The day before she was killed, the journalist Marie Colvin told @andersoncooper/@AC360 that the Syrian war was "the worst" conflict she had ever covered.
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"If I could throw Assad in prison, that's what I would do," Cat Colvin told me. Short of that, she said, "I think that every penny I can get out of the Assad regime is less that they can spend on barrel bombs and chemical weapons."
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According to unsealed court documents, a former Syrian agent turned defector says that the Assad regime "regularly monitored" TV broadcasts. A top intel official "wanted to learn their location and take the necessary measures to stop them from reporting," the defector said.
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Lawyer Scott Glimore: "What [the defector] revealed was really that from the moment that Marie, Paul Conroy and other journalists --
@arwaCNN, Paul Wood from the BBC -- as they were arriving in Lebanon, there were intelligence sources tracking their movements."Show this thread -
The Syrian government did not respond to CNN's request for comment on the case, but has previously denied targeting journalists.
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Cat Colvin: "I really thought Marie's death would be sort of a watershed event, and the world would take notice, or the US government would find the targeting and murder of an American citizen intolerable. But none of that happened."
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Netanyahu regime, you mean...
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Thank you
@camanpour for your own intrepid journalism.@CJA_News is trying to#EndImpunity for#MarieColvin and hold the#Syrian regime accountable for#warcrimes. - 1 more reply
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Hmm referring to syrian government as assad regime much be such a unique example of objective journalism... everyhing is only his fault you are totally right woav he will target us with his supersmart missiles (sarcasm)
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Blah blah blah.....
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and Assad regime deliberately killed and killing hundreds of thousands of Syrian people .
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I've admired you and your work for decades! You are a real heropic.twitter.com/RMXFpTgBCW
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Where were you old bitch when Israel deliberately KILLED the Palestinian journalist ?
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If she was with the terrorists it’s her fault Assad fighting terrorists .
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@realDonaldTrump blames the past admin for all that's wrong in Syria. Now that he can do something, will he act against Putin's wishes?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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