Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets of major cities in Syria today, angrily condemning the Arab League monitors who only arrived days earlier for not having yet found evidence of what they claim were massive continued death tolls.
Anger from the protesters turned on monitors almost the moment they got off their planes, when Gen. al-Dabi, the leader of the monitors said of a cursory tour of Homs that things were “a bit of a mess” but that he saw “nothing frightening” ongoing. Dozens of monitors were left in the city to look into allegations of the constant shelling of civilian neighborhoods by tanks, which the opposition insists are simply “hiding” on the side streets.
Activists within the opposition movements claimed as many as 32 people were killed today in crackdowns against the massive protests, with reports of live bullets used against protesters in Idlib. The casualties notably appear to have occurred entirely where the observers were not.
Perhaps underscoring just how difficult a job the observers are going to have, the Syrian state media also reported pro-regime rallies, including in the northern city of Aleppo, that also centered around condemning the observers and demanded that they exonerate the regime entirely.
Clearly, you haven’t read “A Funny Thing Happened on the Road to (Regime Change in) Damascus…” at the LRC Blog.
This is ridiculous reporting. Are you now taking the NY Times and its "official sources" as verification? Remember Libya? I am ashamed for antiwar.com
Another "mentally defective" dweller. How sad!
Excellent articel, Maidhc…
Here is the link: http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/10…
The super-credible rebels whom the MSM (and this website) have been taking uncritically at their word are outdoing themselves in flights of fantasy now…the regime supposedly changed street signs in Homs to confuse the monitors…here's a quote from that article by Daniel McAdams:
"Street sign changing is one thing, covering up destruction left by mortar rounds fired into buildings is quite another. Perhaps there were secret teams of stonemasons dispatched in the night to patch up the buildings?"
Secret teams of stonemasons…what a howler…
Yes, the phantom shelling that miraculously leaves no building damage…
It just goes to show that no thinking person could be fooled by this farce…except the antiwar news department of course, who have been "fooled" for months now…
Yo, troll! Two people beat you to the punch. Assad ain't gonna like that. What, he may even give you the same treatment he's not giving to the Syrians. And to think that for the low, low price of 2.5 Syrian pounds we are blessed with your "knowledge and expertise." Imagine all the time you're saving people who don't have to tune to Syria state teevee because you recite the propaganda verbatim on the internet. Hafez al Assad must be so proud of you.
I think I'll stop reading this site and just ask Judith Miller what the scoop is.
Very smart. It's always good to ask other people to tell you what to think.
Like your guru Amy Goodman? Just one of too many that I've had to cut the ties with over that "Bush aggression wars bad – Obama aggression wars good" paradigm.