BASSEM MROUE Associated Press= BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of people gathered for funerals in Syria on Saturday, draping bodies in white cloth to prepare them for burial after security forces killed more than 75 people in the deadliest day of the uprising against authoritarian President Bashar Assad. About 5,000 people were gathering near the Osman Ibin Afan mosque in Izraa, a southern village that was the scene of some of the worst violence Friday, witnesses said. Fifteen corpses were to be buried after the noon prayers. Syrian security forces fired bullets and tear gas Friday at tens of thousands of protesters across the country, in a clear sign that regime was prepared to escalate an already…
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