Archive for December 4th, 2012
“Diaries of Homs” by Jonathan Littell
Posted by: adonis49 on: December 4, 2012
“Diaries of Homs” by Jonathan Littell
The journalist, Jonathan Littell, filled two notebooks on what he observed and witnessed during his short 3-week stay in Homs (Jan. 16-Feb. 2, 2011), a week before the regular Syrian army entered Baba Amru and the districts in the hands of the insurgents.
The Syrian Liberation Army (SLA) of the insurgents claim that 50% of its ammunition and weapons are captured from the regular army, mostly delivered by officers on their own volition in support of the revolution.
The other half is purchased on the black market, particularly in North Lebanon with predominant Sunni people allied with the Harri clan (the Mustakbal or Future movement).
And what were the prices in early 2011:
1. RPG: $2,500, including transport
2. Missile rocket for the RPG: $650 apiece
3. Kalashnikov (Russi): $1,800. The Chinese version is cheaper
4. A mortar 60 mm: $4,500
5. Shells for this mortar: $150 apiece
6. A mortar 80 mm: $7,500
Bullets 7.62 mm for machine guns were in Israeli boxes. Every round of 5 bullets is followed by a tracer.
Dochka (little soul in Russian) is a machine gun for 12.7 mm bullets and mounted on trucks…
More important. What are the various Islamic factions and movements involved in the uprising?
1. Takfiri, Jihadist, Wahhabi radical Moslems. Considered by the Syrian insurgents as “made in the USA”, financed and supported and dispatched by Saudi Arabia
2. Djamaat al Tabligh (disseminating the message and founded in India in 1926)
3. Tahrir al Akl (Freeing the mind): Is a traditional moderate Syrian-based Sunni sect
4. The Syrian Moslem Brotherhood movement: Currently with strong links with its Turkish counterpart in power. It was linked to the Egyptian movement during Sadat and was suppressed in blood in the city of Hama by late Hafez Assad in 1982.
The Syrian Moslem Brotherhood does not exist on the ground, but mainly abroad.
The insurgents in Homs were adamantly refusing any call for Jihad, on the ground that this decision will inevitably bring in all kinds of Islamic and Arabic foreign radical Moslems to join in the uprising.
The insurgents claimed that their resistance is not based on sectarian basis, though many Sunnis hated the Shia, as a generalization for hating the Islamic Republic of Iran…
The insurgents claimed that the regime’s militia (The Shabbiha) were mostly from the Alawi sect of the regime and who used to blackmail people before the uprising and steeling whatever they wished to own…
The Communists are concentrated in the Edlib district in the Djebel Zawiye region, and also in Salamiyeh between Homs and Hama.
Jonathan Littell was whisked to Homs from north Lebanon and through the town of Qusayr by many intervening links and side roads. The insurgents in Homs, particularly the SLA, were not hot about welcoming foreign journalists because they added extra stress on the fragile and nascent resistance.
Jonathan Littell paid particular attention to the three clinics he was lucky to visit and witness the kinds of wounds and civilian deaths, mostly resulting from sniper shots in the chest and the head.
Last week, two dozens of Lebanese were encouraged to go and join the Syrian insurgents. The Syrian army ambushed them in the town of “Tal Kalakh”. It is reported that all of them have been killed.
The Lebanese government position is Not to interfere or intervene in Syria’s problems, but there are many political parties and political leaders who are blatantly acting against State orders, and shipping men, arms and ammunition to the Syrian rebels…
Another genocide in Deir Zur (Syria)? Turks resuming genocide policies, a century later…?
Posted by: adonis49 on: December 4, 2012
Another genocide in Deir Zur (Syria)? Again, the Turks are involved, a century later…
This long line of crucified people is not taken from a movie on Jesus Christ or Spartacus: They are Armenian mothers and girls that the Turks crucified on their long journey in the desert of Deir el Zur, in north-East Syria, on the Euphrates River, by Iraq borders.
The photo was taken by a German and it is in the Vatican archives
Deir el Zur is currently invaded by the radical Islam Jihadists (Wahhabi) who want to establish an entirely Califat Islamic State.
شبكة أخبار جرمانا| J.N.N’s photo.
“We seem to go through our days without ever being aware of the most common fact of life: we are living on a sphere which is zipping in space at a staggering speed of 67,000 miles/hour and spinning around its axis simultaneously at a speed of about 1000 miles/hour. And somehow all this is engineered in such a way that we feel no movement at all.”
And most of the movement and activities of mankind is focusing on eliminating and killing “other minorities” for lame excuses, including species in the animal kingdom.
Are the most awe-inspiring of life’s mysteries the simplest ones? That mankind ethical and moral standards degenerated since the prehistoric man Age?
Lebanese Parliament deputy: Put back in Line at Heathrow airport (London). No passaran dude before me…
Posted by: adonis49 on: December 4, 2012
Putting Lebanese Parliament deputies back in Line at Heathrow airport (London): No passaran before
How do you react when a politician, minister, deputy, governor… on vacation, bypass the line of passengers and exerts “privileges” that he thinks he is entitled to?
Malek Takeiddyne posted on FB this Dec.2 “Get back in line”
I had a fight today with a well-known Lebanese Member of Parliament at the Heathrow airport in London. I was standing in line ready to board my flight and this deputy just came confidently and overpassed everyone in the queue.
The Lebanese MEA employee did not object and, instead, he welcomed the MP like a God to the astonishment of other non-Lebanese ground staff and passengers.
I did not take it lightly and voiced my complaint to the MP without acknowledging that I recognized him. The deputy did not stop and kept moving forward. My voice and anger grew louder.
This deputy felt “disrespected” and irritated and told me to shut the fuck up (‘sid bouzak‘). I was enraged and a loud fight of words and shouting erupted between me, him and his companions which drew the attention of a large crowd.
In the midst of the fight I did not loose sight of the non-Lebanese people witnessing this. I was interested to see their reaction. They were shocked and did not understand why such a chaos erupted out of nowhere.
These non-Lebanese people would never understand. They would never understand that my reaction had nothing to do with the fact that I was overpassed in the queue.
These non-Lebanese people would never understand that my reaction is the result of 30 years of anger building up against what this well-dressed man represents.
These non-Lebanese people would never understand that this “gentleman” they see in his expensive suit, well-groomed hair and business class ticket is nothing but a criminal running loose, a war thug and a thief with his hands deep in the pockets of the Lebanese people.
They would never understand that my anger is the anger of millions of Lebanese people held hostages to an malfunctioning system run by sectarian and illegal politicians.
If the London airport police had interfered in this fight I would have told them that this is a personal matter and they should keep out.
I would have explained that this is a revolution in the making and that I am an angry man; a very angry Lebanese who is committed to pursue this fight all the way – that this is a larger fight to put everyone back in line.” End of post
As soon as I get names, I certainly will post them. Names of Lebanese thugs and civil warlords and criminals must be posted.
I want to know.
Is the Lebanese Middle-East Airline a private company?
Is it owned by the Hariri Clan?
Is this deputy owns shares in that airline?
Did this deputy pay for his ticket?
In Lebanon, commentators say: “There is no need to mention names. Everyone know who we are talking about…”
But I don’t know. And I want names and I want details, like every Lebanese citizen.
And I want to know who is taking responsibility for any action and decision.