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Rebel Video Showing Atrocities Renews Questions About Post-Assad Syria -- Washington Times
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, May 16, 2013 - The video released today showing Syrian rebel fighters executing soldiers they claim took part in massacres of civilians is the latest proof that the Syrian war is not a cleanly-defined case of good against evil, and suggests the conflict will continue even if the Assad regime falls.
On the video, which the Syrian Observatory for Human rights dates from 2012, a Nusra Front commander wearing a black balaclava walks behind a row of blindfolded prisoners kneeling in a row and shoots them in the head one at a time.
Other Nusra fighters shouted “God is great” as the commander shot each prisoner.
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