[gov_bean_ counter]

Dictator's conscripts tend to do that...

[Gaffer]

"Bashar don't go, we will catch you," jokes another rebel, sitting on crates of ammunition in the back of a truck where the Islamist flag -- black with white lettering -- flutters

Obama's people.

[NormsRevenge]

BBC says Aleppo offensive continues

Syria conflict: Army steps up attack on rebels in Aleppo
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19050942

Syrian government forces have been continuing their assault with artillery, ground forces and helicopter gunships on rebel-held areas of the second city, Aleppo.

Officials said one area, Salah al-Din, had been recaptured, but rebels said the battle there was still going on.

UN observers have reported an upsurge in violence in the city, the new head of their mission Babacar Gaye said.

...

In other developments:

- Greece is to quadruple the number of guards on its border with Turkey to pre-empt a possible influx of Syrian refugees, AP quotes Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias as saying
- The al-Jazeera media network says one of its journalists, Ankara-based correspondent Omar Khashram, has been wounded by shrapnel in Aleppo and evacuated to Turkey for treatment
- Syria’s most senior diplomat in London, Charge d’Affaires Khaled al-Ayoubi, says he has left his post and is no longer willing to represent a regime that has “committed such violent and oppressive acts against its own people”, a UK Foreign Office statement says

[2harddrive]

Death to Bashar al-Assad and his running dogs!

[ZULU]

Unfortunate.

One secural dictator is much to be preferred over a Congress of maniac Muslim extremists.

It would be MUCH better if mutual annihiliation occurred.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I bet the Russians have threatened Assad big time to not even think about using chemical weapons. If he does that, it is open season on his rear end from every corner of the planet.

[jakerobins]

This is going to turn out badly no matter what...either a dictator wins or the Islamist rebels have another state near Israel with Chemical weapons......

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Yeah, well, we can always believe what he hear out of this part of the world, can’t we?

[Chode]

i'm rooting for both sides on this one...

[wordsofearnest]

The world may yet find out what happened to Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction.