Jihadist suicide bombings kill 20 in Idlib

(CBS/AP) DAMASCUS - "Syria's state-run news agency said two blasts in the northwestern city of Idlib killed at least eight people on Monday and caused serious damage.
SANA said civilians and security agents were among those killed in Monday's bombings, which reportedly targeted state security forces.

"The bombs exploded next to the Air Force Intelligence headquarters and the Military Intelligence building," Rami Abdelrahman, of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told the Reuters news agency.


Abdelrahman said at least 20 people were killed in the bombings. The death toll from the blasts could not be independently verified.

A local opposition activist in Idlib said Monday's explosions went off about five minutes apart just after daybreak. One of the blasts detonated about 200 yards from a hotel where a pair of U.N. truce monitors has been staying, said the activist, who only gave his first name, Ibrahim, for fear of reprisals. A pro-government website said the hotel was damaged in the explosion.
State media blamed the attacks on terrorists.

Syria's state news agency also said assailants fired rocket-propelled grenades at the Central Bank and a police patrol in the capital Damascus on Monday.

The SANA agency said four policemen were hurt and the bank building was slightly damaged in the attacks.

State media blamed the attacks on "armed terrorists," a term it uses to describe those trying to overthrow President Bashar Assad. A largely peaceful uprising began more than 13 months ago but turned into an insurgency under a regime crackdown.

The U.N. is trying to make a cease-fire stick, and a Norwegian general arrived in Syria on Sunday to take command of a team of truce observers."

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Syrian 'activists' murder someone by dragging him behind a car

Syrian Jihadists continue to diversify their murder and torture techniques.

Syrian rebel bomb factory explodes, actvists decide to blame regime missile attack

 
The Syrian opposition used a recent explosion in Hama, caused by an accidental explosion in one of their own bomb making factories as an excuse to demand an emergency UN security Council Meeting to defend civilians against alleged regime brutality.

The opposition 'activists,' apparently willing to try anything on gullible Western journalists and politicians decided to portray the incident as the result of a SCUD missile attack by the Syrian army.

More than 70 civilians were said to have been killed. It later emerged that 16 people had been died when the rebels blew up their own building killing themselves and several others.

Telegraph: Syrian opposition calls for emergency UN meeting over Hama attacks

"Syria's main opposition group on Thursday called for an emergency UN Security Council meeting after reports that up to 70 people died in an explosion in Hama. 

 "Government media and opposition activists blamed each other for the explosions which ripped through the working-class district on Wednesday afternoon. Syria’s state television network said 16 people, including women and children, had died in the blast in a house that was being used as a bomb factory by “armed terrorist groups". 

 Activists speaking to the *Daily Telegraph* from close to the scene blamed the blast on Syrian military troops that they said were stationed nearby. 

"It was a missile shot by Battilion 47, which is situated near that district,” said Mousab al-Hamadee, a member of Hama’s Local Coordination Committee for the opposition. “They thought that some defectors were hiding in that part of the city.”

Describing a the bloody scene Hamadee said that many of the victims of the blast were families who had fled the violence in neighbouring Homs and had been living in the district as refugees. Activists put the body count as high as 68, including 13 children and 16 women, with more bodies still under the rubble.

Footage of the sweeping damage, including large craters in the ground looked difficult to achieve with conventional government shelling.

Activists claimed they had heard sounds resembling those of an incoming missile and suggested it may have been a Scud attack. “We heard the hiss of the rocket before it hit,” said al-Hamadee."

 

Lebanon's most wanted Islamist terrorist blows himself up in Syria

TIME: When one of Lebanon’s most wanted terrorists kills himself while planting a bomb it is cause for at least some sort of grim celebration. But when the chief bomb-maker of the country’s most notorious terror group self detonates while helping rebels fight in Syria, it is cause for concern.

TIME has learned that Abdel Ghani Jawhar, one of the leaders of the Sunni fundamentalist terror group Fatah al-Islam, died in the Syrian city of Qsair on Friday night. The founding cleric of Fatah al Islam, Sheikh Osama al Shihabi, confirmed Jawhar’s death to TIME with a quote from the Koran: “‘We are for God and to him we return.’ We as Mujahideen are used to being killed and if God wants to give those killed dignity he gives them martyrdom. This is the path of righteousness.”

This is not the first time that Jawhar is thought to have been killed; several previous death announcements have been retracted over the years. News of his death has been relayed by multiple—and unrelated—sources in both Syria and Lebanon. According to a fellow fighter, who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Ali, Jawhar had been preparing an explosive device to be used against the Syrian army, which had been attempting to enter the rebel-dominated town not far from Homs. As Abu Ali narrated the tale over Skype, the sound of bombs and explosions could be heard in the background. Jawhar’s bomb went off prematurely, says Abu Ali. “He was killed directly. We wanted to send his body back to Lebanon but we couldn’t because it was torn into pieces.” Instead Jawhar’s fellow fighters were forced to bury what was left of him in a neighboring garden because it was impossible to reach the graveyard during heavy fighting.

According to Abu Ali and another fellow fighter, Jawhar arrived in Qsair two weeks ago with a group of 30 Lebanese fighters. While many were members of Fatah al-Islam, they were not traveling under the terror group’s banner. Instead they called themselves mujahideen, holy warriors seeking to help fellow Muslims under attack by the Syrian regime. Jawhar, an explosives expert and a charismatic commander, sought to train fellow fighters how make bombs. In the short time he had been in Qsair, says Abu Ali, he was able to set up dozens of improvised explosive devices destined for members of the Syrian security forces. “His aim was to make a tour in all the districts of Syria to teach the fighters on how to fight a guerrilla war.”

For his efforts, Abu Ali calls Jawhar a hero and a martyr. For Syrian rebels seeking international assistance in their battle to force Syrian President Bashar Assad out of office, it’s a public relations headache. The Free Syrian Army, as well as other Syrian resistance groups, has long sought to downplay regime accusations that the rebels are aligned with Islamic fundamentalists and pro-al-Qaeda groups. 

While Fatah al-Islam has denied any association with al-Qaeda, there are links between the group and individual members. The implication that an al-Qaeda affiliated group is helping Syrian rebels build bombs and foment a guerrilla war could radically alter perceptions in the West, bringing to a halt discussions of arming the rebels and establishing a no-fly zone. “The death of Jawhar on Syrian soil emphasizes the fears of the international community that if they gave weapons to the Syrian rebels they will end up in the hands of radical groups,” says Lebanese University professor and Fatah al-Islam expert Talal Atrissi. “The Syrian opposition will be embarrassed from the fact that such a man is fighting alongside the rebels.”

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Syrian Jihadists murder and mutilate the bodies of captured troops

July 2011: Peaceful prtotestorsdump bodies of their victims into Orontes river

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Syrian 'protestors' hang, torture and shoot captured civilian

Yet another gruesome and bloody example of the Syrian rebels and their insatiable lust for the murder of anyone who disagrees with their regressive Islamist agenda.

This is one of many examples of rebel atrocities being ignored by ignorant Western journalists and politicians too stupid and idealistic to consider the reality that Syria's insurgents are Islamist criminals responsible for ethnic cleansing and murder wherever they gain control. 

This is another video, ignored by the Western media, in which rebels murder another unarmed and innocent civilian who told Arab League monitors about their activities.

Syrian insurgents prepare to launch 'cease fire' attacks

Desperate Times call for Desperate measures: Syrian rebels pratice the art of crying on command

How could any self-respecting Western politician ignore the tears of a spolit little Jihadist?

Western media's 'Civilians' hold a peaceful demonstration

These outnumbered and 'unarmed'/'lightly armed' Syrian opposition 'activists' are desperate for Western weapons and aid. As you can see, the situation is extremely dire, they are besieged from all sides and firearms are in very short supply. 

Dozens of desperate Syrian Jihadists conquer empty buildings

Resigned Al Jazeera Journalist slams the channel's lies and propaganda in Syria

Islamist Gulf states pledge to pay Jihadists' salaries in Syria

The gulf states step up their support for the Syrian insurgents and their violent Islamist agenda - with the US administration not far behind.

Incompetent politician, accidental Jihadist 

"Gulf countries will provide millions of dollars a month to the main Syrian opposition group to pay salaries for fighters battling government forces, according to a participant at a conference on Syria in Istanbul.

Funding for the Syrian National Council’s efforts to pay fighters and army defectors would come from three or four Gulf countries, according to the official, who was not authorized to speak on the record because the decision hasn’t been announced yet. Abdalsalam Albitar, an SNC member, said Saudi Arabia and Qatar have pledged to help fund payments to anti-regime fighters. Albitar, speaking in an interview through an interpreter, said the amount pledged hasn’t been settled yet.

 Separately, the U.S. will supply opposition forces with communications gear and will increase funding for humanitarian aid to Syria, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said. U.S. humanitarian aid contributions will total $25 million..."

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Syrian rebels continue campaign of murder and ethnic cleansing against Christians

IsraelToday: The international community and global media are focusing a lot of attention of late on the brutal tactics being employed by the forces of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad as he battles a year-long insurgency that has recently blossomed into full-scale civil war. In the process, the Syrian opposition forces, collectively known as the Free Syrian Army, have been primarily portrayed in a positive light.
But a trickle of reports from sources in embattled Syrian towns reveal that the Sunni-led revolutionaries are guilty of at least as many war crimes as Assad, especially against the country's Christian minority.

In the latest issue of Israel Today, we wrote about how Syria's minority communities actually prefer Assad, who is himself from the small Alawite Muslim minority. They fear the alternative, which is rule by a Sunni majority that will likely align itself with the Muslim Brotherhood and other regional radicals.
Their fears appear increasingly justified.

Two weeks ago, the Catholic news agency Fides reported that it had received word from Syrian Orthodox Church sources that 90 percent of Christians in the Syrian city of Homs had been driven from their homes by Sunni rebels.

According to Fides, the Faruq Brigade of the Free Syrian Army had threatened to kill any Christians who did not leave, and then confiscated their homes and resettled them with Muslim families. The sources told Fides that the Faruq Brigade is made up at least partially by members of Al Qaeda and other Wahhabi groups.

The exodus from Homs began back in February, according to the Christian relief agency Barnabas Fund, which reported at the time that at least 200 local Christians had been massacred, while more had been kidnapped, tortured and ransomed by Muslim forces. Still more Christians were forced to act as human shields for the rebel fighters.

Church leaders called the situation in Homs an "ongoing ethnic cleansing of Christians," and said that the 1,000 Christians still in the city are living in a constant state of fear. Homs was previously home to some 50,000 Christians.

In a follow-up, the Vicar Apostolic of Aleppo, Mgr. Giuseppe Nazzaro told Fides that while he could not confirm the reports out of Homs, he had witnessed the similar targeting of Christians in Aleppo.
"Last Sunday, a car bomb exploded...in the vicinity of the school of the Franciscan fathers. By a miracle a massacre of children was avoided... only because the Franciscans, sensing danger, made the children leave 15 minutes before the usual time," said Nazzaro, who lamented by the current media silence has allowed the Islamists to advance their anti-Christian agenda.

Issam Bishara, regional director for the Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA), told the National Catholic Reporter that contrary to the picture being painted by the mainstream media, Assad's government forces are "still providing protection to the Christian communities in almost all places where the regime is still controlling the ground."

Bishara said that should Assad fall, it is almost certain that Sunni political forces aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood and radical Salafi groups will take power, as they did in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, leaving the region's Christians even more vulnerable.