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Wednesday, 25 May 2011

Syrian Army Shells Homs in Widening Crackdown on Protests; Dozens Arrested - Bloomberg

Syria's president Bashar Al-Assad. Photographer: Pankaj Nangia/Bloomberg

Syrian security forces began shelling the western city of Homs, extending a crackdown on unrest that has engulfed the country for almost two months.
“Tank shelling, the use of heavy weapons, machine guns and artillery started in the Bab Amro neighborhood at about 5 a.m., for two hours continuously before becoming sporadic,” Nitham al-Siraj, a Homs-based human rights activist, said by telephone today. “We can hear

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