News Outlets Urge Syria Rebels to Halt Abductions

News Outlets Urge Syria Rebels to Halt Abductions – ABC News.

If these news outlets took a serious look at the reports their journalists have been producing since the beginning of the Revolution they would know that there are two parties involved in kidnapping journalists in Syria: the regime and Al-Qaeda. They would also know that moderate rebels have consistently been involved in protecting journalists or trying to secure their release from their captors by offering prisoner exchange deals when the regime was involved, with the regime always rejecting such offers, or, on occasions, by attacking Al-Qaeda hideouts and securing the release of kidnapped journalists by force.

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U.S. Halts Aid Delivery To Syria’s North Following Islamist Gains

U.S. Halts Aid Delivery To Syria’s North Following Islamist Gains.

But the suspension, in addition to lost supplies, also sends a damning message about the FSA, said Ammar Abdulhamid, a veteran opposition activist — showing it as increasingly overshadowed by its Islamist rivals and unable to control the flow of new supplies across the border. “The Islamists are going to use this to tell the population: We are the only ones who matter now,” Abdulhamid said.

Peaceful protest leader in Syria disappears; Islamist rebels suspected of role

Peaceful protest leader in Syria disappears; Islamist rebels suspected of role – The Washington Post.

But of course, if you believe in democracy and human rights, your enemies in this world are many, and your friends few. But we will keep forging ahead until Razan, Samirah, all our prisoners of conscience and all our people, even those who now oppose us and accuse us of terrible things, are free. There is no room for compromise when it comes to freedom.

“Bashar Al-Assad is a refined cannibal like Hannibal Lecter”

SOFIA LORENA IN GAZIANTEP | 03/11/2013 – 00:00

Below is a rough English translation made using Google. The Portuguese original can be found here: http://www.publico.pt/j1752052

Ammar Abdulhamid is a Syrian dissident living far away from Damascus since 2005. He says that no one anticipated how violent a response the Assad regime will employ against his opponents, and explains that “the first mistake was thinking that Bashar would not be allowed to go this far.” Continue reading ““Bashar Al-Assad is a refined cannibal like Hannibal Lecter”” →