(Washington Post) Liz Sly - Thirteen Syrian opposition activists were killed during an attempt to smuggle four foreign journalists out of the besieged Homs neighborhood of Baba Amr after Syrian security forces ambushed the group, the advocacy group Avaaz, which helped coordinate the rescue attempt, said Tuesday. The 13 were among 102 people killed across Syria on Tuesday, according to the Local Coordination Committees. Wissam Tarif, a Lebanon-based activist with Avaaz, said, "They are just ordinary guys who did not pick up weapons but decided to evacuate injured people....They've been doing this for a year, and hundreds of them have been killed." Tarif said 23 members engaged in ferrying medical supplies and injured victims between Homs and Lebanon have been killed since last Wednesday. In the process, they have evacuated 40 injured civilians from Homs.
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