Blew 'em up real good!
Posted on 10/20/2015 2:29:00 PM PDT by Trumpinator
Posted on Oct 18, 2015
By Juan Cole
The Arabic press is reporting that under cover of Russian air support, the Syrian Arab Army of Bashar al-Assad has made some advances against al-Qaeda in Syria and hard line Salafi rebels fighting for imposition of sharia or their conception of Islamic law on the country.
On the 11th day of the Russian intervention, the Syrian Arab Army has taken the town of Atshan in the northern hinterland of the city of Hama, after fierce battles with the rebels there, including al-Qaeda (the Nusra Front or Support Front). Atshan fell to the Syrian Army on the 10th of October but was recovered by the Army of Conquest (Jaysh al-Fateh, a coalition of fundamentalist militias that includes al-Qaeda) and their allies, Arab tribesmen in the region. Now it has fallen again to the Syrian Army.
It is not clear exactly what the Syrian Arab Army is fighting for. Probably not, by now, the ruling Baath Party or war criminal President Bashar al-Assad. A mixture of Alawite Shiites and secular-minded Sunnis, my guess is that the SAA is fighting against the Salafi fundamentalists who they know would gladly oppress or even kill them. Syria is likely 10-14 percent Alawite, 5 percent Christian, 3 percent Druze, and it has some Twelver Shiites as well. Along with these minorities, probably a half to a third of the Sunni Arab population (about 60% of the whole) is standing with the regime. Another 10 percent are Kurds, who are also fighting the fundamentalists and sometimes have alliances of convenience with the al-Assad regime against Daesh (ISIS, ISIL). So the demographic weight of Syria has so far told against the conservative rural Sunnis and the urban lower middle class Muslim Brotherhood adherents.
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BOOM !
Putin and the Orthodox church are kicking ass.
On Islamic Earth,
al Qaeda bombed America and the US Pentagon.
Now America and the Pentagon TREASONOUSLY support al Qaeda
under their newly minted name, “rebels”.
In the alternate Universe, Americans were pi$$ed after
911, and destroyed al Qaeda and Osama (not his double),
and so in the alternate Universe,
Americans and the World were thereafter safe.
What “war crimes” did Assad commit that every other leader in the area hasn’t, or has done much worse?
Frankly, i dont give a @#$ if he commits war crimes on sunnis.
The Christians liked him, he had 60 something percent support.
Kill em all and let Got sort them out.
No. 2 in Al Qaeda bites the dust again.
If you're looking for long term job security, being the number two guy in Al-Qaeda is not the career path for you. The number two guy gets killed every few months.
Whoa, say what you like about the Russians, the know how to get s**t DONE.
There are literally a billion number 2s.
I hear ya.
How did they blow up?
Assad is no war criminal
There have been no formal charges or proceedings
However a good part of the arab muslim world considers George bush and Barack Obama to be war criminals
Imagine the investigation of obama’s role in creating the Syrian war and proxies like ISIS
Blew 'em up real good!
Watch Juan Cole’s writings. He is a propagandist for militant Islam.
It is good to get other POVs on the situation. If apologist for Muslims is saying this and the pro Russian side is saying this then there is truth there. Juan Cole is now forced to admit the Russians are attacking are al-Qaeda and Assad’s army is advancing (though slowly).
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