[lesso73]

Assad’s "Barrel Bombs"
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...-barrel-bombs/

Turkmen villages come under attack in Syria
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...tack-in-syria/

Bosnian who fled from Aleppo: worse than Sarajevo
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...than-sarajevo/

Leaked: Assad’s Soldiers Setting Houses On Fire
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...ouses-on-fire/

“Is this the freedom you want” he says, while he sets the house on fire. “Assad or we will burn the country, Assad or we will burn the country completely” he says.

[muytreda]

Some recent updates:

The murder of Shaykh Ahmad Saleh al-Hamad & Shaykh `Abd al-`Aziz Hamwiyya
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...aleh-al-hamad/

This Week’s Massacres in Damascus and Hama
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...scus-and-hama/

The Execution of Members of the Berri Clan
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...he-berri-clan/

Salaheddin still stands, but its buildings are crumbling …
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/794/

[WournGona]

Round 2 in the Battle for Salaheddin and Aleppo
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...in-and-aleppo/

The Struggle of Shaykh As`ad al-Kahil
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...asad-al-kahil/

The Call of Imam Zaid Shakir to Support of the Syrian People
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...syrian-people/

The Call of Shaykh al-Qurra’ Krayyim Rajeh
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...the-mujahidin/

[derinasderun]

The battle of Aleppo will be very fierce. Bbc said 20000 soldiers attacking. I admit feeling anxious. I wonder if it will be wiser for fsa to vanish and fight another place and time.

I once read Sun Tzu's "The Art of War". Sun Tzu said he could draw a line on the ground and the enemy would never cross it. He would cause them to attack somewhere else.

[CHyLmxDr]

I don't know if it's a lack of capability, a strategic choice, or both, but it's been two weeks since the announcement, with their troops having been reinforced twice, and they still haven't stormed the city. Instead they have continued to savagely and cowardly bombard and shell it with fighter jets, choppers, tanks, mortars and artillery. They have destroyed large parts of the city, while massively killing and wounding innocent people and causing entire neighbourhoods to flee in terror. I read the Art of War about a decade ago and found it very insightful, and appreciate strategic considerations, but so far retreat from the first neighbourhood has led to retreat from more neighbourhoods in every city in which territory was gained, and caused the focus to move to another city. After the liberation of half of Halab, it will be very hard for the people to accept this to decrease before it increases, and unacceptable whatsoever for the focus to move away from the city. Nobody from Salaheddin, al-Mashhad or Sayf al-Dawleh wants tanks in their streets and Shabbiha in their homes, and what will the unfortunate ones who had to remain there face? This is it, no other place no other time, Halab needs to be completely liberated and if that's not strategically feasible, then this was already the case before the liberation started three weeks ago. I don't think it's their intention either with all the reinforcements to the FSA coming in, people from Halab joining, and even the FSA generals reaching the battle. Either way, it's too late now, what is needed is large amounts of weapons for tens of thousands who can carry them, to liberate the rest of the city and to begin an offensive against those 20.000 and their tanks. Let their planes and choppers bombard their own troops because that's where the FSA should be.

Wassalam

[Yinekol]

New Posts:

Shaykh Mahmud Abul Huda al-Husayni’s support for the Revolution
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...he-revolution/

The Struggle of Shaykh Mahmoud al-Dalati of Homs
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...alati-of-homs/

Shaykh Shady Alsuleiman’s Call to Support the Syrian Uprising
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...rian-uprising/

[Dr.Hoodoba]

Shaykh Yaqoubi’s Fatwa on using land mines in urban warfare
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...urban-warfare/

Leaked: Enjoying the rampage in a bird store
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...-a-bird-store/

Leaked: Having fun inside a tank while bombing peoples’ homes
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...peoples-homes/

[jessyhalm]

Assalamu `Alaykum

http://www.freehalab.wordpress.com

At the Onset of the Liberation of Aleppo is a weblog offering the latest news, reports, perspectives and analysis concerning the Syrian revolution. Focussing on the reality of the events that are taking place on the ground more than on the international politics dealing with them, special attention is given to the role of Syria’s traditional Sunni scholarly community and the religious and ethnic challenges faced by the country at large. Last but not least, it seeks to expose the façade of an alliance of families claiming to govern and represent a nation, while relying on pillars of tyranny, oppression, destruction, brutality, mass murder, cultism, sectarianism, corruption, deception and conspiracy in order to survive.

[Tuqofiw]

Aleppo prepares for an imminent onslaught by the regime
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/

After being held up on their way to Aleppo by the FSA, Assad’s reinforcements from Idlib have arrived and are preparing to storm the city. More reinforcements have been coming in from Hama and the Aleppo countryside. Reports are speaking of some 10.000 soldiers and 100 tanks. In the meantime bombardments and shelling by jets and choppers have continued as the regime loses more and more territory in the fight on the ground. Despite of this, people came out to demonstrate in huge numbers in several neighbourhoods. Assad’s reinforcements appear to be situated west of the city, connecting to the Assad park and the military academy. So it can be expected that the clashes will be in al-Hamdaniyya first, as they plan to move into al-Ard and Salaheddin, then Sayf al-Dawla and al-Mashhad, then al-Firdous and Bustan al-Qasr and on to the Citadel. The large number of advancing troops would be supported by tanks and from the air, so it is very hard to imagine how the resistance has any chance of halting the advance. They number no more than a few thousands and have light weapons with limited ammunition. At most the advance could be delayed through heavy clashes that will destroy the areas they take place in. The resistance seems to be anticipating this and has announced hit and run tactics, flowing like “water” through the advancing regime forces. They are also engaging these forces pre-emptively, and have apparently connected the west to the east in order to be able to resupply. As for the people, many have fled the areas in question while some have remained behind. Everyone is fearing a massacre will take place any moment now. May Allah protect the people.

http://wikimapia.org/#lat=36.1789061...9&z=14&l=0&m=b

Onslaught looms as Assad forces pound Aleppo rebels
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...+World+News%29

Syrian forces renew Aleppo assault
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middle...526106157.html

Syrian opposition braces for ‘mother of all battles’ in Aleppo
http://english.alarabiya.net/article...27/228613.html

Syrian troops gather near Aleppo for decisive battle with rebels
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...ppo?CMP=twt_gu

Helicopter gunships strafe Syria’s Aleppo, rights group says
http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticl...aspx?ID=422900

[eXC3Kvnn]

Assalamu `Alaykum

http://www.freehalab.wordpress.com

At the Onset of the Liberation of Aleppo is a weblog offering the latest news, reports, perspectives and analysis concerning the Syrian revolution. Focussing on the reality of the events that are taking place on the ground more than on the international politics dealing with them, special attention is given to the role of Syria’s traditional Sunni scholarly community and the religious and ethnic challenges faced by the country at large. Last but not least, it seeks to expose the façade of an alliance of families claiming to govern and represent a nation, while relying on pillars of tyranny, oppression, destruction, brutality, mass murder, cultism, sectarianism, corruption, deception and conspiracy in order to survive.

Please keep us updated, it is good to be informed of the situation there. May Allah help them and facilitate their struggle for freedom. May Allah destroy the oppressors and their armies. May Allah bring justice back to the Muslim lands and the entire world, Amin.

[squicscor]

Aleppo prepares for an imminent onslaught by the regime
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/

After being held up on their way to Aleppo by the FSA, Assad’s reinforcements from Idlib have arrived and are preparing to storm the city. More reinforcements have been coming in from Hama and the Aleppo countryside. Reports are speaking of some 10.000 soldiers and 100 tanks. In the meantime bombardments and shelling by jets and choppers have continued as the regime loses more and more territory in the fight on the ground. Despite of this, people came out to demonstrate in huge numbers in several neighbourhoods. Assad’s reinforcements appear to be situated west of the city, connecting to the Assad park and the military academy. So it can be expected that the clashes will be in al-Hamdaniyya first, as they plan to move into al-Ard and Salaheddin, then Sayf al-Dawla and al-Mashhad, then al-Firdous and Bustan al-Qasr and on to the Citadel. The large number of advancing troops would be supported by tanks and from the air, so it is very hard to imagine how the resistance has any chance of halting the advance. They number no more than a few thousands and have light weapons with limited ammunition. At most the advance could be delayed through heavy clashes that will destroy the areas they take place in. The resistance seems to be anticipating this and has announced hit and run tactics, flowing like “water” through the advancing regime forces. They are also engaging these forces pre-emptively, and have apparently connected the west to the east in order to be able to resupply. As for the people, many have fled the areas in question while some have remained behind. Everyone is fearing a massacre will take place any moment now. May Allah protect the people.

http://wikimapia.org/#lat=36.1789061...9&z=14&l=0&m=b

Onslaught looms as Assad forces pound Aleppo rebels
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...+World+News%29

Syrian forces renew Aleppo assault
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middle...526106157.html

Syrian opposition braces for ‘mother of all battles’ in Aleppo
http://english.alarabiya.net/article...27/228613.html

Syrian troops gather near Aleppo for decisive battle with rebels
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...ppo?CMP=twt_gu

Helicopter gunships strafe Syria’s Aleppo, rights group says
http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticl...aspx?ID=422900

for the information

[Neitteloxesia]

Aleppo residents flee their neighbourhoods in terror

Tens of thousands of civilians have been fleeing their neighbourhoods in Aleppo under the bombardment and shelling of the advancing army. Many neighbourhoods are nearly completely deserted, with only the FSA left behind and whoever is able to help them, and poor residents hiding in basements because they have nowhere else to go.

More [videos]:
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...ods-in-terror/

Aleppo’s Salaheddin Neighbourhood Brutally Attacked

Shelling and bombardments of several residential areas by fighter jets and helicopters extremely intensified, as the army began advancing into Hamdaniyye with more than 50 tanks, largely coming from the Artillery School. From there and reportedly also from inside the stadium they began a savage campaign against Salaheddin, continuously hitting it with an insane amount of shelling from tanks and mortars and bombarding it from the sky, killing and wounding many of the residents as they flee. Raining missiles, shells and machine gunfire, the regime is calling this savage violence of theirs “The Shock”. And so Salaheddin has become Aleppo’s Baba `Amr (Homs).

These are the planes that have been bombarding the city:

More [videos]:
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...ally-attacked/

[VioletttaJosetta]

Yes, the simple call for ammunition and weapons has been deafening for months and up to this point nobody has been serious in providing any of those, despite all the promises. Nearly weapons and ammo they have come from the army itself: from defections, from collaborators, from corrupt officers, from battles, from captured depots and so on. They recently captured a big depot in the north of the city, which makes a difference. They didn't completely withdraw from Salaheddin, and aren't leaving it alone. They are still at the roundabout and are moving through the neighbourhood, though Assad now has much ground there and has set up snipers. These now pose a serious danger to people from the surrounding neighbourhoods. In Ansari Mashhad, one person was killed when he was trying to get to relatives that were stuck there, while another was wounded when he was trying to bring some bread. The biggest fear is that Mashhad, Sayf al-Dawleh and Sikkari, even though they have suffered from shelling before, will now receive the massive bombardments that Salaheddin got. Most people already fled Mashhad and Sayf al-Dawleh when the bombings started and the first time the offensive was announced, while they have been going back and forth in Sikkari.

New posts:


Homs: Before and After
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...ore-and-after/

Shaykh Mouaz al-Khatib’s Courageous Call for Freedom in the Face of Oppression
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...of-oppression/

[Sironimoll]

There seems to be some indirect help from Turkey:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19124810

Thwaiba Kanafani is one of a growing number of Syrians without any previous military experience who have joined the rebels.

There is a special training programme based in Turkey at secret camps run by the Turkish military, she says.

"The Turkish people are really helping us. Lots of people are getting training in those camps."

"The training is really professional. You can only sleep four hours a day.

"You have to climb mountains, you get weapons training. It's hard work."

Qatar and Saudi Arabia are also reported to be providing assistance for what has been described as a secret nerve centre for military aid and communications for the Syrian rebels.

This is reported to have been set up in Adana.

None of these countries has confirmed the existence of the base.

Separately, Syrian opposition sources have told the BBC they have been called to meetings with foreigners in Istanbul in recent weeks to discuss recruiting volunteers from different cities in Syria to staff an "operation room" in Turkey.

The aim is to co-ordinate and plan rebel actions and the supply of weapons.

Turkey has denied supplying weapons to the Syrian rebels.

[casinobonuswer]

Ezaz: Another Massacre, Another Escalation
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...er-escalation/



From Hama 1982 to Homs 2012
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...-to-homs-2012/

The Release of Shaykh Ahmad Shumays
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...ahmad-shumays/

Shaykh Ya`qoubi: The regime is an enemy of itself
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...emy-of-itself/

Shaykh Adnan al-Saqqa, Imam of the Revolution in Homs
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...ution-in-homs/

Mufti of al-Bab (Aleppo), Shaykh Ahmad al-Nasaan warns the regime
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...ns-the-regime/

[fereupfer]

Statements from the Scholars of Homs
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...olars-of-homs/

[ppaelkos]

Qadi `Askar, Aleppo City: Another Sickening Massacre
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...ning-massacre/

Another day, another 200 people killed by Assad. Of those, about 40 people were killed in what is yet another sickening massacre which took place today in Qadi `Askari, Aleppo city. People have so far been massacred in funerals, in demonstrations, in their homes. This time, all the martyrs of Qadi `Askari did was stand in line for bread as they were hit by another bombardment in the city.

[adoreorerie]

Daraya: the largest massacre on the bloodiest day yet
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...diest-day-yet/

Assad Resumes Bombardment of Damascus
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...t-of-damascus/



Amnesty Reports from Aleppo
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...s-from-aleppo/

Shaykh Mahmoud al-Hout Has Had Enough!
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...as-had-enough/

Memory Lane: Hadra with Shaykh Mahmoud Abul Huda al-Husayni
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/memory-lane/

Shaykh Jamaluddin Serawan and the Assoc. of Syrian Scholars
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...rian-scholars/

The Sons and Students of the late Shaykh al-Qurra Bakri al-Tarabishi
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...-al-tarabishi/

[doxinwasido]

HRW: The Bread Line Massacres
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...ine-massacres/

[werkeeque]

Imam Khalid Latif: A Prayer for Syria
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...yer-for-syria/



Shaykh Rateb al-Nabulsi at the Heart of the Revolution
http://freehalab.wordpress.com/2012/...he-revolution/