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Syria Continues Attacks on Protesters While Calling for Dialogue
(New York Times) Liam Stack and Sebnem Arsu - Syria's military forces continued pressing to crush a three-month-old popular uprising on Thursday, shelling a string of southern and central towns even as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned President Bashar al-Assad that his legitimacy had "nearly run out." Troops and tanks continued for a fifth day to assault a belt of towns around Homs, including Talbiseh, Deir Maaleh and Al Rastan. The Local Coordinating Committees of Syria, a group monitoring the crackdown, said it had documented 70 deaths in Al Rastan and 10 in the Homs area since the military operation began last week. Security forces killed 13 in the southern town of Hirak, the monitoring group said.