9/19/12

Thursday 5 July 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing the Syria Files – more than two million emails from Syrian political figures, ministries and associated companies, dating from August 2006 to March 2012. This extraordinary data set derives from 680 Syria-related entities or domain names, including those of the Ministries of Presidential Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Finance, Information, Transport and Culture. At this time Syria is undergoing a violent internal conflict that has killed between 6,000 and 15,000 people in the last 18 months. The Syria Files shine a light on the inner workings of the Syrian government and economy, but they also reveal how the West and Western companies say one thing and do another.

List of Releases

Released on	Name
2012-09-19 13	Syrian Public Establishment for Road Communications (perc.gov.sy); 7811 emails
2012-09-18 13	Syrian Ministry of Higher Education (mhe.gov.sy); 13925 emails
2012-09-17 21	Italian company writes to the Syrian Minister of Irrigation: “we hope for the elimination of terrorists”
2012-09-17 13	Planning Commission of Syria (planning.gov.sy); 32868 emails
2012-09-16 13	E-government initiative in Syria (egov.sy); 1214 emails
2012-09-15 13	Ministry of Information (moi.gov.sy); 6547 emails
2012-09-14 13	General Organisation of Radio and TV – Syria (rtv.gov.sy); 915 emails
2012-09-14 09	Italian company writes to the Syrian Minister of Irrigation: “we hope for the elimination of terrorists”
2012-09-14 00	Carl Schlenk AG – Chemicals form Germany to Syria
2012-09-13 13	Ministry of Economy and Trade (gfto.gov.sy); 3658 emails
2012-09-12 13	Central Bank of Syria (bcs.gov.sy); 17336 emails
2012-09-11 13	Ministry of Presidential Affairs (mopa.gov.sy); 16518 emails
2012-09-10 13	Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Consular and Expatriates Affairs (mofa.gov.sy, mofaex.gov.sy, moex.gov.sy); 32476 emails
2012-08-17 10	Syria Files shed some light on how Blue Coat technologies ended up in Syria
2012-08-03 10	Schindler Group: “we are not comfortable with connection to Rami Makhlouf”
2012-08-03 09	Los amos de Siria se saltaron fácilmente las sanciones de la UE
2012-08-01 06	Al Asad quería derrocar a “regímenes fascistas árabes” como el de Jordania
2012-08-01 06	Ni los mejores analistas occidentales previeron la inminente revuelta siria
2012-07-29 06	Un periodista belga elaboró informes a favor del régimen de Al Asad
2012-07-28 06	El régimen sirio temía un ataque terrorista alentado por Arabia Saudí
2012-07-28 06	Fawaz Akhras: la extensión del régimen en Londres
2012-07-28 06	“La primera dama necesita entrar en juego”
2012-07-28 06	Agencias de EEUU y Reino Unido trataron de lavarle la cara al régimen de Al Asad
2012-07-25 18	شركات يونانية وإيطالية تصدر أجهزة لاسلكية مضادة للتجسس بقمية 7 ملايين يورو رغم عقوبات “الإتحاد الأوروبي”
2012-07-25 18	يوميات اسماء الأسد في الثورة : خبراء إنجليز لتجميل حديقة القصر.. وتكاليف الإقامة تتحملها الدولة
2012-07-22 01	فساد عائلة الأسد وباء سوريا المزمن
2012-07-19 14	The Pope and the dictator: as the Syrian bloody crackdown starts, Assad writes to Benedict XVI
2012-07-18 08	The best jokes of Bachar al-Assad
2012-07-17 02	Mail on Sunday (UK) Wikileaks files (Week 2)
2012-07-16 12	Evidence Shows Syrian Security got Comms from West
2012-07-15 00	Syrias førstefrue shoppet mens blodet fløt
2012-07-11 09	Spanish Young Communists to Syrian comrades: we don’t trust Spanish media, tell us the truth
2012-07-11 09	The relationships between the Syrian Communist Party and the Italian and Spanish communists
2012-07-11 02	Rami Makhlouf: Buying Syria One Bank at a Time
2012-07-11 00	القرارات الحكــــومية تصدر على مضض وببطء
2012-07-10 23	Qatari Royal Dumps Syrian Stocks Pre-Ramadan 2011
2012-07-09 06	Al Asad mantiene a una queridísima amiga en una universidad inglesa
2012-07-09 06	“En estos días difíciles nos hemos dado cuenta de quién es nuestro amigo”
2012-07-09 00	US Firm Encourages ‘Fist and Open Hand’ in Syria
2012-07-09 00	Asma and Bashar: Syria’s British Royals
2012-07-08 05	The Mail on Sunday Assad files
2012-07-06 07	El TETRA de Selex no lleva solo componentes italianos
2012-07-06 07	Siria amplió el contrato a Selex a los tres meses de las revueltas
2012-07-06 06	The US spin doctor of Asma al-Assad
2012-07-06 04	Italienische Verschlüsselungstechnologie für Assad
2012-07-06 00	How the Finmeccanica technology is helping the Syrian regime
2012-07-05 10	Los misteriosos vínculos entre Finmeccanica y el ‘banquero de Dios’
2012-07-05 10	TETRA ayuda a la represión en Siria
2012-07-05 10	Italia vende a Siria alta tecnología que puede usarse para la represión
2012-07-05 10	Wikileaks pone al desnudo el correo electrónico interno del régimen sirio

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9/11/2012

List of documents > for release
Ministry of Presidential Affairs (mopa.gov.sy); 16518 emails

Released on 2012-09-11 13:00 GMT

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Email-ID	Subject	From	To	Date
51049	Re: Press Release	i.alfadel@alfadelgroup.com	w.mourad@syriatrust.org, fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy, o.aljundi@syriatrust.org	2012-01
64085	An alternative Vision and Mission	i.alfadel@alfadelgroup.com	fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy	2011-03
95347	***SPAM*** FW: يوم الفتنة السوري الكبير ..	talalbakfalouni@hotmail.com	endroro@yahoo.com, samir.altaqi@gmail.com, sham@scs-net.org, ateftwil@scs-net.org, and more…	2011-03
99435	RE: WMFI presentation (Imad)	joelle.mesmar@mopa.gov.sy	i.alfadel@alfadelgroup.com, fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy, i.alfadel@generation-alfa.ch	2012-02
132941	RE: the letter + attachments	i.alfadel@alfadelgroup.com	fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy	2011-04
196873	Les Boutitques de musees en Syrie	i.alfadel@alfadelgroup.com	fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy	2011-02
197172	RE: the letter + attachments	i.alfadel@alfadelgroup.com	fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy	2011-04
204193	Maximizing use of the documentary	i.alfadel@alfadelgroup.com	fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy	2011-05
365956	New translation rates	sedcsyria@gmail.com	bana.seifo@akdn.org, scb@scbdi.com, iccsyria@net.sy, cqt@scs-net.org, and more…	2010-03
529204	Goodbye	F.Perrier@unesco.org	info@moc.gov.sy, fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy, junesco@moe.gov.jo, Bianca.Baumler@ec.europa.eu,and more…	2011-12
530951	Re: متحف	sam.levant@gmail.com	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, michelesyrien@hotmail.com, yara.moualla@mopa.gov.sy, dgam@dgam.gov.sy, and more…	2011-09
531574	Letter from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
533278	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
533313	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
533395	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
533496	Fwd: To Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
533511	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
580398	New translation rates	sedcsyria@gmail.com	bana.seifo@akdn.org, scb@scbdi.com, iccsyria@net.sy, cqt@scs-net.org, and more…	2010-03
586762	New translation rates	sedcsyria@gmail.com	bana.seifo@akdn.org, scb@scbdi.com, iccsyria@net.sy, cqt@scs-net.org, and more…	2010-03
603238		talalmouala@hotmail.com	saba.fares@gmail.com, yara.moualla@mopa.gov.sy, dgam@dgam.gov.sy, hala.aldakkak@mopa.gov.sy, and more…	2011-08
603432	RE: رسالة امتنان	talalmouala@hotmail.com	fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, yara.moualla@mopa.gov.sy, dgam@dgam.gov.sy, and more…	2011-08
603700	Re: Syrian scholars at INP paris	d.maram@gmail.com	yara.moualla@mopa.gov.sy, dgam@dgam.gov.sy, houmamsaad3@yahoo.com, dalin28oct@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-11
604070	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
604080	Fwd: Resafa – information for DGAM-GIS	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-09
604091	Fwd: RE: Letter from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
606858	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
606872	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
606900	Letter from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
607437	Syria’s National Museums Transformation Website	hasheryes@hotmail.com	maamounk@scs-net.org, tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, saba.fares@gmail.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, and more…	2011-06
608237	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
608247	Fwd: To Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
608266	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
609524	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
609559	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
609601	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
612853	RE: المهام المقترحة	talalmouala@hotmail.com	fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy, sam.levant@gmail.com, yara.moualla@mopa.gov.sy, dgam@dgam.gov.sy, and more…	2011-09
613178	Letter from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
613193	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
613196	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
614220	Letter from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
614240	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
614306	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
614328	Letter from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
633217	RE: Letter from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	talalmouala@hotmail.com	saba.fares@gmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, yara.moualla@mopa.gov.sy, dgam@dgam.gov.sy, and more…	2011-08
633364	Any updates on DGAM employees	d.maram@gmail.com	yara.moualla@mopa.gov.sy, dgam@dgam.gov.sy	2011-11
633613	Launching Juzour Foundation	hala.aldakkak@mopa.gov.sy	fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy, dgam@dgam.gov.sy, talalmouala@hotmail.com	2011-08
633788	FW: job descriptions	talalmouala@hotmail.com	yara.moualla@mopa.gov.sy, dgam@dgam.gov.sy, hala.aldakkak@mopa.gov.sy, kinanas84@gmail.com	2011-08
633834	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
633872	متحف	talalmouala@hotmail.com	michelesyrien@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, yara.moualla@mopa.gov.sy, dgam@dgam.gov.sy, and more…	2011-09
634350	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
634360	Letter from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
635230	??? ???? ?????	a.almedani@dgam.gov.sy	yara.moualla@mopa.gov.sy	2011-12
635380	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
635418	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
635440	Fwd: Tell Halula documents	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
635454	Letter from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
636075	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, benjamin_michaudel@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, and more…	2011-08
636086	Fwd: Tell Halula documents	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
636135	Re: Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	nicholas.conard@uni-tuebingen.de	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
636157	Fwd: RE: Letter from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
636179	Fwd: Re: Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
668611	Bonne anee	gad_mostafa@yahoo.com	info@moc.gov.sy, fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy, junesco@moe.gov.jo, Bianca.Baumler@ec.europa.eu,and more…	2011-12
678668	Re: متحف	sam.levant@gmail.com	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, michelesyrien@hotmail.com, yara.moualla@mopa.gov.sy, dgam@dgam.gov.sy, and more…	2011-09
679480	Fwd: Syria	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy, sam.levant@gmail.com, kinanas84@gmail.com	2011-06
681217	Letter from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
681226	Fwd: Re: Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
681260	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
683452	Re: FW: meeting for priority list	sam.levant@gmail.com	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, saba.fares@gmail.com, yara.moualla@mopa.gov.sy, dgam@dgam.gov.sy, and more…	2011-08
683496	Urkesh Park	buccella@ucla.edu	fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy, sam.levant@gmail.com, dgam@dgam.gov.sy, fab@urkesh.com, and more…	2010-09
684134	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
684298	Letter from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
685425	Re: Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	nicholas.conard@uni-tuebingen.de	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
685459	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
685473	Letter from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
685831	MEDLIHER project – Revised Implementation Partnership Agreement n°250037134- Department for Safeguarding of Folk Heritage and traditional knowledge, Syrian Ministry of Culture	F.Perrier@unesco.org	info@moc.gov.sy, fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy, c.duvelle@unesco.org, f.proschan@unesco.org, and more…	2009-10
740955	Urkesh National Trust	geveenalhassan@hotmail.com	fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy, dgam@dgam.gov.sy, fab.urkesh@gmail.com	2010-09
742147	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, benjamin_michaudel@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, and more…	2011-08
742160	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
744521	Fwd: Re: Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
744543	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
744592	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
744829	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
749668		ministry@irrigation.gov.sy	may.bashoor@mopa.gov.sy	2011-03
752118	green companies list UNFCCC	gogreen.sy@gmail.com	jamil.shocair@banqueaudi.com, tnp@mail.sy, dcc@net.sy, Hama-ghab@mail.sy, and more…	2012-02
756984	green companies list UNFCCC	gogreen.sy@gmail.com	jamil.shocair@banqueaudi.com, tnp@mail.sy, dcc@net.sy, Hama-ghab@mail.sy, and more…	2012-02
758873	FW: meeting for priority list	talalmouala@hotmail.com	saba.fares@gmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, yara.moualla@mopa.gov.sy, dgam@dgam.gov.sy, and more…	2011-08
759300	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
760841	Fwd: To Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
760858	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
760887	Fwd:	sam.levant@gmail.com	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
760902	Fwd: Resafa – information for DGAM-GIS	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-09
766313	Letter from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
766339	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
766686	Re: Syrian scholars at INP paris	d.maram@gmail.com	sam.levant@gmail.com, yara.moualla@mopa.gov.sy, dgam@dgam.gov.sy, houmamsaad3@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-10
766721	المهام المقترحة	talalmouala@hotmail.com	fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy, saba.fares@gmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, yara.moualla@mopa.gov.sy, and more…	2011-08
766800	Re: Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	nicholas.conard@uni-tuebingen.de	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
767346	الزعيم والمارد	fadiarim@hotmail.com	ala_rostom@hotmail.com, mla@net.sy, info@bjconcept.com, info@ina-syrie.com, and more…	2011-03
767519	Fwd: Re: Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
767522	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
767969	Fwd: RE: Letter from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
767975	Fwd: Resafa – information for DGAM-GIS	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-09
767986	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
768017	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
769458	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
769471	Letter from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
769522	Fwd: Letter from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	sam.levant@gmail.com	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
769541	Letter from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
780039	Re: المهام المقترحة	sam.levant@gmail.com	fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy, yara.moualla@mopa.gov.sy, dgam@dgam.gov.sy, talalmouala@hotmail.com, and more…	2011-09
781148	تحية	talalmouala@hotmail.com	fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy, sam.levant@gmail.com, yara.moualla@mopa.gov.sy, dgam@dgam.gov.sy, and more…	2011-09
781167	RE: Syrian scholars at INP paris	yara.moualla@mopa.gov.sy	sam.levant@gmail.com, dgam@dgam.gov.sy, d.maram@gmail.com, houmamsaad3@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-10
781299		talalmouala@hotmail.com	fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy, yara.moualla@mopa.gov.sy, dgam@dgam.gov.sy, hala.aldakkak@mopa.gov.sy, and more…	2011-08
781901	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
781927	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
782372	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
782375	Fwd:	sam.levant@gmail.com	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
782440	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
783344	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
783375	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
783468	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
783537	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, benjamin_michaudel@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, and more…	2011-08
788761	FW: job descriptions	talalmouala@hotmail.com	fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy, saba.fares@gmail.com, yara.moualla@mopa.gov.sy, dgam@dgam.gov.sy, and more…	2011-08
788784	Re: تحية	sam.levant@gmail.com	fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy, tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, yara.moualla@mopa.gov.sy, dgam@dgam.gov.sy, and more…	2011-09
788998	Syrian scholars at INP paris	d.maram@gmail.com	sam.levant@gmail.com, yara.moualla@mopa.gov.sy, dgam@dgam.gov.sy, houmamsaad3@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-10
789429	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
789433	Fwd: Re: Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
790392	Re: المهام المقترحة	sam.levant@gmail.com	fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy, tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, yara.moualla@mopa.gov.sy, dgam@dgam.gov.sy, and more…	2011-08
790915	Fwd: Letter from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	sam.levant@gmail.com	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
790935	Letter from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
790960	Fwd: Tell Halula documents	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
790965	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
790970	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
790997	Support the Syrian efforts in its long term program to preserveculture and heritage	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	maamounk@scs-net.org, benjamin_michaudel@hotmail.com, michelesyrien@hotmail.com, azarce@scs-net.org, and more…	2011-04
791008	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
791032	Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
792125	Letter from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
792141	Fwd: Re: Letters from Dr. Bassam Jamous DGAM- SYRIA	dgam@dgam.gov.sy	tamarazdn82@yahoo.com, ALmedani72@hotmail.com, sam.levant@gmail.com, lina4546@yahoo.com, and more…	2011-08
811675	محضر الاجتماع الثامن لمؤسسي مجلس الشباب السوري	karam.nasli@gmail.com	oshallah@nissan-sy.com, fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy, kinan.bahnassi@gmail.com, rsabdo@gmail.com, and more…	2012-01
815632	Professional Wine Education in Whistler	dml@telus.net	maya.badran@bahimotors.com, bhatiat@un.org, rkisar@vatexgroup.com, sharif@dawncreative.com, and more…	2011-11
858422	go green syria	gogreen.sy@gmail.com	jamil.shocair@banqueaudi.com, tnp@mail.sy, dcc@net.sy, Hama-ghab@mail.sy, and more…	2012-02
859566	go green syria المبارة الخضراء للتنمية في سوريا – مستقبل سوريا	gogreen.sy@gmail.com	jamil.shocair@banqueaudi.com, tnp@mail.sy, dcc@net.sy, Hama-ghab@mail.sy, and more…	2012-02
866065	question about account	ministry@irrigation.gov.sy	mansour.azzam@mopa.gov.sy	2009-10
875018	green energy sources .sy	gogreen.sy@gmail.com	jamil.shocair@banqueaudi.com, tnp@mail.sy, dcc@net.sy, Hama-ghab@mail.sy, and more…	2012-02
875314		planning@irrigation.gov.sy	may.bashoor@mopa.gov.sy	2011-03
884285	to your concern- urgent	ministry@irrigation.gov.sy	mansour.azzam@mopa.gov.sy	2009-10
886756	لمحة عن أعضاء المجلس الاستشاري	karam.nasli@gmail.com	oshallah@nissan-sy.com, fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy, kinan.bahnassi@gmail.com, rsabdo@gmail.com, and more…	2012-01
889680	green energy sources .sy	gogreen.sy@gmail.com	jamil.shocair@banqueaudi.com, tnp@mail.sy, dcc@net.sy, Hama-ghab@mail.sy, and more…	2012-02
889747	Mail photos	bassel@platinum.sy	bassel@platinum.sy, bassam.issa@mopa.gov.sy	2009-09
904127	تأسيس مجلس الشباب السوري	hamed_i@hotmail.com	oshallah@nissan-sy.com, fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy, reem-muhammad@hotmail.com, kinan.bahnassi@gmail.com, and more…	2012-02
904669	go green syria المبارة الخضراء للتنمية في سوريا – مستقبل سوريا	gogreen.sy@gmail.com	jamil.shocair@banqueaudi.com, tnp@mail.sy, dcc@net.sy, Hama-ghab@mail.sy, and more…	2012-02
914106	go green syria المبارة الخضراء للتنمية في سوريا – مستقبل سوريا	gogreen.sy@gmail.com	jamil.shocair@banqueaudi.com, tnp@mail.sy, dcc@net.sy, Hama-ghab@mail.sy, and more…	2012-02
922300	تحويلة دمشق الكبرى	it@perc.gov.sy	mays.alskeif@mopa.gov.sy	2009-05
922520	تحويلة دمشق الكبرى	it@perc.gov.sy	mays.alskeif@mopa.gov.sy	2009-05
931869	green companies list UNFCCC	gogreen.sy@gmail.com	jamil.shocair@banqueaudi.com, tnp@mail.sy, dcc@net.sy, Hama-ghab@mail.sy, and more…	2012-02
933702	???? ???????? ???????? ????? ???	d02@mhc.gov.sy	kholoud.altayyeb@mopa.gov.sy	2011-08
941821	go green syria	gogreen.sy@gmail.com	jamil.shocair@banqueaudi.com, tnp@mail.sy, dcc@net.sy, Hama-ghab@mail.sy, and more…	2012-02
950318	green energy sources .sy	gogreen.sy@gmail.com	jamil.shocair@banqueaudi.com, tnp@mail.sy, dcc@net.sy, Hama-ghab@mail.sy, and more…	2012-02
955450	go green syria المبارة الخضراء للتنمية في سوريا – مستقبل سوريا	gogreen.sy@gmail.com	jamil.shocair@banqueaudi.com, tnp@mail.sy, dcc@net.sy, Hama-ghab@mail.sy, and more…	2012-02
956257	تأسيس مجلس الشباب السوري	hamed_i@hotmail.com	fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy, h-m-89@hotmail.com, nourtalli@hotmail.com, farahakel@yahoo.com, and more…	2012-02
956529	تحويلة دمشق الكبرى	it@perc.gov.sy	mays.alskeif@mopa.gov.sy	2009-05
957768	الاجتماع الأول للمجلس الاستشاري لمجلس الشباب السوري	hamed_i@hotmail.com	oshallah@nissan-sy.com, fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy, kinan.bahnassi@gmail.com, rsabdo@gmail.com, and more…	2012-01
959246	green companies list UNFCCC	gogreen.sy@gmail.com	jamil.shocair@banqueaudi.com, tnp@mail.sy, dcc@net.sy, Hama-ghab@mail.sy, and more…	2012-02
959515	RE: الاجتماع الأول للمجلس الاستشاري لمجلس الشباب السوري	hamed_i@hotmail.com	oshallah@nissan-sy.com, fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy, kinan.bahnassi@gmail.com, rsabdo@gmail.com, and more…	2012-01
959686	محضر الاجتماع الأول للمجلس الاستشاري	karam.nasli@gmail.com	oshallah@nissan-sy.com, fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy, kinan.bahnassi@gmail.com, rsabdo@gmail.com, and more…	2012-02
959785	اقتراح اجتماع مشترك	adurva@gmail.com	oshallah@nissan-sy.com, fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy, reem-muhammad@hotmail.com, kinan.bahnassi@gmail.com, and more…	2012-02
960057	go green syria	gogreen.sy@gmail.com	jamil.shocair@banqueaudi.com, tnp@mail.sy, dcc@net.sy, Hama-ghab@mail.sy, and more…	2012-02
963396	green energy sources .sy	gogreen.sy@gmail.com	jamil.shocair@banqueaudi.com, tnp@mail.sy, dcc@net.sy, Hama-ghab@mail.sy, and more…	2012-02
970301	Re: لمحة عن أعضاء المجلس الاستشاري	karam.nasli@gmail.com	oshallah@nissan-sy.com, fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy, kinan.bahnassi@gmail.com, rsabdo@gmail.com, and more…	2012-02
970877	Re: الاجتماع الأول للمجلس الاستشاري لمجلس الشباب السوري	karam.nasli@gmail.com	oshallah@nissan-sy.com, fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy, kinan.bahnassi@gmail.com, rsabdo@gmail.com, and more…	2012-01
971056	Re: محضر الاجتماع الأول للمجلس الاستشاري	kinan.bahnassi@gmail.com	oshallah@nissan-sy.com, fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy, rsabdo@gmail.com, hamed_i@hotmail.com, and more…	2012-02
971134	تهنئة بمناسبة تأسيس مجلس الشباب السوري، وإبداء رغبتي بالتواجد ضمن الفرق التخصصية بطلب مرفق في الرسالة (شاملا الفرق المتناسبة مع مؤهلاتي وخبراتي المكتسبة)	ahmad.beetar@gmail.com	oshallah@nissan-sy.com, fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy, kinan.bahnassi@gmail.com, rsabdo@gmail.com, and more…	2012-02
973163	تتبع تنفيذ-وزارة الإسكان والتعمير	d02@mhc.gov.sy	kholoud.altayyeb@mopa.gov.sy	2011-10
981746	go green syria المبارة الخضراء للتنمية في سوريا – مستقبل سوريا	gogreen.sy@gmail.com	jamil.shocair@banqueaudi.com, tnp@mail.sy, dcc@net.sy, Hama-ghab@mail.sy, and more…	2012-02
987197	PRESS RELEASE/بيان صحفي	aytul.bostanci@mfa.gov.tr	rusemb@scs-net.org, SERDEN@THY.COM, madani_t@yahoo.com, majd.khoury@dedeman.com, and more…	2010-07
994087	***SPAM**** FW: يوم الفتنة السوري الكبير ..	talalbakfalouni@hotmail.com	endroro@yahoo.com, samir.altaqi@gmail.com, sham@scs-net.org, ateftwil@scs-net.org, and more…	2011-03
995492	FW: Tr : تحذير من أجل أمان سور	talalbakfalouni@hotmail.com	endroro@yahoo.com, ornina.khoury@gmx.de, adele_katiny@hotmail.com, majdjama@scs-net.org, and more…	2011-06
995811	تتبع تنفيذ- وزارة الإسكان والتعمير	d02@mhc.gov.sy	kholoud.altayyeb@mopa.gov.sy	2011-11
1005037	Re: صباح الخير -تحويلة دمشق الكبرى	it@perc.gov.sy	mays.alskeif@mopa.gov.sy	2009-05
1035600	india report 23july	State@planning.gov.sy	nader.sheikhali@planning.gov.sy, nadsha@scs-net.org, mays.alskeif@mopa.gov.sy, rimakadri@scs-net.org	2009-07
1035963	syrvey	State@planning.gov.sy	bassel.houranieh@mopa.gov.sy	2009-05
1035992	india report 23july	State@planning.gov.sy	nader.sheikhali@planning.gov.sy, nadsha@scs-net.org, mays.alskeif@mopa.gov.sy, rimakadri@scs-net.org	2009-07
1036002	argentina documents	State@planning.gov.sy	nader.sheikhali@planning.gov.sy, dana.bashkour@mopa.gov.sy	2010-06
1036036	reports	State@planning.gov.sy	nadsha@scs-net.org, mays.alskeif@mopa.gov.sy	2009-05
1036047	india	State@planning.gov.sy	nadsha@scs-net.org, mays.alskeif@mopa.gov.sy, rimakadri@scs-net.org	2009-06
1036683	douments to be signed with india	nader.shekhali@planning.gov.sy	rimakadri@yahoo.com, nader.sheikhali@planning.gov.sy, sondos.sosi@mopa.gov.sy	2010-11
1037471	quest	State@planning.gov.sy	bassel.houranieh@mopa.gov.sy, nadsha@scs-net, org@planning.gov.sy	2009-05
1043228	excel sheet	State@planning.gov.sy	nadsha@scs-net.org, mays.alskeif@mopa.gov.sy	2009-05
1043314	india report 8 july	State@planning.gov.sy	nadsha@scs-net.org, mays.alskeif@mopa.gov.sy, rimakadri@scs-net.org	2009-07
1063814	norht east	nader.shekhali@planning.gov.sy	nader.sheikhali@planning.gov.sy, kholoud.altayyeb@mopa.gov.sy	2010-11
1065063	Fwd: questionair	State@planning.gov.sy	bassel.houranieh@mopa.gov.sy	2009-05
1065129	????? ????? ??????	State@planning.gov.sy	nadsha@scs-net.org, mays.alskeif@mopa.gov.sy, rimakadri@scs-net.org	2009-08
1065163	norht east	nader.shekhali@planning.gov.sy	nader.sheikhali@planning.gov.sy, kholoud.altayyeb@mopa.gov.sy	2010-11
1067491	سوريا-تيك نيوز.كوم	info@syria-technews.com	sales@chamceramic.com, info@alhafi.net, awsdecor@scs-net.org, khloud_mouti@hotmail.com, and more…	2010-02
1069599	india documents	nader.shekhali@planning.gov.sy	sondos.sosi@mopa.gov.sy, nader.sheikhali@planning.gov.sy@rimakadri@yahoo.com	2010-11
1069603	مذكرة ادارة التعاون الدولي حول ورشة العمل	State@planning.gov.sy	nadsha@scs-net, org@planning.gov.sy, dana.bashkour@mopa.gov.sy	2009-11
1069794	reprts	nadsha@aloola.sy	nader.sheikhali@planning.gov.sy, mays.alskeif@mopa.gov.sy	2009-05
1085428	india documents update	nader.shekhali@planning.gov.sy	rimakadri@yahoo.com, nader.sheikhali@planning.gov.sy, sondos.sosi@mopa.gov.sy	2010-11
1087015	?????+???????	State@planning.gov.sy	mays.alskeif@mopa.gov.sy, nadsha@aloola.sy	2009-05
1093164	go green syria	gogreen.sy@gmail.com	jamil.shocair@banqueaudi.com, tnp@mail.sy, dcc@net.sy, Hama-ghab@mail.sy, and more…	2012-02
1103033	india report	State@planning.gov.sy	nader.sheikhali@planning.gov.sy, dana.bashkour@mopa.gov.sy	2009-12
1106352	brazil documents	State@planning.gov.sy	nader.sheikhali@planning.gov.sy, dana.bashkour@mopa.gov.sy	2010-06

The Syria Files,
files released so far…
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The Syria Files

courage is contagious

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8-3-2012

Syrians Instagram Their Revolution

While the Egyptian revolution told its story on Twitter, these 32 images — horrifying, exhilarating, intensely personal and sometimes beautiful — chronicle the bloodiest conflict of the Arab Spring through the eyes of its participants.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/pwkaplan/syrians-instagram-their-revolution

“The government killed his entire family n wonder why little kids are fighting against them smh. Wa kilmit 7oriye yumma itgabl hal roosiya (and the word freedom evades Russia).. Wa ijeetich yumma shaheed, la tibchee 3alayaaaaa #syria #freesyria #freedomfighter #fsa #freesyrianarmy #sham #damascus #homs #aleppo #hama #fku”

Via:
http://@sirley_f

“المقاومه بسوريا”
“Syria’s Resistance”

Via:
http://@zahraghazy

صنع في سوريا .. #syria #سوريا #سوريا_تتحرر
“#Syria #liberation .. made in Syria”

Via:
http://@abdjom

“رغم الألم فالأمل بنصر الله أقوى #سوريا”
“Despite the pain, hope in victory, God is the strongest #Syria”

Via:
http://@bo_fahad_89

“The children in syria..”

Via:
http://@fmhm

“ابطال #صلاح_الدين الله يحميكم ويسدد رميكم #سوريا #حلب #ثورة #الجيش_الحر #syria #aleppo #FSA”
“Champions, may God protect you and guide you #Syria #Aleppo #Revolution #Rebel Army”

Via:
http://@faswad

“#syrian #revolution #freedom #child #childhood #syria #Assad #killer #bombing #killed #guns #mortar #rocket #homs #hama #idlib #aleppo #dara #damascus #shaam #Suriye”

Via:
http://@esrash

“#iftar #ramadan #fsa #aleppo #syria #freedom #fighters”
The opposition forces take a Ramadan meal

Via:
http://@hajdarwish

“#سوريا #حلب اوتستراد هنانو….من هنا مر لواء التوحيد. #Syria #Aleppo”
“From here, above the banner of monotheism.”

Via:
http://@syriandeveloper

“#سوريا #حلب بستان القصر..جمعة واثقون بنصر الله. #Syria #Aleppo”
“In Aleppo’s Orchard Palace, confident in God’s victory”

Via:
http://@syriandeveloper

“InsyaAllah (God willing)…we will never surrender #freesyrianarmy #freesyria #syria #martyr #militiamen #martyrs #bashar #basharalassad #assad #arab #freedom #syrianarmy #syrianrevo”

Via:
http://@manmetba

“Free syria #syria #bashar #hums”

Via:
http://@maryam_soc

“#سوريا #حلب صلاح الدين….جمعة الغضب لشهداء والتريمسة. #Syria #Aleppo. ابطال الجيش الحر الله يحميكن”
“Heroes of the free army”

Via:
http://@syriandeveloper

“Abdul Razzaq Tlass – Free Syrian Army #syria #fsa #freesyrianarmy #syrian #homs #mastermind”

Via:
http://@sirley_f

“#thesyrianarmy #landprotectors #Syria #syriaalassad #bashar #alasaad #souria #damascus #homs #hams #alippo #lattakia #tartous #hassakeh #sweden #australia #usa #norway #canda”

Via:
http://@rafisaied

The Civil War Instragrams have has evolved past simply recording the conflict, to become a platform on which Syrians signal and dispute their political allegiances:

“This man isn’t a killer! #bashar #alassad #syria”

Via:
http://@amandajourieh

“اللهم ارنا بشار مدموما مقتولا في اقرب وقت ،،قولوا آمين”
“Oh, Assad would sooner see us dead”

Via:
http://@reemy95

Via:
http://@q8syriasupport

“#bashar #killer #murder #freedom #freesyrianarmy #freesyria #syria #alassad #sham #killed #kid #kidskiller #butcher #ig #instasyria #instamood #instagramhub #instadaily #ksa #سوريه #سوريا_تستغيث #كلنا_سوريا #الحولة #سورية #سوريا #support #help”

Via:
http://@anooosh1980

“#sketchbook #sketches #bashar #syria #revolution #arabspring #instagood #instamood”

Via:
http://@archetist

“I’m gonna tag this so all those dumb Assad supporters can fight with me and let’s see if we can actually get SOME knowledge in there empty heads !!”

Via:
http://@basharassadwilldie

“No Comment !! #bashar #syria #freedom #syriafree”

Via:
http://@traien

“Beautiful people die from hideous regimes. #syria .”

Via:
http://@jumanjaber

But still, people Instagram day to day life. Two friends celebrate an early Ramadan meal:

“حملة إفطار صائم #instaramadan #instasyria #syria #ثورة”
“Taking breakfast #instaramada #instasyria #syria #revolution”

Via:
http://@noorwattar

They paint their nails:

“#Syria #Bashar #Love #Proud #Arab #Nails #Support #Respect #Hope”

Via:
http://@julyy007

They take pictures of babies:

“#one #year #old #child #girl #kid from #damascus #alsham #syria”

Via:
http://@monisbu

They photograph beautiful skylines:

“#ariha #idlib #syria #ادلب #اريحا #hometown #جبل_الاربعين”

Via:
http://@bashaeid

And delicious meals:

“#Food #falfel #soap #salad #syrian #syria”

Via:
http://@amirphotos

” #رمضان معزوم عند #عماد #syrian #syria #syrianFood #syria # #arabic #arabia #arabian #arabicfood #ar ##instagram #instagramism #rice”

Via:
http://@alsousi1989

And then cakes:

“#freedom #syria”

Via:
http://@habibaljamous

And more cute babies:

“lk ya #habibi ya 3moura #my #little #hero #freesyria #syrianrevolution #syrian #child”
“My sweet little baby”

Via:
http://@samuurii

And they keep fighting and Instagramming.

7-5-2012

Translations
[es] Syria Files (ES)
[fr] Syria Files (FR)
[de] Syria Files (DE)
[pt_br] Syria Files (PT-BR)

Today, Thursday 5 July 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing the Syria Files – more than two million emails from Syrian political figures, ministries and associated companies, dating from August 2006 to March 2012.

This extraordinary data set derives from 680 Syria-related entities or domain names, including those of the Ministries of Presidential Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Finance, Information, Transport and Culture.

Over the next two months, ground-breaking stories derived from the files will appear in WikiLeaks (global), Al Akhbar (Lebanon), Al Masry Al Youm (Egypt), ARD (Germany), Associated Press (US), L’Espresso (Italy), Owni (France) and Publico.es (Spain). Other publications will announce themselves closer to their publishing date.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said: “The material is embarrassing to Syria, but it is also embarrassing to Syria’s opponents. It helps us not merely to criticise one group or another, but to understand their interests, actions and thoughts. It is only through understanding this conflict that we can hope to resolve it.”

At this time Syria is undergoing a violent internal conflict that has killed between 6,000 and 15,000 people in the last 18 months. The Syria Files shine a light on the inner workings of the Syrian government and economy, but they also reveal how the West and Western companies say one thing and do another.

The range of information extends from the intimate correspondence of the most senior Baath party figures to records of financial transfers sent from Syrian ministries to other nations.

The database comprises 2,434,899 emails from the 680 domains. There are 678,752 different email addresses that have sent emails and 1,082,447 different recipients. There are a number of different languages in the set, including around 400,000 emails in Arabic and 68,000 emails in Russian. The data is more than eight times the size of ’Cablegate’ in terms of number of documents, and more than 100 times the size in terms of data. Around 42,000 emails were infected with viruses or trojans. To solve these complexities, WikiLeaks built a general-purpose, multi-language political data-mining system which can handle massive data sets like those represented by the Syria Files.

In such a large collection of information, it is not possible to verify every single email at once; however, WikiLeaks and its co-publishers have done so for all initial stories to be published. We are statistically confident that the vast majority of the data are what they purport to be.

We would like to thank our sources, technical team, donors and defenders without whom this contribution to the historical record would not be possible.
https://wlfriends.org/

For more information on the Syria Files, please see:
http://wikileaks.org/syria-files/re…

For media enquiries, please see:
http://wikileaks.org/Press

http://wikileaks.org/syria-files/releasedate/2012-07-05-10-how-the-finmeccanica-technology-is-helping-the.html

List of Releases

Released on	Name
2012-07-05 10	How the Finmeccanica technology is helping the Syrian regime
2012-07-05 10	Los misteriosos vínculos entre Finmeccanica y el ‘banquero de Dios’
2012-07-05 10	TETRA ayuda a la represión en Siria
2012-07-05 10	Italia vende a Siria alta tecnología que puede usarse para la represión
2012-07-05 10	Wikileaks pone al desnudo el correo electrónico interno del régimen sirio

List of documents > Release How the Finmeccanica technology is helping the Syrian regime

Read stories about those documents at the following addresses:

http://espresso.repubblica.it

Email-ID	Subject	From	To	Date
74255	Statement of account	fmenghini@selex-si.com	s.akeel@alfadelgroup.com	2012-01
74256	I: Scansione da WorkCentre Xerox	fmenghini@selex-si.com	s.akeel@alfadelgroup.com	2012-01
158585	Request for a CoC – SWO meeting next week	Simone.Bonechi@selexelsag.com	mikon@intracom.gr, emos@intracom.sy, gpapa@intracom.gr, mkar@intracom.com, and more…	2011-07
158828	SELEX reply on urgent requests.	emos@intracom.gr	g.senjar@intracom.sy, g.nakkoul@intracom.sy, m.salman@intracom.sy, m.shoorbajee@intracom.sy,and more…	2012-02
158850	Re: Outstanding Problems in SWO’s TETRA network	Simone.Bonechi@selexelsag.com	g.nakkoul@intracom.sy, m.salman@intracom.sy, m.shoorbajee@intracom.sy, emos@intracom.gr, and more…	2011-07
158916	RE: deir alzor	emos@intracom.gr	g.nakkoul@intracom.sy, m.salman@intracom.sy, m.shoorbajee@intracom.sy	2011-12
198152	Conference call on 7/6/11	gpapa@intracom.gr	m.shoorbajee@intracom.sy, emos@intracom.sy, Simone.Bonechi@selex-comms.com, Alessio.Fantini@selex-comms.com, and more…	2011-06
202849	Re: FW: About 2 T3 Plus return to Florence	g.nakkoul@intracom.sy	m.shoorbajee@intracom.sy	2011-06
324897	RE: Radio issues	ppap@intracom.gr	a.ezz@intracom.sy, g.nakkoul@intracom.sy, m.shoorbajee@intracom.sy, emos@intracom.sy, and more…	2011-12
326698	RE: Delivery of 500 Vehicular Radio VS3000 ( 1000 box)	m.shoorbajee@intracom.sy	r.anouti@intracom.sy, m.aslan@intracom.sy, dm.shaheed@intracom.sy	2011-05
409203	Updated IP Plan v4.2	Alessio.Fantini@selexelsag.com	g.nakkoul@intracom.sy, m.shoorbajee@intracom.sy, emos@intracom.gr, kkou@intracom.gr, and more…	2011-06
411921	FW: Delivery of 500 Vehicular Radio VS3000 ( 1000 box)	m.shoorbajee@intracom.sy	r.anouti@intracom.sy, m.aslan@intracom.sy, dm.shaheed@intracom.sy	2011-05
446304	***SPAM*** RE: tetra project , payments release and 25% expansion LC Feeding	n.fallouh@intracom.sy	m.shoorbajee@intracom.sy, n.fallouh@intracom.sy, mikon@intracom.gr, emos@intracom.sy, and more…	2011-05
458824	FW: Communication Plan for Operative and warranty phase of SWo project	m.shoorbajee@intracom.sy	g.senjar@intracom.sy, g.nakkoul@intracom.sy, m.salman@intracom.sy	2012-01
1976711	RE: Chopper Accessories	Simone.Bonechi@selexelsag.com	m.shoorbajee@intracom.sy, emos@intracom.gr, ttsa@intracom.gr	2011-10

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Syrian boy describes watching militiamen slaughter his whole family during Houla massacre: report

11-year-old says he played dead by smearing his slain brother’s blood on his face

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BY PHILIP CAULFIELD / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

A handout image released by the Syrian opposition's Shaam News Network on May 26 , 2012, shows the bodies of killed people made ready for burial in the town of Houla. The head of a UN mission warned of "civil war" in Syria after his observers counted more than 92 bodies, 32 of them children, in Houla following reports of a massacre there. AFP PHOTO/HO --- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / HO / SHAAM NEWS NETWORK" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - AFP IS USING PICTURES FROM ALTERNATIVE SOURCES AS IT WAS NOT AUTHORISED TO COVER THIS EVENT, THEREFORE IT IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DIGITAL ALTERATIONS TO THE PICTURE'S EDITORIAL CONTENT, DATE AND LOCATION WHICH CANNOT BE INDEPENDENTLY VERIFIED ----/AFP/GettyImages

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A handout image released by the Syrian opposition’s Shaam News Network shows the bodies of several dead being prepared for burial in the farming area of Houla, Syria.

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https://womenundersiegesyria.crowdmap.com/reports/view/23

Homs massacre said to include women raped

00:00 Mar 11 2012 Karm Azeitoun and Aladawi, Homs

3GF. Forced vaginal, anal, or oral entry (by government forces) 4GF. Multiple attackers (by government forces) 6F. Death with signs of sexualized violence

Description

A YouTube video shows a man talking about a recent massacre in Homs. He reports that he saw “45 corpses, women and children, all slaughtered with knives.” He adds that pro-government forces “kidnap [female children] and threaten her family that they will kill her.” These soldiers “rape the women who are still alive then kill them,” he says. “They do that to scare and terrify people so they will stop taking part in the revolution.”

The video was uploaded on March 11, 2012. The date of the reported rapes and assaults are unknown. Because Syrian government officials currently refuse to allow access to journalists, researchers, and aid workers, Women Under Siege cannot independently verify this report of sexualized violence in Syria.

News Source Link

3-21-2012

Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 9:05 | James Miller in EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran

The smoke over the Bab Sbaa section of Homs, amidst an attack by Syrian forces

1422 GMT: It’s also been a dramatic day in Bahrain. An EA Correspondent in Bahrain helps us sort this news.

Activists report that a 16 year old boy was reportedly sexually harassed and beaten by security forces in Sanabis:

Said Yousif AlMuhafda, human rights defender, who met the victim says: “When I met him, he was unconscious and handcuffed, left in one of the garages in Sanabis without his underwear and bleeding”

‘Ali’ said he was attacked with a knife and punched several times, report Said Yousif AlMuhafda.

Said Yousif Al-Muhafda says the young boy was arrested before and stabbed by security forces as he refused to work undercover for them.

While this incident is still unconfirmed, upon hearing word of the attack there were large protests in Sanabis, and many of the participants were children.

However, security forces appear to have disrupted those protests. There are many reports of teargas and clashes with police, and a leading activist posts this picture:

1411 GMT: Things have not cooled in Damascus, either. The CFDPC, an organization with many contacts in Syria’s capital, posts this video, reportedly showing damage from where a shell hit in Harasta:

CFDPC also reports that there was fighting overnight in Irbeen (see a map of the area), and they have posted a video where the gunfire is clearly audible.

In even more dramatic news, an activist Facebook page posts claims that a car bomb inside a taxi has been detonated in the Barzeh district of Damascus. No word on injuries.

Widespread arrests and heavy security are reported by all of EA’s sources in and around the capital.

1355 GMT: For whatever reason, the world’s focus on Homs has subsided after the military captured Baba Amr, a district really made famous when two Western journalists were killed there. And while Baba Amr was uniquely vulnerable because it is a geographically set apart from the other districts in Homs, many other areas in central and northern Homs have paid a very high price in the last week.

We anchored today’s coverage with a picture of smoke covering the Bab Sbaa district, and we have received the video belwo, also reportedly taken earlier today, showing large portions of the neighborhood on smoldering as the gunfire and shelling continue.:

3-20-2012

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اللهم مُنزل الكتاب مُجري السحاب هازم الأحزاب .. اهزم بشار المجرم و جيشه و زلزلهم..

اللهم أرنا فيهم عجائب قدرتك يا الله..

اللهم مزقهم شر ممزق

اللهم أحصهم عددا و اقتلهم بددا ولا تغادر منهم أحدا يا رب العالمين يا رب المستضعفين يا الله..

اللهم إنّا نجعلك في نحورهم ونعوذ بك من شرورهم يا ذا الجلال و الإكرام يا الله..

حم

Timeline: Crackdown on protests in Syria

Wed Mar 7, 2012 10:13am EST

(Reuters) – Following is a timeline of events in Syriasince protests began.

March 16, 2011 – Security forces break up gathering of 150 protesters in Damascus holding pictures of imprisoned relatives.

March 18 – Security forces kill three protesters in Deraa, in the most violent response to anti-government protests.

April 19 – Government passes bill lifting 48 years of emergency rule.

April 22 – Security forces and gunmen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad kill at least 100 protesters, rights group says.

May 23 – European Union imposes sanctions on Assad and nine other senior government officials.

July 31 – Syrian tanks storm Hama after a month-long siege, killing at least 80 people, residents say.

September 2 – EU imposes ban on purchases of Syrian oil.

November 12 – Arab League suspends Syria.

November 27 – Arab states vote to impose economic sanctions.

November 30 - Turkey says it has suspended all financial credit dealings with Syria and frozen Syrian government assets.

December 7 – Assad denies ordering his troops to kill peaceful demonstrators, telling U.S. television channel ABC that only a “crazy” leader kills his own people.

December 19 – Syria signs Arab League peace plan, agrees to let monitors into the country.

December 27 – Monitors say they saw “nothing frightening” during initial visit to Homs, as 20,000 people hold protest there.

January 10, 2012 – Assad says he will not stand down.

January 22 – Arab League urges Assad to step down and hand over power to a deputy, a call Syria rejects a day later.

– Saudi Arabia quits monitoring mission, saying Syria has done nothing to implement Arab peace plan.

January 24 – The six-member Gulf Cooperation Council says it is withdrawing its 55 monitors from the 165-strong monitoring mission. Syria agrees to extend mission for a month.

January 28 – Arab League suspends its monitoring mission in worsening violence, Damascus criticizes this as an attempt to encourage foreign intervention.

January 31 – Government forces reassert control over capital’s eastern suburbs after Free Syrian Army withdraws, capping three days of fighting that activists say killed at least 100 people.

February 4 – Russia and China veto resolution in U.N. Security Council, backed by Arab League, calling for Assad to step down.

February 7 – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visits Damascus, says Assad assured him he is committed to seeking an end to violence by all sides.

February 12 – Arab League calls for a U.N.-Arab peacekeeping force and opening of “communication channels with the Syrian opposition.”

February 16 – The U.N. General Assembly approves a resolution endorsing the Arab League plan calling for Assad to step aside.

February 22 – More than 80 people are killed in Homs including two foreign journalists. Hundreds of people have now been killed in daily bombardments of the city by Assad’s besieging forces.

February 23 – Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria.

February 24 – Foreign ministers from more than 50 countries meet in Tunis for the inaugural “Friends of Syria” meeting. Russia and China, allies of Syria, decide not to attend.

Feb 28 – Assad decrees that a new constitution is in force after officials say nearly 90 percent of voters endorsed it in a February 26 referendum. Opponents and the West dismiss the reforms and the referendum as a sham.

– The European Union imposes new sanctions on seven Syrian cabinet ministers and freezes the assets of the central bank.

– The United Nations says “well over 7,500 people” have been killed in Syria.

March 1 – Russia and China join other U.N. Security Council members in expressing “deep disappointment” at Syria’s failure to allow the U.N. humanitarian aid chief Valerie Amos to visit. The 15 nations say in an agreed statement that they “deplore the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation” in Syria.

– Syrian rebels pull out of the besieged Baba Amr district of Homs after more than three weeks of bombardment.

March 4 – China warns other powers not to use humanitarian aid for Syria to “interfere” in Syria, while urging unity in the

Security Council after a split with Western powers.

March 5 – The United States should lead an international effort to protect key population centers in Syria through air strikes on Assad’s forces, U.S. Senator John McCain says.

– Kofi Annan, in his new role, is to travel to Damascus on March 10 for his first visit, the U.N. says.

– Heavy fighting breaks out between government forces and rebels across Deraa, where the uprising began last March.

March 6 – The five permanent Security Council members and Morocco meet to discuss a U.S.-drafted resolution urging an end to the crackdown. Some Western envoys say the text is too weak.

March 7 – U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos holds talks in Damascus and is on her way to the devastated city of Homs, a U.N. spokeswoman says.

(Reporting by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit;

Eyewitness: Homs refugees tell of ‘slaughter’

By Paul WoodBBC News, outside Homs, Syria

The car headlights picked out a ragged group of men, women and children walking up the road towards us. Night had just fallen. There was a bitterly cold wind.

They had endured a month of bombardment in Baba Amr then fled, panicking, before ground troops arrived.

“We’re homeless,” a woman shouted. “Why? Because we asked for freedom?”

She said they had been walking for three days. Their journey was so long because they walked across fields and through orchards to avoid the army checkpoints.

A terrible fear has seized people here about what the government forces are doing now that they are back in control. In a nearby house we sat with six women and their 17 children. They had arrived that day. There were no men.

“We were walking out altogether until we reached the checkpoint,” said one of the women, Um Abdo.

“Then they separated us from the men. They put hoods on their heads and took them away.”

Where do you think they are now, I asked? The women replied all at once: “They will be slaughtered.”

‘Massacre’Wild stories were circulating of mutilated bodies in the orchards outside Homs; of men being killed in groups there; of a truck full of bodies taken away by the army. Was this fear talking?

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Refugee from Homs 5 march

Other families came to ask for their men and I told them that they had been slaughtered”

Refugee from Homs

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Soldier defected from the army

A lieutenant gave us the order. We were told in this operation you shoot anything that moves. Civilian or military, you shoot at it ”

Defected Syrian soldier

We met the Ibrahim family by chance while filming an aid delivery of cooking oil. They told us that on Friday, in the Jobar district of Homs, they had witnessed a massacre.

Ahmed Ibrahim told me that 36 men and boys were taken away. Among them were four members of his own family including his 12-year-old son, Hozaifa. All were dead now, he said.

He said he had seen everything, laying flat behind some trees.

He told me: “There is a major checkpoint near our house. Reinforcements arrived there. They brought Shabiha (the “ghosts” or paramilitaries). They began arresting all the men in the area so I crouched down in the orchards just beside my house.

“They started beating them up. Then they moved them into a street next to a school. They killed them all. I saw it. I was 50 to 100 metres away. Their hands were tied behind their backs. A soldier held each one still on the ground with his boot; another soldier came to cut their throats. I could hear their screams.”

He said the victims included his son, two brothers and a nephew. He thought he could count 36 bodies in the street – the number of men and boys who had been detained.

“The army took the bodies. They are afraid that ICRC [International Committee of the Red Cross] would come in so they destroyed the evidence.”

His wife was inside the house when the soldiers came. She said: “They knocked on the door and said if we didn’t open up they would shoot through the walls. So we let them in and they took all males aged 12 and older.

“I went out to ask about my son but they shot at me. After they had killed them they came back and searched us for mobile phones [looking for any video]. They threatened us. They said: ‘We can come back at any time.’ I felt that we were all going to die.

“Other families came to ask for their men and I told them that they had been slaughtered. I wish I had never gone out to witness that scene. We fled as fast as we could, leaving everything behind.”

Their niece, 16-year-old Noor, was in another house. Her father – one of Ahmed Ibrahim’s brothers – was killed.

She said: “My father went to open the door. I told him: ‘Don’t. Run away.’ He said ‘Why? I haven’t done anything wrong.’ He opened the door. They took him. I was clinging on to him but they took him anyway.

“As well as my father, they took my uncle, my cousin and my brother. I went outside and saw them pushing them to the ground. Then they killed them. I heard my father shout ‘God is great’ as he died. The others, too. The soldiers shoved us back inside with their guns.”

We do not know, yet, the truth of such allegations. But one former soldier involved in the Baba Amr operation told us that prisoners were routinely murdered. He said he had witnessed one summary execution.

“Ali” had been a sergeant in an elite unit, the Republican Guards.

Aged 21, he showed me his army identity card, dog tags, and a leave permit with the Republic Guards’ stamp. He had defected only last week.

He described how an old man, “about 60 years old”, was brought into his base. The man had been arrested in a raid on a house.

“The other soldiers starting beating him and cursing him and saying ‘This is for freedom’,” he told me.

“An officer came. He said the same thing – ‘This is for freedom’. He made the man kneel, put a gun to his head and shot him. He emptied the whole magazine into his body. Afterwards he started stamping on the body. He got his men to film that.”

Ali was the first member of the “Free Army” I had met who was Alawite, the sect from which Syria’s ruling elite is drawn. He was so angered and disgusted by what he had seen in the government army, he said, he had to desert.

He was in an artillery battalion, firing 120mm mortars at Baba Amr. He left with a friend, another sergeant, “Mohammed”. He told me that no-one was in any doubt that civilians were being killed in the bombardment.

“The lieutenant gave us the order, handed down from the colonel,” he said. “He said that in this operation, shoot at anything that moves: civilian or military, you shoot at it.”

After a month of shelling, the Free Army decided to withdraw from Baba Amr. We met what we were told was the very last group of fighters to leave.

It was 02:30 and 20 men ran through sheeting rain, crouching low and carrying their rifles, past the last government checkpoint outside Homs.

One of their officers told me that retreating was the only way to bring the shelling to an end and prevent further loss of innocent life. That is the official line but the Free Army is divided over the decision to leave Baba Amr. And some of its residents are furious with them.

‘Betrayed’A phone call to a friend in Baba Amr revealed the depths of the bitterness.

Parts of Homs have endured weeks of bombardment

“They betrayed Baba Amr,” he said.

“Those who took the decision to withdraw are cowards. Now they are drinking tea and chit-chatting in Qusayr [a nearby town] and watching Baba Amr being destroyed.”

He went on: “Why didn’t they do something to protect us? They could have attacked the artillery positions from behind. They waited until after 30 days of bombardment to withdraw. They could have left on the first day if that’s what they were going to do.”

On Monday afternoon the Free Army pulled back again, hurriedly leaving the village just outside Homs where we had been staying.

They believe the government will now press its advantage, closing in on the last territory “held” by the rebel fighters. We left with them on the back of a truck.

Most of the displaced people we spoke to over the past days had already gone. They did not feel safe so close to the government’s tanks and artillery.

A rebel commander told me he thought that some of the men who had been detained were being interrogated; some were being held to extract money from their families; and some had been killed.

The outside world will wait for proof of that, although the people of Baba Amr are in no doubt they are victims of a crime perpetrated by the regime.

Many women and children moved on still not knowing where husbands and fathers might be or if they would ever see them again.

They left behind two unanswered questions: how many men from Baba Amr are missing – and what has happened to them?

3/2/2012

What’s Happening in Syria Now (Updated)

[The latest updates begin here at the top; for full background jump below to our explainer on the situation in Syria. Also read our exclusive report on a Syrian hit list targeting thousands of dissidents.]

Update, March 1: After a nearly month-long assault, the Syrian Army has overwhelmed the main rebel stronghold in Homs and retaken control. Uprisings continue in other cities. The ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee said on Thursday that the US should make no moves to intervene directly in the conflict in the near term.

Update, Feb. 29: Reports on Wednesday indicated a ground offensive by the Syrian military moved deeper into the city of Homs. The continued assault comes a day after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said during testimony before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad would fit the definition of “war criminal.” (Clinton did not, however, state that the international community should bring charges; she stressed that doing so could make it even more difficult to wrest Assad from power.)

Update, Feb. 27: Scores more have been reported killed on Monday as the Syrian military continues its relentless bombing of Homs and towns in the northwestern area of Idlib. The EU has ratched up sanctions including a freeze on European-held assets of the Syrian central bank. Syria’s Interior Ministry announced that voters had overwhelmingly approved a new Constitution aimed at reform; Western leaders slammed the referendum as having no credibility amid the widespread violence.

Update, Feb. 24: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other world leaders gathered in Tunis on Friday, calling for humanitarian aid and a UN peacekeeping force to be allowed into Syria. President Obama also weighed in, saying, “We are going to continue to keep the pressure up and look for every tool available to prevent the slaughter of innocents in Syria.”

Update, Feb. 22: The Syrian government’s military assault on Homs has reached its 19th day; according to reports from activist groups, more than 80 people have been killed in the latest attacks. Those killed include two Western journalists: reporter Marie Colvin of the Sunday Times of London and Remi Olchik, a photographer from France.

Update, Feb. 16: Awful news: Preeminent foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid, who chronicled the Iraq war and Arab Spring like no other, died Thursday while reporting inside Syria. He apparently succumbed to an asthma attack. He was 43. Just a few weeks ago he spoke with Mother Jones about his invaluable work.

Update, Feb. 12: The Arab League asked the UN Security Council on Sunday to send peacekeepers to Syria. The League’s resolution also calls for “opening channels of communication with the Syrian opposition and providing all forms of political and financial support to it.” The Syrian government “categorically rejected” the resolution. (Syria wasbooted from the League in November.)

Meanwhile, Al Qaeda and other Islamist organizations have been calling for a jihad against the Assad regime, ostensibly throwing their support behind the rebels. (Syrian pro-democracy activists have previously rejected endorsement from Al Qaeda.) For instance, Al Qaeda in Iraq—which maintains an operational network in Syria—released a statement encouraging rebel forces to plant roadside bombs and carry out “hit-and-run operations” against regime loyalists.

Update, Feb. 11: A Syrian military general was assassinated in Damascus on Saturday, as a violent government offensive in Homs continued into its second week.

Update, Feb. 6: The US shut down its embassy in Damascus on Monday, with the State Department announcing that “all American personnel have now departed the country.” Reportsfrom activists and opposition groups on Monday said that dozens more people have been killed by government forces in Homs.

Update, Feb. 4: On Saturday morning, the UN Security Council held a meeting to vote on a draft resolution that would demand an end to Syria’s violent crackdown on protesters and civilians. Thirteen countries voted in favor of the measure, but Russia (facing its own mass protests today) and China vetoed.

BBC News reports that Susan Rice, US ambassador to the UN, said that “any further bloodshed” will be on the hands of the Russian and Chinese actors. Gerard Araud, the French ambassador, said that China and Russia had “made themselves complicit in a policy of repression,” and that ”[this] is a sad day for this council, a sad day for all Syrians, and a sad day for democracy.”

Russian ambassador Vitaly Churkin and Chinese ambassador Li Baodong defended their votes, stating that fellow council members had ignored their proposed amendments to the resolution. Margaret Besheer reports that Churkin also said: “I would certainly agree that tragic events are happening in Syria…[but the UN Security Council is] not the only diplomatic tool on this planet.”

Earlier in the day, President Obama issued a statement condemning the Syrian regime’s “unspeakable assault against the people of Homs,” and repeated that the “international community must work to protect the Syrian people from this abhorrent brutality.” The statement also read that, “the Assad regime must come to an end.”

Update, Feb. 3: On Friday, multiple reports from activists inside Syria described massive shelling and an army offensive in the central Syrian city of Homs. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights puts the casualty figure at over a hundred, and claims many hundreds more are injured; other estimates have the body count at 200 and climbing. Activists report that “nail bombs” were used by the army during a mortar attack on the Khaldiyeh neighborhood. The reports come 30 years after the infamous Hama Massacre was conducted by the Syrian army over the course of four weeks in February 1982 (the operation was ordered by President Hafez al-Assad, father and predecessor to Syria’s current ruler Bashar al-Assad).

In response to the news, anti-Assad rallies erupted at Syrian embassies in several major cities, including Cairo, Kuwait City, London, Berlin, and Washington, DC. Some of the embassies—including those in London and Cairo—were stormed by protesters, leading to arrests and property damage.

The UN Security Council is scheduled to convene Saturday morning to discuss a much-debated draft resolution on Syria. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that same morning in Munich.

Here’s a rundown of the deteriorating situation in Syria:

The basics: Syria is an Arab country with more than 22 million people; it borders many of the major players in the Middle East (Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Turkey) and is roughly the size of North Dakota. Syria famously lost the Golan Heights to Israel in 1967, during the Arab-Israeli war; negotiations between the two countries have been minimal in recent years. Like many countries in the region, Syria’s main export is oil. Unlike Saudi Arabia or Iran, however, Syria’s oil reserves are relatively small; it ranks 33rd in the world. Syria is home to a smorgasbord of ethnicities and religions: Arabs, Kurds, Christians, Sunnis, Alawites, and Druze. The capital, Damascus, is a bustling metropolis (many believe it to be the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world) but is not the site of the country’s most significant protests (though rebels captured parts of the city in late January). That city, Hama, is the country’s fourth-largest, with fewer than 1 million occupants.

Read our interview with acclaimed journalist Anthony Shadid, who died on Feb. 16 while reporting in Syria.

What’s happening now? Ever since last March, Syrians, especially those in the country’s central region, have protested the iron-fisted government headed by Bashar al-Assad. During the first week of August the Syrian army began a brutal campaign tocontrol Hama, using tanks and troop assaults to kill citizens in a seemingly indiscriminate manner. The situation has continued to escalate in 2012. In late January, rebels known as the Free Syrian Army, reportedly took control of a portion of Damascus’ suburbs. On January 31, Syrian government forces, according to Reuters, “reasserted control” of the Damascus suburbs. Elsewhere, in Homs, a central-Syrian town with more than a million people, Syrian government forces killed nearly 100 people—activists say 55 civilians were killed—on January 31. The Free Syrian Army has fought on, asserting that “half of the country” is now effectively a no-go zone for Assad’s security forces. Since November, at least 3,000 Syrians reportedly have beenkilled.

Who’s in charge?: Assad has ruled Syria since 2000. His father, Hafez al-Assad, a member of the Baath Party, came to power in 1970 after leading a bloodless coup. Assad’s family came from a minority religious sect: the Alawites, an offshoot of Shia Islam. Thirty years ago, Assad launched one of the most brutal massacres in the modern history of the Middle East: His troops killed nearly 20,000 people in the city of Hama. In 2000, Hafez Assad died, and Bashar took over. To some, the shift from Hafez to Bashar suggested an opportunity (albeit a limited one) for Syria to become a more politically moderate society. Last year, Vogue magazine perpetuated that notion with a widely remarked profile of first lady Asma al-Assad published during the height of the Arab Spring. It stated that Syria was “the safest country in the Middle East.” Clearly that couldn’t have been more off-base, with Bashar apparently intent on following in his father’s footsteps. (Vogue scrubbed its archives of the Assad profile, but the internet doesn’t forget.)

What is the rest of the world doing about the situation? On January 31, the United Nations Security Council considered a resolution introduced by Morocco, urgingAssad to resign. The prior weekend, the Arab League pulled its observers out of Syria due to continued violence. At the UN, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said: “The United States urges the Security Council to back the Arab League’s demand that the Syrian Government immediately stop all attacks against civilians and guarantee the freedom of peaceful demonstrations.” Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr Al-Thani, Qatar’s foreign minister, told the UN that Syria: “did not fully and immediately met (sic) its commitments to the Arab League”and that the Syrian “killing machine is still at work.” Nabil Elaraby, the secretary general of the Arab League, urged the council to adopt the sanctions, imploring: “Do not let the Syrian people down in its plight.” Russia and China, considering their own interests on the global chessboard, are likely to veto the measure. Until now, Turkey, the European Union, and the United States have all enforced strict sanctions against the Syrian government. Regardless, Russia, according to the BBC, has contracts worth an estimated $1.5 billion for weapons sales to the Syrian government. As of late January, the US has begun preparations to close its embassy in Damascus.

Should the United States now consider military involvement? Shadi Hamid, research director at the Brookings Doha Center, wrote in The Atlantic last week that the “case for intervention is strong” and that the international community “must begin considering a variety of military options.” Others, like Marc Lynch, a professor at George Washington University, saythe US “should not be contemplating military intervention in Syria. Risky, costly foreign policy decisions can not simply be taken to express moral outrage.” Lynch believes a military intervention will not improve the situation in Syra, adding that “their failure would likely pave the way to something far worse.”

How do I follow what’s happening in real time? For keeping up with what’s happening in Syria—as well as most stories unfolding in the Middle East—it’s a good idea to follow the Twitter feed of Blake Hounshell, Foreign Policy‘s managing editor. Ahmed Al Omran, author of the Saudi blog Saudi Jeans, and Borzou Daragahi, the Middle East reporter for the Financial Times, are also good Syria tweeps. Al-Jazeera English, the New York Times, and theGuardian‘s constantly updated Middle East blog all provide good, up-to-date information on the situation in Syria.

[Also see our first Syria explainer from August 2011 for additional details.]

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3/2/2012

A 718-page digital document obtained byMother Jones contains names, phone numbers, neighborhoods, and alleged activities of thousands of dissidents apparently targeted by the Syrian government. Three experts asked separately by Mother Jones to examine the document—essentially a massive spreadsheet, whose contents are in Arabic—say they believe that it is authentic. As Bashar al-Assad’s military continues a deadly crackdown on dissent inside the country, the list appears to confirm in explicit detail the scale of the regime’s domestic surveillance and its methodical efforts to destroy widespread opposition.

The document does not contain any identifying government markings. But the experts consulted agree that its organization and content—which they say is striking in scope—are characteristic of lists used by intelligence services in the Middle East. A link to the document, which surfaced in mid-January in discussions about Syria on Twitter, was provided to Mother Jonesby a self-described hactivist who tweets frequently in Arabic and English and whose identity is unclear. A redacted sample of the document is below; Mother Jones is not publishing the full document or revealing the names of individuals in it because we cannot definitively confirm its authenticity nor predict how the document might be used if more widely disseminated.

But the experts who examined the document say it shows what many observers have strongly suspected: In addition to relentless bombing of cities such as Homs and Hama, the Assad regime is tracking down thousands of its own people for interrogation, coercion, or far worse.Joshua Landis, a scholar on Syria who has consulted for the State Department and other US government agencies, said he thinks the document merges the records of several Syrian intelligence agencies in order to better coordinate the crackdown. ”This is what a secret service does,” he said. Actions allegedly taken by individuals in the document—such as setting up a roadblock near Homs or issuing instructions about how to attack a Syrian military outpost—are “the kind of thing that people get whacked for all the time, or at least tortured for.”

“They put me face down on the floor, and started beating me with a cable on the soles of my feet, my legs and back. They were asking, ‘Why did you go to the demonstration?’”

According to Ammar Abdulhamid, a Syria expert and fellow at the conservative Foundation for Defense of Democracies, the document contains the names of people wanted by the government’s military and security services. It lists many of them with specific information—the year of their birth, names of their relatives, and descriptions such as, “he leads rallies in the Sakhaneh neighborhood.” The list also includes military defectors and their units and ranks, Abdulhamid said. “This kind of info on this scale cannot be available to the general public, or faked.”

The hactivist who alerted Mother Jones to the online document said that it was posted by members of an activist organizing committee inside Syria, but declined to provide any details confirming that, citing security concerns. It’s conceivable that the document involves deception by the Syrian regime or counterintelligence operations by its adversaries; the United States, Israel, and other Western powers are known to have run sophisticated covert operations against Syria and Iran for many years.

Andrew Tabler, a Syria expert and fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, agrees that the list appears to be authentic, despite that there is no way to know for sure. “The way it’s organized looks similar to other documents I’ve seen,” he said, citing a hit list he saw when he was in Syria in 2006. (That list, he said, also did not contain identifying government markings.) “It organizes people in such a way that it would allow the security services to be able to track them down.” Tabler also said the document is longer than any he’s previously seen; it allows the Syrian government to “more effectively round up these folks and choke them off as part of the crackdown.”

Here is a sample from the top of page 1 of the document, which was translated from the Arabic by Abdulhamid.

(The English above corresponds to the headers and content of line 1 below; the columns are flipped, as Arabic is read from right to left.)

A Syrian student living in Europe who actively supports the opposition movement also examined the document and said that it is “very encompassing” and includes details on “activists who make things happen on the field and military defectors.” A note above a section near the end of the document, he said, suggests that the names of the people it contains were extracted through confessions.

The infamy of Syria’s Mukhabarat intelligence service is well known. For the past year, reports of it rounding up and torturing Syrian activists have steadily trickled out of the country. “When they took me in, they put me face down on the floor, and started beating me with a cable on the soles of my feet, my legs and back,” a Syrian protester told Human Rights Watch last year. “They were asking, ‘Why did you go to the demonstration? Who paid you to go? Who made you go?’ They just wanted me to confess to something, did not matter what.”

“I have seen lists that had hundreds of names listed in the same manner,” Abdulhamid said. “Some were published on the web by activists to warn people. Others included names of people who were later arrested or killed. Activists have reported since the early days of the revolution that when loyalist security forces came to their neighborhoods, they indeed carried a list of names in their hands and were looking for specific people, in addition to making random arrests or arresting relatives of the people whose names they had.”

“It’s way out of control. All of a sudden these large networks of people who were connected through this new technology, it overwhelmed the regime.”

He added: “It is possible that some of these lists have been leaked intentionally and that they contain names of pro-Assad elements to be used as bait for catching activists. The dynamics of the revolution have become very complex—there is active cyberwar going on, intelligence and counterintelligence, propaganda and counterpropaganda, and the regime tends to have the upper hand in these fields.”

Landis, who also runs the influential blog Syria Comment, says he thinks the scale of the document highlights “how overwhelmed the security forces clearly are with this uprising. They’re trying to keep track of leadership and who’s in the opposition, and it’s reaching into the thousands upon thousands.” Even for a regime as systematically brutal as Assad’s, it’s an immense undertaking. “They have to go out and find these people’s homes and interrogate their families, and then try to track these people down.”

Landis believes that the Arab Spring and the rise of social networks have weakened the iron grip that the regime has had on the country for more than four decades. “It’s way out of control…it’s on Facebook, it’s using all these technologies they don’t understand and were not up to speed on,” he said. “All of a sudden these large networks of people who were connected through this new technology, it overwhelmed them. It wasn’t people just making phone calls on the old hard lines the government had completely wired.”

Still, ever since the uprising began last March, the regime has shown that it will go to extreme lengths to crush the opposition. The situation turned particularly grim this month: There have been reports of hundreds massacred, including women and children, the US shut down its embassy in Damascus, and Western journalists have been killed. (For more details and essential background, read our updated Syria explainer.)

Western countries, in cooperation with several Arab countries like Saudi Arabia and Morocco, pursued a UN resolution calling for an end to Assad’s rule. It failed in early February, with Russia and China vetoing. On Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other international leaders gathered in Tunis, calling for humanitarian aid and a UN peacekeeping force to be allowed into Syria. President Obama also weighed in, saying, “We are going to continue to keep the pressure up and look for every tool available to prevent the slaughter of innocents in Syria.” But as the violence goes on, options for a coalition of outside governments to intervene appear to remain limited.

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3/1/2012

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SATELLITE PHONES JAMMED IN BABA AMR AS ASSAD’S ELITE FORCES PREPARE GROUND ASSAULT:

UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL VOTES TO CONDEMN “VIOLATIONS AGAINST CIVILIANS” BUT DIRECT HUMANITARIAN ACCESS DENIED:

BRAVE ACTIVISTS PAY A DEADLY PRICE FOR SMUGGLING WESTERN JOURNALISTS OUT OF HOMS:

OPPOSITION TO ASSAD CONTINUES TO GROW AS HE ALIENATES CHRISTIANS AND KUWAIT PARLIAMENT VOTES TO ARM FSA:

TIMELINE 1st March 2012 12.58 GMT:

As many as 7,000 of Assad’s troops are now surrounding the Baba Amr district of Homs in what many believe is a final ground assault on the area to destroy any resistance against the Government.

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Baba Amr – Or what’s Left of it

Although all direct communication with Baba Amr ceased yesterday, relayed messages said that the Free Syrian Army was still putting up a fight and there were claims via Facebook that it had inflicted huge loses on Assad’s forces.

The latest reports this morning, Thursday, say that the FSA have decided to withdraw from Baba Amr and regroup elsewhere in order to protect the 4,000 civilians remaining.

The attack against the Opposition fighters is believed to have been co-ordinated by Assad’s 4th Armoured division lead by his brother Maher Al-Assad.

Land-line and mobile phone connections with Baba Amr have been cut for some time, but yesterday the satellite phones that activists continued to use were jammed with a radio signal. Homs was also blanketed in snow overnight making conditions even more difficult.

However, there are also reports that Syrian army troops are being denied large amounts of ammunition and only issued with light weapons as fears grow of a major rebellion by Sunni soldiers against their Alawite masters. Alawite officers are in control of almost all units.

Attacks by Assad’s troops also continue on Idlib and other cities, but conversely army defectors are increasing and, as this video shows, Opposition forces are also hiding secretly in Damascus, HERE:

FSA Destroy More Syrian Army Vehicles

The FSA has vowed to increase attacks elsewhere in Syria in order to relieve the pressure on Baba Amr and Homs. “All of Syria is turning into Baba Amro,” a FSA spokesman said.

Their cause was strengthened yesterday when the main Opposition group, the Syrian National Council (SNC), said it was setting up a “military bureau” to co-ordinate armed resistance and support to fight against President Assad.

The SNC in turn was bolstered by Libya which has announced it will supply $100 million’s worth of humanitarian aid and allow the SNC to set up an office in Tripoli, the expenses of which it would also cover.

A police defector describes his reasons for turning against Assad and his escape, HERE:

UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL VOTES TO CONDEMN “VIOLATIONS AGAINST CIVILIANS” BUT DIRECT HUMANITARIAN ACCESS DENIED:

On the international front the UN Human Rights Council passed a motion proposed by Turkey condemning Syria for its “widespread and systemic violations” against civilians and calling on Assad to stop all aggression and to allow immediate access to aid organisations.

HR Council, Geneva, Votes Against Syria

The motion was carried by 37 votes to 3 (Russia, China and North Korea voting against), with 3 abstentions.

UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief, Valerie Amos was denied access to Syria this week despite an agreement made with Assad’s Government over a month ago to allow the UN access to evaluate the humanitarian situation in Daraa.

Kofi Annan, the joint UN/Arab League special envoy, still hopes to visit Damascus soon for discussions on the crisis with President Assad, but no timetable has yet been fixed.

The International Red Cross said it had been able to establish 10 first aid and aid distribution points around Homs, but none in Baba Amr where the situation was still too dangerous.

ACTIVISTS PAY A DEADLY PRICE FOR SMUGGLING WESTERN JOURNALISTS OUT OF HOMS:

A Spanish journalist, Javier Espinosa, was smuggled out of Homs on Wednesday and into Lebanon to join British photographer Paul Conroy, rescued earlier. Despite reports from France yesterday that said French journalists William Daniels and seriously injured Edith Bouvier had reached Lebanon, this is now thought to be incorrect and that they are still in Homs along with the 2 bodies of journalists killed earlier.

Syrian activists, according to reports from the international group AVAAZ, paid a very heavy price for assisting the journalists in their escape. A group of 50 activists transporting the injured Westerners and bringing in medical and food supplies was tracked and targeted by the Syrian Army, resulting in the deaths of 23. CNN has a report HERE:

Jacques Beres, Surgeon, Spent 12 Days in Homs – bbc.co.uk

Food supplies in Homs are reported as extremely low and it is said that children are in danger of dying from hunger.

Jacques Beres, a 71-year-old surgeon, and co-founder of Medecins Sans Frontieres, has just spent 12 days in Homs treating dozens of patients.

“I was based in a makeshift operating theatre. Everyone is too scared to go to the state-run hospital,” he said. “We did have running water but, as it was a private hospital, there was only water in some rooms – the bathroom and kitchen. There were no proper sterilisation facilities either – we just had to rinse our hands with alcohol and put them straight into our gloves.

He describes his harrowing experience in full, comparing it to working in Chechnya, HERE:

OPPOSITION TO ASSAD CONTINUES TO GROW AS HE ALIENATES CHRISTIANS AND KUWAIT PARLIAMENT VOTES TO ARM FSA:

Assad meanwhile seems to have alienated the Christians in Syria by including Clause 3 in the new constitution. The clause excludes anyone other than a Muslim from becoming President. Christians make up 12% of the 23 million population. Fearing an Islamist back-lash if Assad falls, Christians have until now supported the existing regime. You can read a CNN report, HERE:

Reports from Kuwait this morning say that the new Parliament has passed a non-binding resolution calling on the Government to send arms to the FSA and to sever diplomatic ties with Damascus. Parliament also called on the Government to join international efforts to send Assad to the International Criminal Court and to recognise the SNC as the legitimate representatives of the Syrian people.

Lastly, a wry comment on the value of Assad’s “new constitution”:

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REPORTS THAT ASSAD’S KILLING MACHINE IS EXECUTING ANYONE WHO TRIES TO FLEE BABA AMR:

ASSAD’S SHAM “NEW CONSTITUTION” VOTE CLAIMS 57% TURNOUT AND ALLOWS HIM TO STAY IN POWER UNTIL 2028:

TIMELINE – 27th February 2012 10.58 GMT:

Activist groups in Syria claimed that as many as 140 people were killed across the country on Monday.

Unconfirmed reports suggested that 64 were residents fleeing from the Baba Amr district of Homs, who were bused to a checkpoint and the men taken away and executed.

Intense shelling of Homs continued all day yesterday and has started again this morning. Reports today from the city suggest that Assad’s elite 4th Armoured Division, commanded by his brother Maher, have entered the main streets surrounding Baba Amr overnight.

The tanks have slogans such as “Fourth Division Monsters” painted on them according to communications from residents.

Boy Standing Infront of Assad Destroyed Shop in Idlib – AP

The International Red Cross, working with the affiliated Arab Red Crescent organisation, was able to deliver medical supplies and to remove 3 people from Baba Amr yesterday, including an elderly woman and a pregnant woman and her husband.

They were unable to remove the bodies of the Western journalists killed last week or their injured colleagues, though new reports this morning suggest Paul Conroy, an injured photographer working for the Sunday Times, has now been smuggled into Lebanon and is safe.

Other centres of resistance to Assad’s regime came under fire yesterday, including the town of Qusayr, 15 kilometres north of Homs. The Syrian Army shelled the town of 40,000 inhabitants yesterday from two sides in order to try and dislodge members of the Free Syrian Army who still control it.

Judging from this video of destroyed Army vehicles in Idlib province, Assad is certainly not having it all his own way, despite the propaganda. Click HERE:

ASSAD’S SHAM “NEW CONSTITUTION” VOTE CLAIMS 57% TURNOUT AND ALLOWS HIM TO STAY IN POWER UNTIL 2028:

In Damascus the Syrian Government declared its referendum on a new constitution a “resounding success”, but internationally it was widely condemned as a “sham” and a “farce”. Assad’s officials claimed a 57% national turnout and 8 million voters, returning a pro-new constitution vote of “89%”.

In theory, the new constitution allows the formation of multiple political parties and takes away the monopoly of Syria’s Ba’ath Party rule. However, it also grants a president 2 x seven year terms in office, allowing Bashar Assad to stay in power until 2028.

Children “Vote” Against Assad – Reuters

Diplomats from other countries who toured polling stations during the voting report only a handful of voters at each station.

Despite the front put up by the Assad regime, Damascus is now definitely beginning to feel the strain of internal warfare as can be seen from this Al Jazeera video, HERE:

The continuing turmoil is also affecting Lebanon which has previously relied heavily on trade with Syria. Al Jazeera’s James Bays has a video report from a town 30 kilometres from the Syrian/Lebanese border, HERE:

While both Saudi Arabia and Qatar call for arms to be supplied to the Assad Opposition, diplomats from other countries made their views known at a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Alain Juppe, the French Foreign Minister, calling for Syria to be referred to the International Criminal Court (ICC), told the 47 member Council:

“The day will come when the Syrian civilian and military authorities, first among them President Assad himself, must respond before justice for their acts. In the face of such crimes, there can be no impunity”.

The full Council will hold an emergency debate on Syria today, Tuesday.

Stepping up the pressure further, the EU also increased sanctions on Syria yet again on Monday, applying them to a number of named Syrian Government Ministers and blocking all transactions with the Syrian Central Bank.

Homs – Living in a War Zone – courtesy @DamascusKnight

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WHILE WORLD POWERS CONTINUE TALKING, COVERT ARMING OF SYRIA’S OPPOSITION LIKELY:

HILARY CLINTON LAMBASTES CHINA AND RUSSIA, DESCRIBING UN VETO AS “DESPICABLE”:

EVEN CLOSE FORMER ALLIES LIKE HAMAS DISTANCING THEMSELVES FROM ASSAD:

TIMELINE – 25th February 2012 10.37 GMT:

While international diplomats in the “Friends of Syria” conference in Tunis haggled and argued, opposition groups reported as many as 103 people killed across Syria on Friday, most of them in the relentless bombardment of Homs, now in its 21st day under siege.

Friday’s death toll however, which is reputed to include 14 children and 1 woman, did not stop brave Syrians demonstrating after prayer services and more than 600 protests against President Assad were reported across the country.

Baba Amr, Homs in Flames – AFP

In the Baba Amr district of Homs there has not been a Friday call to prayers for 3 weeks.

The International Red Cross and the Arab Red Crescent organisations managed to evacuate 27 injured women and children from Baba Amr and take them to another hospital in Homs.

However, wounded men refused to be evacuated as they were afraid of being arrested by Assad’s security forces. The injured journalists Edith Bouvier and Paul Conroy were not evacuated, despite efforts to do so. The reports on the reasons why are unclear.

Some say that opposition activists prevented it, but others that the reporters are refusing to leave until a ceasefire is declared and the dead bodies of Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik, a journalist and photographer killed earlier in the week, are also removed.

A plan by the Red Cross and the French to get in an international medical teams to extract the foreign journalists and tend to the neighbourhood’s most badly wounded was rejected by the Assad government, according to the activist group AVAAZ.

Meanwhile, Baba Amr and other Sunni districts in the city continue to be hit by Assad’s rockets and 122mm artillery shells. In Hama province there was also a report that 18 people had been lined up and shot by security forces in a village.

North of Homs heavy clashes were reported between Free Syrian Army (FSA) defectors and Syrian Army troops who are still trying to retake the opposition held town of Rastan. FSA fighters destroyed 2 army personnel carriers but the city itself was heavily shelled.

The BBC has a video report on villagers arming themselves to defend their communities, HERE:

HILARY CLINTON LAMBASTES CHINA AND RUSSIA, DESCRIBING UN VETO AS “DESPICABLE”:

Shelled Buildings in Homs

In Tunis, Hilary Clinton for the United States lambasted Russia and China for refusing to attend the conference.

“They are setting themselves not only against the Syrian people but also the entire Arab Awakening,” she said.

“It’s quite distressing to see permanent members of the Security Council using their veto when people are being murdered – women, children, brave young men — houses are being destroyed. It is just despicable”.

“I am convinced Assad’s days are numbered, but I regret that there will be more killing before he goes,” she added.

Agreement, beyond condemning Assad and formally recognising the Syrian National Council as the main opposition group in Syria, was not forthcoming at the conference, but Saudia Arabia and the Gulf States made it clear that they thought it was time for military intervention.

The Saudi Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, frustrated at the lack of progress, when asked about arming the opposition groups said he thought it was “an excellent idea”. The BBC has a video report, HERE:

In Washington, President Obama said that they the allies would use “every tool available” to stop the slaughter, but was not specific. Many now feel that covertly arming the opposition fighters via proxy governments in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and/or Turkey may now start taking place in the background.

Opposition groups outside Syria are already believed to be raising money to purchase weapons and get them across the border to anti-Assad fighters, though opposition disunity, with delegates from opposing groups seen to be arguing in the lobby of the Tunis conference hotel, is not seen to be helping their case.

EVEN CLOSE FORMER ALLIES LIKE HAMAS DISTANCING THEMSELVES FROM ASSAD:

Assad’s isolation continues apace however, with even the Hamas Prime Minister of Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, commending after attending Friday prayers in Egypt, “The brave Syrian people that are moving toward democracy and reform”.

Until recently many Hamas leaders were based in Syria but have been seen to move their operations to Egypt, Qatar and Lebanon in recent weeks.

Adding another dimension to the complex Syrian situation, the UN and the Arab League yesterday appointed former UN secretary-general Koffi Annan as their joint special envoy on Syria.

Koffi Annan, former UN Secretary-General

Annan has been charged with “working with people inside and outside Syria to end the violence and the humanitarian crisis and facilitate a peaceful Syrian-led and inclusive political solution that meets the democratic aspirations of the Syrian people”.

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IRONICALLY, THE DEATH OF 2 JOURNALISTS STIMULATES MORE REACTION FROM THE WEST THAN 7,400 SYRIANS KILLED:

NOBLE CITIZENS OF HOMS, DESPITE SHELL FIRE, COME OUT ON THE STREETS TO HONOUR DEAD JOURNALISTS:

TIMELINE – 23rd February 2012 11.38 GMT:

Ironically, the death of 2 Western journalists in Homs yesterday may do more to stimulate the West’s reaction to Assad than the death of an estimated 7,400 Syrians.

On hearing of the death of Marie Colvin, an American born journalist who worked for the UK’s Sunday Times, and French photographer Remi Ochlik, President Sarkozy of France said, “That’s enough now. This regime must go”.

Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik – RIP – bbc.co.uk

In the United States, Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich have both come out in favour of arming the Syrian Opposition via strategic allies Turkey and Saudi Arabia.

The US Government, which until now has been against supporting the Opposition militarily, has said that it is now “considering other options”. An international “Friends of Syria” meeting takes place in Tunisia tomorrow, Friday.

Assad’s relentless bombardment of the Baba Amr and Inshaat Sunni districts of Homs, with rocket, shell, mortar and T-52 Russian built tank fire, continued yesterday with estimates of between 80 and 100 killed. Alawite districts in Homs are not being attacked.

Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik were in a building in Baba Amr, along with other journalists, being used as a makeshift media centre, when it was targeted with shell fire. A Government helicopter had hovered overhead shortly before the building was bombed, giving rise to speculation that it had been pinpointed with electronic eavesdropping.

As the first shells hit the building, the occupants tried to escape but after a short break a further 11 shells or rockets fell on the building and its garden, killing or wounding 22 people.

Paul Conroy, a British freelance photographer and Edith Bouvier from the French newspaper Le Figaro were also seriously injured in the explosions and are now at a Baba Amr field hospital. Paris-based photographer William Daniels, who also works for Le Figaro and Time magazine, luckily escaped from the same attack unhurt.

Damaged Building in Homs – LCC/EPA

The International Red Cross is still trying to negotiate a 2 hour per day ceasefire to get humanitarian aid into Homs and other cities, but so far, despite support from Russia for the move, without success.

The Syrian National Council (SNC), the main opposition group, said that it was coming to the conclusion that military intervention was the only solution.

A very well known Syrian blogger, Rami Ahmed al-Sayed, was also killed in Homs this week when his car was struck by a rocket. Rami regularly broadcast from besieged Homs and his video reports were widely circulated on the Internet. The last video from his channel, sadly featuring his own body, is HERE:

Marie Colvin, 56, was an experienced war journalist who had worked for the Sunday Times for more than 20 years. Very recognisable by the eye patch she wore covering a previous shrapnel wound in Sri Lanka in 2001 that cost her the sight in her left eye, she was due to leave Homs on Wednesday night. She never made it.

Map Showing Location of Baba Amr – Guardian Graphics

Marie Colvin’s last audio report to the BBC, with previous video footage from Paul Conroy who is now injured, is HERE:

There is a video report and a transcript of Colvin’s last report to CNN’s Anderson Cooper too, describing how she was in the room when the toddler died the day before (scroll down and see below), HERE:

Remi Ochlik, just 28, the French photographer who died in the same attack, was the founder of the press agency IP3 Press and recently won first prize in the 2012 World Press Photo Awards for his pictures of Libya. You can see a gallery of his work, HERE:

NOBLE CITIZENS OF HOMS, DESPITE SHELL FIRE, COME OUT ON THE STREETS TO HONOUR DEAD JOURNALISTS:

The noble citizens of Homs, despite lack of sleep, no electricity or heating oil in one of the coldest winters on record, and dangerously low supplies of water and food, came out on the streets of the Al-Qusoor district Wednesday night to honour the lives of the killed foreign journalists in a moving celebration of song and dance, HERE:

The journalists and civilians killed are of course, in the Assad regime’s warped collective mind, just “collateral damage” in their attempt to destroy all traces of opposition and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) which is still, despite limited weaponry, defending the citizens of Homs.

In this excellent and comprehensive video report, despite being a few days old, you will see both the residents heartbreak and the FSA going on the offensive and destroying Assad intelligence HQ in Homs, HERE:

The Syrian Government’s reaction to the reports of the deaths of the journalists is predictably to advise all reporters to “report to the proper authorities” and not to enter the country illegally.

This morning, Thursday, further shelling is reported on the cities of Homs and Idlib and arrests and attacks in Aleppo and Khreita in Deir Ezzor province with at least 3 dead.

EDITOR: Without a doubt, President Bashar Assad is building his own “funeral pyre”. There is now no way back now. By whatever means his regime must be destroyed and the killers brought to justice.

Lastly, the Syrian Independence Flag got an unexpected international airing during a soccer match between Bahrain and Syria yesterday. The Crowd cheered but Syria lost 2 – 1, HERE:

Protests Against Assad Continue, Kafranbel, Idlib – Reuters

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LIVE WEBCAM AND DEATH OF A TODDLER AS HOMS HORROR CONTINUES:

TIMELINE – 21st February 2012 10.37 GMT:

After 18 straight days of bombardment, Assad’s forces increased their pressure on Homs yet again yesterday with as many as 200 shells per hour falling on the city.

This morning, Tuesday, the intense rocket and tank fire continues with reports of 12 dead this morning and as many as 100 injured. President Assad, the man who told Barbara Walters in a video interview, that any leader “who kills his own citizens is mad”, seems determined to wipe-out all resistance to his regime in Homs.

Child Seriously Injured by Shell Fire on Baba Amr

And it does not matter who gets in the way it seems.

For a flavour of what the poor people of Homs are going through, log onto to this live webcam from the city by SyriaPioneer and let it run in the background on your computer for a while.

You won’t see much, just rooftops, sky, panicked birds, smoke and the occasionally helicopter or aircraft.

What you will hear though is the sickening whine of incoming rockets and the explosions that follow every few minutes and frequent machine gun fire. Click HERE:

And if that does not get to you, watch this, the heartbreaking last moments before a toddler draws his final breath in Baba Amr while a frantic Mother and doctor standby, unequipped and virtually helpless to do anything to save him, HERE:

The terror being felt and the destruction taking place can be seen, HERE:

Meanwhile the talking goes on. The International Red Cross is holding talks with the Assad Government to try and get a 2 hour ceasefire per day so that they can ferry in humanitarian supplies and the international community meets in Tunisia on Friday to discuss possible next moves.

While all those people talk the people of Homs are expecting a ground assault by troops and an even bigger bloodbath soon.

God help them. Al Jazeera has a video report HERE:

With just 3 days to go you can add your voice to the AVAAZ (now 13 million members strong) petition calling for the international community to:

Support the Syrian National Council
Toughen Sanctions
Organise Humanitarian Assistance
Protect Civilians
And lastly not to accept any watered down compromises.

SIGN THE PETITION NOW, HERE:

Homs Being Pulverised by Rocket Fire – cnn.com

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SECURITY FORCES PREDICTABLY OPEN FIRE ON MASSIVE DEMONSTRATION IN MEZZEH DISTRICT BELOW THE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE:

SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS LEADER GIVES ASSAD REGIME 6 MONTHS BUT SAYS PRESIDENT WILL “FIGHT TO THE END”:

TIMELINE- 19th February 2012 10.46 GMT:

Events in Damascus took a significant turn yesterday, Saturday, when a funeral procession for 4 people killed by security forces a day earlier in the “upmarket” middle class district of Mezzeh, turned into an anti-Government demonstration involving an estimated15,000 – 20,000 people.

This was the first time for months, despite cold snowy weather, that such a big demonstration against Assad has taken place in an area near the heart of the capital city which contains a number of government buildings including a security headquarters and a prison. The BBC has a video report, HERE:

Protest in Middle-Class Mezzeh, Damascus – nytimes.com

The area is also just below the Presidential palace and had he been at home, activists say, President Assad would certainly have heard the call for his downfall.

Security forces however reacted predictably by firing into the crowd, killing at least one person and wounding a number of others.

A wave of searches and arrests in the district followed the protest.

This video, uploaded yesterday, clearly shows the moment the security forces opened fire indiscriminately on the protesters, HERE:

Opposition members think that the continuing bombardment of Homs has spurred many Syrians who were “sitting on the fence” to come out and support the movement to get rid of Assad.

SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS LEADER GIVES ASSAD REGIME 6 MONTHS BUT SAYS PRESIDENT WILL “FIGHT TO THE END”:

The shelling of Homs continued yesterday with volleys of rockets hitting the districts of Baba Amr, Inshaat and Baba Dreib. In all 12 more people were reported killed across Syria on Saturday and up to 30 on Friday.

China’s Vice Foreign Minister, Zhai Jun, was in Damascus yesterday for talks with Assad, while the demonstrations were underway, but predictably called for further dialogue between all sides and for people to support the upcoming vote on a new constitution on February 26th.

Opposition parties have called for a boycott on the constitutional vote, believing it is worthless while the killing continues.

Assad’s other ally, Iran, also in a show of defiant support, sailed 2 warships up through the Suez Canal and onto Syria’s Mediterranean port at Tartous.

Black Smoke Pours from Burning Oil Pipeline near Baba Amr, Homs

Meanwhile, Faisal al-Qudsi, a leading Syrian businessman and the son of a former Syrian president, has said that sanctions, disruption and the loss of tourist and oil revenue are slowly crippling the economy.

Mr Qudsi, who is heavily involved in Syria’s economic liberalisation, chairs a Syrian investment bank in London and politically well connected, is well placed to observe developments.

In an interview with the BBC, he said members of the business community were slowly deserting the Government and that the Central Bank foreign currency reserves had dropped from $22 billion to around $10 billion, despite economic help from Iran.

In his view, the Government, as the army tires, can only last another 6 months but he believed that Assad would “fight to the end”.

“The apparatus of the government is slowly disintegrating and it’s almost non-existent in trouble spots like Homs, Idlib, and Daraa,” he said. “Courts are not there; police are not interested in any sort of crime and it is affecting the government very, very badly.” You can read the full BBC report, HERE:

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UN WAR OF WORDS CONTINUES BUT DOES NOTHING TO STOP THE KILLING IN HOMS AND ACROSS SYRIA:

VENEZUELA’S PRESIDENT CHAVEZ BREAKS THE OIL BLOCKADE IN SUPPORT OF HIS “FRIEND” ASSAD:

ASSAD “LAUGHABLY” ANNOUNCES NATIONAL REFERENDUM ON CONSTITUTION FOR FEBRUARY 26TH:

TIMELINE – 17th February 2012 12.15 GMT:

While the war of words and resolutions continued at the United Nations, Homs yesterday, Thursday, suffered its 13th straight day of artillery and rocket attack, activists saying it was the worst day yet with the Syrian army using multiple rocket launchers for the first time.

Activists have also reported that at times they were experiencing up to 4 rockets a minute and that there were an “unprecedented” number of planes and surveillance aircraft overhead.

House and Car Shelled in Baba Amr, Homs

Food, heating fuel and supplies of medicines are desperately low. Danny Abdul Dayem, an English speaking activist in Homs speaks movingly of the dreadful situation in the city, HERE:

As explosions shook the Homs residential areas of Baba Amr, Khaldiyeh, Bayada and Inshaat, Assad’s Army also launched attacks on Daraa in the south, where many were arrested or randomly shot at, and Hama.

Free Syrian Army forces attacked an Assad security checkpoint at Soran, killing 4 security personnel.

Clashes between the 2 sides also took place at Kfar Naboudeh in Hama province, where Government forces are reported to have killed 10 army defectors and 4 civilians.

Overall Thursday saw up to 40 deaths across the country and multiple sources report continued attacks on Homs this morning, Friday. Reuters has a video of recent fighting and shelling, HERE:

At the UN yesterday, a similar resolution to the (failed) one put to the Security Council last week, calling on Syria to comply with the Arab League plan, was put to the General Assembly and passed with a majority of 137 to 12 against and 17 abstentions.

The 12 against were Russia, China and Iran plus Syria, Venezuela, North Korea, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador, Belarus, Zimbabwe and Cuba.

Plea For Help Ahead of UN Vote

The 17 abstentions were Lebanon, Algeria, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Suriname, St Vincent, Tuvalu, Uganda, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Tanzania, Angola, Armenia, Fiji, Comores and Cameroon.

Three countries did not vote because of technical problems. Al Jazeera has video report on the UN vote and reactions, HERE:

Syria’s UN Ambassador, Bashar Ja’afari, bitterly attacked Syria’s former friends in the Arab League. “Good luck to the Arab League in implementing the tasks entrusted to it by Israel,” he said. “Congratulations for this new alliance between the League of Arab States and Israel and the historical enemies of Syria”.

VENEZUELA’ S PRESIDENT CHAVEZ BREAKS THE OIL BLOCKADE IN SUPPORT OF HIS “FRIEND” ASSAD:

Venezuela did not only vote in support of President Assad, but has sent him a delivery of diesel fuel due to dock in Banias today. The fuel, carried by the tanker Negra Hipolita, if fully laden, amounts to around 47,000 tonnes with a value of $50 million. Should the vessel need to dock in EU or US ports on its return trip, it is likely to be impounded for breaking EU and US sanctions.

President Chavez of Venezuela, who is suffering from cancer and still supports Gaddafi’s failed regime, has consistently supported other countries who draw opposition from the West, no matter what their crimes or how many they kill.

Razan Ghazzawi – Under Arrest Again

In Damascus, it was also reported that Mazen Darwich, head of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression, and Razan Ghazzawi, a U.S.-born blogger and press freedom campaigner were both arrested on Thursday.

Razan, who was arrested and then released after an international outcry last year, was born in Miami, Florida.

ASSAD “LAUGHABLY” ANNOUNCES NATIONAL REFERENDUM ON CONSTITUTION FOR FEBRUARY 26TH:

On Wednesday President Assad announced that there would be a “national referendum” on a new constitution which was presented to him on Sunday.

The revised constitutional document would remove Assad’s Ba’ath Party as the sole political party in the state and allow others to take part in multi party elections. The president would also not be allowed more than 2 x 7 year terms in office.

Optimistically, Assad has said that the voting will take place on February 26th, leaving almost no time to organise it in a country split by fighting factions. Several sources have described the event as “laughable” while the killing continues and said that “reforms” are too late – Assad must go.

It has also been widely reported that, Anthony Shadid, a 2-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist working for the New York Times, died in Syria near the Turkish border on Thursday following a severe asthma attack brought on by contact with horses to which he was strongly allergic.

Anthony Shadid – guardian.co.uk

Shadid, who was of Lebanese origin, has reported widely on “Arab Spring” and Middle East events, having been imprisoned by Colonel Gaddafi in Libya for a while was last year and prior to that shot in the shoulder in Israel’s West bank.

Sectarian fighting has also spilled over the border from Syria into Lebanon, particularly in the northern town of Tripoli where there are significant populaions of both Sunni and Alawite sect followers.

In the Alawite areas they display photographs of President Assad in support of his regime, while the Sunnis are angry at what has been done to they “compatriots” in Homs and other cities. The BBC has a comprehensive video report on the situation in Tripoli, HERE:

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UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONER CALLS ON ASSAD GOVERNMENT TO BE REFERRED TO THE ICC:

ARAB LEAGUE GIVES UP ON MONITORING MISSION AND ASKS FOR JOINT UN/ARAB PEACEKEEPING FORCE:

TIMELINE – 14th February 2012 09.27 GMT:

At the UN General Assembly yesterday, Monday, Navi Pillay, the head of the UN Human Rights Commission, delivered her strongest condemnation yet of President Assad and his “killing machine” in Syria.

Pillay said that Russia and China’s veto of the UN Security Council Resolution had emboldened the Syrian regime to escalate its attacks on civilians and the violent crackdown on dissidents since March 2011 had almost certainly resulted in Assad committing “crimes against humanity”.

Angry Syrian Ambassador Defends His Country at UN – AFP

Navi Pillay had no hesitation in listing the statistics: tens of thousands of people, including children, have been arrested, more than 18,000 are reported detained, and thousands more reported missing.

Another 25,000 people are estimated to have fled to neighbouring countries, and more than 70,000 are estimated to be internally displaced. At least 5,400 were killed last year alone.

She went on to mention the reports of torture and sexual assault, and was particularly concerned over the reports of the “rape of men and boys” held in custody.

The High Commissioner was also concerned about the deliberate stirring up of sectarian conflict and the now very obvious likelihood of civil war. Finally, she called for Assad’s government to be referred to the International Criminal Court in the Hague (ICC).

Bashar al-Jaafari, Syria’s UN Ambassador, speaking immediately after the High Commissioner, called her comments “unprincipled” and persisted in claiming that his nation was under attack from “terrorist groups”, including Al-Qaeda. Al Jazeera has a video report from the UN, HERE:

In Syria itself, the bombardment of Homs, particularly the Baba Amr and Al-Waer districts, continued for the 10th day, falling into a regular pattern of heavy bombardment in the morning starting at dawn, falling off in the afternoon and then resuming again at night.

All of the shelling appears to be random firing at residential areas in order to terrify the local population into submission.

Syrian Army Tanks in Baba Amr, Homs – Reuters

Almost all families are living and sleeping just on the ground floor and activists estimate that at least 500 people have been killed in Homs alone since the shelling began.

The continued savage attack on Homs has prompted further demonstrations inside Syria, notably at Kernaz, north of Hama, where thousands took to the streets in praise of the Free Syrian Army.

Despite continued killings across Syria, mainly by sniper fire in Aleppo, Zabadani, Madaya and Hama, the Free Syrian Army is having success controlling some areas in the countryside and resisting army attack in others.

Repelling a Syrian Army attack on Rastan yesterday, rebel forces now control small swaths of territory in Homs and Idlib provinces. Slowly they are getting more organised and improving communication and command structures. CNN has a video report from inside Syria, HERE:

ARAB LEAGUE GIVES UP ON MONITORING MISSION AND ASKS FOR JOINT UN/ARAB PEACEKEEPING FORCE:

Meeting in Cairo on Sunday the 22 member Arab League called for a joint UN – Arab peacekeeping force for Syria to oversee a ceasefire and called for “opening communication channels with the Syrian opposition and providing all forms of political and material support to it”.

A FSA Fighter Takes Up Position in Rastan – AP

The move was immediately condemned by Syria whose representative said that they rejected the resolution “completely”.

The meeting also cancelled the Arab League monitoring mission to Syria and discussed the possibility of expelling Syrian ambassadors from all Arab nation capitals.

Tunisia, an Arab League member, has agreed to host a “Friends of Syria” meeting in Tunis on 24th February which will be attended by both Arab and Western nations plus the Syrian Opposition. The BBC has a video report from Cairo, HERE:

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MAD ASSAD PURSUES GENOCIDE IN HOMS TO WIPEOUT OPPOSITION:

UN GENERAL SECRETARY SAYS “APPALLING BRUTALITY IS GRIM HARBINGER OF WORSE TO COME”:

TIMELINE – 9th February 2012 12.37 GMT:

The madness of President Assad in Syria continues as he takes full advantage of the international communities inability to take action against him, shelling three districts of Homs yesterday and again this morning with both tank and rocket fire.

This video shows damage to buildings in Homs as the rockets and shell continue to fall, HERE:

The relentless bombardment of the mainly Sunni districts of Khalidiya, Bab Amro and Inshaat, is reported to have killed as many as 93 people in Homs yesterday. Reports also suggest that armed militia, Shabiya, acting on behalf of Assad’s Government, murdered in cold blood, 3 Syrian families, a total of 19 people.

Destroyed Buildings in Baba Amr, Homs – Reuters

There is also a report that 18 premature babies in incubators died in hospital as a result of a power failure, but this cannot be independently verified and the Assad Government claims that all hospitals in Homs are “working normally”.

This morning, Thursday, the bombardment has started again and already 48 are reported dead, including 8 children. Al Jazeera has a live report from a Homs resident, HERE:

After a barrage, tanks apparently move into the city firing randomly and then retreat again before they are attacked by members of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) who ambush the tanks and armoured vehicles where they can. However, most of the shelling is coming from several kilometres away.

On a daily basis, more and more members of the Syrian Army are defecting to the Opposition side but they are only able to bring with them light automatic weapons, hand-grenades and in some cases rocket propelled grenades. What they need are more substantial anti-tank weapons.

Residents of Baba Amr Take Shelter from the Shelling, Yesterday – Reuters

An estimated 800,000 people live in Homs and half of them are reportedly under attack. Most of the food, including baby milk powder, is smuggled in from outside.

Al Jazeera has a comprehensive video of conditions within the city, HERE:

UN GENERAL SECRETARY SAYS “APPALLING BRUTALITY IS GRIM HARBINGER OF WORSE TO COME”:

On the international front, the Secretary of the Arab League, Nabil ElAraby, has proposed renewing the observer mission to Syria in conjunction with the UN and discussions with Ban Ki-Moon, the UN General Secretary are underway.

Ban Ki-Moon said. “I fear that the appalling brutality we are witnessing in Homs, with heavy weapons firing into civilian neighbourhoods, is a grim harbinger of worse to come”.

Wounded Men in Baba Amr Field Hospital – Reuters

Activists within Homs fear that that the tank and shell barrage will be followed by a house to house ground assault resulting in 100′s of deaths.

Reports say that at least 40 Syrian Army tanks and 50 infantry fighting vehicles accompanied by 1,000 soldiers were this week transported from the nearby border with Lebanon and from the coast to be deployed in Homs.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told reporters before flying to Washington for talks on Syria that Turkey had had enough and it was time to take action. Turkey is calling an international conference, supported by the US, UK, France and Qatar, to determine some sort of unspecified action in support of the beleaguered Syrian people.

The BBC’s Paul Wood, who was in Homs until Wednesday night and heard 100′s of shells landing, reports from Beirut, HERE:

Killing is also going on in the rest of Syria with Opposition held Zabadani under siege by 150 tanks and hundreds of troops, attacks on Daraa in the south and in Idlib province in the north. Sky’s Alex Crawford, who received awards for her reporting with the Opposition forces in Libya, is now inside Idlib in the company of the Free Syrian Army, HERE:

Kamal al-Labwani, a Syrian opposition leader living in exile, said, “Militarily he [Assad] cannot win. The bombardment has killed mainly civilians. The fighters in Homs and other cities have been slipping away but they will be back. Assad’s forces can enter Baba Amro or Zabadani, but they cannot stay there long before receiving painful hits”.

In the opposition suburbs of Damascus, where FSA fighters were driven out last week, Amer Faqih, a local activist in Harasta said, “We’re under occupation. The army has been looting shops and houses and stealing even mattresses. They have cut electricity and telephones for 10 days now, water and fuel are scarce. Anyone who ventures in the street after 6 p.m. risks being shot on the spot”.

Free Syrian Army Coat of Arms

It is clear that alternatives to the UN Security Council route are being sort by Western and Arab countries.

What kind of help this will be and whether it will be too little too late remains to be seen.

However, unlike Libya, the soldiers defecting to the Opposition side are well trained and disciplined and given appropriate weapons could make a serious impact on the balance of power.

Paul Wood from the BBC explains further, after following an FSA attack on a Syrian Army base, just before he left Homs, HERE:

An 11 year old boy had his lower face blown completely off by a mortar blast a few days ago and Paul Wood intended to start a collection going so that he could have his face reconstructed. Unfortunately he died Wednesday morning.

This video (EDITOR: extremely strong images, please do not watch unless you feel you can take it) shows the state of this poor boy and another young man who had his foot blown off.

AVAAZ, the worldwide action group, is smuggling desperately needed food, medicine and communications equipment into Syria. You can support their efforts by donating, HERE:

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RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER DESCRIBES WORLD REACTION TO VETO AS “HYSTERICAL” AND VISITS ASSAD IN DAMASCUS:

TIMELINE – 7th February 2012 11.27 GMT:

The reign of terror inflicted on Syria by President Assad continues with as many as 129 killed across the country yesterday.

Indiscriminate tank and mortar fire directed at the Baba Amr district of Homs which began on Sunday morning continued throughout Monday, destroying houses and a makeshift medical clinic and pausing only at nightfall, when residents went out under cover of darkness to bury their dead.

FSA Still Attacking Assad’s Security Forces – Reuters

Activists say 70 were killed yesterday in Homs alone and latest reports say that shelling resumed at dawn this morning, Tuesday, for a third day.

The citizens of Homs are left in a terrible plight, no electricity (and it is now really cold in Syria, especially at night) or communications in some areas, no proper medical or emergency services and little food.

Many have been injured, including seriously wounded children, and buildings destroyed outright or set on fire. There is a video of one such fire, HERE:

Despite the intense bombardment, somehow the citizens of Homs continue to broadcast their plight to the world. In this video, an English educated Syrian pleads for help, HERE:

Attacks are also being reported by Government forces against citizens in Zabadani, despite a truce agreement, Daraa and in the suburbs of Damascus.

The failure of the UN Security Council resolution to gain unanimous support has effectively given Assad a “green – light” to go all out to try and break the back of the opposition centred in Homs. While his people died from his shelling Assad went to the mosque to pray on the occasion of the celebration of the birth of the prophet Mohammed, HERE:

RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER DESCRIBES WORLD REACTION TO VETO AS “HYSTERICAL” AND VISITS ASSAD IN DAMASCUS:

Pro-Assad Supporters Welcome Russian Foreign Minister – Reuters

This morning Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, who has described world reaction to Russia’s UN veto as “hysterical”, landed in Damascus in the company of Russia’s Intelligence Chief, for unspecified discussions with President Assad and were later greeted by thousands of flag-waving pro-government supporters on the route to the Presidential palace.

Some believe that he will also call on Assad to stand down and pave the way for a new government, but at this stage nothing is clear. The BBC has a video report, HERE:

The United States yesterday closed down its embassy in Damascus and the ambassador and all his staff have left the country, after Assad’s Government were unable to give assurances that the embassy buildings would be protected. The UK and Belgium have recalled their ambassadors “for consultations”. Australia announced increased sanctions against 75 Syrian individuals and 27 entities, following the lead of the EU.

In Britain’s Houses of Parliament, Foreign Secretary, William Hague, said of Syria, “This is a doomed regime as well as a murdering regime. There is no way it can recover its credibility internationally.”

President Obama issued a statement in Washington saying that the Syrian leader’s departure is only a matter of time but a negotiated settlement was still possible without outside military intervention.

Demonstrations continued yesterday outside the Syrian embassy in London and the BBC spoke with some of the protesters, HERE:

In Turkey within the refugee camp where the headquarters of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) is located, there appears to be something of rift among opposition fighters.

A spokesman for Brigadier-General Mustafa Ahmad Al-Sheikh, who recently defected from Assad’s intelligence service, has announced the setting up of a “Higher Military Council” which will supersede the FSA.

General Riad Al-Assad, who until now has been the recognised leader of the FSA, says this “new council” is nothing to do with them and there is no need for it. The FSA remain highly suspicious of Brigadier-General Sheikh’s loyalties and intentions. Both parties are in the same refugee camp. Al Jazeera has a video report, HERE:

FSA Checkpoint in Baba Amr, Homs

Resistance in Syria to Assad’s Government continues to grow with armed fighters now on the outskirts of Aleppo, a city with a rich merchant class which until recently has not come out against the President. That may be all about to change.

In Anadan, a small town of 22,000 just ten minutes drive from Aleppo, where a number of residents have been killed by Assad’s security forces, they have had enough of “peaceful revolution” – for them it is now war.

On Friday they drove out government police and security forces and set up the “Revolutionary Council of Aleppo and its Suburb” and armed checkpoints at all entrances to the town. You can read the whole story, in the Los Angeles Times, HERE:

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WORLD APPALLED AT CHINA/RUSSIA’S “CALLOUS” UN VETO AS HUNDRED’S DIE:

COFFINS PILE UP AS THE PEOPLE OF HOMS BURY THEIR DEAD:

TIMELINE – 5th February 2011 10.15 GMT:

Most of the world was appalled at the veto used by China and Russia to block the passing of a resolution condemning the murderous actions of the Assad government in Syria.

13 countries on the 15 member Security Council voted for the resolution, 2 against.

Human Rights Watch, based in New York, called it “diplomatic cover” for the Assad regime and said in a statement, “The death toll had more than doubled in the last four months, and the risk is high that the Assad regime will see this double veto as a green light for even more violence.”

Coffins Pile Up in Homs After Friday’s Massacre – courtesy @3ayeef

President Obama denounced the attack on Homs on Friday night as an “unspeakable assault” and said, “Assad must halt his campaign of killing and crimes against his own people now.

He must step aside and allow a democratic transition to proceed immediately”.

Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary General of the UN, described the double veto as “a great disappointment to the people of Syria and the Middle East and to all supporters of democracy and human rights”.

The UK’s Foreign Minister, William Hague said that the action of China and Russia in blocking the unanimous vote “lets the Syrian people down, and will only encourage President Assad’s brutal regime to increase the killing”.

France, as well as criticising the outcome of the UN Security Council debate has suggested setting up a “Friends of Syria” group, similar to the one that was formed to support the opposition in Libya and which guided and co-ordinated effective action against Gaddafi.

Susan RIce, US UN Ambassador Votes on Resolution

Perhaps the strongest words over the veto came from Susan Rice, the United States UN ambassador.

She said the United States was “disgusted” at the outcome and that 2 members of the Security Council had blocked its work and held the Council “hostage for months”.

Speaking after the vote she added, the US “would not rest” until the people of Syria obtained their rights and the killing stopped. You can watch the UN video interview. HERE:

COFFINS PILE UP AS THE PEOPLE OF HOMS BURY THEIR DEAD:

From inside Syria a number of reporters have made it into Homs and are able to send out video of the struggle to treat the wounded and to fight back against Assad’s Army.

The BBC has a video report of a Free Syrian Army (FSA) attack and there is also video footage of Ambassador Rice speaking within the Security Council on the same page, HERE:

Al Jazeera reports on the family of a torture victim and the makeshift ill-equipped field hospitals which have been set up to treat the wounded, especially as many injured protesters are afraid to go to Government hospitas for fear of being arrested, HERE:

Thousands gathered yesterday, Saturday, to bury the dead in Homs as the bodies and coffins continued to pile up, HERE:

While the number of those killed and injured has been revised downwards, there is no doubt that a massacre occurred on Friday night and the residents of the city remain fearful and wary of yet another night-time attack.

Inside Syria’s Damaged Embassy in Cairo

Attacks on Syrian embassies throughout the world continued yesterday, with a renewed assault on the one in London which resulted in police beating back demonstrators with batons and shields and both protesters and police officers being injured.

Volleys of stones did even more damage to the embassy windows. The Guardian has a video clip, HERE:

In the Australian capital Canberra 40 or 50 men smashed through the front door of the building and caused extensive damage to the ground floor, breaking furniture and windows and removing computers. Terrified staff on the premises locked themselves in the basement.

Australia’s Foreign Minister, Kevin Rudd, expressed his government’s “deep concern” at the attack but also said he was “appalled” at the Russian and Chinese veto at the UN Security Council meeting in New York.

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ASSAD MASSACRES CIVILIANS IN HOMS AHEAD OF UN VOTE – 237 REPORTED KILLED AND 100′s WOUNDED:

SYRIAN EMBASSIES AROUND THE WORLD ATTACKED AND CALLS FOR AMBASSADORS TO BE EXPELLED:

TIMELINE – 4th February 2012 UPDATED 22.05 GMT:

In an attack that is nothing short of a massacre, Assad’s troops launched a barrage of shells and mortars against the Khalidiya neighbourhood in central Homs last night destroying 36 occupied houses and a hospital.

As many as 200 -337 people were initially reported killed in the assault and as many as 1300 injured, though that has now been amended to 237 dead and hundreds injured.

Residents do not understand the reason for the deadly attack which began at around 8pm local time Friday night, though the Free Syrian Army (FSA) is reported to have attacked a Syrian Army checkpoint in Khalidiya on Thursday night and captured 17 regular army soldiers.

A wave of new army defections has also been reported. The BBC has an audio/video report, with gunfire in the background, HERE:

Burning Building in Khalidiya, Homs

The Assad Government, through its news agency SANA, denied that Homs was even being shelled and said that the bodies and injured shown by activists on the Internet are “martyrs, citizens kidnapped, killed and photographed by armed terrorist groups” – a “deliberate” attempt by the Opposition to get world opinion on its side ahead of a vote on a resolution condemning Syria due at the UN Security Council today, the statement continued.

The Security Council met at 10.00am New York time today (15.00 GMT) to vote on the draft resolution put forward on Thursday. US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton said beforehand, “We are hopeful that…the Security Council will express the will of the international community”.

However, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, is reported as saying, “If they want another scandal for themselves in the Security Council, then we probably cannot stop them. Lavrov went on to say that he hoped the draft would not come to a vote without changes. The original resolution has already been watered down with a clause calling for Assad to stand down in favour of his deputy, being removed.

In the event, when the resolution came to a vote, both China and Russia used their veto causing anger and outrage both within the UN and across the world.

Map of Central Homs – bbc.co.uk

Meanwhile, reports emerging from Homs this morning describe how local people are struggling to cope with the aftermath of the attack with no equipment and no help.

Volunteers are tearing into the rubble of destroyed buildings with their bare hands, there are no ambulances, few medical staff or supplies and a severe shortage of blood.

Calls for blood donations are going unanswered because sniper fire in the city is so heavy that it is too dangerous to go outside. Rather gruesome video footage of injured and dying citizens of Homs being treated in a Mosque, HERE:

Some activist sources believe that Assad’s army is preparing for similar assaults on opposition strongholds in the suburbs of Damascus, in Hama, Daraya, Daraa and in Jisr al-Shughour in the north.

SYRIAN EMBASSIES AROUND THE WORLD ATTACKED AND CALLS FOR AMBASSADORS TO BE EXPELLED:

Crowd Storm Syrian Embassy in Cairo

The assault on Homs has prompted what could also be a co-ordinated wave of demonstrations outside Syrian embassies in London, Kuwait, Cairo, Madrid, Stockholm, Athens, Berlin and Washington.

In Cairo anti-Assad protesters broke into the embassy, smashed furniture and set part of the building on fire. In Kuwait protesters broke windows and raised the Syrian Independence flag above the building, several people were arrested and security forces fired shots in the air to disperse the crowd. In London around 100 protesters hurled stones at the Syrian embassy and 5 demonstrators were arrested.

Nor have the FSA been idle. There area reports this morning, Saturday, that the FSA destroyed an air intelligence building in Homs earlier today and a huge explosion has taken place in Hama near the border entrance of Halab. In Zabadani FSA defectors surrounded a government security building. Al Jazeera has a video with additional footage from Homs, HERE: and HERE:

FSA Fighter Next to Burnt Out Assad Tank in Homs

There are also reports this morning that Tunisia has condemned the violence in Homs and ordered the Syrian ambassador to leave the country.

Calls have come from the Arab parliament, affiliated to the Arab League, for all Arab states to expel their Syrian ambassadors.

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HEAVY FIGHTING AS ASSAD’S ARMY MARCHES BACK TOWARDS ZABADANI:

ARAB LEAGUE REPORT REVEALS SOME MONITORS THOUGHT THEY WERE THERE “FOR PLEASURE” OR WANTED HOTEL UPGRADES:

TIMELINE – 2nd February 2012 12.25 GMT:

Having retaken the eastern suburbs of Damascus, at least temporarily, the Syrian Army turned its attention to the mountains overlooking the capital from the north west, fighting its way up Wadi Barada, a valley near the Lebanese border.

Fighting in the valley was intense, with SANA the state news agency reporting a brigadier general and 2 other senior officers killed. The valley leads the mountain town of Zabadani which has been held by the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and protesters for weeks, even provoking a “ceasefire” and a Government withdrawal after the last clash.

FSA Fighters Near Wadi Barada

Opposition activists said that between 6 and 14 army defectors died in the clashes and as many as 24 civilians as the Syrian Army attacked Deir Qanoun, Ein al-Fija and other towns in the area.

Opposition groups claim that a total of more than 200 have been killed in Syria in the last 3 days.

In the eastern suburbs of Damascus Syrian security forces raided homes and made arrests of people they suspected of being dissidents. A 3 year old girl died from shooting in the suburb of Arbeen.

More fighting took place in Homs yesterday in clashes between the Army and defectors and in the southern Daraa province the town of Khirbet Ghazali was invaded by tanks and armoured vehicles. This short video shows defectors firing a captured tank back against regular Army forces, HERE:

A second abduction of Iranian pilgrims driving between the Turkish border and Damascus to visit Shi’ite shrines took place yesterday, this time involving 11 Iranian men. The FSA had previously claimed responsibility for capturing 7 Iranian “engineers” last month who were supposedly involved in building a power plant. The responsibility for the latest hostage taking is not known.

At the UN discussions continued in the Security Council to try and persuade Russia and China to sign up to a resolution on Syria based upon the demands made by the Arab League. The sticking point is the wording around President Assad having to stand down, which the Russians see as “regime change”.

Local Comment on UN Security Council Discussions – guardian.co.uk

However, both sides acknowledged that progress was made yesterday, Wednesday, and talks will continue until it comes to a vote next week. Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s UN Ambassador, said, “I think we have a much better understanding of what we need to do to reach consensus”.

The UK’s envoy, Mark Lyall Grant, agreed that steps forward had been taken but added, “We are not there yet”. The BBC has a video report from the UN, HERE:

ARAB LEAGUE REPORT REVEALS SOME MONITORS THOUGHT THEY WERE THERE “FOR PLEASURE” OR WANTED HOTEL UPGRADES:

The last of the Arab League’s monitors have now left Syria and a leaked report by General Mohammed Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi says that some of the 166 observers were not properly qualified or equipped.

Some, according to General al-Dabi “thought that their visit to Syria was for pleasure. In other cases “experts who were nominated were not qualified for the job, did not have prior experience, and were not able to shoulder the responsibility”.

Further extracts revealed:

1. “Some of the Observers who partook in the Mission are old, and some suffer health conditions that prevent them from fulfilling their duties”.

Arab League Monitors Leave the Safety of the Sheraton Hotel

2. “Some Observers in the Sectors demand accommodations comparable to those granted to their counterparts in Damascus or equal financial compensation as a result of the ratings of the hotels in which they were accommodated. Absent this, they requested to stay in Damascus which a fact does not even warrant a comment”.

3. “Regrettably, some Observers thought that their visit to Syria was for pleasure. They were taken by surprise in the view of the prevailing circumstances, their assignment to various Sectors, their confinement to stations away from the capital and other unexpected difficulties they faced”.

4. “Despite welcoming the Mission and its Chief, and continuously stressing that no security restrictions will be imposed to hinder the movement of the Mission, the Government put in place a tight strategy to limit access to the core areas, and keeping the Mission occupied with issues of concern to the Government”.

You can read the full report, obtained by Foreign Policy magazine and which makes interesting reading, HERE:

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Full Name: Mohammed Abdulsalam Almalla Isaa (‫محمد عبدالسلام الملا عيسى‬)
Age at Death: 14
Date of Death: 11/13/11
Location of Death: Dayr az_zawr (دير الزور)

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Full Name: Mohammed Ahmed Saboora (‫محمد أحمد صبورة‬)Age at Death: 6 monthsDate of Death: 7/16/11Location of Death: Qatana, Damascus Suburbs (قطنا, ريف دمشق)

Full Name: Mohammed Ahmed Saboora (‫محمد أحمد صبورة‬)
Age at Death: 6 months
Date of Death: 7/16/11
Location of Death: Qatana, Damascus Suburbs (قطنا, ريف دمشق)

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Full Name: Alaa Yaser Jiblawee (‫علا ياسر جبلاوي‬)Age at Death: 3Date of Death: 8/14/11Location of Death: Skantoori, Latakia (سكنتوري, اللاذقية)

Full Name: Alaa Yaser Jiblawee (‫علا ياسر جبلاوي‬)
Age at Death: 3
Date of Death: 8/14/11
Location of Death: Skantoori, Latakia (سكنتوري, اللاذقية)

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Full Name: Nechirvan Yusuf Yusuf (‫نيجرفان يوسف‬)Age at Death: 19Date of Death: 11/16/11Location of Death: Hims (حمص)

Full Name: Nechirvan Yusuf Yusuf (‫نيجرفان يوسف‬)
Age at Death: 19
Date of Death: 11/16/11
Location of Death: Hims (حمص)

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Full Name: Dalal Ghiath Alaouf (‫دلال غياث العوف‬)Age at Death: 16 Date of Death: 12/29/11Location of Death: Hama (حماة)

Full Name: Dalal Ghiath Alaouf (‫دلال غياث العوف‬)
Age at Death: 16
Date of Death: 12/29/11
Location of Death: Hama (حماة)

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Full Name: Maha Arafat (مها عرفات)Age at Death: 35 Date of Death: 1/3/12Location of Death: Ad-Dumayr, Damascus Suburbs (الضمير, ريف دمشق)

Full Name: Maha Arafat (مها عرفات)
Age at Death: 35
Date of Death: 1/3/12
Location of Death: Ad-Dumayr, Damascus Suburbs (الضمير, ريف دمشق)

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Full Name: Mohammed Abdulsalam Al Awd (‫محمد عبدالسلام العوض‬)Age at Death: 30 Date of Death: 12/24/11Location of Death: Bab Amro, Him (بابا عمرو, حمص)

Full Name: Mohammed Abdulsalam Al Awd (‫محمد عبدالسلام العوض‬)
Age at Death: 30
Date of Death: 12/24/11
Location of Death: Bab Amro, Him (بابا عمرو, حمص)

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Full Name: Mohammed Aiham Alsamman (‫محمد أيهم السمان‬)Age at Death: 20Date of Death: 12/19/11Location of Death: Midan, Damascus (الميدان, دمشق)

Full Name: Mohammed Aiham Alsamman (‫محمد أيهم السمان‬)
Age at Death: 20
Date of Death: 12/19/11
Location of Death: Midan, Damascus (الميدان, دمشق)

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Full Name: Ibrahim Nahel Osman (‫إبراهيم ناهل عثمان‬)Age at Death: 27Date of Death: 12/10/11Location of Death: Idlib (إدلب)

Full Name: Ibrahim Nahel Osman (‫إبراهيم ناهل عثمان‬)
Age at Death: 27
Date of Death: 12/10/11
Location of Death: Idlib (إدلب)

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Full Name: Firas Barshan (‫فراس برشان‬)Age at Death: 26Date of Death: 11/30/11Location of Death: Hama (إدلب)

Full Name: Firas Barshan (‫فراس برشان‬)
Age at Death: 26
Date of Death: 11/30/11
Location of Death: Hama (إدلب)

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Full Name: Abdulla Ali Al Ammar (‫عبدالله علي العمار‬)Age at Death: 21Date of Death: 11/25/11Location of Death: Dayr az-Zawr (دير الزور)

Full Name: Abdulla Ali Al Ammar (‫عبدالله علي العمار‬)
Age at Death: 21
Date of Death: 11/25/11
Location of Death: Dayr az-Zawr (دير الزور)

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Mohammad Ahmad Sabbora, 7 months old Died with his mother in Artooz, Damascus suburbs, on 7/16/2011

Mohammad Ahmad Sabbora, 7 months old

Died with his mother in Artooz, Damascus suburbs, on 7/16/2011

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Mohammad Fadi Atassi, 36 years old Died in Enshaat, Homs on 2/6/2012

Mohammad Fadi Atassi, 36 years old

Died in Enshaat, Homs on 2/6/2012

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Mohammad Fadi Loay Abbara, 17 years old Died in Khaldiyeh, Homs on 2/4/2012

Mohammad Fadi Loay Abbara, 17 years old

Died in Khaldiyeh, Homs on 2/4/2012

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Feher Subea Shallar, 29 years old Died in Khaldiyeh, Homs on 2/6/2012

Feher Subea Shallar, 29 years old

Died in Khaldiyeh, Homs on 2/6/2012

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Telecomix Statement

dated 4 October 2011

Tonight, Telecomix is releasing all log files in their possession (or at least the ones that the writer is presently aware of) taken from Syrian BlueCoat devices. These are Web filtering proxy devices that have been used by the Syrian Telecommunications Establishment for months in order to filter and monitor all HTTP connections in the country, helping authorities to track, arrest, torture and kill potential opponents. The log files cover the period from 22nd of July to 5th of August, 2011. They concern seven out of the fifteen BlueCoat SG-9000 devices that we found on the STE backbone network. Log files provide dozens of millions of HTTP requests emitted by dozens of thousands of Internet subscribers of all major ISPs in Syria, and represent 54GB of data. They notably include all requested URLs and how the proxy reacted to these requests. We release them to allow any one who wishes to analyze them to provide a deeper insight on Syrian censorship and create more knowledge to circumvent further attacks on freedom of expression. Statistical analyses can reveal interesting information such as forbidden keywords. Two of them that are already identified are « israel » and « proxy ». Some experiments that we made to confirm the devices behavior are described here. Subscribers’ personal IP addresses have been stripped off the for obvious privacy reasons, but it is indeed possible that some personal data are still present in the requested URLs. Syrian backbone network contains for sure other BlueCoat proxy devices, notably inside Syrian Computer Society IP ranges. More recent logs are not available, maybe because Syrian authorities have eventually secured the logging process and/or because they have upgraded their filtering strategy, now using devices from a German brand called Fortinet. Some BlueCoat devices IPs are the following: 82.137.200.42-56 (STE) and 213.178.244.16 (SCS). Have good fun with these, and feel free to mirror them!
http://streisand.trollab.org/OpSyria/Logs/

https://sec.tl/syrian-censorship-logs/
ftp://bluecoat:bluecoat@telecomix.ceops.eu

http://reflets.info/opsyria-syrian-censoship-log/

2/23/2012

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2/21/2012

When asked about the crimes against humanity committed by Assad forces, Human Rights Watch responded: “We’ve never seen such horror.” #Syria

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Over 350+ videos uploaded from #Syria syria-videos.ceops.eu via@TelecomixSyria cc. @evanchill

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IMPORTANT: Listen to the sounds of shelling in #Homs through this live stream provided by OCCUPY NETWORK
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BREAKING: The people of #BabAmro have a belief that the #Syria‘n regime is preparing for another massacre tonight.

#Homs: Internet cut off, activists are online somehow. Shelling is VERY VERY VERY heavy since an hour and half. Communications v bad. #Syria

BREAKING: URGENT: The #Syria‘n regime army is invading#Zabadani (15 Minutes away from #Damascus). SOS issued from people there!

Video shows residents in #BabAmr #Homs speeding to rescure the wounded from shelling by #Syria‘n regime forces

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Anonymous talks Haditha, raids Syrian servers

Posted on February 6, 2012 – 12:14 by Trent Nouveau

Cyber activists linked to Anonymous have posted an e-mail archive related to the deaths of 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians during a 2005 US raid in the Iraqi town of Haditha.

The e-mails were apparently lifted during a hack and extract operation against the law firm of Puckett Faraj, which is representing the Staff Sgt. (Frank Wuterich) accused of leading the group of Marines in Haditha.

A number of the documents, divided up in various categories, can be viewed here and here.   It should be noted that Wuterich recently struck a plea deal in which he will not go to prison, but would be demoted to private.

In other Anonymous related news, hackers operating under the auspices of the collective have reportedly compromised Syrian governmentnetworks and extracted memos, documents and emails advising President Bashar al Assad on how to handle the fallout over his bloody crackdown against protestors demanding regime change.

One alleged e-mail cited by Sky News appeared to advise Assad on how to approach his interview with ABC’s Barbara Walters, who spoke with the leader late last year.

“Mentioning ‘armed groups’ in the interview is extremely important and we can use American and British articles to prove there are armed gangs,” the adviser writes.

“American psyche can be easily manipulated when they hear that there are ‘mistakes’ done and now we are ‘fixing it.’”

The president was also advised to emphasize how protests are sometimes handled in western countries, adding that “Syria doesn’t have a policy to torture people, unlike the USA… We can use Abu Ghraib in Iraq as an example.”

February 2012 certainly has been a busy month for groups like Anonymous and AntiSec, with the collective managing to obtain a “sensitive” FBI-Scotland Yard conference call while jacking various police department sites, including those run by law enforcement officials in Syracuse (New York), Boston and Salt Lake City.

http://www.tgdaily.com/security-features/61273-anonymous-talks-haditha-raids-syrian-servers

Hidden Camera captures Syrian Security violent suppression of protests (june ’11) |Youtube|

#Syria

Saqba, Damascus, Syrian, Syria, Hula, Idlib, Zabadani, Qanoun Wadi Barada, Hama

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edwardedark: proof that fake names are being used by security to form political parties in #Syria, via Tishreen, state newspaper
http://t.co/pgFQoThT

@lissnup: #Syria Tweets today snup.us/DC Videos: snup.us/fdelb

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Syrians Instagram Their Revolution

The Civil War Instragrams have has evolved past simply recording the conflict, to become a platform on which Syrians signal and dispute their political allegiances:

But still, people Instagram day to day life. Two friends celebrate an early Ramadan meal:

They paint their nails:

They take pictures of babies:

They photograph beautiful skylines:

And delicious meals:

And then cakes:

And more cute babies:

And they keep fighting and Instagramming.

7-5-2012

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Syrian boy describes watching militiamen slaughter his whole family during Houla massacre: report

11-year-old says he played dead by smearing his slain brother’s blood on his face

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اللهم أرنا فيهم عجائب قدرتك يا الله..

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اللهم أحصهم عددا و اقتلهم بددا ولا تغادر منهم أحدا يا رب العالمين يا رب المستضعفين يا الله..

اللهم إنّا نجعلك في نحورهم ونعوذ بك من شرورهم يا ذا الجلال و الإكرام يا الله..

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