RELATED:UN seeking urgent access to Syria's Deraa UNHRC to debate creation of investigatory c'tee on Syria Syria: Latest 'Day of Rage' could be largest yet Republican Guards deployed in the suburb of Douma earlier this week and Assad sent the Fourth Mechanized Division under the command of his feared brother Maher to hit the city of Deraa, the cradle of the democratic uprising against his 11 year autocratic rule.A senior Western diplomat that despite army deployments, protests could still erupt across Syria after Friday prayers, the only occasion Syrians are allowed to gather en masse."If the protests turn out to be large, and I suspect that they will be, it will be another setback for the regime, which sent the army to the cities for the sole purpose of subduing the people," the diplomat said."The regime is already disappointed with how the military campaign is going. Deraa is resisting."
Syria ups security around Damascus before prayers
Various security, secret police man checkpoints around capital, cut off city from suburbs, rural regions; telecommunications, electricity shutdown.
RELATED:UN seeking urgent access to Syria's Deraa UNHRC to debate creation of investigatory c'tee on Syria Syria: Latest 'Day of Rage' could be largest yet Republican Guards deployed in the suburb of Douma earlier this week and Assad sent the Fourth Mechanized Division under the command of his feared brother Maher to hit the city of Deraa, the cradle of the democratic uprising against his 11 year autocratic rule.A senior Western diplomat that despite army deployments, protests could still erupt across Syria after Friday prayers, the only occasion Syrians are allowed to gather en masse."If the protests turn out to be large, and I suspect that they will be, it will be another setback for the regime, which sent the army to the cities for the sole purpose of subduing the people," the diplomat said."The regime is already disappointed with how the military campaign is going. Deraa is resisting."