Syrian rebel colonel warns of massacre in Aleppo

The military chief of the rebels in the embattled Aleppo, Abdel Jabbar al-Okaidi, has accused the government forces, a "huge massacres" in the metropolis of the north-west Syria, want to serve. "We call upon the international community to intervene to prevent these crimes," the officer had defected to the opposition, the news agency AFP said in the interview conducted around Aleppo. Despite a major military offensive, the Syrian government troops, the first commercial center in Aleppo are not able to bring back under its control. The army seized the town in northwestern Syria was the second consecutive day with tanks, artillery and helicopters on, but to say the insurgents fought in several areas, such as an AFP reporter reported from Aleppo. "Aleppo is the grave of the tanks of the regime," said al-Okaidi, which now belongs to a Syrian army commander of the rebel Free (FSA)."We are ready to overthrow the regime." He called on the West to set up a no-fly zone. With the help of such area, the FSA will bring the government of President Bashar al-Assad soon to fall. Give the armed rebels and deserters formed from FSA in the fight to Aleppo no "strategic retreat," said al-Okaidi. "We are waiting for the attack." The number of rebels fighting in the city he did not specify. This was a "military secret". The government army could "be used only from a distance, bombing cities and destroying houses," their aircraft and artillery. She was not able to penetrate into the center of Aleppo. "We are all over the city, and we have weapons to defend ourselves against the helicopter attacks," said al-Okaidi. According to a rebel who gave his name to Abu Alaa, the army began shelling the area continued Salaheddin, where the rebels had repulsed the day before a ground offensive. Salaheddin is one of the strongholds of the insurgents in Aleppo. In addition, there was fighting in the neighborhoods of Bab al-Nasr, Bab al-Jadid and historic old town. In the narrow alleys and covered markets other than the listed world heritage area, the army could not use their tanks, said Abu Alaa. The remaining inhabitants of Aleppo sought shelter from the shelling in cellars from tanks and helicopters, as the AFP reporter said. The insurgents in Salaheddin tried to take a strategically located police station to connect to rebels in the neighboring district Sachur. In view of the fighting in Aleppo Syria, said the international Kofi Annan's special representative government troops and rebels to adhere to international humanitarian law. He would urge all parties to avoid any further bloodshed, Annan said in Geneva. The President of the Syrian opposition National Council (SNC), Abdel Basset Sajda, urged friendly countries to supply the FSA with weapons. "We want weapons, which would stop the tanks and combat aircraft," said Sajda. President Assad must be held accountable for the "massacre" of Syrians in court of responsibility. The pro-government newspaper "Al-Watan" wrote that the government had "a very difficult operation," begun in Aleppo, to liberate "the people from the hands of the delegates from different parts of the world's terrorists." According to the AFP reporter fought on the side of the rebels formed from so-called foreign fighters brigade of United Mujahideen. According to the rebels affiliated Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in London alone were killed on Saturday 168 people nationwide, including 94 civilians, 41 soldiers and 33 rebels. On Sunday, therefore, four people died in the fighting. In addition to Aleppo, there was also the organization that fights for the headquarters of the police in the rebel stronghold of Homs.