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Anti-Assad elements were interviewed. They claimed responsibility. FAZ kept their names confidential. At issue is potential reprisals.
It said most Qubeir victims "were of a family. While the rebels accused the regime militias of murder, the state television made a 'terrorist group' responsible for the massacre."
It replicated Houla May 25 killings. "(C)redible witnesses" "reconstruct(ed)" events. They refuted Western and Assad opposition element claims.
"(I)nsurgents attacked the three roadside inspections of the Syrian army" near Houla. They're responsible for protecting villages.
<blockquote>"Rebels (got a) 300-million-dollar fund." An "expatriate" Doha-based "businessman" supplied it. "Mustafa Sabbagh, president of the Syrian Business Forum in exile, presented the fund."
"Wael Mirza, Secretary General of the Syrian opposition National Council, said half" the amount was spent "and partly flowed to the Free Syrian Army."
In Houla area fighting, "three villages....were sealed off from the outside world."
"According to the eyewitnesses to the massacre," those killed "almost exclusively" were pro-Assad Alawite family members. Several dozen members of one family were slaughtered.
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