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| 47 killed as AssadÂ’s army batters parts of Damascus |
| 2012-08-24 |
| AMMAN/ALEPPO: Syrian Army shells crashed into southern Damascus yesterday and helicopters fired rockets and machineguns during an assault to shore up President Bashar Assad's grip on the capital 17 months into a popular uprising, opposition activists said. The army has used tanks and helicopter gunships this week in an offensive around Damascus that has coincided with the departure of UN military observers after a failed mission to stop the bloodshed and nudge Syria toward a peaceful transition. Anti-Assad activists said at least 47 people had been killed in Damascus in what they called the heaviest bombardment this month. “The whole of Damascus is shaking with the sound of shelling,” said a woman in Kfar Souseh, one of several districts hit during the military offensive to root out rebel fighters. At least 22 people were killed in Kfar Souseh and 25 in the nearby district of Nahr Eisha, activists said. One of the dead was named as Muhammad Saeed Odeh, a journalist employed at a state-run newspaper who was sympathetic to the anti-Assad revolt. Activists said he had been executed in Nahr Eisha. “There are 22 tanks in Kfar Souseh now and behind each one there are at least 30 soldiers. They are raiding houses and executing men,” an opposition activist in Kfar Souseh, who gave his name only as Bassam, told Reuters. More than 250 people, including 171 civilians, were killed across Syria on Tuesday, mostly around Damascus, Aleppo and the southern city of Deraa, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based opposition monitoring group. Activists in the southwestern Damascus suburb of Mouadamiya said Assad's forces had killed 86 people there since Monday, half of them by execution. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #2 Ass Wipe update- Suicide bomber slips in own pile of excrement blows self to shit! |
| Posted by: Slolugum Gray3209 2012-08-24 17:59 |
| #1 meantime, the Battle of Aleppo has been essentially a stalemate for the past two weeks or so and the civilian casualty total is nearing 27k by the count of the Syrian Martyrs and nearing 25k by the count of two other orgs |
| Posted by: lord garth 2012-08-24 16:27 |