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1. The plan appears to be to carve up Syria and give Aleppo to the Salafist militias in the north

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Sat Mar 9, 2013, 10:02 AM

Mar 2013

under cover of a NATO no-fly zone (a point underscored in this particularly one-sided article) while also slicing off the border areas in the south nearest Israel and Jordan, and handing that over to western-backed militias as custodians.

In other words, Syria is going to be turned into a giant Beirut. What could go wrong?

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The plan appears to be to carve up Syria and give Aleppo to the Salafist militias in the north leveymg Mar 2013 #1