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January 23rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Opposition groups reacted angrily to the Arab League proposal by its
secretary-general, Nabil al-Araby, which made no mention of referring the
crisis to the United Nations as they had demanded. The proposal was being
fiercely debated late on Sunday night.
Activists said the League was permitting Mr Assad to carry on killing
civilians. “The observers don’t do anything,” said Rami Shaheen,
who had been jailed in the southern city of Dera’a but has since managed to
flee to Egypt. “Now our revolutionaries are asking that they refer this
to the United Nations security council.”
Nabil al-Araby, the League’s secretary-general, also attacked the Assad
regime, saying it had not fulfilled its promises to implement the League’s
peace plan and accusing it of exploiting the mission for its own ends.
But he also said the mission was encouraging Syrians to express themselves
more freely, including through protests.
In Douma, clashes began on Saturday evening at the funeral of Mohammed Said
Maddah, a protester who had been shot dead.
“When the martyr’s body arrived, along with the funeral procession, the
criminal Assad gangs waged a surprise attack and shot at them, using machine
guns, rockets, and snipers, as they approached the Hawwa Mosque,” Omar
al-Khani, of the Syrian Revolutionary Command in Damascus, said. “We
have confirmation of dozens of casualties.”
The Free Syrian Army, the armed defectors who are now established in a number
of rebel towns, stepped in, Mr Khani said. Street fighting broke out and
spread across the town centre, until the army withdrew in the early hours of
the morning.
“The FSA gathered near Hawwa mosque, where few soldiers were present,”
said an activist who claimed to have been present at the funeral. “Then
they advanced attacking the Syrian troops stationed at the end of the
street.
“They shot them with their guns. The fighting continued for four hours,
and the FSA managed to kill seven or eight troops and capture one officer”.
Video from the town on Sunday afternoon showed armed Free Syrian Army rebels
in masks patrolling the streets openly.
“Now there is fighting around the city. I can hear gun shots and loud
explosions,” an activist in the town told the Daily Telegraph. “Assad’s
army are only on the outskirts, but we expect that they will use tanks to
advance.”
Douma is the second town in the vicinity of Damascus to have declared itself
free of Syrian government control, after Zabadani to the west near the
Lebanese border.
Rebels hope they can become hubs of further resistance, as Benghazi did in
Libya.
“He is losing his forces, that is apparent. He is getting weaker day by
day. More frequently now the leaders of the troops run away,” said the
Douma activist. “They know they are in the wrong.”
The Arab League argues that the regime is softening its stance due to the
monitors’ presence. Indeed, the regime may have been keen to avoid the
intense fighting that would be necessary to reclaim the two towns while the
League decided on its next steps.
A majority of Arab states, including Tunisia and Egypt which have experienced
their own revolutions, fear that outside intervention might trigger a
further spiral of violence.
However, Saudi’s political clout and Qatar’s growing assertiveness mean that
those hoping for continued engagement with the Assad regime are holding an
ever thinner line.
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