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| 22 Civilians, 5 Troops Dead in Syria |
| 2012-01-24 |
| [An Nahar] At least 22 civilians, five regime troops and an army deserter were killed in fresh violence across Syria on Monday, activists and a rights group said, also reporting a string of festivities between deserters and the army. The Local Coordination Committees, the main activist group spurring protests on the ground, said security forces killed 23 people -- "including two children, a rebel soldier and two who died under torture." Five people were killed in the southern province of Daraa, the cradle of the uprising, six in the central opposition bastion Homs, two in the restive countryside around Damascus ...Home to a staggering array of terrorist organizations... , eight in the flashpoint northwestern province of Idlib, one in the northwestern province of al-Hasakeh and another in the eastern protest hub of Deir al-Zour, the LCC said. Meanwhile, ...back at the sandwich shop, Caroline was experimenting with ingredients of increasing volatility... the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said security forces opened fire with machineguns, killing three civilians in al-Sahen village in Idlib. Three others were bumped off in the flashpoint central town of Homs, said the Britannia-based watchdog in statements received by Agence La Belle France Presse, adding that two non-combatants were killed in Hama, also central Syria, and 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... in the north. The Observatory said two people died in crossfire between security agents and deserters in Daraa. In Homs province, "five soldiers of Syria's regular army were killed and 13 others maimed in fighting with a group of deserters at a checkpoint in the village of al-Ziraa," it said. The group said the two sides also clashed in Idlib on the Damascus-Aleppo highway, near Maaret al-Numan, where eight soldiers were reported killed or injured, and three armored cars destroyed. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 See also MEMRI.ORG > SENIOR MUJAHID ABU UBAYADA TO SUNNI SYRIANS: THE TIME FOR "PEACEFUL ARAB REVOLUTIONS" IS OVER, NOW IS THE TIME FOR KILLING + FIGHTING; ONLY JIHAD WILL RESOLVE THE STANDOFF BETWEEN YOU + [Baby Assad's]ALAWITES. * SAME > NEW JIHADIST GROUP ESTABLISHES ITSELF IN SYRIA. Yooohoo, ARAB LEAGUE = proposed future NON-NATO MEDITERRANEAN, ISLAMIC UNION, AFAIK YOU'RE STILL UP TO BAT! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-01-24 23:30 |