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riverwalker

(8,694 posts)
Fri Dec 30, 2011, 11:34 AM Dec 2011

Citizen Journalist killed in Syria

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/12/29/144448779/basil-al-sayed-who-chronicled-the-syrian-uprising-is-dead?ps=cprs

Basil Al-Sayed, Who Chronicled The Syrian Uprising, Is Dead

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"Foreign journalists have been mostly banned from entering Syria since a popular uprising against the rule of President Bashar Assad began in the country 10 months ago. In many cases, the videos uploaded to YouTube by citizen journalists have been the only way for the outside world to see the clashes that have cost more than 5,000 people their lives in Syria."


( and his weapon, the most dangerous in the world)
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