Sectarian violence in the Northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli is no closer to ending today, despite the military sealing off most of the major roads and setting up checkpoints between neighborhoods of different religious sects. The death toll is now up to 11.
With that making fighting on the ground more difficult, Sunni militias linked with Syrian rebels have turned to sniper attacks against Alawite neighborhoods, killing several people, including a 13-year-old shot inside his own home.
Opposition MPs are slamming the military for a “lax” response, saying that they aren’t serious about getting the city back under control and insisting they hold the ruling coalition responsible.
The fighting in the city centers on Syria Street, which separates the Sunni neighborhoods from the city’s Alawite minority. The Sunni neighborhoods are home to militias linked with Syria’s rebel movement, and as they have gotten more active the Alawites, who are targeted primarily because they are the same sect as Syrian President Assad, have set up their own armed groups.
What"s the real reason for the Syrian violence? Has it got something to do with the Irianian oil
alliance with Russia&China? We shall know soon,hopelly.
In preparation for the coming War on Iran — on behalf of Israel, of course — the Iran-Syria-Hezbollah linkage must be broken. That will eliminate — when the war is commenced — any threat of Syrian military involvement/retaliation on Israel's northern flank, and will cut off Hezbollah's supply lines.
Eliminating Syrian support for its Iranian ally is the reason that Syria is being sacrificed, reduced to a bloody anarchic hell hole.
Muslims in general and Arab Muslims in particular are the new "n*ggers", "kafirs", "wogs", "injuns" — you know, helpless, and thus contemptible, others — to be summarily robbed or butchered whenever convenient or diverting. And, oh! the audacity!, they sometimes get "uppity" and complain or — unbelievable! — even fight back (hint: the "T" word). Well, then a full-on massacre is called for, so as to remind them that they're just squatters — vagrants, … illegals really — only momentarily trespassing on some piece of White Man's Land. Sadly, they're also congenitally stupid and vicious — dangerous savages really –stubbornly unwilling to learn from their betters.
"The only good Injun is a dead Injun." The only good Arab… Etc.
This sort of criminal racism against The Other has never had a "right to exist", and self-evidently demands condemnation whenever it rears its ugly head..
Once again, the source of the death and destruction is — Cui bono? –the Zionist criminal enterprise working through their Neocon/AIPAC fifth column in the US. (I strongly suspect that both the Syrian "Arab Spring" uprising and the Libyan "Arab Spring" uprising were fomented by the American CIA/Neocon axis. When exactly was the Benghazi compound rented?, and when, and with what mission, did Chris Stevens arrive in Libya?)
Assad has nothing to do with it,…just like Saddam and Gaddafi, before him.
This article is horribly biased. The news articles you linked to say that Alawi snipers have killed Sunnis and Sunni snipers have killed Alawis. According to the Adelaide Now article, "officials say the snipers come from both camps". Yet you name your article "Rebel Snipers Kill Alawites" and ignore violence from the Alawi side.
Most of the dead are Sunni (Not Alawis) – not that this should matter. But it does to matter to the author of the article.