(Washington Post) Liz Sly - Spiraling sectarian violence killed dozens of people in the Syrian city of Homs on Thursday. A doctor at the National Hospital in Homs said more than 70 bodies had been brought to the facility over the previous 24 hours, most killed by gunshot wounds. Many of those killed belonged to Assad's minority Alawite sect, while members of the majority Sunni sect had been shot down in retaliatory killings, as gunmen on both sides swarmed into each other's neighborhoods, abducting and shooting civilians. At the same time, Syrian security forces surrounded and bombarded three key protest flash points in the city, killing at least 16 people. The assault called into question the government's commitment to the Arab League plan under which Syria agreed to withdraw troops from residential neighborhoods.
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