An image grab taken from Syrian state TV shows Syrians ispecting a burnt car at the site of a suicide attack in a security service base in Damascus. - AFP Photo.I am telling you...Syria is an absolute mess at this moment and the latest carnage comes from two bombings in Damascus that have left 30 dead and 55 wounded - the report at DAWN says that fingers are pointing at al Qaeda but I sure don't know about that.
Here's from the report:
Two car bomb attacks on Syrian security sites in Damascus killed 30 people and wounded 55 others, most of them civilian, the Lebanese news channel Al Manar said on Friday.
Al Manar cited information from its own correspondents on the ground. The television channel is owned by the powerful Lebanese Shia party and guerrilla movement Hezbollah, a regional Syrian ally.
Initial footage of the blast showed piles of blackened rubble and medics wrapping bloodied bodies in blankets.
A Reuters cameraman was not allowed to enter the site, but video broadcast by the state news channel showed smoke rising from buildings with holes blasted through them, and the charred remains of the cars.
It said initial investigations indicated that al Qaeda was behind the attacks. A witness who spoke to Reuters by telephone said two blasts shook the capital and the opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the blasts were followed by bursts of heavy gunfire.
The attacks came a day after the first wave of an Arab League observation mission landed in Damascus to prepare for a monitoring team that will check if Syria is implementing a peace plan to halt months of bloodshed.
Pardon my skepticism but don't you think it's just a LITTLE too coincidental that a day after Arab League observers land in Syria that an al Qaeda style car bombing occurs? I ask you this...have we had a SINGLE car bombing in Syria in the past six months? Not that I recall. Syria is telling the world that they are fighting a foreign terrorist entity and boy oh boy, this car bombing terror attack sure fits that argument doesn't it?
I say this is two car bombs set off by Iranian Qods Forces to LOOK like al Qaeda so the Arab League observers will report that Syria is being honest in what they are fighting.
I may be wrong but it stinks to high heaven to me.
Thirty killed, 55 wounded in Syrian blasts-Manar TV
BEIRUT: Two car bomb attacks on Syrian security sites in Damascus killed 30 people and wounded 55 others, most of them civilian, the Lebanese news channel Al Manar said on Friday.
Al Manar cited information from its own correspondents on the ground. The television channel is owned by the powerful Lebanese Shia party and guerrilla movement Hezbollah, a regional Syrian ally.
Initial footage of the blast showed piles of blackened rubble and medics wrapping bloodied bodies in blankets.
A Reuters cameraman was not allowed to enter the site, but video broadcast by the state news channel showed smoke rising from buildings with holes blasted through them, and the charred remains of the cars.
It said initial investigations indicated that al Qaeda was behind the attacks. A witness who spoke to Reuters by telephone said two blasts shook the capital and the opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the blasts were followed by bursts of heavy gunfire.
The attacks came a day after the first wave of an Arab League observation mission landed in Damascus to prepare for a monitoring team that will check if Syria is implementing a peace plan to halt months of bloodshed.
Syrian security forces have launched a fierce crackdown on nine months of anti-government protests that has left 5,000 people dead, according to the United Nations.
Syria says it is fighting foreign-backed “terrorists” that have killed 2,000 members of its security forces.
In recent months, the peaceful pro-democracy movement that began in March has been overshadowed by pockets of armed insurgency that have begun to launch what they call defensive attacks against Syrian forces.
Friday’s attacks hit a state security administration building and a local security branch, state television said.
Last month, a small blast was reported near a Syrian intelligence building in Damascus, but there was little damage.
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