U.S. accuses Syrian regime of 'targeted' attack on popular cartoonist
Gabe LaMonica, CNN
August 26, 2011 1:12 a.m. EDT
Wounded Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat rests in bed at his residence in Damascus on August 25.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Ali Farzat is a popular Syrian political cartoonist
He was abducted and beaten after a cartoon depicting Syria's Bashar al-Assad
The U.S. State Department blames the al-Assad regime for a "targeted, brutal attack"
Farzat's supporters circulated a photo of the hospitalized cartoonist on the internet
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http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/08/26/syria.cartoonist.beaten/index.html?hpt=hp_t2