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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Bombings rock Damascus as doubts grow over success of UN peace plan
2012-04-28
We are all shocked, I'm sure.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] A deadly suicide kaboom rocked the Syrian capital on Friday, capping a week of non-stop violence that has killed dozens and fuelled growing scepticism about hopes for the success of a UN-backed peace plan.

Amid the unrest, demonstrations were taking place after weekly Moslem prayers in flashpoint cities such as Hama, where shelling by government troops has reportedly killed more than 100 people since Monday.

The kaboom shook Damascus
...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti...
' central district of Midan, killing at least seven and wounding 20, state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said, with civilians and security force members among the casualties.

It blamed "terrorists," the term used by the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor...
to refer to rebels.

A separate blast hit an industrial zone of Damascus, but there were no reports of casualties, and three security agents were maimed in a blast in the coastal city of Banias, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Assad's regime has repeatedly blamed "armed terrorist groups" for the violence, and for failing to abide by a putative ceasefire that went into force on April 12.

But UN chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
said the regime was in contravention of a six-point peace deal by keeping troops and heavy weapons in urban areas, and expressed alarm about reports population centres were shelled.
Posted by:Fred

#2  "UN peace plan"

Now there's an oxymoron.

With the emphasis on the moron.
Posted by: Barbara   2012-04-28 15:22  

#1  It blamed “terrorists,” the term used by the regime of President Bashar al-Assad to refer to rebels.

Rebels my ass! And no it wasn’t activists either. For a political end police and civilians were targeted by a suicide bomber. The motivation was to instill fear. That is the most basic and universally accepted definition of the term “terrorists”.
Posted by: DepotGuy   2012-04-28 09:23  

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