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Full Article Follow Reuters Facebook Twitter RSS YouTube Read Obama pays tribute to unit in bin Laden raid | 06 May 2011 U.S. gas prices hit $4 a gallon, but may retreat 08 May 2011 Bin Laden's widow says they lived in Pakistani house for 5 years 06 May 2011 River flooding begins to "wrap arms" around Memphis | 07 May 2011 Bin Laden had support network in Pakistan: Obama | 08 May 2011 Discussed 151 Concerns raised over shooting of unarmed bin Laden, burial 141 Obama at U.S. base to pay tribute to bin Laden mission 104 Boehner demands trillion-dollar cuts in debt deal Watched US releases video of bin Laden from compound Sat, May 7 2011 Bin Laden on tape Sat, May 7 2011 After bin Laden Obama focuses on economy Sat, May 7 2011 Syrian president sends tanks into major city Tweet Share this By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad has sent tanks deep into Syria's third city Homs, escalating a military campaign to crush a seven-week-old uprising against his autocratic rule. Syrians demanding political freedom... Email Print Factbox Protests in Middle East, North Africa Sun, May 8 2011 Related News Armed gang kill 10 Syrian civilians: state agency Sun, May 8 2011 Security forces kill two protesters E. Syria: witness Sun, May 8 2011 Analysis & Opinion Will there be a bin Laden peace dividend? Monowi, Nebraska. Population: 1 Related Topics World » Syria » Related Video Thousands protest in Syria Sat, May 7 2011 1 / 12 Protesters hold a poster reading: ''All cities in Syria are terrorist!???'' during a demonstration after Friday prayers in the Syrian port city of Banias May 6, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Handout By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN | Sun May 8, 2011 8:34pm EDT AMMAN (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad has sent tanks deep into Syria's third city Homs, escalating a military campaign to crush a seven-week-old uprising against his autocratic rule. Syrians demanding political freedom and an end to corruption have held weeks of what they say are peaceful demonstrations in the face of government repression, despite a civilian death toll that has reached 800, according to the Syrian human rights organization Sawasiah. On Sunday, Homs residents told Reuters they heard machinegun fire and shelling as troops made their first incursion into residential areas of the city of one million people, 165 km (100 miles) north of Damascus. At least one person, a 12-year-old child, was killed when tanks and troops charged into the Bab Sebaa, Bab Amro and Tal al-Sour districts of Homs overnight, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. "The areas have been under total siege since yesterday. There is a total blackout on the numbers of dead and injured, Telecommunications and electricity are repeatedly being cut in those districts," the Observatory said in a statement. Elsewhere, a witness said security forces killed at least two unarmed demonstrators on Sunday when they fired on a night rally in the eastern city of Deir al-Zor. Assad, who has maintained the autocratic political system inherited from his father, began by making vague promises of reforms, but when that failed to stop the protests, he made clear he will not tolerate dissent or risk losing the tight control his family has had over Syria for the past 41 years. The pro-democracy upheaval that began in Deraa on March 18, inspired by similar revolts across the Arab world, intensified on Friday across Hauran, an agricultural belt bordering Jordan to the south and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights to the west. In the south, tanks swept into several towns on Sunday. A man was killed when security forces smashed their way into his home in the southern town of Tafas, a rights campaigner in the region said. HARDLINE MODEL "Two models have emerged during this Arab democratic revolution: Egypt and Tunisia, where there is an established concept of the state and of the army as an institution of the state ... and the Libyan and Yemeni model," Jordanian statesman Adnan Abu Oudeh told Reuters. "Syria belongs to the latter," said Abu Oudeh, who is a board member of the International Crisis Group, an independent conflict resolution group. An opposition figure said that even if the half a million members of Syria's army and other security forces obeyed Assad -- they are led by officers of the Alawite minority to which Assad belongs -- the 45-year-old president would not be able to cruss the growing popular hostility to his rule. "The shocks of the military campaign are being absorbed. We have seen that as soon as the army withdraws or lessens it presence in one area to crush people elsewhere, protests erupt in the area the forces had left," the opposition figure said. "Assad is using Israeli tactics, but will not be able to occupy all of Syria with his loyalists," he added. Protesters are demanding political freedoms, an end to corruption and the departure of Assad, and deny his assertion that they are part of a foreign conspiracy determined to cause sectarian strife. Syrian authorities have blamed the nearly two months of protests on "armed terrorist groups" they say are operating in Deraa, Banias, Homs and other parts of the country. The official state news agency said an 'armed gang', a term used of opponents of the government, had ambushed a bus near Homs and shot dead 10 civilian workers returning from Lebanon. Until the uprising began, Assad had been emerging from a period of isolation by the West for defying the United States over Iraq and reinforcing its informal anti-Israel alliance with Iran -- a link that had worried Syria's Sunni Muslim majority. An army attack on Sunni areas in the coastal city of Banias this weekend raised tension between Sunnis and Alawites. On Saturday soldiers shot dead four women taking part in a small all-women demonstration near the city, rights campaigners said. The West had been working to end Assad's international isolation to wean Damascus off its Iranian alliance and encourage peace moves with Israel, but his crackdown on dissent has put that rapprochement on hold. (Additional reporting by Suleiman al-Khalidi, editing by Tim Pearce) World Syria Tweet this Share this Link this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language, all capital letters or appear to be spam, and we review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. Comments (2) DEFMD wrote: [From the article]: “Assad is using Israeli tactics, but will not be able to occupy all of Syria with his loyalists,” he added. – With ridiculous comments like this,it’s no wonder that the entire Arab wold is an intellectual, political, and economic abyss. Who said anything about the Israelis? What Israeli tactics? The Arab world should try to solve their own (immense) problems and leave Israel out of it. May 08, 2011 9:49pm EDT -- Report as abuse 1964 wrote: DEFMD, The reference to ‘Israeli tactics” refers to Israel’s tactics in Gaza. No cause to be so defensive. That Israel and the US are likely subverting and inciting the masses to desire Assad’s overthrow, is very likely, according to the old and tried doctrine of “Divide and rule”. Especially now that Egypt is seriously preparing for a more open and all inclusive foreign policy, which both Israel and the US want to undermine. While Syria is far away from formulating any new policies – they appear to be mostly occupied with suppressing dissent – Syria will be a flank in the new Egyptian initiative. Provided Syria will democratize to an extent, it will fit in well with this new Middle East. 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