Dark Vader Bashar Assad And His Evil Empire Fighting Back!
A Supplement to the Previous Blog Issued on July 24, 2012.
July 25, 2012
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The rebel forces will eventually win, but Assad’s forces are putting up a whale of a fight because they are fighting for their lives, knowing the Arab practice of retribution being in the form of torture followed by death to the losers. For Assad’s forces it is a fight to the death.
The following Excerpts and Headlines from a wide variety of sources give a vivid picture of the intensity of a full blown civil war.
Gulf News 2012-07-25: Beirut: Violence raged in Syria’s second city Aleppo overnight and into Wednesday morning, as regular troops battled rebels forces, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Britain-based watchdog reported clashes in the district of Bustan Al Qasr in the south of the city, and said government forces used helicopter gunships to strafe neighbourhoods, causing deaths and injuries. Fighting was also reported in the central Al Jamaliya neighbourhood, close to the local headquarters of the ruling Baath party. In Aleppo province, the army battled to retake the rebel town of Al Bab, shelling the area as it tried.
In Syria, ‘No End in Sight’ to Violent Crackdown Against Protests
Syrian activists reported Monday that security forces detained 3000 people in Rastan after a weekend of some of the worst fighting since the uprising began six months ago. Ray Suarez reports on the violent stalemate between the government and opposition.
France242012-07-24
Eight dead in Aleppo prison mutiny
Khaleej Times2012-07-24
Top general, friend of Syrian president, defects
Syrian Conflict Escalates As Aleppo Targeted
Orange News2012-07-24
Feared Fourth Brigade launches new assault on Syria capital
Middle East Online2012-07-22
Feared forces launch new assault on Syria capital
The Star2012-07-22
Syria conflict: Assad troops hit back in Aleppo
BBC News2012-07-25
14 killed in Syria violence on Tuesday: NGO
The Times of India2012-07-24
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J’lem official: Syria unlikely to use chemical warfare
Citing Western intelligence agencies, source says that Syrian regime does not intend to employ chemical weapons, and has taken great care to make sure the ruinous gases don’t fall into Hezbollah hands
Ron Ben-Yishai
The likelihood that Syrian President Bashar Assad would make use of chemical warfare or hand such weapons over to Hezbollah has diminished significantly in recent days, according to a top official in Jerusalem.
Citing data from Western intelligence agencies, the official said that the Syrian regime does not intend to employ the chemical weapons in its possession. Moreover, it is taking great care to make sure that the arsenal doesn’t fall into the hands of any group outside the Syrian army.
Intelligence agencies in the United States, Europe and the Middle East have learned recently that Syria has been transferring the materials used to produce the chemical warheads to bases located far from the sites of the battle between government and opposition forces. The resources are being relocated to bases in the country’s east, to which the rebels and Hezbollah have scarce access.
The authorities are also careful to separate the different materials that go into nerve gas, and store them in bunkers and camps that are located dozens of kilometers away from each other. Therefore, if insurgents do get their hands on some of the chemicals, they won’t be able to compound the ruinous gas.
Syria has produced large quantities of chemical warfare agents, and is also in possession of large stockpiles of mustard gas, which were evidently handed over to Syria by Iraq in 2003.
Heeding West’s warnings
Last week, the Syrian opposition has voiced concern that the Syrian army has begun using these chemical weapons against the rebels. Around the same time, Western intelligence officials have spotted the movement of trucks and logistics units near the bases in the Wadi Khaled region and in the cities of Homs, Hama and al-Safir. The officials postulated that the embattled regime intends to use the chemical agents against opposition forces.
The US was quick to publically warn Syria against using the agents, a sentiment later reiterated by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Less vocally, Russia has urged Assad not to employ the weapons in his arsenal as well.
Israel, in turn, has cautioned Syria not to hand over the chemical agents to Hezbollah; Jerusalem primarily fears that the militant group will take advantage of the chaos in Syria to seize the chemicals even without Damascus’ consent.
Evidently, Damascus has taken these admonitions to heart, taking meticulous measures to protect its chemical arsenal.
Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi’s announcement that the country’s chemical weapons stocks are secure and would only be used in the case of a foreign attack was meant to signal the West that the warnings have been heeded.
Over the weekend, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that Israel is preparing for a possible military intervention in Syria in case Damascus hands missiles or chemical weapons to Hezbollah. On Tuesday, IDF Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Benny Gantz warned, however, that a strike on Syria’s chemical weapon caches could implicate the Jewish state in a major war.
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