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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
11 Killed in Syria Violence
2012-04-22
[An Nahar] Two civilians were among at least 11 people killed in Syria on Saturday as U.N. observers monitoring a shaky ceasefire toured the restive city of Homs, a monitoring group reported.

The report by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights came as the U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to dispatch 300 observers to Syria for a 90-day period to help bolster an April 12 truce.

A sniper rubbed out a woman in the town of Qusayr near the Lebanese border in Homs province, the Britannia-based Observatory said.

Another civilian was killed in unclear circumstances in the southern province of Daraa, as regime forces carried out raids in the area, cradle of the uprising against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's
Light of the Alawites...
regime, it said.

Nine army deserters were killed in an ambush by government forces in the northern province of Aleppo,
...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins...
the Observatory added.

Meanwhile "a loud kaboom was heard Saturday at Mazzeh military airport in Damascus,"
...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world...
the Observatory reported, as activists told Agence La Belle France Presse the army blocked a road leading to the base and snipers were deployed on rooftops.

In other violence, an "armed terrorist group" on Saturday blew up a section of an oil pipeline in the Deir al-Zour region of northeast Syria, SANA said.

Monitors say more than 200 people have been killed in Syria since the shaky ceasefire to which the government and rebels committed themselves went into effect, including 46 on Friday.
Posted by:Fred

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Posted by: Injun Gloluth9901   2012-04-22 18:22  

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