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Once he owned a kebab shop, today he's making bombs for the Syrian rebels and is inspired

by the film Braveheart. Drug cartels, state authorities, sometimes they're all the same people

we're told as Mexicans prepare to cast their votes. A celebration of midsummer in Latvia with songs, flowers and running around naked.

And an important tip at a wedding in Italy, you don't throw confetti.

You eat it. UN Human Rights Investigators say the violence in Syria is spiraling out of control,

with many parts of the country descending into civil war.

Their report accuses both the government and the rebels of

committing atrocities against civilians. The government they say is

resorting increasingly to the use of helicopter gunships and artillery to shell entire neighborhoods.

For their part, the rebels have taken to using roadside bombs.

Ian Panell has been learning more about their strategy on a visit to Syria's northern Idli province.

Omar has not been lucky. A large man with a shaggy beard and tight curly black hair,

he emigrated to Libya to set up a kebab restaurant.

It did well, so he set up another one.

Then last year the Libyan revolution erupted and one restaurant was destroyed by NATO bombing, the other The back to his native Syria. The country was already in the throes of protests

calling for change, but as the government began to physically suppress its

opponents, so those calls became increasingly vociferous by stages morphing into armed

insurrection. Like many men in his neighborhood he hadn't held a weapon since his

two years national service but as the violence began to spiral,

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