<blockquote>“Hardly a day goes by when our senses are not bludgeoned by some new outbreak of terrorism in the Middle East.  Despite our best efforts at making and keeping the peace, political, economic, and religious tensions often lead to unrest, violence, and riots.”
<p style="text-align: right;">-Jim Bakker in “Prosperity and the Coming Apocalypse”</p>
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Free Syrian Army sources are reporting that the Syrian government massacred 300 people in Darayya on Sunday claiming they were cleansing the area of “terrorist remnants.”

However, video footage being released is showing the bodies of women and children killed by the troops laying in the streets.

The chairman of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Independent Commission of Inquiry on Syria told the BBC this could be a war crime.

On Monday, rebel forces shot down a military helicopter that had been firing at civilians within the city of Jobar sparking a heavy conflict between rebels and government forces. A spokesman for the FSA’s battalion in Damascus confirmed they had obtained the body of the pilot.

“It was in revenge for the Darayya massacre,” Omar al-Qabuni told the AFP news agency.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad repeated his claims that foreign governments were behind the rebel uprising.

“What is happening right now is not just a plot directed against Syria but the region as a whole, of which Syria is a foundational stone,” al-Assad said.