-- AS THE US SENDS ARMS TO SYRIA FOR THE REBELS TO KILL -- JUST ABOUT ANYONE--- BEIRUT, LEBANON – High in the mountains above Damascus lies a town so remote that Syria’s war had passed it by, so untouched by time that its inhabitants still speak the language of Jesus. The violence ravaging the rest of Syria has finally caught up with Maaloula, renowned as the oldest Christian community in the world. On Sunday, Syrian rebels, including some affiliated with Al-Qaida, swept through Maaloula for the second time in four days, after an assault a few days earlier in which the last of its few thousand citizens fled. Only a couple of dozen nuns remained, cowering in fear as warplanes screeched overhead, shells exploded and Al-Qaida-linked fighters overran their convent, turning them into witnesses to what may be one of the more extraordinary encounters of the Syrian war.
Posted on: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 03:23:20 +0000
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