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| Asir Returns from Qusayr, Says Had 'the Honor of Firing on the Criminals' |
| 2013-05-02 |
| [An Nahar] Controversial Islamist holy man Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir on Wednesday returned to Leb after crossing into the war-torn Syrian area of Qusayr to "support the real heroes" of the armed Syrian opposition. "My visit to Qusayr's countryside was in support of the true heroes and to coordinate with them and examine the situation," Asir said on the social networking website Twitter. "But I refused to return before gaining the honor of firing on the criminals," he added. Hit anything, bub? I thought not. On Monday, Asir called on "everyone who has said that the rebels in Qusayr don't need more fighters to go visit them and confirm that with them directly ... and let everyone stop the overbidding in this regard." "My visit to Qusayr's countryside increased my certainty and insistence on the religious stance I have voiced in support of our people in Syria in general and in Qusayr in particular," Asir said on Wednesday. "I have farted in their general direction!" Syria's main rebel Free Syrian Army has rejected calls for jihad (holy war) by Lebanese Islamist holy mans, saying "what we are missing in Syria is weapons, not men." Asir's official Facebook page published pictures and a video showing the Islamist holy man carrying a machinegun alongside the rebels and opening fire from the rooftop of a building. Was anybody else shooting at the time? Was anybody shooting back? I thought not. On Tuesday, Hizbullah Secretary-General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... declared that his party "will not hesitate" to help the Lebanese residents of Qusayr in their confrontation with Syrian rebels. "30,000 Lebanese Moslems and Christians were targeted, torched and prevented from going to work" at the hands of Syrian rebels in Qusayr, Nasrallah said. The opposition-affiliated Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said elite fighters from Hizbullah are leading the fight against rebels in Qusayr. Syrian regime forces have recently recaptured a string of strategic villages in the region, which is along the border with Leb. That raised fears among rebels that the town of Qusayr itself, a stronghold of the uprising, could fall into government hands. The area is of key strategic importance because it runs along the border with Leb and is near the route running from Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world... to the coast. |
| Posted by:Fred |