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Syria army enters last rebel bastion by Lebanon border
AFP ^ | 7/5/2015 | Sara Hussein

Posted on 07/05/2015 8:16:29 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Syrian government forces backed by fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah entered the town of Zabadani on Sunday in a bid to take the last rebel-held bastion along the Lebanese border.

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TOPICS: Syria
KEYWORDS: hezbollah; lebanon; syria; zabadani

1 posted on 07/05/2015 8:16:29 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

How interesting that ISIS is considered a “rebel” organization. It makes you think of Luke Skywalker and the Rebels of Star Wars. Or Che Guevarra, the rebel of Cuba. The left loves the romantic connotation of the word “rebel”, as if ISIS were some poor downtrodden people rebelling against The Man. Of course, if you remind them that the Confederacy was a bunch of Rebels, they might change their minds about the word.


2 posted on 07/05/2015 8:51:31 PM PDT by webheart (We are all pretty much living in a fiction.)
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