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Originally posted by darkbake
. I think the situation in Syria is heating up right now, and no one is paying enough attention to it because of the Aurora shootings.
It may even seem to some that I am posting irrelevant information, but I think this information is extremely relevant, but everyone is being distracted at the moment. I think people will begin to see what I mean in the coming weeks.
Originally posted by michaelbrux
but I disagree about the chemical weapons attack because Assad has already been captured and all the orders he's been giving to 'his' forces are authored by his captors. I don't have any proof of the statement above, so please don't get all nasty about it. but Assad is done without a visit from Jesus in the next 3 days; not dead, necessarily, just done.
(Reuters) - Brigadier General Manaf Tlas, one of the most senior defectors from President Bashar al-Assad's rule, met on Thursday with the foreign minister of Turkey, Syria's powerful neighbor which has a stake in shaping any post-Assad leadership.
The general, a Sunni Muslim member of Assad's mostly Alawite inner circle and a senior officer in the Republican Guards, defected earlier this month.
"I will cooperate with every honorable person who wants to rebuild Syria, be it the National Council or the (rebel) Free Syria Army," he said.
Tlas said it would be difficult to overthrow the president from within. "The structure and system of the regime makes a coup from inside very difficult," he said, adding he did not see a future for Assad in Syria.
Asked whether Assad was calling the shots in Syria, he said: "They are the decisions of the circle around him ... He is not weak but there (are people) in the circle around him who played down the crisis to him, so he preferred to deal with it through a (security) framework."
Originally posted by michaelbrux
I think many are upset because it won't directly involve Israel or the United States. It's funny to me
Originally posted by yourmaker
Originally posted by michaelbrux
I think many are upset because it won't directly involve Israel or the United States. It's funny to me
A chess player is patient, and only makes moves that are necessary.
Syria regime 'reeling, armed to the teeth' with chemical weapons
The Syrian government has the most developed chemical weapons program in the Third World and it has used them on its own people at least once before.
Heightening concern about the weapons, a Syrian military defector, Gen. Mustafa Sheikh, claimed in an interview with Reuters on Saturday that Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar Assad were repositioning chemical weapons for possible use against the opposition in retaliation for the assassination of four top security officials
On Monday, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little warned that if the Assad regime used chemical weapons on civilians, that would cross a “serious red line.”