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| NYTimes report on Battle of Aleppo as of evening 8-2 |
| 2012-08-03 |
| Syrian rebels shelled an airport near Aleppo on Thursday... opposition activists warned that fighting for the city, the country’s main commercial center, would likely intensify... President Bashar al-Assad’s army appeared to be preparing for an all-out assault....“We have seen military reinforcements making their way to Aleppo,”... Some reports from Turkey also suggested that Syrian government forces were trying to cut rebel supply lines, with fighting raging in a rebel-held town near the Turkish border... opposition leaders said they had found dozens of bodies in a suburb of Damascus in the aftermath of the Syrian Army’s house-to-house search for rebel fighters and activists. This claim of a new massacre came as the rebels faced severe criticism themselves for what appeared to be their brutal summary execution, one day earlier... the United Nations said on Wednesday what rebels had been saying for days: the Syrian Army was using jet fighters in its operations. And they are not just flying, as in the past; now, according to the United Nations monitor mission in Syria and videos showing flashes of light bursting from dark jets, they are firing. |
| Posted by:lord garth |
| #4 per reports, as of nightfall Aug 3, Assad forces were still making minor tactical infantry moves near Aleppo while also firing artillery into rebel held areas. The rebels were also making tactical moves, taking some police stations, etc. The rebels have now been in Aleppo long enough that some of the locals are complaining about them (especially relatives of the dead ones) and some rebel forces are firing at each other. Rebels are taking causalities as are the forces of Assad as are locals and some Paleos are also being killed. Assad's forces in the Aleppo area continue to be reinforced by troops from elsewhere but also suffering some additional AWOL loses. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2012-08-03 16:32 |
| #3 Define, shelled. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2012-08-03 15:04 |
| #2 If the Gray Lady says it, it must be ... |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-08-03 05:27 |
| #1 Syrian Fighting Intensifies in Battle for Aleppo...Women, Minorities Hardest Hit |
| Posted by: tu3031 2012-08-03 00:25 |