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Regime Troops Storm Damascus District with Tanks
 [An Nahar] Regime troops stormed a Damascus...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... district with tanks on Thursday for the first time, five days on from the outbreak of fierce festivities in the capital, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "The army stormed the Qaboon district with a large number of tanks," the Observatory's Rami Abdel Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse. "This is the first time that tanks enter a Damascus district." The army's move stoked fears of an imminent massacre in the western quarter of the capital, scene of festivities over the past five days, the Britannia-based monitoring group said. Earlier on Thursday, a security source told AFP on condition of anonymity that the army would show no restraint in its operations. "These extremely violent festivities should continue in the next 48 hours to cleanse Damascus of faceless myrmidons by the time Ramadan begins" on Friday, the source said, referring to the Mohammedan holy fasting month. The developments came a day after three top regime officials were killed in an unprecedented attack in the National Security headquarters in Damascus, which was claimed by the rebel Free Syrian Army. "After the attack, (the army) has decided to use all the weapons in its possession to finish the faceless myrmidons off," the security source said. Posted by: Fred 2012-07-20 |
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