Posted on 08/07/2013 1:08:28 PM PDT by Cronos
The Syrian Army attacked a large group of antigovernment insurgents near the capital, Damascus, on Wednesday, killing more than 60, according to monitors and state media.
The rebels killed near Damascus belonged to the Nusra Front, and some were foreigners, SANA said. It published a series of photographs showing bloodstained bodies in olive drab uniforms lying on what seemed to be open sandy, desert ground. The Nusra Front is an extremist group that the United States has designated a terrorist organization.
In recent months, government forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have been seeking to clear areas around Damascus of rebels threatening the capital, the center of Mr. Assad’s power.
..Mohammed Saeed, an activist based near Damascus, told The Associated Press that 65 rebels were walking along what they thought was a secure, hidden road.
“The regime forces riddled them with heavy machine-gun fire,” Mr. Saeed said, speaking via Skype, The A.P. reported. “It seems that the regime discovered the secret road that the rebels were using.”
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Loyalist 1: Are those rebels?
Loyalist 2: For sure.
Loyalist 1: How can you tell?
Loyalist 2: See the way they walk down the street.
Watch the way they shuffle their feet.
One of the other rebel groups might have informed on them
An amazing bit of investigative reporting.
Clearly the NYT is at the TOP of Their Game!
Because roads are always secret things.
Again, another rebel faction probably informed on them.
TTIWWP
Just because the rebels are supported by terrorists doesn't mean that Obama won't support them.
Assad is not our friend.
It is quite probable some if not most of the rebels are worse, but that doesn’t make him a good guy.
Kind of like the conflict between Stalin and Trotsky.
It was indeed a trap!
Bad guys killing each other is a good thing.
Do you think NSA outed their “secret road”?
Excellent point. So many people think too highly of Trotsky ... Stalin just got to him before Trotsky got to Stalin. There is and never was a “good” communist.
Except when one of the bad guys wins and takes over all the resources of a country and aims them at us.
Here they come, just a walkin’ down the street
Singing doo wah diddy diddy dum diddy dum
Snappin’ their fingers and shufflin’ their feet ...
And then the heavy machine gunfire. Adios muchachos.
In fact a small TV station in Georgia (a nation) has a kind of reality show about it.
They are hanging around Syrian troops, attaching cameras on their armor, posting videos taken by rebels who filmed their own deaths in process of recording attempted ambushes on government troops.
From their show it really looks like a rebels are a bunch of gangsters and they are getting killed at a high rate like rabbits.
They have they channel on youtube: “newsanna”.
Possible new TV reality show for NBC in the making. :>)
If Trotsky won, then all of Western Europe including the UK would be communist in 1921.
But this case differs from the above -- T v/s S was a winner take all
When Assad wins, he's still going to have to constantly watch his back PLUS, he now knows that the rest of the "Arab League" openly hates him, so he'll split that and tag-team with IRaq. That leaves him as one dictator who has to constantly focus on keeping his Sunnis down AND it makes for a constant antagonism between the Iran-Iraq-Syria axis v/s the SAudi-Qatar-Turkey-Pakistan team
Assad winning is better than the jihadis winning and is better than Assad in 2008 -- he's weaker and will remain so and will also be constantly fighting internally and with the other Arabs.
A very real nightmare scenario could be Trotsky taking over all of Europe + the UK (during the 1920 battle of Warsaw, the dock-workers and other workers in England stopped work, refusing to ship aid to the Poles under the slogan "Poland, keep your hands off Russia")
and then he would have hit China and much of Asia
Trotsky was the one who SAVED the Bolsheviks during the Russian civil war -- the Bolshies had first undermined the Army by getting soldiers to kill their commanders, but Trotsky managed to pull off an incredible feat (and again, I recommend Zamoyski's book, it's short, but his words are superbly concise)
If the jihadis win on the other hand, then yes, it is a training ground for them
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