Archive for August 9, 2012
Bashshar, the leader?
Yes, there is an American-Israeli-Saudi-Qatari offensive in Syria (which has nothing to do with the legitimate aspirations of the Syrian people), but is there somebody less qualified than Bashshar to lead the counter-offensive? Just compare how N…
Posted on August 9, 2012 by As'ad
Bashshar, the leader?
Yes, there is an American-Israeli-Saudi-Qatari offensive in Syria (which has nothing to do with the legitimate aspirations of the Syrian people), but is there somebody less qualified than Bashshar to lead the counter-offensive? Just compare how N…
Posted on August 9, 2012 by As'ad
tactical withdrawal
Has there ever been a withdrawal by the Free Syrian Army that has not been “tactical”? Just one?
Posted on August 9, 2012 by As'ad
The Guardian is upset: "Good riddance to the FSA in Salahedin?"
“Good riddance to the FSA in Salahedin? Fadi Salem, who is from Aleppo but is now director of governance and innovation at Dubai School of Government, bids good riddance to the Free Syria…
Posted on August 9, 2012 by As'ad
infiltrations: missing link about the Syrian conflict
This is a missing link about the Syrian conflict: we talk about defections from the ranks of the Syrian regime, but we don’t talk about defections in the other way, no matter the scale. But what is most important is the extent to which the ranks …
Posted on August 9, 2012 by As'ad
Propaganda of the Free Syrain Army: they just want more money, damn it
“because of an ammunition shortage among the insurgent fighters”. Can you please make your propaganda on behalf of the Free Syrian Army a bit less dumb? They are getting support from Jordan, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the US, Fran…
Posted on August 9, 2012 by As'ad
The Arabs that Nicholas Christof talks to
“You hear from all the Arabs: ‘Where is the United States?’ ”” I mean, we know who those Arabs are. There are no Arabs who are asking that question? There are Arabs who are asking why doesn’t the US butt out of Middle East affairs alto…
Posted on August 9, 2012 by As'ad
competing narratives or a lie exposed?
“A rebel group calling itself the Hawks Special Operations Battalion said in a video posted on YouTube that it had “eliminated” the Russian, Gen. Vladimir Petrovich Kochyev. The video showed what the rebels said was a copy of an identity card is…
Posted on August 9, 2012 by As'ad
AP on Egyptian media
“The state-owned papers, run for years by secular-leaning editors”. Secular-leaning? Those were stooges of Sadat and Mubarak who followed orders even if they entailed worshiping the feet of Jamal Mubarak. Secular-minded my…potato.
Posted on August 9, 2012 by As'ad
new tunisia
“Tunisia may become the first sovereign state to include another nation in its constitution. The final draft of the preamble to the constitution declares that Tunisia seeks to, “serve justice for all those oppressed, and to grant individuals the righ…
Posted on August 9, 2012 by As'ad
FSA code of misconduct
From Akram: “”Some prominent Syrian rebel fighters have signed a ‘code of conduct’ committing them to observe human rights in their battle to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad”. Other brigades, who refused to sign because they have reservati…
Posted on August 9, 2012 by As'ad
If Muslims were doing that?
“It’s the latest prescription for extreme ultra-Orthodox Jewish men who shun contact with the opposite sex: Glasses that blur their vision, so they don’t have to see women they consider to be immodestly dressed. In an effort to maintain the…
Posted on August 9, 2012 by As'ad
Bahrain’s foreign minister tweeted link to Israel’s Ambassador to the UN article on Iran
Khalil sent me this: “Dear As’ad, the link below tells how the Bahrain’s foreign minister tweeted Israel’s Ambassador article on Iran and its nuclear program, and how diplomacy is running out of time i thought this might interest you, hebrew:
Posted on August 9, 2012 by As'ad
spying on citizens in Bahrain
“” Bahrain’s government is spying on Bahraini activists with a malicious computer program apparently supplied by a UK firm….”Bahrain Watch founding member Bill Marczak, and Citizen Lab security researcher Morgan Marquis-Boire analyzed a string…
Posted on August 9, 2012 by As'ad
They nowhere mention that the attacks and threats came from supporters of the Free Syrian Army
“A French television station says that one of its reporters was forced to flee Syria following death threats he received on Twitter. France 24 says Chady Chlela, a reporter with its Arab-language channel, who was reporting from restive Aleppo a…
Posted on August 9, 2012 by As'ad
FLASH: A Lebanese lands on MARS
According to the right-wing Lebanese station, MTV, which agitates against other races and sects and gays and poor people (and which enjoys the support and admiration of US ambassador in Lebanon), a Lebanese has just landed on Mars. (thanks Alex)
Posted on August 9, 2012 by As'ad
ABC News on the Syrian rebels
Aballah sent me this report:”I just saw a feature on ABC News a few hours ago. Apparently they had a correspondent (I don’t remember who) who slipped into Syria and interviewed some fighters eating their “Last Supper of sorts”, as he put it. Very lar…
Posted on August 9, 2012 by As'ad
Dumb Mossad propaganda
““We know the sources in Lebanon,” though not the identity of those on the other end in Bulgaria, the official said. “They shouldn’t know that we know the numbers in Lebanon.”” Look how dumb the Mossad has become. The Hariri tri…
Posted on August 9, 2012 by As'ad
Zionist ploys
Do you notice that Zionists in the US always want to pretend that Hizbullah’s war on Israel is also a war on the US? ““They want just enough ambiguity that you can’t nail down that they did it, the seed of doubt that makes it difficult for I…
Posted on August 9, 2012 by As'ad
The Mossad-planted story in the New York Times
If there is a clear piece of Israeli propaganda it is this unsubstantiated story on the front page of the Times. Look at this sentence: “That gave some experts the impression that the assaults were planned in a hurry, perhaps because Iran …
Posted on August 9, 2012 by As'ad