With the Syrian government seemingly eager to spread the rebels thinner and thinner by ceding remote areas that were only sparsely defended, they have remained determined to keep hitting those areas after they change hands.
Usually this means air strikes, but with a lot of territory to cover and a lot of rebel targets to hit, the Syrian military has reportedly fired at least six Scud missiles against different targets.
The US is warning that this is a significant new escalation, and also cites the use of barrel bombs, barrels filled with explosives and metal and dropped from attack helicopters as improvised bombs.
But while there is certainly escalation ongoing in the fighting, the shift to ballistic missiles may simply reflect how much bigger the battlefield is getting as the rebels move into the far east, and the regime may simply be pushing their air forces to the limit.
Jason.., that's the reason for parties involved wanting to have a political solution rather then continuing with their stupidity, meanwhile if they can they would continue with training the other stupids to continue with the war getting killed. The Syrian army thus far been using only 1% of its capacity, this is just the beginning, that is to say..,if these rebels and other barbarians want to continue with their stupidity, then let them do that…, look: Hillary Clinton lost.., so as Barack Hussein Obama and that Swedish Neo fascism and the English one as well.
Seemed to recall, in the first 'gulf war,' Iraqis were buried alive by tanks. Then we heard, in case we were shocked, 'there's no nice way to kill people.' Now low-lifes in DC take anybody else's way to kill people as a significant-new-escalation? This is what we get for failing to hang 'em long ago…
Actually the scuds should be fired to Washington, the Pentagon,Qatar and the Saudis who are sending their guerrilla mercenaries to murder Syrians and are damaging houses and key civil infrastructure in Syria !
But US people would not understand this because of the total censorship about the NATO planning and conducting of this hidden war.
See "key reasons behind Syria war" or something like this at http://www.08oo.wordpress.com
The brainwashed extremist Islamists are actually innocent children believing in lies about a brutal dictator- which is in reality like a lamb and his wife like an real angel. Both are loved (!) by the huge majority of Syrians.
This is absurd. The American "regime" reserves unto itself any evil to be used when, wherever and however it wishes, but woe to anyone it paints as "evil". To be honest it's like getting a badge of honor to be warned by the Devil himself.
I'm sure this pseudo "peer pressure" of: 'doing the right thing' means nothing to decisions makers in the Assad regime…they are much smarter than this, and obviously much closer to the "reality" of the 'situation'. This is all part of a cynical narrative by the Obama Administration to confuse simple minded people, like Ditz, and is primarily for domestic consumption… The Obama Administration virtually never condemns the car bombs of the 'terrorist' "rebels"…I'm not going to hash all that out, because it's all unimportant at this point…
Anyway…If the Obama Administration, and all, thinks the Syrian military is wasting "ballistic" missiles on the "almighty rebels" who are supposedly "closing in"…yet again…I guess there is one way to find out… One thing is for sure, the "systems" seem to work….
"Obama Administration officials said", "Administration officials said","State Dept spokesperson said"
Heck, this is in the NYT of all places.
Is there any confirmation of this story from reliable sources who are not proven to be constant liars?
Without outside interference from the US and its ME client regimes this war would have been finished a long time ago.
Pat Lang website exposes the SCUD report is a lie
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyranni…
That was strange. I'd thought 'scuds' were already militarily passe 20+ years ago when they were big news; poor guidance/precision, useless except as 'gestures'… the point of calling 'em scuds is probably the psychological link to Saddam Hussein(?) Nice link you gave.