Bombings, clashes decimate Syria cease-fire

A rebel fighter fires his weapon towards pro-Syrian government troops in the Bustan al-Bashar district of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, on October 27, 2012. Syrian rebels clashed with Kurdish militia in the northern city of Aleppo, leaving 30 dead and around 200 captured, a watchdog said, sparking fears of a new front in an already fractured country. / PHILIPPE DESMAZES/AFP/Getty Images

BEIRUT A Syrian warplane flattened a three-story building, suspected rebels detonated a deadly car bomb and both sides traded gunfire in several hotspots across the country Saturday, activists said, leaving a U.N.-backed holiday truce in tatters on its second day.

The unraveling of the cease-fire marked the latest setback to ending Syria's civil war through diplomacy. Foreign military intervention is unlikely, raising the grim prospect of a drawn-out war of attrition between President Bashar Assad and those trying to topple him.

The proposed four-day truce during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha had been a long shot from the start since international mediator Lakhdar Brahimi failed to get solid commitments from all combatants. Fighting dropped off in the first hours of the cease-fire Friday, but by the end of the day, activists said 151 people had been killed in bombings and shootings, a standard daily toll in Syria.

On Saturday, the first regime airstrike since the start of the truce reduced a three-story building in the Arbeen suburb of the capital, Damascus to rubble, killing at least eight men, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which compiles reports from activists.

In the remote eastern town of Deir el-Zour, assailants detonated a car bomb near a military police compound, then opened fire at those rushing to the scene, killing a total of eight people and causing extensive damage, the Observatory said. Syrian media denied there were casualties. The attack bore the hallmarks of Jabhat al-Nusra, a radical rebel-allied Islamic group that has rejected the cease-fire.

The Syrian air force also bombed rebel positions Saturday during a fierce battle for control over the main road linking Aleppo, Syria's largest city, with the capital, activists said. Earlier this month, rebels seized Maaret al-Numan, a town along the highway and besieged a nearby military base, disrupting regime supplies to embattled Aleppo. The Syrian air force has responded with sustained bombing raids on area villages.

By nightfall Saturday, at least 49 people had been killed across Syria, including 16 Syrian soldiers, activists said. The Observatory reported deadly regime shelling and sniper attacks in several locations, while Syrian state-media said rebels ambushed a number of military positions.

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Military analyst Joe Holliday said neither side has an incentive to halt fighting, noting that rebels have disrupted regime supply routes to the northern provinces of Aleppo and Idlib. "The regime can't accept the current military status quo without a fight and the rebels have no reason to since they believe they have the momentum," said Holliday, a researcher at the Institute for the Study of War in Washington.

Brahimi's spokesman declined comment Saturday on the apparent failure of his initiative. It's not clear what Brahimi's next move could be, since the international community is divided over the Syria conflict that erupted 19 months ago.

Assad allies Russia and China have shielded the regime against harsher U.N. Security Council sanctions, while the rebels' foreign backers have shied away from military intervention.

The U.S., meanwhile, is averse to sending strategic weapons to help the rebels break the battlefield stalemate, fearing they will fall into the hands of militant Islamists, who are increasingly active in rebel ranks. The al Qaeda-inspired Jabhat al-Nusra, for example, is believed to be on the front lines in Aleppo and near Maaret al-Numan.

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[julianpenrod]

Note the New World Order thought manipulation methods in this "story".
Among other things, "If it's not as easy as before to trundle the idea that 'your side" does no wrong, at least accuse 'the other side' of doing wrong first. If that can be easily disputed, then mention 'the other side' doing wrong first in the sentence." Notice the article starting off with talking of a Syrian warplane attacking a building. But it doesn't specify that the bombing took place before the militants setting of the car bomb! By the same token, though, the article carefully avoids mentiuoning that the government attack was provoked by the militants violating the cease fire first!
It apparently has become difficult if not impossible to cover the fact that the "freedom fighters' are using "terrorist" mass murder of civvilians methodology! The New World Order owned "news" media will deny that as long as possible, but, when it no longer can, it places it further down in the article.
Note the technique, also, "Use verbiage that suggests what you want, while not saying it directly, taking advantage of the fact that the NWO target audience of dullards will be too dim to be able to make appropriate sense of the statement." The article speaks of "the first regime airstrike since the start of the truce". The New World Order's target audience of simpletons will read that as the regime striking first with an airstrike!
Another NWO thought control mechanism, "Anything 'the other side' does is wrong." The article also speaks of the Assad government "violating" a past "cease fire" by not withdrawing their troops from captured areas. It is never permitted by international agreements that a side be required to "honor" a cease fire by leaving captured areas! If that was the case, a war would be punctuated by "cease fires", the winning side would constantly move back, and aggressions would continue! You cannot declare a situation upheld by internaitonal law if it incorporates provisions that are deterimental to the populace, such as requiring turning conditions back so that aggressions will have to start again!
And, for all that the article talks about "human rights" watchers decrying the building being brought down on militants, where is the same concern for families butchered by the dozens by Predator drones to kill single "terrorists"?
Add such things, too, as the craven technique of terming the murderous thugs trying to bring down legitimate government to install a CIA/Mossad/MI-5 abomination "activists".

[sawolf]

What the he11 are you on??? Assad is a butcher, whose father bulldozed a city into the ground,Hama. To call the regime legit is psychotic, with 30,000 dead in less then 2 years.

[hindunigger]

Expect nothing better but mayhem among humanity by following of hinduism, denial of truth absolute, Allah, and following of hindu pagan Mithra ism, savior ism, neither commanded, nor allowed in Islam as a religion, but Theen Allah, consti tution of truth absolute.
Shiaism
hindu Mithra ism, savior ism invented little over 100 years after Sydana Mohammad pbh by tribes of Kujar of north Africa and imposition as Fatmid Khalaphit by force by denial of Hidth and Quran, justified by hindu Judaism, pagan secularism to impose hinduism, racism by hindu, fabricated relationship with Family of Syadana Mohammad pbh to justify existence of hindu criminal Kings, a violation of fundamental commandment, human equality under the LA. truth absolute Allah. Cause of conflict among Muslim's and cause of down fall of Muslim's and Islam in Spain.

Sunisim, invented by Turk's by corruption of Quran and hidth to justify existence of hindu King's as Khalipha, after death of Ruler Mohammad, but later renamed, Mehmmat, wisdom of spirit of truth by siblings from his Armenian wife, follower of hindu pagan Mithra ism, savior ism in 13th century.

Christianity, invented by hinduism,. corruption of truth absolute by hindu Pharisees, pagan self centered, follower of hindu filthy pig ism by corrupted Torah, known as Greek Torah, translated and commented by Ben Asheer in 250 AD in Yiddish, secularist, self centered language, also known as Old Testament, part of book of Mithra ism labeled as Bible. A way to justify hindu criminal Kings and self proclaimed Prophets, fortune tellers as god's to rule over humanity.

JUDAISM, Self center ism, pig ism, or Atheism, invented by hindu's pagan's of Egypt by corruption of truth absolute in Torah to Justify hindu pagan Pharaoh's and their hindu pagan Santans, goons as god's to rule over humanity with impunity.

HAVE hINDUISM, CORRUPTION OF TRUTH ABSOLUTE, RELIGIONS AND LIVE WITH MAYHEM, AS HAS BEEN THE CASE FROM hIND, DARK AGES TILL TODAY. FOLLOW THEEN aLLAH, CONSTI TUTION OF TRUTH ABSOLUTE, ALLAH , GOD AND THE LORD, FOUNDATION OF CONSTI TUTION OF AMERICA TO HAVE PEACE AMONG HUMANITY. To learn more please visit truthisthelimit.com

[sawolf]

islam, a hallucination by a pedophile, homicidal, illiterate goat efer, that gleefully calls even their own apostate so they can then murder them. Only problem is that the sunni/shia conflict hasn't exterminated the pair of insane followers.Hows that missing imam working for you sociopaths?

[gadfly65]

You can't decimate a cease fire. The word "decimate" means to reduce to one-tenth of original strength; contemporary usage allows for a less strict interpretation, but it still must be limited to describing losses of actual personnel or assets.

[uggugg]

War seems to dominate our lives both in serving and reading and watching on TV. We need to put a stop to this excessively expensive past time before it consumes us.
Many issues which should have been debated in this election were left by the wayside. Wars which contribute 10's of trillions of dollars to America's Federal Debt and other Nations' debts will eventually and surely cause the warring nations to go broke and be owned by all the Multi-trillion dollar wealthy Multi-national Insurance, Multi-national Investment companies and International Banks who do nothing for their horn of plenty life styles except loan the money for wars, The profits from all of these international wars are feeding and push feeding all the Financial war hog's at the "War Hog Trough." America and all other nations cannot sustain even a common life style because of these never ending Trillions of dollars wars demand.
Mitt Romney brought up the fact that he wants 2 Trillion dollars to build ships for America to have the most Superior Navy. He then wants to kill Medicare and gut Social Security in the guise of saying it from going broke.-(Probably from spending too many trillions on Wars.)
Voters need to get their priorities in order and do their own thinking and vote or a NON-WAR President if they don't want to be owned by a Multi-National Group who has Trillions and Zillions of ill-gotten money,(Much more than the United States has.) from all the past intentionally promoted wars for profits. These people operate in total secrecy and we in America are kept in the dark like mushroom and fed crap like mushrooms are fed. The old saying what you don't know don't hurt you is a lie. What you don't know can and usually does kill you.
Think of prosperity for America's Poor and Middle Class, they are the soldiers who fight, lost their lives, arms, legs, eyes and brains for the love of their Country. Don't allow Rich Fat Cats from International Countries and the Corporate Partners Buy Out America, after America Has Gone Broke, then live under a Nation Called "America Incorporated."
We will probably never know, but with the timing of elections in America, any one of hundreds, of extremely wealthy Fat Cats, worth Trillion or Zillions of dollar, from any country around the world, could have easily paid a few million dollars to have 100 common town folks to do the attack in Benghazi, just to help the American Political Party of their choice to have a better advantage of getting elected in America.
Yes, big money people are this rotten. Vote your heart, not your pocket book and your life will be better.

[sawolf]

Grow up, the reason YOU can post your garbage is because decent people put their behinds on the Line to protect your FREEDOM to do so. In your case a complete waste.