11st/May/2012

Umayya for Researches and Strategic Studies

The Daily Monitoring Report

The Field Situation
- Today dawn, there was heavy shelling of Homs's Al-Qarabis and Al-Qosour resulted in various martyrs and wounded people.(9) - Heavy gunfire heard in various districts in Idlib, Deir Al-Zour, Daraa and Damascus.(1)(9) - Backed by vehicles, Al-Assad's forces launch a crackdown and detention campaign in the Deir AlZour districts of Al-Jorah and Al-Wadi.(1) - Government forces knocked down the house of the defector Colonel Ihbrahim Al-Habous in the Daraa town of Ghabagheb and arrested a number of - Mass demonstrations broke out countrywide, including the Damascus districts of Al-Shaghour, Kafr Sousa and Al-Mezzeh.
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Statistics

10th/May death toll: 39 + Damascus explosion Martyrs: 55 & 375 injured

the town's activists.(9) - Military helicopters hovered over the Damascus rural areas of Beit Dajan and Douma amid huge blasts in Al-Dumayr, which have been followed by crackdowns carried out by the Syrian Army. Activists accuse the government forces of looting shops.(1)
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The Military Situation

- The Syrian Network for Human Rights said four people were martyred in Aleppo, one in Idlib and two in Daraa.(9)

The Political Mobility

- Brigadier General Mustafa Al-Sheikh, a major Syrian defector officer and head of the Syrian National Council (SNC)'s military council, said the Syrian government tries to derail the UN-Arab envoy Kofi Annan's plan. The two explosions, which hit Damascus, are not the work of opposition fighters. The Free Syrian Army (FSA) lacks the capability to set off such big explosions.(2)(4)(5)(8) - The Syrian National Council (SNC) accused the - Al-Assad's forces heavily deploy in Idlib along the road between Kafroma and Al-Hamidiya amid gunfire. Armored vehicles and tanks roam the town and demolish a citizen's house.(9) - An explosion shook Aleppo's Al-Bustan, leaving at least eight people wounded. Activists accuse the Syrian authorities of provoking unrest in the major cities witnessing growing protests.(2)(8) - Eight people were martyred in Hama after government forces stormed the town of Qabr Faddah and demolished 40 houses. The towns of Qalaat AlMadiq, Al Twaineh, Hayalin and Halfaya witness heavy gunfire.(9) - Security forces surrounded Al-Wesam Surgical Hospital in the Hama neighborhood of Kafrzeita, kidnapping physicians and wounded people.
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Syrian regime of orchestrating the two explosions that took place in Damascus, adding that the places and magnitude of the two bombings are evidences of the regime's involvement in such a crime.(4)(5)(7)(9) -

Radwan Ziadeh, executive director of the Syrian Centre for Political and Strategic Studies, said that Al-Assad's regime forcibly hides the detainees, which is the same crime it had committed during 1980s.(1)

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The Internal Situation

- Major General Robert Mood, chief of the UN observer mission in Syria, visited the site of two massive blasts that rocked Damascus on Thursday morning. Mood offered his condolences to families of the victims, calling for more efforts to stop violence in Syria.(2)(4)(5)(8)(9) - Eyewitnesses said that one of the two explosions targeted a security complex and the other hit the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) headquarters, causing large-scale destruction.(8)(9) - Experts compared the Damascus attacks to those on Iraqi government ministries in 2009, which were blamed by the authorities in Baghdad on groups based in Syria.
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cy," adding that "The only way to reach democracy lies in national dialogue."(1)(2)(4)(5)(9) - The Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad AlJaber Al-Sabah assigned the International Islamic Charitable Organization (IICO) to send relief supplies to the Syrian refugees in Lebanon.(5) - Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Ghadanfar Roken Abadi described the American stance towards Syria as backing the armed terrorists' operations against the people of Syria.(1)

International
- The White House condemned the two Damascus expositions, saying that it did not believe the attacks were representative of the opposition to Al-Assad, and that the blasts show the need for a political solution before it is too late.(7) - The US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said the Pentagon considers all possible scenarios in Syria, including the military intervention.(11) - The UN Security Council strongly condemned the Damascus explosions and urged all parties to comply with the UN-backed peace plan.(5)(9)(16) - The UN-Arab envoy Kofi Annan condemned the bombings, pointing out that the escalation of tension and violence will lead to opposite effects. Annan urged all parties to halt violence and protect civilians.(1)(5)(7)(8)(9)(11)(16) - According to Martin Nesirky, spokesman of the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary-General condemned the explosions, calling on both the regime and the opposition to distance themselves from terrorism.(1)(5)(7)(8)(9)(15)(16) - The French Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Bernard Valero said Al-Assad's regime is caught in a vicious circle of violence, as he chose the way of brutal repression. The UN-Arab envoy Kofi Annan's plan is the last chance to resolve the crisis.(2)(4)(5)(7)(8) - The Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi said that there is a high probability of military intervention in Syria.(16)
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Sources:
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) Asharq Al-Awsat The London-based Al-Hayat The Kuwaiti Al-Watan Al-Quds Al-Arabi The Lebanese Al-Mustaqbal The Syrian Al-Baath Reuters AFP The Qatari Al-Jazeera The Israeli Haaretz Washington Post wall Street Journal The Israeli Yedioth Ahronoth The Guardian The Telegraph Russia Today

- Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said 849 people, including 628 civilians, and 221 soldiers, of whom 31 were defectors - had been killed since the April 12th truce.(7) - The UN observers continue their tours in several cities, Daraa.(2) - Yesterday, a UN observer team visited the two governorates of Homs and Hama, with reports about the arrival of new observers in Damascus.(9) including Aleppo and Damascus, a day after an explosion targeted and observer convoy in

Activities of Civil Organizations

- A UN mission said, because of the conflict, one million Syrians now need humanitarian help. ganize a relief campaign in favor of Syria.(5) - The Libyan civil society organizations will or-

Syrian Political Stances

- In two letters made to the UN Security Council and the UN Secrtary General, the Syrian Foreign Ministry said, "We will go ahead with fighting terrorism and maintaining security!"(1)(8)

Arab
- Ahmed bin Helli, deputy secretary general of the Arab League, said the Non-Aligned Movement fears that Syria might sliding into the quagmire of civil war.(9) - In a phone call with Bashar Al-Assad, the Lebanese President Michel Suleiman said "The bomb attacks are not the proper way to achieve democra-

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