Friday, February 10, 2012

#Syria Prepares For Attack Assad Government Forces After Homs Onslaught

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ALLRED TODOROJO  -  7:25 PM  -  Public
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Idlib in Northern Syria Prepares For Attack by Assad Government Forces After Homs Onslaught

#Idlib city in northern Syria on Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idlib

http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16167393
Idlib is a city in waiting, waiting for what it believes has become inevitable - the Assad attack.
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Bill Jaquette  -  6:28 PM  -    -  Public
Satellite views of Syria
The State Department wants you to see the crackdown in
Syria. Today, it uploaded
eight satellite images showing how President Bashar al-Assad's forces have
positioned artillery toward major protest centers.

The release was accompanied by a note by
U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford. "[S]ome try to equate the violence
perpetrated by the regime with the violence perpetrated by the opposition," he
wrote. "[I]t is unfair to do so when one side is using such heavy weaponry... We
are intent on e...
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World Press Photo of the Year 2011
It is as if each and every moment of the Arab Spring lead to this moment. A strong, moving image.
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WORLD PRESS PHOTO OF THE YEAR 2011 - "It stands for Yemen, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, for all that happened in the Arab Spring," said juror Koyo Kouoh. "But it shows a private, intimate side of what went on, and it shows the role that women played, not only as caregivers, but as active people in the movement."

The photo was taken Oct. 15 in a mosque in Sanaa, Yemen, that was being used as field hospital...
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Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda won the 2011 World Press Photo of the Year award on Friday for an image of a veiled woman holding a wounded relative in her arms after a demonstration in Yemen.
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