Beirut – Syria’s rebel commander says his forces carried out an attack in Damascus that killed the defense minister and other regime officials. But he denies it was a suicide bombing.
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Riad al-Asaad said in a phone interview from his headquarters in Turkey that rebel forces planted a bomb inside a room where senior government officials were meeting Wednesday.
Defense Minister Dawoud Rajha and his deputy Gen. Assef Shawkat, who also was President Bashar Assad’s brother-in-law, were killed.
The rebel leader denies government claims that it was a suicide attack, saying all those who carried out the operation are safe.
He said the attack marked “the beginning of the end of the regime.”
It most probably is the beginining of the end for Assad.
It most probably is the beginining of the end for Assad. I will never understand dictators. He should thank Allah for letting him stay alive this long, grab his money( he must be one of the richest men in the world) and flee to Africa or Iran, where Achmadinijihad will undoubtedly welcome him with open arms. It’s really
flabbergasting that he’s willing to stick it out in Syria where his death is the only forseeable end. I guess Hashem is manipulating his mind like he did with Pharoah. Either that or he is crazy.