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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Protestors In London Recall 1982 Revolt
2006-02-07
London, 7 Feb. (AKI) - Syrian opposition groups on Tuesday staged a demonstration in front of Damascus' embassy in London to commemorate the victims of a 1982 military attack which crushed an Islamist inspired revolt. The "Massacre of Hamah," was named after the city where government special forces crushed the uprising killing between 10,000 and 30,000 people.
The aim of Tuesday's protest was to "renew the pact of loyalty with those Syrian citizens who paid with their lives in confronting despotism and the repression of freedom," the groups said in a statement.
Trying to bring about their own version of despotism and repression
The Muslim Brotherhood-led insurrection in Hamah was one of several during the 1970s and 1980s against the secular Baathist regime of then Syrian president, Hafiz al-Assad, father of the country's current leader, Basher al-Assad.
Daddy Assad was a real dictator who got things done.

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#6  So, what are we gonna do?"...
"We're gonna dance, sir!" ...
"WHO WE GONNA DANCE WITH?"...
"THE DEVIL!"...
"WE GONNA LEAD OR WE GONNA FOLLOW?"...
"WE'RE GONNA LEAD!"

A Hymn Before Battle by John Ringo


Posted by: gromgoru   2006-02-07 23:44  

#5  I was told: If you dance with the Devil, you will get burned.
Posted by: 2b   2006-02-07 22:01  

#4  The "Massacre of Hamah," was named after the city where government special forces crushed the uprising killing between 10,000 and 30,000 people. According to Tom Friedman the Syrians surrounded the city and pounded it with artillery. Not really special forces but the end result is the same. Hamah was wiped from the map.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2006-02-07 18:18  

#3  My understanding of the the uprising in Hamah is that it was MB not a coalition. I hope that the Kurds would pass on a coalition with MB, Zarqawi or Hezbollah, but they have certainly made friends with bad actors in the past - as we have.
I don't applaud Hamah anymore than I applaud Grozny. I am just not sympathetic to Zawahiri either.
Posted by: Super Hose   2006-02-07 18:06  

#2  Remember these words of wisdom from my redneck grandfather, LH:

You dance with the Devil
The Devil dances with you.
You don't change the Devil
The Devil changes you.
Posted by: Secret Master   2006-02-07 18:02  

#1  not all of the Syrian opposition is MB. Some are Kurds, some seem to be prodemocracy. At this point id support a coalition against the regime even if it included MB.
Posted by: liberalhawk   2006-02-07 16:31  

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