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At dawn this morning in Dasmascus, the GID (General Intelligence Directive) received authorization from President Al-Assad to conduct the state sanctioned termination of Syria's bureacracy in a bid to crack down upon corruption and purge those elements suspected of bring politically problematic or blatantly unreliable in their services to the state.

The GID has set up roadblocks throughout the city and has established a system of patrols to keep civilians from interfering with special actions and handling procedures. So far, six notable bureacrats have been either arrested or kidnapped out of a total of thirty enemies of the Syrian People.

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In Damascus and Homs today, a series of demonstrations were held to protest what some are calling for free and fair elections as promised nearly a day to the week by President Al-Assad. So far protests have remained calm and orderly according to incoming reports from the police barracks in the capital and Homs. In Homs, the local chief of police has issued a statement along the following lines: "we can expect small crowds for the next couple of days here in Homs, but at the same time we must urge the public to exercise a modicum of restraint so as to avoid unpleasantries of a much more forceful nature. We do wish to see wild displays of violence let alone provocative behavior. At the moment the police are on to remain on standby ready to mobilize in defense of public safety." A mass rally is to be held in Homs by demonstrators, police presence is to resume as needed.

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As we enter a new week, the streets of Damascus, Homs, Aleppo, and Latakia are pack once more with demonstrators demanding that President Al-Assad's governing coalition in the People's Council dissolve itself to allow for a general election.

In Dasmascus our nation's capital, the metropolitan police was ordered into the streets to seal off all access to government offices in particular the presidential residence. Again demonstrations have taken on a relatively peace and benign approach to handling police presence in the city so far.

In Homs and Aleppo, workers went on strike this afternoon in solidarity with demostrations taking place in the capital for free and fair elections. The mood and tone however was much more confrontational as officers of the law had to put up with being pelted with stones, in both towns the local police have requested the deployment of riot squads equipped with live rounds and rubber bullets as well as tear gas.