Dr. Landis according to Mishaal Temmo’s son and other Kurdish activists she is alive and well, and that the PYD made up the story of her abduction to stir the pot (he even went as far as calling the PYD the Kurdish counter part of Addunia TV):

سيناريو نوجين ديريك: انها ذهبت لتسليم جثث قتلى الجيش الحر فتم تعذيبها وقتلها من قبل الجيش الحر. هذا هو السيناريو الذي قدمه حزب ال ب ي د

اليوم تبين ان هذا السيناريو كذبة ونوجين ديريك على قيد الحياة. يبدو ان هذا الحزب متأثر كثيرا بقناة الدنيا في اختراع القصص
https://twitter.com/fideltemo/status/264772453652381697

This is confirmed by other Kurdish activists:

It’s “coup de grace” to PYD claims/theatres about unity/protecting Kurds, If it has been confirmed that Nujin Derik is alive.

https://twitter.com/Avend93/status/264786279164674048

(most of the people I know will vote for Obama)
Recent polls show the majority of Arab Americans intend to vote for incumbent President Barack Obama in next week’s election – but some say they have lost faith in the United States’ first black president.
(The US lost 18 long months before it started to understand the reality of the Syrian conflict, I am still not sure how Obama,if reelected, will help Syria if Syrians themsleves are not willing to start talking to each other)

SAMI #1

Thanks for blowing away some of the smoke.

The Kurds have a lot to gain by cleaning out their own house (including external credibility)- and too much to lose if they don’t.

I don’t know whether you saw this article a couple of weeks ago, it talks about the constant see-sawing of internal alliances and antagonisms within their commmnity.

Syria’s Kurds: Troubled Past, Uncertain Future

http://carnegie-mec.org/publications/?fa=49703

SL

thank you for the brilliant article. I would add that to me the majority of the people will go along with any kind of regime because this is the path of least resistence. But mark my words, after the downfall of the regime you wont see anyone who ever supported the Wahash clan, all were used and even those in the muhabarat mafia will claim that they were forced to work there.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=384680641611119&set=a.117471844998668.23576.114744738604712&type=1&theater

Amir, where are you?

4. Juergen

don’t be too hard on the non resisters; except for living in exile they did not have much of a choice. OK, joining the mukhabarat may not have been the only option available but many people were forced to cooperate. I would say half of the population.
When I lived there I trusted nobody.

http://youtu.be/5A-_7QVnWNM

WORDS OF GOLD!!! WORDS OF ABSOLUTE GOLD!!!!!!!!! BY ALLAH SWT THIS MAN SPEAKS HAQQ!!!

أقسم بالله كلامك ذهب يا بطل

TRANSLATION# THIS SYRIAN MAN FROM DEIR EZOUR ON THE BORDERS WITH IRAQ SENDS OUT A MESSAGE TO SAUDI ARABIA AND ALL THE MUSLIMS OF THE WORLD THE AHLUL SUNNAH , FROM THE HEART OF THE BATTLEFIELD YOU CAN EVEN HEAR THE SOUNDS OF THE GUNFIRE IN THE BACKGROUND..

HE SAYS ITS NOT JUST ASSAD SLAUGHTERING US AHLUL SUNNAH IN SYRIA ITS IRAN, HIZBULSHAYTAN, MALAKI OF IRAQ, THEY SEND ASSAD EVERYTHING

IN ARMS AND TROOPS, AND WE HAVE NOTHING BUT ALLAH SWT AND OUR SELVES, WE ARE YOU NOT HELPING US, AREN’T WE YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN ISLAM??? ALL YOUR CHEAP PROMISES MEAN NOTHING TO US, WE ARE FIGHTING FOR ALLAH SWT CAUSE TO BE THE NUMBER ONE IN THIS LAND AND FOR THE ALL OF SUNNAH EVERYWHERE!! THE SHIAS ARE RAPING OUR WOMEN SLAUGHTERING OUR CHILDREN! FEAR ALLAH MUSLIMS!!! WHY DO YOU HAVE ALL THESE TANKS AND WARPLANES ???!! IS IT ONLY FOR PARADES??!! ..BASHAR HAS DONE FAR WORSE THAN HALACO OF THE MONGOLS AND HITLER!!! FEAR ALLAH FEAR ALLAH YA AHLUL SUNNAH WE ARE SUFFERING!!! DONT YOU FEAR ALLAH SWT??!! ARE WE NOT MUSLIMS??!! IVE SOLD EVERYTHING I HAVE EVEN MY WIFES GOLD AND MY DAUGHTERS GOLD JUST TO BUY ARMS AND DEFEND THEM AND THE SISTERS OF SYRIA!!!

Regarding Warren

TARA and all of our colleagues on this post; points on his/her posts are
1. The revolution in Syria is a freedom revolution, with a wide spectrum of people who have not coalesced around a single ideology EXCEPT that the regime must be uprooted because the regime has decided that it wants to ENSLAVE the syrian people.
2. The discussion about the fundamentalist nature of some members of the opposition is a pure DISTRACTION from the point above.
3. It is extremely important to hear the views of those that consider islam itself to be inherently evil; it gives us an idea of the long standing and often unspoken views that many hold regarding muslims and islam.
4. It is extremely important to realize that the first step in massacring a whole population is to dehumanize them and to demonize them subsequently before their slaughter.
5. It is extremely important to read his/her thoughts as it shows a one sided view of history. Lest we forget about the threat to civilization, it is important to remind everyone that from the point of view of the people of the colonies of Western interventions since the 16th century there are numerous examples of unspeakable atrocities
a) there are no natives in Uruguay they were all killed in one single battle
b) Dutch depopulations of whole islands in Indonesia
c) at least a million killed in Vietnam
d) 95% of all German prisoners in the Soviet Union were killed
f) the rape of Nanking and the genocide in Mandchuria
g) the Armenian saga
h) the holocaust of Jews and Gypsies and others including the Slavic people of the European East
i) the cannibals of the crusades in Maarat Al Numaan not due to starvation but for terrorizing the population
j) and yes Muslim atrocities committed throughout the ages

Evil is human and ANY ideology can be used towards EVIL. Today notoriously peaceful Buda followers are killing Rohinghas
k) last but not least, it was two very secular ideologies in the last century that resulted in the worst massacres of oppression of people and on an industrial scale namely Nazi and Communist ideologies.

I also very much like to read WARREN and MAJBALI AND SYRIA NO KANDAHAR for they truly give me at least a very nice glimpse of important views they have of the OTHER.

Cheers

The future of an independent, sovereign country – Syria – is being discussed today by foreign governments in a foreign country…Dukes!

The future of an independent, sovereign country – Syria – is being discussed today by foreign governments in a foreign country…Dukes!

Hollande in Beirut for talks on Syria crisis
http://www.france24.com/en/20121104-hollande-beirut-talks-syria-crisis-sleiman-lebanon-hassan-security-unrest-france?ns_campaign=editorial&ns_source=RSS_public&ns_mchannel=RSS&ns_fee=&ns_linkname=20121104_hollande_beirut_talks_syria_crisis_sleiman&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrEPadG0pQk
SyrianGirl debates FSA on Australian show ‘Insight’

Turkey’s Silent Crisis
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/08/31/turkey_s_silent_crisis

د. وليد أحمد فتيحي

أما في المستشفيات فرأينا الكثير والكثير مما يشيب له الرأس .. رأيت فتاة في الثانية عشر من عمرها اسمها “غفران”، اخترقت رصاصة القنّاصة

ركبتها اليمنى مما سبب لها قطعاً في العصب وشللاً كاملاً من الركبة إلى أسفل الساق تاركاً إياها بعاهة مستديمة، وعلمت آنذاك أن هناك المئات من

مثل غفران، فقنّاصة المجرم بشار يتعمّدون في حالة الأطفال أن يسببّوا لهم عاهات مستديمة ليشغلوا أهليهم بهم عنهم.

https://www.facebook.com/akkadj/posts/368743759876048

وآخر يرقد مشلولاً شللاً كاملاً من الرقبة إلى أسفل القدم .. لا يستطيع إلا أن يحرّك عينيه وشفتيه ويتنفس من خلال أنبوب في رقبته. كان طالباً

للقانون في سنته الثالثة، وله ثلاثة أطفال .. هو الآخر خرج من بيته ليشتري خبزاً أو شيئاً يؤكل عندما بدأ الرصاص يتراشق عليهم، فبدأ هو

وزملاؤه في الهروب ولكن القنّاص تمكّن من أن يهديه رصاصة في عموده الفقري وأخرى في الرّقبة فسقط مشلولاً في لحظته، فحمله أهل الخير

وهرّبوه إلى حدود سوريا ثم إلى طرابلس .. زوجته لم تعلم عنه شيئاً منذ لم يعد إلى بيته، وأخيراً وجدته في إحدى المستشفيات .. تبكي وهي ترى

زوجها في حالته هذه وهو لم يفعل شيئاً إلا أنّه حاول إحضار طعامٍ لأهله.

https://www.facebook.com/akkadj/posts/368743569876067

“Insurgents are Washington proxies. Key NATO partners, rogue Arab League states, and Israel are very much involved.

The same dirty game repeats. Independent states are targeted for regime change. All options are used. They include full-scale war, mass killing, and turning nations into charnel houses on the pretext of liberating them.” – Stephen Lendman, “Nothing Civil about Washington’s War on Syria. US-NATO Violate International Humanitarian Law,” July 17, 2012.
Last week, the US-backed Islamist terrorists in Syria, aka the FSA, attacked a Kurdish neighbourhood in Aleppo, and fired on demonstrators because they were resisting their unwanted presence. The invading terrorists demanded obedience from the Kurds, but what they got instead was fierce resistance.

Bill Van Auken wrote about the battle that followed the FSA’s attack on Kurdish civilians in his article, “Fighting erupts between Western-backed “rebels” and Syrian Kurds”:
The fighting began on Friday after several hundred armed opponents of the Syrian government, dressed in black and wearing black bandanas inscribed with Islamist slogans, moved into the predominantly Kurdish neighborhood of Ashrafiya.

The incursion triggered a demonstration by Kurdish residents of the district, who marched on the positions taken by the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA), demanding that its fighters leave the neighborhood. According to reports, the FSA fighters fired on the demonstrators, killing five and wounding 10 more.

The fighting that followed claimed at least 30 lives, including those of 22 combatants, before the Kurds reasserted control over the district. According to the reports, five Kurdish fighters died in the clashes, with the rest of the fatalities consisting of the Islamist insurgents and civilians.
The Kurdish fighters who drove out the foreign Jihadist terrorists in the FSA belong to the, “Popular Protection Unit (YPG), a Kurdish militia set up to protect the Kurdish areas from opposing forces,” writes Danny Gold in his article, “Meet the YPG, the Kurdish Militia That Doesn’t Want Help from Anyone.” Here is a longer excerpt:
The Kurds, for the most part, have tried to prevent the catastrophic violence of the civil war from entering their region. In Kurdish cities in the northeast, demonstrations against the regime have been ongoing, and Assad forces pulled back with minimal conflict a few months ago, leaving the Kurds with some sense of independence. Some have accused the Kurds of making a deal with the regime, but it appears that both groups are simply acting practically. Assad does not wish to open up a new front, and the Kurds simply want to protect their cities and their people. Though some media outlets have reported that there is an official truce between some Kurds and the regime, there is no evidence of this being true.

Kurds make up around 10 percent of the population in Syria, totaling about 2 million, but have been treated as second-class citizens for generations. Kurdish rights activists have been subjected to imprisonment, torture, and assassinations. In 2004, the Kurds in the city of Qamishlo revolted against the Assad regime, but the rebellion was quickly crushed and more than 30 Kurds were killed.
Members of the YPG do not come from Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq, and they are not pushing an extremist agenda, so they have popular legitimacy in the Kurdish communities. They say they have no support from outside powers. They are mostly young, self-reliant Kurds who are fighting for their rights, their dignity, and their land. There are also women within their ranks. Here is a video of them.

A spokesperson for the YPG told Gold that the group is a purely defensive force. Gold says: “One point Hassan stressed over and over was that the YPG is a defensive force. The militia is meant as a deterrent to the FSA, Jihadi groups, and the regime, and they will only attack if provoked, he told me.”

By supporting Al-Qaeda terrorists against the Kurds, the U.S. government has lost its narrative that the removal of Assad will lead to a democratic, free, and secular Syria.

The point has come where the war criminals in Washington have no choice but to get rid of the facade of the old propaganda and arm the Islamist terrorists unashamedly as a part of a larger effort to topple the Syrian government. Tony Cartalucci wrote in his article, “US to Focus Exclusively on Arming Al Qaeda in Syria”:
It is clear that both the West’s political proxies, and its armed militant proxies have been compromised and the narrative that tentatively worked against Libya, is now unraveling and failing against Syria.
Independent Kurdish groups like the YPG do not want Kurds to be victims of Washington’s reign of Islamist terror. They are fighting the FSA not only because they are supported by the oppressive Turkish and Saudi Arabian governments, but also because of their sectarian, anti-women rights, anti-democracy, and anti-secularism views.

There is a big chance that the war between U.S.-backed Jihadist groups and Kurdish fighters will escalate in the coming months. The U.S. may get directly involved. The writer “b” from Moon of Alabama predicts, “The U.S. government seems to renew its attempt to overthrow the Syrian government by force. This will, as I wrote, likely intensify as soon as the election in the U.S. is over.”

In the battle for Syria, the U.S. government and other Western governments have taken the side of Islamic extremists who champion Bin Laden, honour Saddam Hussein as a martyr, and wish to massacre Syria’s minorities such as Alawites, Christians, and Kurds.

The forces of morality, reason, truth, and justice are not on Washington’s side. U.S. leaders are making one tragic mistake after another. History will not remember them kindly.

http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.fr/2012/11/syrian-kurds-become-new-victims-of.html

Have Visitor and his snipers ‘tactically’ retreated?

Blast near hotel in Damascus, several wounded
Syrian state TV reports of an explosion near Dama Rose hotel in Damascus. Several people have reportedly been injured. No information about casualties is available at the moment. The hotel Dama Rose is situated close to the residence of government-controlled labor union.

Must (Syrian revolution) to sink blood all sects and religions and races to growing hatred between all components of the Syrian people so divided and distracted and kill each other ( the 3 phase )
Bravo Bernard, Bravo Zionism, bravo to Zimbabwe!

http://twitter.com/SalaamSyria/status/264881095743504384/photo/1

Don’t blame Bashar alone for what happened in Syria, he is only 1/4 of the problem!

الفنان “أحمد رافع” يؤكد نبأ اغتيال ابنه الممثل “محمد رافع” من قبل مجموعة مسلحة تطلق على نفسها “أحفاد الصديق”
Actor Muhammad raffi’ was murdered by an armed gang that called itself ” grandsons of the Sideeq (abuBakr) according to his Dad.

شاهد عيان حلب || شهادة عيان:
“رفيقي مسكو اخوه عند السبع بحرات برمضان
متل ما بتعرف برمضان ما كان كتير علقانة بسبع بحرات
مسكو وهو راجع عبيتو بباب الحديد
ولما سألو عنو اهلو بالأمن السياسي قالولون للأمن انو الشب مو عامل شي ليش مسكتو ؟
قالولون: بس يلف فروع حلب كلا و نتأكد انو مو علي شي منرجعلكون يا!
مبارح اجاهون تليفون : قال تاعو استلمو الجثة من مشفا المجتهد بالشام !
ما رح اذكر اسم الشخص احتراما لمشاعر العيلة !
بس مع العلم الشب ما عليه شي و ما كان يحكي بسياسة ابدااا
و متجوز عندو اطفال صغار
مجرد الصدمة انو كان بحلب و استلمو الجثة مل الشام”

__________________________________
يرجى النشر ليصل الخبر لكل من يهمه الأمر

Nowhere to run
President Bashar Assad’s homeland is no longer a safe place to retreat to

UM HAYAN, a 48-year-old mother, used to travel the 30 kilometres (19 miles) from her home in the wooded hills of Jebel Turkman to Latakia city to buy clothes. There she gossiped with friends, stopping off for tea in various villages on the way back up. “Now the road has checkpoints and there is no contact between us,” she says. Her friends are members of an esoteric Shia sect known as the Alawites who make up 12% of the Syrian population, including President Bashar Assad.

Seen by many Syrians as a driving force behind the regime’s harsh tactics in the civil war, Alawites have come to feel unwelcome in much of the country. Now that is so even in Latakia, their home region along the Mediterranean, which had been relatively calm until recently.

Some senior security chiefs have sent their families to the province. It could be where the regime plans to make its last stand, but it is looking less like a refuge these days. The rebels have made headway in the ethnically mixed province since they gathered local forces several months ago. “On a clear day you can see Latakia city,” says Abu Adnan, whose Hateen brigade has taken up position in an abandoned house. “And these are the Alawite villages,” he says, gesturing to settlements nestled just a few hundred metres away.

Though the insurgent groups are small, poorly armed and not united, their knowledge of the mountainous terrain has helped them to take over eight Alawite villages. As the death toll on both sides rises and front lines divide Sunni and Alawite settlements, one-time neighbours become enemies.

[…]

http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21565680-president-bashar-assad’s-homeland-no-longer-safe-place-retreat

HAMSTER,

Even if Assad gets interrupted before he completes his 100% burning of the country, he’s 100% burnt many millions of Syrians lives.

Tens of of thousands of Syrians are now struggling the rest of their lives with physical damage inflicted on them by Bashar Assad.

And millions have had their lives dislocated forever by the loss or injury of family members, economic ruin, destruction of their homes and neighborhoods, unfinished education. You name it.

But Syria’s biggest hidden scar will be the countless millions damaged mentally by what they have experienced courtesy of Assad. People of all ages, walks of life and sides in this conflict left unable to function normally due to depression, post-traumatic stress, crippling anxiety and worse.

Physical rebuilding will be the easy part.

Syria’s Digital Proxy War

There is a proxy war going on in Syria, one measured in megabytes rather than in arms. On one side, Iran is providing Bashar al-Assad’s regime with the tools of digital dictatorship to locate and bait the Syrian opposition. On the other side, the United States is trying to help the opposition protect itself from such attacks and set up alternate channels of communication. The outcome of this proxy war will affect the lives of many Syrians and the credibility of the State Department’s efforts to promote digital freedom internationally.

The Syrian regime has long been interested in improving its online repression. Dlshad Othman, a member of the Syrian opposition and an Internet expert, says that in recent years the regime has sent its bureaucrats abroad for technical training in places like Dubai. But Assad’s censorship efforts remained clumsy and at times ineffectual until the uprising against him began last year. He then re-opened social media to the public in order to better monitor and crush dissent, and confided in the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security for surveillance techniques. We are now seeing Iran’s sophisticated online crackdown on its own Green Movement in 2009 being applied by Assad in Syria. Pro-regime hackers pose as dissidents in chat rooms to lure and locate the opposition before gunmen are dispatched to kill them.

Contrary to recent reports that the Syrian regime could unplug the country from the web entirely, Assad considers the Internet a vital tool to winning the civil war. This is a cyber war, Othman told me. It is an opportune time for the United States to show that its support of digital freedom can save lives. If communications technology is the way in which the United States chooses to intervene in the Syrian conflict, why not unleash the full capabilities of American technology?

[…]

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/10/syrias-digital-proxy-war/264309/

OBSERVER #6.

Excellent points as usual. Thanks.

But I’d argue there is something particularly cheap and silly about Warren with his jeering at “Pakis” etc and half-baked obsession with Islam. SNK and Mjabali are on a much different plane.

قامشلو .. الآلاف يعلنون عن غضبهم واستنكارهم لجريمة قتل القيادية نوجين ديريك
قامشلو- في جمعة عمّها الغضب في مدينة قامشلو اليوم, خرج عشرات الآلاف من أبناء الشعب الكردي تحت اسم “جمعة الشهيدة نوجين ديريك” للتعبير عن غضبهم واستنكارهم للجريمة البشعة التي أقدمت عليها بعض العناصر التابعة للجيش الحر بقتلها للمقاتلة الكردية نوجين ديريك وعضو وحدات الحماية الشعبية YPG بعد ان تم أسرها من قبل تلك المجموعات.

كما ندد المتظاهرون بمواقف المجلس الوطني الكردي التي تعادي قضية الشعب الكردي ومستنكرين صمته حيال الأحداث التي تجري في حلب وعفرين وقتل المدنيين الكرد على أيادي المجموعات المسلحة التابعة لكتيبة صلاح الدين المحسوبة على الجيش الحر, كما وصفوا حزب آزادي الكردي الذي يتزعمه مصطفى جمعة بالخائن لقضية شعبه ويعمل وفق أجندات خارجية تركية تخدم أعداء الشعب الكردي, داعين الهيئة الكردية العليا إلى محاسبة هذا الحزب وأعضائها الذين يخونون شعبهم.

هذا الموقف من الشعب الكردي جاء بعد أن تم أثبات وجود أعضاء من هذا الحزب ضمن كتيبة صلاح الدين وأشرفوا على عملية أسر وقتل المقاتلة نوجين ديريك وتلطخت أياديهم في مجزرة الاشرفية.
http://ar.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=nuce&nuceID=4951

ANF reports ALL Kurdish prisoners (estimated to be over 8000) in Turkish jails will join the hunger strike on November 5th

Kurds all around the world will be writing “Kurdish hunger strike” on bank notes to draw attention to the on-going strikes!!!!!

14. ZOO said: “Have Visitor and his snipers ‘tactically’ retreated?”

No, I think they saw that you did.

Amjad and Visitor will now probably spot your ears pricked up cautiously behind that demolished wall and come back on duty again.

“نوجين ديريك” تعود إلى الحياة بعد أنباء حول مقتلها من قبل الجيش الحر

تناقلت وسائل إعلام مقربة من حزب الإتحاد الديمقراطي الكردي PYD بأن القيادية في ذراعها العسكري “وحدات حماية الشعب” نوجين ديريك حية ولم تقتل.

وقال الحزب في موقعه على “فيسبوك” إن القيادة العسكرية للجيش الحر أبلغهم بأن نوجين ديريك لا تزال حية، لكن الحزب لم يعطي تفاصيل إضافية.

وكانت “وحدات حماية الشعب” أعلنت أن نوجين قتلت أثناء قيامها بتسليم جثث لمقاتلي الجيش الحر وإن قاتليها مثلوا بجثتها في حلب.

وعلى إثر اشاعة خبر مقتل نوجين خرجت مظاهرات ضخمة في أغلب المدن الكردية لانصار الحزب، في حين بقيت الأحزاب الكردية صامتة ولم تندد بمقتلها المفترض على يد الجيش الحر.

http://alkurdiyanews.net/نوجين-ديريك-تعود-إلى-الحياة-بعد-أنباء-حول-مقتلها-من-قبل-الجيش-الحر

And BTW Firat News Arabic needs to update its news to match its Kurdish counterpart:
http://www.firatnews.eu/index.php?rupel=nuce&nuceID=70832

Google translation for those that don’t know Kurdish:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.firatnews.eu%2Findex.php%3Frupel%3Dnuce%26nuceID%3D70832

Oh and that supposed “agreement” between the Turks and the Syrian Kurds is nothing but pure fabrication from PYD, who seem intent on making a case for the Syrian regime:

Erbil: Agreement between Syrian Kurds and the Turkish government clearly PKK‑propaganda

http://www.kurdwatch.org/?aid=2677&z=en&cure=245

Risk of death close for Turkish hunger strike: doctors
(Reuters) – Jailed Kurdish militants on hunger strike in Turkey may start to die within the next 10 days, Turkey’s main medical association warned on Thursday, saying the prime minister’s dismissal of the protest as a “show” risked hardening their resolve.

The hunger strike entered its 51st day on Thursday, with some 700 prisoners refusing food in dozens of prisons across Turkey, demanding the government grant greater Kurdish minority rights and better conditions for their jailed leader.

But the inmates are consuming sugar, water and vitamins that would prolong their lives and the protest by weeks.

The main demand of the protesters, mostly convicted members of the armed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, is improved jail conditions for PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, imprisoned on an island in the Marmara Sea south of Istanbul.

The protests follow a surge in violence between Turkey and the PKK, which took up arms 28 years ago to try to carve out a Kurdish homeland in Turkey’s southeast and which is designated a terrorist group by Ankara, the United States and European Union.

“Our worry is that after around 40 days lasting damage begins to emerge and after 60 days deaths may begin,” Ozdemir Aktan, head of the Turkish Medical Association (TTB), which represents 80 percent of the nation’s doctors, told Reuters.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/01/us-turkey-kurds-idUSBRE8A00SZ20121101

A must read, sheds light on the civil aspect of this revolution.

In rebel-held Aleppo, Syrian civilians try to impose law through courts, not guns

The United Legal Council of Aleppo, formed by lawyers and judges, hears about 15 cases daily, and has buy-in from some rebels. But it faces a tough challenge from those who want to impose their own justice in the war-torn city.

Mahad Youssef walks into this bare, new office, sinks into a chair, and holds her head in her hands. Her two adult daughters stand beside her, arms crossed and looking worried, as Mrs. Youssef tearfully petitions the man in the pressed suit sitting behind a desk.

“I swear on the Quran, my son did nothing,” she says. “My son is a good man. If he confessed anything, it’s because they are torturing him.”

This, the newest court in Aleppo, is her last hope to get her son back. And perhaps the slump in her shoulders is an indication of her confidence in its abilities.

Ms. Youssef’s son was recently arrested by a brigade of the Free Syrian Army, who accused him of being a member of the shabiha, or a thug working for the Assad regime. They were detaining him, and, she is afraid, torturing him. The judge, who sits behind his desk, waves to a court investigator, who enters the room and informs the woman that he visited the brigade that captured her son, and they promised to turn him over to the court tomorrow. Youssef begins to cry.

“I swear on the Quran, I swear on the Quran, my son is innocent!” she cries.

[…]

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2012/1103/In-rebel-held-Aleppo-Syrian-civilians-try-to-impose-law-through-courts-not-guns

“No, I think they saw that you did.

Amjad and Visitor will now probably spot your ears pricked up cautiously behind that demolished wall and come back on duty again.”

Hehehe,actually Im waiting for the fake right-wing Christian Warren to show up, I got a few choice words for him. If they hate me now, just wait a bit for when the fake-Christian makes another post.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A63VCUQCcAEJ1Yv.jpg
Spread the mesaage via your currency bills!

CITIZEN

Any update on that Ukranian woman journalist who disappeared in Syria?

SyriaLover,

Thank you for sharing the article, a very good read indeed.

The PKK and PYD are just like the regime, no respect for human rights and do not care for anything but expanding their influence.

Just in the past 48 hours 3 Kurdish activists have been detained by them, and people keep parroting that they “protect” the Kurds in Syria…

http://www.kurdwatch.org/?aid=2680&z=en&cure=245
http://www.kurdwatch.org/?aid=2679&z=en&cure=245

SYRIALOVERS

Syria: When will the west stop supporting Syrialovers?
In answer to this question, let us examine the connection between NATO and terrorist organizations over the last decade and let us examine what NATO did to leaders of sovereign states who dared to stand up against Al-Qaeda. The findings are very curious and bring into question the entire credibility of the myth of “western democracy”.
There is no doubt at all that out of the five terrorist groups operating in Syria, support from NATO is a constant factor (by “NATO” read also the GCC, the Gulf Cooperation Council, in the words of al-Qadhafi, “donkeys ridden by foreigners”, or else Turkey, the state which complains about the Kurdish activists but which then sponsors terrorist organizations in Syria, or allows them to use its territory as a base).
Yet this is hardly surprising for those who wish to present an overview of the last few decades. All we have to do is re-read the history book, albeit the history book not present in western media, and we can draw our own conclusions.
In 1998, according to Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper, an interview which vaporised from the Internet (together with a good many of my articles, for example), Mullah Omar (the leader of the Talebaan) stated that the United States of America had offered his government 5 billion USD to build a pipeline across Afghanistan and through Pakistan to the Indian Ocean.
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/29-10-2012/122605-syria_west_terrorists-0/

I checked out the Syian girls on youtube that Citizen posted in #6.

Well, well, well. Both had that scary look and ease with lies that marks them as hopeful wannabe Bouthaina Shaabans. But they weren’t very good.

I found the first one Hanadi Assoud to be a very busy little worker for Assad, organizing demonstrations for him in Australia where she has a comfortable life studying at a local university.

Here’s a taste of her approach reported a couple of months ago:

Protesters waving Syrian flags and carrying banners which read “Thank you Russia and China 4 vetoes” and “Let the whole world hear: Syria is our nation, Bashar is our leader”, the group marched to government offices in central Sydney.

[Hanadi Assoud, one of the organizers of the event] accused the media of misrepresenting the conflict, saying that opposition forces had been responsible for any killings that had taken place.

“Why would the government kill its own people?” she said.

She said those marching wanted to have their voices heard in Australia after comments by Foreign Minister Bob Carr, who has condemned the Assad regime.

“We know that Bob Carr has got an agenda. He was saying that the Assad regime must go. How can he be so biased?” Assoud told AFP.

Syria closed its embassy in Australia in late July, two months after Canberra expelled the Syrian charge d’affaires along with one other diplomat over the killings of more than 100 people in Houla.

http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArchiveDetails.aspx?ID=425151#ixzz2BGmel8Bz

Assadi soldiers cut off the ears of executed FSA members:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wsSpY-B5-o&feature=player_embedded

Assadi soldier repeatedly stab executed FSA members and tries to decapitate one of them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8QlD2WZNaA&feature=player_embedded

These are extremely graphic.

Subject: Shia Terrorists

Iran (Ayatollah-istan) is the source of all evil these days, at least as far as Syria is concerned. A few days ago the NYT had an article on Iraq and how Iraqi Shia terrorists are first transported to Iran for terrorism training before flying to Syria to kill Syrians.

Syria will not see freedom until the shia terrorists from Hizbistan (Lebanon), Iraq, and Ayatollah-istan (Iran) are crushed and defeated!

As I have said for a million times, political assassinations in Lebanon have Hasan Nasrillat’s fingerprints:
أنباء صحافية تقول إنه سليم عياش المتهم باغتيال الحريري
المشنوق يؤكد وفضل الله ينفي وجود عنصر أمني من حزب الله في مسرح اغتيال الحسن
http://www.alquds.co.uk/index.asp?fname=data\2012\11\11-022z496.htm&arc=data\2012\11\11-022z496.htm

Free Syria, Free Palestine, STOP Shia terrorism!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Syria rebels ‘capture oilfield’ in Deir Ezzor

Al-Ward is said to be one of the most important oilfields in Deir Ezzor, which holds most of Syria’s energy reserves.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20199240

Syrialover 36,

The Living at the Zoo is just snooping its head out of the cage to test the waters for a possible return after its humiliating encagement.

It is not looking for Visitor nor for Amjad.

Syrian rebels capture major oilfield – opposition watchdog
Syrian opposition forces have seized a major oilfield in the country’s east after three days of stand-off with government troops, says the London-based Observatory for Human Rights. The rebels allegedly captured the al-Ward oilfield in Deir el-Zour province, near the Iraqi border, on Sunday. The field is reported to have been functioning almost up to the time when the rebels overran it. The observatory also claims the rebels downed a warplane in the same region. Al-Ward is known as one of the most important oilfields in Deir el-Zour, which holds most of Syria’s energy reserves.
http://rt.com/news/line/2012-11-04/#id40007

False hopes. After a short break to get more ammunition, the snipers are back, always looking for the blood of the heretics.
Enjoy their civilized presence…

I told you so Syrialover.

You should always trust my judgement.

Zoo,

How can you allow yourself to be bullied? It is painful to watch.. Visitor insulted me many times, he is to be ignored.

32. SYRIALOVER
Thank you! Because of your great love for Syria now Somalia is ranked, along with Syria, as the most dangerous place for journalists to operate!!!
http://www.economist.com/blogs/baobab/2012/11/somali-journalists?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/perilousprofession

A lot of the posts by Landis are just a collection of “news” stories from sources that are doubtful, like many of the comments.

# 44

I am the one ignoring you. Because this is what you deserve and what you understand.

But ready to insult you anytime you step out of line

Flooding Syria with Foreign Arms
http://mwcnews.net/focus/analysis/22614-franklinlamb-damascus.html
Across Syria these days, one is able to examine massive evidence that this ancient civilization, the historic bastion of nationalist Arabism and since the 1948 Nabka, an essential pillar of the growing culture of Resistance to the Zionist occupation of Palestine, is becoming awash with foreign arms being funneled to “rebels” by countries advocating regime change.

This observer has been researching foreign arms transfers into certain Middle East countries since last summer in Libya, where to a lesser degree the identical foreign actors were involved in facilitating the transfer of arms and fighters to topple the then, “Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.”

During a recent stay in Syria, I was able to observe first hand, substantial demonstrative evidence supporting the thesis that American, Zionist and Gulf intelligence agencies as well as private arms dealers from these countries top the list of more than two dozen countries benefiting from the crisis in Syria by injecting arms. These countries gain politically and financially, via governmental and black market arms transfers.

Which countries are sending the most weapons into Syria to arm militia?

A list of the top 24 countries, among the more than three dozen that are currently involved in sending weapons to Syria to achieve regime change include: USA, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Bahrain, UK, France, Canada, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Brazil, Portugal, Poland, Yugoslavia, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Italy, Spain, and Argentina.

Nearly two-thirds of the above listed arms suppliers are members of NATO and constitute almost half of NATO’s 28 country membership………………..

The intervention in Syria by more than three dozen countries supplying weapons must be stopped. Both sides of the Syrian crisis need to manifest by actions, not just words, a serious commitment to meaningful dialogue. The above noted arms supplying countries, and others off stage, have a solemn obligation to their citizens and to the world community to immediately halt the shipment of arms.

It’s time for the international community to end the Syrian crisis diplomatically, stop funneling arms and cash fueling hoped for regime change elements. Instead, they must demand that all the involved parties immediately engage in serious dialogue and settle their differences.

The Case of the Swedish weapons in Syria
How did warning flares from a small town near Gothenburg find their way into the weaponry of the anti-Assad resistance?
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-case-of-the-swedish-weapons-in-syria-8281068.html

Thursday, November 1st, 2012 | Posted by WorldTribune.com
China charges Turkey recruiting Uighur Muslims to join forces with Syrian rebels
Special to WorldTribune.com
LONDON — China has asserted that Muslim separatists joined the Sunni
revolt in Syria.
An official Chinese newspaper said fighters from the ethnic Turkish
Uighur minority were recruited to join Sunni rebels in Syria. The Global Times, based in Beijing, said at least two separatist groups linked to Al Qaida were coordinating the trip from China to Syria.
“After receiving orders from Al Qaida, terrorists from China came to
Syria to meet with jihadists already on the ground before forming groups on the front lines,” an unidentified Chinese official told the newspaper on Oct. 29.
The newspaper said Turkey was playing a role in recruiting and financing the Chinese fighters. Officials identified the Turkish groups as the East Turkistan Islamic Movement and the East Turkestan Education and Solidarity Association. Chinese separatists have called their short-lived countries East Turkistan.

سمير العيطه
بالطبع ما انطلق في سوريا هو انتفاضة/ثورة ضدّ سلطة ما فوق الدولة (الأسد إلى الأبد) رفضت التحوّل نحو الديموقراطيّة والحريّات، ولو تدريجيّاً، لا قبل الانطلاقة ولا في أشهرها الأولى. وهي التي دفعت نحو بثّ الضغائن الطائفيّة وإلى العنف كي لا تسقط. إلاّ أنّ المعارضة السياسيّة انخرطت في لعبتها ذاتها، وخاصّة تلك التي اعتمدت على الدعم الخارجيّ لدولٍ لا تهتمّ حقّاً بالحريّة بل بتغيير موقع سوريا في المعادلات الإقليميّة، وتعبئة المحور السنّي ضدّ الهلال الشيعيّ. وكذلك لم توفّر سبلاً كي تنتصر الثورة سلميّاً، وانخرطت في إفشال محاولات درء التحوّل نحو العسكرة، مثل إجهاض دور المراقبين العرب ثمّ الدوليين، الذين لم تكن شهادتهم هي الأهمّ، بل مجرّد تواجدهم لإيقاف دوّامة العنف. السلطة هي المسؤولة أوّلاً وأساساً، إلاّ أنّ أخطاء المعارضة أدّت إلى اصطفاف قسمٍ من السوريين ضدّها أكثر ممّا هو ضدّ السلطة، وجزءٍ آخر ليس ضئيلاً يراها معركة وجود وحرباً حتّى النهاية، وكذلك مسؤوليّتها كبيرة في تفجّر العسكرة دون السياسة.

Riyad Saif denies being a candidate for the position of PM of an exile government :
رياض سيف: لن أكون مرشحاً لرئاسة حكومة منفى .. و اسقاط النظام يلزمه ألف مجلس وطني |
أكد المعارض السوري البارز رياض سيف الذي طرح اسمه لتولي رئاسة حكومة سورية في المنفى الأحد انه لن يكون مرشحا لهذا المنصب،
وقال سيف للصحافيين على هامش اجتماعات للمجلس الوطني السوري المعارض في الدوحة “لن أكون مرشحا لرئاسة حكومة منفى بأي شكل من الإشكال، أنا عمري 66 سنة ولدي مشاكل صحية”.
وأضاف “أنا أحب سورية وقد عدت للعمل السياسي بعد الثورة لكنني اعتقد أن هناك المئات من الشباب السوريين القادرين على تبوؤ هذا المنصب”.
وتابع سيف “سأكتفي الآن بالمساعدة على تشكيل قيادة سياسة يرضى عنها الشعب السوري والعالم”.
The proposed government is not likely to have any significant support among minorities and it is not clear if its members will agree to negotiate with the regime ( many opposition figures want Assad to resign first), I would like to see who is out before I can judge this new move. Qatar was a poor choice for the meeting.

Riyad Hijab has given his first full interview to a western newspaper, UK Telegrapg.
Here is one piece:
Mr Hijab said the violence would continue and the regime would stay in power for as long as Russia and Iran continued to provide support. But even if they cut their allegiance, he said Mr Assad would most probably still refuse to quit.
“I am shocked to see Bashar do what he has doing,” he said. “He used to seem like a good human being, but he is worse than his father.
Hafez is a criminal for what he did in Hama, but Bashar is a criminal for what he is doing everywhere.”
(Hijab said that Bashar thinks he can win militarily and that he has no intention to negotiate.

For those irritated by Ghufran’s link-free post on Riyad Hijab above, here are the details:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9654320/Bashar-al-Assad-wants-war-not-peace-reveals-Syrias-former-prime-minister-Riyad-Hijab.html

Bashar al-Assad wants war not peace reveals Syria’s former prime minister Riyad Hijab

The most senior politician to defect from the Bashar al-Assad’s regime has revealed that the President repeatedly rejected calls by his own government for a political compromise, in favour of all-out war.

(continues…)

Posted on YS about half an hour ago:

Alexblx

#FSA ‘surround #Syria Air force Intelligence HQ west of #Aleppo – Will be big success for rebels if they can take it.

Rebels believe if they can take Air force Intelligence HQ, Aleppo will be theirs. Confidence is very high in the City

But IF Aleppo Air Force Intel HQ falls – the rebels still have to take over the Military Intel office nearby.
Still, they are talking big’

From @AlexCrawfordSky

http://yallasouriya.wordpress.com/2012/11/04/alexblx-fsa-surround-syria-air-force-intelligence-hq/

A new on the spot description of the damage done to Aleppo’s heritage souk and Great Mosque, pointing to regime attacks by tank and mortars:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9652009/Death-of-monument-to-human-history-in-Syrias-war-torn-Aleppo.html

COMMENT: Heartbreaking, but even more sickening when you imagine this article used by Assad’s Iranian advisers as evidence to get bigger bonuses from their bosses back home. The Mullahs are probably doing high fives about the burning of the library of priceless old books in the Sunni mosque. Primitive brain dead depravity, their best effort at foreign policy.

A couple of months ago an ordinary user on a forum claimed (suspected) 1000+ tanks and BMP’s had been destroyed so far and I shared the claim on SC.

The following was posted on YS over 3 hrs ago [MBT probably means ‘Main Battle Tank’]:

__________________________________________________

DavidKenner
Approximate Syrian armour losses to 4/11/2012 (via ACIG):
211x MBTs,
194x BMPs,
11x ZSU-23-4,
1x 2S1 = 417 AFVs

http://yallasouriya.wordpress.com/2012/11/04/davidkenner-approximate-syrian-armour-losses-to-4-11/

Syrian opposition needs to accept change in Doha

The SNC has proved, time and again, that it cannot reform on its own. In Cairo in July, a committee was established to help opposition groups to unify under one body – the SNC rejected its authority, fearing it would lose its own supremacy within the opposition. Since attempts to persuade the SNC to restructure itself have failed, it is essential that foreign countries – which provide aid and have some influence over opposition groups – mediate a solution.

To their own discredit, SNC members are campaigning against the Doha initiative. Several have described the plan as a “plot” to force negotiations with the Assad regime. Others discount the initiative because it has the backing of the US administration, which has a dubious record so far in the Syria uprising. The plan has also been criticised because it is supported by Riad Seif, a former political prisoner who is not widely known to be influential in opposition circles.

But at heart, the SNC opposes the plan simply because it will be replaced. Instead of using its influence built over the past 19 months to benefit the Syrian opposition on the ground, it is operating on a narrow agenda of political survival.

http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/editorial/syria-opposition-needs-to-accept-change-at-doha#ixzz2BIHv3FWS

Syria’s opposition fail to show united front at Qatar conference
Syrian National Council refuses to support US-backed plan that would sideline it, but may be forced to accept compromise

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/04/syria-opposition-united-qatar-conference
..
At the Doha conference, the SNC will have to decide whether to accept a plan proposed by a prominent dissident, Riad Seif, to set up a new leadership group of about 50 members. The SNC would get some 15 seats, meaning its influence would be diluted, while military commanders and local leaders in rebel-held areas would win wider representation.

Seif said his plan has broad international backing and portrayed it as a stepping stone to more robust foreign aid.
,,,
The SNC is to decide on Wednesday whether to accept Seif’s plan. Sieda said the SNC believes it deserves at least 40% of the seats, should it decide to join the new group, suggesting the group may have decided it is under too much pressure to reject the plan entirely.

After the Kurds, now come the Palestinians (btw, Muhammad rafe’ has Palestinian parents), rebels are engaging mukhayyam alyarmouk and have murdered a number of Palestinians including 3 women. I do not know who is making plans for the rebels but he has to be a total idiot. There is over 475,000 Palestinians in Syria.

الثوره كالقطه تأكل أبناءها
أصدرت هيئة أمن الثورة ، فرع ريف حلب ، بيانا أكدت فيه أنها ستتدخل لردع قائد لواء عاصفة الشمال عمار داديخي عن تجاوزاته في بلدة إعزاز، مشيرة إلى أن هذه الخطوة تأتي بعد عدة محاولات لاصلاح سلوك المذكور، و نقضه كافة المواثيق و العهود التي أبرمت معه في مرات سابقة.
و أشارت إلى أن “داديخي” تجرأ على الإسلام و شتم الدين، و يقوم بالاعتقالات العشوائية المتكررة و بدون مبررات و من ضمنها أفراد من الجيش الحر و أطفال المجاهدين، و تعذيب المساجين بطرق وحشية فاقت أساليب النظام.
و أضافت الهيئة أن “داديخي” يفرض الاتاوات على الناس بذريعة خدمة الثورة، بالإضافة إلى هيمنته على معبر باب السلامة و فرض مبالغ مالية على الأفراد و البضائع و السيارات،و فتح جبهات جديدة و تحويل مسار الثورة إلى حرب أهلية للتغطية على جرائمه، في إشارة إلى الاشتباكات بين لواء عاصفة الشمال و حزب العمال الكردستاني.

One more reason to install puppet governments in Syria and Lebanon:
Large reserves of oil and natural gas.
Assuming the two countries manage to stay in one piece, it will only take 7-10 years for cash to flow. Before you ridicule the story , try to read about the subject, Israel is already paying 50-100% higher salaries to petroleum engineers from the US to go to Israel. Israel,according to available info has less reserves than Lebanon which has less reserves than Syria. Conservative estimates look at Syria being able to triple its oil production by 2022. Where is ehsani when we need him?
Israel is already drilling and is now stealing oil and gas from Lebanon while retarded Arabs are trying to figure out who is the true Muslim and who should be in power.

Angry Arab may have been angry before, however he has been furious ever since the uprising began on the 15th of March 2011, ruining his birthday the following day.

Regime losses (vehicle/aerial assets). All the tweets below from about 8 hrs ago:

_____________________

Rex Brynen ‏@RexBrynen
Approximate Syrian helo losses to 31/10/2012 (via ACIG):

14 Mi-2/8/17 + up to 13 hit on the ground, 3 force-landed

https://twitter.com/RexBrynen/status/265147776491454464

_____________________

Rex Brynen ‏@RexBrynen
Approximate Syrian fixed-wing losses to 31/10/2012 (via ACIG):

5 L-39 (+4 damaged),
4-7 MiG 21 (+1 defection),
1 UAV (+other a/c damaged)

https://twitter.com/RexBrynen/status/265147517908447232

_____________________

Rex Brynen ‏@RexBrynen
Approximate Syrian armour losses to 4/11/2012 (via ACIG):

211x MBTs,
194x BMPs,
11x ZSU-23-4,
1x 2S1 = 417 AFVs

https://twitter.com/RexBrynen/status/265146325606207488

While Mrs. Clinton continues to bark on her way out of State office just as she’s been doing for the last year over bodies of Syrians, and while so-called SNC and NCCB continue to fight and bicker over political positions none has yet while Syrians get killed, the true heroes of the revolution, none other than the brave and courageous FSA, destroyed four criminal helicopters today.

That’s what action is where action is needed.

Syrians must make priorities clear as crystal. Support the FSA with with everything you got. Unless the war is won, there is no going forward.

Down with Russia and its dog Lavrov.

Syria is a nation in crisis but this tragic situation also produced a class of people who are getting rich at the expense of ordinary syrians. I called around and listened to reports about food and gas prices in Syria and I am absolutely disgusted, I do not know how people in Syria are finding money to feed their kids when food prices are up by 2-3 times in some cases. I do not care if you are pro or anti regime, this is not the time to be stingy, send what you can to help people in need, I was told that there are many students who are literally hungry and can only hope for one meal per day, if that does not make you give money to Syrians in need you are either a non Syrian who does not care or an actual Syrian SOB (excuse the language)What I heard today made me physically sick, I never thought I would see this in my lifetime.

A tweet that says it all:

“The Syrian opposition should make time to watch the news. Al Assad is destroying the country. It is not time for personal branding.”

http://twitter.com/wissamtarif/status/265249479937118208

GHUFRAN #61

How I wish and dream what you’ve written about Syria exploiting major reserves of oil and gas in the future could be true.

But you haven’t given sources for that claim, and every other thing I’ve read flatly contradicts it.

I’m aware there have been huge natural gas finds offshore in the Levantine basin in the last three years, with the two big prizewinners being Israel (with some grumblings from Lebanon) and Cyprus (with some grumblings from Turkey).

I’ve read the reports eagerly, but Syria never gets a mention.

No winnings for Syria in oil, either. Its reserves are fast dwindling and there has been no serious talk of potential further finds.

But if you have better information, please direct me to references. I’d be thrilled to be wrong.

It seems that all agree now that the SNC is living its last 3 days of agony in denial. It will be followed by the FSA now abandoned by its oil-money supporters and eaten up by the snakes it welcomed in its bosom. Like the SNC, it’s just a matter of time.

Joshua has just put up a new post

Divisions emerge at Syria opposition conference – November 4. 2012 8)

Sharp disagreements arose Sunday on the first day of a Syrian opposition conference meant to forge a more cohesive leadership that the international community says is necessary before it will boost its support for those trying to overthrow President Bashar Assad.

The main opposition group in exile, the Syrian National Council, balked at a U.S.-backed plan that would largely sideline it to make room in a new leadership council for fighters and activists inside Syria.

Failure to reach a deal in Doha could further heighten tensions between Syria’s political opposition and the international community. Opposition leaders feel abandoned by the U.S. and other foreign backers, saying they are not providing the money and weapons the rebels need to defeat Assad in a stalemated civil war. Washington and others say they can’t step up aid unless the opposition stops bickering and establishes a more representative — and unified — leadership.

The disagreements at the conference reinforced doubts in the opposition’s ability create a new structure the U.S. and its allies can work with. The U.S. hopes a more representative body can provide a reliable partner, buffer against interference by extremists and help bring Syria’s allies Russia and China on board with change.

However, divisions among political leaders are not the only concern.

Rebel fighters are split into small largely autonomous groups, some led by local figures little known outside Syria. Most nominally belong to the umbrella Free Syrian Army, but their ties to it are often just lip-service. In many hotspots, fighters from a radical Islamic group inspired by the al-Qaida terror network have taken on prominent roles.

[…]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2012/11/04/syria-opposition-conference/1680931/

Lol, how can jihadi retards have the guts to threaten Russia and China? These two countries eat Islamic “rebels” for breakfast.