Syrian Regime Uses Russian Jets to Bomb Second City Aleppo From the Air
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, July 24, 2012, 9:37 PM
Fighter jets bombed eastern areas of Syria’s second city Aleppo, a BBC journalist near the city reported today.
Insurgents from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) claimed to have come under direct assault from two Russian-made MiGs in the southern part of the conurbation of at least 2 million people.
The Assad regime sent thousands of troops to Aleppo today following air attacks to put down a revolt.
Reuters reported:
Syria sent thousands of troops surging towards Aleppo in the early hours of Wednesday, where its forces have been pounding rebel fighters from the air, engulfing the country’s largest city in total warfare to put down a revolt.
Recent days have seen Syria’s 16-month-old uprising transformed from an insurgency in remote provinces into a battle for control of the two main cities, Aleppo and the slightly smaller capital Damascus, where fighting exploded last week.
President Bashar al-Assad’s forces have launched massive counter assaults in both cities. They appear to have beaten rebels back from neighborhoods in the capital and are turning towards Aleppo, a commercial hub in the north.
Opposition activists said thousands of troops had withdrawn with their tanks and armored vehicles from the strategic Jabal al-Zawiya highlands in Idlib province near the Turkish border and were headed towards Aleppo.
Rebels attacked the rear of the troops withdrawing from the region at the villages of Orom al-Joz and rami near the main Aleppo-Latakia road and at the village of al-Bara west of the Aleppo-Damascus highway, actives Abdelrahman Bakran said from the area.
In Aleppo, helicopters swirled overhead firing missiles throughout Tuesday, residents said.
Last monthe a Syrian fighter pilot who landed his MiG jet at a military base near Amman was granted asylum.
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Taqiyyotomist commented:
Obama is jealous.
“Why can’t I bomb American cities? Those Muslim dictators have all the fun.”
kato commented:
Subprime and Pantsuit regard Assad as a reformer.
donh commented:
This is where Obama’s savage execution of Khadaffi reaps a grim consequence. Assad cannot accept any deals because even a peacful surrender puts him in a meat locker.
Patty commented:
OT just a little.
Whose Side is he on?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBDwmAzR2qE
atticcellar commented:
Somebody needs to stand up to these NWO global banksters and thier puppets!
American Woman commented:
An Imam in Syria has called 4 Jihad & an Islamic caliphate, even picked up a gun during Islamic prayers. The Imam is a perfect sample of what the “rebels” look like in Syria.
Want to see what the Imam and his followers did at their prayer meeting?
Do yourself a favor and watch the clip of the Islamic Fascists on You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8fVo7eLvuUE#!
Remember these are the people Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, the US State Department, and the UN support.
Marsh626 commented:
Don’t be duped by the media into supporting the rebellion. Just because the Assad regime is evil – it’s the left-wing socialist sister ba’athist regime to the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq – doesn’t mean the rebellion is worth supporting. The main driving force behind the Syrian rebellion is the fact that the Assad regime is a minority shi’ite sect of islam who the majority sunni population views as infidels. That the Assad regime protects the minority Christian population in Syria also enrages the sunni rebellion. The rebels are muslim fanatics who want to turn Syria into a sunni islamic theocracy and ethnically cleanse the shi’ites and Christians. They also want to wipe out infidel Jewish Israel. And their larger goal is to reestablish the islamic caliphate and to spread islamic sharia law over the entire world. While both sides in this conflict are evil, the Assad regime is probably the lesser of the 2 evils.
BioBob commented:
Not exactly, Marsh626 but close enough in any case [it's 'Alawites minority offshoot of Shi'ites vs majority Sunni Arabs -- basically tribe vs tribe ]
This is like watching the wolverine w/ scabies vs the rabid skunk. They both stink up the place.
Let them kill as many of each other as they like….no skin off our a$$…it’s just arab GDP producing what they produce best — rubble.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
#12 BioBob
….no skin off our a$$…
Except, you know, SEAL Team Six, and the thousands of other dead American troops per month, who would be more efficiently used on the SOUTHERN BORDER OF THE U.S..
Other than that, yeah, no skin.
Our troops are not being recalled — on the contrary, they are being sent as “into harm’s way” as possible.
Our current administration HATES our military, and will do all it can to destroy it.
Lord Sandwich commented:
I think they are Syrian planes -because Syria bought them.
I am sure there are a few american made weapons being used – would the heading be ” Americans guns attack Aleppo “?
USa GB France Russia & China in that order sell arms & military equipment to nations.
kato commented:
Read Bret Stephens in the 7/24 Wall Street Journal.
Subprime, Pantsuit, John Fraud Kerry, Pelosi, the New York Times: All have have praised Assad as a reformer.
They assailed John Bolton when he warned of Syria’s chemical weapons. Now the Syrians themselves have admitted having them.
Now that Assad has killed over 10,000 of his own citizens, Subprime and Pantsuit are trying to cover their asses. Hey, at least we’ve got two affirmative-action types calling the shots. That’s got to count for something.
Marsh626 commented:
Whoever shot this vid has some explaining to do. Why would you put your camera in front of a guy aiming down his light machine gun?
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