The Wrath Of The Shabiha: The Assad Regime’s Brutal Enforcers -- Time
As the death toll mounts in Syria, attention falls on the shadowy paramilitary gangs now implicated in some of the country's worst massacres
The details of the recent massacres in the Syrian district of Houla and the farming hamlet of Mazraat al-Qubeir were bloodcurdling: children shot at point-blank, throats slit, skulls crushed, entire families gunned down in their homes, the stench of charred human flesh, the paucity of survivors. The dead have been buried, but the question remains: Who could do this? Who could commit what United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon described as “unspeakable barbarity?” “Not even a monster,” insisted Syria‘s President Bashar al-Assad. But what about a shabih?
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