Official: Assad regime confiscating medical aid
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President Bashar Assad's regime is confiscating much of the medical aid that the Syrian Arab Red Crescent in Damascus tries to distribute, a spokesman for a Syrian medical aid group said Wednesday.
Dr. Tawfik Chamaa, a Syrian doctor in Geneva and spokesman for the Union of Syrian Medical Relief Organizations, said that as much as "95 percent of everything that is sent to Syrian Red Crescent headquarters in Damascus goes to support the Syrian regime" and is handed out mainly to injured supporters of the government.(AP)
