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For those of you hoping to follow the situation in Syria

Might I recommend the following resources (For all but the “overview” sources, I’ve focused on sources that are based out of Syria, live-update and are available to the non-arabic speaker)


Overview of the Revolution:


Blogs:


Twitter Accounts (Mostly English):



Youtube Channels


Dude, what more do you need?

  • May. 27th, 2011 at 11:22 PM
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Via The Angry Black Woman.

Perspective On 9/11 And The Invasions Of Iraq & Afghanistan.

Infographic: Casualties From The War On Terror, 9/11, And The Invasion of Iraq

The stats breakdown are as follows:

September 11th Victims: 0.28%

American Casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq: 0.55%

Afghan Civilian Casualties: 4.39%

Iraqi Civilian Casualties: 94.78%


Also, the comments are pretty... uhmazing.

[Stats were transcribed in TABW blog.]

Mar. 19th, 2011

  • 11:02 PM
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International forces bombard targets in Libya.

For God's sake. This is a mess.

Yes, Gaddafi is a killer. But this has no excuse. Weren't Iraq and Afghanistan enough?

Feb. 21st, 2011

  • 3:24 PM
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Libya warplanes bombing Tripoli-resident.

Libyan warplanes were bombing indiscriminately across Tripoli on Monday, a resident of the Libyan capital told al Jazeera television in a live broadcast.

"What we are witnessing today is unimaginable. Warplanes and helicopters are indiscriminately bombing one area after another. There are many, many dead," Adel Mohamed Saleh said.


Women of Egypt says there were 250 killed today.

This is horrible.
la_vie_noire: (Claymore9 standing)
Firing on Libyan mourners, about 300 dead.

Libyan security forces opened fired on mourners at a funeral for anti-government protesters in the eastern city of Benghazi again today, a day after commandos and foreign mercenaries loyal to longtime leader Moammar

Gadhafi pummeled demonstrators with assault rifles and other heavy weaponry as well as knives


Al Jazeera Live Blog on Libya's protests here.

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