Tunneling attacks seem to be a new favored tactic in northern Syria, as for the second time in a week Syrian rebels have tunneled under an entrenched military position and planted explosives.
Today’s attack claimed Aleppo’s Carlton Citadel Hotel, and badly damaged many historic buildings in the vicinity, according to Syrian state media. Reports say at least 50 soldiers were killed.
Like a lot of big buildings in northern Syria, the hotel had been repurposed into a barracks for military forces fighting to keep the area, and was in the line of fire by rebels trying to expand their hold.
The attack was claimed by the Islamic Front faction, and was mocked by the military, who insisted they had to “use tunnels like rats because they cannot face the Syrian Army.”
God bless Saudi Arabia/Turkey/America a job well done.Thanks
What sources told you 50 soldiers died in the blast at the Carlton? We have our nephew in the Syrian Army in Aleppo as a lieutenant recently released from duty at the Central Prison. He tells my wife that the people killed in the blast were civilians. The Syrian Army does not allow its officers or enlisted men to sleep in such old hotels. Why are you promoting propaganda? Tell the truth about the civilians murdered by Obama’s stinking rats.
[moderator’s note: The story cites its sources. Whether those sources are accurate or not is an open question — but if the Syrian army doesn’t “allow its officers or enlisted men to sleep in such old hotels,” it’s probably the only army in the world that doesn’t (when I was in the US Marine Corps, I was often billeted in barracks dating from the 1917-1945 period, and if we were in an area without base/barracks or there was overflow, the government found the cheapest hotel it could to rent space in) – TLK]
What sources told you 50 soldiers died in the blast at the Carlton? We have our nephew in the Syrian Army in Aleppo as a lieutenant recently released from duty at the Central Prison. He tells my wife that the people killed in the blast were civilians. The Syrian Army does not allow its officers or enlisted men to sleep in such old hotels. Why are you promoting propaganda? Tell the truth about the civilians murdered by Obama’s stinking rats.
[moderator’s note: The story cites its sources. Whether those sources are accurate or not is an open question — but if the Syrian army doesn’t “allow its officers or enlisted men to sleep in such old hotels,” it’s probably the only army in the world that doesn’t (when I was in the US Marine Corps, I was often billeted in barracks dating from the 1917-1945 period, and if we were in an area without base/barracks or there was overflow, the government found the cheapest hotel it could to rent space in) – TLK]