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Isis Syria News: 70 Assad Officers Beheaded in Audacious Attack on Idlib
International Business Times ^ | October 27, 2014 | By Maria Khan

Posted on 10/28/2014 10:16:22 PM PDT by BlackVeil

Isis (Islamic State) and Jabhat al-Nusar militants were close to capturing Syria's second city after hundreds of jihadists took over the newly appointed governor's office in the provincial capital, Idlib.

It's believed 70 Syrian senior army officers were beheaded before government troops could recapture the building and save Idlib. ...

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alnusra; freesyrianarmy; isil; isis; syria
Some dispute aspects of this story, but all agree that there was an attack on Idlib, and many Syrian troops were killed, but that they beat back the attackers.

Robert Fisk is reporting as fact that many senior Syrian army officers were beheaded.

In a strange way, this does little to weaken morale in the Syrian govt forces, for they know they have no choice but to go on fighting. For if they lose, the end is death. Fighting on might mean death, also, of course. And so it goes ...

1 posted on 10/28/2014 10:16:22 PM PDT by BlackVeil
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To: BlackVeil

why someone does not give the order to utterly flatten Raqqa I cannot imagine .


2 posted on 10/28/2014 10:32:38 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: BlackVeil

Every cornered coyote/fox/wolf will fight to death.
The Iraqi army ran because they had a place to run.
They might fight in Baghdad because there is not much land left to run to.


3 posted on 10/28/2014 10:33:36 PM PDT by entropy12 (Marxist, race baiter, community organizer boy king is 10 times worse than any RINO)
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To: LeoWindhorse

The C-in-C is secretly rooting for ISIS?


4 posted on 10/28/2014 10:34:27 PM PDT by entropy12 (Marxist, race baiter, community organizer boy king is 10 times worse than any RINO)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Yeah, the Russians and Iranians are involved here. We know why zero doesn’t.


5 posted on 10/28/2014 10:45:20 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Yes, it is a base for real evil. There are many hostages kept there, but, considering their conditions, a swift end might be preferable.


6 posted on 10/28/2014 11:01:42 PM PDT by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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Cheers to both sides, and may both sides finish what they’re trying to do.


7 posted on 10/28/2014 11:09:25 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: BlackVeil

Doing the work of BHO


8 posted on 10/29/2014 12:56:05 AM PDT by Nifster
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