MIDDLE EAST: NORTH AFRICA: SITUATION UPDATE AS OF 30 JANUARY 2012, <SANITIZED>

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• Publication Date: January 30, 2012

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE
Middle East-North Africa: Situation Update as of 30 January 2012
30 January 2012
Syria: The regime launched security operations over the weekend following the Arab League's
(AL) suspension of its observer mission. Activists claimed that violence killed at least 80 people
throughout Syria yesterday, half of them civilians
� Activists claimed that security forces yesterday fired heavy artillery and mortar rounds
in the Damascus suburbs and were locked in close combat with armed oppositionists
while armored forces took control of the eastern suburbs of Damascus
The Syrian National Council yesterday called for protests outside unspecified Russian diplomatic
missions in response to Moscow's opposition to the draft Moroccan UN resolution backing the
AL plan that would require President al-Asad to step down
� About 70 Syrians demonstrated outside the Russian Embassy in Jordan yesterday,
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This report was prepared by the CIA Middle East Task Force. Comments and queries'are welcome and
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