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February 13th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The bodies were not in military clothing for a start. Yet if they were
civilians from this rebel-held area near Homs, it was surprising that no one
had come to take them away and give them a martyr’s funeral. They had been
there for some time.
The reaction of Free Syrian Army soldiers nearby to the presence of
journalists was unusually angry. They demanded that our photographs be
deleted, and our guides were told to take us back to the town of Qusayr
nearby. They had another argument there.
The insurrection against the Assad regime is already a civil war, and already
vicious. It is impossible to say for sure who the four men in the pit were,
or who had lined them up and shot them.
They looked like other victims of this dictatorship – or of Col Muammar
Gaddafi’s in Libya beforehand – but there is also little sign of mercy on either
side.
On Saturday night rebels near here ambushed an army convoy and knocked out a
tank, with unknown casualties. On Thursday, a van was shredded and a
barracks overwhelmed, with at least 18 deaths in the two attacks.
The rebels give little apparent thought to their enemies, even though they
were most likely comrades until recently, since many of the Free Syrian Army
men are defectors.
There have been stories of the rebels, who are overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim,
killing Alawites, the minority to which the Assad family and most of the
highest ranks of the army belong.
There is no doubt though that the crimes, if any are proved, of the rebels are
outweighed by the almost incomprehensibly violent response, often nakedly
sectarian, of the regime forces.
Three sons of a Qusayr elder, Abu Kasem, were helping out on their father’s
farm when the army made its first attack on the town last September,
suddenly opening fire from the outskirts in response to nothing more than a
series of demonstrations.
The first clue as to what happened to Yathreb, Ashraf and Gharidan came when
one of their sisters rang Ashraf’s phone a short time later.
The phone was opened, but no one spoke. Instead, she heard voices, one saying “this
one is wounded”, and another saying “kill him”.
Then came three shots, and the phone went dead.
Abu Kasem said that when he was told that Yathreb and Ashraf’s bodies had been
found in the military hospital, he said “praise be to Allah” that
they had been martyred for a cause. Even when he went to retrieve them, and
the officer on duty asked him if he had “come to fetch his dogs”,
he said he had no feelings of revenge.
But he broke down when Gharidan was released from prison four months later.
From a prison van Gharidan had been a witness to Ashraf’s last moments.
Yathreb, he said, was already dead by this time.
“He saw that Ashraf had a problem with his leg, and he saw the soldiers
beating him with the butts of their rifles,” Abu Kasem said. “He
asked what he could do for him, but there was nothing he could do.
“Ashraf said, ‘Say Salaam to my parents.’ He said, ‘Send my good wishes
to our brothers and our father and our mother and our daughters.’ And that
is what happened.”
The body had four bullet wounds: one in the leg, two in the chest, and one in
the head.
With that, Abu Kasem cried. All the men present as he told this story insisted
that there would be no revenge after the revolution, that the rebels did not
want to bear arms and wanted only to go back to their jobs.
“I want nothing more than a peaceful revolution,” Abu Kasem said. “Freedom will be peaceful for everybody, because in all religions freedom is love.”
But, a former army captain himself, he acknowledged resentment in the Sunni
parts of the armed forces at Alawite dominance. At this point freedom, peace
and love still seem a long way away.
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