Syrian opposition forms a ‘National Council’ to oust Assad regime

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Syrian opposition activists have set up a “National Council” to bring down the brutal regime of President Bashar Al Assad.

A group of dissidents, including their spokesman Jamil Saib, said Sunday in a statement issued near the Turkish-Syrian border: “We announce the creation of a National Council to lead the Syrian revolution, comprising all communities and representatives of national political forces inside and outside Syria.”

Mr. Saib said council members included notably Abdallah Trad el Moulahim, one of the organizers of a Syrian opposition gathering in Turkey earlier this month, Haitham el-Maleh, Souhair al-Atassi and Aref Dalila, all three based in Syria, as well as Sheikh Khaled al-Khalaf and Mamoun el-Homsi.

Different opposition groups and representatives from the Syrian society had convened earlier in June at a conference in Antalya, Turkey to discuss changes in the regime and come up with a peaceful transition.

Opposition groups urged Mr. Assad’s immediate resignation, the holding of parliamentary and presidential elections within a year, and the immediate of atrocities against civilian protesters.

On Sunday, Syrian troops tightened their grip on a restive area near the Turkish border, setting fire to homes and a bakery that was supplying bread to thousands of displaced people, activists said.

The Turkish government, meanwhile, began providing food for the first time to Syrians across the border that fled the army campaign.

The Syrian military set up checkpoints and arrested dozens of people over the past two days in an attempt to staunch the flow of residents into Turkey as Syria’s three-month-old pro-democracy uprising raged on, several activists reported. They said Syrian authorities at the border were making it much more difficult for Syrians to cross.

Residents of Bdama said troops on tanks firing machine guns were combing the village in Syria’s northern Idlib province and surrounding areas, and several homes were set ablaze in what appeared to be revenge attacks, human rights activist Ammar Qurabi reported.

Bdama is next to Jisr al-Shughour, a town that was spinning out of government control before the military recaptured it a week ago. Activists had reported fighting in Jisr al-Shughour between loyalist troops and defectors who refused to take part in the continuing crackdown on protesters seeking Mr. Assad’s ouster.

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18 responses to “Syrian opposition forms a ‘National Council’ to oust Assad regime”

  1. leobetapar Avatar
    leobetapar

    those guy working for CIA and l’Elysee will bring chaos and civil war in Syria ,that’s means Lebanon is prone for another civil war What they thick guy don’t see is that at the end it will finish in a new great Syria like the one before french colonisation and who will be able to forbid that :Nobody the heretique_zionits is praying for it’s survival and the kings are too afraid to be remenber they are not arabs but turkish bring in by lawrence of arabia,and the turkish….if it dare to intervene tomorow he will have PKK armed to the teeth with all the news weapons disponible so welcome ur revolution it will bring some justice to the world i mean REAL Justice

    1. Wow,You know where to go with the comedy…

      1. antar2011 Avatar
        antar2011

        it is an attempt of a comic relief but it is too pathetic to make me laugh!

        my God! he still lives in 20th century!

        1. leobetapar Avatar
          leobetapar

          what’s new in this century ? the people don’t want the FMI the shit pro zioniste and the fucking free market Great God, Assad too

      2. leobetapar Avatar
        leobetapar

        Lord Nasrallah and the Baas guy are far more better than me at that, ask the pseudo powerfull tsahal when they planned an excursion to seek for two lost boys

  2. leobetapar Avatar
    leobetapar

    those guy working for CIA and l’Elysee will bring chaos and civil war in Syria ,that’s means Lebanon is prone for another civil war What they thick guy don’t see is that at the end it will finish in a new great Syria like the one before french colonisation and who will be able to forbid that :Nobody the heretique_zionits is praying for it’s survival and the kings are too afraid to be remenber they are not arabs but turkish bring in by lawrence of arabia,and the turkish….if it dare to intervene tomorow he will have PKK armed to the teeth with all the news weapons disponible so welcome ur revolution it will bring some justice to the world i mean REAL Justice

    1. Wow,You know where to go with the comedy…

      1. antar2011 Avatar
        antar2011

        it is an attempt of a comic relief but it is too pathetic to make me laugh!

        my God! he still lives in 20th century!

        1. leobetapar Avatar
          leobetapar

          what’s new in this century ? the people don’t want the FMI the shit pro zioniste and the fucking free market Great God, Assad too

      2. leobetapar Avatar
        leobetapar

        Lord Nasrallah and the Baas guy are far more better than me at that, ask the pseudo powerfull tsahal when they planned an excursion to seek for two lost boys

  3.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    those guy working for CIA and l’Elysee will bring chaos and civil war in Syria ,that’s means Lebanon is prone for another civil war What they thick guy don’t see is that at the end it will finish in a new great Syria like the one before french colonisation and who will be able to forbid that :Nobody the heretique_zionits is praying for it’s survival and the kings are too afraid to be remenber they are not arabs but turkish bring in by lawrence of arabia,and the turkish….if it dare to intervene tomorow he will have PKK armed to the teeth with all the news weapons disponible so welcome ur revolution it will bring some justice to the world i mean REAL Justice

    1. Wow,You know where to go with the comedy…

      1.  Avatar
        Anonymous

        it is an attempt of a comic relief but it is too pathetic to make me laugh!

        my God! he still lives in 20th century!

        1.  Avatar
          Anonymous

          what’s new in this century ? the people don’t want the FMI the shit pro zioniste and the fucking free market Great God, Assad too

      2.  Avatar
        Anonymous

        Lord Nasrallah and the Baas guy are far more better than me at that, ask the pseudo powerfull tsahal when they planned an excursion to seek for two lost boys

  4.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    those guy working for CIA and l’Elysee will bring chaos and civil war in Syria ,that’s means Lebanon is prone for another civil war What they thick guy don’t see is that at the end it will finish in a new great Syria like the one before french colonisation and who will be able to forbid that :Nobody the heretique_zionits is praying for it’s survival and the kings are too afraid to be remenber they are not arabs but turkish bring in by lawrence of arabia,and the turkish….if it dare to intervene tomorow he will have PKK armed to the teeth with all the news weapons disponible so welcome ur revolution it will bring some justice to the world i mean REAL Justice

  5. leobetapar Avatar
    leobetapar

    a bunch of Cia Mossad appointees melt with salafistes and wahabistes lunatics WOAH which kind of revollution will come out of it If they win it will be worst than the terror of Robespierre
    God protect us !!!!!!!!!!!!

  6.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    a bunch of Cia Mossad appointees melt with salafistes and wahabistes lunatics WOAH which kind of revollution will come out of it If they win it will be worst than the terror of Robespierre
    God protect us !!!!!!!!!!!!

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