Dispatches From Damascus: The Syrian Army Arrives in the Old City
Andrew Sheehan
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Posted 10.27.2012
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Canada
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The atmosphere in Damascus' old city became just a little bit tenser at the start of the last week of Ramadan when Syrian army soldiers were deployed here for the first time since the revolution began in March last year. The soldiers were seemingly under orders to search various houses, especially those in which the few remaining foreigners live. The house I was staying in was one of them.
