We don’t really need Turkish PM Erdogan to tell
us that Assad is “politically dead.” What we need at this stage is the
plan and the political will to get him and few of his generals physically dead
as well, or at least behind bars. And to do so while the death toll in the
conflict is still less than a hundred thousand, and the chances for saving the
country are more than 1 in a thousand.
Thursday September
20, 2012
Today’s
Death toll: 250. The Breakdown: 71
martyrs in Raqqah (including 55 martyrs due to warplane shelling at Ain Easa
and the number is expected to rise, and 15 bodies were found in the Military
Security Headquarter), 58 in Aleppo, 50 in Damascus and Suburbs, 37 in Homs, 15
in Hama, 7 in Deir Ezzor, 6 in Idlib, 5 in Daraa, and 1 in Hassakeh (LCC).
News
Special
Reports
Former head of Syria's weapons arsenal
admits regime has plans for chemical attack on its own civilians as "last
resort."
An interview with Turkish Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Op-Eds
The largely ignored civil war in Syria
has taken a big toll on children. They are often targeted, even tortured.
Russia and China must not again block an effective UN response to the Assad
regime's war crimes.
Some administration officials dismiss
the Iranian effort as futile support for a lost cause. But Iranian backing for
the regime, matched against Western passivity, could keep Mr. Assad in power indefinitely…
If it continues its present policy, the United States will go on watching from
the sidelines as the future of the Levant is decided.
Ammar Abdulhamid & Khawla
Yusuf: The
Shredded Tapestry: The State of Syria Today
Video Highlights
In Ain Issa, Raqqah Province, Assad’s MIGs bomb a local gas
station killing scores of people. This is the aftermath http://youtu.be/cKkSgdKwGmU , http://youtu.be/-SGYbJ_YBuM
Skies over Damascus City are covered with black smoke http://youtu.be/_g_95IfS2Dc , http://youtu.be/WdTLKG1OaHE , http://youtu.be/H9C0s66tppQ The pounding
of restive neighborhoods with helicopter gunships continues http://youtu.be/g9n5ASeMkKI
In the town of Elbab, Aleppo Province, an entire family is wiped
in a bombing attack http://youtu.be/jVkS9x54Ugg
Searching for victims in the rubble http://youtu.be/4OJrQgQWy9Q
, http://youtu.be/PB1SMsYSusk
The neighborhood of Qadi Askar, Aleppo City, is flooded after
raids destroy a local water main. But a car is set on fire as well, the driver
is killed http://youtu.be/Pl1Cze3PmZ4
, http://youtu.be/Llx4DlyOSsg , http://youtu.be/nLi4Y87u6a8
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