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| Activists: Syrian Strikes Kill 36 In IS-Held City | |
| 2014-11-26 | |
| [Ynet] Syrian government warplanes carried out a series of ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group, killing at least 36 people, activists said. The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said some of the air raids struck a popular market near a museum and an industrial neighborhood in the city of Raqqa along the Euphrates River in northeastern Syria. It put the corpse count at 36. The Local Coordination Committees said the strikes killed at least 50 people. Another Raqqa-based collective called Raqqa is Being Silently Slaughtered said it documented over 70 deaths. Such discrepancies are normal in the immediate aftermath of attacks in Syria.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group's self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa, in the country's east, killed at least 63 people on Tuesday, among them 36 civilians, a monitor said. "Among the 63 killed were at least 36 civilians. There were also 20 unidentified victims who could be civilians or jihadists, as well as the disfigured remains of at least seven other people," said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman. "Dozens more were maimed, some of them critically. We fear the corpse count may rise further," he told AFP. The head of the Britannia-based monitoring group said previously that "most of the casualties were caused by two consecutive air strikes" on Raqqa's main industrial zone. "The first strike came, residents rushed to rescue the maimed, and then the second raid took place," said Abdel Rahman, whose group relies on a network of sources on the ground in Syria for its information. Amateur video footage distributed by activists in Raqqa showed several bloodied bodies laid out on a street near an apparent bombing site, as an ambulance rushed to the scene. Aid workers in red overalls bearing the Red Islamic Thingy symbol could be seen placing the corpses into white body bags. Activists from the city meanwhile denounced the raids as a "massacre." The Islamic State organization emerged in Syria's war in spring 2013. It took over Raqqa, the only placid provincial capital to fall from government control since the outbreak of a 2011 revolt, and turned it into its bastion. Most of the city's civil society activists, as well as rebel fighters who expelled Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad The Scourge of Hama... 's troops, have either been killed, kidnapped or forced to flee for other parts of Syria or neighboring Turkey. For many months, Assad's regime only rarely targeted Raqqa city, apparently reserving most of its firepower for areas under rebel control. But late this summer, the government intensified its air strikes against IS positions in northern and eastern Syria. On September 6, 53 people were killed in air strikes on Raqqa, among them at least 31 civilians, according to the Observatory. The US-led military coalition that has been carrying out air strikes against IS in Iraq and Syria has also targeted the jihadist group in Raqqa. Activists say Raqqa's residents fear the government's strikes far more than those of the coalition because most of the casualties from the regime's attacks have been civilians. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 Be nice to your wife, Shipman. It is too hard to learn to sleep with one eye open. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2014-11-26 14:21 |
| #3 It is sad when people heat or cool their espoused convictions based on petty politics. I fight with my wife too. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-11-26 14:09 |
| #2 Not even this summer, Super Hose? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-11-26 13:48 |
| #1 I live near SF. There is no anti-war activity currently or recently. I expect there will be none for the next two years. After that, depending on the election outcome, civilian lives will again become exceedingly precious again to all the local hippies. Currently they are focused mostly on hemp consumption, marriage issues, women's rights or immigration. Soon the pendulum will swing and the Cheney/Bush masks will be dusted off. It is sad when people heat or cool their espoused convictions based on petty politics. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2014-11-26 12:27 |