[Centraal]Crisis in Syri� #111 Hopeloze toekomst

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Op vrijdag 7 februari 2014 12:38 schreef firefly3 het volgende:
Meer dan 3000 rebellen erbij!!

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Op vrijdag 7 februari 2014 12:38 schreef firefly3 het volgende:
Meer dan 3000 rebellen erbij!!

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Op woensdag 5 februari 2014 21:48 schreef SadPanda het volgende:

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De VS stuurde dus aan op die steun van Pakistan.

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Hoezo dom? Als Assad wint is het vanuit hun perspectief niet dom. Ik heb nergens gezegd dat er iemand een engel is.

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Mijn punt is dat er nooit zo'n oorlog als nu had kunnen zijn met alleen maar wat wapens van overgelopen soldaten.

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Ik denk dat de support voor Assad alleen maar groter is geworden.

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Op vrijdag 7 februari 2014 14:09 schreef hafez1234 het volgende:

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Rot op met je propaganda.

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More facts are coming out of the area of the Central Prison where a group of Chechens, trying to prove themselves worthier than the inept hodge-podge of Saudis, Qataris, Kuwaitis, Tunisians, Moroccans, Libyans and Azeris, in the bloodletting department, wound up registering this operation in the SNAFU Department. And, unfortunately for the accursed Chechens, the blood this time was theirs.

Some sources are stating that the attack started at 10:00 a.m. and continued until 4:00 p.m. which means that the rodents of the Jabhat Al-Nusra and their allies in the Al-Jabha Al-Islamiyya either did not have night vision equipment which would have enabled them to sneak up on prison guards during dark or chose not to use them because an attack at night with a fully loaded tanker truck would have been too easy to spot. Whatever the reason here was the plan:

This was a completely Chechen operation with rats who spoke the same language to avoid confusion. Many Chechens know basic Arabic and can sometimes blurt out sentences in formal Arabic, but, it is a fact that Syrians and other Arabs have difficulty understanding them. Even more troublesome is a Chechen rat trying to bark out orders to a fellow Arab rat during an emergency resulting in mixing of languages with attendant confusion. This operation was designed to avoid such problems. So far, 90% of the rodent carcasses are from the Caucasus.

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The operation was to follow a familiar pattern similar to that at the Al-Kindi Hospital, to wit, sending a suicide bomber/driver in a truck loaded with explosives – having him floor the pedal to achieve maximum speed before he is either killed by light weapons or by premature detonation. Following the track of the vanguard vehicle is the attack force. In this instance, the Chechens, some of whom had served in Russia’s military, knew how to drive T-62 tanks. There were 3 such tanks, fully refurbished by British and Chechen rodents.
Behind the tanks was the “strike force” inside flat-beds or pick-up trucks, some carrying 23mm aa machine gun cannons. The attacking force was estimated at 600 with a back-up complement of 1,000 belonging to JI.

Al-Qaeda sent 50 suicide bombers to attack Aleppo prison


The tanks were initially used to strike at the towers of the prison to take out any ability to surveil the ground. For this, the Chechens and Brits drilled the drivers and gunners on accurately firing at angles sufficiently far to strike the towers. Once the tanks got too close to the walls of the prison, the angles would be impossible for the tank cannons. The cannons on the T-62 (an older type) do not depress as easily as those of the T-72 so adjustments had to be made for trajectory.

It sounded like a fool-proof plan. It was also unusually intense in that the Chechens deployed more rodents than ever before in attacking the prison. This was to be their moment of glory – a demonstration of their superiority as Jihadists fighting for their notion of a counterfeit Islam.

Here’s what went wrong. The tanker truck used was listed as missing by the MI people weeks ago and there was a suspicion that it was taken to Turkey. Imagine how pleased MI spotters were to espy the truck moving at a speed of close to 45 mph in an area where all truck drivers know there are security agents everywhere. It was clear that the truck had a driver who was up to no good. Moreover, the suspension was pressed down indicating an unusually heavy load. As it turned out, the heavy load was not because of the 12,000 kgs of TNT and C-4 but because of the metal stuffed into the truck’s container designed to cause as much human suffering as possible.

The driver of the truck was detected early on by MI who alerted guards at the prison. The guards here are not complacent. They are very much aware of the importance of being on their toes and RPGs were instantly readied. The SAA commander inside the prison, immediately contacted a fellow officer who was nearby in the Hanaanu area and asked for help. The colonel knew it was going to be a repeat of the Al-Kindi operation. More than that, once HQ was informed of the situation, SAAF Sukhois took to the air carrying kitchen-grade thermobaric bombs to be dumped on the rear lines of the rat force.

The RPG gunners at the walls were told exactly what to look for. Visibility was fine and they had orders to shellac any truck appearing within range. As the trailer truck, with its suicide driver and payload charging at the west gate of the prison, the RPGs, all 7 of them, unleashed at stream of missiles, each striking the truck across its breadth and causing the vehicle to explode at a distance of about 100 yards from the prison walls. The blast was so strong, 2 officers of the SAA who were looking at the scene through binoculars were killed instantly by the wave of fire.

Then, with merciful suddenness, elements of the 6th Mechanized Armored Division opened up a hail of artillery that, along with the barrel bombs, decimated the rear flanks of the terrorist rat units causing them to flee northwards toward the Turk border. But, the SAAF did not let up and harried them until they were only 5 kms from the border.

There is no question that the number of rodents killed exceeds 500 but the counting has not begun yet because of sniping and other organizational issues.

Along with the 2 martyred officers, 10 soldiers were injured and 5 inmates were killed. Damage to the prison towers is substantial and work has started already on repairing them and the western wall which took the brunt of the explosion.

This operation was not planned by Sayfullah Al-Sheeshaani. Evidence now indicates that contractors for the SAA, the British equivalent of the Green Berets, were involved in obtaining intelligence about the defenses at the prison and providing the necessary explosives. The amount of explosives carried indicates clearly nation-state involvement.

But, as I just learned, this operation was being monitored by the MI weeks before it took place and the evidence now indicates that British planners at Incirlik were intimately involved in setting it up. According to Wael, the British have a high opinion of the Chechen rodents because, as Wael says, they are “whiter” than the Arabians and seem to have a better grasp of discipline, tactics and execution. So much for that.

The rats have admitted to defeat on their websites. But how will the Daily Telegraph, one of the world’s most compromised news sources take the debacle? Let’s see:

http://www.telegraph.co.u(...)f-Aleppo-prison.html

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Op vrijdag 7 februari 2014 14:20 schreef Baklava95 het volgende:
Niet zo hypocriet doen he Aloulou. Nu ben je opeens wel pro-rebellen.

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Op vrijdag 7 februari 2014 12:37 schreef firefly3 het volgende:
Duizenden gevangenen net bevrijd uit de Aleppo centrale gevangenis.

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Op vrijdag 7 februari 2014 21:22 schreef Veldkamp het volgende:
Onder hen ook intellectuelen

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Op vrijdag 7 februari 2014 21:44 schreef JerryWesterby het volgende:
Ik wou net Mali wegvagen, is het weer verboden.

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Op zaterdag 8 februari 2014 11:53 schreef theunderdog het volgende:
Syri� is niet meer interessant zie ik.

We zijn met ze alle conflict-moe..

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Op zaterdag 8 februari 2014 13:29 schreef IPA35 het volgende:

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Volg het nog wel dagelijks eigenlijk.

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Op zaterdag 8 februari 2014 13:34 schreef theunderdog het volgende:

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Och, zoveel nieuws komt er niet meer.

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Op zaterdag 8 februari 2014 13:35 schreef IPA35 het volgende:

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Nu een hoop gelul over de gevangenis van Aleppo en de luchtmachtbasis Kweiris.

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Op zaterdag 8 februari 2014 13:39 schreef Baklava95 het volgende:

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Dat vind ik eigenlijk wel jammer. Waar moet ik anders op reageren op fokforum.

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Kurds from Iraq wage holy war in Syria with one eye on home

(Reuters) - Twenty-five year old Ako Abd al-Qadir went to wage holy war in Syria vowing to return and conquer all of Iraqi Kurdistan in the name of Islam on the way back to his home town of Halabja.

"God willing, we will come back and trample over your dead bodies until we reach Halabja," he said, threatening the region's "infidel" ruling parties in a video made en route to Syria and posted on social media sites. "Just wait and see".

Ako is one of around 200 young Iraqi Kurds who have joined the ranks of militant Islamists in a conflict that has become a clarion call for home-grown jihadists across the world, keen to prove themselves amid fundamentalist fervor and war.

The trend is alarming for Iraqi Kurdistan, a region that has managed to shield itself from the violence afflicting the rest of Iraq and nearby Syria, and to attract investment from some of the world's largest oil companies.

"Definitely, it's a big concern," said a senior official with knowledge of security issues in the Kurdish capital Arbil, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "The danger is that they will be used as cells to mount attacks on targets here."

Kurdistan is not alone in worrying about jihadi backlash; the roll call of those drawn to the cause of Sunni Islamist rebels battling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is long and diverse - from veterans of Iraq and Chechnya to young men from London and immigrants from Stockholm.

But the autonomous region's proximity to Syria makes it especially vulnerable. And whilst Kurdistan is used to dealing with external threats, not least along its tightly controlled border with majority Arab Iraq, this one is posed from within.

The region suffered its first major bombing in six years last September, which was claimed by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) - a Sunni group also active in Syria.

Publicly, officials in Kurdistan play down the threat and insist that the region will remain safe, but oil companies operating here are taking extra precautions.

"We decided to restrict movements to shopping malls and other high-visibility target areas," said a source at an oil company in Kurdistan. "We're just going to lower our profile a little bit."

"LITTLE TORA BORA"

Famed for its poets and pomegranates, Halabja lies near the mountainous border area between Iraq and Iran, which was once a haven for Sunni militants who formed a group there in 2001 that came to be called Ansar al-Islam.

Ansar al-Islam banned music and forced men to grow their beards in the enclave, named "little Tora Bora" after the Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan where al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden once sheltered.

Many of the young Kurds who have gone to Syria come from this area, including Ako, who joined Ansar al-Islam as a teenager.

One of the first targets of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 was Ansar al-Islam. By that time, Ako had left the group and handed himself in to the security services because he felt the game was up, according to his friends.

Surviving members of Ansar al-Islam retreated into Iran, but continued to carry out attacks including a twin suicide bombing against Kurdistan's two ruling parties in 2004 that left more than 100 people dead.

Ako served time because authorities considered him to be a danger to national security. After being released from jail, he married and had a daughter. He got a job at an electricity generating plant and was working at a tea house in Halabja until the day he vanished last November.

The rest is played out on Facebook. On December 8, he wrote that he had joined ISIL in Syria and posted the group's black banner on his page. Earlier pictures show him smiling at Halabja's sports club, and he also posted a whole album of photographs of Barcelona football player Lionel Messi.

Despite Ako's history with militant Islam, his friends were shocked when they heard he was in Syria.

"I was very surprised because when he left Ansar al-Islam his views changed dramatically," said a friend of Ako's from school. "Maybe he still had contact with them, or perhaps there is a cell that persuades these youths to go."

MOSQUE RAIDS

It is not clear whether the young men go to Syria on their own initiative or have been recruited and sent there. Mainstream Islamist parties deny involvement. A committee has been set up by the government to investigate the matter.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs said preachers at the region's more than 5,000 mosques, who are on the government payroll, were forbidden to incite violence and would be punished if found doing so.

"There is no evidence that any imam has incited people - directly or indirectly - to go to Syria," Mariwan Naqshbandi said. "We have asked the imams to advise worshippers not to go, but unfortunately they haven't managed to discourage everyone."

Kurdish security services however raided 11 mosques one night last December in the city of Sulaimaniyah on suspicion they were being used as recruitment centers, seizing identity papers and laptops. They have not disclosed what evidence they found.

Although Kurdistan shares a border with Syria, most of the young men travel there through Turkey, some via Lebanon, and others southern Iraq. Around 40 have come back to Kurdistan and are now either behind bars because they are considered a threat to national security, or are under close surveillance.

"I went there to be killed following the path of Allah," said one young Iraqi Kurd who returned from Syria because he was convinced the conflict was a western conspiracy to exterminate the world's Muslims.

But many believe these aspiring Kurdish jihadists are driven as much by the hardships of life as by their faith.

Asked why they thought Ako had gone to Syria, his friends and acquaintances all cited economic pressures, and the fact he grew up an orphan in Halabja, better known as the site of a 1988 chemical weapons attack under Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

The Kurds' fortunes have since changed, and their region is now Iraq's most stable and prosperous, but the people of Halabja often complain of neglect.

"The KRG (Kurdistan Regional Government) will need to focus on using its oil wealth to increase opportunities for employment and to reduce corruption if it is to address this threat effectively," IHS Jane's said in a recent report about militancy in Kurdistan, assessing the risk as "serious".

RELIGION VS. ETHNICITY

Ako's jihad lasted less than two months. ISIL announced his "martyrdom" early this year in Syria, killed fighting not Assad's forces but fellow Kurds, who have taken advantage of the civil war to assert control in the country's northeast.

Kurds are predominantly Sunni Muslim, but identify overwhelmingly with their ethnicity - the defining factor in a long history of struggle in the four countries across which they are spread: Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria.

ISIL and other Sunni armed groups in Syria have turned their weapons against a Marxist-inspired Kurdish militia that stands in the way of their vision of an Islamic state spanning from Iraq to the Mediterranean.

Wearing a black leather jacket over his Kurdish clothes, the young man who did return from Syria said he would have no qualms about fighting his ethnic kin in the name of Islam: "My religion comes before my Kurdishness - I make decisions based on my religion."

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Op zaterdag 8 februari 2014 21:45 schreef firefly3 het volgende:
[ afbeelding ] Rebellen zullen winnen. Oneindig veel nieuwe wapens.

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Op zaterdag 8 februari 2014 21:45 schreef firefly3 het volgende:
[ afbeelding ] Rebellen zullen winnen. Oneindig veel nieuwe wapens.

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Op zaterdag 8 februari 2014 19:19 schreef Baklava95 het volgende:
Dus waarom gaan ze daar niet vechten om mijn volk te bevrijden van die achterlijke seculiere-nationalistische mongolen.

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Op zaterdag 8 februari 2014 22:46 schreef Baklava95 het volgende:
Ik vind het vreemd waarom ze nog niet Turkije hebben aangevallen.

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A commander and military mastermind for the hardline Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) rebel group was killed on Saturday after clashes with the al-Qaeda affliated al-Nusra Front in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour, Al Arabiya News Channel reported activists as saying.

The Libyan commander known as Abu Dajana is ISIS’s chief in Deir al-Zour.

Abu Dajana’s killing comes after Al-Nusra Front and rebel brigades, including the powerful Ahrar al-Sham, launched a new offensive against their former ally ISIS in the eastern province.

More: http://www.zamanalwsl.net/en/news/3620.html

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Op zaterdag 8 februari 2014 21:45 schreef firefly3 het volgende:
[ afbeelding ] Rebellen zullen winnen. Oneindig veel nieuwe wapens.

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Op zaterdag 8 februari 2014 23:14 schreef Aloulou het volgende:
Overigens heeft Nusrah gisteren in oa Deir Ezzour de oorlog verklaard aan ISIS in een officieel (lang) statement. Vandaag dan ook gevechten uitgebroken tussen de Nusrah en ISIS. Waarbij oa een (Libische) leider van ISIS is omgekomen:

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Op zondag 9 februari 2014 21:27 schreef firefly3 het volgende:
Dit is ook hilarisch hoe SANA weer een keer door de mand valt. Hopelijk gebruikt veldkamp en de rest sana niet meer als bron, pure assad propaganda:

SANA English ‏@SANA_English 1 feb.
#Syria: National Volunteer Initiatives bring a fragrant breath of authenticity and heritage to streets in #Damascus pic.twitter.com/Etwt4h0MTI

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Terwijl iedere inwoner in Damascus weet dat het VERPLICHT is geworden om je winkel te laten beschilderen met de nationale vlag

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