Maaloula (Malula) .... the situation as at September 18, 2013

The USA-trained, funded and armed jihadist snipers hiding in the numerous hill-tops around Maaloula have not given up their hold on the "crusader" town.  No sirreeee!!   They want us Christians to know that they can squash us like bugs anytime they want ... and why not?!   They have the backing, the supplies, the funds and the training from the very leaders we have appointed to high office in the USA, UK, Canada, France and all the other "Christian' heads of state who have  moved themselves very decisively to the evil side and left us to blather on  helplessly at the plight of the innocent.

From NowMMedia:
....Snipers haunt Syrian Christian town of Maalula.  
"Maalula, city of culture and history, welcomes you," reads a sign at the entrance to Syria's best known Christian town. But any semblance of welcome evaporates once inside Maalula. 
The army is fighting an invisible enemy, and an AFP team narrowly escaped sniper fire. 
"We never see them, but we hear the shots fired by their Dragunovs," the Russians' favorite sniper rifle, said a soldier holding his weapon as he sheltered behind a wall. 
A car is parked at the roadside, its windscreen has exploded and its driver looks dead. His belongings lie strewn on the pavement of this ghost town. 
After an AFP photographer crossed one of Maalula's streets, a sniper opened fire at the journalist. Bullets landed just meters away. 
The journalist was forced to lie on the ground and hide behind a wall to escape the shots. 
Every time he tried to move, the sniper opened fire immediately. 
It was only as loyalist soldiers fired their own guns in the sniper's direction that the journalist managed to escape.....

.........The army has "reclaimed most of the town, but the terrorists use their snipers to stop us from bringing it totally under control", said a colonel who leads the loyalists' operations in the historic town. 
"We are continuing to make slow progress. But it is very difficult because we cannot bombard it, there are historic treasures," the colonel told AFP......