Exilded Jihadist clerics: Sunni rebels can kill Alawite women and children

One should have little doubt that the women and children massacred by the rebels and passed off as victims of the regime were Alawites and Christians whom the opposition clerics deem to be fair game. It says alot about the brutal backward Islamist nature of the Syrian opposition that they ask Salafist Jihadist clerics for guidance.


Interviewer: "Is it permissible to kill 'Alawites – their women and their children – in retaliation for their actions?"
Muhammad Badi' Moussa: "Yes, my brother. We have issued a communiqué to the 'Alawites, in which we gave them a strong warning, which may be the last.

"Our brothers in the Free Syrian Army sent queries to scholars in exile, asking whether they were allowed to raid 'Alawite villages, like the Zahra, Eqrima, and Nuzha suburbs of Homs. […]

"Our brothers in the Free Syrian Army asked several sheikhs and scholars for a fatwa on whether they are allowed to kill ['Alawite] women and children, just as they are killing our women and children.

"The snipers are coming from the 'Alawite suburbs, and the free Muslim women who were raped and kidnapped are being held in 'Alawite suburbs.

"All the scholars said: Have a little patience. They must be warned first. We don't want a civil, sectarian war to rage in Syria. […]

"[The 'Alawites] know that they are a minority in our country, and that all the sects hate them and want to get rid of them. It is not in their best interest to follow the regime." […]

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Jordanian Jihadists and Salafist groups sending weapons and fighters to Syria

AMMAN (dpa): Jordanian officials have reported a rise in attempt to smuggle guns into Syria amidst calls by local jihadists to send mujahideen fighters to combat forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

According to security sources, Jordan has witnessed a rise in attempts to smuggle arms across the Jordanian-Syrian border, with border patrols reporting up to 10 attempts per week.

Jordanian official believe smugglers are using the kingdom as a “transit point” to supply weapons from Saudi Arabia to rebels in the restive southern region of Daraa – which has been the focus of a recent Syrian military crackdown.

“We are witnessing more attempt to smuggle weapons into Syria and also attempts to smuggle weapons into Jordan from neighboring countries that we believe are destined for Syria,” the source, which preferred to remain unnamed, told dpa.

Amman officially acknowledged the presence of an illegal arms trade on Wednesday, indicating that it has foiled “several” attempts by various groups to illicitly transport arms into its northern neighbor.
In a press conference late Wednesday, Public Security Department chief Hussein Majali stressed that Jordanian authorities are employing “all means” to safeguard the countries’ shared borders and rejects “all interference” in Damascus’s internal affairs.

The rise in arms smuggling attempts comes amidst calls for jihad by hard-line Jordanian Islamist groups.

Last month, Mohammed Abu Tahwai, a senior leader of the Jordanian jihadist Salafist movement, called on Arab and Islamic nations to send “weaponry, money and military experts” to “support Sunnis” in Syria in their struggle against the predominately Allawite regime of al-Assad.

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Syrian insurgents show off new foreign supplied weapons

Al Qaeda inspired Jihadist group claims responsibility for the latest suicide attacks that 'activists' tried to blame on the regime

Ya Libnan: Meanwhile, fresh violence erupted in the eastern part of Syria as an al-Qaeda-inspired group claimed responsibility for two recent suicide bombings in the capital.

In a statement posted Wednesday on a militant website, an Islamist group called the Al-Nusra Front to Protect the Levant claimed responsibility for twin suicide bombings in Damascus on Saturday. The blasts, which targeted the air force intelligence building and the criminal security department, killed at least 27 people, the state-run news agency said.


The Associated Press could not verify the authenticity of Wednesday’s statement, which said the attacks were in retaliation for the Syrian regime’s shelling of residential areas in opposition strongholds in Homs, Idlib, Hama and Daraa.

“We tell the (Syrian) regime to stop the massacres against the Sunnis, otherwise, you will bear the sin of the Alawites,” the Al-Nusra Front said. “What is coming is more bitter and painful, with God’s will.”

The group also has claimed responsibility for earlier suicide attacks.

HRW condemns torture, forced confessions and executions carried out by Syrian insurgents

It's about time 'human rights organisations' drew attention to the gross abuses carried out by the Syrian insurgents.


Evidence of the rebels  Hanging civilians, beheading prisoners  and burning captives alive has already appeared on this blog.

Disturbing allegations suggesting that the rebels are murdering and kidnapping Christians, Alawites and other religious minorities have also been made by individuals on the ground.    

BEIRUT, March 20 (Reuters) - Armed opposition groups in Syria have kidnapped, tortured and executed members of the security forces and supporters of President Bashar al-Assad, the New York-based advocacy group Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.

The rights group condemned the tactics by opposition fighters, who have long accused government troops and loyalists of carrying out similar abuses.

"The Syrian government's brutal tactics cannot justify abuses by armed opposition groups," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, in an open letter to dissident groups including the official opposition body the Syrian National Council (SNC).

"Opposition leaders should make it clear to their followers that they must not torture, kidnap or execute under any circumstances," she added.

Syria's armed opposition is highly fragmented and many militias do not appear to belong to an organised command structure or to be following SNC orders.

The year-long uprising in Syria, in which the United Nations says more than 8,000 people have been killed, started as a peaceful protest movement. But it has become increasingly violent with daily clashes between rebels and security forces around the country.


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HRW cited dozens of YouTube videos in which Syrian security forces or their alleged supporters confessed to crimes, apparently under duress. At least 18 of the videos showed detainees who were bruised, bleeding, or suffering from other signs of physical abuse, the groups added.

One video showed a man hanging from a tree by his neck in front of several armed fighters with commentary indicating that he was a member of the Shabbiha, feared irregular forces loyal to Assad.

HRW said some of the attacks appeared to have targeted Shi'ite Muslims or members of Assad's own Alawite sect...

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Jihadist group Jabhat al Nusra join Al Qaeda at the forefront of the Syrian insurgency

This video, which incorporates two different sets of Islamists shows militants declaring Jihad (as they do in many hundreds of videos available online and many on this blog) on the Assad regime.

They appear to be members of Jabhat Al Nusra, a Jihadist group which claims to have carried out several sucide bombings and IED attacks in Syria, an assertion it supported by circulating video of bomb attacks on Jihadist websites.

The group recently won support from a prominent Salafist cleric who called on all able Muslims to join them so as to bring about the implementation of Sharia in Syria:

"The Salafi-jihadi website Minbar Al-Tawhid Wal-Jihad published a fatwa by senior Salafi-jihadi cleric Abu Mundhir Al-Shinqiti, dated March 6, 2012, in which he called on all capable Muslims to join the ranks of the Syrian jihadi group Jabhat Al-Nusra Li-Ahl Al-Sham (“The Front for the Defense of the Syrian People”). He said that considering the Syrian regime’s brutality and lack of restraint, and the fact that victory was only possible with the help of Allah, the Muslims must adhere to Islam and rally around the mujahideen who hoist the banner of the shari’a."

The fact that the Syrian insurgents have such strong support from the Jihadist world and count several Wahabi and Salafist clerics (one of whom called for the dismembering of Christians) as their spiritual leaders underlines the fact that the Syrian insurgency is a fully fledged Jihadist movement which could hardly be any more far removed from the positive portrayal they receieve in much of the Western media.

Note one Al Qaeda flag in the background for the second set of militants and another animated Jihadist banner flying in the corner of the video.

Rebel terrorist attacks target Christians

ALEPPO, Syria (Armenian Weekly)—A car explosion rocked a Christian neighborhood in Aleppo today, leaving 2 dead and 30 injured.

The 200 kilograms of explosives were placed in a car in the Sulaymaniyeh neighborhood in Aleppo, Syria’s second largest city, near a Latin church and two primary schools. It is in an area heavily populated by Christians, including many Armenians.

The explosion went off when security forces were attempting to evacuate residents after being tipped off. One of the victims was a member of the security forces; the other was a woman.

According to the Syrian state news agency SANA, the explosion caused major material damages in the neighborhood. It quoted a Syrian-Armenian living in the neighborhood as saying the explosion was an attempt to disrupt the social fabric of the country.

RT report on the resignation ofsenior Al Jazeera journalists and staff over the channels bias and propaganda in Syria

Al Jazeera's coverage of events in Syria has of course been completely one sided and untrue (see post on Al Jazeera broadcasting faked images). It's no surprise that some of their staff have finally decided that they do not wish to be associated with unadulterated propaganda so blatant and shameless that it would make the directors of North Korean State TV blush.

The channel's reporting bears no reflection on what is actually happening on the ground. The Qatari regime appears to be using it as a tool in their attempts to bring down Assad's secular regime.

The fact that BBC staff and those of other Western news organisations haven't resigned over their equally biased coverage doesn't say much for the integrity and professionalism of Western journalists.

Arab Official: Saudis arming Syrian insurgents

Saudi Arabia's Taliban proxies

Recent Media reports suggest Saudi Arabia is launching a large scale initiative to arm the Syrian insurgents. AFP quoted a an unamed Arab offical:

“Saudi military equipment is on its way to Jordan to arm the Free Syrian Army,” he said. “This is a Saudi initiative to stop the massacres in Syria.”

Saudi Arabia's support for the Syrian insurgency is a worrying harbinger of what is to come if the Syrian insurgents and Muslim Brotherhood have their way.

Saudi Arabia is the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism and the planet's foremost purveyor of the most violent, anti-civilisational, misogynistic and hateful forms of Islam. It is one of the most repressive and dictatorial nations on the planet.

The fact that the Saudis are supporting the Syrian insurgents suggests there is an understanding that their vision for Syria is an extreme Islamist one to which the Saudis would be agreeable. History shows us that the Saudis only ever provide support for foreign insurgencies or organisations if it is in the furtherance of their tryannical, misogynistic and brutal form of Wahabi Islam.

The Saudis came to the same kind of understanding with the Taliban, Al Qaeda in Iraq and countless other Jihadist groups all over the world.

The fact that the Saudis are actively undermining Syria's national sovereignty and supporting terrorist groups demonstrates a terrible reality that the Western press has completely failed to understand.

The Saudis and other Islamist powers, while resisting change at home, are replacing secular regimes, like that in Syria, with brutal Islamist theocracies and dictatorships.

The fact that this is being done with Western support demonstrates extreme naivety of Western politicians who still struggle to understand the fact that the 'Arab Spring' has nothing to do with democracy, or any other noble value, and everything to do with Islam.

Desperate and 'lightly armed' Syrian 'activist' proudly displays his massive collection of weapons

The Syrian uprising was a heavily armed Islamist insurgency from it's very earliest stages. The talk among Western politicians about 'arming the rebels' is either a demonstration of depraved stupidity on their part or simply a crass and dishonest attempt to perpetuate the myth that the opposition are unarmed civilians desperate for weapons.

While there have been numerous videos posted on this blog and elsewhere which demonstrate the fact that the Syrian rebels are extremely well catered for when it comes to armaments, this one is particurlarly ironic because the insurgent in question is deliberately displaying a significant amount of weaponry including several heavy machine guns, numerous automatic rifles (one of which has a high powered telescopic sight) and rocket propelled grenades.

Insurgent Bombers strike Damascus, killing dozens

Syrian insurgents employ yet more Al Qaeda style tactics imported from Iraq. One cannot help but wonder whether the Western media will again attempt to portray these attacks as an attempt by the regime to discredit the 'peaceful' and 'unarmed activists' who would surely never be capable of such a thing.       


AP: DAMASCUS, Syria—Two alleged terrorist explosions struck security targets in the Syrian capital Saturday morning, killing a number of civilians and security forces, the state news agency said.

The report said preliminary information indicated the blasts were caused by car bombs that hit the aviation intelligence department and the criminal security department.

The state-run news agency, SANA, posted gruesome photographs of the scene, with mangled and charred corpses, bloodstains on the streets and twisted steel.

One year into the Syrian revolt, the fight to oust President Bashar Assad is transforming into a nascent civil war.

Syria has seen a string of suicide bombings, the last major one on Feb. 10, when twin blasts struck security compounds in the government stronghold city of Aleppo, killing 28 people...

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Syrian insurgents claim the murder of an unarmed civilian who told Arab League monitors the truth was the killing of a 'Shabiha'

The first video, uploaded by the 'Free Syrian army' shows the Insurgents murdering what they call a 'Shabiha.' However this man is obviously not a militaman. He is in civilian clothes and completely unarmed.

The second video shows the same man, Mohammed Mar'ea, speaking to Arab League observers and describing a situation in which the rebels are also using violence and killing civilians.

There can be little doubt that this man was brutally executed simply because he told the Arab League observors something the insurgents didn't like, namely, the truth.    

Mar'ea speaks to Arab League observers:

Members of the Syrian opposition caught playing dead, faking injuries and fabricating an attack on a demonstration

The footage which appears to show rebels using fake blood and lying down in groups to give the impression of a massacre provides further proof (as if there wasn't a huge amount already) that Assad's opponents are serial liars.  

 

This dishonesty is encouraged and perpetuated by the Western media who treat the videos and reports made by opposition 'activists' as if they were fact when anyone equipped with the slightest degree of objectivity can see that this is obviously not the case.These people are active participants in an armed conflict, they have no reason to tell the truth and every reason to lie.

 

Al Jazeera broadcasts faked images of a protest coming under attack

Prominent anti-Assad 'activist' 'Danny Abdul Dayem' caught lying, pretending to be under fire, making up casualties during in the prelude to a CNN interview

The incident captured here shows 'Danny' preparing for a CNN interview from the field. Unaware that he was already being filmed he is heard instructing his associates to let off gunshots and expolsions on command so as to give the impression that an area is under attack and sustaining mass casualties when this is obviously not the case. The cameraman can also be heard telling Abdul Dayem to give false casualty figures.

In a late CNN interview (contained within the second video) an indignant Dayem's only explanation for these blatant lies is to state that this footage 'should have been deleted' and that he didn't know how the Syrian's had obtained it because it was 'private.'   

Danny can't explain his lies:

Syrian 'protestors' drag the body of a beheaded prisoner through the streets of Hama

Yet more footage of opposition atrocities completely ignored by the biased Western media.

Armed and cowardly: Syrian 'activists' cover themselves in bedsheets and declare Jihad against the Assad regime

Exodus of Al Jazeera staff over ‘biased coverage’ of conflict in Syria

Ya Libnan: Key staff from Al Jazeera’s Beirut Bureau have resigned citing “bias” in the channel’s stance on the conflict in Syria.

Bureau Managing Director Hassan Shaaban reportedly quit last week, after his correspondent and producer had walked out in protest.

A source told the Lebanese paper Al Akhbar that Al Jazeera’s Beirut correspondent Ali Hashem had quit over the channel’s stance on covering events in Syria. “… his position [which] changed after the station refused to show photos he had taken of armed fighters clashing with the Syrian Army in Wadi Khaled. Instead [Al Jazeera] lambasted him as a shabeeh [implying a regime loyalist],” a source told Lebanese press.

Ali Hashem was also infuriated by Al Jazeera’s refusal to cover a crackdown by the King of Bahrain while twisting its Syria angle. “[In Bahrain], we were seeing pictures of a people being butchered by the ‘Gulf’s oppression machine’, and for Al Jazeera, silence was the name of the game,” he said.

The Beirut bureau’s producer also quit claiming Al Jazeera had totally ignored Syria’s constitutional reform referendum, which saw a 57% turnout with 90% voting for change.

Journalist and author Afshin Rattansi, who worked for Al Jazeera, told RT that, “sadly”, the channel had become one-sided voice for the Qatari government’s stance against Bashar al-Assad, having begun as the region’s revolutionary broadcaster

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Christians in Syria fear regime change as insurgents attack their community

The following article was originally published by the Stonegate Institute.

What is the alternative to Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria? A simple if indirect way to find out is to consider which groups in Syria are especially for or against Assad—and why.

Christian minorities, who, at 10% of the Syrian population, have the most to gain from a secular government and the most to suffer from a Sharia-state, have no choice but to prefer Assad. They are already seeing aspects of the alternative. A recent Barnabas Fund report titled “Christians in Syria Targeted in Series of Kidnappings and Killings; 100 Dead,” tells of how “children were being especially targeted by the kidnappers, who, if they do not receive the ransom demanded, kill the victim.”

In one instance, kidnappers videotaped a Christian boy as they murdered him in an attempt to frame the government; one man “was cut into pieces and thrown in a river” and another “was found hanged with numerous injuries”
 
Accordingly, it is understandable that, as an earlier report put it, “Christians have mostly stayed away from the protests in Syria, having been well treated and afforded a considerable amount of religious freedom under President Assad’s regime.” After all, “Should Assad fall, it is feared that Syria could go the way of Iraq post-Saddam Hussein. Saddam, like Assad, restrained the influence of militant Islamists, but after his fall they were free to wreak havoc on the Christian community; hundreds of thousands of Christians were consequently forced to flee the violence. Many of them went to Syria.”

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Al Qaeda release another video of their fighters in Syria

The video, posted by an Al Qaeda mouthpiece shows Al Qaeda fighters in Syria, many wearing headbands bearing the flag of the organisation, and was shot during the summer of 2011.

This is yet more evidence that Jihadist groups played a key role in Syria from the conflict's earliest stages.

Syrian opposition film themselves burning prisoners alive (Extremely Graphic)

 I have chosen not to embed this video because of the graphic nature of it's content, it is available Here.
 
Opposition 'activists' may be attempting to pass this video off an an atrocity commited by the Assad regime but the evidence overwhelmingly suggests that these horrific scenes were inflicted upon captured regime loyalists by members of the Syrian opposition.

I cannot confirm the source of the video, but those taking part in and filming the incident are all wearing civilian clothes and are evidently opposition supporters.

While the filming is taking place it is evident that some burnings have only just taken place (the victim is still moving) and that more are underway (screaming can be heard). A man is then seen to drag another smoking body into view along with an empty bottle of kerosine.

This being the case, there is no conceivable way in which this could have been carried out by anyone other than the opposition.They cannot claim to have stumbled across the scene after the fact simply because the video makes it obvious that the killing has and is only just taking place. 

Horriffic rebel atrocities like this are being ignored by the Western media who wish to paint a misleading and fictional picture of the conflict in Syria. This could have tragic consequences for the Syrian people and indeed the whole world. I implore everyone reading this to share this post so as to raise awareness and inform people where the media refuses to do so.

Behind the scenes at an insurgent style 'civilian protest'

Note the heavily armed Jihadists hiding on the roof telling the stage managed crowds what to do while they and their placards are filmed, minus the Jihadists, for the consumption of unquestioning Western media organisations.

Jihadists hold 'civilian protest' in Idlib

Syrian 'Spring' heads to Iraq as resurgent Al Qaeda massacre Iraqi police in border province

The attack detailed below indicates that the dominant role of Jihadists in the Syrian insurgency is having a dangerous effect in Iraq, where Al Qaeda's power had been severely curtailed prior to the eruption of the conflict in Syria.

Al Qaeda has stepped into the rebel vacuum in Syria and positioned itself at the forefront of the forces battling against the Assad regime. In doing so it has gained access to thousands of potential recruits, many of whom may have no previous experience of Jihadism but are who now declaring their allegiance to Al Qaeda. It has also tapped the massive amounts of weapons and ammunition freely available in war torn Syria.

While Iraqi officials have observed large numbers of Sunni insurgents crossing the border to fight alongside the Syrian rebels today's attack might suggest that the Jihadist movement is more powerful than previously thought and may have the capacity to launch large scale attacks in both Iraq and Syria.

Reuters: "Gunmen disguised as police raided checkpoints and homes in western Iraq on Monday, killing at least 27 members of the security forces, in an attack authorities said bore the hallmarks of Al Qaeda.

The attacks in Anbar, once Iraq's most violent province, raise concern that Iraq's branch of Al Qaeda may regain a foothold there after the withdrawal of US troops in December."

 Mohammed Fathi, spokesman for the governor of Anbar province, said the latest attack bore the "fingerprints of Al Qaeda".

A police source, who had been ferrying victims to the hospital morgue, said gunmen dressed in uniforms of the security forces had driven from checkpoint to checkpoint slaughtering police in Haditha, a town 190 kilometres north-west of Baghdad."

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Syrian rebel women hold demonstration for Al Qaeda.

This footage of an Anti-Assad demonstration in which the participants proudly display the flag of Al Qaeda, which is afforded noticably more prominence than the old national flag adopted by the rebels, shows just how strong the currents of violent Jihadism and extremism run among the opposition in Syria. 

The widespread use of Al Qaeda insignia and rhetoric on the part of Syria's rebels, while largely ignored in the Western media, provides a strong indication as to their vision of Syria's future.

Russia: Arming Syrian rebels would violate International Law

 
"REPORTING FROM MOSCOW -- A Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman warned Friday against attempts to supply weapons to Syrian opposition forces, arguing that because Al Qaeda was a “confirmed presence amid the illegal armed groups,” arming the opposition could clash with international law.

Some members of the “Friends of Syria” group that met last week in Tunisia argued for arming the Syrian rebels. Saudi Arabia said it was an "excellent idea."

With Al Qaeda in the mix, “how do such statements correspond with … international law?” Alexander Lukashevich said, adding that Russia will take the matter to United Nations counter-terrorism bodies."

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Suicide bomber strikes in Deraa

 
 "AMMAN (Reuters) - An explosion killed seven people and wounded several others in the southern Syrian town of Deraa on Saturday, residents said, in what the Syrian government said was a suicide car bomb attack.

"At least seven people were killed and another eight injured. They happened to be next to the car when it exploded," Saed Jawabra, a Deraa resident said.

Residents said a white Kia car exploded in a park near a military checkpoint in the town's Rawda district, shattering windows in the area and leaving a huge crater.

"A terrorist suicide bomber on Saturday detonated a car he was driving," the Syrian state news agency Sana said, reporting two people had been killed and 20 wounded.

Opposition activists in Deraa denied the explosion was caused by a suicide bomber but did not give an explanation for the attack."

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Take note of the reference to the members of the Syrian opposition and their failure to provide an explanation for the attack.

Perhaps they have realised that their previous attempts to blame suicide bombings and assasinations on the regime, in a deceitful attempt to shift the blame in the eyes of the gullible Western press, are becoming less convincing.

If one was to ascribe to their narrative it won't be long before Assad starts blowing up members of his family and maybe even himself, all in the name of an evil plot to discredit the peaceful opposition insurgents and Al Qaeda fighters. The idea that they might actually be doing what they do best, blowing themselves and others up just couldn't be true could it.  

Western media ignore Al Qaeda's powerful role in the insurgency

Numerous videos emanating from Syria, in which fighters professing their loyalty to the militant group stand before the flag of Al Qaeda is yet another reminder that militant Islamists are now the most powerful force behind the  rebellion in Syria, both militarily and ideologically. The fact that these people stand to gain the most from Western interference and action against the Assad regime has become increasingly obvious as more evidence of their significant presence and numerous atrocities begin to emerge.

The fact that Western politicians and media organisations are portraying what can only be described as an Islamist insurgency as a peaceful movement for democracy shows just how wrong Western journalists are when it comes to Syria. Gripped by unsubstantiated and often false claims made by anti-Assad 'human rights organisations' and 'activists' they are failing to do their duty and portray the conflict and the opposition in a manner that reflects the reality.

Syrian insurgents behead a civilian captive (Graphic)

This video, filmed by the insurgents themselves, shows the beheading of a civilian carried out by Syria's opposition.

While the West focuses purely on the Asssad regime, the rebels are becoming ever more ferocious. Countless atrocities have been documented, including beheadings, hangings, shootings and kidnappings directed against Syrian civilians either due to their religious affliliation or political beliefs.

Al Qaeda in Syria

Yet more evidence of the links between Syria's rebels and international Jihadism. The prominence of the Al Qaeda flag leaves no doubt as to the loyalty of many of Syria's insurgents. As more videos of this nature emerge one can only condemn the wilfull incompetence of Western journalists and politicians who are desperate to cling to their fairtytale fantasy in which Syria's opposition are peaceful democrats when all the solid evidence suggests they are violent, heavily armed Islamists. 

Syrian insurgents prepare suicide bombers, contrary to their previous denials

The preperation of suicide bombers on the part of Syria's opposition exemplifies the extent to which the insurgency is now an Islamist uprising driven by heavily armed foreign Jihadists with experience from previous conflicts in Iraq and elsewhere. The fact is particularly noteworthy because the opposition have always attempted to blame previous suicide attacks on the regime in a bizzare but often successful attempt to mislead Western journalists who hang on their every word. The apparent presence of prospective suicide bombers, an ever present feature of Islamist struggles from Chechnya to Iraq and Afghanistan could be taken as an indication that the Syrian insurgents are increasingly indistinguishable from 'Al Qaeda in Iraq' both in terms of tactics and ideology.

Footage of the Syrian insurgents grooming children as fighters and suicide bombers

'Free Syrian Army' creates a matrydom Jihad video for toddlers.

Syrian protestors raise another flag of Al Qaeda

Following hot on the heels of a video (available in previous posts) in which opposition fighters posed before flags of Al Qaeda in Iraq, protestors in Idlib have been seen to fly another usually associated with Jihadist organisations, Al Qaeda among them, as they shout slogans proclaiming their loyalty to Islam and Jihad. Idlib is also a region in which a branch of the insurgency has openly declared it's loyalty to Al Qaeda and branded themselves the “al-Bara’ ibn Malik Martyrs Brigade.”

'Syrian' insurgents employ Iraq style roadside bombs as foreign Jihadists make their presence felt

The pre-dominance of foreign Islamists among the opposition in Syria provides an insight into the true nature of the Syrian insurgency. The use of suicide bombings in Aleppo and Damascus and the growing exploitation of roadside IED's attests to the increasing dominance of Al Qaeda in Iraq and other experienced militant groups who used both techniques to deadly effect elsewhere.

This comes after Al Qaeda chief Ayman Al Zawahiri came out in support of the Syrian rebellion and US intelligence chief James Clapper admitted that Al Qaeda had 'inflitrated'  the Syrian oppoisition and was 'extending it's reach into Syria.' 

'Free Syrian Army' mob Murder a civilian

This brutal murder on the part of the Syrian insurgents has received no attention in the West where propaganda videos filmed by the rebels are all over the news.

'FSA' propagandists also posted another video of this incident to their youtube channel evidently proud of their Jihadist exploits.

Western media's beloved Civilian democracy activists prepare for Jihad

'Free Syrian Army' kill and kidnap hundreds of Christians in Homs

"DAMASCUS/VIENNA (BosNewsLife)-- Hundreds of Syrian Christians have been killed and several Christians kidnapped as fighting rages between government forces and rebels, an aid group working in the region told BosNewsLife Thursday, February 16.

"The key battleground of Homs is encircled by fighters from both sides, leaving the Christians there and in the surrounding villages – approximately 100,000 – in the firing line, many of them trapped in the city," said Barnabas Fund, which supports local believers there.

The Britain-based group said at least over 200 Syrian Christians died in recent clashes and added that the community "has been beset by a series" of kidnappings blamed mainly on rebels calling themselves the Free Syrian Army.

"The rebels make high ransom demands for the return of the captives, but in two known cases the victims’ bodies were found after the money had been paid," Barnabas Fund claimed, without providing more details."

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Foreign Jihadists flocking to Syria

Ruth Pollard, Beirut

February 18, 2012
SYRIA has become a magnet for foreign fighters, with al-Qaeda aligned jihadists streaming across the border from Iraq and rebel soldiers from the Libyan city of Misrata crossing in from Turkey, experts say.

With the jihadists come weapons, and there is also a growing movement of AK-47s, hand grenades, heavy machine guns, mortars and armour-piercing missiles into Syria, warned Hilal Khashan, professor of political science at the American University of Beirut.

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Jihadist group claims responsibility for opposition suicide bombings in Syria

From AFP: "A previously unknown jihadist group has claimed responsibility for suicide bombings in the Syrian capital and the second city Aleppo that killed dozens earlier this year, in a video seen by AFP Wednesday.

The group calling itself Al-Nusra Front to Protect the Levant said it carried out the attacks in Damascus and Aleppo "to avenge the people of Homs," besieged by regime forces.

The 45-minute video posted on jihadist forums showed footage of the destruction caused by the 6 January car attack in Damascus that killed 26 people, and by a twin suicide car bombing in Aleppo on 10 February that killed 28 people.

A fighter, identified as Abu Al-Baraa Al-Shami and presented as the one who carried out the Damascus bombing, is heard saying he will carry out the attack to avenge a woman who was "raped" by Syrian security forces.

Shami urged Syrians to take part in jihad, or holy war.

"Brothers, hurry up and don't wait. Jihad is now in your country ... You don't need any fatwas," he said...


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