Flights are being cancelled to the Syrian capital city of Damascus today as a major battle rages just outside of the airport and communication with the outside world has been all but cut off by the loss of Internet and phone service.
The Free Syrian Army (FSA) fired mortars at the airport runways, according to early reports, and say they have been planning the attack for a “long time” aimed at capturing it outright. Syrian troops have deployed to contest the raid.
The loss of the Internet nationwide is something of a mystery, and while the US is blaming the Syrian government for doing so, supposedly to hurt rebel communication, the government has never made such a broad move beforehand, and Syrian state media is reporting that it is the result of a terrorist attack, promising that engineers would repair the outage as soon as possible.
Syria had previously made isolated regional cuts lasting no more than an hour during specific operations but never anything close to shutting the whole nation’s Internet down. Since US officials have been pumping communication equipment into the nation’s rebel fighters’ hands it isn’t clear that the move would impact the rebels at any rate.
Technology experts suggest that the outage could indeed be physical, and all attempts to connect to Syrian IPs are simply timing out. Giving Syria’s limited Internet infrastructure, this could be accomplished by physically cutting a few cables, which may lend credence to the claims of sabotage.
"…the US is blaming the Syrian government…"
…so we can therefore be virtually certain that the Syrian government is not the perpetrator…
The U.S. has been the prime force behind this devastation. It is an outrage and real stain on the honor of the nation. The Administration, is responsible, including apparachiks like Clinton, Rice, Feltsman, Ford and Panetta, and there will most assuredly be blowback for decades. How our government could have done this and even contemplated doing this is beyond belief.
The barbarian regimes of saudis and United Arab Emirates trying to sacrifice Syria for the sake of Israel, they rather have a long war killing thousand upon thousands of the Syrian people and others, yet voting for Palestinians rights to regain their homes, look, this is an exchange, syria for palestin, syria for king of saud, syria for king of uae, these regimes fightin the Syrian people to save their dictatorial tyrant regime, an Stone Age regime supporting all kind of terrorists to keep the terrorist state of Israel where U.S is helping out, to keep these barbarians a life.., U.S needs keep on doing what is best at, a falsified democracy with a double standard and double moral politics toward nation in Middle East.., at least Trukey hade enough duck to call Israel a terrorist state, these tyrants not even have enough courage to use such word.
This jus beginning, the state of Palestrine is not created yet, the enemy of the Palestinians among others are Saudis an UAE, they are the one that fir last 60 years been playing with Palestinians life's in hands of a apartheid, fascist regime, not the Syrian people, it is these barbarians Islamic terrorist entities whic is the cause of Palestinians losing their homes, not the Syrians, and Obama knows that, but is to much for him to digest the fact that theses dictators are the biggest us war machinery customers.
All these actions of "rebels" appear to be designed to cause maximum MEDIA damage, downing the Internet connection and showing up near various airports will create the perception of an actual organized taking over, a classical coup (taking over media and airports). It's this appearance which needs to be created for especially foreign media not as much to impress the international community but instead using the undeserved credit of the major foreign media outlets to cause more volunteers to join the various militias and/or to get pro-Assas people to flee or switch sides as they don't want to be found at the wrong end of things – it's all risk assessment in the end. As for the actual situation, there do not appear to be many credibal reports which can be assessed properly so one can only reconstruct from bits and pieces.
Notice how Jihadis are "militants," "extremists," and "terrorists" in Gaza, Iraq and Lebanon…
…but the same bearded "Allah akhbar"-shrieking freaks are suddenly "rebels" when fighting in Syria. Until they down an Israeli airliner with those new SAM's or turn their car bombs on the IDF; then they'll no doubt be terrorists again.