*Many mass protests erupted across Syria under the slogan of Friday of the protocol of death, and the General Strike continues.*
video filmed on Friday in the Edleb town of Kfar Rouma shows people protesting against the regime of Bashar al-Assad. The protesters are holding banners condemning the Arab Leagues protocol. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBBy02VYM5c&feature=player_embedded filmed on Friday shows an anti-regime protest in the Edleb town of Jabala<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU6yx2tm2Gk>. Protesters are holding banners condemning the Arab Leagues protocol. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU6yx2tm2Gk video filmed on Friday shows a protest in the town of Al-Tabaqa in the district of Al-Reqqa. Protesters are chanting for freedom<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4gLVgLB550&feature=youtube_gdata_player>. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4gLVgLB550&feature=youtube_gdata_player filmed on Friday shows an anti-regime protest in the Damascus town of Al-Qaboun. Protesters are holding banners that say, Iran is our enemy<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc7JCSylDio&feature=youtube_gdata_player>. filmed on Friday shows a protest in the Deir az-Zour town of Jbeileh being dispersed by gunfire <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJncPH-6QAE>. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJncPH-6QAE massive protest began in the town of Seqba near Damascus. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rRKnpZYhS9k *NGO slams Sudanese head of Syria observers * December 23, 2011 *share*<http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&username=nowlebanon> A non-governmental organization condemned Thursday the fact that an Arab League observer mission to Syria is headed by a Sudanese general in charge when "genocide" was committed in Darfur. The Enough Project said the choice of General Mohammad Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi was "perplexing" given that war crimes were committed in Darfur at a time when Dabi led the Sudanese intelligence agency. "It is perplexing that the Arab League chose [Dabi] to lead its team monitoring the Syria regime because of his record of turning a blind eye to human rights crimes, or worse," said Enough Project Sudan analyst Omer Ismail. "When he served as Sudan's former head of Military Intelligence and when he oversaw implementation of the Darfur Security Arrangement, alleged war crimes including genocide were committed on his watch." Ismail added: "Instead of heading a team entrusted with a probe of alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity by Syria, the general should be investigated by the ICC for evidence of similar crimes in Sudan." Dabi was Sudan's military intelligence head from 1989 until 1995, then briefly foreign spy agency chief and from 1996-1999, chief of military operations against the insurgency in what is now South Sudan. Dabi served as ambassador to Qatar from 1999 to 2004, but also held four separate positions related to Sudan's Darfur region, where fighting broke out in 2003 between non-Arab rebels and the Arab-dominated Khartoum regime. "We're aware of the individual, that he was appointed by Bashir as an adviser on Darfur," said State Department spokesperson Mark Toner. "Certainly .. Sudanese armed forces and national intelligence and security service have a disturbing human rights record over the last 20 years of Bashir's rule. But Toner said: "I'm not aware of those -- individual allegations against him or his actions." An Arab League advance team arrived Thursday in Syria to launch a hard-won observer mission to oversee a plan to end nine months of bloodshed after the opposition accused regime forces of "massacring" hundreds in two days. Meanwhile, there was no let-up in the killing, with human rights activists reporting at least 21 more people killed and clashes between defectors and regular troops in flashpoint towns of Homs and Edleb. -*AFP/NOW Lebanon*To read more: http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=345585#ixzz1hMW10EEM [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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