Syrian Soldiers Take Up Positions Before Protests

Syrian soldiers rolled into flash point cities in tanks and set up sand barriers topped with machine guns Thursday, as President Bashar Assad's deadly crackdown on dissent pulled the country deeper into international isolation.

On the eve of another round of large protests, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton slammed the government's assault on demonstrators and said the violence showed Assad is weak, though she stopped short of saying he must quit."Treating one's own people in this way is in fact a sign of remarkable weakness," Clinton said during a trip to Greenland.

Assad, 45, is determined to crush the two-month-old uprising despite international pressure and sanctions from Europe and the United States. His government has led one of the most brutal crackdowns in the wave of popular revolts sweeping the Arab world.

Protests organizers were calling for more demonstrations Friday despite military operations and arrest raids meant to pre-empt the rallies."Authorities are detaining any person who might demonstrate," Rami Abdul-Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told The Associated Press.the Nike Dunk Mid Pro SB Griptape and the Ultrasound Dunk Mid Pro Sea Crystal

In the northern city of Deir el-Zor, authorities placed cameras inside and outside the Osman bin Afan mosque, where many worshippers have been demonstrating after Friday's Muslim prayer services, he said.The benefits of having the Elite Edition 2008 Karaoke machine is that it is 100% legal, it is extremely easy to use; you may use it anywhere you go, all over the worldAbdul-Rahman added that many former detainees were forced to sign documents saying that they were not subjected to torture and that they will not take part in future "riots."

A Western diplomat said 2,000 people have been detailed over the past two weeks, with a total of around 8,000 since the Syrian government launched its crackdown. The official, who demanded anonymity to share assessments of the situation in Syria,The scenery carving sculpture and moulding that there are of lots of can happen to become one designs the type garden. As well as other builds sculpture to be able to contain style or build rights and interests dell xps m1710, the point to inclination becomes the especially certain from east to west regular appearance garden truly. said Western nations believed that between 600 and 800 people have been killed so far.

A video dated April 27 in the southern city of Daraa emerged Thursday showing a sniper shooting two people on a motorbike, then preventing residents from rescuing them or getting close.People in the street could be heard screaming "Traitors!" at the security forces.