Turns out, mostly dead means slightly alive!
Posted on 03/24/2013 11:00:51 AM PDT by turbocat
According to Arab media reports that have been verified – officials assassinated by his bodyguard of Syrian President life Heavy security around the hospital a – my mother in Damascus and in-hospital–
The struggle is between Iran and the Saudi royals, and this has been going on since Carter was screwing things up and Khomeini took over. Saddam wanted to rule the works, and wanted more oil, but that proved to be more difficult that he’d anticipated.
The Iran-Iraq war was enormously costly in lives and Saudi/Kuwaiti treasure. A year or so after its conclusion, Saddam invaded Kuwait and was paid off to leave. A year or so after that, Saddam invaded Kuwait and planned to stay for the oil. And all that time the American left was on his side, every step of the way, regurgitating Saddam’s/NPR’s talking points about how Kuwait was really just part of Iraq in the first place. That did not change, and still has not changed.
The jihad against the Russian occupation/puppet regime in Afghanistan was massively financed by the Gulf States, and resulted in Russian-Iranian rapprochement which continues today. The Russian-engineered Afghan mess — a land grab, and continuation of Russia’s containment policy toward China — led to a shifting of alliances and disintegration of the never-stable political climate of Pakistan. Pakistan and China strengthened ties after the US punished the Pakis over their Bomb project, India diversified its arms sources and increased its economic development, Russia helped Iran develop its nuclear programs and missiles.
As long as their check cashes, the Saudi-US relationship will remain a cruel necessity. As soon as that stops — due to the overthrow of the 3000 corrupt princes, or a cratering of the price of oil — that inferno of 800 Kuwaiti oilwell fires at the end of the Gulf War will look like a birthday cake full of candles.
This is getting scary R-c. It that an accurate portrait? If is am starting to wonder a bit more on the WTHeck side of life.
Hafta agree. I am not sure Assad wasn’t the “good” guy here, such as he can be.
Uhhhhh.....those guys write funny.....
Each gen of that shot looked less and less like a photograph, and the rest of those doctored shots were the same. The techniques were used for other reasons elsewhere in the world, some probably since the beginning of photography, but the Stalinist approach was transparently obvious because the earlier iterations had already been published.
That is a creepy coincidence, too, btw.
Ok, ok, let’s everybody just calm down. What we have then is, Assad shot his bodyguard’s best friend over global warming.
He especially appreciated the new bodyguard and extra ammo.
Iran’s Support Emboldens Assad, Envoy Says
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
Published: March 20, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/world/middleeast/irans-support-emboldens-assad-us-envoy-says.html?_r=0
Oh well in that case....back to “Survivor” in Pakistan....
I think Mrs Assad flet to Jordan reason she is pregnant with their fourth child
ROFL I was thinking of same thing ROFL
So he got Fredo treatment right ROFL
Nothing a dozen or so neutron bombs won’t fix.
I just did an image search and thought it was funny to see all the Obama images mixed in. https://www.google.com/search?q=nikolai+yezhov&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari
Leni
NCAA tournament is on. He ain’t got time for this!
A plausible reason for this story is perhaps that it’s disinformation created by the rebels to sow confusion and distrust among the loyalists, with the secondary motivation of turning Syrian loyalists against Iranian helpers.
Just sayin, don’t know.
Tablets...bleaugh...lol!
His Wikipedia page has some other photos, along with a nice account of his execution, on 1940-02-04. After his arrest in 1938, he was succeeded by Lavrentiy Beria, who remained in office until his arrest on 1953-06-26. Beria was executed on 1953-12-23.
E.g., here is Yezhov without a hat:
Here he is conferring with the boss:
And here's another photo, in which he appears in the front row, flanked by Beria (left) and Mikoyan:
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