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Shia fighters join Assad's troops to prepare for final assault on Aleppo <***Graphic Photos
http://www.telegraph.com ^ | October 1, 2016 | Raf Sanchez, Middle East

Posted on 10/01/2016 12:48:18 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

Graphic Photos

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A wounded Syrian child looks on from inside a vehicle following a reported airstrike on Kafr Batna in the outskirts of the capital Damascus Credit: AMER ALMOHIBANY/AFP

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Syrian rebels and civilians in the besieged eastern half of Aleppo are bracing for an onslaught ground assault by Syrian regime forces and their Shia fighter allies which could once and for all end the opposition’s resistance in the city. 

US officials said they were seeing signs that thousands of troops from across the Shia world -  including Syrian regime soldiers, Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Hizbollah fighters, Iraqi militiamen and Afghan mercenaries - were massing for a final assault on Aleppo. 

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria
KEYWORDS: aleppo; iransyria; obamasyria; russiasyria; syria; syriawar
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1 posted on 10/01/2016 12:48:18 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Credit to the Drudge Report.


2 posted on 10/01/2016 12:49:12 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

So tell me: is this good or bad? They’re all crazy.


3 posted on 10/01/2016 12:49:54 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Kerry said today he asked for more force to take out Assad. So I am on Assad side.


4 posted on 10/01/2016 12:52:43 PM PDT by ColdOne ((poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Hillary Clinton.....will stick a shiv into our freedom!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET; SJackson; SunkenCiv; TigersEye; NormsRevenge; Marine_Uncle; SierraWasp
So where is John Kerry and his cease fire?

Oh MY what will Obama do?

5 posted on 10/01/2016 12:55:23 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Obama should have rebelled against Hillary Clinton three years ago, when she hatch this ill fated plan that has caused so much suffering.(Thank God it is coming to an end.)

http://www.unz.com/tsaker/why-the-recent-developments-in-syria-show-that-the-obama-administration-is-in-a-state-of-confused-agony/


6 posted on 10/01/2016 12:56:19 PM PDT by Bogie (Just a coincidence?)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

It’s all bad. Both sides are run by Islamist psychos. The ones fighting against ISIS aren’t much better than ISIS.

I can’t believe we got ourselves tangled up in this garbage.


7 posted on 10/01/2016 12:57:52 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Almost sounds like a pincer movement against ISIS.

Aleppo in the west and Mosul in the east...


8 posted on 10/01/2016 12:58:09 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

What a mess Obomba a Hellary wrought.


9 posted on 10/01/2016 12:58:22 PM PDT by Lent
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Good. I want to see the Shia minority to take the Sunnis to the woodshed.
10 posted on 10/01/2016 12:58:39 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

He’s bombing the bridges in Deir ez-Zor so the million residents trapped there can’t get aid from the Syrian government.


11 posted on 10/01/2016 12:58:45 PM PDT by Royal Wulff
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
US officials said they were seeing signs that thousands of troops from across the Shia world - including Syrian regime soldiers, Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Hizbollah fighters, Iraqi militiamen and Afghan mercenaries - were massing for a final assault on Aleppo.

Cool!

12 posted on 10/01/2016 1:00:00 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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To: DIRTYSECRET

IMO Good. Russia and Assad are on the right side. I can hardly believe I am saying that. But they are saving American lives by killing ISIS terrorists. Gee, surprise Democrats want to break relations with Russia over Aleppo but did squat when Putin invaded Crimea.


13 posted on 10/01/2016 1:00:06 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“So tell me: is this good or bad? They’re all crazy.”

It’s bad, but less bad than Obama/Clinton/Kerry/McCain bad.

And it might undo ISIS in the long run, which is a good thing, and a thing which will infuriate DC-EU-Riyadh axis of global jihad. That is why Obama’s minions are having fits, even on this forum.

Nevertheless, it is like watching demons fight for the seat farthest from the fire.


14 posted on 10/01/2016 1:00:07 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (Je suis, Deplorables. Marchons, marchons!)
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To: ColdOne

Kerry belongs in the seventh plane of hell.


15 posted on 10/01/2016 1:00:37 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Future Snake Eater
And voters think Trump is the most likely candidate to get them into war? How are they so ignorant?
16 posted on 10/01/2016 1:01:22 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Neither, actually. But if you follow what passes for reasoning in some parts we should cheer the Shia because they are aligned with Assad, who is aligned with Putin, who claims to be anti-homo. Or something like that.


17 posted on 10/01/2016 1:02:03 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: ColdOne

“Kerry said today he asked for more force to take out Assad. So I am on Assad side.”

That just illustrates how f-ed up the whole Syria thing is. So, you’re backing the Iranians and Hezbuallah, the US has told the Kurds to lay low, Turkey, a NATO ally is supplying el-Nusra, or whatever the al-Qaeda guys are calling themselves now, and the Russkies told the US to go away, and we did, but they are cooperating with the Israelis.


18 posted on 10/01/2016 1:02:47 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: Future Snake Eater

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfyDgDTu0Go


19 posted on 10/01/2016 1:03:14 PM PDT by Bogie (Just a coincidence?)
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To: Sam Gamgee

Kerry is a war criminal.


20 posted on 10/01/2016 1:03:15 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittanc)
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