Syrian rebels threaten to target Shi'ite villages in Aleppo

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ReutersCheck wrote:

Nice job Barry. Your lack of credibility and influence in the middle east, Russia and now Europe and your corresponding lack of leadership even at home continues to cost lives while you feed your own narcissistic hunger for the appearance of political success. Shame on you. You are a coward and a sham of a President.

Jul 01, 2013 1:23am EDT  --  Report as abuse
ReutersCheck wrote:

Nice job Barry. Your lack of credibility and influence in the middle east, Russia and now Europe and your corresponding lack of leadership even at home continues to cost lives while you feed your own narcissistic hunger for the appearance of political success. Shame on you. You are a coward and a sham of a President.

Jul 01, 2013 1:23am EDT  --  Report as abuse
EMTbiker wrote:

Ever since the USS Cole and Mogadishu, every casualty of our American militaryhas been killed or wounded by a Sunni, wahabbi jihadist that has been sposored and financed by a Sunni oil prince from Qatar, Saudi arabia or Bahrain. The royal oligarchy/plutocracy of the Persian Gulf has aided these old men of the mountain of Alumet assassins. These Suni, wahabbi jihadist have kiled Shia, jews, Hindus, Christians, atheist in Mali, Nigeria, Darfur, India and throughout the world.
Is it because the decadent and indebted nations of NATO are so dependant upon the Sunni oil princes, international bankers and loans of Chinese free trade profits as a source to subsidize their Potemkin Village welfare states and appease the parasitic base of voters who feast from the tax money extorted from the productive or borrwed from these sheiks, Chinese communist leaders who lend back some of their free trade profits or the dual Israeli citizens who control most of the national banks, World Bank, IMF et al, that we are now vassals to Tel Aviv and subservient Janissaries to the Sunni-Saudi princes? Is part of the terms of buying treasuries a tacit support of these Sunni assassins and the expansion of the Sunni Caliphate and eradication of all Shia rivals like Libya and Iran?
God bless Vladimir Putin and assad for standing up against this triumvirate of evil

Jul 01, 2013 1:50am EDT  --  Report as abuse
kenradke60 wrote:

Now I am getting really POed. Hezbollah will not help madman Assad who by the way is no legitimate President Reuters. So don’t call him that which he is not. He is a cold blooded murderer and butcher turned on his own people!!! This is getting really serious now and the opposition needs to be armed to the teeth! Hezbollah will get their butts kicked and I hope Israel goes in there and puts a stop to Hezbollah. The terrorists that they are! Come on America…get that “NO FLY ZONE” deployed NOW!! This cannot and will not end in Assad gaining the upper hand. He has to fall fast and furious. He is a total nut case and he must be taken out NOW!

Jul 01, 2013 5:54am EDT  --  Report as abuse
lex_70 wrote:

kenradke60…

You sound just like Kenradke11… who also sounds just like a parrot… “who’s a pretty boy then”…. “Polly want a cracker”….

Jul 01, 2013 8:47am EDT  --  Report as abuse
July4th wrote:

We do not like Assad and that is fine but, the US and the governments of the free world must never support Muslim extremists/terrorist just to remove Assad from power. Those extremist/terrorist have an ultimate goal of, as they publicly proclaim, “slaughtering all Jews, Christians,Shiites, Buddhists and any non-Sunni religion followers including women and children to cleanse the entire world of infidels”. So, we know that if they win, they will turn their guns on us. They have done it in the past, from Afghanistan to 911, and the will do it again. Do we need another wake up call?

Jul 01, 2013 10:19am EDT  --  Report as abuse
KyleDexter wrote:

@Lex_70, I was thinking the same thing, hahahaha.

President Assad, eradicate the Saudi terrorist scum and make sure there bodies do not get buried in one piece.

Jul 01, 2013 10:45am EDT  --  Report as abuse

Great, this is just great! While Obama basks in glory and hands out Billions in Africa the rest of the world from Egypt, to Syria to Europe is melting down…..our credibility in the Middles East and Europe has been reduced to zero. Brilliant performance indeed….

Jul 01, 2013 2:30pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
Mark53 wrote:

As if the fact that the EU and US are arming the organization that killed many thousands of innocent people in the Twin Towers, and the Madrid and London bombings wasn’t strange enough, the West is siding with its evil enemy to fight against a country that has never committed any act of terrorism against the West.

Western governments, through the assistance of Western media, would have us all believe that Al Qaeda is a bit of a bolt-on in the fight against the Syrian regime: An uninvited group with their own self-interest, which is unconnected to the Syrian Free Army; that group of everyday activists portrayed almost as something of a band of merry men willing to fight the good fight for honor and justice. As anyone with even a basic understanding of Middle East issues knows, such beliefs are nothing more than foolish propaganda.

Al Qaeda was born out of Islamic fundamentalism and its roots remain tightly gripped to extreme religious beliefs that drive the blind commitment to overthrow the Assad regime, not for democracy, but to end the Alawite rule in Syria. It is impossible to believe that Western governments are unaware of these links between Al Qaeda and the rebels in Syria; and that arming these anti-government factions would be like dancing with the devil. If they truly didn’t know of these connections, then the term Western ‘Intelligence’ is a misnomer if ever there was one.

What this brings to mind is the burning question of ‘Why?’. We might never know the reasoning or aims of Western governments, but that doesn’t remove the fact that Western governments must take some responsibility for the arrival of Al Qaeda into Syria and the death of innocent people which such an act brings.

Jul 01, 2013 2:46pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
crittertron wrote:

WOW, so much for freedom from tyranny. I knew the revolution was in its death throws but to overtly threaten the civilian population it purports to be liberating is nuts. I guess the crazies really have taken over the FSA. All the real rebels disbanded last month when the government breakout could not be contained. Best thing for the West to do now is offer asylum to any rebels that ask for it because at this point Assad has no reason to bargain with them.

Jul 01, 2013 2:54pm EDT  --  Report as abuse

Once this sectarian warfare hits Saudi Arabia and Qatar — it will — and sets ablaze their oil and gas fields and refineries, then, and only then, will the Islamic world demand a halt to this religious strife.

Jul 01, 2013 3:03pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
Tolan wrote:

Don’t surrender but defend you. If you surrender you will be certainly massacred with help of US, UK and France

Jul 01, 2013 3:54pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
TastySalmon wrote:

Mark53 wrote: What this brings to mind is the burning question of ‘Why?’

We know why. It’s just people have a hard time fathoming the answer.

It has to do with getting to Iran. We all know how Israel and the puppets in the US senate and house have been pushing war with Iran for years. Syria and Iran have a mutual defense agreement to complicate issues even more.

In addition, Assad has been blocking Gulf state attempts to export LNG to Europe via a pipeline through Syria. With Saudi-backed Islamists in control of Syria, they can start construction on the pipeline.

In the end, it boils down to more money for the people who rule the corporate world if the Iranian government is destroyed. If Iran continues to be conservative with their oil extraction, they will be sitting on the largest petroleum reserves in the world in a few decades.

The Iranian government doesn’t hate us because of our freedoms, they hate us because the plutocracy has been bullying them since their revolution.

This Axis of Evil that was created had nothing to do with democracy or “freedom” as GWB told us. It has to do with the fact that every leader on that Axis of Evil was and is a major thorn in the side of our corporate masters. This is not speculation. Do the research for your self about what a pain Gaddafi (and Saddam) was to big business.

P.s. Did you notice how two of the Axis of Evil leaders are dead and a third one is at war with Al Qaeda? Yeah, strange coincidence.

Jul 01, 2013 8:34pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
jerber wrote:

The rebels are threaten the lives of these people in these villages is a great danger for children and the elderly & women
Mr. William Burns condemns Hezbollah which is good but does not condemn a Qatar, Saudi Arabia and turkey and the CIA & Jordan that’s is training and arming the terrorists, this is a very dangerous outcome

Jul 01, 2013 9:21pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
Sinbad1 wrote:

The Syrian army is 80% Sunni. This is not a religious war merely an invasion like Libya.

Jul 01, 2013 11:04pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
Sinbad1 wrote:

The Syrian army is 80% Sunni. This is not a religious war merely an invasion like Libya.

Jul 01, 2013 11:04pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
lex_70 wrote:

“Father Francois Murad, member of the Catholic Franciscan order, was publically beheaded by Syrian rebels, the Vatican news agency has confirmed. Rebels believed to be linked to the jihadist group al-Nusra Front stormed the convent in the Gassanieh area in the north of Syria and murdered the priest on June 23. Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the head of Franciscans in the area said Syria had become a battleground and decried the war as “absurd” and “shameful.”"

Jul 02, 2013 1:13am EDT  --  Report as abuse
Lowell_Thinks wrote:

At first I condemned Assad, but now I do think all these crazies are better off under an iron fist.

Jul 02, 2013 1:18am EDT  --  Report as abuse
ALALAYIIIAAAA wrote:

i was wondering why cannibals are still in the spotlight.untill the end of summer they will have been dust.

Jul 02, 2013 1:51am EDT  --  Report as abuse
 
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