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| US fixin' to get ready to make plans to hold meetings about calling for Assad to go |
| 2011-05-12 |
[Arab News] The US is edging closer to calling for an end to the long rule of the Assad family in Syria. B.O. regime officials say the first step would be to declare for the first time that President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... has forfeited his legitimacy to rule. That would be a shift from US statements demanding that Assad stop a brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters. Those stopped short of saying he had to go. On Tuesday, more tanks and troops rolled into southern villages Tuesday near the heart of Syria's anti-government uprising, with activists saying the regime has isolated parts of the country. A human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... group reported that more than 750 people have been killed in a crackdown on seven weeks of unrest. The military has been sealing off various areas of Syria and conducting house-to-house raids in search for people whose names are on wanted lists, with many fleeing cities and towns for fear of detention by the regime of President Bashir al-Assad, activists say. Intense military operations have taken place in the Damascus ...The City of Jasminis the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... suburb of Maadamiyeh, which has been sealed off for days, said human rights activist Mustafa Osso. He said communications have been cut and checkpoints were preventing anyone from entering or leaving the area. "Maadamiyeh is isolated from the rest of the world," Osso said. The army also was conducting operations in the coastal city of Banias, the central city of Homs and the northern city of Deir el-Zor, Osso said. "Any area where there are demonstrations, the government is sending the army," he said. Another activist said troops backed by tanks entered southern villages near Daraa, the city where the uprising began in mid-March. Heavy gunfire was heard when the troops entered Inkhil, Dael, Jassem, Sanamein and Nawa after midnight, but it was not clear if there were casualties, according to the activist, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of government reprisals. Thousands of Syrians have been jugged in the past two months, including about 9,000 who are still in jug, said Ammar Qurabi, who heads the National Organization for Human Rights in Syria. Qurabi told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the group has documented the deaths of 757 people. The corpse count has increased as authorities intensify their crackdown on the uprising, which poses the most serious challenge yet to the Assad family's 40-year rule in Syria. Assad has said Syria was immune from the pro-democracy movements sweeping the Arab world that ousted leaders in Tunisia and Egypt. Protests of his rule, however, have spread rapidly across the country of 23 million people. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 More meaningless drivel from an administration that is destroying America every day. Obama has lost his "right to rule". He violated his Oath. |
| Posted by: newc 2011-05-12 13:13 |
| #1 Slow dance music. To the tune of" Every single Syrian killed is a Moslem and none of them were your friends." |
| Posted by: de Medici3489 2011-05-12 06:58 |