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| Blasts Target Security Forces in Aleppo Province |
| 2012-03-09 |
| [An Nahar] Two kabooms on Thursday struck security posts in the northern Syrian town of Aazaz, site of fierce festivities between government and rebel troops, a monitoring group said. The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a statement that one blast targeted an intelligence office and the second a cop shoppe. "There were fierce festivities afterwards between Syrian forces and rebel troops," the Observatory added. Mohamed al-Halabi, an activist in 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... , told Agence La Belle France Presse in Beirut by telephone that the rebel Free Syrian Army was behind the blasts in the town located in the province of Aleppo, near the Turkish border. "Aazaz was subjected all day yesterday to intense shelling by Syrian forces and rebel troops retaliated and then blew up the two security posts," he said. He said several anti-regime demonstrations were held Wednesday evening in a number of Aleppo neighborhoods. He added that security forces at dawn on Thursday raided several districts of the city, the second largest in the country, and tossed in the slammer dozens of people. |
| Posted by:Fred |