scores dead as Assad troops launch major tank offensive

Just before dawn, tanks and armoured vehicles crossed the Orontes River and advanced into the centre of the city, leaving crushed barricades and corpses in their wake.

Sounds almost Poetic, Eh?

“It is a massacre,” said one resident. “We don’t know how many are dead because there are so many bodies on the streets that we cannot collect because it is so dangerous.”

Pres ASSad, once again turns to crushing his peoples will with tanks and heavy gun fire, How nice of Him.

Islam The Religion of completely Ignorant Douchbags who always seem to be in charge.


The Telegraph
On one of the bloodiest days of retribution since protests erupted in March, up to 95 people were killed in Hama alone and 136 nationwide.

For nearly a month the security forces had laid siege to Hama, sealing off access roads into the central Syrian city in an attempt to isolate its fractious inhabitants from the rest of the country.

But with perhaps half of the city’s 700,000-strong population regularly taking to the streets to demand the regime’s downfall, the security forces chose to resort once more to bloodshed.

Just before dawn, tanks and armoured vehicles crossed the Orontes River and advanced into the centre of the city, leaving crushed barricades and corpses in their wake.

As day broke, the city’s skyline seemed almost entirely shrouded with smoke. Mosque loudspeakers calling the faithful to prayer and urging them to remain steadfast were almost drowned out by the relentless cacophony of gunfire and exploding tank shells.

“It is a massacre,” said one resident. “We don’t know how many are dead because there are so many bodies on the streets that we cannot collect because it is so dangerous.”

But in a city still scarred by the memories of 1982, when some 20,000 people were killed during the brutal suppression of an Islamist uprising against Mr Assad’s father and predecessor, the mood was still one of overwhelming defiance.