The New Dark Age

16 July 2011 — williambowles.info

Syria rights group: 41 people were killed in Friday’s protests
Ha’aretz
By DPA Tags: Syria Bashar Assad Forty-one people were killed in Friday’s mass anti-government protests across Syria that were broken up by security forces using live ammunition, a human rights group said Saturday. The death toll was initially given as …
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/syria-rights-group-41-people-were-killed-in-friday-s-protests-1.373545

‘Syria increasing arms shipments to Hezbollah’
Jerusalem Post
COM STAFF AND YAAKOV KATZ Intel officials tell ‘The Times’ Syria gave Shi’ite group Scud D missiles putting “Israel, Jordan and large parts of Turkey within Hezbollah’s range.” Damascus is increasing shipments of advanced missiles and other weapons to …
http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=229601

Justice isn’t going to fix Syria
Toronto Star
As Canada and the world struggle to effectively intervene in Syria, some have suggested referring the regime of President Bashar Assad to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Referring Assad to the ICC is a terrible idea. …
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1025839–justice-isn-t-going-to-fix-syria

‘A million marchers’ in Syria as uprising enters its fifth month
The National
DAMASCUS // Syria’s uprising entered its fifth month yesterday, with at least 28 people killed and activists claiming more than a million demonstrators took part nationwide in one of the largest Friday protests yet. Security forces opened fire using …
http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/middle-east/a-million-marchers-in-syria-as-uprising-enters-its-fifth-month

All quiet on the northern front… for the moment
Jerusalem Post
By YAAKOV KATZ Security and Defense: Hezbollah, Damascus’s relationship has boomed since 2006, Lebanese guerrilla group now maintains bases in Syria. One of the ways former IDF chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Gabi Ashkenazi used to evaluate the …
http://www.jpost.com/Features/FrontLines/Article.aspx?id=229512

Middle East Protests: Syria, Jordan Demonstrations Turn Violent (VIDEO)
Huffington Post
WASHINGTON — Journalists in Jordan say they were given orange vests by government officials in order to help them safely cover protests there today — and then attacked by government security forces. The AFP reported that one of their photographers …
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/15/syria-jordan-protests-violent_n_899815.html

Syria’s alleged nuclear activities raising concerns
Hurriyet Daily News
AN IAEA report accusing Syria of nuclear activities has raised concerns that the country is violating its nonproliferation obligations. Meanwhile, the US ambassador to Syria predicts that street protesters will ‘wash away’ the Syrian regime if demands …
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=syria8217s-alleged-nuclear-activities-raises-concerns-2011-07-15

Clinton sees no return for Syria but future still unclear
AFP
ISTANBUL — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday said Syria cannot return to the way it was before unprecedented anti-regime protests, but how the situation would evolve remained unclear. “We have said that Syria can’t go back to the way it …
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hR7uNe5oYJMp_Z9AMHq66S9goy-g?docId=CNG.3f653b6e55dffc792984a7ea704b5cbd.521

Opposition claims Lebanon sidelined in Estonians’ release
The Daily Star
The Estonians were released Thursday morning, nearly four months after they were kidnapped at gunpoint by masked men on March 23 near Zahle shortly after re-entering Lebanon on bicycles from Syria. They flew home Thursday night. …
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2011/Jul-16/Opposition-claims-Lebanon-sidelined-in-Estonians-release.ashx

Syria Protest Largest Yet: Hundreds Of Thousands Demonstrate, 17 …
By The Huffington Post News Editors
BEIRUT — Hundreds of thousands of Syrians mounted the largest protests Friday since the uprising began more than four months ago, pouring into areas where the government crackdown has been most intense in a sign that security forces …
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/15/syria-protest-largest-yet_n_900102.html

Videos Show Bloody Crackdown in Syria – NYTimes.com
By By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS
Video posted online by Syrian activists appears to show more protests and violence across the country on Friday.
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/15/videos-show-bloody-crackdown-in-syria/

At Least 17 Killed In Syria Protests | KOSU Radio
By KOSU News
At Least 17 Killed In Syria Protests. Filed by KOSU News in World News.
July 15, 2011. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians mounted the largest protests Friday since the uprising began more than four months ago, pouring into areas where the …
http://kosu.org/2011/07/at-least-17-killed-in-syria-protests/

Syria Clashes Kill 12 Protesters | FrumForum
By FrumForum News
The New York Times reports: Security forces fired on large crowds of Syrian protesters in the suburbs of Damascus on Friday, killing seven people, activists.
http://www.frumforum.com/syria-clashes-kill-12-protesters

Syria dispatch: The road to Qardaha – Blog – The Arabist
By Issandr El Amrani
The black leather jacket and olive trousers – de rigueur in those circles – marked him out as a member of the Mukhabarat, Syria’s feared “secret” police. He wanted to know if anybody had been looking at opposition websites critical of …
http://www.arabist.net/blog/2011/7/15/syria-dispatch-the-road-to-qardaha.html

Arab silence greets Syria’s uprising – FT.com
Bashar al-Assad is not hated by his fellow Arab leaders as much as Muammer Gaddafi, but he comes a close second. Blamed for destabilising Iraq and Lebanon, …
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/de805518-ad44-11e0-a24e-00144feabdc0.html