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                 Assad: Turkey Untruthful About Syrian Uprising

   by VOA News

   Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says Turkish Prime Minister Recep
   Tayyip Erdogan has been lying about the Syrian uprising.
   In comments made to Turkish journalists earlier this week and released
   later in televised broadcasts, Mr. Assad said both Turkey and Jordan
   are "playing with fire" to let Syrian insurgents train on their soil.
   He accused Mr. Erdogan of working with Israel to destroy Syria, and
   said Ankara is contributing directly to the killing of Syrians.
   Turkey and Jordan both harbor hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees.
   Earlier Friday, Syrian rebels said they seized a military checkpoint on
   a main highway between Damascus and Jordan.
   A rebel commander told the Reuters news agency that the Umm al-Mayathen
   checkpoint is a major army garrison. He says the rebels will now
   capture the border crossing and cut off the military's supply lines.
   And the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says Syrian
   forces bombed a key Damascus neighborhood, trapping people under the
   rubble.
   The United Nations says the Syrian civil war has killed about 70,000
   people since March, 2011. Most of the victims have been civilians.
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