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August 1st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Rebel units scattered for cover during an air attack on Miayasr in Aleppo’s
south, next to Salaheddin, following the predawn rebel capture of two police
stations, a military court, an air force intelligence headquarters and a
branch of the ruling Ba’ath party.
Louay Mokdar, an organiser for the Free Syrian Army in Turkey, claimed the
dead from the police station attacks included a colonel, as well as
intelligence officers and members of the “shabiha” militia. Dozens
more were captured and taken to rebel prisons.
It is now 12 days since a sudden push swept the rebels into the metropolis of
two million, with the government counter-attack coming four days ago.
The course of the battle so far has bolstered rebel confidence. The Syrian
army has moved cautiously under the cover of artillery fire and air support.
But the rebels were increasingly bullish on Tuesday.
“We don’t have goals for the coming months. We have goals for the coming
days. Within days, God willing, Aleppo will be liberated,” said Col
Abdel-Jabber al-Oqaidi, head of the Joint Military Council in Aleppo, who
defected from the Syrian army six months ago.
“We secure our areas and then move to other neighbourhoods, pushing
towards the city centre.
“The regime’s capabilities are also being weakened. They can shell us
from afar with tanks and helicopters. But inside their morale is zero.”
Four tank crews in Salaheddin surrendered as soon as opposition fighters
appeared. Mr Abu Bakri said 16 defectors had crossed over to his side in
Salaheddin yesterday and 30-40 more in a neighbouring district.
Taha Ahmed, a military vet who works on securing defections from an Army
Ranger’s base north of Aleppo said his task was becoming easier.
“The officers have been too scared to move but they are now talking with
us,” he said. “We have some infiltrators inside and we are gaining
day by day defectors to join the Free Syria Army.”
Abu Abdul Jabr, another rebel leader, said he believed the fight for Aleppo
would be finished by the end of Ramadan, the holy fasting month, in
mid-August.
“The government controls nothing any more, except through shelling and
artillery,” the bearded former interior decorator said in the front
line town of Marea. “They can make a massacre but that is it.
“We have the resolution to fight. It means with us one month on the
streets is equivalent to five years in military services. The troops don’t
have the strength to match us and are defecting whenever they can.”
But the rebels do not have things all their own way. The regime still has
troops in reserve, and is luring the opposition out.
Three rebel convoys were ambushed on Tuesday. In one case, a detachment of 20
men that went to relieve an outpost on the Nerha bridge on the edge of
Salaheddin thought it had forged a deal for safe passage with a local family
but found itself walking into a trap.
As rebel cars circled a roundabout, Shabiha gunmen opened fire. Grenades were
thrown and security forces snipers targeted drivers. By the time the squad
withdrew eight were dead.
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