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Russia's and Assad's War Crimes in Syria

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Wednesday, December 14, 2016 7:26 AM

KPO

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BTW- military operations have ceased in Aleppo.

A "Russian ceasefire". You're so naive.

"Iran-backed militias block Aleppo evacuation as shelling resumes:"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/14/aleppo-residents-evacuat
ion-uncertainty-ceasefire-deal-assad?CMP=share_btn_tw


"Fierce fighting halts Aleppo evacuation:"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-38314291


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Wednesday, December 14, 2016 7:51 AM

KPO

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Reports that Aleppo women are choosing suicide over rape by the invading Assad militias:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/12/last-rebels-in-aleppo
-say-assad-forces-are-burning-people-alive.html?via=desktop&source=twitter


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Wednesday, December 14, 2016 8:26 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


Do you believe everything you read in the press?




How did your beloved 'democratic' party fuck up so badly?

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Wednesday, December 14, 2016 11:48 AM

SIGNYM

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Who did all that bombing btw? Do you know? Was it the US? UK? EU? China? Australia! No.... hmmm...
Yes, war is hell.

Who bombed this?



And this?



This?


Or this?



I'll save a space here for Mosul:
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IT'S TOO BAD YOUR PRECIOUS "MODERATE REBELS" HELD CIVILIANS AS HOSTAGES.

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Reports [FROM WHOM?] that Aleppo women are choosing suicide over rape by the invading Assad militias


One picture of people who had been shot lying on the street was captioned (by guess who?) as "Aleppo massacre by Syrian soldiers", although it was originally captioned in 2014 as "ISIL executes defectors"

There was an interesting picture tweeted of a large number of men lined up against a wall. ONE caption (from guess who?) was "Men and boys singled out, genocide in the making". ANOTHER caption said "Mass surrender of rebels".

Seriously dood, the "rebels" and "White Helmets" that you heart bleeds for so much are not above staging events and making false claims, all for you. And the western media is not above going along with it, even with "on the ground" reporters, as they stage little vignettes with groups that they want to promote ("Where do you want me to run? From here to there?") in order to create a specific narrative. Of course, so does Russia. I understand that ALL sides do it, but do you?


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Wednesday, December 14, 2016 3:46 PM

KPO

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Do you believe everything you read in the press?


Are you referring to the report of Aleppo women committing suicide out of fear of being raped by Assad's advancing army and militias?

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Wednesday, December 14, 2016 3:52 PM

KPO

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Big if true:

International concern over fresh claims of use of sarin nerve gas in Syria:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/13/international-concern-ov
er-claims-of-chemical-weapon-attack-in-syria?CMP=share_btn_tw


Assad blamed for new sarin attack killing 93+ people, the same nerve agent that his forces used to kill more than 1300 people in the famous incident of 2013.

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Wednesday, December 14, 2016 11:48 PM

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Originally posted by kpo:
Assad blamed for new sarin attack killing 93+ people, the same nerve agent that his forces used to kill more than 1300 people in the famous incident of 2013.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghouta_chemical_attack#Initial_claims
Deaths Various estimates:
at least 281 (French intelligence)[2]

at least 350 (UK intelligence)[3]
355 (MSF)[4]
494 (Damascus Media Office)[5]
502 (SOHR)[6]
635 (SRGC)[7]
923 (VDC)[8]
1,300 (SNC)[9]
1,338 (LCC)[10]
1,429 (United States)[11][12]
1,729 (FSA)

The UN report on the investigation into the Ghouta chemical attacks was published on 16 September 2013. ... The report, which was "careful not to blame either side," said that during the mission's work in areas under rebel control, "individuals arrived carrying other suspected munitions indicating that such potential evidence is being moved and possibly manipulated."

According to a study published in January 2014 by Theodore Postol and Richard Lloyd, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the rockets used in the attack had a range of about two kilometers, indicating the munitions could not have been fired from the 'heart' or from the Eastern edge of the Syrian Government Controlled Area shown in the Intelligence Map published by the White House

You used contested claims.




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Thursday, December 15, 2016 12:05 AM

SIGNYM

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So who bombed the shit out of Aleppo Berlin? Belgrade? And then said they liberated it? Come on, you can do it. Be honest - I know it's going to be hard for you.




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Thursday, December 15, 2016 12:22 AM

SIGNYM

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the same nerve agent that his [Assad's] forces used to kill more than 1300 people in the famous incident of 2013.


KPO's and G's bullshit never stops.

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Ake Sellstrom, head of the UN chemical-weapons inspection team, said the rebels significantly exaggerated the number of dead and injured treated in Al Ghouta hospitals. “We saw the capability of those hospitals, and it is impossible that they could have turned over the amount of people that they claim they did.” The discrepancy was explained when The Wall Street Journal revealed that U.S. intelligence had scanned the rebel videos with face recognition software to count the number of dead.
In other words, bodies were moved around and staged by the so-called "rebels"

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Second, serious questions arose about the White House claim that the Sarin rockets were fired from the heart of Assad-controlled Damascus. The New York Times and Human Rights Watch analyses assumed that the rockets were fired from over nine kilometers away.

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But a report published by missile experts showed otherwise. Richard Lloyd is a former UN weapons inspector and currently works at Tesla Labs in Arlington, Virginia. Theodore A. Postol is a professor of science, technology, and national security policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston.

They analyzed the data presented by the UN inspectors concerning the Sarin-laden rockets. They concluded that the rockets would have a maximum range of two kilometers. When asked about this issue at a press conference, Sellstrom concurred that the two kilometer range would be a “fair guess.” He later indicated the rockets could have been fired as close as one kilometer.

Lloyd and Postol superimposed the two kilometer rocket range onto the White House maps. Their report said, “These munitions could not possibly have been fired at east Ghouta from the ‘heart,’ or from the eastern edge, of the Syrian government-controlled area shown in the intelligence map published by the White House on Aug. 30, 2013.”

The report noted that these “improvised artillery rockets” could have been constructed by the army or the rebels. “The indigenous chemical munition could be manufactured by anyone who has access to a machine shop with modest capabilities, that is, the claim is incorrect that only the Syrian government could manufacture the munition.” The New York Times wrote about the report and noted the much shorter range but never retracted its erroneous reports that the rockets must have been fired from the Mount Qasioun military complex.

Poking holes in the U.S. government’s case doesn’t automatically mean the rebels were responsible, however. Were the rebels militarily capable and politically willing to carry out a massive war crime against their own supporters?

The Syrian Version

As a liquid, Sarin is quite volatile and can’t be stored for very long because it can corrode storage containers and warheads. So Sarin precursor chemicals are stored separately and then mixed prior to use. They can be mixed in a lab by trained technicians. Mixing in the battlefield can be very dangerous to both the technician and anyone nearby. The Syrian army has admitted having Sarin precursors in large quantities. Some extremist rebel groups may have had some as well.

I spent some time in Damascus interviewing government officials and experts about the chemical-weapons issue. The Syrians presented a version of events sharply at odds with the U.S. government narrative.

On March 19, 2013, rebels used Sarin against a pro-government neighborhood in the village of Khan Al Asal near Aleppo, according to Dr. Bassam Barakat, a medical doctor and pro-government political consultant. He told me that blood samples and other physical evidence were sent to Russia for analysis. Officials there wrote a 100-page report indicating rebel use of Sarin and delivered it to the United Nations, but neither party ever made it public. According to Barakat, the Russians confirmed that the Sarin had originally come from the chemical stockpiles of Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, who had been supplied by the old Soviet Union. Extremists in Libya shipped the Sarin chemical precursors to Turkey, where they were then smuggled across the border into Syria, according to Barakat. Assad officials were so confident that they could prove the rebels had used the poison chemicals, they allowed UN inspectors into Syria to investigate, but only after months of delay.

The final UN chemical-weapons report confirmed a number of points in the Syrian government version. Rebels were shelling Khan Al Asal prior to the chemical attack. At about 7:00 a.m., a munition hit the area some 300 meters from a government checkpoint. The UN report indicated, “The air stood still and witnesses described a yellowish-green mist in the air and a pungent and strong sulfur-like smell. . . . The witnesses reported seeing people scratching their faces and bodies. They also observed people lying in the streets, some unconscious, some having convulsions and foaming from the mouth.”

The UN inspectors concluded that Khan Al Asal had been attacked with Sarin. The UN inspection team was unable to visit the town due to security concerns but was able to interview eyewitnesses and take medical samples of residents who had come to Damascus. A Syrian government report indicated that twenty people died from the Sarin attack and 124 were injured.


http://whowhatwhy.org/2014/12/01/really-used-chemical-weapons-syria/

More specifically, western press said
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The large-scale nature of the attacks, involving at least a dozen surface-to-surface rockets affecting two different neighborhoods in Damascus countryside situated 16 kilometers apart, and surrounded by major Syrian government military positions.


In interview, the UN investigator said
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It is good that we took those trajectories, but the distance these rockets travelled is not very far, so it is misleading to use trajectories to try and find the focal point of the trajectory as they are only travelling a kilometre or something like that. Those facts surfaced in our investigation.

http://www.cbrneworld.com/_uploads/download_magazines/Sellstrom_Feb_20
14_v2.pdf




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"If I could write inflammatory commentary to scorch the eye brows and lashes off Trump, Signym or 1kiki, I would.- SECOND"

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Thursday, December 15, 2016 11:08 AM

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Dood, I just don't answer loaded questions.

KPO's and G's bullshit never stops.




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Thursday, December 15, 2016 11:49 AM

KPO

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Putin/Assad's assault on rebel-held Aleppo pocket with tens of thousands of civilians "probably a war crime" says UN:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-38320647

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Thursday, December 15, 2016 11:53 AM

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Have you noticed you have become your own Auraptor?

She's worse. I've never seen - not even from Rappy - such gung-ho cheerleading for war and devastation and civilian slaughter on these boards.

And she claims to be "anti-war". It's the brazen hypocrisy that's the worst.

Wait for her to call me a "terrorist-lover" in 3,2,1...

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Thursday, December 15, 2016 11:53 AM

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Have you noticed you have become your own Auraptor?

She's worse. I've never seen - not even from Rappy - such gung-ho cheerleading for war and devastation and civilian slaughter on these boards.

And she claims to be "anti-war". It's the brazen hypocrisy that's the worst.

Wait for her to call me a "terrorist-lover" in 3,2,1...

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Thursday, December 15, 2016 12:41 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


gung-ho cheerleading for war and devastation and civilian slaughter quotes please

And she claims to be "anti-war" That would be 'anti-US FOREIGN INVOLVEMENT WAR OF CHOICE' Sign's realistic enough to know the US can interfere with but can never completely control what other countries do - which makes being anti-war futile.




How did your beloved 'democratic' party fuck up so badly?

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Thursday, December 15, 2016 7:43 PM

KPO

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
gung-ho cheerleading for war and devastation and civilian slaughter quotes please


UN High Commissioner for human rights:

“The crushing of Aleppo, the immeasurably terrifying toll on its people, the bloodshed, the wanton slaughter of men, women and children"

All of that Siggy calls "liberation".

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Thursday, December 15, 2016 8:01 PM

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"The lessons from Aleppo’s tragic fate:"

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GROZNY, Dresden, Guernica: some cities have made history by being destroyed. Aleppo, once Syria’s largest metropolis, will soon join their ranks. Its 1,000-year-old Muslim heritage has turned to dust; Russian aircraft have targeted its hospitals and schools; its citizens have been shelled, bombed, starved and gassed (see article). Nobody knows how many of the tens of thousands who remain in the last Sunni Arab enclave will die crammed inside the ruins where they are sheltering. But even if they receive the safe passage they have been promised, their four-year ordeal in Aleppo has blown apart the principle that innocent people should be spared the worst ravages of war. Instead, a nasty, brutish reality has taken hold—and it threatens a more dangerous and unstable world.

To gauge the depth of Aleppo’s tragedy, remember that the first protests against Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, in 2011 saw Sunnis marching cheerfully alongside Shias, Christians and Kurds. From the start, with extensive help from Iran, Mr Assad set out to destroy the scope for peaceful resistance by using violence to radicalise his people. Early on, his claim that all rebels were “terrorists” was outrageous. Today some are. There were turning-points when the West might have stepped in—by establishing a no-fly zone, say; or a haven where civilians could shelter; or even a full-scale programme of arming the rebels. But, paralysed by the legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan, the West held back. As the fighting became entrenched, the need to intervene grew, month by bloody month. But the risk and complexity of intervening grew faster. As Mr Assad was about to topple, Russia joined the fray, acting without conscience and to devastating effect. Aleppo’s fall is proof that Mr Assad has prevailed and of Iran’s influence. But the real victory belongs to Russia, which once again counts in the Middle East.

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Plenty of people share the blame. After Mr Assad drenched his people in nerve gas, crossing an American red line, Britain’s parliament voted against taking even limited military action. As millions of people fled to Syria’s neighbours, including Lebanon and Jordan, most European countries looked the other way—or put up barriers to keep refugees out.

Particular blame falls on Barack Obama. America’s president has treated Syria as a trap to be avoided. His smug prediction that Russia would be bogged down in a “quagmire” there has proved a historic misjudgment.

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http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21711903-when-interests-triumph-
over-values-terrible-things-can-happen-lessons-aleppos-tragic?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/the_lessons_from_aleppo_s_tragic_fate


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Friday, December 16, 2016 12:15 AM

1KIKI

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Originally posted by kpo:
All of that Siggy calls "liberation".

Silly me. I thought GUNG-HO CHEERLEADING FOR WAR AND DEVASTATION AND CIVILIAN SLAUGHTER might have been something like: I hope Russia bombs everyone back into the stone age! Rather than
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Originally posted by SignyM:
After constantly slagging Russia about the liberation of Aleppo, even NPR (globalist-Democratic source that it is) had to admit that the liberated civilians were housed and fed, and being treated well, and that there was no massacres or arrests or forced conscriptions as the so-called "rebels" claimed.






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Friday, December 16, 2016 1:01 AM

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Friday, December 16, 2016 8:40 AM

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Aleppo Victory… US and its Crime Partners Suffer ‘Meltdown of Sanity’

The US and its terrorist-sponsoring partners are seeing their criminal regime-change project in ruins, as the Syrian army and its allies win a spectacular victory to retake the strategically important city of Aleppo.

Western governments and their flunkies at the UN are cynically, perversely decrying a «meltdown of humanity».

Closer to the truth is their own «meltdown of sanity». This is because the official Western narrative about the Syrian war is finally being exposed on a glaring scale.

The exposure for the whole world to see is one of a systematic, fake propaganda cover that concealed a criminal enterprise – an enterprise involving terrorist proxies, or fake moderate rebels, whom the Western governments have sponsored for the past six years in a conspiracy to overthrow the government of Syria. The gravity of this systematic crime committed by Washington and its various partners is now unfolding.

Unable to cope with their own cognitive dissonance over the criminality, the Western governments and their complicit corporate news media are resorting to outright denial and to compounding lies with even more lies.

Instead of dealing with the reality that Syrian state forces have recaptured Aleppo from brutal, illegally armed groups, which the West and its regional clients have bankrolled and armed, the West distorts the dramatic victory as the «fall of Aleppo». One report on American channel CNN even referred to the victorious Syrian army and its allies as «persecutors».

With typical unhinged emotion, US ambassador to the UN Samantha Power cited unverified reports of civilians being executed in Aleppo, and slammed Syria and its allies Russia and Iran for having «no shame». It is Power and her Western partners-in-crime, including top UN officials, who should be hanging their heads in shame.

Among the hysterical soundbites about alleged atrocities and slaughter being lobbed around this week was this from UN «humanitarian» official Jens Laerke who said Aleppo was seeing a «meltdown of humanity». Catchy words, but divorced from reality.

Western news media outlets were screaming headlines alleging summary executions of women and children by the Syrian army and its Russian, Iranian and Lebanese allies as they moved in to finally retake the whole of the northern city.

Outgoing UN chief Ban Ki-Moon talked in disparaging tones about an «uncompromising military victory», while his underlings Rupert Colville and Jan Egeland decried «hellish» conditions and «war crimes» committed by Syria and Russia.

The problem is that all these sensational, reckless assertions are based on unverified claims by anonymous «activists» or persons involved with militants – militants who are integrated with terror groups like Jaysh al Fatah, Jabhat al Nusra, Ahrar al Sham and Nour al din al Zenki. All of them affiliated with the internationally proscribed Al Qaeda terrorist network – which the Western governments claim to be at war with.

It truly is a grotesque revelation when Western governments and UN officials publicly spout propaganda on behalf of terrorist groups.

Samantha Power and her British counterpart at the UN Matthew Rycroft cited UN «reports» of 82 civilians being executed, including 11 women and 13 children, by the pro-government Syrian forces during the final hours of recapturing Aleppo. But the same UN «reports» were themselves based on unverified sources supposedly embedded among the terrorists. This is not reportage. It is simply recycling rumors aimed at saving the necks of terrorist groups.

The simple fact of the information coming from unverified sources did not stop the UN, Power, Rycroft and the raft of Western media outlets, including the Washington Post, CNN, Guardian, Independent, France 24 etc, presenting the claims as if they were fact.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused Western governments and their dutiful, unquestioning news media of spreading «fake news» about the dramatic events in Syria this week. Lavrov pointed out that none of the alleged atrocities were acknowledged by independent humanitarian groups.

Syria’s ambassador to the UN Bashar al Jaafari also refuted the claims of atrocities that Western counterparts appeared to be so perplexed by.

Western governments and media outlets persisted in their gory fantasies despite abundant video footage that even they themselves were broadcasting which showed thousands of civilians calmly walking away from militant-held pockets of Aleppo towards the Syrian state forces. Is that the behavior of people who are being massacred, summarily executed, slaughtered?

One of the most absurd distortions was this from France 24. The state-owned broadcaster of one of the countries that has supplied weapons and propaganda cover to terrorists in Syria over the past six years described this week how «people in government-held areas of Aleppo were celebrating». Given that the Syrian government holds virtually all of Aleppo that means that the vast majority of Syrians were celebrating. Yet France 24 roils its words to contrive a false division between pro and anti-government populations.

The more logical and truthful depiction is that Syrian civilians are at last able to flee from terror gangs that have held them under siege. But in reporting that the whole false Western narrative about what has been going on in Aleppo and Syria for the past six years would implode like a house of cards.

Why aren’t the Western news media interviewing the tens of thousands of civilians who have now managed to flee from the defeated terrorist groups? Why don’t the Western media ask questions about the nature of their captivity? Such as, why could they not escape from militant-held eastern Aleppo until now? What do these civilians think of the Syrian army and its allies who have crushed the militants?

The curious, gaping absence of any testimonies carried by the Western media from the thousands of liberated civilians in Aleppo is mirrored by the same curious, gaping absence of testimonies from thousands of civilians liberated elsewhere in Syria by the army over the past year.

That’s because those civilians are telling media outlets which are willing to report, such as the Syrian state broadcaster SANA, as well as RT, Press TV and Al Manar, that their nightmare siege imposed by the Western-backed terrorists is over. If Western media outlets were to actually bother to conduct real journalism they would go into liberated areas of Aleppo and other towns and villages across Syria and report that life is returning to happy normalcy for these families and communities.

The truth is Aleppo was invaded by Western-backed mercenaries in July 2012, who turned the eastern side of the city into a den ruled under a reign of terror. A twisted, demented caliphate run by head-chopping Wahhabi jihadists was imposed. Like Syria as a whole, these mercenaries were sanitized in the West as «moderate, pro-democracy rebels» – albeit somehow supposedly «intermingled» with jihadi extremists.

If that were the case, then where are these supposed «moderates» now that the last den of the «rebels» in Aleppo has been routed?

The stark absence of «moderate», «pro-democracy», «Western-value-supporting rebels» emerging from the ruins of Aleppo is as stark as the absence of petrified civilians denouncing Syrian army «atrocities» or Russian «war crimes».

In one resounding moment this week, the Western narrative about Aleppo, and the Syrian war more generally, has collapsed in a pile of dust. No amount of denials and further distortions can hide the exposure of Western lies and propaganda fabrications.

So ironically, Western media outlets have recently whipped up the phenomenon of «fake news» in the context of trying to discredit Russia over alleged electoral interference in the US and Europe.

What Syria has demonstrated is that the real culprits of peddling false news, and more gravely false narratives, are the Western governments and their conceited, self-important news media.

Unable to deal with the unbearable truth of criminal complicity, the official West is displaying a meltdown of sanity.

Aleppo and Syria will one day emerge again from the present ruins. No such recovery from ruins will be made by the ignominious Western governments and their lying, criminally complicit media.


http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/12/15/aleppo-victory-us-its
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Friday, December 16, 2016 6:02 PM

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NYT article (from a few months ago) on the bombing of an Aleppo apartment block, and the White Helmets' operation to recover survivors/bodies - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/29/world/middleeast/aleppo-syria-airstr
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Friday, December 16, 2016 6:13 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by 1kiki:
Silly me. I thought GUNG-HO CHEERLEADING FOR WAR AND DEVASTATION AND CIVILIAN SLAUGHTER might have been something like: I hope Russia bombs everyone back into the stone age!



Then you're a fool. Warmongers and their cheerleaders always dress up their wars of aggression and indiscriminate slaughter with righteous language like "liberation".


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Friday, December 16, 2016 6:26 PM

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Russian-backed Hezbollah terrorists fire on Aleppo evacuation convoy, forcing it back - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-38345751

Tens of thousands of civilians still trapped inside the rebel-held part of the city, their fate still unclear.

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Saturday, December 17, 2016 12:28 AM

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Then you're a fool. Warmongers and their cheerleaders always dress up their wars of aggression and indiscriminate slaughter with righteous language like "liberation".
There are plenty of horror stories coming out of Mosul about life under ISIS. Those people (with the exception of ISIS itself and its supporters) really DO feel liberated, despite the death and ruin around them. And I guarantee you won't object when the US uses the term 'liberated' to describe those people.

Aleppo is the same way.




How did your beloved 'democratic' party fuck up so badly?

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Quote:

Originally posted by 1kiki:
Then you're a fool. Warmongers and their cheerleaders always dress up their wars of aggression and indiscriminate slaughter with righteous language like "liberation".

There are plenty of horror stories coming out of Mosul about life under ISIS. Those people (with the exception of ISIS itself and its supporters) really DO feel liberated, despite the death and ruin around them. And I guarantee you won't object when the US uses the term 'liberated' to describe those people.

Aleppo is the same way.

Where the hell do you get your news, 1kiki?

The governments of Syria and Russia are presenting a very different picture of the crisis in Aleppo from that portrayed by the UN, as the battle for the city draws to a close:

www.euronews.com/2016/12/13/syrian-and-russian-media-report-on-final-a
leppo-battle
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In Moscow, media quoted praise from Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov for a ‘successful and humane’ Syrian operation to liberate the east of the city.

He was also quoted as saying on Tuesday that militants have produced staged videos showing ‘Russian bombardments’ in Syria.

To illustrate claims that the rebels ruled with a reign of terror, a mother, fleeing with her son, showed injuries on his back to Syrian TV.

“Look at his body! Why are we coming? Why are we coming here? Because we wanted to get rid of them…They would not let us go,” she said.

Russian media also presented images of Aleppo residents “celebrating the impending liberation of their city”.

More than 100,000 civilians were held “hostage” as human shields in Aleppo by “terrorists”, the Russian defence ministry spokesman is quoted as saying by the Tass news agency.

They left for Syrian government-controlled areas, he says, as soon as the opportunity presented itself.



https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/russian-media-is-triumphant-in-ale
ppo-as-palmyra-falls-again-56509
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Russia is the only force that’s fighting the “radicals” in Syria, unlike its Western counterparts, which are paralyzed by inaction and indifference to the suffering of Syrian civilians. Not only that, but the West is even sabotaging Russia’s diplomatic efforts at the U.N., and actively aiding terrorists in Syria and Iraq. Also, everyone except Russia is to blame for the loss of Palmyra.

That’s the gist of this Sunday’s flagship news shows on Russian television.


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Saturday, December 17, 2016 2:47 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


Where the hell do you get your news, 1kiki?

Western media. Where do you get yours?

I'll be really curious how the claimed '250,000' thousand residents trapped in E Aleppo will be made to disappear from our mediated reality. Once areas of the city were liberated, citizen were reported fleeing by 1k and 2k - certainly no mass exodus of hundreds of thousands. And there are merely 10,000 or so left to be freed.

Whatever happened to all those hundreds of thousands? How did they disappear? And why aren't YOU asking about them? You were so full of righteous concern just a few days ago.

Did you forget about that overwhelming human tragedy already? Did your concern last as long as the propaganda you love to listen to was blaring it in your ears - to be forgotten at the next outrage de jour?




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Saturday, December 17, 2016 6:21 AM

KPO

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Quote:

Originally posted by 1kiki:
Where the hell do you get your news, 1kiki?

Western media.


Ha. Western blogs that parrot Russian media more like.

Quote:


I'll be really curious how the claimed '250,000' thousand residents trapped in E Aleppo will be made to disappear from our mediated reality. Once areas of the city were liberated, citizen were reported fleeing by 1k and 2k - certainly no mass exodus of hundreds of thousands. And there are merely 10,000 or so left to be freed.

Whatever happened to all those hundreds of thousands? How did they disappear?


The ~250,000 figure was from weeks ago, before the Russian/Assad offensive. Since then many tens of thousands have indeed made it out of the warzone. Here's a quote from the Russian MOD, reported by Russian media on Dec 11th, about 50,000 civilians fleeing the fighting in just 2 days:

Over the past 48 hours, up to 50,000 people have been evacuated from eastern Aleppo, Russian Defense Ministry spokesperson Major General Igor Konashenkov has reported.
More than 20,000 residents left eastern Aleppo in the first part of Saturday, and 1,217 militants laid down their weapons,” Konashenkov said.


https://www.rt.com/news/369869-syria-evacuation-civilians-aleppo/

Quote:

Whatever happened to all those hundreds of thousands? How did they disappear? And why aren't YOU asking about them? You were so full of righteous concern just a few days ago.

Did you forget about that overwhelming human tragedy already? Did your concern last as long as the propaganda you love to listen to was blaring it in your ears - to be forgotten at the next outrage de jour?


Now let's turn this question around. What happens in 1kiki's mind when a Russian media talking point that she's been loudly parroting gets debunked and contradicted - by none other than the Russian military? My guess is you'll pivot from scoffing at the "supposed tens of thousands" of civilians in east Aleppo, to boasting about how well the cuddly Assad is taking care of them all (and not at all just for the cameras).

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Quote:

There are plenty of horror stories coming out of Mosul about life under ISIS. Those people (with the exception of ISIS itself and its supporters) really DO feel liberated, despite the death and ruin around them. And I guarantee you won't object when the US uses the term 'liberated' to describe those people.

Aleppo is the same way.- 1KIKI

Where the hell do you get your news, 1kiki?- SECOND

The governments of Syria and Russia are presenting a very different picture of the crisis in Aleppo from that portrayed by the UN, as the battle for the city draws to a close- SECONDRATE



And who should know how things are going, the UN? Or Syria and Russia who are, after all, right there in east Aleppo, fighting terrorists and providing aid?

The UN gets its info from the same twisted "activists" that the western press draws from.

Just OOC, SECOND, KRAPO, GSTRING, and THUGR: Have you heard of the UN bragging about its massive aid program for the recently-displaced from east Aleppo? The victims that they were SO concerned about not two short weeks ago? About their food distribution centers, with ethnically-welcome hot soups, bread, fresh-cooked vegetables? Rice and wheat flour "to go" for people to cook their own meals elsewhere? Warm, dry, clean clothes for those who had to leave without? Temporary refugee shelters so peole can get out of the cold and the rain? Field hospitals set up to address war wounds and medical conditions festering from privation?

Who is providing aid? The UN? The USA? The EU?

Of course not. Because they don't give a shit about Syrians.



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TAKE THIS WITH A GRAIN OF SALT:

Quote:

At Least 14 US Coalition Military Officers Captured by Syrian Special Forces in East Aleppo Bunker

DAMASCUS – According to two reports coming out of Aleppo today, at least 14 US Coalition military officers were captured this morning in an East Aleppo bunker by Syrian Special Forces.

This story was quietly leaked by Voltaire.net, who announced, “The Security Council is sitting in private on Friday, December 16, 2016, at 17:00 GMT, while NATO officers were arrested this morning by the Syrian Special Forces in a bunker in East Aleppo.”

Fares Shehabi MP, a prominent Syrian Parliamentarian and head of Aleppo’s Chamber of Commerce published the names of the Coalition officers on his Facebook page on the 15th December (emphasis added):

Mutaz Kanoglu – Turkey
David Scott Winer – USA
David Shlomo Aram – Israel
Muhamad Tamimi – Qatar
Muhamad Ahmad Assabian – Saudi
Abd-el-Menham Fahd al Harij – Saudi
Islam Salam Ezzahran Al Hajlan – Saudi
Ahmed Ben Naoufel Al Darij – Saudi
Muhamad Hassan Al Sabihi – Saudi
Hamad Fahad Al Dousri – Saudi
Amjad Qassem Al Tiraoui – Jordan
Qassem Saad Al Shamry – Saudi
Ayman Qassem Al Thahalbi – Saudi
Mohamed Ech-Chafihi El Idrissi – Moroccan

Listen to Fares Shehabi’s interview on the Sunday Wire radio show: ‘Liberation Aleppo‘

In addition to Voltaire.net, the other original report was provided by Damascus-based Syrian journalist Said Hilal Alcharifi. According to Alcharifi, captured “NATO” officers were from a number of member states including the US, France, Germany and Turkey, as well as Israel. Here is his statement (translated from French):

“Thanks to information received, Syrian authorities discovered the headquarters of high ranking western/NATO officers in the basement of an area in East Aleppo and have captured them alive. Some names have already been given to Syrian journalists, myself included. The nationalities are US, French, British, German, Israeli, Turkish, Saudi, Moroccan, Qatari etc. In light of their nationalities and their rank, I assure you that the Syrian government have a very important catch, which should enable them to direct negotiations with the countries that have tried to destroy them.”

Although these initial reports describe the individuals in question as “NATO” officers, it’s unlikely they would have been carrying NATO colors on a covert operation – and might be more accurately labeled as US Coalition officers. Note that early reports suggest that these are not standard ‘street rebel’ or jihadi terrorists but actual Coalition military personnel and field commanders.

21WIRE have also received unconfirmed reports yesterday that militants had fired a missile into Ramousa area and then tried, unsuccessfully, to get cars out of East Aleppo. It’s possible this incident could be related to today reports of captured western operatives.

This report from the Syrian Arab News Agency (emphasis added):

“The agreement on evacuating militants and weapons from the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo city has been suspended after terrorist groups breached it, special sources told SANA correspondent in Aleppo.

The sources said that the suspension of the agreement will remain in place until obtaining guarantees that oblige the terrorist groups to abide by all the agreement’s provisions, stressing on the Syrian side’s full adherence to the agreement and its keenness to end the bloodshed and restore security and stability to the entire city of Aleppo.”

Earlier, SANA reporter said that the terrorist groups have breached the agreement as they smuggled heavy weapons, including TOW missiles, heavy machineguns and kidnapped people via the buses and cars transporting terrorists and their families towards the southwestern countryside of Aleppo city.

The reporter added that the terrorist groups fired shells and sniper bullets on the buses and ambulances at al-Ramousseh crossing, noting that the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) which are supervising the evacuation process had to withdraw all buses and cars from the crossing.

Over the past 24 hours, some 8079 terrorists and members of their families were evacuated on ten batches via busses and ambulances from the neighborhoods of Salah-Eddin, al-Ansari, al-Mashhad and al-Zibdiyeh to the southwest countryside of Aleppo city”

If true, then this latest news would also mean that both the Syrian and Russian governments would have additional leverage going forward in any bilateral negotiations with the US-led Coalition.

If, however, this story is kept under wraps by NATO member governments and summarily blacked out by the US and European media outlets, then it might indicate that a deal has been struck, albeit behind the scenes, for the return of captured NATO operatives in exchange for other concessions.

If today’s report from East Aleppo is accurate, this might also help explain the hysterical behavior by the US State Department and western UN officials who have been demanding “an immediate ceasefire” – despite the fact that 99% of East Aleppo has already been liberated by Syrian government forces.

The western establishment hysterical reactions to Al Nusra’s defeat in Aleppo have included wild claims that the Syrian Army had ‘unleashed death squads,’ on its own residents in East Aleppo and were openly ‘executing women and children in the street,’ and ‘burning children in the street,’ as well what appear to be more fictional reports circulated in US media mainly by Michael Weis of The Daily Beast via CNN, claiming that Syrian Army was committing “mass rape” against residents of East Aleppo. His article entitled, “Women in Aleppo Choose Suicide Over Rape, Rebels Report,“ made a number of outlandish claims including:

“Activists and rebels in the besieged city say mass executions have begun and children are burned alive as Assad’s Iranian- and Russian-backed forces move in.”

Not surprisingly, aside from unnamed “UN sources”, Weiss claims to have got his information from none other than the discredited US and UK-financed pseudo ‘NGO’ known as the White Helmets.

Back in September, numerous reports suggested that a western command center located behind terrorist-held lines had been targeted and destroyed by a Russian missile strike. Prof Michel Chossudovsky wrote:

“The US and its allies had established a Field Operations Room in the Aleppo region integrated by intelligence personnel. Until it was targeted by a Russian missile attack on September 20, this “semi-secret” facility was operated by US, British, Israeli, Turkish, Saudi and Qatari intelligence personnel.”

This report was neither admitted, nor was it denied by US Coalition sources at the time. However, one mainstream Israeli source, The Times of Israel, did report the incident.

For anyone who has been paying close attention to the Syrian Conflict, seeing NATO special forces or “contractors” working with ‘rebel’ or terrorist fighters inside of Syria is nothing unusual. Numerous reports have been filed of British soldiers assigned to fighting groups to help with training, strategy and logistics. In June 2016, The Telegraph admitted that British special forces were helping one rebel group, “… with logistics, like building defences to make the bunkers safe,” said one ‘rebel’ fighter. Other reports, including the LA Times which detailed CIA operations used to arm militants, including Al Nusra Front (al Qaeda in Syria) who were the terrorist force in charge in East Aleppo. Other revelations of US covert involvement include The New York Times, and also information on US (NATO by another name only) covert operations provided to the Wall Street Journal.

Throughout fighting in the Donbass in eastern Ukraine, during the period of May 2014 to the present, numerous incidents have been reported where NATO military soldiers and operatives have been both spotted, and captured by rebel forces, and in most cases these reports have been muted, more than likely because of ‘horse trading’ taking place as an extension of wider diplomacy. http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/12/16/reports-at-least-10-nato-militar
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Saturday, December 17, 2016 2:13 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


Quote:

Saturday, December 17, 2016 2:47 AM
Originally posted by 1kiki:
I'll be really curious how the claimed '250,000' thousand residents trapped in E Aleppo will be made to disappear from our mediated reality. Once areas of the city were liberated, citizen were reported fleeing by 1k and 2k - certainly no mass exodus of hundreds of thousands. And there are merely 10,000 or so left to be freed.

Whatever happened to all those hundreds of thousands? How did they disappear? And why aren't YOU asking about them? You were so full of righteous concern just a few days ago.

Did you forget about that overwhelming human tragedy already? Did your concern last as long as the propaganda you love to listen to was blaring it in your ears - to be forgotten at the next outrage de jour?

Quote:

Saturday, December 17, 2016 6:21 AM
Originally posted by kpo:
Over the past 48 hours, up to 50,000 people have been evacuated from eastern Aleppo, Russian Defense Ministry spokesperson Major General Igor Konashenkov has reported.
More than 20,000 residents left eastern Aleppo in the first part of Saturday, and 1,217 militants laid down their weapons,” Konashenkov said.
https://www.rt.com/news/369869-syria-evacuation-civilians-aleppo/

Quote:

Saturday, December 17, 2016 2:47 AM
Originally posted by 1kiki:
Whatever happened to all those hundreds of thousands ? How did they disappear? And why aren't YOU asking about them? You were so full of righteous concern just a few days ago.




Quote:

Saturday, December 17, 2016 6:21 AM
Originally posted by kpo:
The ~250,000 figure was from weeks ago, before the Russian/Assad offensive.

Quote:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleppo_offensive_%28September%E2%80%93Oc
tober_2016%29

The Aleppo offensive of September–October 2016 was the military operation launched in Aleppo in late September 2016 by the Syrian Army aiming to capture all of the remaining rebel-held parts of the city of Aleppo.

More than 250,000 in Eastern Aleppo could die after the next 20 days
November 17
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2016/11/17/more
-than-250000-in-eastern-aleppo-could-die-in-less-than-20-days-if-supplies-dont-arrive/?utm_term=.de1a27664f42


https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2412732/aleppo-evacuated-children-rescue
d-bombed
/
aleppo evacuation
16th December 2016, 10:07 am
About 8,000 people have left since Thursday (December 15) and there were up to 250,000 civilians - 100,000 of them children - trapped in east Aleppo when it came under siege.



Wiki says the offensive began in October. Cries of 250,000 potential civilian casualties started in November long after the offensive started and - one presumes - long after civilians had already sustained casualties. And that number is still being cited as of yesterday.

I have a genuine concern for, and interest in, the civilians of both Mosul and Aleppo suburb. They were both civilian populations taken hostage by ISIS, under the assumption that they would be human shields. They were both ruled by ISIS with an iron fist. Both areas suffered massive physical damage.

Considering the similarities between the two, I would expect that the ISIS horror stories coming out of Mosul would be echoed by the people of Aleppo suburb. So I'll find similarities, differences, AND WESTERN MEDIA SILENCE ON ALEPPAN LIVES UNDER ISIS, to all be valuable information.

MEANWHILE - where is the US in offering aid to the recently liberated civilians of Aleppo suburb? Where is the UN?

My GUESS, which I'll wait to see if it comes true, is that - once again - the west is using Aleppan civilians for political gain. I suspect any aid offered will be too little, too late, in order to put maximum economic burden on Assad and Russia. Crocodile tears over those poor, poor civilians by the west notwithstanding.





How did your beloved 'democratic' party fuck up so badly?

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Saturday, December 17, 2016 4:40 PM

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Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.


Some Aleppo civilians kiki thinks are "pleased to be liberated":


Quote:

Originally posted by 1kiki:
I have a genuine concern for, and interest in, the civilians of both Mosul and Aleppo suburb. They were both civilian populations taken hostage by ISIS, under the assumption that they would be human shields. They were both ruled by ISIS with an iron fist.


You don't have the first clue what you're talking about. There is no ISIS in East Aleppo.

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Saturday, December 17, 2016 5:09 PM

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Civilians liberated from Mosul. Or should I say 'liberated'?


Notice the obvious wounds on these victims, as opposed to the lack of obvious wounds on the 'victims' in videos from ISIS in suburbia Aleppo.
Quote:

There is no ISIS in East Aleppo.
Quote and link, please.





How did your beloved 'democratic' party fuck up so badly?

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Saturday, December 17, 2016 5:55 PM

KPO

Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.


Quote:

Civilians liberated from Mosul.

Ah, the old pivot to Mosul

Dearest Kiki, YOU claimed that east Aleppans felt "liberated". Either defend your claim, or retract it. Strangely, none of the Aleppans in that video I posted were particularly pleased to be "liberated".

Quote:


Quote:
There is no ISIS in East Aleppo.
Quote and link, please.


Asking me to prove a negative...

How about, Mrs logically challenged, you back up YOUR OWN claim about ISIS being in east Aleppo, and prove me wrong in the process?

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Saturday, December 17, 2016 6:03 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


Quote:

Dearest Kiki, YOU claimed that east Aleppans are "pleased" to be "liberated".
Really? Because I looked for the word "pleased" and the only place I find it is in your posts. So - what DID I say? Quote required.
Quote:

Asking me to prove a negative...
You DON'T stand by your claim that there's no ISIS in suburban Aleppo. OK.




How did your beloved 'democratic' party fuck up so badly?

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Saturday, December 17, 2016 6:09 PM

KPO

Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.


Quote:

Really? Because I looked for the word "pleased" and the only place I find it is in your posts. So - what DID I say? Quote required.

You said that they really do "feel liberated". I already checked and so amended my above post.

Last chance to back up or retract your claim about ISIS being in east Aleppo...

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Saturday, December 17, 2016 6:10 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


In any case, comparisons between news reports coming out of Mosul and those coming out of Aleppo should be interesting; as well as looking for admissions that there weren't 250,000 civilians trapped by fighting - or conversely, complete silence on the topic 'how many civilians in Aleppo'; and also, waiting for US/ UN offers of aid for civilians.

These areas of obvious discrepancy between one narrative and the other, between past narrative and present narrative, or between rhetoric and action, I think will illuminate the facts of US/ western interests.

You DON'T stand by your claim that there's no ISIS in suburban Aleppo. OK.




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Saturday, December 17, 2016 6:14 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by 1kiki:
Wiki says the offensive began in October.


Yes, the offensive has been going on for weeks and weeks, that's exactly my point. The regime has been carving off bits of rebel territory one after another. Siggy has been posting in this thread about tens of thousands of civilians being "liberated" - and that was before the 50,000 in 2 days cited by the Russian military.

Here's Siggy (this has also been posted to the predictions thread, for posterity:

SIGNYM: "I've been keeping track of the number of civilians evacuating east Aleppo, and it's nowhere near 250,000. It totals no more than about 30,000 so far, with just a few neighborhoods remaining. All of that yammer about "250,000" civilians was what I thought: sheer (UN-backed) bullshit."

So Siggy, Kiki. First your Russian propaganda tells you that the 250,000 figure of civilians in east Aleppo is inflated by lying Western media, and is more like 30,000. Then, later, it casually drops a Russian military quote that 50,000 civilians have escaped the fighting in just 2 days of a 3 month long offensive.

And neither of you bats an eyelid?

Quote:


KPO: "My guess is you'll pivot from scoffing at the "supposed tens of thousands" of civilians in east Aleppo, to boasting about how well the cuddly Assad is taking care of them all"
KIKI: "MEANWHILE - where is the US in offering aid to the recently liberated civilians of Aleppo suburb? Where is the UN?"


Yep, here we go

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Saturday, December 17, 2016 6:23 PM

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Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


First your Russian propaganda tells you that the 250,000 figure of civilians in east Aleppo is inflated by lying Western media, and is more like 30,000.

The quote wasn't that there were 30,000 IN Aleppo, but that, so far, only 30,000 had evacuated FROM Aleppo.
SIGNYM: "I've been keeping track of the number of civilians evacuating east Aleppo, and it's nowhere near 250,000. It totals no more than about 30,000 so far, with just a few neighborhoods remaining. All of that yammer about "250,000" civilians was what I thought: sheer (UN-backed) bullshit."

I'm getting tired of having to correct the errors/ strawmen/ lies you constantly post.

And because you completely misrepresented the argument, quite obviously I have no need to respond to it.




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Saturday, December 17, 2016 6:27 PM

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Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.



In any case, comparisons between news reports coming out of Mosul and those coming out of Aleppo should be interesting; as well as looking for admissions that there weren't 250,000 civilians trapped by fighting - or conversely, complete silence on the topic 'how many civilians in Aleppo'; and also, waiting for US/ UN offers of aid for civilians.

These areas of obvious discrepancy between one narrative and the other, between past narrative and present narrative, or between rhetoric and action, I think will illuminate the facts of US/ western interests.




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Saturday, December 17, 2016 6:32 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by 1kiki:
First your Russian propaganda tells you that the 250,000 figure of civilians in east Aleppo is inflated by lying Western media, and is more like 30,000.

The quote wasn't that there were 30,000 IN Aleppo, but that, so far, only 30,000 had evacuated FROM Aleppo.

I'm getting tired of having to correct the errors/ strawmen/ lies you constantly post.



Signy, from earlier in the thread:
Quote:

I have heard quotes that the real civilian population on East Aleppo was something like 30,000, not the inflated figure of 250,000 that the UN and western press have kept citing... I guess I'll keep count of how many are estimated to have fled to other parts of Aleppo, and see if it totals up to about 30,000 as I've been led to expect.


It's cute how excited you get when you think you can actually prove I'm wrong about something.

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Saturday, December 17, 2016 6:38 PM

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Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


Do you mean YOU got the wrong quote and posted it? And you think I'm in error because I responded to the quote YOU POSTED rather than the quote YOU INTENDED TO POST? I'm flattered that you think I'm omniscient, or at least a mind reader, but the fact is I'm neither.
Quote:

Originally posted by kpo Saturday, December 17, 2016 6:14 PM:

Here's Siggy Thursday, December 8, 2016 7:33 AM (this has also been posted to the predictions thread, for posterity:

SIGNYM: "I've been keeping track of the number of civilians evacuating east Aleppo, and it's nowhere near 250,000. It totals no more than about 30,000 so far, with just a few neighborhoods remaining. All of that yammer about "250,000" civilians was what I thought: sheer (UN-backed) bullshit."



I'm in a quandary. I'm extremely reluctant to let your lies go unaddressed. otoh there are SO MANY of them, and I really don't want to waste my time on you. This requires some thought.

eta: you're boring, so I'm not going to bother





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Saturday, December 17, 2016 6:38 PM

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Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


In any case, comparisons between news reports coming out of Mosul and those coming out of Aleppo should be interesting; as well as looking for admissions that there weren't 250,000 civilians trapped by fighting - or conversely, complete silence on the topic 'how many civilians in Aleppo'; and also, waiting for US/ UN offers of aid for civilians.

These areas of obvious discrepancy between one narrative and the other, between past narrative and present narrative, or between rhetoric and action, I think will illuminate the facts of US/ western interests.




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Sunday, December 18, 2016 11:24 AM

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Syrian "Rebels" Attack, Burn Aleppo Evacuation Buses

While the UN condemns Syrian and Russian "atrocities" in the battle over East Aleppo, which as noted previously was a key victory for the Assad regime in the past week, one which will end the stalemate and sway the balance of power in the ongoing war between regime forces and US-coalition armed rebels, little attention had been paid to the subversive tactics employed by such "moderate rebels" as the al Qaeda linked al-Nusra front.

That may change after five buses en route to evacuate the sick and injured from two government-held villages in Syria's Idlib province were attacked and burned by rebels.

PHOTOS: Reports coming in that an "unknown rebel group" has attacked buses going to evacuate civilians from Kafraya and Fuah - @Ald_Aba pic.twitter.com/7xMPhumeu5

— Conflict News (@Conflicts) December 18, 2016

MORE: According to reports, civilians had not yet gotten on the buses. They were on their way to pick them up when the attack happened.

— Conflict News (@Conflicts) December 18, 2016

Five buses were attacked and burned by “armed terrorists” while en route to militant-held villages after an evacuation deal was struck between the Syrian government and rebels, Syrian state television has reported. According to Reuters, the deal was reached earlier on Sunday, citing al-Ikhbariya TV news. It will see the remaining militants and their families evacuated from east Aleppo in return for the evacuation of people in militant-held villages in Idlib province, al-Foua and Kafraya.

Syrian state television has reported that five buses were attacked and burned by “armed terrorists” while en route to al-Foua and Kefraya. However, most of them, as well as Red Crescent vehicles, reached the entrance to the villages, the report said.

Syrian state news agency SANA reported earlier that evacuation buses had entered the last militant-held district of eastern Aleppo, Ramousah, under the supervision of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Syrian Arab Red Cross. State television showed live footage of buses and a van bearing a Syrian Arab Red Crescent flag parked next to a highway intersection in Ramousah. Several large white cars marked with Red Crescent and Red Cross symbols also appeared in the footage.

As BBC adds, the convoy was traveling to Foah and Kefraya, besieged by rebel fighters. Pro-government forces have been demanding that people be allowed to leave the mainly Shia villages in order for the evacuation of east Aleppo to restart, with thousands of people waiting to leave in desperate conditions, reports say.

VIDEO: Footage shows JFS (al-Nusra) members attacking evacuation buses - @24Aleppo

pic.twitter.com/8IiRcbZJmk

— Conflict News (@Conflicts) December 18, 2016

The initial plan to evacuate eastern Aleppo collapsed on Friday, leaving civilians stranded at various points along the route out without access to food or shelter.

PHOTOS: Other buses have however arrived in Kafraya and Fuah - @sayed_ridha

pic.twitter.com/MzxstFX7DR

— Conflict News (@Conflicts) December 18, 2016

Despite delays caused by disagreements over the new evacuation plan, convoys were said to be traveling to both eastern Aleppo and the government-held villages in Idlib province on Sunday. However, UK-based monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said six buses were attacked and torched on the way to Foah and Kefraya.

Jaish Fateh militants have set fire to several buses that were going towards Fuah-Kafraya in Idlib countryside pic.twitter.com/wud4CNQp1u

— Hassan Ridha (@sayed_ridha) December 18, 2016

It had reported earlier that the "moderate rebel" group Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, formerly known as the Nusra Front, was preventing buses entering the villages.

As a reminder, earlier in the year, Jabhat Al-Nusra, rebranded itself Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham, a cosmetic change which was apparently sufficient to convince the US government to brand them "moderates" and send them arms and equipment, equipment which today may have been used against innocent Syrian citizens.

Syrian state media said "armed terrorists" attacked five buses, burned and destroyed them.

More pics of the buses which were burned by militants near Sarmin south of Binnish, Idlib pic.twitter.com/by7g7wf5tP

— Hassan Ridha (@sayed_ridha) December 18, 2016

Rebel groups have not yet commented on the attack. Subsequent to the attack, it was reported that more buses have been sent to Fuah-Kafraya to replace those that were burnt, although it was unclear if the "rebels" would allow them passage.

Meanwhile, later on Sunday, the United Nations Security Council is set to vote on a French-drafted resolution aimed at ensuring that UN officials can monitor the evacuations from Aleppo and the safety of the remaining civilians. Reuters reported that those evacuated on Thursday and Friday morning had been taken to rebel-held districts in the countryside west of Aleppo. As RT notes, a draft of the resolution “emphasizes that the evacuations of civilians must be voluntary and to final destinations of their choice, and protection must be provided to all civilians who choose or who have been forced to be evacuated and those who opt to remain in their homes.”

It was not immediately clear how Russia will vote. “If it is a sensible initiative and we see it on paper, why not entertain this initiative?” Russian Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin said on Friday.



http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-18/syrian-rebels-attack-burn-ale
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Sunday, December 18, 2016 2:10 PM

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Bitter In Aleppo Defeat, US And EU Seek To Further Demonize Russia
Submitted by Finian Cunningham via Stratgic-Culture.org,

As Russian forces help liberate the Syrian city of Aleppo this week from a four-year terrorist siege, Washington and Europe step up threats of cyber war and economic aggression with sanctions. That’s no coincidence. It is the response of accomplices bitter in defeat.

Perverse isn’t it? Instead of celebrating with the people of Syria over the liberation of Aleppo from terrorists; instead of sending massive humanitarian aid to the tens of thousands of civilians freed after being held under siege for four years by terrorist gangs; instead of commending Russia for its decisive role in restoring peace to Syria’s second biggest city, the US and European Union turn reality on its head and further demonize Moscow.

The perverse behavior by Washington and its European satraps is simply a case of sour grapes. Very sour grapes.

They have been proven spectacularly wrong about Syria. The liberation of Aleppo this week exposes the Western governments and media in their unrelenting falsehoods and systematic complicity in the Syrian war. This was never a pro-democracy uprising. It was a Western-backed criminal regime-change operation that was unleashed in March 2011, and which is now staring at ignominious defeat.

The blood of up to half a million people and many more maimed is on the hands of American and European governments.

It is no coincidence that Barack Obama this week invoked his putative presidential authority to double down on US intelligence claims that Russia hacked into the American elections to get Donald Trump into the White House. The stakes were raised to new unwieldy heights with White House claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally sanctioned the alleged hacking of Hillary Clinton’s emails. And Obama is now recklessly warning that his country will respond with cyber-warfare «at a place and time of our choosing».

Meanwhile, European Union leaders this week decreed that economic and diplomatic sanctions on Russia would be extended for another six months. The official reason for the measures was the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, but it is obvious that the dramatic developments in Syria were the real motivating factor behind the EU’s decision to further penalize Russia.

Addressing the EU summit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel deplored atrocities allegedly committed in the northern city of Aleppo by Syrian state forces and their Russian and Iranian allies. European Council President Donald Tusk lamented that the EU was not «indifferent to the suffering of civilians in Aleppo».

But where is the evidence either from Obama on alleged Russian cyberattacks to subvert the American presidential election or from the EU on alleged Russian (and Syrian) atrocities in Aleppo. There is, glaringly, no evidence. Yet on the back of breathless assertions, Washington is threatening to «retaliate», and European leaders are slapping more damaging sanctions on Russia. This is an insane policy of unjustified aggression.

It is especially insane considering that present and former members of US intelligence agencies do not support the White House’s assertions about Russian cyberattacks. Indeed respected former US intelligence experts have cogently argued that Washington’s claims of Russian hacking are completely spurious. Moreover, two polls reported by the Washington Times and Washington Post this week also show that the majority of American people do not believe that Russia interfered in the US election.

As for the American and European claims about «massacres» in Aleppo, amplified by the dutiful mainstream media all week, there is neither evidence nor testimonies from the tens of thousands of civilians pouring out of the former terror enclaves. The reckless claims are merely propaganda rumors put out by terrorist apologists and recycled by Western media. Perversely unreported in the Western media are the real stories of civilians having lived under horror imposed by the Western-backed so-called «rebels». Largely unreported by the Western media is the dominant mood of celebration and relief among civilians for having been liberated by the combined efforts of the Syrian army and its Russian, Iranian and Lebanese allies.

Where are the «moderate rebels» now that the veil of secrecy has finally been lifted from eastern Aleppo? Where are the so-called neutral rescuers belonging to the White Helmets, who only a few weeks ago Western media were championing for a Nobel peace prize? They are all piling on to the same buses with the jihadi terrorists to be evacuated to nearby Idlib city as part of a surrender deal. In other words, the West has been all along backing terrorists, and now their terrorist proxies are seen by the whole world as being routed from Aleppo after four years of holding the eastern side of the city hostage.

Liberated civilians tell of a reign of terror, how their family members were threatened by the Western-backed jihadis with execution if any of them dared to escape from the captive terror enclaves. Buildings recovered by the Syrian army have shown humanitarian aid, medicines and food stockpiled by the terrorists which they used to extort the civilian population. None of this is broadcast by the Western news media of course. Instead, they indulged in gory fantasies about the Syrian army committing summary executions and other atrocities against women and children. Stories, it should be noted, which have since petered out because there is no evidence to back them up.

CNN’s self-important journalist Christiane Amanpour this week gave a platform to an alleged doctor, Hamza al-Khatib, who made unsubstantiated claims that children were being massacred in a basement by Syrian forces. Amanpour expressed horror as if the allegation was fact. The same «fact» was then reiterated by US ambassador to the UN Samantha Power. Turns out that Hamza al-Khatib is not even a doctor, according the Aleppo University records, where he once studied.


In the past, he has been photographed in the company of the jihadi terrorists who were were responsible for the beheading of a 12-year-old Palestinian refugee boy Abdullah Issa near Aleppo.
CNN's alleged doctor Hamza Al Khatib with head-chopping jihadi friends

Reliable sources dispute that Hamza al-Khatib is even residing in east Aleppo where he claims to be. It is believed he is hiding out in neighboring Turkey, from where he gives interviews to gullible hacks like Amanpour. (Notice his smirk in the linked interview video when Amanpour naively asks how he remains safe in Aleppo.)

Western lies and fake narratives about Syria were torn asunder this week. Sanctimonious Washington and European lackeys are exposed in their responsibility for fueling the war in Syria by giving cover to terrorist gangs as supposed «moderate rebels».

Western governments, UN diplomats and media organizations are shown to be complicit in a state-sponsored terrorist conspiracy against the Syrian nation.

Russia has played a vital and truly heroic role in saving Syria from a Western-imposed charnel house.

And so, with the bitter taste of defeat over the historic battle for Aleppo, Washington and Europe are lashing out irrationally to further demonize Russia. Cyber war threats and economic aggression through sanctions are the Western response to bitter defeat

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Sunday, December 18, 2016 2:58 PM

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Scrolling past the usual tripe from Siggy and her blogs...

Some information on the burnt buses, and the Shia villages in question:

Quote:

Fua and Kefraya have been key bargaining chips throughout the conflict. Both have been besieged, but not with the same effect as east Aleppo.

For the past 18 months, Iran has tried to broker a deal with the powerful Islamist militia Ahrar al-Sham which would allow the remaining villagers to be relocated to Zabadani and Madaya, between Damascus and the Lebanese border.

In return, Sunni residents of those towns would be sent to Fua and Kefraya, as part of a population swap that would change the geopolitics of the region and help build a Shia presence from the suburbs of Damascus into Lebanon’s Bekaa valley, and beyond to southern Lebanon.

The population swaps were not part of the original terms of the Aleppo evacuation deal, which were brokered between Russia and Turkey. However, soon after the deal was announced early last week, Iran made a series of its own demands.

In addition to relocating sectarian groups, Iran demanded the bodies of slain militia fighters that it had sent to Syria, including members of Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Iraqi militias. It also demanded information about any fighters that had been taken prisoner.

The chaos surrounding the evacuation deal underscores the stakes, with east Aleppo in its death throes and the six-year war beginning to lose steam for the first time. It also underlines how a splintered opposition cannot control all the elements in the fight against the Syrian leadership, even as tens of thousands of civilians remain cornered, many of them in the open with little food in the depths of winter.

The Free Syria Army, an umbrella organisation of moderate rebel groups, said: “The people who resisted in Aleppo are paying the price of the irresponsible acts of a few. This was a reckless act endangering the lives of more than 50,000 people.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/18/aleppo-hopes-raised-that
-evacuation-could-soon-resume


This situation is entering a dangerous phase. 30,000+ civilians are in the process of slowly starving/freezing to death, some right out in the open air. Iran feels in a position to demand ethnic cleansing of Sunnis, in accordance with its own geo-strategic ambitions, and the rebels have no choice but to accept, but it's in the hand of the most extreme, Al-Qaeda-linked rebels in other parts of the country to hold up their end of the deal for them. Assad certainly won't flinch at the thought of 30,000 more of his rebellious subjects dying an agonising death, especially while Al-Qaeda-linked rebels are getting the blame and advertising themselves to the world.

This could end badly.

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More bullshit from KRAPO.

Don't you ever run out of crap to spew all over the board?



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Sunday, December 18, 2016 7:00 PM

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http://fortune.com/2016/12/18/syrian-village-evacuation-attacks/
Buses Attacked, Burned en Route to Evacuate Besieged Syrian Villages
Reuters
December 18, 2016, 11:18 AM EST

Meanwhile evacuations from east Aleppo resumed on Sunday afternoon.

Several buses on the way to evacuate ill and injured people from the besieged Syrian villages of al-Foua and Kefraya were attacked and burned on Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Syrian state television said.

Some buses, as well as Red Crescent vehicles, reached the entrance to the villages in Idlib province, which are besieged by insurgents.

The coalition of forces fighting for the government of President Bashar al-Assad are demanding people to be allowed to leave the two villages in exchange for allowing evacuations of rebels and civilians from east Aleppo.

Evacuations from the city resumed on Sunday afternoon.






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Sunday, December 18, 2016 7:02 PM

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Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


https://www.google.com/#tbm=nws&q=uS+AID+TO+ALEPPO

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/security-council-vote-hu
manitarian-aid-aleppo-44264086

On the ground, prospects for swift evacuations from Aleppo and other besieged areas were thrown into doubt again Sunday after militants burned buses assigned to the rescue operation.




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Monday, December 19, 2016 1:02 PM

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OK, now let me dig through KRAPO's shit to find nuggets of more shit.

Quote:

Fua and Kefraya have been key bargaining chips throughout the conflict. Both have been besieged, but not with the same effect as east Aleppo.
uh huh. Here is their hx, according to Wikipedia:

Quote:

On 28 March 2015, after four days of fighting, rebels captured Idlib city and managed to besiege the towns of Kafriya and al-Fu'ah. Thousands of civilians were trapped since. Army of Conquest and its main component al-Nusra Front (al-Qaeda branch in Syria) since then imposed a full siege blocking all humanitarian supplies to the towns and several executions were reported to happen in Idlib province for people accused to smuggle goods into Kafriya and al-Fu'ah
Aside from describing the siege, you should have noticed that al-Nusra is very active in Idlib. So when the Syrian government attacks Idlib, please don't come crying to me about those poor "moderate rebels".

Quote:

... the Army of Conquest ... launched an assault on al-Fu'ah ... On 31 August, rebels launched a powerful attack on the Shia enclave ... Between 3 September and 5 September, the rebels intensively shelled the enclave and launched a number of attacks on al-Fu'ah and Kafriya ... On 18 September, the rebels launched a new attack on the enclave, firing almost 400 shells and rockets, while nine car bombs (including seven suicide bombers) were detonated at government positions. The clashes led to the death of at least 29 rebels and 21 government soldiers, as well as seven civilians. ... According to government claims, the rebels lost over 100 fighters, including 31 from foreign countries
Oh those poor "moderate rebels"!

Quote:

The overall number of suicide bombers with VBIEDs that attacked al-Fou’aa and Kafraya in the battle of 18–19 September was estimated to be 26 VBIEDs. The attackers were: 11 Uyghur Chinese, one Lebanese, 2 Saudis and 11 Syrians.
On 20 September, a second cease-fire in ... al-Fou’aa/Kafriya was implemented, where the rebels allowed humanitarian aid to the besieged civilians of al-Fou’aa and Kafriya. A violation of this cease-fire was reported the next day as the rebels resumed shelling the towns.

Aid convoys arrived in January and July of 2016, but the villages have been besieged this whole time.

Quote:

For the past 18 months, Iran has tried to broker a deal with the powerful Islamist militia Ahrar al-Sham which would allow the remaining villagers to be relocated to Zabadani and Madaya, between Damascus and the Lebanese border.- KRAPO
Again, please note "moderate rebels" are not active there.

Quote:

The chaos surrounding the evacuation deal underscores the stakes, with east Aleppo in its death throes and the six-year war beginning to lose steam for the first time. It also underlines how splintered opposition terrorist groups cannot control all the elements in the fight against the Syrian leadership, even as tens of thousands of civilians remain cornered, many of them in the open with little food in the depths of winter.

The Free Syria Army, an umbrella organisation of moderate rebel groups, said: “The people who resisted in Aleppo are paying the price of the irresponsible acts of a few. This was a reckless act endangering the lives of more than 50,000 people.

More than 50,000??? Are you shitting me??? (Oh that's right, you are.)

The number of evacuated "moderate rebels" and their families from Aleppo numbers about 3,000 so far. Assuming that the evacuation continues for another few days, let's assume 5,000. Not 30,000.

Quote:

This situation is entering a dangerous phase. 30,000+ 3,000-5,000 civilians are in the process of slowly starving/freezing to death, some right out in the open air.
Too bad that the "moderate rebels" in Idlib called a halt to the evacuation by torching evacuation buses elsewhere.

Quote:

Iran feels in a position to demand ethnic cleansing of Sunnis
Are you fucking shitting me? Oh that's right, you are. 80% of Aleppans are SUNNI. Evacuating 3,000-5,000 "moderate rebels" from Aleppo hardly constitutes "ethnic cleansing"!

Quote:

in accordance with its own geo-strategic ambitions, and the rebels have no choice but to accept, but it's in the hand of the most extreme, Al-Qaeda-linked rebels in other parts of the country to hold up their end of the deal for them. Assad certainly won't flinch at the thought of 30,000 3,000 more of his rebellious subjects dying an agonising death being delayed in their evacuation by a day or two, especially while Al-Qaeda-linked rebels are getting the blame and advertising themselves to the world.


Okay. While KRAPO shits his pants about a phantom "30,000" rebels and their families, what about the REMAINDER of the east Aleppan population? Yanno, the unfortunate hostages of his precious "moderate rebels"?

I've been keeping a tally of the evacuees with each collapse of the terrorist-held area, and it looks like about 80,000 civilians escaped through the frontlines. There may be a remainder of 5,000 or so who desire evacuation, and perhaps another few thousand who just got swept along with the front and trapped.

Possibly 90,000. EVEN THE UN ADMITS IT WAS FOOLED ABOUT THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN EAST ALEPPO. But that's what you get for believing LIARS.

So, where is the UN? Where is the concern for all of those civilian victims of the war? Where is the aid, the hot food and hot tea, the emergency shelters and warm dry clothing, the medical aid?

Or were those civilians worthy of concern only as long as they could be used as "victims" in a geopolitical game? And now that their utility for the "Assad must go" campaign is over, they get scraped off the bottom of the UN's shoes?


Quote:

This could end badly.-KRAPO


I would put this in the "Predictions" thread, but this has ALREADY "ended badly" for the Saudis, their collective proxy terrorists, the Saudi's partner - the USA, and the USA-dominated UN.

Looking back, one should be able to objectively realize that the USA has been prosecuting its "Assad must go" objective, at first through a "color revolution" and then - when that failed - through its Turkish, Saudi, and Qatari-proxy terrorists, nothing more and nothing less.


"Objective truths are established by evidence. Personal truths by faith. Political truths by incessant repetition."


That's KPO, incessantly repeating propaganda.


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Monday, December 19, 2016 4:53 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


Where is UN aid?

The UN going to 'observe' the evacuation.

https://www.google.com/#tbm=nws&q=ALEPPO+evacuees+un+aid+

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/12/security-council-backs-sending-o
bservers-aleppo-161219141355061.html

UN Security Council backs sending observers to Aleppo
The resolution calls for UN officials and others to be able to monitor evacuations from eastern Aleppo and the safety of civilians who remain in the Syrian city.






How did your beloved 'democratic' party fuck up so badly?

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Monday, December 19, 2016 6:19 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


Meanwhile, I've searched the internet to find out who should be credited with performing the actual evacuation. Because it's obviously not the US, NATO, or the UN. The answer is ... Russia and the Red Cross. Not that you'll find that anywhere in western media.

https://www.rt.com/news/364246-aleppo-civilians-un-churkin/
Published time: 27 Oct, 2016 00:04
Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations has criticized UN’s failure to properly organize humanitarian evacuations of the wounded from terrorist-held areas of Aleppo. The UN envoy to Syria defended the team, pinning the blame on the warring parties.
“We regret to note that the United Nations has not properly worked out an operation to evacuate the sick and the wounded,” Vitaly Churkin noted at the UN Security Council session, according to RIA.
The ambassador added that the UN work with various opposition groups in Aleppo and the local council was “left to take care of itself.” He stressed that the UN personnel did not “exert the necessary pressure” on “sponsors” of illegal armed groups to convince them to cooperate with the aid workers on the ground.
Besides criticizing the UN team, the Russian envoy also accused entities that have influence over fighters in besieged neighborhoods of Aleppo of not applying enough pressure on the militants to make the most of the Russian-Syrian humanitarian pause.


https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201612101048397673-russia-aleppo-ci
vilians-evacuations
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13:48 10.12.2016
Russia Has Evacuated 50,000 Civilians From Aleppo in Past Two Days

http://www.todayonline.com/world/russia-says-red-cross-help-aleppo-eva
cuation

Published: 4:20 PM, December 15, 2016
Red Cross evacuates 3,000 civilians from Aleppo





How did your beloved 'democratic' party fuck up so badly?

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