Bashar Assad's tanks and infantry made their first assaults Sunday, April 24 on Jableh on the Mediterranean and Daraa in the south, after a 48-hour bloodbath by his security forces claiming up to 350 lives failed to break the five-week countrywide uprising against his rule. In Jableh, protesters are barricaded in the Abu Bakr Siddiq Mosque, a Sufi center. DEBKAfilereports: The Syrian ruler mobilized the army for a final attempt to smash the revolt against his regime after arresting thousands in Damascus.