Syrian security forces deployed in the hills around the coastal town of Banyias on Tuesday in preparation for a possible attack on the coastal city to crush the five-week popular uprising in the country, a protest leader said.
“Forces wearing black and carrying AK-47s deployed today in the hills. Armored personnel carriers passed by the highway adjacent to Baniyas at night,” Anas al-Shaghri said from the town, which has seen intensifying pro-democracy protests against the rule of President Bashar Assad.
“We are expecting an attack any moment. We will receive them at the gates with our bare chests,” Shaghri said.
Protests in Syria have spread across the entire country in the weeks since the demonstrations first began in the southern city of Daraa. View Syria protests in a larger map
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