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| Islamist Group Claims Damascus Suicide Bombing |
| 2012-04-30 |
| [An Nahar] An Islamist group calling itself Al-Nusra Front has grabbed credit on the Internet for a deadly suicide kaboom in Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world... this week, the SITE Monitoring Service said on Sunday. Al-Nusra Front named the bomber as Abu Omar al-Shami, and said he detonated his payload when members of the Syrian security forces who had assembled for Friday prayers in the Midan neighborhood had peaked to 150. The U.S.-based SITE, which tracks jihadi websites, said the Islamist group posted its claim on the Shumoukh al-Islam site which is generally used by al-Qaeda for posting its statements. The Front said the attack was carried out at a place where Syrian security members had gathered to pray, and not next to the Zein al-Abidin mosque as reported by official media. Syrian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? reported that 11 people were killed and 28 maimed in the suicide kaboom, and broadcast footage of the scene filled with smoke and people shouting as they ran. Anti-regime activists accused the authorities of staging the bombing. The Al-Nusra Front had previously claimed the February 12 twin bombings in Syria's 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... and the January 6 bombing in Damascus, SITE said. |
| Posted by:Fred |