U.S., Arab Allies Strike IS Jihadists in Syria, Killing at Least 70
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
The United States and its Arab allies unleashed deadly bomb and missile strikes on jihadists in Syria on Tuesday, opening a new front in the battle against the Islamic State group.
Dozens of IS and Al-Qaida militants were reported to have been killed in the raids, which Washington said had partly targeted extremists plotting an "imminent attack" against the West.
Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates joined the U.S.-led operation, which involved fighter jets, bombers, drones and Tomahawk missiles fired from U.S. warships.
In the evening, Saudi Arabia confirmed it took part along with Arab allies in U.S.-led air strikes against jihadists from the Islamic State group in Syria on Tuesday.
"The Saudi Royal Air Force participated in the military operations against IS in Syria, in support of the moderate Syrian opposition, and as part of the international coalition," a government spokesman said, quoted by the official SPA news agency.
The strikes marked a turning point in the war against IS militants, who have seized swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq, and declared an Islamic "caliphate".
The fact that the five Arab nations joining the strikes are Sunni-ruled will also be of crucial symbolic importance in the fight against the Sunni extremists of IS.
Washington had been reluctant to intervene in Syria's raging civil war, but was jolted into action as the jihadists captured more territory and committed atrocities including the beheadings of three Western hostages.
President Bashar Assad's regime gave a muted initial response, saying it had been notified in advance of the strikes and supported "any international effort" against the jihadists.
The Pentagon said the raids had destroyed or damaged IS fighter positions, training compounds, command centers and armed vehicles in the jihadist stronghold of Raqa and near the border with Iraq.
An anti-regime activist in Raqa, Abu Yusef, said that IS had redeployed its fighters in response.
"The impact of the strikes has been huge," he told AFP via the Internet.
The jihadists "are focused on trying to save themselves now," he added.
The raids prompted many residents to run from their homes, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group.
"Civilians who live near IS positions across Syria have fled," director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
It follows a recent exodus of tens of thousands of residents into neighboring Turkey in response to a jihadist assault on a strategic Kurdish town in northern Syria.
IS militants have warned the U.S.-led campaign would be met with a harsh response, and an IS-linked Algerian group on Monday threatened to kill a French hostage within 24 hours if Paris did not end its participation in air strikes in Iraq.
The group said it was responding to an IS call to kill Westerners whose nations are among 50 countries that have joined the campaign to battle the jihadist group.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls ruled out negotiation and said Paris would continue its air strikes.
Washington said it launched 14 strikes -- including 47 Tomahawk missiles -- against IS targets around the jihadist stronghold of Raqa, as well as in Deir Ezzor, Albu Kamal and Hasakeh on the border with Iraq.
Its five Arab allies "participated in or supported" the attacks. Jordan and Bahrain said they deployed warplanes.
Four air strikes were also conducted Monday in neighboring Iraq, the Pentagon said, bringing the total number of U.S. raids in that country to 194.
In Syria, eight strikes were carried out on a group of "seasoned Al-Qaida" veterans to disrupt "imminent attack plotting against the United States and Western interests", the Pentagon said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 50 Al-Qaida militants were killed, as well as more than 70 members of IS.
Eight civilians, including three children, were also among the dead, it said.
The new strikes came less than two weeks after U.S. President Barack Obama warned that he had approved an expansion of the campaign against the IS group to include action in Syria.
Obama was preparing to give his first public remarks on the raids from the White House at 10:00 am (1400 GMT) on Tuesday, a U.S. official said.
Washington has said the goal of the strikes is to degrade the group's capabilities so it can be taken on by local ground forces including the Iraqi army and moderate Syrian rebels, who are to be trained and equipped by the coalition.
Syria's opposition -- which had pleaded for the strikes -- welcomed the new raids, but urged sustained pressure on Assad's government.
"This war cannot be won by military means alone," National Coalition president Hadi al-Bahra said.
Meanwhile, senior U.S. officials said the United States gave the Syrian government prior warning it would strike against Islamic militants on its territory but did not say where or when.
The notification was delivered to Syria's permanent representative to the United Nations by Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the world body, twinned with a warning that Damascus must not interfere with U.S. aircraft, officials said.
"We did not request the regime's permission. We did not coordinate our actions with the Syrian government," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement.
"We did not provide advance notification to the Syrians at a military level, or give any indication of our timing on specific targets. Secretary Kerry did not send a letter to the Syrian regime."
"We warned Syria not to engage U.S. aircraft."
Power's warning was delivered after President Barack Obama's September 10 speech setting out his plan to target militants from the Islamic State group in both Iraq and Syria.
Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes insisted, as the White House has all along, that Washington did not coordinate in any way with the government of President Bashar Assad, whom it brands a war criminal, nor did it provide advance notice of the timing or the targets the U.S. was going to strike.
Rear Admiral John Kirby, the Pentagon spokesman, meanwhile told CNN there had been "no interference" with U.S. operations from Syrian forces and that he did not anticipate any military communication with the Damascus government going forward.
But the Syrian foreign ministry, seeking to build political capital from the U.S. strikes, said in a statement that it backed "any international effort" to combat jihadists including from IS and the al-Nusra front.
Assad has long contended that all the rebels fighting his regime, including the U.S.-backed moderate opposition, are "terrorists."
Washington has ridiculed that argument, and repeatedly said Assad is to blame for terrorizing his people in a vicious civil war and contends he has lost all legitimacy and should step down.
In a separate incident on Tuesday, Israel downed a Syrian fighter jet over the Golan Heights, indicating that it had crossed a ceasefire line into the Israeli-occupied sector.
Israeli army radio said it was apparently a MiG-21 which was shot down by a surface-to-air Patriot missile, with the wreckage landing on the Syrian-controlled side of the plateau.
23 September 2014, 07:08
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Here it comes, the beginning of the end for ISIS and Assad.
23 September 2014, 07:52
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They should be striking ISIS in the kurdish city of Kobani before it is too late. Raqa can wait a couple of days.
23 September 2014, 07:58
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Maybe so and one can safely assume CENTCOM considered it, however, consider the following:
1- The Kurds Yesterday were able to repulse the ISIS attack
2- Hitting ISIS center of operations and power will surely impact their push into Kobani (aka: Ain Arab)
3- It just started and who knows the order of priority each target is accorded and why
23 September 2014, 09:07
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@blabla......
So says the Assad regime. One is more inclined to believe what the US says. Haven't heard a definitive answer from the U.S. yet, though it is doubtful the US will trust the Assad regime with such vital info as experience with him proved him to be untrustworthy. Then again, if proven true, stranger things have been known to happen and would have been a stupid move on the part of the U.S. administration.
23 September 2014, 09:10
104
That said, truth is the first casualty of war as the saying goes.
23 September 2014, 09:17
103
BTW, what Devine ghost lied to you about the coalition's inclusion of Syria and Iran on the side of the U.S.? Your very mention of that is causing Khomeini to turn in his grave.
Last credible news is that Iran proposed accepting a rearward position should the U.S. agree showing more leniency in their nuclear negotiations posture to which the US responded with an emphatic NO.
Did the AlManar report it differently, wouldn't be surprised if the did!
23 September 2014, 09:18
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Hence, CHECK! Mate to follow soon.
Sorry, can't help being in a celebratory mood.
23 September 2014, 09:35
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LF, how can you speak of check mate very soon when even the americans have said that their bombing campaign may take several years?
23 September 2014, 09:50
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LOL @blabla... it is common knowledge that countries are interested in only their interests, not idealism. Sure they preach idealism, but... You are entitled to believe what you want to believe and let's leave it at that.
In so far as chess is concerned, actually I am a rated chess player.
@cityboy, that was a figure of speech, why can't "soon" be several years down the road? Anyways, some levity never hurts.
23 September 2014, 10:17
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Hahahaha you people live in ur own bubble and so once this ends you can all move to yemen in winter and eat cot all day long then get a summer vaycay in iran ur pick
but what is certain is thta ur end is near deny all u want after being truthful is definitely not ur characteristic and we will warmly welcome u in the celebrations once bisho goes to ......
23 September 2014, 13:57
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The beginning of the end of ASSad, and for those traitor who support this dictator, your end too.
23 September 2014, 14:01
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Stalin and imperialistic usa were de facto allies against hitler, this didnot avoid the cold war and all the other altercations..
Iranian islamist (khomeini and co) were de facto allied against the shah, this didnot restrain iranian revolutinary gards to execute, jail, deport thousands of leftist to put in place ur dear islamic, modern, secular, progressist iran...
What's ur point bla??
Chupachups?
23 September 2014, 14:22
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Indeed, sorry sorry assad gave ok to us/ksa/gulf states to do airstrikes?..
Too bad i'm at work it would be interesting to watch al manar/syrian sana to see how usa begged assad to let them carry strikes...
By the way assad also authorised usa to fund and arm moderate rebels?...
And thx for salafist, i presume if i support a shiite millicia, publicly finaced by iran, going to jihadist duty in syria/irak/yemen.. I'll be a secular, progressist person, like u?...
Man go have some chupachups u to, go enjoy what ur retarded friend have put us into, isis/hezbollah/iranian revolution gards/ali/omar/hussein...
All bunch of retards...
23 September 2014, 16:20
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U r so right bla, i wasn't aware that u have such a great geopolitical vision...
Please pass my regards to ur assad friend, tell him we are sorry to destabilise him since 2005 with all our assassinations, shaker el abssi, smaha...
Really we should not have interfered...
Now after ur logic deductions go have ur chupachups...
23 September 2014, 16:22
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As for u flame, bravo, what a great contribution to the dialogue...
Alaways amazing, yalla go learn the labayka ya nosrlollah, and some songs for the upcoming divine victory...
Retards
23 September 2014, 16:44
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@bla*
At least one can debate with @cityboy who, like me and others, have his opinion but do not claim that their "geostrategic" vision is the only correct one.
It is evident that the US air strikes in Syria are causing you sever discomfort and your only retort is to claim superior understanding of global geopolitics and brand others as stupid ignoramuses.
To each his own. Strive to show some humility because it is precisely that holier-than-thou attitude that is dragging Lebanon down.
23 September 2014, 18:56
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the beginning of the end of the child rapist head choppers in raqqa, that is certain, not sure about the latter at this point.
23 September 2014, 19:02
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@anonymetexasusa
Actually, US command did disclose that Assad regime was informed about impending strike. I wouldn't have then again it's not my call. They probably decided that diverting focus to destroying Assad's anti aircraft defenses is counterproductive at this stage, who knows.
@bla*
Your clairvoyant abilities are nothing short of amazing! Coupled with your unmatchable geopolitical insite clearly place you in the formidable category - NOT.
The West appears to have borrowed a page from the Assads' playbook. Create a fire and then play the fireman's role to put it out albeit for a hefty price. No one is naive enough to believe US actions are for free. They will exact a price from their partners and a heftier one from Iran and Russia down the road.
No claims made by me as to having any superior analyses abilities, just my two cents worth. Only time will tell for sure.
23 September 2014, 07:16
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It's all US propaganda. GCC Salafi kingdoms are just sitting there watching the US stage these bombings, right Flamer?
23 September 2014, 07:39
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Wait for the fake accounts/thumbs down brigade to show up. Good morning all.
23 September 2014, 15:24
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Lolol. Let them use their airspace?? Did they fly in from the Indian Ocean??
23 September 2014, 15:27
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This overused argument that Isis was funded by the gcc is getting silly. SA and uae and Bahrain all supported sisi in Egypt against the radical MB. They got into a diplomatic spiff with Qatar and withdrew their ambassadors because of Qatars support for more extremist groups. Listening to you is like watching a re-run of al manar.
23 September 2014, 16:05
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Arzak. Good point. But FT has been endoctrinated for so long about hate theories against anything sunni that he can't see that.
24 September 2014, 08:11
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Tomahawks that are fired from the Arabian Gulf pass over kuwait and Iraq to get to syria.. I do not think they would fire the rockets from the southern tip of the gulf so it can pass over all the countries when they can strike much faster and over less countries from the northern tip of the gulf... elemental.. but hey you have to figure things out on your own pace..
Also tomahawks were fired from the red sea, which would probably have to pass over any or all of the following: KSA, ISrael and Jordan.
UAE has just confirmed that their planes and pilots were actually part of the strike team... which goes to show that your conclusion, and your "political connections" are all shot.
24 September 2014, 08:14
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FT your attempts at humor are nearly as pathetic as your attempts at intelligence. As blabla has said there might have been individuals who supported daesh in the gcc.. but to think that they would support ISIS after saying that the MB was to fanatical is just idiotic at best... it is well known that the monarchies of the gcc are the most worried about fundamentalism so keep taking your cracks at humor... maybe one day you would get there.. i like your persistence with intelligence.. dont give up now..
23 September 2014, 07:58
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I agree down with the terrorist but this is the wrong approach. The last thing we need is the zionist infested usa to come and drop more bombs on arab land. Keep your bombs to yourself america, you are not involving yourself for the benefit of syrians or iraqis.
23 September 2014, 09:26
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@cityboy
Are you really being serious? Like, for example, Iran really loves us Arabs and especially Lebanese and that's why it unleashed it's generosity in the form of HA. Please, some modicum of realism.
23 September 2014, 09:40
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LF, no point is discussing HA, you see them as terrorist, i see them as a pride of lebanon.
23 September 2014, 16:31
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I was thinking the same thing cityboy, exactly the same. I hope people don't think we are the same poster.
23 September 2014, 16:48
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@cityboy
I'll be more than happy to change my perception about HA when I see them truly behaving in the interest of ALL Lebanese. Until then, they are what most nations see them as, self serving sectarian Iranian militia.
23 September 2014, 07:34
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what is good about this is the fact it shows who are the ones fighting against these terrorists and who are the ones who are against fighting them.
GCC countries are fighting these terrorists while iran and syria are sitting on their behind.
who needs more proofs about who is behind ISIS?
23 September 2014, 07:56
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Great input, jihadist terrorist. Those 15 out of 19 hijackers on 9/11 were British.
Oh wait.
23 September 2014, 08:29
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@.karim-. Stereotyping is unbecoming. This is like saying since HA is a terrorist organization in the eyes of the majority of nations, then all Lebanese must be terrorists?
23 September 2014, 09:12
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City boy go check who lokmann is, u know the low profile prisonner freed by assad in 2011 along with 500to700 low profile friends (now lockman is isis leader in damascus area, chaker el abssi style...) meanwhile more dangerous terrorist , like the one that won over bassel el assad a horse contrst was kept in jail (freed few monthes ago).... U seem to have the same logic as assad man, any relation?
Go have a chuoachups man...
23 September 2014, 08:12
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@geha may be exaggerating some, sure; but there is no denying that Assad intentionally released those savages from his prisons with the intent of using them against his peoples' uprising.
Now, the West saw an opening there to turn the tables on him and his bosses in Iran who were shaking in their boots when ISIS swarmed across Iraq in June and started calling uncle, as in Uncle Same of course.
Playing with this kind of fire can burn ones fingers, wouldn't you agree @citiboiy?
23 September 2014, 08:14
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To be sure, two wrongs don't make a right; then again, since when do nations really care about right and wrong?
23 September 2014, 08:37
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LF, Assad never released savages from prison. That is simply not correct. He gave amnesty to low profile prisoners in an effort to appease some of the legitimate concerns of the population. Syria was flooded with foreign fighters coming from all over the middleast and beyond. So i dont follow how any tables had to be turned here. Where do you think Isis gets its military and financial support.
23 September 2014, 09:00
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Come on @citiboy, stop believing everything you read and hear in HA/Syrian/Iranian media. Surely you are aware of Shaker Absi's last known residence before relocating to nahr Al Bared.
Your loyalty is commendable, but you strike me as smarter than to believe in fairy tales, Santa Clause or the tooth fairy.
Yes, once the ISIS nucleus was released from Assad's prisons, they garnered support from Turkey and Qatar, shame on them. That, however, does not absolve Assad from the main responsibilynof unleashing those Neanderthals.
23 September 2014, 09:09
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LF, we will differ on the subject of what kind of prisoners were released. No point in debating that cause neither one of us will budge on that. Ironically, if you want to talk about savages being released from prison and joining Isis in syria, look no further than the prisoners coming from saudi arabia. Another thing, is you didnt even touch the issue of all the foreign fighters going to perfor their so called jihad in syria. How did they get there, who supplied them weapons.
23 September 2014, 09:13
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City boy go check who lokmann is, u know the low profile prisonner freed by assad in 2011 along with 500to700 low profile friends (now lockman is isis leader in damascus area, chaker el abssi style...) meanwhile more dangerous terrorist , like the one that won over bassel el assad a horse contrst was kept in jail (freed few monthes ago).... U seem to have the same logic as assad man, any relation?
Go have a chuoachups man...
23 September 2014, 09:36
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@cityboy
Agreed, we each have our perception about events without a doubt.
Do please explain to the rest of us how is one form of theocratically based jihad is different from another? Theocratic extremism, be it Sunni, Shia, Christian or whatever is one and the same and should summarily be shunned by all intelligent beings.
Yes, Sunni extremism attracted people from outside of Syria. How is that different from Shia extremism attracting people from outside Syria as well?
Extremism begets extremism, full stop.
23 September 2014, 11:20
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In order for me to answer your question, you want me to agree that HA is the brother of isis but only that it is shia and carrying out a shia form of jihad. I don't agree with your assumption so hard for me to explain to you the rest of your question. I will say this, HA is a nationalistic movement first and foremost. Religion is not what drives them despite what some of the wackos on this board want you to believe.
23 September 2014, 16:17
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@cityboy
Was not looking for you to agree with my views about HA at all. I was not referring specifically to HA as the only Shia foreign interventionists in Syria. How about the other none Syrian indigenous Shia who flocked to fight in Syria?
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, that is democracies corner stone. All am asking is to recognize facts on both sides.
Extremism under whatever guise will spawn other extremism is the salient point.
23 September 2014, 16:21
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And so let me lose the question again, how does jihadism - which is by definition theocratically based - differ between Sunni and Shia implementation?
23 September 2014, 20:14
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LF, if you are referring to Iraqi shia militia groups going to syria to defend holy shrines then you have to remember that they were permitted by the syrian government to enter the country. You may not recognize Assad, but he and the rest of the leadership are still the legitimate leadership in Syria. Besides non of these shia would have to be in Syria to defend anything if it werent for this phony jihad being performed by terrorist, not sunnis as you referm to them. I dont see why there should even be a debate of sunni vs shia.
23 September 2014, 21:08
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@cityboy
We can go round Nd round and get nowhere fast, or
HA can finally recognize that, right or wrong, at least half of the Lebanese do not believe in its logic and no amount of force - short of annihilating all of us who disagree - will change our minds and hearts.
You strike me as the type of person (guessing Shia, apologize in advance if am incorrect) that can ultimately be reasoned with.
No one is, or should be, asking you (collectively) to renounce HA as a precondition to having intra Lebanese dialogue to save our country. By the same token, we refuse to hold any meaningful dialogue at the barrel of a gun.
So far, our (collective Lebanese opposing HA) perception is that HA is only interested in upholding Iranian interests at the expense of Lebanese ones.
Are you (again, the collective you) prepared to engage on that basis for the sake of Lebanon?
23 September 2014, 21:37
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LF, sorry only got a minute to answer. I have to say that I don't agree with your chronology of events in Syria. That isnt how things happened. That isnt to say that there were no mistakes done by the regime or local police at the outset of the protests. The whole aim at the outset was to hijack the protest by foreign meddling and turn it into a situation much like Libya. Everything went to plan until Russia vetoed any attack on Syria. over 3 years later, Syria is a mess, countless dead all because of zionist and western plot to over throw Assad and install an american puppet government.
23 September 2014, 21:45
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Quick word on HA, again you assume that their sole purpose is to carry out an iranian agenda. I am not sure what you mean by iranian agenda. HA grow out of Israeli occupation and eventhough Israel has withdrawn from the south, the threat from israel is still there. until LAF is strong enough to defend Lebanon then there will always be a need for HA. Furthermore, you say HA went into syria to help Assad, maybe to a point but the reality is that HA didnt go in until much later and its main goal was to defeat the nusra group that was massing along the lebanese border with the intention of crossing into lebanon. I would have been just as supportive if the LAF went into Syria but we know that would have created a political nightmare. Hence it is a blessing we still have HA. In my books, HA is the vangaured that is ensuring a free lebanese society, when Nassrallah says that no one group can over take another group in lebanon, there is a lot of meaning to that if you know what i mean.
23 September 2014, 23:02
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@cityboy
You disagreed with the sequence of events I payed out without stating yours. It is just how it happened my friend.
At this point I too must turn in. Let's just agree that we disagree and leave it at that. I did enjoy debating you nevertheless. I see on this site often so you doubtless recognize that never before did I engage anyone in debate similar to ours, and probably never will again. As long as our intention is for the good of Lebanon, I salute you.
Good night.
23 September 2014, 07:36
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Hopefully all Jihadist groups will be wiped out eventually. Good Riddance.
23 September 2014, 07:56
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Agreed, the FSA-Nusra-ISIS jihadist terrorists have brought nothing but destruction to Syria.
23 September 2014, 09:15
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U meants hezbollah/iranian revolutionary gards/iraki shiite millicia/isis /nosra... U know those retards living the ali/hussein/omar war for centuries?...
Ma heik karim?,,,, now u to go hv ur morning chupachups...
23 September 2014, 08:22
92
what is it cityboy? you are defending your extremist friends?
why are you upset against those fighting ISIS? are you afraid some day soon your extremist hizbushaitan will be targetted soon?
23 September 2014, 08:33
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Tell that to Assad who intentionally released those nihilistic savages from his prisons. One may be wrong here, but one doubts his intentions were benign. What do you think?
23 September 2014, 08:40
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Again, LF, i will repeat, Assad never released savages. only low end prisoners as a way to appease legitimate concerns of protestors. The savages you speak of were shipped into syria thanks in large part to Turkey, Qatar, usa, and even Lebanon.
23 September 2014, 09:18
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Again lokmann was a low profile prisonner he was released with 500 other low profile prisonners in 2011 (u know like our chaker el absi, remember?....) while hamzah el khatib the young boy form hamma was an extremely dangerous opponent...
Go hv ur chupachups cityboy... Yalla zahett
23 September 2014, 09:40
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I'm satisfied with the answer provided by @imagine_1979 except for the last two words.
23 September 2014, 10:14
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Sorry LF but they keep ignoring facts, i'm ok that eachone has his opignon but deniying facts.. Like if we were living on some other planet, they just think theyn distort reallity and we just have to deal with their vision of the truth...
But u r right, sorry cityboy, another chupachup?
23 September 2014, 09:27
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Actually he wishes...
Enno u really think he was aware that ksa and golf coutries will do join airstrikes with the imperialist usa and just said ok?....
Really cityboy, chupachups...
23 September 2014, 16:25
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Indeed so smart, a true arab leadder, acting for the cause, u know pan arab cause, full of democracy, human rights, socialism... Bigjohn go have ur chupachups and dream that we are still in the 70s... (Even then assad's father regime was a dictatorship, his son only made it worse by making his people poorer and his friend and familly richer...)
Yalla chupachups...
23 September 2014, 10:37
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الضربات الجوية الدولية على مواقع "الدولة الاسلامية" في سوريا يجب ان تتم بموافقة دمشق
hahahahahaha
leik wein ba3do......
hahahahahaha
23 September 2014, 11:31
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HA nationalistic? LOL right...thats why they cover themselves in Shiite religious slogans and imagery..not to mention consistently allying themselves with Iraqi shiite death squads and most recently the Houthis of Yemen. They have more loyalty to their Irani overlord than they do their own country.
The Kurds? Lets not forget the massacre they just committed a few days ago... Or the repeated ethnic cleansing they've carried out on Arab populations and communities in Syria where they've expelled up to 60,000 Arabs. Why always so quiet on the injustices committed by the fanatical YPG and PKK?
Last but not least--the "honorable" Lebanese army that refuses to protect Lebanon's sovereignty from repeated Syrian attacks... instead it chooses to bulldoze scooters of refugees! Let them grow a pair and actually confront that evil terrorist militia that seeks to throw Lebanon in the fires of Welayat Al Faqih.
23 September 2014, 11:58
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Did you forget that they allign themselves with lebanese christians, druze, and sunnis. or how about their unconditional support for palestinians. are they shia. Nassrallah is still the most favourite arab leader amongst arab sunni population.
23 September 2014, 13:23
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Indeed there was big marches with labayka ya nossrollah yesterday all over the arab world...
Chupachups man, chupachups...
U and ur retarded nationalists, which in the same time are abn2 el houssein doing jihadist duty (wajeb al jihadi), and with suprem leadder el khomaini (do u actualy listen to nasralah speach or they erease those on otv?
Retards, u'r supporting a group who wanna continu a war aging from centuries... Nationalist... debile...
23 September 2014, 16:30
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No man natinalist are not retards (not all of them, abdel naser was not bad for exemple, hitler on the other side was da3ech style.. But i was talking about hezbollah:nationalism??? Man please get a dictionnary!!!!!
Hezbollah is based on religion, islamic resistance u know, linked to iranian khomany, u know the guy with a long beard doing fatewa; this is nationalism???
After u will win a chupachups
Anw screw nationalism, yes for multicultural democracy, human rights, social rights, but we are still far from this debates, we are still at omar/ali/hussein/khalifa stage.. Thank u :)
23 September 2014, 20:22
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you said screw nationalism and you are all for multicultural society. No thanks, that is one of the greatest goals of the zionist. It is people like you that want to help this agenda progress even faster. A multiculture society where people dont even know there roots, have nothing in common with the strangers they live with. oh so wonderful. I see they are trying to invoke a multiculture society on lebanon, bringing in the palestinians, foreign workers, and now syrians. The same thing will happen to syria if things continue down the wrong path.
23 September 2014, 12:01
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thank you naharnet for deleting my post calling out geha twisting of the truth. no reason it should have been deleted.
23 September 2014, 16:38
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I remember a great arab leadder threatening to put all middle est on fire few years ago, same great arab leadder who freed shaker el abssi(u know the democratic progressist human right worker) and send him to lebanon, the same great arab leadder who freed lokmann and 500 other peace loving guys no da3ech leadder in damscus area...
Yes bigjhon always a concoiracy against us, and we donnit have nothing to blame...
And fir palestinian cause, remember splitting fateh/fateh el intifada?? Remember splitting fplp/fplp general comand?....
Really a great arrab leader..
Go have some chupachups bigjohn, take some with u for this great arab leadder of urs...
23 September 2014, 16:45
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so in bottomshell, when they collaborate with assad and his friends strikes are welcomed with open arms
when they refuse to collaborate with him and his axis of evil, they are imperialist
guess what, screw ur lies and conspiracy theories
we are happy that ISIS is being fought by the same people that uve been blaming for its creation
afterall, they are evil and need to be exterminated and u have not only created them but also failed miserably to control them when they turned against you
23 September 2014, 16:54
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Once again America has breached the sovereignty, of another foreign nation. They seek to destroy, what they created themselves. Wouldn't even surprise me, if the so called "moderate" Al Nusra got a no flying zone along the way.
23 September 2014, 17:13
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There is no such thing as an Islamic State cowboy, that a few lunatics run around claiming they got a caliphate, is a fantasy and another of your Hollywood stories. This is a simple pretext to go in and bomb Syria, such as it was when the US attacked Iraq and Libya.
23 September 2014, 17:15
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American fruitcakes, attack after a few journalists got beheaded. Beheading of innocents began, since the war in Syria started. We didn't hear anyone complain back then.
American double standards as always.
23 September 2014, 17:27
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Assume all you want texi, but I can confirm to you, that i am definitely Anti American.
USA is the broodmother of ISIS.
23 September 2014, 17:33
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الأسد: سوريا ماضية بحزم في الحرب التي تخوضها منذ سنوات ضد الإرهاب وهي مع أي جهد دولي يصب في هذا السياق
hahahaha
please let me play with um walaw please
lolll
23 September 2014, 17:39
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do tell, is jihad in iraq and yemen a breach of sovereignty or not
or in the name of hussein and zeinab u have the right to kill innocent people
same as isis and nusra
23 September 2014, 18:25
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Yes mystic anti imperialist.. Long live comrad puting , the big socialist leadder , ayatollah el khomaiini our beloved secular brother (u know like the che but with a longer beard) and donnot forget democratic assad...
And also comunist china...
The world have changed, political stands must evolve or it become stagnant like a dying religion...
But again what do i know, u all have so much insights and so much geopolitical knowledge...
U winn ur fist chupachups for the day, bravo...
23 September 2014, 19:41
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@Mystic
Surely you jest...
1- Russia never invaded Ukraine - spare us the double standard argument that Ukraine, or parts of it, really belong to Russia
2- Iran never intended to invade Iraq or any other nation
3- Salhuddine ne er invaded Spain
And on and on...
Really man, remove those pink glasses - maybe yellow in your case - and try to see both sides before it is too late.
23 September 2014, 17:02
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Cityboy and lebnanfirst, Assad did release terrorists from his prisons. Was it that many, compared to how many jihadists are in Syria today? No. However, nobody-as in no one on this site-thinks about the power of social media. When the US invaded Iraq in 2003, there was no Facebook or Twitter. Even when Facebook started, it was purely social, there were no fan pages and groups. By the time the Arab Spring came around, Facebook was used to form groups and organise protests. This was the case in Egypt, as well as Syria when they were peacefully protesting. But jihadists use social media as well. Just like protesters joined the revolutions, fanatics joined jihadist groups. Bin Laden's videos and jihadist forums are nothing compared to Facebook and Twitter. ISIS has a relentless social media campaign, showing videos of beheadings and using English to reach out all over the world.
Assad released dangerous jihadists, who recruited more jihadists, and that's where we are today.
23 September 2014, 17:35
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And where did I say anything about US prisons. Forget to take your meds today, retard thrower?
23 September 2014, 17:36
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Hezbo patriot, speaking of blame, wasn't it Hezbollah who blamed this war on the "American-Zionist-takfiri" scheme?
23 September 2014, 18:50
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So stop supportting the iranian millicia who has the same agenda as khomainist and is officially fonaced and armed by them, the same millicia that fought and assassinated true patriotic levanese resistants, the same millicia that is engaging us in an interconfetional war spreading frim yemen irak syria...
Be logic with urself...
