With the Arab League’s observer team expected any day, violence continues to soar in Syria, and opposition groups are claiming a massacre took place in the village of Kfar Owaid, where tanks and machine gun fire targeted masses of people, killing more than 100.
The violence is just part of a pattern of rising violence across the nation, with attacks on civilians and military defectors bringing the toll to an estimate 300 killed in the three days since the Arab League deal was announced.
Over 100 people were reported slain on the first day, also mostly in the Idlib Province near the Turkish border, where troops attacked large numbers of defecting soldiers. Members of the Syrian military were attacked and killed yesterday in the far south, where a defector faction launched an attack of their own.
This is the second time Syria has agreed to the Arab League’s deal to send monitors, and the first agreement also was followed by a massive escalation in attacks on protesters, and subsequently the deal was called off. Whether the current deal will survive or not remains to be seen.
Oh yeah, another "massacre…"
Just like Racak in Kosovo…where Serb security forces supposedly "massacred" 50 or so "civilians…"
All this in the middle of an armed insurrection by KLA separatists…
Here is the LA Times report linked to by this newswriter (rewriter?)…
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2011/12/21/232083…
Notice that even this MSM report is far more circumspect and notes that there is no independent corroboration of what the "opposition" are saying…and that the deaths were the result of "clashes" with armed groups…
Also that the Syrian government made many arrests and seized large caches of weapons…
Sound like quite the "pro-democracy" demonstration…no…?
And speaking of which…whatever happened to the "pro-democracy" demonstrators in Syria…?…that was the story for months wasn't it…?
Ahh but now we have transitioned into the next stage of propaganda…the storyline now is no longer pro-democracy "demonstrators" but massacres of opposition groups who are "resisting" the government…
What a stinking pile of manure we are being treated to here at Antiwar.com…
The real story, that the US (along with its Sunni proxies in the area, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, etc) is inciting sectarian war by funding and arming extremists to carry out terrorist acts inside the targeted country, Syria…
What should be the topic of discussion here is how the US is a sponsor of terrorism…and not for the first time either…having created and funded the terrorist KLA, the Chechen terrorists in Russia, the Benghazi terrorists in Libya (most of them card-carrying Al Qaida members)…the Uighurs in China, the MEK in Iran, various terror groups in Pakistan… and on and on…
But no we will never see some digging into the real issues here on this website…instead we get a regurgitated version of the imperial storyline that is even more skewed than the MSM…which to its credit is actually starting to show a little journalistic integrity…
SHAME SHAME SHAME
Well, I see that the brave Syrians' names are being dragged thru the mud by the loving Left already. What a surprise! If I had my way, I'd round them all up and exchange them for the population of each and every country from Libya to Cuba and in between, where they uphold the dictators in such high esteem. After a couple of years, I'm willing to bet that their minds (if they're still alive) will be quickly and radically changed.
As for the people of Syria, I have nothing but respect and admiration for them just like the ones in the other Arab countries that have had the courage to rise against tyranny. All the efforts of the misguided Left could never mud the courage of these people who put themselves on the line for what they believe in. But they sure can put their tongue out there on behalf of the propaganda put out by the very dictators who are oppressing and massacring their people. If only these idiots would ever recognize that the enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend. But we can hope.
"thedissenter,"
I don't think it's the "loving Left" doing this. more likely Assad has some kind of "flood sites with pro-regime spam" operation.
The loving left is notorious for standing up for dictators and criminals for as long as they talk the anti-imperialist talk, particularly on this site and Information Clearinghouse. They're stupid that way and their level of (self) brainwashing and cognitive dissonance is every bit comparable and as toxic as that of the right wing.
With all due respect, your view that the Syria rebellion is against “tyranny” is simplistic and not factual…
A plurality of the Syrian people support the government, as evidenced by massive pro-government rallies that have dwarfed any opposition marches…
An outright majority of Syrian people are squarely against the violent path chosen by the rebels and agitators…like most ordinary people they want to live in peace and security…
Easy for you talk about how “brave” these Syrians are…sitting safely in your home and having never seen civil strife, much less felt it on your skin…
And those “brave” Syrians you are applauding are a handful of violent extremists who have sold themselves to foreign agents and are inciting an armed rebellion that the majority of their countrymen squarely oppose…
I point to the example of the Syrian crowds that ransacked the US embassy, forcing the so-called ambassador (who is nothing but a sponsor of terrorism) to flee for his rat life…
Those are the real brave Syrian people…
Sure, a self-imposed butcher who slaughters his people on a daily basis for years just like his daddy did before him, that's really complicated and only for paid brainiacs like yourself to not understand. Now, got some place else where you can pawn your sh*t like, say, the Jerusalem Post? I bet they'd love you there.
It truly does take a special kind of monster (and by "special" I mean as in retarded) to condone and justify the slaughter of civilians, particularly, women and children, apparently, it's not all that hard for you.
Shame, shame, shame…on you!
Oh and by the way, why don’t you print your real name…?
You might be taken more seriously…
Bob Smith. Happy now? BTW, why don't *you* "print your real name," Argonut?
Jesus Effing Christ…you must be an avid FAUX News watcher.
That’s pretty funny…not to mention paranoid…
I live in Ontario Canada and have never been to Syria or the Mideast, yet I am supposedly part of some “Assad operation…”
As an ordinary citizen my interest is simply respect for truth and opposition to needless war and instigation of civil and sectarian war through mass propaganda…in which this website seems to be participating…
But now that you mention some kind of “spam” operation…it is a known fact that the US and Israel employ massive numbers of online “activists” to make pro-war noise and spout the propaganda lie…but I’m sure you are well aware of that…
Too bad they are mostly brain dead morons and their online yapping is like confetti in the breeze…zero effect…
Speaking of paranoid…how many posts did you make spewing lies, condoning murder and justifying war crimes while attacking the messenger because you don't like the message? Is that not a classic sign of paranoia, Argonut? As for the spamming, etc., yeah, at 25 cents per post, you just made about a buck on this site alone. Just figer…and you can't even type straight.
Shame, shame, shame…on you! indeed.
Ad-hominem attacks do not reflect well on those who use them.