SYRIAN PRESIDENT ASSAD REPORTEDLY VISITING ALEPPO
PanARMENIAN.Net
October 2, 2012 – 16:55 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net – Syrian President Bashar Assad is visiting the city
of Aleppo to take a first-hand look at the fighting between government
forces and rebels and has ordered 30,000 more troops into the battle,
Reuters reported Tuesday, Oct 2, citing a Lebanese paper.
Al-Diyar newspaper, which is known for its pro-Assad stance, said
the president had flown by helicopter at dawn from the presidential
palace in Damascus to Aleppo.
It did not specify what day the trip started but said that Assad was
still in Aleppo. The visit was decided on after reports that the
situation in the city, Syria’s largest and its commercial center,
had become very serious.
” President Assad ordered units 5 and 6, estimated to be 30,000
soldiers and 2,000 personnel carriers, to move from Hama to Aleppo
and to attack any occupied areas of Aleppo province from the Turkish
border,” it said.
Reuters says the agency was unable to independently verify the report.
An employee of al-Diyar told Reuters it had a correspondent in the
city. Syrian state media made no mention of any visit.
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