SYRIA- SANA reported on Tuesday that “The armed groups continued their criminal acts and attacked Conscription and Mobilization Centers in Hama City and stole military ID cards and uniforms, which might be negatively used later to commit aggressive practices which contradict the Military Establishment ethics and accuse the army of doing them.”
SANA added “An armed group blocked the way of four cars loaded with food supplies while heading to distribute them to the consumption centers in Hazareen town, Maarat al-Nu'man.
The groups also burglarized another truck carrying 13 tons of sugar with guns and forced its driver to unload the cargo in unknown area.”
Another armed terrorist group reported by SANA, which targeted a bus carrying passengers from Damascus to Misyaf which resulted in the martyrdom of a woman and the injury of 15 citizens. SANA added “An armed group blocked the way of four cars loaded with food supplies while heading to distribute them to the consumption centers in Hazareen town, Maarat al-Nu'man.
The groups also burglarized another truck carrying 13 tons of sugar with guns and forced its driver to unload the cargo in unknown area.”
SAAN concluded “The terrorist attacks of the armed groups on citizens and public and private properties increased over the past few days. Last week, these groups attacked a train transporting 500 passengers from Aleppo to Damascus and blew up an oil pipeline near Tal Hosh Dam in Tal Kalakh.”
Armed terrorist groups in Hama
It also warned that “It is likely that these armed groups might set up roadblocks to stop citizens and assault them or to carry out raids, film them and broadcast them on the instigative channels as being committed by the Syrian army.”
In the same context, the official SANA news agency quoted an unnamed official as saying that armed groups have "started an intensive armed attack" on Monday's eve using live ammunition and Molotov against a number of official headquarters and police stations in the central province of Hama.
The source said the gunmen are carrying guns and roaming the city on motorcycles, adding that army units are still carrying out their missions there in eliminating barricades and barriers set up by those "saboteurs."
In a related development, Syria's state-run television aired late Monday an amateur video footage, showing armed men in the focal point city of Hama shooting at law-enforcement forces and dumping their bodies in the city's Orontes River.
The footage showed armed men holding rifles, some of them were masked and dressed in rags, shooting at the forces in Hama and dumping their bodies in the Orontes River while shouting "God is great."
The videos showed a number of armed members as they stationed on rooftops of some building and balconies, opened fire and sniped at army and law enforcement members while other members stationed on rooftops, burned tires, set up cement roadblocks in the main streets.
The armed terrorist groups have also attacked several centers for the police, army and law enforcement forces in Hama City, stole its stores, set the buildings on fire and blocked the City's main streets to isolate the city and kill life in it.
SANA quoted on these videos telling “These armed groups are well-equipped with advanced weapons, machineguns, pump-action shotguns and RBGs.”
Some other soldiers, who were wounded in Hama clashes, were interviewed at Syrian TV. They were telling their stories and testimonies regarding the clashes, at which they confirmed “armed terrorist gangs on Monday were torturing Hama and caused their injuries.”
On Monday afternoon and in Hama too, Armed and sabotage groups on Monday afternoon stormed in the Justice Palace of Hama and set some of its departments on fire. Chief of Hama Lawyers Syndicate told SANA Correspondent that huge columns of thick black smoke rising from the Justice Palace headquarters were observed and the concerned authorities have been informed to control the fire before it spread extensively and save the contents from burning.
SANA Correspondent reported special sources that armed groups of hundreds of armed masked persons on motorbikes attacked the Justice Palace and set parts of it on fire.
The sources added to SANA that these groups also attacked the guards of the Justice Palace in al-Sharea area, stormed headquarter, and sabotages its contents and set it on fire.
In Hama too and late on Monday, the army shelled a residential sector on the outskirts of the city, an activist at the scene told AFP in Nicosia.
But an official source quoted by SANA on Monday said troops were locked in clashes with “saboteurs” in the city.
“The army is pursuing its mission in Hama and is removing barricades erected by groups of saboteurs at the entrances of the city,” the agency said
Army units did not enter the province of Hama, as its governor Anas al-Naem continued dialogue with local dignitaries to ease the tension, the private al-Watan daily cited local sources as saying.
The armed groups went out of control, a source said, adding that they are roaming the city streets and firing live ammunitions and Molotov against governmental and police headquarters.
For its part, Foreign Media agencies quoted some activists telling that “The Syrian army has continued to attack the central city of Hama, taking up positions near Kazo Square and in the east of the city. There have been scattered protests in the city today but the shelling has kept most people inside. Residents are trying to leave Hama but the continued danger makes that difficult. A video has emerged purporting to show nighttime protests 100m from the presidential residence in Damascus. Between 19 and 25 people died in yesterday's assault by authorities’ forces.” according to Associated Press report.
A London-based rights group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said on Tuesday that most of the 24 deaths were in Hama, which has been the target of a heavy military operation since Sunday.
Another activist spoke to the Associated Press news agency over the phone, said troops were also reinforced on the eastern side of the city around the Hama Central Prison, an overcrowded jail.
At least six civilians were killed early on Tuesday in an assault on the eastern Damascus suburb of Erbin, residents told the Reuters news agency.
"Tens of people are wounded. Six are dead, of whom three have been identified," an activist in the suburb said.
Activists reported via foreign media agencies plenty reports about night demonstrations which took place at many cities and alleys in support with Hama city and other flashpoints inside the country.
Syria said hundreds of policemen and security officers were killed and many others wounded by alleged armed groups it blames for the four-month-old unrest in the country.
SANA reported daily about Army Martyrs; Tuesday report was “8 martyrs from army, police and security forces were escorted on Tuesday to their last resting place from Homs Military Hospital and Police Military Hospital in Damascus.”
State-run News Agency assured “The martyrs were targeted by the fire of the armed terrorist groups in Deir Ezzor and Hama in the past two days.”
SANA said Army Martyrs were honored as “Solemn processions were held for the martyrs who were carried on hands and wrapped in the Syrian Flag while the music of "Martyr" and "Farewell" was played.”
Foreign journalists and independent human rights organisations are banned from Syria making it difficult to confirm reports.
Since the unrest began in mid March, Hama has been one of the hottest centers of the demonstrations, with thousands protesting every week to press demands for the downfall of the regime.
US, Saudi Arabia and Israel mastermind Syrian opposition
Bashar Assad’s main headache now is the unseen coalition of the US, Saudi Arabia and Israel, which sees the Syrian regime as one of Iran’s major Middle East partners.
That’s according to former Pentagon officer Michael Maloof, who gave his insight into the situation in the protest-torn country.
“The Syrian opposition seems to be more cultivated from outside. And it’s one of the problems that Assad is facing now, not just internal unrest – although he’s promised reforms, but a concerted effort by forces outside, a combination of the United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel,” says Maloof.
“They see in Assad ultimately his alliance with Iran, which to them is a big problem. They see the spread of Iran in the Arab world. Iran has scored heavily not only in Iraq, but also in Lebanon. Iran has made it very clear that it’s going to support Assad, and they have helped solidify that arrangement with a multi-billion dollar energy agreement which brings together both Iraq and Syria, and Iran, and in effect it helps solidify Iran’s western flank,” he explains.
Several NATO states are threatening action against Syria, with the UN Security Council set to hold an emergency meeting on the situation. The news comes as activists report that Syrian security forces have renewed attacks on the city of Hama.
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