Talk:Assault on Maaloula

Good work starting this page. I was thinking about it. I hear that Maaloula is the only Aramaic speaking town on Earth. Didn't notice any clear massacre reports yet. The SOHR has been covering it some, but I didn't even save the links. Anyway, that's a talk page started. --Caustic Logic (talk) 23:41, 8 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Experience shows that it gets interesting when you have reporters with authoritative British accents on the ground, especially if they're blond Russian women, so when I saw that RT video I knew that alone would carry an article... ;o) A RIA Novosti piece from this afternoon and musings of SyrPer indicate that the Army might have withdrawn for the moment, to not cause unnecessary destruction to the amazing historical treasures, and the barbarians are in charge. --CE (talk) 00:07, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Dead link
Petri, the link to the video you just added is dead. I find three versions of it on the tube. Was the statement you added a comment? The first version contains the comment "The nuns here are under duress and told to lie about their treatment by al﻿ nusra terrorists" --CE (talk) 14:18, 9 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Fixed! The comment is from the YouTube file description (slightly edited to fix bad translation). -- Petri Krohn (talk) 15:19, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Sadad

 * Al-Nusra Out of Syria's Ancient Sadad Town – FNA, Oct 27, 2013
 * ''Syrian Army regained control of the ancient town of Sadad after days of intensive fighting with militants from al-Nusra terrorist group.
 * ''Around two thousand militants from the Al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front stormed and occupied the ancient town of Sadad, 60 kilometers (37 mi) South of Homs, nearly a month ago and sieged its fifteen thousand residents to use them as human shields against the Syrian army, Al-Alam reported.
 * ''The militant groups who were driven out of Sadad were from the same groups that raided Syria's ancient Christian town of Maalula in Northeast of Damascus a couple of months ago.
 * ''Terrorists had taken Sadad to turn it into their stronghold for the al-Qalamoun war which both sides are getting ready for, an army member said.