Syrian government forces accused of massacring over 300 near Damascus

08/26/12: Al-Jazeera reports several hundred bodies have been found in a town near Damascus after a ferocious assault by the Syrian army as activists accused President Bashar al-Assad’s forces of a gruesome “massacre.”  A grisly video (as yet unauthenticated) issued by the opposition showed bodies piled up wall-to-wall in a mosque complex in Daraya after a massive offensive by government troops battling to crush insurgents who have regrouped in the outskirts of the capital.  At least 320 corpses were found on Saturday and Sunday, the victims of a five-day onslaught by the army on rebel fighters in Daraya, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.  The Local Coordination Committees, a network of activists on the ground in Syria, said people in Daraya had been summarily executed and their bodies burned.