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2012-02-07 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Hezbollah, Iran preparing for 'day after' Assad

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Posted by trailing wife 2012-02-07 07:58|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Syria is 74% Sunni and 13% Shia. It is difficult to see where Iran and Hezbollah would make large inroads into Syria. But maybe...anything is possible in this screwed up region of the world.

Posted by JohnQC 2012-02-07 10:38|| 2012-02-07 10:38|| Front Page Top

#2 I understand the differing sects. but I don't understand why this is sufficient to cause a cessation of aid to the Hezzies.

Sunni & Shia seem to agree on a lot of things with antipathy to Israel probably at the top of the list. I've heard this same thing about Hezzies and Hamasses but they seem to get along in their Jew-hate.

Posted by AlanC 2012-02-07 12:43|| 2012-02-07 12:43|| Front Page Top

#3 As a result, the Syrian military is refusing to discharge soldiers who have completed their compulsory military service.

That... can't be helping the desertion rate.

I understand the differing sects. but I don't understand why this is sufficient to cause a cessation of aid to the Hezzies.

That, not so much. The fact (or widespread rumor, which is as good as a fact on the Sunni street) that Hezbollah gunmen have been imported into Syria cities to do the slaughter that Syrian draftees wouldn't is sufficient reason for a hypothetical post-Assad regime to cut Hezbollah dead.

Posted by Mitch H. 2012-02-07 13:08|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2012-02-07 13:08|| Front Page Top

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