29th/April/2012

Umayya for Researches and Strategic Studies

The Daily Monitoring Report

Military Situation - Clashes broke out between the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and Al-Assad's army in Bakha'a town, Rif Dimashq after being completely besieged by AlAssad's army from alls sides which claimed the lives of more than 10 martyrs and caused many injuries.(1)(3)
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Statistics 28th/April Martyrs: 48

Revolutionary Command Council in Syria, said" We asked the international monitors to help us pick up the corpses thrown in the Syrian streets, as the regime is preventing us from picking them up only for humiliating the Syrian people."(1) Arab Political Stances - The Lebanese army confiscated the cargo of three

- Clashes broke out between the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and Al-Assad's battalions in Al-Qusayr, Homs countryside after the governmental battalions tried to storm Al Dabaa village and opened fire on the civilians' houses in Ar Rastan.
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containers of arms and ammunition on the board of the commercial ship "Lotf Allah" coming from Libya. In addition, nobody noted that those weapons were allocated to be smuggled to Syria.(1)(2)(4)(7)(8) International Political Stances

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- Al-Assad detachments bombed the districts of Baba Amr, construction, Al-Mahata and Bab Hood using tanks and heavy machine guns. In addition, AlAssad's battalions used military aircraft in the sky of Al-Khalidiya district in spite of the presence of the international monitors.(1) - 30 officers and soldiers- affiliated to the security forces of the presidential palace in Latakia- were dissented from the governmental forces. Political Mobility - UNIFIL Director of Political and Civil Affairs - The Syrian opposition key figure and member of the Syrian National Council (SNC) Walid Al-Beni asserted that the sole important future resolution by the UN Security Council against Al-Assad's regime should be under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter. The Internal Situation - Walid Fares, member of the media office of the Revolutionary Command Council in Syria, said" We asked the international monitors to help us pick up the corpses thrown in the Syrian streets, as the regime is preventing us from picking them up only for humiliating the Syrian people."(1) Syrian Political Stances - Walid Fares, member of the media office of the - In its statement, the Russian Foreign Ministry said" Syria has to strictly face the terrorists." This came after the Syrian television had accused the opposition of being behind the explosions in Damascus, and the opposition had also accused the regime of fabricating that explosion.(7)
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- Sources with the White House said that the American president is concerned about the increase of the influence of "al-Qaeda" in case violence continued in Syria.(1) - Gerry Connolly, member with the United States Congress, thinks that the USA wants to change the regime in Syria because it does not trust Al-Assad's regime, but, on the other hand, the USA prefers such a change to be made through peaceful ways.(16)

Asharq Al-Awsat The London-based Al-Hayat (3) The Kuwaiti Al-Watan (4) Al-Quds Al-Arabi (5) The Lebanese Al-Mustaqbal (6) The Syrian Al-Baath (7) Reuters (8) AFP (9) The Qatari Al-Jazeera (10) The Israeli Haaretz (11) Washington Post (12) wall Street Journal (13) The Israeli Yedioth Ahronoth (14) The Guardian (15) The Telegraph (16) Russia Today

Milos Strugar asserted that the ship "Lotf Allah 2"that was seized for carrying cargo of weapons in the Lebanese regional waters- had crossed from Egypt heading for Lebanon without defining the anchorage.
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- Russia condemns the barbaric attacks committed by the opposition that target sabotaging the ceasefire decision reached by Annan, accusing the opposition of seeking external interference.(8)

Edited by Abed Alrhman Alsarraj

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