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Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by G8trGr8t, Dec 2, 2024.

  1. G8trGr8t

    G8trGr8t Premium Member

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    that was a major facility they took out that was getting ready to go into production. to get in and out with no casualties is impressive. can't imagine how many tens of millions were spent creating that facility to only see it all blow up
     
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    what happens when djt orders us troops to abandon their kurdish allies who helped them defeat isis?

    sounds like the southern group is ready to join up as a unit but not give up their weapons and be dispersed within a group to be led by others...

    South Syria fighters reluctant to give up weapons: spokesman

    Fighters in southern Syria who helped topple President Bashar al-Assad are reluctant to disarm and disband as ordered by the country's new rulers, their spokesman told AFP.

    On December 25, the country's new Islamist rulers said they had reached an agreement with rebel groups on their dissolution and integration under the defence ministry.New leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said the authorities would "absolutely not allow there to be weapons in the country outside state control".
    But a spokesman for the Southern Operations Room, a coalition of armed groups from the southern province of Daraa formed on December 6 to help topple Assad, said the alliance did not agree.

    "We're not convinced by the idea of dissolving armed groups," said its spokesman Naseem Abu Orra. "We're an organised force in the south... headed by officers who defected" from Assad's army, he told AFP in Daraa's town of Bosra. "We can integrate the defence ministry as a pre-organised entity... We have weapons, heavy equipment," he said.

    Abu Orra said the group, led by local leader Ahmed al-Awdeh, included thousands of men, without any Islamist affiliation.