Syrian government troops are advancing apace in the city of Homs, looking to break a lengthy stalemate in a city which has been contested off and on for over a year, and advancing into some neighborhoods that have been dominated by the rebels for that whole period.
The increasingly rebels are reporting that they are running out of arms and supplies, which is par for the course, and are demanding an immediate influx of arms from the United States and Europe to keep the city from falling back under government control.
While all the predictions of doom aimed at selling the US on arming them is nothing new, rebels are also showing videos of themselves with explosive belts pledging to detonate if the mosque that is at the center of the city falls to the government.
The rebels are citing the lack of arms from the West and the lack of support from other rebel factions elsewhere in the country behind this desperate measure, saying that these are increasingly the only weapons that they have left, and vowing to detonate them against troops as the center of the city falls.
The two sides have been trading artillery fire for months, and reports on the ground are that massive amounts of damage have been done to the city, with over 60 percent of the buildings destroyed or too damaged to safely occupy. Once a city of 650,000 people, Homs like faces a long period of reconstruction if and when the fighting ends.
Poor desperadoes – all citizens escaped, houses demolished, nothing to rape, no beheadings, nothing left to loot …
Antiwar will sent them some money, weapons and virgins…
It would have been 100 times worse if america/nato had their way as they did to Libya destroyed it utterly as they did to Iraq.
Why are the rebels so dumb. Even if they win (whatever winning is) Israel and US along with some pea brained Arab states will finish them off with minimal pretext.
Offcourse those calling for suicide bombing won't be first in line further proof of how the gullible are being used. Biggest crime of all rests with Obama. He could have been anything as President instead he will go down as easily the worst as well as the biggest hypocrite of all time.
There will come a time in the not too distant future that america will suffer the same fate metered out to hapless nations.
When I read stories like these where the rats are being systematically wiped out I am overcome with feelings of joy. These uncompromising human rodents need to be taught a lesson and the Syrian Army has class in session. I hope the Syrian army is wise enough to understand that these animals cannot be negotiated with and will only revert back to their terrorist ways as soon as they have the opportunity….they should be wiped out….every single last one of them. Then and only then can the rebuilding process begin. Go Assad…best of luck to the brave Syrian Army…to hell with those 1st century barbarians.
These barbarians have nothing new and presenting nothing new, they have done the same for years blowing theirselves up trying to get to heaven. They have lost the war so they are revenging for their loses.