‘Tanks and Helicopters’ Mow Down Syria Protesters

Arutz Sheva ^ | 12/6/11 | Gil Ronen

[Eleutheria5]

The minority Alawite regime of Bashar Assad has brought in helicopter gunships and tanks to combat a citizens’ rebellion, according to eyewitness reports. The BBC quoted a Syrian refugee who had crossed the border into Turkey as saying that Assad’s tanks attacked a village near Jisr al-Shughour Saturday. About 120 members of Syria's security forces were killed at Jisr al-Shughour last week. The government blames local "armed gangs" but residents said the soldiers were shot by other soldiers when they refused to open fire on civilians. Jisr al-Shughour is described as resembling a ghost town after residents fled in fear of revenge by Assad's forces.

AFP quoted Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, as saying that helicopters flying over Maaret al-Numan, near Jisr al-Shughour, had fired on a police station which protesters had seized.

Activists reported that helicopter gunships had been used fire at crowds for the first time on Friday. At least 30 people were reported dead in Friday’s violence, three of them in the capital Damascus.

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[Brad from Tennessee]

[. . .it looks like either the Revolutionary Guard of Iran or Hizbollah, or both, are being used within Syria to suppress the demonstrations.]

Iran can't afford to lose Syria as a base of operations against Israel and to support proxies in Lebanon. Hopefully the Israelis can exploit the current chaos to their advantage.

[Eleutheria5]

I hope the three of them go down together before the revolutionaries, and the remnant of Hizbollah loses all credibility in Lebanon. This is G-d looking out for us again.