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 account, and Facebook page.

Regards,
The Radio Free Syria team.

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. 

Read the full article on our main blog, here.

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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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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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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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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A great victory for the Syrian Revolution in Ghouta

Today, there was a glorious victory, al-Hamdulillah. The revolutionaries' elite units have come close to breaking the siege of Ghouta (in Damascus), saving the starving people there! Thousands were previously starving to death as a result of the crippling siege there (in addition, the chemical massacre in August was in Ghouta). 8000 elite fighters led the way, launching a counterattack from the east and west, according to the discourse circulating on Twitter. They laid waste to huge numbers of Assad's scum. TAKBIR!

The true soldiers of Syria can be seen here in this video, staging a victory parade.

The discourse and information about the successful campaign can be found here, on Twitter.

Ben Allinson-Davies is a worker for Radio Free Syria, blogger, and film-maker, who spent over a week in Syria with the people there, including rebel forces. His documentary on the revolution can be found here.

Radio Free Syria interviews Cody Langford, founder of the 'Remember Syria' charity

On November 6th 2013, Radio Free Syria's Ben (who spent time with the opposition forces in Syria) interviewed American activist Cody Langford, who has founded his own charity organisation known as 'Remember Syria', and who will be travelling to Syria himself, before long.

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A message to Western media outlets...

A message to Western media from heroic media activist and Radio Free Syria manager Qusai Zakarya in Moadamiya, #Damascusprovince concerning the evacuation of some civilians from the town yesterday. As has become the norm, media, including the BBC and the Huffington Post, reported only the Assad regime's monstrously distorted version of events, without bothering to consult its victims, whose voices are silenced by both the regime and Western media, both mainstream and 'alternative' (sic).

"Moadamiya, #Damascus province, 30-10-2013: I would like to update you about the situation in Moadamiya. Over 100 men were detained yesterday during the evacuation. Today news has come out that these men are being forces into serving in the Syrian army and to join Assad's thugs, commonly called shabeeha. Certainly, these men would prefer death over such a fate. It's also important to remember that during the first evacuation a few weeks ago, Assad forces detained several children and some still remain in custody, their fates unknown to their families. Although many journalists have written about the Moadamiya story, no one has focused on the fate of the evacuated civilians and the danger they are in right now."

Introduction by Radio Free Syria's Ruth, message via Qusai Zakarya in Moadamiya, Damascus province.

URGENT, PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE: Press release regarding the starvation of Modamiyeh al-Sham

Children are dying of starvation and under bombardment in Moadamiyet al Sham (a.k.a. Moadamiyeh). The Shaam News Network (S.N.N), Radio Free Syria and other organisations and individuals are set to issue a joint press release to international media and humanitarian organisations calling for the immediate lifting of the siege on Moadamiyet al Sham and the urgent delivery of humanitarian aid to the town.
Please join us and include your name and/or the name of your organisation/group as a co-signatory. People are dying.

There is no time to waste. 

This is the body of the press release to be issued, which is also being issued in Arabic (this will be posted soon).

For Immediate Release: September 28, 2013

Assad Regime Starving City’s Children To Death Daily

The humanitarian crisis of the century is emerging across Syria, particularly in the city of Moadamiyet al Sham where civilians, including children, are being to death as part of a conscious regime policy, dying on a daily basis.
On a daily basis, activists and citizen journalists are publishing videos and pictures of children starving to death in the city of Moadamiyet al Sham as the world endlessly debates the merits of removing chemical weapons from the Assad regime. As media organizations dedicated to revealing the truth about the Syrian revolution as well as giving a voice to the people living in Syria, we are collectively launching an awareness and action campaign to combat the horrific and deteriorating humanitarian crisis in the city.

For over 300 days now, the city’s residents have had no electricity because regime forces disconnected it as collective punishment for peaceful protests. For over 270 days for the same reason, residents have had no running water in their homes and no food or medicine has entered the city due to the ongoing siege by Assad’s forces. Furthermore, the Assad regime has systematically bombarded the city on a daily basis with warplanes, heavy artillery, tanks, rockets, mortar shells and chemical weapons, escalating the crisis to a situation of unimaginable horror.

Our organizations have created this alliance to provide credible information on the number of children and other residents of Moadamiyet al Shaam who have starved to death as well as to demand that the international community take action to break this inhuman siege before yet another entire city is wiped out by the Assad regime. Please await another press statement in the upcoming days detailing the documented cases of starvation, as well as providing action items to address the crisis. It is true that media organizations typically play the role of disseminating information rather than providing humanitarian relief, but we are convinced that this is the duty of every member of the human race regardless of religion, race, gender or ethnicity.

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Assad uses chemical weapons again: Obama's diplomacy is killing Syria

Would you believe it? I certainly would. Hours after giving Assad the green light to kill people by any other means but chemical weapons, and hours after abandoning any plans to strike his regime, Assad kills people using chemical weapons... Again. This time gassing another suburb of his capital.

In the early hours of this morning, chemical weapon strikes were reported across the Jobar district, of a very similar nature to the previous chemical massacre in Ghouta, which claimed the lives of over 1400 people and wounded and injured thousands more. Early footage which has emerged shows people on oxygen machines, clearly injured and fighting for their lives - Ghouta seems to be being repeated all over again, with civilians choking to death, people suffocating on the streets, and other such horrific events. 

One of the innocent young victims who's lives were so
tragically taken in the Assad regime's genocidal chemical
weapons attack in Ghouta, August 21st 2013. The victims
the world has abandoned in favor of the genocidal monster
who is slaughtering them.

Coincidentally (there are no coincidences in Assad's genocide) the location of the attacks is an area which government forces have determinedly been trying to enter for some time (the Jobar district of Damascus), without success. heavy fighting has flared for months. Now, it seems that the government has decided to punish the people in Jobar, armed or unarmed, for defying their authority and standing for their freedom.

What is abundantly clear is that Obama's bluff has been called by both Putin and Assad. His talk of a strike was boisterous enough, and seemed to cause Assad a lot of worry - to the extent that he relocated troops and weapons, frantically preparing for the alleged strikes. Many thought that the strikes would actually happen, and the selectively anti-war crew (who fume at the prospect of a possible US intervention, yet have nothing to say in the face of three years of Iranian, Russian, Iraqi, Hezbollah and Russian intervention in Syria) went into a frenzy.

However, during John Kerry's speech, he claimed, in a moment of bravado, that Assad could hand over all his chemical weapons to the international community within a week, to avoid being attacked. Cynically, Putin and Assad called his bluff; Assad agreed to the plan, and Putin volunteered to help him implement it. Obama being Obama, he immediately took them at their word and called off the planned strikes.

What happened, in the words of Lee Smith, was nothing short of an utter surrender to Putin by Obama:

Reset with Russia was originally a strategic priority for the Obama administration because it saw Moscow as the key to getting Iran to come to the negotiating table. Putin, from the White House’s perspective, was destined for the role of junior partner. Now Putin has turned “Reset” upside down. By helping Obama out of a jam with Syria, Putin has made himself the senior partner to whom the White House is now beholden. Accordingly, when Putin proposes the same sort of deal with Iran, with Russia having established its bona fides as an interlocutor for Syria, Obama is almost certain to jump at it.

What’s unclear is whether Obama understands that his foreign policy legacy will be to have ruined the American position in the Middle East, our patrimony of the last seven decades. If the 1979 takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran signaled weakness, the Russian deal screams surrender.

In a single move, Putin has accurately noticed Obama's well-meaning, dithering nature, capitalised on it, and thus given himself the upper hand in every single key negotiating table in the future - he has made himself seem indispensable to Obama as a partner in negotiating in difficult situations (when his support for these regimes is actually the fundamental problem), and Obama will now, naively and gratefully, jump at the chance to involve him at every point in the future. He will think that he has no choice. In other words, Obama is willingly asking Putin to hamstring him. Putin has effectively undercut the United States' entire foreign policy in the region, with a simple gesture.

Hitler getting his brownshirt thugs to sow chaos on Germany's streets, and then claiming that he was the only solution to restore Germany's stability, immediately comes to mind.

Does nobody else see Putin's disgusting hypocrisy?

What's more, in regard to Assad's plan to give up his chemical weapons in return for not being attacked, Lee accurately summed up Assad's hollow promises in a single paragraph:

The Syrian government has accepted the proposal because they understand it is an empty formalism. As everyone knows, as even all but the most obtuse White House officials must also understand, Assad will not give up his unconventional arsenal because he cannot. The use of chemical weapons in a Damascus suburb August 21 is evidence that, contrary to the regime’s narrative, Assad and his allies are not routing the rebels. The district that was targeted is a strategically significant node that, among other things, is close to the Dumayr airstrip where the regime is supplied with direct flights from Iran. The rebels had held the territory for over a year, thwarting repeated attempts by Assad’s forces to retake it. Presumably, Assad calculated that given the importance of the area it was worth testing Obama’s red line to take it. Without chemical weapons, Assad fears he may lose the war.

Obama is the type of man, and leader, who believes that everyone shares his fundamental beliefs in peace, freedom, security and stability. He believes they speak his language, and will gladly engage with him. In his own way, Obama wants to believe that Assad is somehow terribly misguided and will see reason.

More young victims of the August 2013 Ghouta attacks. This is the regime
which Obama has given the green light to. It can kill civilians in any way it
likes, but chemical weapons are a red line. Why? Because they make him look
bad. It really is that simple.

 His administration's plan is to somehow remove Assad the figurehead, and keep the brutal, murderous, totalitarian regime which he relies upon, under the facade of a "transitional government". Why? Because this regime is the best regime for safeguarding the interests of the US (which has long renditioned prisoners for torture in Syria, during the war on terror) and Israel, which has, ironically, long had its borders guarded by Assad. His regime is the devil they both know, and the US government would no doubt agree to drop Assad if they could keep the men behind him in place. What is in the interests of Israel, is in the interests of the United States. They worry more about chemical weapons falling into the hands of a minority of extremists with limited means, than they are about a genocidal regime (which kills hundreds of thousands of its own citizens) keeping them. Strange, isn't it?

Right now, Obama may as well turn over the keys of the White House to Vlad. The leader of the free world is seemingly too plodding and indecisive to lead anything, and somehow desperately feels the need to have the backing of a totalitarian dictator (who's ironically on the side of the dictatorship Obama claims to be against) before he will do anything. He simply cannot see that Putin wants to protect Assad to safeguard Russia's interests (a naval base in Tartous and millions in arms deals), and so has no interest in working with him, and every interest in hindering him. He seemingly also cannot see that Assad is simply out to protect Assad and *brutal* family, and he will do it at any cost - even if it means destroying the entire nation, so he can be president of a bombed-out shell that was once a beautiful nation.

People of all ages (400 of them children) killed in the Assad
regime's chemical massacre in Ghouta, August 2013. Some
conspiracy theorists would have you believe that these people
were gassed by the FSA (many of them are FSA family members)
to put the blame on Assad and give the US an excuse to
intervene - they forget that the US is coming up with every
excuse possible NOT to intervene, and isn't exactly unfriendly
with the Assad regime.

When will he realise that Assad, Putin and their ilk don't give a toss for diplomacy and live by the law of the jungle? Obama respects words, signatures on pieces of paper, treaties, and rhetoric, albeit naively. The only thing that totalitarian basket-cases like Assad, Putin and dictators the world over respect is the use of force, and actions - not words. Obama's extensive talking has enabled Assad to kill, maim and terrorise millions - with every false promise from the (alleged) leader of the free world, Assad becomes that little bit bolder.

More children massacred by the regime's brutal chemical
massacre in Ghouta, August 21st 2013.

People ask why he risks using those weapons when he is "winning" the "war"? I was in Syria. I saw his crimes, and stayed with the revolutionaries there. The answer is that he is not winning the GENOCIDE at all - in fact, the rumor that he is winning is based on the fact that he re-took a small town on the Lebanese border called Qusayr... It took him over a month and the losses of hundreds of his men, and the intervention of thousands of Hezbollah terrorists from Lebanon just for him to take back a single town, too small to be called a city. Not really winning, is it?

He risks using the weapons because he knows that nobody will stop him, and that Obama is foolish enough to carry on talking, but will always balk at the thought of  actually acting on what he says. 

His message is also so confusing, that the American people, already ill-informed, have gone off the idea of a strike even more (not that it will probably happen now) - they know Obama wants to intervene, but he doesn't want to use boots on the ground, but he does want to strike the regime, but only to stop the use of chemical weapons, not end the regime (murder by bullets, bombs, napalm, phosphorous, artillery and jets bombing civilian areas are apparently all alright, however).

Assad, Putin and Obama are playing geopolitical chess games to keep the Assad regime in power. Everyone has a reason to keep him on his throne.Apart from Syrian people themselves. They are the only losers in this game.

Please, do not be inactive. Contact your government representatives (either at their office or via email), contact the media and humanitarian organisations), tweet extensively with hashtags (such as #Syria or #Assad, #Jobar, etc), write articles and post them on Twitter and Facebook, etc. It may not seem like much, but it is something to help, and lots of awareness can be raised. Maybe someone influential could even be encouraged to take greater steps towards intervening to end this genocide by the Assad regime.

Ben Allinson-Davies is a worker for Radio Free Syria, blogger, and film-maker, who spent over a week in Syria with the people there, including rebel forces. He is currently working on a documentary, with the aim of raising money for people affected by the genocide.