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Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010

Brown Moses posted:

Apparently there was a media blackout by the opposition, and now loads of footage is coming out, including this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlM_MKZxpic

:stare: That's a stupid amount of ammo.

What's with the big room of dead dudes at the end?

Radio Prune fucked around with this message at 03:19 on Nov 8, 2013

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Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
You'd think anyone actually interested in buying some old Russian helos would've already seen the many videos of them free-falling to the ground in a massive ball of fire when so much as shot with an MG, or simply vaporising themselves in mid-air.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
A proper Kurdistan is one of the things I hope to see in my lifetime. You go, Kurds :unsmith:

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010

Gen. Ripper posted:

If you take any side other than "Bashar is the greatest great ruler who ever ruled" then you're obviously a CIA imperialist Western Zionist fascist fellow-traveler collaborator (deep breath) shill. :smug:

(Did I get enough adjectives?)

It's invalid unless it has at least one instance of :byodood: NEOCON :byodood: :colbert:

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
Mehdi Zeyo was just shy of 50.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
Just heard on AJ that the Egyptians have designated the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organisation.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
Is that you, Choomin?

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
Yeah, that's Choomin.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010

Brown Moses posted:

CNN and the Guardian has just jointly released what's supposedly a very big story


The Guardian's report is here


The full report is here. Apparently the person in charge of documenting prisoners defected with 55,000 photos showing 11,000 individuals.

Was just about to post this (even though it's obvious it's been happening).

Very interesting in light of things like this http://www.vdc-sy.info/index.php/en/reports/1380463510 http://www.vdc-sy.info/index.php/en/reports/1380462949

Anyone know anything more about this stuff?

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
Let me tell you about those A-rabs, y'see

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
"Arabs cant deal with democracy" and now "22.4 million Arab and Kurdish men women and children aren't worth the life of one US soldier".

I wonder what other opinions forums poster Huttan holds.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010

the boston bomber posted:

Remove all foreign personnel and capital and you have no rebellion at all.

Does that include the (tens of?) thousands of foreign militiamen that are the only thing keeping Assad's military from breaking under the strain and the obscene amounts of resources being poured into the country by Iran and Russia?

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010

Sounds like a veiled threat to me :tinfoil:

Someone needs to make an RT emote like the FOX one

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010

Muffiner posted:

The rebellion stalemated just after the initial wave of foreigners started arriving in 2012. Thank you for discounting everything from Damascus Volcano all the way back to the Battle of Jisr AlShoghour. Thank you for giving the Syrian people no agency in anything they have done, and for pretending that a few thousand foreign fighters are all there is in Syria. Because Syrians cower in the face of barbaric violence and torture, and nobody in that godforsaken place had the spine or the tenacity to spend six blessed months peacefully protesting in the face of goddamned tanks. They needed foreigners to come in and rebel for them.

I know right? Check out all these CIA psyops paid actors http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=hzwI4PfTp7Q#t=373s

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010

Muffiner posted:

:NSFW:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pem8vZA5d_Y
:NSFW:

This video is apparently from the Kalamoon region. I don't know how people can swoop so low.

Obviously filmed on a soundstage outside Doha. Get your propaganda out of here, Zionist.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010

Young Freud posted:

See al Qaeda and Pakistan's intelligence services. Or the FBI and COINTELPRO.

It could be that Syrian intelligence set them up initially to cause havoc in Iraq (especially with the rumors of ISIS housing former Sunni Iraqi Ba'ath Party officials) or to be unwitting agent provocateurs to discredit the rebel movement, but they spun out of control.

Edit: see also http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/the-ugly-truth-about-algeria-7146

The latter is almost a certainty. Release a bunch of known militant Salafis whilst you're still arresting thousands of peaceful, pro-democracy protesters because your constant bleating about "armed terrorist gangs" that don't exist doesnt fly as an excuse when machine-gunning demonstrations. Talk about blowback :thumbsup:

Doesn't even Zahran Alloush say that's likely why he was released?

Radio Prune fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Jan 24, 2014

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
I dont think anyone loves Molotovs as much as the Bahrainis :getin:

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
Using child soldiers is obviously a Totally Very Not Cool thing, but would you condemn Hamza al-Khateeb if he'd picked up a rifle and defended himself?

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010

Brown Moses posted:

The group who had the Brit recently do the suicide attack just posted a 40 minute video about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIUkgWmHJyk

Seems like the guy couldn't speak Arabic, according to this bit.

In this bit an incoming shell lands next to a group of fights.

Video already taken down. Thankfully I got to see all of it first.

Isn't that bit at the end SaifAllah Shishani being killed?

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
:stare:

Is there a video for that?

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010

Mans posted:

What the hell happened there, why is an humvee flying with a guy going all :derp:?

http://justpaste.it/anbar33

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
ISIS just put out a new 40 minute video of stuff in Iraq. At the end they execute what looks like 2 dozen captured soldiers and then show off some of their loot.

If you want to watch it it's here but bear in mind it's :nws: and :nms: as all gently caress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25zi_K4aVng

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010

Brown Moses posted:

This video shows Ahrar al-Sham sapping a building next to Aleppo Citadel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM0cey4nEAA

Seems this has become an increasingly popular tactic recently.

This building, no? http://www.carltoncitadel.com/

I hope the citadel itself wasn't damaged in the explosion :ohdear:

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010

Muffiner posted:

That was the one before, this one is a police command center.

Oh, I thought it was just a different view of the one from a few days ago.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010

Brown Moses posted:

That reminds me of a video where they hit a tank, and one of the crew jumps out afterwards. He looks fine, but when he swings himself of the tank he has a pair of boney stumps instead of feet. Then they shoot him.

I know that video. I always wonder if the other crewman got away. He certainly has some speed when he makes a bolt for it.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy8NyEPZ2aQ&feature=youtu.be

Eerie

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010

Pieter posted:

There's new evidence about the involvement of the Russian FSB in the murder of several ethnic Chechens in Turkey (2008-2011). The evidence also mentions other assassination targets in London, most likely Berezovsky (who killed himself last year) and Chechen exile Akhmed Zakayev. Both knew Litvinenko, who we know was killed by the FSB in 2006.

You might want to post this in the Eastern Europe thread too. Some people there will probably find it interesting.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010

The-Mole posted:

There's a quiet, but apparently quite strong concern about the possibilities of terrorists deciding to use a fully loaded oil tanker as a weapon.

Splinter Cell Blacklist did it first.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010

BabyChoom posted:

yeah that was debunked and MEMRI is a neocon zionist propaganda outlet. Congrats on being fooled by a propaganda front for Israel.

Debunked how? By whom? Who created the fake? Why? Did they also manufacture the facebook pages of the dudes that I've seen?

You're a caricature.

edit: and yeah, those dudes are Armenians from LA.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010

Muffiner posted:

Don't worry about BabyChoom, he's one of our more entertaining resident crazies.

Oh I'm fully aware; he was such an obnoxious idiot he got banned from another place I frequent.

Kinda funny to see him turn up a few months later nuttier than ever :3:

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
I'd imagine most in this thread know who and what MEMRI is.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
So apparently Hilal al-Assad has been kllled. He was the head honcho of the NDF in Latakia.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010

ThePutty posted:

On another note, whatever happened to the Brick Factory and the Youth Camp in Idlib? I can't seem to find any recent information on both of them, which I assume means the SAA is still in control.

I think one of them was stormed a while back but not sure which. Might be wrong though.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010

McDowell posted:

'Anyone but Assad' seems like a motto for August 21 Truthers.

Have to rationalise your support for such a monster somehow.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010

Count Roland posted:

Well it took all of 5 posts to get to "Hersh supports Assad". Mature as always.

Yeah that's exactly what I said, way to go.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010

Vernii posted:

I'd honestly trust BM over Hersh at this point.

No you see he got a Pulitzer in 1970 and that gives him a magical shield providing immunity from being wrong that lasts half a century.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
Did Hersh ever clarify his comments on the Bin Laden raid?

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
Those TOWs look like a serious piece of kit even compared to the other ATGMs you see. Are they noticeably better/different or are they just some over-engineered American stuff?

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
Pretty weird (and depressing) seeing a conspiracy theory being born in real time.

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Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010

Brown Moses posted:

Interesting video of a DIY barrel bomb, this one has a long and thin design, something I've not seen before

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7_B7bnpe1A

Weren't the ones in that leaked vid from inside one of the bomb-copters forever ago long and thin (like acetylene canisters)?

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