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Syria conflict: Will Aleppo fall to Islamic State?
BBC News ^
| 9 June 2015
| Lina Sinjab
Posted on 06/10/2015 8:48:07 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
There are growing fears that Syria's second city, Aleppo, could be taken over by Islamic State (IS) as fighting to the north between government and rebel forces intensifies.
With the military being driven out of the adjacent province of Idlib by a newly-formed rebel alliance, the Army of Conquest, focus has shifted to the fate of Aleppo, an ancient trading hub near the border with Turkey that has been a battleground for the past three years.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
TOPICS: Syria
KEYWORDS: aleppo; alqaeda; alqaida; barrelbombs; iamthechild; idlib; isis; syria; turkey
To: MinorityRepublican
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posted on
06/10/2015 9:14:54 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: MinorityRepublican
If Obama has his druthers, Aleppo will fall to the Islamic State.
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posted on
06/10/2015 9:18:33 PM PDT
by
arthurus
(It's true!)
To: MinorityRepublican
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward. ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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posted on
06/10/2015 9:18:41 PM PDT
by
PGalt
To: MinorityRepublican
how many dead because Obama decided to arm rebels? This would have been over before it began. He’s worried about people living under Assad? They’re all moving to Europe and here anyway which also pleases him.
What a stupid evil bastard he is.
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posted on
06/10/2015 11:37:49 PM PDT
by
wiggen
(#JeSuisCharlie)
To: wiggen
Exactly. Assad protects Christians for his own selfish reasons but life is possible unlike under the Islamic state rule
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posted on
06/11/2015 12:32:13 AM PDT
by
Cronos
(ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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