सीरिया में दस महीने से जारी विरोध प्रदर्शनों में पहली बार किसी विदेशी पत्रकार की हत्या हुई. होम्स में एक ग्रनेड हमले में फ्रांस के वॉर रिपोर्टर जिल जाकिए सहित आठ सीरियाई लोगों की मौत हो गई. जाकिए के साथ अन्य पत्रकारों को सीरिया के हालात दिखाने के लिए घुमाया जा रहा था. सीरिया की बिगड़ती हालत देख कर अरब लीग के एक और पर्यवेक्षक ने देश छोड़ दिया है.
अलजजीरा की वेबसाइट पर इस बारे में जारी खबर इस प्रकार है–
Journalist killed
Gilles Jacquier of France 2 television became on Wednesday the first Western reporter to be killed in 10 months of unrest in the country. Syrian state media said nine people were killed in an apparent mortar attack in the city of Homs, while a Belgian reporter was among 25 others injured.
According to an AFP news agency reporter at the scene, Jacquier was fatally wounded when a shell exploded as the group of journalists were covering demonstrations in the city. Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, and Alain Juppe, the French foreign minister, condemned the killing and called on Syrian authorities to shed "full light" on the circumstances of his death.
In Hama, another Syrian dissident area, military forces on Wednesday killed 13 people as they stormed the province hunting for army defectors, a leading opposition activist in Damascus told DPA. Earlier, Assad, in his second speech in as many days, reiterated his accusations that the "homeland was reeling under the brunt of conspiracy".
Nevertheless, "the Syrians will undoubtedly triumph over the conspiracy, which is nearing its end," Assad told thousands of cheering supporters at a rally in Damascus' Umayyad Square. Late on Wednesday, the Arab League said it was postponing a decision to send more observers to Syria after 11 of its monitors were injured in an attack earlier this week.
"The Arab League will not send more observers to Syria for the time being until the situation calms down," an unnamed official of the regional bloc told Al Jazeera.
