Press tv article Dr webster griffin tarpley

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Webster tarpley is not always my cup of tea as well as Press tv but a good article anyway and more likely to be nearer the truth than the garbage from the american networks as well as the BBC France 24 Al Jazeera etc.

Looks like curtains for the syrian "Rebels". Unless a miracle occurs or the west intervenes which may happen dragging Russia into a conflagration?

http://www.Presstv.ir/detail/2012/07/27/252979/syria-defeats-natos-terrorists/

[cynicles]

I've been hearing claim of "Assad is about to fall!" for monthes now, I'm equally as skeptical of the rebels losing.

[Mather]

Why should anyone take the opinions of a conspiracy theorist with strong ties to Lyndon LaRouche (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_LaRouche) seriously?

[ckaihatsu]

Why should anyone take the opinions of a conspiracy theorist with strong ties to Lyndon LaRouche (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_LaRouche) seriously?


News reporting, regardless of the source, can always be cross-checked for facts....





Battles of Damascus and Aleppo

By mid-July fighting had spread across the country. Acknowledging this, the International Committee of the Red Cross declared the conflict a civil war.[64] Fighting in Damascus intensified, with a major rebel push to take the city.[242]

On 18 July, Syrian Defense Minister Dawoud Rajha, former defense minister Hasan Turkmani, and the president's brother-in-law General Assef Shawkat were killed by a bomb attack in the city.[243][244] The Syrian intelligence chief Hisham Bekhityar who was injured in the same explosion later succumbed to his wounds.[245] Both the Free Syrian Army and Liwa al-Islam claimed responsibility for the assassination.[246] The fate of the interior minister Mohammad Ibrahim al-Shaar was initially the subject of conflicting reports,[243] variously reporting him as injured but alive,[247] and dead.[248] There were also rumors that President Assad may also have been injured in the attack due to his lack of recent public appearance, but days after images of the President since the attack surfaced.[249] The assassinations were the first of such high-ranking members of Assad's elite in the 17-month revolt. In an interview later that month, General Mohammad Al-Zobi of the rebel forces stated that the explosion had been carried out using 15 kilos of explosives smuggled into the building, then detonated remotely.[250]

Checkpoint in Damascus

On 19 July, Russia and China vetoed a U.N. resolution that would add sanctions against the Syrian government, showing again the divide in international opinion towards the conflict.[251] Russia and China, who are major trade allies with Syria, want to see a more balanced resolution calling on both sides to equally halt violence.[252] On the same day, Iraqi officials reported that the Free Syrian Army has gained control of all four border checkpoints between Syria and Iraq, increasing concerns of the safety of Iraqis trying to escape the violence in Syria.[253] At one point during the day, almost all Internet access from Syria was cut off for a period of 40 minutes.[254]

The escalating conflict has reached a decisive stage in late July 2012, with the government forces and the armed opposition locked in a high intensity battle over control of the country’s largest city, Aleppo. Fighting over Aleppo is acquiring a greater significance after government troops flushed out most of the fighters from Damascus. [255]

On 25 July, multiple sources reported that the Assad government was using fighter jets to attack rebel positions in the cities of Aleppo and Damascus.[256] After driving out the opposition forces from Damascus, the government forces launched assault on Aleppo by tanks and air gunships on 28 July 2012, amid growing world concern about the safety of the civilian population of the country's second city. [257] On August 1, the UN observers in Syria witnessed government fighter jets firing on rebels in Aleppo, the country’s largest city. [258]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Civil_War_(2011–present)

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Dr tarpley has some ideas that i do not subscribe to It is true he is a conspiracy theorist on a lot of subjects and he is a la roucheite. However that does not mean that everything he says can be dismissed and on syria and the specific article he wrote for Press tv especially not