Re: Hezbollah Leader Vows to Fight on Behalf of Syrian Regime
Iran’s servants, an armed ethnic party and a faction parallel to al-Qaeda were only some of the labels applied over the weekend to Hezbollah in the Arab media, days after its participation in the battle for the Syrian strategic town of Qusair, which tipped the scales in favor of the forces supporting President Bashar Assad’s regime.
“It’s a cancer that’s eating away at an already fragile region and exploits the religious civil war in heinous ways in order to help the criminal regime,” charged an editorial in Asharq Al-Awsat, an independent London based publication, typical of the tone adopted toward the Shiite terrorist group after it played a pivotal role in crushing the anti-Assad opposition in Qusair.
“The Arab street has awoken to Hezbollah’s true, ugly visage,” Al-Hayat claimed.“An organization enshrined for over three decades as resisting the occupier is but an armed ethnic group in the service of Iran.”
Asharq Al-Awsat went further, calling to declare Nasrallah a wanted criminal. Their position was echoed by Yusuf Qaradawi, a prominent Egyptian Islamic theologian, who urged all Suni Muslims to fight Assad’s regime and “the devil’s party” of Hezbollah.
Taking control of Qusair, strategically located between Damascus and the Alawite heartland near the Mediterranean, represents a major victory for regime forces. The overwhelmingly Sunni town has served as a conduit for shipments of weapons, fighters and supplies smuggled from Lebanon to the rebels inside Syria.
In addition to the sharp criticism in mainstream Arabic media, the group’s involvement in the battle for Qusair saw graffiti spray-painted against it in the southern Lebanese town of Marjayoun, where it has usually enjoyed strong support.
al awsat and qaradawi or watever his name is… can squeal all they like. The fact is..when countries like israel, US, qatar and saudi are all on your side, you know you are on the wrong.
And when they are on the opposing side you can be damn sure you are the party of God. :-).
Hezbullah and al qaeda are nothing alike. They’re not even comparable. One has an established social and political wing alongside their military wing, with support from all backgrounds, the other.. Well the less the better.
Re: Hezbollah Leader Vows to Fight on Behalf of Syrian Regime
Israel wants ‘Asad’ stay as president as well as ‘Hizbolah’ wants too. Both in fact they all trying so hard since ages to control all over the middle east and establish their own Govt with no single Sunni and for this purpose they do whatever it takes. Starting from peace march then turns into sectarian war. Promote false propaganda that they are actually in fact victims.
The head of the Shia , Hassan Nasrallah already said in a speech that Syria and Lebanon were facing a threat from radical Sunni Muslims, argued was a plot devised by the United States and its allies to serve Israel’s interests in the region.
Re: Hezbollah Leader Vows to Fight on Behalf of Syrian Regime
al awsat and qaradawi or watever his name is... can squeal all they like. The fact is..when countries like israel, US, qatar and saudi are all on your side, you know you are on the wrong.
And when they are on the opposing side you can be damn sure you are the party of God. :-).
Hezbullah and al qaeda are nothing alike. They're not even comparable. One has an established social and political wing alongside their military wing, with support from all backgrounds, the other.. Well the less the better.
Then bahrainis and even iraqis in the past should have squealed with not a word from you, right?
Disgusting and pathetic shiite pandering to bs. No wonder there is more humiliation in store for muslims in the future.
Re: Hezbollah Leader Vows to Fight on Behalf of Syrian Regime
arrogance of shia.. anyone that thinks they are friends of sunnis, think again because when the time comes they will turn on you to save their own. better to be rivals now than to be backstabbed later.
isreal should attack iran, oh wait, no shia state will be touched.. just talk. truth is zionist scum and their shia bretheren are one. both waiting for same dajjal.. i mean mahdi (hiding)
Hezbollah Leader Vows to Fight on Behalf of Syrian Regime
Wow. So now israel are supporting assad, and their arch enemy hizbullah?
Fresh of the israeli press:
The Syrian War: Israel and U.S. Coordinating How to Target Assad’s Arsenal
By Karl VickJune 14, 2013
52 days after an Israeli general publicly declared that Syria has used chemical weapons against rebels, the Obama administration reached the same conclusion, and used the finding to justify announcing it would send small arms to the side of the victims. “I will not say ‘We told you so,’ only, okay, the proof is there, so there’s no more question about it,” says Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor, taking with a smile the easy part of the equation now laid before Israel. As for the hard part: “Now, what should be done? It’s not for Israel to say, because the international involvement in this should not include Israel. Israel follows very closely developments there. It’s very concerned about activity on its borders. But we’re not aspiring to be involved in any action about what’s happening in Syria.”
**In fact, of course, Israel is closely involved already, and in more ways than they are acknowledged publicly. Israeli military officials tell TIME that American intelligence had the same information that Brig. Gen. Itai Brun cited in his April 23 presentation to a public conference – video footage showing victims foaming at the mouth, and other indicators that made it clear that sarin had been used on the battlefield more than once. “We are sharing,” one Israeli intelligence official said at the time. “We have our cards on the table with the Americans for a long time. They’ve had all this information.”
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Though the speech embarrassed President Obama, who had repeatedly called use of chemical weapons “a game changer” in his Syria policy, it was officially inadvertent. No one in Israel’s political echelon knew of Brun’s remarks in advance, and officials from both countries spent several days publicly repairing the impression that Israel was trying to force Obama to intervene. At an operational level, cooperation between the two countries has been exceptionally close — and growing closer as Washington publicly ramps up its military involvement in the Syrian conflict.
“Things are happening behind the scenes,” says one Israeli official. “Things are really happening.”
Earlier this month, the Pentagon announced it was sending F-16s and Patriot missile batteries to Jordan, ostensibly for an exercise (“Eager Lion”), but which would remain in the Hashemite Kingdom afterward.
“It’s a clear, purposeful, presence of a strike force near the border of Syria,” the Israeli official noted. “I think it’s a message, a clear message.” The message is also meant to be legible to Iran, which is arming Syria and the Lebanese militia Hizballah by air, as well as testing the resolve of Western powers who threaten to strike its nuclear program. “It’s only a short leap to the Gulf,” the official said.
**Patriot batteries went into Turkey last year, under the banner of NATO. And the chief of Mossad, Israel’s overseas intelligence agency, traveled to Ankara this week to meet with Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization, known by its Turkish initials MIT. As opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad organize themselves to assist the rebels opposing him, Israel feels obliged to lay low. **Though closely aligned with Washington, and maintaining diplomatic relations with Jerusalem, countries like Jordan and Turkey have majority Muslim populations who would not welcome overt military cooperation with Israel. “If this is to hold water, this cannot involve Israel,” the Israeli official said.
Behind the scenes, however, Israeli and U.S. military officials are coordinating how to target and destroy Assad’s arsenal of unconventional weapons under assorted scenarios, Israeli military and intelligence officials tell TIME. One scenario would be the sudden removal of Assad from the scene, be it by flight, death or if he simply disappears. That would prompt the allies to launch operations on the estimated 18 depots and other sites where WMDs are stored, the officials said. Search and destroy operations would also be launched if the weapons appeared to be about to fall into the hands of the rebels, which include Islamist extremists aligned with al-Qaeda.
The Israeli officials emphasized that it had not been decided whether both Israeli and U.S. forces would act, or who would do what. But the U.S. plans called for deploying forces on the ground as well as waves of airstrikes, to assure that the chemical and biological components are neutralized, according to the Israeli officials.
Israel already has struck by air inside Syria three times this year, targeting advanced weapons systems such as anti-aircraft batteries and highly accurate Russian-made missiles that officials said were being transferred to Hizballah, something Israeli officials repeatedly had warned would prompt discreet, surgical action intended only to safeguard its military advantage over the Lebanese militia, which is sponsored by Iran and supported by Syria (where Hizballah recently sent troops to help Assad).
“The main arms of concern to us are the arms that are already in Syria — these are anti-aircraft weapons, these are chemical weapons and other very, very dangerous weapons that could be game changers,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the BBC in April, in remarks the Israeli foreign ministry said remained operative in the wake of Obama’s decision to arm the rebels. “They will change the conditions, the balance of power in the Middle East. They could present a terrorist threat on a worldwide scale. It is definitely our interest to defend ourselves, but we also think it is in the interest of other countries.”
Aaron J. Klein contributed reporting from Tel Aviv
Then bahrainis and even iraqis in the past should have squealed with not a word from you, right?
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The syrian public are not the same as fsa or alqaeda. The majority are ether neutral or pro assad whereas the bulk of these militias are foreigners.
The bahrainis have not taken up arms, even though iran can easily arm them. Neither did the iraqis, when americans promised to arm if they rose up against Saddam. They knew that if they did, it will be the average bahraini/iraqi public that will bear the brunt of a civil war. That is the difference. Shame the fsa doesnt have the same principles. They dont represent the syrian public in any way or form.
One FSA commander gave an interview to Israeli newspaper last year, asking for their support to remove assad, in return for 'reward', possibly a norm of relationships. Desperate times...
Re: Hezbollah Leader Vows to Fight on Behalf of Syrian Regime
^ Déjà vu? Roll the time back – 2003? We have been here before – Remember Iraq under Sadaam Hussein?
The West and the Zionists created/trapped him to be a monster. Any Shia leader worth his salt was lining up to support/assist the West and the Zionists to get rid the monster Sadaam Hussein.
Likes of Chalabis and Allawis and hundreds of others were ready and willing to manufacture any evidence to stick to Sadaam to nail him. All the ayatullahs were tacitly cahoots in this nefarious game.
In Sadaam’s time it was “weapons of mass destruction”
Now Bashar Assad has the Sarin.
A good case will be made and the plans that were put in action will be implemented.
Now sit back and watch how the things unfold - Bashar Assad is an marked man.
Iraq has been sent 60 years and so shall be Syria - Israels borders more secure.
Disunity among the Muslims – and pursuit of self interest will subjugate them further.
Another batch of leaked files obtained by Al Arabiya were related to the Syrian regime’s secret relations to Israel.
Officially, the two states are at war; particularly since Israel is still occupying the Syrian Golan Heights. On April 3, 2011, less than one month after the beginning of the popular uprising in Syria, the Chief of the Syrian Air Force Intelligence, Sakr Mennoun, sent a written order to Col. Suheil Hassan to head to the Syrian-Israeli borders and ensure the safety of the frontiers. Mannoun requests from Hassan to secure the borders “in cooperation with the state of Israel.”
In another leaked document, also obtained by Al Arabiya; an order sent from the Syrian Presidential Palace and signed by the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service; Maj. Gen. Bassam Marhej discusses the detection of an “administrative error.”
The error, which apparently is a leak of secret documents, was discovered by the Joint Command (Syria-Iran-Russia) in cooperation with the Syrian embassy in Moscow. The supposed “error” was likely related to information about Syria’s chemical weapons stockpiles. According to Marhej – and following the discovery of the “error” – Syrian President Assad issued orders prohibiting writing reference numbers and/or dates on secret official documents.
In a highly-classified – but undated – document sent from Iran, Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force, a division of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), addressed President Assad directly, affirming that the chemical warheads are ready to be relocated.
If you really care and have sympathies for Syrian pplz. Visit the below website and see who is brutality killing whom.
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^ Déjà vu? Roll the time back – 2003? We have been here before – Remember Iraq under Sadaam Hussein?
The West and the Zionists created/trapped him to be a monster. Any Shia leader worth his salt was lining up to support/assist the West and the Zionists to get rid the monster Sadaam Hussein.
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Err no. Read my previous post, they offered to arm the shias if they agreed to rise up against saddam. They point blank refused, unlike the fsa. So no, its not exactly de ja vu.
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Likes of Chalabis and Allawis and hundreds of others were ready and willing to manufacture any evidence to stick to Sadaam to nail him. All the ayatullahs were tacitly cahoots in this nefarious game.
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Chalabi and ayaad allawi were seen as western agents by the shias, hence when chalabi tried to enter a shrine, he was attacked with shoes. They knew they were puppets put forward by the west..
The true leader was seyed sistani who hardly was involved in politics; and ayatullah as sadr, who was then conveniently murdered.
Seyed sistani was single handedly responsible for preventing the shias from responding to the daily attacks on them, to the extent that some turned against him.
He called muqtada sadr 'a misguided son' when he rose up to fight, and eventually subdued him into politics. He refused to meet wolfwitz, despite several attempts to meet them. So to say they were in cahoots is deception to the core.
Sistani could turn the crowds out and in, like turning taps, and he could have caused a civil war, but he resisted because he has principles, and promoted the shia/sunni unity line...Unlike qardawi and co giving fatwas against shias, and exposing their sectarian mindset. This sectarian thing is quite one sided and belies a bigoted mindset from the beginning.
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In Sadaam’s time it was “weapons of mass destruction”
Now Bashar Assad has the Sarin.
A good case will be made and the plans that were put in action will be implemented.
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so you agree they're making up? But because it suits your cause its fine? Heres the difference between the sunni mindset and shia; the sunnis are egging the invasion and civil war on, despite knowing the syrian public will suffer the most. But all they seem to care about is removing assad and grabbing power for themselves, regardless of the cost to human
The shias on the other hand, despite knowing saddams treatment of iraqis, still stood against the invasion, and refused to fight against saddam.
Not many shias were supporting the war, our centres organised and attended back to back anti war demos, and protested ferociously; why? Because we knew 1. They were lying, 2. the destruction it will leave in its wake, and 3. the toll on the average iraqi, was simply not worth the price.
So de ja vu.?. I bloody think not. Lack of moral principles on sunni leaders more like it.
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Now sit back and watch how the things unfold - Bashar Assad is an marked man.
Iraq has been sent 60 years and so shall be Syria - Israels borders more secure.
Disunity among the Muslims – and pursuit of self interest will subjugate them further.
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Bashar may go or stay, thats beside the point. He is a proxy target to aim for iran and and hezbullah. But when you find israel on your side, you should def start to worry. Because its not all about this world is it?
Re: Hezbollah Leader Vows to Fight on Behalf of Syrian Regime
arrogance of shia.. anyone that thinks they are friends of sunnis, think again because when the time comes they will turn on you to save their own. better to be rivals now than to be backstabbed later.
Problem is not between shia and sunni as much as it is between Wahhabis and non-Wahhabis (which includes sunnis and shias).
Wahhabis have the habit of hiding behind the name of Sunnis.
Re: Hezbollah Leader Vows to Fight on Behalf of Syrian Regime
Iraq, Syria … WMD, chemical weapons.
Looks like another lie from Zionist States of America.
Proof of Syria’s chemical weapons’ use sketchy | Nation & World | The Seattle Times
Some chemical-weapons experts said that while they were willing to give the U.S. intelligence community the benefit of the doubt about Syria’s use of sarin, the Obama administration has yet to offer details of what evidence it has and how it obtained it.
WASHINGTON — Chemical-weapons experts voiced skepticism Friday about U.S. claims that the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad had used the nerve agent sarin against rebels on at least four occasions this spring, saying that while the use of such a weapons is possible, they’ve yet to see the telltale signs of a sarin attack, despite months of scrutiny.
“It’s not unlike Sherlock Holmes and the dog that didn’t bark,” said Jean Pascal Zanders, a leading expert on chemical weapons who until recently was a senior research fellow at the European Union’s Institute for Security Studies. “It’s not just that we can’t prove a sarin attack; it’s that we’re not seeing what we would expect to see from a sarin attack.”
Foremost among those missing items, Zanders said, are cellphone photos and videos of the attacks or the immediate aftermath.
“In a world where even the secret execution of Saddam Hussein was taped by someone, it doesn’t make sense that we don’t see videos, that we don’t see photos, showing bodies of the dead, and the reddened faces and the bluish extremities of the affected,” he said.
Other experts said that while they were willing to give the U.S. intelligence community the benefit of the doubt, the Obama administration has yet to offer details of what evidence it has and how it obtained it.
White House foreign-policy adviser Benjamin Rhodes gave dates and places for the alleged attacks — March 19 in the Aleppo suburb of Khan al-Assal; April 13 in the Aleppo neighborhood of Shaykh Maqsud; May 14 in Qasr Abu Samrah in Homs province, and May 23 in Adra, east of Damascus.
But he provided no details of the fighting that was taking place or the number of dead. The administration said its conclusion about the chemical-weapons use, based on analysis of evidence gathered by several countries, led to a decision to begin supplying weapons to the rebels.
“Ultimately, without more information, we are left with the need to trust the integrity of the U.S. intelligence community in arriving at its ‘high-confidence’ judgment,” Greg Thielmann, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Arms Control Association, said in an email.
While he said that “My guess is they have it right,” he also noted that the White House statement was “carefully … worded” and acknowledged the lack of a “continuous chain of custody for the physiological samples from those exposed to sarin.”
“It does not eliminate all doubt in my mind,” he said.
Evidence falls short
The administration’s chemical-weapons claims also encountered skepticism at the United Nations, where the U.N. secretary-general and the Russian ambassador said the evidence falls short.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned against a rush to arm the Syrian rebels. “There is no military solution to this conflict, even if both the government and the opposition, and their supporters, think there can be,” he said. “The military path points directly toward the disintegration of the country.”
Ban said he appreciated the willingness of the United States, Britain, France and other governments to provide evidence to a U.N. team investigating the possible use of chemical weapons in Syria. But he cautioned, “Any information on the alleged use of chemical weapons cannot be ensured without convincing evidence of the chain of custody.”
He said collecting the necessary proof would require the Syrian government to permit the U.N. chemical-weapons team access to suspected sites inside the country, something Assad has refused to do.
Russia’s U.N. ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, said: “The contacts we have with American experts did not convince our experts that, in fact, the information which was presented was convincing enough to come to a definitive conclusion that government forces used chemical weapons.”
Analysts suggested the effort to prove the use of sarin is more difficult because of the false claims about weapons of mass destruction used by the United States and Britain to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Philip Coyle, a senior scientist at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation in Washington, D.C., said that without hard, public evidence, it’s difficult for experts to assess the validity of the administration’s statement. He added that from what is known, what happened doesn’t look like a series of sarin attacks to him.
“Without blood samples, it’s hard to know,” he said.
Even a proponent of the United States providing military assistance to the rebels raised doubts about the possible motive for announcing the chemical-weapons conclusion.
In an argument for U.S. involvement in Syria, Anthony Cordesman, a security expert at the Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington, wrote Friday that “The ‘discovery’ that Syria used chemical weapons might be a political ploy.” The phrase was in an article that described strong strategic and humanitarian reasons for involvement in the crisis, particularly the recent involvement of the Lebanese group Hezbollah on the side of Assad.
Chemical trigger
Chemical weapons have been a focus of discussion in Syria since August 2012, when President Obama said the use of such weapons was a “red line” that would trigger possible U.S. military involvement. Since then, rebels have reported the likely use of chemical agents on dozens of occasions with varying degrees of credibility.
Only one detailed independent report of a chemical attack has surfaced in that time: a lengthy report in the French newspaper Le Monde last month that triggered French and British letters to the United Nations.
Zanders, the chemical-weapons expert, however, said much about that report bears questioning. Photos and a video accompanying the report showed rebel fighters preparing for chemical attacks by wearing gas masks. Sarin is absorbed through the skin, and even small amounts can kill within minutes.
He also expressed skepticism about the article’s description of the lengthy route victims of chemical attacks had to travel to get to treatment, winding through holes in buildings, down streets under heavy fire, before arriving at remote buildings hiding hospitals.
Zanders, who also has headed the Chemical and Biological Warfare Project at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and was director of the Geneva-based BioWeapons Prevention Project, noted that had sarin been the chemical agent in use, the victims would have been dead long before they reached doctors for treatment.
Zanders also said he’s skeptical of sarin use because there have been no reports of medical personnel or rescuers dying from contact with victims.
Residue from sarin gas would be expected to linger on victims and would infect those helping, who often are shown in rebel video wearing no more protection than paper masks.
Le Monde reported that one doctor treated a victim with atropine, which is appropriate for sarin poisoning. But that doctor said he gave his patient 15 shots of atropine in quick succession, which Zanders said could have killed him almost as surely as sarin. Material from The Washington Post is included in this report.
“The validity of any information on the alleged use of chemical weapons cannot be ensured,” Ban said. “Our goal remains a fully independent and impartial inquiry.”
UN investigators have yet to gain access to sites where chemical attacks are suspected to have taken place.
THE international reaction to US assertions that the Syrian government used chemical weapons has ranged from flat-out disbelief of the US intelligence assessments to calls for negotiation before more weapons pour into the conflict.
Chemical weapons experts say they’ve yet to see the telltale signs of a sarin gas attack, despite months of scrutiny.
‘‘It’s not just that we can’t prove a sarin attack; it’s that we’re not seeing what we would expect to see from a sarin attack,’’ said
Jean Pascal Zanders, a leading expert on chemical weapons who until recently was a senior research fellow at the European Union’s Institute for Security Studies.
Foremost among those missing items, Zanders said, were mobile phone photos and videos of the attacks or the immediate aftermath.
Philip Coyle, a senior scientist at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation in Washington DC, said that without hard, public evidence, it was difficult for experts to assess the validity of the administration’s statement.
Re: Hezbollah Leader Vows to Fight on Behalf of Syrian Regime
When Americans decided that they wanted Sadaam out the plan was set in motion.
They did not need the Shias. Shias never rose up against Sadaam because he never was not a sectarian – He was a tyrant and was against any who opposed him. Shias Sunnis Arabs Kurds suffered at his hands.
Many Shias had prominent positions with Sadaam.
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‘Lies’ About Saddam’s Oppression of the Shia**
by Muhammad al-Baghdadi - Translated by Muhammad Abu Nasr
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We have heard a lot about how the Shi’ah were supposedly oppressed in the time when the Arab Socialist Baath Party ruled Iraq. We’ve heard about how they were supposedly not treated equally with other Iraqis.
In fact, however, these are nothing but lies fabricated as part of a psychological warfare propaganda campaign aimed at Iraqi citizens - a campaign waged by the US military and its experts in psychological warfare in order to pave the way for their occupation of Iraq.
We don’t plan to delve into the details or goals of that sinister campaign here. Instead we hope to briefly respond to some of the claims they make.
I’ll begin with myself. I come from a Shi’i background, which is to say that my father is a scion of a Shi’i family.*
Chalabi, Allawi and likes of them were very close to ‘West’ and Zionists and held important positions post Sadaam Hussein. Whether they were liked or not by the average Shia in the street it mattered not. These American cahoots (puppets as you said) implemented American agenda which was geared mostly against the Sunnis.
Americans like any conquerors played the ‘Divide and Rule’ policy well with Shias on the American camp.
True leader??? How can one lead when not involved in politics?
Sistani may a good spiritual leader – full stop.
It was not sistani who made muqtada tow the line but it was the Americans to attacked muqtada’s mahdi army and routed them and muqtada had to escape to Iran for refuge.
He may have refused to meet with wolfwitz but his representatives did meet him. (I am implying that he had initiated it)
Re: Hezbollah Leader Vows to Fight on Behalf of Syrian Regime
You cannot compare the two situations here. Iraq was invaded from outside. Americans were pursuing policy of ‘divide and rule’. So Sistani advised Sunni/Shia unity. This has failed miserably and Iraq now is a divide country.
Qaradawi fatwa was issued only when Hezbollah entered into the fray joining hands with Bashar Assad against the Sunnis.
Prior to this he was in praise Hassan Nasrallah and Hezbollah – So it has nothing to do with bigoted mindset.
Not really because I don’t have the facts and the action is not beyond the likes of Bashar Assad.
If Bashar Assad can deploy the notorious Sabihas whose raison d’être is to kill, rape and plunder Sunni villages and towns – nothing is beyond him
The West will exploit this may be one-off incident and tighten the noose around Bashar Assad and will encourage the sectarian division in Syria just as they have succeeded in Iraq.
Iran and Hezbollah siding with Bashar Assad has made American/Zionist dream come true.
Sunnis want to live free from Alawi rule – Just as much ayatollah Khomeini wanted to live free from Shah’s rule. He too knew that the in the mayhem the public will suffer the most – price will have to be paid.
Iran and Hezbollah don’t care for human suffering – they are aiding and arming a tyrant.
Agreed many shias were not supporting the war – but the majority were. But once Saddam’s statue was pulled down – shia support was 100%
I have a lot of very good Iraqi shia friends. I do discuss a lot with them. But many nostalgically remember Sadaam’s time.
Bashar days are numbered – Alawite Syria will be no more.
The Syrian conflict was part of Arab spring – The people were protesting peacefully against Social injustice, corruption, nepotism and the over the top reaction from the tyrannical state made the matters worse.
Iran support for Bashar Assad the tyrant has been very negative. Instead of supporting the oppressed people Iran backed the tyrant against the majority.
Hezbollah towed the Iranian line thus lost all the reverence it had in many Sunni/Arab countries as a bulwark against the Zionist regime of Israel. -
Iran and Hezbollah have fallen into a sectarian trap.
Israel is an opportunist country – It will poke its nose in all the conflicts – Israeli/Zionist were in the forefront in the war against Saddam. Just as they didn’t get anything from Shias of Iraq; they will reap nothing but sorrow from Syria conflict.
Iran and Hezbollah have been the bad boys – not for you. For overwhelming number of Syrians –“Yes”
Re: Hezbollah Leader Vows to Fight on Behalf of Syrian Regime
Assad or Qaeda?
While foreigners (inc. some Pakistanis here) are wooing for a Qaeda victory, Syrian people know what it is like to live under the khariji cult, who has hijacked Islam.
Syria’s population is majority Sunnis, and 70% Syrians now support Assad over Qaeda-backed rebels. Support for rebels is only 10%.
Obviously, Syrians know what is best for them. But foreigners filled with sectarian-hatred want to stoke the flames of war at the expense of Syrian people.
LONDON — After two years of civil war, support for the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad was said to have sharply increased.
NATO has been studying data that told of a sharp rise in support for Assad. The data, compiled by Western-sponsored activists and organizations, showed that a majority of Syrians were alarmed by the Al Qaida takeover of the Sunni revolt and preferred to return to Assad, Middle East Newsline reported.
“The people are sick of the war and hate the jihadists more than Assad,” a Western source familiar with the data said. “Assad is winning the war mostly because the people are cooperating with him against the rebels.” The data, relayed to NATO over the last month, asserted that 70 percent of Syrians support the Assad regime. Another 20 percent were deemed neutral and the remaining 10 percent expressed support for the rebels.
A report to NATO said Syrians have undergone a change of heart over the last six months. The change was seen most in the majority Sunni community, which was long thought to have supported the revolt.
The sources said no formal polling was taken in Syria, racked by two years of civil war in which 90,000 people were reported killed. They said the data came from a range of activists and independent organizations that were working in Syria, particularly in relief efforts.
“The Sunnis have no love for Assad, but the great majority of the community is withdrawing from the revolt,” the source said. “What is left is the foreign fighters who are sponsored by Qatar and Saudi Arabia. They are seen by the Sunnis as far worse than Assad.”
Interesting thing is that America was attacked by Saudi members of Qaeda. It was not Iran, or Syria, or Hezbollah who did that. American people know that and this is why overwhelming majority of Americans what their government to stay out of this conflict. But obviously Zionist grip over American government is so strong that they will do absolutely anything that their Zionist masters in Israel would say. And in that sense, Syria’s rebels and Qaeda are supported by Zionist government of Israel. Ironic. Ironic.
