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By Tracey Shelton, GlobalPost
Ahmed Assi dodges bullets and missiles on a regular basis.
The 24-year-old has been shot at, wounded, hunted down, imprisoned and tortured. He has spent many months camping in the Syrian mountains “Che Guevara style.”
But Assi is not a rebel fighter. He is a Syrian journalist — with a political agenda.
“I make my jihad by words, not by violence,” he said.
His mission is not just to tell the world about the plight of Syria's rebel forces, but also to raise money, which the rebels use to buy more of whatever they might need. Assi works for one of several dozen websites that have popped up in the last year to raise cash for activists and rebels working inside Syria to topple President Bashar al-Assad.
“We raise money for weapons, but armed conflict is not the objective — it is a necessity at this time,” explained Assi, who works with a team of volunteers on the shamfalcons.com website. “The real value of my work will be after the revolution. Information is more powerful than a bullet.”
But at $4 a bullet, the going rate inside Syria these days, it will take a lot of fundraising to power a revolution.
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Assi's website posts news about the eight rebel battalions of Jabal al-Zawiya, known collectively as the Sham Falcons. Videos, photos and reports in English, French and Arabic inform readers of checkpoint attacks, the seizure of armed vehicles and weapons, and the death of fallen comrades.
Such stories are always followed with a plea to “donors, military experts and weapons merchants.”
A well-placed Islamic quote outlines the rewards:
"O you who have believed, shall I guide you to a transaction that will save you from a painful punishment? [It is that] you believe in Allah and His Messenger and strive in the cause of Allah with your wealth and your lives.”
Abu Hajar, the website’s developer, said he now receives regular donations from within Syria and from a network of people abroad. Hajar said everything is organized via Skype, which is encrypted, making it the "safest common form of long-distance communication in Syria." The website is hosted outside of the country, and material is uploaded via satellite connections using a virtual private network.
Hajar has worked on the site since the revolution began, first in Brussels where he had been working at the time, and now in Jabal al-Zawiya, Syria. The system he helped create has now spread across the globe. Dozens of trusted coordinators collect donations and arrange for money and goods to be smuggled into Syria.
“There are a lot of foreigners that want to come here to help us with our fight, but if they did they would be accused of being terrorists,” Hajar said. “So instead they send us money.”
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Many more websites like his are springing up to support Syrian rebel groups desperate for funding for everything from medicine and satellite Internet devices to guns and missile launchers.
Another website, Adopt a Revolution, is run by activists operating in Germany and Syria. It seems more like an international children’s aid group than a rebel fundraising organization. All it is missing is a pitch from Sally Struthers as the site pleads for regular sponsors of the “Syrian Spring.”
“One activist in hiding needs monthly about 100 euro for daily expenses,” the website reads.
The page goes on to describe the various committees in Syrian towns in need of financial support. There are 31 in all, and Adopt a Revolution says they now raise about 1,000 euros per month for each of these committees with the help of 1,400 regular sponsors.
Elias Perabo, one of the websites founders, said the funds raised on their site are not used for weapons, but are instead focused on providing activists with the means of conveying what is taking place inside Syria. For this they need equipment, Internet connections and safe houses.
“We have three aims,” Perabo told GlobalPost in a Skype interview. “To bring support to the local communities in Syria, to bring activists abroad closer to Syrian issues, and to build an emotional link so people here in Germany can connect with a Syrian community to understand the issues they are facing.”
Perabo said their donors, who receive regular updates regarding their “adopted” Syrians, range from corporations to retired couples and students. Perabo got involved when on holiday in Syria last April. He found himself unwittingly in the middle of an uprising. The idea for the website, which launched last Christmas, came from there.
Earlier this month, it seemed that relief from the constant fundraising struggle had arrived when Syrian businessmen abroad met in Qatar and announced their pledge of $300 million toward the revolution. But the pledge was met by skepticism.
“It’s hard to see where money like this goes. But we hope more money is getting through,” Perabo said.
Hajar and the team at shamfalcons.com said such money would only go to the so-called Free Syrian Army leaders living abroad.
“Most of the revolutionaries in Syria refuse to place themselves under the banner of the Free Syrian Army for several reasons, and then receive no help from them,” Hajar said.
As for the Sham Falcons, with an average price of $1,000 for a Kalashnikov rifle and $4 per bullet, the plea for funding is never ending.
“Money is the heart of war,” Hajar said with a sigh. “Without it, we can not accomplish anything.”
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Ya, fund some terrorism, great thing for people to do.
Under the Geneva Conventions, all those "rebels" are terrorists acting against their own established government.
Israel and the US are the greatest threats to world peace.
Israel being the most urgent...
Yeah. North Korea or Iran are way better then Israel...
Israel's own deplorable action do not get graded on a curve.
One thing you can say about Iran is that they have never attacked any other country and are not illegally occupying and oppressing millions of indigenous people in order to steal their land and water resources. Other than refusing to give up their rights under the NPT to nuclear power and the technology needed to be self sufficient, Iran is not bothering anyone.
Jihadis change every discussion to a discussion about Israel. Jihadis are obsessed bullying faqs.
Indra, do you know really know anything about Article Three of the Geneva Conventions?
They are better. They cause far fewer fatalities and problems in general, outside of their borders.
Peikovianyi: by using their language you become them.
Joseph Blowhard, neither is Israel.
And yet the lines for a visa to go to the United States, pick a country, any country, is blocks long. Gee, if the U.S. is so bad why do so many people want to come? Now please let us know what little piece of paradise you are from...Won't say, why not? Well?
Some of us don't have a choice-being born here and all. But, let's not go there. If you want to take that route, let's not forget the colonial past of America? Why did the Europeans oust the Red Indians from their native land? Pointing fingers is never a solution. This is just a case in point.
And of course, no one will want to come to the U.S in the future. China has it's economy by the jugular. Moreover, if you lit an ant hill on fire; you might just be surprised to see an army of ants heading your way.
Why don't you blame the real reason for the trouble in All muslim countries. It's called ISLAM
i agree 100%, couldn't have said it better myself
I thought it was testosterone...
Problem is, they may run from cruelty of Islam into our western cultures, but then they hate our freedoms and want their Islam back – with Mosques, Imams, Koran/Hadith/Sharia Law hateful teachings, and start up their jihad on us from within.
@DDM Implosion..at its finest too bad US doesnt see it..the greatest threat is a civil one..and there is really no way to counter something like that. (Wolves dressed like sheep)
The USA admitted that it was on the side of Al Qaeda in Syria, so anyone who donates to the so-called rebels are in fact donating money to the very same terrorist group that attacked the USA and killed thousands of Americans.
Only a rabid Neocon or Zionist would ever think of donating money to such terrorists
There is no Al Qaida in Syria, that's an absurd lie the government is using to explain the protests. You obviously know absolutely nothing about the region.
Tarek from Syria wrote: "There is no Al Qaida in Syria.
Well not according the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, because she recently stated that the US and Al Qaeda are on the same side in Syria in seeking to oust the secular Assad government. There have also been many other reports that Al Qaeda is indeed backing the so-called rebels because Al Qaeda supports the so-called rebel's goal of installing an Islamic theocracy in Syria.
.Only radical Islamic extremists would support the so-called rebels/suicide bombers/terrorists.
I doubt very much what you said about, "The USA admitted that it was on the side of Al Qaeda in Syria".
Tarek,the american govt LIED when they claimed that gadaffi was lying when he said that the rebels there are al-qaeda. guess what? GADAFFI was telling the TRUTH! right now in libya,the flag of al-qaeda fly's freely over all govt buildings!
just two weeks ago,those same al-qaeda terrorist BOMBED the US embassy! that same week,they tried to assasinate the BRITISH AMBASSADOR to libya! and just last week,your newly installed govt of al-qaeda terrorist ARRESTED A FEMALE LAWYER FROM THE ICC AND ARE HOLDING HER HOSTAGE IN PRISON UNLESS SHE GIVES UP THE WHERE ABOUTS OF ONE OF THEIR POLITICAL ENEMIES!! as you can see Tarek from syria,your al-qaeda brothers in libya have already betrayed all of the ignorant countries who helped them over throw the legal govt of libya to prop them into power.
why dont you terrorist lay down your weapons and surrender to the LEGAL GOVT of syria instead of begging for other nations to kill people just to put you all in power? and what makes you think that we are going to go to war with nuclear armed russia and china just to prop up you terrorist?
You nasty Jew liar,You are a perfect reason why I would surley send money to help the Palestinians kick you out of their country. You and your people lied to the US about your intentions and you stole a nuke and still deny it. The Jews a not the chosen people they are money grubbing terrorist
AL qaeda is just brand terminology, thus just as easily you call anyone you racialy dislike, u brand them al qaeda.. It is the same terminology used by ASAAD to justify his military actions. thus americans branding others as terrorists is very bad for the world. If i don;t like my neighbor, i can just publically call him a terrorist and then shoot him......lol its too easy....no judicial righteousness, we've become the animals that we tried to curb...
Wow, you reaaly hate jews, don't you?
I wouldn't donate a penny to an Arab if it was to save his life. Let them kill each other,and good riddance.
Nice try jihadist propagandist....
I am an American atheist.
Where the problem is depends on who you are, saying America is the problem is just as ignorant as saying Islam is the problem.
The terrorists shouldn't have done what they did on 9/11. But America supports a lot of oppressive governments in the Middle East; what they did wasn't irrational or unfair. We drop a lot of bombs on them, before and after 9/11.
And even if they're terrorists-which I'm not sure they are, because you have to question if that government was fairly elected-the Syrian government is killing children. That's indefensible. Put yourself in their shoes, your son or daughter was killed by them in a peaceful protest. What would you do?
The government in Syria was not elected. An election is what we are prepared to die for. You are correct "American atheist", Assad's mafia is creating thousands of enemies ready to die in vengeance, for every building they bring to the ground and family they wipe out. They have displaced 1.5 million people and sealed their own fate. The battle will be fought and won once the weapons reach the hands of the oppressed.
Traek,your a liar! you seem to forget that just two months ago,syria had an election that was APPROVED by the UN. guess who received 89% of the vote? ASSAD DID!
Tareq you are right, and Christ you are a shameless liar. There was no free election in Syria in the past 40 years. There a lot of sham elections in which the candidates are screened by the intelligence service and the the winners are picked by the ASSad regime, and Bashar ASSad was never elected freely by the people. Only Baath party loyalists are allowed to monitor voting and handle the results and no wonder why the winners are known in advance..
Could not stop wondering – how many countied in the Arab world do really have "elected govt" that you are really ready to "die for" now? How aboyt Soudi? why do n't you ask for "change" in these "suuni sharia ruled counties? One by one, all secular countries in the middle east has been brough down in the last 4 years? Coincidence? Explain to me what is the real agenda of now very pacific "Muslim Brotherhood?".
You are making fools of Americans and other Western powers.
Tarek, Sam and 8712 – you sound like normal sane people. Very few commentators are like that. Lord help you guys.
Assad is a footnote...a badly written one.
yeah – a foot note in the re-establishment of the Sunni Caliphate and Muslim Umma.
Where would I prefer to live....
Hettlingen: I don`t think she knows anything abut the Geneva Convention, but she didn`t mention article III
Thank you Indra.
I'll take Israel over any Muslim country. Besides, they occupied that land way before Islam.
So go there and become a male streetwalker if you admire them so much.
Tee- you be psychotic???
The only threat to world peace is the passage in the Koran that states all good Muslims must participate in Jihad. I have also read about the forgiveness for lying if it is to gain the trust of the infidel. Oh and also the part where it says that once the Muslim has moved into an area and has gained enough numbers to take it over that they must convert all infidels and the one that do convert are supposed to serve born Muslims. The rest are to be killed.When all the world is Muslim then Allah will bring peace to the world
calling majority of syrians terrorists b/c they seek to win their freedom and the right to elect their leader, is like calling americans during the american revolution to win their freedom...terrorists, this makes you look like a fool and anyone with commonsense considers you a fool, b/c this is about arab spring freedom movement to prevent a mass murdering dictator from electing himself decade after decade
You know the old saying, "Don't buy a puppy but buy the dog it will become."
Indeed, there's another old saying, "Don't feed the dog, if it isn't yours". How about if the dog is neglected and starving?
Agreed
You still don't feed it until you're sure it's not rabid.
I wanna adopt a rebel! thats a great idea
for just 80 cents a day, you can feed & provide ammunition for a hansom freedom fighter <3
Yeah right! And create a pain in the b u tt for yourself when he becomes a jihadist...
Oboomer is a big mouth stuffed in a shiny suit!
Gee whiz gastrohead, what did you post that for? You may have hurt O'Bama's feelings and we don't want that, or do we?
the jews have a very good chance to adopted this revolution , like in Egypt they got the money and they don't like Mr. Assad
More Bull cookies from another camal jockey.
But you have no chance of adopting English grammar.
Adopt a Syria rebel? Why not? These guys have to get rid of this big, bad Assad guy, don't they? Then again, what do I know? I'm just a dumb Tea Partier!
Is this article truth or fabricated irony? How do these supporters down load encryptic messages and translate them and how do they get their donations directly into the "rebels" hands. All they need to do is send their money to the Pentagon and our CIA will ensure that their donations will get right into the hands of the "rebels".
I would sooner adopt A rabid skunk and I would sooner support Adolph Hitler than a Syrian rebel.
Shark, I knew Adolf was still alive! But you shouldn't let him play with rabid skunks, he might get rabbis
He would be safer than dealing with a Syrian
I feel the same way you do, Sharkfisher.
You are so right Quigley, Islam is a pox on the earth and should be eradicated.
Well said!
That's funny, Larry. I thought I said that, not Quigley. Like you said Larry, Killer O'Bama is right in trying to eliminate Islam from the face of the earth.
Did we not just do that some decades ago adopting Mujahedeen in Afghanistan and they changed name to Taliban when better dady (bin laden) adpoted them after we ditched them.
I bet less than 5% of the donated money makes it way to the rebels. What a rip off.
Make that 1%.... these websites are a rip off and you have no idea where your money will really go.
One of the very first things these people will do, if they defeat Assad, will be to persecute the Christians in Syria. That's what the so-called "freedom fighters" in Iraq, Egypt and Libya have already done.
Assad is a brutal thug. But what makes anyone think these people won't be worse? Hatred and violence are the only thing they know.
Matt, dont miss your AAA and your KKK meetings. Jucking Few
Wow, you are so right on.
Islamist should be fed to pigs.
If there is any hope of defeating the Assad mafia, we need to give those willing to fight the minimum supplies required at least. This is exactly what the Syrians need more of. I admire those behind this cause.
Yes, and Assad's mafia will be replaced by jihadists mafia. What a nice trade off!!!!Thank you nice try!!!!
Why should the Syrian rebels look to the "Great Satan" for help. Why did they start a civil war before they had the "guts and guns "to finish it. We could throw out Assad for them and they would turn out just like Libya. There is still killing going on there in the power struggles.The Syria rebels are in a power struggle Not a struggle for democracy.
When cows fly! Arab Spring can go straight to hell.
Loser.
ED sr my camel has higher IQ than your BUSHand his father
But then you ate your camel.
What does that say about your IQ?
About adopting a Palestinian fighter?
Long live PALESTINE. Hell to you jew loving pig.
Go away, raghead.
I would for sure support a Palestinian freedom fighter. I would buy as many AK'S AS I could those people will be extinct pretty soon if the Jews have their way. They first steal the land now they want to kill the inhabitants.
Your grammar tells me how low you IQ is. Go back to first grade.
You can only survive so long with violence. Assad's army and also egypt's army don't want to understand that fact. You always have to give people something to loose.
I have a few spare bucks. Assad is dust.
your better off wasting it on LOTTERY!!
This is the Problem with the U.S interfering with other countries and the hypocrisy in where drones are being deployed all over the U.S to watch "terrorists" or rebels .... depending on what country they are from.
Does 9/11 remind you of anything?
Those drones are aimed at those guys.
"Won't you please help?
Americans don't know how lucky you are, with your 2nd Amendment, gun stores on every corner, you can have your choice of weapons every day.
While poor little Ahmed here (cue sobbing sounds, while cycling empty magazine)
For only $12 a day, you can sponsor a guy like Ahmed and allow him to enjoy belt-fed weapons as much as you do!"
Yes, I like it, I want to see ads like these during the Olympics.
“Che Guevara" style....great, now the question is, are they as murderous as Che Guevara?
Who cares. It is just another reality show. Che is dead. Dead man can't act.
Why not set up a web site to collect donations for Assad ? I have a few extra dollars.The money would be better used.
So you have no problem supporting Assad who orders his military to indiscriminately kills women and children every day? That makes you no better than he is. You are a waste of air!
You missed the point.
Go get a brain and then read his statement again.
I'll support anyone that rids the world of muslims.
Violence is wrong. I will not fund it. IF they want to seek democracy through peaceful means then they can have my cash. Ghandi (India) and Aung San Suu Kyi (Burma) have shown how it's done. CNN has an article up right now about "the Lady" of Burma. Read it before sending cash to guys with guns.
Let those who support the rebels fund them out of their own pocket. Better still, send their own sons. This is the greatest idea in foreign policy in years.
As long as their are radical Islamist alive, there will ALWAYS be strife in the middle east. They have fought each other for thousands of years and no indication of them resolving their differences any time in our lifetime. The only peace they have had is when they are ruled by a strong dictator. They do not recognize Democracy and never will. US should back off the middle east and let them continue to murder each other.
1,000 bucks apeice plus 4 bucks for bullets ....i'm in the wrong business
anyone who donates money to these AL-QAEDA TERRORIST should be tried in court for funding terrorism. we have a bunch of people who are in prison right now for funding al-qaeda. funding these people will be no different!
Chris your tax dollars always go to support terrorism. Killing palestinian children by the dirty jews
I agree Palestinians are a waste of time.
All they know is whine, kill, destroy, lie...
A lot of ignorance being posted here today. The FSA is made up of defectors of the Syrian military who refused to kill their own citizens. They are NOT al-qaeda. Yes there may be some islamic fundamentalists sprinkled in the mix but that is why the CIA is weeding through these groups as we speak trying to find out who's who.
Most people have been brainwashed into thinking ALL the people in the FSA are terrorists. I guess George Washington was a terrorist too according to the morons here.
Stop getting your news from "Infowars", "RT" and "PressTv" ya jaggoffs.
KAFER ZAITA, Syria — Late in the afternoon on the second day of the intense fighting that raged in Kafer Zaita for much of last week, a massive explosion rocked the small northern town. "Abdullah," who commands a small unit of rebel fighters, smiled. "I was waiting for that," he said. "We just sent them a little gift."
"They" were the army forces who for two days had been attempting to break out of their stronghold in the center of the town, and the "gift" was a truck laden with what the rebels said was 660 pounds of a homemade explosive. The bomb tore a hole in the fortress wall and left a 4-foot-deep crater in the pavement.
Unlike the car bombs that U.S. troops came to fear during the Iraq war, this vehicle wasn't driven by a young fanatic set on martyrdom. In fact, it wasn't really driven at all. Rather, it was piloted by remote control. Its pilot remained safely concealed in a nearby house as he steered the truck around a corner, then accelerated it into the stronghold wall.
this is from REUTERS!!
Where do ypu get your news from Mike? From your local terrorist network?
MIKE YOUR A DAMN LIAR! just three weeks ago these same AL-QAEDA TERRORIST blew up govt buildings and killed over FIFTY SIX CIVILLIANS! this was CONFIRMED by the UNITED NATIONS monitors who were in the country at the time.
you are lower than filth for coming on to this site and knowingly posting LIES AND PROPOGANDA! CAN SEND YOU THE LINK FROM THE ACTUAL TERROSIT BOMBING from any FOREIGN credible media site on this planet,since AMERICAN MEDIA SITES REFUSED TO REPORT THIS!
al qaeda and assad have years of a great relationship as assad aid them to cross the border into iraq to attack americans, and likely the bombings is assad playing by gadhafi playbook to cause the attack and then pointing the fingers at freedom seekers protesting for their freedom and their supporters as if they are the ones causing the bombing, when actually it is assad acting like Gadhafi before he was killed, assad will likely end up like Gadhafi
I herd there are new rebels in Libya. Shouldn't Nato support their cause? Specially if they are offering better deals once in power?
You HEARD wrong.
Mankind learned from its thousands' of years history that democracy is the best way of governance. I do support all those who are struggling for a democratic system & against monarchy regardless of their colour, creed, race and religion. Not every Christian is Anders Behring Breivik and not every muslim a binladen. Extremists are there in every nation and cult but they are, indeed, in minority and will never be able to dictate the majority provided that there is a democratic system in place.
Let's promote tolerance and respect for each other.
I would like to believe you.
However, you have better say this often in every discussion.
Just arm them like John McCain said. Send a spare nuke or two.
Remember we helped the Taliban, in Lybia Sharia law is imposed and Christians are beaten and killed like in Egypt where the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood wants an Iranian style country, the same for Siria, where if children are killed is because their radical muslim parents used them as shields, sacificing for Allah.
Support any of them we are supporting who tomorrow will kill us.
What, you have not heard that Muslims lie?
Read their Courun and see how many times Moohamed tells them that allah wants them to lie, invent, fabricate, deceive...
$1000 per AK and $4 a bullet is about 3x too expensive for the gun, and at least 10x too expensive for the ammo. In the US, with dumb gun laws, you can buy AK's all day long for $350, and 7.62×39 ammunition for 25 cents per round.
Where the heck are these guys buying their guns and ammo? An AK sells for about $400-600 at any gun shop in my area, with ammunition selling for a quarter per round. Talk about inflation!
Bob I think they are buying it from a greedy Jew arm dealer
The dry-cleaner called. He said your white robes and hood are ready.
Some filthy muslim on a fast camal got there first.
instead of the "Jew arms dealer"?
I am a christian and I support the Muslims who do not want to kill christians at all.
I am Muslim and support christians whom do not want to kill Muslims
I am an atheist who wants to see all Muslims go the way of the Dodo bird.
I am a Christian who needs to see muslims be accountable for their lies, deceptions, mutilations, bombings, violence ridden lives...
Since when Kalashnikov assault rifle is $1,000? You can support a terrorist and be cheated too!
4 dollars for a bullet? my local walmart sells a 1000 for 249.99. and ak's for 549.99. what up bee?
They don't have Wal-Marts in Syria. It is called a black market, where the demand for an item exceeds the availability of it. It is not like they can just drive a semi-truck, loaded with AK-47's and ammunition, across the border of Syria and deliver them to the rebels. Seriously people get real!
Use the tried and tested formula. Get a Hollywood heavyweight actor like Brad Pitt to support their cause. Rope in a movied director and as the guest of honor, the venerable Dalai Lama, Justin Bieber and don't forget George Bush, the son not the father. Then you can a loud party.
But of course, you have to fine-tune the truth coming out of Syria.
How about keeping the anti American boloney to a minimum since we give more to the world then any other country. The article is about adopting a Syrian Rebel. That sound crazy to me,if the rebels are fighting a rightious fight then my prayer are with them. But here at the CNN website there is an article about a man who wrote a small book on non violent struggle and it has helped millions win freedom and democracy read it and stop using violence. If you live by the sword you will die by it. No one can force another to do anything unless the person lets them. Stop participating take away the people they mean to rule.
I just want to see the Assad "regime" gone. The people will never have a say unless it's gutted.
Not so simple, Rodney. With Assad gone, the people won't have much to say as there will be fighting between various factions. On top of that Israel will try its best to maintain that turmoil and start land grabbing -to add to their illegal hold on Golan (btw was initiated by Israel)
To Tarek from Syria: I doubt if you really are in Syria. The USA will regret in supporting these terrorist rebels. The Iraq affair is not over. I have no doubt that is Assad leaves there will be chaos. I have no doubt that the Christians will all leave to exile. Take the example of Turkey. A few Christians have been left and they are oppressed.
I smell Zionist behind the scenes on one...just follow the money and the stench.
I smell another muslim lying, cheating, bragging, whining, deceiving, fabricating...
What you smell is a muslim after eating lima beans and HAM HOCKS!!
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Syria calls these people terrorists and the West call them "rebels". Time will tell who is right. It'd be interesting to consister a similar situation in our recent past in Libya. Then, they were called "defenceless protesters" (no mention of their sophisticated weapons). And there was the small issue of conducting a regime change under the guise of "protecting innocent civilians". It seems the West is trying the same script in Syria. But this time Russia and China have wised up and it may not go as scripted this time.
Atleast now we have started hearing some real names now. In the early "spring" we did not have any names of these "leaders" - they just sprang out of internet!!.
Someday soon, some people in USA are going to answer to the people for what they are creating in the middle east. Just like how they created Taliban.
Assad receives advice and direction from Iran.
I will support a Syrian government soldier!!!!!!!!!!!
Four dollars a bullet? I thought ammunition in the states was pricey !
Than you Zakaria for letting us know. Now tell us how they can also contribuite to US election.
Another no win situation for the United States. Both sides chant "Death to America." Here is an Idea, let these evil people "YES EVIL" kill each other, becuase no matter who comes to power we will be dropping bombs there one day, becuase these people get their jollies by dying for the god Stephen Hawking proved doesn't exist.
Can I buy a gift certificate from the website?
They're having a sale on suicide vests.
$4 per bullet?? I'm sitting on a gold mine!
The Syrian rebel you adopt today will become the Islamofascist who plots your doom tomorrow.
ohmama is another sheethead that tries to blame eveythig on Israel. Muslims would need a stepladder to shine a jews shoes. If the world needed an enama they would stick the tube in Mecca.
Absolutely, right on!
Well said, Sharky.
al qaeda was made by usa during the 1990s against Russia , and now they are harboring another terrorist. Oneday those so called rebel will turn their weapon against USA ,,,,,
Well, actually I think that is the same one: old good al Qaeda.
This time they not only got themselves a few countries where they could fester. They also try new creative approaches to building their financing network – moving with times. It does not matter how many liberal fools use this site to give their money to "rebels". It is all about creating another channel their traditional sponsors could use to donate BIG sums of money without even leaving the comfort or their harems...
And CNN goes around bragging about that: that is ridiculous!
Backstabbing = muslim
This will all end up the same way as Egypt, fanatic muslims hell-bent on killing in the name of some GAWD. The Mayans were extinguished because of their lust for human sacrifice, let's hope these people will suffer the same fate.
The freedom fighter you fund today is tomorrow's terrorist.
Remember Osama Bin Laden.
> As for the Sham Falcons, with an average price of $1,000 for a Kalashnikov rifle and $4 per bullet, the plea for funding is > never ending.
It's not the bullets that kill people. It's dollars.
So the US warns Russia not to provide any aid to Syria, but its okay for the US to aid rebels and now this ? What will happen if the rebeles win is that Syria will become another Muslim theocracy that will turn on the US. Heed the warning, let Assad and the rebels settle it on their own. No aid for the rebels or Assad !
I see that some Muslim hating Tea Partier managed to hijack my name and use it on this web site. I'm the true Larry here and I do not hate Muslims nor do I support any of these idiotic wars against them!!!!
What a shame to use the commonly good-cause-related phrase "adopt a ..." to support killers. Disgusting!
How true that is, Bezboz. These right-wing fanatics have neither shame nor scruples! None at all!
"With an average price of $1,000 for a Kalashnikov rifle and $4 per bullet," where are they buying these from? that is ridiculously expensive on both accounts.
the warmongers in the white house are rubbing off-–how far away are we from 1939 fascism?The US gov't thinks it will never have to answer for what they do,and who they kill,but there is a day of reckoning.We all will stand before our Maker.Then explain your bombing techniques,Mr.President.Then explain your motives for war,Mr.Senator.No place to run,no place to hide.
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