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January 21st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Tensions are growing in Syria as the Arab League prepares to present a detailed assessment of the monitoring mission’s findings on the situation in the country. Meanwhile, the opposition is getting ready to release its own report.
A report prepared by the head of the mission, Gen. Mohammed al-Dabi, will be the main topic of discussion at a meeting being held on Saturday in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
Human Rights Watch urged the Arab League on Friday to release the observers’ report to the public.
However the Arab League’s ministerial committee said it would first have to discuss what their next moves would be.
The future of the Arab League’s observer mission is also to be decided over the weekend. A decision on whether it will remain in Syria for another month is expected to be taken on Sunday.
If the agreement is positive, more monitors will be sent to Syria in three days, after a short training period, despite complaints from the Syrian opposition that it has failed to curb the bloodshed in the country.
Although the initial mandate of the observer mission came to an end formally on Thursday, monitors are to remain at 17 different locations around Syria until a final decision is made by the foreign ministers on Sunday.
Meanwhile, the opposition Syrian National Council (SNC) has also sent a delegation to Cairo to discuss the Arab League referring the Syrian crisis to the United Nations.
The SNC is pushing for the League to address the Syrian crisis in terms of “genocide” and “war crimes.”
At the same time a group of leading Syrian opposition figures is reportedly preparing to release its “counter report.”
“We should submit such a report to the Arab league to reveal to the members what exactly happened when the observers were in Syria, because we believe the report which the head of the observing mission will present will not reveal everything,” an unnamed source was quoted by the Germany-based DPA news agency as saying.
Meanwhile, street demonstrations are continuing across Syria, both for and against the ruling Assad regime.
According to media reports, the president’s supporters gathered for a pro-government demonstration in central Damascus on Friday. Protesters oppose any foreign intervention, demanding unity and reforms instead of anarchy.
Conversely, there have been numerous reports that thousands of people across Syria attended Friday rallies called by activists “in support of the revolution’s prisoners.”
The 165-strong observer mission has been in Syria since December 26 to oversee how an Arab League peace roadmap is being implemented.
The roadmap stipulates that the Syrian government should stop violence against protesters and pull its military out of cities, release prisoners detained because of current events, begin talks with the opposition and allow monitors to move freely across all parts of Syria to see the reality of the situation.
On January, 15 President Bashar al-Assad issued a decree granting a general amnesty for crimes committed during the Syrian uprising, which began in March 2011.
Despite this, Syrian activists report continuing violence against civilians.
The UN estimates that more than 5,000 people have been killed since the start of the mass protests. The Syrian authorities insist 2,000 members of the security forces have also been killed.
According to local activists, security forces have killed 506 civilians since the Arab League monitors began their mission in Syria on December 26, 2011.
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