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August 14, 2012       Share:    

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9469080/Aleppo-is-becoming-Syrias-Stalingrad.html

Aleppo Is Becoming Syria's Stalingrad

(Telegraph-UK) Richard Spencer - Syria's cities are gradually being ground to dust. A stream of pick-up trucks heads north out of Aleppo each day, carrying the bodies of slain shop-keepers and car mechanics, amateur revolutionaries finding permanent peace in the home villages they left just a few days ago. Aleppo is not yet Stalingrad, or even Homs, parts of which are a wasteland of wrecked buildings. But the shelling of the city began in earnest this week, when the army surged into the western suburb of Salaheddin. With the regime afraid to send in ground troops - allegedly because they fear they might defect - the assault is led from the skies.

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