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Syria Rebels Attack Intelligence Base, Kill 8
[An Nahar] Mutinous soldiers have attacked a Syrian air force intelligence base in the northwestern province of Idlib, killing eight people, a rights group said on Friday.

"A group of deserters attacked an air force intelligence center... killing eight people from the base," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a statement received in Nicosia.

The Britannia-based Observatory said at least 13 people were maimed in the three-hour shootout on Thursday between the rebels and intelligence agents at the base, located on a highway to the Mediterranean port city of Latakia.

On November 16, fighters opposed to Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
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raided an intelligence base outside Damascus
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, in one of the most daring attacks to have been claimed by the rebel Free Syrian Army.

At a meeting earlier this week in Turkey, the Free Syrian Army met with the civilian opposition Syrian National Council, agreeing to coordinate their efforts to overthrow Assad's regime.

The United Nations
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said Thursday that more than 4,000 people have been killed in the Syrian regime's crackdown on democracy protests since mid-March.

The U.N. high commissioner for human rights
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, Navi Pillay, said meanwhile that the violence in Syria is a civil war.

Pillay warned that as more defectors threatened to take up arms, there was an increasing threat of "a civil war and at the moment -- that is how I am characterizing this."


Posted by: Fred 2011-12-03
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