Eyes wide shut, world watches Syria bleed

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Thirty years ago Hafez al-Assad cut phone lines from Hama to stop word spreading of his bloody crackdown on an uprising in the city, ensuring that the 1982 Syrian revolt was crushed and many thousands killed before the world even knew of it. Three decades on, his son is 18 months into a military campaign waged, despite efforts at censorship, in the glare of a global media