First notice the title: it talks about a mob. So a mob is a group of Arabs who don't support the US and its clients in the region. When "people" attacked Syrian dissidents in Cairo and threw rocks, eggs, and tomatoes at them and beat the shit out of some of them, the New York Times did not describe them as mobs, as in "Mobs Strike Embassies After Group Bans Syria." If protesters in Lebanon attack the Iranian or Syrian embassies, do you think that Barki or the Times would describe them as a mob? You know the answer. Then Bakri seeks an independent analysis of the situation in Syria, so since the "objective" Zionists of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy were not available, she settles on the second best. A propagandist for the House of Saud who writes in the mouthpiece of Prince Salman, Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat. She then describes Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat thus: "a Saudi-owned Arabic newspaper." A few sentences later she describes Syrian newspapers thus: "The Thawra and Tishreen newspapers, both mouthpieces of the government". So a question must be raised about the obvious biased standards of Barki: why is a Saudi-owned newspaper not described as a mouthpiece of the Saudi government very much like Tishrin and Thawra are indeed mouthpieces of the lousy Syrian government? Or is Bakri implying that House of Saudi, when they own a newspaper, never interfere with the journalistic process? But Bakri then reports in passing about the pro-regime demonstrations: "The Arab League decision was met by popular anger across Syria on Sunday, and tens of thousands of government supporters poured into the main squares of major cities, expressing their anger at Arab officials and shouting slogans in support of their embattled leader." Pictures are not necessary although youtube footage of much smaller anti-regime demonstrations are always provided in Western media. But Bakri, to be fair to her, decides to interview one protester out of the thousands that she mentioned: he is described as "government employee" thereby implying clearly that the mob or pro-regime demonstrators are all state employee. I mean, forget about politics, and knowing that foreign editors of US newspapers forget their job when they read over texts about a government that is not on the side of the US/Israel, but what about the journalistic standards of Bakri?? Ms. Bakri when reporting on matters against the Syrian regime never even bothers to provide sources: can you imagine if she is reporting about matters against Israel or the government of Jordan. Look at this sentence: " including four who were killed by security forces for chanting slogans against Mr. Assad at a pro-government rally in Hama." How did you know that, Ms. Bakri? You are based in Beirut, did you see it from your window just as "Abu Muhammad, the witness" sees events all around Syria from his window in Idlib and reports about it for Aljazeera?