Assad’s is losing grip on both his material and virtual reality.
Saturday March 17, 2012
Death toll: 52,
including 25 who were killed by pro-Assad security forces, and 27 said to have
been killed in two explosions in Damascus that targeted the main headquarters
of Air Force Intelligence and Criminal Investigation Administration. Of the 25,
10 ten in Raqqah City when security forces opened fire on mourners burying
colleagues killed on Friday.
News
Asked about relations
between the new coalition and the SNC, Ammar al-Qurabi, leader of the National
Movement for Change, told AFP his "coalition was not set up in opposition
to anyone, other than Assad's regime, but rather to unite the opposition
outside the SNC."
Op-Eds & Special Reports
This report is the
result of a 4-day workshop in Copenhagen that took place in late February and
which I have taking part in organizing. The goal was to encourage a serious
discussion on some of the transition challenges facing the leaders of the
Syrian Popular Resistance Network. The report is currently being translated to
Arabic and will be shared with all protest leaders inside the country for their
feedback and made available to the wider public through social media websites.
The report comes as a series of recommendations meant to generate public debate
on the future of Syria, especially during the transition period which, in many
ways, is already unfolding. The debate will hopefully produce a vision for a
future Syria in which all major stakeholders, in-country, in the region, and
across the world, will have contributed.
The recent
revelation that Assad’s term of endearment is “Battah” or “Duck,” as well as
his apparent intimate relationship with his advisor, Hadeel Ali, became the
subject of much humor in the ranks of protesters who used them to enrich their
Facebook statuses as well as the banners they carried in their rallies. The
inhabitants of the town Zabadani, near Damascus, carried a number of
banners mocking Mr. Duck, including “You know, Mr. Duck, we got used to your
explosions” http://youtu.be/eaTdmKmOnMM
As another
sign of continued troubles for the Assad, the town of Salamiyah, Hama Province,
a mixed community of Sunnis, Ismailites and Alawites, is once again witnessing
major daily anti-Assad rallies http://youtu.be/h64EPXfRVOg
Meanwhile, in Raqqah
City, events follow the familiar patterns of rallies turning into funerals mushrooming
into larger rallies, as the city, and the province, slips out of Assad’s
controls:
Mourners taking part
in a funeral for some of yesterday’s martyrs http://youtu.be/0CUjoB4QePs , http://youtu.be/2EaQYBPDCzs come under
fire http://youtu.be/85Rob7zCFZY , http://youtu.be/QF1n45hy5ZY , http://youtu.be/x4rVpRexrbQ Protesters
remain defiant http://youtu.be/0-XcarKXZnk
, http://youtu.be/XCowioiGhYE As some
soldiers shoot, others seem to defect and join the protesters http://youtu.be/RC5RL1-ryzs Rescuing the
injured http://youtu.be/Hck95LSxJoM ,
http://youtu.be/4ti0WZ4Gfc4
In Damascus,
and while suspicious explosions take place, members of the resistance, Furqan
Brigade, carried out an operation that left a loyalist general dead, and
led to confiscating some weapons, laptops and documents that revealed detailed
of recent official directives, operations and troop movements of Assad
loyalists http://youtu.be/4ZNoCeF1WPY
Another self-styled special operations unit was formed in Ma’arrat Al-Nouman
led by new defector, Lt. Mahmoud Al-Mansour http://youtu.be/dCblj6icYqc
Homs
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Homs City
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People
from neighborhoods in East Homs City held a major rally in defiance to
prove that their city is far from vanquished http://youtu.be/lhJKpSRVrXk
Elsewhere,
Bab Dreib came under renewed pounding http://youtu.be/EJLXtziE4qE , http://youtu.be/41qxUuTNHlA So did Jub
Al-Jandali http://youtu.be/MkqKEL8lyVc
And Bab Tadmor http://youtu.be/le6cttC2Bn4
And Karm Al-Zeitun http://youtu.be/xtJiGJ8LfMA
In
Deir Baalbah, protesters send a message of solidarity to their
colleagues in Raqqah who have joined the revolution recently “O Raqqah, Homs
is with you till death” http://youtu.be/dXNaXxhbKHU
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Daytime Rallies
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Deir
Baalbah
http://youtu.be/48n9WXJoV0A Khaldiyeh
http://youtu.be/q_R-eYXUMxE Karm
Al-Shami http://youtu.be/6DiWjXRvQrk
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Nighttime Rallies
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Qoussour http://youtu.be/azYAmoXaDhQ
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Homs Province
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Rastan: snipers claim
another victim http://youtu.be/dzYOb8WmjL0
The body after it was retrieved http://youtu.be/VjeuG2Temew
Another martyr http://youtu.be/YudsRSMpsYg
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Damascus
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Damascus City
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Nighttime Rallies
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Midan http://youtu.be/En6G7aiuBKk Mazzeh
http://youtu.be/eXbUBqvb9vg Naher
Eisheh http://youtu.be/PsbR_OenCwk
Jobar http://youtu.be/Fs1n2cW2XJk
Barzeh http://youtu.be/ysVfnII6QLQ
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Damascus East (Eastern & Western Ghoutah)
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Douma: protesters hang an
effigy of Bashar http://youtu.be/gNm-QoV69EY
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Nighttime Rallies
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Ain
Mneen
http://youtu.be/hA5KXjBMwyg
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Damascus South (Southern Ghoutah)
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Daytime Rallies
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Al-Hajar
Al-Aswad
http://youtu.be/yvISdQdtdDk
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Hama
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Hama City
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Chopper
overfly the city http://youtu.be/xawdoLzl3c0
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Daytime Rallies
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Aleppo
Road
http://youtu.be/0yJF_X-CaUM , http://youtu.be/5p4dX3LY7Z0
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Hama Province
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Shaizar: the town is
pounded again http://youtu.be/zC52BHbk8BE
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Daytime Rallies
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Kafrenboudeh http://youtu.be/oFGzYR3gX3k
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Idlib
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Sarmada: the sounds of
nighttime clashes at the edge of town http://youtu.be/cxT2Gh5sjIg
El-Rami: locals find the
bodies of two unknown martyrs http://youtu.be/R0_L3j1obYA
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Daytime Rallies
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Khan
Shaikhoon
(all women) http://youtu.be/Qjy59UMnC80
Sarjah http://youtu.be/E4tlEuaEqrM
Jabal Al-Zawiyeh http://youtu.be/55cGkK82_rI
Karnaz http://youtu.be/gYM2ihnRYSk
Eltaman’ah http://youtu.be/A_PrBdiRUoU
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Deraa/Hauran
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Deraa City
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Nighttime Rallies
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Mahatah http://youtu.be/QatzcG052Gc
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Deraa/Hauran Province
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Daytime Rallies
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Mahajjeh http://youtu.be/gSR2dYvniL4 Hraak
http://youtu.be/Jpys_GByTAs Ataman
http://youtu.be/_gqA97Tbfas Alma
http://youtu.be/WllLMgsbuZA Karak
Sharqi http://youtu.be/6IUYnVEDPbE
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Nighttime Rallies
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Khirbet
Ghazaleh
http://youtu.be/Q--9nYkzA5I Jassem
http://youtu.be/a-vyIcsB9Fs
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Aleppo
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Aleppo City
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Daytime Rallies
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Ebla
University
http://youtu.be/Uq8D6EFvGe8
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Nighttime Rallies
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Sukkari http://youtu.be/2WuCrQ50PsQ
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Aleppo Province
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Daytime Rallies
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Kafar
Hamra
http://youtu.be/LUvoRo2nvbQ Kafar
Naya http://youtu.be/CbYjqAi8F9Y
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Deir Ezzor
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Daytime Rallies
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Tayyaneh http://youtu.be/Q2F3RLQnGDQ
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Nighttime Rallies
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Deir
Ezzor City
(Hamidiyeh) http://youtu.be/eSJNE8cwcB8
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Hassakeh
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Daytime Rallies
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Salhiyeh (funeral) http://youtu.be/HZPzstd9kIU Dirbassiyeh
http://youtu.be/w2LTJKK1gm0 Amoudeh
http://youtu.be/j7oX2-XH8rc Deirik
http://youtu.be/SHL9DPdjErE
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