July 24th, 2012

Ivan Watson reports from Syria’s ‘Street of Death’

CNN’s Ivan Watson visits the bullet-riddled ghost town of Atareb, Syria, where just a handful of residents remain.

“My son was handicapped, and they ran a plow over his legs. They killed him and threw him into the street,” says a local. “He was handicapped.” Referring to Bashar al-Assad, she says “I hope his mother loses him. … I hope he loses his sons.”

Check out the CNN Inside Syria blog here: http://news.blogs.cnn.com/category/world/syria/cnn-inside-syria/

CNN’s Ivan Watson and crew are some of the few international reporters in Syria, whose government has been restricting access on foreign journalists and refusing many of them entry.