Palmyra offensive: As the world baulked at the unfolding savagery, one site became a political and cultural hostage, writes Robert Fisk
, their men arrived at night in five mile-long columns of tanks and trucks, suicide bombers in armoured vehicles at the front, fighters at the back. The Syrian soldiers defending the east of the Roman city on 12 May 2015 – their records showed that the first Isis units arrived at 9.45pm – fired their Milan anti-tank rockets at the suiciders, but the bombs had been packed so densely into the Isis vehicles that the explosions blew up not only the bombers but the Syrians who killed them.
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