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March 18th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
A rally and prayers were being held on Sunday at the site of the biggest
explosion, in the Al-Qasaa district that is home to many members of Syria’s
Christian minority.
State television, which said victims were being buried Sunday, has repeatedly
broadcast how the Al-Qasaa blast had totally gutted the facade of a
multi-storey building, wrecked family homes and left behind blood-splattered
pavements.
Opposition activists accused the regime, as in past lethal bombings in the
capital and the northern city of Aleppo, of having stage-managed the attacks.
Ath-Thawra, another official daily, pointed the finger at Qatar and Saudi
Arabia which have called for rebels fighting the Assad regime to be armed.
“The terrorism of Hamad and Saud is not a first. We know their
bloodstained hatred, born of jealousy … We have heard their call, and
their incitement,” it said, referring to the Saudi and Qatari ruling
families.
Also in the press on Sunday, a daily close to the regime warned of an even
tougher response to anti-regime demonstrations.
In the wake of the Damascus bombings, “this is no longer the time for
philosophising, for struggle, for Facebook … and especially not for
protests which only go to serve the enemies of Syria,” Al-Watan said.
Technical experts from the United Nations and the Organisation of Islamic
Cooperation, meanwhile, were to take part in a mission to assess the
humanitarian impact of the crackdown on anti-regime protests since March
2011.
UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos, who held talks in Damascus this month,
said they would at the weekend join the assessment mission to Daraa, Homs,
Hama, Tartus, Latakia, Aleppo, Deir Ezzor and rural zones around Damascus.
The United Nations estimates more than 30,000 Syrians have fled to
neighbouring states and another 200,000 have been displaced within the
country by the past 12 months of deadly violence.
Activists, meanwhile, said security forces mounted operations Sunday in
Aleppo, northwestern Idlib, the east’s Deir Ezzor region and Daraa in the
south, birthplace of the anti-Assad revolt.
In the Aleppo region, the town of Atareb was shelled for the 33rd straight
day, said an activist on the ground, Mohammed al-Halabi, contacted by AFP in
the Lebanese capital.
The Syrian Observatory said four soldiers were killed in clashes with rebels
in Idlib province, while security forces killed a civilian in Daraa.
It also reported that security forces beat up and detained opposition figure
Mohammed Sayyed Rassas, a National Coordination Committee for Democratic
Change leader, and several youths at a Damascus protest.
On Saturday, two “terrorists” were killed as a booby-trapped car
they were driving blew up in a Palestinian refugee camp in a suburb of
Damascus, Syria’s state news agency SANA reported.
International envoy Annan on Friday warned of a regional “escalation”
of the conflict which activists say has cost more than 9,100 lives and urged
the UN Security Council to close ranks to put pressure on Assad.
The former UN chief, who met Assad in Damascus last weekend, has ordered a
team of experts to Syria to discuss a possible ceasefire and international
monitoring mission, his spokesman said.
Annan’s team are to head to Damascus from New York and Geneva on Monday, his
spokesman said.
Source: AFP
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