Posts Tagged ‘“Diaries of Homs”’
Hot posts this week (Dec. 11/2012)
Posted by: adonis49 on: December 11, 2012
- Hot posts this week (Dec. 11/2012)
- New comers on the block: Anti-drone protesters blocked with broad restraining order…?
- What are the Missions of physicians within the secret service agencies? An eye-witness account from Syria…
- “Diaries of Homs” by Jonathan Littell
- Another genocide in Deir Zur (Syria)? Turks resuming genocide policies, a century later…?
- Putting Lebanese Parliament deputies back in Line at Heathrow airport (London): No passaran before me
- Are you telling me the US citizens are that shallow? Joe DiMaggio’s mother, Seinfeld, Bill Clinton….
- Million of Egyptians packing Tahrir Square, and scanding “Morsi, Rescind or get off the pot” (Taraja3 aw Erhal)
- The Ordeal of Freedom? Is hope playing the vanishing act? And replaced by what?
- He lived in fear. He died in Fear…
What are the Missions of physicians within the secret service agencies? An eye-witness account from Syria…
Posted by: adonis49 on: December 5, 2012
What are the Missions of physicians within the secret service agencies Mukhabarat? An eye-witness account from Syria…
All secret service agencies around the world hire their special physicians to tend to prisoners during interrogation sessions. In dictatorial and absolute regimes, the missions of the physician increase in spectrum and specificities…
Abu Salim was a physician for the military Syrian Air Force Intelligence Services, before he deserted “stopped showing up, or didn’t return to work” and started treating the victims in makeshift hospitals and clinics in Homs.
Abu Salim divulged to journalist Jonathan Littell in “Diaries of Homs” what were his missions:
1. Maintaining alive the tortured prisoners (mostly political) until they admit on specific pieces of information.
2. Re-animating prisoners who lost consciousness during interrogation.
3. Administering psychotropic chemical products such as Chlorpromazine, diazepam, Valium, ketamine, ketalar…
4. Injecting alcohol 90% in eyes and noses… Alcohol is an excellent torture technique
5. Dispatching the prisoner to the military hospital, once he reached a dangerous resistance level
6. At the hospital, only the physician working for the Mukhabarat and the chief-physician of the hospital are permitted to treat the prisoner…
After the Syrian uprising, two years ago,:
1. Prisoners, judged not to be of major importance, are left to die. The physician sends his report to the high administrator in the prison who decides for any transfer to the military hospital
2. The physician is attached to the tortured prisoner and is not allowed to talk to him…
3. The physician stays with the prisoner patient and he is searched every time he exits or re-enters the room, by the two guards posted outside the room.
Abu Salim claims that there are 16 “Arab” prisoners (non-Syrian) in jail since 1985, and they are kept in individual cells.
13 of the special Arab prisoners are Lebanese, including two considered to be highly “dangerous”, 2 Jordanians, and an Algerian.
One of the dangerous Lebanese prisoner confessed that “I had a problem with Hafez al Assad (father of bashar)”
The 16 Arab prisoners went on hunger strike for 33 days requesting:
1. The right to read dailies
2. the right for fresh bread
3. the right for food that don’t smell bad!
The Arab prisoners had their dangerous and controversial demands satisfied.
Abu Salim report was told in February 2011, a couple of weeks before the regular Syrian army devastated the district of Baba Amru in the city of Homs.
Since then, the civil war escalation has taken foolish proportions and unimaginable cruelty and brutality, especially against civilians.
So far, over 200,000 Syrian citizens flocked into Lebanon territory, and reaching even to the Arkoub region in the south.
The Lebanese government finally admitted to 125,000 refugees (official count on legitimate border crossings) and asked the UN to extend funds and support for the Syrian refugees.
And the cycle of refugees from various Arab States continues to be the name of the game in these unstable political regimes…
“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…
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