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July 25th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Activists said they were dropping leaflets from helicopters calling on the
opposition to surrender. “The weapon you are carrying has become a
burden on you, and there is no hope for you to survive unless you drop your
weapon,” read the leaflets. “The moment of truth has come.”
But in Aleppo, Syria’s industrial hub, the regime faces an opposition which,
although out-gunned, has a carefully worked out strategy. The FSA is
flooding streets with fighters, attacking the army’s positions, but swiftly
withdrawing when the response becomes too fierce.
That tactic seemed to have worked, placing Mr Assad’s forces on the defensive
in all quarters of the city, including the old citadel, where winding alleys
are too narrow for tanks.
“The regime will have to level the ancient Aleppo to the ground,”
said Ayman al-Sulman, an FSA volunteer “The whole world would see this
and Bashar al-Assad will be an enemy of all human history.”
The FSA opened its attack on Aleppo by pouring in recruits from villages
around the city, dividing it into four quarters and controlling its fighters
via radio and the mobile phone networks. Rebels described hand-to-hand
combat against the regime’s “Shabiha” militia. “The Shabiha
were attacking us as soon as we arrived,” said Ahmed, a 17-year-old
orphan whose uniform was a blue shell-suit. He joined the 40 men of the
FSA’s Abdul-Hamid Battalion in the suburb of Salahaddin.
It was the first time that he had used a gun, he said. The weapon’s recoil had
left a purple mark on his forearm. “We fired a lot and they pulled
back, but we stayed where we were,” he said. “There were only a
few people still at home in street. Later there were mortars fired at us but
not too many.”
Abu Marwan, 57, a rebel scout, said the army had withdrawn its checkpoints
from Salahaddin and at least two other areas, Haydiriyah and Masakin Hanano.
“For now we are winning,” he said. “I could move my car through
Aleppo to the points where we have fighters quite easily. The danger is in
the air. The government is firing into anywhere it does not have its men.”
The regime’s forces were also trying to suppress a mutiny in Aleppo’s main
prison, according to activists. The inmates, many of them captured during
the uprising, were holding three army officers as hostages, the reports said.
“What happened was a rebellion and not an attempt to escape,” said
Farouk al-Ahmed, an opposition activist in Aleppo. “Security forces
responded by opening fire and tear gas on the prisoners, and 10 people were
martyred.”
He said the FSA were warning people to take shelter in basements because of
helicopter attacks, but he could not confirm the use of fighter jets.
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