Why I believe that this is a “must watch” documentary:
This is a documentary by Anastasia Popova, a correspondent for the Russian TV station “Rossia 24”. Don’t expect any kind of sympathy for the FSA from these reporters who are 100% behind the Syrian Army and who are absolutely outraged at what they strongly believe is the rape of a nation by a coalition of international terrorists and NATO special forces. It is precisely this strong identification with one side which makes this documentary so important: it shows the point of view of those whose voice and opinion is absolutely *never* heard in the western corporate media.
It is a sad truth that history is written by victors, and there is a really good chance that the side represented in this video will be the loosing one.
Finally, this is a woman’s view on a civil war, something which is also very rarely seen.
For all these reasons I urge everybody to watch this documentary.
The Saker
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Saker Message:
I take it you will do a post on Boris Berezovsky?
Frankly given his dire financial situation and standing and his high level activities with British operations in regards to Russia like support of Chechen terrorism among other things and think he was seen as too much of a dangerous liability now and was killed off.
Last year when he lost his lawsuit I said he might try a Robert Maxwell and blackmail the British establishment for money.
Dead men tell no tales.
No don’t snippets of information will come out during the investigation indicating a FSB hit that the British press will run with and accuse Putin of being involved.
Meant to write doubt instead of don’t in the last sentence.
Hello Saker…
Wish you a great new week..saker given all the last geopolitical moves Rusia might have to take a hit…there are many open fronts now…just to mention
1. Venezuela…where all the signed arms, oil and technology contracts will be broken in case the proisraeli/usa Capriles win the elections.
2. the uncertainty looms again on the Russian military base in Tajikistan to the refusal of the Central Asian country to ratify the agreement signed last fall, it seemed ideal: the Russians are another 30 years without paying any rent, in exchange for certain conditions.
3. The Chipre financial crisis where a lot of russians have money and it maybe a big time money lost for Russian..there are a few fiscal paradise’s why Chipre?
4. Siria and Iran destabilization plans
5. Maybe you can add another?
So will be a rough future for rusia in the upcoming times..
My best to you
I am living in a country next door to these animals in Lebanon, and I believe that there are probably a good number of them here already, just waiting for the opportunity to do the same… God bless these Syrian soldiers..
@Mari:I am living in a country next door to these animals in Lebanon, and I believe that there are probably a good number of them here already, just waiting for the opportunity to do the same.
Yes, this is frightening, but you can also count on the protection of Hezbollah who will never let these murderous thugs do to Lebanon what they did to Syria.
God bless these Syrian soldiers
Indeed, and may He give them the strength to save their country from these rabid beasts!
Interesting doco. A little too propagandish at the start for my taste, but had some solid stuff as the video continued. The level of contact between the militants & their arab handlers plus the heavy involvement of Wahhabi ‘clerics’ match a lot of what has come out, but it was interesting to see the obvious prevalence of this as the normal operating procedure for the complete ‘FSA’.
Regarding the PR part of the ‘war’, for those against this atrocity it seems the obvious thing is to just show as much of these guys in their natural element in their own words as possible – then catalogue it by date & look to add some context.
(Being picky here with people obviously fighting for their lives in horrifiying conditions, but if you want to get it through to a Western audience you’ve either got to really rub their face in it, or provide a disney story.)
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The Western/GCC alliance has managed to create an an utter horror, first in Libya & now coming to it’s it’s culmination in Syria – a heavily armed, trained, mobile force where anything remotely human has been removed.
I did some digging through Arabic jihadi channels a while back about Libya, & found hundreds of sites which were littered with these atrocity videos – hanging people up with barbed wire while they carved them into them while still alive, on what was obviously once a prosperous main street. This type of atrocity was one of the most regular types posted, & was obviously a prevalent activity for Libya’s new ‘liberators’.
The killers were generally young, generally in their early 20’s with a crowd of baying onlookers. The victims tended to older males in their 40’s, obvious family men, & very obviously not military.
Their was nothing in their killers eyes – savagely cutting into another human being while they screamed in agony meant absolutely nothing to them, & they often stopped to shout to the camera or stop for interviews while still in the middle of brutally torturing someone to death.
What was fascinating to me in amongst the horror of it all were the individuals themselves. They called themselves Jihadists, but were generally wearing the kind of western clothing most tough young guys wore you can see in any major city – baggy jeans, hoodies or ‘branded’ sweatshirts, generally carried the latest chinese iPhone knockoff, & when interviewed in English or French came out with a bizarre mix of self-justication – these are evil oppressors & we are carrying out the revenge for the people’s oppression – very canned – while mixing in extreme, poorly worded Wahhabi doctrine.
Complete insanity.
This seemed to be the first wave of the Libyan influx into Syria & it appears to have mutated yet further, into even more horrifying extremes.
I suspect many of the stories heard about toddlers slaughtered & pregnant women cut open are simply the literal truth this time, & I really don’t know if there is a way back for much of the West in their creation of this monster…