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But the man who wrote the lyrics, Ibrahim Kashush hear it anymore. It seems his body was found washed into the Orontes, slit his throat. In Arabic, the Orontes, called Nahr al-Assi ("the rebel flow") and two cities along its banks, Hama and Homs, have perhaps been the rebel in Syria. Historically, they have rivals, but today they are united in a fight. Homsis were in the streets chanting Ibrahim 's path name.

4.32pm:Remember, the camels in Tahrir Square by pro-Mubarak supporters down during the revolution? Prosecutors charge 25 people were in Egypt for inciting a camel in February, reports the Reuters news agency calculated.

This sounds like another attempt to head off in anger before tomorrow 's planned demonstration Tahrir Square.

04:07: Hama will be too preoccupied with defending the city from the army to take part in a demonstration tomorrow, Omar a resident and activist in the city predicted.

"People are guarding the city 24 hours a day," he said. "Today, by a Page Six [Army] has buses in. .. but they ran away," he said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that about 1,000 people had fled the city, according to Al-Jazeera.

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American blogger Michael Kremer described the "inspiring" atmosphere.

It was impossible not voluntarily by several hundred people together, to get inspired to talk about the future of their country. The level of energy and passion in the room - fed by the feeling that it make a real opportunity right now to Egypt 's political and economic future - was infectious.

But he seemed somewhat confused when the discussion took a left turn.

Tonight 's theme was social justice, and the conversation focused mainly on economics. The microphone quickly changed hands in the beginning of the meeting, with most of those present strikingly idealistic notes about the need to improve health care and education, raising the minimum wage, etc. Nothing revolutionary, but still a good way to start the program . After a brief digression in which the participants themselves were arguing over how the stock market and whether it is or was wasn 't that the country' on's future, the debate was when a proud communist heated and admonished the audience for not focusing on the real issues.

"You are forgetting all the critical issue here," he said, "we need to stop on the minimum wage and the stock market and talk about how the capitalist plague, our country will be destroyed at the end, we must recognize back to the basics and that capitalism is inherently unfair! "

The set 's attention turned immediately to broad, philosophical questions. Instead of clapping, the moderator, the audience asked to raise their arms and wave when they agreed to a certain point, and judging by the amount of raised hands and smiling after that mini-Communist Manifesto, the man had many allies in the room.

A general strike in the rebellious Syrian city of Hama has turned the city into a "ghost town", activists and resident Omar told me in telephone interview.

A list of the latest targets hit by Nato appears to show that airstrike are backing the rebels advance.

The Middle East analyst Juan Cole, argues that Nato's action falls within the UN resolution.

Gaddafi has his outlaw status and under these circumstances, the UN resolution authorizing NATO action, to prevent him from committing further crimes. The only practical way to do this, as is his defiance and aggression with heavy weapons to hit them where they committed aggression and to strengthen the forces outside Libya.

10.20: Libyan rebels claim they are clearing Gaddafi 's forces from the western city of al-Qawalish, al-Jazeera reported Zintan.

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10.02: "Gaddafi is crumbling and I predict it will fall," U.S. Senator John McCain told the BBC Radio 4 's Today program.

Now Nidaa Hassan, a pseudonym of a journalist in Damascus, describes life in Syrian capital:

One resident told the Guardian:

• Senior Chinese diplomat Chen Xiaodong, has called for talks to end the conflict in Libya. He made the plea after meeting with members of the opposition National Transition Council in Benghazi.

• Libyan rebels have an apparently coordinated two-pronged offensive against pro-Gaddafi forces launched southwest striking from bases in the western mountains east of Tripoli, and from the besieged city Misrata, 130 miles.

• The analysts are about the possibility of "catastrophic success" concerns in Libya. The Guardian 's Simon Tisdall says:

In this scenario, the negotiated settlement between the regime and the rebels and the orderly departure from power of Muammar Qaddafi, that the UN and NATO 's stated goal is not happening. Instead, Gadhafi killed or flees his government imploded, the rebels 'National Transitional splinter into rival centers of power and unpaid army units and police, renegade mercenaries and tribal militias (armed in some cases from France) begins fight for the nation' s oil wealth .

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