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Before the attack that the syrian government has cut off the electricity supply and telephone services. After the syrain forces killed at least six people in an attack on a mosque. This is all happening in the southern city of Deraa, the site of major protests challenging President Bashar al-Assad's Baathist terrible rule,
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Syrain protesters and activists have encouraged to make a stand so, Syria has closed the country's only casino and reversed a ban on teachers wearing the Islamic veil. Moves seen as an attempt to reach out to conservative Muslims ahead of calls for pro-democracy demonstrations about our natural human rights.
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Syria's crazy uprising has claimed 13 more victims when government forces shelled the central town of Rastan in a continuing offensive that belied offers of an amnesty for regime opponents.
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Figures attending the conference at a hotel in central Damascus are keen to emphasise that the meeting will be a discussion between independent figures and will not include representatives of the regime nor the opposition. Those who are in a political party were not invited.
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Marzouki, 66, is respected by many Tunisians for his implacable opposition to the autocratic Ben Ali. As president, he will be a secularist counterweight to the moderate Islamist party Ennahda, now Tunisia's dominant political force.
