Wednesday
Aug172011
Syria Video Special: This is What Assad Calls "Withdrawing"
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 19:02 | James Miller in EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran
Even as the Syrian government, and the Syrian State Television channel SANA, were claiming that the soldiers and tanks were pulling out of Lattakia and Deir Ez Zor, we started to receive video of tanks repositioning to other locations, most notably Homs. Now, there are reports that most of the troops and tanks have not left Deir Ez Zor or Lattakia.
Is this what Assad calls "withdrawal?"
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