Assads "elektroniska här" kämpar mot jihadisternas medier

 

 

President Assad har satt upp en "elektronisk

här", som bekämpar Muslimska Brödraskapet

och deras propagandaorgan.

Bara de senaste dagarna har Syrian Electronic

Army (SEA) slagit till mot bl a BBC, Associated

Press (AP) och The Guardian. Deras mest spek-

takulära insats var att kapa AP:s Twitterkonto

och sända ut ett meddelande om att Vita Huset

sprängts och Obama skadats...

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SEA opererar från ett högkvarter i Dubai och

finansieras av den Assadlojale miljardären Rami

Makhlouf.

De får tekniskt stöd från ryska säkerhets-

tjänsten FSB.

SEA har också lyckats skada nätsambandet

mellan Brödraskapets högkvarter och jihadisterna

på fältet i Syrien.

Många av jihadisternas mera absurda nyhets-

kommunikéer härrör i själva verket från SEA.

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Information

qz.com

vice.com

Djupdykning i den syriska oppositionen

I förra veckan utropade sig en 80-

årig f d advokat på ett möte i Kairo

till ny premiärminister i det krigs-

härjade Syrien och bildade en exil-

regering i Egypten.

Det ger en god bild av det totala

kaos som råder i den s k syriska

oppositionen.

Därför är det positivt att en ut-

förlig katalog över grupper och

nyckelpersoner i denna opposition

äntligen publicerats.

Den svenska journalisten Aron Lund

har på uppdrag av socialdemokraterna

i EU gett ut det 180-sidiga

DIVIDED THEY STAND

An overview of Syria´s political

opposition factions

Skriften kan laddas ned här

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Lund beskriver ärligt den islamistiska

dominansen i SNC, som USA och EU

redan utsett till Assads efterträdare.

Både pengar och vapen kanaliseras

genom Muslimska Brödraskapet.
Samtidigt försöker politiker och medier
tiga ihjäl den sekulära alliansen NCB,
som kämpar för en förhandlingslösning
istället för ett krig.
Obama och EU fick blodad tand i Libyen
att lösa alla problem med ett krig till-
sammans med sin nya allierade
Muslimska Brödraskapet.

Turkisk kändisadvokat dör som jihadist

Den kände turkiske advokaten Osman

Karahan har dödats av syriska polisen

medan han gjorde jihad i Aleppo berättar

Long War Journal.

Karahan, som var nära vän och anhängare

till Turkiets islamistiske premiärminister

Erdogan, var framförallt känd som försvars-

advokat för islamister. Han försvarade bl a

jihadisterna som sprängde två synagoger

2004. Politiskt var Karahan antisemit och

hätskt antivästlig.

Han ansågs ha nära förbindelser med

Al Qaeda.

Osman Karahan hade anslutit sig till

en syrisk jihadistgrupp och den

senaste veckan deltagit i angreppet

 mot Aleppo.

Enligt en turkisk islamistisk hemsida

dog han i strid med polisen i söndags.

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Hürriyet

Jihadisterna i Syrien vänder Al Qaeda ryggen ?

Islamic Awakening är ett viktigt jihadistiskt

forum på nätet. Just nu är det självklart den

islamistiska kampen i Syrien som är huvud-

temat.

Intressant nog betonar alltfler debattörer

vikten av att skapa informella och internationella

jihadistiska nätverk utanför Al Qaedas kontroll.

"My point is: an active, informal, transnational
network of mujahideen, with a lot of inter-
dependence, have formed after the Revolutions,
which is definitely outside AQ’s direct influence.
The heaviest nodes of this cluster are in Libya,
North Lebanon(Tripoli,Akkar, etc) and Syria."

Hatet mot Iran och den övriga shia-världen

är stort, men nästan lika stort är hatet mot

de etablerade wahhabisterna i

Saudiarabien och Emiraten.

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Man ger också en ögonblicksbild från Syrien,

som bekräftar Daily Telegraphs uppgifter att

den s k oppositionen sprängts i inbördes

stridande fraktioner. Antalet självständiga

väpnade grupper, styrda av egna emirer,

tycks hela tiden öka:

"Is a transnational rival network of Al

Qaaidah emerging?
Liwa al Ummah, the Syrian battalion commanded

by Libyan Mehdi al Harati (ex-commander of

Tripoli Brigade,which liberated Tripoli last year),

is a possible proof of that suggestion of mine.

Here is a Libyan-organized brigade,with newly

formed networks that emerged after the Arab

Spring,and which is working probably as a rival

of AQ.

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Disunited muhajireen could be a serious problem,

and the leadership needs to look into this.

This is probably why Jabhat is seeking more and

more local allies,specially with Kataaib Ahrar

al Sham,with whom even a merger is possible.

Five major salafi jihadi groups inside Syria are

relevant now.

There are many more, but most don't have the

wide reach that these five have:

1. Kataaib Ahrar al Sham(strongest in Idlib,

Aleppo,Hama,Latakia provinces north

central al-Ghab Plain etc)
2. Jabhat an Nusrah(strongest in Deir az
 Zour,Idlib,Aleppo,Damascus,Hama,Homs

provinces etc)
3. Liwa al Islam(strongest in Damascus

and its countryside)
4. Sham Falcons(nominally FSA,strongest

 in Idlib and the north)
5. Katibat al Ansar(Homs)
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Most significant FSA battalion now is Liwa al

Tawheed, formed with the unification of most

FSA brigades and battalions of Aleppo.

Their unification video has been posted more

than once on this thread; that video where

the fighters say Muhammad(sallallahu alayhi

wa sallam) is our leader .
Liwa al Tawheed has co-operated with Jabhat

Nusrah,ther'sa video on Youtube of that.
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Then comes the much celebrated Al Farouq

Battalions of FSA,led by the charismatic Abdur

Razzaq Tlass,nephew of Manaf Tlass,a scion

of the powerful Tlass family.

Strong in Homs,Rastan,Qusayr etc and now

Idlib province too. Early in the armed uprising,

they had spewed some venom against AQ,but

later on all that vanished,as many Fallujah

veterans joined the Battalion,and it became

prominently jihadi. But i have suspicions of

their links with Gulf intelligence agencies.
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Filmer från de olika jihadistgrupperna

Terrorist från Tyskland stupad i Aleppo

Det islamistiska försöket att erövra

Aleppo pågår för fullt.

Dåligt beväpnade och dåligt utbildade

jihadister angriper Assads trupper

och slås tillbaka med pansar och

artilleri.

Flera islamistiska fora berättar idag

att Hussam Eddin al-Armanazi,

som studerade medicin i Tyskland,

men återvänt till Syrien för att

göra jihad, stupat i kampen

om Aleppo. Hans lik finns
på en kort filmsnutt här.

En skadad Twitterpost, som bara
kan läsas i brottstycken, tyder på att 

ytterligare "two Germans, one from

Sweden and a couple of Britons"

dött på islamisternas sida i kampen.
Enligt tyska polisen kan det röra sig
om flera dussin syriska islamister
med tyska pass som återvänt
hem till jihad.
Motsvarande uppgifter saknas
ännu från islamistkretsar
i Sverige.

Al Qaeda är "oppositionen" i Syrien

Tyska underrättelsetjänsten BND 

via IPT:

Finansieringen av kriget mot Assad-

klanen kommer från salafistiska kretsar

i Saudiarabien, Qatar och de övriga emi-

raten. Ledningen låg till en början i

Muslimska Brödraskapets händer, men

börjar alltmera glida över till lokala Al

Qaedaemirer och syriska jihadister.

Däremot har Al Qaeda stora svårig-

heter att rekrytera utländska jihadister.

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"Around 90" terror attacks in Syria "can

be attributed to organizations that are

close to [al-Qaida] or jihadist groups,"

German daily Die Frankfurter Allgemeine

Zeitung (FAZ) quoted from German intelli-

gence estimates. The intelligence report

confirms an article in Monday's New York

Times suggesting strong growth of home-

grown and al-Qaida-related groups in

Syria's  ongoing civil war.

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The Times claims that "homegrown Muslim

jihadists, as well as small groups of fighters

from [al-Qaida], are taking a more prominent

role and demanding a say in running the

resistance."

The trend started with the failure of the largely

 secular protest movement in March 2011 which

has devolved into civil war led by more religious

organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood.

As funding pours in from the Arabian Gulf, less

radical organizations have even begun to take

on an extremist veneer.

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According to the Times, "most of the money

flowing to the Syrian opposition is coming

from religious donors in Saudi Arabia, Qatar

and elsewhere in the Persian Gulf region

whose generosity hinges on Salafi teaching."

This money has colored many rebel groups,

pushing them away from nationalism and

towards pan-Islamist ideology.

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It also has moved the conflict away from a

broad-based Syrian resistance of al-Assad,

 toward a sectarian conflict between the

Sunni majority and the Alawite ruling elite.

But that hasn't yet attracted many foreign

al-Qaida activists. Unlike Iraq's insurgency,

Syrian's rebels are still largely locals.

One insurgency organizer told the Times that

of the approximately 50,000 fighters, less

than 1,000 were foreigners and that they

"had trouble gaining local support."

The claim suggests that although Syria

was the primary gateway for Islamist

insurgents entering Iraq, the trend hasn't

traveled in the opposite direction.

Den etniska rensningen av kristna i Syrien

Gång på gång har vi tagit upp dagens

verklighet i Syrien. Den pågående etniska

rensningen av alla icke-sunniminoriteter.

Den som är kristen, alawit, shia, kurd eller

tillhör någon annan av landets otaliga mino-

riteter är inte välkommen att stanna kvar i

Muslimska Brödraskapets wahhabistiska
sunni-Syrien...

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Der Spiegel har besökt de kristna flyktingar

som annars ignoreras av de internationella

medierna.  Deras existens stämmer ju inte

med USA:s och EU:s scenografi av jihad-

isternas invasion av Syrien.

Hittills är det bara enstaka oberoende

journalister som vågat avslöja verkligheten.

Men Spiegel intervjuar också en kristen

oppositionspolitiker som erkänner att

"Islamist rebels supported by the Gulf

states are driving a wedge in the

opposition by labeling secular

adversaries of Assad enemies."

Och varför ser det så illa ut i regionen ?

"In the countries affected by the Arab Spring,

the Americans have put their money on the

Muslim Brotherhood. They believe it will be

the dominant power of tomorrow, and they

are adjusting to that fact."

Sunniextremister bakom massakrar i Syrien

Välinformerade DebkaFile och Frankfurter

Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) bekräftade igår

det vi länge haft på känn....

"...the 98 civilians massacred at Houla on May 25

were in fact slaughtered by anti-Assad Sunni rebels,

and most of the victims were members of Alawite

and Shiite families in the predominantly Sunni town."

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Det är sunniextremister (= Muslimska

Brödraskapet) som ligger bakom den

senaste vågen av massakrar i Syrien.

Offren är oftast alaviter och shia.

Det bekräftar att vi redan har ett

fullt utvecklat religions- och inbördes-

krig i landet. Just det som USA, EU

och FN påstår sig "frukta"....

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Samtidigt har det i tysthet  skett en palats-

revolution i Syriska nationella rådet (SNC).

SNC är Muslimska Brödraskapets frontorgani-

sation som ska ge islamismen ett demokratiskt

ansikte gentemot bidragsgivarna i EU och

USA. Jag skrev om den syriska oppositionen

redan i oktober förra året:

"Bland exilpolitikerna finns många

sympatiska personer. Den formelle

ledare för det nybildade nationella rådet

(CNS) är Paris-professorn Burhan

Ghalioun, en sekulär västerländsk

politiker som propagerar för demokrati

och ofta varnat för imamernas ambitioner. 

CNS är ändå enligt bedömare i regionen

i huvudsak en islamistisk grupp

med några kända sekulära demokrater

som dekoration. En nyckelroll i rådet

spelas av den den amerikanske MB-

medlemmen Louay Safi."

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Nu har Burhan Ghalioun, den blide

Sorbonneprofessorn, avpolleterats av

de verkliga makthavarna Muslimska

Brödraskapet. Ghalioun gjorde misstaget

att förväxla MB-retoriken om demokrati

med verkligheten. Han har ersatts av en

helt okänd kurdisk politiker från Uppsala.

Läs en totalt intetsägande intervju med 

Abdulbaset Sieda i SvD.  Allt för att undvika

en kritisk granskning av Brödraskapets

verkliga mål i Syrien.

Spåren från Tunisien, Libyen och Egypten

börjar väl förskräcka t o m EU...

Jihadister fördriver kristna i Syrien

Terrorn mot kristna, alewiter, druser

och andra minoriteter i Syrien ökar

hela tiden.

Muslimska Brödraskapet vill genom sin

terror mot Assadregimen skapa ett ren-

lärig sunni/wahhabistisk stat.

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Den assyriska nyhetsbyrån AINA ger en

ögonblicksbild av hur en liten kristen by

töms på sina invånare av en jihadistgrupp,

som sätter upp sitt högkvarter i byns kyrka.

(AINA) -- Armed jihadist seized control of Qastal

al-Burg village on Thursday, May 10, and ordered

its 10 Christian families to leave, according to a

report published by UPI on its Arabic language

website.

A resident of the village, who did not wish to be

identified, said "armed jihadist group came to

the village and ordered us to leave our homes

empty handed."

The armed group, he further stated, "have exercised

their control over all the houses, and occupied the

church and made it as their command control center."

Qastal al-Burg village is in the province of Hama

and is 48 kilometers  northwest of Hama.

Nu stundar blodbad på Syriens minoriteter...

Barry Rubin skrev nyligen i sin analys av

inbördeskriget i Syrien:

No, this is a war to the death. The regime

cannot make a deal and yield power because

the elite would lose everything it has.

Moreover, the government elite would face death,

exile, or long-term imprisonment if it loses.

Similarly, the dominant Alawite community

and large portions of the Christian one

(together roughly 25 percent of the population)

risks massacre if the government falls.
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Som en bekräftelse på detta rapporterar Debka File

att Assadklanens alawiter börjar dra sig mot bergs-

massiven i nordvästra Syrien, de s k Alawitiska Bergen.

En seger för Muslimska Brödraskapet betyder under-

gång för landets minoriteter:

This is the only densely forested region along Syria’s

Mediterranean coast. From there, the Assads will

continue to fight for their survival.
The Al-Ansariyyah range averages 32 kilometers (20 miles)

in breadth and a peak elevation of just over 1,200 meters.

The tallest mountain, Nabi Yunis east of Latakia, is 1,562

meters (5,125 feet) high. The range slopes down from

its northern tip to an average altitude of 900 meters

(3,000 feet) and 600 meters in the south.
Our military and intelligence sources have discovered the

Syrian engineering corps working in the forested areas

of those mountains on the construction of a fortified

encampment, partly inside caves and tunnels.

They are enclosing its perimeter with anti-tank defenses

armed with anti-air batteries.
When finished, the camp will be one of the most heavily

fortified strongholds in the Middle East.
In support of the Syrian dictator, large groups of Alawite

families began moving in the last week of November from

the plains around Latakia, Hama and Homs to new homes

in the encampment – apparently on a signal from Assad’s

intelligence and security services.
The Alawites who cannot leave their towns or villages for

some reason are being moved into fortified precincts close

to their homes.

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Barry Rubins guide till det syriska inbördeskriget

Barry Rubin har skrivit en intressant och

upplysande krönika på Gloria Center om

det som håller på att bli det syriska inbördeskriget.

Vilka är det egentligen som bekämpar Assads

regim ? Vilken är Brödraskapets och salafisternas

roll ? Var står alla landets minoriteter ?
Och inte minst:vilken är de turkiska islamisternas
och den förvirrade amerikanske presidentens roll ? 

Läs hela krönikan här

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1. Don’t overrate Iran’s role.
Despite wild rumors, the Syrian regime doesn’t need Iranians to help it repress the people. Iran is important as a source of financing for the government, but this is President Bashar al-Asad’s battle to win or lose. Tehran is definitely going to be a secondary factor.
Syria’s other ally is Hizballah but the killing of so many Sunni Muslims, including Muslim Brotherhood people, has lost it Hamas. There is a sort of Sunni-Shia version of the Spanish Civil War going on now. But when it comes to the radical and Islamist forces on both sides there’s no good guy.
2. And Turkey isn’t the good guy
The Turkish Islamist regime isn’t motivated by some love of democracy in opposing the Syrian regime. The Ankara government wants a fellow Sunni Islamist dictatorship in Damascus, preferably under its influence. In this situation, Turkey is just as bad as Iran.
3. Will the two sides make a deal?
No, this is a war to the death. The regime cannot make a deal and yield power because the elite would lose everything it has. Moreover, the government elite would face death, exile, or long-term imprisonment if it loses. Similarly, the dominant Alawite community and large portions of the Christian one (together roughly 25 percent of the population) risks massacre if the government falls.
4. Will the army bring down the regime or change sides?
No, see point 3. While some are defecting (see below), the high command cannot survive a change of power. Unlike in Egyptand Tunisia, the armed forces cannot usher in a new regime under which it can hope to keep its privileges.
5. Is this now an inter-communal war?
Net yet. There are hints of small-scale communal killings but if and when such a blood bath begins you’ll know and it will be terrible indeed. This outcome might be avoidable but the situation is very dangerous.
6. Is Syria now in a civil war?
This is beginning. Defectors from the military have formed a Free Syrian Army. A nine-member Military Council has been formed including five colonels. Note the lack of generals (see Point Four) and all of them appear to be Sunni Muslim Arabs (see Point Five). They say they are going to fight the regime and defend the populace. But from where will they get arms?
7. Will economic collapse bring down the regime?
No. See Points 1, 3, and 5. Nobody is going to quit because they get hungry. This is a kill-or-be-killed situation.
8. Is Syria going to encourage a war against Israel?
No. Historically, Middle Eastern dictatorships have provoked war against Israel to distract attention from problems at home. The most likely scenario would be a Hizballah-Israel war, as happened in 2006. But we’re past that point for the Syrian regime (though a radical Egypt might try this tactic after 2013.) In addition, Hizballah is trying to consolidate power in Lebanon and a war would be very much against its interests.
9. Who is the opposition leadership?
Ah, that’s a very interesting question. The best-known group is the Syrian National Council (SNC). It has announced its 19-member leadership group which includes 15 Sunni Muslims, two Christians, and 2 Kurds. Note that there are no Alawites or Kurds. The SNC has an advantage because it was assembled by the United States using the Islamist regime in Turkey.
Given Western backing the SNC is surprisingly dominated by Islamists. Ten of the 19 are identifiable as such (both Muslim Brothers and independent—Salafist?—Islamists) and a couple of those who are nominally leftists are apparently Islamist puppets. The fact that U.S. policy is backing an Islamist-dominated group indicates the profound problems with Obama Administration policy.
It should be stressed, though, that the SNC’s popular support is totally untested. Many oppositionists—especially Kurds—are disgusted by the group’s Islamist coloration and refuse to participate.
The National Coordination Committee (NCC) is a leftist-dominated alternative. The Antalya Group is liberal. There is also a Salafist council organized by Adnan Arour, a popular religious figure; a Kurdish National Council and a Secular Democratic Coalition (both angry at the SNC’s Islamism);
It is hard to overestimate how disastrous Obama Administration policy has been. Not only has it promoted an Islamist-dominated leadership (which might be pushed into power by monopolizing Western aid) but this mistake has fractured the opposition, ensuring there would be several anti-SNC groups. This strategy has also angered the Kurds and Turkmen minorities who view the SNC as antagonistic to their hopes for some autonomy. As a result, these two groups have reduced their revolutionary activities.
The best source on these events is the exiled democrat Ammar Abdulhamid whose daily Syrian Revolution Digest is indispensable to understand what’s going on in the country. He writes that, despite U.S. and Turkish support, nobody will recognize the SNC as the “legitimate representative of the Syrian people” because of its “overrepresentation of certain currents and underrepresentation of others, as well as lack of transparency in the selection and decision-making processes, not to mention lack of clear political vision and transitional plans.”
Again, it should be stressed that in terms of actually directing the rebellion, there is no leadership.
10. So who do we want to win?
Despite the threat of a Sunni Islamist regime, I hope that Asad will be overthrown. Why? If the regime survives we know it will continue to be a ferociously repressive dictatorship, allied with Iran, and dedicated to the destruction of U.S. and Western interests, the imperialist domination of Lebanon, wiping Israel off the map, and subverting Jordan.
With a revolution, there is a chance—especially if U.S. policy doesn’t mess it up—for a real democracy that is higher than in Egypt. In Syria only 60 percent of the population is Sunni Muslim Islamist. The minorities—Alawite, Christian, Druze, and Kurdish—don’t want an Arab Sunni Islamist regime.
As for the Sunnis themselves, they are proportionately more urban, more middle class, and more moderate than in Egypt. Islamists and the Muslim Brotherhood in particular have never been as strong in Syria as in Egypt. In Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia, the Islamists face what is largely a political vacuum; in Syria they have real, determined opposition.
Today, the Syrian people have two major enemies blocking the way to a moderate stable democracy. One is the regime itself; the other is the U.S.-Turkish policy that is determined—naively for the former; deviously deceitful from the latter—to force a new repressive Islamist regime on the Syrians.
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OBS  Skrivfelet i punkt 9 första stycket.
Bör vara Note that there are no Alawites or Druzes. 

Syriska oppositionen under Brödraskapets kontroll

Den syriska oppositionen utmärker sig

mest genom sin splittring. Under de

senaste månadernas väpnade uppror

har exilpolitikerna i stort sett varje

vecka hållt kongresser i Istanbul,

Berlin, Paris eller London. Slutit

allianser och brutit allianser...

Nu är det tid att mötas i Stockholm.

Sponsrade av socialdemokraterna

träffas en blandad samling i helgen

på Palmecentret....

Och vem dyker upp i skuggorna

kring detta möte ?

Ja, naturligtvis socialdemokraternas

nära vänner och samarbetspartners

Muslimska Brödraskapet.....

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Samtidigt kontrolleras kampen i

Syrien av Muslimska Brödraskapet

genom de s k lokala koordinations-

kommitteerna (LCCSY), som sällan

är med på kongresserna, men som

kan mobilisera en hel del folk på

gatorna i Syrien.

Bland exilpolitikerna finns många

sympatiska personer. Den formelle

ledare för det nybildade nationella rådet

(CNS) är Paris-professorn Burhan

Ghalioun, en sekulär västerländsk

politiker som propagerar för demokrati

och ofta varnat för imamernas ambitioner. 

CNS är ändå enligt bedömare i regionen

i huvudsak en islamistisk grupp

med några kända sekulära demokrater

som dekoration. En nyckelroll i rådet

spelas av den den amerikanske MB-

medlemmen Louay Safi.