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bluedigger

(17,086 posts)
3. Sounds more or less like her standard spiel.
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 01:11 PM
Dec 2012
She said that, in Homs, she had witnessed “terrible things.”

“I have seen hundreds of corpses of civilians who were shot, cut in pieces — just because they were civilians going to their work,” she told Catholic News Service.

http://catholicphilly.com/2012/08/us-world-news/world-catholic-news/nun-says-syrian-insurrection-worse-than-assads-regime/


I believe that was from August. A quick Google search indicates she hasn't been in Syria for months.

Mother Agnes-Mariam de la Croix was forced to flee to neighbouring Lebanon in June when she was warned of a plot to abduct her, after she revealed that about 80,000 Christians had been "cleared" by rebel forces from their homes in Homs province.

http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2012/10/the-assad-government-is-defending-the-minorities-cliffird-kirakofe.html


So why would The Sunday Times and HuffPoUK choose to run this story now?

Could it be a response to this?

"I have defected because of the deviation of the army from its primary duty of protecting the country and its transformation into gangs of murder and destruction.

"The army has destroyed cities and villages and has committed massacres against an unarmed population that took to the streets to demand freedom," he said. "Long live free Syria."

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/12/26/syria-military-police-chief-abulaziz-al-shalal-defects-army-gangs-murder_n_2365136.html#slide=1901694



Warning: my antivirus (AVG) did not like the homesite for the Monastery of St James the Mutilated.
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