News Intro for Friday 27-04-2012

So far the United Nations observers have failed to impose a clear ceasefire just as the Arab observers failed before them.

On Friday April 27, 2012 3 people were killed and 10 wounded in an "apparent suicide bombing" in the central Damascus district of Medan, Syria's pro-government Addounia television said.    

The question remains, where is Syria going?  

All indicators show that violence will prevail in the country for a while as all solutions have revealed to be inefficient. The monitors cannot cover the areas of conflict and have requested additional troops and until Monday only 30 out of 300 will be deployed in Syria.    

Amid all these events the United States expressed its disappointment as Damascus has failed to live up to promises made to adhere to a U.N.-backed peace plan and will increase pressure on Syrian President Bashar Assad as White House spokesman said "We intend to continue to ramp up the international pressure against the Assad regime”.  

The local political scene seemed calm except for unusual and not related developments which had many implications:  

Surprisingly former PM Saad Hariri calls MP Walid Jumblatt to present his condolences upon the death of Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Abu Mohammad Jawad Wali el-Din, especially that Hariri and Jumblatt did not mean Saudi.  

General Michel Aoun was invited for lunch today in Achrafieh along with several FPM members and close friends, which draws the political map of the parliamentarian election in this area.  

On the security level, LBCI’s special correspondent in the Chouf reported that one was injured when an explosive device detonated at 1 a.m. on Friday.

The explosive targeted the headquarters of the Arab Tawhid Movement headed by former minister Wiam Wahhab in Bekaata, in the Chouf.  

According to preliminary security information, a ship seized in Lebanon was carrying weapons from Libya to Alexandria airport then Syria but until now no official sources have confirmed or denied the story.