Protests in Syria - Discussion Thread

[kalerab]

Option A seems unlikely. The stockpile is probably big if not huge and not concentrated in a single area/warehouse as was the Lybian 10t of mustard gas.
I am afraid to lean toward option B

Location shouldn´t be much of a problem. Recently, general who was in charge of CW unit defected, he may very well provide intel about location of warehouses.

Anybody has some verified figures about the manpower of the army and the rebels ?

Not even FSA knows what are their numbers. 40,000 - 60,000, probably. Syrian army? God knows.

[KoTeMoRe]

As far as I am aware there was only one suicide attack during civil war and that was aimed at rebel checkpoint outside the Sirte during the siege.

I see you have not done your homework properly.

http://www.sfgate.com/politics/artic...yo-2473367.php

Good to know that.

[yves]

According to activists soldiers are fleeing from their posiions in reef idlib , Homs ,Midan.

[kalerab]

I see you have not done your homework properly.

http://www.sfgate.com/politics/artic...yo-2473367.php

Good to know that.

Yeah, I vaguely remember now about it. It is more than a year, I got it probably confused with that kamikaze pilot urban legen.

[Silent Reader]

According to activists soldiers are fleeing from their posiions in reef idlib , Homs ,Midan.

Could be the result of the fighting in Damascus... many probably do not want to fight for a lost cause.
might as well be propaganda though.. so who knows.

[EITAN88]

Syrian General Hassan Turkmani, a former defence minister and senior military official, died of wounds sustained in a bomb attack in Damascus on Wednesday, Hezbollah's al-Manar television and a security source said.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...257414,00.html

[kalerab]

16:24 Syrian colonel Hafez Makhlouf, Bashar al-Assad’s cousin, was reportedly killed Wednesday in the Damascus explosion, Al-Arabiya television reported.

http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticl...aspx?ID=253828

AJA meanwhile reported that Syrian Interior Minister Mohammad Ebrahim Al Shaar is dead.

I´ll just probably will go offline for few hours and return when the bodies are finally counted.

[Genotype]

Syrian General Hassan Turkmani, a former defence minister and senior military official, died of wounds sustained in a bomb attack in Damascus on Wednesday, Hezbollah's al-Manar television and a security source said.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...257414,00.html

16:24 Syrian colonel Hafez Makhlouf, Bashar al-Assad’s cousin, was reportedly killed Wednesday in the Damascus explosion, Al-Arabiya television reported.

http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticl...aspx?ID=253828

AJA meanwhile reported that Syrian Interior Minister Mohammad Ebrahim Al Shaar is dead.

Minister of Defence Dawoud Rajha - Dead
Deputy Minister of Defence (and Assad's brother in law) Assef Shawkat - Dead
Minister of Interior Mohammad Ibrahim al-Shaar - Wounded
Head of National Security Hisham Bekhtyar - Wounded

Sounds like the rebels managed to penetrate a meeting of Syria's Crisis Cell.

Wow if any of those are true (though I doubt all of them are so won't be updating the list yet)

It seems like they've managed to incapacitate the Syrian government Crisis Cell below Bashar and Maher!

[socom6]

Well, the Syrian regime has took a BIG hit with this suicide bombing. Still my personal prognosis for Syria after Assad falls.. if he does, isnt good. There are too many Islamic radicals in the country who want to see the black flag raised in Damascus. At the same time there are those within the FSA who dont want foreign jihadists taking away their revolution against the hated tyrant. Then we have the Alawite people who will defend their turf to the last man woman and child. Its going to get nasty even more than what we see here.

In other words, the jokers wild= al qaeda and their acolytes.

[EITAN88]

Apparently there's a massive wave of defections from the Syrian army following the bombing.

[Camera]

16:24 Syrian colonel Hafez Makhlouf, Bashar al-Assad’s cousin, was reportedly killed Wednesday in the Damascus explosion, Al-Arabiya television reported.

http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticl...aspx?ID=253828

AJA meanwhile reported that Syrian Interior Minister Mohammad Ebrahim Al Shaar is dead.

I´ll just probably will go offline for few hours and return when the bodies are finally counted.

I told you already 3 hours ago the Interior minister was confirmed dead by the Syrian state TV station.

[Camera]

Apparently there's a massive wave of defections from the Syrian army following the bombing.

Desertion and defection should boom as many refrained to do so before by fear of the Mukabarat.

[PDT89]

Atleast he was Christian ??

So was Hitler.

Im sure British and Turkish Special forces are happy with the end result of what is more than likely their planning.

[ISNJH]

Big question is how long did the FSA have this plant inside Assad's security, the fact the FSA had not activate this sleeper sooner shows that there was a lot of planning for this attack and they ensured that they played the card only once Operations to take the capital where underway to thus ensure the goverment would be thrown into turmoil at the time that control would be needed to counter the opposition ongoing assault..

Second if the FSA managed to win over one person in Assad's security how many more are also sleepers waiting for the order?

[Grax]

Atleast he was Christian ??

So was Hitler.

Im sure British and Turkish Special forces are happy with the end result of what is more than likely their planning.

So what did he wrong?
He was defending his folk against radicals paid from outside.

YOU ARE ACTUALLY supporting terrorist who wants to see all Alawits dead!