Syrian rebels cut off water to Aleppo in botched attack on regime areas - and manage to create shortage in their own strongholdsPatrick Cockburn turns in another pro-Assad report.
"Aleppo used to have a population of 2.5 million though at least one million have fled fighting."
They have overwhelming fled Assad's rain of terror.
"The government has been dropping barrel bombs packed with explosives on rebel districts causing heavy casualties and a further exodus of the population. The rebels have been firing mortars randomly into government areas."
These are supposed to be equivalent. There has been some limited shelling of government-controlled areas, which whenever it has been against civilian areas, has been condemned by much of the opposition. That's not like the mass murder of the government side.
"The forces of the opposition are dominated by Jabhat al-Nusra and other al-Qa’ida type groups."
Cockburn isn't interested in telling us about anyone else. And as they are fighting a war against the al-Qaida type Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant that collaborates with Assad, who are the bin Laden's here?