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May 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“The Syrian
people do not want the future to be one of bloodshed and division. Yet the
killings continue and the abuses are still with us today,” the former
UN chief said.
“I appealed to him for bold steps now – not tomorrow, now – to create
momentum for the implementation of the plan.
“This means that the government, and all government-backed militias,
could stop all military operations and show maximum restraint.”
Annan flew into Syria on Monday, hours after the UN Security Council adopted a
statement condemning heavy shelling of residential areas by government
forces during the killings in Houla.
The Syrian authorities have repeatedly insisted that the lion’s share of the
blame for the deaths lies with armed rebels, a position Assad restated in
his talks with Annan.
“The success of the Annan plan depends on the end of terrorist acts and
those who support them and the smuggling of weapons,” Assad was quoted
as saying.
But UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous pointed the finger towards a militia
loyal to Assad.
“There is strong suspicion that the Shabiha were involved in this tragedy
in Houla,” Ladsous told reporters at the UN headquarters.
He added that the number of victims from an artillery barrage “points to
responsibility of the government” as only Assad’s forces have tanks and
large-calibre field guns.
Washington joined an array of Western governments in ordering out Syria’s few
remaining senior diplomats in protest at the killings.
“We hold the Syrian government responsible for this slaughter of innocent
lives,” US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said, informing
charge d’affaires Zuheir Jabbour that he had 72 hours to leave the country.
French President Francois Hollande said Paris would host a new meeting in July
of the Friends of Syria group formed by Damascus’s Arab and Western critics.
He said he did not rule out military intervention, provided it were approved
by the UN Security Council.
“An armed intervention is not excluded on the condition that it is
carried out with respect to international law, meaning after deliberation by
the United Nations Security Council,” he said in a television interview.
Russia, which has twice used its veto powers at the Security Council to block
tougher action against Assad’s regime, called for an “objective and
impartial” UN-led probe into the killings.
The United States said it hoped the results of the investigation would mark a “turning
point” in Russia’s stance towards its longtime ally.
Washington welcomes the fact “that the Russians are willing to have a
full investigation because we think it’s undisputable what that
investigation is going to show,” the State Department spokeswoman said.
“It’s going to show that these were regime-sponsored thugs who went into
villages, went into homes and killed children at point blank-range and their
parents,” Nuland said.
Tuesday’s toll included the latest “massacre”, in which 13 civilians
died in the north-west Deir region, the Syrian Observatory’s head Rami Abdul
Rahman told AFP by telephone.
The victims “were executed with a bullet in the head, according to first
reports from the region”, he said, urging UN observers on the ground to
probe the alleged atrocity and identify the perpetrators.
The opposition Syrian National Council welcomed the expulsion of diplomats but
called on Western governments to go further and push for a UN Security
Council resolution authorising the use of force.
More than 13,000 people have been killed, most of them civilians, since the
uprising against Assad’s regime erupted in March last year, according to the
Britain-based watchdog.
Source: AFP
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