Armed With Phone, and Dangerous to Syria
By MARC CHAMPION in Antakya, Turkey, and NOUR MALAS in Dubai
On Wednesday, after villages in northern Syria's Jabal Zawiya region came under what residents say was a hail of government tank, antiaircraft and machine-gun fire, Alaadine al-Yousef telephoned in his latest death toll.
Some 105 people were killed the previous day in villages in the region, he told an activist group and cable network by satellite phone. As he has done before in documenting the killings in Syria's uprising, he based his count on bodies he had seen and reports from other activists.
What he didn't mention in that dispatch was that the bodies he viewed, 35 in all, were in the mosque of his own village. Some were piled atop of each other. All were familiar.
"They are the dearest friends to me. They are all I know," he said in an interview Wednesday, via Skype, over a satellite connection.
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