Dramatic Video: Syrians Dodge Sniper Fire While Rescuing Friend
- Posted on May 12, 2011 at 2:06pm by
Billy Hallowell
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Since March, the Syrian government has been working to crush anti-government uprisings. These protests, which have spread throughout the nation, continue to lead to violent clashes between citizens and the Syrian government. Click below to watch an unbelievable video in which Syrian citizens in the city of Daraa dodge sniper fire while trying to rescue their friend:
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Bloomberg had more on the protests:
Syria’s government deployed tanks against demonstrators, boosting the death toll after almost two months of unrest, according to Syrian human-rights activists.
At least 24 protesters have been killed in the last two days, including 13 who died when the village of Hara outside the southern city of Daraa was shelled, Mahmoud Merhi of the Arab Organization for Human Rights said by phone from Syria today. At least six people died in an assault on the city of Homs yesterday and five in Jassem the past two days, said Merhi and Ammar Qurabi, the head of the National Organization for Human Rights. Two soldiers were killed, Merhi said…
More than 750 demonstrators have been killed since the uprising began, according to Qurabi and Merhi, who have compiled lists of the names of victims. The number of dead probably grew after yesterday’s shelling and in light of the large number of people the two men say are missing. As many as 10,000 have been detained in the past two months, Qurabi has said.
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notreally
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 7:01pmPretty pathetic attempt to save the guy, IMO. But they were terrific in their bellowing ALLAHU AKBAR!
Report Post »Black Manta
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 12:03amThe brain wash is killing humans…God bless their souls…
Report Post »AirtechJr
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 11:49pmWhy don’t they shoot back?
Oh I forgot.
Gun Control….
The only ones allowed to have guns are the government criminals.
How’s that working for the citizens?
Gun Control, coming to a city near you!
Report Post »SilentReader
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:14pmAnd this is just the tip of the iceberg! I have seen videos from Syria that would make anyone cringe. The massacre by Assad of his own people is horrific.
Will anyone in the government MSM report this? And where is the condemnation by the Obama minions and the corrupt OIC-controlled U.N.?
Silence is what you get when these terrorist-thug-leaders in the Middle East commit their atrocities.
And yet the OIC-thugs at the U.N. are so quick to condemn Israel! Do you see this kind of thing happening in Israel? Do you see death by government happening in Israel? I don’t think so!
Yet, these thug-leaders, like Assad and Ahmadinejad, get a pass! Ahmadinejad hung 46 people in 21 days during the last Christmas season, and there was not one word by the government MSM or the Obama minions.
The silence is deafening!
Report Post »ksm4evr
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:19pmWhy do we pretend Muslims aren’t violent look at all there so democracy movements. It is all violence all the time. Trading one tyrant for another so sad just sad. And it all go back to the Bible they are the children of a slave girl and Abraham, and they still can’t get over that fact. They can try to change the fact of their founding as a people, but that doesn’t change the truth. And as Glen says the truth has no agenda. It is just the truth.
Report Post »rightwingheroes
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:59pmBlessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Report Post »Blessed are the meek: for they shall possess the land.
Blessed are they who mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall have their fill.
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the clean of heart: for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
krenshau
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:31pmThe Syrians aren’t going to have freedom until they stop throwing rocks and start shooting back.
Report Post »Michael600r
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:09pmThis is why citizens are disarmed, so they can’t shoot back.
Report Post »suzpenn
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:08pmAnd please tell me where the protesters of these crimes are? Code Pink, The U.N., assorted Hollywood ‘stars’, Foreign Heads of State, The Arab League, our own Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, or perhaps that ‘humanitarian’ group Hamas? Let’s also not forget Bill Ayers and wife Bernadine Dorhn, where are their voices? Hell, where are fellow Muslims voices on this slaughter? They all cowards to speak out, march, and protest this evil.
Report Post »psst
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:18pmUm ameriKan Moslems and Moslems here feel their pain. Quietly of course.
Report Post »They only get aroused to demonstrate on issues like the NY Musk near Ground Zero.
One or more Arab/Molsem strongman killing their citizens. No big deal. Telling them not to build their celebratory Musk near Ground Zero is a whole nother matter.
Then it’s really time to take it to the streets.
psst
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:08pmI can’t spare any more compassion for the citizens of the Arab/Moslem World. Sorry, my stash of compassion is down to nearly nothing.
Report Post »The few I have left are to be divided between the citizens of Israel and “some” of the citizens of the US.
Israel is surrounded by enemies that desires to wipe her off the map. US cons are surrounded by socialists and communist who are working diligently to destroy US..
Sorry Syrians, Lybians, EyeRanians et al. Soon,US will be in your shoes. We now have the government we deserves. But unlike you, many of US will be able to return fire.
Gonzo
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 2:52pmDon’t we have an “obligation to protect”? I wonder why Obama feels Libyan civilians are more valuable than Syrian civilians? I’m done trying to figure him out but, why doesn’t the press ask that question? You can bet they would if he had an R next to his name.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:05pmWe should help the Syrians overthrow this brutal regime.As we should help the Libyans too.Unlike Iraq where the people never rose up and demaned change or asked for help, we are morally obliged to help these defenseless people.And these uprisings show how all those americans and iraqi’s died in vain .The iraqi’s could have risen up after all like people in all these other countries now are.These Syrians are not anti american as anyone who knows that country is aware of.You’re all very ignorant of the reality on the groung in all these countries[which explains why you were all caught off guard by these Mid East uprisings] and you’re easily manipulated and brainwashed by anti-Muslim and anti Arab Zionist propaganda.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:31pmWe are not morally obliged to do anything. So if you don’t have a good argument, you start calling the rest of us names like you know us and what we think. Bite me.
Report Post »D-Fence
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:52pm@Rose How old are you? Saddam butchered his people, Shia, after Desert Storm. We walked away because the Useless Nations wanted us too. So, we left that fiend in power, and had Persian Gulf War II. Oh, by the way, the Palestians are considered dogs to the rest of the Muslim nations. Why do you think that Jordan, Syria, and Egypt confiscated the West Bank, Gaza, and Southern Lebanon. They just use the Palestinian people as cause celeb.
Report Post »jeff.cooper
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:29pm@Rose Ellen
Morality is your basis of intervening in Syria and other regimes? Who is to decide who is right and wrong in any given situation? Consider Egypt. This administration helped force out a dictator in a stable country for the sake of democracy, ignoring the fact that Mumbarak was Egypt’s dutiful elected leader. Was that moral? We initially took a hands off approach in Libya but then decided to launch million dollar missiles into that country. Is it moral that the president has spent over $100 million of taxpayer dollars in an effort to depose Gaddafi? Bottom line – America is not the world’s police. We are not morally obligated to assist in the civil wars of foreign countries. Many posters on The Blaze have expressed the disgust with the decisions of Obama to pick and choose which regime to prop up and which one to topple. Others are of the mind that we have no business meddling in the affairs of other countries.
I suggest you read your history regarding recent events in Iraq, as well as the Constitution (find for me where it is our obligation to support the toppling of regimes).
Report Post »jdog777
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 2:42pmlooks like Chicago in about 5 years.
Report Post »jeff.cooper
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 2:38pmLooks like the Syrian reforms are working well for that man who is lying in the street, bleeding to death. BHO wants to do victory laps for killing Bin Laden while ignoring critical events in Syria. As Vennoye stated above, the SOS said that al-Assad was a reformer, which is to say the administration will not touch this issue with a 39 and a half inch pole. In light of recent events, I suggest that BHO is a foreign policy disaster who can hang his hat on one thing: giving the go ahead to kill UBL.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:25pmOnly BHO didn’t. Panetta had to, because Valerie Jarrett wasn’t going to let BHO do it.
Report Post »feddup
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 2:36pmI’m not sure I care. Wouldn’t either side like to kill Americans and destroy Israel? If so, isn’t it better that they kill each other off? I am really uncomfortable with those thoughts, but that’s how I feel.
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 2:28pmInteresting thought. Like watching two teams competing and neither one is a favorite.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 2:23pmSaw CNN defending Assad today. It’s amazing. In the morally bankrupt world where the Left lives, this guy’s legitimate leader.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 2:22pmyou have to admit that Ben and Pat really came through for both of them.and thank god,{ or whatever they believe in} Ben those knees and Pat those feet.
Report Post »momprayn
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 2:20pmYes, what do they want if they got their “democracy” – check out what’s happening in Egypt — Muslim Brotherhood taking over? Surprise surprise. We need to get OUT of these wars in Muslim countries – no “nation building” – impossible. Eisenhower (a distant cousin of mine) wouldn’t have approved.
Report Post »No Nazis or Commies
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 2:52pmGod Bless You!
Report Post »No Nazis or Commies
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 2:18pmIranian, Egyptian & Syrian Muslims continue murdering their citizens daily.
Isreal does not.
Obama sides with Iran,Egypt & Syria encouraging swfift UN action against Isreal???
What does your heart tell you.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 2:57pmIsrael kills Palestinans fighting against their brutal racist unjust exopantionist policies and occupation.
Report Post »adouglass1
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:53pmRose-Ellen
Are you off your meds again?
Report Post »Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 2:13pmWe are not the world’s police – but that aside – I am very proud of our military!
Second to NONE.
Now if we would just SUPPORT them with good equipment and take away all the politically correct “Rules Of Engagment” that seem to be getting our people killed – that would be a step in the right direction
Report Post »Susan Harkins
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 2:12pmThese protesters and demonstraters today, were the same ones that cheered the fall of the Twin Towers yesterday.
Dont get attached to (sympothize with) ANY of them.
Report Post »Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 2:15pmRoger that. The enemy of my enemy is NOT my friend. The Muslim gets the governments they deserve, just like anywhere else.
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 2:12pmI’d like to be a fly on the wall if Oblahblah talks about this.
Report Post »Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 2:11pmHow long till NATO bombs Syria? Oh wait, my bad.
Report Post »Sam Brown
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 2:10pmNot every tyrant is willing to give up power just because Obama says to. What comes out of all this will be true terror.
sam
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 2:17pmSurely not Syria……..Hillary said he was a reformer!! Right………
Report Post »SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 2:20pmRussia Times is claiming “US fires 1st salvo in word war with Syria” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=901LXZWWL7Q
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 2:26pmOur foreign policy is SO messed up! We look like fools charging into one country to “save the innocent” while allowing hundreds and thousands in another country to be hurt and killed without any action. As sad as this might sound, I agree with the idea that we should have a hands off policy unless there is a direct threat to America. The left can point the finger at Bush all they want but there was a threat that originated in Afghanistan. And the left is hypocritical about Iraq since Saddam Hussein hurt and killed thousands of people. Gadhaffi is a Boy Scout compared to Saddam.
Report Post »BIGJAYINPA
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 2:30pmNot trained snipers. Too many rounds expended with no target. Looks more like a couple of AK-47′s on spray-n-pray. Don’t see why this should be our problem. Current government in Syria stinks to high Heaven and any government that replaces it will not be a friend to us or Isreal. Best solution is to arm both sides with the latest and best weapons, let them fight it out and then kill the survivors.
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 2:39pmPJ: I believe one of the Founding Fathers said “Make friends with all and alliances with none.” Maybe we should have listened.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 2:59pmThe people of Syria show the one nightmare of the tyrants of the world; you can only push a person or people so far, and when they are in the corner, with nothing left to lose, they will strike out with fury and everything they have, for at the least they will figure you will be soon joining them in the next world for judgment.
Report Post »anutter
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:03pmThankfully we can vote ours out.
Report Post »psst
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:11pmanutter
Report Post »Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:03pm
Thankfully we can vote ours out
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Um, don’t bet the house on that. You could end up– – - – homeless.
jeffyfreezone
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:35pmBut Hillary said they were good guys…
Report Post »right-wing-waco
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:52pm@ sambrown
Report Post »You are right. I wonder how Obama would react to a march on the White House demanding HIS resignation? Would HE think that was ok?
The Big Pickle
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:58pmWHO CARES!
My thought on Middle Eastern people is about the same as a squirrel that darts into traffic…except in this case I hope they get run over.
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:03pmWatch closely my friends, this will be coming to a town near you soon enough.
Report Post »Devil Dog 7175
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:36pmLocked loaded and awaiting the arrival…
Report Post »avenger
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:11pmhey..this tyrant is not ready to give it up to other tyrants..rock on assad….let them kill each other,better for the west.
Report Post »adouglass1
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:51pmBIGJAYINPA I sorta agree but not with the latest use the left over stock from Vietnam!!
Report Post »Black Manta
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 12:02amWe haven’t seen the worst of it yet…Jesus tells us about these things it must come to past and this anit nothing for what’s to come..
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