The Families of Qardaha; Hizbullah Fighters Killed in Syria; Iran's Currency Collapses from Sanctions

The Families of Qardaha; Hizbullah Fighters Killed in Syria; Iran’s Currency Collapses from Sanctions

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012

Chroniques du délitement. 2 / Règlement de comptes à Qardaha, antre de la famille Al Assad

Selon les informations disponibles, une altercation est donc intervenue, vendredi 28 septembre, dans un café de Qardaha, entre des membres des familles Al Assad et Chalich, d’une part, et des familles Al Khayyer, Othman et Abboud, de l’autre. Le “seigneur de la montagne” n’a pas supporté d’entendre un membre de la famille Al Khayyer dénoncer à haute voix la gestion calamiteuse du pays par son cousin, le chef de l’Etat, et réclamer le départ de Bachar Al Assad. Son incompétence avait déjà détruit et ruiné la Syrie. Elle risquait de provoquer le désastre et la mort jusque dans sa ville natale. Fidèle à sa réputation, Mohammed Al Assad a aussitôt sorti son pistolet et tiré sur l’impudent qui tenait de tels propos. Mais il a manqué sa cible et l’autre, plus adroit, l’a grièvement blessé par un tir de riposte. S’est ensuivi un affrontement généralisé qui a provoqué plusieurs morts et blessés dans les deux camps…..

Le Monde has put together what is known about the fighting in Qardaha.

The Al-Khayyer, Othman and Abboud families, who it is believed fought with the Assad family, are well respected within the Alawite community. They have produced many lawyers, engineers and doctors, unlike some of the other families of Qardaha.

Dr Abdel-Aziz Al Khayyer, who is featured in this le Monde article was married to my mother-in-law’s cousin, Mona al-Ahmad. He fled Syria after Hafiz al-Assad’s police accused him of being “too Communist”, a catch-all accusation that was used to condemn many critics of the regime. Because the regime could not imprison Abdelaziz al-Khayyer, they arrested his wife, Mona, to try to induce him to give himself up and to dissuade others from dissent. He never did give himself up, and Mona remained imprisoned for many years.

She was tortured in prison and became paranoid and disturbed. When she was finally released, my mother-in-law along with others tried to help Mona get medical help for her paranoia. Mona believed that relatives were out to get her. Her son, Majd, had to be taken care of by his grandmother, who was a strong woman and succeeded in getting herself educated. Her sister, my wife’s grandmother, was married off at the age of 13, and remained illiterate for the rest of her days despite her daughters’ encouragement to return to school. All of her 10 children got advanced degrees and made something of themselves. The story of Mona’s torture and unjustified imprisonment has festered in the family for decades, causing tensions between different branches of the family and much sadness and guilt among those who were unable to help. Unfortunately, every Syrian family has a similar story tucked away – some have many.

Syria’s Kurds prepare for life after Assad
By Loveday Morris in al-Hassaka, Syria, FT

… At a party youth rally in Derik, the speaker rouses the crowd with a message from Mr Ocalan to the Syrian Kurds, which he says was given to a lawyer on a recent prison visit.

“You must not be with Assad, you must not be with the opposition, you must be the third power in Syria,” he quotes Mr Ocalan as saying. “You must prepare 15,000 soldiers to protect the Kurdish areas. If you don’t take this strategy you will be crushed?.?.?.? Every young Kurd must prepare themselves to join up and protect their motherland.”…

Kurds – largely concentrated in the country’s north-east, which holds a significant portion of Syria’s limited but vital oil reserves – have been quietly preparing for a post-Assad future, opening police stations, courts and local councils that they hope will form the foundations of an autonomous region.

The proliferation of newly hung Kurdish flags and signs in the mother tongue in al-Hassaka province give the impression of liberation after years of rule under the Ba’ath party, which expropriated land in Kurdish areas, suppressed expressions of Kurdish identity and arrested thousands of Kurdish activists, especially after riots shook the Kurdish areas in 2004.

But the effort at self-governance is taking place while the regime troops maintain a presence in many of the region’s towns and cities, appearing to turn a blind eye to what would have previously been an unthinkable threat to its power.

Mr Turkmani points to a building a few hundred metres away, where the two-starred Syrian state flag flutters overhead.

“Bashar’s police station,” he says. “They just play cards all day. They have nothing to do.”…

Note from a Syrian friend:

The way Syria has been maltreating its Kurdish citizens is a disgrace. In an a-la-Iraq configuration, Syria’s Kurds should have autonomy. The name of the country should drop the word “Arab” to become the Republic of Syria, which was the name before the racist Baath Party stole power in 1963.

Lebanese official: Hezbollah commander, fighters killed in Syria
AP 02 Oct 2012

A Hezbollah commander and several fighters have been killed inside Syria, a Lebanese security official said Tuesday, a development that could stoke already soaring tensions over the Lebanese militant group’s role in the civil war next door. Hezbollah’s reputation has taken a beating over its support for the Syrian regime, but […]

Syrian state TV lashes out at Hamas leader, calling him a traitor
New York Times, 02 Oct 2012

The New York Times reports: State television in Syria issued a withering attack late Monday on a longtime ally, the leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, Khaled Meshal, declaring him an ungrateful child and a corrupt traitor, saying he was having a “romantic emotional crisis” over the Syrian uprising and accusing him of selling […]

Syrian rebels’ backers block arms cache until bickering factions unite
Posted: 02 Oct 2012

The Independent reports: Stockpiles of arms, including anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles, are being held in Turkey for use by rebels in Syria’s civil war, but their distribution is being held up because of disunity and feuding between the different groups of fighters, The Independent has learned. In high-level discussions, Qatari and Turkish suppliers told opposition […]

Urgent: Enemies have launched economic “battle” against Iran: Iranian president

Oct. 2, 2012 (Xinhua) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that the West has launched an economic ” battle” against the Islamic republic.

Video shows American journalist apparently held by gunmen in Syria, Washington Post

Civilians plead with Syrian fighters – al-Jazeera

Residents of al-Raqqa, known as ‘hotel’ of the revolution, tell combatants to spare them as rebels plan to take city.

More than 500,000 people are estimated to have fled to the northern city of al-Raqqa over the year-and-a-half long conflict in Syria.

That influx of internally displaced Syrians has doubled al-Raqqa’s population.

Now, as opposition fighters say they plan to take the city from the forces of Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, civilians are pleading with the fighters to spare them the violence that would ensue.

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Comments (32)

Aldendeshe said:

“….Unfortunately, every Syrian family has a similar story tucked away – some have many…”

Tucked away…..more like deeply hurtful.

October 3rd, 2012, 12:10 am

Mynameisali said:

Qurdaha? Toz!

Let them taste the cake the whole country has been eating.

October 3rd, 2012, 12:59 am

Visitor said:

The systematic destruction that befell the three major Syrian cities will soon be inflicted upon Damascus itself by the criminal nazi-like thugs remnants of the Mongolian hordes occupying it,

http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/10/03/241541.html

Never think for a moment that this ‘mongolian’ barbaric regime of thugs and monsters will spare a single town or city of Syria as it knows full well that it is nothing but an occupation band of usurpers and outlawed criminals that do not belong in the Syrian landscape. They are remnants of the Mongolian invaders assissted by the heretic mullahs and their hizbillati thugs that wrecked havoc on the land of Syria 1000 years ago in a manner not much different than what we see today.

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On the other hand the effect of Iranistani currency meltdown is having its toll in many parts of Iranistan. Southern provinces are experiencing general strikes of businesses that are protesting the deteriorating situation which they find becoming unbearable. These strikes took place in Bushehr, Pars, as well as the Arab majority and oil producing province of Arabistan.

Tehran money exchangers are now refusing trading because of mullah government attempts to lay the blame on them for the currency meltdown. The mullahs, of course, are aware of the impact of the currency meltdown on the general population which look at the mullahs as the source of corruption and the class which stole the wealth and impoverished the vast majority of Iranians.

October 3rd, 2012, 2:56 am

annie said:

From previous SC post

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124. ZOO “In Syria, until now, the Syrian government is the sole UN recognized authority. So it has that legal right.”

Time for the UN to boot that Syria out.
I do not have Tara’s health and fortitude and can’t continue to read Zoo’s delusions
Am skipping him and, in any case Ann

October 3rd, 2012, 3:10 am

You cannot ask the Zoo to be more than a zoo.

October 3rd, 2012, 3:15 am

Mina said:

While Nato is at it, please let them do something for Clooney and Qatar little paradise, oil-rich South Sudan
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19810431
and why not, for Mali, probably oil-rich too, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19811210

As for Syria and Palestine, they just have to give away their coastal and “it’s a deal”.

Bahrein is showing the way of Western hailed democracy:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NJ04Ak02.html
“Bahrain’s highest court has convicted medics who treated protesters hurt in last year’s democracy crackdown, with charges of plotting to overthrow the monarchy and gather illegally resulting in sentences of up to five years. Rights groups say the medical community is paying the price for publicly denouncing the excessive force unleashed on demonstrators in Manama.”

October 3rd, 2012, 3:20 am

car bombing in Aleppo today
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/03/us-syria-crisis-aleppo-idUSBRE89209P20121003
http://arabic.rt.com/news/596046/

October 3rd, 2012, 3:35 am

Citizen said:

Thank you friends of Syria !!!!!!!!!!
27 killed, over 70 injured in three blasts that rocked Aleppo
http://rt.com/news/aleppo-blast-government-center-553/
Syrian state TV reports of three powerful explosions in downtown Aleppo, the financial hub and largest city of the country. Reportedly the blasts were caused by car bombs that terrorists delivered to the city’s main square.
Syrian officials report 27 fatalities and 72 injured in Aleppo terror act.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that activists on the ground report of dozens of casualties, most of them military servicemen.
The Saadallah al-Jabri square in central Aleppo where the explosions took place is currently controlled by government forces. A military club is located nearby and might have been one of the targets of the attack.
Terror acts like this are not common in Aleppo. The first one happened in February, when two suicide car bombers attacked security compounds in Aleppo’s industrial center killing 28 people. Since then, there have only been two similar attacks.

October 3rd, 2012, 4:42 am

October 3rd, 2012, 4:43 am

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October 3rd, 2012, 4:48 am

Egypt’s charm on Iran stronger than Syria’s?
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/iran-calls-assad-recognize-opposition

October 3rd, 2012, 4:56 am

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October 3rd, 2012, 5:30 am

A grandfather from Aleppo forms a fighting phalange made up of himself and his grandchildren in order to fight the canine criminal thugs of criminal regime and declares that he will pursue them throughout Syria for the purpose of cleansing it,

http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/10/03/241584.html

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On the other hand confrontation between the heretic mullah regime of Iranistan and the Iranian people has just begun today in Tehran streets with heavy police units deployment in the capital. The confrontation is sparked by the recent meltdown of the Iranistani currency,

http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/10/03/241600.html

October 3rd, 2012, 6:50 am

Great heroic and valiant Free Syrian Army, defender of Syrian honor, dignity and people of Syria, shoots down helicopter in eastern Ghouta area of Damascus.

October 3rd, 2012, 8:38 am

Dawoud said:

Hasan Nasrillat’s “martyrs,” or more accurately dead KILLERS/SHABIHA, are multiplying (Good “if” riddance!) because the courageous FSA is hunting and killing them.
Hasan Nasrillat has become essential to Bashar’s propaganda and inciting machine. He is complicit in murdering Syrians. Sooner or later, Syrian poeple’s justice will visit him in his residence in al-Dhahiya al-Janoubia!

Free Syria and Palestine!

http://www.aljazeera.net/news/pages/7aaaaded-4106-433d-8bca-a7e337c0c1d6?GoogleStatID=1
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October 3rd, 2012, 8:41 am

Tara said:

How much the Iranian Rial sold this morning? There was expectation to plummet further down.

October 3rd, 2012, 8:43 am

P.S.,

Dear Mr. Landis:

Thanks for FINALLY posting something about Hizballah (or more accurately Hizb-al-Shytan, Party of the Devil) and its complicity in killing Syrians. When Syrians invade Lebanon’s southern Dhahiya to arrest Nasrillat, please don’t consider this as an aggression!

Free Syria and Palestine! Thanks Khalid Mesh’ah for upsetting Bashar!
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/10/02/241499.html
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Alarabiya is now reporting about an explosion in Ba’albak in Hizbillat’s ammunition depot. 7 killed! I hope that Hasan Nasrillat was hiding in this depot! Devine justice for the Syrians whom Bashar and Hasan are now killing!

October 3rd, 2012, 8:56 am

zoo said:

The Saudi-Qatar competition for Sunni leadership in full swing.
Morsi’s quartet “grand” plan down the drain?

Saudi misses another regional meeting over Syria

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/saudi-misses-another-regional-meeting-over-syria.aspx?pageID=238&nID=31560&NewsCatID=352

Saudi Arabia has stayed away for a second time from a meeting of Egypt, Turkey and Iran to discuss the Syria crisis, the Egyptian foreign minister said on Wednesday, hampering Cairo’s initiative to find a regional solution to the conflict.

October 3rd, 2012, 9:08 am

It seems that Al Arabya’s inventive rumors are still the favorite of many SC commenters, despite the loss of credibility of that media after publishing many times “Nonsense” as it was qualified by Turkey.

It’s no surprise, it’s the only news outlet that still gives these die hard afficionados some hopes that their predictions will materialize soon..

October 3rd, 2012, 9:18 am

Zoo

If the Iranian people rise against the mullahs for whatever reason, who are you going to support? The mullahs or the people?

October 3rd, 2012, 9:21 am

For some commenters, real and proven facts are qualified as “delusion” and their frustrated desires are qualified as real. ( i.e the UN declaring Syrian government illegitimate)

It’ better they skip my posts so as that to avoid further nervous problems that are becoming apparent in their replies.

October 3rd, 2012, 9:26 am

Tara

If the Iranian opposition is able to convince more than 50% of the Iranians that the Islamic regime must go, so be it.
Until now , unfortunately this is very far from the reality. This is why the green revolution organized by the educated elite but not followed by the mass aborted. In addition a country rarely goes through multiple ‘revolutions’ within a couple of decades. They go to “evolution”, a slower but less traumatic process.

The average iranians are not blaming the government as they know that sanctions imposed by the West because of Israel and its fear of Iran are the main culprit of their economical hardship.

October 3rd, 2012, 9:31 am

Saudi Arabia’s thorn to the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood? An Arab Sunni Jihadist version of the PKK on its border with Israel?

Egypt’s army outgunned by extremists in Sinai

Armed with heavy weapons from Libya and elsewhere, militants have set up shop in the Sinai Peninsula.

Erin CunninghamOctober 2, 2012 06:49
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/egypt/121001/egypt-sinai-peninsula-attacks-militants-israel-libya-weapons

Egyptian troops are outmanned and outgunned by a formidable consortium of extremists, armed with heavy weapons and artillery from Libya and Sudan, in the restive and mountainous Sinai Peninsula.

October 3rd, 2012, 9:44 am

jna said:

FSA Terrorists Behind 4 Aleppo Terrorist Blasts Today that Killed 40 and…: PRESSTV http://youtu.be/bWJiDTBeVGs

Keep it up, USA, you’re doing a wonderful job supplying the terrorists.

October 3rd, 2012, 9:58 am

The FSA loosing its grip on Aleppo is now punishing its inhabitants by sending their suicide squads with car bombs to kill as many Syrians as they can, under the pretext of ‘protecting them’.

Signs of panic and despair within the armed rebels are becoming more apparent.

Did the FSA claim responsibility? The regime was responsible for Damascus suicide bombings to saw chaos and to blame it on the FSA.
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Links by pressTV mean nothing. The Iranian press is known to falsify info, and to replace “Syria” with “Bahrain” etc. People lose credibility when they link pressTV or SANA

October 3rd, 2012, 10:08 am

A teeth grinding gift to Shia haters

http://www.payvand.com/news/12/sep/1255.html

Iranian artists and artisans have completed the construction of the new zarih (outer sarcophagus enclosure) of the holy shrine of Imam Hussein. It was unveiled during a ceremony at the Masumieh Seminary in Qom on Thursday, the Persian service of the Mehr News Agency reported.

October 3rd, 2012, 10:10 am

It is not the interest of the Syrian government to show that they are weak, its the rebels interest to show that the Syrian army do not control Aleppo, as the rebels claim that 70% of Aleppo is under their control. Will the army bomb an officer club?

Draw your conclusions on who did it.

October 3rd, 2012, 10:19 am

The US seeking revenge, face saving and justice for the death of its ambassador in Libya

U.S. Is Tracking Killers in Attack on Libya Mission

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/03/world/africa/us-said-to-be-preparing-potential-targets-tied-to-libya-attack.html?_r=2&

WASHINGTON — The United States is laying the groundwork for operations to kill or capture militants implicated in the deadly attack on a diplomatic mission in Libya, senior military and counterterrorism officials said Tuesday, as the weak Libyan government appears unable to arrest or even question fighters involved in the assault.
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The preparations underscore the bind confronting the White House over the Benghazi attack. Mr. Obama has vowed to bring the killers to justice, and in the final weeks of the presidential campaign Republicans have hammered the administration over the possible intelligence failures that preceded the attack — including a new accusation that repeated requests for strengthened security in Benghazi had been rejected.

October 3rd, 2012, 10:37 am

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Inside Aleppo…

October 3rd, 2012, 10:56 am

The rebels new tricks: Launching attacks cross border on Turkey to provoke retaliation

Three killed by Syrian mortar in Turkey’s border region – reports

Three people including a child were reportedly killed when a mortar bomb fired from Syria hit Turkey’s southeastern border region of Akcakale on Wednesday. At least nine others were seriously wounded, the local mayor told CNN Turk television. At least eight wounded people were being taken to hospital, three of them police officers, Reuters said, citing witnesses.

http://rt.com/news/line/2012-10-03/#id38372

October 3rd, 2012, 11:30 am

Sheila said:

While tens of thousands of people were being murdered in Hama, the rest of Syrians were minding there own business. While thousands of university students, doctors, engineers, lawyers and others were being tortured in Palmyra and in other intelligence service branches, the rest of Syrians were minding there own business. While the country was being sucked out of every penny, the rest of Syrians were minding there own business. While Mona was unjustly imprisoned and tortured, the rest of Syrians were minding there own business. Today we pay the price for forty some years of our collective silence.

October 4th, 2012, 9:44 am