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Wednesday, April 17, 2013



New Fisk

‘We don’t really know what war is like. We haven’t seen it yet’
At a checkpoint, watching for bombs, the talk turned to religion

Posted by Idiot/Savant at 4/17/2013 09:23:00 AM

Labels: Robert Fisk, Syria

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