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July 27th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Valero said France shared US concerns over the rapidly deteriorating situation
in Aleppo and called on Assad to end the violence and step down.
“Our message is that Assad must go,” he said.
Aleppo, Syria’s most populous city and also the country’s commercial hub, has
been the theatre of fierce fighting between the opposition and Assad’s
forces for the last week.
On Thursday Syrian troops reportedly strafed several neighbourhoods of Aleppo
from helicopter gunships, after an MP defected to Turkey.
The Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights said the army was using helicopter gunships in
the southwest of the city, in the Salaheddin, Bustan al-Qasr, Sukari,
Al-Mashhad and Al-Azamiya neighbourhoods.
Troops also clashed with rebels in the central Jamiliya district, adjacent to
Aleppo’s historic old quarter, as well as in Mahatat Baghdad and in
Saadallah al-Jabiri Square.
Earlier, MP Ikhlas al-Badawi, said she had cross to Turkey “and defected
from this tyrannical regime … because of the repression and savage torture
against a nation demanding the minimum of rights.”
Opposition sources Syrian troops and armour are amassing around the northern
city of Aleppo, Syrian’s main commercial and industrial hub, to crush armed
resistance to Assad that has been gathering momentum following a military
crackdown on street demonstrations against his rule.
The authorities chose Badawi, a Sunni Muslim, to run for parliament on behalf
of the “labourers and peasants” sector, a term for state backed
labour and farmers unions who are guaranteed half the seats in the 250 seat
assembly.
Badawi, a mother of six, was also a member of the Ba’ath party, which took
power in 1963 military coup that destroyed the country’s democratic
institutions in favour of a Soviet style political system dominated by
Assad’s minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi’ite Islam.
Intensified ground and aerial bombardment on Syrian cities by Assad’s forces
in recent weeks has prompted diehard Baathists and Assad’s loyalists to
defect.
They have been mostly Sunni Muslim, from the majority sect at the forefront of
the 16-month uprising against Assad.
Nawaf al-Fares, Syria’s ambassador to Iraq and a former Ba’ath party chief in
the eastern province of Deir al-Zor, fled to Qatar through Jordan two weeks
ago.
Fares, according to opposition sources, is a friend of Manaf Tlas, a brigadier
general in the Republican Guards and a member of Assad’s inner circle, who
fled Syria earlier this month.
Source: agencies
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