The killing in Syria is real. The daily massacres are real. The
daily bombardment of cities, towns, suburbs and neighborhoods by tanks, heavy
artillery, helicopter gunships and fighter jets is all too real. The children
who are being targeted, targeted, are real. The women who are being
raped are real. The young men who are being summarily executed without even the
semblance of a trial are real. This is not a video game. I repeat: This is not
a video game. Is there anybody out there? Genocide is taking place.
Saturday September
15, 2012
Today’s
Death toll: 164. The Breakdown: 67
martyrs in Damascus and Suburbs (including 20 in a massacre in Tadamoun), 39
martyrs in Aleppo (including a whole family in the town of Daret Azzah), 22
martyrs in Idlib (most of whom fell in Saraqeb), 15 martyrs in Deir Ezzor (most
of whom martyred in Buqrus Massacre), 8 martyrs in Hama, 9 in Daraa and 4 in
Homs (LCC).
* A Tunisian
website claims
that members of Ansar Al-Sharia, the Libyan group accused of staging the attack
on the American Consulate in Benghazi that left the American Ambassador and
three other American officials dead, have left the country going to Turkey from
where they plan to go join the rebels in Syria.
* Every
major town and city in Syria as well as hundreds of villages are now under
daily bombardment by heavy artillery and/or helicopter gunships and fighter
jets, including Damascus and its suburbs (Zabadani, Madaya, Douma, Harasta,
Arbeen, Zamalka, Jobar, Al-Hajar Al-Aswad, Tadamon , Yarmouke, etc.), Aleppo
and suburbs, Homs, Rastan, Al-Qusair, al-Hosn, Talbisseh, Sahel Al-Ghab, Jabal
Al-Zawiyeh, Jabal Shahshabo, Saraqib, Daraa City, Bosra, Al-Hraak and Jabal Al-Akrad
and surrounding regions.
News
Op-Eds
& Special Reports
How prominent commentators from the
‘anti-imperialist’ left have twisted the public discourse on Syria and, in the
process, provided intellectual cover for the Assad regime.
In August 2012, my wife, Syrian
pro-democracy activist, Khawla Yusuf, and I undertook a three-week long trip to
Turkey. The trip was not our first, nor will it be our last. But having
coincided with many important developments on the ground and included meetings
with so many key activists and rebel leaders from inside the country, we
decided to put together this report, based on our impressions, by way of
shedding light on an increasingly tragic and troubling situation and in the
hope of spurring the international community into adopting a serious policy to
address it.
Video Highlights
With all the focus on Aleppo, Damascus, and Homs, a second massacre is under
way in Hama, the details are sketchy and videos few, but here is one that
surfaced today http://youtu.be/xw0q3uYG7X8
The pounding of the town of Saraqib, Idlib Province, leaves a
number of dead and injured: http://youtu.be/eSoG5tHF6aU
, http://youtu.be/rmCCGPpbfXk , http://youtu.be/uY2vPJjDnG0 , http://youtu.be/sWt-wX7fF3k , http://youtu.be/s3rga3VboHI , http://youtu.be/pw97kqqFU0U
In Damascus, the pounding of the town of Zabadani continues http://youtu.be/Gc5Dij8KLZ8 , http://youtu.be/nkpwojpJb64
In Damascus City, summary executions continue: Jobar http://youtu.be/15Xv-vZrRZU Snipers
claim their share as well: Al-Hajar Al-Aswad http://youtu.be/4KWaF7dlwdA , http://youtu.be/vthOpMsESOE The pounding
of the restive neighborhood in city continues: General View http://youtu.be/eqKf_L0Qhtk , http://youtu.be/bPL7Lubwzbo Al-Qadam
http://youtu.be/RWiVjC2bMc4 , http://youtu.be/9s9_10LYETc , http://youtu.be/lIyQy2Qj4bc Naher
Eisheh http://youtu.be/oScut-oqeok
In Sahel Al-Ghab Region, Hama, a family of five is killed in the
aerial bombardment http://youtu.be/O-OeaDLPQ6M
, http://youtu.be/TaYw-PyBPLo , http://youtu.be/VaVTv9Y1nbA , http://youtu.be/lLx-tD4BjkA
The pounding of restive neighborhoods in Aleppo City continues: Boustan
Al-Qasr http://youtu.be/gBTakepuouk
In some cases, people are unable to retrieve the dead from the streets due to
snipers http://youtu.be/8kjb2Hbfz-w
In Homs, the pounding of restive towns continues: Rastan http://youtu.be/Vu73GHgXyqo Homs City
(Jobar) http://youtu.be/sPjdx_5hqaU
I'm a Syrian and America not my enemy and Mrs Clinton calls anti-Islam video 'disgusting' and we all said the same ... My real enemies AlAssad barbarian regime and whom supporting it and keep silence over all crimes by AlAssad against innocent and attacks on Mosques and Churches in Syria .. Those who attacked US embassies it behooves them if they humans to burn embassies of AlAssad, Russia and Iran to revenge the 30 thousand martyrs in Syria not to killed innocents what shame of them .
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