Thu Jul 19, 2012, 03:52 PM

Syrian regime issues 48-hour deadline to Damascus rebels

Source: The Guardian

The Syrian military gave residents 48 hours to leave the parts of Damascus now held by rebel forces as it prepared a counterattack aimed at retaking control of its power base and pushing back four days of dramatic rebel gains.

The rebel Free Syria Army on Thursdaycontinued to hold ground it had seized in key parts of the capital during this week's major attack, and was bracing for a decisive battle against loyalist forces who appear to have been caught off guard by the co-ordinated assault.

Guerrilla units continued to push their gains elsewhere in the country, apparently seizing control of at least two border crossing points into Turkey and all crossings into Iraq, according to videos posted on the internet. Such crossings could prove crucial in funnelling supplies into besieged rebel areas.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/19/syrian-regime-damascus-rebel-held-areas

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Syrian regime issues 48-hour deadline to Damascus rebels (Original post)	Lucy Goosey	Jul 2012	OP
They are going to destroy those rebel-held areas and anyone remaining in them.	Comrade Grumpy	Jul 2012	#1
Yipes.	bemildred	Jul 2012	#2
Assad is looking in the mirror	Zyzafyx	Jul 2012	#3
I don't get how these guys can think they get away with it.	TheWraith	Jul 2012	#4
I hope that the insurgents won't try to use residents as human shields against their will.	David__77	Jul 2012	#5
Wow, project much?	Odin2005	Jul 2012	#7
I'm sure they'll take care that no child gets in the way of a power struggle	may3rd	Jul 2012	#11
"Die or we'll kill you," then? (nt)	Posteritatis	Jul 2012	#6
If Assad doesn't want to be Mussolini'd, he'd better flee.	Odin2005	Jul 2012	#8
Sounds like Assad is getting ready to use chemical weapons.	roamer65	Jul 2012	#9
48 hours to melt away and pick a fight in another city...	Massacure	Jul 2012	#10
Rebels attack in another direction	may3rd	Jul 2012	#12

Response to Lucy Goosey (Original post)

Thu Jul 19, 2012, 04:03 PM

Comrade Grumpy (3,372 posts)

1. They are going to destroy those rebel-held areas and anyone remaining in them.

Or try to, anyway.

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Response to Lucy Goosey (Original post)

Thu Jul 19, 2012, 04:10 PM

bemildred (67,502 posts)

2. Yipes.

To the death then. Battle in the rubble, coming right up.

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Response to Lucy Goosey (Original post)

Thu Jul 19, 2012, 04:28 PM

Zyzafyx (124 posts)

3. Assad is looking in the mirror

ans seeing Qaddafi.

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Response to Zyzafyx (Reply #3)

Thu Jul 19, 2012, 04:35 PM

TheWraith (24,331 posts)

4. I don't get how these guys can think they get away with it.

How does it not occur to them at some point that a comfortable, wealthy exile is better than trying to cling on to power and ending up beaten to death in a ditch?

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Response to Lucy Goosey (Original post)

Thu Jul 19, 2012, 07:26 PM

David__77 (14,120 posts)