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May 27th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“Those who use violence for their own agenda will create more
instability, more unpredictability and may lead the country to civil war,”
the observers’ chief, Maj. Gen. Robert Mood, warned in a statement.
Giving the regime’s version of the events, Makdissi said “hundreds of
heavily-armed gunmen carrying machine guns, mortars and anti-tank missiles”
launched the attack simultaneously from several locations, starting about
2pm and continuing for nine hours. He said five army positions in the area
came under attack at the same time, leaving three soldiers dead and 16
wounded.
“There were no Syrian tanks or artillery in the vicinity” of Houla,
Makdissi said. He said that gunmen used anti-tank missiles and “Syrian
troops retaliated in defence of their positions.”
“Children, women and other innocent people were killed in their homes,
and this is not what the Syrian army does,” Makdissi said. “The
method of killing was brutal.”
Makdissi said a committee was set up to investigate the incident, and results
should be out within three days. He added that international envoy Kofi
Annan will fly to Syria on Monday.
A senior Arab League official said Syria has denied permission for Annan’s
deputy to travel to Damascus. Syria made clear that the decision against
former Palestinian Foreign Minister Nasser al-Kidwa is not personal, but
rather because it did not want to deal with the Arab League, the official
said on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.
Annan is the joint envoy of the UN and Arab League.
Syria, where nearly 10,000 have been killed since a popular uprising against
President Bashar Assad’s regime began last year, says the League has become
a tool of the West. The group suspended Syria’s membership and approved
sanctions against it late last year.
Kuwait, which currently heads the 22-member Cairo-based Arab League, announced
it is calling for an Arab ministerial meeting that aims to “take steps
to put an end to the oppressive practices against the Syrian people.”
An unnamed foreign ministry official was quoted by Kuwait’s official news
agency, KUNA, as condemning the attack in Houla and blaming regime forces
for the “ugly crime.” The official said Kuwait is making contacts
so that the international community can “assume its responsibilities to
stop the shedding of Syrian brothers’ blood.”
Late on Saturday, Foreign Minister Sheik Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the
United Arab Emirates condemned the killings in Houla and also called for an
urgent meeting of the Arab League.
The UN denounced the attacks in a statement that appeared to hold President
Bashar Assad’s regime responsible, and the White House called the violence
acts of “unspeakable and inhuman brutality.”
The UN put the death toll weeks ago at more than 9,000. Hundreds have been
killed since.
Also Sunday, government troops shelled residential areas in central Syria.
The shelling hit neighbourhoods in the central city of Hama and the rebel-held
town of Rastan north of Homs, the Local Coordination Committees and the
Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The two groups also reported clashes between troops and rebels in Hama, in the
Damascus suburb of Harasta and in the capital’s central Midan district. They
said a bomb struck a security vehicle in the capital’s upscale district of
Mazzeh, near a military airport, according to the LCC.
The Observatory said the vehicle bombing caused casualties but did not have
further details.
Damascus is tightly controlled by regime forces but has been hit by a wave of
bomb blasts over recent months that killed scores of people. Most of the
blasts have targeted Syrian security agencies.
Source: AFP
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