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Syria reports Internet service has been restored in Damascus
[Fox News] Syrian authorities on Saturday restored Internet and telephone services in Damascus
...The capital of Iran's Syrian satrapy...
following a two-day, nationwide communications blackout that came during some of the worst fighting to hit the capital since July.

The state-run SANA news agency said technical teams brought the services back online Saturday. It wasn't immediately clear whether service to the rest of the country was being restored, but a Britannia-based activist group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said it was receiving dispatches from Damascus, the central cities of Homs and Hama, the northern city of Aleppo
...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins...
and areas along the coast.

An News Agency that Dare Not be Named news hound in Damascus confirmed that Internet access had resumed.

The communications blackout began Thursday, raising fears of a burst of fighting outside the public eye. The government and rebels have blamed each other for cutting the lines.
Posted by: Fred 2012-12-02
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