Dozens of people were killed again today in the city of Homs. Opposition activists put the toll at 64 and Assad government statements give a lower estimate, as violence continues in the town that has become the center of protest against Assad’s government and a site of considerable rebel activity.
The nature of the deaths is hotly disputed as shelling continues in the city. The opposition reports say that the deaths are overwhelmingly civilian in nature, part of an ongoing “massacre” by the Assad forces. Regime spokesmen, however, say that the shelling was done as part of a military operation against “terrorists.”
The term “terrorist” has been broadly overused by the Syrian state media to the point it has lost all meaning, but could well refer for the Free Syrian Army (FSA), active in Homs and elsewhere across Syria. The suggestion that this was not simply another attack on civilians is bolstered by Interior Ministry reports that six members of the regime’s security forces were also killed in the fighting.
In that light the violence is not part of the crackdown of months prior, but rather part of an incipient civil war against the FSA, whose leader Col. Riad al-Assad insists that “only military options are on the table” and that negotiated settlements will never be allowed.
Again, rather than just recycling MSM propaganda, look at Nir Rosen's report here.
If the FSA leader is unwillingly to sit down and negotiate, then what does he think the Assad regime will do to the FSA? there will be no NATO inetrvention to save their hides, so they better think a little more about this course of action.
What would you do if your president orders to bomb your city
On daily basses, cut your electricity and heating fuel and food,
Medicine, just to day eighteen new born babies died in incubators
For lack of electricity, what would you do if one of these babies
Were yours God forbid, who gave Assad the right to roll until death
Do us apart, you have to live under dictator roll to know what its Like .
What the Syrians need is some one like Charlie Wilson
To give them something to fight with, I'm sure that there's
More like him in the states.