40,000 fleeing Aleppo as battle for Syrian city intensifies, U.N. group says

CNN ^ | Feb 6, 2016 | Nick Paton Walsh and Don Melvin

[MinorityRepublican]

The battle for Aleppo -- once Syria's commercial heart -- is intensifying, and video has surfaced appearing to show thousands of civilians streaming out of the devastated city.

CNN could not independently verify the authenticity of the video, but the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said via Twitter Friday that 40,000 people have been displaced by the ongoing fighting around Aleppo.

Reports said forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government, crucially aided by Russian air power, have cut the city off from supplies and are advancing.

Increasingly intensive Russian airstrikes are pushing thousands of Syrians north, away from the northern outskirts of the once bustling city, according to the National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces, the main opposition group.

[MinorityRepublican]

You can see on the map that the Rebels now are unable to get resupplied from their backers in Turkey.

[Gaffer]

Where’s the CNN holla for the US or Germany or France or the UK or Belgium, Denmark or Sweden to welcome these rapists and terrorists with open arms into their country?

[MinorityRepublican]

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. Very, very interesting.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Check every burka for Al Baghdadi, and get the SOB!

[cardinal4]

Watch for Obama to demand Americans bend over and accept even more muslims..

[grania]

That map has me wondering if Syrian government forces and Kurds aren’t working together against ISIS and Turkey. And if “rebel forces” aren’t absolutely tied to ISIS and Turkey for supplies.

[TraditionalMerica]

Obama Hussein sees this, thinks “40,000 potential new Democrat voters to replace the Jews and working-class whites I’ve alienated.”

[Lisbon1940]

Why don’t these Syrians shelter in place?

[hal ogen]

Send the syrians to Sweden where the Swedish women welcome them.

[butlerweave]

Obama is upset that his side is Losing Big Time and will be bring these scum to the US

[chuckee]

Interesting to see how in US-regime-aligned propaganda like this only ISIS remains as a “terror organization” while the al-Qaeda franchise Jabhat al-Nusra has morphed into “rebels” and “opposition,” i.e. US-approved good guys.

The rehabilitation of al-Qaeda has become necessary for the US official narrative promoting its mercenary clients in Syria ... necessary, because the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist gang and its allies are the only militarily significant opposition to the Syrian government remaining outside ISIS.

So this propaganda turnabout on al-Qaeda makes perfect sense in an outrageously evil and dishonest kind of way - if you’re prepared to forget little things like the 9/11 terrorist atrocity

[ichabod1]

That was mostly what the article turned out to be about. What to do with the refugees. What did normal sane people used to do with refugees? Camps and MREs. What is people’s problem today>?

[ichabod1]

The question being bandied about is whether Turkey will invade to contest the cutting of the bottleneck.

[ichabod1]

It’s just the way of concealing that we have gone over to the to the dark side now. Thinking about it, your president Obama probably thinks 911 was a triumph.

[BobL]

The ‘refugees’ shown in these pics look like prior ‘refugees’, virtually all of them being fighting aged men.

I’m starting to think that these terrorists are simply going to give up an Syria and colonize places that won’t put up nearly the fight that Assad has - that being Belgium, Germany, and Sweden, for starters.

I don’t expect any great battle for Allepo - the Syrian troops will move in and the terrorists that controlled the city will be long-gone. All that will be left will be old people and kids.