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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
29 Dead across Syria as Troops Assault Hama
2012-02-16
(Naharnet) - Syrian troops on Wednesday launched an assault on the central city of Hama, as ongoing violence killed 29 people across the country, a rights group said.

Loud blasts could be heard in the Hama's Hamidiyeh and other neighborhoods, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Rami Abdul Rahman, head of the Britannia-based monitoring group, said ongoing festivities had killed 20 people, including nine civilians, in Al-Atareb, northwestern 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...
province.

A kaboom killed three people in Jisr al-Shughour, a 16-year-old schoolgirl was rubbed out in southern Daraa province and gunfire and kabooms rocked the northern city of Idlib, said the Observatory.

Five soldiers died when a bomb attached to their armored vehicle by army deserters went kaboom! in the town of Sermin, Idlib province, it added.

In Damascus
...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti...
, dozens of pro-regime young Syrians gathered in front of the Russian embassy to thank Moscow and Beijing for their support, state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
reported.

"We are here to thank Russia and China," said one woman who urged Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor...
to deploy the army across Syria and to strike what she called gangs "with an iron fist."

As diplomats said they would seek a condemnation of the violence at the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday, China called for an "inclusive dialogue" between the government and opposition protesters.

China and Russia have faced a barrage of criticism for blocking a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning the Assad regime.

Rights groups say more than 6,000 people have been killed since regime forces launched the crackdown on protests calling for democracy, which were launched 11 months ago to the day.
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