Reply With QuoteHehe notice the difference, indiscriminate artillery shelling of civilian residential areas. You see I see that difference…Originally Posted by my name again
Notice the difference, not a single allah akhbar was said.
Hehe notice the difference, indiscriminate artillery shelling of civilian residential areas. You see I see that difference…
This looks and sounds a lot like those jihadist videos from Afganistan and Iraq.
Doesn’t surprise me at all, they are somewhat limited to what type of leadership they can rally around. They are, to a growing degree, trying to lead and create cohesion by using symbolic leadership and are thus using religion. Using religion opens up the possibility to interlink Friday prayers with mass demonstrations the Assad regime isn’t strong enough to shut down the mosques. The religious aspect is a powerful tool and seeing that their possibility of outside help is diminishing by every passing minute there is no real incentive to curb it in the same manner as was done in say Libya. This is also what gives them their strength. The Assad troops notably don’t shout anything and that is the point they don’t hold the religious high ground in this conflict and that still has some bearing with the general population in the Arab world.
This also presents the west with a problem. You could get involved and get a possibility to limit the Islamic aspect of the rebellion as was done in previous “spring revolutions” or you can stay on the bench and watch other organizations take a greater peace of the cake. Then the history books wont write this up as a democratic revolution in the middle east but instead the second coming of the Islamic wave here to save the Arab people from their western backed dictators. We all know this isn’t true but the winner writes history…
What population? That place is a warzone, there aren't any civilians left and buildings are used as fighting positions, as cover, as high-points ("hills"), as bunkers, as firing positions... Just because the army shoots at what looks like a civil building doesn't mean that it actually still serves the function of civilian housing and is not actually used by rebels as a machine gun/rpg/attack position.It's called urban combat.
But .. But .. Assad said there are no riots in Syria..
indiscriminate artillery shelling
indiscriminate artillery shelling ....
nothing left to say.
But but Assad said that last year ..... Do you see it says gunfight. Gunfight means there is shooting in both directions.
That is because it is. Local trucks running daily supplies between towns got a military escort. Why didnt they hit the armed truck in front?
Seems to me that the rebels fighting whether they are FSA or other groups are far more disciplined than their counterparts in Libya- I assume this shows that indeed a higher proportion are indeed from the Army. There is a lot less "beruit unload" style shooting and they look a lot less reckless.
I noticed that too. Sometimes i wonder how those that do shout Allah Akhbar nonstop during combat, are able to focus on their situational awareness, and make sound decisions in critical situations.
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