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    ThatFatScatCat fucking loves muddy puddlesBrendan O'Connor
    5/23/16 8:24am
    A police officer in Jableh told AFP that one suicide attacker detonated his explosives inside the emergency room of the state-run hospital

    Good lord.

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      suppiluliumasThatFatScatCat fucking loves muddy puddles
      5/23/16 4:45pm

      Yeah, they targeted nothing but civilians. In addition to the hospital, for example, they also hit two bus depots, one in each city.

      These really are largely loyalist areas, but there’s no justification for depravity like this.

      Incidentally, some people first suspected Ahrar al-Sham had carried out the attacks, even though I’d have been awfully surprised had they been the culprits. But Daesh quickly took credit.

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      ThatFatScatCat fucking loves muddy puddlessuppiluliumas
      5/23/16 6:36pm

      So what, do they think that by bombing civilians their message will better be heard?

      You’re right. There’s no justification for this kind of depravity.

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    Freddie DeBoerBrendan O'Connor
    5/23/16 8:35am

    I think you might reconsider the headline, for reasons that Adam Johnson outlines in this Twitter thread:

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      ArdenFreddie DeBoer
      5/23/16 9:48am

      If “enemy combatants” is good enough for America when we drone strike a wedding or a café filled with innocents, I think “ISIS Stronghold” is good enough for them when they blow up a market filled with innocencts.

      What are you trying to do, make people ACCOUNTABLE or something? Sad!

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      ArmchairSophistFreddie DeBoer
      5/23/16 1:04pm

      Yeah, there’s this really disconcerting tendency to portray “people who belong to Assad’s religious sect” as “card-carrying members of Assad’s military apparatus”. The portion of the American foreign policy establishment who was dead set on marketing the idea of a definitively identifiable group of “moderate rebels” had a field day trying to spin Sunni rebel massacres of Alawite civilians as military engagement with Assad himself - if only to avoid admitting that the people they wanted to arm against Assad also wanted to wipe his entire tribe out of existence.

      Even now, no one seems to be able to admit that “Assad is a complete monster” and “innocent people who belong to his tribe are being massacred by sectarian bigots” are not mutually exclusive.

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    YoungFellaBrendan O'Connor
    5/23/16 8:15am

    Please god let Hofer win in Austria today #StopIslam

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      Flying Squid (I hate me more than you do.)YoungFella
      5/23/16 8:18am

      Remember like 2 weeks ago when you were pretending to be a Sanders supporter?

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    suppiluliumasBrendan O'Connor
    5/23/16 4:50pm

    Khawarij trash. I don’t care who and where a group of civilians are, you don’t attack them.

    There was some mystery as to who’d carried out these attacks when they first happened, but Daesh did indeed quickly take credit:

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      cooterbaldwinBrendan O'Connor
      5/23/16 9:28am

      It’s really sad things like this happen. It truly is a tragedy and all, but does anyone know if the owner of that FJ might be willing to sell?

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