Revenge...
Posted on 12/07/2016 2:35:18 AM PST by Freelance Warrior
DAMASCUS, December 7. /TASS/. About 3,000 militants surrendered and were granted safe passage in the town of Khan al-Sheikh [Khan al-Shih in other sources] on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus, a TASS correspondent reported from the scene.
The militants and their families boarded 52 buses that will transport them to the Idlib province.
"After long and difficult negotiations, a ceasefire agreement with the militants was reached. The talks were very tense and required a lot of moral effort," a spokesman for Russia’s reconciliation center in Syria, Col. Alexei Leshchenko said.
The militants handed over more than 500 guns, as well as sniper rifles and dozens of 120-mm mortars.
The pipeline angle is true.
The proposed LNG pipeline would end Russia’s monopoly on providing LNG to Europe. Thus, Russia opposes it.
Soros is behind the proposed pipeline. He will benefit greatly from it. That is why Obama is so opposed to Assad - the pipeline must be built!.
It has nothing to do with Assad being a bad person, which is Obama’s pretense.
Live to fight another day ... have we no drones? Did anyone vet the families to see if the "brides" were a) female under the burka b) willing spouses?
aka al Qaeda in Syria and islamo factions fighting with them
Saudi and Qatar behind the pipeline which runs from their oilfields
Not to mention their goal shared by the Obama state department of spreading militant sunni Islamism into a region which has been dominated by an Assad secular/non-sunni regime with ties to Iran and a long military alliance with Russia which uses the port of Tartus
A herd of sheep and goats are awaiting trucks to sanctuary as IS “war brides”
Yeah, that story has been out there. Hillay took money from the Qataris and Saudis to run a pipeline from Qatar through what is now ISIS into “friendly” Turkey and on to Europe. A pipeline which the Russians would not be happy about. I think the hole in this is Turkey being “friendly”. I seem to recall Turkey is about 70% Shia. Why they would want to help the Sauds would be a question.
The evacuation minimises civilian casualties. They may be left for later.
Yes, I’m aware of that. Assad is the (currently) legitimate power, and the least bad option IMO, but that still doesn’t make him “good”.
For the right price perhaps. ...
You got that backwards. More than 70% of muslims in Turkey are Sunni.
So maybe Assad got “in the way” of the ambition of the Sauds.
What a horrific thought!
Of course you would still love the baby (it's entirely innocent)...but what a situation :-/
Revenge...
“When the man in front of you gets killed, you pick up his rifle and fight!”
No, Turkey is 72% Sunni and 25% Shia (according to this source):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Turkey
Sure. But what can one expect in Syria? A guy pops up from nowhere and turns Syria into another Sweden?
Oh no! Not another Sweden! LOL.
(A Russian saying).
Most excellent!
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