uprising, you suppress it. syria s president, bashar al-assad, the man behind the crackdown. those who believed in president bashar al-assad lost all their faith when the first bullet was fired at a civilian. this is how the assads, both father and son, deal with domestic threats. can this regime stop today s revolution? there s no question, at this point, that the syrian government thinks it s won. these two stories on this special edition of frontine. frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major funding is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. and by reva and david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and
here. that is an armored personnel carrier where as many as, you know, man, we don t know, five, seven suspects are being taken away now. all right. we re going to turn things over to wolf blitzer. i ll stand by here if wolf needs me to help him take you through this. the situation room now and wolf blitzer. wolf, take it away. thanks very much. we ll definitely be needing you so stand by. we re following the breaking news out of mexico right now. a plane has been hijacked. aero mexico flight 576. details are still emerging. passengers are exiting after the hijackers reportedly said if they didn t get their way they d blow the plane up. it looks now like all the passengers have been released from this aircraft, boeing 737 en route from cancun to mexico city. the crew was supposedly still being held, but now mexican television is saying the crew has been released as well, and it looks like several suspects have been detained. you re looking at these pictures coming in from