Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators...
reclaimed control of the central village of Dabaa on Thursday, Syrian state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said, a day after the army and Hizbullah captured a rebel bastion.
"Our heroic armed forces have secured and stabilized the town of Dabaa, north of Qusayr," the broadcaster said.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, "fierce festivities" are still ongoing in parts of Dabaa.
The village has seen frequent hit-and-run operations by both regime and rebel forces.
It lies north of Qusayr, which fell to army and Hizbullah forces Wednesday, nearly three weeks after the launch of a vast assault on the town.
Thousands of civilians and rebels -- including maimed people -- fled Qusayr as the town fell out of bully boy control, most of them to the village of Eastern Bweida.
Eastern Bweida lies some seven kilometers (four miles) northeast of Dabaa.
"I am very concerned about what will happen to the people who were evacuated to Eastern Bweida," said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman, who had earlier called on the International Committee of the Red Thingy to evacuate the maimed.