Syrian: Assad ‘agrees to four-day ceasefire’

October 24th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Mr Assad is fighting an insurgency that grew out of street protests 19 months
ago and has escalated into a civil war in which 30,000 people have been
killed.

His overstretched army has lost swathes of territory and relies on air power
to keep rebels at bay.

“If this humble initiative succeeds, we hope that we can build on it in
order to discuss a longer and more effective ceasefire and this has to be
part of a comprehensive political process,” he said.

Syria’s foreign ministry later said that a final decision about a ceasefire
would be taken on Thursday.

“The army command is studying the cessation of military operations during
the Eid holiday, and the final decision will be taken tomorrow,” a
ministry statement said.

The reports of the ceasefire come as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
claimed that an air strike on a village in the northwest province of Idlib
killed five members of the same family on Wednesday, including a woman and a
child.

Syria’s army has also renewed efforts to retake rebel-held areas east of
Damascus, according to the group.

“The army’s air strike on Maaret Shamirin is part of the regime’s attempt
to bring the area of Maaret al-Numan under control,” said Observatory
director Rami Abdel Rahman, whose group reported the five deaths in the
village.

“The village is also very near the Wadi Deif army base,” he said.

Rebels seized control of Maaret al-Numan two weeks ago, since when Islamist
fighters of Al-Nusra Front and Free Syrian Army rebels have besieged the
nearby Wadi Deif base.

Maaret al-Numan is strategically located on the Damascus-Aleppo road. The
army’s loss of the town and a section of highway has forced it to take a
longer route via Hama province to supply troops in the north.

Russia’s top general meanwhile said Syrian rebels had acquired US-made
shoulder-launched Stinger missile systems.

General Nikolai Makarov, Russia’s chief of staff, whose country is the Syrian
regime’s top arms supplier and has refused to back the rebels, said it was
not clear who had delivered the weapons.

“We have information that the rebels fighting the Syrian army have
shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles of several states, including
Stingers made in the United States,” he said quoted by the Interfax
news agency.

“We need to still find out who has delivered them,” he said.

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