Syria Disintegrating: Part 2

[Sheilbh]

Gas would probably result in NATO troops in-country within the next few months, wouldn't it?

I believe Obama and others have said that accessing or using WMDs would lead to an immediate intervention.

Hey Tim! Did you hear? Assad has shut down internet access in Syria!

Do we know it was Assad yet?

[jimmy olsen]

Hey Tim! Did you hear? Assad has shut down internet access in Syria!

I saw your post right after I posted, thought about editing it, but I was too lazy.

[derspiess]

Haven't been able to pay much attention to this in the news the past few days.  Anything happen with internet access in Syria, or is everyone there still able to get online?

[DGuller]

According to Tim, Internet in Syria has been cut.

[Syt]

Also, a convoy of Austrian soldiers came under fire when they were headed for the capital. Two Austrian soldiers were wounded, but not badly.

[jimmy olsen]

Also, a convoy of Austrian soldiers came under fire when they were headed for the capital. Two Austrian soldiers were wounded, but not badly.

I was so intrigued by this statement I had to go look it up immediately.

Pretty mundane though, not surprising at all.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i0PmLeoeOvEvAI_sValMaPIMRcrQ?docId=CNG.826c89df111c6e8fb5cfa6bd1cabd75e.2d1

[Jacob]

According to Tim, Internet in Syria has been cut.

I think Ed Anger posted first.

[jimmy olsen]

Best video yet


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZXrj9WI7rc

Skip to the 1 minute mark, that's where it begins. Some guys recon a govt. missile base. Then around 2:10 they plan an attack with miniatures and maps. Then they had out and attack it at the 4:05 mark.

[Ed Anger]

According to Tim, Internet in Syria has been cut.

I think Ed Anger posted first.

[CountDeMoney]

Then around 2:10 they plan an attack with miniatures and maps.

Some of The Brain's best work yet. 

Ed can be the bottle cap, and run an out towards the Buick.

[jimmy olsen]

About time, it's been clear the rebs would win for a while.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/12/us-formally-recognise-syrian-opposition

US to formally recognise Syrian opposition

Barack Obama says US will recognise opposition coalition as the de facto administration of Syrian regions under rebel control

    Chris McGreal   
    guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 12 December 2012 00.45 GMT   

Barack Obama has said the US will formally recognise a Syrian opposition coalition as the de facto administration of regions under rebel control in a move that further saps the legitimacy of president Bashar al-Assad's rule.

The president's announcement, in an interview with ABC News, comes as Washington attempts to bolster support for rebel groups it regards as acceptable to western interests while attempting to isolate others.

Obama said the US has thrown its weight behind the coalition because he said it is open and representative enough to include various ethnic and religious groups.

"We've made a decision that the Syrian Opposition Coalition is now inclusive enough, is reflective and representative enough of the Syrian population, that we consider them the legitimate representative of the Syrian people in opposition to the Assad regime" he said.

But the president did not address whether the US is now prepared to arm the rebels or offer other military support similar to the air bombardment in support of Libya insurgents fighting Colonel Muammar Gadaffi nearly two years ago.

Obama's comments came before a meeting between senior US state department officials and Syrian opposition leaders, under the umbrella of the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, in Marrakech, Morocco on Wednesday at which the recognition agreement is expected to be formalised.

Hours earlier, the Obama administration declared one Syrian resistance group, the al-Nusra Front for the People of the Levant, a terrorist organisation and an al-Qaida front.

"Not everybody who is participating on the ground in fighting Assad are people that we are comfortable with," said Obama. "There are some who I think have adopted an extremist agenda, an anti-US agenda."

The recognition of the coalition comes amid growing disillusionment among Syrian opposition fighters, some of whom have complained of being abandoned by the US when other countries, including Britain, France and Turkey, have already recognised the coalition. They have compared the lack of active American backing with the support given to rebels in Libya.

Washington expects to work with the Syrian opposition coalition to established its authority in areas now under rebel control, in part by working with local councils. That is intended not only to isolate extremist groups but to prepare the coalition to take national power if and when Assad is overthrown.

[Razgovory]

Great.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Syria is doomed. More doomed than with the secular Baathists. It'll be a sunni-fundamentalist shithole in a few years.

[jimmy olsen]

Syria is doomed. More doomed than with the secular Baathists. It'll be a sunni-fundamentalist shithole in a few years.

Because we refused to arm the secular rebels and let the Saudis and Qatar arm the wackjobs and ship in jihadis.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Syria is doomed. More doomed than with the secular Baathists. It'll be a sunni-fundamentalist shithole in a few years.

Because we refused to arm the secular rebels and let the Saudis and Qatar arm the wackjobs and ship in jihadis.

in that case Syria would still be doomed as after a civil war the fundamentalist whackjobs would be in power.