Analysis - Syria's Assad seen ignoring Gaddafis' fate | World | Reuters
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The chilling spectacle of Muammar Gaddafi's brutal end last month and the capture of his son Saif al-Islam this week, far from deterring Bashar al-Assad, seem to have energised him into redoubling his efforts to crush Syria's eight-month rebellion.
As the Arab League intensified Assad's isolation by suspending Syria's membership, defecting soldiers in the Free Syrian Army carried out their boldest attacks so far at Deraa in the south and on an Air Force intelligence base near Damascus.
Unconfirmed reports said the rebels also fired rockets at a headquarters of the ruling Ba'ath party in Damascus, until now firmly locked down by the regime's security apparatus.
The country of 22 million, convulsed this year by a civil uprising like those that brought down dictators in Tunisia and Egypt, now appears to be on the brink of a Libya-style armed insurgency, with arms flowing in from Lebanon, Jordan and from soldiers who have deserted with their weapons. [ read more at link]
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