Food for thought

SYRIA, the totalitarian regime permits cell phones to document the upraise, Face book and Twitter but no foreign media………

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The totalitarian SYRIAN regime that only permitted internet and mobile phones in recent past, (2002) and that under strict censorship, monitors fax transitions (See my article “The Assad Dilemma “, posted on 12 June 2011),  expelled all foreign press at the beginning of the upraise suddenly  permits protesters to use freely  cell phones to shoot videos portraying  anti regime protests  and distributing them via face book and the internet without censorship? 

Certainly the regime has means to block the internet and mobile phone services in order to stop postings? Nevertheless it seems that protesters have unlimited access to these medias. Furthermore one also has to question how it is possible that such a large amount of Syrian citizens are able to own cell phones, given the fact that cell phones and mobile phone services are extremely  expensive in Syria, the purpose of which is intentional, in order to favor the upper and middle class of Syria who so far have refrained from participated in the upraising. Thus one has to question how the poor of the country are able to afford them?