Late last month the White House hit Syria’s intelligence agency and two relatives of President Bashar al-Assad with sanctions because of Assad’s crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators. President Obama did not target Assad himself with those sanctions, nor did Obama call for Assad to step down. A White House aide told Reuters that Obama does not want to “get out in front of the Syrian people.”
Here is some video allegedly showing some of those Syrian people. Be warned: These videos are extremely graphic, and TIME has no way to verify if they truly show the killing of innocent civilians, since Assad will not allow the press in to try.
