Al-Assad Forces on Facebook
stop assad's electronic thugs | 10.03.2012 12:15 | World
http://www.movements.org/blog/entry/al-assad-forces-on-facebook/ Al-Assad Forces on Facebook
As expatriated Syrian activists use Facebook and other social networking sites to express their thoughts and keep in touch with Syrians on the ground, the Assad regime continues to harass them both in real life and online.
Activists relay stories on a daily basis that describe their hacked Facebook accounts and revealing posts that praise Bashar al-Assad and threaten their lives.
Hadeel Kouki, a Syrian dissident based in Cairo, was one of the activists targeted by forces in the regime, physically and on a virtual level.
Hadeel was arrested three times and brutally tortured for a total of 65 days until she was able to escape to Turkey and relocate to Cairo. A few days ago, her friends as well as thousands of fans on Facebook were surprised to see pro-Assad posts on her account.
The hacker wrote:
"God, Syria, and Bashar [a common chant that regime forces say while attacking peaceful protesters in Syria]. If you are man enough, you can gain the control back over the account."
This is not the first time that Hadeel's account has been a target of attack by Assad’s cyber thugs.
The “Syrian Electronic Army” Facebook page that Assad recently praised in a speech, has been removed by Facebook several times. The forces behind this page lead the regime’s online hacking operations in addition to conducting attacks on public pages and posting pro-Assad statements on them.
Haider Suleiman heads the regime’s electronic operation. His father, Bahjat Suleiman, is a highly ranked intelligence officer who currently serves as the ambassador to Jordan.
Several activists in Syria who prefer to remain anonymous told Movements.org that they are not satisfied with Facebook’s efforts to stop the team of Syrian hackers. “Hacking someone’s Facebook account could bring about fatal results in a country like Syria despite all the protections that we take," Hadeel added. “We need a quick way to be in touch with Facebook in order to get our hacked accounts back."
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Who's lying about Syria?
10.03.2012 13:43
Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer, is executive director of the Council for the National Interest. He uses CIA sources to state that:
- CIA are resisting Obama drift to military conflict in Syria
- They don't believe UN claims of the number of dead
- They don't believe mass defections from the Syrian Army
- Battles between defectors and soldiers are fabricated
- Syria is under attack from foreign funded rebels.
More information from Information Clearing House,
What does the oldest Christian Church say?
Antiochian Delegation to Damascus, Syria
His Eminence Metropolitan Philip, Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of All North America writes:
'...The reports we receive on an almost daily basis from our Patriarch and various Metropolitans of the See of Antioch, together with our many contacts in Syria do not agree with the reports we see and hear in Western media such as CNN, Fox News, and others. Likewise, many of the gulf sponsored Arabic news channels like Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya seem to portray a dire situation in Syria when the reality based on our many contacts there appears to be something quite the contrary.
Because of this contradiction, and because our office has been inundated with letters, emails and phone calls about the situation in Syria, we felt it necessary to send a delegation made up of a group of some of our convert priests, other religious leaders from non-Orthodox communities, and an international lawyer to see first-hand the situation and report back to me and to all of you, the faithful of our God-protected Archdiocese...'
Patrick Readon is a US Christian who visited Syria in September
'Our last meeting, which lasted until about three o'clock in the morning of our final day in Syria, was with the leading Islamic cleric in the country known as the Grand Mufti, the spiritual father of Syria's 70% Sunni majority.
'...The Grand Mufti was also very pro-Assad and criticized what he called the huge fabrication the Western media was advancing by using unverified You-Tube films in its reports. He had been at those locations, he declared, exactly when some of the alleged uprisings and violence were occurring, and he saw nothing to support the exaggerations of the Western press. The Grand Mufti speculated that there was a 90% approval rating for President Assad in Syria, compared to the current 39% approval for President Obama in the United States?'
Simon
Look to Israel
12.03.2012 11:30
Any deaths in Syria are the result of Israeli air strikes and Israeli Cruise Missile attacks.
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