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this is from homs where government troops have free reign. body after body, truck after truck. according to the opposition, these were women and children stabbed, burned to death late sunday. some had their throats slit. you see 22 body bags in all of the 45 who were reported dead. as always, we can t independently verify the claims of the video, but today at least we got a kind of confirmation from syrian state media. it, too, broadcast the victim ofs in homs. normally they limit themselves to footage of funerals of police officers and security forces. now at least it is showing civilian victims, but on syrian state television, they blame those killings on so-called armed terrorist groups. it s a narrative we ve heard over and over again from the regime. the military has taken control of the neighborhoods in homs. the pictures you saw may, in fact, support that assessment. in his meeting, kofi anan, the syrian dictator stuck to the story that the violence is being comm ....
you see 22 body bags in all of the 45 who were reported dead. as always, we can t independently verify the claims of the video, but today at least we got a kind of confirmation from syrian state media. it, too, broadcast the victim ofs in homs. normally they limit themselves to footage of funerals of police officers and security forces. now at least it is showing civilian victims, but on syrian state television, they blame those killings on so-called armed terrorist groups. it s a narrative we ve heard over and over again from the regime. the military has taken control of the neighborhoods in homs. the pictures you saw may, in fact, support that assessment. in his meeting, kofi anan, the syrian dictator stuck to the story that the violence is being committed by armed terrorist gang, insisting his regime is not slaughtering civilians. despite that, and despite grim accounts from the u.n. s own people, annan found some reason for hope for optimism. they want peace, they ....