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The appalling tragedy that occurred last week in the town of Daraya just outside of Damascus, where more than 300 people were slaughtered, set off a journalistic war of a kind not seen in a long time. The "heroine" was Michelene Azar, a reporter for Al Dounia, a TV station owned by Bashar Assad's cousin, Rami Makhlouf. Azar, married to one of the heads of Syria's political intelligence...