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#271 [Permalink] Posted on 14th December 2024 16:30
A palace in shock: Bashar Assad’s final moments in Syria


https://www.arabnews.com/node/2583064/middle-east

DAMASCUS: Hours before militant forces seized Damascus and toppled his government on Sunday, Syrian president Bashar Assad was already out of the country, telling hardly anyone, five former officials told AFP.

The night before, Assad had even asked his close adviser Buthaina Shaaban to prepare a speech — which the ousted leader never gave — before flying from Damascus airport to Russia’s Hmeimim air base in Syria, and from there out of the country.

Assad left even “without telling... his close confidants in advance,” a former aide told AFP, requesting anonymity for security reasons.

“From the Russian base, a plane took him to Moscow.”

“His brother Maher,” who commanded the Syrian army’s feared Fourth Brigade, “heard about it by chance while he was with his soldiers defending Damascus. He decided to take a helicopter and leave, apparently to Baghdad,” added the former aide.
Other top officials in Assad’s government and sources told AFP what happened in the final hours of the iron-fisted leader’s 24-year rule.

All spoke on condition of anonymity because of security concerns.

When Islamist-led militant forces launched their offensive in Syria’s north on November 27, Assad was in Moscow, where his wife Asma has been treated for cancer.


Two days later, when their son Hafez was defending his doctoral thesis at a Moscow university, the whole family were there, but not Bashar, according to a presidential palace official.

On November 30, when Assad returned from Moscow, Syria’s second city of Aleppo was no longer under his government’s control.

The following week, the militants took Hama and Homs in quick succession, before eventually reaching the capital.

Another palace official said he did not see Assad the day before Damascus fell last Sunday.

“On Saturday Assad didn’t meet with us. We knew he was there, but did not have a meeting with him,” said the top official.

“We were at the palace, there was no explanation, and it caused great confusion at the senior levels and on the ground,” he said.

“Actually, we had not seen him since the fall of Aleppo, which was very strange.”
During that fateful week, Assad called a meeting of the heads of Syria’s intelligence services to reassure them.

But the longtime leader did not show up, and “Aleppo’s fall shocked us,” said the same top palace official.

Hama was next to fall into militant hands.

“On Thursday, I spoke at 11:30 am with troops in Hama who assured me the city was under lockdown and not even a mouse could make it in,” an army colonel told AFP.

“Two hours later they received the order not to fight, and to redeploy in Homs to the south,” added the officer of the next strategic city sought by the militants on their way to Damascus.

“The soldiers were helpless, changing clothes, throwing away their weapons and trying to head home. Who gave the order? We don’t know.”

The governor of Homs told a journalist that he had asked the army to resist. But no government forces defended the city.

On Saturday morning, someone in the halls of power in Damascus brought up the idea of Assad making a speech.

“We started to set up the equipment. Everything was ready,” said the first palace official.
“Later on we were surprised to learn that the speech had been postponed, maybe to Sunday morning.”

According to him, top officials and aides were unaware that while this was happening, the Syrian army had already begun destroying its archives by setting them on fire.

Still on Saturday, at around 9:00 p.m. (1800 GMT), “the president calls his political adviser Buthaina Shaaban to ask her to prepare a speech for him, and to present it to the political committee which is meant to meet on Sunday morning,” said a senior official close to Assad.

“At 10:00 p.m. she calls him back, but he no longer picks up the phone.”
That evening, Assad’s media director Kamel Sakr told journalists: “The president is going to deliver a statement very soon.”

But then Sakr, too, stopped answering his phone, as did interior minister Mohammed Al-Rahmoun.

The palace official said he stayed in his office until 2:30 am on Sunday. Within less than four hours, the militants were to announce that Assad was gone.

“We were ready to receive a statement or a message from Assad at any moment,” said the top palace official.

“We could have never imagined such a scenario. We didn’t even know whether the president was still at the palace.”

At around midnight, the palace official had been told that Assad needed a cameraman for Sunday morning.

“That reassured us that he was in fact still there,” he said.

But just before 2:00 am, an intelligence officer called to say all government officials and forces had left their offices and positions.

“I was shocked. It was just the two of us in the office. The palace was almost empty, and we were totally confused,” said the official.

At 2:30 am he left the palace.

In the city center, “arriving at Umayyad Square, there were plenty of soldiers fleeing, looking for transportation,” he said.

“There were thousands of them, coming from the security compound, the defense ministry and other security branches. We found out that their superiors had ordered them to flee.”

The official said it was a “frightening” scene.

“Tens of thousands of cars leaving Damascus, and even more people marching on the road on foot. It was that moment I realized everything was lost and that Damascus had fallen".

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#272 [Permalink] Posted on 16th December 2024 10:36
Don't know how true this is

x.com/clashreport/status/1868572842612437200?t=zo4qO5ZhJo...

UAE informed the U.S. of its discomfort with Syria’s new government due to its Islamic identity and firmly opposes U.S. tolerance of their rule.

UAE President MbZ's Advisor Gargash:

“We are concerned about the Islamic affiliations of the factions that toppled Assad.”

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#273 [Permalink] Posted on 16th December 2024 12:04
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#274 [Permalink] Posted on 17th December 2024 01:43
x.com/5Pillarsuk/status/1868763989087232259?s=19

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"The new Syria does not want to go to war with Israel, its main priority is to unify the Syrian people... Syria will not be used as a platform to attack Israel or any other nation."

Dilly Hussain explains what Ahmad al Shara'a (Abu Mohammad Al Jolani) told 5Pillars and other western journalists at a closed door press meeting in Damascus today.

Other subjects covered were:

- The status of foreign fighters in Syria
- The constitution of the new Syria
- Is the toppling of Assad a victory for the Ummah?
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#275 [Permalink] Posted on 17th December 2024 11:01
True scale of Assad’s slaughter revealed at Syrian mass grave.

His prisons held hundreds of thousands of people: relentlessly tortured and abused, many of them did not survive.

But since Bashar Al-Assad fell from power - the full horror of the regime's crimes is being revealed. Syria was largely cut off to journalists during his 24 years in power.

But now the daunting task of documenting Assad's atrocities can begin: starting with the country's mass graves. Including one where around 150 thousand people may have been buried.

Watch the video here:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=eevV8cuxpJY
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#276 [Permalink] Posted on 18th December 2024 08:59
I recall this story narrated by Maulana Saeed Khan sahib RA in London Masjid.

The Russians had conquered all the regions but the residents of Bukhara were offering tough resistance.

The Russians do a strategic ploy:

The leader of Russians ordered its military to move towards the fort of Bukhara and suddenly run back as if they feared something there. The Military did that.

The next day morning, the news was propagated that when the military neared the fort, they saw a saint throwing projectiles at the military, it was a horror, so the military retracted.

The Bukhara citizens boasted that it was nusrah from Allah. They relaxed.

After some days, the Russian military swiftly attacked the Bukhara Fort and captured it in no time. The Bukhara citizens were caught unaware, they were relaxing.

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This is repeated again and again against the Muslims.
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#277 [Permalink] Posted on 18th December 2024 09:58
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Stop talking in riddles or is this a tablighi thing?

Tablighi tales are also knows as 1001 Nights.
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#278 [Permalink] Posted on 18th December 2024 12:36
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Is that your daleel for Muslims turning to collecting military hardware instead of turning to Allah for victory?
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#279 [Permalink] Posted on 18th December 2024 12:50
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Depends on how one sees it. I saw it as an anecdotal lesson. Allah knows best.

Assad regime has ended, Alhumdulillah. But we must not think that everything is going to be perfect now. Lesser trials are to come and perhaps bigger trials are to come.

What we must not do, is sit back and let the camel lose!

The enemy will make it look like they are losing, only to pounce on us again and again.

We don't even know who is working with the enemy! Many are saying that Turkey is behind the fall of Assad, others are saying it is the CIA or Israel. Whilst others are saying this was the work of Mujahideen.

The truth is, only Allah knows and we should be very cautious till the end!
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#280 [Permalink] Posted on 18th December 2024 13:21
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The problem is, baatil knows more islam than muslims. Baatil exploits muslims' sentiments and use it as a ploy. So, ammunition, Nusrah of Allah and also most important, reading the mind of the baatil, whether his retreat is a ploy. Whether winning of haq is a bait?
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#281 [Permalink] Posted on 18th December 2024 15:31
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The speaker was trying to prove a point that "physical efforts are required by reformers to reform ummah", relying only on nusrath of Allah and on duas without placing physical effort is corruption of mind and deception.

He also quotes the incident of Tayaf, the speaker declares "The dua Prophet SAS did in Tayaf, he would have done those duas in mataaf, multazam, Hateem and other places near kaaba where duas are accepted, why did he got wounded, bleeding profusely in Tayaf. Why did he get wounded in Uhad, he lost his family members?"

The speaker is known for not doing ghuloo and not creating fairy tales.


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#282 [Permalink] Posted on 18th December 2024 16:53
⿻ Ahmed al-Shara’, to Syrian media professionals:

❖ We inherited Syria with not a single dollar in it.

❖ All the regime’s revenues from drugs go to individuals abroad through remittances.

❖ We did not take over Syria from zero, but rather from below zero by many degrees. By the end of the year, we will achieve remarkable results through everyone’s cooperation.

❖ First file—the tents: There will not and shall not remain a single tent in Syria.

❖ Second file—economy: Recovering state assets is extremely difficult, but we are working on it. The first ships have already started arriving in Syria.

❖ Third file is reconstruction.

❖ Fourth file—the form of the state: Syria is for everyone.

❖ Fifth file—Hasakah and Raqqah: There are only two solutions, withdrawal or military action. We are waiting for wise people from the SDF. If it comes to military action, we are ready, but we are exercising patience to avoid bloodshed.

❖ Sixth file—the Syrian people: They live by their own means, not because of the state or provided services. We will partially solve this problem.

❖ Seventh file—Syria’s future: Where is Syria heading? Allah did not create the universe in a single day, so patience, patience is key.
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#283 [Permalink] Posted on 18th December 2024 22:05
Sunan Ibn Majah 4036
It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:
“There will come to the people years of treachery, when the liar will be regarded as honest, and the honest man will be regarded as a liar; the traitor will be regarded as faithful, and the faithful man will be regarded as a traitor; and the Ruwaibidah will decide matters.’ It was said: ‘Who are the Ruwaibidah?’ He said: ‘Vile and base men who control the affairs of the people.’”
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ قُدَامَةَ الْجُمَحِيُّ، عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ أَبِي الْفُرَاتِ، عَنِ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ ‏ "‏ سَيَأْتِي عَلَى النَّاسِ سَنَوَاتٌ خَدَّاعَاتٌ يُصَدَّقُ فِيهَا الْكَاذِبُ وَيُكَذَّبُ فِيهَا الصَّادِقُ وَيُؤْتَمَنُ فِيهَا الْخَائِنُ وَيُخَوَّنُ فِيهَا الأَمِينُ وَيَنْطِقُ فِيهَا الرُّوَيْبِضَةُ قِيلَ وَمَا الرُّوَيْبِضَةُ قَالَ الرَّجُلُ التَّافِهُ فِي أَمْرِ الْعَامَّةِ ‏"‏ ‏.‏
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#284 [Permalink] Posted on 19th December 2024 10:52

Suppressed News.
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⚡️BREAKING: Ahmed Al-Shara (Abu Mohammed Al-Jolani) spoke to BBC, stating, “Syria is not a threat to its neighbors or the West. We call for lifting sanctions and reconsidering the designation of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).”

He pointed out that these sanctions were originally aimed at the former regime and emphasized that the victim and the oppressor should not be treated the same way. He also called for removing the designation of HTS as a terrorist organization.

He asserted that his group does not target civilians or civilian areas, but instead considers itself a ‘victim of crimes committed by Assad’s regime.’

Regarding concerns about Syria turning into another Afghanistan, Al-Shara dismissed the comparison, highlighting significant differences in traditions and mindset between the two countries.

He expressed support for women’s education, noting that female students account for over 60% of the university population in Idlib.

When asked about issues such as alcohol consumption, Al-Shara clarified that these are legal matters to be decided by a Syrian committee of legal experts tasked with drafting the constitution. He added that any ruler or president will be bound by the law.
x.com/SuppressedNws/status/1869664811342242010


Whilst on the other side, Israel is also bombing Yemen!
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#285 [Permalink] Posted on 20th December 2024 09:18
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