Syria claims conspiracy to justify crackdown

Thursday, August 11, 2011

BEIRUT -- Residents of Hama told of indiscriminate shelling by the army, snipers aiming at civilians and corpses piling up in the streets in the wake of a weeklong military siege of the defiant city.

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