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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Terrorists assassinate Syrian general, hospital chief
2012-02-12
[Iran Press TV] A terrorist group has assassinated the head of a hospital in Syria's capital Damascus,
...Home to a staggering array of terrorist organizations...
Brigadier General Issa al-Kholi, the Syrian state media say.

Al-Kholi was killed in front of his house in Rukn Eddin neighborhood in the capital on Saturday, SANA news agency reported.

Three gunnies ambushed and shot him outside his home, according to SANA.

The liquidation comes one day after two powerful kabooms left at least 28 people dead and scores more injured in the northern city of 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...
The rebel Free Syrian Army has grabbed credit for the attacks that targeted security headquarters.

Terrorist groups fighting against the government of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
have attacked several security and military sites.

Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March 2011.

While the opposition blames the government for the violence, Damascus says ''outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups'' are responsible and that it is being orchestrated from abroad.
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