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| Regime turns historic Palmyra citadel into military post |
| 2016-08-16 |
| [EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] New photos of Palmyra Citadel have showed huge destruction in the historic monument, such a crime against humanity carried out by both Syrian regime and the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... The Syrian regime and its mercenaries used the citadel as a deployment site following outbreak of the revolution benefiting from the high place of the citadel overlooking large areas of al-Badiya to install cannons and launchers to bomb rebelling areas. When ISIS captured the city in the summer of 2015, it fortified in the citadel, too. Later, the regime recaptured Palmyra from ISIS latest March 2016 with Russian land and air support and other sectarian militias mostly from Iraq and Afghanistan. The citadel is the highest point in Palmyra and situated on a very steep hill with 150m of height. The building of the citadel is attributed to Fakhr al-Din al-Mani al-Thani (d.1635 A.D), one of the emirs of Leb from Druze sect. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... the origin and history of the citadel go back to the Mamluks in the 13th century. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 It's like, well, they call it the citadel, can't figure why. Maybe Mr. Citadel had a rancho there? /those who don't learn history are very likely to be failing practical math. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-08-16 23:01 |