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Syria's Charge D'Affaires Quits London Post

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Syria's Charge D'Affaires to London has become the latest high level diplomat to defect from the Assad regime according to numerous tweets and Sky News which is reporting:
Syria's Charge D'Affaires Quits London Post
3:39pm UK, Monday 30 July 2012

Syria's charge d'affaires has left his London post because he is "no longer willing to represent a regime that has committed such violent and oppressive acts".

The Foreign Office said Khaled al Ayoubi's decision illustrated the "revulsion and despair" the regime's actions were provoking amongst Syrians.
A spokesperson for the FCO said: "We urge others around Bashar al Assad to follow Mr al Ayoubi's example; to disassociate themselves from the crimes being committed against the Syrian people and to support a peaceful and free future for Syria."

I have much more to report today, with a special focus on defections and protests. There are more defections to tell you about. for example another brigadier general, who was the Deputy police chief of Latakia has defected, with 11 other officers, to Turkey. The more Syrian soldiers learn from their own experience that the government's story that they are fighting "foreign backed terrorist armed gangs" is a lie, the more they slip away. This is why bringing the fight to Aleppo and Damascus will finish off the regime.

Also it appears that the Free Syrian Army is not only holding its own in Aleppo, it is actually been gaining ground! It is now claiming to control 60% of Aleppo, up from 40% before the regime struck back. Although the Assad forces have been able to use their standoff weapons, warplanes, helicopters and long range artillery, with murderous effect; the FSA has turned Aleppo into a graveyard for tanks and the regime doesn't dare let the troops go in lest they defect.

And while everyone has been focused on the fighting in Aleppo, Deir ez-Zor has been taking a pounding and is looking more and more like the site of another massacre. Meanwhile, Damascus is not as quiet as some would have you believe.

So check back late for more. This London defection is hot, so I wanted to get it out fast.

Ten Protests among Hundreds Yesterday

Demonstration all the cities affected | Nasrhlheik | Qrva | 30 July 2012



Singer Abu Malik leads protesters in song | Hama | 29 July 2012


Evening Demonstration Demanding Freedom Bastan | Aleppo | 29 July 2012



City of Mare `demonstration evening | 29 July 2012



Hasaka: demonstration Sunday, "senior Kurdish DFI represent us" | 29 July 2012



An evening rally support for the cities affected Arbeen Damascus | 29 July 2012



An evening rally support for the cities affected in Homs | 29 July 2012


An evening rally support for the cities affected in Idlib | 29 July 2012



Demonstration on tenth day of Ramadan in Klli Idlib | 29 July 2012



Demonstration in Aleppo | 29 July 2012


Defections

Most low level defector don't have the option of just retreating from the fight. They know they will be shot by the Assad regime if they are caught, and their families will the slaughtered if they can be found.
This make defection very difficult and is why you see whole units defecting together with their families.

Syrian Consul in Nigeria defects | 30 July 2012



Syrian Air Force pilot defects together with his two sons Talal | 30 July 2012



Military Security branch defects to form Radio Free Deir Al-Zour | 29 July 2012


More defections in the Damascus Suburbs | 29 July 2012



More defections to the FSA in the Idlb | 29 July 2012



Colonel leading a Captain defect | 30 July 2012



Defection of Lieutenant Hamza Keziz and the formation of a new brigade | 30 July 2012



First assistant security officer Khaled Bakri defects in Aleppo | 30 July 2012


Defection of al- Asad Sgayn | 29 July 2012



Sergeant Solomon defects Acer | 30 July 2012



A group of officers defect in the free city of Mohassan Bdiralzor | 30 July 2012


Death & Destruction







Regime shelling destroys home in Homs, Syria | 30 July 2012


Results of Assad regime massacre carried out in Deir al-Zour | 29 July 2012
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Free Syrian Army Victories

Valerie Amos Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs has issued a statement saying "that some 200,000 people have fled fighting in Aleppo and surrounding areas in the last two days." Of course,, in as much as Aleppo was a city of 2.5 million, that leaves a lot of people unaccounted for.

MUST SEE! Life in Aleppo today - Saving survivor of a massacre after a bus is targeted by a regime tank, killing 17 | 28 July 2012


Ivan Watson of CNN is in Syria and this morning he reports on significant FSA victories around Aleppo:
Syrian rebels seize military base outside Aleppo
updated 11:24 AM EDT, Mon July 30, 2012

Northern Syria (CNN) -- Rebels captured a government military base Monday on the outskirts of Aleppo, the hotly contested Syrian metropolis that has seen more than a week of bloody clashes.

The base had about 200 Syrian troops and appeared to be under attack by rebels from three sides overnight.

"The battle lasted around nine hours," said Fazad Abdel Nasr, a rebel commander working in the northern Aleppo suburbs. Nasr said six regime soldiers and four rebel fighters were killed.

The rebels also gained heavy equipment to supplement the lesser weapons they had been fighting with.


"We captured four tanks in good condition, and they are now in the hands of the Free Syrian Army. Two were destroyed," Nasr added.

Despite the boost for the rebels, the relentless battle for Syria's largest city raged on Monday.

Al Jazeera correspondent Omar Khashram was wounded during heavy fighting in a central Aleppo neighborhood. A cameraman and driver working with Khashram, who was being treated in a hospital in Turkey, told CNN that shrapnel from a shell penetrated gaps in the correspondent's flak jacket in Aleppo's Salahuddin neighborhood.

U.N. observers have reported a surge in violence in Aleppo, with helicopters, tanks and artillery being used, mission head Lt. Gen. Babacar Gaye said Monday.

Regime forces launched missiles and shelled from attack helicopters, opposition activists said. More...

Ivan Watson of CNN:
Some of at least 4 government tanks I saw the rebels capture near Anadan, north of Aleppo.


Multiple images of the same thing from different sources make events easy to verify. On the otherhand, the fact that the Syrian government was easily caught trying to pond off footage shot in Hamdanieh from Salah Eddine, shows how hard really convincing video is to produce. Here is some video of those captured tanks:



Clearly they are proud of their new acquisitions, and rightfully so. They probably represent the most potent new weapons in the rebel arsenal and they weren't purchased with Saudi dollars, smuggled in by Qatar or vetted by the CIA.

Those tanks attracted a lot of cameras. This is the best:



Erika Solomon of Reuters has filed this report from Aleppo:
Aleppo rebels under fire, Syrian fighter jet flies over
Mon Jul 30, 2012 11:57am EDT

(Reuters) - The Syrian military stepped up its campaign to drive rebel fighters out of Aleppo on Monday, firing artillery and mortars while a fighter jet flew over a district the army said it had retaken the day before.

However, opposition activists denied government forces had entered the Salaheddine district, which lies in the southwest of the country's biggest city and straddles the most obvious route for Syrian troop reinforcements coming from the south.

Hospitals and makeshift clinics in rebel-held eastern neighborhoods were filling up with casualties from a week of fighting in Aleppo, a commercial hub that had previously stayed out of a 16-month-old revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.

"Some days we get around 30, 40 people, not including the bodies," said a young medic in one clinic. "A few days ago we got 30 injured and maybe 20 corpses, but half of those bodies were ripped to pieces. We can't figure out who they are."

The opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 40 people, including 30 civilians, were killed in Syria on Monday. Two rebel fighters died in Salaheddine.

Outgunned rebel fighters, patrolling in flat-bed trucks flying green-white-and-black "independence" flags, said they were holding out in Salaheddine despite a battering by the army's heavy weapons and helicopter gunships. More...

Here is another column of 13 tanks and other vehicles that was seized in Aleppo. The Free Syrian Army claims they will soon be used in their new push on Damascus. | 30 July 2012




Again, there are multiple videos... | 30 July 2012



Tarak Barkawi has published this very insightful assessment of the fighting on the Al Jazeera website:
Victory for Free Syria
Syrian troops will soon regard everyone outside their own units as potential enemies.
Last Modified: 30 Jul 2012 09:04

Recent events and news reports have revealed the military character of the fighting in Syria. They make it possible to assess the likely course and outcome of the war.

Especially significant are accounts of Syrian troops holed up in their bases in the countryside, unable to move about except in armoured vehicles. Some bases are apparently only being resupplied by helicopter. What's even more demoralising for the Syrian army are reports that the rebels now have effective anti-tank weapons. It appears that Syrian tanks and other armoured vehicles are being taken out of action by home-made improvised explosive devices (IEDs) as well as by more advanced weaponry provided by foreign backers.

In rural areas, these developments mean that the rebels can effectively control large swathes of territory with relatively weak forces. Confining regular forces to bases is a dire sign for the government in any insurgency. The authorities no longer govern much of the population, and can no longer extract taxes and recruits from it.

However, Syrian forces are likely to become even more murderous when they do venture out of their laagers. They will regard everyone outside their own units and regime-friendly areas as potential enemies. There are reports of regime tanks firing their machine guns into buildings as they race by.

Notably, the forces of "Free Syria" have demonstrated an ability to strike into the heart of Syria's great cities. The fighting in Damascus and Aleppo is a sure sign of the growing military capabilities of the rebels. Along with the assassination of four senior officials, there can be no more stark indicators that the days of the Assad regime are numbered. More...

Chris Stephen thinks that Aleppo is the new Stalingrad in the Scotsman:
Analysis: Time is on the side of the guerillas in Assad’s Stalingrad
Monday 30 July 2012 00:52

THE battle for Aleppo is shaping up to be Syria’s Stalingrad, and it is the forces of president Bashar al-Assad which are staring defeat in the face.

While the Syrian army has the tanks, artillery and attack helicopters, it is the Free Syrian Army which is in the driving seat and which chose this battle.

For a guerrilla army, no environment is more of an equaliser than a city, with its narrow streets and tall buildings. Cities are an environment that conventional armies dread.

All the advantages are with the defender. The Free Syrian Army militias have plentiful protection from the artillery and helicopter gunships, and a pulverised building is as good a strongpoint as an intact one.?Tanks are acutely vulnerable in the restricted spaces – witness recent film posted by activists showing Free Syrian Army units knocking out Assad’s armour with Molotov cocktails hurled from alleys and rooftops.

Advancing infantry must stumble through unfamiliar terrain, with a hundred places for a sniper to conceal himself.

Not for nothing did Free Syrian Army commander Abdel Jabbar al-Oqaidi declare at the weekend that Aleppo would be Assad’s “graveyard.” More...

From EAWorldView on Syria Monday we have:
Syria (and Beyond) Live Coverage: Is Aleppo "A Nail in Assad's Coffin"?
Monday, July 30, 2012 at 13:25 | Scott Lucas


1921 GMT: Syria. The Guardian has a pair of stories on the growing role of jihadists in the conflict. Martin Chulov, drawing from residents and a Turkish smuggler, reports on the growing number of foreigners crossing into Syria from Turkey in the past two weeks, some saying that they are planning to travel to Aleppo to join the battle.

Many of the men reportedly come from the Caucasus, while others have arrived from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Gulf Arab states.

Insurgent leaders say about 15-20 foreign fighters have been crossing each day since mid-July, trying to join up with an estimated 200-300 foreigners already in the country.

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad speaks to Syrian fighters who claim connections with Al Qa'eda and car bombings.

1629 GMT: Syria. Claimed footage of Free Syrian Army attacks on regime forces in the Engineer's building, City Centre building, and police headquarters in Homs:

1542 GMT: Syria. The commander in charge of the Free Syrian Army near Aleppo, Colonel Abdel Naser, has given more details on the insurgents' takeover of the Anadan checkpoint, three miles from Aleppo (see 0817 and 0836 GMT).

Naser said Free Syrian Army fighters had overwhelmed the Hryatan army base, next to the checkpoint, at around 5 a.m. this morning:

It was a successful operation. We took eight tanks and 10 armoured vehicles, as well as mortars and lots of weapons. We also took prisoners....Two tanks and one armoured vehicle managed to escape..

1535 GMT: Bahrain. Six medics who were arrested during last year's unrest and tried before a military court, will receive the verdict on their appeal on 1 October.

The medics were in the Court of Cassation today to challenge convictions that were upheld by a civilian court in June (see 0620 GMT entry

1442 GMT: Syria. Footage of slain Syrian soldiers in Aleppo, with the Hamdaniya-Salaheddin road in the background:

1430 GMT: Syria. Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office has announced that the Syrian chargé d’affaires, Khaled al-Ayoubi, has left his post.

The FCO claimed:

Ayoubi has told us that he is no longer willing to represent a regime that has committed such violent and oppressive acts against its own people, and is therefore unable to continue in his position. Ayoubi was the most senior Syrian diplomat serving in London. His departure is another blow to the Assad regime. It illustrates the revulsion and despair the regime’s actions are provoking amongst Syrians from all walks of life, inside the country and abroad.

The statement continued, "We urge others around Bashar Al-Assad to follow Ayoubi’s example; to disassociate themselves from the crimes being committed against the Syrian people and to support a peaceful and free future for Syria."

1330 GMT: Syria. Official United Nations video of the new head of UN monitors, General Babakar Gaye, visiting Homs and Rastan on Sunday:

1306 GMT: Syria. Insurgents stopping and checking vehicles in Aleppo:

1253 GMT: Bahrain. A large protest marched last night through the village of Mahazza on Sitra, the island which has been nicknamed the capital of the Bahrain revolution, with pro-democracy demonstrators chanting for the downfall of the AlKhalifa monarchy.

Opposition party Al-Wefaq claimed that police attacked the protesters, resulting in around 25 injuries, some with deep wounds from a reportedly new type of weapon. Activists shared this video of the march:

1224 GMT: Syria. Insurgents on streets of the Ansari section of Aleppo as a regime helicopter flies overhead:

1214 GMT: Syria. The Joint Command of the Free Syrian Army has put out a "national salvation" proposal for a political transition with military and civilian figures.

The draft proposes the establishment of a Higher Defence Council charged with creating a Presidential Council, which in turn would appoint six military and civilian officials to lead a future transition.

The Higher Defence Council should include "all Military Council leaders in Syria's cities and provinces, as well as all the high-profile defected officers and others who have contributed to the revolution", the Joint Command statement said. Among the proposed Presidential Council's responsibilities would be "to put forward draft laws for referendum and...to restructure the security and military apparatus".

1017 GMT: Iraq. David O'Byrne of the Financial Times reports on the complex "oil diplomacy" amongst Turkey, Iraqi Kurdistan, and the Iraqi central government:

Ordinarily, news of six road tankers carrying tiny quantities of unrefined crude oil 700km to a coastal port would not warrant much comment.

But the fact that six Turkish tankers have carried crude from the Kurdish-controlled region of northern Iraq to the Turkish port of Iskenderun is a different matter.

The trucks entered Turkey on Thursday carrying crude extracted by companies operating in northern Iraq in defiance of the central government. Their final destination was unclear but it appeared the crude would be exported from one of several port facilities around the bay of Iskenderun, two of which are operated by Botas, Turkey’s state pipeline operator.

0938 GMT: Syria. Another Turkish convoy of troops, missile batteries and armoured vehicles has left its base in Gaziantep Province and headed towards Kilis Province near the Syria border

Television footage from Dogan News Agency showed at least six armoured vehicles atop trucks traveling along an asphalt road. Buses and covered trucks that appeared to be personnel carriers were also in the convoy of about 20 vehicles.

Turkey also sent convoys to the border on 28 June and 22 July.

0929 GMT: Syria. A 28th general and the deputy police chief of Latakia has defected and fled to Turkey overnight with 11 other Syrian officers and 600 other people, a Turkish official has said.

0920 GMT: Yemen. Ian Pannell's first-hand report from Aleppo this morning on BBC radio, talking about "intensified fighting" and "increased suffering" among civilians:

listen to ‘BBC Ian Pannell reports from Aleppo Syria’ on Audioboo

0912 GMT: Yemen. About 100 armed tribesmen loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh stormed the Ministry of Interior on Sunday, demanding to be enlisted in the police force.

The tribesmen briefly held employees hostage but continued to occupy the building.

Later, gunmen kidnapped an Italian embassy security officer.

0906 GMT: Turkey. Mehmet Ezer of Turkish Weekly reports on the effect in southeastern Turkey of the Syrian conflict:

Hatay, on the border between Turkey and Syria, is feeling the brunt of the unrest in the neighboring country with many local businesses on the brink of bankruptcy. Some firms are unable to pay their debts tourism is almost nonexistent>.

The southern province of Hatay, which borders Syria to the north, has never before seen a crisis like the one currently unfolding, Hatay Industrialists and Businessmen Association (HAS?AD) President Gülay Gül has said in an interview with daily Hürriyet.

Gül said many companies in the province had reached the brink of bankruptcy because of the crisis in Syria and its impact on the local economy. Two years ago 2.5 million people passed through Hatay’s two border crossings for tourism, but now this number has dropped to zero, she said.

“Industrialists, logistical firms, exporters, importers, tourism firms and the agriculture sector have all been impacted very seriously. Local tradesmen, merchants and businessmen have also been hurt economically. The local population is tense,” said Gül. She also noted that companies that had taken out loans to grow their businesses are really suffering and that those with debts to banks were on the verge of bankruptcy.

0836 GMT: Syria. Footage of the fighting and the aftermath at the Anadan checkpoint, three miles northwest of Aleppo, seized by insurgents this morning after a ten-hour battle (see 0817 GMT):

0832 GMT: Syria. There are competing claims this morning about the fight in the Salaheddin district of Aleppo.

A "security source in Damascus" has claimed, "The Syrian army took control of part of Salaheddin district and continues its offensive"; however, Colonel Abdel Jabbar al-Oqaidi, head of the Free Syrian Army military council of Aleppo, denied the report and said regime troops had "not progressed one metre". He added, "We launched a new assault from Salaheddin during the night, and we destroyed four tanks."

0826 GMT: Syria. The BBC's Ian Pannell reports from Aleppo:

A hole-in-the-wall bakery had just reopened its doors after being closed for more than a day. Most food shops in the turbulent districts are now closed.

Rebel fighters tried to marshal the crowds as hundreds of hungry and increasingly desperate residents clamoured for the thin round loaves.

Suriya had finally reached the front of the queue and the middle-aged mother thrust her hand through the railings outside the bakery, grasping for the bread. Like many poor Syrians she has a large family to feed and with no fresh fruit or vegetables available this is her only chance to get food.

"A lot of poor people are suffering from a lack of food and water," she complained. "Many are going to bed hungry."

Pannell also writes, amid bodies, from a school being used as an insurgent base:

She was the girl with no name. When we returned to the rebel base, she was lying on her back on the floor, where she appeared to be sleeping. The teenager had a pale complexion and wore a pretty red dress, her lower body draped in a blanket.

I noticed our translator, sat at her side, was crying. I had been wrong, the girl was not sleeping - she was dead, killed in a government artillery strike, the blanket masking her wounds.

"Who is she?" I asked. No one knew. She had been found in the road near to where the shell had landed.

0817 GMT: Syria. An AFP journalist reports that insurgents have seized a strategic checkpoint, securing free movement between Aleppo and Turkey.

"The Anadan checkpoint, five kilometres (3 miles) northwest of Aleppo, was taken this morning at 5:00 am (0200 GMT) after 10 hours of fighting," said insurgent General Ferzat Abdel Nasser.

The AFP journalist said the insurgents captured seven tanks and armoured vehicles, and destroyed an eighth vehicle. Six soldiers were killed and 25 were taken as prisoners, General Ferzat said, adding that four of his own men died in the fighting.

0811 GMT: Syria. Activists report regime attacks on insurgent positions in Aleppo early this morning.

The Syrian Revolution General Commission said the southwestern district of Salaheddin, where insurgents entered Aleppo this morning, has been shelled, while the Local Coordination Committeessaid the eastern neighbourhood of Sakhur was hit by shells and by machinegun fire, with regime forces deploying helicopter gunships.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said clashes between troops and insurgents erupted near the Air Force's intelligence headquarters in the Zahraa district.

0646 GMT: Bahrain. The February 14 Youth Coalition has announced a series of daily protests, starting today and culminating on Saturday with a demonstration in solidarity with political prisoners.

0643 GMT: Syria. Claimed footage of insurgents attacking a building with pro-regime shabiha militia in Aleppo on Sunday:

0638 GMT: Kuwait. Thursday's arrest of a member of Kuwait's ruling family for tweeting political opinions has been strongly criticised. AFP reports:

In tweets that Sheikh Meshaal wrote over the past few days, he said he would contest the next parliamentary election becoming the first royal in Kuwait to do so, and also vowed that if he became an MP he would expose corruption among top officials.

He also complained that the Kuwaiti constitution entrusts power to only one branch of Al Sabah family --- the descendants of Mubarak Al Kabeer, who ruled Kuwait from 1896 to 1915.


0634 GMT: Bahrain. Last Thursday, opposition society Al Wefaq launched "Darkness Gangs", a campaign to raise awareness of "constant attacks on homes" by Bahrain police since the start of the uprising in February 2011.

The Ministry of Interior reacted with a statement on Saturday, put out by Bahrain's PR firms into the Western media:

Bahrain's Interior Ministry says it is opening investigations into possible rights violations by police during crackdowns on opposition protesters....

Bahrain has said before that it will look into abuses but this is one of the most forcefully worded pledges.

0631 GMT: Iraq. Six people were killed by car bombs on Sunday with a further 21 wounded.

One bomb was detonated at a market in Al-Muqdadiyah, killing four people, with the other bomb killing two policemen just east of Fallujah. In Kirkuk, "a magnetic 'sticky bomb' wounded Major Rabih Nadhim of the Oil Protection Force."

0625 GMT: Syria. The head of the opposition Syrian National Council, Abdel Basset Sayda, is reportedly visiting Iraqi Kurdistan in a bid to convince Kurdish leaders to join the opposition.

A high-ranking official in the Syrian Kurdish National Council said Sayda arrived in Erbil on Sunday and will meet the president of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Massud Barzani, and other senior officials. The meetings will include Syria's Supreme Kurdish Council.

The official said that Sayda, who is Kurdish, had made a secret visit to Kurdistan to meet Barzani and other leaders after he was chosen in June to head the SNC.

0620 GMT: Bahrain. An appeal by six medics, currently facing prison sentences between 6 months and 5 years, will be heard before the Court of Cassation this morning.

Last year, the medics were arrested, abused, and tried before a military court. This June, as nine of their colleagues were acquitted, the six medics had their sentences reduced but their convictions were upheld.

On Saturday, Physicians for Human Rights called upon the court to overturn the remaining convictions:

“The charges against these medical professionals are representative of a broad and systematic attack on Bahrain’s health system by the government of Bahrain," said Richard Sollom, deputy director of PHR. "Dropping all charges against the medics—whose ethical duty was to treat all injured people—is imperative if there is to be true justice and political reform in Bahrain."

0520 GMT: Syria. The Local Coordination Committees of report that at least 114 people died at the hands of security forces on Sunday, including 41 in Damascus and its uburbs, among them 36 slain in the suburb of Moadamiyeh'; 33 in Daraa Province, most in Sheikh Meskeen massacre; and 11 in Aleppo Province.

0500 GMT: Syria. We start with a comment by US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta on Sunday as he started a tour of five Middle Eastern countries:

If [the Syrian regime] continues this kind of tragic attack on their own people... I think it ultimately will be a nail in [President] Assad's coffin.

What Assad has been doing to his own people and what he continues to do to his own people makes clear that his regime is coming to an end. It's lost all legitimacy.

It's no longer a question of whether he's coming to an end, it's when.

The situation on the ground is not as clear-cut. Fighting continued in several neighbourhoods on Sunday, with an estimated 200,000 of Aleppo's 2.5 million residents having left Syria's largest city. Despite the use of helicopter gunships, tanks, and intense ground fire, the Assad military failed to dislodge the Free Syrian Army from areas it has occupied for more than a week.

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