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As the AP reports, Sigmon well understood those horrors.

Moreover, as the AP’s Michael Tarm puts it, “The image of gunmen in a row firing in unison at a condemned prisoner may conjure up a bygone, less enlightened era.”

AP writer Byron Tau in Washington contributed to this report.

Meanwhile, the administration continues to bar the AP from entering the Oval Office and traveling on Air Force One with the press pool, the makeup of which has traditionally been determined by the White House Correspondents' Association.

Many homes of Alawites were looted and then set on fire in different areas, two residents of Syria’s coastal region told the AP from their hideouts.