At least 100 people were killed across Syria today, including a large number of defectors from the nation’s military, as the Assad regime signed a deal with the Arab League to allow international monitors into the nation.
The largest incident in the nation was in the Idlib Province, along the Turkish border, where a group of military defectors was caught trying to flee their base and was attacked with machine gun fire. Reports say at least 72 were killed.
Syria has reportedly lost over 15,000 soldiers to defection over the past few months, with large numbers of them ending up in paramilitary groups attacking the regime. Other attacks in the nation were reported around the city of Homs, as well as against protesters in Idlib, with an estimated 28 civilians slain.
This marks the second time that an agreement with the Arab League on monitors has been immediately followed by a massive escalation in violence. Last time, the regime backed off and blocked the monitors, but it remains to be seen if they will follow through this time.
The Arab League "monitors" are a Trojan Horse whose purpose is not to help keep the peace, but to incite more violence…
Just like Kosovo, where Milosevic allowed so-called OSCE monitors in, who turned out to be Nato operatives well drilled in agitation and subversion…predictably, the violence of the KLA insurgents immediately spiked with the arrival of the "monitors…"
Same thing will happen here…
Also see that this news writer (rewriter…?) continues to talk about "civilians" slain by security personnel…
Could we see some pictures please…?…I don't think that is too much to ask considering this website has been running this same storyline every day for months…without one shred of photographic evidence…
What we do see in news pics from the MSM is scenes of rebellion in the streets…fires, barricades, etc…That is hardly peaceful protesting now is it…?
What do you think would happen here if the Occupy folks started hauling in boulders to block off streets and lighting bonfires in the middle of the road…?
They were violently rounded up and prevented from carrying on their demonstrations, despite the fact that they were 100 percent peaceful…?
It is completely unacceptable to keep harping about Syrian crackdown on "protesters" when this is not the actual situation in the country…which is seeing massive foreign manipulation and arming of violent and extremist groups who are a tiny minority in the country…
The vast majority of the country's population are squarely AGAINST these so-called "protesters" and "activists…"…as demonstrated by massive popular demonstrations in the Syrian capital Damascus, with crowds of hundreds of thousands rallying in support of their beleaguered government…
Yet here we have antiwar.com squarely behind this quite obvious operation of violent regime change orchestrated by Washington and its regional vassals…
Harping endlessly about some kind of wrongdoing by the Syrian government, while saying nothing about the dirty game of the insurgents and their foreign backers…
Really thisis beyond DISGRACEFUL for a supposedly antiwar website…
Good point. Also note the fact as reported in the Turkish press which Sibel Edmonds revealed last week or about 2 weeks ago that NATO have set up a training camps for militants in Turkey to launch a full scale assault on Syria.
http://youtu.be/XNzSmIdr3JY
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2011/12/15/syria-…
This is the exact same thing they did and do use against Russia which they were running a terrorist training camp in the North of Turkey which was connected to the main camp in Khost in Afghanistan until 9/11. Now they just run it directly through the Panski Gorge in Georgia.
And right here on this website we have today an excellent commentary from former CIA officer Philip Giraldi…
"CIA analysts are skeptical regarding the march to war. The frequently cited United Nations report that more than 3,500 civilians have been killed by Assad’s soldiers is based largely on rebel sources and is uncorroborated. The Agency has refused to sign off on the claims. Likewise, accounts of mass defections from the Syrian Army and pitched battles between deserters and loyal soldiers appear to be a fabrication, with few defections being confirmed independently. Syrian government claims that it is being assaulted by rebels who are armed, trained, and financed by foreign governments are more true than false."
So the CIA says the UN numbers are bunk…?…well they should go and ask Jason Ditz for the "true scoop" since he knows better…
Same thing for the massive defections…more bunkus…
Seems what we have is just what many of the readers here have been saying all along…a handful of foreign sponsored extremists using violence to provide a fig leaf for US-led intervention on "humanitarian" grounds…
PLEASE ANTIWAR…ENOUGH BS ALREADY…GET REAL OR JUST SHUT UP…