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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian opposition claims capture of female Russian soldier
2015-02-16
[IsraelTimes] 'There is no longer a Syrian army, only Iran-backed militias,' says rebel commander

For the first time since the eruption of the Syrian revolution almost four years ago, opposition forces have captured a female Russian soldier suspected of operating missile systems recently sent from Moscow to the Assad regime, a Saudi daily reported on Sunday.

According to Al-Watan, the Russian soldier was captured by the Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
in the southern front, which has witnessed heavy fighting in recent days between rebel groups and Assad forces backed by Iran and Lebanese terror group Hezbollah. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based watchdog, reported last week that 5,000 Iranian and Hezbollah fighters have been deployed to the Quneitra and Daraa provinces, near the border with Israel.

The Syrian rebels have also managed to capture a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards officer among a group of 40 pro-Assad fighters locked away
Please don't kill me!
in recent days. Al-Watan reported that the identity of the men will be exposed within days in order to prove "the involvement of Iran, Hezbollah and Russia in the fighting alongside the Assad regime in Syria."

On Saturday, a Syrian opposition group, the al-Furqan Brigades, published footage of an Iranian officer killed in battle. Opposition news website Zaman al-Wasl identified the man as Haj Abbas Abdullahi, one of Iran's most decorated snipers and a veteran of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.

In an interview with the website on Sunday, Muhammad al-Khatib, commander of the al-Furqan Brigades, estimated that 80% of the fighters combating his forces are "Shiite mercenaries" from countries as far as Pakistain and Afghanistan, assembled under a unit called "the Fatimids Brigade."

"There is no longer a thing called the Syrian Army," Khatib told Zaman al-Wasl. "We are fighting militias from across the world under Iranian command."
Goodness. He does seem to feel strongly about it.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  Ditch the family on Valentine's weekend to fly 3000 miles for good winter golf and a tour of the Maserati showfloor?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2015-02-16 16:56  

#2  Yes, Vlad, the rat faced pedophile dwarf from the Kremlin...The KGB-FSB operatives will have to peel the pervert from sodomizing some little boy...
Posted by: hotspur666   2015-02-16 13:35  

#1  Interesting, if true. Wonder what Vlad will do?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-02-16 04:29  

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