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August 10, 2011

AP: Syria claims 'conspiracy' to justify crackdown

by Elizabeth A. Kennedy
The Associated Press

(AP) — 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.

The government, however, claimed it was ridding the city of "terrorists."

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