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Syrian Government Regains Initiative in Damascus
(Washington Post) Austin Tice and Liz Sly - The bomb that killed four top aides to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad last week provided a huge boost to the morale of the rebel movement. On Monday, however, Syrian troops moved house to house in neighborhoods that had briefly fallen under rebel control, detaining opposition sympathizers. State television broadcast pictures of the bodies of dead fighters, of handcuffed, blindfolded prisoners, and of soldiers hunting down the rebels. Col. Malik Kurdi, spokesman for the Free Syrian Army command, said the rebels had no choice but to pull out of the Damascus neighborhoods they seized last week.