... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
reported on Monday, blaming an "armed terrorist group."
"An armed terrorist group staged an RPG attack on the Central Bank of Syria on Sabaa Bahrat Square in Damascus
...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world...
," the television reported. "Only material damage was caused."
It said three gunnies in a vehicle carried out the attack at around 1:00 am (2200 GMT Sunday) before quickly making their escape.
The television said the assault was a clear breach of the more than two-week-old ceasefire brokered by United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
-Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
peace envoy Kofi Annan
...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo...It said an "armed terrorist group" also carried out a second RPG attack on a police patrol in front of a hospital in the Damascus area of Rukn al-Din. Four police were maimed.
The ceasefire, which went into force on April 12, has taken a daily battering.
"To achieve the success of the Kofi Annan plan, I call on all sides to stop violence and help us continue the cessation of armed violence," said veteran peacekeeper Major General Robert Mood, as he arrived in Damascus on Sunday to take command of the U.N. military observer mission overseeing the truce.