Photographer recalls attack that killed Colvin

(CBS News) In Damascus, the bodies of American journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik have been handed over to foreign diplomats. They were killed in the shelling of Homs eleven days ago.

Colvin's photographer, Paul Conroy, was wounded in that attack and is now recovering in London, where he spoke to CBS News correspondent Charlie D'Agata

At the height of the relentless onslaught of Homs -- like countless civilians, veteran photo journalist Paul Conroy found himself trapped.

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Then, he said, the Syrian army took aim at the building journalists were working in.

"You believe this was a targeted attack?" D'Agata asked.

"When I look back, it was an attack," Conroy said. "It fit none of the patterns. Normally the shelling was random. This...did what it was meant to do."

An ex-British artilleryman himself, Conroy described how Syrian forces shelled the building. The first shots hit wide. A second round narrowed their target.

"The third set of shots hit the house -- "fire for effect" it's called -- and they fired for effect and killed two very good people, wounded a few others, and destroyed the building."

Shrapnel shattered Conroy's left leg, and he was losing blood. Doctors at a makeshift field hospital bandaged him up.

"They have nothing. They have basic bandages, sutures," Conroy said, "and they had people come in, legs amputated, babies sliced in half. Every kind of trauma that artillery shells and rockets can provide are seen in that hospital and it's a slaughterhouse."

He believes President Bashar Assad has begun a systematic assault on the civilian population.

"This is the start," he said. "Once they've crushed Homs, they will seek to eliminate all resistance in Syria. And by eliminate, I mean eliminate. I don't mean silence, I mean kill, crush, maim, bury."

Now that pictures like his will no longer bear witness, and journalists are among the targets, Conroy fears that Syrians are facing a massacre largely unseen by the world.

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The entire world is moving towards intolerance, Syria is just using out dated technology. Western Nations use computer, and electronic spying, on their subjects. Individuals in western nations who the governments believe to be subversive, or who just plain know too much, are forcefully or covertly implanted with RFID Microchips and harassed with invisible infrared lasers or pulse microwave that is very harassing.
The use of this technology by Western Nations is extremely insidious and shows how sick people in Governments really are. Only individuals with excessive fear work for governments, and believe me they are sick.
Since the general public cannot see what is being used these victims are only ridicule and belittled when they complain about the harassment.
The entire world will be a Fascist State soon with the use of this technology.