Posted on 12/22/2016 4:43:15 PM PST by Lorianne
In early November, Fares Shehabi, a member of the Syrian parliament from Aleppo, organized a trip to Aleppo for 13 Western journalists, including myself, with security provided by forces in the Syrian Arab Army.While I had traveled to Aleppo independently as recently as July and August, for many others in the delegation, it was their first visit to the city or their first visit since the war on Syria began in 2011.
On previous visits to Aleppo, I met with the Aleppo Medical Association and saw a maternity hospital hit twice by rocket and mortar attacks by militants under Jaysh al-Fatah (the Army of Conquest), a loose alliance of anti-government terrorist groups. I met with members of a branch of the Syria Civil Defense and Christian and Muslim religious leaders. Just north of the city, I visited Nubl and Zahraa, towns besieged for more than three years by the Free Syrian Army, the Nusra Front, and other affiliated terrorist factions before the Syrian Arab Army drove them out in February of this year. I saw the liberated region of Bani Zaid and the al-Layramoun industrial district. I interacted with civilians in public parks, streets, and markets.
Ahead of my trip earlier this month, I was interested to see what might have changed following the liberation of still more areas by the SAA. I also hoped to speak with civilians who had fled the terrorist-held areas of Aleppo’s eastern districts since I had last visited, during which time eight humanitarian corridors had been established for civilians and members of terrorist factions willing to relinquish their arms or to accept safe passage to areas in Idlib and government-secured parts of western Aleppo.
However, on Nov. 4, no one fled terrorist-held areas of Aleppo. Family members of civilians still there say their loved ones are being used as human shields by groups like the Nusra Front, Ahrar al-Sham, or Nour al-Din al-Zenki — the so-called “moderate rebels” and “opposition forces” backed by the United States, NATO, Israel and Gulf allies like Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
She basically counters the MSM narratives.
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Putin kicked Obama’s moderate rebels ISIS asses. The city was destroyed like St Petersburg in WW2.
She basically counters the MSM narratives.
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And she may be alone in doing so. I’ve posted a recent YouTube video of her explaining that fact in some detail. For me it was very persuasive as is your post.
Too bad it’s not getting much attention from the Freepers, normally a pretty astute bunch. Hopefully Trump will wake them up to what is really going on in Syria and why he intends to support Assad (perhaps reluctantly) and the Russians. It’s simply a matter of our true national interest and Assad is less of a threat to us than the radical Sunni Islamic factions with their al Qaeda and likely ISIS roots posing as a Liberation Army.
US claims Syrians not dancing in the streets in Aleppo, as videos surface of Syrians dancing in the streets in Aleppo
Http://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5j04ak/us_claims_syrians_not_dancing_in_the_streets_in/?
Never to be featured on your TV screens: #Aleppo is celebrating the end of nearly five years of terror tonight! Long live free #Syria!
https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/811270672697753600
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