Syria Feature: The Files Exposing the Regime's Spies (McNaught)

The "independence flag" is celebrated in "liberated" Al-Bab, 3 August 2012

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In the ransacked and burnt-out remains of various security headquarters in al-Bab lie many clues to the means used by Bashar al-Assad's government to stay in power, revealing why life under the regime had become increasingly intolerable for its citizens.

In the widely-hated building of military security, the formerly locked cupboards containing files on the town's "suspect” citizens and how to "manage" them are now all emptied of their contents.

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