The Assads keep mixing tactics, as the world keep mincing words,
and opposition groups keep crossing their fingers.
Tuesday 13, 2011
Today’s death toll: 41, mostly in Idlib
Province. 7 loyalists were also killed in an operation organized by
local insurgents. The operation came in retaliation for the loyalist raid on M’arr
Masreen and Kafar Yahmoul which left 11 dead. The death toll also
includes 6 who died in Idlib City when loyalists opened fire on a funerary
procession. Neighborhoods in Homs City, the town of Qseir as well
as the town of Khirbet Ghazaleh in Deraa/Hauran Province, all witnessed
heavy shelling by loyalist forces.
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Note: Numerous reports
are coming from a number of regions in Idlib and Homs regarding activities by
fake defectors said to be organizing fake units affiliated with the FSA, or
operating under the name of already established FSA units. These fake units are
said to be engaged in various activities meant to terrorize the local
populations, including robberies and random killings. The aim seems to be to
undermine the growing popularity of the FSA among local communities, to
dissuade straddlers from crossing the divide and joining the revolution, and to
further consolidate the hold of the Assads on minority populations. In several
locations, real FSA units have adopted the responsibility of maintain law and
order including confronting and dismantling these fake units, nonetheless, the
development further complicates the already chaotic scene unfolding in the
central and northern Syria.
All that talk about a
Turkey-sponsored buffer zone that has been in the headlines over the last few
weeks must have made the Assads nervous. The province that Idlib already
straddling the borders with Turkey has been seething for months, and despite
the best efforts of the regime and its relative success in controlling the
known checkpoints, not to mention the city of Jisr Ashougour, most communities
remain beyond is control, and gorilla warfare has been going on for weeks.
Today marked a major escalation though, and might signal a temporary shift in
focus for the Assads.
As the Assads wait
for the international community to get preoccupied with some matter elsewhere
on the planet before moving on with their plans to pacify the city of Homs, a
process that is bound to involve multiple mass murders and is bound to leave
thousands of fatalities, the pacification of Idlib must have seemed like the
right thing to do at this stage as it is unlikely to get the same notice as the
invasion of Homs City. The targets are much smaller and scattered, and the massacres
that will be taking place will prove more difficult to document, and hence
unlikely to attract the same level of attention as a full-scale assault on Homs
City.
So, for now, Idilb,
and to an extent Rural Damascus and Deraa might bear the brunt of Assad’s
wrath.
Be that as it may,
the massacres continue.
Featured
Videos
Insurgents destroy an
army tank in Homs City http://youtu.be/VUiny3T61jg
Brigadier General
Ahmad Muhammad Al-Shaikh declares his defection in Idlib alongside other
mid-ranking officers, and joins the Free Syrian Army http://youtu.be/eGAW-6_QNxs More defections http://youtu.be/Iy4bofz7wRc , http://youtu.be/X2zKCk7W1dc
And children continue
to be targeted in Homs City http://youtu.be/NmSkvbDt6-c
And people keep getting killed by snipers throughout the city http://youtu.be/Gv9707_dkbI A Christian fatehr
is killed alongside his daughter at a loyalist checkpoint in Bab Al-Sibaa,
loyalist bullets can’t tell the difference between Christians and Muslims http://youtu.be/qJjVy6flyGs Protesters
hid the bodies in the local church waiting for family members to come and claim
them http://youtu.be/JnE0wJmeAcQ Bab
Al-Sibaa comes under fire http://youtu.be/V4xPUMXA1wU
, http://youtu.be/c0Is6KSkWUc , http://youtu.be/M6PaW_MnYZo Bayadah
the aftermath of pounding http://youtu.be/u6nHIeuDANM
A wounded child http://youtu.be/QcgsNgUbLXE
In Bab Houd, nighttime protesters come under RPG fire RPG http://youtu.be/z0i7VBDsxLA Khaldiyeh
Neighborhood comes under fire at night http://youtu.be/8d41UtG7jQw
, http://youtu.be/RoYlNEl38GE
Inhabitants of Qseir
send food supplies to help the inhabitants of Homs City http://youtu.be/nMegpedzAXQ
Protesters in Idlib
City try to save the wounded in the aftermath of a loyalist attack http://youtu.be/bUAPa3HW_8s , http://youtu.be/Wv1Q0Mhn6QI
Loyalists rob stores
that observed the general strike http://youtu.be/xKcxDjFzwbU
Inhabitants of the
town of Jarjanaz in Idlib province stage mock elections in which they
drop ballots saying “Leave” “We love freedom” and “Child killer” http://youtu.be/5C9P4bIXPTw
Students at the University
of Aleppo continue to defy authorities http://youtu.be/V5Ds2peX_io
The Damascene suburb
of Douma comes under fire at night http://youtu.be/Tp9ow1AI6LI
Hama City comes under fire at
night http://youtu.be/OVKru9EJLQ0
December 13
HOMS CITY: Martyrs Baba
Amr http://youtu.be/NlqsPn3eruY
Child http://youtu.be/fX3kmU_dxoY Funerals
Khaldiyeh http://youtu.be/GbOffdM7nng
Bayadah http://youtu.be/i7Y_4DI4ww8
The strike continues Shammas http://youtu.be/tMNLI8cBZtw
Downtown http://youtu.be/Ry2b1Dk8P3Y
Karm Al-Shami http://youtu.be/-63Il6_r0xg
Jouret Al-Shayah http://youtu.be/4aITwlsOZr0
Demonstrations took place in Wa’er http://youtu.be/g_0DyvrQh5c nighttime http://youtu.be/JFA7Yl4Xl_w Deir
Ballabah http://youtu.be/aduSXYqm0zs
Nighttime http://youtu.be/ftpMv8o67rg
, http://youtu.be/6Ma8S2_yX64 Bab
Dreib http://youtu.be/PcY0Npyv4eQ
Baba Amr http://youtu.be/E6tke1vJvZ8
Qoussour http://youtu.be/71OdHn_lXpo
Insha’aat http://youtu.be/mUn_ARKASeU
Jouret Al-Shayah http://youtu.be/aW9NHii5kQ0
Ghoutah http://youtu.be/ZHRecdzH5nI
Khaldiyeh http://youtu.be/2BpD6bgCOKY
Bab Al-Sibaa http://youtu.be/U8NwITqs1G4
Bayadah http://youtu.be/dS32bhavMsQ
HOMS PROVINCE: Funerals Houleh
http://youtu.be/MFiqW7g9Jz4 The
strike continues Houleh http://youtu.be/bb4GTalG17o
, http://youtu.be/8bOCedNExOI Qseir
http://youtu.be/SM3hjegEdTg Tadmor
(Palmyra) http://youtu.be/Az9SwW4weCE
Qaryatein http://youtu.be/Zatjefa_YSU
Talbisseh http://youtu.be/_oYhF00tHtI
IDLIB: Martyrs Idlib
City http://youtu.be/gPEPbXkM3S4 ,
http://youtu.be/Kdh9bzLNmHA M’arrat
Masreen http://youtu.be/rMuXSwS1IMA
, http://youtu.be/ypDhZm6XTsc Kafar
Yahmoul http://youtu.be/5RztjYCX8jk
, http://youtu.be/_UPbbgTE-Q4 , http://youtu.be/dub2NGymhy0 , Funerals
Kafar Yahmoul http://youtu.be/aXecArYIa_M
, http://youtu.be/F44d2EfOFBM M’arrat Masreen http://youtu.be/0vV9qbdZqJY Idlib
City http://youtu.be/JIX2k_SEmC0 Strike
M’arrat Hourmah http://youtu.be/VJfqvcoqayI
Demonstrations took place in Areeha http://youtu.be/Kk7JzLCJrEo Binnish
http://youtu.be/bj1L4dxkYjE Idlib
City http://youtu.be/nMDw-fmADTM
HAMA: Martyrs Aqeerabat
http://youtu.be/8wP6jM7zbek Funerals
Morek http://youtu.be/uWZa7lpqh6w
Kafrenboudeh http://youtu.be/IJRGKgVH254
The strike continues Hama City http://youtu.be/YHv3Tiaiyu0 Demonstrations
took place in Taybat Al-Imam http://youtu.be/0WDN-k6Doa0
Ellatamneh http://youtu.be/IRbA3j4STvk
Hama City (Hamidiyeh) http://youtu.be/2jW52229trc
(Bab Qibli) http://youtu.be/VNgitJY4iJw
Khattab http://youtu.be/gCVUfVWJSdo
RURAL DAMASCUS: Demonstrations
took place in Yabroud http://youtu.be/jmmzV9W1S-Q
, http://youtu.be/hWWaKHKrlFo Wadi
Barada http://youtu.be/7RY_c6xQQok
Dmeir http://youtu.be/OondZB_RPtg
Qarrah http://youtu.be/j43yt1UDYrI
Zamalka http://youtu.be/UpwfZCLw1NI
, http://youtu.be/LpeaC75U_6M Funerals
Douma http://youtu.be/4SmxB3t3KfQ
Hamouriyeh http://youtu.be/Bhhn_tpFMmg
Arbeen http://youtu.be/FSVZ1gTRVU0
Ain Terma http://youtu.be/Otw2KPWvFUM
Harasta http://youtu.be/BXR3lm2ZzcE
DERAA/HAURAN: Martyrs Ghabaghib
a defector http://youtu.be/Ljkh2RlpQLA
Funerals Aqrabah http://youtu.be/P2sLVLuTnos
The strike continues Mleihah http://youtu.be/HoKGQq9mPAI
Ankhel http://youtu.be/W0dYNH_LdcY
Tseel http://youtu.be/A42nasj3kRI
Khirbet Ghazaleh http://youtu.be/en1XIsODYl4
Nasseeb http://youtu.be/UnDAA8gP9Ws
Demonstrations took place in Sourah http://youtu.be/E7UOwF80XJk Ankhel
http://youtu.be/UtxyAUdTpH4 Jassem
http://youtu.be/TtgMtpZZPZw Mseifrah
http://youtu.be/NDidyW0N7EI Tafas
http://youtu.be/5K9WN87bLpk Deraa
City http://youtu.be/4PtsFnxwhEM Sanamein
http://youtu.be/13heJbrotxE
ALEPPO: Demonstrations took
place in Marei http://youtu.be/i957t7jHTGk
Anadan http://youtu.be/BWzgWpYk_UA
DEIR EZZOR: Demonstrations
took place Qrayah http://youtu.be/Ol9p8YCcXSU
HASSAKEH: Demonstrations
took place Dirbasiyeh http://youtu.be/4GJaOGTmdyI
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