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Posted by Fred 2012-12-24 00:00||
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File under: Govt of Syria
#1 total non military fatalies in the conflict are over 40k and maybe as high as 50k so the 700 are between 1% and 2%.
since the total population is about 22M and the paleo pop is about 400k, the fatalities are about proportional
Posted by lord garth 2012-12-24 00:27||
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#2 Nevertheless, garth. I won't say it made my morning, yet...
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-12-24 00:29||
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#3 Not our problem. Stay out of it !
Posted by Besoeker 2012-12-24 04:41||
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#4 Imagine if the Israelis had killed half that number --it would have meant a special edition of NYT and CBS,NBC,NPR, etc etc and the BBC would have gone ballistic. But the syrians killed 'em --so it gets on page 148 of the daily NYT.
Posted by rel56 2012-12-24 09:23||
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#6 Were these Syrian Paleos, or Leb Paleos, or Jordanian Paleos, or West Bank Paleos, or Gazan Paleos?
I need a scorecard here.
Posted by AlanC 2012-12-24 09:44||
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#7 It's a start....
Posted by Barbara 2012-12-24 10:40||
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#8 fwiw, about 600 Hezbollah troops have also been killed in this conflict, although some may have been killed just across the Syrian border in Lebanon
Posted by lord garth 2012-12-24 11:18||
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#9 Let's not quibble over location, LG. ;-p
Posted by Barbara 2012-12-24 11:50||
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#10 The murder of Rafic Harari was equivalent to the murder of archduke Ferdinand,
Posted by darrylq 2012-12-24 12:12||
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#11 BRB off to check the rail capacity of Turkey.
Posted by Shipman 2012-12-24 13:19||
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#12 "You're not trying, people!"
Posted by Mojo 2012-12-24 16:25||
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