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Friday, October 12, 2012

Allahu Akbars attack helicopter dropping bread to Syrians sandwiched between them and Assad's army


The vid's description says: A Syrian military helicopter drops bags of bread over areas of civilians besieged by the Turkish sponsored FSA terrorists and the terrorists attack the copter trying to drop it.



From the Economist:
....In a war which neither side is decisively winning,   small victories are much vaunted. The rebels seeking to overthrow the regime of President Bashar Assad have been cheered by a rash of bombings of security headquarters in Damascus, the capital, and Aleppo, the second city, including on October 9th a building that houses the air-force intelligence centre in the capital. Bolstered by their success at taking an increasing number of border crossings with Turkey, the rebels have made small but steady advances on the ground, especially in the north-west. Most recently they have forced the regime to abandon a string of checkpoints in and around Marat Numan, a town in Idleb province that straddles the main Damascus-Aleppo road. Rebels in this area control swathes of land up to the border with Turkey...

At the end of last month the Free Syrian Army (FSA), the rebels’ proclaimed umbrella organisation, moved its headquarters from Turkey into Syria. The Farouq brigades, one of the largest rebel groups in the country, have now set their eyes on Raqqa, a hitherto relatively quiet northern province to the east of Aleppo......

.....Rebel leaders concede that they may have been premature in sending their fighters to attack the regime’s forces in Damascus and Aleppo. Crimes by the rebels, some of whom have killed captives in cold blood, has become commoner. Salafist and jihadist groups, espousing a more sectarian attitude to the conflict, have become more prominent, causing unease among the rebels. Suicide-bombings, such as one on October 9th claimed by Jabhat an-Nusra, the most prominent jihadist group, have become more frequent. Civilians who at first had no truck with the Assad regime have become warier of the rebels.....

....In Aleppo, as in other cities, numerous brigades, as the rebels’ various fighting groups are called, remain outside any overall command. Louay Sakka, a member of the Washington-based Syrian Support Group that backs the rebel groups, says that further unification is unlikely until the rebels’ foreign backers, mainly in Qatar and Saudi Arabia, decide to channel their funds through designated regional military councils, which might then be better able to draw smaller groups into a single command.....

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