Anti-regime demonstrators organized a nationwide strike in Syria today, an effort to protest rising violence nationwide which closed down most of Homs as well as major portions of other cities nationwide.
The violence continued however, with regime forces battling defectors in the far southern city of Daraa and reports of clashes around the Idlib Province. At least 23 were killed today, bringing the three day toll to 80.
Reports say that the strikers closed a major factory in the key northern city of Aleppo, and that troops attacked and destroyed the factory in retaliation. The troops also reportedly looted several closed businesses in Homs.
Violence was also reported at the Syrian embassy in Amman, Jordan, were Syrian nationals living in exile in the country attacked the embassy , wounding six people.
Says who?
What a joke.
Says "reports" from opposition groups funded, trained and armed by the Israel-friendly regimes in Washington, London and Paris and their freedom-loving allies in Riyadh, Doha, Amman and Ankara.
On the subject of deadly jokes, Max Boot nominated Gene Sharp and Peter Ackerman for a Nobel Peace Prize earlier this year in a piece aptly entitled "Two Who Have Inspired More Revolutions than Mao or Lenin." If he were writing now, he might also consider nominating Jason Ditz for his (presumably unwitting) contribution to "the expansion of liberty."