Activists: Syrian Troops Shell Central Regions

[maddezmom]

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]

1. Dead children courtesy of Vladimir Putin. nt

[joshcryer]

7. +1

[oberliner]

8. And a little help from the Supreme Leader of Iran

Quite a team they've got.

[may3rd]

12. Don't forget their little buddy on the Korean peninsula

Just saying,
Kim's boy is cutting his teeth as we speak
but those on going purges CAN'T be reported

[maddezmom]

2. Protests erupt in Syria after massacre, 2 killed

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]

3. Where are the UN monitors?

eating kabobs in a Damascus casbah ?

[DavidDvorkin]

4. Yeah, it's all their fault.

[may3rd]

11. yeah, the first causality of war is 'truth'

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]

5. They're busy being barred from areas near the fighting, but go ahead and blame them. (nt)

[may3rd]

13. oh, I will (nt)

[rayofreason]

6. Can't blame the UN. Can blame Russia...

...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]

9. That's not an option under this administration, and I'm glad.

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]

14. Is it because the oil reserves only rate covert support

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

[joshcryer]

10. Homs - 27-5 Hula demonstration