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Monthly Archives: January 2012

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The Syrian National Council and the Saudi monarchy

January 31, 2012by syriarevolts 1 Comment

Below is a Syrian National Council advertisement published in the Saudi monarchy owned Al-Hayat newspaper. It is signed by the Syrian National Council, Association of Syrian Scholars, Conference of Muslim [...]

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The Syrian Observatory: The Inside Story

January 28, 2012by syriarevolts Leave a comment

Asa Winstanley has published an excellent investigative piece on the ‘ The Syrian Observatory’, an organisation that has become a source of information for many mass-media outlets. The more recent split within [...]

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Clarification on a mistake: returning to the story of the kidnapped Iranian engineers

January 28, 2012by syriarevolts 3 Comments

I originally posted the story of the capture of claimed Iranian ‘Revolutionary Guard’ soldiers by a group claiming itself as ‘Al-Farouq Brigade’ of the ‘Free Syrian Army’. In the post [...]

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The omnipresence of Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard

January 27, 2012by syriarevolts 1 Comment

Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiyya  broadcast a video by a group claiming itself as ‘Al-Farouq’ brigade from the ‘Free Syrian Army’. The video  claims to show the kidnapping of members of the [...]

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False binaries on Syria

January 19, 2012by syriarevolts Leave a comment

Al-Jazeera has published an insightful article by Bassam Haddad responding to those painting the uprising in Syria in binary terms i.e. either supporting the Syrian regime or the calculating regional and global [...]

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A statement of intent?

January 10, 2012by syriarevolts Leave a comment

Bashar al-Assad’s recent speech carried nothing new and re-iterated previous talking points on claimed conspiracies, roaming terrorist gangs and a promise of a victory through a fictitious popular support for [...]

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