It’s time to face the truth: with no incentives on the table
and no threats, the truce in Syria never had a chance, and was nothing more than
a piece of political theater staged for the benefit of indifferent and impotent
international audience. The “truciness” of it is all too evident.
Sunday October
28, 2012
Today’s
Death toll: 119. The Breakdown: Toll includes 15 women and 14 children: 56 in
Damascus and suburbs, 27 in Idlib (most in Barrah massacre), 13 in Aleppo, 10
in Homs, 6 in Deir Ezzor (most in Mayadeen), 2 in Daraa and 2 in Hama (LCC).
The LCC reports that
over 70 loyalist soldiers in Idlib Province surrendered themselves to Turkish
border guards.
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More than at any time in recent years,
Hezbollah is facing scrutiny inside Lebanon, even from some once-loyal backers,
mostly because of increasing signs that it has become a partisan in a Syria
conflict that has become deeply divisive in Lebanon.
Some 200 people were captured, all but
20 of them by the rebels, the Observatory said. Residents said some 200 rebels
had moved in to the area on Thursday, announcing they had come to spend the
Muslim holidays of Eid al-Adha, starting the next day, in the neighbourhood.
In a two-hour and 12-minute video
posted on Islamist websites on Wednesday, Ayman al-Zawahri also called U.S.
President Barack Obama a 'liar' and 'one of the biggest supporters of Israel.'
Another failed ceasefire in Syria once
again demands new ways to end the violence. Perhaps the truth-telling tactics
of the opposition in YouTube videos can help hollow out the lies of the Assad
regime so that his remaining support collapses.
The truce was called as the two sides
were battling over strategic targets in a largely deadlocked civil war. They
include a military base near a main north-south highway, the main supply route
to Aleppo, Syria's largest city, where regime forces and rebels have been fighting
house-to-house. It appears each side feared the other could exploit a lull to
improve its positions.
Award-winning cartoonist, brutally
beaten by Al-Assad's thugs over a year ago, continues to create images of
defiance
Ammar Abdulhamid & Khawla
Yusuf: The
Shredded Tapestry: The State of Syria Today
Video Highlights
MiGs and Sukhoys resume pounding Damascus Suburbs http://youtu.be/zHQjzeIbMcM , http://youtu.be/7WsXv7Fi7zU Saqba
http://youtu.be/csu38cFhdGg , http://youtu.be/SkEZw8RiGzc Pounding by
heavy artillery also took place in Douma http://youtu.be/LHrFF3ksqOY
First, it was the pro-Asasd militias cursing freedom in their slogans.
Now, we have rebels doing the same. In this video from a Damascene suburb, a
small rally by Islamist protesters features shouts of “Toz Toz to Freedom, we
want an Islamic Caliphate.” Toz is an Arabic for fart, and has been used by
Qaddafi to address the Libyan people shortly before his demise” http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=293113190789402
Protesters also say they want “the rule of the Quran,” and “Toz to peaceful struggle.”
Leaked video shows TNT barrels carried in helicopter gunships
before they were dropped http://youtu.be/FpZTOKJmji4
Col. Abduljabbar Al-Oqaidi shows off some of the improvised
weapons used by rebels in Aleppo Cityn http://youtu.be/UK-O7BNAKj8
What happened in Ashrafiyeh, Aleppo City http://youtu.be/z_V5b92uOxc Kurdish
demonstrators demanding departure of Islamist rebels from their neighborhood soon
came under fire from some of the rebels. Rebels present in the neighborhood
were mostly members of Jabhat Al-Nusrah and Aharah Al-Sham, known for their
Al-Qaeda sympathies. Both groups have Islamist Kurdish fighters in their ranks
as well. As such, the scene involves an Arab-Kurdish struggle as well as an
intra-Kurdish struggle.
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