New Offensive By Syrian Troops Against Protesters Kills 95 Civilians, Tanks Roll Into Hama

Since President Barack Hussein Obama has decided to ignore the hundreds, if not thousands, of Syrian civilians who have been killed by President Assad's forces in trying to put down the uprising in Syria, I guess I'll have to pick up the slack and try to keep the atrocities in front of the people. I find it interesting that Obama made such an impassioned appeal for humanity in Libya yet he seems to relish in the fact that over 100 times as many people have died in Syria. I've said it before, there is an unholy hidden alliance between Hussein Obama and the mullah regime in Iran and hopefully, the exact details of that alliance will surface.

From the report at The Telegraph on the latest bloody suppression in Syria:

On one of the bloodiest days of retribution since protests against the Syrian leader erupted in March, up to 95 people were killed in Hama alone. Dozens more were feared dead in other restive cities.

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.

Now, this kind of ruthless suppression of the people by Assad is in his blood - his Daddy did the same thing years ago when he was in power. What is different this time is the fact that this Assad isn't having much luck. In most countries where you see this kind of totalitarian suppression by use of military and security forces firepower, the end comes pretty quickly, but in Syria today, we are seeing this go on and on and on.

But, in defense of our American President, we are seeing the same pattern from him that we have seen for nearly three years...a crisis arises (like Libya), he reacts, and then he moves on to something else and the crisis is apparently no longer a crisis and it all just fades away from public scrutiny. This is a reflection of Obama's experience as a community organizer - these organizers make their living by moving from neighborhood to neighborhood - they raise the hackles in one spot, incite the people and lay out a general plan of attack and then they move on to the next...they never go back to the first to see what happened - it's all about getting as many fires started in as many places as possible.

Syria: dozens dead as Assad troops launch major tank offensive


On one of the bloodiest days of retribution since protests against the Syrian leader erupted in March, up to 95 people were killed in Hama alone. Dozens more were feared dead in other restive cities.

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. They do not care who they are shooting."

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.

Huddled in the lee of buildings as shells exploded nearby, small groups of protesters chanted "God is Great" and "Like father, like son!"

Some attacked the advancing tanks with firebombs, stones and even sticks – but unlike other cities, there seemed to be no immediate evidence that any of the protesters had armed themselves.

Others crept out onto rooftops and balconies to film the shooting on their mobile telephones, braving the risk of snipers who frequently target Syria's amateur cameramen. At least one man appeared to have been shot and wounded, his footage showing his telephone tumbling to the ground and then cutting out.

There were scenes of pandemonium at the city's Badr hospital. Amateur video footage showed overwhelmed doctors performing simultaneous operations on wounded protesters.

Shrouded in white sheets, the dead had been lain out on bloodstained floors.

Some of the corpses were missing most of their heads – or large chunks from their torsos – injuries so grotesque they can only have been caused by anti-aircraft guns or weapons of similar calibre.

The carnage was played out on a smaller scale in other parts of the country, with 19 fatalities reported in the eastern city of Deir al-Zour and two more in the southern province of Daraa, where the uprising first began, bringing the opposition's countrywide death toll to nearly 120.

The ferocity of the military campaign suggested that the regime was intent on sending a chilling message to the protest movement ahead of Ramadan. The government fears that the holy month could see even larger demonstrations than in the past as worshippers gather in mosques in greater numbers than normal.

"Assad is running scared," one Syrian opposition activist said. "No matter what he's done, no matter how brutal he has been, people keep coming on to the streets in bigger and bigger numbers.

"Today has been all about intimidation, but it will not work. Time is running out for the regime, and they know it."

The scale and timing of Sunday's military operations brought swift international condemnation, led by William Hague, the Foreign Secretary.

"I am appalled by the reports that the Syrian security forces have stormed Hama with tanks and other heavy weapons this morning, killing dozens of people," he said.

"Such action against civilians who have been protesting in large numbers in the city for a number of weeks has no justification. The attacks are all the more shocking on the eve of the Muslim holy month."

But the Syrian government shrugged off the criticism, saying it was involved in an operation to "end chaos" in Hama. It also claimed that two government soldiers had been killed by the protesters.