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Jun 13, 2012
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Assassinated: Marwan Arafat (Source: SANA)

By James M. Dorsey

Unknown gunmen shot and killed Wednesday the former head of the Syrian Football Association (SFA), Marwan Arafat, and critically wounded his wife in an attack Syria’s national news agency blamed on terrorists, a code word for the increasingly armed opposition against embattled Syrian president …

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