According to rumor Deraa was where the Turks tortured Lawrence and raped him. In Linda and Gary Cargill's novels Captive At The Berghof and Escape From The Berghof, it is where Lieutenant Edward Ware, Lawrence's adjutant, meets his fate in the dark eyes Helga von Wessel, the Arab siren turned German, while looking to release his leader from captivity.
In the past few days thirty-five were killed in Deraa where the Syrian uprising is the most intense since teenagers wrote revolutionary graffiti in March. During the Great War it is where T. E. Lawrence almost died.
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