Posted on 09/08/2013 9:38:20 PM PDT by Arthurio
(CNN) -- An al Qaeda-linked rebel group has wrested control of the historic Christian town of Maaloula from regime forces, opposition groups said Sunday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the hardline Islamist rebels of the al-Nusra Front seized control Saturday night. Videos posted on YouTube in recent days showed fighting between rebels and government forces in the tiny sleepy town, an hour's drive from the capital Damascus.
"We cleansed Maaloula from all the Assad dogs and all his thugs," a rebel commander shouts at the camera in a video posted online over the weekend.
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obama: It’s ok, they are only Christians
Are the Christians all dead now? I have heard that this town keeps changing hands between the FSA (Islamic Jihadists) and the SAA (Syrian Army). This leads one to think that the Christians are all gone, ran away and killed.
Islam is a war plan.
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