To begin my article, I’d like to ask my readers to examine the following paragraph quoted from the National newspaper.
“CAIRO // An Egyptian university student was fatally stabbed as his girlfriend looked on after three suspected Islamic militants confronted the couple in a park and said they should not be together if they were not married, security officials said yesterday.”
Syria; the Cradle of Contradictions
In Syria we are the result of a Maroni marriage of a Mediterranean cultures, our society can be described as anything except being one color community, or even two… we have the Muslims of all cults and factions (Sunni with at least 4 factions, Shiia, Alawites with at least 3 factions, Ismaili, Murchidis, Druze…), Christians are no exception when it comes to Syria, (Maronites, Jacobins, Nestorians, Protestant. Catholics, Romans…)
In my country, you can’t kill two people for walking in the street under Sharia law, unless of course you divided the state into cantons and separated communities, the same as the west did in Lebanon; or displace all the Christians and other Muslim minorities into other states, similar to the Iraqi case.
In my country; most of us still enjoy dancing, singing, gatherings, and discussing life matters of all kinds without killing each other or expiation each other.
So far; all attempts to transform Syria to another Iraq, or Libya or even Saudi Arabia have failed, and no matter how much the west sends Al Qaeda fighter to my country, apparently we will continue enjoying our life and I will keep holding my girlfriend’s hands in the streets, I will not be anyone but this Syrian Man who shares his life with Syrians no matter what gender or religion they are.
A few days ago, my friend passed by me asking me to go to a charity party, I answered, “we are mourning our fellow Syrian lives every day, and you are asking me for a party?!!!”
She smiled at me saying, “We will not die sad, and we will not be imprisoned by terror, I am going and you will be my date whither you like it or not”.
Frankly; I admit I was honored to be invited for this ballet party for kids, I had the opportunity to watch the beauty of Syrian boys and girls dancing, singing and laughing, reminding me that I am the citizen of a 7000 year old state who will never accept Wahhabism, or K.K.K or any other radical name to control my life.
This small party was just another example of true Syrians, Syrians who want to escape the fundamental killings, and the sectarian cleansing.
The kids were not only rich; they were middle class from different religious backgrounds, all coming to a Catholic Church to perform for the public.
I don’t know what the kids where thinking, But I know they were not trying to dazzle the Syrian administration, or to express their support to this political party or that militia’s fighter.
The kids were dancing like flying angels, I don’t know or maybe don’t care that local or international media isn’t covering them, because they are too busy raging wars and killings.
Those beautiful angels were dancing on a theater which belongs to the Catholic Patriarchate “Olive Church” in Damascus.
The church lies in the folds of the oldest inhabited city in the history of mankind.
You walk into the Church main gate, a big yard with beautiful view ahead of you; a smiley man is waiting, directing you to go the theater location.
Wide stairs, lead you to the second floor, too many people are going upstairs, a man with his wife laughing about their little kid’s nervousness, and how they tried to calm her down.
A veiled lady tells her friend how hard her daughter worked on the dress, a dress with a Syrian flag on it, she described the little girl’s passion for the colors of the Syrian flag.
While my friend and I were going upstairs, step by step, enjoying those small talks and smiles, every time we hear a father or a mother speaking about their child.
A few seconds passed, we are at the second floor, the theater was crowded, kids were training on the great Tchaikovsky music the “Swan lake”
The theater was living action, you wouldn’t be able to stop smiling, stop sensing the beauty of each corner, stop watching kids making mistake after mistake but they wouldn’t give up, they’d rise again and try again and again until they got it right.
For a moment I thought, this is how we all should be, perhaps I should bring the fighting parties here, and maybe, just maybe they can learn what it means to be a real human.
Two Hours passed by, the party was over; but that sense of beauty would never be over, nobody on earth can take from those kids their happiness.
The Saudis can keep sending their radical killers here, the west can keep threatening Syrians with sanctions but no one will ever be able to touch those kids’ spirit.
And as for me, those kids have taught me the meaning of being Syrian, the meaning of being human and the meaning of being God’s Children, believers name them the way you want my dear reader, that will not change the fact.
I believe in the power of Love. Hatred is something I neither know nor believe in,
even for my enemies. I pray for them.
I am a messenger and do not ask to be rewarded by society,
I ask only that God be pleased with my work.
My brothers and sisters are not only those residing in Aleppo, but the seven billion
who live on Earth.
God is found not only in churches and mosques but in the hearts of all human beings.
Those who kill in the name of God, do not know God.
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Father Dave interviews the Grand Mufti of Syria – Dr Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun (25 April 2015)
1 Dec 2016, addressing Irish law makers in Dublin: Syria’s Grand Mufti Hassoun:
“When the events started in 2011 in Syria, an Arab Emir called me. He invited me to leave Syria and told me he had a castle for my family and me. I told him, I have to stay in Syria to be the bridge of peace between the opposition and the regime. I represent neither the opposition nor the regime. I represent the Syrian people and when the regime is against the people, I will be with the people against the regime. The response to my answer to this phone call was the assassination of my son five days later, while he stood near the door of his university. He had never held a gun nor a weapon. Before burying my child, I stood before everyone and said I had forgiven everyone on condition they laid down their weapons. Their answer was that they didn’t need my forgiveness. This has caused me much pain. But what is more painful is that a year after I buried my child, the revolutionaries came and took him out of his grave and I don’t know where they put him. This is the revolution in Syria. If it were a revolution to reform the regime I would have been with them but it was a revolution to kill men.
I came from Syria to Ireland to tell you please do not listen to the media. Come to Syria to see what they have done to us. I have met some of those who were arrested from London, Australia, Belgium, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey. I met them in prison. I asked, Why did you come to Syria? They said: The Islamic centers in Europe called us to come and install an Islamic State in Syria and we gathered money. They trained us to fight in Turkey.”
“I would like to submit to you the 2nd part of a book, the 1st part of which I introduced to you a few months ago, containing the names and photos of thousands of foreign fighters/terrorists who have been killed by the Syrian Army inside Syria. Thousands of names of terrorists who have come from various parts of the world including from all the member states of the Security Council with the exception of Angola and Venezuela. These are “moderate Syrian Opposition”.
Let us imagine that ISIL or al-Nusra Front or any other so-called free terrorist organisation stormed certain cities in the countries that call terrorist groups in Syria, “moderate armed opposition”. Let us imagine that these terrorists started wreaking havoc, killing and destroying these cities. What would the reaction of these countries be? How would they deal with such a situation? A “moderate” situation. Are they going to offer these [terrorists] bouquets of flowers? … Will they be called American, British,Turkish or French “moderate opposition”? What an irony that these same states turn the world upside down whenever they discover a single terrorist on their own territories. They even use military force in the territories of other states, thousands of miles away from them, under the pretext of protecting their own national security against the threat of terrorism, but at the same time they deny us as Syrians our legitimate right and our duty to fight this very same terrorism that targets own people on our own land in within our own borders, and not in places thousands of miles away from us. To make it even worse the terrorists we target on our national territory, become suddenly in their eyes, innocent civilians exposed to what they call barrel bombs. In the same way the cross-border foreign terrorism, which has been condemned by a UNSC resolution, becomes miraculously the result of the Syrian crisis, not the cause of it.”
Syria’s representative to the UN, Bashar Al-Jaafari, 30 September 2014
“She (Amos) is either being misinformed or misinforming the Council members.
Let me give you some examples:
For instance she missed shedding any light on the scandal of poisonous vaccines that were smuggled outside the four official gates allowed to be used by the UN for humanitarian purposes in accordance with the resolution 2165. So these poisonous vaccines were smuggled into Syria by the terrorist groups through Turkish mediators, outside resolution 2165 and didn’t cross the border through official gates and Mrs. Amos failed to mention anything in this regard which led to the deaths of dozens of innocent Syrian children and the suffocation of hundreds of them. It seems, she who is in charge of the humanitarian situation in Syria, wasn’t aware of this vaccine scandal.
Although she is committed according to resolution 2165 to notify the Syrian government of the contents of this convoy of so-called humanitarian assistance in advance, she did not do that. The vaccines did not cross the official border gates and those who brought the vaccines into Syria were merely criminal thugs who wanted to replace the work of the government for propaganda and drawing money from the so-called donors. This is the first example.
The second example: She (Amos) said that the World Food Programme couldn’t reach the civilians in Deir Ez Zor and Raqqa for three months. She didn’t say why, as if nobody knows nowdays who is occupying Deir Ez Zor and Raqqa. Mrs Amos never heard of the presence of ISIS in Raqqa, she’s not aware of that. She doesn’t know that ISIS is occupying Deir Ez Zor and Raqqa. So she said that for the third month consecutively the World Food Programme was unable to deliver humanitarian assistance to these two cities but she didn’t say why because she doesn’t want to clarify how alarming the situation is in these two cities because of the presence of the terrorist armed groups not because the [Syrian] government is preventing this aid from reaching civilian population in these two Syrian cities. She was highly interested only in telling the council that in two months we will have no money, so please we need money. This is all she cares about. She needs money to continue what she calls humanitarian assistance operations.
She thanked the Turkish government and the Jordanian government and she didn’t thank the Syrian government who affords 75% of the humanitarian assistance in the country and who co-operates with the United Nations agencies for the delivery of humanitarian assistance. No, she doesn’t want to thank the Syrian government she would prefer to thank the Turkish government who allows the terrorists to cross our border from all over the world. By the way the Turkish president protested against resolution 2178. He was not comfortable with this resolution which would prevent the Turkish government from continuing to facilitate the movement of the terrorists of ISIS and others moving through our border with Turkey.
Another loophole in her briefing: she did not mention once the word Jabhat al-Nusra or al-Nusra Front. The Nusra Front doesn’t exist in Syria for Mrs Amos. She only spoke about ISIS without calling it a terrorist organisation. In her entire briefing, I didn’t hear the word terrorist.
For Amos, Jabhat al-Nusra, ISIS and all these terrorists coming from all over the world are Syrian opposition groups. The terrorists coming from Australia, from the United States and Britain, the terrorists coming from France, Indonesia, from Lithuania – these are Syrian opposition groups, not terrorist foreigners, they are Syrian Opposition groups for Mrs Amos. She is still insisting on misreading the reality of the facts taking place in Syria.
Finally for your kind information (and Amos didn’t mention it), in one month only, August till now, 1,878 mortar shells landed in the suburbs of Damascus and Aleppo. Mortar shells against civilian populated areas – these mortar shells have killed hundreds of innocent Syrian civilians. Again, Mrs Amos was not aware of these mortar shells. All she was aware of is, please give us money, to go ahead with this big program of humanitarian assistance including smuggling poisonous vaccines into Syria to kill Syrian children. Unfortunately I’m very sad to see that the Under-Secretary General has not yet realised her mistakes of assessment and is misleading the Security Council.”
We’ve been told repeatedly by western media how Assad is killing his own people but in fact it’s western sponsored terrorists who are intentionally targeting civilians in Syria [a], while the Syrian army has tried to prevent civilian casualties [b]. Below, I’ve listed with images, (where possible), just some of the car bombings, suicide and mortar attacks on civilian areas in Syria by so-called “Syrian rebels”. Thousands of Syrians have been killed or maimed in these terrorist attacks and instead of condemning the attacks western media has helped justify these crimes by reporting that the bombings were in “pro-government” or “pro-Assad” areas, as if people who support the Syrian government deserve to be blown to pieces or injured.
Is this the freedom the west is bringing Syria, freedom to be blown up when going to church or to the mosque, or when filling your car with petrol or walking to school?
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23 December 2011, Damascus’ upscale Kfar Sousa district., twin car bombing, 44 killed, 150 injured [1]
6 January 2012, a suicide bomb exploded in the Al-Midan district of Damascus, 26 dead, 60 injured (Nusra Front claimed responsibility) [2]
10 February 2012, 2 blasts outside security compounds in Aleppo, car bomb, 28 dead, 175 injured (Jabhat al-Nusra claimed responsibility) [3]
3 March 2012, near the al-Masri roundabout in the center of Dara’a city, car bombing, +7 dead, 20 wounded [4]
17 March 2012, central Damascus, twin car bombings, 27 dead, 140 wounded (Jabhat al-Nusra claimed responsibility) [5]
27 April 2012, suicide bombing near the mosque of “Zein Al-Abideen”, 9 dead, 20 wounded, (Jabhat Al Nusra claims Responsibility) [7]
30 April 2012, near a military compound and a hotel in Idlib, 9 dead, 100 wounded [8]
5 May 2012, Aleppo, car bombing at a carwash in the Al Sukari neighborhood, 5 dead 20 wounded [9]
10 May 2012, outside a military intelligence compound in Damascus, 55 dead, 400 wounded [10]
11 May 2012, Damascus, 50 dead , 100 injured, (Nusra Front claim responsibility) [11]
19 May 2012, Ghazi Ayyash neighborhood of Deir Ezzor, suicide car bombing, 10 dead [12]
27 June 2012, Al-Ikhbariya TV station, Drousha, south of Damascus, 7 dead
(Nusra Front claim resposibility) [13]
10 September 2012, Aleppo, car bombing near the city sports stadium, 17 dead (FSA claimed responsibility) [14]
3 October 2012, Saadallah Al-Jabiri Square, Aleppo, car bombing, 40 dead, 90 wounded [15]
7 October 2012, Aleppo, car bombing, 17 dead, 40 wounded [16]
21 October 2012, Bab Touma, Damascus, car bombing, 10 dead, 15 wounded. “The bomb exploded as people were moving to go to Churches for Sunday mass.” [17]
24 October 2012, Daf al-Shouk, Damascus, car bombing, 6 dead, 20 injured [18]
26 October 2012, residential area of Damascus, car bombing, 8 dead, 30 wounded [19]
27 October 2012, car bomb in front of the Orthodox Church of the Annunciation, Raqqah, two deaths and injuring a woman, all civilians [20]
29 October 2012, outskirts of Damascus, car bombing, 15 dead [21]
4 November 2012, near the Dama Rose hotel, Damascus, car bombing, 1 dead, 12 injured [22]
28 November 2012, eastern neighborhood of Jaramana, Damascus, 2 car bombs, 34 dead [23]
2 December 2012, Hamra district, Homs, car bombing, 15 dead, 24 wounded [24]
4 December 2012, mortar attack by Syrian rebels on a school near Damascus killed nine students and their teacher, 20 injured [25]
11 December 2012, bomb attacks in village of Aqrab, Hama, 125 mainly Alawite civilians wounded or killed [26]
12 December 2012, near Syrian Interior Ministry, Damascus, car bombing, 5 dead (Nusra Front claimed responsibility) [27]
3 January 2013, Damascus’Barzeh al-Balad district at a petrol station, car bombing, 15 dead, 46 injured [28]
15 January 2013, “blasts hit city squares, killing civilians” in Idlib, car bombings, 20 dead [29]
15 January 2013, Aleppo University bombing, 87 dead, 150 wounded [30]
21 January 2013, Hama, car bombing, +30 dead (Jabhat Al Nusra claims Responsibility) [31]
6 February 2013, Palmyra, car bombing, 35 dead, 30 injured, [32]
21 February 2013, Damascus, car bombing, 53 dead, 200 wounded – “There were children among the casualties and injuries as the bomb hit near Ibn Al-Atheer school, and at a time students were leaving school” [33]
15 March 2013, Aleppo, car bomb, 2 dead [34]
21 March 2013, suicide bombing of the Iman Mosque in Damascus, 42 dead, 84 injured including Mohammed al-Buti, imam of the ancient Ummayyad Mosque [35]
28 March 2013, rebel mortar bombs lands on the canteen of Damascus University’s College of Architecture, 15 dead, dozens wounded [36]
8 April, 2013, central Damascus, 25 dead 45 wounded (children killed) [37]
29 April 2013, central Damascus, suicide explosion, 6 dead [38]
30 April 2013, central Damascus district of Marjeh, car bombing, 13 dead [39]
8 June 2013, Al-Adawiya neighborhood, Homs, killing at least eight people, including three women and a teen [40]
11 June 2013, explosive devices blew off near Marjeh Square in central Damascus, 14 dead, 31 injured [41]
16 June 2013, Damascus neighborhood that houses several embassies and a military airport, car bombing, 20 dead, 16 wounded [42]
27 June 2013, A suicide bomb hit the central neighbourhood of Bab Touma in Damascus, a famous Christian quarter of the capital’s Old City, 4 dead, several wounded [43]
25 July 2013, Jaramana, Damascus, car bombing, 10 dead, dozens injured [44]
7 August 2013, Jaramana, Siouf square, Damascus, car bombing, 18 dead, 56 injured [45]
14 October 2013, Darkush, 27 dead, including three children, car bombing [46]
20 October 2013, Hama outskirts, car bombing, 47 dead, 20 wounded [47]
4 November 2013, Homs, car bombing, 6 dead (including 3 children), 37 wounded [48]
22 December 2013, Homs, car bombing, 20 dead – “a suicide terrorist detonated a booby-trapped truck outside the schools compound in the town while students were having classes. Most of the victims were students and teachers” [49]
9 January 2014, Al Kafat, Hama, car bombing, 18 dead, 30 injured (most of them children, women and elderly people) [50]
14 February 2014, Yadouda near a mosque, car bombing, 29 dead [51]
6 March 2014, Homs Armenian district, car bombing, 10 dead, 15 injured [52]
17 March 2014, Zahraa district Homs, car bombing, 6 dead, 20 wounded [53]
27 March 2014, al-Arman neighborhood in Homs, car bomb. 1 dead, 11 wounded [54]
9 April 2014, Homs, car bombing, +25 dead and “scores” wounded [55]
15 April 2014, four mortar shells fired by militants landed near the schools of al-Ghassaniyeh and al-Rabei’eh al-Shamiyeh in al-Dekhaniyeh neighborhood in the countryside of Damascus, 2 dead [56]
15 April 2014, mortar shells also targeted an elementary school in Bab Touma neighborhood in Damascus, 2 dead, 60 injured [57]
19 April 2014, Hama, car bomb targeted 4 trucks carrying humanitarian aid staff of the Syrian Red Crescent – 4 dead, 9 injured [58]
19 April 2014, Homs, car bomb near Ka’ab al-Ahbar mosque, 14 dead, 50 injured, women and children among the dead [59]
20 April 2014, rebel mortars, Arnous Square in central Damascus, 4 dead 8 injured [60]
21 April 2014, rebel mortar fire,Bab Touma neighborhood &Dar al-Salam school and al-Salhiyeh neighborhood in Damascus, 7 dead, 20 injured [61]
25 April 2014, rebel mortar attack on civilians, 2 dead, 16 wounded [62]
27 April 2014, mortar attacks by rebels in Aleppo, 21 dead, dozens wounded [63]
29 April 2014, Homs, near the heavily-trafficked al-Abassiyeh intersection, car bombing, 40 dead, 116 injured [64]
29 April 2014, Damascus, Badr-Eddin al-Hossni Institute for Islamic Sharia Sciences, 14 dead, 86 wounded (mostly students) [65]
29 April 2014, a car bomb and a rocket attack in the city of Homs, 100 dead, scores injured [66]
1 May 2014, twin car bombings in Jibrin, a few km northeast of Hama city, and Hamairi, 18 dead including 11 kids, 50 wounded [67]
In July 2011 the spokesman for the Libyan government, Dr. Moussa Ibrahim warned about the consequences of U.S. and NATO supporting al Qaeda in Libya. Neither the U.S. nor its allies listened and instead went on to support and arm al Qaeda in Syria; and now they are supporting neo-nazi fascists in Ukraine.
“The West needs to wake up, the United States of America need to wake up – the same organisation killing your children in Afghanistan and Iraq, they are the ones you are co-operating with in Benghazi…. The world needs to wake up, al Qaeda exists so powerfully from Mauritania up to the borders of Libya. Now they are very well established in the east part of the country, all they need is for the central government in Tripoli to collapse so they can link the crescent of terror together from Mauritania to Egypt and then to Syria and Iraq.
You can say the Libyans are trying to play the al Qaeda card but it’s being proven every day. We kill dozens of rebels every single day in all different fronts and yet they keep coming. No-one else goes to death in such a glorious way except al Qaeda. We kill a hundred of them, they keep coming. We kill another hundred, they still keep coming. No-one does this except al Qaeda because they believe they are martyrs and once they are killed they go to heaven. Other people, normal volunteers, the so-called “freedom fighters” don’t have this vigour, this determination, especially against their own people, their own tribes, their own countrymen. It’s only al Qaeda that goes beyond nationality, beyond language, beyond tribes and they believe in death and destruction for everyone that says no to them.
The world needs to wake up to this otherwise Europe and the states will pay a very heavy price.”
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(video via WolkenZwemmer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLPpHrVxwTM )
On 4 August, 2013, foreign-backed “rebels” in Syria attacked Latakia countryside. Militants overran Syrian government army positions guarding the area and entered into and occupied more than 10 villages. The Syrian government launched an offensive to retake the area regaining full control on 18 August.
More than 190 civilians were killed, “witnesses described how opposition forces executed residents and opened fire on civilians, sometimes killing or attempting to kill entire families.”(1) Over 200 civilians, mostly women and children were kidnapped.
“We are not just talking about a few rogue actors, we’re talking about a pre-planned, pre-meditated pattern of abuse that was intentionally undertaken. These abuses amount to crimes against humanity. The individuals or countries that support these groups are now on notice about the types of violations that they are committing and could be complicit in crimes against humanity and war crimes if they continue to support them” (1)
At least 20 distinct armed opposition groups took part in the operation called, “Campaign of the Descendants of Aisha the Mother of Believers,” the “Barouda Offensive,” or the “Operation to Liberate the Coast,” which lasted from 4 – 18 August.
Five groups were the key fundraisers, organizers, planners, and executors of the attacks.
These are:
– Ahrar al-Sham
– Islamic State of Iraq and Sham
– Jabhat al-Nusra
– Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar
Western backed General Salim Idriss, who leads the “rebel” Supreme Military Council, visited Latakia on 11 August 2013 to see the “important successes and victories that our revolutionaries have gained on the coastal front.”(2) It must also be noted that Ahrar al-Sham, Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar and Suquor al-Izz are all part of the Islamic Front which US continues to arm and support as “moderates”. This makes Washington, in the words of HRW, “complicit in crimes against humanity and war crimes”.
These are photos via @ProSyriana of some of the children and adults kidnapped from Latakia in August 2013, and still missing:
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Razan Saleem, 22 yr old, was kidnapped from her home in Balouteh Latakia by FSA in Aug 2013 – still missing
Jawa Saleem, 4 years old was kidnapped by “rebels” from her home in Balouteh, Latakia on 4/8/2013 – Still missing.
Safaa Saleem, 11 years old kidnapped from Balouteh
Rahaf Saleem, 9 years old, was kidnapped by “rebels” from her home in Balouteh Latakia in August 2013 – still missing
Haneen Talal Saleem 9yrs old was kidnapped by “rebels” from her home in Baloutah, Latakia on 4/8/13 – still missing.
Salem Ramez Saleem, 8 years old, was kidnapped from his home in Balouteh – Latakia by the FSA back in August 2013, he’s still missing
Lujain Saleem 14 yrs and Wajed 4,5 yrs were kidnapped by “rebels” from Balouteh, Latakia on 4/8/13 -Still missing.
Thuraya Dergham, 17 years old was kidnapped from her home in Balouteh village – Latakia
Amjad Ghadeer Deeb, 17 years old, from Balouteh – Latakia was kidnapped by the moderate rebels back on 4/8/2013
Ziad Ghadeer Deeb, child, was kidnapped by “rebels” from his home in Balouteh Latakia in August 2013 – still missing
Zeina Deeb, 14yrs was kidnapped from her home in Balouta, Latakia by “rebels” on 4/8/13 – still missing.
Rehab AlTezeh, 30 yrs old nurse, was kidnapped by FSA from her home in Balouteh Latakia in August 2013 – still missing
Yosef Shehadeh, 17 year old, was kidnapped by the FSA from Inbateh, Latakia in August 2013, he’s still missing
Mohamad and Nasr Kamal Shehadeh, 9 years old and 7 years old, were kidnapped by FSA in Aug from their home in Inbateh, Latakia – still missing
Fahima Khalil, a 57 years old wife and mother was kidnapped from her home in Inbateh – Latakia by the rebels on Aug 2013, she’s still missing
Badra Ftiemeh, 85 yrs old, was kidnapped from her home in Inbateh, Latakia on Aug 2013 by FSA in their crusade to rid Syria of Alawites
Reem Saleem was kidnapped from her home in Inbateh Latakia by FSA in August 2013 – still missing
Lemar Ramez Saleem, 4 years old, was kidnapped from her home in Inbateh, Latakia on 4/8/2013 by the moderate rebels
Ahmad Ibrahim, 4 yrs old, from Inbateh Latakia, kidnapped from his home in August by FSA – still missing
Jaafar Ibrahim, 8 yrs old, from Inbateh, Latakia, kidnapped by the “rebels” in August – still missing
Bashar Ibrahim, 15 yrs, was kidnapped from his home in Inbata #Latakia by the “rebels” on 4/8/13 – Still missing
Amer Ghassan Yehya, child, from Inbateh, Latakia, kidnapped by FSA back in August – still missing
Sham Darwish was kidnapped from her home in Latakia on 4/8/13 during FSA’s Free the Coast Battle – still missing
Abeer Darwish, kidnapped by the FSA from her home in AlHambosheh, Latakia in August – still missing
Munzer Darwish, 35 yrs & Bana 4yrs were kidnapped by FSA from their home in Hambosheh on 4/8/13 – still missing.
Hasna Abd AlKareem Issa, 45 yrs old was kidnapped from AlHambosheh
Dalaa Mariam, 11 years, (old photo) was taken from her home in Hambosheh Latakia on 4/8/13 by FSA – Still missing.
Nadra Mas’oud, 60 years old, was kidnapped from her home in AlHambosheh by the FSA on 4/8/2013; never seen again
Wesal Naser, kidnapped by FSA from AlHambosheh, Latakia in August – still missing
Sisters Do’aa and Alaa Wael Maryam, 4 and 3 years old, were kidnapped from their home in AlHambousheh Latakia back in August 2013 by the rebels, they’re still missing.
Tamer and his brother Tim AlShakouhy, taken from their home in Latakia in August by the FSA – still missing
Blind Muneer Shableh kidnapped by rebels from Latakia in August – still missing
Weqqar AlQusseiby, 13 yrs old, from Baroudeh, Latakia, kidnapped by the FSA in August, still missing
Wedad Maryam kidnapped in Aug in Latakia by FSA, still missing
Bushra Saqour, 27 years old, kidnapped from her home in Barmseh village – Latakia by the rebels on 4/8/13
Samia Bdour was kidnapped from her home in Latakia countryside by the FSA on August 2013, she’s still missing.
Hatem Shebly was kidnapped, his mother killed his father injured during FSA’s battle to annihilate Alawites
The goal of the war on Syria has never been to help Syrians, it’s always been about removing a government not compliant with Washington. On 21 October 2013, the New York Times, as usual, helped spread US regime change propaganda:
“A principal goal of the peace conference, which is expected to be held next month in Geneva, although no date has been set, is the establishment of a transitional government “by mutual consent” of Syrians that would not include Mr. Assad.” (1)
This statement from NYT is simply not true – the removal of President Assad has never been accepted as a goal of Geneva II. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov confirmed this in January:
“Assad’s departure could not be a prerequisite for the solution of the Syrian crisis …
our partners look at Assad’s leaving office as a crucial prerequisite. However, such a condition was not placed on the Geneva agreement.” (2)
In January 2013, data relayed to NATO asserted that 70 percent of Syrians support the Assad Government (3). Ignoring this, and ignoring the presence of an internal opposition in Syria, Kerry, yesterday, continued with regime change rhetoric:
“Now I don’t know anyone who believes the opposition will ever consent to Bashar al-Assad being part of that [transitional] government,” Kerry said. “And if he [Bashar al-Assad] thinks he’s going to solve problems by running for re-election I can say to him, I think with certainty, this war will not end as long as that’s the case or he [Assad] is there.” (4)
So, according to Kerry the war against Syria “will not end” unless Assad goes.
Syria has a government, a government which has managed, with the help of the Syrian people, to fend off an invasion of foreign extremists backed by the world’s most powerful nations. Elections are going to be held in Syria in 2014 when the Syrian people, not the US, will decide who they want as president.
It’s the US administration’s insistence on regime change which is the biggest obstacle to peace in Syria, not the Syrian Government who have emphasised their willingness to attend Geneva II “without preconditions”. (5)
Today BBC reports: “Syria chemical arms team ‘turned back after safety fears'”(1), but BBC fails to inform us that it’s the FSA/rebels who threaten the safety of the chemical weapons inspectors in Syria or that inspectors “have been unable to complete a scheduled visit” because “there are chemical sites under regime control that Free Syrian Army brigades are laying siege to”(2); and that it’s these sights the inspectors are unable to access for fear of their safety.
BBC reports further: “despite the good progress, inspectors were forced to turn back at one site after failing to receive assurances that they would be safe”. Who, was not prepared to assure the inspectors’ safety? If the chemical weapons inspectors are staying in a Damascus hotel, in a government cotroled area, it’s obvious that the Syrian army are protecting the inspectors and it’s the FSA/rebels which are not only threatening the inspectors, but actively trying to de-rail the Syrian government’s willingness to have its chemical stockpiles destroyed.
Ironically, it’s PressTV (which has been banned from UK’s airwaves), which is exposing the truth about difficulty chemical weapons inspectors are facing in Syria:
“Ahmet Uzumcu, the director of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, also said this week that the Syrian government had cooperated fully in providing access to weapons sites under its control, but he added that the problem for his inspection team was gaining safe access to sites under control of militants. This was because of the lawless conduct of these groups, which have opened fire on the inspectors and even set off bombs near one of the hotels where the team is staying.”(3)
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