Coming to terms in a military stalemate, only a diplomatic solution will end this civil war. Every day that passes, any form of reconciliation will be more difficult. A new UNHRC Report highlights the immense suffering of the Syrian people either displaced or in refugees camp in neighboring states. The report cites grave war crimes [pdf] being committed on both sides. The two powerful nations need to come together and agree to a solution where supply of arms will end and the well trained foreign fighters return to their home countries. What a mess. Although the killings continue on a massive scale, this war crime perpetrated by the madness of hate is another illustration. The Syrian civil war has already crossed borders in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and clearly also in a divided Iraq. Bringing democracy to the Middle-East is a tough job, is’t it George and Dick? We’ll bring our troops home by August 2003.
President George W. Bush - Speech Marking End of Major Combat Operations in Iraq.
Delivered aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln on 1 May 2003.
Al Qaeda claims killing of 48 Syrian soldiers in Iraq
Al-Qaeda front group the Islamic State of Iraq claimed an attack on a convoy in west Iraq that killed 48 Syrian soldiers and nine Iraqi guards, in a statement posted on jihadist forums on Monday.
The soldiers, who were wounded and received treatment in Iraq, were being transported through the western province of Anbar on their way back to Syria when the attack took place on March 4, according to the Iraqi defence ministry.
The statement on jihadist forums said that Islamic State of Iraq fighters were able to destroy a column of “the Safavid army with its associated vehicles” carrying “members of the Nusairi army and Syrian regime ‘shabiha.'”
Safavid is a word implying Shiites are under Iranian control, while Nusairi is a derogatory term for Alawites, the sect to which Syrian President Bashar al-Assad belongs, and shabiha is a name used for Syrian pro-regime militia forces.
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Leadership revolutionary council:
President Ahmed Mouaz Al-Khatib
VP Riad Seif – Sunni, businessman and long-time Syrian political dissident.
VP Suhair Al-Atassi – Syrian political activist
Gen. Secr. Mustafa Sabbagh – businessman and one of founders SNC.Expression of “appreciation” by the Iraqi people …
