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The Syrian Civil War: A Nightmare of Barbarity and Carnage
(Telegraph-UK) Richard Spencer - You do not see the full horror of the Syrian civil war, I can assure you. Our editors could show you the reality, but they preserve a conventional sense of decency. As I write, the great and glorious city of Aleppo, one of the oldest beacons of human civilization, is being destroyed. Its Great Umayyad Mosque is already in ruins, its suburbs flattened daily by barrel bombs. At one point in January, 30 of these barrels stuffed with TNT and shrapnel were raining down on civilian areas of the city each day. Thousands of people have been killed.