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## [OS] SYRIA - Syrian forces attempt to crush army deserters

Released on 2012-08-22 09:00 GMT

Email-ID | 1471777
Date | 2011-09-27 21:57:03
From | ashley.harrison@stratfor.com
To | os@stratfor.com
List-Name | os@stratfor.com

This article gives more details on the defected army battalions.
Syrian forces attempt to crush army deserters
Government troops storm city of Rastan, as growing numbers of army
deserters pledge 'to protect peaceful protests'.
Last Modified: 27 Sep 2011 16:39
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/09/2011927154827326805.html
Syrian forces backed by tanks and helicopters stormed into the central
town of Rastan to crush army deserters who are fighting back after months
of mostly peaceful protests against President Bashar al-Assad, residents
said.
Early on Tuesday, dozens of armoured vehicles entered Rastan, a town of
40,000 on the Orontes river north of Homs, after tanks and helicopters
pounded it with heavy machineguns through the hours of darkness.
"Tanks closed in on Rastan overnight and the sound of machineguns and
explosions has been non-stop. They finally entered this morning," said a
resident named Abu Qassem.
Reports indicate that 20 civilians were injured in the assualt. However,
Al Jazeera could not immediately confirm reports of injuries due to
restrictions on reporting in Syria.
Hundreds of soldiers who have defied orders to fire on protesters have
formed the Khaled Bin al-Walid battalion, named after the Arab conqueror
of Syria, in Rastan. The force, led by Captain Abdelrahman Sheikh, has
some tanks. Colonel Riad al-Assad, the most senior military defector, is
active in the area.
Nearby in Houla, across the Orontes, thousands of villagers held an
anti-Assad rally during which a new battalion of defectors was announced.
Several soldiers in fatigues were seen in a YouTube video as a crowd
chanted "Freedom".
To cheers, an announcer was seen in the video saying: "The Syrian Free
Army declares the formation of the Ali bin Abi Taleb Battalion in Houla,
Homs, under the command of First Lieutenant Colonel Fayez al-Abdallah, to
be supervised by the Khaled bin al-Walid battalion ... to protect peaceful
protests."
Rastan lies on the highway to Turkey near the city of Homs and is part of
a region that has emerged as a centre of resistance to Assad's government.
'Foreign intervention'
Syria's foreign minister on Monday blamed "foreign intervention" for the
country's months of violence and for causing delays in Assad's plans for
democratic reforms.
In a speech to the UN General Assembly, Walid Moualem sought to paint the
Assad government as having been on the brink of wide-ranging democratic
reforms when "foreign-inspired religious radicals and armed groups" forced
them to put down the rebellion to hold the country together.
"We deeply regret the surge in the activities of armed groups in Syria,
which have not waned and instead continued to spiral," he said.
"The presence of these groups ... is the manifestation of foreign
intervention."
Moualem said reforms "had to take a back seat to other priorities. Our
overriding priority was facing the external pressures which were at times
tantamount to blatant conspiracies."
As Moualem addressed the world leaders in New York, the violent crackdown
on anti-government protesters continued in Syria.
The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in
Geneva has put the number of people killed in the crackdown on the
uprising at more than 2,700 since March 15.
--
Ashley Harrison
Cell: 512.468.7123
Email: ashley.harrison@stratfor.com
STRATFOR