Syria Escalates Crackdown as Tanks Go to Restive City
By ANTHONY SHADID
The army deployed tanks in Dara’a on Monday, according to accounts by human rights activists, who said that at least five people had been killed.
The army deployed tanks in Dara’a on Monday, according to accounts by human rights activists, who said that at least five people had been killed.
Bashar al-Assad, who has long encouraged hopes for a less repressive Syria and then dashed those hopes, is at a decisive moment.
NATO appeared to escalate its air war, while pro-Qaddafi forces renewed their shelling of Misurata.
The Taliban staged a bold prison break in Afghanistan, freeing at least 476 political prisoners, officials said.
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Classified assessments of detainees at Guantánamo Bay prison obtained by The Times give the fullest public picture to date of the prisoners held there.
Analysts sometimes released detainees wrongly judged a minimal threat and held others who were no threat.
Documents related to the 779 people who have been sent to the Guantánamo Bay prison since 2002.
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