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June 8th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The new UN attempt to visit the site comes despite the almost daily targeting
of the UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS), including the use of heavy
weapons, armour-piercing bullets and surveillance drones, according to Ban.
The observers, targeted by two roadside bombs since starting their mission in
mid-April, had tried to stop tank assaults against populated areas, but were “ignored,”
said the UN chief.
Such tactics had been used to try to force the unarmed monitors to withdraw
from areas where government forces have been accused of staging attacks, he
was quoted as saying.
On Friday, troops battled to take back the rebel bastion of Khaldiyeh in the
central city of Homs, bombarding it with shells “at a rate of five
shells a minute,” said the Observatory.
Elsewhere, an explosion in front of a police station in the northwestern city
of Idlib killed five people, including another two security forces members,
said the Observatory.
“It was a powerful explosion that destroyed the facade of the building,”
said the watchdog.
And a deadly blast rocked the Damascus suburb of Qudssaya, killing two
security forces members.
In all, 10 people have died so far on Friday, following at least 58 people a
day earlier.
New protests have been called Friday under the rallying cry “Revolutionaries
and traders, hand in hand until victory.”.
Large protests in Damascus were due to begin after Muslim prayers, an activist
in the city who uses the pseudonym Deeb Dimashqi said via Skype.
“This morning, small protests took place just after dawn prayers in
several areas of the city. That was in spite of heavy security deployment,”
he said.
More than 13,500 people have been killed in the crackdown on dissent that
followed the eruption in mid-March 2011 of anti-government protests and the
increasingly violent insurgency against Assad’s regime, the Observatory
says.
On the political front, Mr Annan was to meet US Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton as her Syria pointman Fred Hof meets Russian diplomats in a bid to
persuade Moscow to back Assad’s removal.
Annan said he was in discussions to set up an international contact group on
the Syria crisis and that he hoped Iran would be part of the “solution.”
But US ambassador to the UN Susan Rice said Iran was a “spoiler” and “part
of the problem in Syria.”
France also backs the bid for a new contract group, a foreign ministry
spokesman said, but diplomats added it is also opposed inviting Iran.
Russia and China have vetoed two Security Council resolutions against Damascus
but backed Annan’s blueprint.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has vowed there would be no Security
Council mandate for outside intervention in Syria, indicating Moscow would
again use its veto to block any military action.
China
on Friday condemned the latest civilian killings in Syria, but
refused to back Annan’s call to increase the pressure on the Assad regime.
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