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| Men scale a monument to tear down a large poster of Syrian President Bashar Assad, in the city of Daraa, Syria. (Credit: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) |
Americans held
March 27, 2011
By Richmond Times-Dispatch Staff
DAMASCUS, Syria --Syrian authorities have detained two Americans, relatives and state media said Saturday.
Syria's state news agency Sana alleged that a man with dual U.S.-Egyptian citizenship had "confessed" to selling photos and videos of demonstrations to a Colombian woman. He was later identified by relatives as Mohammed Radwan, 32, of Austin, Texas.
Meanwhile, a Vermont man said his 21-year-old son Pathik "Tik" Root — who had been missing since March 18 — has been found to be safe in Syrian custody. Tom Root said his son, a Middlebury College student who had been studying Arabic in Damascus, was detained during a demonstration in the capital.
A scenic seaside city echoed with gunfire Saturday as protesters defied government forces in Syria's second day of nationwide unrest, burning tires, attacking businesses and setting the offices of the ruling party aflame.
At least two people were killed by rooftop snipers in the religiously mixed Mediterranean city of Latakia, officials said, and President Bashar Assad's government of minority Alawite Muslims blamed a major Sunni cleric in Qatar for inciting the unrest.
The government said demonstrators had also attacked a police station and offices of the Baath party in the town of Tafas, six miles north of the southern border city of Daraa, epicenter of more than a week of anti-government protests.
The unrest in Syria, which exploded nationwide Friday after roiling Daraa for a week, is a new and highly unpredictable element of the Arab Spring, one that could both weaken a foe of the West and cause dangerous instability in one of the more fragile and potentially chaotic countries of the Mideast, experts said.
Dozens of people protested in Latakia before attacking the Baath party's offices in Syria's main Mediterranean port — a tourist draw renowned for its sandy beaches and resorts, said Ammar Qurabi, an exile in Egypt who heads Syria's National Organization for Human Rights.
A Syrian activist in touch with protesters in Latakia said hundreds had been demonstrating there since Friday evening, burning tires and shouting "Freedom!"
A few protesters were attacking cars and shops, the activist said.
Syrian presidential adviser Bouthaina Shaaban said Qatar-based Sheik Youssef al-Qaradawi had incited Sunnis to revolt with his sermon in Doha on Friday. Al-Qaradawi, who has millions of followers around the world and is seen as one of most influential voices in Sunni Islam, told his audience that, "Today the train of revolutions arrived at a station that was inevitable it would reach: the station of Syria."
5 comments:
please be happened in Cambodia soon so We can close the doors and beat the shit out of ah Yourns' dogs who give lands to Yourn and evict Khmer people from their land.
The wave of change will come soon.
Take time to get more energy,wake up,stand up,and rise up against ah
Hun Sen and ah Vietnamese in Cambodia.
The time of change will go around,
come around to Cambodia.
Ah Hun Sen has no time to escape and
no time to run.
Khmer people are so,so,so mad now.
They want to suck Hun Sen and Yuon blood.
Koh Tral Island must not be forgotten
By Ms. Rattana Keo
Why do Koh Tral Island, known in Vietnam as Phu Quoc, a sea and land area covering proximately over 10,000 km2 [Note: the actual land size of Koh Tral itself is 574 square kilometres (222 sq miles)] have been lost to Vietnam by whose treaty? Why don’t Cambodia government be transparent and explain to Cambodia army at front line and the whole nation about this? Why don't they include this into education system? Why?
Cambodian armies are fighting at front line for 4.6 km2 on the Thai border and what's about over 10,000km2 of Cambodia to Vietnam. Nobody dare to talk about it! Why? Cambodian armies you are decide the fate of your nation, Cambodian army as well as Cambodian people must rethink about this again and again. Is it fair?
Koh Tral Island, the sea and land area of over 10,000 square kilometres have been lost to Vietnam by the 1979 to 1985 treaties. The Cambodian army at front line as well as all Cambodian people must rethink again about these issues. Are Cambodian army fighting to protect the Cambodia Nation or protecting a very small group that own big lands, big properties or only protecting a small group but disguising as protecting the Khmer nation?
The Cambodian army at front lines suffer under rain, wind, bullets, bombs, lack of foods, lack of nutrition and their families have no health care assistance, no securities after they died but a very small group eat well, sleep well, sleep in first class hotel with air conditioning system with message from young girls, have first class medical care from oversea medical treatments, they are billionaires, millionaires who sell out the country to be rich and make the Cambodian people suffer everyday.
Who signed the treaty 1979-1985 that resulted in the loss over 10,000 km2 of Cambodia??? Why they are not being transparent and brave enough to inform all Cambodians and Cambodian army at front line about these issues? Why don't they include Koh Tral (Koh Tral size is bigger than the whole Phom Phen and bigger than Singapore [Note: Singapore's present land size is 704 km2 (271.8 sq mi)]) with heap of great natural resources, in the Cambodian education system?
Look at Hun Sen's families, relatives and friends- they are billionaires, millionaires. Where did they get the money from when we all just got out of war with empty hands [in 1979]? Hun Sen always say in his speeches that Cambodia had just risen up from the ashes of war, just got up from Year Zero with empty hands and how come they are billionaires, millionaires but 90% of innocent Cambodian people are so poor and struggling with their livelihood every day?
Smart Khmer girl Ms. Rattana Keo,
Khmer Krom (about 18 millions), Khmer Kandal (14 millions) and Khmer Surin should be reunited and stand up to protest against Viet/Youn Hanoi masters and their puppet Hun Sen and Youn CPP in Cambodia. Those cronies and crooks should be removed out of the power.
Khmer people, please support and help each others.
Let the U.N., NATO allies, the U.S. and the international communities stand with our sides. If Viet/Youn try to hurt our Khmer/Cambodian people, Hanoi should be bombed and destroyed with atomic/nuclear bombs by our key Allies: NATO and other friends from around the worlds.
Get out of Cambodia/Khmer territory, Viet/Youn crooks and thieves and Hun Sen/CPP
Yes i think. If protests will continue like this syria may be impose emergency on their people. Syrin government take an investigation on the protests how they start and who were behind in those protests. Then only they can find the solution.
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