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| Syria troops take back village; FSA appoints new chief | |
| 2014-03-09 | |
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe. The window was looking better all the time.... the rebel Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... has confirmed the appointment of its new chief, Brigadier General Abdel Ilah Al Bashir, after former head General Selim Idriss had initially refused to step down ... Hell no! The money's too good!... . The village of Al Zara, west of the city of Homs, fell after "heavy festivities" between government and rebel forces, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, although the number of casualties was not immediately clear. Al Zara is inhabited mostly by Sunni Mohammedans from the ethnic Turkmen minority, it added. In a statement on state news agency SANA, Syria's armed forces said they had established complete control over the village and killed and captured a "large number of terrorists", using state media's customary term for rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar Al Assad. The victory gave government forces control over a route connecting central Syria to the Mediterranean coast and which had been used as "a primary route for terrorist groups coming from Lebanese territory to neighbouring areas to carry out criminal operations", it said. Syria's civil war has killed over 140,000 people since it started three years ago as a peaceful protest movement against four decades of Assad family rule. The conflict has become increasingly tangled as rebel groups -- including many hardline Islamist factions -- have turned on one another, leading to festivities that have killed thousands of people this year alone. Separately, a video was published online by activists purportedly showing members of the Al Qaeda splinter group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL) executing eight prisoners. In the video, fighters in fatigues line up the prisoners inside a building and force them to kneel before shooting them from behind. Some of the men in the video speak Russian with marked Caucasian accents and speech patterns. | |
| Posted by:Fred |