News to heal the hearts of the believers: 7 Days of Mujahideen Victories with More to Come Since last Thursday regime forces got their heads handed to them (no joke!). It all started when Mujahideen overran all but a small remnant of Assad 17th division, inflicting severe losses, shrinking the perimeter and blowing up the base supply dump.. Having castrated the base, Mujahideen wisely bypassed a frontal assault to head off for a more important job in Al Safira. Why not? The war criminals remaining cannot go anywhere or shell neighborhoods anymore. Since then they’ve been nicely pounded, lost a rooftop gun and learned that a relief convoy will never arrive. Meanwhile air drops here restrict cancel air missions somewhere else. The biggest Mujahideen gains during the next six days were in Quineita and East Damascus. In seven days Mujahideen converted all three regime offensive into total disasters. Regime allies suffered huge losses in Qalamoun with nothing to show for it. The Homs-Damascus road, having been closed eight days, may never reopen until Damascus falls. In Damascus, Mujahideen rolled back most of the east, opened up a nifty supply line and ended a year-long siege that a manpower-short regime has little hope of duplicating again. In Aleppo, a former Assad offensive is turning into Stalingrad. Around the country Mujahideen seized Assad convoy after convoy, checkpoint after checkpoint and village after village while the regime “liberated” nothing. It lost scores of armored vehicles that were destroyed or captured while martyrdom (insha ALLAH) bombers had a picnic. Manpower losses from capture, defection, killed in action (KIA) or serious injury in those seven days may well have exceeded 2,000. Creating a major fuel crisis was as big or bigger than all other achievements. Mujahideen set fire to a refinery, seized Syria’s biggest oilfield and shut off any shipments of refined gasoline from Central Syria. Will diesel oil and aviation fuel come next? Think about potential economic and military repercussions. How many Assad regime workers get to their jobs? How will food be shipped in and homes heated? How will Assad army rush to halt Mujahideen gains without fuel? What happens when airports run out of aviation fuel? Finally bear in mind the regime was virtually bankrupt before this fuel crisis. As winter approaches, the timing is perfect. Mujahideen accomplishments include the chaos, panic and feuding created by these successes It is especially significant that three days after the first big Mujahideen forces gains in East Ghouta the regime remains a no show. Ditto in Qualamoun and Aleppo. Is Assad even capable of counteroffensives any longer? Signs of impotence abound.
Posted on: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 12:31:48 +0000