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The Syria regime’s brutal crackdown entered a bloody new phase Friday, as elite soldiers believed to be under the command of the president’s brother swept into a restive northern town and opened fire on protesters. At least 32 were killed, some for trying to tear down a poster of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad. Faced with rising violence, at least 4,000 citizens fled into nearby Turkey, whose leader accused Assad of “savagery.”