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June 3rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“The issue is terrorism. We are facing a real war waged from the outside,”
Assad said.
President Assad has made few public appearances during a 15-month uprising
against his rule and his last appearance was on January 10. His speeches
have mixed promises of political reform alongside pledges to crush opponents
he has described as terrorists.
Mr Annan, the joint United Nations and Arab League envoy for Syria, told an
Arab League meeting in Qatar on Saturday that the world needed to see
action, not words, from the Syrian leader.
The Syrian leader “must make bold and visible steps immediately to
radically change his military posture and honour his commitment to withdraw
heavy weapons and cease all violence,” Annan said.
“What is important is not the words he uses but the action he takes – now,”
Mr Annan said.
However Mr Assad said he had no “magic wand” to stop the violence
sweeping the country.
The United Nations says Syrian forces have killed more than 9,000 people in a
crackdown on protests against Assad which have become increasingly
militarised. Syria blames the violence on foreign-backed Islamist militants
it says have killed more than 2,600 soldiers and security force members.
Lebanese troops deployed in the northern city of Tripoli early on Sunday after
fierce clashes between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad in which 13 people were killed, local medics and security sources
said.
Residents said relative calm had returned to the city since the soldiers
deployed to stop the gunmen exchanging heavy machinegun fire and rocket
propelled grenades.
Prime Minister Najib Mikati and other Tripoli politicians instructed security
forces on Saturday to use an “iron fist” to quell the worst
violence to shake Tripoli since the start of an uprising against Assad in
neighbouring Syria.
The mainly Sunni Muslim protests against Assad have polarised Tripoli, where a
small community of Alawites – from the same offshoot of Shi’ite Islam as
Assad – have frequently clashed with majority Sunni Muslims who support the
uprising.
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