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Syria Uprising: Homs Bombardment Continues As Saudis Push For UN Resolution

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Huffington Post UK   First Posted: 11/02/2012 14:36 Updated: 11/02/2012 14:36

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Shells continued to rain down on the Syrian city of Homs today in the latest attacks in a week-long government siege of the city.

Tank and rocket bombardments were unleashed as activists said 15 people had been killed in the latest attacks.

Homs opposition activist Mohammad Hassan told Reuters a 55-year-old woman had been killed after her home in Baba Amr was hit by a shelling.

According to the BBC, Saudi Arabia is circulating a draft resolution in the United Nations General Assembly calling for an end to violence by all sides and for President Bashar al-Assad to step aside.

It is similar to the one vetoed by Russia and China in the Security Council.

The UN General Assembly is due to discuss the uprising on Monday, where it will be addressed by the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay.

According to state media, gunmen assassinated an army general in Damascus. Brig Gen Issa al Khouli was killed as he left his home this morning, Sky News said.

Al Khouli was a doctor and the chief of a military hospital in the capital. No one has taken responsibility for his death.

The fighting today follows a double-bombing in Aleppo which killed 28 people on Friday.

The bloodshed today spilled into neighbouring Lebanon, where two people died and 18 were wounded in fierce clashes between Sunni Muslims hostile to Syria's regime and Alawites who support it, AFP reported.

The United Nations says close to 6,000 people have died in the country since the start of anti-government protests in March 2011.

Video reportedly shot on Friday showed tanks firing shells towards the city.

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Shells continued to rain down on the Syrian city of Homs today in the latest attacks in a week-long government siege of the city. Tank and rocket bombardments were unleashed as activists said 15 p...
Shells continued to rain down on the Syrian city of Homs today in the latest attacks in a week-long government siege of the city. Tank and rocket bombardments were unleashed as activists said 15 p...

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masisinfo
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14:44 on 12/02/2012
Saudi Arabian's new draft is the same as it was last week's offer. Also calling for an end to violence by all sides and for President Bashar al-Assad to step aside, is similare to say to rebells - end the violence only if Assad goes. Is look like more as a call for rebels to continu the violence till Assad didn't step down. I think is very ugly cos is supporting the violence, non?
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Podzak
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14:09 on 12/02/2012
A country that hates it's own people so much doesn't deserve to exist,
NUKE it!
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Norman Mitchison
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13:34 on 12/02/2012
Has anybody noticed that the overpaid ,self publicised Middle East Peace Envoy, Tony Blair is absent from the Syrian debacle. Too busy speaking for cash elsewhere, one presumes.
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sir fanny liver
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12:20 on 12/02/2012
HARRY REDNAPP TWEETED WHY ARE THEY SHELLING HOMOS
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BigGrump
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10:33 on 12/02/2012
Why no action from the Arab League?
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Signin
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12:16 on 12/02/2012
It is possible that America and Israel have told the Arab League not too interefer. It makes you wonder what really is going on in this sad part of the world!
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Scam2
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09:41 on 12/02/2012
Time for the truth to be told as to who is behind these groups in middle east countries who have taken up arms against the leaders.
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TAXPAYER12
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09:51 on 12/02/2012
Those who wish to destabilise the region for their own gain...i'll leave it at that!
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Signin
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12:23 on 12/02/2012
Most of these so called leaders are tyrants and despots, who do not give a damn about their unfortunate lower class citizens. These countries appear to have a two tier system ie Very, very rich and down trodden very , very poor!
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TAXPAYER12
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09:40 on 12/02/2012
Religion and Politics fuel the flames of hatred and war. It always has done and always will. Religious leaders are as power crazed and as corrupt as Political leaders.
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Saint wright
old chippy
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09:04 on 12/02/2012
Its just the two main branches of the religon of peace and head removal doing what they do best around the worl, d slaughter?
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oneyippie
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20:17 on 11/02/2012
Religion, Nationalism, Patriotism, all excuses for war, mass murder and plunder.

It's the 21st century now, but nothing has changed since the first century...

Humanity can't evolve as long as religions and governments remain hostile to one another.

Our social structures cannot evolve fast enough to prevent our self-destruction.

We are doomed if we continue to allow religions and governments dictate who to hate and who to kill. Maybe the concept of sovereign nations should be rendered obsolete...
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spiritofthe60s
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08:41 on 12/02/2012
I totally agree with your post, it's heartbreaking that there are billions of stars/planets etc out there, and the human species is still stuck in the Dark Ages mindset, a monkey squabble over land and diminishing resources, redundant ideologies, the human species hasn't progressed far from the cave entrance.
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masisinfo
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14:37 on 12/02/2012
How do you think you can remove the governments and religions ?
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somaliLiberal
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19:48 on 11/02/2012
Well let me say I really wish well my friends in Syria, however; For Saudi Arabia to ask the UN to stop syrian blood shed while at the same time helping Bahrain's dictator to crush Bahrainian people and deny their aspiration and in fact help that regime to murder its people is a disgusting and I hate even more today then yesterday.
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Guv
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20:58 on 11/02/2012
It's Sunni vs Shia
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somaliLiberal
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21:42 on 11/02/2012
yeah but only America and Saudi sickness not true Sunni vs Shia exist.
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trailerguy
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17:43 on 11/02/2012
If the syrains had be allowed to own guns like in the US this would be over already. A well armed population keeps tryants t bay.
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grahamrk
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18:59 on 11/02/2012
When do we get our guns?
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eastwoodmaniac
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10:29 on 12/02/2012
I'm not sure arming a population with handguns and rifles will do much against against tanks and mortars except get themselves killed quicker. You might have noticed that the vast majority of protests in Syria have been peaceful, calling for an end to the bloodshed not calling for more.
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trailerguy
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16:20 on 12/02/2012
hopefully it can be done without atrming population. Peacefully. In libya didn't hapen that way.
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jackbutler5555
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17:05 on 11/02/2012
When idealism causes deaths of thousands.

Given that we punish dictators like Gaddafi and Mubarak, what's in it for Assad to cave?  Is punishing Assad worth the death of so many innocent Syrians?
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