A towering, square-jawed Nigerian, his forearms swollen from years of building furniture in Libya, Mr. Aliu, 26, arrived at this sprawling camp on the Tunisian border after fleeing the violence in Tripoli.
And some conjured up a city of church bells, chiming in tower after tower, square after square.
At the funeral processions in Homs on Monday, mourners in New Clock Tower Square at first offered traditional prayers for the dead.
The oldest part of the castle is a tower erected in the 12th century, which was expanded in the 14th century to a four-tower square structure with a moat.
Syrian state TV showed footage of army troops in the clock tower square, which is in the southern part of the town, Harba said.
Further along the south side of the walls is the Constable's Tower, a square tower containing comfortable accommodation for the castle's constable, including stone window seats.
Two of Israel's towering political personalities squared off today in a primary.
The towers had a generally uniform appearance, with 16 half-circular, or "horse-shoe", hollow-backed towers and eight square towers.
The towers are not identical twins; the south tower is square and the north is octagonal.
The judgment that a tower is round when seen at a distance, for example, is contradicted by the judgment that the tower is square when seen up close.
