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Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Anne Barnard writes a moving tribute to a sectarian Islamist rebel commander
It is almost touching: "Mr. Saleh used to stress that he fought for all Syrians and would not harm minorities. But days before his death, he told his men they were fighting “for the Sunnis." This eulogy must have been writing between tears.