Syrian regime gets bloody nose from resistance

 February 08, 2012 11:46   cnn.com

One fateful consequence of President Bashar al-Assad's ferocious crackdown on Syrian protesters is the emergence of the domestic armed resistance, the Free Syrian Army.

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