[Centraal] Crisis in Syri� #241 Syri� behoort immers tot Kemalstan

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Op dinsdag 10 februari 2015 14:53 schreef firefly3 het volgende:

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Niet iedereen wordt opgepakt. Als je pech hebt, heb je daar goed pech.

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Op dinsdag 10 februari 2015 14:54 schreef firefly3 het volgende:

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De tanks verdwijnen daar aan de lopende band

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EjmAlrai twitterde op dinsdag 10-02-2015 om 14:58:43 #SAA and #Hezbollah control of Deir al-Adas is confirmed NOW. #Daraa #Quneitra #Syria reageer retweet

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PetoLucem twitterde op maandag 09-02-2015 om 23:43:00 NEW MAP: Military situation in northern #Daraa and #Quneitra Governorates. #SAA #Hezbollah #FSA #JAN #Syria http://t.co/fnh0xhjk5I reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 10 februari 2015 16:08 schreef UpsideDown het volgende:

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EjmAlrai twitterde op dinsdag 10-02-2015 om 14:58:43 #SAA and #Hezbollah control of Deir al-Adas is confirmed NOW. #Daraa #Quneitra #Syria reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 10 februari 2015 16:31 schreef Peunage het volgende:

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Lekker bezig.

Vraag mij af wat ze daarna met dat soort dorpjes doen. Je kunt niet eeuwig troepen stationeren daar. Waarschijnlijk verschijnen er weer nieuwe "rebellen" als het leger weer weg is.

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Op dinsdag 10 februari 2015 09:48 schreef UpsideDown het volgende:
Interview van de BBC met Assad

Syria conflict: BBC exclusive interview with President Bashar al-Assad (FULL)

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Reuters twitterde op dinsdag 10-02-2015 om 16:25:40 Obama confirms death of Kayla Mueller, aid worker who had been held hostage by Islamic State: http://t.co/s5JBAniHQF http://t.co/lGhweRlEnF reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 10 februari 2015 16:44 schreef reza1 het volgende:

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Erg partijdige interviewer, zoals verwacht. Maar Assad geeft goede antwoorden.

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Op dinsdag 10 februari 2015 17:00 schreef Atak het volgende:

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Hij klinkt als een slang

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Op dinsdag 10 februari 2015 17:00 schreef Atak het volgende:

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Hij klinkt als een slang

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Op dinsdag 10 februari 2015 17:14 schreef firefly3 het volgende:
Als assad aanhanger zou je toch wel je bedenkingen moeten hebben, nu hij zelfs ontkent barrelbombs te gebruiken??? Het is nu ongelooflijk stil mbt het gelieg van assad met betrekking tot barrelbombs.

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In the fighting that followed, paramilitaries commanded by Menachem Begin, a Tel Avivan who later became Israel’s prime minister, rolled barrel bombs down the alleyways into Jaffa’s caf�s and fired mortars into residential districts
http://www.economist.com/(...)ng-building-tel-aviv

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The Ansar al Din Front, a coalition of several jihadist groups in Syria, released a statement on Feb. 7 mourning the death of Harith al Nadhari, a top sharia official in Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). On Feb. 5, AQAP confirmed that Nadhari had been killed in a US drone strike in southern Yemen just days earlier.

The statement, titled "Let Tears Flow Over Likes of Al Nadhari," was first published on Ansar al Din's official Twitter feed. "We have been mired in grief upon receipt of the news of martyrdom of our brother, Sheikh Harith Bin Ghazi al Nadhari, in an oppressive crusader shelling of Muslims in general, and of the mujahideen in particular," the group says, according to a translation obtained by The Long War Journal.

Ansar al Din lavishes praise on Nadhari, saying he was a "kind person" who "led a life full of sacrifices" in service of jihad and dawa (the call to submit to Allah). Ansar al Din says Nadhari gave sage "advice to the mujahideen and the entire ummah [worldwide community of Muslims]." And the jihadists lament the loss of Nadhari, arguing that the "absence of the ulema [Islamic religious scholars] and peacemakers adds to the gravity of the disaster." The jihadist "field urgently needs" sheikhs such as Nadhari today "more than ever."

The Ansar al Din Front is an alliance of four jihadist groups that was formed in 2014. Its constituent groups include the Jaish al Muhajireen awl Ansar (JMA), Sham al Islam, Al Katibah al Khadra, and Fajr al Sham.

The State Department added the JMA and Sham al Islam to the US government's list of specially designated global terrorists in September 2014. A large contingent of jihadists from the Caucasus serve as JMA leaders and fighters. Sham al Islam is mainly comprised of fighters from North Africa and was founded by ex-Guantanamo detainees from Morocco. Saudis have led Al Katibah al Khadra.

This coalition of foreign fighter-dominated jihadists has attempted to stay neutral in the rivalry between the Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot that controls large portions of Iraq and Syria as a "caliphate," and the Al Nusrah Front, al Qaeda's official branch in Syria.

While Ansar al Din has tried to steer clear of the Islamic State, members of both organizations have fought against one another. Meanwhile, Ansar al Din has fought alongside Al Nusrah against their common enemies on multiple occasions. And Ansar al Din's statement mourning Nadhari is a clear indication that the coalition is at least allied with al Qaeda's global network.

Nadhari was a staunch critic of the Islamic State. And as the rivalry between the Islamic State and AQAP heated up last year, AQAP increasingly turned to Nadhari to argue that Abu Bakr al Baghdadi's "caliphate" lacked the necessary theological justifications.

Ansar al Din's statement contains echoes of Vilayat Dagestan's eulogy for Nadhari. This is unsurprising given Ansar al Din's strong ties to the Caucasus.

The Vilayat Dagestan is a "province" of the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Caucasus Emirate (ICE) and has also been affected by the rivalry between the Islamic State and al Qaeda. Late last year, Vilayat Dagestan's leader defected to Baghdadi's organization. This move provoked a harsh verbal backlash from ICE's emir, Ali Abu Muhammad al Dagestani, who quickly appointed a new ICE chieftain for Dagestan.

Vilayat Dagestan remains loyal to ICE and al Qaeda. The group was one of the first to openly mourn Nadhari's death. In its eulogy, Vilayat Dagestan said Nadhari "left us exactly at a time when we acutely need scholars like himself" and that he was working to reestablish the caliphate "on the path of the Prophet." This is undoubtedly an allusion to the controversy surrounding the Islamic State's "caliphate," which al Qaeda thinkers argue was not established according to the Prophetic method.

Without directly mentioning the "caliphate" controversy, Ansar al Din's message contains some of these same elements, especially the part about how the "absence of the ulema [Islamic religious scholars] and peacemakers adds to the gravity of the disaster." After the US-led coalition's airstrikes in Syria began last September, Nadhari and AQAP attempted to bring the Islamic State together with other jihadist groups in Syria to form a united front against the West. This effort, like previous AQAP attempts to reconcile the warring jihadists, failed. Nadhari was also one of ten leading jihadist ideologues who released a letter in January denouncing the Vilayat Dagestan's defectors.

Ansar al Din itself played a "peacemaker" role last year by attempting to broker and enforce truces between the Islamic State and its rivals.

Ansar al Din concludes its eulogy for Nadhari by offering its "condolences" to ummah, the mujahideen, and Nadhari's family.

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Op dinsdag 10 februari 2015 17:11 schreef PizzaMizza het volgende:

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Dus zoals Ataturk? Of zoals Erdogan? Feit is dat elke Turkse leider een massamoordenaar is.

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Op dinsdag 10 februari 2015 17:06 schreef reza1 het volgende:

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Erdogan klinkt als Hitler.

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Op dinsdag 10 februari 2015 17:42 schreef Atak het volgende:

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Zelfs als er 1000 jaar zou vergaan. Jullie volk zal nooit een leider als Ataturk krijgen. Grote leiders komen voort uit grote beschavingen.

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Op dinsdag 10 februari 2015 17:11 schreef PizzaMizza het volgende:

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Dus zoals Ataturk? Of zoals Erdogan? Feit is dat elke Turkse leider een massamoordenaar is.

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Op dinsdag 10 februari 2015 17:48 schreef IPA35 het volgende:

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Erdo-Han doet aan uitbesteding. Gaat er op vooruit.

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BEIRUT – Syrian forces backed by Hezbollah and Iranian fighters have launched a wide-ranging offensive outside Damascus stretching to Quneitra and Daraa in a bid to secure the regime's southern front.

Pro- and anti-Syrian regime media outlets all touted the offensive, with pan-Arab daily Al-Quds al-Arabi reporting Monday that “Syrian army troops backed by fighters from Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards [launched] a vast battle in southern Syria.”

Lebanese daily As-Safir—which supports Hezbollah and the Syrian regime—dubbed the offensive “statement number two” in reference to Hezbollah’s “statement number one” claiming the January 28 attack on an Israeli patrol along the Lebanese border, which came as a reprisal to an Israeli airstrike in the Syrian Golan that killed 12 Hezbollah and Iranian operatives.

“The Syrian army unleashed with Hezbollah and Iranian volunteers a large scale military operation in the southern front, which might be a prelude to a further massive counterattack,” As-Safir said of the southern front offensive.

Al-Quds al-Arabi cited rebel groups as saying that the Syrian army deployed “over 4500 fighters, including hundreds of Hezbollah members and Iranian [volunteers].”

“Also, military convoys formed of around 50 tanks and troop carriers, in addition to dozens of vehicles equipped with anti-aircraft weapons arrived to the area in preparation for military operations.”

A source close to the FSA told Al-Quds al-Arabi that the Syrian army handed over lead supervision of the battle to a joint Hezbollah-Revolutionary Guards operations command.

The main goal of the regime offensive is to cut lines of communication between rebel held areas southwest of Damascus and Quneitra and Daraa, where insurgents have made advances in recent months, the London-based daily reported.

It added that regime troops also aimed to seize the strategic hill outside Harrah—east of the Golan—which was taken by rebels in October 2014.

Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television hosted a military analyst who said the Syrian operation sought to “paralyze Al-Nusra Front in Quneitra and Daraa” and cut off insurgent lines leading to Jordan.

The Al-Manar report called the Syrian regime operation “the largest” of recent military bids in the region, but made no mention of Hezbollah or Iranian troops taking part in it.

Another analyst told the station that regime artillery units backed by fighter jet strikes hit targets in Mashara, directly east of Quneitra, and Harrah, to cut off rebels in Daraa from the Golan.

On Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the coalition of pro-Assad fighters had seized a village southwest of Damascus on the front north of Quneitra.

“Regime forces backed by Hezbollah and Iranian fighters advanced along the western Rif Damascus [front] and seized control of Danaji village near Deir Maker,” the monitor said.

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PetoLucem twitterde op dinsdag 10-02-2015 om 17:48:36 MAP UPDATE (Feb.10) :Military situation in northern #Daraa / #Quneitra Governorates. #SAA #Hezbollah #FSA #JAN #Syria http://t.co/30k5iEQ0Ew reageer retweet