Syria's Assad facing dissent over Deraa crackdown

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So with the same conditions, and their economy suffering, that's when they decided to revolt?

+ the success of surrounding countries

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Assad was reading from the same script as Ben Ali and Mubarak

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...en-ali-mubarak

Is Syria's Assad Cracking?

http://www.theatlantic.com/internati...acking/240710/

Assad's upside down Syria

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth...954612163.html

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http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/me...html?hpt=hp_t2

Also Wednesday, a human rights campaigner from the country told CNN that Syrian workers and students were forced to attend rallies in support of al-Assad this week.
Government workers were ordered to attend the rallies, said Ammar Qurabi, chairman of the National Organization for Human Rights in Syria.

Qurabi provided CNN with a copy of what he said were leaked official government documents saying that government workers who refused to attend would have their pay docked and would be considered absent from work for the day.

CNN could not independently confirm the authenticity of the document. Syria has not responded to Qurabi's allegations.

Qurabi, who is from Syria but is currently in Egypt, says his organization received complaints from dozens of college students across the country that were forced to attend the rallies or face losing academic credits for the year.

Executives of pro-Assad corporations such as Rami Makhlouf's SyriaTel also required employees to attend the rallies by threatening to dock pay, Qurabi charged.

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Arab Spring exposes Nasrallah's hypocrisy

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth...354910596.html

When Hasan Nasrallah came to the defence of Bashar al-Assad's murderous regime in Syria, signs of frailty were all over the old fighter's countenance. He asked Syrians for patience. He admitted mistakes had been made by Syrians in Lebanon. He promised Assad would do reforms. He pleaded for time. Deja vu: For an uncanny moment the Hezbollah fighter sounded and looked like the late Shah of Iran days before his final demise early in 1979: desperate, confused, baffled by the unfolding drama, worriedly out of touch with what was happening around him.

"Hassan Nasrallah," according to an Al Jazeera report on 25 May 2011,"has called on Syrians to support president Bashar al-Assad and enter into dialogue with the government to end weeks of ongoing protests across Syria."

This is a far different cry than when the democratic uprising in Iran started in June 2009 and Nasrallah readily dismissed and ridiculed it as an American plot. These were Arabs up against their corrupt and cruel leaders, not "them Persians" whose money was good but their historic struggles for their civil liberties a plot by the Saudis, the Israelis, and the US.

"Bashar is serious about carrying out reforms," he was now pleading with his audience, "but he has to do them gradually and in a responsible way; he should be given the chance to implement those reforms." When Nasrallah made these remarks more than 1000 Syrian civilians had been gunned down by Bashar Assad's army and security forces, serving the Assad dynasty for about forty years.


Many Syrians have fled the country after a violent crackdown by the government [AFP]
More criminal atrocities were to follow, forcing Syrians to abandon their own homeland and flee to Turkey. The cruel and gruesome torture and murder of Hamza al-Khateeb was still in the offing, where "in the hands of President Bashar al-Assad's security forces," as reported by Al Jazeera, the 13-year-old boy's "humanity [was] degraded to nothing more than a lump of flesh to beat, burn, torture and defile, until the screaming stopped at last."

Nasrallah, who could not care less for such revolting behavior by his patrons, now for second time in a row, was siding with brutal, vicious tyrants and their criminally insane security forces against the democratic aspirations of their people - once in Iran and now in Syria. A "freedom fighter"? Really? What kind of a "freedom fighter" is that? Forget about the Shah, Hassan Nasrallah now sounded more like President Franklin D Roosevelt (FDR) who once famously said about the Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza (1896-1956) that he "may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch." Hassan Nasrallah too did not care if Khamenei and Assad tortured and murdered their own people - so far as they kept him in business.

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Hypocrisy

Nasrallah's predicament with Syria had been moving towards him apace. He has been dillydallying since the commencement of the Arab Spring as to how to calibrate his positions. When Tunisia happened he said,"we must congratulate the Tunisian people on their historic revolution, their struggle, and their uprising."

He thought this was happening only to European allies, and he thought this was good. When Egypt happened, he said, "in Tunis and Egypt, tyrants have gone away... we call on the people of Egypt and the people of Tunis to unite, because division could be a prelude to the resurrection of the ruling regimes." This is when he thought these were happening only to the US allies. Nobody was watching him, but he was already in trouble. How come he never sent any encouraging word to "the people of Iran," when they did precisely what Tunisians and Egyptians had done - rising up against tyranny?

He (and he had his allies on this matter among the leading Arab and non-Arab "left") categorically denounced the Iranian uprising. He sided with identical tyrants like Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarak. He said Iran was in the capable hands of his friend "Grand Ayatollah Khamenei". He did not even blink on al-Manar when he said that. It was payback time for him.

When Libya happened, Hassan Nasrallah said, "a group of young men and women rose and they were faced with bullets; war was imposed on the popular revolution. What is taking place in Libya is war imposed by the regime on a people that was peacefully demanding change; this people was forced to defend itself and war broke out in the east and the west, with warplanes, rocket launchers, and artillery. It brought back to our memory the 1982 invasion of Lebanon and all of Israel's wars. Such serious crimes should be condemned and the revolutionary people of Libya should be helped so as to persevere." How splendid!

But what is the difference between Iranian or Syrian and the Libyan people? In Iran and Syria too: "a group of young men and women rose and they were faced with bullets." Were arbitrary arrest, torture, and even rape not "imposed by the regime on a people that was peacefully demanding change" in Iran and then Syria too? Is Iranian or Syrian blood any thinner than Libyan blood in the mighty warrior's estimation? Is there a word for this barefaced hypocrisy in any language? What sort of "resistance" is this - and resistance to what? Resistance to Israeli expansionism by a band of militant thugs maiming and murdering their own people in Syria and Iran? Is this the choice that our people must make?

When Yemen happened, Nasrallah said, "it is not possible to keep silent about killing and oppressing the demonstrators. We praise the steadfastness of the Yemeni people and their commitment to their peaceful movement, although we know that Yemen is full of weapons." But how come it is possible to "keep silent about killing and oppressing the demonstrators" in Iran? No, sorry, he was not silent at all about Iran. He was positively elated and quite verbose that his dear friend Ayatollah Khamenei had managed to oppress those identical demonstrators. As masses of millions of Iranian were pouring into streets calling the presidential election of 2009 a charade and a fraud, Hassan Nasrallah was quick to congratulate Ahmadinejad, calling the result a "great hope to all the mujahedin and resistance who are fighting against the forces of oppression and occupation". As even more millions of people took to streets risking arrest, incarceration, torture, and even cold-blooded murder, Nasrallah assured the world that "Iran is under the authority of the Wali Al Faqih and will pass through this crisis." He never praised "the steadfastness" of the Iranian people "and their commitment to their peaceful movement." Why? What's the difference between Iranians and Yemenis?


Nasrallah supported protesters in Bahrain but not in Iran or Syria [GALLO/GETTY]
When Bahrain happened, Nasrallah said, "why is the movement [in Bahrain] condemned and the injured accused? Just because they are Shias?... We've always been with the Palestinian people, but the sect of the Palestinian people was never an issue for us. Nobody asked about the confession and sect of the Tunisian and Egyptian peoples; we have an obligation to stand by the downtrodden. Iran stood by the people of Palestine, Tunis, Egypt, and Libya; was this based on secular considerations? I find it very weird to hear some people calling on Egyptians to take to the streets, Libyans to kill Gaddafi, but when Bahrain is involved, their ink dries out, and their voices dampen."

This was indeed very ecumenical of the Hassan Nasrallah. But was his own ink dried and his own voice dampened when Iranians were being clubbed to death, tortured, and even raped by the security forces of his friend "Ayatollah Khamenei?" How come he did not feel obligated to stand by millions of human beings for whom spoke two bona fide Shias, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi? Were they not Muslims, Shias, human beings? And yes, Iranians have "stood by the people of Palestine, Tunis, Egypt, and Libya" - but not because they are Muslim, or Sunnis, or Shias, but based on their shared aspiration for a free and democratic future. Will Hassan Nasrallah have a place in that democratic future, with this kind of record, of siding with criminal thugs that deny and seek to prevent it?

And then Syria happened, and Hasan Nasrallah began stuttering. "First, we should be committed to Syria's stability, security and safety." Syrians' security and safety - or Bashar al-Assad's? Scores of Syrians are being gunned down, tortured, and killed. There is a massive humanitarian crisis on the Syrian-Turkish border, finally forcing Turkey to sever its ties with Syria. Syrians are fleeing their homeland en masse, fearing for their lives from Bashar al-Assad's murderous army. What about their security and safety?

"Second," he said, "We call upon the Syrian people to maintain their regime of resistance, as well as to give way to the Syrian leadership to implement the required reforms and to choose the course of dialogue." Really? Isn't that what Clinton also says about Bahrain? How come if Clinton says it about Bahrain it is bad and imperialistic, but if Hassan Nasrallah says it about Syria it is good and revolutionary - while both Bahrainis and Syrians are being slaughtered by identically corrupt ruling regimes? The magnificent aspect of the Arab Spring is that it exposes the identical hypocrisy of both the US (on Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen) and Hassan Nasrallah (on Iran and Syria).

"Third, we as Lebanese shouldn't interfere in what is going on in Syria, but let the Syrians themselves to deal with the issue." Truly? How come "you as Lebanese" interfere anywhere from Morocco to Iran, from Bahrain to Yemen, but not about Syria? Why? Aren't Syrians humans? If you shoot them do they not bleed? If you torture and mutilate them do they not suffer and die? "Fourth, we should reject any sanctions led by US and the West asking Lebanon to abide by them against Syria, which is the most important goal of [Assistant US Secretary of State Jeffrey] Feltman's recent visit to Lebanon." Why? How come UN resolutions against Israel are good, but UN resolutions against Syria are not good? What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Right?

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Economic crisis looms as political unrest continues in Syria

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english201...c_13946785.htm

"Selling and buying is almost at the zero ... People come to the market just to waste their time," Mohammd Sadek, a clothes seller complained, "All we can do is playing cards with our neighbors."

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Bad Reviews for Assad's Efforts to Win Hearts in Syria: World View

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-0...worldview.html

[SYRIANKID]

Nasrallah has no ********

http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticl...48&MID=0&PID=0

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Syrian airforce accidentally destroys its own barracks in an attempt to kill protesters:

[Hanzala]

Syrian airforce accidentally destroys its own barracks in an attempt to kill protesters:

ALLAHU AKBAR..

Saw this on TV they were blowing it up, and later blamed it on the protesters, luckily they were there to film it.

[MantisShrimp]

Even if the Syrian regime butchers the population into submission, it will be noted that Iran stood by silently and watched (and that's pretending they aren't actively supporting the massacres).

Not only that but recall that they signed a mutual defense pact in 2005

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/feb/17/usa.syria

Assuming this was not annulled, if the Turks carry through on their recent threats, or if some other foreign power invades, Iran is technically required to act, and if they do not, that will also be noted...

Also recall that the Hariri STL indictments are due today or tomorrow...there is speculation that in May of 2011, Syria asked Hezbollah to attack Israel in order to relieve some of the pressure on the Assad regime, and then when Hezbollah declined, they allegedly asked them to assassinate Saad Hariri as an alternate diversion...so it's probably safe to say that Assad and Hezbollah are no longer on particularly good terms, especially given that Hezbollah has no desire to be associated with brutal sectarian repression of muslims.

So in playing by Hama rules without a distracting conflict in Lebanon and the USSR as a wedge as his father did, Bashar is finding himself increasingly isolated. He desperately wants a diversion, and can't get it. Without attacking Israel or Turkey, both of which will end in tears.

Noone ever said he was a political genius, it was his father who was the survivor.

http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/8787/85677180.jpg

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Military defections expose cracks in Syrian army

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...75S5E620110629

[MantisShrimp]

Media flowing out of the country has been dramatically suppressed...
You've been following this, I assume

http://www.********.com/Syrian.Revolution?ref=ts

[SYRIANKID]

Hilarious anti-government protest in Hama, Syria

[SYRIANKID]

Massive anti-government protests in Hama, Syria

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/mi...129878700.html

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Former Syrian Vice-President: Assad’s fall has widespread negative impact on Iranian regime

http://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/iran...iranian-regime

NCRI - Regarding clerical regime’s intervention in the event of military action by the international community in Syria, Abdul-Halim Khaddam, former Syrian Vice-President said that the Iranian regime cannot interfere any more than it is doing now.

Speaking with the al-Arabia TV on Friday, Khaddam said that overthrowing Syrian regime will have a negative and widespread impact on the Iranian regime, because the Syrian regime has made the best opportunities available for the Iranian regime to use for spreading its influence in the countries in the region from Afghanistan to Iraq and Lebanon.

Khaddam added: Regime change in Syria will have very undesirable political consequences for its ally in Iran. The Iranian regime will no longer be able to maneuver in the international circles around the issue of Palestine, Lebanon will be freed from under its influence, and it could not play a role in Iraq anymore.

Nevertheless, Khaddam stressed that the Iranian regime cannot assist Bashar Assad’s regime any more than it has already done.

The Syrian politician mentioned the United Nation’s responsibilities toward the Syrian people and said: The UN is obliged to use all pressure levers for defending the rights of the Syrian people and prevent their killing by Assad’s government.

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The Prophet (pbuh) said:

أفضل الجهاد من قال كلمة حق عند سلطان جائر

The best type of Jihad is to speak a word of truth to a tyrant ruler [Nasa'i]

سيد الشهداء حمزة بن عبد المطلب ، ورجل قام إلى إمام جائر فأمره ونهاه ، فقتله

The master of martyrs is Hamza bin Abdul Mutallib and a man who goes to a tyrant ruler and advises him about good and evil but he kills him because of that [Targhib wal Tarheeb]

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The sermon that caused the syrian government to ban the scholar:

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Analysis: Syria's Assad faces dilemma in Hama

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...7644L020110705

"They are calling for dialogue... and at the same time the Syrian army is at the gates of Hama," said Rime Allaf, associate fellow at Chatham House. "It's the most blatant illustration of just how insincere the regime is about dialogue."


Syrian deserter: 'It was like a war against your own people'

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/07/05/syria.sniper/

"Our officer gave us the order to shoot at the people," the soldier said, in an interview with CNN. "It didn't matter how many people would be killed, the important thing was for the protest to be dispersed."

...

"There is very clear evidence that this is a crime against humanity and its organized and widespread," Tarif said. "There's no mistake here, the orders were to shoot and kill the protesters."

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"They [the officers] were telling us you have to watch this to know that there were infiltrators and a foreign conspiracy and money is being paid to these people to kill civilians and the military and destroy the country."

The soldier said officers distributed leaflets accusing Prince Bander Bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia of leading an alleged plot to destabilize Syria. By late April, when his unit was deployed from Damascus to Daraa, the soldier said he and his comrades were gung ho about protecting their homeland from what they believed to be the enemy.

"When we were traveling from Damascus to Daraa we were singing 'we are going to fight the infiltrators,'" the sniper recalled. "But when we arrived there, we were shocked by the truth. We discovered the government betrayed us."

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Though they were un-armed, the soldier said officers gave the soldiers explicit orders to open fire on the crowd. In the ensuing hail of bullets, the sniper estimated at least 25 people were killed and wounded. Some protesters fought back with rocks.


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The sniper has little doubt what happened to Wael: "If you don't shoot at people, they kill you."

[Judge_Joe_Brown]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14035274

11 more killed in Hama.

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Muslim Scholars' statements about the Caliphate during the uprisings in 2011: Mini Documentary

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Iran and Turkey Circle Syria

http://the-diplomat.com/2011/07/09/i...-circle-syria/

On one side, the Iranian government is offering Assad diplomatic and military support to cling on to power, including sending security advisers, equipment for shutting off the Internet, and forces for brutalizing the demonstrators. Iranian news sources, meanwhile, have also supported Syrian state reports by labelling the demonstrators ‘terrorists.’

On the other side stands Turkey. Its government, which had until recently been close to Assad, is now condemning him. In an interview in early June, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Assad and his brother, Maher, of ‘killing people and then releasing videos of the killings,’ while asking the United Nations to intervene. Other reports noted the Turkish government delivering a warning letter to Assad, asking him to implement reforms and to fire Maher, who is believed by many to be behind the brutal crackdowns. This has occurred against the backdrop of thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing the crackdown to Turkey. Had they crossed into Iran instead, it’s difficult to imagine the Iranian regime doing anything except handing them straight back.

[nitr0x2]

sk have you seen this one?

[SYRIANKID]

sk have you seen this one?

lol awesome satire!

I enjoyed this:

Hilarious anti-government protest in Hama, Syria

By the way, the Syrian government slit the throat of the man who wrote the lyrics above.

[SYRIANKID]

[SYRIANKID]

sk have you seen this one?

Let me translate the lyrics:

Chorus:
*We're gonna fill up the prison cells
We're gonna pile up the detainees
We're gonna empty out our AK-47s (literally our Russian rifles)
For the sake of the Assad nation!*

We are your soldiers oh Bashar!
Standing on your shoes, we are huge
For the sake of your eyes we'll break down our own homes
YOU are democracy!

Wherever you walk and strut
We will bow down to you and kiss the ground
We will squash every spy
Just like wild animals

*Chorus*

We are your lions, don't worry about a thing
We will fill the town squares with blood
Quantity doesn't matter at all
We have quality

Forget freedom, that's all watermelon (rubbish)
It's all a big conspiracy from Mars
We don't have any Hindus or Sikhs
We don't have any Zoroastrians

*Chorus*

Oh our wise leader with a big forehead
I sacrifice my soul and money for you
And for your eyes alone
I'll slaughter my own family with a dagger

God has said: Freedom and that's all
We're going to dice them up like lettuce
They're only about a million spies
They're not even a majority

*Chorus*

Without you we would be humiliated
Climb on my shoulders and peer over
Your news is better than any t.v.
It's exposed the plots of the Salafis!

Terrorists have no solution
We will occupy Deraa for you (And Homs, Idlib, Hama, Latakia, Banias)
We'll never give up or get bored
Until we've reached an all-out genocide!

*Chorus*

Your name is raised up high
Your voice can be heard in the sky
Even if your people die of hunger
We are going to elect you forever!

We don't need more than one opinion
Your light blinds all eyes
You are our legend oh mighty one
You are the king of all humanity!

*Chorus*

[nitr0x2]

lol awesome satire!

I enjoyed this:



By the way, the Syrian government slit the throat of the man who wrote the lyrics above.

I like that one also. Who was the guy who wrote the lyrics and how did they find out who it was?

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I like that one also. Who was the guy who wrote the lyrics and how did they find out who it was?

http://english.alarabiya.net/article...08/156758.html

[chashma1]

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Thank you for updating us SK

[LostInTheKHole]

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Thank you for updating us SK

Shouldn't you go back to gunning down Bahraini protesters like every other Pakistani in Bahrain's security apparatus been doing?