United States government published satellite images showing mass attacks Syrian armed forces 0206122

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Saturday, June 2, 2012, 06:26 AM
 
United States government published satellite images showing mass attacks of Syrian armed forces.
United States State Department published Friday, June 1, 2012 , a series of satellite images showing mass graves and attacks on civilian areas by Syrian government forces and deployment of artillery and armored vehicles by Syrian armed forces near major cities.
     
One satellite image showed apparent artillery impact craters near civilian areas of a town called Atarib.
One satellite image showed apparent artillery impact craters near civilian areas of a town called Atarib.
     

Some satellite images show artillery of Syrian armed forces deployed as of May 31 - Thursday - near three Syrian towns and attack helicopters allegedly deployed near the towns of Shayrat and Homs.

More than 100 men, women and children were massacred in Houla last week, most of them shot at point-blank range or slashed with knives.

Damascus has blamed the massacre on the opposition, which Assad has tried unsuccessfully for 14 months to crush, killing over 10,000 people in the process, according to the United Nations. Russia, which has used its veto powers to prevent the U.N. Security Council from sanctioning Syria, blames Islamist militants for the Houla massacre.

U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said earlier this week that the people who died from artillery and tank fire were clearly victims of government shelling while the others were most likely killed by "shabbiha" militia loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.
     
United States State Department published Friday, June 1, 2012 , a series of satellite images showing mass graves and attacks on civilian areas by Syrian government forces and deployment of artillery and armored vehicles by Syrian armed forces near major cities.
     
United States State Department published Friday, June 1, 2012 , a series of satellite images showing mass graves and attacks on civilian areas by Syrian government forces and deployment of artillery and armored vehicles by Syrian armed forces near major cities.
     
United States State Department published Friday, June 1, 2012 , a series of satellite images showing mass graves and attacks on civilian areas by Syrian government forces and deployment of artillery and armored vehicles by Syrian armed forces near major cities.
     
United States State Department published Friday, June 1, 2012 , a series of satellite images showing mass graves and attacks on civilian areas by Syrian government forces and deployment of artillery and armored vehicles by Syrian armed forces near major cities.
     
United States State Department published Friday, June 1, 2012 , a series of satellite images showing mass graves and attacks on civilian areas by Syrian government forces and deployment of artillery and armored vehicles by Syrian armed forces near major cities.
     
United States State Department published Friday, June 1, 2012 , a series of satellite images showing mass graves and attacks on civilian areas by Syrian government forces and deployment of artillery and armored vehicles by Syrian armed forces near major cities.