UN monitors shot at on way to Syrian massacre site

In this citizen journalism image provided by Sham News Network SNN and according to them, purports to show the bodies of Syrian children in Mazraat al-Qubair on the outskirts of Hama, central Syria, Thursday, June 7, 2012. Syria on Thursday denied as "absolutely baseless" claims by opposition groups about a new massacre in the central Hama province in which government forces allegedly killed dozens of people, including women and children. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network, SNN)THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTO

In this citizen journalism image provided by Sham News Network SNN and according to them, purports to show the bodies of Syrian children in Mazraat al-Qubair on the outskirts of Hama, central Syria, Thursday, June 7, 2012. Syria on Thursday denied as "absolutely baseless" claims by opposition groups about a new massacre in the central Hama province in which government forces allegedly killed dozens of people, including women and children. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network, SNN)THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTO

This citizen journalism image made from video provided by Shaam News Network SNN, purports to show two injured Syrian boys who survived a massacre in Mazraat al-Qubair on the outskirts of Hama, central Syria, Thursday, June 7, 2012. Syria on Thursday denied as "absolutely baseless" claims by opposition groups about a new massacre in the central Hama province in which government forces allegedly killed dozens of people, including women and children. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network, SNN)THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTO

In this citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network ENN, anti-Syrian regime protesters chant slogans and hold a banner in Arabic that reads, "Al-Qubair massacre challenges the world's humanity," during a protest against the massacre of Mazraat al-Qubair, in the northern village of Hass, in Idlib province, Syria, Thursday June 7, 2012. Syria on Thursday denied as "absolutely baseless" claims by opposition groups about a new massacre in the central Hama province in which government forces allegedly killed dozens of people, including women and children. (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTO

United Nations-Arab League special envoy to Syria Kofi Anan addresses the United Nations General Assembly on the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, Thursday, June 7, 2012 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, addresses the United Nations General Assembly on the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic as Nassir Abdulaziz Al -Nasser President of the 66th Session of the General Assembly listens, Thursday, June 7, 2012 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

(AP) ? Unarmed United Nations monitors came under fire Thursday as they tried to reach the scene of the latest mass killing in Syria, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. Activists accused government forces of killing nearly 80 people, including women and children who were shot, hacked to death and burned in their homes.

The reports came just weeks after more than 100 people were killed in one day in a cluster of villages known as Houla in central Homs province, many of them children and women gunned down in their homes. U.N. investigators blamed pro-government gunmen for at least some of the killings, but the Syrian regime denied responsibility and blamed rebels for the deaths.

The Houla massacre brought international outrage and a coordinated expulsion of Syrian diplomats from world capitals.

Ban told the U.N. General Assembly that the monitors "were shot at with small arms" as they tried to reach Mazraat al-Qubair, a farming area in the central Hama province. The group was denied access. By nightfall, the U.N. observers had not managed to visit the village, said spokesman Kieran Dwyer.

No observers were injured and it was not clear who was behind the shooting, the U.N. said.

International envoy Kofi Annan, who tried to broker a plan to end the crisis, offered a grim assessment of the coming days and weeks in Syria.

"If things do not change, the future is likely to be one of brutal repression, massacres, sectarian violence, and even all-out civil war," Annan told the General Assembly. "All Syrians will lose."

Syria denied that its forces committed the mass killing in Mazraat al-Qubair on Wednesday, dismissing the claims as "absolutely baseless." The regime blamed the violence on terrorists who are trying to provoke foreign military intervention to topple Assad. A fuller picture is unlikely to emerge before U.N. observers can enter the rural village.

A resident of Mazraat al-Qubair said troops shelled the area for five hours Wednesday before government-aligned militiamen known as shabiha entered the area, "killing and hacking everyone they could find."

Leith Al-Hamwy told The Associated Press by telephone that he survived by hiding in an olive grove about 800 meters (yards) from the farms as the killings were taking place. But he said his mother and six siblings, the youngest 10-year-old twins, did not.

"When I came out of hiding and went inside the houses, I saw bodies everywhere. Entire families either shot or killed with sharp sticks and knives," he said.

Al-Hamwy said the gunmen set his family home on fire and his family burned to death. Around 80 people in total died, he said, many of them children, and 18 homes were either destroyed by the shelling or burned down.

Syria's main opposition group in exile, the Syrian National Council, also said 78 people were killed in Mazraat al-Qubair when government-aligned militiamen converged on the village from neighboring pro-regime villages. Some of the dead were killed execution-style, others were slain with knives, the SNC said. It said 35 of the dead were from the same family and more than half of them were women and children.

"Women and children were burned inside their homes in al-Qubair," said Mousab Alhamadee, an activist based in Hama.

Gen. Robert Mood, the head of the observers mission in Syria, said U.N. patrols headed to the village of were stopped at Syrian army checkpoints and in some cases turned back. He said some patrols were also stopped by civilians and added they had received information from residents of the area that the safety of observers was at risk if they entered the village.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton condemned the Syrian government.

"The regime-sponsored violence that we witnessed again in Hama yesterday is simply unconscionable," she said in Turkey. "Assad has doubled down on his brutality and duplicity, and Syria will not, cannot be peaceful, stable or certainly democratic until Assad goes."

The exact death toll and circumstances of the killings overnight in Mazraat al-Qubair were impossible to confirm. The violence is bound to reinforce the growing belief that a peace plan brokered by Kofi Annan is unraveling as the country spirals toward civil war.

Both Homs and Hama have been centers of opposition to Assad's rule during the 15-month uprising.

The Britain-based Observatory for Human Rights said it had compiled the names of at least 49 people who had died in the massacre. But Rami Abdul-Rahman, director of the group which relies on a network of activists on the ground, said the circumstances of the killings were still unclear and called on U.N. observers to visit the area immediately.

The Local Coordination Committees, another activist group, group gave a higher death toll, saying more than 78 people were killed, including many women and children. It said pro-government militiamen known as shabiha first shelled the farming area and then went in and killed the residents there. It said some of the dead were stabbed to death while other bodies were burned.

A government statement published on the state-run news agency SANA said "an armed terrorist group committed an appalling crime" in Mazraat al-Qubair, killing nine women and children. It said that after the crime, residents there appealed to Syrian authorities in Hama to intervene to protect them, adding that authorities went to the farm and stormed a hideout of the group and clashed with them.

The statement claimed all members of the armed group were killed in clashes along with two security agents and five security agents were wounded.

Amateur video posted on the Internet purported to show the bodies of babies, children and two women wrapped in blankets and lined with frozen bottles of water to slow their corpses from rotting in a large room with brightly patterned red carpet.

Another row of bodies lay elsewhere: a grandmother, a mother, and five siblings and two cousins, according to the video narrator, all neatly wrapped in white sheets, more frozen water bottles tucked between them. One toddler's arm covered her face. Their names were scrawled on pieces of paper and tucked into their shrouds.

In another video, the camera pans over to four blackened, charred objects too disfigured to be identified as human bodies. The narrator said they were of a mother and two children who were shelled in their home.

The authenticity of the videos could not be independently verified.

Al-Qubair is a small farm in the overwhelmingly Sunni village of Maarzaf around 20 kilometers (12 miles) west of the city of Hama with around 30 homes and around 160 inhabitants. Activists said the Sunni village is surrounded by a string of Alawite villages. Alawites are an offshoot of Shiite Islam and Assad is a member of the sect, while the opposition is dominated by Sunnis.

Attempts to reach more eyewitnesses and residents of the area was difficult, making the verification of what went on extremely difficult. The Syrian government keeps tight restrictions on journalists.

The statement claimed the killings were meant to put pressure on the Syrian regime ahead of a U.N. Security Council meeting.

British Prime Minister David Cameron urged concerted action from the international community against Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime following the latest reports. He said that if the reports of the "brutal and sickening attack" are true, it adds further proof that the Assad regime is "completely illegitimate and cannot stand."

Speaking during a visit to Norway, Cameron insisted more must be done to isolate Assad's regime and show that "the whole world" wants to see political transition in Syria and condemns "absolutely" the Syrian regime.

In Paris, French Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero said ministers from the so-called "Friends of Syria" countries ? many European and Arab nations ? would meet in the French capital on July 6 to help support the Annan plan. He said the meeting would mobilize "all states and organizations that want to support the Syrian people" amid the repression.

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Lederer reported from the United Nations.

Associated Press

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Bernanke signals no imminent steps to aid economy

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 7, 2012, before the Joint Economic Committee about the health of nation's economy, the slumping recovery, and the European debt crisis. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 7, 2012, before the Joint Economic Committee about the health of nation's economy, the slumping recovery, and the European debt crisis. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 7, 2012, to testify before the Joint Economic Committee about the health of nation's economy, the slumping recovery, and the European debt crisis. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke appears on a television screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, June 7, 2012. Bernanke said the Federal Reserve is prepared to take further steps to lift the U.S. economy if it weakens, but he didn't signal any imminent action in testimony before a congressional panel Thursday. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 7, 2012, before the Joint Economic Committee hearing on the health of nation's economy, the slumping recovery, and the European debt crisis. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies before the Joint Economic Committee about the health of nation's economy, the slumping recovery, and the European debt crisis, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 7, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

(AP) ? Slumping job growth has alarmed some economists who fear the U.S. economy is in trouble.

Ben Bernanke doesn't appear to be one of them.

The Federal Reserve chief sketched a hopeful outlook in testimony to a congressional panel Thursday and sent no signals that the Fed will take further steps soon to aid the economy.

Bernanke acknowledged that Europe's debt crisis poses risks to the U.S. financial markets. He also noted that U.S. unemployment remains high at 8.2 percent. And he said the Fed is prepared to take steps to boost the U.S. economy if it weakens.

But he said Fed officials still need to study the most recent economic trends, including job growth. For now, Bernanke said he foresees moderate growth this year.

He said he's mindful that all that could change, if Europe's crisis quickly worsened or U.S. job growth stalled.

"As always, the Federal Reserve remains prepared to take action as needed to protect the U.S. financial system and economy in the event that financial stresses escalate," he told the Joint Economic Committee.

The Fed could buy more bonds to try to further reduce long-term interest rates, which might encourage more borrowing and spending. Or it could extend its plan to keep short-term rates near zero beyond late 2014 until an even later date.

But most economists don't expect a major announcement at the Fed's next policy meeting June 19-20, despite signals this week from some other Fed members in favor of considering further action.

For one thing, long-term U.S. interest rates have already touched record lows. Even if rates dropped further, analysts say they might provide little benefit for the economy. They say it's unlikely that many businesses and consumers who aren't borrowing now at super-low rates would do so if rates declined a bit more.

And Bernanke could face pressure not to pursue further stimulus before the November election because such steps could be perceived as helping President Barack Obama win re-election.

"The Fed stimulative effects have really run their course," Obama's Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, argued in a television interview last week.

John Ryding and Conrad DeQuadros, economists at RDQ Economics, said there was nothing in the testimony to "tip Bernanke's hand" before the June meeting of the Fed's policy committee.

"Yes, the Fed chairman said the Fed stands ready to act if Europe poses a threat to the U.S. financial system or the economy," they wrote in a note to clients. "However, he gave no specifics."

An early rally on Wall Street faded after Bernanke signaled no immediate further steps from the Fed to help the economy. The Dow Jones industrial average had been up as much as 140 points. It closed up about 46 points, or 0.3 percent.

Many analysts are worried that the U.S. economy is suffering a midyear slump just as in 2010 and 2011. They're concerned in particular about the job market. From December through February, the economy added an average 252,000 jobs a month. But since then, job growth has slowed to a lackluster 96,000 a month. In May, U.S. employers added just 69,000 jobs ? the fewest in a year.

Bernanke said the Fed is still assessing the most recent employment data. Like many economists, Bernanke suggested that a warm winter might have prompted some hiring that normally would have occurred later. That could have weakened hiring temporarily in the spring. If that's true, hiring might bounce back.

Still, Bernanke said some of the winter hiring might have made up for excessive job cuts during the recession. If so, and if those companies have completed such "catch-up" hiring, then stronger economic growth might be needed to boost hiring, Bernanke said.

"That is the essential question we will have to look at," he told the panel.

The government said last week that the economy grew at a sluggish annual rate of 1.9 percent in the first three months of 2012.

Paul Edelstein, an economist at IHS Global Insight, said he thought Bernanke didn't seem alarmed by the weak hiring in May.

"His view is that it isn't a sign that the economy is falling apart," Edelstein said.

Bernanke's message to financial markets, Edelstein said, was, "Don't expect anything drastic from the Fed at the June meeting."

That said, if the Fed does announce some new action at its meeting later this month, Edelstein said the most likely step would be to extend a program, known as Operation Twist, that will expire at the end of June.

Under Operation Twist, the Fed sells shorter-term securities and buys longer-term bonds. As with other Fed bond purchases, the idea has been to drive down long-term rates so that mortgages, auto loans and other consumer and business loans become more attractive.

The Fed's policy committee has been split between those who favor doing everything possible to strengthen the economy and reduce unemployment, and those more concerned about inflation risks.

On Wednesday, Janet Yellen, the vice chairman of the Fed, Dennis Lockhart, the head of the Atlanta regional Fed Bank, and John Williams, president of the San Francisco Fed bank, all suggested that the Fed might need to do more to provide support.

But Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, warned at Thursday's hearing against more bond buying. He and other critics worry that ever-lower borrowing rates could eventually ignite inflation.

"It is my belief that the Fed has done all that it can do and has perhaps done too much," said Brady, vice chairman of the committee.

Associated Press

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Oil rises as traders look to Fed's next move

Oil rose for a third straight day as traders searched for clues to whether the Federal Reserve may consider additional measures to spur economic growth.

Benchmark oil rose $1.28 to $85.56 per barrel Wednesday in New York. Brent crude gained $2.08 to $100.92 per barrel in London.

Traders are anticipating remarks on the slowing economy from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Thursday when he testifies before Congress. A key factor will be Bernanke's take on the weak May jobs report. Just 69,000 jobs were created last month, the fewest in a year.

"If he thinks it's bad and his mandate is full employment, the odds of a stimulus go up," Price Futures Group analyst Phil Flynn said.

Bernanke could endorse a third round of bond buying by the Fed in an effort to push already low long-term interest rates even lower. The Fed has already purchased $2.3 trillion in Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities over the past three years in an effort to push interest rates lower.

The Fed in September began a $400 billion program dubbed Operation Twist by which it sold $400 billion in short-term securities and replaced them with long-term securities in an effort to put more downward pressure on long-term rates. The program is scheduled to end in June, but could be extended.

In a speech Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Dennis Lockhart, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, said that additional measures to support the economy will need to be considered if modest economic growth "is no longer realistic."

The Fed's previous stimulus efforts have helped boost the price of oil.

There also is speculation that European politicians will take steps to ease the region's debt crisis soon, although the European Central Bank left its benchmark lending rate unchanged Wednesday. Bank President Mario Draghi has said the bank cannot make up for inaction by governments.

The debt crisis has hurt the region's economy and has affected U.S. companies that do business in Europe.

Oil prices also benefited Wednesday from a small drop in U.S. inventories last week to 384.6 million barrels. It marked the first decline in 11 weeks. The Energy Department said that crude supplies remained 4.2 percent above the year-ago level.

In other trading, heating oil rose 5 cents to $2.68 per gallon while gasoline increased 2 cents to $2.71 per gallon. But natural gas dropped 3 cents to $2.42 per 1,000 cubic feet.

At the pump, the national average for a gallon of gasoline fell half a cent overnight to $3.565, according to AAA, Wright Express and the Oil Price Information Service. That's about 21 cents less than a month ago.

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To achieve an attractive figure people need to maintain a good diet chart. Most of the people think that starving is a very good way to lose weight. But doctors say that starving is the worst way to lose weight, because it never completes the needs of the body. You need to intake proper food and reduction of fat intake will help you maintain an attractive figure.

To lose weight try to maintain a proper diet chart. Physical activities and the intake of proper food are essential. The diet chart for weight loss should be similar to the mentioned beneath:

?Intake of meat, chicken, fish, egg, lentils and beans in adequate amounts is essential as they are good sources of iron, zinc, selenium, proteins and calcium in high amount.

?Starchy carbohydrate foods like potatoes, pasta, bread, rice and breakfast cereals provide iron and vitamin B.

?Fruits like apple, oranges, pears and grapes provide us the necessary minerals.

?Vegetables like carrots, peas, Swede and broccoli help you in weight loss.

?Some dried fruits can also be a good option for weight loss.

?Milk and other dairy products are very much helpful. A glass of milk, small bowl of curd and a match-box shaped piece of cheese are absolutely good for your health.

?Intake of about 1.5 liters of water in a day is important to maintain the necessity of water in the body.

?Replacing sugar and snacks with fruits, low-fat yoghurt or a whole grain toast with diet spread is absolutely necessary for the health as they contain high amount of extra fats.

?Choosing low-calorie drinks or watery and low-fat milk is absolutely good for the health to replace drinks rich in sugar.

?Alcohol and smoking should be avoided in order to maintain a good physic. Alcohol and smoking help in degrading the current situation of the body.

?Try to eat low-salt, low-calorie and oil free food, because oil and salt are considered harmful for the health and the blood pressure.

?As low-calorie food, you can take sprouted moong dal salad, upma, curd rice, vermicelli upma, veg salad dip, beans salad, baked vegetables, pineapple crush etc.

?Eat frequently and slowly. Eating at a faster rate may damage your digestive system and may result in any kind of problem of indigestion in your body.

Whenever you start dieting, always keep in your mind how much weight you want to lose. Losing weight to a perfect limit is good, but losing weight excessively is bad for the health. Take your time and manage your diet chart. Always start your exercise with simple steps and increase them at equal intervals of time. Whenever you start any exercise always try to consult a professional as sometimes you can face consequences of not doing the exercise in the proper way as required. Thus, brace yourself for the weight loss program in order to make your body vigorous.

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New Syria 'massacre' as Clinton lays out strategy

Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "massacred" about 100 people including women and children, the opposition said, as the US demanded a full transfer of power in the country.

The call by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton set the stage for a renewed diplomatic stand-off over Syria, after Russia and China said they were strongly against intervention and regime change.

If reports of the killings in the central province of Hama prove accurate they will rank among the worst atrocities in Syria's 15-month uprising against Assad's embattled regime.

"We have 100 deaths in the village of Al-Kubeir, among them 20 women and 20 children," Mohammed Sermini, spokesman for the exiled opposition Syrian National Council, told AFP.

He accused the regime of being behind the "massacre".

Other sources also reported a mass killing had taken place in the same area, including the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tentatively put the number of dead at 87.

The Syrian government on Thursday denied responsibility, saying in a televised statement: "What a few media have reported on what happened in Al-Kubeir, in the Hama region, is completely false."

"A terrorist group committed a heinous crime in the Hama region which claimed nine victims. The reports by the media are contributing to spilling the blood of Syrians," the statement said.

But the Britain-based Observatory said in a statement that pro-regime shabiha militia armed with guns and knives carried out the "new massacre" at a farm after shelling by regular troops.

"What is certain is that dozens of people died, including women and children," the watchdog's Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.

Both Sermini and the Observatory urged UN observers to immediately head to the region to investigate.

The reports come after at least 108 people were killed in a two-day massacre that began on May 25 near the central town of Houla, most of them women and children who were summarily executed, according to the United Nations.

News of the new incident came after Russia and China said they were "decisively against" intervention or regime change in Syria, as Arab and Western calls mounted for strong international action in the conflict.

The United States endorsed an Arab proposal to invoke the UN Charter's tough Chapter VII, while refraining from supporting its powers to initiate military intervention.

Meanwhile Clinton, who has voiced mounting frustration with the Chinese and Russian positions, sought to mobilise support in Turkey, calling on the international community to "close off the regime's economic life lines".

"We can't break faith with the Syrian people who want real change," said a State Department official who briefed reporters on Clinton's meeting in Istanbul with officials from 16 regional and European powers.

Clinton set forth "essential elements and principles that we believe should guide that post Assad transition strategy, including Assad's full transfer of power," the official said.

Other elements include "the establishment of a fully representative and inclusive interim government which leads to free and fair elections, a ceasefire to be observed by all and equality for all Syrians under the law", the official said.

But Clinton's Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov warned regime change in Syria would lead the Middle East to "catastrophe".

Beijing and Moscow said after two days of talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leaders that they strongly opposed intervention and regime change.

"Russia and China are decisively against attempts to regulate the Syrian crisis with outside military intervention, as well as imposing... a policy of regime change," a joint statement said.

Speaking in the Chinese capital, Lavrov urged the international community to resist calls from the exiled opposition to help oust Assad's regime.

Opposition groups "outside Syria appeal to the world community more and more to bomb the Assad regime, to change this regime. This is very risky, I would even say it is a way that will bring the region to catastrophe", he said.

Lavrov hit out at the rebel Free Syrian Army's announcement it was no longer bound by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan's six-point peace plan, and proposed a high-level conference with the participation of Iran among other powers.

His proposal was given a cool reception by Clinton, as well as by the French and British foreign ministers.

Russia and China have vetoed two Security Council resolutions against Assad's regime, but backed Annan's blueprint to end the conflict in which more than 13,500 people have died since March 2011, according to the Observatory.

The Annan plan was supposed to begin with a ceasefire from April 12 but doubts have emerged about its effectiveness as violence has raged on despite the deployment of nearly 300 UN observers.

In other violence, rebels went on the offensive in and around Damascus and 46 people were killed across the country, the Observatory said.

Rebels clashed with troops in Harasta and near Douma, Irbin amd Zamalka, all in the Damascus region, among other parts of the capital, according to the watchdog which says at least 168 soldiers have been killed in the past week.

Assad appointed loyalist Riad Hijab as prime minister in a move France dismissed as a "masquerade".

Analysts said Syria risks descending into a long and bloody civil war with the Annan plan at a stalemate, the opposition badly fragmented and fierce resistance to any real changes by the Assad regime.

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