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MT @gohsuket @Katrinskaya Syria protesters use SIM cards from the dead to avoid being caught.http://bit.ly/n3ZBEn cc @safermobile
Protesters say they have been taking the sim cards of those shot dead so that they can talk to each other and media without being tracked, Nour Ali (a pseudonym) reports. All phone numbers are registered to the person when they buy it and several of those who have been detained say they have been tracked by their phone number for talking to al-Jazeera or other media. "There's ever more sim cards available right now, unfortunately," says one activist in Damascus.
My colleague Jason Rodrigues has written this piece looking at how the Guardian covered the 1982 massacre in Hama under Bashar al-Assad's father, Hafez al-Assad.
Admiral Mike Mullen, the US chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, the top military officer in Washington, DC, has said the US wants to put pressure on the Syrian regime "politically and diplomatically", but "there's no indication whatsoever that the Americans, that we would get involved directly with respect to this".
Alistair Burt, a junior minister in the British Foreign Office, also made clear last night there is no prospect of military intervention like that seen in Libya.
The Associated Press writes that activists are listing different death tolls from yesterday's violence, from 19 to 25.
Omar Hamawi, an activist based in Hama, described
