Syria: tanks storm Homs amid fears of ground invasion
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February 10, 2012, The Telegraph
• Tanks storm Homs as soldiers sweep area house to house
• Rebels fear "big attack" by tomorrow
• Blasts rock Syria's second city Aleppo
• Defiant activists stage overnight Homs rally against Assad
• Obama decries Syria attacks as "outrageous bloodshed"
• Cameron: Assad seems "hell-bent on killing, murdering and maiming"
“The tanks entered the neighbourhood of Inshaat overnight,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
He said troops were still deploying to the area early Friday – the seventh day of a flaying attack on the city which is the epicentre of the rebellion against Assad.
Activists told the Reuters news agency that the rebels fear the tank reinforcements are a prelude to a major push to storm residential areas – where hundreds of thousands of people are trapped.
Outgunned rebels loosely grouped under the Free Syrian Army have been preparing to counter the onslaught. READ...
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