Chaos feared as Syria crisis nears bloody impasse

Sunday, June 26, 2011

WADI KHALED, Lebanon -- When the Arab Spring came to Talkalakh, the little Syrian hill town a few minutes walk from this border village, it seemed to last barely a moment. Squads of secret police descended on the town within hours of the first protests. Then the army came with its tanks, and the shadowy pro-government militia called the shabiha.

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