duh wrote in #11
Captain Obvious 
I have a close interest in Lebanon and have been watching this since March 2011.  The rebels are syrian people who refuse to be intimidated into silence.  There is, in a sense, a foreign conspiracy.  But it is of Syrian expats and refugees spread across the globe who communicate via internet.  They work closely with LCC to plan overall events.  After ramadan last year they were staging regular unarmed demonstrations across the country with 1-2 million people participating.  Most demonstrations were met with machine guns and 10-20 people were dying every weekend.  It was common knowledge that there were at least 12-15 million who supported the cause.  By October FSA had a few thousand soldiers and a cache of stolen syrian weapons.  They began standing guard on demonstrations and would sound the alarm when shabiha or police approached.  Because of this you have 12-15 million syrian who see FSA as their protectors.  In October the coalition of LCC and expats had a vote and decided it was time to defend themselves - aka fight back.  Those are your rebels.  They now number well over 50,000.  The demand has never waivered.  They want an end to mukhabarat and they want government security prosecuted for crimes.  They will not accept any proposal that does not include those two items.  They only want Assad's head because he protects mukhabarat instead of syria.

Your close interest is a liar i live in lebanon and i know syrians who are escaping from the rebels massacres (alawites christians armenians) no one likes bashar but they all agree that he had brought stability to syria unlike the imbeciles called the free syrian army who are just puppets for western interests and create chaos just to blame it on the government since the media is on their side and the west certainly has no problem fabricating a few videos after all they have hollywood

Captain Obvious 
I have a close interest in Lebanon and have been watching this since March 2011.  The rebels are syrian people who refuse to be intimidated into silence.  There is, in a sense, a foreign conspiracy.  But it is of Syrian expats and refugees spread across the globe who communicate via internet.  They work closely with LCC to plan overall events.  After ramadan last year they were staging regular unarmed demonstrations across the country with 1-2 million people participating.  Most demonstrations were met with machine guns and 10-20 people were dying every weekend.  It was common knowledge that there were at least 12-15 million who supported the cause.  By October FSA had a few thousand soldiers and a cache of stolen syrian weapons.  They began standing guard on demonstrations and would sound the alarm when shabiha or police approached.  Because of this you have 12-15 million syrian who see FSA as their protectors.  In October the coalition of LCC and expats had a vote and decided it was time to defend themselves - aka fight back.  Those are your rebels.  They now number well over 50,000.  The demand has never waivered.  They want an end to mukhabarat and they want government security prosecuted for crimes.  They will not accept any proposal that does not include those two items.  They only want Assad's head because he protects mukhabarat instead of syria.

good afternoon captain, I do agree with you on a couple of things and would love to pursue this discussion but will have to postpone for a day or so as i just got home and have been working all day. I do have a couple of other prominent points i'd like to bring up and i will no doubt find you in another RT discussion. Please forgive me as im going to sit down and have a cuppa and not think for a night.

duh wrote in #6
Are you saying that the photo's are real (that i have viewed on both sides of the media). But the conclusion (which i haven't decided on yet but close) is wrong.??I have noticed you yourself have come to a conclusion because on another RT news article you appear to be supporting the rebels. So your statement about proper investigatio n appears to be quite contradictory. Unless there is another captain obvious out there.
************ ******************** *there is someone very threatened by ideals of revolution who impersonates me regularly in RT comments.
I have a close interest in Lebanon and have been watching this since March 2011.  The rebels are syrian people who refuse to be intimidated into silence.  There is, in a sense, a foreign conspiracy.  But it is of Syrian expats and refugees spread across the globe who communicate via internet.  They work closely with LCC to plan overall events.  After ramadan last year they were staging regular unarmed demonstrations across the country with 1-2 million people participating.  Most demonstrations were met with machine guns and 10-20 people were dying every weekend.  It was common knowledge that there were at least 12-15 million who supported the cause.  By October FSA had a few thousand soldiers and a cache of stolen syrian weapons.  They began standing guard on demonstrations and would sound the alarm when shabiha or police approached.  Because of this you have 12-15 million syrian who see FSA as their protectors.  In October the coalition of LCC and expats had a vote and decided it was time to defend themselves - aka fight back.  Those are your rebels.  They now number well over 50,000.  The demand has never waivered.  They want an end to mukhabarat and they want government security prosecuted for crimes.  They will not accept any proposal that does not include those two items.  They only want Assad's head because he protects mukhabarat instead of syria.