OnceUponATimeInWeHo [none/use name]

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Cake day: August 2nd, 2024

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  • Not sure about the selling out specifically. This article goes into how it fell apart pretty well, despite being written before the dust settled. It was hollowed out so thoroughly that I don’t think some generals getting the bag and dipping is out of the question.

    “More seriously, these [Facebook complaint] pages began accusing the 30th Division in general, and the 47th Regiment in particular, of being infiltrated by opposition sympathizers over the past year. These accusations became even more explicit as opposition forces began conducting successful raids against 30th Division positions in western Aleppo this year. A 47th Regiment 67th Battalion point was attacked in Qabtan al-Jabal on the night of March 16, losing two tanks and triggering accusations that one of the unit’s members was an opposition ‘agent.’ This same battalion had been accused for months of being rife with corruption. On September 2 a 30th Division position in Kabashin was attacked and two soldiers captured, triggering a new round of complaints explicitly calling for the ‘cleansing’ the division of sleeper cells. Within hours of the initial attack on November 27, one SAA complaint page wrote a scathing post addressed to Bashar al-Assad”