The report analyzed the trajectory of the rockets, and though it did not explicitly blame the regime, the findings concurred with Higgins's conclusion that the rockets had likely been launched from inside regime-held territory, probably in the vicinity of a major military site.
"The death toll does not include more than 10,000 detainees and missing persons inside of regime prisons, nor does it include more than 2,500 regular soldiers and pro-regime militants held captive by rebel fighters," the Syrian Observatory said in a statement on its Web site.
Aware of North Korea's backwardness, some of those inside the regime want to take the Chinese road to reform.
Despite all that, slippery as an eel, he triumphantly survived inside the regime.He was also increasingly rich.
"Your open-handed PARIS 00000762 003 OF 003 policy is producing some interesting movement inside (the regime)," Levitte summarized.
This sounds logical, especially because Ahmadinejad is such a controversial figure and has many enemies inside the regime.
Analysts said that although the editorial was not officially from Pyongyang, it was sure to reflect thinking inside the regime.
"There are certain segments inside the regime, similar to other segments inside the opposition, who don't want to have this political solution," he said.
"It really gave you a sense of the atmosphere inside the regime, of the way these people operate, in a way I hadn't seen before".
Thus an autocratic leader, in choosing how much data to disseminate, must balance the risk of a mass uprising against the threat of a coup from inside the regime.
