A brutal crackdown in Syria continues with army tanks shelling civilian areas. There are reports that ten thousand protesters have been detained in the past several days as part of President Bashar al-Assad’s campaign to squelch the seven-week long uprising. An anonymous reporter on the ground in Damascus has the latest details.
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