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| Syrian Tanks Storm Hama | |
| 2011-07-31 | |
| Syrian tanks stormed the city of Hama at dawn Sunday, launching what appeared to be a major offensive to crush a four-month-old rebellion in the country's biggest protest flashpoint. Activist Omar al-Habbab, contacted by telephone in Hama, said residents had taken to the streets to defend makeshift barricades with sticks, stones, knives and burning tires as tanks pounded the city with shells and soldiers opened fire at anything that moved. "People are fighting tanks with their bare chests," he said. "We are in the Stone Age facing this military assault." Reuters reported that hospitals had counted 24 dead, but witnesses told the news agency more bodies were lying uncollected in the streets as shells exploded at a rate of four a minute.
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| Posted by:Bobby |
| #3 It's the Pre-Ramadan Rush... Syrian security forces killed at least 62 people Sunday in an escalation of the crackdown on protests ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, activists and residents said. Most died in raids on the flashpoint city of Hama, where a barrage of shelling and gunfire left bodies scattered in the streets. "It's a massacre. They want to break Hama before the month of Ramadan," an eyewitness who identified himself by his first name, Ahmed, told The Associated Press by telephone from Hama, where at least 49 people were killed Sunday. Only one |
| Posted by: tu3031 2011-07-31 12:34 |
| #2 Time machine operating back to 1982 here? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2011-07-31 08:29 |
| #1 Yawn. |
| Posted by: gr(o)mgoru 2011-07-31 08:12 |