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On Syria shooting its citizens: 'it 'sounds like a Harry Potter story'

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This afternoon, spokeswoman for Syria's Ministry of Information, Reem Haddad, stated on al-Jazeera that international claims regarding state security forces shooting Syrian citizens sounded to her like a Harry Potter story. The question was part of a telephone interview between the two parties, and we were not able to see Haddad's face, but certainly heard her shrill and strident voice, oftentimes interrupting the al-Jazeera anchor.

She confirmed that 40 of Syria's security officers had been shot, although today's released numbers are between 80 and 120 officers. Haddad described it as a 'real massacre' and further proof that terrorist groups are fanning the flames in Syria among its different sects. This was the point at which the al-Jazeera anchor picked up, and justly so, on the word 'massacre', and told Haddad that considering the death toll of over 1100 Syrian citizens thus far, that the international community would have little sympathy for those responsible of the killings.

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