Damascus, Syria – Syrian state TV says 53 people were killed and more than 200 wounded in a car bomb attack near the headquarters of the ruling Baath party in central Damascus.
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The bomb was one of at least three attacks in the heart of the city on Thursday. A second blast shook another neighborhood and mortar rounds exploded near the Syrian Army General Command.
The Britain-based activist group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 42 had been killed in the car bombing, most of them civilians.
The difference in the death tolls could not be immediately reconciled.
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on the one hand, its hard to imagine that anyone who died had a great love for Jews.
On the other hand, Assad is the devil we know, and things have been remarkably stable and secure for almost 40 years, Now there are many jihadis there, who knows?
Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet, who was martyred and caused the Shia-Sunni rift, has a great place in Gan Eden, Without him, we would be in deep trouble.
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What comment are we supposed to make? That these are also Hashem’s creatures? Or that, given the chance. they would do this to us first?
There are those that say that this is a rare opportunity to get rid of as many arabs as possible in one shot. Is Israel doing right by opening up a field hospital near the border to help the wounded?
israel and the US should help Assad stay in power by bombing as many people as possible because having another al-Qaeda base is not good
I say; nice job whomever did it. Keep up the good work…
Why do Moslems seem to delight in killing other Moslems? Theyu keep calling it a “religion of peace”, but i keep reading of violent acts by Moslems.
The more the merrier.
I feel bad for all the dead. Although I would mix out of Syria’s personal fights.
It’s funny that when Israel killed 100 Muslims during a war a few months ago – there was more media coverage than all the 100,000 muslims who were killed in Syria.
Why when a Jew commints an alleged crime they are commonly “overcovered”?