Posted on 09/05/2013 7:59:15 PM PDT by TexGrill
A civilian campaign to protect Syrian installations with human shields is being held in Damascus in anticipation of looming US attacks.
The campaign “Over our dead bodies,” which was started last week on Facebook by Ogarite Dandache, a Lebanese reporter who has been covering the Syrian crisis, encourages people to form human shields around Syrian facilities that are potential US strike targets.
Dandache told the Global Times Wednesday that the idea of the campaign was drawn from a similar one conducted during the Iraq War. She insisted that it be a “personal endeavor unattached to any financial or political sides.” “We cannot just wait for the US aggression to come. We want to say we don’t agree with the aggression and we’ll be here to protect Syria,” Dandache said.
According to the organizers, hundreds of people have since Sunday started convening on the hilltop of Gasyon, which oversees Damascus and has extensive military and communication facilities.
The campaign set up 20 tents at a site on the hill, with several dozens of Syrians, many of them students, staying overnight.
Ahmad Hammoud, one of the organizers and a student, told the Global Times that more than 10,000 people had joined the Facebook group but that between 300 and 500 had turned out since Sunday.
At around 7 pm Wednesday, dozens of volunteers were taken to the site by bus. During the nearly four-hour rally, they held signs rejecting the US invasion, sang patriotic songs and waved Syrian flags.
The Global Times reporter Wednesday night counted nearly 100 volunteers participating in the campaign, while Hammoud claimed that another 100 people took part at another site.
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Let us look at the gentle face of Al-Qaeda courtesy of Al Gorezeera:
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