Oh Snap…! The Syrian Opposition Vows to Join Ranks with Assad if US Attacks Syria

[kpete]

Oh Snap…! The Syrian Opposition Vows to Join Ranks with Assad if US Attacks Syria

A senior Syrian opposition figure warned Washington that all its
interests in the region will be attacked by battalions of suicide
bombers formed by the Syrian opposition forces if it dares to attack
Syria, stressing that homeland is more important to the dissidents than
opposition to the government.

“Although, we are among the Syrian government’s opposition forces, we
assume our homeland’s interests to be more important than any other
interest and therefore, we have formed a number of battalions to conduct
suicide operations and target the US interests in the Middle-East,”
Secretary-General of al-Shabab Party Mahir Marhaj told FNA on Saturday.
He blasted the US and its allies’ warmongering policies and threats,
and said, “We in al-Shabab party are highly prepared to confront any war
against Syria.”

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[daleo]

1. It's complicated.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

2. Consider the source.

In April 2013, the agency carried a story claiming a 27-year-old Iranian scientist had invented a time machine that allowed people to see into the future. A few days later the story was removed, and replaced with a story quoting an Iranian government official that no such device had been registered.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fars_News_Agency


Lol.

[maddezmom]

10. Exactly the source is highly questionable and shouldn't be taken seriously

[arely staircase]

16. I have seen some fucked up sources posted on DU over the years but

this has got to be the winner.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

23. Hehe.

This is also the source that reprinted an article from The Onion as fact.

Fars News Agency, a semi-official mouth piece of the Iranian regime, earnestly published a word-for-word duplicate of an article from the Onion, a spoof news organisation based in Chicago.
The satirical article cited a fake Gallup poll which found that 77 per cent of white, rural voters would rather go to a baseball game or have a beer with Mr Ahmadinejad than with the US president.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9574727/Iran-fooled-by-US-satirical-website-The-Onion.html

[zappaman]

19. Who cares about sources on DU anymore?

Only a few it seems...

[arely staircase]

27. oh man

today has taken the cake for the posting of unsourced/poorly sourced random shit that people are outraged over or seem to think prove something or another.

[Ninga]

3. Palm smack to the forehead....This. Is. Why. Striking. Syria. Is. Not. A. Good. Idea. nt

[L0oniX]

4. Oh ...this will be fun.

[SummerSnow]

5. oh so the opposition to assad is saying thanks but no no thanks myob USA.

sounds like a plan.

[fadedrose]

6. Gees who'da thought?

All it took was threatening to bomb the country has united the opposing teams making bombing the country unnecessary?

I hope I read that right, read it fast, nah, it couldn't be right....

Congratulations again Mr. President.

[TM99]

7. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Why does this sound familiar?

Unite to drive out an invader then go right back to sectarian violence and continued civil war?

[RGinNJ]

8. So if we bomb an open space in Syria we can stop the civil war?

[bemildred]

9. The bullshit is deep these days, rivers of it.

They do seem to understand this public relations stuff better now.

[HooptieWagon]

11. Lets drop bombs in the middle of the Mediteranean.

That way no civilians will be killed, and the rebels won't turn against us. And it sends the same message to Assad that "chemical weapons use isn't acceptable, but we can't prevent you from using them". The MIC gets to replace a few Tomahawks, and Obama gets relief for his war-boner. Win-win for all concerned.

[fadedrose]

14. Only if you pass out leaflets to fishing boats

and millionaires yachting on the Riviera.

Great idea.

[TheCowsCameHome]

12. Cue Abbott and Costello. Let's see, who's on first...?

This is nuts.

[fadedrose]

13. KICKED VERY HARD, FOOT HURTS EVEN

This is news!!! How come so few have commented on it?

Haven't heard anything on the teevee either ..

[arely staircase]

20. because the source has also reported the existence of time machines. nt

[Igel]

24. Has the source ever reported anything accurately?

This is known as an ad hominem fallacy. Because the person making the claim cannot possibly be trusted the claim must be false.

There is no need for the claim to be false unless the person making the claim must necessarily only present false information.

The news agency reports lots of true things. It also reports absurdities.

Rather than conclude the report must be false, the appropriate response is to evaluate the claim independently, if possible, seek confirmation, or to say that there are more pressing claims to use available resources to evaluate (Peirce would be proud).

It's not an unreasonable claim, but it's most likely going to be only partially true. The extent of its truth isn't something that I find worth wasting resources on.

[arely staircase]

26. well the Onion article they once ran with was real

in the sense that the Onion does actually exist, unlike the time machine they reported on.

[fadedrose]

28. OMG That's even bigger news..

Foot sore, can't kick again....

[LittleBlue]

15. This is a massive cluster****

Obama, what are you thinking? This is going to end in tears.

[arely staircase]

21. going to? the video of those kids screaming and foaming at the mouth as they choked on gas

made me cry already. I guess some have a higher threshold.

[LittleBlue]

25. You're a more moral person than the rest of us

I'll give you that to avoid 10 pointless replies, it's what you're looking for anyway.

[JVS]

17. So we can send a few missiles in, they can quit fighting, and the crisis will be over?

[arely staircase]

22. if you follow the logic of this story, that would be the case wouldn't it? nt

[MisterP]

18. the CIA'd like that: they want to reduce the lag time between "supporting the increasingly-Salafist

Freedom Fighters" and "assassinating those Islamist menaces and anyone else over 5' 11" " to zero
it took us like 7 years to stop liking the mujhahedeen (in fact we stopped paying **L on 9-12-01); Benghazi! was aimed at the CIA goon squads hunting down the people they were aiding a few months earlier; for Syria, the CIA has been reported (LA Times?) to be planning bombing runs on the rebels while arming the rebels

[n2doc]

29. Hey, if that happens and Obama ends the war, he's a freakin' genius!

On the other hand....

[spanone]

30. well then we'd be uniting them. right?