tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post4381267564136535877..comments2024-03-18T22:03:28.458-07:00Comments on Monitor on Massacre Marketing: Latakia Massacres: The HostagesCaustic Logichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03082923821952309709noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-86662610358137460792015-12-19T00:46:18.593-08:002015-12-19T00:46:18.593-08:00Muwafaq vs. Badreddin - different guy? Landis says...Muwafaq vs. Badreddin - different guy? Landis says he was killed by Nusra, in revenge for Ghouta, so after Aug 21 ... the other, killed by Nusra, some days before that, so ... <br /><br />Also, Landis blind spot: "Shabiha massacres," like Kayali "cleansing" al-Bayda (next to Baniyas) of ... the extended family of a government-loyalist imam, among all the Sunnis they could have picked. And did them up very bad - pregnant woman sliced open, etc. Caustic Logichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03082923821952309709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-70023937130481444772015-12-19T00:38:23.394-08:002015-12-19T00:38:23.394-08:00raw material, mostly new, thanks (won't probab...raw material, mostly new, thanks (won't probably do much with it anytime soon though)Caustic Logichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03082923821952309709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-45187468545918921762015-12-18T11:50:00.761-08:002015-12-18T11:50:00.761-08:00Names of the victims of the massacres which wiped ...Names of the victims of the massacres which wiped out entire families, and The kidnapped <br />http://australiansforreconciliationinsyria.org/massacre-in-lattakia-august-2013/<br /><br /><br />Wednesday, August 21, 2013 <br />Syria medics uncover Latakia massacre<br />More than 200 bodies have been delivered to hospitals in the western Syrian province of Latakia following the occupation of several towns and villages by foreign-backed militants, medical sources say. <br />The medics said on Tuesday that most of the dead bodies belonged civilians including women and children who have been killed in ambushes carried out by terrorists groups around the city of Latakia.<br />http://en.alalam.ir/news/1507726<br />On Monday, the Syrian army recaptured the villages of Hambousheyah, al-Ballouta and Sheikh Nabhan in the strategic province.Military officials say they are now getting closer to the Salma village, which is the last bastion of Takfiri extremists in the region.<br /><br /><br />A doctor working in the National Hospital in Latakia, which received the casualties from the countryside, told Human Rights Watch that the hospital received 205 corpses of civilians killed during the August 4-18 operation.<br />The doctor showed Human Rights Watch a medical report the hospital prepared on August 26 stating that the “[c]ause of death in several of [the bodies] was multiple gunshot wounds all over the bodies, in addition to stab wounds made with a sharp instrument, given the decapitation observed in most bodies … Some corpses were found in a state of complete charring, and others had their feet tied …” The medical report reflected that the degree of decomposition of the corpses was consistent with the victims having been killed around August 4.<br />https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/10/10/syria-executions-hostage-taking-rebels<br /><br />The final death toll exceeded 400, with 150 to 200 people taken hostage<br />https://www.rt.com/op-edge/mother-chemical-attack-footage-fraud-509/<br /><br />hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-85991907337762846572015-12-18T11:47:16.420-08:002015-12-18T11:47:16.420-08:0019 Dec 2013
Abu Mohammed al-Joulani, leader of Ja...19 Dec 2013 <br />Abu Mohammed al-Joulani, leader of Jabhat al-Nusra<br /><br />http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/12/al-qaeda-leader-syria-speaks-al-jazeera-20131218155917935989.html<br /><br />Al-Nusra suffered a blow in the recent months when hundreds of its foreign fighters defected with their weapons, to join another al-Qaeda linked group, known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. <br /><br />For the moment, however, the Islamic State seemed to have the edge in the recruitment battle. Many of the Nusra Front soldiers told me that over the previous months, their siblings and cousins had been fighting for the Islamic State. The pay was better. <br />http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/magazine/theo-padnos-american-journalist-on-being-kidnapped-tortured-and-released-in-syria.html?_r=1<br /><br />Joulani 2015<br />http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/5210.htm<br /><br /><br />hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-81161966121060886102015-12-18T11:45:37.690-08:002015-12-18T11:45:37.690-08:00Badreddin Ghazal
He has no problem admitting the ...Badreddin Ghazal<br /><br />He has no problem admitting the bulk of the massacre, and kidnapping of civilians, directly to HRW. The executuion of elderly cleric Badreddin Ghazal after capture first raised alarm bells. <br />http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2015/12/latakia-massacres-hostages.html<br /><br />On August 4, opposition fighters abducted and later executed Sheikh Bader Ghazzal, the local Alawite religious authority <br />in Barouda who presided over the maqam. The opposition group Jabhat al-Nusra released a statement on what is believed to be their website acknowledging that its members executed the sheikh, who was a relative of Fadl Ghazzal, an adviser to former Syrian president Hafez al-Assad, because the sheikh supported the Syrian government. <br />https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/10/10/syria-executions-hostage-taking-rebels<br /><br /><br /> Muwaffaq al-Ghazal<br /><br />Besides the widely circulated footage of Kayali from earlier this year in which he apparently calls for the necessity of cleansing Sunni areas on the coastline (most notably Baniyas), Kayali is also frequently shown in TSR media output appearing with Alawite sheikhs, one of whom was the well-known Muwaffaq al-Ghazal, who enjoyed close ties with Kayali<br /><br /> and was later killed by Jabhat al-Nusra as part of the “Eye for an Eye” revenge operations announced by Sheikh Abu Mohammed al-Jowlani <br /><br />against Alawite villages in retaliation for the chemical weapons attacks in East Ghouta. <br /><br />http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/aymenn-al-tamimi-speaks-to-ali-kayali-and-profiles-the-syrian-resistance-a-pro-assad-militia-force/<br /><br />hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-80163918464105877162015-12-18T11:42:14.532-08:002015-12-18T11:42:14.532-08:00" He says they're "near Qardaha
The ..." He says they're "near Qardaha<br />The man holding them has been identified as local leader of Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar (JMA), but he was also reported killed in the fighting. He says, and put them in a good place and good health care ... and we treat them according to Islamic law and the Islamic religion... " He says they're "near Qardaha," implicitly in Latakia, <br />http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2015/12/latakia-massacres-hostages.html<br /><br />Despite the mujahideen’s initial successes in capturing numerous Alawite villages and apparently being only several miles away from Qardaḥa, <br />pro-Assad forces ultimately pushed back <br />and by mid-August, jihadi circles began circulating messages to pray for the mujahideen as the offensive ultimately failed, with fighting now confined to the Jabal al-Akrād area.<br /><br />http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/aymenn-al-tamimi-speaks-to-ali-kayali-and-profiles-the-syrian-resistance-a-pro-assad-militia-force/<br />hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-84872311542030919492015-12-18T11:40:23.709-08:002015-12-18T11:40:23.709-08:00The activist explained how the prisoners were firs...The activist explained how the prisoners were first divided between four groups: ISIS, JMA, Jabhat al-Nusra, <br />and Suqour al-Izz. <br />http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2015/12/latakia-massacres-hostages.html<br /><br />As mentioned in the introduction, Latakia province has had a reputation as a hangout for muhajireen. <br /><br />Indeed, a number of well-known jihadist factions with foreign components/leadership set up base in Latakia province, <br /><br />such as Suqur al-Izz, <br /><br />which was led by Saudis and merged with Jabhat al-Nusra last year, and Harakat Sham al-Islam, a Moroccan-led faction that first emerged in 2013 and has remained separate from Jabhat al-Nusra in being affiliated with the Jabhat Ansar al-Din jihadi coalition, despite the clear al-Qa’ida affinities and the merger of that coalition’s leading component- Jaysh al-Muhajireen wa al-Ansar– with Jabhat al-Nusra earlier this year. <br /><br />http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/the-factions-of-north-latakia/<br />hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-23554850301645497322015-12-18T11:38:13.648-08:002015-12-18T11:38:13.648-08:00Gen. Milhem spoke on the 9th, and was still waitin...Gen. Milhem spoke on the 9th, and was still waiting for the list of demands from Daesh. Some reported the demands for release of one batch of hostages was the release of 4 Libyan fighters, a sizable cash payment, <br />and a video-recorded anti-government protest in the town square. (this part needs more work.) <br />http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2015/12/latakia-massacres-hostages.html<br /><br />As Kayali put it to me, the fighters leading the rebel offensive on Latakia in the summer were primarily from Chechnya, Afghanistan [i.e. Afghan Arab veterans and the like], <br />the Maghreb, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf area<br /><br />Figure 6 :Abu Rahmat al-Lībī, a Libyan fighter for ISIS. <br />http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/Abu-Rahmat-al-L%C4%ABb%C4%AB-450x600.jpg<br /><br />Figure 9: Abu Turab al-Lībī, a Libyan fighter for ISIS. <br />http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/Abu-Turab-al-L%C4%ABb%C4%AB-a-Libyan-fighter-for-ISIS-450x600.jpg<br /><br />Figure 12: Two Libyan fighters in the lush forests of rural Latakia as part of the mujahideen offensive. According to Anṣār ash-Sharī’a supporters from Tripoli (Libya), the two men are from the northwestern Libyan town of Zāwīya. <br />http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/Two-Libyan-fighters-in-the-lush-forests-of-rural-Latakia-450x337.jpg<br /><br />Figure 13: Photo of Latakia forestry taken by the Libyan Shari’a official for the ISIS-front group Katiba al-Muhajireen: Abu Ṭalḥa al-Lībī. <br />http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/Photo-of-Latakia-forestry-taken-by-the-Libyan-Shari%E2%80%99a-official-for-the-ISIS-front-group-Katiba-al-Muhajireen-450x337.jpg<br /><br />http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/aymenn-al-tamimi-speaks-to-ali-kayali-and-profiles-the-syrian-resistance-a-pro-assad-militia-force/<br /><br />Though Ansar al-Sharia in Libya, like its Tunisian counterpart, at one point appeared to be pro-Islamic State, <br />some of its members also joined Katiba al-Muhajireen, <br />a foreign fighter group operating in Latakia that has been subsumed under Jabhat al-Nusra. <br /><br />http://jihadintel.meforum.org/group/39/ansar-al-sharia-libya<br /><br /><br /><br />May 31, 2013 · Libyan fighters are in Syria, fighting alongside anti-government forces <br />https://www.facebook.com/bbcworldservice/posts/615067428512387<br /><br />July 28, 2012 <br />http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/28/world/meast/syria-libya-fighters/<br /><br />September 2012 According to Frenkel, a member of the Free Syrian Army stated, that the shipment contained over 400 ton of weapons from Libya, including SAM-7 surface to air missiles and rocket propelled grenades. <br />http://nsnbc.me/2013/04/10/un-report-reveals-libya-as-hub-for-arms-deliveries-to-insurgents-in-syria-and-mali/<br /><br />2011-11-30 600 Libyans ‘already fighting in Syria’<br />https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/88/882961_-utf-8-b.html<br /><br />hnoreply@blogger.com