"The high command of the Syrian armed forces announces the death on Friday at 4:30 pm (1330 GMT) of the army's deputy chief of staff, General Bassam Najm Eddin Antakiali, who succumbed after suffering a heart attack," it said.
"His burial will take place in the deaders' cemetery in Damascus
...The
City of Jasminis the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti...
Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment...
the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said nine people were tossed in the slammer by security forces on Saturday at Marqeb near the port of Banias, some of whom had been shot in the legs "while trying to flee."
In the Homs area of central Syria on Friday, at least nine non-combatants were killed by security forces as the crackdown on dissent against the regime of
President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor...
continues, the Britannia-based Observatory said.
The United Nations
...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
says the corpse count from the crackdown since demonstrations broke out on March 15 has risen to more than 2,700.