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Posted: September 3, 2012 at 4:50 a.m.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “Last month’s acts of violence were unprecedented.” Omar Idilbi, a Cairo-based activist with the Local Coordination Committees group, which said 4,933 civilians were killed in Syria in August Article, 1A

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