Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Steroid mad thugs.


A short story about Syria's death squads.

via the Mirror.
“They used to smuggle weapons and drugs but now they are butchers,” said Michael Weiss, a Syria expert at the UK-based Henry Jackson Society. In return for letting them operate above the law, the Shabiha act as Assad’s enforcers. They murder opponents and terrorise Syrians into obedience. The Ghosts are fanatical followers of the Muslim Alawite sect which rules the country and have been brainwashed into thinking the Sunni majority are enemies.
Now the Shabiha, who can be seen in action in videos, are being told they are fighting for their lives as they will face revenge if the regime is overthrown. A source said: “Their mission is to terrorise the civilian population and conduct ethnic cleansing.”
They have been blamed for the murders of 108 civilians – including 49 children – in Houla a fortnight ago. The Shabiha are then reported to have shot dead 12 workers in Qusayr before 78 villagers were slaughtered in Qubair last week.
Dr Mousab Azzawi, who runs the Syrian Network for Human Rights from London but had treated some of the Shabiha in Latakia, said recently: “They were like monsters. They had huge muscles, and big bellies and beards.
“They were very tall and frightening and took steroids to pump up their bodies. I had to talk to them like children as the Shabiha likes people with low intelligence. That is what makes them so terrifying — the combination of strength and blind allegiance to the regime.”
Read the whole thing....I still don't think we should get involved but this will get nasty. nastier.

4 comments :

  1. It could be BS for all I know. I remember hearing about all these mass rapes going on in Libya that later turned out to be questionable.

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2011/06/24/Amnesty-International-Official--No-Evidence-of-Mass-Rape-in-Libya

    Reporters and opposition groups have learned how to use media to manipulate interventionist crazies and bleeding hearts to no end.

    Sorry about the rant.

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  2. Any word on what type of 'attack helo's' the Russians are shipping down to Syria that the media keeps talking about? My guess is they are regular Mi-8's, I doubt they are sending something like a Mi-28 or KA-50, that would be overkill and would take months for the Syrians to train on.

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  3. Update - according to Fox News the helo is the mi-24 Hind. More fun to come!

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  4. Just throwing it out there

    When a military force enters a town to kill all the residents, its does so.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre
    Or Carthage

    It doesnt kill 78.

    Not saying some unpleasant things arent happening out there, but in living memory, we've seen real attempts and successes at wiping out villages.
    These are punishment beatings.

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