Out Of Syria's Darkness Come Tales Of Terror -- The Independent
Witnesses who fled across the Lebanon border tell our writer what they saw
In Damascus, the posters – in their tens of thousands around the streets – read: "Anxious or calm, you must obey the law." But pictures of President Bashar al-Assad and his father Hafez have been taken down, by the security police no less, in case they inflame Syrians.
There are thieves with steel-tipped rubber coshes on the Damascus airport road at night, and in the terminal the cops ask arriving passengers to declare iPods and laptops. In the village of Hala outside Deraa, Muslim inhabitants told their Christian neighbours to join the demonstrations against the regime – or leave.
Out of the darkness of Syria come such tales.
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My Comment: I usually find myself in disagreement with Robert Fisk, but he has his sources in Syria .... and they are usually right.
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