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A rebel fighter fires a gun toward a building where Syrian troops loyal to President Assad are hiding while they attempt to gain terrain against the rebels during heavy clashes in the Jedida district of Aleppo, Syria on Nov. 04, 2012.
The bloody conflict in Syria shows no sign of abating with 179 people reported killed on Sunday and at least eight on Monday, according to opposition activists cited by Reuters.
The Syrian government restricts journalists' access in Syria, making it difficult to verify reports from the ground, but Associated Press photographer Narciso Contreras has been able to document the fighting in Aleppo from the rebel side over recent days.
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Rebel fighters watch as smoke rises after Syrian government forces fired an artillery round at a rebel position in the Jedida district of Aleppo on Nov. 04, 2012.
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A rebel fighter celebrates after he fired a shoulder-fired missile toward a building where Syrian troops were hiding in the Jedida district of Aleppo on Nov. 04, 2012.
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A rebel fighter prepares to throw a homemade grenade toward Syrian troops hiding in a nearby building in the Jedida district of Aleppo on Nov. 04, 2012.
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A pile of shoes covered by blood from wounded or dead residents lies at the entrance of the emergency ward at a hospital in the Tarik Al-Bab neighborhood in Aleppo on Nov. 1, 2012.
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A rebel fighter watches windows in an overlooking building as he waits for loyalists to President Bashar Assad to appear during heavy fighting in the Jedida district of Aleppo on Nov. 03, 2012.
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An 8-year-old girl struggles for life outside a hospital after she arrived badly injured by an aerial attack by government forces in the Bab al-Neyrab neighborhood of Aleppo on Oct. 31, 2012.
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A classical example of Sunni Islamic religious madness! Sunni Syrian rebels are supported by Sunni Saudi proxies like Salaffi, MB, al-Qaida and other label killers.
Assad is comparatively a better leader than most of the Sunni ME Muslim nations.
Compare him with that of Sunni House of Saud with a megalomaniac, despotic and bigoted ruler and highly corrupt, despotic, bigoted seventh century mindset 5000 princes and princesses.
Followers of Islamic cult, especially Sunni Saudi inspired Islamic radicals and militants (al-Qaida, Salaffi, Wahhabi, MB, Taliban and other label ones), are fast marching backwards to their seventh century desert tribal days.
They are indulging in rapings, lootings, killings and genocides of non-Muslims (Darfur, S. Sudan, Nigeria and spreading like wild fire in many regions and Muslims (Libya, Yemen, Mali, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan and other places).
Even in Syria, if Assad is overthrown by Sunni Islamic religious Nazis like al-Qaida, MB, the conditions of Christians will be unbearable just like Iraq.
Pakis and Sunni Saudis and co are responsible for 80 percent of world problems including economic ones.
They are making the lives of their own people also miserable by their Islamic religious madness to the intolerable levels.
Examine the devastations with Iraqi wars and now sanctions on Iranian oil and the resultant oil price manipulations.
We should not support the most ungrateful and backstabbing Sunni Saudi, Qatari, Kuwaiti, UAE and other rulers.
Hope people have learnt their lessons from Iraqi wars, Afghan war, Libya and other places.
NO SUPPORT OF ANY SORT TO ISLAMIC SUNNI SYRIAN REBELS AND NO ROLE IN IRAN EITHER!
Let the Shiites and Sunnis battle on whose Allah is greater.