At least 12 Syrian factory workers were killed today in the northern city of al-Qusayr when their bus was stopped at a checkpoint set up on the city’s outskirts. Rebels say that the checkpoint was manned by police, who tied them up and killed them.
Other local reports, however, say that the passengers were robbed and mutilated, apparently by bandits. The rebels provided no reason why the regime would execute 12 employees from one of their own state-run factories.
Other rebels claimed that the 12 civilians were killed “during the random bombardment of al-Qusayr by the Syrian forces, who are trying to reclaim the city.” Videos posted online showed signs that at least some of the 12 were shot at close range with small arms, once again throwing the “random shelling” story into doubt.
UN monitors have yet to weigh in on the Qusayr killings, beyond saying that both rebels and government spokesmen have confirmed the deaths, and that they differ on how the people died.
Here again is the insanity of it all. The government would be stupid to kill its own so this has to be the work of the West and its puppets in Syria. All to gin up support for more war and destruction.
I have no idea who killed these 12 people, but the idea that the Syrian government wouldn't kill its own people is absurd. They've been doing just that for many years.
What nonsense-news again here ! When the NATO terrorists say Assad has destroyed Damascus with an atomic bomb you obviously will report this too? Isn't it?
Why should the Syrian government kill its own workers??? They only thing the government wants is calm and a running economy to keep people satisfied. Such stories have only one aim to get NATO ready for bombing Syria,
… as they planned and prepared this war against Syria long ago. And in opposite to the above article, this is proofed:
can be proofed:
1. USA did plan war against Syria: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-TZxI8m8ss
2. "Protestors" were armed from the beginning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vLd_9c4WOU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCqmI1SQB5o http://www.debka.com/article/22017/
3. US-organized revolutions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en&v=lpXbA6yZY-8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr2XyIKHX1k
4. what happens in Syria: search "us army unconventional warfare"
5. Huge majority for Assad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt9A5rMqEDM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYlgDXP411w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYQkUl-xwH0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSb0lxFcMn0
6. the real "brutal dictator": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8P6860vIiA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc4ZZ-yXaOQ
regarding my extreme idea of an atomic bomb on Damascus, it is not so far from reality:
do you remember that in the war agianst Libya, they for e few days did report, Gaddafi would totally destroy TRIPOLI with missiles when attacked?
In fact, you can expect the most idiotic lie in war mongering media.
The more and more extreme lies, the better – that is their motto.
Does it not bother you that whatever bad news comes out of Syria the terrorists –“rebels” is Anti-war’s preferred lingo—are always there to report them, but no agent from the government. I keep wondering about Anti-war using the same language as the fawning corporate media, and always giving a lot more coverage to the terrorists side of the story. I know you keep wondering too.
"I keep fantasizing that Anti-war uses the same language as the fawning corporate media, and always gives a lot more coverage to the terrorists side of the story"
There, fixed that for ya.
This brings up a good point. We should be seeing more objective news accounts from independent and unbiased sources. If nothing else, SANA should be read for the other side of events: http://www.sana.sy/index_eng.html.
Syrian state news agency as an independent, unbiased source? lol
Then we'll be getting our news about Syria from the Syrian and Russian states – yes, very objective and unbiased!
Thanks Thomas, ya sure did.
Look people, all this happening in Syria and elsewhere in middle east is from a plan by US and England from 1990s, this plan was presented to Bill Clinton by Paul Wolfowitz and orchestrated by Madeline Albright to start dividing Yugoslavia among ethnic and religious groups.
This plan is simply following the path to patrician countries that are against US and English foreign policies or to overthrow its government replacing it with a dictatorial religious or a more friendly US and English puppet regimes.
All that it is is to divide and conquer, stop the process in democracy in either country, even if the process is the beginning, simply by redirecting the path for the people in middle east for a true and functioning democracy. Let me give you an example, Syrian government, so was the Libyan government, was close and cooperating with South American and South African socialism, these governments are also close to Iranian where the Iranian constitution is based on “Anti Imperialism” , therefore a plan was created stoping the approach and more of cooperation of these country.
It started with the father of all falsified democracy Bill Clinton, orchestrated by Madeline Albright the mother of all US Zionism using the sunny muslims from Albania with KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army) and its leader Hashim Taci, the wanted man by fbi and Interpol. This man and according to fbi and interpol documents simply was head of the Balkan Mafia. Later the same plan was used in Afghanistan and the Iraq and now Syria. The plan is simple, use everything and anything to conquer the entire middle east from lebanon to Pakistan if is possible; therefore, US and EU are at wars for last 14 years and stocked with their stupidity in middle east making the situation worse then it is.
Right… Syria, Libya and Iran as model governments… Ever talked to the citizens of any of those countries?
Amusing that people give this post the thumbs down… so the readers here believe that Syria under Assad, Libya (under Qaddafi) and Iran ARE model governments? They should try living as citizens of these countries and see how they like it… they're not exactly libertarian!