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| Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
| Sweida massacre |
| 2018-07-28 |
| [DAWN] THE numbers are chilling. In an orgy of violence orchestrated by the Death Eater Islamic State ...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 in the southern Syrian governorate of Sweida on Wednesday, there have been reports of nearly 250 deaths ‐ around 135 of them civilian. The terrorist group had unleashed a series of suicide kabooms and gun attacks in the area mostly inhabited by members of the Druze community. While the Syrian government and its backers ‐ Russia and Iran ‐ as well as the US-led coalition have been successful in freeing much of Syrian territory from IS, the recent attacks show that the self-styled caliphate can still carry out acts of mass violence. While IS does not have the same capabilities it had when it swept across large swathes of Syria and Iraq, it is not a spent force. The key to defeating IS, and other murderous Moslems in the region, lies in a stable Syria. While the level of violence there has come down, with the Assad regime having the upper hand against its opponents and jihadi groups, a sustained campaign against militancy cannot succeed unless the civil war comes to a negotiated end. And that scenario does not appear to be on the horizon. If anything, there is a threat of new fronts opening up in Syria; Israel has been indulging in misadventures by repeatedly violating Syrian illusory sovereignty and launching strikes inside the country, targeted at Mr Assad’s Iranian allies. Tel Aviv believes that Iran and Hezbollah are perilously close to its positions in the occupied Golan. Moreover, the US support to Syrian Kurds has not gone down well with ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... . Unless these issues are resolved, the battle against militancy will only be half won. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Hell no the Deep State will never give up its war in Syria. They will have their pipeline from Qatar to Europe or they will continue this war for another 17 years. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy 2018-07-28 10:21 |