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3-Aug-14 World View -- Congress reacts to photos of Assad's torture victims in Syria

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3-Aug-14 World View -- Congress reacts to photos of Assad's torture victims in Syria

Israel confirms the death of the abducted soldier

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Congress reacts to photos of Assad's torture victims in Syria
Israel confirms the death of the abducted soldier

Congress reacts to photos of Assad's torture victims in Syria

Emaciated man showing wounds from repeated beatings by rod-like object. There are 55,000 photos like this, showing 11,000 corpses

Emaciated man showing wounds from repeated beatings by rod-like object. There are 55,000 photos like this, showing 11,000 corpses

The House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday viewed a presentation by a defecting forensic photographer from regime of Syria's president Bashar al-Assad. This was the same forensic photographer, nicknamed "Caesar," that we wrote about in January ( "22-Jan-14 World View -- Western leaders sickened by Assad's 'industrial strength' torture in Syria"). Wearing dark glasses and a hood to hide his identity, he told Congress what he had seen in Damascus. He described maimed bodies, people with eyes gouged out and skeletal remains, a litany of horrors that defy the imagination -- backed up by 55,000 photos that he had smuggled out over a two year period. They were similar to the images found in Nazi death camps after World War II, and show that al-Assad is guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The validity of the photos was verified by three top war crimes prosecutors. And this was only the tip of the iceberg, as these 55,000 photos came from just one location out of many locations where this torture took place. This one photographer photographed almost 20 bodies every day, suggesting that there was "torture for pleasure" on a massive scale.

The al-Assad regime has used sarin gas on its own population, with impunity. The regime has continued to use chemical weapons. Regime helicopters drop huge barrel bombs onto civilian neighborhoods. The barrel bombs may contain explosives, screws, nails and other shrapnel, plus canisters of chlorine and ammonia. When chlorine is inhaled, it reacts with the moisture in the lungs, turning into hydrochloric acid that literally burns the target to death from the inside out.

Al-Assad is supported by Russia's president Vladimir Putin, who is a war criminal for providing unlimited supplies of heavy weapons to al-Assad to continue his genocide. Al Monitor and House Foreign Affairs Committee and Report on validity of Assad torture photos

Israel confirms the death of the abducted soldier

Although the death of the abducted soldier, Hadar Goldin, is a tragedy for his fiancée and his family, it's a big relief to Israel's army in the sense that Hamas can no longer use Goldin for either political or military leverage. According to Israel's army, Goldin was abducted on Friday during operations to destroy an underground tunnel that ran under the border from Gaza to Israel, and extended a full two kilometers into Israel's territory. On the Gaza side, the tunnel began in an open area surrounded by homes. Jerusalem Post and Jerusalem Post

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