Syrian Atrocities

[Crisis]

12k dead. Bashar would have stepped down if he had any shame.

[F6_Turbo]

What I've found amazing right from

Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and now Syria - all these evil, nefarious dictators, yet when things got tough....they really weren't that bad at all. Suppose that's what ruling through fear gets you, a bunch of people willing to jump ship at the 1st chance.

Bashar is doomed...doomed...doomed. I wonder if he'll get the chance to fly away with a few billion or will his dead body be paraded through the streets of Damascus?

[BANFAN]

US helps Al-Qaeda infiltrate Syrian rebels

“The evidence is mounting that Syria has become a magnet for Sunni extremists, including those operating under the banner of al-Qaeda,” the website Antiwar Website cited a New York Times report as saying.

The article attributed the escalating presence of militants in Syria over the past days to “a convergence with the sectarian tensions across the country’s long border with Iraq.”

According to chairman of the US House Intelligence Committee Rep. Mike Rogers, as many as a quarter of the many rebel groups in Syria see themselves as al-Qaeda offshoots.

The growing al-Qaeda presence seems to disturb neither Washington, nor its allies in their decision to send communication gear, military intelligence, and arms to militias in Syria.

Washington’s silence on the July 18 bombing in Damascus drew sharp criticism from Moscow, where Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov blamed the US for “directly justifying terrorism.”

“In other words, to say it in plain Russian, this means ‘we (the United States) will continue to support such terrorist acts for as long as the UN Security Council has not done what we want’,” Lavrov said on Wednesday.

US intelligence officials have revealed CIA’s chicanery in its so-called “vetting process,” which is to safeguard the aid for Syrian rebels fall into the hands of extremists.

The process involved unreliable, third-party sources and that the truth is that the US is least informed on the identity and motivations of the people receiving the money and weapons, the officials admitted.

The support for al-Qaeda and other terror cells in Syria is feared to throw the militants into power and give them a staunch stronghold if the US-led campaign managed to finally topple the Assad government.

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[PoorFan]

5 August 2012 Last updated at 14:37 GMT
Syria conflict: Photographers' UK jihadist claim considered


John Cantlie (right) and fellow photographer Jeroen Oerlemans (left) were threatened with death


Reports that Britons were among Islamist militants who kidnapped and wounded two photographers in Syria are being taken "very seriously" by ministers, the Foreign Office has said.

Jihadists - those committed to establishing an Islamic state by violent means - have started to be seen on the battlefield in Syria.

The FSA is said to be scrutinising jihadists in Syria very closely.


They are considered to be "a real threat after the Assad regime falls", a senior FSA officer told the BBC.

Mr Cantlie told BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme he and his colleague were regularly threatened with death.

"When you're held captive, you're blindfolded and you have a guy sticking a gun at your head, it's very real," he said.
"It was inferred that we would meet our God. We had sowed the seeds of our own destruction. We would be shot or beheaded.

"At one point they even started sharpening knives for a beheading. It was pretty frightening."

"They were from anywhere but Syria," he told the BBC.

"They were from Pakistan, Bangladesh, the UK and Chechnya. A real mix."

He said there were "between 10 and 15 young jihadists from the UK" who he described as being "a mixed bunch".

Some seemed "shocked at what had happened" and may have left the camp, arguing that it was not what they had come for.
Other British captors were described by him as being "vindictive".

Read in full here on BBC