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Bombers Kill Twenty Outside Shrine near Syrian Capital
[An Nahar] A double kaboom outside a Shiite shrine near Syria's capital killed at least twenty people Saturday, in the latest in repeated deadly strikes on the revered site, state media said.The official SANA news agency said a jacket wallah and a boom-mobile struck at the entrance to the Sayyida Zeinab shrine, which is revered by Shiites around the world. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based monitoring group, reported a higher toll of at least 20 people killed and 30 maimed in the blasts. The shrine, around 10 kilometres (six miles) south of the center of Damascus, is heavily guarded by pro-government forces but has still been the target of several jihadist attacks, including those claimed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) group. Syria's official Al-Ikhbariya channel showed images from the scene of burned-out cars billowing with plumes of black smoke. Firefighters battled to extinguish the flames as shop signs lay in the street. The last attack on Sayyida Zeinab on April 25 killed at least seven and maimed dozens. A string of IS bombings near the shrine in February left 134 people dead, most of them civilians, according to the Observatory. And in January, another attack claimed by IS killed 70 people. Lebanese Shiite Lion of Islam group Hezbollah cited the threat to Sayyida Zeinab as a principal reason for its intervention in Syria's civil war on the side of  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... The shrine contains the grave of Zeinab, a venerated granddaughter of the Prophet Mohammed, and is renowned for its glistening golden, onion-shaped dome.
Posted by: Fred 2016-06-12 |
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