52 Dead, Including 39 in Homs, as Syrian Forces Storm Hama
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Syrian security forces killed 52 people across the country on Tuesday as troops stormed Hama following large protests in the flashpoint central city, activists said.
"The Syrian armed forces stormed the neighborhoods of Bab Qubli and al-Jarajmah in Hama, firing heavy machineguns," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Activists in the city said that troops had gone on the offensive after large demonstrations earlier in the day.
"Since the morning, entrances to Hama have been blocked ... Syrian troops stormed the city from its northern and western entrances," Saleh al-Hamwi, spokesman of the General Revolution Commission, told Agence France Presse by telephone.
Anwar Amran, another anti-regime activist in Hama, said tanks had entered the city and there had been "heavy machinegun fire" in three different neighborhoods.
Meanwhile, the Local Coordination Committees, the main activist group spurring protests on the ground, said security forces killed 52 people across the country, "including 18 who died when shelling destroyed two buildings in the Homs neighborhood of Bab Tadmur."
Thirty-nine people were killed in the central opposition bastion Homs, five in Hama province, three in the southern province of Daraa, the cradle of the uprising, two in the flashpoint northwestern province of Idlib, two in Damascus province and one in the northern province of al-Raqqa, the LCC said.
For its part, the London-based Observatory said two civilians were killed in Hama province and one in Homs, Syria's third-largest city.
"A civilian was killed by gunfire from a checkpoint ... in the Bab al-Sibaa neighborhood of Homs," one of the focal points of protests against President Bashar al-Assad's regime that erupted in March last year, it said.
Another two civilians died in Hama province when security forces fired on the car they were traveling in near the Tibah al-Imam locality, the Observatory added.
Separately, Syrian security forces reportedly opened fire in Idlib province in an attempt to disperse some 10,000 people gathered for the funeral of Radwan Rabi Hamada, an anti-regime protester killed in the town of Saraqeb on Monday.
Observatory chairman Rami Abdul Rahman said security forces fired heavy machineguns after Hamada's burial in the village of al-Bara.
And in the southern city of Daraa, clashes broke out between deserters and the regular army, the watchdog added.
The United Nations estimates that more than 5,400 people have been killed in Syria since last March.
The regime blames the violence on "armed terrorist gangs" backed by foreign agitators.
24 January 2012, 19:02
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Gabby, is the game over yet? Can you check with shab or aragon or thepeace or patriot or Dr. Falaky and let us know? bye bye bye bye bye bye ya 7elween? Your responses will be very much appreciated at this critical time in the game! Best regards, and keep up the good work of predicting. Say hi to Dr. Falaky.
24 January 2012, 19:09
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The Assad Regime, of course is correct. The violence is being caused by "armed terrorist gangs" backed by foreign agitators. The armed terrorist gangs are the Hezbollah milita and the Regime loyalist factions of the Syrian army, which have degenerated into armed gangs and the foreign backing comes from Iran.
The Syrian people need to gain their country back from these gangs and need to put an end to the foreign agitation.
They can start with storming the Syrian presidential palace and removing the imposter from the president's chair.
24 January 2012, 20:06
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Most Syrians back President Assad, but you'd never know from western media --Assad's popularity, Arab League observers, US military involvement: all distorted in the west's propaganda war By Jonathan Steele 17 Jan 2012 Suppose a respectable opinion poll found that most Syrians are in favour of Bashar al-Assad remaining as president, would that not be major news? Especially as the finding would go against the dominant narrative about the Syrian crisis, and the media considers the unexpected more newsworthy than the obvious. Alas, not in every case. When coverage of an unfolding drama ceases to be fair and turns into a propaganda weapon, inconvenient facts get suppressed. So it is with the results of a recent YouGov Siraj poll on Syria commissioned by The Doha Debates, funded by the Qatar Foundation.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/17/syrians-support-assad-western-propaganda
24 January 2012, 20:38
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Bindanow you keep changing your name. It is hard to keep up with you. Keep holding on to your false dreams of ASSad forever. Keep blowing cookie boy in your bunker in Dahye. Storming a city of protesters and slaughtering them is yet another nail in ASSad's coffin. It is only because of the interconnected geo-political nature of Syria that ASSas is even still alive. Rest assured, he is finished. Keep crowing while he lives in the palace. No doubt you will disappear when ASSad does. I will have the last laugh......and it will be very sweet.
24 January 2012, 20:40
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"Meanwhile, the Local Coordination Committees, the main activist group spurring protests on the ground", thanked the Saudi government for setting an example to the Syrian people of how Democracy and freedom should look like (I am not kidding). And, the Syrian regime stated that reform will be carried out by 2092.
24 January 2012, 21:01
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"Meanwhile, the Local Coordination Committees, the main activist group spurring protests on the ground", thanked the Saudi government for setting an example to the Syrian people of how Democracy and freedom should look like (I am not kidding). And, the Syrian regime stated that reform will be carried out by 2092.
24 January 2012, 21:02
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Cookie_Monster God bless you Shiite brother in Syrian brown nosing . I actually remember you saying the same thing when the magnificent and brave Syrian army invaded Lebanon back in 1990 , you and I know that the civilians and clergy that they executed were really terrorists on Halloween , at least that's what the always truthful SANA called them .
24 January 2012, 21:35
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@chrisrushlau when you believe that report you should consider that the gun is in the head of "menhebakjieh" of assad, just like hizbullah in lebnanon
24 January 2012, 21:46
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All dictators have 99.9% majority support ..... Saddam, Mobarak, Gaddafi, and all the rest.
The delimma for the Arabs is that the people get the governement they deserve. When a dictoator is toppled another rotten regime takes its place. Lets just hope that one day the people get enlightened enough to form governements based on just civil laws where all are equally subject to the same rules and opportunity is available to all based on qualifications.
24 January 2012, 23:55
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Aragon, dont bother to argue with cocky_monster, he's master is stuck in a RAT HOLE for the last 6 years, and his sponsor regime's are being picked off one after the other.
Condi was right some six years ago, these are the birth pangs of the new middle east, and dictators like Mubarak, Gadaffi and Bashar the mouse are relics of the past.
All he can do now is bark and bleet on the a news website, I'm not sure why he doesn't do his barking on Al-Manar, where his opinions would be more appreciated.
take care
25 January 2012, 01:07
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How contradictory...
"Thirty-nine people were killed in the central opposition bastion Homs, five in Hama province, three in the southern province of Daraa, the cradle of the uprising, two in the flashpoint northwestern province of Idlib, two in Damascus province and one in the northern province of al-Raqqa, the LCC said.
For its part, the London-based Observatory said two civilians were killed in Hama province and one in Homs, Syria's third-largest city."
So was it 39 in Homs or 3?
I can Sooooo imaginge the LLC techniques of adding up... "sme3to, rah 10 itala birsas min hezballah".
Like everything Arab... exageration at its best.
So does the UN base its 5400 killed on LLC's words?
If so then 39-3=36... Thats a 92.3% difference in reporting!!!!! According to these new figures if we. minus 92.3% from 5400 then the REAL AMOUNT OF DEATH is 416.
Any death is too much, but what I am highlighting is the inconsistent and inaccurate reporting which helps the warmongers.
25 January 2012, 01:26
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chrisrushlau, did you at least bother to have a look at the poll Steele based his narrative on. It polled 1000 people in the Arab world and out of those 1000 55% of the Syrians backed Assad. Is that a joke? Because obviously you are.
25 January 2012, 01:27
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"Meanwhile, the Local Coordination Committees, the main activist group spurring protests on the ground", thanked the Saudi government for setting an example to the Syrian people of how Democracy and freedom should look like (I am not kidding). And, the Syrian regime stated that reform will be carried out by 2092.
25 January 2012, 01:43
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aragon, what is the matter you dude arguing with Cookie_Monster like that, Mr Moualem showed the whole universe and Cookie_Monster all the proof it needed in the form of the video of the terrifying terrorists walking around the Syrian countryside and the tortured and murdered Syria soldier. Of course those videos were "prenactments" of what is supposed to be happening in Syria staring some Lebanese citizens and Lebanese scenery from 2008 in lieu of the Syrian terrorists and Syrian countryside and one Egyptian rapist guy from 2010 playing the role of the tortured and murdered Syria soldier. Come to think of it Syrian soldiers rapped Lebanon and the Lebanese for thirty years so Mr Moualem wasn't that far off.
25 January 2012, 12:24
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Gabby, what do you mean false dreams? You have been promising us the "game over" for over 6 years my friend. I know you are a clairvoyant, but it is new to me that you also are an interpreter of dreams! My friend, God bless you and your powers! Keep predicting FALSE PREDICTIONS, like the other idiot Dr. Samir Falaky. Do you see my bunker from where you are? Laser eyes, too? OMG.
