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Dit dus. Hoe kan je uberhaubt de grondwet aanvoeren als tegenargument zoals killfrenzy, de grondwet kan immers aangepast worden. Iets dat volgens mij precies de bedoeling is van de Sharia.quote:Op woensdag 8 februari 2012 16:23 schreef Aloulou het volgende:
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Egypte is een "half" voorbeeld omdat de SCAF gewoon nog regeert. Niettemin is het verlies van Mubarak voor de Westerse politiek in het Midden-Oosten direct te merken. Hamas en Fatah zijn bezig met een verzoening die als Mubarak er had gezeten nooit was geweest. Nu de Moslimbroeders in Egypte zitten heeft Hamas weer een vriend in Egypte en dat is op verschillende manieren te merken, al direct na het vertrek van Mubarak overigens. Voor het Westen had het veel idealer geweest als Mubarak er nog zat, was het lekker rustig ipv nu elke keer ellende, een "partner for peace" die ook walgt van de boze Islamistische wolven en daarnaast netjes Gaza afsloot als Israel er weer eens ging bulldozeren, en zo afentoe ook netjes wees op het gevaar van Iran in het Midden-Oosten. Idealer dan dit krijgt men het niet.
Daarnaast is de grondwet en herziening ervan door het Egyptische parlement pas net begonnen. Je kan er op dit moment nog geen conclusie eraan verbinden. In Tunesie is dat ook pas net begonnen. In Libie moet dat nog beginnen nadat er eerst verkiezingen zijn gehouden. Maar het mag duidelijk zijn dat met meer invloed van Islamitische partijen na democratische verkiezingen diezelfde grondwet op bepaalde punten er ook anders uit gaat zien dan dat was onder een Mubarak, Ben Ali of Khadafi. Die allen seculier waren. Ook weer iets wat het Westen liever anders zou zien en een tegenargument voor diegenen die geloven dat het Westen de initiator is achter deze revoluties en er beter op worden.
Wat heeft die arme man er mee te makenquote:
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الله يحرق ابوك يابشاااااااااااار
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And remember, respect is everything!
Wou net zeggen...
Ik volg niet Syri niet echt op de voet, maar hoe zit het nou met de opstanden? Zijn deze verspreid over Syri? Ik zie alleen Baba Amr, Homs en Hama voorbijkomen. Hoe is het in Damascus?
Ik volg niet Syri niet echt op de voet, maar hoe zit het nou met de opstanden? Zijn deze verspreid over Syri? Ik zie alleen Baba Amr, Homs en Hama voorbijkomen. Hoe is het in Damascus?
Asma - de first lady van Syri en zelf een soenniet uit Homs - zou nu een e-mail naar the Times gestuurd hebben, waarin ze haar man als president van alle Syrirs omschrijft:
http://www.huffingtonpost(...)1260093.html#s671126
http://www.huffingtonpost(...)1260093.html#s671126
Zelfbehoud. Ik verwacht sowieso niet veel van vrouwen van dictators.quote:
Asma - de first lady van Syri en zelf een soenniet uit Homs - zou nu een e-mail naar the Times gestuurd hebben, waarin ze haar man als president van alle Syrirs omschrijft:
http://www.huffingtonpost(...)1260093.html#s671126
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The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
Latakia vandaag ook weer, Deir Ezzour, Daraa, Zabadani, Aleppo ook protesten vandaag van vrouwen, Idlib al veel langer hevig bezig, Banyas en noem maar op. Dan heb je inclusief de steden die jij al noemt bijna alle belangrijke en grotere steden wel gehad van Syrie.quote:
Wou net zeggen...
Ik volg niet Syri niet echt op de voet, maar hoe zit het nou met de opstanden? Zijn deze verspreid over Syri? Ik zie alleen Baba Amr, Homs en Hama voorbijkomen. Hoe is het in Damascus?
Interessante facebookpagina's met het laatste nieuws en updates uit Syrie:
Engelstalig: http://www.facebook.com/SyrianDayOfRage
Engelstalig: http://www.facebook.com/ShaamNewsNetwork
Arabisch: http://www.facebook.com/ShaamNews
Arabisch: http://www.facebook.com/dsr.15march?ref=pb
Gevangen Assad soldaten in Idlib vandaag door FSA:
Recente reportage over FSA in Idlib, waar ze blijkbaar ook hevig standhouden:
Meer soldaten lopen over, in Idlib weer:
Zabadani het stadje dat al circa 3 weken in handen is van het FSA en het verdedigd tegen het Syrische leger.quote:Battalion from the Republican Guard defects between Barda River & #Zabadani. The #Assad army is now negotiating with them. #Syria
Meer gedetailleerde info over Homs vandaag:
Als laatste verwacht men nadat bepaalde buurten van Homs eerst dagen met artillerie is beschoten vervolgens militairen huis tot huis de buurt afgaan. "The situation in the city is getting worse, as neighborhoods are surrounded and people are worried that the military will move in any day now. In this exclusive report, Jane Ferguson, who has recently been in Homs for Al Jazeera, says there is a real sense that the city is on the verge of a major human catastrophe":quote:#SNN | Syria
Syrian Revolution General Commission\ Media Section\ Evening Summary
The series of events since this morning until this moment
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Homs | Urgent:
Homs continues to be massacred by the regime.
Alkhalidiye and Albayada: Shelling of the districts continues, and military helicopters are flying low over the districts. Heavy machine guns are being used to fire at homes and explosions are being heard all around the district.
Baba Amro: Shells are mortars are being launched at the dormitories in the district, and helicopters are also flying very low over this district. The shelling has been so severe that it is reaching neighboring districts in Homs. All telecommunications and Internet services are disconnected in Homs and its suburbs completely.
AlQahira Street: Four people were killed due to the heavy and continuous shelling, three of them men and one woman. One of them has been identified, and his name is Umar Ana’san, 73 years of age.
Asabeel District: Three families were stabbed to death by regime-sponsored gangs. Eight were killed from Aturkawee family, 6 were killed from the Mheiney family, and five from the Azamel family.
Five bodies of babies killed when the regime’s forces cut off electricity to the Alwaleed Hospital were given to their families today. Eighteen total were killed because the electricity supporting their incubators was cut off by the regime.
Karam Azeitoun: A young boy was killed and his brother was wounded by snipers.
This is the brutality which is occurring in Homs…and there are entire districts from which there is no news due to the regime’s siege and disconnection of all lines of communication between these districts and the rest of the world. No one is able to leave or enter those districts.
Live feed of the atrocities from Baba Amro:
http://bambuser.com/channel/baba-omer/broadcast/2351043
Homs| Al-Inshaat:
The humanitarian condition is in total disaster; all means of communication is disconnected in addition to power outage since the beginning of the operation carried on Baba ‘Amro. There is no fuel which is used in heating and the weather is extremely cold. All Streets in Al-Inshaat neighborhood are filled with tanks and armored vehicles in addition to fully armed troops spread in the area.
As the tanks were entering the city they smashed many parked cars at the entrance of the neighborhood and they broke into the shops steeling what is in it.
Food and basic food such as milk, bread, baby formula and daily basic necessities are lacking especially that residents are not allow to leave the neighborhood and no one is allowed in. And a curfew in enforced.
The Shabeeha (regime sponsored gangs) raided many homes and brutally destroyed the property including furniture in a very intimidating way to upset the tenants.
Some Mosques didn’t even establish the daily prayer due to the fact that the security forces are besieging them. The Army and security forces are trying their best to invent way to terrorize the residents such as opening sudden random gunfire and throwing sound bomb to scare the children especially at night to prevent them from sleeping.
Homs| Al-Khalideyyah:
Heavy shelling is ongoing once more on Al-Khalideyyah, Al-Bayadhah shaking the buildings and breaking the windows.
Homs| Baba ‘Amro:
A 4 years old girl was killed due to sell bombardment on her home.
Homs| Wadi Khalid Al-Hudoodi:
The army and intelligence Air force forces entered Lebanon territory and kidnapped two refugees from Homs who fled from Homs to Lebanon; Muhammad Abdul Qadir and Mahmood Abdul- Al-Kari
The Syrian Revolution General Committee accuses the Hezbollah with allowing such incident to happen with coordinating with the Syrian regime for such operation and we do place this responsibility of such action which is repeated itself. So, with that we place this legal, humanitarian and ethical responsibility on the Lebanese government for assisting the Assad regime in its carried crime and failing the help of the refugees and in particular the ones they were kidnapped today and with that we consider them along with Hezbollah and the Syrian Regime partners in all crimes which the Syrian people are going under .
http://www.facebook.com/ShaamNewsNetwork/posts/366167653394605
[ Bericht 5% gewijzigd door Aloulou op 08-02-2012 21:40:49 ]
Oorlog is de verderzetting van de politiek maar met andere middelen - Clausewitz
Op grotere schaal dan ik dacht dus. Thanks voor de update.quote:
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Latakia vandaag ook weer, Deir Ezzour, Daraa, Zabadani, Aleppo ook protesten vandaag van vrouwen, Idlib al veel langer hevig bezig, Banyas en noem maar op. Dan heb je inclusief de steden die jij al noemt bijna alle belangrijke en grotere steden wel gehad van Syrie.
Interessante facebookpagina's met het laatste nieuws en updates uit Syrie:
Engelstalig: http://www.facebook.com/SyrianDayOfRage
Engelstalig: http://www.facebook.com/ShaamNewsNetwork
Arabisch: http://www.facebook.com/ShaamNews
Arabisch: http://www.facebook.com/dsr.15march?ref=pb
Gevangen Assad soldaten in Idlib vandaag door FSA:
Recente reportage over FSA in Idlib, waar ze blijkbaar ook hevig standhouden:
Meer soldaten lopen over, in Idlib weer:
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Zabadani het stadje dat al circa 3 weken in handen is van het FSA en het verdedigd tegen het Syrische leger.
Meer gedetailleerde info over Homs vandaag:
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Als laatste verwacht men nadat bepaalde buurten van Homs eerst dagen met artillerie is beschoten vervolgens militairen huis tot huis de buurt afgaan. "The situation in the city is getting worse, as neighborhoods are surrounded and people are worried that the military will move in any day now. In this exclusive report, Jane Ferguson, who has recently been in Homs for Al Jazeera, says there is a real sense that the city is on the verge of a major human catastrophe":
Ik zal de FB pagina's in de gaten houden.
Hopen dat het snel over is met die Assad. Zag eergisteren dat filmpje van dat arme kind zonder kaak.....rillingen over mijn lijf. Ben erg blij dat het Egyptische parlement vandaag heeft besloten alle banden met Syri te breken. Dat meer Arabieren dat gaan doen zodat Assad meer en meer in isolement geraakt.
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De gevolgen van de argumenten van de anti-rook maffia
Pentagon weighing up military options in Syria as shelling of Homs continues for sixth consecutive day
Arming Syrian rebels to oust Bashar Assad's ruling regime has not been 'completely ruled out' by the Pentagon, the U.S. State Department has revealed.
But the Obama administration said that, while it 'never takes any option off the table', it was not currently looking at sending more arms into the country.
The weighing up of military options came as Syrian forces continued to shower the city of Homs with rockets and mortars as a brutal crackdown continued for a sixth consecutive day.
Explosion: Smoke rises in front of a Homs mosque following a blast by Assad forces who are continuing to crack down on opposition
It also came as the United Nations was today expected to call for a joint monitoring mission, alongside the Arab League who withdrew when violence escalated, in the country.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said: 'I fear that the appalling brutality we are witnessing in Homs, with heavy weapons firing into civilian neighbourhoods, is a grim harbinger of things to come.'
As dawn broke today, rocket and mortar fire rained down again on Baba Amro, Khalidiya and other districts. Armoured reinforcements also poured into the eastern city.
Concern was growing over the plight of civilians and the United States said it was considering ways to get food and medicine to them.
It is a move that would deepen international involvement in a conflict which has wide geopolitical dimensions and has caused division between foreign powers.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said before flying to Washington for talks on Syria that Turkey, which once saw Assad as an ally but now wants him out, could no longer stand by and watch.
He said Turkey wants to host an international meeting to agree ways to end the killing and provide aid. He added: 'It is not enough being an observer.'
Foreign ministers of the Arab League, which the UN's Ban said was planning to revive an observer mission it suspended last month because of the violence, are due to meet in Cairo on Sunday. They may want to hear other governments' ideas by then. U.S. officials said they expected to meet soon with allies to discuss ways of helping Syrian civilians.
And China, cool to Western lobbying for international involvement, nonetheless reported its first formal contact with the Syrian opposition.
Today's developments came as the White House said the U.S. was not considering arming rebels in Syria but that no option would be completely ruled out as the Obama administration struggled to find a way to quell violence and end the bloodshed.
Eighteen premature babies were reportedly among dozens of civilians who died yesterday in one of the bloodiest days of the Syrian uprising centred on the rebel-held city of Homs.
At the State Department, spokesman Victoria Nuland said that while the U.S. never takes any option off the table, 'we don't think more arms into Syria is the answer'.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said current deliberations inside the administration were focused on how the U.S. could provide humanitarian aid to the Syrian people, though he wouldn't say what form such assistance might take.
However a preliminary review of U.S. military readiness was reportedly in hand. A senior U.S. official told CNN: 'The Pentagon is closely monitoring developments in Syria... but absolutely no decisions have been made on military support for Syria.'
More than 5,400 people have been killed in the country since the uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime began in March, according to a United Nations toll last month.
Hundreds more are believed to have been killed since then, but the UN says the chaos in the country has made it impossible to cross-check the figures.
Earlier on Tuesday, some congressional lawmakers, including Republican Senator John McCain, called for the country to explore the prospect of arming opposition forces in Syria. Senator McCain said: 'We should start considering options, arming the opposition. The bloodletting has got to stop.'
McCain was a staunch advocate last year for the U.S. to arm rebels in Libya in their fight against Muammar Gaddafi and forces loyal to his regime. The U.S. and NATO did ultimately provide military help under the cover of a UN mandate.
Western powers have met repeatedly with members of Syria's emerging political opposition, but they are wary of engaging closely with would-be rebel forces without the legal protection of a similar UN resolution.
But in the wake of last weekend's defeat of a Security Council resolution calling for Assad to step down, western nations have little appetite for another run at the UN.
While the double-veto by Russia and China at the Security Council Saturday put diplomatic efforts at an impasse, the White House says it is still loath to consider a military option.
President Barack Obama responded at the weekend on questions as to why the U.S. engaged militarily in Libya, but not in Syria.
The President said: 'Not every situation is going to allow for the kind of military solution we saw with Libya. I think it is very possible for us to try to resolve this without recourse to outside military intervention.'
Bron: http://www.dailymail.co.u(...)consecutive-day.html
Arming Syrian rebels to oust Bashar Assad's ruling regime has not been 'completely ruled out' by the Pentagon, the U.S. State Department has revealed.
But the Obama administration said that, while it 'never takes any option off the table', it was not currently looking at sending more arms into the country.
The weighing up of military options came as Syrian forces continued to shower the city of Homs with rockets and mortars as a brutal crackdown continued for a sixth consecutive day.
Explosion: Smoke rises in front of a Homs mosque following a blast by Assad forces who are continuing to crack down on opposition
It also came as the United Nations was today expected to call for a joint monitoring mission, alongside the Arab League who withdrew when violence escalated, in the country.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said: 'I fear that the appalling brutality we are witnessing in Homs, with heavy weapons firing into civilian neighbourhoods, is a grim harbinger of things to come.'
As dawn broke today, rocket and mortar fire rained down again on Baba Amro, Khalidiya and other districts. Armoured reinforcements also poured into the eastern city.
Concern was growing over the plight of civilians and the United States said it was considering ways to get food and medicine to them.
It is a move that would deepen international involvement in a conflict which has wide geopolitical dimensions and has caused division between foreign powers.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said before flying to Washington for talks on Syria that Turkey, which once saw Assad as an ally but now wants him out, could no longer stand by and watch.
He said Turkey wants to host an international meeting to agree ways to end the killing and provide aid. He added: 'It is not enough being an observer.'
Foreign ministers of the Arab League, which the UN's Ban said was planning to revive an observer mission it suspended last month because of the violence, are due to meet in Cairo on Sunday. They may want to hear other governments' ideas by then. U.S. officials said they expected to meet soon with allies to discuss ways of helping Syrian civilians.
And China, cool to Western lobbying for international involvement, nonetheless reported its first formal contact with the Syrian opposition.
Today's developments came as the White House said the U.S. was not considering arming rebels in Syria but that no option would be completely ruled out as the Obama administration struggled to find a way to quell violence and end the bloodshed.
Eighteen premature babies were reportedly among dozens of civilians who died yesterday in one of the bloodiest days of the Syrian uprising centred on the rebel-held city of Homs.
At the State Department, spokesman Victoria Nuland said that while the U.S. never takes any option off the table, 'we don't think more arms into Syria is the answer'.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said current deliberations inside the administration were focused on how the U.S. could provide humanitarian aid to the Syrian people, though he wouldn't say what form such assistance might take.
However a preliminary review of U.S. military readiness was reportedly in hand. A senior U.S. official told CNN: 'The Pentagon is closely monitoring developments in Syria... but absolutely no decisions have been made on military support for Syria.'
More than 5,400 people have been killed in the country since the uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime began in March, according to a United Nations toll last month.
Hundreds more are believed to have been killed since then, but the UN says the chaos in the country has made it impossible to cross-check the figures.
Earlier on Tuesday, some congressional lawmakers, including Republican Senator John McCain, called for the country to explore the prospect of arming opposition forces in Syria. Senator McCain said: 'We should start considering options, arming the opposition. The bloodletting has got to stop.'
McCain was a staunch advocate last year for the U.S. to arm rebels in Libya in their fight against Muammar Gaddafi and forces loyal to his regime. The U.S. and NATO did ultimately provide military help under the cover of a UN mandate.
Western powers have met repeatedly with members of Syria's emerging political opposition, but they are wary of engaging closely with would-be rebel forces without the legal protection of a similar UN resolution.
But in the wake of last weekend's defeat of a Security Council resolution calling for Assad to step down, western nations have little appetite for another run at the UN.
While the double-veto by Russia and China at the Security Council Saturday put diplomatic efforts at an impasse, the White House says it is still loath to consider a military option.
President Barack Obama responded at the weekend on questions as to why the U.S. engaged militarily in Libya, but not in Syria.
The President said: 'Not every situation is going to allow for the kind of military solution we saw with Libya. I think it is very possible for us to try to resolve this without recourse to outside military intervention.'
Bron: http://www.dailymail.co.u(...)consecutive-day.html
"Any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed." - "Mad Jack" Churchill DSO MC
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/225813.htmlquote:Comdr. of Syria's al-Farouq rebels killed
A major commander of Syria’s al-Farouq militant group, Abdul Razzaq Talas, has been killed by government forces in the western city of Homs as fighting between the two sides intensifies there.
Het wordt eens tijd dat die NATO ratten hard aangepakt worden.
Syrie moet nu haar luchtmacht gebruiken om de NATO ratten te bombarderen.
Syrie moet nu haar luchtmacht gebruiken om de NATO ratten te bombarderen.
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Het wordt eens tijd dat die NATO ratten hard aangepakt worden.
Syrie moet nu haar luchtmacht gebruiken om de NATO ratten te bombarderen.
The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
Britse troepen in Homs die o.a. burgers afmaken, jemig zeg, fuckin wankers 
quote:British troops involved in Homs operation
An intelligence report has revealed that British and Qatari troops are leading armed terror gangs in the Syrian city of Homs in their bloody battle against civilians and the Syrian army forces.
According to the Israeli website, debkafile, which is known for links to intelligence sources, “British and Qatari troops are directing rebel ammunition deliveries and tactics in the bloody battle for Homs”.
The report said that Britain’s foreign spying apparatus, MI6, has established four centers of operation in the city with the troops on the ground paving the way for an undercover Turkish military incursion into Syria.
The debkafile site said the presence of British and Qatari troops in Homs topped the agenda of Tuesday’s talks between President Assad government’s officials and head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service Mikhail Fradkov.
Qatar makes little secret of supporting the Syrian opposition with cash, arms and political support.
But, the British new adventurism in Syria comes as a parliamentary report has warned that the British government will face huge financial problems if the military resolve to launch a military campaign on the same scale as the operation in Libya.
In 2011 Britain and France became part of NATO-led operations targeting Gaddafi regime in Libya.
According to official reports, Britain spent about 254mln on the military campaign in Libya. However, a publication in The Guardian at the end of last year contends that the Libyan campaign cost British taxpayers 1.75 billion pounds. This exceeds the originally planned sum by nearly sevenfold.
Given the situation, the British MPs have warned the government of David Cameron that it will face “difficult decisions” if it chooses to engage in yet another campaign. Nearly two billion pounds spent over the six months of the campaign in Libya could be more than the military can handle.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/225801.html
Oorlog is de verderzetting van de politiek maar met andere middelen - Clausewitz
De Iraanse propaganda is weer treurig als vanouds.
The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
quote:Syria uprising is now a battle to the death
Rockets rain down on towns that residents can neither defend nor leave, as Bashar al-Assad's forces besiege Free Syria Army
In the heartland of the uprising against Bashar al-Assad a grinding war of attrition has now become an unforgiving battle to the death.
The Free Syria Army has held this territory of orchards and farmland since September, during which time loyalist forces have never been closer, nor seemed more menacing. As rockets regularly thundered on Thursday into towns that residents could neither defend nor leave, the three months of freedom they had savoured now seemed illusory.
There is little left in the town in which the Guardian was based on Thursday, or in the equally deprived and forsaken villages that dot the hinterland near Homs. Electricity here was switched off two months ago, the phone lines were downed last week. And on Wednesday, contact by road was cut with Homs, Syria's besieged third city, whose fate is seen as a dire warning of what lies ahead for the rest of the area.
Homs was on Thursday a very difficult place from which to flee. Only three seriously wounded residents are known to have made it out of the devastated opposition held sectors of the city into the relative safety of nearby Lebanon. Two of the wounded are unlikely to survive.
The rest face a desperate plight, barricaded in concrete homes that are crumbling in the face of the relentless onslaught now spreading to nearby farmland and villages. Some residents of this town say a small number of families from the heaviest hit areas of Homs, Baba Amr and al-Khalidiyeh, have managed to hole up in other areas of the city. However they can no longer speak to those left behind, who they now fear face a gruesome fate.
"We'll be next," said a doctor at a makeshift medical centre in the heart of this town. The doctors and nurses on duty here had fled the state hospital, one kilometre away, and set up a triage centre and a surgical ward in a derelict house. All day they were tending to dead and seriously wounded men, many of them members of the badly outgunned rebel army.
The patterned plastic sheets the medics had placed on the floor were slick with blood and iodine as more and more war wounded were brought in by their colleagues.
One hulking man in military fatigue pants was carried in on a stretcher with a gaping wound in his navel. "He's a first lieutentant," said one of the clinic's nurses, Abdul Karem, who like everyone else in this overwrought hub, doubles as a revolutionary. The seriously wounded officer was taken to the improvised operating room, as nurses outside prepped themselves for surgery by washing their hands with kerosene and water.
Among those tending to him was an old French surgeon, a veteran of conflict zones dating back to the Vietnam war, who arrived in Syria on Thursday with a suitcase of medical supplies and a readiness to stay as long as he's needed.
The carnage of the rest of the day suggests he may be here awhile. Minutes after the lieutenant's treatment began, a truck screamed to a stop outside and Free Syria Army soldiers bellowed for a stretcher. The triage centre rapidly emptied, as the medics inside grabbed their flip flops – one also reached for his Kalashnikov – and hurried into the courtyard outside. They stopped next to the truck and looked inside and visibly stopped in their tracks. "Finished," one man said. "Take him to the graveyard." The dead man was a major, the leader of the Free Syria Army in this town, and one of many wounded by an attack on an outpost not far from here.
As night fell, the numbers of dead and wounded appeared to increase. Every massive boom in the near distance seemed to herald the arrival of more patients.
"There coming from the hospital that we ran away from," said one medic, Dr Qassem. "It's only a kilometre away."
Regime snipers were also wreaking havoc from a nearby intersection on the road to Homs. Opposition forces, meanwhile for the most part watched from hideouts in apricot and peach orchards and farm-houses dotted along muddy brown laneways.
More wounded were brought in, a rebel shot in the hand, another two with bullets in their back. The television showing footage of the carnage in Homs had by now been switched off as the triage room swarmed with walking wounded, frantic medics and others taking refuge from the shelling.
The first lieutenant inside was fading fast. As other surgeons piled the patient's intestines onto his stomach, Dr Qassem, who was holding a lamp over the operation said: "They are coming for us now. It is going to be very bad."
And then he added an optimistic note to a day that had so far offered nothing but misery. "The vote at the UN could be good for us in the future," he said. "All our students and doctors study in Russia and the standards are not good. "All our factories have Chinese equipment and it's the same thing. If we win, things will change, God willing."
He switched back to the dying patient as attention switched to the newest casualty, a man shot in the wrist, his blood streaming over shoes piled at the room entrance.
"There have been more than 100 people killed today," said one young university medical student as he held an x-ray machine over a patient lying prostrate on the floor. "We all have family in Homs and we are very worried about the situation there. It is much worse than here.
"Every day it has been getting worse here and there. No one is coming for us and we accept our fate."
Early in the day, a re-supply – of sorts – did arrive for the rebels; three sacks of rockets and rusting mortar tubes. They too were brought into the medical clinic and stored out of sight. It was hardly an arsenal to embolden a clearly struggling rebel army, but it was a sign that some weapons are finding their way across the porous Turkish and Lebanese borders.
"These are old," said one young fighter. "But they will do. We are grateful for everything that we get."
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[b]Op dinsdag 6 januari 2009 19:59 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:[/b]
De gevolgen van de argumenten van de anti-rook maffia
[b]Op dinsdag 6 januari 2009 19:59 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:[/b]
De gevolgen van de argumenten van de anti-rook maffia
Er staan vertaalde commentaren in het artikelquote:Chinese rebel against government’s Syria veto online
Members of China’s vast Internet community have flocked to social networking sites to voice criticism of their government’s decision to veto a UN draft resolution condemning the 11 month-long crackdown on anti-government protests in Syria, saying the move does not represent them.
China and Russia were the only two countries to veto a UN Security Council draft resolution on denouncing the bloodshed in Syria and demanding President Bashar al-Assad quit power.
The international backlash to China’s vote was almost immediate. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton labelled the act a “travesty”, while France’s ambassador to the UN described the situation as “a sad day for Syrians and a sad day for the friends of democracy”.
Unfazed, the Chinese government defended its decision to reject the resolution via a commentary published in the official People’s Daily newspaper. While the article acknowledged the escalating violence in Syria, it also accused the West of being irresponsible.
“Currently, the situation in Syria is extremely complex. Simplistically supporting one side and suppressing the other might seem a helpful way of turning things around, but in fact it would be sowing fresh seeds of disaster”, the article stated.
And that was meant to be that.
Chinese Internet users, however, have refused to let their government have the last word on the subject. The world’s largest micro-blogging site, Weibo, has been flooded with scathing criticism of China’s vote to shoot down the UN’s draft resolution.
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[b]Op dinsdag 6 januari 2009 19:59 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:[/b]
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[b]Op dinsdag 6 januari 2009 19:59 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:[/b]
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Zullen we de TT veranderen in "Bloedbad in Syri"?
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[b]Op dinsdag 6 januari 2009 19:59 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:[/b]
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[b]Op dinsdag 6 januari 2009 19:59 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:[/b]
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onrust en escalatie? zijn we idd allang voorbij
Ik heb Hem niet uit vrees voor de hel noch uit liefde voor het paradijs gediend, want dan zou ik als de slechte huurling zijn geweest; ik heb hem veeleer gediend in liefde tot Hem en in verlangen naar Hem.
-Rabia Al-Basri
-Rabia Al-Basri
Ik denk dat dat inderdaad meer op z'n plaats staat.quote:
Zullen we de TT veranderen in "Bloedbad in Syri"?
ok, ik heb 't gevraagd.
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[b]Op dinsdag 6 januari 2009 19:59 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:[/b]
De gevolgen van de argumenten van de anti-rook maffia
[b]Op dinsdag 6 januari 2009 19:59 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:[/b]
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