Posted on 02/12/2012 2:25:01 AM PST by bruinbirdman
As Syria's rebellious cities are bombarded and the regime's tank crews prepare to move, only a rag-tag and poorly armed but determined army stands in their way.
The last straw for Captain Abu Mahmoud came when 13 of his fellow officers were lined up and shot by a Syrian firing squad. They had been identified as potential deserters - all officers have their own team of watchers from military intelligence to monitor their behaviour - and were executed just in case, he said.
He was headed at the time with his Third Division for Idlib in the north, scene already of many battles and massacres in this encroaching civil war. He turned tail, shook off his spies and went home.
In a fine example of how the paranoias of dictators eventually make themselves come true, he is now with the Free Syrian Army on the front line of the battle for Homs.
He is a helpless spectator as the Syrian tanks and artillery, which his Free Syrian Army cannot match, drop round after round of shell fire on to the defenceless citizens of the Homs neighbourhoods Bab al-Amr and Khalidiya, enclaves now to match the names of Sarajevo and Misurata.
Calls from inside Homs said that only Bab al-Amr remained as a pocket of FSA resistance, but that army tanks were approaching.
Other formerly free areas such as Inshaíat were under regime control, another Free Syrian Army soldier said.
In these places, there is no longer any visible life. People who were among the last to leave the city as the army moved in to follow up on days of artillery assault say that no-one can go out for fear of the shelling and the snipers who take aim at men, women, and children in the street.
One hospital contacted
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The last straw for Captain Abu Mahmoud came when 13 of his fellow officers were lined up and shot by a Syrian firing squad. They had been identified as potential deserters - all officers have their own team of watchers from military intelligence to monitor their behaviour - and were executed just in case, he said.
“Just in case”? Bet that did wonders for morale.
Ah, sovietski model still vorking. Zampolits vork iss never done. Always must guard against reactionary revanchist sabotage-niki Capitalist tools.
"Just in case"? Bet that did wonders for morale.
Bah, Zampolits, vot you call political officer, like KGB iss sword and shield of Communist party. Vorking damn good for morale of Politburo, Central Committee, and Fearless Leader.
Obama, America’s first radical Muslim President, can see chaos like this being brought to America.
Americans are such fools, most won’t even consider the obvious ties Obama has to radical Islam.
Not all Americans are fools.
Only the unarmed ones...
“The so called free army are mostly rerun mercenaries from Libya funded and supplied by turkey and Qatar.”
Really? “Most”? And your proof is?
And let’s say some of the free army are mercenaries from Qatar & Turkey....so what?
Actually, Comrade Imam Obama’s firing squads will be far more aggressive than Assad’s. Obama will likely follow the lead of his icon, Castro, and gun down any and all he considers potential enemies of the state.
As to the situation in Syria, it is currently going just as Imam Obama and his fellow tribesmen in Iran want it to. Their plan is for the mullahs to rule all of the Mid East. And it is working perfectly. Tough to support animals like that.
Of course, the opposition forces in Syria did not help matters when they announced to the world that they couldn’t wait to slaughter Assad’s wife and children. Talk about giving your enemy impetus and cutting the rug out from under your friends!
Sounds like the Warsaw uprising, right up to the West standing on the sidelines.
Turkey says the are free to be there, apparently you have not been reading all the BS writing from routers, aka Reuters, probably the same press agent that wrote the news releses from Libya. From all the unknow sources they calm to have. This is none of our business, let them fight.
This is a conflict between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Iranian-backed Alawite-dominated Ba’athist regime. There are no good guys. And I refuse to countinance the ongoing alliance of neoconservatives and leftist and Al Qaeda as seen in Libya.
I refuse to countenance the ongoing alliance with the Assad dynasty. Since as you said there are no good guys, the longer the civil war goes on in Syria, the better off everyone else is.
Iran can’t lose Syria without losing its chance in Iraq, so I suspect that Iraq will go up like a barrel of black powder any day now.
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