Red Cross tries again to enter Baba Amr

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Red Cross tries again to enter Baba Amr

2012-03-03

The Red Cross tried again on Saturday (March 3rd) to deliver aid to the battered neighbourhood of Baba Amr after its first attempt was block, sparking an international outcry, AFP reported.

Saleh Dabbakeh, the International Committee of the Red Cross spokesperson in Damascus, said the agency and Red Crescent teams could not enter the Baba Amr district in Homs which is controlled by the Syrian army.

"No team entered Baba Amr district Friday, and the authorities didn't allow aid in," he said. "Negotiations are still underway."

Meanwhile, two civilians were killed and 20 others were wounded Saturday when a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb in Deraa, AFP reported.

Syria's official news agency (SANA) as saying that a "terrorist suicide bomber blew up his car in Deraa al-Balad, killing two civilians and wounding 20 other civilians and security forces", according to AFP.

Syrian television stations aired pictures which it said were of damages caused by the blast, showing large debris of surrounding shops and houses.

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سامي

2012-3-7

There are divisions in the Arabs' unity when it comes to Syria. Amid the Arab Spring, every country gets busy with its own revolution and achieving the aims. Accordingly, there is no unified position of Arab countries against al-Assad. The Arab Observers sent by the Arab League did not deploy all over Syria. They just visited certain areas and this is why their report does not reflect the facts or expectations.
معاد العمالي

2012-3-5

I appeal to you to write your signboards in English as well as the Arabic language, so that the Chinese, the Russian, the European and the free people of the entire world could understand your suffering. The thing that attracts the attention is that we read your signboards in Arabic; but do you notice the indifference of the Arabs and maybe their gloating? They did not carry out a million-people demonstration here and there, as the Arabs are helpless
ليون

2012-3-5

Dear brothers, who does not know the Assad regime? Isn’t it recognized as the most dangerous manifestation in the history of the individual regimes, through building the state institutions, executive, judicial and legislative? It is enhanced by exaggerated security formations in its preparation, through a witty intention to attract all those who are unaware or who are about to become that way, or those who have lost the minimum of national culture and the principles of civilized coexistence, including human rights, freedom and democracy. It also targets the disturbed souls, including the deviants and the diseased people. The Syrian media are stupid; they are conducting interviews in the streets spontaneously. You find that the people of Doma, for example, in the Syrian media are suffering, and interviews with the people of Homs from al-Zahraa district only. Those people are already suffering, and the people of Damascus are suffering. This is strange; we need stubborn people. I think that what al-Assad’s thugs are doing, like their leaders, in terms of massacres, will provoke a cruel response. Therefore, I think that nobody will blame the revolutionaries in case they respond.
ماجد صابر

2012-3-5

This is not Syrian television; it is intelligence and security television. All the claimed confessions of the criminals and the killers are made on the Syrian television screen and not in the courtrooms, and nobody pays attention to this matter in spite of its great proof. Don’t the Syrian people wonder why those confessions are made on the television screens and not in the courtrooms? Simply because the Syrian television buildings are dens for the intelligence and the Alawite security gangs that aim at affecting the opinion using the sanctification of the ruler and his gang. Security and intelligence officers lead the Syrian television. This is the reason for its failure and why it has become a tool, speaking on behalf of the criminal gang. I did not believe that they had stopped the bombing and that then they returned to bombing again. O God, the creator of the Holy Qur'an and the one who makes the clouds move, and the one who defeated the parties, please defeat the Syrian tyrant and his followers and supporters, as you are the Strong and the Dear. Please, God, destroy Bashar and his followers, as they cannot defeat you. O God, he has become a tyrant and powerful, and he has orphaned the children and widowed the women. Please, God, destroy him, as you are able to do anything on the earth and in the sky. Please, God, make him an example for everyone; hide their money and destroy their hearts, so that they will not believe till they witness severe torture. Please, God, support our brothers and sisters in Syria and grant them victory over your and their enemy, as you are great and able to do anything; Amen.