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.

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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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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Radio Free Syria: Intimidation and Harassment against our Station

Recently, our social media accounts have come under repeated attack (resulting in several of us being banned from posting on Facebook for some 24 hours, allegedly for publishing evidence of Assad's genocide onto our Facebook page), one of our activists has received what can arguably be called harassment by individuals who seem to be from Britain's security services (his family were troubled by them during his time in Syria, where he worked on a popular documentary there), and threats by Assad supporters have been received in the past, many of them directly sent to our (aforementioned) former correspondent in Syria.

We urge our followers to be vigilant, and to keep a look out for a new Radio Free Syria page, in the event that this one suddenly disappears.

If such harassment of our activists continues, the activist in question is threatening to publish the mobile phone number of one of the individuals in question (the other number was withheld by the caller) who sent him calls and messages, as well as contact the police. He has rejected any meetings with them, and urged respect for his privacy. Thanks for your attention.

- The RFS team.

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.