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Syrian goalkeeper emerges as protest leader in embattled city of Homs

Syrian goalkeeper emerges as protest leader in embattled city of Homs

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Nov 13, 2011
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Goalkeeper-turned-protest leader and song writer Abdelbasset Saroot (Source: Al Ittihad)

By James M. Dorsey

The goalkeeper of the Syrian national Under-23 soccer team as well as well as for the Al Karama soccer club in Homs, a focal point of the eight-month old uprising against embattled President Bashar al-Assad, is emerging as a leader of the protests i…

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