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Syria: The revolution will be weaponised

Fri, 09/23/2011 - 12:01pm

Syria: The revolution will be weaponised by Nir Rosen, Al Jazeera.  BLUF. Abu Omar was a senior coordinator in the country's six-month-old uprising and was involved in opposition activities since 2007. He lamented that to date, the revolution had only succeeded in costing the lives of three thousand people. "After Libya, many people said it was a mistake to have a peaceful revolution and if they had done it like the Libyans they would be free by now," he said.

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Mark Pyruz

Fri, 09/23/2011 - 4:01pm

Thanks for posting this. Nir Rosen is my favorite Israeli-Iranian-American writer.