{"id":1738,"date":"2011-08-28T09:31:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T09:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2011-08-28T09:31:58","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T09:31:58","slug":"six-more-protesters-killed-in-syria-arab-league-says-force-pointless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2011\/08\/28\/1738\/","title":{"rendered":"Six more protesters killed in Syria, Arab League says force \u2018pointless\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news1\/syria_firing.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/>Syrian security forces fired on protesters in several cities on Saturday night, killing four people in Aleppo, one in Damascus and another in Idlib, according to local Co-ordination Committees of Syria (LCC) activist network. Meanwhile, Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi said it was \u201cpointless\u201d to use force against uprisings, in a clear allusion to the crisis in Syria.  <!--more-->  <br \/>In the industrial hub city of Aleppo, police forces have lost control of the situation and have requested military assistance in cracking down on protesters, the Coordination Committees reported.<br \/>Syria\u2019s Interior Ministry had warned inhabitants of Damascus not to demonstrate \u201cfor their safety,\u201d after some of the most intense protests in the capital since the start of the six-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad\u2019s rule.<br \/> \u201cThe Interior Ministry calls on the brother citizens not to respond to social Internet sites to participate in rallies or assemble in public squares in Damascus. This is for their safety,\u201d a statement by the ministry published on official media said.<br \/>Syrian forces fired live ammunition to prevent thousands of protesters from marching on the centre of Damascus from eastern suburbs earlier, witnesses and activists said, seriously injuring at least five people.<br \/>Militiamen loyal to Assad, known as \u201dshabbiha,\u201d also fired live ammunition at worshippers who tried to demonstrate outside the al-Rifai mosque in the Kfar Sousa district of the capital, home to the secret police headquarters. Assad loyalists also beat the mosque\u2019s preacher, popular cleric Osama al-Rifai, who was treated with several stitches to his head, witnesses said.<br \/>One demonstrator was also killed and 10 hurt when club-wielding security forces attacked a group of people leaving prayers at the Rifai mosque in the capital\u2019s western quarter of Kafar Susseh, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.<br \/>Among the wounded was the imam of the mosque, Osama al-Rifai.<br \/>The Local Coordination Committees confirmed the death, but said 12 people had been injured.<br \/>Demonstrations were also reported in the northern Damascus quarter of Roukn Edinne and in Zabadani, 45 kilometers (28 miles) north of the capital, the Observatory said.<br \/>Separately, the Observatory said one person was killed and five wounded in Kafar Nabel, in Idlib province of northwest Syria.<br \/><strong><br \/>Force \u2018pointless\u2019<br \/><\/strong><br \/>Meanwhile, Arab League chief Arabi said on Saturday experience had proved \u201cthe security option and recourse to force are pointless against revolutions and uprisings demanding radical change when these demands are legitimate.\u201d<br \/>Arabi was opening the first meeting of foreign ministers of the 22-member Arab League to discuss the crisis in Syria, where Assad\u2019s regime is trying to suppress mass protests with the use of deadly violence.<br \/> \u201cWe must react positively to the demands of Arab youth,\u201d he said, as \u201cthe rapid implementation of reforms\u201d were the way to avoid \u201cforeign intervention.\u201d<br \/>An Arab diplomat said earlier the ministers would warn Syria they would no longer remain silent on its deadly crackdown on dissent.<br \/>The meeting, being held in the absence of Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem, also readmitted Libya, suspended in February after strongman Muammar Qaddafi ordered a bloody crackdown on protesters.<br \/>Mahmud Jibril, number two in the victorious rebel National Transitional Council, took over Libya\u2019s seat and the rebel flag replaced Qaddafi\u2019s green standard.<br \/>The diplomat said the Arab League was not considering the suspension of Assad\u2019s government, which is clinging to power five months into a nationwide uprising that has left more than 2,000 dead.<br \/>But ministers agreed ahead of Saturday\u2019s meeting to pressure Syria for an immediate end to military operations against protesters.<br \/>To this end they would be sending a mission consisting of Arabi and the foreign ministers of six countries to Damascus on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Al Arabiya<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syrian security forces fired on protesters in several cities on Saturday night, killing four people in Aleppo, one in Damascus and another in Idlib, according to local Co-ordination Committees of Syria (LCC) activist network. 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