Oct 20 Pro-government

A mass gathering in support of President al-Assad in Aleppo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QPYkQsyqRg
A speech by a schoolchild.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMBxXRZc36I
At 01:18, people chant "al-Sha'b yureed Bashar al-Assad" (people want Bashar al-Assad). Large Syrian flags hang in front of the Tourism hotel and other surrounding buildings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JIspIK1PKU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPkLpFkScpI

For your comparison, anti-government protest occurred in Salah al-Din district in Aleppo (2km west of Bab Antakya). Around 20 young guys marched in a back street with no audience.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYlP2dIGbsg
In Andan, a small town north of Aleppo, they held an anti-government gathering. A banner at 00:54 can read "People of Aleppo are dancing on the soul of victims." This town is the center of anti-government coordination committees in Aleppo province.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mToKw40--7c
In Maari' village, north of Aleppo just before the Turkish border, people burn flags of Russia and China.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg2je8Sehh8

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معلمو حلب : نستنكر قتل العلماء وترويع التلاميذ وحرق المدارس
Teachers of Aleppo: We condemn killing and intimidation of scholars and students burning schools
http://jamahir.alwehda.gov.sy/_View_news2.asp?FileName=95844605720111019231247
http://backupurl.com/283wwi
Thursday 20 - 10-2011

(Statement aimed at general circumstances, not aimed at Aleppo province.)

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Head of National Initiative of Syrian Kurds: Conspiracy Aims at Subjugating Syrian People to US Will
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/10/19/376427.htm
Oct 19, 2011

HASAKA, (SANA) – Head of the National Initiative of the Syrian Kurds, Omar Osi, on Tuesday stressed that the conspiracy against Syria aims at subjugating the Syrian people to the US-Zionist will.

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البطريرك هزيم يجدد رفضه التدخل في شؤون سورية الداخلية
Greek Catholic Patriarch Hazim renewed his refusal to interfere in the internal affairs of Syria
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/10/20/376831.htm
October 20, .2011
Beirut, (SANA) -

New Patriarch Ignatius IV Hazim, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East of the Greek Catholic rejection of interference in the internal affairs of Syria and the Syrian-Lebanese brotherly relations.

Patriarch Hazim said during a meeting with Iranian Ambassador to Beirut Ghazanfar Abadi corner of our country that Syria does not deserve to be subjected to attempts to tamper with its security in order to weaken it, adding that we will stay in Syria and we are not afraid. And he said we live in Lebanon and Syria, without fear and where our families are and do not think what he was doing some politicians to divide families.

In turn, Abadi said targeting Syria comes within the scheme a sinister and tendentious and unrelated to the reforms because of their positions in support of the resistance and said he had spoken with the patriarch of the role the U.S. and Israel in the region in terms of fueling strife and sectarian private slander final against Iran and the targeting of Syria, pointing out that the situation in Syria is moving towards better .