▶ Syrian rebels and al Qaeda group end battle near Turki. – YouTube 9/20/2013
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Whoever posted the above pulled it off the web fast!
That it can’t be viewed hardly matters: these videos that cannot be authenticated, that probably have developed intelligence value everywhere — that’s a good reason for deleting a clip right there — nonetheless do a fine job of showing what happens where and when language fails.
What are the combatants thinking about themselves?
About others?
About language, programming, social grammar?
Whatever the internal monologues and dialogues may be, there’s not one of them that can be recorded live on video.
Related: BBC News – Syria rebels agree Azaz ceasefire 9/20/2013
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Syria’s main Western-backed opposition group on Friday slammed al-Qaida-linked gunmen and their expanding influence in the country, saying the jihadis’ push to establish an Islamic state undermines the rebels’ struggle for a free Syria.
Islamist ethic will bring back dictatorial repression in Syria: SNC – Indian Express 9/20/2013
What are those guys doing Out There — makin’ up? Breakin’ up? Shakin’ it up?
The AFP article published in the Indian Express goes on to note Syrian National Coalition denouncements of the Al Qaeda ISIL, but with such able to stop freight trucks on an open highway, ask drivers to step out, quiz them on the finer points of Islamic prayer, and then shoot them dead (reference: LiveLeak.com – ISIL Death Cult Kills Three Syrian Truck Drivers in Iraq after Failing the “Are You Sunni?” Test – late August 2013), it’s evident the same listen only to the tick in their own heads and act otherwise with impunity wherever they go.
The FSA and ISIL aligned fighting elements having reached a ceasefire in Azaz yesterday, one gets in the reading the shadows cast by Somalia’s experience in still recent years:
He said the delegation from the Islamic Courts, the militia that controls the capital, Mogadishu, and most of southern Somalia, agreed to recognize the legitimacy of the interim government, which is based in Baidoa, 155 miles northwest of Mogadishu.
Warring Somali Factions Sign Ceasefire Deal | Fox News 6/26/2006
On July 21, 2006, Hassan Aweys, in a radio broadcast, urged holy war on Ethiopian troops stationed in Baidoa to support the UN-backed government of Somalia.[17]
Hassan Dahir Aweys – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The reader may connect the dots adding up to “such accommodations are fragile”. Evidently such buy peace for a day, if that, and then comes back the ambition, the falling out, the bad words, the gun play, and all that follows from that.
As it turned out between 2006 and 2007, Ethiopia invaded Somalia, turned back the Islamic Courts Union all the way to the southernmost fringe of the state, sat a spell looking for weapons and weathering insurgent tactics, extracted its own troops, and, lo and behold, witnessed a complete return of Islamist forces, also general fighting, and so it goes on at lesser or greater levels and with more or less political confusion to this day.
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▶ ISIL Terrorists Outlaw Christianity in the New Syria – Bibles More Dangerous than Chemical Weapons – YouTube Posted to YouTube 9/8/2013
The Syrian Free Press Network posted the above last Friday: ISIL Terrorists Outlaw Christianity in the New Syria – “Bibles More Dangerous than Chemical Weapons” |
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Veteran opposition figure Kamal Labwani said the international community’s disregard for Syrian lives has strengthened extremists in Syria, adding that the ISIL has become a force that the FSA is unable to deal with.
AP News : vcstar.com : Ventura County Star 9/20/2013
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