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Actual political prisoners
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I saw that photo posted several places with disclaimers that it's not what it's purported to be (a person emerging from a Syrian prison). It's either AI or a pic from some other event. Doesn't look like a guy who's been living in a hole underground for months or years (short hair, looks clean, etc).

People are definitely being freed from horrible circumstances, though, for sure.
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Yeah, I’m skeptical of photos but I hope the J6ers get an idea of what it is to be an actual political prisoner with no hope.
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Volkonski wrote: Mon Dec 09, 2024 7:51 am
Trump "has" Musk & maybe crypto. which will collapse first?
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a sidenote w/o link: Israel did bomb chem labs / bio labs, they also bombed arsenals so that waepons would not get used by the rebel groups (against Israel).

ETA some editing done
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Russian military has begun large-scale withdrawal from Syria, US and Western officials say

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/16/politics ... index.html
US and western intelligence suggests that Russian officials have been trying to determine whether Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS), the main rebel group now in charge of Syria, is open to a negotiated settlement of some kind that would allow Russia to remain in some of its key bases, the sources all said. Those bases include Russia’s Khmeimim airbase in Latakia and a port facility at Tartus.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a press briefing last week that Russia is in touch with the rebels in Damascus.

“We must maintain contact with those who are controlling the situation on the ground because, as I mentioned, we have facilities and personnel there,” he said.

Two of the US officials said that the Russians have begun moving naval assets from Syria to Libya, and a separate defense official said Moscow has increased pressure on Libyan National Army commander Khalifa Haftar to secure Russia’s claim to a port in Benghazi.

Without a Libyan port, and if they are forced to abandon Tartus in Syria, the Russians would be left without a Mediterranean sea port to project power on NATO’s southern flank, the official said. The loss of Tartus, even temporarily, will also make it harder for Russia to move illicit materials between Russia and Africa, the defense official said.

CNN reported last week that Russia appeared to be loading and preparing aircraft to leave its military bases in Syria, according to satellite images collected by Maxar on Friday morning.
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I wondered. He didn’t look malnourished or dirty.

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I guess the Russians in Syria are cursing the rebels. Rather than lingering in a moderate climate they will be facing a chilly chilling Ukraine war front :violin:
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True scale of Assad’s slaughter revealed at Syrian mass grave

Channel 4 News
16 Dec 2024

His prisons held hundreds of thousands of people: relentlessly tortured and abused, many of them did not survive.

But since Bashar Al-Assad fell from power - the full horror of the regime's crimes is being revealed. Syria was largely cut off to journalists during his 24 years in power.

But now the daunting task of documenting Assad's atrocities can begin: starting with the country's mass graves. Including one where around 150 thousand people may have been buried.
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Trump’s killing of Qassem Suleimani led to fall of Assad, says Tugendhat
Ex-security minister says assassination ordered by Trump set off chain of events that led to revolution in Syria

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Wed 1 Jan 2025 14.10 CET

Donald Trump’s decision to sanction the assassination of an elite Iranian commander triggered a chain of events that has revealed Iran as a paper tiger and led to the overthrow of Basher al-Assad, a former UK security minister has said.

Tom Tugendhat, now on the Conservative backbenches and intending to focus on foreign policy, also predicted the Iranian regime would collapse in a few years. He said that if handled properly, Syria could become the economic powerhouse of the Middle East within a decade.

It is unusual for a former British cabinet minister to lavish praise on what is seen by some as such a controversial act bordering on an extrajudicial killing.

His remarks were made shortly before the fifth anniversary of Qassem Suleimani’s killing in Baghdad, an anniversary that led the Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, again to claim in a speech in Tehran that the Syrian leadership would be forced to withdraw as “youth rises up” to defeat the newly installed Sunni regime.

Suleimani was instrumental in using Syria and Iraq as a base from which to drive back the Sunni Islamist group Islamic State and to entrench Iranian interests in both countries.

Tugendhat argued on the Conflicted podcast that Suleimani’s death in a drone attack had proved to be a turning point.

He said: “I’m always struck by how some people can be much more seminal, much more key, pivotal to an organisation than you realise at the time. The reality is when Qassem Suleimani was killed in January 2020, he held in his head all the relationships, all the deals for everybody around the region.

He was replaced, but he wasn’t really, because nobody could replace the personal 20-year relationships that he held. That’s really the unpicking. So I have to say, I know it’s not popular, but President Trump, effectively, was the trigger that began the fall of the Assad regime.”



https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... -tugendhat
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“ Tugendhat served during the Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan. He served in Afghanistan in a civilian capacity, for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), and helped set up the National Security Council of Afghanistan and the government in Helmand Province.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tugendhat

I suspect Mr Tugendhat’s predictions will work out as well as his involvement in the above.
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'Tests recovered poison in...': Assad faced assassination attempt in Russia; Shocking report claims

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03 Jan 2025, 04:04 PM IST

Ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad reportedly survived a poisoning attempt in Moscow, where he has been under Vladimir Putin’s protection since December 2024 after his regime's fall to HTS rebels. As per reports, Assad fell gravely ill, coughing, choking and experiencing severe pain, with tests confirming exposure to poison. However, the Economic Times could not independently verify the authenticity of these claims.



https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ne ... 914320.cms
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His wife is wanting rid of him…. ;)
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Note from one of my web sources w/o link:

Russia seems to be shipping parts of its Syrian hardware to Mali. France has pulled out of Mali last year after a Russia friendly government took over. Mercenaries of the Wagner group are supporting it. Mali is under pressure by Islamic groups.
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Mali? What has Mali got that Russia wants? It is one of the poorest and hottest counties in the world. It is landlocked.
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Volkonski wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2025 3:03 pm Mali? What has Mali got that Russia wants? It is one of the poorest and hottest counties in the world. It is landlocked.
But it's not without mineral wealth. I think uranium and a few other things.
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