Syrian rebel factions have made much of their offensive against the coastal Latakia Province, the ancestral homeland of President Assad’s family. So far it has meant taking over remote towns along the coast and other relatively unimportant territory.
One big gain came for al-Qaeda’
s Jabhat al-Nusra, which seized the Christian town of Kassab on Sunday, and followed that up by capturing the nearby border crossing into neighboring Turkey. In the offensive they reportedly killed 80 locals and desecrated several churches.
Kassab and its surrounding villages are Armenian Christians, and their value is primarily because of their location near the Turkish border. Rebel factions that control border crossings are not only able to smuggle in arms for themselves, but are able to demand a cut when other factions use those crossings.
The reports of wholesale killings of locals and mass evacuations among the Christian population is in stark contrast to the Christian minorities in the territory of rival al-Qaeda faction al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), which has gotten the Christians to agree to a Jizya tax in return for a promise of protection.
The Turkish government is up to its neck supporting these barbarians and Erdogan knows it, the reason for Erdogan ordering the down Syrian war plane just yesterday is to defend Saudis barbarians to kill and butcher Syrian Christians at Turkish borders with Syria, actually Turkish army, border police and etc can see these barbarians movement without doing anything about it. Erdogan gets his orders from NATO and Saudi Arabia, otherwise he is another modernized Turkish dictator working for head of NATO Rattmussen.
So it turns out that the "less extreme" Al Qaeda-endorsed Al Nusra is in fact more extreme than the Al-Qaeda-denounced ISIS, the former murdering Christians while the latter merely forces them to pay a tax and not practice their religion publicly in return for not being murdered. And our US Government effectively supports both Islamic terrorist groups by welcoming them as allies against the "worst of the worst" — a secular Syrian government which in fact has neither murdered nor extorted Christians at any time in that government's four decades of existence. What a wonderful Government we have!
There is zero evidence from Syria that such a massacre took place. In fact, videos show Islamists protecting the Armenian churches in Kesab. Not even Syrian state television have made such a claim.
The terrorists have not taken the town of Kassab. They have entered some of the surrounding villages. Of course this is all just plain lunacy and idiocy because there is nothing really to gain from entering this region other than causing further destruction to yet another part of Syria. But of course when you have paid mercenaries doing the bidding of their foreign sponsors, the last thing on their mind is what happens to Syria.
The first person president Urkel called with the good news that he was elected the first time was his pal in charge of Turkey. For a little insight into Turkey’s sentiment toward that area, look up something like, “Armenian genocide, 1919, 16 crucified women”. The proverbial “picture worth a thousand words” should be accessible .
Whoever tryes to protect such killings and massacres does not deserve any respect from modern peaceful person. This kind of things should not be happening in XXI century, but they are because countries like Turkey will always be protected and sponsored by money suckers like USA! Shame on all that put money before human lives! As long as countries like US will allow for it, killings won’t stop! I wish Obama’ kids would be in that village, so he knows how it feels! Shame on Turkey, shame on Syria, and shame on USA!