Posted on 12/08/2024 6:57:36 PM PST by lasereye
My husband worked for the Arabian-American Oil company back from 1980-1985. I was there with him and worked as well.
The AL-ASSAD regime was notorious then--working his torture full time. He was so horrible that even the local Saudi news stations hated him.
I had forgotten all about him. We were there from 1980-85, five long years. The Saudis had to pay TONS of money to get Americans to go over there. We went over there for the money and stayed for five years. We did make the money we wanted.
Now, FORTY-PLUS years later I see Assad on all the news shows...FINALLY getting his come-uppance and getting tossed out of Syria.
To be honest I had no idea that the Russians were going to take him in. The Russians were NOT a big deal then over there.
I am DELIGHTED that he finally got his. OVERJOYED!
Ya think he speaks Russian? :o)
Bashar al-Assad was born in 1965. He began to rule Syria in 2000. His father Hafez al-Assad ruled from 1971 to 2000 (his death).
I was close by when Bashar’s ‘’Daddy’ massacred them by the thousands and I heard the screams. Not from the slaughtered Syrians, but from the ones who managed to escape. I was near Qryiat Shemona at that time, when Israel invaded Lebanon. It was eerily similar to today, when the whole Middle East faced a strong wind from a different direction, but with a false sense of hope. I remember thinking that it was a glorious day when Bashar took over from his dead father Hafez. Surely he would be different because of the western values instilled in him as a youth. I realized that I was wrong when he rolled Barrel bombs out the rear of his helicopters on his innocent subjects and killed them by the thousands. Maybe this time it will be different. (Sarcasm intended).
But it's the Middle East.
What did youexpect? It ain't Switzerland.
“He also is believed to have killed as many as 1,400 by nerve gas in 2013.”
Total bullshit. In the first combined chlorine–phosgene attack by Germany in WWI against British troops near Ypres, Belgium on 19 December 1915, 88 tons of the gas were released from cylinders causing 1069 casualties and 69 deaths. This is in damp still Belgium where gas is most effective.
Supposedly Assad drops a few barrel bombs and kills 1400. He does this in a windy dry environment, worst place to effectively use gas. I had no idea that Arabs were so much more efficient that Germans!
Germans in WWI used 36 million pounds of gas to produce around 17,000 allied deaths. To produce 1400 dead, the Syrians would have needed to be better engineers and more efficient than Germans....OR, drop almost 3 million pounds of gas....from helicopters, in barrels.
The gas story, is, and remains a propaganda lie.
Nerve gas is much more potent and fatal than WWI gases were.
And most of those hit by gas attack in WWI were sturdy young men, most of whom did have gas masks of some sort, and other gas countermeasures. After the first surprise at Ypres, for the rest of the war gas was used to harrass and suppress for the most part, not to cause large scale casualties.
I hold no love for Bashir Assad and I’’m glad he’s gone, but as in Cuba, China, Iran, Nicaragua, and other countries, the replacement regime is even more repressive and even more anti-American. Biden is celebrating, but this is not good.
Bkmk
“ The gas story, is, and remains a propaganda lie.”
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But…but….but…. the ‘White Helmets’ said it was so. So it must have happened. /sarc
chlorine–phosgene is not a nerve gas at all. Apples and oranges.
The reports at the time were Chlorine. And none of the rescuers in the video were using any NBC gear except medical masks.
And then the UN chemical weapons agency said it was not a gas attack.
Obama announced that the F-18s would fly if Assad used gas. 3 days later, the jihadi rebels get hit with Chlorine barrels. They were even intact and likely nothing more than pool chemicals.
Fake fake fake.
Sorry sport, it sure wasn’t nerve gas. They said it was chlorine. And no rescuers were affected despite not needing NBC gear.
Pure bullshit. Saddam’s use of nerve gas is an example of he true result of a nerve gas attack. Syria is an example of spilling pool chemicals and screaming “GAS!”
Paging Dugway Troll to stop sjilling for Pfauci and reply on this (Wikipedia acceptable).
grey_whiskers wrote: “That is the LD50 for phosgene vs nerve agents, and what form of exposure (inhalation/mucous membranes/skin contact) is suficient to cause death for each?”
Quit being a smart ass and use google.
I know all this as my husband and I lived in the KSA for of five interminable years...1980-84. We did made a TON of money working for the Arabian American Oil Company. The King eventually bought out the American component and renamed the company Saudi Aramco.
I remember when Sadaam Hussein hid out to avoid capture. His SONS defended him and his residence. Hussein was not only an a**h**e but he was a gigantic COWARD.
What a beatable combination.
My friends did get tired of hearing about all the stuff that went on there. The Brits and Pilipinos made things bearable.
LORD HAVE MERCY, were we GLAD to get home to the U.S A.
As Dorothy said in the Wizard of Oz..."There's NO place like home."
I don’t trust Goolag.
One of the cool things in my life was being able to drive past the building by Camp Cropper near Baghdad International Airport where Saddam was being held from 2004 to 2006.
In early ‘04, we used to yell taunts out the window as we drove by. “Lily-livered coward” was amongst the taunts.
One of our little circle of friends used to delight in blasting Toby Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue” on the vehicle’s speakers as we drove by there.
grey_whiskers wrote: “I don’t trust Goolag.”
Then pick a search engine you do trust. The information you want is easy to find.
So you are declining to weigh in on this, which appears to be more related to your proclaimed expertsise than say, clot-shots?
Fair enough, over and out.
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