It continues: the rallying, the killing, the cluelessness, the
downright indifference. It continues. They all continue, mercilessly gnawing at
our humanity until they reduce it to utter insignificance.
Friday September
21, 2012
Today’s
Death toll: 117. The Breakdown: 48 in
Damascus and Suburbs (including 17 martyred in a massacre in Buwayda town), 17
in Aleppo, 15 in Homs, 15 in Idlib, 9 in Deir Ezzor, 9 in Daraa, 2 in Hama, 1
in Lattakia, and 1 in Raqqah (LCC).
Other Developments
(LCC):
On
Friday:
Aleppo: Heavy artillery shelling of Sakhour neighborhood is renewed,
with more than 12 shells landing; Heavy artillery shelling of Massaken Hanano
neighborhood is reported; Heavy shooting by warplanes on Bezagha Area.
Daraa: Shajra: Heavy gunfire is reported from heavy machine guns
located west of the town, next to Abdeen checkpoint
Hama: Shahshabo Mountain: Sounds of heavy shelling shake the
mountain’s villages. They are from the artillery located in Seqelbiya
Damascus
Suburbs: Hamourieh: Mortar shelling
targets the city; Jdeidet Artouz: Shelling targets Dahra area at a rate of one
shell per 2 minutes; Daraya: Gunfire from light and medium-grade weapons is
reported from checkpoints to scare residents; Diabiyeh: Heavy mortar shelling
targets the area; Saqba: Shelling targets Bassateen area in the city.
On Thursday,
September 20, the Kurdish activist Mahmoud Wali, AKA Abu Jandi, was assassinated
by an unknown assailant on a motorcycle in his hometown of Ras Al-Ain (Seri
Kanye). He was the founder of the independent Kurdish grassroots movement,
Shabab Al-Thawrah, which played an important role in galvanizing support for
the Syrian Revolution among Kurdish youth. The assassination comes at a time of
increasing tensions between different Kurdish factions as well as between
Kurdish and Arab population in Kurdish-majority areas.
Also, on
Thursday, rebels in Eastern Ghoutah Region in Damascus Province managed to
shoot down an attacking helicopter gunship.
News
Syrian
rebels say government airstrikes killed 30 in Raqqah. Long deemed a bastion of
support for President Bashar Assad, Raqqah may be the latest battle zone.
Special
Reports
Besides growing reservations about the
dynamic on the ground in Syria, last week's killings at the U.S. consulate in
Benghazi have raised new questions about Libya as a model for intervention
A Lebanese solution for Syria, in
which different areas have different outside backers, may be the end result,
but it is nobody’s goal.
The Times’s C.J. Chivers travels with
an antigovernment fighting group in and near Aleppo, where the war for Syria’s
future has hardened all involved.
The statements of Iranian military
involvement can also be interpreted as the IRGC's way of threatening to
increase its intervention, which would transform civil war in Syria into a
regional war. The threat obviously aims to force Westerners, Turks, and Saudis
to think twice before getting further embroiled in a proxy war.
Ammar Abdulhamid & Khawla
Yusuf: The
Shredded Tapestry: The State of Syria Today
Video Highlights
Pro-Assad militias open fire on protesters in Raqqah City as the
city joins the revolution in full force http://youtu.be/3yjo44MX1Xk
, http://youtu.be/m9pYLjmon94
The pounding of restive neighborhood in Damascus City continues: Tadamon
http://youtu.be/niKnlC-yUoE Qadam
http://youtu.be/sGiKsWuks40 , http://youtu.be/rbFDzxiGSb8 , http://youtu.be/yw5T2Fop9Ps , http://youtu.be/D3oCT1bRQdg But in
nearby Jobar, locals held a rally http://youtu.be/DiIHrSlGbPo
In Damascus Suburbs, street battles raged in Douma http://youtu.be/RDqGgrjs8Ns A pro-Assad
sniper taking up position in Douma http://youtu.be/kFmGoP5U4Cg
, http://youtu.be/WDYbs8Rb7HU The
pounding of Saqba http://youtu.be/kU7x6tWt9FY
But earlier in the day locals held a rally http://youtu.be/AtaeGlhTF2k
The pounding of Misraba http://youtu.be/Inj9FCjQJGA
victims of summary executions fo0und in Buayda http://youtu.be/gu6ABUxfy2k More such
executions took place in Yelda: victims came from the same family http://youtu.be/knAow4BcnlI
Rallies took place across the country: (Idlib, Maraat Al-Nouman) http://youtu.be/_aKhE3Zhl6A (Idlib,
Kafar OUaid) http://youtu.be/6T7AnehGvsc
(Hama City, Aleppo Road) http://youtu.be/Uvmdr6GmscY
(Hama, Khattab) http://youtu.be/W5Ac1ATRb9I
(Dabeq, Aleppo) http://youtu.be/g0Mk59sRNrc
(Hassakeh, Amoudeh) http://youtu.be/WlXpiL3QKm4
(Arbeen, Damascus) http://youtu.be/ivBozhabv3U
(Harasta, Damascus) http://youtu.be/j71S60vujgQ
(Jisreen, Damascus) http://youtu.be/E6gVkzXg4J4
(Nasseeb, Daraa) http://youtu.be/WG1rjiNA02c
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