June 14th, 2012

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The Daily Monitoring Report

Internal Situation - Opposition Christians of the Homs city of Al-Qoseir refuted reports by the Vatican official news agency that they received warning from commander of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) to immediately leave Al-Qoseir.(1) - In a statement, Al-Qoseir people denounced the Vatican news agency's report, which alleged that the city's mosques broadcast a call to the Christians for leaving the city. They stressed that most of Christian families left the city with the Muslim ones due to the Assad Army's continuous brutal bombardment of the city.(1) - Selim Al-Omar, a spokesman for the Free Syrian Army (FSA) in Latakia, said that several thousands of civilians left in Al-Haffa without anyone to protect them from the Alawite militias surrounding the town.(1) - The UN observers decided not to enter the town of Al-Haffa under the pretext that it was very dangerous amid reports that three UN cars have been attacked to be forced to leave the city. (1) - Bankers in Damascus said that the Assad government printed new banknotes in Russia to be injected into the banking system, after violence and imposition of international sanctions resulted in sharp decline in revenues and shrinkage in Syrian economy. (2) - Syrian citizens, who are stuck in the Queen Alia International Airport in the Jordanian capital of Amman, said the Jordanian authorities have prevented them from entering the country for the sixth successive day.(1)

Statistics

June 13rd death toll: 77

Field Mobility
- Night demonstrations were staged nationwide, including Damascus (13 protests), Rif Dimashq, Daraa, Hama and Deir Al-Zour, demanding the departure of the Assad regime, as in Damascus.(1)(2)

Military Situation
- Brigadier General Mustafa Al-Sheikh, head of the Syrian National Council (SNC)'s military council, officially announced that the Free Syrian Army (FSA) made a tactical withdrawal from the Latakia town of Al-Haffa to avoid more killings among civilians, declaring the town and its countryside a disaster area.(1)(4) - Rami Abdul Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said that the Assad Army retook AlHaffa after the FSA withdrawal, adding that the government forces suffered heavy losses during the clashes took place over the past few days.(1)(4) - A Lebanese security source said that the Assad troops crossed into eastern Lebanon's border region of Masharii Al-Qaa and planted mines.(4) - Media activist Khalid Ibrahim Al-Bakr was martyred after a mortar shell fell near him in the Homs city of AlQoseir.(2) - Al-Assad's forces bombed the Daraa towns of Busra AlSham, Kafr Shams and Lajat, killing five people and wounding many others, in addition to other material losses. Security forces prevented giving first aid to the injured amid acute shortage of medical supplies. (1)(2) - Abu Ghazi Al-Hamawi, member of Hama's revolutionary council, reported indiscriminate bombing of the Hama town of Tibet Al-Imam, which was followed the Assad forces' storming into the town, searching houses and robbing them, as well as setting fire to motorcycles.(1) - A Reuters report says that the Syrian revolutionaries are now armed with a group of weapons, including mortar shells, machineguns, rocket-propelled grenades and antiarmor missiles.(2)(3)

Political Mobility

- Mohamed Riad Al-Shaqfa, mentor of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group in Syria, reassure all communities, especially minorities, that they will enjoy better position in future Syria after removal of the tyrannical and criminal regime. Al-Shaqfa pointed out that the Brotherhood will not stand against whoever rises to power through the ballot boxes provided that elections would be fair, free and under supervision that is away from electoral fraud.
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- Tawfiq Donia, the Alawite member of the Syrian National Council (SNC)'s executive office, said talk about announcement of a special document for the Alawite sect's members is not necessary, especially that a large part of this community is biased in favor of the revolution.(1)

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Activities of Civil Organizations
- In a new report, Amnesty International documents war crimes and crimes against humanity, which are being committed as part of the Syrian State's policy.(2)

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continued policy of illicit transfers of arms and connected material between Iran and Syria."(1)

Political Stances Syria

- Catherine Ashton, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, said, "We are all appalled by the sickening violence we continue to witness in Syria." Ashton added that the UN-Arab envoy Kofi Annan's plan remains the solution that enjoys broader international support, pointing out that setting up a more effective contact group, in- The Assad regime deported the Italian Father Paolo Dall'Oglio under the pretext that he was not committed to his religious mission. This came after Dall'Oglio's visit to Homs's Al-Qoseir and meeting with its revolutionaries.(1) cluding Russia and China, taking consensual actions by the UN Security Council, including tightening sanctions under the UN Charter's Chapter VII, as well as seeking an international consensus on the political transitional process are the issues that are given precedence at the present time. (1) - A media official with the Russian Foreign Ministry refutes - Bassam Al-Amoush, member of the Jordanian Senate's Foreign Affairs Committee, confirms that Jordan has no objection to the Syrian's entering the country, adding that certain political forces are denied access to Jordan.
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Sources:
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) Asharq Al-Awsat AlJazeera net Reuters AFP AP Guardian

Arab

statements attributed to the Russian foreign minister in which he accused Washington of supplying the Syrian opposition with weapons, saying that it was a translation error. (2)(4)

International

- The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says that Russia risks what it considers vital interests in the Middle East if it does not act more constructively on Syria. Mrs Clinton reiterated her call to Russia to cut its weapons supplies to Syria, saying that the troubled country is spiraling descended to civil war. (2)(3)
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- The White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said that his country does not supply the Syrian opposition with weapons. (2)
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- France's deputy UN Ambassador Martin Briens said, "The scope of violations confirms the existence of a deliberate and

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