JohnPowell wrote:
You seem to have done some mental gymnastics there. And it's your theory that he's captured and let them go to play a game.
Except I am not inventing anything.... let's check some facts, shall we?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/wor ... 29274.htmlQuote:
In 2003, the Damascus regime was panicked that then-US President George W. Bush, after his victory over Saddam Hussein, would have his troops continue into Syria to topple Assad as well. Thus, in the ensuing years, Syrian intelligence officials organized the transfer of thousands of radicals from Libya, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia to al-Qaida in Iraq. Ninety percent of the suicide attackers entered Iraq via the Syrian route. A strange relationship developed between Syrian generals, international jihadists and former Iraqi officers who had been loyal to Saddam -- a joint venture of deadly enemies, who met repeatedly to the west of Damascus.
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At the time, the primary aim was to make the lives of the Americans in Iraq hell. Ten years later, Bashar Assad had a different motive to breathe new life into the alliance: He wanted to sell himself to the world as the lesser of several evils. Islamist terror, the more gruesome the better, was too important to leave it up to the terrorists. The regime's relationship with Islamic State is -- just as it was to its predecessor a decade prior -- marked by a completely tactical pragmatism. Both sides are trying to use the other in the assumption that it will emerge as the stronger power, able to defeat the discrete collaborator of yesterday. Conversely, IS leaders had no problem receiving assistance from Assad's air force, despite all of the group's pledges to annihilate the apostate Shiites. Starting in January 2014, Syrian jets would regularly -- and exclusively -- bomb rebel positions and headquarters during battles between IS and rebel groups.
In battles between IS and rebels in January 2014, Assad's jets regularly bombed only rebel positions, while the Islamic State emir ordered his fighters to refrain from shooting at the army. It was an arrangement that left many of the foreign fighters deeply disillusioned; they had imaged jihad differently.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/sy ... 689cb52eea^^ People completely ignore the fact that this was an early reaction to the protests movement and well before the armed conflict part of the protests began between FSA and Assad.
And:
http://s.telegraph.co.uk/graphics/proje ... d-islamic/After months of anti-Government protests in 2011, many Islamist prisoners were released in several amnesties.[31] Zahran Alloush, Abu Shadi Aboud (brother of Hassan Aboud[32]) and Ahmed Abu Issa were some of the more prominent prisoners released from the prison. After their release, many took up arms against the regime and became leaders of Islamist rebel groups including Jaysh al-Islam, Ahrar ash-Sham and Suqour al-Sham Brigade in the Syrian Civil War.
There have repeatedly been reports on inhumane conditions for detainees in Sednaya (as well as other Syrian prisons), ranging from torture and malnutrition to spontaneous executions without fair trials.
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After months of anti-Government protests in 2011, many Islamist prisoners were released in several amnesties.[31] Zahran Alloush, Abu Shadi Aboud (brother of Hassan Aboud[32]) and Ahmed Abu Issa were some of the more prominent prisoners released from the prison. After their release, many took up arms against the regime and became leaders of Islamist rebel groups including Jaysh al-Islam, Ahrar ash-Sham and Suqour al-Sham Brigade in the Syrian Civil War.
There have repeatedly been reports on inhumane conditions for detainees in Sednaya (as well as other Syrian prisons), ranging from torture and malnutrition to spontaneous executions without fair trials.[1][33][34][35]
Seventy-five per cent of people who go into Sednaya do not come out alive. It is a field court, where most judges are from the secret police.- A Syrian lawyer working with prisoners in Hama
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sednaya_PrisonJust lemme give you a hint:
NO one just gets "released" from a Syrian political prison, just like that, unless there's something in return. On Fath-el Islam (just so you can understand the strategic pattern):
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Syrian authorities arrested al-Abssi in 2000 and sentenced him to three years in prison on charges of smuggling weapons and ammunition between Jordan and Syria.[14][15] The government later released him. He went to Iraq following the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 and fought alongside groups affiliated with al-Qaeda. He is said to have become friends with a number of al-Qaeda leaders there.[14]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatah_al-IslamMore:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_U ... n_MovementThis movement had a long history of terrorist activity, and even clashed with the Syrian army at times, but now they're allies:
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The post-war years[edit]
Aside from rare instances of mild criticism, Sheikh Shaaban and the IUM were careful not to antagonize the Syrian authorities, particularly after Syria defeated their militia in late 1986. He spoke favorably of the Syrian military presence in Lebanon as a framework for unified, armed action against Israel,[19] a policy which was continued by its successors in the 1990s.
The Movement remains politically active, led by the Secretary-General Sheikh Minqara, a member of the pro-Syrian March 8 alliance.[20] In 2005, the IUM joined the Islamic Labor Front, an alliance of several Islamic parties and figures in Lebanon. The movement's militia re-emerged, this time in support of the Syrian Government in Tripoli. However, after a couple of years, the Lebanese Army virtually crushed the militia in a major security crackdown in 2014.[21]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Labor_FrontThe Islamic Labor Front (ar:jebhat el aamal el islamy), founded in 2006, is a gathering of several Islamic parties and personalities in Lebanon led by Sunni Daaiya Fathi Yakan.
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The gathering merged out of a conflict inside the Islamic group on being part of the anti-Syrian March 14 Alliance or the pro-Syrian March 8 Alliance.
The ILF is currently allied to Hezbollah and is part of the opposition. One of its members, Sheikh Saadeddine Ghaya, was killed in Tripoli in November 2013.[1]
Who was this Fathi Yakan who had been supported by the Syrian regime? He was a 'preacher' for the MB in Lebanon
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Wrongly attributed to being the founder of al Jemaah Islamiyah, Fathi Yakan is,
however, its grandfather and main ideologue.23 Yakan is a 73-year-old veteran Islamist
scholar and da’iah (preacher) from Tripoli; he is a charismatic and influential Islamist
figure in Lebanon and the region. A disciple of radical Egyptian Islamist thinker Sayyid
Qutb, a believer in the revolutionary writings of Rousseau, Voltaire, and Marx/Engels, and
an admirer of the philosophical teachings of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri
(although he is in disagreement with their militant strategies24), he opposes secularist and
communist ideology and considers Islam to be the basis of the sociopolitical order
So yeah....your dear Assad had been breeding these islamists all these years, that without mentioning Hamas and hezbollah (hello? they're radical islamists too)- and yet you guys still think he's your best bet to defeat the Islamic terrorism (I am pointing at the trump hardliners especially, because that is a known narrative of yours).
How foolish.
08 Apr 2017, 10:28 am
