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January 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Nabil Elaraby, the League’s secretary-general, arrived in New York yesterday
to lobby the United Nations Security Council to adopt a resolution
supporting an Arab peace plan that calls on Mr Assad to step down.
The Security Council is expected hold a debate on Syria this week, but Russia
has indicated it will veto any resolution that threatens sanctions or hints
at regime change. Moscow’s support for Mr Assad had appeared to waver
towards the end of last year, but has swung behind its old ally amid fears
of revolutionary contagion in the wake of pro-democracy protests in the
Russian capital.
Brushing off international condemnation, Mr Assad has made a determined effort
to reverse gains made by the rebel Free Syrian Army after government troops
and tanks were withdrawn from the centre of some cities.
The regime’s return to a strategy of untrammeled force comes after the rebels
seized control of satellite towns on the edge of Damascus, bringing them to
within five miles of the city’s historic centre.
Thousands of troops yesterday advanced a large mechanised infantry column into
the Damascus suburbs of Saqba, Hammouriya and Kfar Batna, as well as the
satellite town of Douma.
The artillery onslaught was brutal and indiscriminate, according to the
opposition.
“Houses were shelled at random and innocent civilians were killed in the
streets,” an activist in Kfar Batna said.
Mosques were turned into makeshift hospitals and electricity was cut off in
all four areas. By nightfall, it appeared that the operation had been
largely successful, with army tanks being deployed in the central squares of
Kfar Batna and Saqba.
Regime forces also escalated an offensive in the resort town of Rankous, 20
miles north of the capital, which had similarly been taken over by rebels.
At least 33 people have been killed in Rankous over the past three days,
according to rights groups.
The government acknowledged that it had suffered losses of its own, claiming
that 16 soldiers were killed yesterday.
Although the rebels have been bolstered by both a growing number of army
defections and battlefield successes, they appear too divided, poorly
organised and weak to hold territory when pro-regime forces launch a
counter-attack, observers say.
The opposition remains too weak to topple the regime, which still largely
commands the loyalty of the military, political and business establishments.
But Mr Assad also appears unable to end mass protests, despite resorting to
the most brutal of tactics.
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