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| Tanks, Troops Deploy near Banias as Injured Protesters Arrested in Latakia Hospitals |
| 2011-05-06 |
| [An Nahar] Dozens of armored vehicles, including tanks and troops reinforcements, were deployed Thursday near the Syrian coastal town of Banias, an activist told Agence La Belle France Presse, contacted by telephone. "It looks like they are preparing to attack the town, like they did in Daraa," the flashpoint town where the protest movement was born, he said. The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights said security forces had placed in durance vile protesters who were admitted in hospitals after injuries suffered in demonstrations in Banias. Citing the case of Maher Abdul Latif Sahiouni who was admitted to a hospital on the Jableh-Latakia road, the group said, he was placed in durance vile "in order to elicit information about other participants." Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed this guard... between 100 and 150 pro-regime demonstrators held a peaceful protest on Thursday outside the French embassy in 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... against La Belle France's condemnation of the crackdown. A letter of protest addressed to French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe was delivered to the embassy together with a bouquet of flowers, an organizer, Ayman Saeed Maneh, told AFP. "Syria will not go down on its knees," chanted the demonstrators, many of them wearing Assad T-shirts. |
| Posted by:Fred |