UU150 Study Guide - Final Guide: Bashar Al-Assad
From what Ali knew now, barrel bombs are attached to
helicopters and then dropped from four miles above
ground. These bombs can be different sizes but include
oil, gas, and metal fragments (including nails, ball
bearings and shards of old machinery) intended to
catapult through streets, doors, and windows upon
impact. His brothers called the bigger ones, the
“explosive dumpster”. From his grandfather, he’d learned
that the shrapnel and scorching liquid inflicted many
horrific deaths, especially among civilians, than other
tactics used by the Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Despite the fogginess in his memory, Ali knew the sound
that these bombs made whether from his own or his
family’s experiences: for the first few miles, these bombs
flew glistening silently through the air, the sun reflecting
off polished sections of the barrel if there were any.
Then, when the barrel was no less than 1 mile above the
ground, a sound like that of an airplane taking off began
which became higher and higher pitch as it made its way
through the air would sound forth until there was a
deafening thud and crack and plume of smoke when the
bomb hit buildings, cars, and people. Sometimes these
barrels would come solitarily or in a group. He’d also
come to identify and hate the sound of a helicopter’s
slicing wings.
Ali heard his mother one night talking about a
conversation she had had with an aid worker. His mother
stated that air attacks had killed, injured and displaced
tens of thousands of other families across Syria and that
the outside world called these attacks “war crimes” which
he aligned with the terribleness that he thinks he
remembers experiencing.
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Document Summary
From what ali knew now, barrel bombs are attached to helicopters and then dropped from four miles above ground. These bombs can be different sizes but include oil, gas, and metal fragments (including nails, ball bearings and shards of old machinery) intended to catapult through streets, doors, and windows upon impact. From his grandfather, he"d learned that the shrapnel and scorching liquid inflicted many horrific deaths, especially among civilians, than other tactics used by the syrian president bashar assad. Sometimes these barrels would come solitarily or in a group. He"d also come to identify and hate the sound of a helicopter"s slicing wings. Ali heard his mother one night talking about a conversation she had had with an aid worker. He often found himself being woken up from the nightmares of his brothers muhammed and adnan. As the plane flew overhead outside the toronto airport, his brothers ducked and instinctively looked up to the air.
