Good Things Will eventually Come to Those Surviving Rebellion,
IF They Cannot Uproot Him He WILL Eventually Be Assassinated.
In Either Case his replacement is likely to be Unveiled as Antichrist
Who’s likely to launch a Counterattack into Israel twixt 2013 & 2015
As King Of the South Israel Pushes North Against Syrian Ally Hizbullah!
May 9, 2011
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Daniel 11:40 – And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
Begin Excerpt from Washington Post via Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert
May 9, 2011
Syria Crackdown Escalates, Spreads
Liz Sly
The Syrian regime tightened its grip on protest hot spots around the country Sunday, dispatching tanks into the town of Tafas in the south and continuing to shoot and detain citizens as part of a relentless crackdown. At least 14 people were killed in Homs by sharpshooters deployed on tall buildings who have been firing at anyone who stepped outside, according to Wissam Tarif of the human rights group Insan. He said nearly 10,000 people have been taken into custody since the uprising began in March, and the death toll stands at 716. The demonstrations have mushroomed to encompass virtually the entire country.
(Washington Post)
Begin Excerpt from REUTERS via THE JERUSALEM POST
Syria tanks enter southern town, Homs neighborhoods
By REUTERS
05/08/2011 15:00
Tanks, troops also storm residential neighborhoods in Homs, Tafas, Dael; mass arrests continue in Banias as soldiers raid homes.
AMMAN – Syrian forces entered the town of Tafas near Deraa in the southwestern Hauran Plain on Sunday, residents said, in a campaign aimed at crushing an uprising across the country against autocratic Baathist rule.
Tanks and troops also stormed two main neighborhoods in Homs overnight, human rights campaigners said, in the first incursion into residential areas in Syria’s third city.
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Machine gun fire and shelling was heard across the city of one million people, they told Reuters.
Protests, which began in Deraa on March 18, erupted on Friday across Hauran, a strategic agricultural area bordering Jordan to the south and the Golan Heights to the west.
At least eight tanks moved into the town of Tafas around 6 a.m. (0300 GMT). Residents said they heard gunfire and that army and forces broke into houses to arrest youths after occupying the center of the town of 30,000 people.
Tanks also encircled the adjoining town of Dael near the main highway to Jordan as the army intensified its presence across the Hauran region having partly pulled out of Deraa this week and re-deployed in nearby rural towns, witnesses said.
“We knew they will not forgive us for our solidarity with Deraa. They are also targeting Tafas because it is harboring lots of the youth who escaped the attack on Deraa,” one of the residents said.
Tens of thousands of villagers from Hauran converged on Tafas on Friday and chanted slogans demanding Assad’s overthrow.
Prevented from entering Deraa, still encircled by tanks after nearly two weeks, they staged one of the largest demonstrations in Hauran despite the heavy security presence in the plain, witnesses said.
In Banias on the Mediterranean coast, where rights campaigners said Syrian forces shot dead six civilians in an attack on Sunni districts on Saturday, mass arrests continued.
A Western diplomat has said 7,000 people had been arrested since mid-March.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 200 more people have been arrested in Banias by soldiers in raids on houses in the city, including a 10-year-old child.
The attack on Banias this weekend raised sectarian tensions.
The United States, reacting to the death of 27 protesters on Friday, threatened to take new steps against Syria’s Alawite rulers. Washington imposed more targeted sanctions on Syrian officials that excluded Assad.
The European Union later imposed similar sanctions.
A human rights group says security forces have killed at least 800 civilians in the seven-week uprising.
Begin Excerpt from OREN KESSLER AND REUTERS via JERUSALEM POST
Syrian tanks enter Homs, southern towns
By OREN KESSLER AND REUTERS
05/09/2011 00:43
Machine gun fire is heard throughout the city of 1 million; rights groups say at least 800 civilians killed in seven-week upris
ing.
Syrian forces stormed three neighborhoods in the central city of Homs and tanks swept into several southern towns on Sunday, in a campaign to crush an uprising against autocratic Ba’athist rule.
In the first incursion into residential areas in Homs, Syria’s third-largest city with 1 million people, machine gun fire and shelling was heard across the city, residents told Reuters.
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At le ast one civili
an, a 12- year-old child, was killed when tanks and troops charged into the Bab Sebaa, Bab Amro and Tal al-Sour districts of Homs overnight, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
“The areas have been under total siege since yesterday. There is a total blackout on the numbers of dead and injured, Telecommunications and electricity are repeatedly being cut with the districts,” the observ atory s
aid in a statement.
A human rights campaigner in Homs said by telephone, “There are reports of [more] deaths, but they cannot be confirmed.
I cannot get out of my house. Security forces are everywhere.”
A human rights group said security forces have killed at least 800 civilians in the seven-week-old uprising. Until the uprising began in mid-March, Assad – from the minority heterodox Alawite sect – had been emerging from Western isolation after defying the United States over Iraq and reinforcing ties with Iran to the concern of Syrian Sunnis.
Prof. John Myhill of the University of Haifa said foreign media tend to miss the religious undertones of the Syria uprising.
“Religion is a very, very large part of it,” he said.
“In the coastal areas where Alawites are the majority, the army is simply arming Alawites who aren’t even in the military. They’re giving them weapons and saying, ‘Go out and kill Sunnis.’ The Sunnis can’t be missing this.
“The government is not going to give up, no matter what.
It’ll hold on no matter what, far longer than Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, because it’s not just the Assad family [at risk]. If the regime falls, there’s going to be genocide against the Alawites,” said Myhill, an expert on the intersection of religion and politics and author of the monograph “Language, Religion and Emerging Nationalisms in the Arab World.”
“It’s going to be like Iraq, except they’re outnumbered six to 1, and no one is going to be able to help them except maybe Hezbollah. People from the outside don’t evidently realize this,” he said.
“It’s clear this isn’t fun and games, or just camping out in the square as it was in Egypt. This is a matter of life and death.”
On Sunday, tanks moved into the towns of Tafas, Dael and Ibtaa in the Hauran Plain.
Residents said they heard gunfire and that army forces broke into houses to arrest youths.
The three towns have a combined population of around 80,000 people.
The army intensified its presence across the Hauran region, having partly pulled out of Deraa last week and redeployed in nearby rural towns, witnesses said.
“We knew they would not forgive us for our solidarity with Deraa. They are also targeting Tafas because it is harboring lots of the youths who escaped the attack on Deraa,” one of the residents of Tafas said.
Tens of thousands of villagers from the Hauran region converged on Tafas on Friday and chanted slogans demanding Assad’s overthrow.
Prevented from entering Deraa, still encircled by tanks after nearly two weeks, they staged one of the largest demonstrations in Hauran, despite the heavy security presence in the plain, witnesses said.
In Banias on the Mediterranean coast, where human rights campaigners said Syrian forces shot dead six civilians in an attack on Sunni districts on Saturday, mass arrests continued, rights activists said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 200 more people have been arrested in Banias by soldiers in raids on houses in the city, including a 10- year-old child.
A Western diplomat has said 7,000 people in all had been arrested in security sweeps since mid- March.
The United States, reacting to the death of 27 protesters on Friday, threatened to take new steps against Syria’s Alawite rulers. Washington imposed more targeted sanctions on Syrian officials but excluded President Bashar Assad himself.
The European Union later imposed similar sanctions.
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