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The Bogus Aleppo Prison Breach
Yesterday some insurgent groups in Syria claimed that the Aleppo prison was stormed after a suicide attack and that hundreds of prisoners were freed. The claim was widely reported in "western" media:
BEIRUT (AP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up at the gates of a Syrian prison Thursday and rebels stormed in behind him, freeing hundreds of inmates as part of an offensive aimed at capturing key government symbols around the northern city of Aleppo, activists said.
Today the insurgent propaganda office claims that the government has recaptured the prison.
Syrian troops retook Friday most of Aleppo's prison, lost to rebels a day earlier, in fighting that has killed at least 46 people over two days, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
But the fate of hundreds of prisoners reportedly freed after Islamist and jihadist fighters overran the facility was unclear, with suggestions that they may not have been able to flee amid the fighting.
But the facts beg to differ. The vehicle based bomb and the British suicide bomber driving it never came to the prison gate but were defeated before reaching it. The prison's perimeter was not breached and no prisoners were able to escape in the first place. Jabhad al-Nusra and Ahrar al-Sham, which cooperated in the attack, lost dozens of fighters when the Syrian air force hit the areas around the prison.
This case is just another reminder that neither the insurgency propaganda organizations, nor its multipliers in the "western" media can be trusted with regard to their information on Syria.
Geneva 2 Closing Day: Syrian Delegation & Citizens Unite their Voices in Montreux, Switzerland
(Transcribed from subtitles, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJkKHsOcwjs&feature=player_embedded)
Delegate: ‘The delegation that President Bashar al-Assad commissioned in going to Geneva did not give up and refused any suggestion to cede Syria’s sovereignty.
If the Syrian opposition – not those present, but all of the opposition – wanted to start a political debate, then we are the people of political debate. If some of the terrorists wanted to start a debate on the ground with weapons, then we are the people of combat.’
[Bouthania Shabaan]: ‘First, I mourn with you the loss of the martyrs. I salute their women, their families, and parents. If it weren’t for their pure blood, we wouldn’t have resisted. In your name, we salute our heroic people, brave army, and resolute president, who loves his people and his country.’
[delegate]: ‘We are here to say, “No to violence! No to killing! No to the Syrians’ bloodshed!” It is impossible for anyone to betray the trust of the Syrian people, this great people that has sacrificed and will sacrifice.’
[Dr al-Jaafari]?: ‘They [SNC] came to Geneva not to engage in a dialogue. They came to one-up and to play the game of treason for global agendas that are much bigger than them. We are not here to score a victory of a Syrian over another Syrian. Not at all. Their delegation got split, and clashes and disagreements among them became apparent. now, before we got out and after the session was closed by Brahimi, two of them stopped and said that disagree with what they themselves have stated.
[female delegate, to the protesters]: ‘With your presence and that of people like you, and with the presence of a resisting Syrian people… Three years under terrorism, and a Syrian Arab Army that has sacrificed with everything. Young people who are flowers are getting martyred so that this country remains. You, our Syrian community and our young people outside Syria who make us proud, just so you’re assured we won’t cede one grain of soil or one principle.
Syria is for Syrians and for non-Syrians. Syria is for Syria and for Arabs… with its dignity and pride… and its president, Bashar al-Assad.
[protester]: ‘We are ere to stand in solidarity with Syria and President Bashar al-Assad. We tell him: “Yes!”
[young man]: ‘I’m from Qusayr, Homs. I came here to say: “No to terrorism! No to extremism! We are with the leader, Dr Bashar al-Assad! We are with the Syrian government.”
[protester]: ‘We came here from France to confirm to the entire world that we are with President Bashar al-Assad and with the Syrian Arab Army.”
[protester]: ‘Look at this march. See how civilised and sophisticated it is. This is what we represent. We do not represent terrorism. We do not represent backwardness. We used to be the light of civilisations, and we shall remain so, God willing… with the leadership of Bashar al-Assad.
[lady protester]: ‘We came to support our country, Syria and to say that this delegation represents us. We came to show them that these idiots who cannot organise their own delegation cannot organise a country. We are with our army. Our country and our people reject [the SNC]. Even the Army rejects them.
[protester]: ‘We came from the Czech republic in two full buses only to state that the Syrian people are present all around the world. The Syrian people are all one spirit. They all feel the same feelings, whether they are inside or outside Syria. We all came here to support the Syrian Arab army under the leadership of President Bashar Hafez al-Assad.
[scarved female protester]: ‘May Allah give victory to Syria, to its president, and our Army. May we return to our country safe and sound. I came from Ger4many.
[protester]: ‘We all came to tell the world that we refuse any interference in Syria. We are all with president Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian Army. May god protect the Syrian Army and President Bashar al-Assad.
[lady protester]: ‘I came here from Austria.
[interviewer: What would you like to say?]
I came to say that I’m with Syria. I’m Iraqi with Syria.
[interviewer: Both Syria an Iraq have the same issues.]
Yes, it’s the same issues and problems.
[mature protester]: ‘People in Syria are all with President Bashar al-Assad.
[lady protester]: ‘Let’s hope that we can help with anything for Syria and for the Syrian people, who are first and last.
[redheaded lady protester]: ‘The most important thing is that we know who is at the root of terrorism. Once we know who is at the root of terrorism, this issue will be resolved. It is known that Wahhabi and Takfiri ideology is at the root of terrorism.
[male protester, local]: ‘I am a resident of Switzerland and I would like to send a message that we have great confidence in the negotiating Syrian delegation. I would also like to send a message to the delegation of the so-called opposition: you shall be defeated in battles, in negotiations, and on the ground. You were born defeated.
‘We have great confidence in our leadership, in our media campaign that is here; the delegation is raising the Syrian flag in all that it is doing. We will triumph. God permitting, we will triumph. Thank you.
[crowd chants: May God bless the Army! Only God, Syria, and Bashar!]
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Posted by: Mina | Feb 11 2014 11:15 utc | 22
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