It’s not like Assad woke one morning and said: “I feel like exterminating
all the Brutes.” It took a lot of active (Iran, Russia, China, Hezbollah etc.)
and passive (Unites States, Europe, Arab states, Muslim states) encouragement to
get him there. Now that he is there it will take nothing less than forceful
intervention to make him stop. You don’t come all this way to quit. Meanwhile,
our cup runneth over with blood, disappointment and discontent.
Thursday October
4, 2012
Today’s
Death toll: 120. The Breakdown: toll includes 5 children and 3
women. 52 in Damascus its Suburbs, 35 in Aleppo, 11 in Homs, 9 in Deir Ezzor, 5
in Hama, 4 in Daraa, 3 in Lattakia, and 1 in Qunaitera (LCC).
News
Special
Reports
VOA's Scott Bobb traveled to the
war-torn northern Syrian city of Aleppo Thursday and left with vivid
impressions of a complex community wracked by suffering and fear.
A UNESCO World Heritage site is turned
to rubble.
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- The
killing of at least three Hezbollah fighters in Syria's civil war adds weight
to persistent allegations the Iranian-backed movement has deployed military
forces to prop up one of its most important allies, beleaguered President
Bashar Assad in Damascus.
Some of the fighting between forces
loyal to President Bashar Assad and the Syrian rebels has moved closer to the
Israeli border and several mortar rounds have landed inside Israeli territory.
Israeli officials believe these mortars were not aimed at Israel.
Where there is war there is hunger.
This holds true with the conflict now taking place in Syria. The UN World Food
Programme, the largest food aid organization, is currently feeding 1.5 million
Syrians displaced within their own country.
Some experts thought they saw signs of
Russian support for Syria wavering. But now Russia is forcing the UN to water down
its condemnation of Syria for its mortar attack on Turkey, suggesting that the
bond is still strong.
After Syrian shells killed five
civilians in a Turkish border town, Turkey's parliament authorized military
operations against Syria. But Turkey's deputy prime minister says that this is
not a declaration of war.
Had Syria been a major oil producing
country chances are the US would have already dispatched military forces to
impose a pax Americana and to put a stop to the horrific fighting that has been
slowly, but without any doubt, ripping Syria apart and dismantling the
infrastructures that make the Syrian state what it is today. Even if the war
was to end today it would take years for Syria to return to its pre-war
position from an economic and military perspective.
Ammar Abdulhamid & Khawla
Yusuf: The
Shredded Tapestry: The State of Syria Today
Skirmishes between pro- and anti-Assad Alawites clans continue in Assad’s
hometown of Qardaha and nearby communities. Pro-Assad militias have reportedly arrested
scores of rivals.
Judging by the spate of announcements by Turkish and western officials,
it seems that whatever military option Turkey is envisioning in Syria will be limited
in scope and probably restricted to occasional strikes against positions held by
pro-Assad militia and troops. Increased aid to rebels is also expected, though this
may not necessarily lead to arming rebels with heavy weapons. It’s not clear as
well whether Turkish authorities will attempt to coordinate any future strikes
with rebels to support their ongoing operations.
Video Highlights
MIGs keep pounding the restive suburbs of Eastern Ghoutah, east
of Damascus City: Kafar Batna http://youtu.be/W99KW0seKko
, http://youtu.be/CowcB8QYBzU Douma
http://youtu.be/rYjDDTTGcWk , http://youtu.be/i4_747tkeEE The pounding
also included restive neighborhoods in Damascus City itself: Tadamon http://youtu.be/xiwTEi3i7Hw The western
suburbs of Damascus were also pounded: Al-Hameh http://youtu.be/kxs9OpIQ4hs , http://youtu.be/I4jR4jSwLEY Local rebels
in these parts threaten the regime that should the shelling continue, they will
interrupt the water supply to loyalist neighborhoods http://youtu.be/pwC7TAGLTjk
The pounding of restive neighborhoods in Aleppo city continues: Midan
http://youtu.be/dnOwnTtS9ro
Helicopter gunships drop barrels of explosives on the town of Talbisseh,
Homs Province http://youtu.be/ZCq4X8Nl0Oo
, http://youtu.be/h5H8VtZ2IT0 The
pounding of the town of Rastan continues http://youtu.be/6YqvuiC1s1A
The pounding of Deir Ezzor City continues http://youtu.be/fOG5i6SDQRI
The pounding of Bosra Al-Sham, Daraa Province continues http://youtu.be/hT127gmaM_w
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