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AFRICANEWSWIRE.NET (August, 09 2012)
Hijab unveils himself to the rebels
WITH diplomacy ruled out for the moment and the pace of destruction accelerating, Syria’s civil war is still heading towards a bloody denouement. More people died in July alone than in the first nine months of strife. President Bashar Assad had promised that the battle for Aleppo, the city of 2.5m people that is the country’s commercial capital, would be decisive.Yet despite a build-up of crack government troops backed by artillery, tanks, helicopters and fighter aircraft, some 7,000 ill-armed rebels still control half the city’s periphery and most of its centre, three weeks after seizing them. The army has blasted residential areas, driving out their inhabitants, but has so far refrained from a full-scale ground assault. This reticence may reflect a fear of losses among already demoralised troops, wary of being trapped with heavy equipment in the ancient city’s warren of streets.The Tawhid (Unity) Brigade, an amalgam of local rebel groups, has inflicted painful attrition against government armour, using rocket-propelled grenades and home-made bombs....
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