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arely staircase

(12,482 posts) Wed Sep 18, 2013, 07:03 AM Sep 2013

UN Data Points to Assad's Forces

The inspectors, instructed to investigate the attack but not to assign blame, nonetheless listed the precise compass directions of flight for two rocket strikes that appeared to lead back toward the government’s elite redoubt in Damascus, Mount Qasioun, which overlooks and protects neighborhoods and Mr. Assad’s presidential palace and where his Republican Guard and the army’s powerful Fourth Division are entrenched.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/09/18/world/middleeast/un-data-on-gas-attack-points-to-assads-top-forces.html?from=homepage

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UN Data Points to Assad's Forces (Original Post) arely staircase Sep 2013 OP

thank you, arely. Cha Sep 2013 #1

I think we are all glad the president will prevail arely staircase Sep 2013 #2

Cha

(297,200 posts)

1. thank you, arely.

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Wed Sep 18, 2013, 07:11 AM

Sep 2013

arely staircase

(12,482 posts)

2. I think we are all glad the president will prevail

Reply to Cha (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 18, 2013, 05:43 PM

Sep 2013

without actually having to use violence. I was torn as to what we should do. But I dont think anyone other than Assad and his pimp Putin were willing to peddle the "rebels gassed themselves" propaganda.

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