Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is being proven correct in her prediction of events in Syria since the fall of the Assad regime. In that embattled nation today, al-Qaeda-linked jihadis are massacring minority Alawites and Syria’s few remaining Christians. Over 600 have been killed so far.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s warning of a terrorist takeover in Syria looks to be coming true amid reports that al Qaeda-linked terror forces aligned with Syria’s interim new president—a former al Qaeda terrorist—are being accused of massacring Alawites as well as members of the country’s dwindling Christian community.
Syrian security forces and affiliated gunmen have killed more than 340 civilians, the vast majority of them from the Alawite minority, over the last two days, Rami Abdulrahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told Reuters on Saturday.
The Alawites, we might note, follow a pre-Shia offshoot of Islam. Alawites are found in Syria, Turkey, and Lebanon. Several key posts in the Assad government were held by Alawites.
At Gabbard’s Senate confirmation hearing she said “I have no love for Assad or any dictator. I just hate al-Qaeda. I hate that our leaders cozy up to Islamist extremists, calling them “rebels”, as Jake Sullivan said to Hillary Clinton, “al Qaeda is on our side in Syria.” Syria is now controlled by al-Qaeda offshoot HTS, led by an Islamist Jihadist who danced in the streets on 9/11, and who was responsible for the killing of many American soldiers.”
An al-Qaeda offshoot is likely going to be just as hateful as the original organization.
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An Associated Press report presents some disturbing details:
Residents of Baniyas, one of the towns worst hit by the violence, said bodies were strewn on the streets or left unburied in homes and on the roofs of buildings, and nobody was able to collect them. One resident said that the gunmen prevented residents for hours from removing the bodies of five of their neighbors killed Friday at close range.
Ali Sheha, a 57-year-old resident of Baniyas who fled with his family and neighbors hours after the violence broke out Friday, said that at least 20 of his neighbors and colleagues in one neighborhood of Baniyas where Alawites lived, were killed, some of them in their shops, or in their homes.
And:
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor, said that 428 Alawites have been killed in revenge attacks in addition to 120 pro-Assad fighters and 89 from security forces. The Observatory’s chief Rami Abdurrahman said that revenge killings stopped early Saturday.
“This was one of the biggest massacres during the Syrian conflict,” Abdurrahman said about the killings of Alawite civilians.
This is, as is demonstrated once again, a part of the world where there are few, if any, good choices. A government that massacres its citizens is overthrown; once its dictator has fled, the rebels take over – and immediately start massacring other citizens. It’s a vicious cycle that has, in this part of the world, been going on since Roman times. It will almost certainly continue until there is some major, indeed world-changing, cultural shift. A Reformation, if you like, or just some semblance of sanity.
In the meantime, in Syria, it’s a case of “frying pan, meet fire.”
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