And next, Syria?

[teqniq]

Thank you for that highly incisive analysis. I, like you have mostly given him up as a lost cause; pretty much a poodle of the regime which is why i found this interesting. Maybe he gives a shit, maybe he doesn't. I think it more likely that his giving a shit is through the lens of Lebanon, where he lives and who are one of the countries most likely to be impacted by the law due to the large amount of refugees they are currently hosting who will not be able to return because of the law. He, states this in the article anyway, so yeah quite possibly self-interest.

 

[teqniq]

Regime Agents Buy up Property in Homs and Hama for Iranians

 

[butchersapron]

Amnesty — US-Led Coalition Killed 100s of Civilians in Syria’s Raqqa

The organization issued a report on Monday based on visits to 42 sites of airstrikes and interviews with 112 civilian residents whose relatives were killed as the US-supported, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces captured the devastated city last October after a four-month offensive.

Four representative cases are detailed in which 90 civilians — 39 from a single family — were slain. Amnesty concludes, They are part of a wider pattern and provide a strong prima facie case that many Coalition attacks that killed and injured civilians and destroyed homes and infrastructure violated international humanitarian law.”

During the campaign, coalition forces carried out tens of thousands of airstrikes, more than 90% by American warplanes. The US also fired 30,000 artillery rounds on the city and surrounding areas.

SYRIA: “WAR OF ANNIHILATION”: DEVASTATING TOLL ON CIVILIANS, RAQQA – SYRIA

The four-month military operation carried out by the US-led Coalition to oust the Islamic State from Raqqa (Syria), killed hundreds of civilians, injured many more and destroyed much of the city. This report documents the experiences of four families whose cases are emblematic of wider patterns. Eight months on, the Coalition remains in denial about the human tragedy resulting from its military campaign. Amnesty International is urging Coalition members to promptly and impartially investigate allegations of international law violations and civilian casualties, and to provide reparation to the victims and adequate assistance for the desperately needed demining and reconstruction work.

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Haven't seen the PKK groupies sharing this so much.

 

[Pickman's model]

Haven't seen the PKK groupies sharing this so much.

give them time

 

[teqniq]

Oops old article from last year

 

[teqniq]

International Arrest Warrant: Germany Takes Aim at Assad's Torture Boss - SPIEGEL ONLINE - International

According to information obtained by DER SPIEGEL, Germany's chief federal prosecutor, Peter Frank, has filed charges against Jamil Hassan, head of Syria's feared Air Force Intelligence, with "crimes against humanity."

The move represents the most serious effort yet by a Western country to hold a high-ranking member of President Bashar Assad's regime accountable for having systematically targeted its own population since the beginning of the Syrian uprising in 2011.

The charges filed with Germany's Federal Court of Justice claim that Hassan, 65, must have known of, or commanded, Air Force Intelligence staff as they systematically tortured and killed hundreds of detainees in several detention centers in Syria between 2011 and 2013....

 

[butchersapron]

Syria Daily: Is Russia Setting “Chemical” Pretext for Attacks on Kurdish-Led SDF in Deir ez-Zor?

Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Monday that the Free Syrian Army, with the involvement of US special forces, is preparing a “false flag” chlorine attack to justify airstrikes by the US-led coalition on Assad regime facilities.

“According to the information confirmed through three independent channels in Syria, the command of the so-called ‘Free Syrian Army’ aided by the forces of the US special operation units are preparing a serious provocation involving chemical warfare agents in Deir ez-Zor Province,” Konshenkov said.

(No FSA anywhere near the area)

Russia has used similar unsupported “false flag” declarations amid pro-Assad assaults on opposition territory, including to cover Assad regime chemical attacks in the offensives. The pretexts included claims about the opposition in east Aleppo city in 2016 and in East Ghouta near Damascus, fully captured by pro-Assad forces after two regime chemical attacks that killed about 50 people in April 2018.

Did the YPG and their bosses think he was joking when he made clear aim was to retake every inch of the country? After saying he would burn the country if he was opposed and then actually doing it?

 

[butchersapron]

The OPCW Fact Finding Mission Confirms More Sarin and Chlorine Use in Syria

On June 13th 2018 the OPCW Fact Finding Mission (FFM) confirmed the use of Sarin and Chlorine in Al-Lataminah on March 24th 2017 and March 25th 2017 in a new report. This would make the 3rd confirmed use of Sarin as a chemical weapon by the OPCW FFM in a 10 day period between March 24th and April 4th 2017, with the March 24th Sarin attack followed by another Sarin attack in Al-Lataminah on March 30th, and then the April 4th Khan Sheikhoun Sarin attack.

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As the OPCW FFM would no doubt be aware, in the OPCW-UN JIM reporton the Khan Sheikhoun Sarin attack, the OPCW-UN JIM described marker chemicals that linked the Sarin used to the Syrian government:

“The samples from Khan Shaykhun contain the three types of marker chemicals described above: PF6 [HFP], isopropyl phosphates and isopropyl phosphorofluoridates. Their presence is a strong indicator that the sarin disseminated in Khan Shaykhun was produced from DF from the Syrian Arab Republic stockpile.”

These same chemicals are found in samples from the March 24th and March 30th Sarin attacks. In addition, hexamine is yet again present in the samples from the March 24th Sarin attack, which is also described by the OPCW-UN JIM as part of the Syrian government’s Sarin manufacturing process:

“The analysis results of OPCW designated laboratories confirm the presence of sarin and some of its known degradation products (see OPCW document S/1521/2017, as well as United Nations documents S/2017/567 and S/2017/440). Moreover, the results confirm that sarin was produced by the binary route, in which DF is combined with isopropanol (iPrOH) in the presence of hexamine.”

 

[teqniq]

Meanwhile...

 

[butchersapron]

...followed by a piece here on the extent and variety of regime chemical attacks 2012-18:

The Chemical Munitions Used By the Syrian Government 2012-2018

The conflict in Syria has seen the widespread use of chemical weapons by Syrian government forces since the end of 2012, with a surprising, and often very unusual, range of chemical munitions used. This article examines the chemical munitions documented through open sources, primarily used to deploy Sarin and chlorine gas.

 

[teqniq]

 

[teqniq]

 

[petee]

These details and others blaming Syria for atrocities in eastern Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, were uncovered by a United Nations commission investigating and documenting possible war crimes in the seven-year-old conflict. But when the commission issued a report on Wednesday, the details were omitted.

Seven pages that had been in an earlier draft, provided to The New York Times, were summarized in two paragraphs in the final document.

Horrific Details on Syria Chemical Attacks Left Out, for Now, From U.N. Report

 

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[teqniq]

You're on your own, US tells Syrian rebels, as Assad goes on offensive

 

[petee]

One Chlorine Bomb, Dozens Killed in Syria: How Assad Gassed His Own People

 

[teqniq]

UK on collision course with Russia over chemical weapons vote

 

[teqniq]

I know everyone's somewhat inured to this by now but...



He saw the city of #Basra silk in rural Daraa before and after the #Russian aircraft launched their campaign #Act4Daraa #Daraa #saveDaraa

 

[teqniq]

UK on collision course with Russia over chemical weapons vote

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[teqniq]

Arrests and torture of Syrian refugees returning home reported

There are also reports on Twitter that the regime is refusing entry to refugees wishing to return, this along with law number 10 means they are trying to permanently alter the demographic of the country.

 

[Toast Rider]

OPCW reports that chlorine has been found at Dhouma.

That's putting it simply.

In the context of the discussion elsewhere about people (wrongly) who believe the white helmets conspiracy thing, what do people make of this?

It is tangentially related; the truth of what happened at Dhouma doesn't prove or disprove the above claim. However they are related; only yesterday I heard Galloway on his stupid radio show tubthump about how he (a believer of this consporacy theory) was vindicated because the report (preliminary) says no evidence of nerve gas has been found. Well that doesn't mean other substances, like Chlorine, were not used.

Finding the truth on this, IME, is something i find difficult

 

[teqniq]

Molad Analysis - The Breaking of Syria’s Rebellion

 

[butchersapron]

The revolution is dead.

 

[butchersapron]

Don't revolt.

 

[butchersapron]

To all the syrians that thought you could win, to all the syrians that fought, to all the syrians come here now, comrades brothers sisters. It's been an absolute privilege.

 

[butchersapron]

So we start again. Comrades come rally.

 

[8ball]

Feeling a bit torn on this "Beatles" shizz.

Would be happy enough for the Kurds to machine gun them to mincemeat if they're no good to get any information out of.

 

[gosub]

Feeling a bit torn on this "Beatles" shizz.

Would be happy enough for the Kurds to machine gun them to mincemeat if they're no good to get any information out of.

Not our problem, can't see Abbotts point, THEY ARE NOT BRITISH CITIZENS or was our response to barbaric butchery 'tokenism?


Labour didn't even consider stripping Abu Hamza of his citizenship after the death of Margaret Whitehouse

 

[8ball]

Couldn't give much of a toss what Russ Abbott thinks of it.