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July 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Uday Dadan belonged to the latter category. According to fellow fighters, he
joined the Free Syrian Army’s al-Mohammad Battalion less than three months
ago because he was inspired by the appeal of the uprising and repulsed by
the repression meted out by Mr Assad’s security forces to crush it.
But like so many embroiled in this revolution, Dadan’s involvement took on a
personal dimension when his father disappeared from a street corner in
Aleppo at the hands of the president’s feared internal security agents. He
has not been seen or heard from since.
As the battle for Aleppo raged, Dadan found himself part of team that
improbably captured an army command post that orchestrated attacks on
checkpoints in the city’s rebel-held districts. It would prove to be his
final involvement in the war.
“We had taken it and Uday was guarding the gate when he was shot in the head,”
Faisaz Hamsha, Dadan’s commander, told The Daily Telegraph.
Dadan might have miraculously survived – he lived long enough to be
transported to a rebel field hospital in the town of Suran, 20 miles north
of the city. That he did not testifies to the fact that the rebels’ medical
supplies are as inferior as their battlefield weapons.
“We could nothing to save him. I am a dentist and not trained in this kind of
special surgery,” said Alwa Hajjab, the only medical officer at the
facility. “There are no ambulances – he had lost consciousness on the way.”
Dadan was one of at least 23 opposition fighters that have died since the
government counter-offensive in Aleppo began last week and his story is a
familiar one. Syria’s rebel ranks may be spearheaded by defecting army
soldiers, but their numbers have been swelled by many youngsters.
Arrayed against them stands Bashar al-Assad’s army, weakened by defections but
still vastly superior in both firepower and numbers.
For all the government’s bravado, rebel actions, often involving untrained
young men like Uday Dadan, have proved both audacious and frequently
effective.
However, with so little firepower, they can only hold out against the
government’s forces for so long.
Yesterday, as in the week leading up to it, regime forces fired tank shells
and artillery at rebel strongholds in Aleppo, escalating a ground assault to
wrest back control of Syria’s second city and commercial capital.
The regime strategy for now appears to be to soften the rebel positions with
artillery before actually moving into the densely packed streets of the
neighbourhoods where their tanks be at a disadvantage.
Having claimed victory over a rebel offensive in Damascus, the Syrian
government last night confidently predicted a decisive victory in the city,
one that Mr Assad’s ministers said could end the 16-month uprising
altogether.
“We believe that all the anti-Syrian forces have gathered in Aleppo to fight
the government and they will definitely be defeated,” Walid al-Muallem, the
Syrian foreign minister, told reporters in Tehran during a surprise visit.
On the ground, the rebels were still hoping to forge a lifeline between the
districts they hold in the northeast and southwest of the city. Such an
outcome would undoubtedly increase their chances of capturing Aleppo, but
the rebels have not managed to gain unquestioned control of a single big
city yet and to do so in Aleppo they will need significantly more firepower.
Syria’s opposition leadership acknowledged as much yesterday when it made an
appeal to its foreign allies for heavy weapons to defeat what it called Mr
Assad’s “killing machine”. “The rebels are fighting with primitive weapons,”
Abdelbasset Sida, the head of the Syrian National Council, said. “We want
weapons that we can stop tanks and planes with. This is what we want.”
Whether the world will respond, remains far from clear.
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