Jeffrey White, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a former senior American intelligence official, said Syria’s strengthened arsenal would “tend to push Western or allied naval activity further off the coast” and was also “a signal of the Russian commitment to the Syrian government.”

yallair7al:

Much has been said over the past two days in the world press about a sick video showing an FSA commander tearing the heart out of a dead Hezbullah fighter (sent to murder Syrians) in Qusayr, Homs and then eating it. 

The video is vile. The act is vicious. The cannibalism is inexcusable.

However, the ‘outrage’ over this video has been proclaimed by Human Rights Watch to be “the most disgusting atrocity filmed in the Syrian Civil War”. Human Rights Watch is also quoted in dozens of the world’s most widely read newspapers, television programs and news media networks stating the same. The media in general has taken the same attitude, saying that this single video, is the worst thing to have befallen the Syrian Revolution (they incorrectly call it a civil war).

Honestly? This video is the worst you people have seen come out of Syria? If that’s the case, then allow me to educate you for a moment.

Due to this single video, countless keyboard pontificators, armchair generals, faux-leftists and of course, Assad’s supporters have pounced on it, waved it like a flag in the wind, and declared that every Syrian who is not on Assad’s side of the massacre (again, not civil war) is a ‘dirty cannibal terrorist’. And yes, they apply that label to babies, children, women, the elderly and the 90,000+ martyrs that Assad’s forces have killed since March 2011.

Where was your outrage, dear fellow humans, when all of the videos below were released? I categorized (that’s how many there are now) them for you below. Can you watch them? Can you bear it? Can you stand it? Or will you look away? Toss our martyrs aside and forget us, or even worse, tell us that our 90,000 dead are all the result of ‘terrorists’ and/or the most elaborate ‘hoax’ of all time. Which is what the Assad regime has said since the first protesters took to the streets in Daraa on March 15th, 2011.

The videos below represent a tiny fraction of the entire body of videos released from Syria and represent a much smaller fraction of what actually happens across the country that is not recorded. I can say, with full, and disgusting, confidence that the Syrian Revolution, turned massacre, is the largest ever mass murder of the Information Age, where there is literally hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of videos to attest to that fact, many of them recorded and released in near real-time.

You can continue your outrage over the video of a cannibal ripping the heart out of a terrorist sent to fight on behalf of a sectarian warlord with the sole aim of empowering a dictator so that he may resume his reign of terror on the people of my country. However, you have no right to label it the ‘most disgusting atrocity’. No right whatsoever.

*These videos are by no means all or even the worst to have emerged from Syria. They are a sample that I have been able to find in the last 2 hours.*

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LEAKED VIDEOS OF ASSAD’S FORCES TORTURING AND EXECUTING CIVILIANS AND FSA: It is worth it to note that of the few videos posted below, Assad’s regime has not even go as far as to acknowledge their very existence (of the videos), much less hold those in the videos accountable (since the regime is the one ordering such atrocities). It is also worthy to not that every major crime by the FSA has been acknowledged and admitted. Even though the FSA is not a formal organization, nor does it have any type of structure or tangible line of command. The FSA even published a statement about the cannibal video here. Something Assad never has, or ever will do.

• Assad’s forces torture and execute a group of men. Very difficult to watch.
• Assad’s forces beat a middle-aged man in the street and tell him “I’ll let you see your children again if you let us f**k your wife” to which he responds “my wife is my crown” Then they execute him.
• Assad’s forces stab and stone two men to death. Horrific video, tough to watch.
• Assad’s forces beat this man with metal rods, bricks and then finally execute him while saying “F**k Your Sister! … F**k Your God You Beast! …. F**k Your Prophet … Take Your Holy Book & Shove it Up our Ass! …. I Want To F**k Your God!”
• After beating and humiliating him, they lay him on the ground and execute him.
• After brutally torturing them, then executing them, Assad’s forces cut the genitals of these men off and place it in their mouths.
• Assad’s forces beat two men to death, laughing as they do it. They even set fire to one of the men’s heads.
• As they stab and beat this FSA soldier, they keep asking him if he wants freedom. They tear of his index finger then shoot him in the head.
• After they beat, torture, humiliate and execute these men, Assad’s forces run over them with a truck.
• Assad’s forces torture a man in Banyas, Tartous.
• A member of Assad’s forces calls his mother and asks her to listen to him as he executes a man.
• The man from the video above before he was executed. They beat him and say “Don’t speak of God! … Your God will f**k your sister you son of a whore!”
• Assad’s forces torture three of their own soldiers for helping the opposition.
• After Assad’s men execute these two, they set their bodies on fire and say: “Let this be a warning to all who challenge Allawites, this is what we will do to you”
• Assads forces repeatedly whip this woman over and over after they abducted her at a checkpoint.
• Assad’s forces slap, humiliate and shave the heads of a husband and wife in-front of their children.
• Assad’s forces run over dead FSA soldiers with a tank.
• Assad’s forces beat a man in the streets of Homs
• Assad’s forces film themselves as they attempt to decapitate a dead FSA fighter
• Assad’s forces beat, slap, spit at and humiliate this boy.
• They force this man to sing songs of praise to Assad as they beat him.
• Assad’s forces brutally torture and beat a mentally disabled man.
• Assad’s forces shoot a man at point blank range, forcing him to ‘confess’ to whatever they want.

INJURIES & DEATH CASUED BY ASSAD’S FORCES: Below are videos showing some of the more horrific injuries and deaths suffered by Syrian civilians, many of them children, at the hands of Assad’s forces. All the injuries and deaths are by way of bullets, knives, stones, axes, shells, rockets, missiles, ballistic missiles, air raids and even a few instances of tanks physically crushing people.

• How can we ever forget Hamza Bakour. He had his jaw blown off by Assad’s forces in Homs more than a year and a half ago. He died a short while later.
• Litte Fatima was decapitated last year after Assad’s forces shelled her town in Idleb.
• Another little girl is decapitated by an Assad shell in Aleppo while playing the park. Here is the link to six more videos of decapitated little girls in Syria.
• Another girl had her head blown off by a shell in Al Ghanto, Homs.
• How can we forget Zainab Al Hosni? The girl who was abducted, skinned, stabbed then beaten to death by Assad’s forces in Sept 2011. Then the regime released a video of her (that her mother said was not) on TV and made her say she ran away from home. This was done before they killed her.
• A mother and her fetus are killed by Assad’s forces in Homs. Here are 7 other videos of mother’s being killed with their fetus’s
• Little Salah Khaled Qanna had his head blown open by an Assad sniper in Daraa.
• He was arrested in Homs by Assad’s forces on May 29th, 2011 and tortured to death - returned like this to his parents on June 18th. Abdullah Juha was only 13 years old.
• We also remember little Ola Jablawi, shot through her eye in Lattakia by Assad’s forces in August 2011.
• Of course, we have Hamza Al Khatib, the horrific torture he endured after being arrested (he was 13) included chopping off his genitals, breaking most of his bones, being shot, electrocuted and beaten. We thought, back in 2011, that this even would lead to world intervention and help. This was before the people of Syria took up arms to defend themselves and before a further 8,000 children were killed.
• Maher Al Zourbi, 11 years old, was shot along with his father by Assad’s forces in Rastan in Sept 2011. Here he is taking his final breath.
• A little boy is shot dead in the head in Daraa Oct 2011 after protesting in the streets.
• A little boy is choking on his own blood after being shot in the head and neck by Assad’s forces in Homs in Oct 2011.
• This is all that is left of two children in Kafr Takhareem, Idleb after Assad’s forces shelled them in Feb 2011.
• Ammar Abdul Nasser Zamour, a boy, was abducted along with his entire family in Homs in March 2012. Assad’s forces ‘released’ the entire family. Dead. This is what they did to Ammar. he was tortured to death.
• Mustapha Saeed Al Jarkass is not even 10 years old. He was arrested by Assad’s forces and returned to his parents dead in March 2011.
• Mohamed Al Naser had his skull blown off when he was shot by Assad’s forces in Dier Ezzor in April 2012.
• Mohamed Al Dali, another boy, was also shot in Deir Ezzor. His brain was blown out as well. Only in this video he is still alive, taking his last breaths. his body still twitching.
• Basel Aslan, a young volunteer with the Red Crescent and medical student in Aleppo was arrested by Assad’s forces and had his bones broken, was stabbed and burned alive.
• Little Ayat Al Sleik had most of her head blown off in Douma, Damascus in Sept 2012. She is still alive in this video, taken her final breaths.
• Mohamed Jasem Al Ahmar takes his final breaths after a horrific injury from a shell strike in Deir Ezzor.
• This baby girl’s legs are shredded, yet she’s still alive. A tiny victim of Assad’s shelling in Talbiseh, Homs in July 2012.
• A horrific scene in a clinic in Houla, Homs in July 2012. One of the children was decapitated.
• You can’t even make out that this pile of flesh and bones was once a 7 year old boy named Mustafa Khalil Al Khalil from Idleb.
• Assad’s forces run over this boy in a car during a protest in Al Bab, Aleppo. His brains came out through his mouth.
• Ismail Al Khateeb is a little child. His head was blown off by Assad’s forces in Sha’ar, Aleppo in August of 2012.
• Sarah Zakaria had her skull blown open by Assad’s forces in Al Bab, Aleppo.
• Mohamed Saleh Khubiyeh has the top half of his head blown off by Assad’s forces in Douma, Damascus.
• The shrapnel pierced his mothers womb and killed this unborn child in Dier Ezzor in Sept 2012.
• A little boy is confused, shocked and terrified as he stand over the body of his mother who was just killed before his eyes in Idleb.
• All they could do was watch her take her last breaths and die. A little girl in Douma, Damascus.
• Her final moments on Earth are agonizing. She’s only a toddler in Idleb.
• Shahed Al Khattab was a three year old girl from Kafrzeita, Hama. In Dec 2012, this is how Assad’s forces killed her.
• Majed Rajab is a 14 year old Palestinian boy who lived in Damascus (Al Asali). In Dec 2012, Assad, the ‘Leader of The Resistance’ ordered his home to be shelled.
• Two young boys in Maaret Misreen, Idleb who are very much alive and are experiencing the unimaginable horror of having their entire bodies burnt.
• Little Walid Al Hannash has his face blown off by Assad’s forces in Douma, Damascus in Jan 2012.

A FEW OF THE MASSACRES CARRIED OUT BY ASSAD’S FORCES: The video’s below are a few of the massacres that have occurred over the last 2+ years. All by Assad’s forces. I’m sorry that I have not included a great deal of the videos here, there are just too many and the objective was not to list all of them, but to show people that this is small fraction of what happens everyday …  what they should be outraged at …

• One of the many videos from the most recent massacre that took place in Banyas, Tartous. Hundreds of men, women and children were slaughtered.
• A Massacre in Karam El Zeitoun, Homs in Jan 2012. So many of the dead are children.
• Dozens of massacred bodies were being hidden in the National Hospital in Idleb in Jan 2012.
• All of them children. All murdered in Hama by Assad’s forces on the 30th anniversary of the Hama Massacre.
• A massacre in Khalidyah, Homs in Feb 2012
• An entire family, including 4 children, are massacred in Karam El Zeitoun, Homs in Feb 2012.
• More children massacred in Karam El Zeiroun, Homs in March 2011.
• Of course, how can we forget the massacre in Houla in May 2011 … so many children, throats slit.
• Another scene from the Houla Massacre.
• A shell strike in Douma, Damascus in May 2011. One of the regular and daily scenes of horror.
• The massacre in a tiny farm called Qubeir in Hama resulted in close to 100 deaths.
• His father was one of 13 men taken off a bus in Qasayr, Homs and executed by Assad’s forces in June 2012.
• A horrible scene where Assad’s forces bombed the bakery in Talbiseh, Homs.
• A shell strike in Bustan Al Qasr, Aleppo i July 2012… this is the result.
• Little kids among the dead during shelling on the small village of Gharnata in Homs.
• Horrible footage from a massacre in Zamalka, Damascus in July 2012 where Assad’s forces detonated a car bomb while a protest passed by. 100+ dead.
• Just one of the dozens of videos from the Daraya, Damascus massacre in August 2012 where upto 1,000 people were massacred over 3 days of carnage.
• Assad’s forces rounded up 50 men from their homes in Qaboun, Damascus and slaughtered them on the street in August 2012.
• Dozens of bodies are found in the morgue at the University Hospital in Aleppo in August 2012. All bear signs of torture and execution.
• This is the 1st massacre of Jdeidat Aroutz in Damascus in August 2012. Not to be confused with the 2nd much larger one that happened a few weeks ago.
• After executing them, Assad’s forces burned them in Al-Arbeen, Hama in Sept 2012.
• A massacre by Assad’s forces in Aleppo in Sept 2012.
• A massacre in the village of Van in Hama in Sept 2012
• Among the 10 people slaughtered in Tal Shoor, Homs, 3 are women, 4 are children.
• A massacre in the town of Abel, Homs where entire families were rounded up, had their throats slit, then burnt.
• A Massacre in the town of Madamiyeh, Damascus this past January from Assad’s shelling.
• Horrific scenes of the dead/injured in Jobar, Homs earlier this year. More from this event here.
• The unreal scene after an Assad airstrike on a bakery in Halfaya, Hama.