Near 100 Bodies found executed in Syria

Timmyctc

Things just seem to be going from bad to worse and worse again here
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — An activist group with opposition contacts in Syria said on Tuesday that the muddied bodies of scores of people, most of them men in their 20s and 30s, had been found in a suburb of the northern city of Aleppo. Video posted by opponents of President Bashar al-Assad seemed to show that many had been shot in the back of the head while their hands were bound.

Larbre34

Hardly worth an AH thread over and above the civil war discussions elsewhere on the forum. By the time this conflict is done and investigated, I suggest stories of 100 person massacres will be routine.

Nodin

Timmyctc wrote: »

Things just seem to be going from bad to worse and worse again here
Full article here

...to be honest, every time you here about the numbers arrested, take a good guess whats happened to an awful lot of them.

squod

Didn't we hear about how this would never happen again after the massacres in the former yugoslavia?

Whole load of Brotherhood of muslims CIA bolloxology going on over there. Where are the UN again?

GalwayGuy2

Whole load of Brotherhood of muslims CIA bolloxology going on over there. Where are the UN again?

Do you want America to go in? :S

EDDIE WATERS

I think it is the rebels doing this to get support on the international stage

G Power

EDDIE WATERS wrote: »

I think it is the rebels doing this to get support on the international stage

ya think?? have we not seen this exact scenario play out in front of our eyes enough times already, to see this for what it really is, no??

:eek::eek:

My name is URL

Was gonna start a new thread for this but decided to post here instead.

Huge explosion last night in Damascus -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_j8ID-m1pU

That's a big fcuking bang... recorded from 2.5 miles away

More details on this Reddit thread - http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1dpez6/a_huge_explosion_has_hit_damascus_the_capital_of/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22417482

keeponhurling

From BBC and RTE websites, those bombs were missiles from Israeli forces.

Israel say they were just trying to stop weapons being transferred to Hezbollah in Lebanon, Syria say Israel are trying to help the opposition.

Also there are reports of chemical weapons having been used, though difficult to verify. Chemical weapons were the "red line" that Obama spoke of before.

A very nasty situation.

Nodin

It reads like Lebanon in the 70's in many ways - every faction with its own militia, rampant sectarianism and massacre v reprisal massacre. Grim stuff.