Bashar al-Assad, Syria and the Armenian people

[Vahram]

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"Scotland still is not an independent country. What a shame, what a failed poodle nation it is. "

Hey there is a Billion Scotts...LOL Two Armo's left and he is still looking for a poodle?...HE HE HE

"Armenians, don't take this xxxxxcat serious. He is just an old frustrated Scott, can't blame him! Would feel exactly the same. "

Don't blame him, blame the Poodle...( ROTF DYING )

HA HA HA!!!

[Federate]

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The Armenian community's first martyr has been identified as 25 year old Viken Hairabedian, killed in the "Free Syrian Army"'s suicide bomb attack in Haleb. He was a student doing his service in the army. The community is in mourning. RIP to our fallen brother. The following are his photos and his funeral.

[Vahram]

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Great, one of how many before we move to Armenia?

Two more? Three?

[Mos]

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Fu(king turkish proxies killed him. Hope Assad can hold strong. If he goes, the Armenian community is going to go with him.

[Vahram]

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Yup here we go again! It is not like we have that much to begin with.

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More on the Syrian oppositions, Salafist Islamist connections.

Al-Qaeda leader publicly sides with Syrian opposition

The flames of Syria's mounting violence and civil strife are being fanned by a sinister new player: al-Qaeda.

Following a pair of suicide car bombings that killed 28 people at state security facilities in Aleppo, the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, publically threw his terrorist organization�s weight behind the Syrian opposition.

The ability of the fugitive al-Qaeda leader to directly influence or organize the spiralling violence across Syria may be limited. But the Aleppo bombings, like those in Damascus in late December and early January, bore the hallmarks of operations carried out in Iraq by the al-Qaeda-linked faction there.

U.S. officials told American reporters on the weekend they �would not be surprised� if it was al-Qaeda that carried out Friday�s bombings as well as the earlier attacks in Damascus.

The message from Mr. al-Zawahiri, calling on Muslim fighters from Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey to go to Syria and join a war of jihad against Bashar al-Assad�s �pernicious, cancerous regime,� was the last thing the Syrian opposition wanted to hear.

�Al-Qaeda has no sympathizers among the protesters,� said Ammar Abdulhamid, a Syrian activist and fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington.

�The protesters� goal remains the establishment of a democratic civil state,� he said, and �they all understand that al-Qaeda involvement would ultimately undermine this goal.�

The disparate opposition groups fighting to oust the powerful al-Assad forces have struggled to gain international support for their cause, in part by framing it as the aspiration of all Syrians regardless of their sectarian or religious bent. They worry that al-Qaeda could undermine that goal as well, although some experts say their worry is misplaced.

�It may be the last thing they want to hear, but it�s not likely to make any practical difference,� said Barry Rubin, author of The Truth About Syria, referring to the call to arms from Mr. al-Zawahiri.

�Those who have come out against Assad will stick to the side they�ve chosen, and they�ll just try to ignore al-Qaeda�s presence,� he added.

It could prove difficult to ignore.

Indeed, Iraqi officials told reporters on the weekend that for the past four months, there has been a stream of Iraqi fighters and weapons flowing into Syria from Iraq to support the anti-Assad movement.

The fighters and weapons �are being smuggled from Mosul through the Rabia crossing to Syria, as members of the same families live on both sides of the border,� said Iraqi Deputy Interior Minister Adnan al-Assadi.

�We have known about the jihadists� role for months,� said Alastair Crooke, the Beirut-based director of Conflicts Forum. �People have just chosen to turn a blind eye to it.�....

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle2335864/

In other 'unrelated' news, the Turkish Airforce is exerting pressure upon PKK elements in neighbouring Kurdish occupied Iraq.

Turkish jets bomb Kurdish rebel bases in north Iraq

ISTANBUL � Turkish jets have bombed Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern Iraq, home to members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the army said on Sunday.

"Two groups of targets belonging to the separatist terrorists in the regions of Zap and Kahurk were hit with efficiency in the evening of February 11 by Turkish air force jets," the general staff said in a statement posted on its website.

The statement said the planes returned to base without incident and did not give any details on possible casualties on the rebel side in the second such raid in eight days.

Fighting between Turkish forces and PKK rebels has escalated in recent months.

In October, Turkey launched a major air and land offensive against the rebels in the southeast of the country and in neighbouring northern Iraq after 24 of its troops were killed in a night-time ambush by rebels.

The PKK took up arms in Kurdish-majority southeastern Turkey in 1984, sparking a conflict that has claimed about 45,000 lives. It is labelled a terrorist outfit by Ankara and much of the international community.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...22ae269251e.71

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Fu(king turkish proxies killed him. Hope Assad can hold strong. If he goes, the Armenian community is going to go with him.

Well the danger is that Syria will go the same way as Iraq and explode into some kind of sectarian conflict. Assad has crushed revolts in the past. However this looks far more serious and Syria is now in a state of civil war.

It's not just the Turks who are threat to Syria and once the few remaining Christian, Arabs are ethnically cleansed from the region. Who knows, maybe the Israelis will breakout.

[Mos]

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Well the danger is that Syria will go the same way as Iraq and explode into some kind of sectarian conflict. Assad has crushed revolts in the past. However this looks far more serious and Syria is now in a state of civil war.

It's not just the Turks who are threat to Syria and once the few remaining Christian, Arabs are ethnically cleansed from the region. Who knows, maybe the Israelis will breakout.

This one is serious. Assad may not be able to withstand it. Syria will just become a Sunni Islamic state, closely allied with Turkey, and on relative good terms with Israel. That's what Israel wants. All Israel cares about is Iran and weakening Iran.

[UrMistake]

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Armenia must help Syria with Russian help , we have many more reasons than Russia to help don't they see that!!

[Armanen]

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This one is serious. Assad may not be able to withstand it. Syria will just become a Sunni Islamic state, closely allied with Turkey, and on relative good terms with Israel. That's what Israel wants. All Israel cares about is Iran and weakening Iran.

Actually Israel has been quite mum over Western efforts to oust Assad. They know this devil, but they are scared of what could replace him. Look at how much tension has increased between Egypt and Israel since the ouster of Mubarak and the recent elections which brought the MB to power. More than likely the same scenario will occur in Syria should Assad be forced out. Also, Israel is on poor terms with the Turks still, so I don't see Ankara and Tel Aviv working together on this one. In comparison with the West, Israel is actually being quite level headed about the whole Arab Spring, not because of some noble love for the dictators but because it has to work with these new governments, many of which are openly hostile to them, where as the Europeans and Americans are distant from the Middle-east.