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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
ISIS says it was behind deadly attack in Syria's Homs
2015-12-13
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group said it was behind a deadly attack in the central Syrian city of Homs on Saturday that killed at least 16 people and maimed dozens more.

"Abu Ahmed al-Homsi parked his car in the Zahra neighborhood and went kaboom! it among the 'rafidis' before detonating his explosives belt," an ISIS statement said, using a derogatory term for Shiites.

The statement said the twin blasts in a pro-regime area of the city killed more than 25 people and maimed 70. Earlier, the provincial governor and a monitoring group said 16 people died and 54 were maimed, speaking of a single kaboom.

A vehicle bomb detonated close to a hospital in the mainly Alawite neighborhood of al-Zahra in the east of Homs city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.

The second large blast, originally suspected to have been a bomb, appeared to have come from an exploding gas canister and maimed people who had come to tend to victims of the first kaboom in the densely-populated neighborhood, state media said.

State television had earlier described the attack as "two large terrorist kabooms." News agency SANA said the vehicle bomb had been packed with 150 kg of explosives. It published a photo of two men carrying a woman away from burning wreckage.

Footage on state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
showed a chaotic scene with black clouds of smoke rising above twisted metal debris. People stumbled over the rubble as they tried to ferry people away from the site.
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