For quite a few months now, the Syrian News website Sana has experienced attacks which leave the website unavailable most of the time. Luckily there is a way around it by not using the original www.sana.sy but by using its IP-address, which is: http://208.43.232.81/. There are backups to be found at (1).

For me the name Sana stands for the Syrian Arab News Agency, but today I discovered that there is a Swedish football player who has started to play for the Amsterdam team of Ajax, in the begi...
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On August 3, 2012 something miraculous happened in the city of Damascus. First there was this bombing by the FSA-gangs at the Al-Yarmouk Palestinian Refugee district, killing 21 people. When these FSA-war lords started their attack on Damascus half way july 2012, they had hoped that the Palestinians in Damascus would have supported them in their fight against the government.

 
But the Palestinians refused. They were loyal to the government who had supported them for decades after their expulsio...
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I have been quite occupied with the developments in the aggression on the Syrian people by the FSA-gangs lately. Near the end of July 2012 the gangs decided to go for the 'Battle of Aleppo' and soon various quarters/districts of this ancient Syrian city were mentioned in the news reports (6).

Since I always like to add a few new words to my vocabulary and my energetic association data base, I picked up one of the quarters in Aleppo with the name Salah ad-Din, that is spelled in various ways, l...
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