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Laszlo Balogh / Reuters
Syrians cross the border from the Syrian town of Ras al-Ain to the Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar after an air strike on December 3, 2012.
Laszlo Balogh / Reuters
Syrians run for cover as smoke rises over Ras al-Ain after an air strike, as seen from the Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar on December 3, 2012.
Reuters reports — Syrian government forces bombed rebel positions in the frontier town of Ras al-Ain on Monday, killing at least 12 people according to opposition activists, and prompting Turkey to scramble fighter jets along the border.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said six of those killed by the air raids on the town's Mahatta neighborhood were rebel fighters and that 30 people were wounded.
Report: Syrian rebels clash with Lebanon troops on border
Heavy bursts of anti-aircraft fire shook the Turkish town of Ceylanpinar, which abuts Ras al-Ain, sending residents fleeing for cover. Columns of smoke rose up from the Syrian side and ambulances rushed the wounded to hospital. Read the full story.
Laszlo Balogh / Reuters
Syrians try to cross the border from Ras al-Ain to the Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar after an air strike on December 3, 2012.
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It would be great to see the Arab League step up to the plate and solve their own regional problem. They have the money, equipment, soldiers, but no guts.
Sunni Saudis, Qataris and other Sunni Arab League members are experts in conning as friends and then forget the help and backstab.
They are most brave when it comes battling girls and women, minorities, unarmed and other. Minorities include minority Muslim sects and tribes.
Brave acts are: jihad and killing as a start and then genocide like in Darfur!
They can't tolerate a far better leader like Assad.
Iraqi wars saved them.
They outsourced their dirty job of battling Saddam to the US, British and allies through oil companies and lobbyists; vanished into their harems; manipulated oil prices high and became richer; and then funded their Salaffi and Wahhabi mosques, haters and killers training centres, all over the world as a gratitude for saving them.
Now they are helping Sunni Syrian rebels through their Sunni killer organizations al Qaida, MB, Salaffi and other label ones. Even Turkey's Erdogan has marched fast backwards to seventh century Sunni Islamic days and started dancing along with Sunni Saudis and co.
Mind you: Sunni Saudis and co are so bigoted that can't permit a Shiite ruler in Bahrain.
Now these cons weeping, wailing, chest beating before US and allies will start. Oil companies and their lobbyists will do dances and dramas just like before each Iraqi wars.
Who in right senses will impose sanctions on Iranian oil and manipulate oil prices from $40 to more than $100 now?
Iran can get as many nukes as it wants from Pakis and N. Korea.
We have no roles in Syria and Iran.
Let the brave Arab League members and Toorkey's Erdogan fight their Allah's battle in Syria and Iran.
Phuck them....not are problem.
If Turkey had some balls they would send a sortie to Damascus and drop a little reminder on the palace and let them know they aren't the rebels. They actually have a fighting force and capability of handling them. Ofcourse Erdoğan would have to have some balls and the world knows they dont.
If I were Turkey !!
The very next time they hit that town I would BUST CAPS on them. Shoot them down and worry about it afterward. Keep your stinking war in your own country. Fly or bomb close to mine and you will be toast.
The Arab League will never stop Syria, because that would mean actually leaving the security of their palatial homes and actually doing something worthwhile for the world.
The Arabs won't help as they have all the oil they need........
"Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said six of those killed by the air raids on the town's Mahatta neighborhood were rebel fighters and that 30 people were wounded."
What human rights do these barbaric and bigoted Sunni Saudi front traitors and Trojan horses know?
US, British and allies should kick out each and every Sunni Saudi traitors, future liabilities and Trojan from their soil.
Let Sunni Saudis permit non-Muslim religious places starting from Mecca and Medina. Or else they should close their Salaffi and Wahhabi mosques all over the world.
Time has come for stopping one-way traffic for the seventh century despotic and bigoted Sunni Saudis and co.
We have no roles in Syria and Iran.
Sunni Saudis, Qataris, and other Sunni Arab League members can go their Sunni Islamic hell or run to their harems!
It must be hell living in a country that will shoot you down in the streets or bomb you out of the country. Living in complete fear and trying to escape across borders so you can live another day. Syria best watch their P's and Q's because I think Turkey is about had it. I wish someone would go bomb Assad and his henchmen at their palace and end this. People all up in arms over Israel fighting back Hamas and killing 150 when Assad has killed 50,000 or more. I just do not get it. The other countries in the area should take care of this problem and not the USA. Maybe if the United Nations was united they could end it. We ALL know how that goes because they never have been. Just a joke of an Organization that we have funded for decades.
The trouble is, no matter which side wins, Syria will end up with an abusive dictatorship. To chose sides in that situation and participate would be a big waste of resources, and dependent upon which side wins, the other countries could end up with new enemies they don't need.
More meaningless Middle East moronic meanderings.