Bharat Rakshak

shyamd wrote:If he loses Aleppo, Asad could return to the mountains and western alawite areas where he has been doing some ethnic cleansing. He can use the cover of the terrain to fight. But he has no airport there and very little infrastructure.

So the next stage in the movement is for the army to split and refuse orders. You could hear of lower ranked soldiers sshooting ssuperiors. Several soldiers kill deserters or soldiers who refused orders. Once other soldiers realise their friends are killed this makes dissent more prevalent.
But the major factor is killing un armed civi's. The bloodbath will get so bad that the soldier will break down and get angry. This will start the break off.
Another thing to watch for are the colnels. They are the bridge between the politicians and the lower ranked soldiers. If they defect then this will slow the regime responses right down, as the colnels will know all the moves.
Then the sunni community that assad's rely upon - these are businessmen, armed forces guys (even Min of defencee) etc. For these, its pure economic. If business not going well, then they will want someone else.

Right now, the DUP in Syrian Kurdistan is backing Asad regime. So Washington adn Ankara appealed to KRG leader Barzani. Barzani agreed to help and closed down a DUP training camp and is said to be paying $400 for fighters to take on the DUP Kurdish leadership in Syria. Triggering a Kurdish civil war. Barzani wants an autonomous region for Kurds in Syria and they all think that by going to war against their kurdish brethren - Asad's downfall is the only way to create an autonomous region.

(AFP) – 1 hour ago
ANKARA — Turkey and Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region have warned that they will consider any violent group that abuses a Syrian power vacuum a "common threat", in a reference to Kurdish rebels in Syria.
"The new Syria should be free of any terrorist and extremist group or organisation," Turkey's foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani said in a rare joint statement released late Wednesday.
The statement comes after the pair held talks in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil over the situation in Syria and reports that some parts of the country had fallen to the Kurdish rebels.
"Any attempt to exploit the power vacuum by any violent group or organisation will be considered as a common threat," said Barzani and Davutoglu in their joint statement.
Davutoglu was visiting the oil-rich city of Kirkuk on Thursday, Turkish media reported, adding that the foreign minister would bring together Syrian opposition groups.
The Democratic Union Party (PYD), the Syrian ally of the outlawed Turkish Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), had allegedly seized control of several towns along Turkey's border with Syria, alarming Ankara, which promptly increased defences on the border.
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said last week Ankara would not hesitate to strike Kurdish rebels in Syria.
Ankara claims some of the Kurdish rebels in Syria are those who have been forced to move from their hideouts in mountainous zones in northern Iraq, after Turkey staged several air strikes in the area to drive out the rebels.
A military drill close to the Syrian border and an increase in the firepower deployment on the border followed the movement in northern Syria.
Ankara had already fortified the border region after a Turkish plane was brought down by Syria on June 22.
The PKK took up arms in Kurdish-majority southeastern Turkey in 1984, sparking a conflict that has claimed some 45,000 lives.

Theo_Fidel wrote:Zaino Berri, well known, Shabiha is arrested and summarily executed by what appears to be the more Islamist wing of the Rebels. Technically not the FSA.

pentaiah wrote:CNNs Anderson Cooper reported yesterday that Bangla Deshis and PAkis are operating in Syria.

Rebel resistance collapses in key suburbs - http://blogs.reuters.com/thinking-globa ... y-suburbs/

The Syrian rebels fighting the forces of Assad have fallen in key districts of their stronghold Salah Al Deen in Aleppo. This comes hours after the army has announced that it has destroyed the communication network provided by Turkey. Earlier the rebel forces have complained that they are running low on ammunition as the city has been completely surrounded by government forces, coupled with lack of communications, has left the rebels in disarray. Several trucks with mounted heavy machine guns have been destroyed, leading to the deaths of 20 rebels.

According to footage on the ground, the rebel forces in Aleppo have failed to take Aleppo Citadel, contrary to earlier reported news. A journalist on the ground, Hussein Murtada, has reported that an attempt to damage the ancient Citadel’s walls by rebel missiles was repelled by security forces, resulting in the death of General Mustafa Al Sheikh and Abdul Jabar Aqede, field Marshals of the Free Syrian Army in Aleppo.

Columns of Syrian tanks were seen entering the city earlier in the day, suggesting that the army was ready to route out all resistance in the western districts which have presence of rebel forces who have evicted residents from the area.

Austin wrote:Former Mossad head: Iran should fear next 12 weeks

Theo_Fidel wrote:^^^^^

Reuters was hacked. The post above is bogus. Hope some admins sees what is going on.....

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2 ... ters-blog/

The Muslim Brotherhood has established its own militia inside Syria as the country's rebels fracture between radical Islamists and their rivals, commanders and gun-runners have told The Daily Telegraph.
Syria: Assad regime launches new offensive against rebels as the UN talks

Syrian refugees at the Turkey- Syria border in Hatay Photo: EPA

By Ruth Sherlock, Richard Spencer in Beirut

6:48PM BST 03 Aug 2012

Calling itself the "Armed Men of the Muslim Brotherhood", the militia has a presence in Damascus as well as opposition hot spots like Homs and Idlib. One of their organisers, who called himself Abu Hamza, said that he started the movement along with a member of the Syrian National Council (SNC), the opposition alliance.

"We saw there were civilians with weapons inside, so we decided to co-operate with them and put them under one umbrella," he said.

Hossam Abu Habel, whose late father was in Syria's Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s, said that he raised $40-50,000 (£25,000-£32,000) a month to supply Islamist militias in Homs province with weapons and other aid.

The militias he funded were not affiliated to the Free Syrian Army (FSA), the main rebel movement, added Mr Abu Habel.

"Our mission is to build a civil country but with an Islamic base," he said. "We are trying to raise awareness for Islam and for jihad."

The Syrian wing of the Muslim Brotherhood has been revitalised by the organisation's success in Egypt, where it won both parliamentary and presidential elections.

In the early days of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, secular and Islamist rebels were both prepared to fight under the FSA's banner and recognise the SNC as their political masters.

But the FSA, dominated by defectors from the regime's army, has fallen out with the SNC, whose leaders are in exile. It now has its own political front, the Syrian Support Group (SSG). This split has divided the revolution's main international backers, with Saudi Arabia supporting the FSA and Qatar moving closer to the SNC and the Islamist militias.

The divisions are affecting operations on the ground: competing militias co-operate when necessary but otherwise disavow each other. "I would take it as an insult if you described me as FSA," said Abu Bakri, a front line commander of an Islamist militia in Aleppo calling itself the Abu Emara Battalion.

One activist described how he was working with Sunni politicians in Lebanon to buy arms for the FSA with Saudi money.

A member of the FSA command centre, located in neighbouring Turkey, told the Daily Telegraph that they have this week received large consignments of ammunition, machine guns and anti-tank missiles. At one point Saudi Arabia and Qatar were both funding the FSA, with the command centre receiving up to $3 million in cash every month. But the operative said the situation had changed.

"Now we are not working with the Qataris because they made so many mistakes supporting other groups."

But the fracturing of the armed opposition raises the prospect of post-Assad Syria becoming a battleground. "This adds to the fragmentation and tones down the credibility of the opposition," said Louay Sakka, the SSG's Executive Director. "Supporters should go through the proper channel of the Free Syrian Army military council rather than build their own militias."

Amr al-Azm, a Syrian-American academic who was briefly on the SNC, said that Syria risked the same kind of disintegration that was set in motion by Saddam Hussein's downfall in neighbouring Iraq. The West's decision to limit its involvement in the Syrian conflict – and refrain from supplying lethal weapons – had left a gap for the Islamists to fill.

"By playing to your own fears, you are making them come true," said Mr Azm. "By not intervening, you are forcing people to go those who have resources. No one wants to go to al-Qaeda, but if you are down to your last five bullets and someone asks you to say 'Allahu Akbar' (God is greatest) five times, you do it."

Iraqi Kurds want an autonomous state in Syria and tey think it's achievable only if Asad is toppled.

Theo_Fidel wrote:Modern history is the only time when one side has over whelming fire power and does not use it.

Theo_Fidel wrote:The problem of course is that NATO has the fire power to reduce Assad to ruin if it felt like. Modern history is the only time when one side has over whelming fire power and does not use it. The Roman never hesitated to slap around the local population or exterminate a nation or two.