Cell phone videos show horrors inside Syria

We're experiencing one of those times in history when an aging dictatorship hangs on to power by using military force against its own people. For nearly a year we've been following the freedom movement in Syria. It appears the dictator Bashir al-Assad is rushing to crush the rebellion before the world can do much about it.

The city of Homs - remember the name - is a little bigger than Philadelphia and it's been under artillery fire for two weeks. Rebels claim 100 civilians were killed Tuesday alone. The citizens there have been filming the siege on cell phones. The video above shows the sights and sounds of what it's like to be a citizen of Homs today.

The man shooting the video was saying: "We are being slaughtered. Where are you, all Arabs?"

21 countries of the Arab League have suspended Syria's membership. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be in Tunisia on Friday to meet with representatives of 70 countries to talk about what might be done to stop the killing.

[lombardo113]

What revolution in Syria. Any revolution would have an objective? WHat is the objective of the Syrian revolution? Beside getting B. Assad to Step down? How do they plan to improve the lives of the Syrians? Nobody of those anti-government activists provided a single line of how (s)he plans to run the state and make it any better. The only thing they brought up until now is killing here and there, blasting buildings, and pipelines, killing and kidnaping... of course they brought retaliation from the regime... I dont't remember that Assad's regime was shelling Homs, or any other city before the militias started popping here and there.
Thank you for making the comparison between Hons and Philadelphia, it makes me think what if some group of armed men decided to blow the B. Franklin bridge or the national museum of american history and destoy the liberty bell monument and run chaos in the city with their only request to change the regime, would Obama step down and hand power to J. Biden? i think not...
Another thing shelling a city with artillery would certainly cause more than 100 dead a day especially when it is as crouded as Homs...SO CBS can you be more diligent about your lies

[ImaJWalker]

It's a civil war. It's not within the USA. If a civil war started in the USA, would you want Iran or Russia to intervene? I think not. The USA 'IS NOT' at war. There should be NO reason for American troops anywhere except in the USA protecting it's borders.
It's nice cell phone video, but just like all the other 'propoganda' we've seen, how do we know that it isn't USA armed Arabs killing innocent civilians in this video? We don't.
It's another move to have the American public support the slaughter the USA wants to be involved in in the Middle East in the name of taking over Syria's bank and then Iran's. That's the plan of Isreal. Research it yourselves.
Thanks for the heads-up CBS. Biased

[robbyr2]

I get really tired of these editorials portrayed as news. There are a lot of reasons to be concerned about Syria's situation, but the biggest one is that we are heading towards replacing yet another secular regime with another theocratic regime. Of course, that is the media's agenda for the US as well.

[ppaulville]

If other Muslims bomb mosques and burn Korans, it's ok. But if we do it, even by accident, suicide bombers will rip out our guts and hang them from flagpoles. That about sum it up?

[beancube2010]

The civilian casualties are scapegoats and are an arrangement. However, international intervention cannot be arranged. International interventions must be able to shape their own influences instead of being dominated by the West. International interventions doesn't have choice, they must expand their influence in the face of dominants of those super powers. International interventions must spread to expose gaps and alternatives against those super power propaganda machines, the corporate mass media.

[towski]

Oh just one of those 'times in history'. Nothing to worry about. We understand completely what that must be like. I just got off the phone with Egypt. Golly, what a rough break-up.

[Mars_HQ]

Let it be known around the world... if the USGov ever ordered a military and para-military assault like this on the City of Philadelphia against rebel elements it created (as response to prolonged raw brutal physical repression), God willing that brutal and illegal govt would not only be condemned by all foreign govts around the world, including Beijing and Moscow, but that illegitimate govt (regime) would be changed or overthrown one way or another no matter how many years it took - hopefully by negotiated settlement.