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Hackers Reveal How They Accessed Syrian President Bashar Assad’s Email Using World’s Worst Password

Assad Worst Password

Hackers recently disclosed they broke into Syrian President Bashar Assad’s email using the password “1234.”

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s private email address was [email protected]. His password was 1234.

This absurd factoid about the now-floundering president came to light on Thursday, in an interview with opposition hacker Abdullah al-Shamri gave to the Arabic language newspaper Al-Hayat.

In February, under the aegis of an opposition group, Shamri’s confederates released 3,000 of Assad’s private emails to the Guardian. But until Al-Hayat published Shamri’s interview on Thursday, the world knew little of the hackers themselves, or of the absurd tale that was their break-in.

The Times Of Israel reports:

After a week of attempting to decipher what they thought would be an enigmatic code protecting Assad’s private correspondences, one of the sophisticated cyber-burglars tried ‘thinking like an idiot,’ Al-Hayat reported Thursday.

‘You’re doing it wrong,’ said hacker Abdullah Shamri, recalling for the paper the moment at which epiphany struck one of his criminals-in-arms. ‘You always call the heads of the regime morons, so let’s try to work like morons’.

An enterprising hacker immediately tried a password widely acknowledged to be one of the most imbecilic possible: 1234…Within moments the hackers had at their fingertips a trove of private missives belonging to the dictator of Damascus.

But 1234 isn’t just a bad password; it is, as the Times of Israel notes, widely acknowledged to be one of the most imbecilic password possible, thanks to the famous scene in “Spaceballs”.

Shamri and his group didn’t release the emails immediately upon cracking the code, however. For eight months, they used this exclusive access to read the private emails of Assad and his wife Asma, looking for a “devastating revelation” that would help “oust” the regime, the Guardian reports.

They did not find it, but they did, however, find valuable information, including some they later used to protect opposition leaders and Western journalists in Homs.

But as Shamri and his confederates waited to move and the civil war in Syria escalated, another tribe of hacktivists turned interested in the regime: the hacker group Anonymous.

In January of 2012, Anonymous broke into the mail server of the Syrian Ministry of Presidential Affairs and gave whistleblowing-site Wikileaks 2.4 million formerly regime-eyes-only emails. By Feb. 7, the owner of the [email protected] address was known, and Assad began receiving threatening emails. He closed the presidential account the same day, according to Information Week.

Ironically, Assad did appear to have knowledge of security procedure, at least in the way he treated his email account. he deleted his mail after reading and never attached his name or initials to any email he sent from [email protected]. But in other ways, he and his wife were woefully out of touch.

After the missives leaked to the Guardian, blog Foreign Policy reported that “Asma is apparently an Internet shopaholic, buying enough luxury items to stock a Tom Wolfe novel: Necklaces of amethyst, diamond, and onyx; a Ming Luce vase; and roughly $15,000 worth of candlesticks, tables, and chandeliers” — all while the country was falling apart around her.

Assad, meanwhile, “made light of reforms he had promised in an attempt to defuse the crisis, referring to ‘rubbish laws of parties, elections, media’” and at one point forwarded to an aide “a link to YouTube footage of a crude re-enactment of the siege of Homs using toys and biscuits,” the Guardian reports.

At the beginning of the Syrian crackdowns, Shamri was running the Internet’s first Arab-language information network, and he also moonlighted as an opposition blogger.

Shamri told Al-Hayat (per Al-Monitor):

I received a call from a Presidential Office official, who told me: ‘We used to hold a grudge against you. However, we found out that although your words are cruel, they speak the truth. I cannot deliver your articles to the President. I will give you his private and confidential e-mail and you send him your articles in your own way’.

Originally, Shamri planned to use the emails to petition the president for reform, but when the crackdowns worsened and his emails stayed unanswered, he decided to hack the president’s account instead.

Now the Guardian claims it has 3,000 of Assad’s emails, and Shamri says he has “7,500 Emails”, many unseen, that “blow the lid off the President’s secrets.”

In the leak to the Guardian, the hackers claimed their motive was to “show the world what this regime is like.” Now, says Shamri, he plans to sort and document the emails for “recorded history.”

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via Hackers Reveal How They Accessed Syrian President Bashar Assad’s Email Using World’s Worst Password.

September 10, 2012
US not interested in military intervention in Syria

The United States would not take unilateral military actions against Syria before or after its general election, said an American political professor on Friday.

“In my opinion, the US is not interested to take the responsibility alone to end the Assad regime,” Professor John Louis Esposito said in an interview with Xinhua on the sidelines of a two-day international conference held in Istanbul.

Titled “The Arab Awakening and Peace in the Middle East: Muslim and Christian Perspectives,” the conference brings more than 200 religious and academic leaders from 19 countries to Istanbul to discuss peaceful co-existence and religious pluralism in the Middle East after the Arab revolutions.

“The United States just finishes two exhausting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and has no intention to start a new war in the Middle East. There is strong aversion of war among the American public,” Esposito said, adding “The United States has many domestic problems such as economy recession to deal with. So it is not a good time for the US to send troops directly to Syria.”

The specialist holds that it was not easy to end the current Syria crisis soon. “It takes at least another six month to see the end of war,” he said.

“The Gulf states and Arab countries should take more responsibilities in solving the regional problem of the Middle East. It is not America’s responsibility to solve the Syrian problem alone,” he said.

Esposito is a professor of International Affairs and Islamic Studies from Georgetown University, the founder and current director of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding of the same university.

On Wednesday, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the United States lacks initiative on Syria and its general election hampers its Syrian action.

“Right now, there are certain things being expected from the United States. The United States had not yet catered to those expectations,” Erdogan said.

via US not interested in military intervention in Syria – Globaltimes.cn.

September 9, 2012
Turkey facing questions on Syria policy…washingtonpost

View Photo Gallery — Syrian refugees flock to Turkey and Jordan: Tens of thousands of Syrian refugees have spilled across the border into Turkey and Jordan since the 17-month uprising in their homeland began.

By Karin Brulliard, Published: September 7

ANTAKYA, Turkey — Turkey, a rising heavyweight in the Muslim world, has led the international campaign to oust the regime in next-door Syria. But as the fighting drags on, Turkey is complaining that the United States and others have left it abandoned on the front line of a conflict that is bleeding across its border.With its calls for an international haven for refugees in Syria going nowhere, Turkey is rushing to shelter an influx of about 80,000 Syrians. In the east, Kurdish militants who Turkey alleges are aided by Syria are intensifying deadly attacks. And in this Alawite-heavy border region, a rest and resupply hub for the mainly Sunni Syrian rebels, worries are growing that Syria’s sectarian strife might infect Turkey.

Turkish officials stand behind their Syria policy, and the problems have posed little threat to the moderately Islamist government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan or to Turkey’s carefully cultivated popularity in the region. But as opinion polls indicate declining domestic support for the government’s stance, Turkey is finding it has limited room to manage fallout that analysts say it did not anticipate when it turned against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad last year.“Ankara now realizes that it doesn’t have the power to rearrange — forget it in the region, but also not in Syria,” said Gokhan Bacik, director of the Middle East Strategic Research Center at Turkey’s Zirve University. “So Ankara desperately needs American support. But American supportis not coming.”When a U.S. delegation visited late last month, the Turks made the case they had made two weeks earlier to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, a senior administration official said: They were overwhelmed with Syrians, and they wanted the United States and others to establish safe areas, protected by a no-fly zone, for them inside Syria. Their limit, the Turks warned, was 100,000 refugees.Clinton, confronted with emotional Turkish pleas, said that a no-fly zone would require major outside military intervention and that the United States did not believe it would help, according to the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive conversations. But rather than dismiss Turkey’s concerns outright, Clinton called for further bilateral discussions and an “operation and command” structure for the two governments to coordinate their responses to the crisis.Turkey’s posture toward Assad is the result of an about-face. Before the uprising, Syria was the centerpiece of Turkey’s “zero problems with neighbors” foreign policy, and trade and travel between the countries flourished.Now Turkey hosts the opposition Syrian National Council and provides a havento the rebel Free Syrian Army and hundreds of defected Syrian soldiers. On Wednesday, Erdogan called Syria a “terrorist state.” The stance has boosted Turkey’s credibility in the Arab world but complicated its relations with Iran and Russia, which support Assad.Turkey has constructed a string of 11 refugee camps along its border and is building more for newcomers, who the government says enter at a rate of 4,000 a day. Thousands are packed into public schools and dormitories, and hundreds of Syrians are being treated in Turkish hospitals.

Turkey backtracked on a recent statement that it would close its doors at 100,000 refugees. But Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who is facing growing criticism at home, suggested regret last week over the open-door policy.“There is an increasing sense in Turkey that, through making such a sacrifice and tackling an enormous issue all by itself, we are leading the international community to complacency and inaction,” he said at the United Nations.

The refugee crisisis swelling as Turkish headlines are dominated by deadly battles in the alpine southeast between security forces and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which has waged a separatist insurgency for 28 years. Turkish officials accuse Syria of arming the guerrillas and empowering a PKK offshoot in sections of northeastern Syria along the Turkish border. Last month, Turkish officials blamed the PKK for a bombing that killed nine civilians in the city of Gaziantep.Turkey is particularly concerned that Syrian missiles could fall into the hands of the PKK, enabling it to attack the helicopters Turkey relies on to fight the insurgents, Bacik said.Yet even as Turkey condemns Assad, frets about a growing power vacuum in Syria and pleads for international intervention, officials and analysts say the country has no appetite for deploying its military unilaterally to confront Assad or secure a refugee zone.There is widespread public opposition in Turkey to military action, and analysts say Turkey is wary of jeopardizing its popularity in a region where the legacy of Ottoman rule remains fresh. The Turkish military is ill-prepared for what could be a prolonged, Iraq-style sectarian war, said Henri Barkey, a Turkey expert at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.“They realize this is a Pandora’s box, that you go in and God knows how you’re going to come out,” Barkey said.Barkey said Turkey’s 566-mile border with Syria made the conflict “a no-win situation for the Turks from the beginning.” Turkish commentators and opposition politicians have seized on the issue as a policy failure, and some analysts and U.S. officials said Turkey exacerbated its woes by limiting U.N. involvement in the camps and allowing Sunni rebels and refugees to concentrate in the largely Alawite province of Hatay.

“The government is facing a crisis for which it has no answers, and a public at home that is growing increasingly uneasy over this,” Semih Idiz, a foreign policy analyst, wrote in the Hurriyet Daily News, an English-language newspaper in Turkey. “If this is not a debacle, then what is?”

That unease is palpable in Antakya, less than an hour from the border. Many residents of this scenic town and surrounding Hatay province are members of the Alawite minority Shiite sect that dominates the Syrian regime. Syria and Turkey are majority Sunni.

Antakya had been a shopping destination for Syrians. Since the rebellion, it has become a base for Syrian refugees and rebels, including thickly bearded men who stand out in a town where sundresses and shorts are common. Cross-border trade has slowed, and apartment prices have spiked.Here, support for Assad remains strong, and there is simmering anxiety that Erdogan, the prime minister, is supporting the Syrian rebellion to cement Sunni supremacy in the region. Those fears have been stoked by Turkey’s main opposition party, which has accused the government of training radical Islamists in a nearby camp for defectors. The government denies that and says it has not armed rebels.

“They’re shaping some new religious fighters. What is the guarantee those fighters would not fight back against Turkey someday?” said Refik Eryilmaz, an opposition member of parliament from Hatay, which hosts five refugee camps.

Ismail Kimyeci, the Hatay chairman of Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, said critics are overstating the presence of fighters in Antakya. He dismissed the concerns as propaganda meant to stir division. “The Syrian people are demanding a new, free country,” Kimyeci said. Of the Syrians in Hatay, he said: “We don’t really see which religion they are. The Turkish policy is to help everyone.”But tensions are festering. In interviews, Antakyans complained about Syrian rebels ditching restaurant tabs or robbing women of their jewelry, though none could cite personal experience. Last weekend, several thousand people protested Turkey’s participation in what was described as an imperialist plot against Syria. Some said all rebels must leave Turkey.“They are saying, ‘After we finish in Syria, we will cut your throats here,’ ” said Ali Zafer, 33, a teacher who said he supports Assad, describing one common rumor about the rebels. Turkey, he said, “especially brought them to Antakya, to kill Alawites.”Syrians interviewed said they generally feel welcome but know that might wear off. At a rebel safe house in Reyhanli, where the Alawite population is smaller, occupants said Turks stop by with supplies and encouragement.“We are trying our best to obey the rules of a foreign country,” said a rebel commander who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Hashim.

But he also contended that the controversy should motivate Turkey to speed an end to the war. “It’s better for the Turkish government to send us weapons,” he said, “so they can avoid this fuss here.”

Karen DeYoung in Washington contributed to this report.

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djfeiger

1:04 AM EDT

The question is how to blame this all on Israel. When Obama establishing his Middle East policy only leftists Jews willing to abandon their self esteem, history, religion, humanity and right to life one can only say, ” So what is new”? As Hitler stated so many times who want’s the Jews? No One. He ased” who mentions the Armenian Genocide , today?”. Once again if we only go rid of Israel and the Jews all would be right. Middle East Peace? Sunni and Shia ending 2000 years of bloody massacres. In 2009 Pres. Obama gave a speech in Cairo, abandoning US commitment to the rule of law and embracing a myth contradicted by the historical record, signed treaties, Israel-Trans Jordan Armistice under US and UN co signs, Res 242 and 338 and a reluctance to embrace anti American dictators. Insisting 10 members of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood attend his Cairo speech insulting Egypt’s hosting government, their assasination of Anwar Sadat, destruction of Israel, creation of a Pan Arab Sunni, Islamist theocracy After Obama’s speech demanding more sacrifice from Israel’s 6,000,000 Jews on 7,000 sq miles of land rather then flying there a 250 mi flight he instead flew to a Nazi Death Camp. US commentator’s are to ignorant to see the symbolism on the genocidal Arab world. Btw the MB as were the Arab Pals were Allies with the facists as Hitler told the Haj Amin al Husseini, ” Germany and the Arabs are naturual allies united in our hatred and desire to exterminate the Jews. So Obama favoring dead Jews over living, Israel’s and US enemies who call for war not peace, his inability to see PA intransigence, terror, infighting, mutual slaughter, creating a death cult santifying slaughter of innocents similar to Japan’s Kamikazes except slaughter of military. When Iran butchered it’s dissidence Obama was silent while legitimizing Tehran’s Tyrants. Perhaps if Iran wished to build Jews homes Obama, Biden, Dempsey and Clinton would mobilize. But. just vaporizing 6,000,000 Jews isn’t worth raising a sweat. Appeasement of our enemies and back stabbing our allies has brought chaos to an entire region. Iran is supporting Assad against the West while using a rudderless US to exacerbate US Israeli divisions, embarressing Turkey which abandoned Israel for Iran only to be betrayed. Since Dempsey designated any Israel self defense as a criminal conspiracy what does Israel have to loose? Why hold back when as the US did in WWII use Nukes to save lives. If 2 bombs were worth 400,000 GI then what number of bombs to save 6,000,000 Jews?That’s what happens when you pull the rug out from under an ally. Turkey fears Iran and what if it were nuclear? Egypt? Saudi Arabia? Bahrain? And the media and anti-Semites are bladed by hate to see how this Pres is subverting our world. It’s 1914 and everyone is enjoying the summer season.

spamsux1

9/8/2012 3:40 PM EDT

As far as setting up no-fly zones, the US could easily provide AWACS support for Turkey’s air force to create a large zone along the border and if Iraq agreed the same could be done along that border.The wealthy countries in the area could easily pay for it.Highly unlikely Obama will do anything beyond his months of finger-wagging and scolding.He has more important matters to attend to…

nick212

9/8/2012 4:44 PM EDT

Do you have any idea what it would cost to set up a no fly zone – which would probably have to last until boots on the ground secured the country – a long time ….

September 9, 2012
Is Turkish camp the Syrian rebels’ HQ?

Thomas Seibert

Sep 5, 2012

ISTANBUL // Turkey is offering more support for Syrian rebel fighters than the government in Ankara is ready to admit, opposition politicians say.

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Turkish legislators visited a special camp for Syrian military deserters in Apaydin in the southern border province of Hatay yesterday. This camp, two kilometres from the Syrian border and closed to the media, is widely believed to be the headquarters of the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) that is fighting to topple Bashar Al Assad’s regime.

Although Turkey hosts leaders of the main body of the political opposition, the Syrian National Council, the Turkish government insists that it is not giving military support to the rebels fighting Mr Al Assad’s security forces.

Turkish opposition leaders have pointed to the Apaydin camp as evidence to the contrary, claiming it houses about 300 Syrian ex-soldiers and policemen, including about 30 former generals, according to Turkish officials.

Riad Al Asaad, the FSA commander, is also believed to be in Apaydin.

“Apaydin is an illegal military base on Turkish territory,” Mehmet Ali Ediboglu, an opposition legislator from Hatay, said yesterday. “There are five or six other places in Hatay with weapons and training facilities” of the FSA, he added. “People in Hatay know the naked truth, but the government keeps telling lies.”

Mr Ediboglu, a member of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), Turkey’s biggest opposition group, said he wanted to visit Apaydin with other politicians 10 days ago but was not allowed to enter the camp. He said by the time yesterday’s visit by the human-rights committee of Turkey’s parliament had been arranged, Apaydin had been cleared of weapons.

“We don’t assume that, we know that,” he said, adding his party was boycotting the visit.

Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the CHP leader, also boycotted the visit but said FSA activities in Apaydin violated international law. “People undergoing military training there cross over into Syria and take part in the fighting,” Mr Kilicdaroglu said according to Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency.

Two other opposition parties did visit the camp.

Mr Ediboglu and other opposition members also drew attention to a recent statement posted on the FSA’s website that defined Hatay as the rebel army’s “main base”. The website has been changed and says the FSA’s main base is in Damascus. But the rebels provide a Turkish telephone number.

Last week, an unnamed FSA member from Apaydin camp told reporters outside the camp that the rebels had training facilities across the border on Syrian territory and were going into Syria and back to Turkey on a daily basis. “But the Republic of Turkey has asked us not to walk around with weapons during the day”, he said.

News reports said that the FSA, not Turkish forces, controlled the camp. But Turkey’s state agency for disaster relief, which runs the camps housing about 80,000 Syrian refugees along the border, issued a statement on its website to deny the claims.

Mr Ediboglu said that apart from the FSA, many Islamist fighters from countries such as Afghanistan were using Hatay as a base for entering Syria. “There are armed foreigners walking around here, but the government keeps saying that there is no problem.”

A Turkish government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, rejected the accusations. “There are no weapons or training facilities in Apaydin,” the official said. Ankara says access to the camp is restricted because of concerns for the safety of the ex-soldiers there and their 2,500 family members that are staying with them.

Speaking after yesterday’s visit in Apaydin, Sefer Ustun, the head of the human-rights commission and a member of the ruling Justice and Development Party, also denied charges that the camp was being used as a military base. Mr Ustun told Anadolu that 80 per cent of the people in the camp were women and children. “Seen in that light, other things are not possible here anyway,” he said

via Is Turkish camp the Syrian rebels’ HQ? – The National.

September 5, 2012
Why no US sanctions against France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UK for supporting FSA terrorism?

Saturday, September 1st, 2012 | Filed under EUROPE,GEOPOLITICS,Islamic law,ISLAMIC TERRORISM,Latest Articles,MIDDLE EAST,NORTH AMERICA,Recent Posts,RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION,Uncategorized,USA | Posted by admin

Why no US sanctions against France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UK for supporting FSA terrorism?

Murad Makhmudov and Lee Jay Walker

Modern Tokyo Times

The United States after the barbaric attack by mainly Saudi citizens on September 11 stated that they would adopt a policy aimed at crushing terrorism. If so, will France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UK face American sanctions for supporting the brutal terrorist policies of the Free Syrian Army (FSA)? This is a fair question because the FSA is behind countless terrorist attacks including killing politicians, targeting journalists, using car bombs to slaughter innocents and other vile deeds.

Individuals may or may not support the government of Syria; however, this isn’t the point. At no time in recent history was a terrorist organization like the FSA supported openly by so many governments. The United States is clearly involved in CIA covert acts against Syria and this is notable in Turkey because of the geopolitical reality. However, despite this the Obama administration is at pains to distance itself from al-Qaeda and other Islamist networks which are also causing carnage in Syria. This doesn’t mean that members in the Obama administration don’t welcome the Islamist angle at the moment but given the sensitivity over September 11, then actions must be based on being cunning and manipulating the media.

VIDEO EVIDENCE AGAINST THE FSA AND ISLAMIST NETWORKS – (WARNING – VERY GRAPHIC)

Saudi Arabia and Qatar are clearly supporting sedition and the knock on effect of this is sectarianism and terrorism. Likewise, the former leader of France and the new leader have openly sided with the FSA against the government of Syria. This is despite the vile acts of the patchwork of terrorists and mercenaries within the FSA. After all, the FSA have killed religious minorities, done car bombs, killed journalists, assassinated political ministers, beheaded individuals, killed Iraqi refugees in Damascus – and a whole array of evil deeds.

The United Kingdom appears to be following the path chosen by the Obama administration. This applies to condemning the Syria government and armed forces while remaining muted when the FSA is blamed for killing people. Also, just like America, it is clear that British covert operatives are utilizing the many links with regional nations. However, political leaders in London and Paris appear to want to intervene militarily on the side of terrorism but both nations want the full support of America before stepping over the direct interventionist line.

Media outlets continue to shame themselves by adopting a constant policy of incitement against Syria. Likewise, Human Rights Watch (HRW) appears to be the “political wing” of the FSA by constantly condemning the Syrian government while remaining muted about the vile deeds of the FSA. Indeed, by mentioning massacres from time to time by the FSA some media outlets and HRW are trying to cover their tracks but clearly media corporations and many human rights organizations are playing their part in inciting hatred.

Tony Cartalucci (Land Destroyer Report) comments that “It was recently pointed out that the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) currently arming, funding, and commanding entire brigades of the so-called “Free Syrian Army” (FSA) is designated an Al Qaeda affiliate by the United Nations pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011), in addition to being listed by both the US State Department and the UK Home Office (page 5, .pdf) as a foreign terrorist organization and a proscribed terrorist organization respectively.”

“This means that the United States, the UK, NATO, and the Gulf State despots of Saudi Arabia and Qatar are knowingly and willfully funding designated affiliates of Al Qaeda contrary not only to US and British anti-terror legislation, but contrary to UN resolutions as well. Western and Gulf State support of the FSA constitutes state sponsorship of terrorism. Should the UN fail to enforce its own resolutions, while playing host to further sanctions and considerations for military intervention against the Syrian government, it will have entirely resigned its legitimacy and authority as nothing more than a tool of Western corporate-financier interests.”

The above comment raises the already known fact that American ratlines to FSA terrorism is in “a very dark and deep danger zone.” It is difficult to image after September 11 that any American administration would side openly with international terrorism. However, the role of Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice and many others in covering up the crimes of the FSA while bridging international support for this vile terrorist organization, is not only sickening but it raises deeply disturbing issues.

After all, what is the point in offering “American soldiers to Islamists” in Afghanistan and Iraq respectively, if the same evil forces are then supported to topple a secular government in Syria? Are the deaths of thousands of American soldiers so cheap? It should be raising serious questions in America because now the same Islamists who were fighting American troops in Iraq are now being allowed to enter Syria courtesy of the friends of America in Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Clearly the recent terrorist attack which killed many people during a funeral procession means little to political circles in Ankara, Doha, London, Paris, Riyadh and Washington. Therefore, the FSA is showing the world that democratic nations are openly siding with feudal monarchies in Qatar and Saudi Arabia in funding and supporting this brutal terrorist organization. It means that to the above political elites that killing minorities, beheading people who support the Syrian government, hanging individuals, car bombs, destroying Christian areas, inciting massacres against the Alawites, political assassination, killing journalists who support the Syrian government and a whole array of barbaric acts is not only being tolerated but it is being supported.

If the United States is serious about defeating the forces of terrorism then firstly this nation should be putting sanctions on France, the United Kingdom, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. After this, then political elites in Washington involved in ratlines should be charged with spreading terrorism in Syria. Of course, this isn’t going to happen and clearly September 11 this year is an event which is going to be politicized by the same forces supporting terrorism, sectarianism and sedition against Syria.

The mainly Christian Karen forces in Myanmar have been fighting for decades against various governments of this nation. However, this organization isn’t supported openly because the “wrong religion” to elites in Riyadh and Washington. Also, they don’t go around beheading people and video-taping their crimes. This rebel movement isn’t brutal enough to be supported despite their cause being based on ethnic and religious persecution.

The madness of the FSA is that political elites in Washington, Paris, London, Ankara, Riyadh and Doha have all sunk to new lows and this says a lot given the past history of these respective nations. Therefore, it is currently open season against secular Syria and the various minorities of this nation whereby a rich civilization faces Talibanization and utter brutality. Media agencies and HRW have all jumped on the bandwagon and now they resemble the “FSA party machinery.” Moscow is disgusted that nations are supporting sectarianism, terrorism and sedition but while their words of rebuke can be heard the same terrorist ratlines keep on increasing.

In a world based on international law and “the genuine fight against terrorism” then America would firstly put its allies in the “political dock” and then enter elites within America in “the same dock.” However, in the world of reality it is clear that the FSA can behead people, hang loyalists, do car bombs, kill government politicians, invade major cities to spread more carnage, attack people at funerals, kill refugees, kill journalist, torture people, cleanse Christians and target anyone deemed to be an enemy. If this is the new world order then God help the next country which will be targeted by evil forces in Washington, London, Paris, Ankara, Doha and Riyadh.

September 2, 2012
Free Syrian Army claims downed fighter jet in Idlib

By Al Arabiya

The Free Syrian Army (FSA) claimed Thursday that it had downed a Syrian military fighter jet in the northwestern province of Idlib.

In the video, which was exclusively obtained by Al Arabiya, a crowd of Syrian rebels shout “Allah Akbar” — “God is great” — as the airplane falls from the sky, billowing smoke.

Smoke swirls as the fighter jet, downed by the Free Syrian Army, descends in the northwestern city of Idlib. (Al Arabiya)

Two pilots can be seen in the video, descending in parachutes after ejecting from the jet.

The FSA also claimed on Thursday that it had destroyed 11 helicopters and a number of tanks around Tiftiaz military airport, in the northern city of Aleppo, where there has been heavy fighting between the resistance and troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.

The rebel forces on Wednesday started targeting the airport, which is considered to be one of the largest bases in the country for military helicopters.

The Syrian army has been bombarding the less heavily armed rebels with helicopters and jets as they fight for control of the country, inflicting large casualties.

On Monday, Syrian opposition fighters made headlines when they downed a helicopter in Damascus.

via Free Syrian Army claims downed fighter jet in Idlib.

August 31, 2012