Der arabische Aufstand hat jetzt auch Syrien erfasst

Tamer Alawam is a Syrian filmmaker currently residing in Berlin, Germany.

Nader Nader ‏@DarthNader

Poet, journalist, and filmmaker Tamer Alawam, killed today by Assad forces in Aleppo #Syria pic.twitter.com/Eqo5dOfG



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14m Rozalina Chomsky ‏@rozalinachomsky

troops are bombing the palestinian camps in #damascus, #daraa, #aleppo & #latakia & #assad's tv talks out israel's plot against #syria!!!!

12:00 PM - 10 Sep 12 · Details

Simultaneous bombs hit army compounds in Aleppo

10 September 2012 / REUTERS, AMMAN

Two bombs exploded simultaneously on Sunday night next to Syrian army compounds in the northern city of Aleppo, killing and wounding scores of President Bashar al-Assad's forces, residents and opposition activists said.

The bombs targeted makeshift barracks and the military police headquarters, situated in two adjacent sealed off districts in the centre of the city, said several residents and opposition campaigners from Aleppo.

The state news agency said an explosion near a hospital and a school in the Municipal Stadium district killed 17 people and wounded at least 40. Residents said the facilities were used to house soldiers fighting an 18-month uprising against Assad.

"The army had taken over the neighborhood and emptied it from residents. The hospital was turned into army barracks," said activist Ahmad Saeed.

A woman living near the area said the casualty figure "appeared to be over 100", judging from the number of ambulances ferrying the wounded and dead from the area.

Es ist eine äußerst heikle Mission: Papst Benedikt XVI. ist im Libanon angekommen. Das Kirchenoberhaupt plädiert für einen Stopp der Waffenimporte nach Syrien. Den Arabischen Frühling nennt er einen positiven "Schrei nach Freiheit".

Yamen sucht seine Rettung in diesen Tagen im Zynismus. Für den 28-jährigen Muslim aus Damaskus steht fest, wer der wahre Profiteur des 15-minütigen Schmähvideos über den Propheten Mohammed ist, das in den vergangenen Tagen Gewalt und Krawalle vor mehreren US-Botschaften in der arabischen Welt ausgelöst hat: "Baschar al-Assad schreibt sicher gerade einen Dankesbrief an den Regisseur", sagt der Gegner des syrischen Machthabers SPIEGEL ONLINE.

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Viele Syrer sind fassungslos und wütend wegen der Botschaftskrawalle. In ihrem Land werfen Truppen von Assad weiterhin täglich Bomben auf Zivilisten ab, doch das führt im Nahen Osten kaum zu Protesten. Nach Angaben von Aktivisten starben allein am Donnerstag mehr als 160 Menschen, begraben unter den Trümmern ihrer Häuser, verletzt bei Explosionen oder angeschossen im Kreuzfeuer der Assad- und Rebellen-Milizen. Aber der Kurzfilm eines einzelnen mutmaßlichen Extremisten entflammt die Gemüter.

Dumari, eine beliebte syrische Satire-Facebookseite, hat die Krawalle folgendermaßen kommentiert: "Die Araber sind sehr emotional. Filme bringen sie zum Lachen, zum Weinen, zum Toben, zum Ausflippen und zum Töten. Aber wenn sie sehen, wie in Syrien Moscheen und Kirchen bombardiert, Korane verbrannt und Frauen beleidigt werden, kümmert es sie nicht. Weil es kein Film ist, sondern Realität. Wir wünschten, was gerade in Syrien passiert, wäre ein Film. Wenigstens dann würden die Araber etwas für uns tun."

Kurt Pelda ‏@KurtPelda
The minaret of the old Mahmandir mosque on Mutanabbi street in #Aleppo was hit by a tank shell. Does anyone know the history of that mosque?
1:20 AM - 16 Sep 12 · Details


Kurt Pelda ‏@KurtPelda
Saw several bomb craters in #Aleppo where air raids had broken water pipes. The claim that the FSA is blowing up pipes is pure propaganda.
9:14 PM - 15 Sep 12 · Details


14 Sep Kurt Pelda Kurt Pelda ‏@KurtPelda
Spent a not-so-quiet day in #Aleppo. Snipers were active and helicopters strafed the city. Not seen any anti-American demonstrations though.

Iran Analysis: Tehran Hurts Itself With Muddled Messages on Syria

Monday, September 17, 2012 at 5:27 | Scott Lucas

General Jafari & President AhmadinejadSunday's news conference of General Mohammad Ali Jafari, the head of the Revolutionary Guards, was wide-ranging. He was the first senior regime official to criticise the attacks in Benghazi that killed the US Ambassador to Libya, and he ventured into domestic matters with the declaration that the Guards would crack down on illegal currency trading.

However, it was Jafari's remarks on Syria that were bound to take the headlines, as the commander confirmed that members of the Quds Force, the elite unit of the Guards, were in Damascus to give advisory support to the Assad regime.

The statement in itself was far from shocking. At least two senior military figures had already said, albeit without confirmation from the regime, that the Quds Forces was present inside the country. What is significant is the timing --- why would the top man in the Guards now confirm what those hostile to Iran have been alleging for months?

Far from bolstering Iran, apart from any reassurance to President Assad, Jafari may have damaged the Islamic Republic's diplomatic position. The Iranian line has been that foreign intervention is destabilising Syria and preventing a resolution; it is hard to see how Tehran --- despite Jafari's assurance that the Quds Force had no operational role in Syria --- can avoid the response of double standards.

On Sunday, State media was pushing the story that President Ahmadinejad, in a phone call with his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari had called for a contact group "to contact both sides in order to guide issues toward establishment of tranquility, peace and understanding”. Press TV added the context: "The Syrian government says the chaos is being orchestrated from outside and accuses certain Western and regional countries, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, of arming and funding insurgents operating in the country."

There is already a new "contact group" --- Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Iran --- which met for the first time in Cairo last week. The President's statement appears to be a public call for that group to be more than a token gathering, having some influence on the current mission of United Nations-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi to Damascus.

It is hard to see how that is going to happen with the complication of Jafari's statements. Turkey and Saudi Arabia are unlikely to be pleased --- given the accusation that their interventions are the culprits in the conflict --- and Egypt, which is being courted by the Islamic Republic as an ally on regional matters, will be wary.

And, just to muddle Iran's approach further, State media on Sunday were also pushing the line, "Turkey Allowing Terrorists to Cross into Syria, Damascus Says":

The Syrian foreign ministry says Turkey has opened its borders and airports for Syria-bound terrorists, calling it a flagrant violation of the international law. The ministry made the remarks on Sunday in two letters addressed to the UN Security Council and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Syrian news agency Sana reported.


The ministry said Syria’s northern neighbor allowed "thousands of al-Qaeda, Takfiri, and Wahhabi terrorists" to cross the border in order to "kill innocent Syrians, blow up their properties, and spread chaos and destruction."

Jafari's message on Sunday, backed by this chiding of Ankara, appears to be, "We are in Syria. Deal with it." Perhaps someone in Tehran planned it as part of a carrot-and-stick strategy, with the commander offering the tough posture while the President was saying, "Look, you really want us in talks."

More likely, however, is that there is no strategist --- not Jafari, not Ahmadinejad, not the Foreign Ministry, not the Supreme Leader --- thinking through the statements and Iran's actions. And that failure is likely to set Iran back in its effort to retain some influence in the Syrian situation.

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Qassem Suleimani, der Kopf der iranischen Quds-Brigade, gilt als Heisssporn, Patriot und Kriegsheld. In Syrien sollen seine Leute nichts Geringeres erreichen als einen Sieg für das iranische Volk.

Qassem Suleimani ist stets präsent, wenn CIA-Direktor David Petraeus an seine Zeit als Vier-Sterne-General im Irak zurückdenkt. Auf dem Höhepunkt der Kämpfe gegen die schiitischen Separatisten von Muqtada al-Sadr 2008, so erzählte es Petraeus gegenüber Medien, erhielt er von Suleimani eine Botschaft. Suleimani hatte sie per SMS einem hochrangigen irakischen Offizier gesandt, der neben dem Amerikaner stand.

«General Petraeus, Sie sollten wissen, dass ich, Qassem Suleimani, für die Politik des Iran in Irak, Libanon, Gaza und Afghanistan zuständig bin», schrieb der Befehlshaber der Quds-Brigade, einer Spezialeinheit der iranischen Revolutionsgarde. «Der iranische Botschafter in Bagdad ist ein Mitglied der Quds-Brigade und sein Nachfolger wird ebenfalls ein Mitglied der Quds-Brigade sein.» Die Nachricht ist typisch für den Mann, der kein Blatt vor den Mund nimmt, weder beim Feind noch beim Freund. So soll Suleimani vor ein paar Tagen den syrischen Präsidenten Bashar al-Assad, dem die Quds-Brigaden helfend zur Seite stehen, auf einer iranischen Website kritisiert haben, wie Haaretz.com berichtet. «Wir sagen ihm (Assad), er soll Polizeikräfte auf die Strassen schicken, aber er schickt keine Soldaten».

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20m SND - Support Syria SND - Support Syria ‏@sndlifesyria

This is how #Assad sponsored TV Aldounia is really embedded with his thugs in #Aleppo #Syria a tank firing in the city

Aleppo أوغاريت حلب فيديو مسرب دبابة تقصف بحضور تلفزيون الدنيا

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....Late last year, as the government siege of the city of Homs was underway, activists began tweeting: "Homs 2011 = Hama 1982, but slowly, slowly." As the conflict becomes more bloody on both sides, the same can be said for the entire country.

"They killed them in one sweep [in Hama]; with us, it's in stages," said Um Hussam, a mother of five who runs a small convenience shop in an old neighborhood of Dariya. "We expected they would kill and terrorize people, but not to this … level of barbarity." ....

"It keeps getting worse. When we first went out in protests, they killed three, and then they began raiding homes and killed 10, and then they started killing more, until they came into Dariya and killed 700," said Abu Kinan, a resident and activist. "Maybe next time they come in, they will kill 1,000."

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1h Victory is Near Victory is Near ‏@IbnOmar2005

Would you look at that... Our #Christian brothers in #Syria forming a Battalion in order to fight the tyrant...

كتيبة أنصار الله من الطائفة المسيحية

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jojo72 schrieb:Und an der syrisch-türkischen Grenze hat die PKK 8 Kämpfer verloren, die gehen nun auch gegen die FSA vor.

jojo72 schrieb:Das Problem für Assad werden zunehmend seine Truppen. Wer auch nur in Verdacht steht in seinem Quartier oder Ort der FSA irgendwelche Unterstützung zu geben, der kommt unter heftigsten Beschuss. Oft mit vielen Opfern. In Aleppo auch Christen, in Damaskus hauptsächlich Palästinenser. Beide eigentlich bis vor paar Monaten bzw. Wochen auf Seiten Assads.

1516 GMT: Syria. This video reportedly shows an L-39 jet making bombing and strafing runs against the National Hospital in Aleppo (map). We cannot 100% confirm the location based on the video, but the landmarks in the video and the architecture of the hospital itself appear to generally match. The bombs have already fallen by the time the video starts, but we are hearing many reports that the standards practice is to drop the payload and then strafe, and just before the jet screams overhead a series of loud gunbursts can be clearly heard:

حلب :: قصف على قاضي عسكر لتدمير مشفى الاطفال 20-9-2012 جـ1

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Panic in Turkish border town as Syrian tanks fire on rebel positions

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There was panic in the Turkish border town of Akçakale as the Syrian army brought in heavy weaponry to flush out rebel forces in Tell Abyad today.

The sound of explosions caused fear in Akçakale, as Syrian tanks and artillery pounded rebel positions in Tell Abyad. Smoke from the explosions crossed onto the Turkish side of the border as the battle for the town raged on roughly 300 meters from the frontier.

jojo72 schrieb:Wenn das nur nicht zum Knall kommt bei der Situation...