French Journalist Killed In Syria Attack

French foreign minister Alain Juppe has confirmed a French journalist has been killed in the restive city of Homs, as the Syrian National Council says military intervention may be the only way to end the bloodshed.
Juppe said the death points to "the degradation of the situation" and "an increasingly intolerable repression" by Syrian forces.
Activists say a number of other local journalists and activists were killed and injured in the attack which is said to have targeted an opposition safehouse.
The news comes as the Syrian National Council said it is coming to the view that military intervention would be the only way to break the on-going deadlock in Syria. 
Basma Qadmani, a senior SNC official, told a press conference in Paris: "We are really close to seeing this military intervention as the only solution. There are two evils, military intervention or protracted civil war." 
After arguing for months that the Syrian people had to fight their battles on their own, the scale of the violence and level of destruction that months of intense fighting have wrought pushed the Council to accept foreign intervention may be the only way forward.
Ms Qadmani also said that Russia should use its privileged position as a closer ally to the Syrian regime than most, to lobby the government to allow humanitarian aid into the country. 
"In order to not militarise, the idea is to ask Russia to exert pressure on the regime not to target humanitarian corridors," she said. Ms Qadmani added that the SNC planned to establish corridors from Lebanon into the besieged city of Homs, from Turkey into Idlib, and from Jordan into Der'aa.
The Turkey-based opposition group has said it will attend the Friends of Syria summit in Tunisia in order to ask for these buffer zones to be set up.
It comes after human rights groups called for a ceasefire in order that humanitarian aid could be given to those caught in the violence.
The International Committee of the Red Cross started talks with opposition groups and the government but had so far failed to reach any agreements.
Residents of the Babr Amr district of Homs, the area made famous in recent weeks for bearing the brunt of a government assault on the city which has left hundreds dead, were in need of food, medical care and other provisions, activists said.
The UN estimates that over 6,000 have been killed since the beginning of protests against the rule of President Bashar al Assad.
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