Talk:Abdul Basset al-Saroot

Questions from the 60 Minutes Report
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/syrian-civil-war-60-minutes-bob-simon/

''Talal Derki: (Sarout had) No fear at all. Like the day Basset stood above the crowd and started taunting the regime's snipers who had him in their crosshairs.''
 * How did they know that? --Caustic Logic (talk) 10:23, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

''Talal Derki: He start to shout, "Listen, sniper, this is my head and this is my neck, that I am a clear target if you want to-- to-- to-- to-- to shoot me, but I will not be afraid." The snipers didn't shoot Basset that day...''
 * How do we know they existed and were actually against him? Were the soldiers just so frightened by his courage they couldn't pull the trigger? Or were they rebel snipers working with him to encourage "bravery" like that and discourage "cowardly" support of the Syrian government? --Caustic Logic (talk) 10:23, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

Basset became a marked man but try as they might, they couldn't get him...
 * Or didn't want to because they were his friends, depending. --Caustic Logic (talk) 10:23, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

...So they took out his brother, his cousins, his friends. How do we know these weren't pro-government family members Sarout or someone else ordered killed for refusing to join the rebellion, as is often the case with targeted families? --Caustic Logic (talk) 10:23, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

''Orwa Nyrabia: "They were all killed in his own-- in-- in his family's apartment. It was a very difficult moment." Orwa Nyrabia, the documentary's producer also filmed parts of it.''
 * I suppose he has an explanation that makes that sound less shady. But indeed, rebel types are usually right there after every massacre to record the effects. One suspects they're usually there before and during as well. --Caustic Logic (talk) 10:23, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

''We met him near the Syrian border in Turkey. Orwa Nyrabia: So his mother was forced to make tea to the soldiers while they were killing her son. And that was moment when he said, "Peace is not going to work." Basset was soon transformed from protester to armed revolutionary.''
 * Ah, just then and no earlier. Hand was forced, by the same "regime" with the snipers that could just never kill him, just rile him up. --Caustic Logic (talk) 10:23, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

''His small band of fighters began taking neighborhoods controlled by the regime. Assad's soldiers struck back slaughtering thousands.''
 * And that, I think, is where our research on these "thousands" killed in the Homs Massacres becomes the proper antidote. Or would, if it was all developed. I'm pretty sure that's him hosting the Feb. 4, 2012 videos of Khalidiya Massacre victims, apparently gender-segregated hostage executed and sometimes mutilated to look like the shelling victims they were passed off as. This was the biggest massacre yet, about 150 but promoted at twice that size, as usual timed to coincide with a UNSC session on Syria and be used as fodder for the Western powers to push for war. The show uses footage from the massive funeral-protest after when making their point here. AbdulBaset (at right, from this video) makes a special point to show off a boy's flattened and unrecognizable head. He strikes me there as being strung out on meth, and somewhere deep inside horrified at the Islamo-nihilist scum he'd irreversibly hooked up with. But that's pretty subjective I suppose. --Caustic Logic (talk) 10:23, 6 January 2015 (UTC)