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Syrian Prime Minister defects, flees to Jordan
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| 08/06/2012
| Ed Morrissey
Posted on 08/06/2012 11:31:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Jordan? Why not Iran, their buddy?.............
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posted on
08/06/2012 11:35:02 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Think logically. Act normally.................)
To: SeekAndFind
Another state closer to Global Caliphate. :)
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posted on
08/06/2012 11:36:54 AM PDT
by
Tzimisce
(THIS SUCKS)
To: SeekAndFind
These guys are jumping the Good Ship Assad faster than the Good Ship Obama...
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posted on
08/06/2012 11:40:48 AM PDT
by
donozark
(Follow the cigar smoke, find the fat man there.)
To: Red Badger
Let’s see if I can guess that one.
Iran is now sending in its own troops to shore up Assad. They are “disguised” as Pilgrims going to some mosque that just happens to be on the way to the fighting zones. Problem is, the Pilgrims in buses are being picked up between the mosque and the battle fronts.
Idiots like Pelosi and the Bamster boxed us in with their attempts to play nice with the Assad regime. Basar will be offered as the sacrificial lamb if the current power structure has any chance of surviving this one. Bottom line is the MB will be in charge of that mess as well.
So now you question why he is going to Jordan? I would hope your comment was meant as sarcasm.
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posted on
08/06/2012 12:07:17 PM PDT
by
mazda77
("Defeating the Totalitarian Lie" By: Hilmar von Campe. Everybody should read it.)
To: donozark
It hasn’t made big news yet for some reason but did you hear that Cass Sustein is leaving his post as Regulatory Zsar and going back to Harvard?
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posted on
08/06/2012 12:09:38 PM PDT
by
mazda77
("Defeating the Totalitarian Lie" By: Hilmar von Campe. Everybody should read it.)
To: mazda77
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posted on
08/06/2012 12:11:46 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Think logically. Act normally.................)
To: mazda77
Yes. Perhaps he will take more of Obi's crew back to Harvard with him? Moscow perhaps?
Just reading some blog stuff off Aljazeera...Supposedly one of Assad's gunship collapsed a building full of Iranian "pilgrims" being held by FSA. 4 dead, others wounded. Entire building "pancaked." That is what is being said. No idea if true or not. If so? Tensions have definitely been ratcheted up several notches...
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posted on
08/06/2012 12:21:12 PM PDT
by
donozark
(Follow the cigar smoke, find the fat man there.)
To: donozark
Yep, we are way beyond the excrement hitting the air transfer device.
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posted on
08/06/2012 12:32:18 PM PDT
by
mazda77
("Defeating the Totalitarian Lie" By: Hilmar von Campe. Everybody should read it.)
To: SeekAndFind
-——he urges intervention by the US in the rebellion in order to guarantee a better outcome-——
His statement is based on the fallacious assumption that US intervention could guarantee any outcome much less a better outcome.
The immediate outcome is preordained by Turkey and the GCC with Qatar and Saudi Arabia in lead roles. Jordan has undoubtedly been heard but is weak and unable to project power. There has been no outcry from Iraq and it can be presumed to be on board as well.
No one knows with certainty what will happen but those noted will not permit the worst case scenario. The purpose of the exercise is to stabilize and go forward. The purpose is not to antagonize and drift backward.
There is no desire to terminate the regional growth with an enemy in the new Syria
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posted on
08/06/2012 1:36:01 PM PDT
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Present failure and impending death yield irrational action))
To: Red Badger
RE: "Jordan? Why not Iran, their buddy?............."
Because he is a Sunni Muslim. I hardly think he would feel comfortable in Iran. Jordan is open for the most part and a safe place for him to go. And obviously next door for the exit routine.
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posted on
08/06/2012 6:33:14 PM PDT
by
Marine_Uncle
(Honor must be earned.)
To: Marine_Uncle
Good to see you’re on the ball my FRiend, he’s obviously a coward who knows his sunni co-religionists would cut his throat for being who and where he was.
That’ll teach Assad never give a sunni an even break, if you want to keep your country.
The place is overrun with ‘palestianian’ scum.
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posted on
08/06/2012 7:32:54 PM PDT
by
Fred Nerks
(Fair Dinkum!)
Click
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posted on
08/06/2012 7:41:31 PM PDT
by
RedMDer
(https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93destr)
To: Fred Nerks
Yo Fred. Hope all is well with you and yours down under. Soon you will enter spring. I'm sure that shall please your soul.
The Assad family where pretty clever over the past fifty or so years to keep things in place, as your well aware. A little allegiance, here, a little there, a lot of Soviet techniques to keep the folks in line, some minor bloody put downs from any group who dared to challenge them, went a long way to keep them in power over the years. I suspect a lot of those that reach the cream level at the top are not so Hell bent on specific differences within the various sects in Islam.
But this one is a bit of a puzzle to a small extent for me. I have to admit I know nothing about this particular guy other then what we have read over the past hours about him from different sources.
I'm sure he will be somewhat protected in Jordan. He got out alive.
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posted on
08/06/2012 7:58:57 PM PDT
by
Marine_Uncle
(Honor must be earned.)
To: Marine_Uncle
Someone identified him as a sunni. If he is, he was a man in the wrong place and at the wrong time if he thinks his co-religionists are winning. He was serving the infidel master. Alawites are infidels.
And if he’s right, woe betide the christian community in Syria.
But I can’t see the Russians allowing the ‘rebel’ scum take the country over.
Spring sprung two days ago, it’s wonderful...
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posted on
08/06/2012 8:25:38 PM PDT
by
Fred Nerks
(Fair Dinkum!)
To: Fred Nerks
RE: "But I cant see the Russians allowing the rebel scum take the country over. ......Spring sprung two days ago, its wonderful..."
Good for you folks. Hope your spring is perfect climate to your liking.
Yes Fred. I also think about the Russkie angle on things for one of their long held puppet states. As for your comments on the religious aspects, ahhheeeemmmmm Sills would use the pronoun "cult", heh heh, no problem with your comments.
Time for this old guy to sign off and hit the rack. Do have a great day. Tis midnight at this point on the globe.
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posted on
08/06/2012 9:05:14 PM PDT
by
Marine_Uncle
(Honor must be earned.)
To: Marine_Uncle
http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=58363
excerpt:
Assad is a member of the Alawite faith, an offshoot of Shi’ite Islam that has dominated Syrian politics through more than 40 years of his family’s rule in a country that has a Sunni Muslim majority. He is supported by Shi’ite Iran and by Lebanon’s armed Shi’ite Hezbollah movement.
The Sunni-ruled Muslim Gulf Arab states have called for rebels to be armed and Turkey has provided them with a base, angering Damascus and prompting Syrian state television on Sunday to refer to the rebels as a “Turkish-Gulf militia”.
It said the bodies of Turkish and Afghan fighters had been found in Aleppo, without giving details.
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posted on
08/06/2012 9:26:07 PM PDT
by
Fred Nerks
(Fair Dinkum!)
To: Tzimisce
Yes, Obama is simply carrying water for the House of Saud, Qatar, Bahrain, and the UAE in their drive to indirectly crush all threats to their troglodyte take on a ‘religion’ fused with absolute state feudalism.
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posted on
08/07/2012 2:26:35 AM PDT
by
Abiotic
(The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board)
To: Red Badger
Apparently, the Ayatollahs are POd at them for failing to crush the rebellion. They backed a losing horse, and are waiting at the finish line with a 10 guage.
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posted on
08/07/2012 2:51:27 AM PDT
by
Eleutheria5
(End the occupation. Annex today.)
To: Eleutheria5
Iran is probably playing both sides against the middle here. Whichever side wins, they will be an ally............
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posted on
08/07/2012 6:45:10 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Think logically. Act normally.................)
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