Reports: Two blasts hit Syria's capital city
Source: USA Today, AP, SANA
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Twin bombings struck government targets in the Syrian capital early Saturday, killing security forces and civilians and leaving pools of blood and carnage in the streets, according to state-run television.
The violence comes as the country's yearlong uprising, which started with mostly peaceful protests, descends into a nascent civil war involving large-scale government assaults on rebel-held cities. President Bashar Assad's regime blamed the explosions in Damascus on the "terrorist forces" that it claims are behind the revolt.
According to the state-run news agency, SANA, preliminary information indicated the blasts were caused by car bombs that hit the aviation intelligence department and the criminal security department at around 7:30 a.m local time. Shooting broke out soon after the blast and sent residents and others who had gathered in the area fleeing, an Associated Press reporter at the scene said.
The bombings were the latest in a string of suicide attacks in Syria, which have killed dozens of people since late December.
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arewenotdemo
(2,364 posts)I wonder what the Administration's most recognizable Death's Head ("We came, we saw, he died" will have to say about this?
leveymg
(36,418 posts)arewenotdemo
(2,364 posts)a Tennessee Republican seems to be the clearest voice against intervention in Syria?
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/03/13/senior_republican_senator_syrian_revolution_not_really_about_democracy
Meanwhile, Egyptian women can now freely aspire to mosque janitorial work.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)BEIRUT, Lebanon Two large explosions, believed to be car bombs, struck the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Saturday morning, hitting intelligence and security buildings in busy sections of the city and killing or wounding dozens of civilians and security personnel, Syrian state media reported.
The back-to-back bombings in President Bashar al-Assads seat of power one exploding in the same area where a state security headquarters was bombed in December shocked residents who have enjoyed relative calm during the yearlong uprising against the government and a fierce and crackdown. And the blasts stood as a direct challenge to the governments recent claims that it was close to restoring order.
Syrian media reports, quoting the health minister, Wael al-Halki, said at least 27 people had been killed and 97 wounded in the explosions. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
It was the fourth time in three months that mysterious bombings have hit security compounds in Damascus and Aleppo, the countrys commercial hub and largest city. They stoked fears that, as an uprising that began peacefully transforms into a grinding, asymmetrical war, Syria could become an arena for forces that neither the government nor the opposition fully controls.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/world/middleeast/damascus-syria-two-large-explosions-reported.html
Turbineguy
(37,331 posts)What's in a name?
David__77
(23,402 posts)These suicide bombings are acts of desperation.
joshcryer
(62,270 posts)Good job, Assad. You made them what they are.
Just like blaming the US govt for 911. Only if the US just gave into Al Qaeda, maybe just maybe they would have spared us on that faithful day. I wish all those people willing to destroy Syria will be captured and tried.
Dont start a revolution when you do not have the support of the majority of the people.