Thursday, February 9, 2012

Is Syria's Assad Using Russian Military Tactics To Quell The Rebellion?



Assad Takes A Page Out Of Russia's Book In His War Against Rebels -- Haaretz

Assad's strategy of bombing cities, indiscriminate massacres, population expulsions and gaining territory mirrors that of his greatest foreign supporter's war against Chechnya.

The tantalizing videos that Syrian citizens have been uploading to the internet, the reports of bombings on crowded living quarters in the city of Homs, the attack on the southern city of Dar’a, the large numbers of dead civilians, currently over sixty (twenty of whom died after the Syrian army disconnected the electricity to the quarter where the local hospital happens to be), are a testimony to Assad’s strategy that comes less than a day after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s visit to Damascus.

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My Comment: I disagree. Assad is employing the same tactics that his father used in quelling an earlier rebellion that is now commonly referred to as the Hama massacre.

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