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Free Syrian Army blames Assad for Aleppo bombing
After an apparent admission on FRANCE 24 by a senior member of the Free Syrian Army, the organisation’s overall commander has denied his group had set off twin blasts that claimed some 25 lives in the city of Aleppo.
By Tony Todd (text)
Confusion reigned Friday, as the head of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) Col. Colonel Riad al-Asaad denied that his forces were responsible for a twin bombing in the country’s largest city Aleppo.
The denial followed an admission by FSA Col. Aref Hammoud to FRANCE 24 that it was indeed his forces who were responsible for the bomb attack in which 25 people were reportedly killed and scores more injured.
Col. Colonel Riad al-Asaad, in overall command of the FSA, however later told FRANCE 24 that the bombs had been set off by government forces to discredit the opposition and avert protests planned in the city on Friday.
FSA forces, he said, had been engaged in a fire fight with government troops before the twin separate blasts shook the city.
“The FSA fighters had withdrawn from the area, and then they heard the explosions,” he said. “But these were not set off by the FSA. The government organised these explosions to discredit us and to draw attention away from what it is doing elsewhere, killing ordinary people.”
Obeida Nahas, a spokesman for the Syrian National Council, added to the confusion by stating that it was not in the FSA’s remit to attack government institutions at all, and that he did not believe opposition fighters would have detonated bombs against government institutions.
“The FSA’s whole strategy is to protect civilians,” Nahas told FRANCE 24. “There is also an agreement between the FSA and us not to attack government targets, which are considered to be owned by the Syrian people, and not the government.”
Antoine Basbous, of the Paris-based Arab Countries Observatory, concluded that Friday’s miscommunication and confusion over responsibility for the attacks came down to the relative disorganisation of the FSA.
“It is not surprising that we get confused messages,” he told FRANCE 24 “The FSA is a young organisation that is lacking in structure and is badly organised. They operate in small units which still do not communicate or coordinate effectively with each other.”
According to state TV, the explosions at the Military Intelligence Directorate and the police headquarters were caused by “terrorists”.
The Aleppo blasts were the latest in a series of bombings that the opposition says the regime has sought to blame on them, including a January 6 suicide bombing in Damascus in which 26 people were killed and twin blasts two weeks before outside the capital’s intelligence agency which claimed 44 lives.
Meanwhile, the Assad regime continued its assault on the restive city of Homs Friday, where hundreds of people are believed to have been killed in relentless shelling over the past week.
Observers reported that government troops were preparing to move in to neighbourhoods that have been under opposition control for months.
Elsewhere in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees reported that troops had opened fire to disperse thousands of protesters in the northwestern city of Latakia after Friday prayers, as well as in the southern city of Daraa and some suburbs of Damascus.
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“FACEBOOK” Social Networking is Just a Cover For Internet Spy Work, Internet
Monitoring, Internet Censorship and Proxy-Invasion and Provocation Organizing!
The United States Capitalist Dictatorship is the Number One Enemy of the Internet!
“Facebook” is actually part of the U.S. capitalist dictatorship's media and its misnamed, so-called “intelligence community” and is playing an important role in the Final Stage of Capitalism: Permanent War and State Terrorism. Here is how they work it: The U.S. capitalist dictatorship uses “FACEBOOK” as its primary organizing tool to organize opposition in countries targeted for either U.S.-backed complete coup d’etat takeover attempts or a simple regime change, cynically labeling it all as “the Arab Spring” and is actually an open form of CYBERWAR! In countries the U.S. considers enemies such as Libya or Syria there is usually a small opposition, which supports the U.S. policies of worldwide wars, mass murder and invasions and wants to join the U.S. “freedom and democracy team.” Note: it is also a rule of capitalist statecraft to control and operate its own “opposition.” For example, “Facebook” is CRUCIAL in the organizing of so-called “Occupy Wall Street,” which instantaneously organized “occupy” chapters in 150 cities, the leadership of which is run by U.S. “intelligence” (political police agents) to keep mostly white young people 1.) “Occupied,” hence the name, 2.) Anti-Communist—ONLY police-agent ANARCHIST literature is permitted on THEIR tables. SOCIALIST and COMMUNIST literature is NOT permitted! 3.) Set up the most militant elements in continuous provocations and arrests by the cops (a complete violation of genuine revolutionary practice) to make sure they never even get near a Communist approach, and to isolate and discredit militants and create a further pretext for a vastly hardened domestic bureaucratic, military police state 4.) Train the police to hate “opposition” to capitalism no matter how nominal that opposition is and even while the word capitalism is never even mentioned, while simultaneously cutting the salary, benefits and pensions of the cops—go figure and 5.) Finally to DEMORALIZE not only the participants of OWS but also the general population, who are led to falsely believe: “Well duh gosh, we tried!” NO progressive forces anywhere are ever permitted to use the U.S. “intelligence” organizing tool “Facebook!” PROOF! When this writer uploaded several documents onto Russian “Facebook” in December 2011 following Russian parliamentary elections the next day he received THOUSANDS of likes from all over the world, but also a message from “Facebook” that he would NEVER be able to post on “Facebook” ever again and that he would be permanently blocked from ever using “Facebook” to contact members and that he was blocked from making contact with the THOUSANDS of people who contacted him! And “Facebook” has kept its word as a weapon of U.S. imperialism, while it assists U.S. imperialism to try to overthrow the leadership of the Russian Federation and install a puppet as in the former Warsaw Treaty countries.
In Syria the U.S. is using “Facebook” and other so-called “social networking” sites to organize an opposition which the U.S. has heavily armed, to get them to try to overthrow the Pro-Iran Syrian government. U.S.-led world imperialism wants to overthrow both Syria, and Iran 1.) Because both support the national liberation forces of Hezbollah and Hamas, and 2.) In order to steal their oil like in Iraq and Libya! But in Syria, unlike Libya, which HAD the highest standard of living in all of Africa (!), the Russian Federation and China have refused to sign off on any Security Council resolutions condemning Syria or Iran and refuse to accept any U.S. Quid Pro Quo for regime change, which would establish the U.S on their own doorstep once again as in 1988 even more prominently than the Libyan Quid Pro Quo has already done! The overthrow of the overwhelmingly popularly supported Qaddafi government by a tiny minority of less than 10,000 U.S.-backed gang-bangers led by U.S./NATO Special Forces to call in the air strikes and totally destroy ALL infrastructure killing tens of thousands of INNOCENT CIVILIANS (!!!), all covered up by BIG LIES OF OMISSION was only made possible by the Russian UN Vote of “abstain,” the same as “yes,” to permit the U.S. “No-Fly Zone” in exchange for Russia being made a member of the World Trade Organization on December 17, 2012. Russia now possibly appears to recognize its Libya vote as a mistake in “diplomacy,” and with China has blocked UN authorization for an invasion of Syria and U.S./“Israeli” bombing of Iran. THE MASSES—the overwhelming majority from the 137 countries which voted “yes” and the people from the 17 countries which voted “abstain” (the same as “yes”) in the February 16, 2012 UN General Assembly resolution condemning Syria (for defending its still overwhelmingly popularly supported government (!) against an OVERTHROW by a MINORITY of U.S.-armed and U.S.-directed and U.S.-controlled media-hyped gang-bangers who use innocent civilians as human shields!) OPPOSED the UN votes by “their” U.S. puppet comprador regimes, which have been threatened, blackmailed and bribed by the United States to get their vote. This is the same situation for the so-called “Arab League” pro-invasion position. The Arab street does NOT support the overthrow of the Syrian government of Bashir al-Assad! Such is the present state of the world! Only those governments themselves “support” the UN/U.S. position! The U.S/NATO-led mass murderers of the world are fooling NO ONE except perhaps a percentage of their OWN brainwashed populations.
“Facebook”-Assisted U.S. Invasion by Proxy as in Libya, Syria, Yemen and other states is a new method of USING A MINORITY TO TRY TO OVERTHROW THE MAJORIT! U.S. End-Stage capitalism is now using its “Facebook” weapon everywhere in the entire world and has something going against virtually every country on Earth even its own allies, e.g. the UK where it wants to divide off Scotland!! Whether the U.S. intends to carry out a proxy invasion and coup d’etat with an overthrow of the entire government, or whether it only wants to carry out a minor REGIME CHANGE as in Tunisia and Egypt, the U.S. uses “Facebook.” In the first instance “Facebook” is used to organize and help arm a core “Rebel” army of PRO-U.S. FANATICS and actual TERRORISTS, a group WHICH IN LIBYA DID NOT IN ANY WAY REPRESENT THE ACTUAL MAJORITY OPINION OF THE COUNTRY! The U.S. then instructs these armed domestic proxies to attack their own government forces. When the targeted government fights back and kills some of the domestic U.S. proxies the U.S.-led media and FACEBOOK and TWITTER, etc. all falsely and completely hypocritically shriek in preplanned unison: “He’s killing innocent civilian—his own people!” “The protests have escalated into a civil war!” This is followed by escalation of the “Weapons of Mass Destruction” Bush-style Big Lie “Preventive War” Campaign, which have claimed that Libya “targeted innocent civilians and use anti-personnel cluster bombs,” etc. The truth is that Libya, only after the above-mentioned U.S. Quid Pro Quo with the Russian Federation, for example, defended itself on the ground against only a small and numerically insignificant and poorly organized group of so-called “protesters”/“rebels”/“activists” armed and led by the U.S./NATO Special Forces but backed by TOTAL AIR SUPREMACY of U.S./NATO and supported by a FALSE MEDIA PROPAGANDA BARRAGE backed up by their fraudulent, falsely-labeled, so-called “human rights groups,” which are also just part of the U.S. “intelligence community.” Note that neither Libya nor Syria even POSSESS actual anti-personnel weapons, which are the EXCLUSIVE PROVINCE of the U.S./NATO and the U.S. PROXY STATE, so-called “ISRAEL!” The U.S. immediately imposes its maximal economic war sanctions on the targeted countries, freezes all financial accounts and orders its EU/NATO PACT allies to do the same, while its U.N. puppet hypocritically recommends that enemies of the U.S. such as that the Syrian government, which is defending itself against a U.S.-backed attempted military takeover by a tiny minority, for example, should be referred to the International Criminal Court (to which the U.S. is NOT subject by Bush Decree!) for “crimes against humanity” rather than demanding that the U.S. and NATO countries be labeled International Outlaw Countries which must be hereafter so labeled for interfering in the internal affairs of Syria and the internal affairs of countless other countries, a violation of the Fundamental Principle of International Law. In December 2011 the U.S. used “Facebook” to launch a large-scale provocation against Russia and on December 15, 2010 just prior to unleashing the new era of “Facebook”-Assisted Proxy Invasion, TIME magazine made the CEO of “FACEBOOK,” who is documented to have illegally stolen the idea for “Facebook” from 2 brothers and an Indian man, the so-called "Man of the Year."
Hypocritically criticizing China for Internet censorship while presently blocking over 90% of news and opinion websites on their own U.S. Internet from any serious comments and opinions from ever being posted or heard, the U.S. capitalist dictatorship and the European Union were on the verge of—BUT BACKED OFF (!)—passing NAZI-type Internet censorship laws known as the STOP ONLINE PIRACY ACT (SOPA) and Anti-Counterfeiting Trademark Agreement (ACTA) respectively, which enable law enforcement to block access to entire internet domains due to infringing content posted on a single blog or webpage. SOPA and ACTA would thus bypass the "safe harbor" protections from liability presently afforded to Internet sites by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and similar legal protections existing in Europe. Library associations stated that the law’s emphasis on stronger copyright enforcement would expose libraries to prosecution. In addition, requiring search engines to delete a domain name would begin a worldwide arms race of unprecedented censorship of the Web, a censorship which already exists on other bases as described and documented herein. In addition, SOPA also violates the First Amendment. The ONLY reason the U.S.-led capitalist dictatorship and EU BACKED OFF passing SOPA and ACTA is because they are using “Facebook” and other so-called “social networking websites to organize coup d’etats, regime change, provocations and chaos in dozens upon dozens of countries and do not want ANY restrictions on the Internet at this point in time, or to be seen as Internet censors, all of which might interfere with the U.S. “social networking” organization of the usually tiny opposition elements in dozens of countries, which supports U.S. policies. But the U.S. and EU are already the biggest Internet censors of all!
“FACEBOOK,” for example, is used to SPY ON, MONITOR and CENSOR the Internet on a daily basis AND CAN REMOTELY REMOVE ARTICLES COMPLETELY by proscribed (usually Communist) authors from any website which has the “Facebook” link! The U.S. government’s privately-operated “Facebook” is connected to virtually ALL websites on the Internet now and their servers know instantly when targeted individuals are on any of these sites, whether a person logs on using “Facebook” or not! Facebook can and does prevent these websites from accepting ANY blog submission by identified Communist activists. One way the U.S. capitalist dictatorship blocks blog submissions is to force bloggers to “be members” and “sign in” to websites for no reason whatsoever except to reduce and eliminate blog submissions. After being made a “member,” you are immediately forced to re-register when neither your name or password are “recognized,” and the blogger is told he or she has “forgotten the password.” Those few websites which do still permit blog entries at all also have several techniques in order to neutralize any post! One method is to severely limit the number of words submitted in order to render meaningless any comments made such as on the Huffingtonpost.com, BBC or RT and thousand upon thousands of other websites! Once a blog entry is actually “posted” techniques such as changing the size and the fonts of the blog post and separating the words with huge gaps and multiple lines so that nobody would go near it are employed! This is done UNIFORMLY on a significant number of websites indicating U.S. government control. Another method used by news and opinion websites, which are virtually ALL controlled by the United States government, is for the website to not post entries and state: “You comment is awaiting moderation” or “Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.” Right! Meaning it is deleted!
For a while Google assisted the “intelligence community” by slowing up bloggers with yet another new technique by intermittently throwing people back to page 1 of a Google search after they exit websites on subsequent pages! And changes always occur simultaneously on multiple websites which block or limit blog entries as evidence that the capitalist dictatorship controls the entire Internet to a far greater degree but in much more sophisticated ways than China or any other country! Yahoo and numerous other highly censored U.S. government websites all controlled by the United States or its vassals have also periodically blocked this writer and others from making any comments whatsoever on any topic! Another blocking technique employed by Yahoo is that most recent entries are NEVER shown. That’s easy! Yahoo shows what the U.S. government wants shown! In addition, IN ORDER TO FALSELY DISCREDIT THE ENEMIES OF CAPITALISM AND TO HELP PERMANENTLY BLACKLIST THEM FROM ALL EMPLOYMENT, the so-called U.S. “intelligence community” creates entirely phony “Google” search files of targeted individual’s names where the capitalist dictatorship is allowed to make totally bizarre, outrageously false accusations against Communists usually and others with literally hundreds of fabricated entries. These phony Google search sites also publish virtually no actual writings or viewpoints of the targeted individuals and even issue open death threats in order to frighten and thoroughly scare any people who might research those individuals! This is an example of hypocritical, phony U.S. Internet “freedom!” In addition, so-called “Facebook” will no longer permit ANY of the writings by this author to be posted, for example, which “Facebook” was previously so very eager to post and has ENTIRELY DELETED The Materialist Analysis of Theoretical Astrophysics the most important document published on theoretical astrophysics since Hubble’s observation that the Universe was expanding, from this writer’s “profile” and now from ALL websites on the Internet connected to “Facebook,” because the word has caught on with young physics students and others that they are being manipulated and being fed a load of rubbish for political/religious brainwash reasons that have NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with science and physics and that there is in fact NO “dark energy,” NO “dark matter,” NO “parallel universes,” NO “worm holes” and NO “god” and that so-called “String and M-Theory” are being used to try to SUPPLANT Einstein Relativity, both Special and General, and Quantum Mechanics by cleverly using the names of “Einstein” and other classical physicists to make innocent students believe that what they are being peddled is simply a “natural continuation” of Einstein’s work (!) to carry out their switcheroo! “Social networking” is thus only a cover for Faceboook and Twitter, etc! Facebook is part of the U.S. “intelligence community” and is thus a partner in mass murder and disinformation and Big Lie Orwellian 1984 “Newspeak” with Obama and NATO! This is why “Facebook” is so pumped up by the regular media to popularize it! Facebook is TOTAL DECEPTION so do not be deceived by all the ballyhoo accorded to this new weapon of capitalism-imperialism! NEVER ever connect with “Facebook” or ANY other social networking sites and cut all your support for them and suggest that your friends do likewise. “Facebook” deliberately assists the U.S. capitalist dictatorship in all of its policies and helps organize proxy invasions!
U.S. policies now include deliberately sabotaging the economy of the entire world and even the U.S. domestic economy by refusing to TAX ALL INCOME and by imposing Domestic Economic Sanctions called “Budget Deals” against its OWN people, designed to sharply escalate impoverishment and thereby reduce the U.S. population demographic in a program of covert mass murder, and to be in accordance with Globalism/Globalization. Globalism is defined as worldwide competition among the capitalist exploiters and parasites for the lowest salaried workers. Note that “Tax the Rich” is the wrong slogan deliberately chosen because all it means is to tax more of the paltry $110,000 taxable wage base, while leaving the $ millions and $ billions free from all taxes!
The “Budge Deal” is thus also a Penalty imposed on the Working Class for lacking Communist leadership, which it had in the early 1930s, and for agreeing to be the wage slaves of the capitalists! “Twitter” on the other hand is a micro-blogging website limited to 140 letters only (!) which is designed to keep the masses distracted and to discourage any real thinking and analysis while encouraging people to believe it is quite normal to relegate themselves to a minor Peanut Gallery role titillated by various celebrity nonsense tidbits. The U.S. is presently using proxy invasions in one country after another and want to spread the false belief they are quite clever. The truth is that the United States was FORCED to resort to its new strategy of “Facebook”-Assisted Invasion by Proxy, NOT because it is so “clever,” hardly but because the MORALE of its OWN mercenary armies in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere and the entire capitalist dictatorship in Washington, D.C. is at an ALL TIME LOW! Lower even than in Viet Nam! Even after carrying out their little adventure in Libya to steal its oil they have no organization to actually run that once orderly progressive country. The U.S. dictatorship is simultaneously ALSO waging a genuine war of extermination and population reduction against its own population, ITS OWN PEOPLE (!), through a campaign of DELIBERATE ECONOMIC SABOTAGE of the U.S. and world economy, biological warfare and psychological warfare! The U.S. capitalist dictatorship has now lost all credibility and all legitimacy to rule and all right to sovereignty here in the United States! OR ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD! Capitalism Offers a World with No Future for You and Your Children! 95% of New Yorkers already agree we need a new system based on human need not private profit! That is Socialism! Only Socialism can provide a system with jobs, complete security and no wars! We need to begin to directly organize a Socialist Revolution here in the United States!
William H. Depperman, Coordinator
United Front Against Racism
And Capitalism-Imperialism
New York, N.Y.
Revised March 12, 2012
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Syria
All the news from youe site is fake. Shame on you.
Syria
All the news from youe site is fake. Shame on you.
Aleppo Bombings
The bombings could be the gift of " the Friends of Syria ".
Spinning the news
After Col.Aref Hammoud took responsibility on behalf of the Free Syrian Army, now the news item is being spun by denials from the Free Syrian Army. Shame on you.
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