30 AUG: 14:23 (Syria) An unverified source reports
that a number of buildings at Al-Baath University in Homs have been evacuated by
the Assad regime to make room for regime security forces. According to the
report, the decision to evacuate was made jointly by the university student
union and the Homs branch of the Baath Party. Equipment was moved from the Homs
Military Academy, Syria’s oldest and largest service academy from which both
Bashar al-Assad and his father Hafez graduated. The regime considers the
military academy a likely target in the case of air strikes. A source estimates
that up to 2,500 troops are now being housed at the university. Five floors of
a building at the University of Damascus were also evacu
