12 Alawites killed by jihadists in Syria's Homs

[FarCenter]

AFP - Twelve civilians from Syria's Alawite minority, to which President Bashar al-Assad belongs, have been killed by jihadist fighters in the central province of Homs, a Syrian NGO said Wednesday.

Fighters from the Al-Nusra Front and another rebel group attacked three Alawite villages near the city of Homs Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

"Fierce clashes broke out between rebels and army troops," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.

The rebels entered the village of Maksar al-Hissan and "shot 12 Alawites to death before leaving the area."

http://www.france24.com/en/20130911-12-alawites-killed-jihadists-syrias-homs

[MineralMan]

1. Civil wars aren't civil. They suck.

Thus has it always been. We had our own. It sucked, too.

[Romulox]

2. The important thing is to choose sides quickly and then bomb

whatever longstanding-enemies-of-your-new-allies you are pointed at.

The rest will sort itself out!

[eissa]

3. "Alawites to the grave, Christians to Beirut."

The mantra of the rebels. Although that second group usually meets the same fate as the first one.