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US fears Syria preparing for massacre in AleppoAMMAN - 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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MindMover
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StrictlyRockers
(3,933 posts)3. My guess is that you were alloted enough droppings
to account for your poor diction and lack of civility.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)4. Didn't take long to fry your ignorant ass-- dipshit.
dballance
(5,756 posts)5. arfcommer joined today and has 9 whole posts - smells trollish to me /eom