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Syrian Soldiers Killed in Clash With Defectors

01.01.70

BEIRUT -- Dozens of soldiers and guarding forces were gunned down by suspected army defectors in southern Syria, a livid ambush that comes as President Bashar Assad increasingly appears not able to manage the crisis, activists said Tuesday.

Monday's hours-prolonged clash in the southern province of Daraa came on a strikingly bloody day in Syria, with as many as 90 people killed across the boondocks. The brazen attack by the army defectors suggested a new self-confidence among troops who have sided with the protesters and highlighted the embryonic for an armed confrontation to escalate.

The U.N. estimates the r's military crackdown on an 8-month-old uprising has killed 3,500 people in the done eight months. November is shaping up to be the bloodiest month of the mutiny, with well over 300 people killed so far.

The latest cessation toll was compiled by sources including British-based Syrian Observatory for Lenient Rights, the Local Coordination Committees activist coalition and morgue officials.

Source: Fox News

My shameful military pregnancy

01.01.70

In there. It had only been a few months since I’d returned from Iraq. Everything had happened so immovably I’d hardly had time to think. The only feature I knew for sure is that I did not want to face segregate parenthood in the military.

The doctor, an old retired Ocean-going officer, sat down. “So,” he said, “was there enough cell on the plane for all of the pregnant ladies coming back?”

Inwardly, I bristled. One of the stigmas joined to a female getting pregnant on a deployment is the assumption that she did it on intend. It’s whispered about any time the word “pregnancy” comes up nobility before and during a combat tour. The unspoken code is that a special-occasion soldier will have an abortion, continue the mission, and get some warmth because she chose duty over motherhood. But for the woman who chooses motherhood over onus, well, she must have been trying to get out of deployment.

I’d spent most of my military pursuit feeling like a substandard soldier. I surely didn’t want one more reason to add to an already dull list.

Source: Salon