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May 22nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The watchdog said there were also fierce clashes between regime forces and
rebels in the town of Kfar Roma in Idlib province in the northwest.
Demonstrations broke out at dawn in several neighbourhoods of Aleppo, the
country’s second city and commercial hub which until recently had been
largely spared the unrest shaking the country since March last year.
One person was killed by gunfire in Nouaymeh, a town in the southern province
of Daraa, the Observatory said.
The UN chief issued a new warning of the dangers of all-out civil war as the
14-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime has turned into
an armed rebellion.
“The secretary general said we were at a pivotal moment in the search for
a peaceful settlement to the crisis and that he remained extremely troubled
about the risk of an all-out civil war,” a spokesman for Mr Ban said at
a Nato summit in Chicago on Monday.
Nato, which undertook a major air war in Libya to back rebels who fought
Moamer Kadhafi’s forces last year, has said it has “no intention”
of taking military action against Assad’s regime.
Nato states have come under criticism for backing the air war in Libya but
ruling out military intervention in Syria, where opposition demonstrators
and badly outgunned rebels have been hammered by heavily-armed regime forces.
In neighbouring Lebanon, protesters blocked roads in the northern Akkar region
for a third day on Tuesday, a security official said, amid mounting tension
over the conflict in Syria.
The road closures were linked to the weekend killings of two clerics at an
army checkpoint in Akkar, a mainly Sunni region whose inhabitants are
hostile to Assad’s regime.
The killings ignited street battles in the capital Beirut that left two people
dead and 18 wounded.
Human rights group Amnesty International called on the Lebanese authorities to
launch an independent investigation into the deaths of the two clerics.
“It’s vital the probe into these killings is carried out by an
independent body,” said Amnesty’s deputy director for the Middle East
and North Africa, Ann Harrison.
A Lebanese judicial official said 21 soldiers, including three officers, were
being questioned by military police in relation to the clerics’ deaths.
A military judge meanwhile ordered the release on bail of an Islamist whose
arrest had been another source of friction between pro- and anti-Syrian
groups, a judicial official said.
Shadi al-Mawlawi’s May 12 arrest on charges of belonging to a terrorist
organisation sparked sectarian clashes in the northern port city of Tripoli
that left 10 people dead.
His supporters say he was targeted because he was helping Syrian refugees
fleeing the unrest in their country.
The unrest in Lebanon has highlighted deep divisions in the country over Syria.
The opposition led by former premier Saad Hariri backs the revolt against
Assad, while the ruling coalition, in which the powerful Shiite movement
Hizbollah plays a key role, supports the Damascus regime.
Source: AP
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