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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Damascus Bombing Kills Three of Assad's Top Aides
2012-07-19
[VOA News] Syrian state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
says a bomb struck the National Security building in 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...
Wednesday, killing Defense Minister Daoud Rajha and Deputy Defense Minister Assef Shawkat, brother-in-law to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad.
Scourge of Qusayr...

​​Syrian General Hassan Turkmani, a former defense minister, is also reported to have died of injuries from the bombing.

Syrian forces and rebels have clashed in several neighborhoods of Damascus, and helicopters are reported to have fired on targets from the air, after three top government officials died in the kaboom.
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