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MindMover

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Fri Jul 27, 2012, 02:27 AM Jul 2012

Shootin fish in a barrel ...

US fears Syria preparing for massacre in Aleppo

AMMAN - President Bashar Al Assad's forces renewed a ground and aerial bombardment of Aleppo today, extending efforts to crush rebels in Syria's commercial capital in what the United States said it feared could become a massacre.

Insurgents targeted army roadblocks and security installations, with both sides avoiding close-quarters warfare in the city of 2.5 million people, Syria's biggest urban centre.

The US State Department said credible reports of tank columns moving on Aleppo, along with air strikes by helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, represented a serious escalation of Mr Assad's efforts to crush a rebellion that began 16 months ago.

"This is the concern: that we will see a massacre in Aleppo, and that's what the regime appears to be lining up for," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.

http://www.todayonline.com/World/EDC120727-0000086/US-fears-Syria-preparing-for-massacre-in-Aleppo
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Shootin fish in a barrel ... (Original Post) MindMover Jul 2012 OP
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This message was self-deleted by its author MindMover Jul 2012 #2
My guess is that you were alloted enough droppings StrictlyRockers Jul 2012 #3
Didn't take long to fry your ignorant ass-- dipshit. TreasonousBastard Jul 2012 #4
arfcommer joined today and has 9 whole posts - smells trollish to me /eom dballance Jul 2012 #5

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