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Road to Damascus - Urban Warfare

Published: 30 January, 2012, 17:47
Edited: 07 May, 2012, 20:47

Military presence along the roads to Malouhla last week ­‘Urban Warfare’ – that’s how some activists have described the scenes that played out in Damascus suburbs over the weekend, as government forces moved in to regain control of these areas. On Sunday, people in downtown Damascus had woken up to the sounds of gunfire and shelling that was taking place. The reports and videos from the area...

Comments (8):

cavivi, January 30, 2012, 22:18 quote
+2

Great job, great experience


Boba

Bernard Desgagné, January 31, 2012, 14:06 quote
+15
We would very much like to see the massive anti-Assad protests with thousands of protesters filmed by a foreign journalist, instead of amateur videos. As such important protests are certainly organized at least of fews hours in advance, a foreign journalist would have time to secure a position relatively high in a nearby building to give us a panoramic view of the protest from a distance, so we will be able to estimate the size of the crowd. The journalist should be far enough so we will not be able to identify the faces. That should not endanger the protesters.
If we are lucky, the foreign journalist might be able to show us distinctly for the first time ever government troops or police officers identifiable as such (i.e. not wearing beards but wearing Syrian uniforms and using Syrian forces firearms, not Israeli weapons) and shooting at unarmed peaceful protesters, something we have never been able to see with our own eyes on any of the thousands of videos flooding YouTube and showing dead people since the beginning of the crisis, in spite of the countless times we have been told that "Assad forces were cracking down on the opposition". 
Finally, if we are extremely lucky, we might get an answer to a question which relentlessly troubles our soul since we first heard about the Syrian peaceful protesters asking for democracy in March, 2011. Long before we were ever told about deserters taking up arms to protect civilians, something quite peculiar occurred from June 4 to June 7, 2011. In Jisr Al Shughour, 120 members of security forces were slaughtered by armed gangs who attacked a security post and shot at civilians, policemen and security forces from rooftops. 
The question we would like to have an answer to is: were those gangs, in June, made up of peaceful protesters who suddenly became violent or of deserters? Where did those gangs get their weapons? Certainly one of the spokespersons of the FSA would be able to tell us.
Those are dangerous reports to make and questions to ask, so we will understand if it is not possible to provide answers. Security comes first. Thank you very much, sincerely, for the good job.
Edward (unregistered), February 01, 2012, 06:17 quote
+11
I was wondering, since Bahrain called in Saudia Arabia's military to assist against its citizens, Is Syria not willing to call Iran's military to its aid?
I don't want to see either of it., February 02, 2012, 02:08 quote
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They are just going to continue killing each other reguardless.
dronetrunks, February 17, 2012, 11:43 quote
+1
I have been trying to avoid following this "situation" in Syria - but seeing kids running for their lives in bombed out streets, presses all the wrong buttons... 

My question is:
Where do those tanks come from (where were they manufactured) & who sold them?  I ask the same question for all the grenades, mortars, assault rifles, machine guns and equipment.

Answering that question might answer a few more questions floating around about this mess and expose those responsible, who hide in the shadows of this war.

Also Sara...  Cute reporters don't belong in warzones!  Commendable none - the - less, for the entire crew.


Dimitri (unregistered), February 19, 2012, 03:49 quote
+33
Damascus has the most incredibly beautiful architecture in the world.  Don't let the nato satan worshippers touch it.  Jesus Christ knows where the Road to Damascus is, and I hope he cares.

living000, March 09, 2012, 07:24 quote
+3
dronetrunks, wrote in #5
I have been trying to avoid following this "situation" in Syria - but seeing kids running for their lives in bombed out streets, presses all the wrong buttons... 

My question is:
Where do those tanks come from (where were they manufactured) & who sold them?  I ask the same question for all the grenades, mortars, assault rifles, machine guns and equipment.

Answering that question might answer a few more questions floating around about this mess and expose those responsible, who hide in the shadows of this war.

Also Sara...  Cute reporters don't belong in warzones!  Commendable none - the - less, for the entire crew.


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My question is where did the opposition get all their stuff from, we know they can't get tanks as they are hard to smuggle in, but they have anti-tank/aircraft weapons at their disposal, where are they trained, who is giving them radio equipment and helping them with satellite info.


You seem to try and put the pro government on the backfoot, you're the one making the accusations you show the proof, like i hear that tanks are firing on buildings, as an investigator i can tell you that most of the photo's i've seen of people claiming tank shelling is all a lie, in fact they are RPG rounds, why is it we never actually see the army killing people nor tanks firing on the anti government youtube video's, just noises of explosion with a fireball (which ammunition rounds don't make)?.

johnx, March 25, 2012, 07:16 quote
+1

Damascus is just a repeat of the Bosnian war propaganda like setting fire to car tyres to give the impression of areas under heavy bombardment, unnammed snipers shooting at civilians,

 

The only thing missing so far is stories of rape centres and mass rape by soldiers but I guess they already used that narrative  

 

@living000

 

Do you really not know? If you look up websites like boilingfrogs or the voltaire network they revealed months ago that the "rebels" were being armed and trained from Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan by the same forces that waged war on Libya in fact the Al Qaeda commander of Libya in Turkey is helping coordinate the Free Syrian Armys activities in Syria.   

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