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Is Assad Losing Control? Sorting Out the Houla Massacre   

The Counter Punch - 01 June, 2012
Author: Peter Lee

Juan Cole jumped the gun a bit by attributing the hundred-plus deaths in the Syrian town of Houla to a Syrian Army artillery assault.

In a perverse way, a massacre by the Syrian military would have been almost a stabilizing phenomenon.
 
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