He said tanks moved into the seaside area and were stationed in at least three Sunni villages just south of Banias, adding that soldiers were carrying out house-to-house searches and arrests in al-Marqab district about a mile southeast of the town and in the villages of Bayda and Basatin further south.
The crisis in Syria and Libya have slipped to the back pages of the newspaper. They need to be brought to the front again. Two weeks ago, people were asking what the U.S. government was going to do about all this. Now we’re (easily) distracted by a week-old story about bin Laden.