It is Friday morning, and in a 14th-floor apartment in Falls Church, 3-year-old Omar is tearing around the living room, drawing on the walls, while his father, Radwan Ziadeh, is bent over his laptop, calling Syria.
The apartment overlooks the wide highway to Washington, and suburban America ? McDonald?s, a church, a pool ? is spread out below, but Ziadeh is oblivious to it as he takes calls and reads tweets and instant messages from his far-off homeland to piece together the day?s events.
?There are 15 people killed already today,? he says, ?and we have heard nothing from Hama [Syria?s fourth-largest city] because all the electricity, telephones and Internet have been cut off.? After putting the numbers he considers reliable into his database of the death toll, he updates journalists and human rights groups.
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