Activists: Syrian Troops Shell Central Regions
Source: AP
BEIRUT (AP) Government troops shelled residential areas in central Syria on Sunday, activists said, two days after the bombardment of a string of villages in the same region killed more than 90, many of them children.
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Sunday's shelling hit neighborhoods in the central city of Hama and the rebel-held town of Rastan north of Homs, the Local Coordination Committees and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The two groups also reported clashes between troops and rebels in Hama, in the Damascus suburb of Harasta and in the capital's central Midan district. They said a bomb struck a security vehicle in the capital's upscale district of Mazzeh near a military airport, according to the LCC.
The Observatory said the vehicle bombing caused casualties but did not have other details on the dead or wounded from the day's violence.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/05/26/world/middleeast/ap-ml-syria.html?ref=world
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Quite a team they've got.
may3rd
(593 posts)Just saying,
Kim's boy is cutting his teeth as we speak
but those on going purges CAN'T be reported
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)Protests erupt in Syria after massacre, 2 killed
AMMAN | Sun May 27, 2012 9:01am EDT
(Reuters) - Syrian forces shot dead at least two men on Sunday as protests broke out to condemn a massacre that killed at least 109 civilians, many of them children, in the town of Houla, opposition activists said.
The two were killed in the Damascus suburbs of Yalda and Daraya, home to thousands of refugees who have fled a military crackdown on the central province of Homs.
One of those killed, 22-year-old Riad Mahmoud, was among a crowd of 2,000-3,000 people who marched in the neighbourhood of Yalda on the southern edge of the capital and were confronted by armed members of political security, a secret police division, two activists in contact with the district said.
more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/27/us-syria-unrest-killings-idUSBRE84Q05520120527
may3rd
(593 posts)eating kabobs in a Damascus casbah ?
DavidDvorkin
(19,485 posts)may3rd
(593 posts)nobody is willing to monitor truth in a 20 second sound byte media world
http://www.youtube.com/show/insidesyria
both sides are "spinning" an axis of sizzle to sell their cause.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)may3rd
(593 posts)rayofreason
(2,259 posts)...for sending more and more weapons to be used to slaughter the Syrian people just to keep their client in power...he is such a good customer after all.
Want to end it? Bypass the UN since Russia will not allow another Libya, where they lost another good customer. Send weapons directly to the rebels and give the Turks the private go ahead to intervene with the blessing of the Arab league as well. Assad will fall, but not without much bloodshed, more than we see now.
But do not be mistaken. The aftermath will involve (eventually) a retaliation against the Alawites. Christians will be driven out too. At least they can go to Lebanon - the Marionites will accept them as allies against Hezbollah. But the Alawites have no where to go. Syria itself will go the way of Egypt and be taken over by Islamists of the MB/Salafist flavor.
After that, the death spiral will slowly manifest itself (as it has in Iran and will in Egypt). The Islamic answer to the problems of the world is more Islam. Doesn't work, anymore than more Maoist thought worked during the cultural revolution. Reality is a bitch and doesn't give a shit about fantasy.
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)While I sympathize for the Syrian people being massacred, you should not stop the massacre without the worlds states agreeing to do so.
This is going to be a long term protracted battle, ala Ireland. Only with many more dead.
may3rd
(593 posts)Obama stopped the Benghazi massacre by taking active action in Libya
No special forces blood for oil seems to have been reported spilled
boots were on the ground calling in the strikes in order to target these areas
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oh, this was on the drawing boards years before Obama said go. I'm glad he didn't wait to get authorization from congress as the rebellion would have been crushed within hours of Gaddafi's troops reaching Benghazi.
all moot point now.
or is it ?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014128222