The New Dark Age

6 April 2011 — creative-i.info

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• SCF: Syrian president meets Kurdish leaders
• SCF: Turkey’s Geopolitics and the US ‘Greater Middle East Initiative’
• SCF: Israel reiterates concern over Russian missile supply deal with Syria

More Bloodshed in Syria
Voice of America
Photo: AP Anti-Syrian government protesters shout slogans as they protest
after Friday prayers in Damascus, Syria, Friday, March 25, 2011. “We
condemn and deplore the use of violence against citizens demonstrating in
Syria.” Jay Carney, White House …
www.voanews.com/policy/editorials/More-Bloodshed-in-Syria—119274869.html

Geagea says Syria is behind abduction of Estonians, ‘Daily Star’
iloubnan.info
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said Syria was most likely behind the
abduction of the seven Estonians in Lebanon in an interview with Lebanese
daily the ‘Daily Star’ on Wednesday. Geagea linked the church bombing in
Zahle to the abduction of the …
www.iloubnan.info/politics/actualite/id/59391

Reports of funeral, police shootings raise tensions in Syria
CNN
CNN cannot independently verify witness accounts from Syria. Syrian TV
reported that unidentified men shot and killed two police officers, Hassan
Maala and Hameed Al-Khatib, during a routine patrol in the town of Kafar
Batna. …
www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/04/05/syria.unrest/

US college student who was detained during Syria demonstration recounts 2-week …
The Canadian Press
RIPTON, Vt. — An American college student who was arrested on a Syrian
street after he pulled out his smartphone near a demonstration and then
spent two weeks in jail told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he was
interrogated, threatened with …
www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iRHxUqSNqeim-UYCcAHudwLNzZAw?docId=6471057

09:23 Turkey’s Davutoglu in Syria for talks amid protests
http://www.worldbulletin.net
Davutoglu and the Syrian officials will discuss the recent events in the
Middle East and developments in Syria for the past 1.5 months. Turkish
Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu arrived in Syrian capital city of Damascus
on Wednesday. …
www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=72139

Threats to Al-Jazeera in Jordan; journalists released in Syria
CPJ Press Freedom Online
… a photographer and journalist working for Orient TV, remains in
custody, two local journalists told CPJ. Hassan was detained on March 26.
The signal of Orient TV, a private, Dubai-based satellite channel, has been
jammed in Syria since March 25.
www.cpj.org/2011/04/al-jazeera-threatened-in-jordan-journalists-releas.php

Syria reverses ban on Islamic face veil in schools
Forbes
AP , 04.06.11, 04:58 AM EDT BEIRUT — Syria’s Education Ministry has
reversed a decision that banned teachers from wearing the niqab – the full
Islamic veil that reveals only a woman’s eyes – and authorities closed the
country’s only gambling center. …
www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/04/06/general-ml-syria_8393538.html

2 Americans survive being scooped into Syrian jail during protests
CNN International
The anchorwoman called it a “confession” by a foreigner who had been “paid
to destabilize Syria.” In the report, Radwan sat frightened on a couch,
telling an interrogator standing off-camera that he had traveled to
Jerusalem and that he had …
www.cnn.com/2011/US/04/05/syria.americans/

SYRIA: Viral protest songs take on government over crackdown
Los Angeles Times
In the absence of a physical center for the protest movement in Syria,
lists of dead and missing, animated clips and songs are passed discreetly
online, helping bolster spirits ahead of Friday prayers, which have become
a weekly rallying point for …
latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2011/04/syria-rap-music-revolution-freedom-deraa.html

Reuters photographer freed in Syria
BusinessWeek
Al-Hariri was one of four Reuters journalists held over the last week in
Syria. The other three have already been released and ordered to leave the
country. A fifth Reuters journalist was expelled by Syrian authorities on
March 25 after five years as …
www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9MCRJ680.htm

Syria: Stop Shooting Protesters | Human Rights Watch
By Human Rights Watch
(New York) – President Bashar al-Asad should immediately order Syrian
security forces to stop using unjustified lethal force against
anti-government protesters , Human Rights Watch said today. The government
should investigate each …
www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/04/05/syria-stop-shooting-protesters

PDN Pulse “ Blog Archive “ Syria Releases Photographer Held for …
By Holly Hughes
Al-Hariri is one of several journalists who have been detained in the past
week and a half in Syria, where protesters have taken to the streets to
demonstrate against President Bashar al-Assad. Two Lebanese television
journalist and a …
pdnpulse.com/2011/04/syria-releases-photographer-held-for-six-days.html

Syria : A gap between what is said and what is done – FIDH – Human …
By Arthur MANET
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member
organization , the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies (DCHRS)
strongly condemn the bloody repression of peaceful protests in Syria. Since
March 18, 2011, …
www.fidh.org/Syria-A-gap-between-what-is-said-and-what-is-done

Syria: The March by GoatMilk | Muslim Community | Muxlim
By GoatMilk
“Today, we march in millions to the squares across Al-Assad’s Syria. We
march to declare that this is Al-Assad’s Syria. It is Bashar Al-Assad’s
Syria and nothing will help you, not your money, not your betrayal, not
your false media; …
muxlim.com/blogs/GoatMilk/syria-the-march/

Syria suspends football league amidst protests – Bikya Masr
By Davide Morandini
Unprecedented protests broke out in Syria in the last few weeks, putting
President Bashar al-Assad’s rule under the most dangerous threat since he
inherited the presidency from his father Hafez, 11 years ago. …
bikyamasr.com/wordpress/?p=32011

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