Most of the prisoners were political prisoners “bad things against the state” speaking out against a murderous regime thousands tortured and killed, women and even childrenA couple of things that don't really make sense with this, all these prisons being opened and everyone being freed, is there nobody in the prison for doing bad things? All just imprisoned by the bad guy because he didn't like them?
And why did asaads lot just give up all of a sudden? Doesn't sound like there was much of a battle for Damascus, sounds like the rebels just drove in and asaads lot just legged it, why didn't the rebels try that before? All seems a little strange
Political prisons = political prisoners, eg anyone who spoke against Assad.A couple of things that don't really make sense with this, all these prisons being opened and everyone being freed, is there nobody in the prison for doing bad things? All just imprisoned by the bad guy because he didn't like them?
And why did asaads lot just give up all of a sudden? Doesn't sound like there was much of a battle for Damascus, sounds like the rebels just drove in and asaads lot just legged it, why didn't the rebels try that before? All seems a little strange
Youre applying a lot of basic thinking there. And Western thinking. Its a lot more involved than that. You know that though, shirley. That was a procative post aimed at some of the simpler posters on hereA couple of things that don't really make sense with this, all these prisons being opened and everyone being freed, is there nobody in the prison for doing bad things? All just imprisoned by the bad guy because he didn't like them?
And why did asaads lot just give up all of a sudden? Doesn't sound like there was much of a battle for Damascus, sounds like the rebels just drove in and asaads lot just legged it, why didn't the rebels try that before? All seems a little strange
In that region I'd forget ISIS for now, most are inturned or dead.Theres more than just one group, it's a cluster fuck with Turkey,Kurds,ISIS and god knows what else.
....and the window is clingfilm.In other news " Assad welcomed into his 8th floor Moscow flat "
I saw him buying some Fags and vodka at Vlads convenience store in St Peters Square earlier. Head bowed.Has anyone seen pictures of Assad in Russia?
Yep, some of the optimistic reporting of a new era of freedom and even democracy in Syria is likely wide of the mark.The Birth of ISIS was from a similar event in Iraq. the west put Iraqi army and insurgents in the same prison there were mass breakouts as well as loads being let go when the west left.
I don't think the people of the middle East have helped themselves much either tbf. International scousers.The US, France, Britain and Russia have made a real dog's dinner of the middle east over the last 120 years as the Ottoman empire collapsed.