Coming under increased scrutiny, rebels prove no less
fractious than the traditional political opposition. Much of their
fractiousness, however, can be traced back to continued dabbling by said
opposition, as well as the shifting demands and whims of external sponsors. Still,
and so many reporters embedded with them have reported, the rebels’ daily
experiences with death and suffering make them far more reliable as partners, especially
when they work in cooperation with local political activists.
Sunday October
7, 2012
Today’s
Death toll: 121. The Breakdown: toll includes 7 children and 3 women. 62 in Damascus
and Suburbs (38 found field-executed in Hameh), 23 in Aleppo, 15 in Homs, 8 in
Idlib, 7 in Hama, 3 in Daraa and 3 in Deir Ezzor (LCC).
News
Special
Reports
Amid the hodgepodge of groups that
make up the armed opposition to Bashar Assad, one organization is coming
dramatically to the fore
Across from Hermel and inside Syrian
territory, a string of villages inhabited by Lebanese Shiites has been clashing
with majority-Sunni villages that back the opposition in the countryside of
Qusayr, on the outskirts of Homs. There have been a series of tit for tat
kidnappings between the groups, and some have suggested that Hezbollah is
providing military support to the Shiite villagers.
Allowing Syria’s chaos to continue
will damage too many strategic American interests and, perhaps more
importantly, squander an opportunity to affect precisely the kind of change
that will make the world a safer place as America’s ability to “police it”
inevitably fades.
People whose lives have been decimated
by conflict should receive as much assistance as we can give them. Yet
Palestinian refugees from Syria, escaping the same violence, destruction and dangers
and seeking the same protection, relief and refuge as their Syrian
counterparts, are being excluded on grounds of nationality.
Ammar Abdulhamid & Khawla
Yusuf: The
Shredded Tapestry: The State of Syria Today
Rania Abouzeid offers another great
article on rebel groups in Syria. With this report, yesterday’s diagram
by the Turkish newspaper Hurrieyt, the New Republic article on rebel
groups, the study on armed
opposition prepared by Joseph Holliday of the Institute for the Study
of war, and my recent report
and op-ed,
a good and accurate picture of rebel groups is finally emerging.
Video Highlights
Shelling leaves many children dead in Ma’arrat Al-Nouman, Idlib
Province http://youtu.be/lfHeK0iJYjw
MIGs continue to pound the suburbs of Eastern Ghoutah, Damascus
Province: Hamouriyeh http://youtu.be/1AvX77CjehU
Pulling the dead from under the rubble http://youtu.be/NeL2H6cidso
Kafar Batna http://youtu.be/0DXpODoI76Q
, http://youtu.be/avwawbqV3v4 , http://youtu.be/OYYC1MU_aTM Saqba
http://youtu.be/F5KxHYXM39M The
nearby neighborhood of Al-Qadam inside Damascus City is also targeted http://youtu.be/U8hUBAihkwY
A video showing Kurdish fighters training to defend
Kurdish-majority towns in Syria, to which they refer as Western Kurdistan http://youtu.be/LKU79Uuegys
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