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2012-01-03 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Assad Orders Mountain Stronghold Built To Protect Him And His Core Supporters

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Posted by Anonymoose 2012-01-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Alawite Syria is not a very pleasant neighboor. But, I believe, it beats Ikhwan Syria.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-01-03 01:24|| 2012-01-03 01:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Preparing to retreat to the Alpenfestung is not the move of a man who is winning.

Posted by gromky 2012-01-03 02:41|| 2012-01-03 02:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Fuhrerbunker is so 20th century

Posted by OldSpook 2012-01-03 03:06|| 2012-01-03 03:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Hey, his father's top strategist used to work for der Fuhrer. Same tactics...

Posted by Water Modem 2012-01-03 06:27|| 2012-01-03 06:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Here was one Alois Brunner
Alois Brunner (born 8 April 1912) is an Austrian Nazi war criminal. Brunner was Adolf Eichmann's assistant, and Eichmann referred to Brunner as his "best man."[1] As commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944, Brunner is held responsible for sending some 140,000 European Jews to the gas chambers. Nearly 24,000 of them were deported from the Drancy camp. He was condemned to death in absentia in France in 1954 for crimes against humanity. In 1961 and in 1980, Brunner lost an eye and the fingers of his left hand, respectively, as a result of letter bombs sent to him by Mossad.

Posted by Water Modem 2012-01-03 06:34|| 2012-01-03 06:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh Oh... the US subsumed Gen Gehlen's eastern europe and Russia spy org so this doesn't look good.
It has been alleged that Brunner found a working relationship after WWII with the Organisation Gehlen.

He then fled Germany only in 1954, on a fake Red Cross passport, first to Rome, then Egypt where he worked as a weapons dealer, and then to Syria, where he took the pseudonym of Dr. Georg Fischer. In Syria, he was allegedly hired as a "government advisor" with some suggesting he was advising the Syrian dictatorship on torture and repression techniques, some dating from his time as an SS torturer. He also allegedly trained Kurdish rebels to operate against Turkey, and shipped arms to Algerian rebels during their war of independence with France. Syria has constantly refused entry to French investigators as well as to Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld who spent nearly 15 years bringing the case to court in France. Simon Wiesenthal tried unsuccessfully to trace Brunner's whereabouts.[citation needed]

In his 1980s interview by the German magazine Bunte, Brunner declared that his sole regret was not having murdered more Jews. In a 1987 telephone interview to the Chicago Sun Times, he stated: "The Jews deserved to die. They were garbage, I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again..."[13] He was reported to be living in Damascus under the alias of Dr. Georg Fischer.[1] Although there were unconfirmed reports that Brunner may have died in 1996, he was reportedly sighted in 2001.[citation needed]

In 2011, the German news magazine Der Spiegel reported that the German intelligence service BND had destroyed its file on Brunner in the 1990s, and that remarks in remaining files contain conflicting statements as to whether Brunner had worked for the BND at some point.[14]

Posted by Water Modem 2012-01-03 06:38|| 2012-01-03 06:38|| Front Page Top

#7 At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazi war criminals found refuge in South America and in Arab countries, including Syria. Damascus welcomed Nazis partly out of ideological sympathy for the Hitler regime, and partly because the German fugitives were useful allies in Syria's war to prevent the creation of the State of Israel in 1948.

Israeli military intelligence reports during that first Arab-Israeli war were filled with references to the presence of Nazis, especially as commanding officers, among the Syrian forces attacking northern Israel. Indeed, there were so many Germans in the Syrian ranks that when the Haganah (the Labor Zionist militia that became the Israeli Army) defeated the Arab forces in Haifa in April 1948, its official terms for a truce included a provision that "European Nazis will be delivered to [the British] Military [authorities]."

During the 1950s and 1960s, the names of prominent Nazis living in Syria began to surface. One was SS Captain Theodor Dannecker, who had helped Adolf Eichmann implement Hitler's genocide policy in France, Bulgaria, and Hungary. When the legendary Israeli spy Eli Cohen took up residence in Damascus in 1962, his Syrian acquaintances introduced him to Karl Rademacher, a senior Eichmann aide who had been involved in the mass murder of Jews from Belgium, Holland, Croatia, and elsewhere. After the war, Radmacher had fled to Syria and became an official in the Syrian Secret Service.

The most notorious of the Nazis granted asylum in Syria was another top Eichmann aide, SS Lieutenant Alois Brunner. After being convicted in France in 1954 of responsibility for the murders of more than 100,000 Jews, Brunner disappeared. Two decades later, the famed French Nazi-hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld tracked down Brunner in Damascus, where he was making a comfortable living as an adviser to the Syrian intelligence services.
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Posted by Water Modem 2012-01-03 06:47|| 2012-01-03 06:47|| Front Page Top

#8 re: the Odessa Network and the MidEast esp. Egypt and Syria

Posted by Water Modem 2012-01-03 06:57|| 2012-01-03 06:57|| Front Page Top

#9 This is reminiscent of Citadelle Laferrière, the largest fortress in the Americas, built by Haitian leader Henri Cristophe.

The official purpose of the Citadelle was to protect his kingdom of North Haiti from French invasion, but for practical purposes it was against an invasion from South Haiti and to protect Cristophe from revolution in the North.

Oddly enough, North Haiti was fairly prosperous under Cristophe, because he kept many of the tyrannical French policies that had existed before, requiring hard labor from his subjects to support agriculture and business, as well as building and improving infrastructure. He even codified the law into 'Code Henry'.

But because South Haiti was more liberal, its people did not work and it was generally falling apart, and quite resentful of the prosperity of the North.

The North finally collapsed because Christophe had a stroke, which crippled him enough so that his people, sensing weakness, revolted. He then shot himself in the head with a silver bullet.

Posted by Anonymoose 2012-01-03 10:05|| 2012-01-03 10:05|| Front Page Top

#10 a Coors Light?

Posted by Frank G 2012-01-03 14:08|| 2012-01-03 14:08|| Front Page Top

#11 That would make him colder than the olympic loonie at center ice.

Posted by swksvolFF 2012-01-03 15:43|| 2012-01-03 15:43|| Front Page Top

#12

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2012-01-03 18:04|| 2012-01-03 18:04|| Front Page Top

#13 WHERE NOT-AN-EAGLE ALAWITES DARE ....

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CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > THE SUPREME LEADER NEEDS HUMAN BOMBS | NORTH KOREAN LEADERS CALL FORCES "HUMAN BOMBS" FOR SOCIALISM.

HMMMMM, HMMMMMM, is this Artic trying to say that Big Daddy Hafez, Sr. never built such a bunker already???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-01-03 21:25|| 2012-01-03 21:25|| Front Page Top

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