Peter Clifford @PeterClifford1 #Syria #Assad believed to be hiding in bunker complex beneath presidential palace with "supplies for 6 months": http://tinyurl.com/PCOHome Collapse Reply Retweet Favorite Buffer More 2RETWEETS 10:02 AM - 29 Jan 13 · Details ASSAD REGIME BATTLES TO RETAKE IDLIB PRISON AFTER FSA RELEASE 300 PRISONERS: FSA CAPTURE PARTS OF IDLIB PRISON, A MAJOR RAILWAY TERMINAL IN SOUTH DAMASCUS AND HOLD ONTO DARAYA, DESTROYING ASSAD TANKS: TIMELINE – 28th JANUARY 2013 15.00 GMT: After 3 days the battle for control of Idlib's main prison continues. In dramatic scenes on Friday, Opposition forces in co-ordinated attacks on regime positions across the city of Idlib, managed to break into the central prison and free more than 300 grateful prisoners, reputedly capturing a number of Assad's soldiers in the process. FSA Free Prisoners at Idlib Central Prison 10 Opposition fighters were killed in the attack but those remaining are still fighting for complete control of the penitentiary in a city which is still largely under Government control. Government forces are desperate to retake the prison, even using MIGs to drop bombs inside the penitentiary compound, because it is also a major checkpoint controlling the entrances to the city from the west. The prison contained both criminals and political prisoners and the Opposition fighters will bring those they released before a judge to decide whether they should be released completely or complete their sentences elsewhere. Opposition forces are almost certainly control of vast areas across Idlib province itself, enabling them to to now concentrate their fire on the provincial capital. A video of prisoners being released from Idlib prison under heavy gunfire is HERE: and Al Jazeera has a another report, HERE: In the north-eastern part of Idlib province...
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