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Baluarte
07-09-2013, 09:20 PM
The Syrian opposition figure tasked with forming an interim government to administer rebel-held areas has resigned, citing an inability to do so.

In a statement, Ghassan Hitto said he would "continue working for the interests of the revolution".

His decision follows a leadership overhaul by the National Coalition.

Ahmed Jarba was named leader of the main opposition alliance on Saturday as Saudi-backed candidates defeated those allied with Qatar in several elections.

On Monday, Mr Jarba warned that there was a "real humanitarian disaster" in the central city of Homs and said he was prepared to offer President Bashar al-Assad a truce during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan to stop the fighting there.

As government forces continued an offensive on opposition-held districts of Homs, state media said the army had killed "terrorists" in several areas, including Bab Houd in the Old City and several outlying towns.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that Bab Houd and al-Safsafa had been hit by heavy artillery and tank fire on Monday.

The UK-based activist group said troops had also captured about a fifth of the besieged northern district of Khalidiya. A government official had earlier claimed that the entire district was under army control.

A car bomb also exploded in the predominantly Alawite and Christian area of Akrama, killing at least four people, officials and activists said.

Baath leadership change

The violence in Homs and elsewhere in Syria has left civilians in rebel-held areas in dire need of humanitarian assistance, opposition and humanitarian activists say.

In March, Mr Hitto was tasked by the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces with forming an interim government to administer so-called "liberated" zones, co-ordinating the provision basic services and supplies.

However, Mr Hitto was mistrusted by many members of the opposition alliance, who saw him as too close to the Muslim Brotherhood and Qatar, and he has been effectively side-lined since.

The National Coalition's former president, Moaz al-Khatib, believed the creation of an interim government was premature and announced his resignation five days after Mr Hitto's appointment.

On Monday, Mr Hitto said he was standing down as prime minister after being unable to form an administration.

"I emphasise I will continue working for the interests of the revolution and towards achieving its objectives," he added.

Mr Jarba, an influential tribal figure with close links to Saudi Arabia, meanwhile said he expected advanced weapons supplied by Saudi Arabia to reach rebel fighters "soon" and that they would change the military balance in Syria.

He also said the National Coalition would not attend peace talks in Geneva planned by the US and Russia unless its military position improved.

"If we are going to go to Geneva, we have to be strong on the ground, unlike the situation now, which is weak," he told the Reuters news agency.

The violence in Homs has left civilians in dire need of humanitarian assistance
In a separate development on Monday, Syria's ruling Baath Party announced that it had elected a new regional command, replacing its ageing leadership, including Vice-President Farouq al-Sharaa.

State TV said the 16 members of the top decision-making body were chosen during a meeting of the party's central committee.

"The Baath Party must develop to strengthen a culture of dialogue... and deepen interaction with citizens to overcome the negative effect of the crisis," President Assad was quoted as saying.

Among the new members of the regional command are parliamentary speaker Jihad al-Laham and Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi.

During nearly five decades in power in Syria, the Baath Party has evolved from an Arab nationalist movement into a vast organisation that has infiltrated every aspect of public life.

Although a large number of low-ranking officials have publicly left the party since the start of the uprising in March 2011, its main leadership bodies have remained steadfastly loyal to Mr Assad.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23232189

Melina
07-09-2013, 09:43 PM
Nobody messes with Assad.

MarkyMark
07-09-2013, 11:27 PM
Assad is not like the other Arab presidents who were overthrown. He has much, much more support and he knows a thing or two about defending his country from radicalism.

ariel
07-10-2013, 05:20 PM
Assad is not like the other Arab presidents who were overthrown. He has much, much more support and he knows a thing or two about defending his country from radicalism.

assad is the man :thumb001:

Amun
07-10-2013, 06:05 PM
I guess Americans and their Gulfers allies start to effect the political scene in Syria unfortunately. Gulfers did it in Egypt and they will do it in Syria.

God bless Assad, a real man in a time where men are a rare commodity.

StonyArabia
07-11-2013, 05:16 AM
I guess Americans and their Gulfers allies start to effect the political scene in Syria unfortunately. Gulfers did it in Egypt and they will do it in Syria.

God bless Assad, a real man in a time where men are a rare commodity.


من فضلك لا تجعلني أضحك في تعليق ان الاسد هو رجل حقيقي. لا أمة حقيقية قنبلة الرجل للغبار. وقد ناشدت دول الخليج من قبل القبائل في سوريا وكما الآخرين بشكل جيد بسبب القمع الأسد. هذه المشكلة معقدة جدا وليس على غرار واحد في مصر. في الواقع لا مجال للمقارنة، لأن سوريا هي مجتمع قبلي وطائفي القائم. صحيح أن هناك الناس الذين يريدون الخروج الأسد، من قوة خارجية، ولكنهم يريدون حقا له بالخروج، لكان خارجا وقتا طويلا. حان الوقت

لوضع حد للدكتاتورية وضعه في القبر

Han Cholo
07-11-2013, 05:21 AM
من فضلك لا تجعلني أضحك في تعليق ان الاسد هو رجل حقيقي. لا أمة حقيقية قنبلة الرجل للغبار. وقد ناشدت دول الخليج من قبل القبائل في سوريا وكما الآخرين بشكل جيد بسبب القمع الأسد. هذه المشكلة معقدة جدا وليس على غرار واحد في مصر. في الواقع لا مجال للمقارنة، لأن سوريا هي مجتمع قبلي وطائفي القائم. صحيح أن هناك الناس الذين يريدون الخروج الأسد، من قوة خارجية، ولكنهم يريدون حقا له بالخروج، لكان خارجا وقتا طويلا. حان الوقت

لوضع حد للدكتاتورية وضعه في القبر



ذلك لن يحدث. الحفاظ على تكرار ذلك لأكثر من 2 سنوات وانها لا تزال غير صحيح lol

StonyArabia
07-11-2013, 05:26 AM
ذلك لن يحدث. الحفاظ على تكرار ذلك لأكثر من 2 سنوات وانها لا تزال غير صحيح lol

Assad has lost support, especially in the South and East of the country. What I say is true. Anyways he bombed his own nation to dust. He is not man, and the point it was the tribes that reside there that have applied help from the Gulf nations to help them because they have money and weapons. The war is still raging, there is only a minor set back. However the opposition forces are also entering in victories rather than defeat. To call Assad as real man, when he is a puppet of Russia and Iran is indeed laughable. Most Syrians don't want to see Iranian or Russian influence, as both are negative. Most Syrians want an independent leader.

ariel
07-11-2013, 05:26 AM
من فضلك لا تجعلني أضحك في تعليق ان الاسد هو رجل حقيقي. لا أمة حقيقية قنبلة الرجل للغبار. وقد ناشدت دول الخليج من قبل القبائل في سوريا وكما الآخرين بشكل جيد بسبب القمع الأسد. هذه المشكلة معقدة جدا وليس على غرار واحد في مصر. في الواقع لا مجال للمقارنة، لأن سوريا هي مجتمع قبلي وطائفي القائم. صحيح أن هناك الناس الذين يريدون الخروج الأسد، من قوة خارجية، ولكنهم يريدون حقا له بالخروج، لكان خارجا وقتا طويلا. حان الوقت

لوضع حد للدكتاتورية وضعه في القبر

70 % of the syrian population supports assad....

Han Cholo
07-11-2013, 05:28 AM
Assad has lost support, especially in the South and East of the country. What I say is true. Anyways he bombed his own nation to dust. He is not man, and the point it was the tribes that reside there that have applied help from the Gulf nations to help them because they have money and weapons. The war is still raging, there is only a minor set back. However the opposition forces are also entering in victories rather than defeat. To call Assad as real man, when he is a puppet of Russia and Iran is indeed laughable. Most Syrians don't want to see Iranian or Russian influence, as both are negative. Most Syrians want an independent leader.

70% of Syria supports Assad. 20% is Neutral. 10% are the rat lovers. Assad will bomb only your desert tribes (who don't even belong there) to dust or back to Saudi Arabia.


Your accusations about him bombing his country to dust are laughable. It's the opposition that does random bombings to blame it on government, or just to scare the population. For example, they have been siegin Aleppo and not allowing food aid for the people. Is this the people that will bring democracy?

StonyArabia
07-11-2013, 05:29 AM
70 % of the syrian population supports assad....this guy

Bring me a source dude from a neutral or Western paper. I highly doubt that, that means the majority support him.

Melina
07-11-2013, 05:29 AM
Assad is not like the other Arab presidents who were overthrown. He has much, much more support and he knows a thing or two about defending his country from radicalism.

Yup he has Russia on his side while the muslim brotherhood(Al-Qaeda) has the United States supporting them. This looks like a betting game. Whoever loses gets their economy destroyed. Mean the U.S media completely stopped talking about Syria. Gee I wonder why..

Han Cholo
07-11-2013, 05:32 AM
Bring me a source dude from a neutral or Western paper. I highly doubt that, that means the majority support him.

http://beforeitsnews.com/middle-east/2013/06/poll-70-of-syrians-support-assad-says-nato-2452134.html


The Anglo-American press reports on an internal NATO study (dated June 2013), which takes stock of Syrian public opinion. The study shows that 70% of Syrians support President Bashar al-Assad, 20% adopt a neutral position and 10% support the “rebels.”

In a way that also explains the radicalization of the rebels. the same happened in Chechnya. When the russians took it back after their scond invasion in 1999, they started to rebuild and life started to get back to normal and threfore the average joe’s opposition faded away. Chechens were tired of fighting and dying. they wanted peace leaving only the hardcore radicals left to continue th fight.. Its the same in Syria. -Mort

Source: NATO itself. LOL. PWNED Bedouin is PWNED.

ariel
07-11-2013, 05:36 AM
70% of Syria supports Assad. 20% is Neutral. 10% are the rat lovers. Assad will bomb only your desert tribes (who don't even belong there) to dust or back to Saudi Arabia.


Your accusations about him bombing his country to dust are laughable. It's the opposition that does random bombings to blame it on government, or just to scare the population. For example, they have been siegin Aleppo and not allowing food aid for the people. Is this the people that will bring democracy?

no, these people that will bring sharia laws

Baluarte
07-11-2013, 02:20 PM
Syria jihadists lose support as abuses mount
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/11/syria-jihadists-lose-support-as-abuses-mount/

BEIRUT (AFP) – In the early days of the Syrian uprising, when opponents of the regime were desperate for assistance from any quarter, jihadist fighters were welcomed but a spate of abuses is fuelling a backlash.
Things have changed.

"Out, out, out, the (Islamic) State (of Iraq and Syria) must get out," protesters shouted at a rally in the northern town of Manbij this week, referring to an Al-Qaeda front group.

The video of the demonstration is one of many showing how civilians and mainstream rebel fighters alike are turning against the more hardline Islamist factions.

The rebel forces seeking to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad are disparate but many espouse political Islam of one form or another.

There are two main Al-Qaeda linked factions, both with Iraqi origins, according to Washington -- the Al-Nusra Front, which has operational independence, and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a front for Al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Numerous other smaller groups, many of them composed almost exclusively of foreign fighters, are also operating on the ground.

Unlike the mainstream rebel Free Syrian Army, which has received weapons from several Gulf Arab governments as well as promises of US arms, the jihadist groups rely on private donations.

But there are enough wealthy benefactors attracted to their fundamentalist vision to ensure a steady stream of weapons, as well as volunteer fighters from around the world, many of them seasoned in other conflicts.
That has helped them become a fighting force out of proportion to their numbers, and they have captured several population centres.

But their imposition of their extreme form of Islam has increasingly alienated civilians.
In Raqa, the only provincial capital in rebel hands, the Al-Nusra Front is accused of detaining dozens of men.

"My father has been held for a month by the Front. They think they're Islamic... I want my father to be free," weeps a little girl in one Raqa protest, footage of which was posted online.

"We reject this oppressive brand of Islam... We are Muslims. You're just fakes," a woman protester cried in another video from Raqa, demanding the release of the men held by Nusra.

Activists in the city also point to the disappearance of Abdallah al-Khalil, a veteran dissident and human rights activist.

"Khalil was about to open up council elections to the whole of Raqa. Al-Nusra was against the idea. He disappeared the next day," an activist from Raqa told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.
"Although their methods differ from the regime's, they are just as brutal.

"As they get more powerful militarily, they do whatever it takes to stem the growth of freedom in liberated (rebel-held) areas. They want power, not democracy."

Reports emerged on Wednesday that a Raqa-based activist who has documented the uprising against Assad since its early days has been detained by ISIS.

"The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria detained the media activist Mohammad Nour Matar on Tuesday evening outside its base... after he stood alongside a woman who tried to stage a sit-in," Matar's brother Amer told AFP.

In Idlib province in the northwest, whose borders with Turkey have allowed foreign jihadists to join the fighting in numbers, dozens of mainstream rebels were killed in a battle with ISIS last week, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The fighting broke out after rebels protested against the detention by the jihadists of a 12-year-old boy accused of uttering a blasphemous phrase.

"The chief of the (Free Syrian Army-affiliated) Hamzah Assadullah Brigade and his brother were both killed" in the fighting, the Britain-based watchdog said.

"We haven't seen many such battles, but it is clear the anger against the Islamic State and other jihadists is on the rise across Syria," its director Rami Abdel Rahman.

The case echoed that of a 14-year-old boy executed by ISIS fighters in the main northern city of Aleppo who accused him of blasphemy for using a colloquial phrase.

Rahman said mainstream rebels appeared set for a new confrontation with their jihadist rivals in Idlib after ISIS demanded that all other groups surrender their weapons.

Nizar, an activist from the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, said: "Time is running out for all these (jihadist) groups.
"They use violence and religion to try control us and, although people are afraid to openly express their dissent, no one wants them."

Thelema
07-11-2013, 02:24 PM
Most of Syrian opposition are criminals and terrorists