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Islamist Group Claims Deadly Damascus Bombings
Al-Nusra Front, an Islamist group unknown before the Syrian revolt, released a video on Saturday claiming responsibility for twin suicide kabooms in Damascus...The place where Pencilneck hangs his brass hat... that killed 55 people. The video says the Thursday bombings, the deadliest since the uprising against  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad's The Scourge of Hama... regime erupted in March 2011, were "in response to regime bombing of residential areas in Damascus, Idlib, Hama, Daraa provinces and others." Al-Nusra Front, which does not give a precise date for the attacks, says it has launched a "military operation in Damascus against the regime strongholds, targeting the Paleostine branch of the security services." Those were the buildings targeted in Thursday's bombings. The statement accompanying the video, dated May 10 but posted on the site on Saturday, is titled "Communique No. 4," although the group has already posted seven such communiques. The group has grabbed credit for previous attacks, including double blasts in Damascus on March 17 that killed 27 people, as well as two other deadly kabooms in the capital and two in the northern city of Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... Thursday's car boomings in Damascus left 55 dead and nearly 400 maimed, with the regime and opposition trading accusations of responsibility. Posted by: Fred 2012-05-13 |
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