Fear and horror paralyzed residents in the Syrian city of Homs Tuesday, with snipers preventing anyone from moving and heavy shelling blasting through the air, opposition activists said.
"The snipers are even targeting those who intend to get bread from the bakeries," said one activist, who uses the pseudonym Abu Omar.
"They are shelling randomly - why, I don't know," said another activist, identified only as Omar for security reasons. "There is no place here in this city that is a safe house or shelter or a basement. You have to be lucky to stay safe."
At least six civilians were killed by shelling in the Baba Amr neighborhood of Homs, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition activist group.
While U.N. diplomats slammed the Syrian regime for the country's mounting bloodshed, residents wondered out loud what the implications of total war might be.
"Everyone we've been talking to ... believes that the country is heading towards, or already is in, a full-blown war, and recovering from that is going to be incredibly challenging," said CNN's Arwa Damon, who reported from inside Syria early Tuesday.
She spoke from an opposition safe house, describing a near constant flow of people and information. CNN is not disclosing her exact location because of concerns for her safety.
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The underlying purpose of this article is to incite heated willingness among unaffected nations to enter this domestic political and military conflict.
My two posts that dramatically illuminated that (perhaps unconscious) journalistic intention and the reality of the Syrian conflict were briefly published and quickly removed.
And they will most likely be put back at some point.
None of our posts are that special.
they still exist – 2 threads, identical names
They're on the other blog with the exact same name.
@ banasy and leeintulsa:
Thank you both. I hadn't seen that.
I really don't want to see the USA boiled up into another war by "humanitarian" propaganda.
I know that if I went to Washington, DC, and started demonstrating forcefully for the downfall of our government, I might get killed. That's a lot of the glamor attached to styling oneself as a revolutionary hero: it involves some danger.
Joey=the voice of reason. Man if I could express myself that well I think IDE win the Pulitzer. Kudos Joey!
Thank you very much, Jj.
You always express yourself very well.
They ARE truly doing everything they can to work the sympathy of the world. My main question is though, How can this be a full blown war if all the carnage is coming from one side. The literally one sided news coming out of there just has me leery.
This is really sickening! I do not understand why the media is working so hard to provoke sympathy and generate war in Syria. When you keep giving reports and supporting them with 'one activist' or 'activists' and then go on to tell us they cannot be identified, who is to say we are not prepping up for another Libya. We were fed with lies and Libya was destroyed by NATO while abusing the UN resolution 1973. Now we are being fed with stories that cannot be independently investgated and you expect the world to just accept? I think the best thing that has happend in the last decade is the veto by China and Russia. It is time someone applied reason to international politics.
@ Kingsley, It's called the "three pronged attack" on getting the US's greedy hands on every nations natural resources, mainly oil. Then buying those countries companys at a discount rate and setting up shop with cheap labor and high profit.
Why is it that America is NOT a third world country ? Hmmm
I do not feel that it is necessary for the media to incite sympathy. The facts would do it alone (agreed, Kingsley – it is not so simple to tell the facts from the fabrications.) My trouble, I suppose, is that I really don't see the differentiation between nations as being reason to ignore atrocities domestically and abroad. While I agree with survival of the fittest, I just can not reconcile that with the choice to ignore actions that are clearly wrong.
The opposition are not syrians but are outsiders who are fighting the government and shooting our people. Then they put blame on gov. We don't want war. Outsiders are doing all this damage to us. where are these outsiders from and who gave them weapons to kill our civilians and why is CNN lying.