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atomheartbevo

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  1. Media is reporting soldiers are ditching military clothes for civilian and they were told to GTFO of Damascus and meet elsewhere. Seems almost too easy, and I still have a hard time believing he was hanging around in Damascus up until an hour or two ago. I get that he's arrogant and believes he's always the smartest eye-doctor in the room, but people like him are also pretty paranoid and it seems like when the road was cut he would have been wheels-up pretty fast.
  2. Social media claiming the Syrian general staff has ordered the Syrian military to surrender and spare Damascus, etc.
  3. Or dumbass loaded up the aircraft with a lot of valuables/heavy stuff (or people) and the aircrew didn't do their due diligence. Still wonder if this is a decoy - I can't see his aircraft having the transponder on.
  4. Aljazeera is saying the rebels have complete control of the TV and radio stations. Putin obviously has to be pissed - he sunk a lot of resources into maintaining the port and airfields there (and it seems like Russia and Assad's people still control them). I wonder if Putin is pondering the fact that Assad's regime is falling pretty fucking fast.
  5. Radar or was it a transponder being turned off? I would have provided a couch to sleep on for his wife and daughter. Didn't know one of his sons was James Franco but I can see why he would keep that on the down-low. Would not have provided a couch for him.
  6. Yeah, I trust both AJ and Reuters when it comes to this stuff - they tend to verify what they can and they have solid sources there. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has left Damascus to an unknown destination, say two senior army officers | Reuters Social media (not twitter) is claiming Damascus has fallen in all but name. Don't know about that, because rolling through an area is different than occupying/controlling it.
  7. Now do Russia/Ukraine.
  8. Rebels declare they are in Damascus, Damascus residents report gunfire. Syrian government forces withdraw from Homs in potential blow to Assad | AP News Unlike the Russian prisoners-turned-soldiers, I'd imagine a bunch of those prisoners have a serious axe to grind. Not gonna be that civil going forward. I'm kind of surprised that Assad's forces have put up so little resistance, given the risk they and their families run.
  9. Tying into what you said earlier, or maybe 965, If they played their cards right and acted nicely towards the people, after decades of Assads, the people might switch their allegiance. The rebels don’t want a brain drain and a gutted economy. The people don’t want Assad’s secret police around. And I bet those secret police are fleeing like crazy for the coast because they will be pointed out by the civilians.
  10. Apparently Michael Bay is in charge of Section 31. But Michelle Yeoh so…
  11. At least the “big 12 refs were worse” mouth breathers shut up.
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