Tuesday 6 May 2014

Permanently moving our blog to Wordpress

As some of you may have noticed, we operate on a number of platforms these days. Wordpress.com, this blog account, Twitter to share news, commentary and articles, Facebook to put out news, share articles, etc.

However, spreading out our work to two blogs (on wordpress and blogger) minimises our ability to spread articles and attract an audience, as they will be divided between two sites, instead of being able to focus on the one site. As a result, we are moving our blog permanently to wordpress.com, where we have already been running a blog for some time. It is a better platform for blogging, sharing articles, gaining a following (and thus spreading the word about the cause of freedom, etc).

Thus, this will be our last post on this blog, as we shift our efforts permanently to wordpress.com. You can find our new blog here, where we will post from now on. Thanks go to all who have viewed this blog and shared posts from it so far. We will continue to keep it up for archival purposes.

We will also continue to post from our Twitter account (Radio_FreeSyria), Tumblr accountand Facebook page.

Regards,
The Radio Free Syria team.

Wednesday 23 April 2014

The Abuse of the Ahl al-Bayt by the Faux-’Resistance’



An article by Ben, a member of our station, on how Iran & puppets have abused the Ahl al-Bayt (House of Muhammad, SAW) for their own genocidal ends. 

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Wednesday 9 April 2014

Assad Approves New Chemical Attack on Jobar at Meeting With Top Security Officials, IRG: Report



By Walid al-Ghanim

08-04-2014: The Assad regime is reportedly planning another chemical weapons attack on the East Ghouta region of Damascus province in the near future, specifically on Jobar, according to a report from a credible regime insider who leaked information on the planned attack to the FSA. 

The regime insider reported that during a meeting held on Friday April 4th with senior regime security officials and senior officers from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, which now controls the regime’s military strategy, Bashar al Assad discussed how best to halt the advance of the FSA in the East Ghouta area.

According to information supplied to the FSA by the regime insider, the decision to launch another chemical weapons attack on Jobar, considered the first line of contact with the regime-controlled areas of Damascus, was taken with the help of Iranian military experts in the use of chemical weapons, who are working closely with the Assad regime.

The FSA official told Saudi newspaper Okaz that the Iranian officials had proposed that Assad use Iranian-manufactured chemical weapons to avoid any problems caused by the UN’s insistence on closing down a number of the regime’s own CW manufacturing facilities.

The regime insider reportedly explained that the high-level security meeting took place after the regime became aware of an opposition plan to launch an attack on Damascus on Sunday April 6th; this apparently followed the discovery by regime forces of reports of a number of subterranean tunnels under Damascus used by resistance forces to access various areas cut off by the ongoing crippling regime siege.

The regime has continued its regular use of poison gas against various locations in East Ghouta since its major chemical weapons attack on the region in August 2013 in which over 1,700 civilians many of them women and children, were killed.

From: All4Syria.info


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Thursday 3 April 2014

Cretinous Kim Kardashian in Kasab Cock-Up

02-04-2014: Kim Kardashian, the global spokesperson for shopping and mouth-breathing, has made her first and hopefully her last foray into commentary on global geopolitics, noting that something that hasn’t actually happened is, like, really bad, yeah, and people on Twitter should rise up to, y’know, go shopping about it.

Reacting to a Fox News report that baby-eating Muslamic Ayrabs are, like, doing really really bad things like massacres and poorly finished pedicures to Armenian Christians in Kasab in Syriastan which Fox places somewhere on its studio map of ‘Outside-the-USA- Where –Dragons-Live’ , Kim immediately broke off from contemplating her latest 3,000 selfies taken in the previous half hour to demand that her baby son, the family’s only literate member, compose a Tweet on her behalf expressing her outrage.

In the message the world-renowned shopper said that she was, like, really upset and might publish pictures of herself looking saddened in a fabulous new shimmering emerald green backless evening gown by Missoni in protest at the massacres in Kasab that are like totally happening, yeah, coz her sister Khloe saw it reported on Fox too. She urged her followers to #SaveKessab, prompting them to ask one another if Kasab is closer to Chanel or Tiffany’s on Rodeo Drive and demand to know why nobody had mentioned this designer previously.

On being informed that she was, in fact, talking her customary uninformed dross from an equally infinitely ignorant source and that no such massacres or abuse of Armenian Christians have taken place in Kasab or elsewhere, Kim paused, changing outfits only four times in ten minutes and taking fewer than five dozen pictures of herself, before announcing that truth is, like, totally boring and nothing to do with shopping.


A (satirical) post by Ruth Riegler, a Scottish activist and founding member of Radio Free Syria.


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Documentary Fundraiser for Syria

Documentary Fundraiser for Syria
In 2013, I went to Syria to film a documentary (Stories From Idlib: A Revolution Ignored), with the aim of showing the true nature of the Syrian Revolution, and using funds made from the documentary to raise money from the Syrian people. Now, I aim to start raising funds from said documentary.

The documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkFlsV447Mk

Order a copy here, by putting down a payment of £4.99 per copy, and leave your address in the comments section below. Your documentary (on disk) will be directly shipped to you, and 100% of the proceeds will go to a charity (Hand in Hand for Syria) which actively helps the Syrian people themselves, and maybe even their fight for freedom in the process! Thank you! Barukullah fi Souria. (May God protect you Syria!) - Ben

Ben Allinson-Davies is a worker for Radio Free Syria, an activist for Syrian freedom, and a film-maker, who has seen the violence in Syria firsthand, and thankfully returned to tell the tale.

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Saturday 29 March 2014

Senior Regime Torturer, Cousin of Bashar Assad Captured: Report

Latakia province, 29-03-2014: Resistance forces in Latakia have reportedly captured a senior regime officer, Brigadier Atef Najib, the head of the regime’s political security division in Latakia and a cousin of Bashar Assad.

Najib was previously the head of the political security dvision in Daraa, where he supervised the torture of children and ordered some of the first massacres of civilians in the early days of the revolution in 2011. According to a number of sources, he took particular personal pleasure in listening to the screams of children being tortured.

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Monday 24 March 2014

Sweeping Advances Made by the Revolutionary Fighters in Syria

A statue of Hafez al-Assad, Bashar's late father and fellow
genocidal dictator (as the tragically-ignored Hama massacre
and 30-year tyranny demonstrates) wrapped in a Free Syrian
flag in the center of Kasab.
The last 24 hours has been somewhat unfortunate for Bashar al-Assad and friends...

The last border crossing to Turkey to remain under the control of Assad was recently taken by the revolutionaries, a jet which attemted to bomb the positions of the free fighters was downed by a Turkish missile battery after violating Turkish airspace (Turkey again deserves thanks, for having stood with the Syrian people from the start, despite being constantly hamstrung by the outside world), much ground was lost by the regime in its heartland of Latakia. This video shows Kesab (the town near to the crossing), a prominent town in Latakia, under the control of the revolutionaries.  The Al-Nabeen border post was also captured.

In a very symbolic blow, Hilal al-Assad, a cousin of Bashar, and commander of the 'National Defense Forces' (a sectarian regime militia) was squashed by the revolutionaries during the battle to take Kesab. it seems Jaish al-Islam fired a grad rocket onto one of his positions and killed him & several of his men

Hilal has been described as a 'beast' by Qusai Zakarya, a prominent anti-Assad Syrian-Palestinian activist. Hilal responsible for countless atrocities and acts of savage violence. In one period of his horrible actions,  he took innocent female civilians hostage and imprisoned them in Latakia Sports City, and no doubt mistreating them, in an attempt to keep the revolutionaries at bay. The militia he founded has committed countless atrocities and sectarian killings. In Baniyas alone, the NDF "assumed the most barbaric role of beating, shooting, or stabbing families to death, then burning down their houses" in sectarian massacres directed against non-Alawites which killed well over 1000 people in all manner of horrific circumstances:
The New York Times, which interviewed eyewitnesses and survivors of the massacre, pro-regime forces clad or semi-clad in military fatigues went house to house, separating men and boys above the age of 10 from women and younger children. Whole families were executed and images have since emerged showing children piled atop each other, some with half their faces blown off. Corpses later recovered in al-Bayda were said to include "the burned body of a baby just a few months old" and "a fetus ripped from a woman's belly." Two days later, on May 4, a similar massacre was repeated in Ras al-Nabeh, a district near the city of Baniyas.
None will miss Hilal, after leading sectarian Alawite and Shiite militants who committed such atrocities, and ordered them to commit them.

Only today, Assad has lost yet another cousin - Ali al-Assad was killed today by revolutionary forces in Latakia, seemingly by the Free Syrian Army. The exact circumstances are unknown.

While such blows may not initially seem to be decisive militarily in the long-term (other disgusting thugs are waiting in the wings), they are significant in the sense that Assad's inner circle is slowly being chipped away, and this sows fear and discord in the ranks of the regime. The effect of Hilal's death has been severe to the extent that Latakia's pro-Assad forces have begun to engage in furious street battles with each other all across the city. Such disunity can only benefit the revolutionaries' ongoing offensive.

Unfortunately, this often takes the form of violence against civilians. The forces of Hilal's son (each spoiled Assad family member has their own gang of thugs, seemingly) furiously roamed Latakia's streets after his death, angrily shooting at anything that moves, and even allegedly fighting with Assad's forces.

In addition, Assad's forces have  surrounded the Sunni neighborhoods of Soliaba and Tabyat in Latakia city in response to the killings, sparking fears of sectarian massacres in retaliation. This vile regime has shown itself incapable of anything but violence and hatred, as well as irrationality and a lack of logic. Turkey aided Syrians, so as a result, Syrians must pay for that with their lives.

However, we are sincerely hoping and praying that this will not turn out to be the case. Despite the constant media lies claiming that Assad is winning, the revolutionaries are advancing all across Syria. May God be with them. We congratulate the Syrian people on their heroic resistance, their success, and their refusal to give in!

Ben Allinson-Davies & the Radio Free Syria team.

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Tuesday 4 February 2014

Notable Syrian Activsts Surrender to the Regime in a "Deal"

This post was directly put out via Qusai Zakarya's managers at his Facebook page, blog, etc. The notable activist has turned himself in to the Assad regime, a selfless act in an attempt to save the lives of the starving people of Moadamiya. His life is now directly in danger, as he is utterly at the regime's mercy. Please share this post widely in an attempt to spread the word! If there is enough awareness, the Assad regime may think twice before harming him as they have harmed millions of other activists and innocents:
"QUSAI ACCEPTS DEAL TO LEAVE MOADAMIYA
Yesterday, Qusai Zakarya and several other opposition leaders and activists from Moadamiya accepted the regime’s offer of a face to face meeting as part of a deal for them to be allowed to leave the besieged area. Moadamiya’s fifteen month siege has not allowed people in or out and not allowed the entry of food.
The local council has been eager to finalize a truce so that larger food supplies would be allowed in – some supplies had entered after the local council first signed a truce with the regime on December 26.
Qusai and other opposition leaders had initially opposed the truce and continued to call for breaking the siege. The regime then demanded that certain activists in Moadamiya leave as a condition of the truce. Due to increasing pressure from residents who want the food shipments, Qusai, along with other activists, yesterday agreed to leave Moadamiya for a meeting with government officials. Their safety was guaranteed by the regime as part of the deal.
Qusai ‘s group was taken to a hotel in central Damascus. They are waiting for a meeting tonight – presumably with officials from the Ministry of Reconciliation and the Fourth Armored Division Headquarters.
A member of Qusai’s Facebook team has spoken with him and is hopeful that negotiations will be productive and permit him safe passage out of Syria."
Thank you for your help. May Gog bless and protect you Qusai, and may God protect Syria!

Saturday 4 January 2014

Show your support, end the siege!

Children, elderly people, and anyone who cannot obtain food, are dying of starvation and the Assad regime's brutal bombardment in Moadamiyet al Sham (a.k.a. Moadamiyeh). Not only that, but the regime has tormented and tortured the people using the disgusting tactic of claiming that they will allow food aid into the besieged neighbourhood if they fly the regime flag, only to give them token amounts. This is one of many such disgraceful atrocities: http://stopthesiege.wordpress.com/2014/01/03/a-few-brave-hearts/
Please show your support and solidarity with the starving people, and brave hunger-striker Qusai Zakarya, here, while there is still time.
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