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Junkdrawer

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12. Key Free Syria Army rebel 'killed by Islamist group'
Mon Sep 2, 2013, 07:13 PM
Sep 2013
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Kamal Hamami, of the Free Syrian Army's (FSA) Supreme Military Council, was meeting members of the rival group "to discuss battle plans".

An FSA spokesman said he was told by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant that they had killed Mr Hamami.

The killing is part of an escalating struggle within the armed uprising between moderates and Islamists.

The BBC's Paul Wood says a civil war within a civil war is building within the opposition as the two sides engage in a battle that is partly over the spoils and partly ideological.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23283079


What next after the fall of Qusayr?

It has been a week of military gains for the Syrian government whose soldiers won an important battle against the rebels after long and intense fighting.

President Bashar al-Assad's forces regained control of Qusayr - the strategic city near the border with Lebanon. The main opposition coalition conceded defeat but says the uprising will go on.

The city had been under the control of opposition forces since last year but the rebels were pushed out by the Syrian army and Hezbollah fighters from Lebanon.

Thousands had already fled the city, but what has happened to many others is unknown. Qusayr is strategically important because the rebels used it to smuggle weapons into Syria through Lebanon and the Mediterranean.


http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidesyria/2013/06/20136910716700762.html

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It appears the Syrian government is responsible so far. lumpy Sep 2013 #1
Ok, so how involved will we be? Savannahmann Sep 2013 #2
Some how we need to squeeze Assad's balls and get him to retire in luxury somewheres. Let his regime KittyWampus Sep 2013 #4
That would be Regime Change Savannahmann Sep 2013 #6
Ah, no. Keep the regime just have the next in line take the top spot & restart negotiating. KittyWampus Sep 2013 #11
That would be this fellow Savannahmann Sep 2013 #15
Excellent analysis. jazzimov Sep 2013 #17
It's almost no question. READ DER SPEIGEL. Assad is losing & desperate. The next wave of refugees KittyWampus Sep 2013 #3
Assad is winning.... Junkdrawer Sep 2013 #7
from today's Der Spiegel: Assad is desperate & forces are defecting. You're misinformed re:rebels KittyWampus Sep 2013 #9
Key Free Syria Army rebel 'killed by Islamist group' Junkdrawer Sep 2013 #12
The problem is that Warpy Sep 2013 #5
Exactly. 3 days of UN investigation is a joke.... Junkdrawer Sep 2013 #10
Agree...we need a Joe Wilson...a higher up who can reveal...but in this KoKo Sep 2013 #14
If instead of the US using this as a pretext for bombing, we treat it as a CRIME... Junkdrawer Sep 2013 #16
This is the way it was supposed to work...with United Nations... KoKo Sep 2013 #18
So you are saying the Syrian Gov. did not turn on it's own people? vaberella Sep 2013 #8
He knows Obama has been trying to stay out of the conflict, but that the CW Red Line was out there. Junkdrawer Sep 2013 #13
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