For more than two years, as fighting has escalated throughout Syria, a group of villages peopled by government supporters in the mountains above this coastal city has been spared any attacks.
In spite of their proximity to the Turkish border, across which rebel fighters are armed and financed, farmers continued their lives as normal, even though as Alawites allied to the Shia sect to which President Bashar al-Assad belongs they could have been obvious targets.
At dawn on 4 August their peace was shattered. Armed rebels, led by local jihadis as well as members of Jabhat al-Nusra and the al-Qaida linked group, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, left their headquarters in the largely Sunni town of Salma. They sneaked into the al-Akrad mountains, taking control of five Alawite villages. The rebels called it Operation Liberation of the Coast and the aim was to send the government a message that even the Alawite heartland was no longer safe.
Rumours of massacres spread as some 25,000 Alawite villagers fled to Latakia. The next day the rebels captured more Alawite villages and reached Aramo, about 12 miles north of Qardaha, the Assads’ home town where Hafez al-Assad, the former president, is buried in a mausoleum. Over the next few days government forces regrouped and gradually recovered the lost ground with help from air strikes as well as local paramilitaries.
Syria: massacre reports emerge from Assad’s Alawite heartland | World news | theguardian.com
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The current score is the opposition has attracted fighters from 86 countries.
The original master plan, so it’s been explained by insiders. is to create total chaos in the Middle East, destroy the national regimes, unite them under centralized authority (Muslim Brotherhood), merge them with the EU and prepare them for assimilation into the World Government.
Unfortunately with Egypt the strategy already collapsed.
Could it be that it’s a bad idea?
The master plan is called a ‘Caliphate’.
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