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kpete

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Sun Sep 8, 2013, 12:43 PM Sep 2013

We Have No Clue What Side We Should Be On!?!

AP reports that rebels linked to al-Qaeda have taken control of Maaloula, a Christian community 26 miles northeast of Damascus, earlier today. This development is increasing concerns among Syrians and religious minorities about the presence of Islamic extremists in the Syrian rebel movement:


Initially, troops loyal to President Bashar Assad moved into Maaloula early Saturday, he said, “but they left when rebels started pouring into the village.” Now, Abdurrahman said, the army is surrounding the village and controlling its entrances and exits.

A Maaloula resident said the rebels, many of them sporting beards and shouting Allahu Akbar, or God is great, attacked Christian homes and churches shortly after moving into the village overnight.

“They shot and killed people. I heard gunshots and then I saw three bodies lying in the middle of a street in the old quarters of the village,” said the resident, reached by telephone from neighboring Jordan. “So many people fled the village for safety.”

Now, Maaloula “is a ghost town. Where is President Obama to see what befallen on us?” asked the man, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal by the rebels.



PEACE PLEASE:
Read more: http://world.time.com/2013/09/08/activists-syrian-rebels-take-christian-village/#ixzz2eJv1A06R
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