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Support Inigo’s Run of The NYC Marathon in Memory of Tim Hetherington

Inigo Gilmore is running the New York Marathon on the 4th November 2012 in memory of Tim Hetherington and to raise funds for the Rory Peck Trust and will benefit aspiring journalists & filmmakers in communities like those Tim used to work in, as well as a blind school in Sierra Leone that Tim was closely involved with. See Tim Hetherington Foundation

Mr. Gilmore is always there to support fellow journalists and is a heck of a journalist himself. Please check out the fundraising site on JustGiving.

The Fight for Aleppo

Shot this video over two weeks in August when war had just crashed into Aleppo. Already, the deadly front lines had formed in Salahaddin neighborhood facing Syrian Army positions in Hamdania across the street. Tank shells pounded the rebels hunkered in abandoned apartments. Later a group of fighters rolled in the neighborhood of Izaa and began a night attack on a TV station occupied by regime forces. The fight for Izaa is still ongoing as of November. The neighborhood is completely destroyed. The regime refuses to let it go as it strategically overlooks most of Aleppo.

One day an air strike in the neighborhood of Bustan al Qasr collapsed the roof of a family apartment. I interviewed a brother trying to find the bodies of his nieces and nephews who lived upstairs. There were seven dead from the Querea family- a 15 year old son, an 8 year old daughter, 8 year old cousin and a one year old baby boy. All killed when a fighter jet dropped a bomb on their apartment.

  • Um Khalid looks out her apartment window, Aleppo, Syria (Nicole Tung)

A well-off mother risks her life to support the revolution as war hits Aleppo

Um Khalid looks out her apartment window, Aleppo, Syria (Nicole Tung)

ALEPPO, Syria — Um Khalid, a middle-aged mother, is not used to wearing a headscarf, let alone sneaking through military checkpoints.

But instead of holding her breath, like the anti-government activists in the back seat of her car, she waved happily at the young soldier with the AK-47, who glared back at her through the windshield.

After this test of wills, he motioned her through. And everyone exhaled.

Um Khalid is driving the activists to Salahaddin, the most restive and dangerous neighborhood in Aleppo. There, for months hundreds of protesters have risked sniper fire and armed gangs to march through darkened streets.

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Syrian activists vs. Reporters

The truth is foreign photographers and video journalists can’t offer as good coverage as the Syrians themselves. We’re regularly beaten by activist and university students who are quicker, braver and know their people and conflict. They’ve revealed the massacres and atrocities simply impossible for foreigners to confirm. All we offer is some objectivity and criticism. It’s not wanted, but need be as the war’s become an incoherent slaughter of citizen fighters and civilians.

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Massacre in Maarte Alnoaman

It’s hard to understand the Syrian regime is targeting men, women and children with such careless brutality. We’ve become numbed by news reports featuring bloody activists videos. It wasn’t until I saw the shrouds, the dismembered corpses, just pieces of bodies blown apart by mortars launched at random into a city of 100,000 after evening prayers, that I felt it is inevitably true across Syria.

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Is Aleppo turning against Assad?

I stayed with some Free Syrian Army about 12 kilometers from Aleppo city- the commercial heart of Syria and still in full control of the Assad regime. But the ground appears to be shifting rapidly in the last two months. The FSA and revolutionary councils say they’re gaining ground in protests and numbers.

“We feel Aleppo turning against Assad,” said an accountant and SFA supporter, “They have killed our sons in the street.”

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The Syrian Strategy – Idlib Province, Syria

SARAQEB, Syria — By late March, the Free Syrian Army in this restive city was bracing for trouble.

Although the rebels had controlled Saraqeb for months, government troops had just finished their conquest of surrounding cities, including the provincial capital, Idlib. Saraqeb would no doubt be next, attacked by forces far better equipped than the rebels. Rebel commanders had heard the tanks were coming on the military radio channel they monitored.

On the crisp, sunny morning of March 24, they saw the ominous sign of a full-blown government assault. A column of T-72 tanks rolled into the city center, emerging and disappearing between the city’s street blocks.

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