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| Suicide Bomber Kills Two in Syria Regime Stronghold |
| 2016-06-03 |
| [An Nahar] A suicide kaboom near a mosque killed at least two people and maimed another four in the regime stronghold of Latakia in northwestern Syria on Thursday, state media said. "A terrorist attack hit near the Khulafa al-Rashideen mosque in the Daatur district of Latakia as people emerged from afternoon prayers," state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? said. Official news agency SANA quoted a senior police source as saying two people were killed and four maimed when the attacker went kaboom!while riding his cycle of violence in the coastal city. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based monitor that relies on a wide network of sources on the ground for its information, said three people had been killed in the attack. Last month bombings 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.... group in the nearby seaside cities of Jableh and Tartus killed at least 170 people. IS is not known to have a significant presence in Syria's coastal provinces, where its jihadist rival, the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front, is much more prominent. But IS, notorious for using deadly sleeper cells to attack its enemies, suggested the creation of a "Wilayat al-Sahel" or Islamic province for the coastal area. |
| Posted by:Fred |