The video Bashar al-Assad wants you to see  In the last few
days, supporters of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria have been
circulating a video that they claim shows regime opponents in
Syria dumping the bodies of soldiers into the Orontes River in
or near Hama, where the Syrian Army is currently engaged in a
brutal punitive campaign against civilians who say they're
defending themselves only with rocks and wooden sticks.  Syrian
TV has made great hay from the clip, citing it as devastating
proof that the protesters are in fact "armed gangs" bent on
sowing destruction and chaos and terrorizing law-abiding,
patriotic citizens who love their wise leaders.  Here's the
video, which is not for the squeamish, as aired on Russian
propaganda channel Russia Today. Someone has added English
subtitles to this version:  And here's CNN's report on the same
clip:  CNN cites a Syrian activist who confirmed the video, but
other Syrian activists strongly dispute that it is from Hama.
One of them, who goes by the pseudonym Edw