Developments in opposition circles and those on the ground
might as well be taking place in separate but parallel universes. The Syrian
identity crisis is playing itself out in a variety of ways on a variety of
stages, and everybody’s watching and dabbling. Welcome to the age of
interactivity where the word “audience” has lost all meaning. We all have our
parts to play, making us all responsible.
Saturday November
03, 2012
Today’s
Death Toll: 162. The Breakdown: Toll include 10 women and 22
children: 52 in Damascus and suburbs (most of them in Zamalka), 47 in Idlib (most
in shelling of Kafar Takharem), 15 in Aleppo, 13 in Daraa, 12 in Homs, 11 in
Deir Ezzor, 9 in Qunaitera (all rebels), 2 in Hama and 1 in Raqqah. Other Developments: The LCC also managed to document
197 points of random shelling by regime forces: 17 by jets, 76 by artillery, 77
by mortars, 44 by missiles, and 4 by explosive barrels. Also, rebels clashed
with regime forces in 58 points, laid siege to Taftanaz Airport and liberated
several checkpoints in Damascus Suburbs and in Idlib Province (LCC).
News
Special
Reports
A video showing the shooting of regime
troops after they had been taken prisoner angered rebels who say foreign
Islamists are being favoured with arms and funds
The United Legal Council of Aleppo,
formed by lawyers and judges, hears about 15 cases daily, and has buy-in from
some rebels. But it faces a tough challenge from those who want to impose their
own justice in the war-torn city.
CNN's Arwa Damon profiles a
11-year-old Syrian boy who lost his leg, but dreams of being able to walk
again.
Ammar Abdulhamid & Khawla
Yusuf: The
Shredded Tapestry: The State of Syria Today
Briefly Noted
This is not Lubna Meryi is a pro-Revolution Alawite activist. As a
result of her activism, her family was ostracized by friends and neighbors and harassed
by security apparatuses. Eventually, and in order to prove his loyalty to the regime,
her father killed her mother who defended Lubna’s stands. For Alawites, as the
case of Lubna Meryi amoly demonstrates, breaking with Assad is going to pit
members of the same family against each other, not in a civil lawsuit, but
perhaps in open warfare.
One of the most egregious caveats put by the Muslim Brotherhood on the
new initiative to unify the Syrian opposition is the call for greater representation
of “observant women” in the makeup of the new council. To have this demand be
made as a precondition by a movement that has failed to elect or appoint a
single woman to its executive council or to any of its major affiliated committees
or subcommittees, a movement that has failed to nominate a single “observant” woman
to the SNC is the nothing less than the epitome of hypocrisy.
Video Highlights
A little girl whose head was blown up by a sniper bullet (gruesome) in Jabal
Al-Zawiyeh, Idlib Province: the narrator of the video says that the killers
will be killed when caught http://youtu.be/askK9irO4Wc
MiGs and Sukhoys continue their bombardment of the suburb of Eastern
Ghoutah Region in Damascus: Kafar Batna http://youtu.be/DhsL-o1aE_w , http://youtu.be/evHfh63DclI , http://youtu.be/rdCr84_VsFk , http://youtu.be/yh-0LNNn19g , http://youtu.be/1XNvwKUqM9k Children
among the martyrs http://youtu.be/0x-_6jawXoo
, http://youtu.be/NFX5JBl42Y8 Hazzeh
pulling bodies from under the rubble http://youtu.be/PCPiPv0qbjw
The pounding of the town of Rastan, Home Province, continues http://youtu.be/xwKEjP90cMI , http://youtu.be/vWgPZXUrZws
Scenes from the operations conducted by rebels in Homs City part
of the National Liberation Movement: http://youtu.be/4qOFTJYNkso
, http://youtu.be/alC-qJMmgCw
, http://youtu.be/n8vX60hHDOk , http://youtu.be/P8LHRKlPxoI
In Aleppo City, Col. Abduljabbar Al-Oqaidi takes us on a tour of
the improvised weapons making operations in the city, while delivering a
message to the Muslims of the world, especially those in Gulf states that their
support is needed to stop the expansion of Iranian influence in the region http://youtu.be/XBmsA2BVBVU
Meanwhile in Deir Ezzor Province, clashes between rebels and
pro-Assad militias continue. Here we the rebels using the tanks they took over
in previous operations to pound loyalist positions http://youtu.be/jlvR8G9Oiyg
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