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February 14th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“We thank Bashar for taking us back to the Middle Ages,” says Omar,
an activist in the Bab Sbaa neighbourhood of the city, referring to Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad.
Omar is seen standing among pigeons on the rooftop of a building in Bab Sbaa
in one of the YouTube videos uploaded to the internet via a satellite feed.
He carefully scrawls a message on a small piece of paper to his counterparts
who are little more than two kilometres (1.2 miles) away in Baba Amr, which
has suffered some of the heaviest shelling.
Despite only being a short distance apart, the activists say they are unable
to venture very far because of checkpoints between them manned by security
forces and the Shabiha, or pro-government thugs.
The activists launched their uprising last March using social networking
websites like Facebook and Twitter to rally support.
They say they are now forced to use pigeons to communicate with each other in
certain neighbourhoods of Homs out of the reach of their walkie-talkies.
“They have transformed Homs into a big prison. People don’t dare venture
outside and they can’t do anything. The Shabiha are everywhere,” says
Omar.
He says there were reports out of Baba Amr of parents being forced to feed
their children a diet of stale bread and water.
Apart from inquiring about what supplies are needed, Omar also jots down the
names of people from the city killed in the latest fighting of the 11-month
uprising.
He then rolls up the message and attaches it with a string to the leg of a
pigeon before releasing the bird.
“May God be with you,” he shouts as the pigeon flies off amid the
sound of heavy gunfire and shelling. “May God guide you to Baba Amr.”
The answer comes back the same day, bearing an appeal for aid but also a
defiant message.
“We need medical assistance and food,” the message reads, according
to a separate video posted on YouTube. “The news you sent has reached
us.
“Long live Syria. Down with Bashar al-Assad.”
Syrians were among the first people to use pigeons as messengers and this was
often the sole source of communication in the region.
Source: AFP
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