Aleppo 'is becoming Syria's Stalingrad'
The Telegraph (UK) / Richard Spencer
12-Aug-2012 (4 comments)

A month ago, what is happening in Aleppo would have seemed impossible. The rebels held a handful of towns and villages across the north of the province, as they did in neighbouring Idlib and in Homs province to the south. Aleppo, Syria’s richest city, with its tourist souqs, boulevards and park, its broadly neutral Christian quarters and its pro-regime business elite, seemed invulnerable...

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FG

Has Iran sent snipers?

by FG on Sun Aug 12, 2012 06:46 AM PDT

(The same snipers Khamenei has employed against the Iranian people--the kind that arrive in Syris as "pilgrims")

"They are using all kinds of weapons,” said Mohammed al-Hadid, a defector captain, on Saturday.

“They are so expert I do not believe they are Syrians. I was an officer in the army and we didn’t have snipers that good."



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Rea

Aleppo is becoming Croatian Vukovar

by Rea on Sun Aug 12, 2012 09:47 AM PDT

...  Bosnian Sarajevo, too. 

Too late for intervention, doesn't make sense any more. Would only precipitate desintegration of the country.


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FG

How, when and whether to end the war in Syria

by FG on Sun Aug 12, 2012 07:59 AM PDT

(Note: I'm aware that Iranian.com prefers items like this in a headliner post for the news section.  However, to do so with too many news items would create legitimate concerns about burying posts by others.   Rather than do that, I hope that it is OK with the administrators if I combine much of the interesting stuff I've found on Syria today under one header). 

An interesting analysis in the Washington Post:

 

How, when and whether to end the war in Syria

 

 //www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-when-and-whether-to-end-the-war-in-syria/2012/08/10/6089d526-e0dd-11e1-a421-8bf0f0e5aa11_story.html?hpid=z3

 

 French President Hollande draws fire over leadership on Syria

//www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/french-president-under-attack-over-leadership-on-syria/2012/08/10/0f608776-e2d1-11e1-a25e-15067bb31849_story.html?hpid=z13

 

 

U.S. and Turkey to Tighten Coordination on Syria

 

 //www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/world/middleeast/us-and-turkey-tighten-coordination-on-syria.html?_r=1&hpw

 


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FG

Another regime official flees the inevitable

by FG on Sun Aug 12, 2012 07:07 AM PDT

The deputy police commander of Homs Province has defected to Jordan, according to the opposition Syrian Higher Revolution Council.

"Brigadier General Ibrahim al-Jabawi has crossed into Jordan. He will announce his defection on al-Arabiya television later today," an official said from Amman.


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