor. Lover of french political philosophy. a sharp-witted underground writer. and now I know you were also a brave political freedom activist who chose to try to make freedom come to your country when you could've stayed away. you were a far braver man than I am and a far better person than I will ever be. I just wish his life didnt end the way it did. I can only think in horror and soul-crushing despair at what his final days were like. *Edit* It's strange. I feel very strange. the more time passes the more it's beginning to sink in. this strange feeling. I've never had the experience of knowing that someone I confided in. Someone I laughed and joked in and talked for hours on life and politics and art and culture. someone who I travelled with and experienced new things with dies under torture. I remember him goading me on to follow my dreams and not be stuck in the job I was in. I wanted to see him being happy for me when I succeed in my dreams in life. I wanted to have just a few more reccomendations from him for books from strange french writers I've never heard about. I wanted to return him that book he let me borrow. And now he's dead. Not only dead but died in one of the worst ways a human bieng could die. under torture then with a bullet in him. He was over 60 years old. I dont know what I should say and feel right now. it's not something I've ever experienced. I apologize if I'm writing too much. Al-Saqr fucked around with this message at 17:14 on Feb 22, 2013 |
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That's awful, Al-Saqr. My condolences 
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Sorry to hear that Al-Saqr. When the smoke from all this mess clears down the road, whether it be a year, 5 years, or 10 years, it's going to be guys like him that people look back on and remember as the ones who made it happen. Sounds like an amazing person. My condolences.
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Oh poo poo man that's terrible! I'm very sorry to hear it.
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RZApublican posted:It really depends on if Assad flees the country or relocates to the Alawite-majority areas on the coast. Even if Damascus falls, he can drag the war out for some time. Why hasn't the army told Assad to gently caress himself?
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Tab8715 posted:Why hasn't the army told Assad to gently caress himself? Because the army wants to keep the existing order in place.
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Zeroisanumber posted:Because the army wants to keep the existing order in place. And those who don't are defecting so...
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Tab8715 posted:Why hasn't the army told Assad to gently caress himself? Because their commanding officers are still getting payed? Because they think they're too deep to be allowed to deffect? Because government propaganda brainwashed them? I know people who honestly believe Assad is being attacked by NATO Jihadists and that Assad maintained a stable semi-socialist country where the quality of life and woman's rights were the emerald of the Middle East (same with Gadaffi). If people in Europe believe in this poo poo i assume some people in Syria believe it too.
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Pieter posted:I'm not sure if the fall of Damascus would mean the end of the conflict as it is now? Liberating Sunni Arab regions in Syria is easier for the rebels than conquering the coastal region. Once Damascus falls the secular and Islamists will turn on each other. Not sure where the socialist parties are aligned or how involved they are. I know prior to the breakout that several of the largest socialist parties were in the same political front as the Ba'athists, but other than the leader of one of their Communist Parties being the VP of the SNC, I don't know.
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Zuhzuhzombie!! posted:Once Damascus falls the secular and Islamists will turn on each other. I don't think so, at least not right away, I think it has to be Assad's death rather than the fall of the city. I'm so sorry for your loss, Al-Saqr, your mentor sounds like a great man.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:I don't think so, at least not right away, I think it has to be Assad's death rather than the fall of the city. Sorry, I conflated the fall of Damascus to the fall of Assad and the regime.
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drat it, that' s tragic, Al-Saqr. Really sorry about your loss. Is there some family of him left?
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This... couldn't be good, could it, if they actually escalate? Over extending themselves, an additional front, military operations in a neighboring country that doesn't like Syrians because of the Syrian occupation, etc. http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2013/02/20/267402.html?PHPSESSID=8tkkntu90nnhffhdb5emah7sv4 quote:The Syrian Free Army (FSA) has issued an ultimatum to Lebanese Hezbollah group to cease its operations in Syria or face attacks on its installations in South Lebanon. ed According to Times of Israel, it's already occurring. http://www.timesofisrael.com/syrian-rebels-take-fight-to-hezbollah-in-lebanon/ I do not know the accuracy of either source. Zuhzuhzombie!! fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Feb 22, 2013 |
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Zuhzuhzombie!! posted:This... couldn't be good, could it, if they actually escalate? Over extending themselves, an additional front, military operations in a neighboring country that doesn't like Syrians because of the Syrian occupation, etc. Armies fighting on two fronts have a hard time maintaining both. This could be a old but tried and true strategy to weaken the FSA. I like to mention stuff I find because it's interesting to me, but I accept my sources may not always be accurate. Russian news sources have articles about Syria almost daily, but they are pro-Assad.
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Highspeeddub posted:Armies fighting on two fronts have a hard time maintaining both. This could be a old but tried and true strategy to weaken the FSA. I like to mention stuff I find because it's interesting to me, but I accept my sources may not always be accurate. Russian news sources have articles about Syria almost daily, but they are pro-Assad. Except you forget that there's a much powerful adversary of Hezbollah to the south that would be willing to watch to see how these FSA attacks would work out. The Israelis are unlikely to help out the FSA, but more likely to pounce on vulnerabilities in Hezbollah's defenses.
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ganglysumbia posted:The Atlantic put up a few photos about DIY weapons in Syria. The sheets just have a flower design on them. You can see light pink flowers and green leaves/stems as well. Was a bit creepy at first, though.
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Al-Saqr posted:Someone I care deeply for was captured by the syrian mukhabarat a month ago and I just got word that he's been executed. It happens, and it is one of the most tragic things in this conflict. The worst endings happening to the best of people, at the hands of those much more unhuman than beasts. Hopefully, one day we will see this changed due, in part at least, to the greatest of sacrifices your friend and many others made. After some research, Yesterday's bombings in Damascus included the transport hub we all heard about, in addition to a police station in the Barzeh pre-fab area which has been relatively quiet, as well as an unverified report of a bomb attack on Branch 211 in Barzeh, which could have been a result of the FSA attacking the anti-drug police branch nearby.
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Got something epic coming soon, hopefully you'll all see it online soon, going to be hard to miss if you are following Syria.
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Well be sure to link to it, this is my one-stop mideast shop.
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Al-Saqr posted:Someone I care deeply for was captured by the syrian mukhabarat a month ago and I just got word that he's been executed. I'm just a voice on the internet, but I really am sorry for your loss. From your description of the man, I should say "our loss". I can only hope that one day all of us will be able to follow your friend's example in solving our differences, and not resort to force when reason runs out.
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Young Freud posted:Except you forget that there's a much powerful adversary of Hezbollah to the south that would be willing to watch to see how these FSA attacks would work out. The Israelis are unlikely to help out the FSA, but more likely to pounce on vulnerabilities in Hezbollah's defenses. Syrian and Israeli military action in Southern Lebanon? That should seriously worry some folks.
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Every time I hear of a loss like this, I'm just glad they existed, and inspired others. Death comes to us one at a time, and we never know when. It's what we do with life that makes the difference. I'm sorry for your loss, al-Sadr. Live on, and be to someone else, what he was to you.
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