Syria: On Ground Updates
Assad Regime could fall within next 36 hrs
File photo
- FABIO RODRIGUES-POZZEBOM/ABR
Bomber kills three top Syrian Military Officials
Wednesday including Assef Shawkat, al-Assad’s Powerful and Entrusted Brother-In-Law
-- Even if the Regime is still standing in 36 hrs, I’d still say it is in its
last throes
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
.
The news out of Syria has had all kinds of twists
and turns since early Sunday morning. But today’s bombing and killing of
three top Military Officials has change everything… overnight! I start this
post with the top news from Sunday and finish with today’s latest news.
...
* The Wall Street Journal had the following AP report posted on their
website late Sunday morning and it goes in part like this. …Although there has been a string of horrific
attacks in Syria over the course of the uprising, the violence appears to be
escalating. On Sunday, the International Committee of the Red Cross said it now
deems the conflict in Syria a civil war,
meaning international humanitarian law applies throughout the country… The
Geneva-based group's assessment is an important reference that helps parties in
a conflict determine how much and what type of force they can or cannot use…
Read this
report in full at link below…
.
* The Guardian Express had this report posted on their website a few
days ago and it goes in part like this. …Western intelligence sources say Assad has
a list of targets ready to go. Analyzing the Syrian war game taking place
last week, they calculated that Wednesday and Thursday, July 11 and 12, the
Syrian army practiced shooting missiles at strategic centers in Israel, Turkey
and Jordan… But while most Western
officials now confirm that Assad has moved his WMD warheads and shells out
of storage, they are
already divided on what it means. Some US officials are soft-pedaling the
menace, offering the theory that the Syrian ruler is only safeguarding his
unconventional weapons from falling into rebel -- or what he calls “terrorist”
-- hands… Other
Western intelligence watchers, especially in Britain, believe he is preparing a campaign of ethnic cleansing at
centers of revolt and report that chemical weapons have already been
transferred to Homs, Latakia and Aleppo for operational use…
Read the
full report at link below…
.
* I ran across this CNN report, with News Video, early Sunday afternoon
that’s well worth clicking out. It starts off like this… The most
senior Syrian diplomat to defect and publicly embrace his country's uprising is
calling for a foreign military intervention to topple president Bashar al-Assad. He also accused the Damascus regime of
collaborating with al Qaeda militants against opponents both in Syria and in
neighboring Iraq… "I
support military intervention because I know the nature of this regime," Nawaf al Fares told CNN. "This regime will only go by force."…
Click out
the full Report, (with
News Video,) at link below…
.
* Let’s now get to today’s news by REUTERS. Their report starts off like this… Slain brother-in-law Assef Shawkat was one of
the principle figures in the tight, clan-based ruling elite that has been
battling to put down a 16-month rebellion against four decades of rule by Assad
and his father… The defense minister and a senior general were also killed and
other top security officials wounded in the attack on a crisis meeting of top
Assad security aides that took place as battles raged within sight of the
nearby presidential palace… A security source said the bomber was a bodyguard
entrusted with protecting the closest members of Assad's circle. State
television said it was a suicide bomb. Two anti-Assad groups claimed
responsibility… The government vowed to retaliate, and residents said army
helicopters fired machine guns and in some cases rockets at several residential
districts. Television footage showed rebels storming a security base in
southern Damascus… By nightfall,
activists said Syrian army artillery had begun shelling the capital from the
mountains that overlook it… Assad's own whereabouts were a mystery - he did not
appear in public or make a statement in the hours after the attack. The White
House said it did not know where the Syrian leader was…
Read this
report in full at link below…
….
….
* The
Guardian reports…
.
……………………………
.
The clock is FINALLY ticking down on this Brutal
Regime.
Updates to
come over the next few days so check back!
AubreyJ………
.
ROMNEY2012
.
.
