Syria in 2017 (January-April)

[OUTLAW 09]

The car bomb attack against Kafraya and Foua civilians pulls a page from Zarqawi's playbook: fan eternal war weaponizing sectarianism.

Was this potentially a bomb attack via IS sleeper cell.....if a regime vehicle was the bomb actually a magnetic sticky IED....often seen used by AQI/Is in Iraq is the 2009-2010 timeframes...

BUT WAIT...can in fact the interests of IS and Assad have overlapped in this particular attack???

YES they can as this is the indicator....

BREAKING!Tens of ambulances reached Bab-Al-Hawa to rescue the injuries of kafraya& Foua after Assad forces refused to let them in to Aleppo

[OUTLAW 09]

To be clear
The "aid" vehicle from #Assad areas hit the REBEL side of the street.
Dozens of evacuees got "collateral" victims in the busses.

Unlikely that a truck full with explosive can pass dozens of regime checkpoints, unless the regime gave the order.

Because most pro-#Assad forces never left #Fuah and #Kefraya, while all rebels have left #Madaya and #Zabadani.

More than 40 injured victims from the terrorist explosion targeting Fua & Kafreya buses are being treated in @sams_usa hospital nearby @BBC

Regime sent 3 trucks 'of food' & 1 blew up as it approached the buses. There were many rebels standing next to the truck who also died

Charles Lister
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@Charles_Lister
Sources in Rashideen:

- SVBIED came from regime area
- Bomber likely #ISIS & ID'd himself as SARC
- HTS & Ahrar among fatalities
- 25+ dead

Serious problem now....
Aleppo: Displaced civilians from #Madaya & #Zabadani are in the hands of pro-#Assad forces now. A total disaster.

Assadis tried to create a fake statement by Jaysh al Islam that claimed responsibility for the attack. What a surprise

ASSADPUTIN REGIMES DON'T ALLOW INJURED SHIITE PEOPLE INTO ALEPPO SO THEY ARE BROUGHT TO TURKEY.

[OUTLAW 09]

Latakia: #HTS car bomb has killed many pro-#Assad forces at #Salma in Northern #Latakia today.

Rouhani says Iran needs "no one's permission" to build missiles
http://reut.rs/2oBZZWy

Hama: Rebels blowing up #Assad T-55 with #TOW at #Majdal village in northwestern #Hama today.

[OUTLAW 09]

To be clear
The "aid" vehicle from #Assad areas hit the REBEL side of the street.
Dozens of evacuees got "collateral" victims in the busses.

Unlikely that a truck full with explosive can pass dozens of regime checkpoints, unless the regime gave the order.

Because most pro-#Assad forces never left #Fuah and #Kefraya, while all rebels have left #Madaya and #Zabadani.

More than 40 injured victims from the terrorist explosion targeting Fua & Kafreya buses are being treated in @sams_usa hospital nearby @BBC

Regime sent 3 trucks 'of food' & 1 blew up as it approached the buses. There were many rebels standing next to the truck who also died

Charles Lister
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@Charles_Lister
Sources in Rashideen:

- SVBIED came from regime area
- Bomber likely #ISIS & ID'd himself as SARC
- HTS & Ahrar among fatalities
- 25+ dead

Serious problem now....
Aleppo: Displaced civilians from #Madaya & #Zabadani are in the hands of pro-#Assad forces now. A total disaster.

Assadis tried to create a fake statement by Jaysh al Islam that claimed responsibility for the attack. What a surprise

ASSADPUTIN REGIMES DON'T ALLOW INJURED SHIITE PEOPLE INTO ALEPPO SO THEY ARE BROUGHT TO TURKEY.

Reminder, this population swap deal was agreed by Ahrar al-Sham & #Iran:
https://twitter.com/charles_lister/s...210688#…
Likely spoilers: #ISIS, Assad

Aleppo: Sunni civilians and rebels, including #HTS, treating the wounded Shia civilians. #HTS provided dozens of ambulances.

A #Fouah/#Kfarya civilian to @ZamanEnglish News
"A van was distributing crisps (chips). Children started running after it. It then exploded"

BREAKING: Syria TV: Population transfer resumes after blast near evacuation buses outside Aleppo city killed dozens.

[OUTLAW 09]

"Because there is no justice, there is no hope": the struggle to bring #Assad to account for crimes against humanity.

The Commission for International Justice and Accountability has to keep its location in Europe secret for fear of retribution from #Assad.

The #Assad regime's record of terrorism in Europe is very extensive. Among its cut-outs were Ilyich Sanchez ("Carlos the Jackal").

[OUTLAW 09]

Bodies of civilian evacuees from #Foua #Kefarya including many young children
100 dead confirmed by WhiteHelmets

REMEMBER it was actually targeting Sham and HTS guards who were with the Shia refugees acting as a security detachment....

IT was HTS and Sham that immediately assisted the Shia wounded and got them to Sunni hospitals WHEN Assad refused to treat Shia inured...and or allow ambulances to the scene....

[OUTLAW 09]

N. #Hama: thermobaric bomb dropped by #RuAF in middle of Al-Lataminah.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35...619663&z=13&m#

Hama: Many #Russia|n airstrikes against civilians in Northern #Hama today, far away from the frontlines.

Aleppo: 15 buses w/ people from #Fuah/#Kefraya reached Aleppo while 8 ambulances w/ wounded from #Madaya/#Zabadani arrived in Reb territory

The regime finally allowed residents from Fuah & Kefraya into Aleppo after almost 2 days of waiting and the deadly car bomb attack.

Injured survivors being treated in a field hospital in idlib
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dco-rMbsvGs#

White helmets say at least 100--Syrian TV says dozens killed in blast near evacuation buses (from @AP)
http://bigstory.ap.org/f862839a8f284...4c18ab0b04e57#

A symbol: Civil Defense @SyriaCivilDef helping an elderly woman from #Fuah/#Kefraya after today's bombing in W. #Aleppo

[JWing]

Qataris who were kidnapped in southern Iraq on a hunting trip were used by Iran for a Shiite-Sunni population swap in 4 Syrian towns. https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ge-people-swap

[OUTLAW 09]

Daraa: #RuAF carried out extremely powerful airstrikes for the 2nd day in Rebel-held Daraa.

[JWing]

Iranian proxies kidnapped Turkish workers in Iraq back in 2015 to be used in talks over 2 of the Syrian towns involved in the Qatari case. http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/20...orkers-in.html

[OUTLAW 09]

Breaking. #HTS claims car bomb attack deep inside Regime territory targeting gathering of pro-Assad inside town of #Salma (NE #Latakia).

Hama Battle: bulldozer erecting huge earth barrier destroyed by Jaish Al-Izza using a #TOW on #Majdal front.

[OUTLAW 09]

SDF continues offensive against IS affiliates in Yarmouk valley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgQZAeGdCRg#
pic.twitter.com/wRxNwcq4yZ

[CrowBat]

Iranian proxies kidnapped Turkish workers in Iraq back in 2015 to be used in talks over 2 of the Syrian towns involved in the Qatari case. http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/20...orkers-in.html

Guess, nowadays nobody recalls Hezbollah hijacking US- and British citizens in Lebanon of the 1980s - and Tehran exchanging them for US arms and spares...

[Azor]

BUT as long as it takes a single C130 to deliver it and that C130 is not a noted breaker of a solid ADA2 environment ....

Even those that it is suppose to "impress" know it's main weaknesses.....last time I checked IS did not have a sophisticated ADA2 environment over AFG....

At least the Daisycutter was used to open up Landing Zones for troops...but again also never used in a heavy ADA2 environment...

In fact the largest Russian thermobaric weapon is far more effective...against cave environments than is the MOAB...

The heavier MOP can be delivered by B-2. I'd trust that after some minor modifications, the MOAB could be delivered by B-2s as well.

Are you really bringing up the FOAB? Who really knows if it works as advertised.

[Azor]

Russia throwing Assad to the wolves? State media now reporting Syria dictator has hidden chemical weapons storage
http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=2877991&2877991#

Signs show Russia increasingly fed up with Assad
http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/syria/1.783432

Which was the point I was trying to make earlier, that you had discounted. But I suppose that Haaretz is more incisive than Galeotti, Kofman or deductive reasoning.

[OUTLAW 09]

Which was the point I was trying to make earlier, that you had discounted. But I suppose that Haaretz is more incisive than Galeotti, Kofman or deductive reasoning.

Again you do not get it....this was IMHO another well thought out Russian deflection to appease Trump of sorts....

Putin might in the end abandon Assad BUT he will not abandon Syria...where he has to a large degree "won" a major FP victory over what he thinks is a superpower the US giving him equal bragging rights....a naval base...two airfields and three other bases inside Syria...parking him next to Iran allowing him to defend Iranian interests and able to influence Israel...and the Med and gives him a springboard to Libya.

Not counting courting of Turkey and parking himself on the NATO southern flank.....

So again If he abandons Assad...the person replacing him will be of Russian choice again also backed by Iran..

Sometimes I post articles that lend themselves to deeper thoughts other than their titles....

The article could have easily said I am ditching support for the leaders of the DNR and LNR.....which might be a great article title but does not really reflect Putin's geo political goals...in his political war with the West led by the US.

1. damage and discredit NATO
2. damage and discredit EU focusing on Germany
3. disconnect the Us totally from NATO/EU and kicked out of ME.....

If you seriously look that these three critical geo political goals Putin all in all is not doing to badly....

Massively helped along the way by Obama and now Trump.....

[OUTLAW 09]

Azor...you made a previous comment which I responded to about possible division of Syria and I argued get rid of Assad and his criminals and if one really reads the FSA government proposals for an after Assad there is a true possibility of a reuniting of Syria...the sectarian divisions between true Syrians are not that badly damaged...

BUT the Kurds and Iran are creating far deeper ones right now....

Key point is yesterday's SVIED attack on the ethnic cleansing convoy of Shia...they were actually under the protection of HTS and Sham who both spent a large amount of time making sure they had food and water and security and they themselves were targeted as well....

Assad refused medical assistance to "fellow Shia"...Sunni HTS/Sham then organized their own ambulance services and got many to Sunni aid stations..fought the resulting car fires and did what was humanly possible for the victims...with AK47s slung over their shoulders barrels downward....

REMEMBER Assad did nothing for this convoy with many are saying it was deliberately held up to allow for a SVIED attack by IS....

DO I need to repost all the articles on the "closeness of Assad and IS"?

Unfortunatelty, some proAssadists go as far a cropping out a White Helmet to "prove" the Syria Civil Defence wasn't helping at the scene of the car bomb.

Aleppo: Video shows first responders, overwhelmed with feelings, trying to rescue wounded children after the horrific bomb attack today.

Devastating photo @AbdHabak - Syrian videographer next to the charred body of a child. 39 children out of 70 killed by suicide bomber

[OUTLAW 09]

Azor..do I need to comment on this..says it all and from the ME...

Al Jazeera English
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@AJEnglish
Opinion: Donald Trump's Wag the Dog moment
"Bombs away"
http://aje.io/5fg9

BTW..well worth reading it especially the charts on use of propaganda

QUOTE:
The enemy commits torture, atrocity, and murder because he is a sadist who enjoys killing.

We use surgical or strategic violence only because we are forced to by the enemy.

As a popular passion-producer, experience indicates that there is nothing quite like the atrocity story.

In general, you should seem to prove what people already want to believe, and to justify what they already want to do.

Trump followed this to the T.....

[OUTLAW 09]

This chemical use by rebels myth was started by Russian Today and Sputnik International....

Pro-regime Hama network says area hospitals must be on standby and prepared for possible chemical weapons attacks by rebels

Several reports in Assad regime media about possible chemical attacks in rebel-held Ghouta, #Damascus and east #Hama

Damascus/#Hama: #Assad regime media are talking about chemical attacks that could happen in Eastern #Damascus or #Hama soon.

Just in from a FSA activist...A massive media campaign by D regime's media about a plan 4 a chemical attack on al-Ghouta #Damascus they usually do it to cover their Plans



So if we use the so called "Russian reverse mirroring concept" fist seen used by the Russians in Crimea and eastern Ukraine...meaning everything I claim others are doing IS exactly what I am doing...THEN more chemical attacks are coming.....

If the stories of Assad still controlling tons of CWs are in fact true then we just might see a massive widespread CW attack occur....

Militarily Assad is barely hanging on and a CW attack on their areas might be envisioned as an effective way to force the rebels to give up....

[OUTLAW 09]

Idlib: The same situation in #Tarmala in #Idlib Province. #Russia|n airstrikes with thermite bombs have set the village on fire.

Incendiary cluster munitions attacks are now being used to simply burn sunni rebel towns and villages to the ground......

Total violation of International Humanitarian Law AND Trump ignores it.....

Well "Wag the Dog" with his TLAM strike appears to be valid here now....

Hama: 30+ #Russia|n airstrikes with thermite bombs have hit #Lataminah in Northern #Hama so far. Town is burning.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35...2581&z=13&m=b#

AND these attacks are not deliberate?????

Assad scumbags celebrating #Russia|n & #Assad airstrikes against innocent civilians tonight.

SO where is that fearless US leader willing to toss TLAMS into Syria in the defense of civilians being attacked by chemical weapons and incendiary munitions count as chemical weapons under IHL....

WHERE is he...off playing this 18th day of golf at the taxpayers expense...USSS has spent already 35,000 USDs just on golf cart rentals.....