Iraq & Syrian Civil Wars - Page 167

A German teenager has died in Syria just days after arriving to fight on side of rebels opposing the forces of President Bashar al-Assad, it has been reported.

NICOSIA — Hizbullah has lost another top commander.

Lebanese sources said Hizbullah lost a leading military commander
deployed in Syria. They said Ali Bazi, who grew up in the southern Lebanese
town of Bint Jbeil, was killed in heavy fighting with Sunni rebels near the
Syrian border with Lebanon on Dec. 8.

“Ali Hussein Bazi died a martyr as he was carrying out his sacred duty as a jihadist,” a statement from the Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil said.

The sources said Bazi was one of the top commanders in the Hizbullah force in Syria, estimated at nearly 10,000. They said Bazi, reportedly married with three children who lived in Sidon, was in charge of the western sector and led a battle against a Sunni stronghold in the Qalamoun region near the Lebanese border.

On December 11 2013 23:01 zeo wrote:

No reason to say you are sorry. The ones that should be sorry are the people that supported, or even worse funded the degenerate islamic terrorists causing havoc in a peaceful society. So easy not to see all the lives and people they are trampling while riding the very high horse.
Assad has stated numerous times that he will step down from power and put elections into motion. Of course stepping down while degenerate extremists are hungry for blood would hand them the country on a silver platter and turn Syria into the black hole of suffering Libya has become.

On December 12 2013 08:35 Roggay wrote:

It's obviously not as simple as that.
I don't understand why I see so many comment making these kind of black and white distinctions between the two sides.

To me its like this : Hassad, his regime and w/e armed groups are backing him up, are evil. The FSA is rapidly turning more and more evil, and the terrorists/fundamentalist nutcases/al'qaeda are pure evil. Either way, Syria is fucked.

The true victims to me are all the civilians caught in this goddamn mess.

On December 12 2013 23:13 hazeh wrote:


And how the fuck do you know that Assad is a nasty dictator? Experienced it first hand? Or do you believe the western news when they tell you who you've got to hate and just go along for the fun of it?

Syria is an independent country, arming rebels to overthrow a legitimate government elected by it's people is an outright war provocation. You do realize that by believing all these bullshiters you guys call leftists like Amy "I'll support any revolution as long as it's not in the US or in Saudi Arabia" Goodman, or Noam "Let's talk about US atrocities 20 years back but anything too recent is conspiracy theory" Chomsky you're supporting war in the middle east exactly as much as if you supported a Bush? Except now of course you're bombing countries to save the civilians... Of course...

On December 13 2013 00:50 Roggay wrote:

Wtf? Way to cherry-pick... I was condamning the rebels too, not only Assad.

Anyway, there is more than enough proofs, at this point, that horrific war crimes have been committed on BOTH side (or how many sides there are in this conflict), even when ignoring the chemical stuff.
I'm not siding with anyone because of this. Assad is definitly not a "good" dictator, but at this point, I really don't believe the rebels are any better.

On December 13 2013 01:12 hazeh wrote:


Proof? Where's the proof? Link plz.

And how would you feel if another country came to yours, paid the local muck to kill people and then presented them as national heroes on their news channels and then all the internet-savvy youth who thinks facebook is real life comes along and supports them?

Don't you think this sort of shit happened enough in the colonial era? Or do you think you're qualified to decide who is a good leader for all the middle eastern countries? I don't hear you criticizing Israel who using illegal weapons on civilians and expanding it's borders without ever being called out for it, or criticizing Saudi Arabia for being stuck 400 years in the past in a feudal model of state, or criticizing the UK for having the worst social mobility of any developed country, or the US and France for having destroyed Libya, etc, etc.

No, you come along and say out loud that Assad has got to go because you heard it in your latest "alternative media" radio show or whatever. This is why political action is pointless at this point, everyone is ready to believe any sort of bullshit thrown at them from any side.

I don't know if it's all-round apathy or just lack of credible news sources, but please, please, when you see all the mainstream media and alternative media chant in unison that the next new public enemy is X, or that the next hero whistle blower is going to blow your mind with the world-breaking news that intelligence agencies can intercept emails... Just stop and think for one second before leaping on the same old bandwagon of attacking the enemies of the West. It's pathetic to see the internet generation do the same shit as the last ones and feel hip and cool about it.

On December 11 2013 23:01 zeo wrote:
the black hole of suffering Libya has become.

Islamic battalions targeted regime camps with car bombs resulting in clashes between them and regime forces near the ammunition depots.
Deir Ezzor: A number of martyrs and wounded due to clashes with regime forces in Saeqa area and the #FSA announces liberating the whole area completely #LCCSy #Syria 3m

On December 13 2013 02:23 KwarK wrote:
Sorry hazeh, but you think that no-one has ever called out Israel? This topic is not a make your own reality adventure game. You called out Israel in your own post ffs.

BEIRUT — No one is expecting a tank invasion of Saudi Arabia anytime soon, but the kingdom just put in a huge order for U.S.-made anti-tank missiles that has Saudi-watchers scratching their heads and wondering whether the deal is related to Riyadh's support for the Syrian rebels.

The proposed weapons deal, which the Pentagon notified Congress of in early December, would provide Riyadh with more than 15,000 Raytheon anti-tank missiles at a cost of over $1 billion. According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies' Military Balance report, Saudi Arabia's total stockpile this year amounted to slightly more than 4,000 anti-tank missiles. In the past decade, the Pentagon has notified Congress of only one other sale of anti-tank missiles to Saudi Arabia -- a 2009 deal that shipped roughly 5,000 missiles to the kingdom.

"It's a very large number of missiles, including the most advanced version of the TOWs [tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided missiles]," said Jeffrey White, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a former intelligence analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency. "The problem is: What's the threat?"

(Reuters) - Chemical weapons were likely used in five out of seven attacks investigated by U.N. experts in Syria, where a 2 1/2-year civil war has killed more than 100,000 people, according to the final report of a U.N. inquiry published on Thursday.

The U.N. investigators said the deadly nerve agent sarin was likely used in four of the incidents, in one case on a large scale.

The report noted that in several cases the victims included government soldiers and civilians, though it was not always possible to establish with certainty any direct links between the attacks, the victims and the alleged sites of the incidents.

"The United Nations Mission concludes that chemical weapons have been used in the ongoing conflict between the parties in the Syrian Arab Republic," the final report by chief U.N. investigator Ake Sellstrom said.

The investigation found likely use of chemical weapons in Khan al-Assal, near the northern city of Aleppo, in March; in Saraqeb, near the northern city of Idlib, in April; and in Jobar and Ashrafiat Sahnaya, near Damascus, in August.

On December 12 2013 23:13 hazeh wrote:


And how the fuck do you know that Assad is a nasty dictator? Experienced it first hand? Or do you believe the western news when they tell you who you've got to hate and just go along for the fun of it?

Syria is an independent country, arming rebels to overthrow a legitimate government elected by it's people is an outright war provocation. You do realize that by believing all these bullshiters you guys call leftists like Amy "I'll support any revolution as long as it's not in the US or in Saudi Arabia" Goodman, or Noam "Let's talk about US atrocities 20 years back but anything too recent is conspiracy theory" Chomsky you're supporting war in the middle east exactly as much as if you supported a Bush? Except now of course you're bombing countries to save the civilians... Of course...