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sibuk bikin onar dan kerusuhan karena ada film amatir yang isinya tidak bisa
mereka bantah...
Islam itu bukan saja retarded tapi juga mengerikan...
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BBC News Middle East
19 September 2012 Last updated at 11:15 GMT
Syria conflict: Damascus suburb sees heavy fighting
There has been further heavy fighting in the Syrian capital, Damascus, and the
northern city of Aleppo.
Activists said government forces were closing in on Hajar al-Aswad, a southern
suburb of Damascus, and the situation for residents was desperate.
State media said troops had killed many of what they called "terrorists".
Earlier, Amnesty International warned that indiscriminate air and artillery
strikes were causing a dramatic rise in civilian casualties in Idlib and Hama.
The report said the plight of people in the two provinces had been
under-reported because world attention had focused on Damascus and Aleppo.
Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has arrived in Damascus to
meet President Bashar al-Assad and other officials.
A Syrian general who defected to the opposition told the Times newspaper that
the president had discussed the possibility of using chemical weapons in the
conflict, and even whether they should be transferred to the Lebanese Shia
Islamist movement, Hezbollah.
"We discussed this as a last resort - such as if the regime lost control of an
important area such as Aleppo," Gen Adnan Sillu said.
Rebel forces have also taken full control of the Tal al-Abyad border crossing
with Turkey after forcing government forces to retreat overnight, a Turkish
official told the Reuters news agency.
Advance
On Wednesday, opposition activists said the military was attacking the
south-western Damascus suburbs of Muadhamiya, Jadidat Artouz and Kanakir,
Qudsaya to the north-west, and the southern districts of Qaddam, Assali and
Hajar al-Aswad.
They said the situation for residents in Hajar al-Aswad was desperate, with
areas being bombarded by aircraft and heavy weapons as troops advanced.
They posted video online which they said showed helicopter gunships firing
rockets, as well as the bodies of some of the more than 20 people they said had
been killed.
State media said troops had moved into Hajar al-Aswad and clashed with an
"armed terrorist group" near a cemetery, eliminating "a number of its members",
and that others had been killed as streets were "cleansed".
Activists also reported that the bodies of at least 20 people executed by
government forces had been found in the north-eastern district of Jobar.
In Aleppo, government forces had bombarded several central areas surrounding
the Old City, including Bab al-Hadid and Bab al-Nasr, and also attacked the
outlying districts of Hananu and al-Bab, they added.
The Local Co-ordination Committees, an activist network, said more than 50
people had so far been killed across the country on Wednesday, including 28 in
Damascus. It put the death toll on Tuesday at 160.
Unguided bombs
The reports of violence came as Amnesty International said indiscriminate air
attacks and artillery strikes by Syrian government forces are killing, maiming,
and terrorising civilians in in the Idlib, Jabal al-Zawiya and north Hama
regions.
Donatella Rovera, Amnesty's senior crisis response adviser, who recently
returned from northern Syria, told the BBC that there was evidence that the
army and air force were increasingly using battlefield weapons in residential
areas where government troops had been forced out by opposition forces, with
disastrous consequences for civilians.
"They are using in equal measure air-delivered, large, old, Soviet-era unguided
bombs - free-fall bombs - the opposite of smart bombs," she said. "They are
dropped over an area. There's no way you can target them at a specific target
or specific building."
"They fall over people's houses, over markets, in the street. Many of those who
were killed and injured are children. Every day, in the field hospitals, on the
ground, in the streets and in people's homes I was seeing the disastrous
consequences of these attacks on civilians."
Amnesty's report says the group carried out first-hand field investigations in
the first half of September into attacks which killed 166 civilians, including
48 children and 20 women, in 26 towns and villages.
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