The Syria Analysis Thread

Team Zissou Monday 27 Feb 2012

The Saudis are a proudly democratic people.

Bob Dylan Roof Tuesday 28 Feb 2012

Peaceful protests continue in Homs

Niccolo and Donkey Saturday 10 Mar 2012

Free Syrian Army fighters gather between battles against government troops

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A Free Syrian Army fighter is cared for by doctors after being injured during fighting against government troops in Idlib

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Niccolo and Donkey Wednesday 14 Mar 2012

President Camacho Angocachi Holmgang Bersi SweetLeftFoot SteamshipTime

From the Twitterverse.....

Asma al-Assad's aide persuaded Twitter to remove fake accounts, emails reveal

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Twitter closed down a string of accounts purporting to be authored by the Syrian president and the first lady, emails reveal.

A senior aide to Asma al-Assad, Fares Kallas, took issue with the site over 11 accounts. Half of the accounts using the first lady's name and all but one of those using the president's name were closed down.

The author of one account, @Syrianpresident, described it as a "parody account" and said it had attracted 2,500 followers.

Kallas wrote to Twitter complaining that this and other accounts were "fraudulent Twitter accounts purporting to be the president of Syria and the first lady of Syria and we would like to officially request for these accounts to be removed or suspended. We believe that each of the following are clearly intending to mislead people via impersonation rather than act as spoof/humorous accounts."

Twitter told the Assad office: "We do suspend accounts that are clear attempts at impersonation," but added: "Twitter users are allowed to create parody, commentary and fan accounts."

Bob Dylan Roof Wednesday 14 Mar 2012

The New York Times' official Orwellian label for these men is "Opposition Activists." The label permeates every article and op-ed concerning Syria. Occupy Homs!

Niccolo and Donkey Thursday 15 Mar 2012

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/x--Td_8JXYk

Niccolo and Donkey Thursday 15 Mar 2012

Roland President Camacho Angocachi SweetLeftFoot Asterion

This is great: Assad is 'slaughtering innocent people while downloading music from iTunes for his iPod and sending his wife links to YouTube videos"....

Exclusive: secret Assad emails lift lid on life of leader's inner circle

Bashar al-Assad took advice from Iran on how to handle the uprising against his rule, according to a cache of what appear to be several thousand emails received and sent by the Syrian leader and his wife.

The Syrian leader was also briefed in detail about the presence of western journalists in the Baba Amr district of Homs and urged to "tighten the security grip" on the opposition-held city in November.

The revelations are contained in more than 3,000 documents that activists say are emails downloaded from private accounts belonging to Assad and his wife Asma.

The messages, which have been obtained by the Guardian, are said to have been intercepted by members of the opposition Supreme Council of the Revolution group between June and early February.

The documents, which emerge on the first anniversary of the rebellion that has seen more than 8,000 Syrians killed, paint a portrait of a first family remarkably insulated from the mounting crisis and continuing to enjoy a luxurious lifestyle.

They appear to show the president's wife spending thousands of dollars over the internet for designer goods while he swaps entertaining internet links on his iPad and downloads music from iTunes .

As the world watched in horror at the brutal suppression of protests across the country and many Syrians faced food shortages and other hardships, Mrs Assad spent more than £10,000 on candlesticks, tables and chandeliers from Paris and instructed an aide to order a fondue set from Amazon.

The purported emails make the Qataris look great and the Assads as the French royals on the eve of the Revolution.....horseshit, but people lap it up......'authenticated by the Guardian'...lol

SweetLeftFoot Thursday 15 Mar 2012

These emails are such a smear job. Can't believe The Guardian printed them.

http://theconversation.edu.au/syrians-ask-why-not-give-democracy-a-chance-5776

Some brilliant shit in there

Niccolo and Donkey Saturday 17 Mar 2012

SteamshipTime SweetLeftFoot President Camacho Roland

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Bob Dylan Roof Sunday 18 Mar 2012

MSM has pulled out all the stops in attempting to muddy the waters surrounding the latest string of suicide bombings in Syria. For example, this Jew York Beta Times article insinuates that the link between the bombing and Al-Qaeda was fabricated by Assad's government and state-run media, and is filled with quotes by "opposition activists" who claim that Al Qaeda hasn't been in Syria for "nine months." The comments are equally stupid. For example, "Stephen" likens the attack to a 1904 false-flag blast perpetrated by the police in Moscow.

NYT apparently doesn't care that the U.S. government concluded last month that Al-Qaeda was aiding the NYT's beloved opposition activists , or that Al-Qaeda published a 45-minute video on one of its bombings in Syria. But who knows? Maybe Assad made the video with a copy of Final Cut Pro on his Macbook - we'll have to check the e-mails for more information.

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