There was a bus ambush by an "armed group" that killed 6 soldiers and 3 civilians while wounding 17 more. I am a naturally suspicious person and wonder if this attack wasn't engineered by Assad's security police to "prove" that the opposition is made up of terrorists. I have no evidence for that, so in the meantime, we must assume that the "armed group" was actually targeting Syrian soldiers and the civilians were killed in the cross fire. But the Syrian army had plenty of other unarmed targets: The Local Coordination Committees, which group anti-regime activists on the ground, said security forces shot dead three people in the Khan Sheikhwan area of Idlib province in northwest Syria. Security forces encircled hospitals "to prevent the wounded from being brought in for treatment", it charged. On Friday, SANA said gunmen in Khan Sheikhwan had kidnapped Wael Alia, corporal with Syria's internal security services. International Committee of the Red Cross chief Jakob Kellenberger flew...(Read Full Post)