This is the 1st part of the videos of victims from Baba Amr neighborhood in Homs. The title of the original video in Arabic says they were thrown in "the well". please always remember to click "cc" & the annotation buttons on the bottom left corner to see caption: English subtitles Here is an exploitation of the word "Shabiha" which is mentioned in the video - from Al-Arabiya.net summarized & translated article. "Shabiha" Syrian smuggling gangs turned into a tool to suppress the protests...Most of their leaders are relatives of the al-Assad family "Shabiha" a word that is being heard frequently in the media, through the protests in Syrian, and it has become a synonymous to the words "army" and "security", who are Shabiha? And why are they called so? This word is used to name groups terrorizing locals; it came from the word "Shabiha" used to describe an old model of Mercedes cars; they were called so because their leaders tend to drive that car model. Although Shabiha are outlaws in the eyes of the state, and they operate more like a mafia, they still got special treatment, allowing them to work in smuggling due to the fact that most of the Shabiha leaders are relatives of the family of the late Syrian President al-Assad Sr. (aka Hafez Assad). Still, this semi-public support for Shabiha, did not prevent the authorities from prosecuting Shabiha twice. Once in the mountains of Latakia during the rule of Hafez al-Assad, on the hands of his son Basil, and another time when al ...