Submit your comments on this article |
Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
Syrian Rebels launch first attack in Damascus |
2011-11-20 |
![]() At least two rocket-propelled grenades hit a building belonging to the ruling Baath party in Damascus on Sunday, residents said, in the first insurgent attack reported inside the Syrian capital since an eight-month uprising began against President Bashar Assad. "Syrian Free Army" - deserters and ? "Security police blocked off the square where the Baath's Damascus branch is located. But I saw smoke rising from the building and fire trucks around it," one witness, who declined to be named, told Reuters. "The attack was just before dawn and the building was mostly empty. It seems to have been intended as a message to the regime," he said. Should have leave a bunch of broken pencils. That would've been a "message" too |
Posted by:Frank G |