Syrians Flee Aleppo As Assad Regime Continues Air and Land Attack (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, July 28, 2012, 4:37 PM
Syria’s flag bearer Majed Aldin Ghazal (C) holds the national flag as he leads the contingent in the athletes parade during the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. (Reuters)
The head of Syria’s Olympic team told reporters that the army is trying to protect the people and keep them safe.
Al-Arabiya reported:
The head of Syria’s Olympic team at the London Games is choosing his words carefully to describe the ambitions of the country’s athletes and the government, whose forces were bombarding his home city of Aleppo.
Three Syrian athletes were competing on the first full day of competition in swimming, shooting and boxing Saturday. Back home, the army pounded Aleppo by helicopters to flush out rebels.
Baher Khayata told The Associated Press he was worried about his family, trapped in Aleppo during one of the most significant battles of the 17-month uprising in Syria.
He said the army was trying to “protect people and keep them safe,” and that expelling armed opposition members from Aleppo “is maybe the way to stop bloodshed throughout Syria.”
Syrian forces mounted an air and land attack on Aleppo, the second largest city, today.
Aleppo residents fled the Aljazmahtee neighborhood in terror today as dictator Assad continued to bomb the city.
Hat Tip Banafsheh Zand Bonazzi
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FurryGuy commented:
The Syrian athletes may be the lucky ones. They are already outside the country and only have to apply for asylum.
maria commented:
mad world
kato commented:
Not to worry. Subprime, Pantsuit, and a discredited African jackass are ready to issue another statement.
Westie commented:
Don’t buy Fat Clinton and Mulatto Fool’s crap about the ‘Free Syrian Army’ it is a bunch of US funded Sunni Terrorist + US and Brit Special Forces leadership. The FSA is the same bunch that trashed Libya.
bg commented:
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i just hope and pray they gain their freedom from both
Dictator Assad & Obama’s Muslim Bro-hood (#9)..
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Patty commented:
They say the wars stop for the Olympics, seem Assad never got the message.
bg commented:
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Patty #7 July 28, 2012 at 7:22 pm
neither did Obama, so they sent him another
one (ht TeachX3) even he couldn’t refuse..
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bg commented:
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OT..
July 28, 2012
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ahem commented:
Assad is fighting Al Qaeda. Don’t be too eager to have him lose. He’s bad, but the alternative is unthinkable.
bg commented:
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ahem #12 July 28, 2012 at 9:55 pm
oh please (just a sample),
Why Bashar al-Assad stresses al-Qaida narrative
Assad supported Al Qaeda, as does Obama, how do you think the Muslim
Brotherhood managed to highjack the Freedom & Democracy movement??
Iran’s Link to Al-Qaeda
Ahmadinejad Awards Iran’s Highest
National Medal to Bashar Al-Assad ..
not to mention our own Mo Bro Hood.. gah!!
more here (#25), in connecting links & threads, not to mention the net..
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bg commented:
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re: #13 July 29, 2012 at 10:26 am bg
correct Mo Bro Hood (#57) link..
Zuhdi Jasser
[The Third Jihad exposes the war the media is not telling you about. It reveals the enemy our government is too afraid to name. One person who is not afraid to tell you the truth is Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, a Muslim American and former physician to the US Congress. After the FBI releases a radical Islamist manifesto describing how to destroy America from within, Dr. Jasser decides to investigate. The Third Jihad is about what he discovered. Interviews are conducted with radical Islamists in the US and the leaders trying to stop them, such as Rudy Giuliani, Clinton CIA Director Jim Woolsey, NYC Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, Senator Joe Lieberman, former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, and former terrorist group member Tawfik Hamid.]
Clare Lopez
[Islamist-allied operatives appointed by Obama are undermining U.S. security policy - explains counter-Intelligence expert, Prof. Clare Lopez. Aimed at co-opting Americas foreign policy in the Middle East, a network including well-known American diplomats, congressional representatives, figures from academia and the think tank world - with ties to the clerical regime in Tehran - is directing the Obama Administration's policy towards the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Middle East.]
Tarek Fatah
[Today, in the White House, there are three members of the Muslim Brotherhood that influence Obama's policy. One is Rashad Hassan of Indian origin, who is the American ambassador to the 52-nation organization of Islamic countries. Dahlia Mujahid who writes his speech, who comes from the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Just day before yesterday, another woman, an academic, was appointed in that circle. This is happening while we sit silent, and I say that as a liberal democrat, as someone who worked and campaigned for Barrack Obama.]
more (#10) at link/s, in connecting links, threads, and internet..
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Hobbit USA.. bg commented:
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re: #6 July 28, 2012 at 6:14 pm bg
Mo Bro Hood (#9)
[“The President of the United States has hijacked the revolution
and was diverted into the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood”
continues the representative of Egyptian liberal parties. “The more
time passes the more it becomes clear that from........]
[Reasoning with hindsight every move made by the U.S. in recent months
is in this sense. And in hindsight even in other states “victims” of so-called
“Arab spring” the situation is the same. In all cases Islamism Salafi has
snatched the liberal revolution transforming it into an Islamic
revolution very similar to that of Iran. Whether this is an actual plan
“hatched” by Barack Obama has everything to prove, but if you look
at the facts there is little to be happy]
["People here are against the United States helping Ennahda,"
a journalist told Totten. "All Americans who come here are against
theIslamists, but the American government is supporting them.
I wish we had a good, modern, respectful Islamic party. I'm a Muslim
and I'm proud of it, but I'm not proud of this party."]
["I consider the Brotherhood to be a threat to Egypt," said one
of theeight, prize-winning novelist Gamal el-Ghetani. "We are
living a momentthat may be similar to (Adolf) Hitler's rise
to power."]
more @ links, etc..
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