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Syria's war: Everything you need to know about how we got here
CNN ^ | Sun October 11, 2015 | Nick Thompson

Posted on 10/11/2015 4:54:42 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

It began with the arrests of a handful of children in 2011. Since then it's exploded into the biggest humanitarian crisis since the Second World War.

Syria's civil war has left more than 300,000 people dead and forced 10.6 million -- nearly half the population -- out of their homes. How did it come to this? Explore the events that have shaped the crisis since 2011.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Syria
KEYWORDS: syriawar; syriawarhistory

1 posted on 10/11/2015 4:54:42 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

It came to this because Clinton Crony Bloomnthal wants a deal in Libya and Gaddiffi was not playing ball. So Hillary got the 0 regime to believe in an “Arab Spring”

Wonder how many tend of thousands will die for this Clinton “deal”?


2 posted on 10/11/2015 4:57:49 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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3 posted on 10/11/2015 4:58:59 PM PDT by SteveinSATX (C'mon Cruz, Trump or Carson ...baby needs a new pair of shoes!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Well, you certainly won’t get “Everything you need to know” from CNN.


4 posted on 10/11/2015 5:00:46 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“(CNN)It began with the arrests of a handful of children in 2011. Since then it’s exploded into the biggest humanitarian crisis since the Second World War.”

No, actually it began with Muhammad’s first revelation in In 610 AD.


5 posted on 10/11/2015 5:12:25 PM PDT by JimSEA
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Syria's war: Everything you need we want you to know about how we got here.

There fixed CNN's article title to make it more accurate.

6 posted on 10/11/2015 5:15:25 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: MinorityRepublican
They say a picture says a thousand words


7 posted on 10/11/2015 5:26:29 PM PDT by McGruff (Trump-Cruz 2016. Make America Great Again.)
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the problem with many is that they are ignorant and don’t know the difference between the syrian rebels and the islamic fundamentalist wackos

the senator was visiting the former


8 posted on 10/11/2015 5:31:31 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Really? CNN? Not worth reading...


9 posted on 10/11/2015 5:39:08 PM PDT by MarMema
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Ummmm.... NO.

CNN did not explain it at all.

Hoomanitarian smnanitarium.


10 posted on 10/11/2015 7:11:21 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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