Tea drinker wrote: » You debunked (lol) Robert Fisks debunking in a short paragraph. Congrats, pulitzer for you. Or maybe just google the guy and you won't look foolish.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fisk
As Dr Assim Rahaibani announces this extraordinary conclusion, it is worth observing that he is by his own admission not an eyewitness himself and, as he speaks good English, he refers twice to the jihadi gunmen of Jaish el-Islam [the Army of Islam] in Douma as “terrorists” – the regime’s word for their enemies, and a term used by many people across Syria. Am I hearing this right? Which version of events are we to believe? Read more By bad luck, too, the doctors who were on duty that night on 7 April were all in Damascus giving evidence to a chemical weapons enquiry,
I was with my family in the basement of my home three hundred metres from here on the night but all the doctors know what happened.
A Syrian doctor has told how he was tortured and forced to watch other prisoners die in regime jails as a report reveals almost 18,000 detainees have died during the country’s brutal civil war. Amnesty International says an average of 10 people have been killed every day by beatings, disease and neglect in secretive detention facilities controlled by Bashar al-Assad’s forces over the past five years. Survivors have given horrific accounts of rape and abuse in overcrowded cells where prisoners are left to suffocate and succumb to illness or starvation. Bashar Farahat, a 32-year-old doctor, was working in a hospital in Latakia province when he was arrested by officers from Syria’s notorious Military Intelligence Directorate in July 2012. Bashar Farahat fled Syria after being imprisoned twice by government security forces (Amnesty International) “The minute you get in the car you disappear,” he told The Independent. “You don’t know anything about the world outside and the world outside doesn’t know anything about you. Once you are detained you become the property of the guards and the interrogators can do anything to you to get a confession.” Mr Farahat believes he was reported to the authorities for supporting anti-government protests and treating those injured in the ensuing regime crackdown. The trainee paediatrician was taken to the headquarters of the Military Intelligence branch in Latakia and subjected to a so-called “welcome party”, where new arrivals are beaten publicly by groups of officers armed with metal bars and electric cables.
Of course we must hear their side of the story
Discodog wrote: » But did he ? He quotes a doctor & then adds that you can't rely on information from such sources. It's not unreasonable that people might associate children choking on dust as a gas attack especially when there have been dozens of such attacks. The retaliation by the West was justified if it makes Assad & Putin think twice about using chemical weapons in the future.
Gatling wrote: » Tell us all about russian media and censorship
Billy86 wrote: » Thousands protested against Putin across Russia a few days back. To the question "what, will you arrest all of us?" Putin's answer was basically "we'll do our best", locking up over 1,600 for protesting. And the useful idiots of his harp on about "free speech!!" like there is no tomorrow.
Elmer Blooker wrote: » Yet another attention seeking publicity stunt from "leading opposition leader" Mr Navalny? I'm sure many of the "protesters" were western media useful idiots sent to cover this latest publicity stunt. The useful idiots were clearly instructed not to report the awesome numbers that turned out for yesterday's V-Day celebrations in Moscow. But to be honest I'm not surprised that this family day day out was censored. Go to around 4.15 and see the astonishing crowds!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVWRQcXs81c
ohnonotgmail wrote: » so you agree with the jailing of political protestors?
Elmer Blooker wrote: » Navalny is not "political", maybe you can tell me what party he leads and what are his politics? So what, he's "anti corruption" but I've never heard of anyone who's pro corruption or who will admit to it! Yesterday's march clearly shows the popularity of Putin as there was nothing like it during the poverty stricken Yeltsin era.
Cheerful Spring wrote: » Russia has 156 million people. Do you think we should change the Irish government when a few thousand marches on a Dublin Street?
Elmer Blooker wrote: » A "protest" of 1,600 in Moscow, a city of ten million would equal a protest of around 160 on a Dublin street!
ohnonotgmail wrote: » the difference is that the protest in dublin wouldn't end with all the protestors locked up.
Tea drinker wrote: » I heard some children fighting for water rights were detained by the regime in Dublin? There was some fake story also concocted by the Regime and their henchmen in the Police force? Plenty of students got baytins and were detained back in '11 / 12 protesting about fees. Ah sure you could get jail here for not paying the Government propaganda licence (RTE) ;-)
A Russian major general now believed to be helping lead his country’s missile and artillery efforts in Syria was behind the indiscriminate shelling in January 2015 of a Ukrainian town that left at least 29 civilians dead. Working off of raw video, cellphone intercepts and information gleaned from social media and military websites in Ukraine and Russia, a joint reporting team that includes U.K.-based Bellingcat and McClatchy has identified nine Russian officers — including Major Gen. Stepan Stepanovich Yaroschuk — thought to have been directly involved in the military operation that killed and injured scores of civilians. The shells that rained down on Mariupol came from two Russian artillery batteries transported on the eve of the operation into Russian-controlled territory in Ukraine. The shelling was part of Russia's hybrid military operation in Ukraine, combining military support to ethnic Russian separatists with direct incursions into breakaway border regions. The goal was to extend Russian control in a country that was flirting with closer ties to Western Europe.
ohnonotgmail wrote: » yeah those situations are really comparable with what is happening in russia. :rolleyes:
So much for it being Ukranians bombing themselves for the sake of it
Billy86 wrote: » The article does not mention an "alleged missile", you will need to recalibrate your disinformation campaign now that we know it was Russian army majors and colonels involved in murdering 29 Ukrainians.
The bombing of Mariupol, Ukraine, in January 2015 killed at least 29 civilians. The Ukrainian government is using drone footage to investigate the attack by alleged Russian missiles. Alexa Ard / McClatchy
[Deleted User] wrote: » The road section of the Kerch Strait bridge opened last week linking the Crimean peninsula to Krasnodar in Russia. The rail section is due to open next year. Surely a sign (if any were needed) that Ukraine won't be getting the place back anytime soon.
Gatling wrote: » A Couple of well placed IEDs would leave the bridge a dangerous crossing . Sure people think Israel Will give back land not happening either
Gatling wrote: » The Dutch criminal investigation to the Shooting Down of Flight MH17 over Ukraine have concluded it was shot down by russian forces of the 53rd Anti aircraft missle brigade based in the Russian city Kursk .who had traveled in Convoy from Kursk to Ukraine and back again .http://news.sky.com/story/mh17-plane-was-brought-down-by-russian-military-missile-11383700
el diablo wrote: » It appears to have been an extremely biased investigation. Guess we'll never find out what actually did happen that day...
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