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June 27th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Reflecting the sense of urgency, Mr Annan, the UN and Arab League envoy to
Syria, summoned permanent members of the UN Security Council – Britain,
China, France, Russia and the United States, plus Turkey – for the
conference.
Syrian officials denounced what they called a rebel “massacre against the
freedom of the press”.
According to the official news agency SANA, the attack on Ikhbariya TV
occurred in the town of Drousha, about 14 miles south of the capital
Damascus. Hours after the attack, the station was still on the air
broadcasting its programs.
Ikhbariya is privately-owned but strongly supports President Bashar Assad’s
regime. Pro-government journalists have been targeted on several previous
occasions during the 15-month uprising, although such incidents are
comparatively rare.
Earlier this month, two Ikhbariya employees were shot and seriously wounded by
gunmen in the northwestern town of Haffa while covering clashes between
government troops and insurgents.
Rebels deny they target the media. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights confirmed the raid and the deaths of several employees, but had
no other information.
Information Minister Omran al-Zoebi told reporters outside the station that
gunmen stormed the compound, placed explosives and then detonated them.
“What happened today is a massacre, a massacre against the freedom of the
press,” al-Zoebi said in comments broadcast on state-run Syrian TV. “They
carried out a terrifying massacre by executing the employees.”
An employee at the station said several other employees were wounded in the
attack and other guards were kidnapped when the gunmen attacked just before
4 a.m. local time.
The employee, who did not give his name for fear of repercussions, said the
gunmen drove him about 200 meters (yards) away, and then he heard the
explosion of the station being demolished. “I was terrified when they
blindfolded me and took me away,” the man said by telephone.
State-run Syrian TV showed a demolished structure without a ceiling, saying it
was the station’s main studio. It also showed what it said were tapes on
fire amid piles of debris.
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