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tabatha

(18,795 posts)
Mon Jan 2, 2012, 02:28 PM Jan 2012

Some protesters safe from Syrian snipers (video at link)

In the early days of the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, large protests in Homs would often drew the fire of government forces.

But in the Baba Amr area of the restive city, people can take to the streets without fear of government snipers after the neighborhood became one of the first to be completely free of al-Assad’s forces.

One foreign journalist and film-maker who was recently in Homs said the demonstrations were smaller in size, but more frequent, in places that government troops cannot reach. CNN has agreed not to name the journalist for his own security.

http://mar15.info/2012/01/some-protesters-safe-from-syrian-snipers

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