Syria clamps down on dissent with beatings

[Persia]

[Persia]

Assad's regime of torture

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/05/2011515113431187136.html

8 killed in Syrian crackdown near Lebanon border

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-lebanon-syria-violence-20110516,0,1854572.story

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Syrian security beat dozens of university students

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/05/17/syrian-security-beat-dozens-university-students/

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US slaps sanctions on Syrian president

Six other senior officials also face penalties over brutal crackdown on protesters

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43080107/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/

US warns Syria after tanks storm defiant city

White House says US 'looking at taking additional measures' against Assad government

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43064859/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/t/us-warns-syria-after-tanks-storm-defiant-city/

[Corp]

Also seems the government official story has changed. Now it's no longer foreign rebels shooting protesters but poorly trained police officers.

[Persia]

Has the Regime Turned a Corner Against the Protests?

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2072376,00.html#ixzz1MnEP6JAs

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Syrian Troops Fire During Protests; 17 Killed

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=13645176

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[Persia]

Syria death toll 'surpasses 1,000'

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/05/2011524182251952727.html

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‘At least 8 killed as anti-gov’t protests sweep Syria’

http://nmen.org/at-least-8-killed-as-anti-govt-protests-sweep-syria/

[Ealiar101]

http://www.aksalser.com/?page=view_articles&id=f4073981f75c10bad997fb2e51aef0cc&ar=159921973

(Sorry the article is in Arabic :/) This article says that a doctor was found dead on the way leading to Aleppo with torture marks on his body, and he was strangled to death. He was reported missing by his brother on Wednedsay, but no info came untill his body was found. Could this be just a normal "murder"?

[Knight Of Shadows]

things are getting pretty ugly

between the other media sources making things bigger

and the syrian channels pretending like nothing is going on

the public lost sense and got no idea what's really going on anymore

it sure is a mess though

[dekker87]

KoS - in all seriousness can you tell us how the population would react were NATO to start attacks against Baathist loyalist forces?

oh and btw - is there any oil in syria?

[Mr.United_Nations]

Sryia hasnt got much oil now, anyway we are talking about tanks shelling people not stealing oil.

[dekker87]

Sryia hasnt got much oil now, anyway we are talking about tanks shelling people not stealing oil.

cynicism erix...

[Ealiar101]

KoS - in all seriousness can you tell us how the population would react were NATO to start attacks against Baathist loyalist forces?

oh and btw - is there any oil in syria?

(assuming you're being serious) Life is pretty normal in Aleppo and central Damascus, as well as some areas around it, so this wont happen anytime soon, apparently most protests are in "rural" areas.

[Ealiar101]

KoS - in all seriousness can you tell us how the population would react were NATO to start attacks against Baathist loyalist forces?

oh and btw - is there any oil in syria?

(assuming you're being serious) Life is pretty normal in Aleppo and central Damascus, as well as some areas around it, so this wont happen anytime soon, apparently most protests are in "rural" areas.

[dekker87]

(assuming you're being serious) Life is pretty normal in Aleppo and central Damascus, as well as some areas around it, so this wont happen anytime soon, apparently most protests are in "rural" areas.

i was being serious about wanting to know what is goin on..

[Persia]

Attack on central town of Rastan 'kills 15'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13628776

[Ealiar101]

There were about 100 people protesting infront of Al-Rawda mosque on friday, it lasted 5 minutes. (protesting in Aleppo is a deathwish) And they cut the internet yesterday, I called the ISP and they said it was a "technical error"

[Habitat]

The disparity between the NATO campaign to get rid of Gaddafi and the limp response to similar or worse government doings in Syria, is stark. And it certainly does raise the question the oil/no oil factor.

[Ealiar101]

There were about 100 people protesting infront of Al-Rawda mosque on friday, it lasted 5 minutes. (protesting in Aleppo is a deathwish) And they cut the internet yesterday, I called the ISP and they said it was a "technical error"

I meant Thursday not Friday.

[Knight Of Shadows]

well there's protests but they're made bigger than they really are on

tv channels dekker

and for nato or outside interfernce in syria it won't happen

syria is not easy or isolated like libya

IF interfernce happened i assure you that'll stop people

from protesting and turn to fight off outsiders

the oppositions and the goverment agree on one point

" no western interfernce "

however .. usa and eu nato etc would know better not to get involved

in syria they'll be wiped off on so many directions

syria got hold over resistance movements in all over middle east

in iraq , palestine , hezboallah .. iran as an ally too

it'll be regionalism war

[Persia]

'Blood was everywhere': 63 killed at Syria protest, activists say

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43266053/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa

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