It might be
asymmetric, but it’s a civil war nonetheless, and 300 UN observers with limited
mandate are not going to stop it, neither will negotiations with the murderers
responsible for paving the way to this.
Thursday May 3, 2012
The death toll for the last
2 days exceeded 50, including 5 students from the University of Aleppo who were
killed when loyalist militias stormed the campus and opened fire on protesting
students. The University was closed soon afterwards.
In Rural Aleppo, an ambush on
Wednesday by members of the local resistance left 15 loyalists dead, including
two high ranking generals. In clashes in different Damascene suburbs, 7
loyalists were killed in clashes with local resistance: 6 in Harasta and 1 in
Kanaker.
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"The only Al Qaeda
cells that operate in Syria are those manipulated by Assad's security
apparatuses," said Ammar Abdulhamid, a US-based Syrian opposition activist
in an online newsletter emailed today. "The suicide bombings are directly
staged or facilitated by them. Issues pertaining to the timing and the real
beneficiaries, and everything we know about the Assads' involvement in terror
networks, all point in this direction."
Mr. Abdulhamid's post
carried a YouTube link that quotes Walid Muallem, Syria's foreign minister,
telling a news conference in Damascus in December that suicide bombings would
not be an "embarrassment" for the government but would bestow
"credibility" upon its claim that it is under threat from Islamist
militants.
Some analysts have long
maintained that the Syrian authorities have cooperated with jihadist networks
on a short-term tactical basis, even though the nominally secular nature of
Syria's Baathist regime and its Alawite identity makes it an unlikely bedfellow
with Sunni jihadists. Such jihadists view the Alawite faith, an obscure
offshoot of Shiite Islam, as apostate.
“He also
revealed that Assad wants to invite the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of
Tibet and a leading figure in world Buddhism, to sanctify an ancient Buddhist
temple in Syria.” Yeah, that’s a nice way to appease your Chinese allies. He
really does play chess very well!
Video Highlights
Leaked
video shows mass execution in Baba Amr, Homs City http://youtu.be/ExXLTGqWj8o More http://youtu.be/VkVzEsmplc4 Another http://youtu.be/HaMqPH-I0Oo
Still in Homs
City, Qoussour Neighborhood, bodies are left to rot in the streets,
locals unable to retrieve tem due to sniper activities http://youtu.be/K3FTMW7DqSA In Khaldiyeh,
a UN monitor inspects the body of a sniper victim http://youtu.be/nrDTgK4WnQc
Houses in Bayadah
Neighborhood burn, as the pounding resumes http://youtu.be/oC5aYBYH68g
Head of the
UN monitoring team addresses local activists in Hama City, Arba’een
Neighborhood http://youtu.be/Sj1uwM6_9-o
A local old woman tells the monitors that as soon as they will leave, pro-Assad
death squads will resume firing at them http://youtu.be/bUVjxM83OL0
In the University
of Aleppo, 4 were killed by pro-Assad death squads, and dozens were
wounded. This is one of the injured http://youtu.be/66oKtRNqf4U
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