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Rami Makhlouf, the cousin of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, claimed on April 27 that he had formed an army with 15 divisions on Syria’s coast in cooperation with Major General Suhayl al-Hasan, the most prominent commander of the former Syrian Arab Army (SAA).
In a post to his Facebook page, Makhlouf described Assad as a “fake Assad [Lion in English]”, writing: “Had it not been for that fake Assad pushing me and my loyal men away, headed by my soul brother, Commander al-Nimr, Syria would not have fallen.”
Al-Hasan, nicknamed al-Nimr [the Tiger in English], commanded the 25th Special Mission Forces Division “Tiger Forces,” the SAA’s most experienced and best armed formation. Throughout the war, he led the division through several successful operations.
The commander was sacked from his post in the division by Assad just months before the Islamist rebel’s final offensive that brought down the regime in December. At the time, the division had been deeply weakened by the Ministry of Defense, with most of its well-experienced soldiers and officers either transferred to other formations in remote areas or discharged.
Five years ealrier, Asma, the British-born wife of Assad, threw Makhlouf under house arrest in Damascus after confiscating his telecommunication company, and every other asset he owned.
Makhlouf, who was once estimated to be worth billions of dollars, claimed that he had supported Syria “militarily, economically, socially, and administratively” throughout the war, preventing the collapse of the SAA and correcting the “mistakes of those boys who drowned the country in injustice, corruption, and burdened the people with suffering, poverty, and drugs,” referring to Assad and his brother Maher.
He went on to accuse Assad of ruling in name only and accused the country’s new Islamist-led interim government of “betrayal.”
“Those who were immersed in the pleasures of worldly life and drowning in its wealth thought themselves rulers, while in reality they were ruled. After liberating the country and relieving the people, they betrayed us, isolated us, detained us, and sought to humiliate us,” he said.
Makhlouf declared that he and al-Hasan had worked “day and night for several weeks” to regroup their forces on the coast.
“We formed fifteen divisions, numbering nearly 150,000 elite men, alongside a reserve force of the same size. We also established popular committees reaching up to one million people ready for action,” he said.
“We are a people who were wronged under the former regime and slaughtered under the new regime. It is our right to defend ourselves against anyone who comes to slaughter us,” he added.
Makhlouf also addressed the Syrian government directly, holding it responsible for a crackdown on the coast last March that claimed the lives of more than 1,600 civilians, most of whom were members of the Alawite religious minority which he, Assad and al-Hasan belong to.
“You have been unable to protect us from slaughter, killing, kidnapping, and enslavement, atrocities that continue to this very hour,” he wrote.
Still, he proposed cooperation “to protect the country, serve the people, and restore security and stability, especially in the Syrian coastal region,” and called for a “new era” based on security, stability, and cooperation.
“Let it be known to everyone that the flag of the Syrian coastal region is red, white, and black, and it is displayed on my page,” he wrote, referring to the former flag of Syria.
Makhlouf also called on Russia to extend its protection over the coast, offering to place “all economic, military, and popular resources under their supervision”.
“We also ask our friends to engage with the Damascus government to find a framework for joint cooperation, leading to stability in the coastal region,” he added.
To this day Russia maintains two large military facilities on the Syrian coast, Khmeimim Air Base and Tartus naval base. Some 10,000 Alawite civilians took shelter at Khmeimim after the last wave of killing. Yet, there has been no friction between Russian forces and government troops and the two sides maintain high levels of communication.
The claims made by Makhlouf are yet to be verified. Al-Hasan has not been seen since the fall of the Assad regime and there are no indications of any forces being formed on the coast, let alone the regrouping of 150,000 fighters.
Still, in recent days, the Syrian government deployed large reinforcements on the coast, which means that may be sensing some movements.
The Syrian government refusal to build any meaningful relation with the Alawites and its inability to end violence targeting the group’s members could eventually lead to an armed uprising on the coast. Leaders from the group have already called for international protection, with some going as far as demanding the right of self-determination.
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‘ass’ad failed miserably, no way he could form an army to win now. too late.
the kurds should now declare an independent sovereign kurdia and the druze a sovereign independent druzia. who needs assad or jolana? it would be easier to build new countries without them. beautiful little new countries, where is milena now to explain how croatia and slovenia were created at the same time?
i will explain to you, janez pavel ii directed everything from al qaeda to the ustashas from the vatican, in the vatican they created the first money launderer and the first weapons warehouse, then slovenia was immediately free, the laundry became the ljubljanska banka and the weapons warehouses were in port koper and all around slovenia. the catalans thought they could do the same in spain, but they failed because they didn’t include the basques and eta.
are you from slovenia, you bastard?
you’re saying you smuggled weapons and money into the vatican and bosnia? were there really ten ships registered in chad and transshipped in naples and koper? were osama bin laden’s weapons and money really transported in civilian cars throughout slovenia and were the companies registered in slovenia in the vatican? and did john paul ii hide weapons in the vatican?
i’m from slovenia and i can tell you that slovenia was the main transport depot for both bin laden’s al qaeda and the ustasha. pablo escobar would envy our talent for smuggling weapons during the embargo. planes, ships, trains and even trucks from italy transported weapons to croatia. everything was led by cardinals and john paul ii from the vatican. they even said that the pope was hiding weapons for the hos. civilian cars full of arab money drove to and from the vatican.
this syrian genocide is being financed with arab money. al qaeda leads this unfortunate country.
what was the relationship between john paul ii and osama bin laden? i know that the pope welcomed 1990 armed with main battle tracked tanks and stringers. did each pope swiss guard soldiers really need one main battle tank with tracks and two stringers?
janez drnovsek and franjo tudman talked and exchanged. that’s why the croats decided to protect slovenia because they needed, port koper, a money launder and weapons respositories. hezbollah’s fools, however, are hypocritical of jolani and have therefore been left without a much-needed route to the sea. they want a territorially unified syria and therefore have no transport line. tudman told drnovsk that if milosevic cut off croatian ports, they must have a route via slovenia.
rami himself, if he were to buy out the bankrupt hezbollah, might be able to make himself president of syria, or at least southern syria.
yes rami should buy hezbollah.
jolani the pig (who doesn’t even shake hands with women) is supported by vicious dictators–feminist baerbock, netayahu (messiah of zionists) and er’dog’an, he is safe.
a monster who sells little girls and women, something on par with libya and the sale of black people. rami (or a monkey, or ghassan alian, or a garden gnome) would definitely be a better president of syria.
i think you are insulting the pigs and should apologize to the animals in the pigsty, who are not to blame for this perverted man’s sick mind.
i think pigs would be offended, because animals don’t do things like that. only truman did that in japan.
no animal is as evil and crazy as like jolani.
i don’t know rami makhlouf but it seems he is right: bashar assad is married to westernized asma assad. furthermore she is sunni. bashar should have never become president as he couldn’t fight sunni terrorist rebels neutrally. thus he was restricted in his actions by his sunni wife asma.
do you think bashar al-assad really took a bribe like i wrote months ago?
it’s likely that qatar and turkey bribed putin.
a lecturer at a business school told me that russians and ukrainians are the most mad and corrupt people, followed by arabs, and that you should never trust these people with anything.
there’s no way he actually has 150,000 men.
maybe he bought blacks in libya. it’s another country destroyed by nato.
in libya, they don’t sell libyan girls, but black girls from other countries.
therefore, jolani is a complete monster and not just a partial monster like the human traffickers in the libyan government.
maybe in a luxury villas in iraq, but definitely not in syria.
how many luxury villas and haciendas are there in iraq?
enough for a million people to hide there and they only need one to kill jolani. and he doesn’t even need to go to syria, because he can do it right in iraq, because jolani will go to iraq and there they can delete him.
that’s right, in iraq, an iraqi with a sniper rifle should finally end with this monster.
seems like wishful thinking thou i would love if it were the case. bashar did in fact fumble the governance of the country completely, otherwise those terrorist savages and imbeciles could have never taken damascus.
2 years ago saa had some 200.000 soldiers. also there were a few thousand hezbollah and iran backed shia militias. and russia had dozents of fighter jets and helis still there. they all together would be easily able to clean out the whole idlib terrornest to the last terrorist within few weeks. why didnt this happen?
ask putin, assad, etc
both are erdogan’s servants, as is jolani.
because they took bribes from qatar, everyone including putin.
putler is a corrupt kgb pedophile monster and that’s why he supports people like jolani.
cause putin wanted to lure erdogan out of nato while erdogan was just bying time to prepare what happened.
erdogan and his muslim brotherhood are once again sowing death and destruction, as they did in libya before, but in egypt they were finally stopped by el sisi.
h tt ps://w ww.ze rohed ge. com/ge opoliti cal/gl obal-si lence -amid -hts-alli es-tak e-ala wite-w omen-se x-slav es-s yria a gang of chimpanzees and gorillas would be better at running syria than jolani and his gang of pedophiles and rapists.
baboons and wild boars would be better at running syria than jolani and his gangs.
and a garden gnome would be a better president of syria than jolani.
in libya, al-qaeda sells black girls, not libyans. considering rami has a lot of money, he might have bought blacks in libya.
that’s it, he procured blacks, shipped them to iraq, and created a huge black army. milena is not there to explain how the black legion, led by ante gotovina, sent serbs to serbia to meet their father slobodan.
ante gotovina did not lead the black legion, but half of the gotovina’s volunteers only identified themselves as black legion. some wore croatian army uniforms, while others dressed in black and posed as the black legion. those were civilians with weapons or soldiers of the croatian army in civilian clothes. so i don’t know exactly where to put them, but judging by the pictures in the newspapers, they were croatian nazis. i don’t know if they were actually led by gotovina.
is it according to the law of war to increase the brigade to the size of a corps and for the majority of the members to be dressed in black clothing with the insignia of the black legion? but the structure is still like a brigade and the new members are just there, without uniforms and without their leadership, just with weapons? were they even registered or did they just walk along and simply join as civilians and remain civilians?
15 divisions? not even 15 brigades, because where to find so many loyal secular non islamist fighters and whrere are all the arms and money to arm and finance them?
the man has a lot of money, but where did he get army? did israel really succeed in bankrupting hezbollah? if hezbollah actually went bankrupt after nasrallah’s death, perhaps rami bought it out…
that’s exactly rami makhlouf should do and buy hezbollah and lead it himself instead of nasrallah, because these current hezbollah bosses are something on the level of a garden gnome and a teddy bear.
yes please be true!!!! and retake all of syria!!!!!!
it would be better if the kurds were on the fair side for once and declared a independent kurdia and the druze an independent druzia. something like that happened to the genocidal maniac milošević, who ended up eating tablets in the hague. milosevic irritated the guard, who gave him a whole box of pills and said: “why don’t you eat them all at once?” this is exactly the kind of ending jolani deserves. that in prison, the guard suggests he eat all the pills in the box.
if the kurds declared a free state and the druze declared their free state, everything would be much easier, including for rami and his army.
milosevic wasnt on the western side jolani is so the latter is safe.
i’m not so sure, because sometimes someone is a friend of the west, like osama bin laden (in yugoslavia), and then bin laden goes crazy and attacks the united states.
i don’t have the slightest confidence in the traitorous pedophile putler. the kurds should now declare an independent kurdia, and the druze should declare an independent druzia.
this would make things easier for everyone involved, including rami and his army.
in any case, the druze should be included in greater israel and given israeli documents, just as russian-speaking ukrainians received russian documents.
his tiger forces were destroyed by israeli drones assisting the al-queda / isis invaders of syria . the sanction starved military was shocked into surrender by new warfare tactics . a road to peace no longer exists as planned by greater israel project
i hope that at least the druze in greater israel will be safe and happy, that they take at least the druze from this jolani.
the druze of israel must protect the druze of syria, because they have ghassan alian and idf and f-35.
the script for this bad movie gets worse by the day….
real life is usually much worse than movies.
in real life, the most evil usually wins.
if syria were to be dismembered, it would be possible to achieve peace like the croats and slovenes achieved when they simultaneously declared independent states. at least for once, israel should do something nice and declare the druze a part of israel, like putin did with the russians in ukraine.
is this the same assad that at the beginning of the war rebelled against bashar and created the fsa? he is probably just giving the pretext to al julani to kill even more people.
that was the other assad, that’s not assad at all, that’s a cousin on the ass mother’s side and a local businessman who happened to be friends with some of the tiger bosses. another cousin, ribal al-assad, vying for the syrian presidency with donald trump at trump’s marla lago home in florida. the competition is by no means small, and all the competitors hate the ass because the ass screwed up the whole country.
anyway, he would be a better syrian president than the psychopathic pedophile jolani.
no, that’s not that cousin, that cousin is ribal al-assad. ribal al-assad went to hang out with trump and his rubio in florida. rifaat assad’s (rifaat is hafez assad’s brother and he is so crazy that a swiss doctor found him too crazy to stand trial for war crimes ) son is ribal and he walks around florida fawning over marco rubio and donald trump. the guy who hangs out with the tiger forces is a cousin on my mother’s side, which is why it’s not spelled the ass.